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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 44th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1877.
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 1876 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Class
Terms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 2
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1877 (AL , AR , CO , DE , GA , IA , IL , KS , KY , LA , MA , ME , MI , MN , MS , NC , NE , NH , NJ , OR , RI , SC , TN , TX , VA , and WV .)[ 5]
Class 3
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1879 (AL , AR , CA , CO , CT , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MD , MO , NC , NH , NV , NY , OH , OR , PA , SC , VT , and WI .)[ 6]
Class 1
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1881 (CA , CT , DE , FL , IN , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NE , NJ , NV , NY , OH , PA , RI , TN , TX , VA , VT , WI , and WV .)[ 7]
U.S. Senate seniority list [ edit ]
U.S. Senate seniority
Rank
Senator (party-state)
Seniority date
Other factors
1
Henry B. Anthony (R -RI )March 4, 1859
Former governor
2
Timothy O. Howe (R -WI )March 4, 1861
3
John Sherman (R -OH )March 21, 1861
4
Aaron H. Cragin (R -NH )March 4, 1865
5
George F. Edmunds (R -VT )April 3, 1866
6
Roscoe Conkling (R -NY )March 4, 1867
7
Justin Smith Morrill (R -VT )
8
Oliver P. Morton (R -IN )
9
Simon Cameron (R -PA )
10
Orris S. Ferry (R -CT )
11
George E. Spencer (R -AL )July 13, 1868
12
Thomas J. Robertson (R -SC )July 15, 1868
13
Thomas F. Bayard (D -DE )March 4, 1869
14
Hannibal Hamlin (R -ME )Former governor, former representative, former vice president
15
Allen G. Thurman (D -OH )
16
Lot M. Morrill (R -ME )October 30, 1869
17
Morgan C. Hamilton (R -TX )March 31, 1870
18
Eli Saulsbury (D -DE )March 4, 1871
19
Thomas W. Ferry (R -MI )
20
William Windom (R -MN )Former representative
21
Henry G. Davis (D -WV )
22
George Goldthwaite (D -AL )
23
Powell Clayton (R -AR )
24
John A. Logan (R -IL )
25
George G. Wright (R -IA )
26
John W. Stevenson (D -KY )
27
Joseph R. West (R -LA )
28
Phineas Hitchcock (R -NE )Former delegate
29
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R -NJ )
30
James K. Kelly (D -OR )
31
Henry Cooper (D -TN )
32
John W. Johnston (D -VA )March 15, 1871
33
Thomas M. Norwood (D -GA )November 14, 1871
34
James L. Alcorn (R -MS )December 1, 1871
35
Matt W. Ransom (D -NC )January 30, 1872
36
William B. Allison (R -IA )March 4, 1873
Former representative
37
John P. Jones (R -NV )
38
John Brown Gordon (D -GA )
39
Stephen Wallace Dorsey (R -AR )
40
Aaron A. Sargent (R -CA )Former representative
41
Simon B. Conover (R -FL )
42
Richard J. Oglesby (R -IL )
43
Thomas C. McCreery (D -KY )
44
John J. Ingalls (R -KS )
45
George R. Dennis (D -MD )
46
Lewis V. Bogy (D -MO )
47
Bainbridge Wadleigh (R -NH )
48
Augustus S. Merrimon (D -NC )
49
John H. Mitchell (R -OR )
50
John J. Patterson (R -SC )
51
George S. Boutwell (R -MA )March 17, 1873
52
James M. Harvey (R -KS )February 8, 1874
53
William W. Eaton (D -CT )February 5, 1875
54
Francis Cockrell (D -MO )March 4, 1875
55
Henry L. Dawes (R -MA )
56
Charles W. Jones (D -FL )
57
Samuel J. R. McMillan (R -MN )
58
Samuel B. Maxey (D -TX )
59
Ambrose Burnside (R -RI )Former governor
60
Newton Booth (AM -CA )Former governor
61
Joseph E. McDonald (D -IN )Former representative
62
William Pinkney Whyte (D -MD )
63
Blanche Bruce (R -MS )
64
Algernon Paddock (R -NE )
65
Theodore F. Randolph (D -NJ )Former governor
66
Francis Kernan (D -NY )
67
William A. Wallace (D -PA )
68
Robert E. Withers (D -VA )
69
Isaac P. Christiancy (R -MI )
70
Andrew Johnson (D -TN )Former president, previously a senator
71
Allen T. Caperton (D -WV )
72
William Sharon (R -NV )
David M. Key (D -TN )August 18, 1875
James E. English (D -CT )November 27, 1875
Former representative, former governor
James B. Eustis (D -LA )January 12, 1876
William H. Barnum (D -CT )May 18, 1876
James G. Blaine (R -ME )July 10, 1876
Former representative
Samuel Price (D -TN )August 26, 1876
Henry M. Teller (R -CO )November 15, 1876
Jerome B. Chaffee (R -CO )
James E. Bailey (D -TN )January 19, 1877
Frank Hereford (D -WV )January 31, 1877
