Tennessee Seal

The presence and use of the Tennessee State Seal was officially enshrined in the State Constitution on February 6, 1796, but the seal itself was only approved on September 25, 1801.

In 1987, the Tennessee General Assembly reviewed the new state seal design, which was approved by the governor the same year. According to the regulations, the Tennessee state seal is kept by the Secretary of State and is used to seal official documents signed by the governor, as well as documents of the state legislature and commissions.

At the top of the Tennessee State Seal is the Roman numeral XVI , indicating the historical fact that Tennessee joined the United States as the sixteenth state in a row.

The upper central part of the print is occupied by images of a plow, a sheaf of wheat and a cotton plantation , below is the English word “ Agriculture ”. Cotton and wheat have always been and remain the most important agricultural products of the state.

In the lower central part of the press, it was originally planned to place an image of a boat with a boatman, but in the final version a flat-bottomed boat without a boatman and the English word “ Commerce ” were identified. River trade has always been an essential part of the state’s trade relations, which was greatly facilitated by the convenient geographical location of the three rivers in the state: Tennessee , Cumberland and Mississippi . River transport and currently occupy an important place in the trade of Tennessee.

On the outer circumference of the state press are the words “ The Great Seal of the State of Tennessee ” and “ 1796 ”. The day and month of February 6, the adoption of the first State Constitution, is excluded from the design of the current press.

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