Tennessee's 8th Congressional District

Tennessee's 8th Congressional District elects one member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Below is the district's current representative, the members of Congress who held this seat before, and Tennessee's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

David Kustoff (Republican) currently represents Tennessee's 8th Congressional District. See David Kustoff's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Tennessee's 8th Congressional District:

• Stephen Fincher — Republican (until 2017)
• John Tanner — Democrat (until 2011)
• Ed Jones — Democrat (until 1989)
• Dan Kuykendall — Republican (until 1975)
• Robert Everett — Democrat (until 1971)
• Jere Cooper — Democrat (until 1959)
• Lon Scott — Republican (until 1923)
• Thetus Sims — Democrat (until 1921)
• John McCall — Republican (until 1897)
• Benjamin Enloe — Democrat (until 1895)

Tennessee U.S. Senators

• Marsha Blackburn — Republican Senator
• Bill Hagerty — Republican Senator
• Lamar Alexander — Republican Senator
• Bob Corker — Republican Senator
• William Frist — Republican Senator
• Fred Thompson — Republican Senator
• Harlan Mathews — Democrat Senator
• James Sasser — Democrat Senator
• Albert Gore — Democrat Senator
• Howard Baker — Republican Senator
• William Brock — Republican Senator
• Albert Gore — Democrat Senator
• Ross Bass — Democrat Senator
• Herbert Walters — Democrat Senator
• Carey Kefauver — Democrat Senator
• Kenneth McKellar — Democrat Senator
• Arthur Stewart — Democrat Senator
• George Berry — Democrat Senator
• Nathan Bachman — Democrat Senator
• Cordell Hull — Democrat Senator
• William Brock — Democrat Senator
• Lawrence Tyson — Democrat Senator
• John Shields — Democrat Senator
• Luke Lea — Democrat Senator
• William Webb — Democrat Senator
• Newell Sanders — Republican Senator
• Robert Taylor — Democrat Senator
• James Frazier — Democrat Senator
• Edward Carmack — Democrat Senator
• William Bate — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Turley — Democrat Senator
• Isham Harris — Democrat Senator
• Howell Jackson — Democrat Senator
• James Bailey — Democrat Senator
• David Key — Democrat Senator
• Henry Cooper — Democrat Senator
• Andrew Johnson — Democrat Senator
• William Brownlow — Republican Senator
• Joseph Fowler — Republican Senator
• David Patterson — Democrat Senator
• Alfred Nicholson — Democrat Senator
• John Bell — American Senator
• James Jones — Ind. Republican-Democrat Senator
• Hopkins Turney — Democrat Senator
• Spencer Jarnagin — Whig Senator
• Ephraim Foster — Whig Senator
• Alexander Anderson — Democrat Senator
• Felix Grundy — Democrat Senator
• Hugh White — Whig Senator
• John Eaton — Jackson Senator
• Andrew Jackson — Democratic Republican Senator
• John Williams — Republican Senator
• George Campbell — Republican Senator
• Jesse Wharton — Republican Senator
• Joseph Anderson — Republican Senator
• Jenkin Whiteside — Republican Senator
• Daniel Smith — Republican Senator
• William Cocke — Republican Senator
• William Blount — Republican Senator

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