Marsha Blackburn is an American Republican politician who has represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate since 2019. She was elected to the Senate in 2018, becoming the first woman elected as a senator for Tennessee. Before serving in the Senate, she represented Tennessee’s 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019. In August 2025 Blackburn announced that she was running for governor of Tennessee. In November 2026 Blackburn defeated Democrat Jerri Green in the first Tennessee gubernatorial election in which both major-party nominees were women. With her victory, Blackburn became the first woman elected governor of Tennessee.
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