Tennessee's 2nd congressional district

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The current boundaries of Tennessee's 2nd District
The current boundaries of Tennessee's 2nd District

The 2nd Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in Tennessee. It currently includes the east central part of the state.

Cities in the district include Knoxville, Powell, Farragut, Maryville, and Athens.

The 2nd is a very safe district for the Republican Party. Republicans have held the district continuously since 1865. It was one of only two districts in Tennessee (the other being the neighboring 1st) whose congressmen did not resign when Tennessee seceded from the Union prior to the Civil War.

[edit] Representatives

Name Took Office Left Office Party District Residence
George W. Campbell 1803 1809 Democratic-Republican
Robert Weakley 1809 1811 Democratic-Republican
John Sevier 1811 1815 Democratic-Republican
Bennett H. Henderson 1815 1817 Democratic-Republican
Samuel E. Hogg 1817 1819 Democratic-Republican
Henry Hunter Bryan 1819 1823 Independent
Adam Rankin Alexander 1823 1825 Democratic-Republican
John Alexander Cocke 1825 1827 Independent
Pryor Lea 1827 1831 Democratic-Republican
Thomas Dickens Arnold 1831 1833 Anti-Jacksonian
Samuel Bunch 1833 1837 Democratic-Republican
Abraham McClellan 1837 1843 Democrat
William Tandy Senter 1843 1845 Whig
William Michael Cocke 1845 1849 Whig
Albert Galiton Watkins 1849 1853 Whig
William Montgomery Churchwell 1853 1855 Democrat
William Henry Sneed 1855 1857 American
Horace Maynard 1857 1863 American
American Civil War
Horace Maynard 1865 1873 Unconditional Unionist
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh 1873 1879 Republican
Leonidas C. Houk 1879 1891 Republican
John C. Houk 1891 1895 Republican
Henry R. Gibson 1895 1905 Republican
Nathan W. Hale 1905 1909 Republican
Richard W. Austin 1909 1919 Republican
J. Will Taylor 1919 1939 Republican
John Jennings, Jr. 1939 1951 Republican
Howard H. Baker, Sr. 1951 1963 Republican
E. Irene Bailey Baker 1963 1965 Republican
John J. Duncan, Sr. 1965 1988 Republican
John J. Duncan, Jr. 1988 present Republican