List of United States senators in the 82nd Congress

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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 82nd United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1953.

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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]

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 1952 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 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1953 (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY.) [4]
Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1955 (AL, AR, CO, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, and WY.) [5]
Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1957 (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, ND, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, UT, VT, WA, and WI.) [6]

U.S. Senate seniority list

U.S. Senate seniority
RankSenator (party-state)Seniority dateOther factors
1 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN)March 4, 1917Former representative (6 years)
2 Walter F. George (D-GA)November 22, 1922
3 Carl Hayden (D-AZ)March 4, 1927Former representative (15 years)
4 Arthur H. Vandenberg [7] (R-MI)March 31, 1928
5 Tom Connally (D-TX)March 4, 1929Former representative (12 years)
6 Richard Russell Jr. (D-GA)January 12, 1933Former governor
7 Harry F. Byrd Sr. (D-VA)March 4, 1933Former governor
8 Pat McCarran (D-NV)
9 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY)January 1, 1934
10 James Murray (D-MT)November 7, 1934
11 Dennis Chavez (D-NM)May 11, 1935Former representative (4 years)
12 Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO)January 3, 1937Former governor, Colorado 33rd in population (1930)
13 Theodore F. Green (D-RI)Former governor, Rhode Island 37th in population (1930)
14 Styles Bridges (R-NH)Former governor, New Hampshire 41st in population (1930)
15 Allen J. Ellender (D-LA)
16 Joseph L. Hill (D-AL)January 11, 1938Former representative (15 years)
17 Charles W. Tobey (R-NH)January 3, 1939Former representative
18 Robert A. Taft (R-OH)Ohio 4th in population (1930)
19 Alexander Wiley (R-WI)Wisconsin 13th in population (1930)
20 Ralph Owen Brewster [8] (R-ME)January 3, 1941Former governor, Maine 35th in population (1930)
21 William Langer (R-ND)Former governor, North Dakota 38th in population (1930)
22 Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV)West Virginia 27th in population (1930)
23 Hugh A. Butler (R-NE)Nebraska 32nd in population (1930)
24 Ernest McFarland (D-AZ)Arizona 43rd in population (1930)
25 George Aiken (R-VT)January 10, 1941Former governor
26 Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC)November 5, 1941
27 Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO)December 20, 1941
28 James Eastland (D-MS)January 3, 1943Previously a senator
29 Homer S. Ferguson (R-MI)Michigan 7th in population (1940)
30 John Little McClellan (D-AR)Former representative (4 years), Arkansas 25th in population (1940)
31 Kenneth S. Wherry [9] (R-NE)Nebraska 32nd in population (1940)
32 Guy Cordon (R-OR)March 4, 1944
33 Howard A. Smith (R-NJ)December 7, 1944
34 Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA)December 14, 1944Former representative (7 years)
35 J. William Fulbright (D-AR)January 3, 1945Former representative
36 Clyde R. Hoey (D-NC)Former representative, Former governor
37 Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-IA)Former governor, Iowa 20th in population (1940)
38 Olin D. Johnston (D-SC)Former governor, South Carolina 26th in population (1940)
39 Homer E. Capehart (R-IN)Indiana 12th in population (1940)
40 Brien McMahon [10] (D-CT)Connecticut 31st in population (1940)
41 Wayne Morse (I/R-OR)Oregon 34th in population (1940)
42 Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)January 4, 1945Former governor
43 Milton Young (R-ND)March 12, 1945
44 William F. Knowland (R-CA)August 26, 1945
45 Spessard Holland (D-FL)September 24, 1946Former governor
46 Ralph Flanders (R-VT)November 1, 1946
47 A. Willis Robertson (D-VA)November 6, 1946Former representative (13 years, 10 months)
48 John Sparkman (D-AL)Former representative (9 years, 10 months)
49 Harry P. Cain (R-WA)December 26, 1946
50 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA)January 3, 1947Previously a senator (7 years, 1 month)
51 William E. Jenner (R-IN)Previously a senator (2 months)
52 Edward Martin (R-PA)Former governor, Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1940)
53 John W. Bricker (R-OH)Former governor, Ohio 4th in population (1940)
54 Edward John Thye (R-MN)Former governor, Minnesota 18th in population (1940)
55 Herbert O'Conor (D-MD)Former governor, Maryland 28th in population (1940)
56 Irving Ives (R-NY)New York 1st in population (1940)
57 James P. Kem (R-MO)Missouri 10th in population (1940)
58 Joseph McCarthy (R-WI)Wisconsin 13th in population (1940)
59 Zales Ecton (R-MT)Montana 39th in population (1940)
60 Arthur Vivian Watkins (R-UT)Utah 40th in population (1940)
61 John J. Williams (R-DE)Delaware 47th in population (1940)
62 George W. Malone (R-NV)Nevada 48th in population (1940)
63 John C. Stennis (D-MS)November 17, 1947
64 Karl Mundt (R-SD)December 31, 1948Former representative
65 Russell B. Long (D-LA)
66 Matthew M. Neely (D-WV)January 3, 1949Former representative (twice), Former governor, Previously a senator (twice) (total tenure 15 years, 10 months)
67 Guy Mark Gillette (D-IA)Former representative, Previously a senator (8 years, 2 months)
68 Virgil Chapman [11] (D-KY)Former representative (24 years)
69 Lyndon Johnson (D-TX)Former representative (12 years)
70 Estes Kefauver (D-TN)Former representative (10 years)
71 Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)Former representative (8 years, 7 months)
72 Clinton Anderson (D-NM)Former cabinet secretary, Former representative (4 years, 5 months)
73 Robert S. Kerr (D-OK)Former governor, Oklahoma 22nd in population (1940)
74 Andrew F. Schoeppel (R-KS)Former governor, Kansas 29th in population (1940)
75 Lester C. Hunt (D-WY)Former governor, Wyoming 46th in population (1940)
76 Paul Douglas (D-IL)Illinois 3rd in population (1940)
77 Robert C. Hendrickson (R-NJ)New Jersey 9th in population (1940)
78 Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)Minnesota 18th in population (1940)
79 Joseph Frear Jr. (D-DE)Delaware 47th in population (1940)
80 Henry Dworshak (R-ID)October 14, 1949Previously a senator
81 Herbert H. Lehman (D-NY)November 9, 1949Former governor
82 William Benton (D-CT)December 17, 1949
83 Frank Carlson (R-KS)November 27, 1950Former representative (12 years), Former governor
84 Earle C. Clements (D-KY)Former representative (3 years), Former governor
85 Willis Smith (D-NC)
86 Richard Nixon [12] (R-CA)December 1, 1950Former representative (3 years)
87 John O. Pastore (D-RI)December 19, 1950
88 Everett Dirksen (R-IL)January 3, 1951Former representative (16 years)
89 Francis H. Case (R-SD)Former representative (14 years)
90 Almer Monroney (D-OK)Former representative (12 years)
91 Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D-MO)Former representative (6 years)
92 George Smathers (D-FL)Former representative (4 years)
93 John M. Butler (R-MD)Maryland 28th in population (1940)
94 Wallace F. Bennett (R-UT)Utah 40th in population (1940)
95 Herman Welker (R-ID)Idaho 43rd in population (1940)
96 James H. Duff (R-PA)January 16, 1951
97 Thomas R. Underwood (D-KY)March 19, 1951
98 Blair Moody (D-MI)April 23, 1951
99 Fred Andrew Seaton (R-NE)December 10, 1951
100 William A. Purtell [13] (R-CT)August 29, 1952
101 John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)November 5, 1952Previously a senator
102 Charles E. Potter (R-MI)Former representative
103 Dwight Griswold (R-NE)Former governor
104 Prescott Bush (R-CT)
105 Thomas Kuchel (R-CA)January 2, 1953

See also

Notes

  1. A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
  2. 1931 U.S Census Report Contains 1930 Census results
  3. 1941 U.S Census Report Contains 1940 Census results
  4. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1953.
  5. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1955.
  6. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1957.
  7. Senator Vandenberg died on April 18, 1951.
  8. Senator Brewster resigned December 31, 1952.
  9. Senator Wherry died on November 2, 1951.
  10. Senator McMahon died on July 28, 1952.
  11. Senator Chapman died on March 8, 1951.
  12. Senator Nixon stepped down on January 1, 1953 to become Vice President of the United States.
  13. William Purtell was appointed to Connecticut's Class 3 Senate seat but ran for and won the states open Class 1 Senate seat in 1952. As is customary, he stepped down early once Prescott Bush won the election to fill the Class 3 Seat. The gap in his service caused him to lose some seniority when he retook the oath on January 3, 1953