Tennessee Democratic Party | |
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Abbreviation | TNDP |
Chairman | Hendrell Remus |
Senate Minority Leader | Raumesh Akbari |
House Minority Leader | Karen Camper |
Founder | Andrew Jackson, John Overton, John H. Eaton, William B. Lewis, Andrew Jackson Donelson, and John Catron |
Founded | 1826 |
Headquarters | 4900 Centennial Blvd. Ste 300, Nashville, Tennessee |
Student wing | Tennessee High School Democrats Tennessee College Democrats |
Youth wing | Tennessee Young Democrats |
Women's wing | Tennessee Federation of Democratic Women |
Ideology | Modern liberalism |
National affiliation | Democratic Party |
Colors | Blue |
Seats in the U.S. Senate | 0 / 2 |
Seats in the U.S. House | 1 / 9 |
Seats in the State Senate | 6 / 33 |
Seats in the State House | 24 / 99 |
Election symbol | |
Website | |
tndp.org |
The Tennessee Democratic Party (TNDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Tennessee. The party was founded in 1826 initially as the Jacksonian Party. The Tennessee Democratic Party was born out of President Andrew Jackson's populist philosophy of Jacksonian democracy in the mid to late-1820s.[1] After Jackson left office, the Democratic Party struggled in the state as the Whig Party would go on to be the dominant party in Tennessee until its collapse after the 1852 Election.[2] Prior to the Civil War, as a result of the collapse of the former Whig Party, the Democratic Party became the dominant party in the state. After the war ended, the Republican Party would be the dominant political party during Reconstruction, but once Reconstruction ended, the Democratic Party would dominate Tennessee Politics up until 2011 when the Republican Party would gain firm control of Tennessee State Government.[3]
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