List of United States Senators from Tennessee
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Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1862 owing to its purported secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1866.
Class 1
| Senator | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Cocke | Democrat | 1796 | 1797 |
| Andrew Jackson | Democrat | 1797 | 1798 |
| Daniel Smith | Democrat | 1798 | |
| Joseph Anderson | Democrat | 1797 | 1815 |
| George W. Campbell | Democrat | 1811 | 1814 |
| John H. Eaton | Democrat | 1818 | 1829 |
| Felix Grundy | Democrat | 1829 | 1838 |
| Ephraim H. Foster | Whig | 1838 | 1839 |
| Felix Grundy | Democrat | 1839 | 1840 |
| Alfred O. P. Nicholson | Democrat | 1840 | 1842 |
| Vacant | 1842 | 1843 | |
| Ephraim H. Foster | Whig | 1843 | 1845 |
| Hopkins L. Turney | Democrat | 1845 | 1851 |
| James C. Jones | Whig, Democrat | 1851 | 1857 |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat | 1857 | 1862 |
| Vacant | 1862 | 1866 | |
| David T. Patterson | Unionist, Democrat | 1866 | 1869 |
| William G. Brownlow | Republican | 1869 | 1875 |
| Andrew Johnson | Democrat | 1875 | |
| David M. Key | Democrat | 1875 | 1877 |
| James E. Bailey | Democrat | 1877 | 1881 |
| Howell E. Jackson | Democrat | 1881 | 1886 |
| Washington C. Whitthorne | Democrat | 1886 | 1887 |
| William B. Bate | Democrat | 1887 | 1905 |
| James B. Frazier | Democrat | 1905 | 1911 |
| Luke Lea | Democrat | 1911 | 1917 |
| Kenneth D. McKellar | Democrat | 1917 | 1953 |
| Albert Gore, Sr. | Democrat | 1953 | 1971 |
| Bill Brock | Republican | 1971 | 1977 |
| Jim Sasser | Democrat | 1977 | 1995 |
| Bill Frist | Republican | 1995 |
Class 2
| Senator | Party | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Blount | Democrat | 1796 | 1797 |
| William Cocke | Democrat | 1799 | 1805 |
| Daniel Smith | Democrat | 1805 | 1809 |
| Jenkin Whiteside | Democrat | 1809 | 1811 |
| Jesse Wharton | Democrat | 1814 | 1815 |
| George W. Campbell | Democrat | 1815 | 1818 |
| John Williams | Democrat | 1815 | 1823 |
| Andrew Jackson | Democrat | 1823 | 1825 |
| Hugh Lawson White | Democrat, National Republican, Whig | 1835 | 1840 |
| Alexander O. Anderson | Democrat | 1840 | 1841 |
| SpencerJarnagin | Whig | 1843 | 1847 |
| John Bell | Whig | 1847 | 1859 |
| Alfred O. P. Nicholson | Democrat | 1859 | 1861 |
| Vacant | 1861 | 1866 | |
| Joseph S. Fowler | Unionist, Republican | 1866 | 1871 |
| Henry Cooper | Democrat | 1871 | 1877 |
| Isham G. Harris | Democrat | 1877 | 1897 |
| Thomas B. Turley | Democrat | 1897 | 1901 |
| Edward W. Carmack | Democrat | 1901 | 1907 |
| Robert L. Taylor | Democrat | 1907 | 1912 |
| Newell Sanders | Republican | 1912 | 1913 |
| William R. Webb | Democrat | 1913 | 1913 |
| John K. Shields | Democrat | 1913 | 1925 |
| Lawrence D. Tyson | Democrat | 1925 | 1929 |
| William Emerson Brock | Democrat | 1929 | 1931 |
| Cordell Hull | Democrat | 1931 | 1933 |
| Nathan L. Bachman | Democrat | 1933 | 1937 |
| George L. Berry | Democrat | 1937 | 1938 |
| Arthur T. Stewart | Democrat | 1939 | 1949 |
| Estes Kefauver | Democrat | 1949 | 1963 |
| Herbert S. Walters | Democrat | 1963 | 1964 |
| Ross Bass | Democrat | 1964 | 1967 |
| Howard H. Baker, Jr. | Republican | 1967 | 1985 |
| Al Gore | Democrat | 1985 | 1993 |
| Harlan Mathews | Democrat | 1993 | 1994 |
| Fred Thompson | Republican | 1994 | 2003 |
| Lamar Alexander | Republican | 2003 |