This is a complete list of United States senators during the 91st United States Congress listed by seniority from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1971.

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 their 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.A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov1951 U.S Census Report Contains 1950 census results1961 U.S Census Report Contains 1960 census results.

In this congress, J. William Fulbright (Arkansas) was the senior junior senator and Ted Stevens (Alaska) was the junior senior senator.

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 1970 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1971 (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, HI, 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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1971.Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1973 (AK, 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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1973.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1975 (AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NV, NY, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, UT, VT, WA, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1975.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) January 12, 1933 2 Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) January 3, 1937 3 George Aiken (R-VT) January 10, 1941 4 James Eastland (D-MS) January 3, 1943 Previously a senator 5 John Little McClellan (D-AR) 6 Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) December 14, 1944 7 J. William Fulbright (D-AR) January 3, 1945 8 Milton Young (R-ND) March 12, 1945 9 Spessard Holland (D-FL) September 24, 1946 10 John Sparkman (D-AL) November 6, 1946 11 John J. Williams (R-DE) January 3, 1947 12 John C. Stennis (D-MS) November 17, 1947 13 Karl Mundt (R-SD) December 31, 1948 Former representative 14 Russell B. Long (D-LA) 15 Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) January 3, 1949 Former representative (8 years, 7 months) 16 Clinton Anderson (D-NM) Former representative (4 years, 5 months) 17 John O. Pastore (D-RI) December 19, 1950 18 Everett DirksenSenator Dirksen died on September 7, 1969. (R-IL) January 3, 1951 Former representative 19 Wallace F. Bennett (R-UT) 20 Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) January 3, 1953 Former representative (14 years) 21 Henry M. Jackson (D-WA) Former representative (12 years) 22 Mike Mansfield (D-MT) Former representative (10 years) 23 Stuart Symington (D-MO) 24 Sam Ervin (D-NC) June 5, 1954 25 Norris Cotton (R-NH) November 8, 1954 Former representative (7 years, 10 months) 26 Roman Hruska (R-NE) Former representative (1 year, 10 months) 27 Alan Bible (D-NV) December 2, 1954 28 Carl Curtis (R-NE) January 1, 1955 29 Clifford P. Case (R-NJ) January 3, 1955 Former representative 30 Gordon L. Allott (R-CO) 31 John Sherman Cooper (R-KY) November 7, 1956 Previously a senator (twice) (total tenure 4 years, 4 months) 32 Strom Thurmond (R-SC) Previously a senator (1 year, 3 months) 33 Herman Talmadge (D-GA) January 3, 1957 Former governor 34 Frank Church (D-ID) 35 Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) January 9, 1957 36 Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) April 29, 1957 37 William Proxmire (D-WI) August 28, 1957 38 Ben Jordan (D-NC) April 19, 1958 39 Jennings Randolph (D-WV) November 5, 1958 40 Hugh Scott (R-PA) January 3, 1959 Former representative (18 years) 41 Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) Former representative (10 years) 42 Stephen Young (D-OH) Former representative (8 years), Ohio 5th in population (1950) 43 Winston L. Prouty (R-VT) Former representative (8 years), Vermont 46th in population (1950) 44 Robert Byrd (D-WV) Former representative (6 years) 45 Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ) Former representative (4 years), New Jersey 8th in population (1950) 46 Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT) Former representative (4 years), Connecticut 34th in population (1950) 47 Edmund Muskie (D-ME) Former governor 48 Philip Hart (D-MI) Michigan 7th in population (1950) 49 Vance Hartke (D-IN) Indiana 11th in population (1950) 50 Frank Moss (D-UT) Utah 38th in population (1950) 51 Gale W. McGee (D-WY) Wyoming 48th in population (1950) 52 Howard Cannon (D-NV) Nevada 49th in population (1950) 53 Hiram Fong (R-HI) August 21, 1959 54 Quentin Northrup Burdick (D-ND) August 8, 1960 55 Lee Metcalf (D-MT) January 3, 1961 Former representative (8 years) 56 James Boggs (R-DE) Former representative (6 years) 57 Jack Miller (R-IA) Iowa 22nd in population (1950) 58 Claiborne Pell (D-RI) Rhode Island 36th in population (1950) 59 John Tower (R-TX) June 15, 1961 60 James B. Pearson (R-KS) January 31, 1962 61 Len Jordan (R-ID) August 6, 1962 62 Ted Kennedy (D-MA) November 7, 1962 Massachusetts 9th in population (1960) 63 Thomas J. McIntyre (D-NH) New Hampshire 45th in population (1960) 64 Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-CT) January 3, 1963 Former representative (4 years), former cabinet secretary 65 George McGovern (D-SD) Former representative (4 years) - South Dakota 40th in population (1960) 66 Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Former representative (4 years) - Hawaii 43rd in population (1960) 67 Peter H. Dominick (R-CO) Former representative (2 years) 68 Birch Bayh (D-IN) 69 Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) January 7, 1963 70 Joseph Montoya (D-NM) November 4, 1964 Former representative 71 Fred R. Harris (D-OK) 72 Walter Mondale (D-MN) December 30, 1964 73 George Murphy (R-CA) January 1, 1965 74 Joseph Tydings (D-MD) January 3, 1965 Former representative 75 Paul Fannin (R-AZ) 76 Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (D-VA) November 12, 1965 77 Robert P. Griffin (R-MI) May 11, 1966 78 Ernest Hollings (D-SC) November 9, 1966 79 William B. Spong, Jr. (D-VA) December 31, 1966 80 Clifford Hansen (R-WY) January 3, 1967 Former governor 81 Charles H. Percy (R-IL) Illinois 4th in population (1960) 82 Edward Brooke (R-MA) Massachusetts 9th in population (1960) 83 Howard Baker (R-TN) Tennessee 17th in population (1960) 84 Mark Hatfield (R-OR) January 10, 1967 85 Charles Goodell (R-NY) September 10, 1968 86 Marlow Cook (R-KY) December 17, 1968 87 Ted Stevens (R-AK) December 24, 1968 88 Thomas Eagleton (D-MO) December 28, 1968 89 Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) January 3, 1969 Previously a senator 90 Richard Schweiker (R-PA) Former representative (8 years) - Pennsylvania 3rd in population (1960) 91 Charles Mathias (R-MD) Former representative (8 years) - Maryland 21st in population (1960) 92 Bob Dole (R-KS) Former representative (8 years) - Kansas 29th in population (1960) 93 Edward J. Gurney (R-FL) Former representative (6 years) 94 Harold Hughes (D-IA) Former governor, Iowa 24th in population (1960) 95 Henry Bellmon (R-OK) Former governor, Oklahoma 27th in population (1960) 96 Alan Cranston (D-CA) California 2nd in population (1960) 97 William B. Saxbe (R-OH) Ohio 5th in population (1960) 98 James Allen (D-AL) Alabama 19th in population (1960) 99 Bob Packwood (R-OR) Oregon 32nd in population (1960) 100 Mike Gravel (D-AK) Alaska 50th in population (1960) Ralph Smith (R-IL) September 17, 1969 Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL) November 17, 1970 Bill Roth (R-DE) January 1, 1971 John V. Tunney (D-CA) January 2, 1971

The senior senators by class were Spessard Holland (D-Florida) from Class 1, Richard Russell Jr. (D-Georgia) from Class 2, and George Aiken (R-Vermont) from Class 3.

See also 91st United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 91st Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List