The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature,which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.
Frank S. Niceley is a Republican member of the Tennessee State Senate representing the 8th district,consisting of Claiborne,Grainger,Hancock,Hawkins,Jefferson and Union counties.
Jason Everett Mumpower currently serves as Tennessee's 35th Comptroller of the Treasury. He was first elected to the position by the Tennessee General Assembly on January 13,2021. He is responsible for leading the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury,which comprises 12 divisions and more than 560 employees,and ensuring the Office fulfills its mission to make government work better.
James M. Henry was minority leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1981 to 1986,and a 2002 candidate for the Republican Party nomination for governor of Tennessee,losing the primary election to U.S. Representative Van Hilleary,who in turn lost the subsequent general election to Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen. Henry has previously served as President and CEO of Omni Visions,Inc,first commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,and commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children's Services. Henry served as deputy to the governor and chief of staff to Bill Haslam.
Micheal R. Williams is a Tennessee politician who formerly served in the Tennessee State Senate and was elected county mayor of Union County in August 2010.
Jamie Roberts Woodson is an American politician who served as a state senator in the Tennessee General Assembly from 2005 to 2011 and was Speaker Pro Tem and Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. She also served three two-year terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.
Foy W. "Bo" Watson is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate,representing the 11th district since 2007.
The Tennessee Democratic Party (TNDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Tennessee. The party was founded in 1826 initially as the Jacksonian Party. The Tennessee Democratic Party was born out of President Andrew Jackson's populist philosophy of Jacksonian democracy in the mid to late-1820s. After Jackson left office,the Democratic Party struggled in the state as the Whig Party would go on to be the dominant party in Tennessee until its collapse after the 1852 Election. Prior to the Civil War,as a result of the collapse of the former Whig Party,the Democratic Party became the dominant party in the state. After the war ended,the Republican Party would be the dominant political party during Reconstruction,but once Reconstruction ended,the Democratic Party would dominate Tennessee Politics up until 2011 when the Republican Party would gain firm control of Tennessee State Government.
The Tennessee Republican Party is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Tennessee. Since the mid-1960s,the state has become increasingly Republican. The current chairman of the Republican Party of Tennessee is Scott Golden. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling the majority of Tennessee's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,both houses of the state legislature,and the governorship.
Brian Kelsey is an American politician and former member of the Tennessee State Senate. A member of the Republican party,he was elected to represent District 31,which encompassed the following parts of Shelby County:Cordova,East Memphis,and Germantown.
Tony Shipley is a former State Representative for the Tennessee House of Representatives 2nd District in Sullivan County.
Eric Stewart is an American politician from Tennessee,who represented the 14th district as State Senator from 2008 to 2012. His district included all or parts of Bledsoe,Coffee,Franklin,Grundy,Sequatchie,Van Buren and Warren counties.
Julia Cheyanne Hurley is an American politician,real estate agent,and businesswoman who served as the former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 32nd district from 2010 to 2012.
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.
Robert King Byrd was an American soldier and politician. A Southern Unionist,he commanded the Union Army's First Tennessee Infantry during the Civil War,and saw action at Cumberland Gap,Stones River,and in the Knoxville and Atlanta campaigns. He represented his native Roane County at the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention on the eve of the war in 1861,and at the Nashville convention that reorganized the Tennessee state government toward the end of the war in January 1865.
Shane Reeves is an American businessman,pharmacist and politician who is the State Senator for the 14th District of Tennessee,which is composed of Bedford County,Moore County,Lincoln County,Marshall County,and part of Rutherford County. Reeves campaigned as a conservative Republican in the Tennessee State Senate District 14 Special Election in 2018. The special election was mandated because of a vacant seat created by Jim Tracy's acceptance of Tennessee Director for Rural Development with the Trump Administration. Jim Tracy endorsed Shane Reeves. Prior to entering politics,Reeves co-owned Reeves-Sain Drug Store in Murfreesboro,TN,and after selling in 2015,he founded Twelvestone Health Partners in 2016.
Patsy Hazlewood is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives,representing District 27 from January 8,2014 to 2024.
Bill Powers is an American politician who has served in the 111th Tennessee General Assembly since being elected in April 2019 and represents the Tennessee Senate's 22nd district.
Tennessee's 12th Senate district is one of 33 districts in the Tennessee Senate. It has been represented by Republican Ken Yager since 2008.
The 2024 Tennessee State Senate elections were held on November 5,2024,to elect 16 of the 33 seats in the Tennessee State Senate. The elections coincided with the Presidential,U.S. Senate,U.S. House,and State House elections. The primary elections were held on August 1,2024,with the exception of presidential primaries being held on March 5.
