Tennessee U.S. Senators (2026)

Former Senators from Tennessee

All 58 former U.S. senators who represented Tennessee, most recent first.

• Lamar Alexander 2003 – 2021
• Bob Corker 2007 – 2019
• William Frist 1995 – 2007
• Fred Thompson 1994 – 2003
• James Sasser 1977 – 1995
• Harlan Mathews 1993 – 1994
• Albert Gore, Jr. 1985 – 1993
• Howard Baker, Jr. 1967 – 1985
• William Brock, III 1971 – 1977
• Albert Gore 1953 – 1971
• Ross Bass 1964 – 1967
• Herbert Walters 1963 – 1964
• Carey Kefauver 1949 – 1963
• Kenneth McKellar 1917 – 1953
• A. Thomas Stewart 1939 – 1949
• George Berry 1937 – 1938
• Nathan Bachman 1933 – 1937
• Cordell Hull 1931 – 1933
• William Brock 1929 – 1931
• Lawrence Tyson 1925 – 1929
• John Shields 1913 – 1925
• Luke Lea 1911 – 1917
• William Webb 1913
• Newell Sanders 1912 – 1913
• Robert Taylor 1907 – 1912
• James Frazier 1905 – 1911
• Edward Carmack 1901 – 1907
• William Bate 1887 – 1905
• Thomas Turley 1897 – 1901
• Isham Harris 1877 – 1897
• Washington Whitthorne 1886 – 1887
• Howell Jackson 1881 – 1886
• James Bailey 1877 – 1881
• Henry Cooper 1871 – 1877
• David Key 1875 – 1877
• Andrew Johnson 1857 – 1875
• William Brownlow 1869 – 1875
• Joseph Fowler 1866 – 1871
• David Patterson 1866 – 1869
• Alfred Nicholson 1840 – 1861
• John Bell 1847 – 1859
• James Jones 1851 – 1857
• Hopkins Turney 1845 – 1851
• Spencer Jarnagin 1843 – 1847
• Ephraim Foster 1838 – 1845
• Alexander Anderson 1840 – 1841
• Felix Grundy 1829 – 1840
• Hugh White 1825 – 1840
• John Eaton 1818 – 1829
• Andrew Jackson 1797 – 1825
• John Williams 1815 – 1823
• George Campbell 1811 – 1818
• Jesse Wharton 1814 – 1815
• Joseph Anderson 1797 – 1815
• Jenkin Whiteside 1809 – 1811
• Daniel Smith 1798 – 1809
• William Cocke 1796 – 1805
• William Blount 1796 – 1797