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.
- Albert GoreTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1971
- Albert Gore Jr.TennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1985–1993
- Alexander AndersonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1840–1841
- Alfred NicholsonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1840–1861
- Andrew JacksonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1797–1825
- Andrew JohnsonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1857–1875
- Arthur StewartTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1939–1949
- Bill FristTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1995–2007
- Bob CorkerTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I2007–2019
- Carey KefauverTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1949–1963
- Cordell HullTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1933
- Daniel SmithTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1798–1809
- David KeyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1877
- David PattersonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1866–1869
- Edward CarmackTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1901–1907
- Ephraim FosterTennesseeWhigSenate Class I1838–1845
- Felix GrundyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1829–1841
- Fred ThompsonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1994–2003
- George BerryTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1937–1939
- George CampbellTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1811–1819
- Harlan MathewsTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1993–1995
- Henry CooperTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1871–1877
- Herbert WaltersTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1963–1965
- Hopkins TurneyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1851
- Howard Baker Jr.TennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1967–1985
- Howell JacksonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1881–1887
- Hugh WhiteTennesseeWhigSenate Class II1825–1841
- Isham HarrisTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1897
- James BaileyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1877–1881
- James FrazierTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1905–1911
- James JonesTennesseeInd. Republican-DemocratSenate Class I1851–1857
- James SasserTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1977–1995
- Jenkin WhitesideTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1809–1811
- Jesse WhartonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1814–1815
- John BellTennesseeAmericanSenate Class II1847–1859
- John EatonTennesseeJacksonSenate Class I1818–1829
- John ShieldsTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1925
- John WilliamsTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1815–1823
- Joseph AndersonTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1797–1815
- Joseph FowlerTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1866–1871
- Kenneth McKellarTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1917–1953
- Lamar AlexanderTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II2003–2021
- Lawrence TysonTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1925–1929
- Luke LeaTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1911–1917
- Nathan BachmanTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1933–1937
- Newell SandersTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1912–1913
- Robert TaylorTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1907–1913
- Ross BassTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1964–1967
- Spencer JarnaginTennesseeWhigSenate Class II1843–1847
- Thomas TurleyTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1897–1901
- Washington WhitthorneTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1886–1887
- William BateTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1905
- William BlountTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1797
- William BrockTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1929–1931
- William Brock IIITennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1971–1977
- William BrownlowTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class I1869–1875
- William CockeTennesseeRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1805
- William WebbTennesseeDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1913