List of Confederate States senators

The Confederate Senate was the upper house of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Its members were, like those of the United States Senate, elected for six year terms by the state legislature of each state, with each state having two senators. The Confederate Senate met only between 1862 and 1865.

In addition to the eleven states that made up the Confederacy, representatives were also seated from Kentucky and Missouri.

Members of the Confederate Senate were divided into classes by lot on February 21, 1862 as follows:

• Class 1 (1862–64), (1864–70): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina
• Class 2 (1862–66): Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
• Class 3 (1862–68): Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Alabama

Class 1 Image Name Term Clement Claiborne Clay 1862–1864 Richard Wilde Walker 1864–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term William Lowndes Yancey 1862–1863 Robert Jemison Jr. 1863–1865

Arkansas

Class 1 Image Name Term Robert Ward Johnson 1862–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Charles Burton Mitchel 1862–1864 Augustus Hill Garland 1864–1865

Florida

Class 1 Image Name Term James McNair Baker 1862–1865

Class 2 Image Name Term Augustus Emmett Maxwell 1862–1865

Georgia

Class 1 Image Name Term John Wood Lewis (Robert Toombs declined) 1862–1863 Herschel Vespasian Johnson 1863–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Benjamin Harvey Hill 1862–1865

Kentucky

Class 1 Image Name Term William Emmett Simms 1862–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Henry Cornelius Burnett 1862–1865

Louisiana

Class 2 Image Name Term Thomas Jenkins Semmes 1862–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Edward Sparrow 1862–1865

Mississippi

Class 1 Image Name Term James Phelan Sr. 1862–1864 John William Clark Watson 1864–1865

Class 2 Image Name Term Albert Gallatin Brown 1862–1865

Missouri

Class 1 Image Name Term John Bullock Clark 1862–1864 George Graham Vest 1865–1865

Class 2 Image Name Term Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton 1862–1863 Waldo Porter Johnson 1863–1865

North Carolina

Class 1 Image Name Term George Davis 1862–1864 Edwin Godwin Reade 1864–1864 William Alexander Graham 1864–1865

Class 2 Image Name Term William Theophilus Dortch 1862–1865

South Carolina

Class 2 Image Name Term Robert Woodward Barnwell 1862–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term James Lawrence Orr 1862–1865

Tennessee

Class 2 Image Name Term Gustavus Adolphus Henry 1862–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Landon Carter Haynes 1862–1865

Texas

Class 2 Image Name Term Louis Trezevant Wigfall 1862–1865 [1]

Class 3 Image Name Term Williamson Simpson Oldham 1862–1865

Virginia

Class 2 Image Name Term William Ballard Preston 1862–1862 Allen Taylor Caperton 1863–1865

Class 3 Image Name Term Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter 1862–1865

References

1. Bridges, Ken (January 10, 2025). "Bridges: The troubled history of Texas, Confederate leader Louis Wigfall". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal . Retrieved June 6, 2025.