Tre Hargett

In 2019, Hargett supported legislation which would make it possible to fine voter registration groups that submitted incomplete voter registrations. Critics charged that the legislation was intended to reduce registration of new voters. Hargett rejected that the bill was intended to reduce registration of black voters.

In September 2017, Hargett said he was in favor of keeping the bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest inside the Tennessee State Capitol.

In January 2009, the state legislature's new Republican majority voted to replace longtime Secretary of State Riley Darnell with Hargett. Hargett immediately resigned from his position as TRA chairman and took office as secretary of state on January 15, 2009.

In 2007, he was nominated to the position of Tennessee Regulatory Authority (TRA) chairman, which sets the rates and service standards of privately owned telephone, natural gas, electric and water utilities. He was confirmed by the Tennessee General Assembly and served from February 2008 through January 2009. He was succeeded by Dr. Kenneth Hill.

Hargett served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1996 to 2006 representing District 97 (Bartlett and Memphis). He was twice elected Republican Leader by his colleagues.

Tre Hargett (born February 7, 1969 in Ripley, Tennessee) is an American Republican Party politician who is serving as the Secretary of State of Tennessee.