Citizenship Test Answers for Tennessee
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Tennessee.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Tennessee
Nashville
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Tennessee now
- Bill Hagerty
- Marsha Blackburn
You only need to give one of these names.
Tennessee has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Tennessee's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 9 of Tennessee's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Diana Harshbarger |
| 2 | Tim Burchett |
| 3 | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann |
| 4 | Scott DesJarlais |
| 5 | Andrew Ogles |
| 6 | John W. Rose |
| 7 | Matt Van Epps |
| 8 | David Kustoff |
| 9 | Steve Cohen |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Tennessee now
Bill Lee
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Tennessee
Nashville is Tennessee's capital and its largest city, holding the seat permanently since 1843 after years of moving between Knoxville, Kingston and Murfreesboro. Tennessee became the 16th state in 1796, the first admitted from federal territory rather than carved out of an existing state. It has 9 congressional districts and 11 electoral votes. The state supplies a direct answer to another question: when women got the right to vote in 1920, it was Tennessee that cast the thirty-sixth and deciding ratification vote for the Nineteenth Amendment, settled in Nashville when one legislator changed his mind. Among the four answers here, only the capital will still be correct years from now.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.