History and Government—Congressional Biographies

Members of Congress: Tennessee

Biographies of U.S. representatives and senators from Tennessee

Member Name	Birth-Death
ALEXANDER, Adam Rankin	1781-1848
ALEXANDER, Lamar	1940-
ALLEN, Clifford Robertson	1912-1978
ALLEN, Robert	1778-1844
ANDERSON, Alexander Outlaw	1794-1869
ANDERSON, Joseph Inslee	1757-1837
ANDERSON, Josiah McNair	1807-1861
ANDERSON, William Coleman	1853-1902
ANDERSON, William Robert	1921-2007
ARNELL, Samuel Mayes	1833-1903
ARNOLD, Thomas Dickens	1798-1870
ASHE, John Baptista	1810-1857
ATKINS, John DeWitt Clinton	1825-1908
ATKINSON, Richard Merrill	1894-1947
AUSTIN, Richard Wilson	1857-1919
AVERY, William Tecumsah	1819-1880
BACHMAN, Nathan Lynn	1878-1937
BAILEY, James Edmund	1822-1885
BAKER, Howard Henry	1902-1964
BAKER, Howard Henry, Jr.	1925-
BAKER, Irene Bailey	1901-1994
BAKER, LaMar	1915-2003
BALLENTINE, John Goff	1825-1915
BARROW, Washington	1807-1866
BASS, Ross	1918-1993
BATE, William Brimage	1826-1905
BEARD, Robin Leo, Jr.	1939-2007
BELL, John	1796-1869
BERRY, George Leonard	1882-1948
BLACK, Diane	1951-
BLACKBURN, Marsha	1952-
BLACKWELL, Julius W.	1797c-
BLAIR, John	1790-1863
BLANTON, Leonard Ray	1930-1996
BLOUNT, William	1749-1800
BLOUNT, William Grainger	1784-1827
BONER, William Hill	1945-
BOUQUARD, Marilyn Lloyd	1929-
BOWEN, John H.	1780-1822
BRABSON, Reese Bowen	1817-1863
BRIDGES, George Washington	1825-1873
BRIGHT, John Morgan	1817-1911
BROCK, William Emerson	1872-1950
BROCK, William Emerson, III	1930-
BROWN, Aaron Venable	1795-1859
BROWN, Foster Vincent	1852-1937
BROWN, Joseph Edgar	1880-1939
BROWN, Milton	1804-1883
BROWNING, Gordon Weaver	1889-1976
BROWNLOW, Walter Preston	1851-1910
BROWNLOW, William Gannaway	1805-1877
BRYAN, Henry Hunter	1786-1835
BRYANT, Ed	1948-
BUGG, Robert Malone	1805-1887
BUNCH, Samuel	1786-1849
BUTLER, Mounce Gore	1849-1917
BUTLER, Roderick Randum	1827-1902
BYRNS, Joseph Wellington	1869-1936
BYRNS, Joseph Wellington, Jr.	1903-1973
CALDWELL, Andrew Jackson	1837-1906
CALDWELL, Robert Porter	1821-1885
CALDWELL, William Parker	1832-1903
CAMPBELL, Brookins	1808-1853
CAMPBELL, George Washington	1769-1848
CAMPBELL, Thomas Jefferson	1786-1850
CAMPBELL, William Bowen	1807-1867
CANNON, Newton	1781-1841
CARMACK, Edward Ward	1858-1908
CARTER, William Blount	1792-1848
CARUTHERS, Robert Looney	1800-1882
CHANDLER, Walter (Clift)	1887-1967
CHASE, Lucien Bonaparte	1817-1864
CHEATHAM, Richard	1799-1845
CHURCHWELL, William Montgomery	1826-1862
CLAIBORNE, Thomas	1780-1856
CLAIBORNE, William Charles Cole	1775-1817
CLEMENT, Robert Nelson	1943-
CLEMENTS, Andrew Jackson	1832-1913
CLOUSE, Wynne F.	1883-1944
COCKE, John	1772-1854
COCKE, William	1748-1828
COCKE, William Michael	1815-1896
COHEN, Stephen	1949-
COOPER, Edmund	1821-1911
COOPER, Henry	1827-1884
COOPER, James Hayes Shofner	1954-
COOPER, Jere	1893-1957
CORKER, Robert (Bob)	1952-
COURTNEY, William Wirt	1889-1961
COX, Nicholas Nichols	1837-1912
CROCKETT, David	1786-1836
CROCKETT, John Wesley	1807-1852
CROZIER, John Hervey	1812-1889
CRUMP, Edward Hull	1874-1954
CRUTCHFIELD, William	1824-1890
CULLOM, Alvan	1797-1877
CULLOM, William	1810-1896
DAVIS, Clifford	1897-1970
DAVIS, David	1959-
DAVIS, Ewin Lamar	1876-1949
DAVIS, Lincoln	1943-
DESHA, Robert	1791-1849
DESJARLAIS, Scott	1964-
DIBRELL, George Gibbs	1822-1888
DICKINSON, David W.	1808-1845
DICKSON, William	1770-1816
DUNCAN, John J., Jr.	1947-
DUNCAN, John James	1919-1988
DUNLAP, William Claiborne	1798-1872
EARTHMAN, Harold Henderson	1900-1987
EATON, John Henry	1790-1856
ENLOE, Benjamin Augustine	1848-1922
ESLICK, Edward Everett	1872-1932
ESLICK, Willa McCord Blake	1878-1961
ETHERIDGE, Emerson	1819-1902
EVANS, Henry Clay	1843-1921
EVERETT, Robert Ashton	1915-1969
EVINS, Joseph Landon	1910-1984
EWING, Andrew	1813-1864
EWING, Edwin Hickman	1809-1902
FINCHER, Stephen Lee	1973-
FISHER, Hubert Frederick	1877-1941
FITE, Samuel McClary	1816-1875
FITZGERALD, William	1799-1864
FITZPATRICK, Morgan Cassius	1868-1908
FLEISCHMANN, Chuck	1962-
FORD, Harold Eugene	1945-
FORD, Harold, Jr.	1970-
FORESTER, John B.	-1845
FOSTER, Ephraim Hubbard	1794-1854
FOWLER, Joseph Smith	1820-1902
FRAZIER, James Beriah	1856-1937
FRAZIER, James Beriah, Jr.	1890-1978
FRIST, William H.	1952-
FULTON, Richard Harmon	1927-
GAINES, John Wesley	1860-1926
GARRETT, Abraham Ellison	1830-1907
GARRETT, Finis James	1875-1956
GENTRY, Meredith Poindexter	1809-1866
GIBSON, Henry Richard	1837-1938
GLASS, Presley Thornton	1824-1902
GOLLADAY, Edward Isaac	1830-1897
GORDON, Barton Jennings	1949-
GORDON, George Washington	1836-1911
GORE, Albert Arnold	1907-1998
GORE, Albert Arnold, Jr.	1948-
GRIDER, George William	1912-1991
GRUNDY, Felix	1777-1840
HALE, Nathan Wesley	1860-1941
HALL, William	1775-1856
HARRIS, Isham Green	1818-1897
HARRIS, Thomas K.	-1816
HARRISON, Horace Harrison	1829-1885
HASKELL, William T.	1818-1859
HATTON, Robert Hopkins	1826-1862
HAWKINS, Isaac Roberts	1818-1880
HENDERSON, Bennett H.	1784-
HILL, Hugh Lawson White	1810-1892
HILLEARY, Van	1959-
HOGG, Samuel	1783-1842
HOUK, John Chiles	1860-1923
HOUK, Leonidas Campbell	1836-1891
HOUSE, John Ford	1827-1904
HOUSTON, Samuel	1793-1863
HOUSTON, William Cannon	1852-1931
HULL, Cordell	1871-1955
HUMPHREYS, Parry Wayne	1778-1839
HUNTSMAN, Adam	1786-1849
INGE, William Marshall	1802-1846
ISACKS, Jacob C.	-
JACKSON, Andrew	1767-1845
JACKSON, Howell Edmunds	1832-1895
JARNAGIN, Spencer	1792-1853
JENKINS, William Lewis	1936-
JENNINGS, John, Jr.	1880-1956
JOHNSON, Andrew	1808-1875
JOHNSON, Cave	1793-1866
JONES, Ed	1912-1999
JONES, Francis	-
JONES, George Washington	1806-1884
JONES, James Chamberlain	1809-1859
KEFAUVER, Carey Estes	1903-1963
KEY, David McKendree	1824-1900
KUYKENDALL, Dan Heflin	1924-2008
LEA, Luke	1783-1851
LEA, Luke	1879-1945
LEA, Pryor	1794-1879
LEFTWICH, John William	1826-1870
LEWIS, Barbour	1818-1893
LLOYD, Marilyn Laird	1929-
LOSER, Joseph Carlton	1892-1984
LOVETTE, Oscar Byrd	1871-1934
MARABLE, John Hartwell	1786-1844
MARR, George Washington Lent	1779-1856
MARTIN, Barclay	1802-1890
MASSEY, Zachary David	1864-1923
MATHEWS, Harlan	1927-
MAURY, Abram Poindexter	1801-1848
MAYNARD, Horace	1814-1882
McCALL, John Ethridge	1859-1920
McCLELLAN, Abraham	1789-1866
McCORD, Jim Nance	1879-1968
McDEARMON, James Calvin	1844-1902
McFARLAND, William	1821-1900
McKELLAR, Kenneth Douglas	1869-1957
McMILLIN, Benton	1845-1933
McREYNOLDS, Samuel Davis	1872-1939
MILLER, Pleasant Moorman	-1849
MITCHELL, James Coffield	1786-1843
MITCHELL, John Ridley	1877-1962
MOON, John Austin	1855-1921
MOORE, William Robert	1830-1909
MULLINS, James	1807-1873
MURRAY, Thomas Jefferson	1894-1971
NEAL, John Randolph	1836-1889
NELSON, Thomas Amos Rogers	1812-1873
NICHOLSON, Alfred Osborn Pope	1808-1876
NUNN, David Alexander	1833-1918
PADGETT, Lemuel Phillips	1855-1922
PATTERSON, David Trotter	1818-1891
PATTERSON, Josiah	1837-1904
PATTERSON, Malcolm Rice	1861-1935
PEARSON, Herron Carney	1890-1953
PETTIBONE, Augustus Herman	1835-1918
PEYTON, Balie	1803-1878
PEYTON, Joseph Hopkins	1808-1845
PHELAN, James	1856-1891
PHILLIPS, Dayton Edward	1910-1980
PIERCE, Rice Alexander	1848-1936
POLK, James Knox	1795-1849
POLK, William Hawkins	1815-1862
POWELL, Samuel	1776-1841
PRIEST, James Percy	1900-1956
PROSSER, William Farrand	1834-1911
QUARLES, James Minor	1823-1901
QUILLEN, James Henry	1916-2003
RANDOLPH, James Henry	1825-1900
READY, Charles	1802-1878
REECE, Brazilla Carroll	1889-1961
REECE, Louise Goff	1898-1970
REYNOLDS, James B.	1779-1851
RHEA, John	1753-1832
RICHARDSON, James Daniel	1843-1914
RIDDLE, Haywood Yancey	1834-1879
RIVERS, Thomas	1819-1863
ROE, David P. (Phil)	1945-
SALMON, William Charles	1868-1925
SANDERS, Newell	1850-1939
SANDFORD, James T.	-
SASSER, James Ralph	1936-
SAVAGE, John Houston	1815-1904
SCOTT, Lon Allen	1888-1931
SELLS, Sam Riley	1871-1935
SENTER, William Tandy	1801-1848
SEVIER, John	1745-1815
SHIELDS, Ebenezer J.	1778-1846
SHIELDS, John Knight	1858-1934
SIMONTON, Charles Bryson	1838-1911
SIMS, Thetus Willrette	1852-1939
SMITH, Daniel	1748-1818
SMITH, Samuel Axley	1822-1863
SMITH, William Jay	1823-1913
SNEED, William Henry	1812-1869
SNODGRASS, Charles Edward	1866-1936
SNODGRASS, Henry Clay	1848-1931
STANDIFER, James Israel	1782-1837
STANTON, Frederick Perry	1814-1894
STEWART, Arthur Thomas	1892-1972
STOKES, William Brickly	1814-1897
STONE, William	1791-1853
SUNDQUIST, Donald Kenneth	1936-
SUTTON, James Patrick	1915-2005
TANNER, John S.	1944-
TAYLOR, Alfred Alexander	1848-1931
TAYLOR, James Willis	1880-1939
TAYLOR, John May	1838-1911
TAYLOR, Nathaniel Green	1819-1887
TAYLOR, Robert Love	1850-1912
TAYLOR, Zachary	1849-1921
THOMAS, Isaac	1784-1859
THOMAS, James Houston	1808-1876
THOMPSON, Fred Dalton	1942-
THORNBURGH, Jacob Montgomery	1837-1890
TILLMAN, Lewis	1816-1886
TRIMBLE, John	1812-1884
TURLEY, Thomas Battle	1845-1910
TURNER, Clarence Wyly	1866-1939
TURNEY, Hopkins Lacy	1797-1857
TYSON, Lawrence Davis	1861-1929
VAUGHAN, William Wirt	1831-1878
WALTERS, Herbert Sanford	1891-1973
WAMP, Zachary Paul	1957-
WARNER, Richard	1835-1915
WASHINGTON, Joseph Edwin	1851-1915
WATKINS, Albert Galiton	1818-1895
WATTERSON, Harvey Magee	1811-1891
WEAKLEY, Robert	1764-1845
WEBB, William Robert	1842-1926
WHARTON, Jesse	1782-1833
WHITE, Hugh Lawson	1773-1840
WHITE, James	1749-1809
WHITESIDE, Jenkin	1772-1822
WHITTHORNE, Washington Curran	1825-1891
WILLIAMS, Christopher Harris	1798-1857
WILLIAMS, John	1778-1837
WILLIAMS, Joseph Lanier	1810-1865
WRIGHT, John Vines	1828-1908
YOUNG, Hiram Casey	1828-1899
ZOLLICOFFER, Felix Kirk	1812-1862