List of United States senators in the 79th Congress

This is a complete list of United States senators 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 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.gov1921 U.S Census Report Contains 1920 census results1931 U.S Census Report Contains 1930 census results1941 U.S Census Report Contains 1940 census results

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 1946 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

In this Congress, Richard Russell was the most senior junior senator. The distinction of most junior senior senator passed between four different individuals in this Congress, due to various deaths and resignations: Guy Cordon, from January 3 to 10, 1945; Warren Magnuson from January 10 to 17, 1945; Forrest Donnell from January 17 to November 10, 1945; and Glen Taylor from November 10, 1945 through the end of the 79th Congress.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1947 (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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1947.Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1949 (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 1949.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1951 (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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1951.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) March 4, 1917 2 Hiram JohnsonSenator Johnson died on August 6, 1945 (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) March 4, 1923 Minnesota 17th in population (1920) 7 Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) Montana 39th in population (1920) 8 Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (WP-WI) September 30, 1925 9 David I. Walsh (D-MA) December 6, 1926 10 Carl Hayden (D-AZ) March 4, 1927 Former United States representative from Arizona (15 years) 11 Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) Former United States representative from Kentucky (14 years) 12 Elmer Thomas (D-OK) Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920) 13 Millard Tydings (D-MD) Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in 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 representative 18 Josiah W. BaileySenator Bailey died on December 15, 1946 (D-NC) North Carolina 12th in population (1930) 19 John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) Senator Bankhead died on June 12, 1946 Alabama 15th in population (1930) 20 Warren AustinSenator Austin resigned on August 2, 1946, to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (R-VT) April 1, 1931 21 Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) January 12, 1933 22 John H. Overton (D-LA) March 4, 1933 Former representative 23 Harry F. Byrd, Sr. (D-VA) Former governor 24 Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) Utah 40th in population (1930) 25 Pat McCarran (D-NV) Nevada 48th in population (1930) 26 Carl Hatch (D-NM) October 10, 1933 27 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) January 1, 1934 28 James Murray (D-MT) November 7, 1934 29 Peter G. Gerry (D-RI) January 3, 1935 Former senator 30 George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) Former representative 31 Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) Former governor 32 Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1930) 33 Harry S. Truman (D-MO) Senator Truman resigned on January 17, 1945, to become Vice President of the United States Missouri 10th in population (1930) 34 Francis T. MaloneySenator Maloney died on January 16, 1945 (D-CT) Connecticut 29th in population (1930) 35 Dennis Chavez (D-NM) May 11, 1935 36 Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) Senator Andrews died on September 18, 1946 November 4, 1936 "A" 1st in alphabet 37 Claude Pepper (D-FL) "P" 16th in alphabet 38 Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) January 3, 1937 Former governor, Colorado 33rd in population (1930) 39 Theodore F. Green (D-RI) Former governor, Rhode Island 37th in population (1930) 40 Styles Bridges (R-NH) Former governor, New Hampshire 41st in population (1930) 41 Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) 42 Joseph L. Hill (D-AL) January 11, 1938 43 Tom Stewart (D-TN) November 9, 1938 44 James M. Mead (D-NY) December 3, 1938 45 Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) January 3, 1939 Former representative (4 years) 46 Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) Former representative (2 years) 47 Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) Former governor 48 Robert A. Taft (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1930) 49 Sheridan Downey (D-CA) California 6th in population (1930) 50 Alexander Wiley (R-WI) Wisconsin 13th in population (1930) 51 John Chandler Gurney (R-SD) South Dakota 36th in population (1930) 52 Albert B. Chandler (D-KY) Senator Chandler resigned on November 1, 1945, to become MLB commissioner October 9, 1939 53 John ThomasSenator Thomas died on November 10, 1945 (R-ID) January 27, 1940 54 C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL) November 22, 1940 55 Monrad C. Wallgren (D-WA) Senator Wallgren resigned on January 9, 1945, to become Governor of Washington December 19, 1940 56 Abe Murdock (D-UT) January 3, 1941 Former representative (8 years) 57 Ralph Owen Brewster (R-ME) Former representative (6 years) 58 William Langer (R-ND) Former governor 59 Harold H. Burton (R-OH) Senator Burton resigned on September 30, 1945, to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ohio 4th in population (1940) 60 Raymond E. Willis (R-IN) Indiana 12th in population (1940) 61 Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) 62 Hugh A. Butler (R-NE) Nebraska 32nd in population (1940) 63 Ernest McFarland (D-AZ) Arizona 43rd in population (1940) 64 James M. Tunnell (D-DE) Delaware 47th in 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) Senator Scrugham died on June 23, 1945 December 7, 1942 70 Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) January 3, 1943 Former senator (2 years) 71 James Eastland (D-MS) Former senator (1 year) 72 John Little McClellan (D-AR) Arkansas 25th in population (1940) 73 Harlan J. Bushfield (R-SD) Former governor, South Dakota 37th in population (1940) 74 C. Douglass Buck (R-DE) Former governor, Delaware 47th in population (1940) 75 Homer S. Ferguson (R-MI) Michigan 7th in population (1940) 76 Albert W. Hawkes (R-NJ) New Jersey 9th in population (1940) 77 Edward H. Moore (R-OK) Oklahoma 22nd in population (1940) 78 W. Chapman Revercomb (R-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) 79 Kenneth S. Wherry (R-NE) Nebraska 32nd in population (1940) 80 Edward V. Robertson (R-WY) Wyoming 46th in population (1940) 81 George A. Wilson (R-IA) January 14, 1943 82 Guy Cordon (R-OR) March 4, 1944 83 Howard A. Smith (R-NJ) December 7, 1944 84 Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) December 14, 1944 85 Francis J. Myers (D-PA) January 3, 1945 Former representative (6 years) 86 J. William Fulbright (D-AR) Former representative (2 years) 87 Clyde R. Hoey (D-NC) Former representative (1 year, 2 months) 88 Forrest C. Donnell (R-MO) Former governor, Missouri 10th in population (1940) 89 Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-IA) Former governor, Iowa 20th in population (1940) 90 Olin D. Johnston (D-SC) Former governor, South Carolina 26th in population (1940) 91 John Moses (D-ND) Senator Moses died on March 3, 1945 Former governor, North Dakota 38th in population (1940) 92 Homer E. Capehart (R-IN) Indiana 12th in population (1940) 93 Brien McMahon (D-CT) Connecticut 31st in population (1940) 94 Wayne Morse (R-OR) Oregon 34th in population (1940) 95 Glen H. Taylor (D-ID) Idaho 42nd in population (1940) 96 Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA) January 4, 1945 — Hugh Mitchell (D-WA)Senator Mitchell resigned on December 25, 1946 January 10, 1945 — Frank P. Briggs (D-MO) January 18, 1945 — Thomas C. Hart (R-CT) Senator Hart resigned on November 5, 1946 February 15, 1945 — Milton Young (R-ND) March 12, 1945 — Edward P. Carville (D-NV) July 24, 1945 — William F. Knowland (R-CA) August 26, 1945 — James W. Huffman (D-OH) Senator Huffman resigned on November 5, 1946 October 8, 1945 — Charles C. Gossett (D-ID) Senator Gossett resigned on November 5, 1946 November 17, 1945 — William A. Stanfill (R-KY) Senator Stanfill resigned on November 5, 1946 November 19, 1945 — Thomas G. Burch (D-VA) Senator Burch resigned on November 5, 1946 May 31, 1946 — George R. Swift (D-AL) Senator Swift resigned on November 5, 1946 June 15, 1946 — Spessard Holland (D-FL) September 25, 1946 — Ralph Flanders (R-VT) November 1, 1946 — A. Willis Robertson (D-VA)November 6, 1946 Former representative (13 years) — John Sparkman (D-AL) Former representative (9 years) — Henry Dworshak (R-ID) Former representative (7 years) — Kingsley A. Taft (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1940) — John Sherman Cooper (R-KY) Kentucky 16th in 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

The most senior senators by class were Kenneth McKellar (D-Tennessee) from Class 1, Arthur Capper (R-Kansas) from Class 2, and Walter F. George (D-Georgia) from Class 3.

See also 79th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 79th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List