The governor of Tennessee is the head of government of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor is the only official in the Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state.
Lincoln Edward Davis is an American politician and the former U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.
Newton Cannon was an American politician who served as the eighth Governor of Tennessee from 1835 to 1839. He also served several terms in the United States House of Representatives,from 1814 to 1817,and from 1819 to 1823. Cannon was a long-time foe of Andrew Jackson,and spent much of his political career opposing Jacksonite policies. Cannon was succeeded as Governor of Tennessee by James K. Polk in 1839,who later became President of the United States.
John Shelton Wilder was an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee for 36 years from January 1971 to January 2007,possibly the longest time anyone has served as Lieutenant Governor or a similar position in the history of the United States. He was a Tennessee state senator from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1967 to 2009. Tennesseans do not elect their lieutenant governor;rather,the Speaker of the Senate,who is first in the line of succession to the governor,is granted the title by statute.
Harold Eugene Ford Sr. is an American politician and Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives representing the area of Memphis,Tennessee,for 11 terms—from 1975 until his retirement in 1997. He was the first African-American to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Congress. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis.
John Knight Shields was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925. He also served as an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
John Newton Ford,is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate and a member of Tennessee's most prominent African-American political family. He is the older brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford,Sr. and the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford,Jr.
David E. Zuckerman is an American politician who is currently serving as the 84th lieutenant governor of Vermont since 2023. He previously served two terms as the 82nd lieutenant governor of Vermont,from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Vermont Progressive Party,he previously served in the Vermont House of Representatives for seven terms (1997–2011),and the Vermont Senate for two (2013–2017). In 2020,Zuckerman was a candidate for governor of Vermont. He ran with the support of both the Progressive Party and the Democratic Party,but lost to incumbent governor Phil Scott in the general election.
Milton Hugh Hamilton Jr. was an American politician who served in both houses of the Tennessee General Assembly and was majority leader of the Tennessee State Senate and Tennessee Commissioner of Environment and Conservation.
Kathryn Inez Bowers was an American Democratic politician and member of the Tennessee General Assembly who left office after being implicated in the Tennessee Waltz corruption scandal.
William Henderson Cate was an American politician,lawyer and judge. In 1889 and 1890,he served part of one term as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. He was removed from his seat following an investigation of election fraud before regaining the seat in the subsequent election,serving an additional term from 1891 to 1893.
Frank McNulty is an attorney and former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. McNulty was first elected in 2006 to represent Colorado House District 43. He was re-elected in 2008,2010,and 2012.
John DiMaio is an American Republican Party politician,who was selected on February 21,2009 to fill the New Jersey General Assembly seat for the 23rd legislative district vacated by Marcia A. Karrow,after Karrow filled the vacancy for the New Jersey Senate in the same district. He has been co-chair of the Republican Conference,alongside Nancy Munoz,since January 14,2020. He was elected Minority Leader of the General Assembly after Jon Bramnick was elected to the State Senate.
Ken Givens is a Tennessee politician from Rogersville,Tennessee. From 1988-2002,Givens was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the Ninth State House District. In 2003,he was appointed by Governor Phil Bredesen to be the 34th Commissioner of Agriculture of Tennessee,a Cabinet-level position in the gubernatorial administration responsible for overseeing the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
Don Miller was a one-term Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 10th district,encompassing Morristown and Hamblen County.
Ron Travis is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 31st district,encompassing parts of Bledsoe,Roane,Sequatchie and Rhea Counties. He was last elected November 6,2018 and he has been in office for 7 years. His term ends in 2020.
Tilman Goins is an American politician and a Republican who represented District 10 in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018,and a former county commissioner from Hamblen County,TN. He is a veteran of both the US Marine Corps and the US Army.
Charles Nolan "Bud" Hulsey is an American politician. A Republican,he represents the 2nd District in Sullivan County in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Mark Cochran is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represents District 23 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He was elected as part of the 111th general assembly in November 2018. He was preceded by Republican representative John W. Forgety. District 23 encompasses McMinn County and parts of Monroe County. Cochran began serving as the treasurer for the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 2019.
Rick Eldridge is an American politician. He is a Republican representing Tennessee's 10th House District,which solely encompasses the Western portion of Hamblen County and Grainger County,in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
