Lemuel Phillips Padgett (November 28, 1855 – August 2, 1922) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee.

He attended the private schools in that county and graduated from Erskine College at Due West, South Carolina, in 1876.

[1] Padgett began to practice law in Columbia, Tennessee, in January 1879 and he married Ida B. Latta on November 11, 1880.

Elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and the ten succeeding Congresses, Padgett served from March 4, 1901, until his death.

[2] During the Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Naval Affairs.