Qualifications For Election
The Tennessee Constitution provides that the governor must be at least 30 years old and must have lived in the state for at least seven years before being elected to the office. The governor is elected to a four-year term and may serve no more than two terms consecutively.
The governor is the only official of the Tennessee state government who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state. There are only two other U.S. states, New Jersey and Hawaii, where the governor is the only state official to be elected statewide.
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