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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 26th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.
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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]
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Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the two-year congressional term (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1840 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Class | Terms of service of senators that will expire in years |
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Class 2 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1841 [3] |
Class 3 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1843 [4] |
Class 1 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1845 [5] |
Rank | Senator (party-state) | Seniority date | Other factors |
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1 | William Rufus de Vane King (D-AL) | December 14, 1819 | |
2 | Nehemiah Rice Knight (W-RI) | January 9, 1821 | |
3 | Thomas Hart Benton (D-MO) | August 10, 1821 | |
4 | Hugh Lawson White (W-TN) [6] | October 28, 1825 | |
5 | Daniel Webster (W-MA) [7] | June 8, 1827 | |
6 | Bedford Brown (D-NC) [8] | December 9, 1829 | |
7 | John McCracken Robinson (D-IL) | December 11, 1830 | |
8 | Samuel Prentiss (AJ-VT) | March 4, 1831 | |
9 | Henry Clay (W-KY) | November 10, 1831 | |
10 | John Caldwell Calhoun (D-SC) | December 29, 1832 | |
11 | Silas Wright, Jr. (D-NY) | January 4, 1833 | |
12 | Samuel Lewis Southard (W-NJ) | March 4, 1833 | Former senator |
13 | Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (W-NY) | ||
14 | Lewis Fields Linn (D-MO) | October 25, 1833 | |
15 | William Campbell Preston (N-SC) | November 26, 1833 | |
16 | James Buchanan (D-PA) | December 6, 1834 | |
17 | Alfred Cuthbert (D-MD) | January 12, 1835 | |
18 | John Ruggles (D-ME) | January 20, 1835 | |
19 | John Jordan Crittenden (W-KY) | March 4, 1835 | Former senator |
20 | Henry Hubbard (D-NH) | Former representative | |
21 | John Davis (W-MA) [9] | Former governor | |
22 | Garret Dorset Wall (D-NJ) | New Jersey 14th in population (1830) | |
23 | Robert John Walker (D-MS) | Mississippi 22nd in population (1830) | |
24 | Robert Carter Nicholas (D-LA) | January 13, 1836 | |
25 | William C. Rives (W-VA) | March 4, 1836 | |
26 | Richard Henry Bayard (AJ-DE) [10] | June 17, 1836 | |
27 | Ambrose Hundley Sevier (D-AR) | September 18, 1836 | Former delegate |
28 | William Savin Fulton (D-AR) | ||
29 | Robert Strange (D-NC) [11] | December 5, 1836 | |
30 | John Selby Spence (W-MD) [12] | December 31, 1836 | |
31 | Thomas Clayton (W-DE) | January 9, 1837 | |
32 | Alexander Mouton (D-LA) | January 12, 1837 | |
33 | John Norvell (D-MI) | January 26, 1837 | |
34 | Franklin Pierce (D-NH) | March 4, 1837 | Former representative (4 years) |
35 | William Allen (D-OH) | Former representative (2 years); Ohio 5th in population (1830) | |
36 | Oliver Hampton Smith (W-IN) | Former representative (2 years); Indiana 13th in population (1830) | |
37 | Reuel Williams (D-ME) | Maine 12th in population (1830) | |
38 | Perry Smith (D-CT) | Connecticut 16th in population (1830) | |
39 | Richard Montgomery Young (D-IL) | Illinois 20th in population (1830) | |
40 | William Henry Roane (D-VA) | March 14, 1837 | |
41 | Clement Comer Clay (D-AL) | June 19, 1837 | |
42 | Wilson Lumpkin (D-GA) | November 22, 1837 | |
43 | William Duhurst Merrick (W-MD) | January 4, 1838 | |
44 | Albert Smith White (W-IN) | March 4, 1839 | Former representative |
45 | Benjamin Tappan (D-OH) | Ohio 5th in population (1830) | |
46 | Thaddeus Betts (W-CT) | Connecticut 16th in population (1830) | |
47 | Samuel Shethar Phelps (W-VT) | Vermont 17th in population (1830) | |
48 | John Henderson (W-MS) | Mississippi 22nd in population (1830) | |
49 | Nathan Fellows Dixon (W-RI) | Rhode Island 23rd in population (1830) | |
50 | Felix Grundy (D-TN) [13] | December 14, 1839 | |
51 | Daniel Sturgeon (D-PA) | January 14, 1840 | |
52 | Augustus Seymour Porter (W-MI) | January 20, 1840 | |
Alexander Outlaw Anderson (D-TN) | February 26, 1840 | ||
Jabez Williams Huntington (W-CT) | May 4, 1840 | ||
Willie Person Mangum (W-NC) | November 25, 1840 | Former senator | |
William Alexander Graham (W-NC) | |||
Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (D-TN) | December 25, 1840 | ||
John Leeds Kerr (W-MD) | January 5, 1841 | ||
Isaac Chapman Bates (W-MA) | January 13, 1841 | ||
Rufus Choate (W-MA) | February 23, 1841 | ||