This is a complete list of United States senators during the 78th United States Congress listed by seniority from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1945.

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 1944 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

In this Congress, the most senior junior senator was Robert Reynolds. The most junior senior senator was James Tunnell, until the death of W. Warren Barbour, after which Albert Hawkes held the distinction.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1945 (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 1945.Class 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.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) Senator Smith died on November 17, 1944 March 4, 1909 2 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) March 4, 1917 3 Hiram Johnson (R-CA) March 16, 1917 4 Charles L. McNary (R-OR) Senator McNary died on February 25, 1944 December 18, 1918 5 Arthur Capper (R-KS) March 4, 1919 6 Carter Glass (D-VA) February 2, 1920 7 Walter F. George (D-GA) November 22, 1922 8 Henrik Shipstead (R-MN) March 4, 1923 Minnesota 17th in population (1920) 9 Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) Montana 39th in population (1920) 10 Robert M. La Follette Jr. (WP-WI) September 30, 1925 11 Gerald Nye (R-ND) Retired or defeated after 1944 election. November 14, 1925 12 David I. Walsh (D-MA) December 6, 1926 13 Carl Hayden (D-AZ) March 4, 1927 Former representative (15 years) 14 Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) Former representative (14 years) 15 Elmer Thomas (D-OK) Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920) 16 Millard Tydings (D-MD) Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in population (1920) 17 Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) 18 Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) March 31, 1928 19 Tom Connally (D-TX) March 4, 1929 20 James J. Davis (R-PA) December 2, 1930 21 Wallace H. White Jr. (R-ME) March 4, 1931 Former representative 22 Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) North Carolina 12th in population (1930) 23 John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) Alabama 15th in population (1930) 24 Warren Austin (R-VT) April 1, 1931 25 Hattie Caraway (D-AR) November 13, 1931 26 Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC) December 5, 1932 27 Richard Russell Jr. (D-GA) January 12, 1933 28 Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO) February 4, 1933 29 John H. Overton (D-LA) March 4, 1933 Former representative 30 Harry F. Byrd Sr. (D-VA) Former governor 31 Frederick Van Nuys (D-IN) Senator Van Nuys died on January 25, 1944 Indiana 11th in population (1930) 32 Homer T. Bone (D-WA) Senator Bone resigned on November 13, 1944 Washington 30th in population (1930) 33 Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) Utah 40th in population (1930) 34 Pat McCarran (D-NV) Nevada 48th in population (1930) 35 Carl Hatch (D-NM) October 10, 1933 36 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) January 1, 1934 37 James Murray (D-MT) November 7, 1934 38 Peter G. Gerry (D-RI) January 3, 1935 Previously a senator 39 George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) Former representative 40 Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) Former governor 41 Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1930) 42 Harry S. Truman (D-MO) Missouri 10th in population (1930) 43 Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) Connecticut 29th in population (1930) 44 Dennis Chavez (D-NM) May 11, 1935 45 Guy Mark Gillette (D-IA) November 4, 1936 Former representative 46 Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) "A" 1st in alphabet 47 Claude Pepper (D-FL) "P" 16th in alphabet 48 Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) January 3, 1937 Former governor, Colorado 33rd in population (1930) 49 Theodore F. Green (D-RI) Former governor, Rhode Island 37th in population (1930) 50 Styles Bridges (R-NH) Former governor, New Hampshire 41st in population (1930) 51 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA) Senator Lodge resigned on February 3, 1944 Massachusetts 8th in population (1930) 52 Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) Louisiana 22nd in population (1930) 53 Joseph L. Hill (D-AL) January 11, 1938 54 William Warren Barbour (R-NJ) Senator Barbour died on November 22, 1943 November 9, 1938 Previously a senator 55 Tom Stewart (D-TN) 56 James M. Mead (D-NY) December 3, 1938 57 Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) January 3, 1939 Former representative (4 years), Illinois 3rd in population (1930) 58 D. Worth Clark (D-ID) Former representative (4 years), Idaho 42nd in population (1930) 59 Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) Former representative (2 years) 60 Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) Former governor 61 Robert A. Taft (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1930) 62 Sheridan Downey (D-CA) California 6th in population (1930) 63 Alexander Wiley (R-WI) Wisconsin 13th in population (1930) 64 John A. Danaher (R-CT) Connecticut 29th in population (1930) 65 Rufus C. Holman (R-OR) Oregon 34th in population (1930) 66 John Chandler Gurney (R-SD) South Dakota 36th in population (1930) 67 Albert B. Chandler (D-KY) October 9, 1939 68 John Thomas (R-ID) January 27, 1940 69 C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL) November 22, 1940 70 Monrad C. Wallgren (D-WA) December 19, 1940 71 Abe Murdock (D-UT) January 3, 1941 Former representative (8 years) 72 Ralph Owen Brewster (R-ME) Former representative (6 years) 73 William Langer (R-ND) Former governor 74 Harold H. Burton (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1940) 75 Raymond E. Willis (R-IN) Indiana 12th in population (1940) 76 Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) 77 Hugh A. Butler (R-NE) Nebraska 32nd in population (1940) 78 Ernest McFarland (D-AZ) Arizona 43rd in population (1940) 79 James M. Tunnell (D-DE) Delaware 47th in population (1940) 80 George Aiken (R-VT) January 10, 1941 81 W. Lee O'Daniel (D-TX) August 4, 1941 82 Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC) November 5, 1941 83 Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO) December 20, 1941 84 James G. Scrugham (D-NV) December 7, 1942 85 Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) January 3, 1943 Former senator (2 years) 86 James Eastland (D-MS) Former senator (1 year) 87 John Little McClellan (D-AR) Former representative 88 Harlan J. Bushfield (R-SD) Former governor, South Dakota 37th in population (1940) 89 C. Douglass Buck (R-DE) Former governor, Delaware 47th in population (1940) 90 Homer S. Ferguson (R-MI) Michigan 7th in population (1940) 91 Albert W. Hawkes (R-NJ) New Jersey 9th in population (1940) 92 Edward H. Moore (R-OK) Oklahoma 22nd in population (1940) 93 W. Chapman Revercomb (R-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) 94 Kenneth S. Wherry (R-NE) Nebraska 32nd in population (1940) 95 Edward V. Robertson (R-WY) Wyoming 46th in population (1940) 96 George A. Wilson (R-IA) January 14, 1943 Arthur Walsh (R-NJ) Senator Walsh resigned on December 7, 1944 November 26, 1943 Samuel D. Jackson (D-IN) Senator Jackson resigned on November 13, 1944 January 28, 1944 Sinclair Weeks (R-MA) February 8, 1944 Guy Cordon (R-OR) March 4, 1944 William E. Jenner (R-IN) November 14, 1944 Wilton E. Hall (D-SC) November 20, 1944 Howard A. Smith (R-NJ) December 7, 1944 Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) December 14, 1944

The most senior senators by class were Kenneth McKellar (D-Tennessee) from Class 1, Charles L. McNary (R-Oregon) from Class 2, and Ellison D. Smith (D-South Carolina) from Class 3.

See also 78th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 78th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List