Ed Jones attended UT Junior College (now UT Martin) and graduated from UT in Knoxville in 1934. He was Tennessee commissioner of agriculture from 1949 to 1952 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989.

Thomas G. Hull (1951) was chief U.S. district judge in Greeneville, Tennessee. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955.

John Chiles Houk attended UT Knoxville from 1872 to 1879. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895 and later served in the Tennessee Senate.

John J. Duncan Sr. attended UT from 1939 to 1941. He was mayor of Knoxville and served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

John Hervey Crozier (1829) was president of the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1845 to 1849.

Walter C. Chandler (1909) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1940 and served as mayor of Memphis from 1940 to 1946 and in 1955.

Howard Baker Sr. (1922, 1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1951 to 1964.

Richard Wilson Austin, an 1877 graduate of East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor), was consul to Scotland from 1906 to 1907 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1909 to 1919.

John Dewitt Clinton Atkins graduated from East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor) in 1846. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Tennessee House and the Tennessee Senate. He was commissioner of Indian affairs from 1885 to 1888.

Washington Curran Whitthorne (1843) was a U.S. senator from Tennessee in 1886-87 and a U.S. representative. He also was speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.