On December 11, 2004, the State Executive Committee unanimously elected Bob Davis[4] as Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party to serve for the calendar years 2005 and 2006.

He was subsequently elected to a second two-year term, 2007 and 2008, but resigned from the chairmanship in August 2007 to become Senior Adviser to presidential candidate Fred Thompson.

Smith was unanimously re-elected at the end of 2008 to a full two-year term as chairman for calendar years 2009 and 2010.

In April 2009, Smith announced her resignation in order to run for Congress in Tennessee's 3rd congressional district in the August 2010 Republican primary.

They establish rules and measures that best promote the success of the Republican Party and the broadening of its base.

The SEC serves as the TRP's state primary board and establishes to guide and direct County Republican Parties.

[9] In the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, Republican nominee Bill Haslam flipped the governors seat.

The last time Tennessee voted for a Democratic presidential nominee was in 1996 Republicans have held hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats since 1994.

Both Senator John McCain and State Democratic Chairman Gray Sasser decried the press release.