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U.S. Senators from Tennessee:
Name Dates of Service
Class 1
William Cocke (R)
Andrew Jackson (R)
Daniel Smith (R)
Joseph Anderson (R)
George W. Campbell (R)
John H. Eaton (R,JR,J)
Felix Grundy (J,D)
Ephraim H. Foster (W)
Felix Grundy (D)
Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D)
Ephraim H. Foster (W)
Hopkins L. Turney (D)
James C. Jones (W,OP)
Andrew Johnson (D)
David T. Patterson (U,D)
William G. Brownlow (R)
Andrew Johnson (D)
David M. Key (D)
James E. Bailey (D)
Howell E. Jackson (D)
Washington C. Whitthorne (D)
William B. Bate (D)
James B. Frazier (D)
Luke Lea (D)
Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
Albert A. Gore, Sr. (D)
William E. Brock III (R)
James R. Sasser (D)
William H. Frist (R)
Bob Corker (R)
1796-1797
1797-1798
1798-1799
1799-1815
1815-1818
1818-1829
1829-1838
1838-1839
1839-1840
1840-1842
1843-1845
1845-1851
1851-1857
1857-1862
1866-1869
1869-1875
1875-1875
1875-1877
1877-1881
1881-1886
1886-1887
1887-1905
1905-1911
1911-1917
1917-1953
1953-1971
1971-1977
1977-1995
1995-2007
2007---

Name Dates of Service
Class 2
William Blount (R)
Joseph Anderson (R)
William Cocke (R)
Daniel Smith (R)
Jenkin Whiteside (R)
George W. Campbell (R)
Jesse Wharton (R)
John Williams (R)
Andrew Jackson (JR)
Hugh Lawson White (J,AJ,W)
Alexander O. Anderson (D)
Spencer Jarnagin (W)
John Bell (W,OP,AM)
Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D)
Joseph S. Fowler (UU,R)
Henry Cooper (D)
Isham G. Harris (D)
Thomas B. Turley (D)
Edward W. Carmack (D)
Robert L. Taylor (D)
Newell Sanders (R)
William R. Webb (D)
John K. Shields (D)
Lawrence D. Tyson (D)
William E. Brock (D)
Cordell Hull (D)
Nathan L. Bachman (D)
George L. Berry (D)
A. Thomas Stewart (D)
C. Estes Kefauver (D)
Herbert S. Walters (D)
Ross Bass (D)
Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R)
Albert A. Gore, Jr. (D)
Harlan Mathews (D)
Fred Thompson (R)
Lamar Alexander (R)
1796-1797
1797-1799
1799-1805
1805-1809
1809-1811
1811-1814
1814-1815
1815-1823
1823-1825
1825-1840
1840-1841
1843-1847
1847-1859
1859-1861
1866-1871
1871-1877
1877-1897
1897-1901
1901-1907
1907-1912
1912-1913
1913-1913
1913-1925
1925-1929
1929-1931
1931-1933
1933-1937
1937-1938
1939-1949
1949-1963
1963-1964
1964-1967
1967-1985
1985-1993
1993-1994
1994-2003
2003---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Kenneth D. McKellar
 
Tennessee Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
Senate President (U.S. Vice President): Andrew Johnson, Albert A. Gore, Jr.

President Pro Tempore: Joseph Anderson, Hugh L. White, Isham G. Harris, Kenneth D. McKellar.

Minority and Majority Leaders: Howard H. Baker, Jr., William Frist

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: William Frist

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Appropriations: Kenneth D. McKellar

Budget: James R. Sasser

Governmental Affairs: Fred Thompson
Tennessee Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps:
Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson.
 
Tennessee Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: John Sevier by Belle Kinney Scholz and Leopold F. Sholz (Statuary Hall); Andrew Jackson by Belle Kinney and L.F. Sholz (Rotunda).

Busts:

Vice Presidents Collection: Andrew Johnson by William C. McCauslen (Senate chamber gallery).

Cordell Hull by George Conlon (Brumidi Corridor).

Portraits: Andrew Jackson attributed to Thomas Scully (S-210); John Bell by Willie B. Newman (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor); James K. Polk by Rebecca Polk (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor); Joseph W. Byrns by Ella S. Hergesheimer (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor). The Republican leader's office, S-230, is named for Howard H. Baker, Jr.; his portrait (on loan) by Herbert E. Abrams hangs in the conference room of the office.

Building materials, furniture, and objects: Tennessee marble: 1) Tennessee variegated marble (Tennessee Pink) from Knox County (Grand staircase trim on the House and Senate sides). 2) Endsley Robilee Tavernelle Marble from Blount County (floors, Main Hall, Senate and House Dining Rooms). 3) Imperial Black from Knoxville (floors, borders of House and Senate Dining Rooms).

 
Unusual Facts
It has been rare in this century for practicing physicians to serve in the Senate. Tennessee's Bill Frist--a practicing cardiologist--is the first since 1938. President Andrew Johnson, who was impeached by the House of Representatives and subsequently acquitted in trial by the Senate, is the only president to have later returned to serve in the Senate.
 
 
  

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