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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 36th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861.
Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator's first term. Behind this is former service as a senator (only giving the senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as vice president , a House member, a cabinet secretary , or a governor of a state. The final factor is the population of the senator's state.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1860 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Class
Terms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 3
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1861 (AL , AR , CA , CT , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MD , MO , NC , NH , NY , OH , OR , PA , SC , VT , and WI .)[ 5]
Class 1
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863 (CA , CT , DE , FL , IN , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NJ , NY , OH , PA , RI , TN , TX , VA , VT , and WI .)[ 6]
Class 2
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1865 (AL , AR , DE , GA , IA , IL , KS , KY , LA , MA , ME , MI , MN , MS , NC , NH , NJ , OR , RI , SC , TN , TX , and VA .)[ 7]
U.S. Senate seniority list [ edit ]
U.S. Senate seniority
Rank
Senator (party-state)
Seniority date
Other factors
1
James Alfred Pearce (D -MD )March 4, 1843
2
Jesse D. Bright (D -IN )March 4, 1845
3
James M. Mason (D -VA )January 21, 1847
4
Stephen A. Douglas (D -IL )March 4, 1847
5
Robert M. T. Hunter (D -VA )
6
William K. Sebastian (D -AR )May 12, 1848
7
William H. Seward (R -NY )March 4, 1849
8
Solomon Foot (R -VT )March 4, 1851
9
James A. Bayard Jr. (D -DE )
10
Stephen Mallory (D -FL )
11
Benjamin Wade (R -OH )March 15, 1851
12
Charles Sumner (LR -MA )April 11, 1851
13
John R. Thomson (D -NJ )March 4, 1853
14
Robert Toombs (D -GA )
15
Judah P. Benjamin (D -LA )
16
Robert Ward Johnson (D -AR )July 6, 1853
17
Clement Claiborne Clay (D -AL )November 29, 1853
18
John Slidell (D -LA )December 5, 1853
19
Albert G. Brown (D -MS )January 7, 1854
20
William P. Fessenden (R -ME )February 10, 1854
21
Henry Wilson (R -MA )January 31, 1855
22
Lyman Trumbull (R -IL )March 4, 1855
23
Jacob Collamer (R -VT )
24
Lafayette S. Foster (R -CT )
25
David Levy Yulee (D -FL )
26
Alfred Iverson, Sr. (D -GA )
27
John Jordan Crittenden (KN -KY )
28
George E. Pugh (D -OH )
29
Charles Durkee (R -WI )
30
John P. Hale (R -NH )July 30, 1855
31
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D -AL )November 26, 1855
32
William Bigler (D -PA )January 14, 1856
33
James S. Green (D -MO )January 12, 1857
34
William M. Gwin (D -CA )January 13, 1857
35
James Harlan (R -IA )January 29, 1857
36
Graham N. Fitch (D -IN )February 4, 1857
37
Zachariah Chandler (R -MI )March 4, 1857
38
James Dixon (R -CT )
39
James R. Doolittle (R -WI )
40
Anthony Kennedy (KN -MD )
41
Trusten Polk (D -MO )
42
Preston King (D -NY )
43
James F. Simmons (R -RI )
44
Hannibal Hamlin (R -ME )
45
David C. Broderick (D -CA )
46
Jefferson Davis (D -MS )
47
Simon Cameron (R -PA )
48
Daniel Clark (R -NH )June 27, 1857
49
Andrew Johnson (D -TN )October 8, 1857
50
James H. Hammond (D -SC )December 7, 1857
51
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D -NC )May 7, 1858
52
Henry Mower Rice (D -MN )May 11, 1858
53
Matthias Ward (D -TX )September 27, 1858
54
James Chesnut, Jr. (D -SC )December 3, 1858
55
Joseph Lane (D -OR )February 14, 1859
56
Henry B. Anthony (R -RI )March 4, 1859
Former governor
57
Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (D -DE )
58
James W. Grimes (R -IA )
59
Lazarus W. Powell (D -KY )
60
Morton S. Wilkinson (R -MN )
61
John C. Ten Eyck (R -NJ )
62
Kinsley S. Bingham (D -MI )
63
Thomas Bragg (D -NC )
64
John Hemphill (D -TX )
65
Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (D -TN )
Henry P. Haun (D -CA )November 3, 1859
Louis Wigfall (D -TX )December 5, 1859
Milton Latham (LD -CA )March 5, 1860
Edward D. Baker (R -OR )October 2, 1860
