Governor of Tennessee

Bill Lee 2019–present

Bill Haslam 2011–2019 Phil Bredesen 2003–2011 Don Sundquist 1995–2003 Ned McWherter 1987–1995 Lamar Alexander 1979–1987 Winfield Dunn 1971–1975 Buford Ellington 1967–1971 Buford Ellington 1959–1963 Frank G. Clement 1953–1959 Gordon Browning 1949–1953 Jim Nance McCord 1945–1949 Prentice Cooper 1939–1945 Gordon Browning 1937–1939 Hill McAlister 1933–1937 Alfred A. Taylor 1921–1923 Albert H. Roberts 1919–1921 Thomas Clarke Rye 1915–1919 Ben W. Hooper 1911–1915 Malcolm R. Patterson 1907–1911 John I. Cox 1905–1907 Robert Love Taylor 1897–1899 Peter Turney 1893–1897 John P. Buchanan 1891–1893 Robert Love Taylor 1887–1891 John C. Brown 1871–1875 Dewitt Clinton Senter 1869–1871 Parson Brownlow 1865–1869 Edward H. East 1865 Andrew Johnson 1862–1865 Andrew Johnson 1853–1857 William B. Campbell 1851–1853 William Trousdale 1849–1851 Neill S. Brown 1847–1849 James C. Jones 1841–1845 James K. Polk 1839–1841 Newton Cannon 1835–1839 William Carroll 1829–1835 Sam Houston 1827–1829 William Carroll 1821–1827 Willie Blount 1809–1815 John Sevier 1803–1809