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Tennessee: Senate Speakers

Speakers of the Tennessee State Senate, 1796-1955 (May be incomplete!)
James Winchester 1796-97 James White 1797-98 William Blount 1798-99 Alexander Outlaw 1799-1801 James White 1801-05 Joseph McMinn 1805-11 Thomas Henderson 1811-13 Robert C. Foster 1813-15 Edward Ward 1815-19 Robert Weakley 1819-21 Sterling Brewer 1821-23 Robert Weakley 1823-25 Robert C. Foster 1825-27 William Hall 1827-29 Joel Walker 1829-31 Burchet Douglass 1831-33 David Burford 1833-35 Jonathan Webster 1835-37 Terry H. Cahal 1837-39 Thomas Love 1839 L. H. Coe 1839-41 Samuel Turney 1841-43 Josiah M. Anderson 1843-45 Harvey M. Watterson 1845-47 Josiah M. Anderson 1847-49 John F. Henry 1849-51 M. R. Hill 1851-53 Edwin Polk 1853-55 Edward S. Cheatham 1855-57 John C. Burch 1857-59 Tazewell W. Newman 1859-61 B. L. Stovall 1861 Edward S. Cheatham 1861-62 Samuel R. Rodgers 1865 Joshua B. Frierson 1865-67 DeWitt Clinton Senter 1867-69 P. P. C. Nelson 1869 Dorsey B. Thomas 1869-71 John C. Vaughn 1871-73 A. T. Lacey 1873-75 Thomas H. Paine 1875-77 Hugh M. McAdoo 1877-79 John R. Neal 1879-81 George H. Morgan 1881-83 Benjamin F. Alexander 1883-85 C. R. Barry 1885-87 Z. W. Ewing 1887-89 Benjamin J. Lea 1889-91 William C. Dismukes 1891-95 Ernest Pillow 1895-97 John Thompson 1897-99 Seid Waddell 1899-1901 Newton H. White 1901-03 E. T. Seay 1903-05 John I. Cox 1905 Ernest Rice 1905-07 E. G. Tollett 1907-09 William Kinney 1909-11 Nathaniel Baxter, Jr. 1911-13 Newton H. White 1913-15 Hugh Crump Anderson 1915 Albert E. Hill 1915-17 W. R. Crabtree 1917-19 Andrew L. Todd 1919-21 W. W. Bond 1921-23 Eugene J. Bryan 1923-25 L. D. Hill 1925-27 Henry H. Horton 1927 Sam R. Bratton 1929-31 Scott Fitzhugh 1931 A. B. Broadbent 1931-33 A. F. Officer 1933-35 William P. Moss 1935-36 Byron Pope 1936-39 Blan R. Maxwell 1939-45 Larry Morgan 1945-47 George O. Benton 1947-49 Walter M. Haynes 1949-53 Jared Maddux 1953-55

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1915 Mar 1: Hugh Crump Anderson, died in office.
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