U.S. Senate · Historical · Tennessee
Former U.S. Senators from Tennessee
Individuals who have served in the United States Senate and have since left office, grouped by the state they represented. The Senate seats two members from each state, each elected to a staggered six-year term across three classes (I, II, and III); the members below have completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or appointment to other office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former senator’s biography, the state and party they represented, their Senate Class, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, or open a state to see just that state’s former delegation. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a senator’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-senators hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
- Former U.S. SenatorAlbert GoreTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1971
- Former U.S. SenatorAlbert Gore Jr.TennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1985–1993
- Former U.S. SenatorAlexander AndersonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1840–1841
- Former U.S. SenatorAlfred NicholsonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1840–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorAndrew JacksonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1797–1825
- Former U.S. SenatorAndrew JohnsonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1857–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorArthur StewartTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1939–1949
- Former U.S. SenatorBill FristTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1995–2007
- Former U.S. SenatorBob CorkerTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I2007–2019
- Former U.S. SenatorCarey KefauverTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1949–1963
- Former U.S. SenatorCordell HullTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1933
- Former U.S. SenatorDaniel SmithTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1798–1809
- Former U.S. SenatorDavid KeyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorDavid PattersonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1866–1869
- Former U.S. SenatorEdward CarmackTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1901–1907
- Former U.S. SenatorEphraim FosterTennesseeWhigSenate Class I1838–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorFelix GrundyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1829–1841
- Former U.S. SenatorFred ThompsonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1994–2003
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge BerryTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1937–1939
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge CampbellTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1811–1819
- Former U.S. SenatorHarlan MathewsTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1993–1995
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry CooperTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1871–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorHerbert WaltersTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1963–1965
- Former U.S. SenatorHopkins TurneyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorHoward Baker Jr.TennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1967–1985
- Former U.S. SenatorHowell JacksonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1881–1887
- Former U.S. SenatorHugh WhiteTennesseeWhigSenate Class II1825–1841
- Former U.S. SenatorIsham HarrisTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1897
- Former U.S. SenatorJames BaileyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1877–1881
- Former U.S. SenatorJames FrazierTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1905–1911
- Former U.S. SenatorJames JonesTennesseeInd. Republican-DemocratSenate Class I1851–1857
- Former U.S. SenatorJames SasserTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1977–1995
- Former U.S. SenatorJenkin WhitesideTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1809–1811
- Former U.S. SenatorJesse WhartonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1814–1815
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn BellTennesseeAmericanSenate Class II1847–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn EatonTennesseeJacksonSenate Class I1818–1829
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn ShieldsTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1925
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn WilliamsTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1815–1823
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph AndersonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1797–1815
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph FowlerTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1866–1871
- Former U.S. SenatorKenneth McKellarTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1917–1953
- Former U.S. SenatorLamar AlexanderTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II2003–2021
- Former U.S. SenatorLawrence TysonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1925–1929
- Former U.S. SenatorLuke LeaTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1911–1917
- Former U.S. SenatorNathan BachmanTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1933–1937
- Former U.S. SenatorNewell SandersTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1912–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert TaylorTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1907–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorRoss BassTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1964–1967
- Former U.S. SenatorSpencer JarnaginTennesseeWhigSenate Class II1843–1847
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas TurleyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1897–1901
- Former U.S. SenatorWashington WhitthorneTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1886–1887
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BateTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1905
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BlountTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1797
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BrockTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1929–1931
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam Brock IIITennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1971–1977
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BrownlowTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1869–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam CockeTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1805
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam WebbTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1913