Territorial Governor
1790-1796 William Blount
State Governors
1796-1801 John Sevier,
1801-1803 Archibald Roane
1803-1809 John Sevier
1809-1815 Willie Blount
1815-1821 Joseph McMinn
1821-1827 William Carroll
1827-1829 Sam Houston
1829-1829 William Hall
1829-1835 William Carroll
1835-1839 Newton Cannon
1839-1841 James Knox Polk
1841-1845 James C. Jones
1845-1847 Aaron Venable Brown
1847-1849 Neill Smith Brown
1849-1851 William Trousdale
1851-1853 William Bowen Campbell
1853-1857 Andrew Johnson,
1857-1862 Isham Green Harris
1862-1865 Andrew Johnson (Military)
1865-1869 William Gannaway Brownlow
1869-1871 DeWitt Clinton Senter
1871-1875 John Calvin Brown
1875-1879 9James David Porter
1879-1881 Albert Smith Marks
1881-1883 Alvin Hawkins
1883-1887 William Brimmage Bate
1887-1891 Robert Love Taylor
1891-1893 John Price Buchanan
1893-1897 Peter Turney
1897-1899 Robert Love Taylor
1899-1903 Benton McMillin
1903-1905 James B. Frazier
1905-1907 John I. Cox
1907-1911 Malcolm Rice Patterson
1911-1915 Ben W. Hooper
1915-1919 Thomas C. Rye
1919-1921 Albert H. Roberts
1921-1923 Alfred A. Taylor
1923-1927 Austin Peay
1927-1933 Henry H. Horton
1933-1937 Hill McAlistar
1937-1939 Gordon W. Browning
1939-1945 Prentice Cooper
1945-1949 Jim Nance McCord
1949-1953 Gordon W. Browning
1953-1959 Frank G. Clement
1959-1963 Buford Ellington
1963-1967 Frank G. Clement
1967-1971 Buford Ellington
1971-1975 Winfield C. Dunn
1975-1979 Leonard Ray Blanton
1979-1987 Lamar Alexander
1987-1995 Ned Ray McWherter
1995-2003 Don Sundquist
2003-2011 Phil Bredesen
2011 now Bill Haslam
Reference
USGenNet, Tennessee’s Governors