List of United States Senators in the 77th Congress by seniority
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This is a classification of members of the United States Senate by seniority during the 77th Congress, from January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1943.
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][4]
Senators who were sworn in in the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1942 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
U.S. Senate Seniority List
| Rank | Name (Party-State) | Seniority Date | Other Factors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) | March 4, 1909 | |
| 2 | Morris Sheppard (D-TX) [5] | February 3, 1913 | |
| 3 | George W. Norris (I-NE) [6] | March 4, 1913 | |
| 4 | Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) | March 4, 1917 | |
| 5 | Hiram Johnson (R-CA) | March 16, 1917 | |
| 6 | Charles L. McNary (R-OR) | December 18, 1918 | |
| 7 | Pat Harrison (D-MS) [7] | March 4, 1919 | Former Rep. |
| 8 | Arthur Capper (R-KS) | Former Governor | |
| 9 | Carter Glass (D-VA) | February 2, 1920 | |
| 10 | Walter F. George (D-GA) | November 22, 1922 | |
| 11 | Henrik Shipstead (R-MN) | March 4, 1923 | Minnesota 17th Population (1920) |
| 12 | Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) | Montana 39th Population (1920) | |
| 13 | Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (Prog-WI) | September 30, 1925 | |
| 14 | Gerald P. Nye (R-ND) | November 14, 1925 | |
| 15 | David I. Walsh (D-MA) | December 6, 1926 | |
| 16 | Carl Hayden (D-AZ) | March 4, 1927 | Former Rep. (15 years) |
| 17 | Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) | Former Rep. (14 years) | |
| 18 | Elmer Thomas (D-OK) | Former Rep. (4 years), Oklahoma 21st Population (1920) | |
| 19 | Millard Tydings (D-MD) | Former Rep. (4 years), Maryland 28th Population (1920) | |
| 20 | Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) | ||
| 21 | Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) | March 31, 1928 | |
| 22 | Tom Connally (D-TX) | March 4, 1929 | |
| 23 | James J. Davis (R-PA) | December 2, 1930 | |
| 24 | Matthew M. Neely (D-WV) [8] | March 4, 1931 | Previously a Senator |
| 25 | James F. Byrnes (D-SC) [9] | Former Rep., South Carolina 26th Population (1930) | |
| 26 | Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) | Former Rep., Maine 35th Population (1930) | |
| 27 | William J. Bulow (D-SD) [6] | Former Governor | |
| 28 | Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) | North Carolina 12th Population (1930) | |
| 29 | John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) | Alabama 15th Population (1930) | |
| 30 | Warren Austin (R-VT) | April 1, 1931 | |
| 31 | Hattie Caraway (D-AR) | November 13, 1931 | |
| 32 | Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC) | December 5, 1932 | |
| 33 | Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) | January 12, 1933 | |
| 34 | Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO) | February 4, 1933 | |
| 35 | Alva B. Adams (D-CO) [10] | March 4, 1933 | Previously a Senator |
| 36 | John H. Overton (D-LA) | Former Rep. | |
| 37 | Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) | Former Governor | |
| 38 | Frederick Van Nuys (D-IN) | Indiana 11th Population (1930) | |
| 39 | Homer T. Bone (D-WA) | Washington 30th Population (1930) | |
| 40 | Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) | Utah 40th Population (1930) | |
| 41 | Pat McCarran (D-NV) | Nevada 48th Population (1930) | |
| 42 | Carl Hatch (D-NM) | October 10, 1933 | |
| 43 | Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) | January 1, 1934 | |
| 44 | James E. Murray (D-MT) | November 7, 1934 | |
| 45 | Peter G. Gerry (D-RI) | January 3. 1935 | Previously a Senator |
| 46 | Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) | Former Rep. | |
| 47 | Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) | Former Governor | |
| 48 | Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) | Pennsylvania 2nd Population (1930) | |
| 49 | Harry S. Truman (D-MO) | Missouri 10th Population (1930) | |
| 50 | George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) | Maryland 28th Population (1930) | |
| 51 | Dennis Chavez (D-NM) | May 11, 1935 | |
| 52 | Guy Gillette (D-IA) | November 4, 1936 | Former Rep. |
| 53 | Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) | ||
| 54 | Claude Pepper (D-FL) | ||
| 55 | Prentiss M. Brown (D-MI) [6] | November 19, 1936 | |
| 56 | Joshua B. Lee (D-OK) [6] | January 3, 1937 | Former Rep. (2 years) |
| 57 | Clyde L. Herring (D-IA) [6] | Former Governor, Iowa 19th Population (1930) | |
| 58 | Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) | Former Governor, Colorado 33rd Population (1930) | |
| 59 | Theodore F. Green (D-RI) | Former Governor, Rhode Island 37th Population (1930) | |
| 60 | Styles Bridges (R-NH) | Former Governor, New Hampshire 41st Population (1930) | |
| 61 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA) | Massachusetts 8th Population (1930) | |
| 62 | Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) | Louisiana 22nd Population (1930) | |
| 63 | James H. Hughes (D-DE) [6] | Delaware 46th Population (1930) | |
| 64 | Henry H. Schwartz (D-WY) [6] | Wyoming 47th Population (1930) | |
| 65 | William H. Smathers (D-NJ) [6] | April 15, 1937 | |
| 66 | John E. Miller (D-AR) [11] | November 15, 1937 | |
| 67 | Joseph Lister Hill (D-AL) | January 11, 1938 | |
| 68 | William Warren Barbour (R-NJ) | November 9, 1938 | |
| 69 | James M. Mead (D-NY) | December 3, 1938 | |
| 70 | Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) | January 3, 1939 | Former Rep. (6 years), Former Governor |
| 71 | Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) | Former Rep. (4 years), Illinois 3rd Population (1930) | |
| 72 | D. Worth Clark (D-ID) | Former Rep. (4 years), Idaho 42nd Population (1930) | |
| 73 | Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) | Former Governor | |
| 74 | Robert A. Taft (R-OH) | Ohio 4th Population (1930) | |
| 75 | Sheridan Downey (D-CA) | California 6th Population (1930) | |
| 76 | Alexander Wiley (R-WI) | Wisconsin 13th Population (1930) | |
| 77 | John A. Danaher (R-CT) | Connecticut 29th Population (1930) | |
| 78 | Rufus C. Holman (R-OR) | Oregon 34th Population (1930) | |
| 79 | John Chandler Gurney (R-SD) | South Dakota 36th Population (1930) | |
| 80 | Tom Stewart (D-TN) | January 16, 1939 | |
| 81 | Albert B. Chandler (D-KY) | October 9, 1939 | |
| 82 | John Thomas (R-ID) | January 27, 1940 | |
| 83 | Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) [12] | October 14, 1940 | |
| 84 | C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL) | November 22, 1940 | |
| 85 | Berkeley L. Bunker (D-NV) [13] | November 27, 1940 | |
| 86 | Monrad C. Wallgren (D-WA) | December 19, 1940 | |
| 87 | Abe Murdock (D-UT) | January 3, 1941 | Former Rep. (8 years) |
| 88 | Owen Brewster (R-ME) | Former Rep. (6 years), Former Governor | |
| 89 | William Langer (R-ND) | Former Governor | |
| 90 | Harold H. Burton (R-OH) | Ohio 4th Population (1940) | |
| 91 | Raymond E. Willis (R-IN) | Indiana 12th Population (1940) | |
| 92 | Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) | West Virginia 24th Population (1940) | |
| 93 | Hugh A. Butler (R-NE) | Nebraska 32nd Population (1940) | |
| 94 | Ernest W. McFarland (D-AZ) | Arizona 43rd Population (1940) | |
| 95 | James M. Tunnell (D-DE) | Delaware 47th Population (1940) | |
| 96 | George Aiken (R-VT) | January 10, 1941 | |
| Joseph Rosier (D-WV) [14] | January 13, 1941 | ||
| G. Lloyd Spencer (D-AR) [6] | April 1, 1941 | ||
| Andrew Jackson Houston (D-TX) [15] | April 21, 1941 | ||
| James O. Eastland (D-MS) [16] | June 30, 1941 | ||
| Alva M. Lumpkin (D-SC) [17] | July 22, 1941 | ||
| W. Lee O'Daniel (D-TX) | August 4, 1941 | ||
| Roger C. Peace (D-SC) [18] | August 5, 1941 | ||
| Wall Doxey (D-MS) [6] | September 29, 1941 | ||
| Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC) | November 5, 1941 | ||
| Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO) | December 20, 1941 | ||
| Arthur E. Nelson (R-MN) [6] | November 18, 1942 | Minnesota 18th Population (1940) | |
| Hugh I. Shott (R-WV) [6] | West Virginia 24th Population (1940) | ||
| James G. Scrugham (D-NV) | December 7, 1942 |
See also
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Notes
- ↑ A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
- ↑ 1921 U.S Census Report Contains 1920 Census results
- ↑ 1931 U.S Census Report Contains 1930 Census results
- ↑ 1941 U.S Census Report Contains 1940 Census results
- ↑ Senator Sheppard died on April 9, 1941
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 Retired or defeated after 1942 Election.
- ↑ Senator Harrison died on June 22, 1941
- ↑ Senator Neely resigned on January 12, 1941
- ↑ Senator Byrnes resigned on July 17, 1941 to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- ↑ Senator Adams died on December 1, 1941
- ↑ Senator Miller resigned on March 31, 1941
- ↑ Senator Ball resigned on November 17, 1942
- ↑ Senator Bunker resigned on December 6, 1942
- ↑ Senator Rosier resigned on November 17, 1942
- ↑ Senator Houston died on June 26, 1941
- ↑ Senator Eastland resigned on September 28, 1941
- ↑ Senator Lumpkin died on August 1, 1941
- ↑ Senator Peace resigned on November 4, 1941
