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.

Estes Kefauver (1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 to 1963. He was the Democratic party’s vice presidential nominee in 1956.

Albert Gore Sr. attended UT in Knoxville from 1926 to 1928. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to 1971.

Clement C. Clay received one of the first degrees granted by East Tennessee College (now UT) in 1807. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as a U.S. senator from Alabama, and as governor of Alabama.

Zach Wamp attended UT Knoxville. He represents Tennessee’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. His service began in 1995. He is the only Tennessean who serves on the House Appropriations Committee.

John Tanner (1966, 1968) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee’s eighth district since 1989. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1977 to 1989.

William L. Jenkins (1961) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee’s first district. He was speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1969, is a former Tennessee commissioner of conservation, and served on the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.