Tennessee State Records

The state of Tennessee is also called "The Volunteer State". Their moto is Agriculture and Commerce. The official languages are English. Before statehood it was called Southwest Territory. Tennessee's government is comprised of the Governor, who is currently Bill Haslam (R), Lieutenant Governor, who is currently Ron Ramsey (R), Senators: Lamar Alexander (R), Bob Corker (R), House Delegation: 7 Republicans, 2 Democrats (list).The legislature is General Assembly.

Total area for Tennessee is 42,143 sq mi (109,247 km2) (Ranked 36th in the U.S.). The width is 120 miles (195 km) and the length is 440 miles (710 km). In terms of latitude and longitude we have: 34° 59′ N to 36° 41′ N and 81° 39′ W to 90° 19′ W. According to the 2010 United States Census, the total population is 6,346,105 (2010); 6,403,353 (2011 est) (Ranked 17th in the U.S.). The highest point is Clingmans Dome 6,643 ft (2025 m) and the lowest point is Mississippi River at Mississippi border 178 ft (54 m).

The abbreviations used for this state are TN Tenn. US-TN. Additional information and the official website of the state is found at www.tennessee.gov.

Tennessee (i/tɛnɨˈsi�/) (Cherokee: �Ꮎ�) is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902.

The state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, and the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.

Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Tennessee has seen some of the nation's worst racial strife, from the formation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski in 1866 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. In the 20th century, Tennessee transitioned from an agrarian economy to a more diversified economy, aided at times by federal entities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the early 1940s, Oak Ridge, Tennessee was established to house the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the world's first atomic bomb.