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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 37th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.
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 1862 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Terms of service [ edit ]
Class
Terms of service of senators that expired in years
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 .)[5]
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 , and TX .)[6]
Class 3
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1867 (AL , AR , CA , CT , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MD , MO , NC , NH , NY , OH , OR , PA , SC , VT , and WI .)[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
Solomon Foot (R -VT )
March 4, 1851
8
James A. Bayard Jr. (D -DE )
9
Benjamin Wade (R -OH )
March 15, 1851
10
Charles Sumner (LR -MA )
April 11, 1851
11
John R. Thomson (D -NJ )
March 4, 1853
12
William P. Fessenden (R -ME )
February 10, 1854
13
Henry Wilson (R -MA )
January 31, 1855
14
Lyman Trumbull (R -IL )
March 4, 1855
15
Jacob Collamer (R -VT )
16
Lafayette S. Foster (R -CT )
17
John P. Hale (R -NH )
July 30, 1855
18
James Harlan (R -IA )
January 29, 1857
19
Zachariah Chandler (R -MI )
March 4, 1857
20
James Dixon (R -CT )
21
James R. Doolittle (R -WI )
22
Anthony Kennedy (KN -MD )
23
Trusten Polk (D -MO )
24
Preston King (R -NY )
25
James F. Simmons (R -RI )
26
Daniel Clark (R -NH )
June 27, 1857
27
Andrew Johnson (D -TN )
October 8, 1857
28
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D -NC )
May 7, 1858
29
Henry Mower Rice (D -MN )
May 11, 1858
30
Henry B. Anthony (R -RI )
March 4, 1859
Former governor
31
Willard Saulsbury Sr. (D -DE )
32
James W. Grimes (R -IA )
33
Lazarus W. Powell (D -KY )
34
Morton S. Wilkinson (R -MN )
35
John C. Ten Eyck (R -NJ )
36
Kinsley S. Bingham (D -MI )
37
Thomas Bragg (D -NC )
38
John Hemphill (D -TX )
39
Louis Wigfall (D -TX )
December 5, 1859
40
Milton Latham (LD -CA )
March 5, 1860
41
Edward D. Baker (R -OR )
October 2, 1860
42
Timothy O. Howe (R -WI )
March 4, 1861
43
James A. McDougall (D -CA )
44
Henry S. Lane (R -WI )
45
Ira Harris (R -NJ )
46
James Nesmith (D -OR )
47
Edgar Cowan (R -PA )
48
Charles B. Mitchel (D -AR )
49
John C. Breckinridge (D -KY )
50
Salmon P. Chase (D -OH )
David Wilmot (R -PA )
March 14, 1861
Waldo P. Johnson (D -MO )
March 17, 1861
John Sherman (R -OH )
March 21, 1861
Samuel C. Pomeroy (R -KS )
April 4, 1861
Jim Lane (R -KS )
Orville H. Browning (R -IL )
June 26, 1861
John S. Carlile (U -VA )
July 9, 1861
Waitman T. Willey (U -VA )
Benjamin Stark (D -OR )
October 29, 1861
Garrett Davis (U -KY )
December 23, 1861
Jacob M. Howard (R -MI )
January 17, 1862
John B. Henderson (U -MO )
Robert Wilson (U -MO )
Joseph A. Wright (D -IN )
February 24, 1862
Benjamin F. Harding (D -OR )
September 12, 1862
Richard Stockton Field (R -NJ )
November 21, 1862
Samuel G. Arnold (R -RI )
December 1, 1862
Thomas H. Hicks (U -MD )
December 29, 1862
William A. Richardson (D -IL )
January 12, 1863
David Turpie (D -IN )
January 14, 1863
James W. Wall (D -NJ )
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