List of United States senators in the 5th Congress

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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 5th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1799.

Contents

The United States Senate has an official chronological list of senators, accessible from its website.

Seniority rules

A Chronological List of United States Senators includes the following explanation of how it assigns seniority.

From 1789 to 1958, senators whose terms began on the same day are listed alphabetically. Beginning in 1959, senators are listed according to commencement of first Senate term by order of service, determined by former service in order as senator, vice president, House member, cabinet secretary, governor, and then by state population. This latter system for calculating order of service has been used by the modern Senate for many years for the purposes of office assignment. It is unclear just when the Senate first began applying such criteria.

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Rank column: This consecutively numbers senators, serving in the relevant Congress, according to seniority in that Congress. Seniority is based upon the method used by the chronological list. If the senator is not the first person to hold the seat, no number is included in the list.

A senator with broken service is placed before other senators starting service on the same day, but after senators with unbroken service starting before that date.

Senate No. column: The chronological guide gives an official number to each senator. This is the number set out in this column. That number is retained even if the senator has broken service.

As an historical article, the states and party affiliations listed reflect those during the Congress. Seats and party affiliations on similar lists for other Congresses will be different for certain members. During this Congress, there were two parties represented. Senators are classified as Democratic-Republican (DR) or Federalist (F).

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1799 (DE, GA, KY, MA, NC, NH, NJ, RI, SC, TN, and VA.) [2]
Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1801 (CT, DE, MD, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, and VT.) [3]
Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1803 (CT, GA, IN, KY, MA, MD, NC, NY, PA, TN, VA, and VT.) [4]

Seniority list

RankHistorical rankSenator (party-state)Seniority date
19 James Gunn (F-GA)March 4, 1789
210 John Henry [5] (F-MD)
313 John Langdon (DR-NH)
426 Theodore Foster (F-RI)June 7, 1790
533 John Rutherfurd [6] (F-NJ)March 4, 1791
636 John Brown (DR-KY)June 18, 1792
740 William Bradford [7] (F-RI)March 4, 1793
843 Samuel Livermore (F-NH)
944 Alexander Martin (DR-NC)
1045 John Vining [8] (F-DE)
1147 James Ross (F-PA)April 24, 1794
1248 Stevens Thomson Mason (DR-VA)November 18, 1794
1349 Henry Tazewell [9] (DR-VA)
1450 Henry Latimer (F-DE)February 7, 1795
1551 William Bingham (F-PA)March 4, 1795
1652 Timothy Bloodworth (DR-NC)
1753 Humphrey Marshall (F-KY)
1854 Elijah Paine (F-VT)
1955 Jacob Read (F-SC)
2058 Josiah Tattnall (DR-GA)February 20, 1796
2160 Benjamin Goodhue (F-MA)June 11, 1796
2261 Theodore Sedgwick (F-MA)
2362 William Blount [10] (DR-TN)August 2, 1796
2463 William Cocke [11] (DR-TN)
2564 Uriah Tracy (DR-CT)October 13, 1796
2665 Isaac Tichenor [12] (F-VT)October 18, 1796
2766 John Laurance (F-NY)November 9, 1796
2867 Richard Stockton (F-NJ)November 12, 1796
2968 John Eager Howard (F-MD)November 30, 1796
3059 James Hillhouse (F-CT)December 6, 1796
3169 John Hunter [13] (DR-SC)December 8, 1796
3219 Philip John Schuyler [14] (F-NY)March 4, 1797
...70 Joseph Inslee Anderson (DR-TN)September 26, 1797
...71 Andrew Jackson [15] (DR-TN)September 26, 1797
...72 Nathaniel Chipman (F-VT)October 17, 1797
...73 Ray Greene (F-RI)November 13, 1797
...74 James Lloyd (F-MA)December 11, 1797
...75 John Sloss Hobart [16] (F-NY)January 11, 1798
...76 Joshua Clayton [17] (F-DE)January 19, 1798
...77 William North [18] (F-NY)May 15, 1798
...78 James Watson (F-NY)August 17, 1798
...79 Daniel Smith (DR-TN)October 6, 1798
...80 Franklin Davenport (F-NJ)December 5, 1798
...81 Charles Pinckney (DR-SC)December 6, 1798
...82 William Hill Wells (F-DE)January 17, 1799

Notes

  1. ↑ A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
  2. ↑ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1799.
  3. ↑ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1801.
  4. ↑ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1803.
  5. ↑ John Henry resigned December 10, 1797, to become governor.
  6. ↑ John Rutherfurd resigned December 5, 1798
  7. ↑ William Bradford resigned in October 1797
  8. ↑ John Vining resigned January 19, 1798
  9. ↑ Henry Tazewell died January 24, 1799
  10. ↑ William Blount was expelled on July 8, 1797
  11. ↑ William Cocke finished out an interim assignment September 26, 1797
  12. ↑ Isaac Tichenor resigned October 17, 1797 to become Governor
  13. ↑ John Hunter resigned November 26, 1798
  14. ↑ Philip John Schuyler resigned January 3, 1798. He previously served 1789-1791.
  15. ↑ Andrew Jackson resigned in April 1798, to become State Supreme Court Judge
  16. ↑ John Sloss Hobart resigned April 16, 1798 to become Judge on the United States District Court of New York
  17. ↑ Joshua Clayton died August 11, 1798
  18. ↑ William North served an interim appointment on August 17, 1798

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