List of United States senators in the 36th Congress

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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.

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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.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 3Terms 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 1Terms 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 2Terms 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

U.S. Senate seniority
RankSenator (party-state)Seniority dateOther 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, 1859Former 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

See also

Notes

  1. A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
  2. 1871 U.S Census Report Contains 1870 Census results
  3. 1881 U.S Census Report Contains 1880 Census results
  4. 1891 U.S Census Report Contains 1890 Census results
  5. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1861.
  6. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863.
  7. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1865.