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| Governors of the State of Tennessee | |||
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| Name | Term | Party | Life |
| John Sevier | 1796-1801 | Democratic-Republican | 1745-1815 |
| Archibald Roane | 1801-1803 | Democratic-Republican | 1760-1819 |
| John Sevier | 1803-1809 | Democratic-Republican | 1745-1815 |
| Willie Blount | 1809-1815 | Democratic-Republican | 1768-1835 |
| Joseph McMinn | 1815-1821 | Democratic-Republican | 1758-1854 |
| William Carroll | 1821-1827 | Democratic-Republican | 1788-1844 |
| Samuel Houston | 1827-1829 | Democratic-Republican | 1793-1863 |
| William Hall | 1829 | Democrat | 1775-1856 |
| William Carroll | 1829-1835 | Democrat | 1788-1844 |
| Newton Cannon | 1835-1839 | Democrat | 1781-1841 |
| James K. Polk | 1839-1841 | Democrat | 1795-1849 |
| James C. Jones | 1841-1845 | Whig | 1809-1859 |
| Aaron V. Brown | 1845-1847 | Democrat | 1795-1859 |
| Neill S. Brown | 1847-1849 | Whig | 1810-1886 |
| William Trousdale | 1849-1851 | Democrat | 1790-1872 |
| William B. Campbell | 1851-1853 | Whig | 1807-1867 |
| Andrew Johnson | 1853-1857 | Democrat | 1808-1875 |
| Isham G. Harris | 1857-1862 | Democrat | 1818-1897 |
| Andrew Johnson | 1862-1865 | Democrat/Military | 1808-1875 |
| E. H. East | 1865 | Republican | |
| William G. Brownlow | 1865-1869 | Whig | 1805-1877 |
| Dewitt Clinton Senter | 1869-1871 | Democrat | 1830-1898 |
| John C. Brown | 1871-1875 | Democrat | 1827-1889 |
| James D. Porter, Jr | 1875-1879 | Democrat | 1828-1912 |
| Albert S. Marks | 1879-1881 | Democrat | 1836-1891 |
| Alvin Hawkins | 1881-1883 | Republican | 1821-1905 |
| William B. Bate | 1883-1887 | Democrat | 1826-1905 |
| Robert Love Taylor | 1887-1891 | Democrat | 1850-1912 |
| John P. Buchanan | 1891-1893 | Democrat | 1847-1930 |
| Peter Turney | 1893-1897 | Democrat | 1827-1903 |
| Robert Love Taylor | 1897-1899 | Democrat | 1850-1912 |
| Benton McMillin | 1899-1903 | Democrat | 1845-1933 |
| James B. Frazier | 1903-1905 | Democrat | 1856-1937 |
| John I. Cox | 1905-1907 | Democrat | 1855-1946 |
| Malcolm R. Patterson | 1907-1911 | Democrat | 1861-1935 |
| Ben W. Hooper | 1911-1915 | Republican | 1870-1957 |
| Tom C. Rye | 1915-1919 | Democrat | 1863-1953 |
| A. H. Roberts | 1919-1921 | Democrat | 1868-1946 |
| Alfred A. Taylor | 1921-1923 | Republican | 1848-1931 |
| Austin Peay IV | 1923-1927 | Democrat | 1876-1927 |
| Henry Hollis Horton | 1927-1933 | Democrat | 1866-1934 |
| Harry Hill McAlister | 1933-1937 | Democrat | 1875-1959 |
| Gordon Browning | 1937-1939 | Democrat | 1889-1976 |
| Prentice Cooper | 1939-1945 | Democrat | 1895-1969 |
| Jim Nance McCord | 1945-1949 | Democrat | 1879-1968 |
| Gordon Browning | 1949-1953 | Democrat | 1889-1976 |
| Frank G. Clement | 1953-1959 | Democrat | 1920-1969 |
| Buford Ellington | 1959-1963 | Democrat | 1907-1972 |
| Frank G. Clement | 1963-1967 | Democrat | 1920-1969 |
| Buford Ellington | 1967-1971 | Democrat | 1907-1972 |
| Winfield Dunn | 1971-1975 | Republican | b.1927 |
| Ray Blanton | 1975-1979 | Democrat | 1930-1996 |
| Lamar Alexander | 1979-1987 | Republican | b.1940 |
| Ned McWherter | 1987-1995 | Democrat | b.1930 |
| Donald K. Sundquist | 1995-2003 | Republican | b.1936 |
| Phil Bredesen | 2003-present | Democrat | b.1943 |