Tennessee Readmitted to Congress
- When
- July 24, 1866
- Where
- Congress
On July 24, 1866, Tennessee became the first Confederate state to have its elected members readmitted to Congress, marking its restoration to the Union.
Tennessee's readmission occurred after the state established a Unionist government by 1864 and ratified the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. Governor Brownlow's administration disenfranchised former Confederates and allowed African American men to vote. This readmission preceded the broader Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which set terms for other former Confederate states, highlighting Tennessee's unique status during this period.
Sources
- Tennessee Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
- Reconstruction era Wikipedia
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.