List of United States Senators in the 79th Congress by seniority
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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 79th United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 1945 to January 3, 1947.
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 two-year congressional term (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1946 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
U.S. Senate Seniority List
| Rank | Senator (Party-State) | Seniority Date | Other Factors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) | March 4, 1917 | |
| 2 | Hiram W. Johnson [5] (R-CA) | March 16, 1917 | |
| 3 | Arthur Capper (R-KS) | March 4, 1919 | |
| 4 | Carter Glass (D-VA) | February 2, 1920 | |
| 5 | Walter F. George (D-GA) | November 22, 1922 | |
| 6 | Henrik Shipstead (R-MN) [6] | March 4, 1923 | Minnesota 17th Population (1920) |
| 7 | Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) [6] | Montana 39th Population (1920) | |
| 8 | Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (Prog-WI) [6] | September 30, 1925 | |
| 9 | David I. Walsh (D-MA) [6] | December 6, 1926 | |
| 10 | Carl Hayden (D-AZ) | March 4, 1927 | Former Rep (15 years) |
| 11 | Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) | Former Rep (14 years) | |
| 12 | Elmer Thomas (D-OK) | Former Rep (4 years), Oklahoma 21st Population (1920) | |
| 13 | Millard Tydings (D-MD) | Former Rep (4 years), Maryland 28th Population (1920) | |
| 14 | Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) | ||
| 15 | Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) | March 31, 1928 | |
| 16 | Tom Connally (D-TX) | March 4, 1929 | |
| 17 | Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) | March 4, 1931 | Former Rep |
| 18 | Josiah W. Bailey [7] (D-NC) | North Carolina 12th Population (1930) | |
| 19 | John H. Bankhead (D-AL) [8] | Alabama 15th Population (1930) | |
| 20 | Warren Austin [9] (R-VT) | April 1, 1931 | |
| 21 | Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) | January 12, 1933 | |
| 22 | John H. Overton (D-LA) | March 4, 1933 | Former Rep |
| 23 | Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) | Former Governor | |
| 24 | Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) | Utah 40th Population (1930) | |
| 25 | Pat McCarran (D-NV) | Nevada 48th Population (1930) | |
| 26 | Carl Hatch (D-NM) | October 10, 1933 | |
| 27 | Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) | January 1, 1934 | |
| 28 | James E. Murray (D-MT) | November 7, 1934 | |
| 29 | Peter G. Gerry [6] (D-RI) | January 3, 1935 | Former Senator |
| 30 | George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) [6] | Former Rep | |
| 31 | Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) | Former Governor | |
| 32 | Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) [6] | Pennsylvania 2nd Population (1930) | |
| 33 | Harry S. Truman (D-MO) [10] | Missouri 10th Population (1930) | |
| 34 | Francis T. Maloney [11] (D-CT) | Connecticut 29th Population (1930) | |
| 35 | Dennis Chavez (D-NM) | May 11, 1935 | |
| 36 | Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) [12] | November 4, 1936 | |
| 37 | Claude D. Pepper (D-FL) | ||
| 38 | Edwin C. Johnson (R-CO) | January 3, 1937 | Former Governor, Colorado 33rd Population (1930) |
| 39 | Theodore F. Green (D-RI) | Former Governor, Rhode Island 37th Population (1930) | |
| 40 | Styles Bridges (R-NH) | Former Governor, New Hampshire 41st Population (1930) | |
| 41 | Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) | ||
| 42 | Joseph L. Hill (D-AL) | January 11, 1938 | |
| 43 | James M. Mead [6](D-NY) | December 3, 1938 | |
| 44 | Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) | January 3, 1939 | Former Rep (4 years) |
| 45 | Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) | Former Rep (2 years), Former Governor | |
| 46 | Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) | Former Governor | |
| 47 | Robert A. Taft (R-OH) | Ohio 4th Population (1930) | |
| 48 | Sheridan Downey (D-CA) | California 6th Population (1930) | |
| 49 | Alexander Wiley (R-WI) | Wisconsin 13th Population (1930) | |
| 50 | J. Chandler Gurney (R-SD) | South Dakota 36th Population (1930) | |
| 51 | Tom Stewart (D-TN) | January 16, 1939 | |
| 52 | Albert B. Chandler (D-KY) [13] | October 9, 1939 | |
| 53 | John W. Thomas [14] (R-ID) | January 27, 1940 | |
| 54 | Charles W. Brooks (R-IL) | November 22, 1940 | |
| 55 | Monrad Wallgren (D-WA) [15] | December 19, 1940 | |
| 56 | Abe Murdock (D-UT) [6] | January 3, 1941 | Former Rep (8 years) |
| 57 | Owen Brewster (R-ME) | Former Rep (6 years), Former Governor | |
| 58 | William Langer (R-ND) | Former Governor | |
| 59 | Harold H. Burton (R-OH) [16] | Ohio 4th Population (1940) | |
| 60 | Raymond E. Willis (R-IN) [6] | Indiana 12th Population (1940) | |
| 61 | Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) | West Virginia 24th Population (1940) | |
| 62 | Hugh A. Butler (R-NE) | Nebraska 32nd Population (1940) | |
| 63 | Ernest McFarland (D-AZ) | Arizona 43rd Population (1940) | |
| 64 | James M. Tunnell (D-DE) [6] | Delaware 47th Population (1940) | |
| 65 | George Aiken (R-VT) | January 10, 1941 | |
| 66 | W. Lee O'Daniel (D-TX) | August 4, 1941 | |
| 67 | Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC) | November 5, 1941 | |
| 68 | Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO) | December 20, 1941 | |
| 69 | James G. Scrugham (D-NV) [17] | December 7, 1942 | |
| 70 | James Eastland (D-MS) | January 3, 1943 | Former Senator |
| 71 | Harlan J. Bushfield (R-SD) | Former Governor, South Dakota 37th Population (1940) | |
| 72 | C. Douglass Buck (R-DE) | Former Governor, Delaware 47th Population (1940) | |
| 73 | Homer S. Ferguson (R-MI) | Michigan 7th Population (1940) | |
| 74 | Albert W. Hawkes (R-NJ) | New Jersey 9th Population (1940) | |
| 75 | Joseph H. Ball (R-MI) | Minnesota 18th Population (1940) | |
| 76 | Edward H. Moore (R-OK) | Oklahoma 22nd Population (1940) | |
| 77 | W. Chapman Revercomb (R-WV) | West Virginia 24th Population (1940) | |
| 78 | John L. McClellan (D-AR) | Arkansas 25th Population (1940) | |
| 79 | Kenneth S. Wherry (R-NE) | Nebraska 32nd Population (1940) | |
| 80 | Edward V. Robertson (R-WY) | Wyoming 46th Population (1940) | |
| 81 | George A. Wilson (R-IA) | January 14, 1943 | |
| 82 | Guy Cordon (R-OR) | March 4, 1944 | |
| 83 | H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) | December 7, 1944 | |
| 84 | Warren Magnuson (D-WA) | December 14, 1944 | |
| 85 | Francis J. Myers (D-PA) | January 3, 1945 | Former Rep (6 years) |
| 86 | Forrest C. Donnell (R-MO) | Missouri 10th Population (1940) | |
| 87 | J. William Fulbright (D-AR) | Former Rep (2 years) | |
| 88 | Clyde R. Hoey (D-NC) | Former Governor, North Carolina 11th Population (1940) | |
| 89 | Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-IA) | Former Governor, Iowa 20th Population (1940) | |
| 90 | Olin D. Johnston (D-SC) | Former Governor, South Carolina 26th Population (1940) | |
| 91 | John Moses (D-ND) [18] | Former Governor, North Dakota 38th Population (1940) | |
| 92 | Homer E. Capehart (R-IN) | Indiana 12th Population (1940) | |
| 93 | Brien McMahon (D-CT) | Connecticut 31st Population (1940) | |
| 94 | Wayne Morse (R-OR) | Oregon 34th Population (1940) | |
| 95 | Glen H. Taylor (D-ID) | Idaho 42nd Population (1940) | |
| 96 | Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA) | January 10, 1945 | Massachusetts 8th Population (1940) |
| Hugh Mitchell (D-WA) [19] | |||
| Frank P. Briggs (R-MO) [6] | January 18, 1945 | ||
| Thomas C. Hart (R-CT) [20] | February 15, 1945 | ||
| Milton Young (R-ND) | March 12, 1945 | ||
| Edward P. Carville (D-NV) [6] | July 24, 1945 | ||
| William F. Knowland (R-CA) | August 26, 1945 | ||
| James W. Huffman (D-OH) [21] | October 8, 1945 | ||
| Charles C. Gossett (D-ID) [22] | November 17, 1945 | ||
| William A. Stanfill (R-KY) [23] | November 19, 1945 | ||
| Thomas G. Burch (D-VA) [24] | May 31, 1946 | ||
| George R. Swift (D-AL) [25] | June 15, 1946 | ||
| Spessard Holland (D-FL) | September 25, 1946 | ||
| Ralph Flanders (R-VT) | November 1, 1946 | ||
| A. Willis Robertson (R-VA) | November 6, 1946 | Former Rep (13 years) | |
| John J. Sparkman (D-AL) | Former Rep (9 years) | ||
| Henry Dworshak (R-ID) | Former Rep (7 years) | ||
| Kingsley A. Taft (R-OH) [6] | Ohio 4th Population (1940) | ||
| John Sherman Cooper (R-KY) | Kentucky 16th Population (1940) | ||
| William B. Umstead (D-NC) | December 18, 1946 | ||
| Harry P. Cain (R-WA) | December 26, 1946 | ||
| Raymond E. Baldwin (R-CT) | December 27, 1946 |
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 Johnson died on August 6, 1945
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 Retired or defeated after 1946 Election.
- ↑ Senator Bailey died on December 15, 1946
- ↑ Senator Bankhead died on June 12, 1946
- ↑ Senator Austin resigned on August 2, 1946 to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
- ↑ Senator Truman resigned on January 17, 1945 to become Vice President of the United States
- ↑ Senator Maloney died on January 16, 1945
- ↑ Senator Andrews died on September 18, 1946
- ↑ Senator Chandler resigned on November 1, 1945 to become MLB commissioner
- ↑ Senator Thomas died on November 10, 1945
- ↑ Senator Wallgren resigned on January 9, 1945 to become Governor of Washington
- ↑ Senator Burton resigned on September 30, 1945 to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- ↑ Senator Scrugham died on June 23, 1945
- ↑ Senator Moses died on March 3, 1945
- ↑ Senator Mitchell resigned on December 25, 1946
- ↑ Senator Hart resigned on November 5, 1946
- ↑ Senator Huffman resigned on November 5, 1946
- ↑ Senator Gossett resigned on November 5, 1946
- ↑ Senator Stanfill resigned on November 5, 1946
- ↑ Senator Burch resigned on November 5, 1946
- ↑ Senator Swift resigned on November 5, 1946
