The following is a list of people who have served as Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee

Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee

The Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee is the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate and first in line in the succession to the office of Governor of Tennessee in the event of the death, resignation, or removal from office through impeachment and conviction of the Governor of the U.S...

 (full current formal title: Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate) since the current Tennessee State Constitution

Tennessee State Constitution

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 was adopted in 1870. The title of Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant governor

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 was formally added in 1951; however, the Speaker of the Senate has been the designated successor to the Governor of Tennessee since Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796. Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey is the first Republican

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 to hold this office since the adoption of the current constitution, all others having been Democrats

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Lieutenant Governors of the State of Tennessee
Name	Term	Party	Life
Dorsey B. Thomas	1869–1871	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...	?
John C. Vaughn	1871–1873	Democratic	?
A. T. Lacey	1873–1875	Democratic	?
Thomas H. Paine	1875–1877	Democratic	?
Hugh M. McAdoo	1877–1879	Democratic	?
John R. Neal John R. Neal John Randolph Neal was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district.-Biography:...	1879–1881	Democratic	1836–1889
George H. Morgan	1881–1883	Democratic	?
Benjamin F. Alexander	1883–1885	Democratic	?
Cabell R. Berry Cabell R. Berry Cabell Rives Berry was the Speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1885 to 1887.-Biography:Berry was born in Amherst County, Virginia, on July 4, 1848...	1885–1887	Democratic	1848–1910
Z. W. Ewing	1887–1889	Democratic	?
Benjamin J. Lea	1889–1891	Democratic	?
William C. Dismukes	1891–1895	Democratic	?
Ernest Pillow	1895–1897	Democratic	1856-?
John Thompson	1897–1899	Democratic	?
Seid Waddell	1899–1901	Democratic	?
Newton H. White	1901–1903	Democratic	?
E. T. Seay	1903–1905	Democratic	?
John I. Cox John I. Cox John Isaac Cox was Governor of Tennessee from 1905 to 1907.-Biography:Cox was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on November 23, 1855, and was the son of a Confederate soldier, which was less common in East Tennessee than in the rest of the state, as East Tennessee was one of the Southern...	1905	Democratic	1855–1946
Ernest Rice	1905–1907	Democratic	?
E. G. Tollett	1907–1909	Democratic	?
William Kinney	1909–1911	Democratic	?
Nathaniel Baxter, Jr.	1911–1913	Democratic	?
Newton H. White	1913–1915	Democratic	?
Hu Anderson	1915	Democratic	?
Albert E. Hill	1915–1917	Democratic	?
W. R. Crabtree	1917–1919	Democratic	?
Andrew L. Todd	1919–1921	Democratic	?
W. W. Bond	1921–1923	Democratic	?
Eugene J. Bryan	1923–1925	Democratic	?
L. D. Hill	1925–1927	Democratic	?
Henry Hollis Horton Henry Hollis Horton Henry Hollis Horton was Governor of Tennessee from 1927 to 1933.-Biography:Horton was born in Alabama into the family of a Baptist minister. He taught school for six years before being admitted to the bar in 1894. He served several terms in the legislature, and was elected speaker of the...	1927	Democratic	1866–1934
Sam R. Bratton	1929–1931	Democratic	?
Scott Fitzhugh	1931	Democratic	?
A. B. Broadbent	1931–1933	Democratic	?
A. F. Officer	1933–1935	Democratic	?
William P. Moss	1935–1936	Democratic	?
Bryan Pope	1936–1939	Democratic	?
Blan R. Maxwell	1939–1943	Democratic	?
Joseph H. Ballew	1943–1945	Democratic	1886–1972
Larry Morgan	1945–1947	Democratic	?
George Oliver Benton	1947–1949	Democratic	1915–2001
Walter M. Haynes	1949–1953	Democratic	1897–1967
Jared Maddux Jared Maddux Jared Maddux was a Tennessee politician. A member of the Tennessee State Senate, he was elected by his colleagues to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and again from 1965 to 1967, longer than any other person except John S...	1953–1959	Democratic	1912–1971
William D. Baird	1959–1962	Democratic	1906–1987
James L. Bomar, Jr.	1963–1965	Democratic	1914–2001
Jared Maddux	1965–1967	Democratic	1912–1971
Frank Gorrell	1967–1971	Democratic	1928–1994
John S. Wilder John S. Wilder John Shelton Wilder was an American politician who was a Tennessee state senator from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1967 to 2009 and the 48th lieutenant governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 2007, possibly the longest time anyone has served as Lieutenant Governor or a similar position in the history of...	1971–2007	Democratic	1927–2010
Ron Ramsey Ron Ramsey Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey is the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee and Speaker of the State Senate. A Republican from Blountville in East Tennessee, Ramsey succeeded long-term Democratic Lieutenant Governor John S...	2007-	Republican	1955-

¹ John I. Cox became governor of Tennessee on March 21, 1905 when Governor James B. Frazier

James B. Frazier

James Beriah Frazier was Governor of Tennessee from 1903 to 1905 and subsequently a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1905 to 1911.-Biography:...

 arranged his own appointment to a vacant United States Senate

United States Senate

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 seat and then resigned as governor.

² Henry H. Horton became governor of Tennessee on October 3, 1927 upon the death of Governor Austin Peay IV. The legislature

Legislature

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 then met on a biennial basis, so the position of Speaker of the Senate remained vacant until January, 1929. During this period, the designated successor to the governor was Selden Maiden, Speaker

Speaker (politics)

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 of the Tennessee House of Representatives

Tennessee House of Representatives

The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee.-Constitutional requirements:...

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