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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 28th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845.
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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 1844 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 1 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1845 [3] |
Class 2 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1847 [4] |
Class 3 | Terms of service of senators that will expire in 1849 [5] |
Rank | Senator (party-state) | Seniority date | Other factors |
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1 | William R. King (D-AL) [6] | December 14, 1819 | |
2 | Thomas Hart Benton (D-MO) | August 10, 1821 | |
3 | Silas Wright, Jr. (D-NY) [7] | January 4, 1833 | |
4 | Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (W-NY) [8] | March 4, 1833 | |
5 | Lewis F. Linn (D-MO) [9] | October 25, 1833 | |
6 | James Buchanan (D-PA) | December 6, 1834 | |
7 | Robert J. Walker (D-MS) | March 4, 1835 | |
8 | William Cabell Rives (W-VA) | March 4, 1836 | |
9 | Richard H. Bayard (W-DE) | June 17, 1836 | |
10 | Ambrose Hundley Sevier (D-AR) | September 18, 1836 | Former delegate |
11 | William S. Fulton (D-AR) [10] | ||
12 | Thomas Clayton (W-DE) | January 9, 1837 | |
13 | William Allen (D-OH) | March 4, 1837 | |
14 | William Duhurst Merrick (W-MD) | January 4, 1838 | |
15 | Albert Smith White (W-IN) | March 4, 1839 | Former representative |
16 | Benjamin Tappan (D-OH) | Ohio 5th in population (1830) | |
17 | Samuel S. Phelps (W-VT) | Vermont 17th in population (1830) | |
18 | John Henderson (W-MS) | Mississippi 22nd in population (1830) | |
19 | Daniel Sturgeon (D-PA) | January 14, 1840 | |
20 | Augustus Seymour Porter (W-MI) | January 20, 1840 | |
21 | Jabez W. Huntington (W-CT) | May 4, 1840 | |
22 | Willie Person Mangum (W-NC) | November 25, 1840 | |
23 | Isaac C. Bates (W-MA) | January 13, 1841 | |
24 | Rufus Choate (W-MA) | February 23, 1841 | |
25 | Levi Woodbury (D-NH) | March 4, 1841 | Former senator (5 years) |
26 | John M. Berrien (W-GA) | Former senator (4 years) | |
27 | William S. Archer (W-VA) | Former representative (15 years) | |
28 | George Evans (W-ME) | Former representative (11 years) | |
29 | William Woodbridge (W-MI) | Former delegate (1 year) | |
30 | James Turner Morehead (W-KY) | Former governor | |
31 | Jacob W. Miller (W-NJ) | New Jersey 14th in population (1830) | |
32 | Alexander Barrow (W-LA) | Louisiana 19th in population (1830) | |
33 | Samuel McRoberts (D-IL) [11] | Illinois 20th in population (1830) | |
34 | James F. Simmons (W-RI) | Rhode Island 23rd in population (1830) | |
35 | Arthur P. Bagby (D-AL) | November 24, 1841 | |
36 | William Sprague (W-RI) [12] | February 18, 1842 | |
37 | John J. Crittenden (W-KY) | March 31, 1842 | |
38 | William L. Dayton (W-NJ) | July 2, 1842 | |
39 | George McDuffie (D-SC) | December 23, 1842 | |
40 | John Milton Niles (D-CT) | March 4, 1843 | Former senator |
41 | James Pearce (W-MD) | Former representative (6 years); Maryland 15th in population (1840) | |
42 | Charles G. Atherton (D-NH) | Former representative (6 years); New Hampshire 22nd in population (1840) | |
43 | Edward A. Hannegan (D-IN) | Former representative (4 years) | |
44 | Walter T. Colquitt (D-GA) | Former representative (1 year) | |
45 | William Henry Haywood, Jr. (D-NC) | North Carolina 7th in population (1840) | |
46 | Daniel Elliott Huger (D-SC) | South Carolina 11th in population (1840) | |
47 | Sidney Breese (D-IL) | Illinois 14th in population (1840) | |
48 | William Upham (W-VT) | Vermont 21st in population (1840) | |
David Rice Atchison (D-MO) | October 14, 1843 | ||
49 | Ephraim H. Foster (W-TN) | October 17, 1843 | Former senator |
50 | Spencer Jarnagin (W-TN) | ||
51 | John Fairfield (D-ME) | December 4, 1843 | Maine 13th in population (1840) |
James Semple (D-IL) | Illinois 14th in population (1840) | ||
John Brown Francis (LO-RI) | January 25, 1844 | ||
52 | Henry Johnson (W-LA) | February 12, 1844 | |
Dixon Hall Lewis (D-AL) | April 22, 1844 | ||
Chester Ashley (D-AR) | November 8, 1844 | ||
Henry A. Foster (D-NY) [13] | November 30, 1844 | Former representative | |
Daniel S. Dickinson (D-NY) | |||
John Adams Dix (D-NY) | January 27, 1845 | ||