Tennessee Democratic Party

Tennessee Democratic Party
Abbreviation	TNDP
Chairperson	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; 198 years ago (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
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 dominate 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 dominate party in the state. After the war ended, the Republican Party would be the dominate 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]