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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 35th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859.
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 during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1858 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Class
Terms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 2
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1859 (AL , AR , CO , DE , GA , IA , IL , KY , LA , MA , ME , MI , MN , MS , NC , NH , NJ , OR , RI , SC , TN , TX , and VA .)[ 5]
Class 3
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1861 (CA , CT , DE , FL , IN , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NJ , NY , OH , PA , RI , TN , TX , VA , VT , and WI .)[ 6]
Class 1
Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863 (AL , AR , CA , CT , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KY , LA , MD , MO , NC , NH , NY , OH , OR , PA , SC , VT , and WI .)[ 7]
U.S. Senate seniority list [ edit ]
U.S. Senate seniority
Rank
Senator (party-state)
Seniority date
Other factors
1
James Alfred Pearce (D -MD )March 4, 1843
2
Jesse D. Bright (D -IN )March 4, 1845
3
Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D -TX )February 21, 1846
4
Samuel Houston (D -TX )February 26, 1846
5
Andrew Pickens Butler (D -SC )December 4, 1846
6
James M. Mason (D -VA )January 21, 1847
7
Stephen A. Douglas (D -IL )March 4, 1847
8
Robert M. T. Hunter (D -VA )
9
John Bell (D -TN )November 22, 1847
10
William K. Sebastian (D -AR )May 12, 1848
11
George Wallace Jones (D -IA )December 7, 1848
12
William H. Seward (R -NY )March 4, 1849
13
Solomon Foot (R -VT )March 4, 1851
14
James A. Bayard Jr. (D -DE )
15
Stephen Mallory (D -FL )
16
Benjamin Wade (R -OH )March 15, 1851
17
Charles Sumner (LR -MA )April 11, 1851
18
John R. Thomson (D -NJ )March 4, 1853
19
Robert Toombs (D -GA )
20
Judah P. Benjamin (D -LA )
21
Josiah J. Evans (D -SC )
21
Charles E. Stuart (D -MI )
22
William Wright (D -NJ )
23
John B. Thompson (KN -KY )
24
Robert Ward Johnson (D -AR )July 6, 1853
25
Philip Allen (D -RI )July 20, 1853
26
Clement Claiborne Clay (D -AL )November 29, 1853
27
John Slidell (D -LA )December 5, 1853
28
Albert G. Brown (D -MS )January 7, 1854
29
William P. Fessenden (R -ME )February 10, 1854
30
David Settle Reid (D -NC )December 6, 1854
31
Henry Wilson (R -MA )January 31, 1855
32
Lyman Trumbull (R -IL )March 4, 1855
33
Jacob Collamer (R -VT )
34
Lafayette S. Foster (R -CT )
35
David Levy Yulee (D -FL )
36
Alfred Iverson, Sr. (D -GA )
37
John Jordan Crittenden (KN -KY )
38
George E. Pugh (D -OH )
39
Charles Durkee (R -WI )
40
Asa Biggs (D -NC )
41
James Bell (R -NH )
42
John P. Hale (R -NH )July 30, 1855
43
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D -AL )November 26, 1855
44
William Bigler (D -PA )January 14, 1856
45
James S. Green (D -MO )January 12, 1857
46
William M. Gwin (D -CA )January 13, 1857
47
Martin W. Bates (D -DE )January 14, 1857
48
James Harlan (R -IA )January 29, 1857
49
Graham N. Fitch (D -IN )February 4, 1857
50
Zachariah Chandler (R -MI )March 4, 1857
51
James Dixon (R -CT )
52
James R. Doolittle (R -WI )
53
Anthony Kennedy (KN -MD )
54
Trusten Polk (D -MO )
55
Preston King (D -NY )
56
James F. Simmons (R -RI )
57
Hannibal Hamlin (R -ME )
58
David C. Broderick (D -CA )
59
Jefferson Davis (D -MS )
60
Simon Cameron (R -PA )
Daniel Clark (R -NH )June 27, 1857
Andrew Johnson (D -TN )October 8, 1857
James Pinckney Henderson (D -TX )November 9, 1857
James H. Hammond (D -SC )December 7, 1857
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D -NC )May 7, 1858
Henry Mower Rice (D -MN )May 11, 1858
Arthur P. Hayne (D -SC )
James Shields (D -MN )
Matthias Ward (D -TX )September 27, 1858
James Chesnut, Jr. (D -SC )December 3, 1858
Joseph Lane (D -OR )February 14, 1859
Delazon Smith (D -OR )
