This is a complete list of United States senators during the 5th United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1799.

The United States Senate has an official chronological list of senators, accessible from its website.

Seniority rules A Chronological List of United States Senators includes the following explanation of how it assigns seniority.

From 1789 to 1958, senators whose terms began on the same day are listed alphabetically. Beginning in 1959, senators are listed according to commencement of first Senate term by order of service, determined by former service in order as senator, vice president, House member, cabinet secretary, governor, and then by state population. This latter system for calculating order of service has been used by the modern Senate for many years for the purposes of office assignment. It is unclear just when the Senate first began applying such criteria. A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov

Rank column: This consecutively numbers senators, serving in the relevant Congress, according to seniority in that Congress. Seniority is based upon the method used by the chronological list. If the senator is not the first person to hold the seat, no number is included in the list.

A senator with broken service is placed before other senators starting service on the same day, but after senators with unbroken service starting before that date.

Senate No. column: The chronological guide gives an official number to each senator. This is the number set out in this column. That number is retained even if the senator has broken service.

As an historical article, the states and party affiliations listed reflect those during the Congress. Seats and party affiliations on similar lists for other congresses will be different for certain members. During this Congress, there were two parties represented. Senators are classified as Democratic-Republican (DR) or Federalist (F).

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1799 (DE, GA, KY, MA, NC, NH, NJ, RI, SC, TN, and VA.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1799.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1801 (CT, DE, MD, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, and VT.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1801.Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1803 (CT, GA, IN, KY, MA, MD, NC, NY, PA, TN, VA, and VT.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1803.

Seniority list Rank Historical rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date 1 9 James Gunn (F-GA) March 4, 1789 2 10 John HenryJohn Henry resigned December 10, 1797, to become governor. (F-MD) 3 13 John Langdon (DR-NH) 4 26 Theodore Foster (F-RI) June 7, 1790 5 33 John RutherfurdJohn Rutherfurd resigned December 5, 1798 (F-NJ) March 4, 1791 6 36 John Brown (DR-KY) June 18, 1792 7 40 William BradfordWilliam Bradford resigned in October 1797 (F-RI) March 4, 1793 8 43 Samuel Livermore (F-NH) 9 44 Alexander Martin (DR-NC) 10 45 John ViningJohn Vining resigned January 19, 1798 (F-DE) 11 47 James Ross (F-PA) April 24, 1794 12 48 Stevens Thomson Mason (DR-VA) November 18, 1794 13 49 Henry TazewellHenry Tazewell died January 24, 1799 (DR-VA) 14 50 Henry Latimer (F-DE) February 7, 1795 15 51 William Bingham (F-PA) March 4, 1795 16 52 Timothy Bloodworth (DR-NC) 17 53 Humphrey Marshall (F-KY) 18 54 Elijah Paine (F-VT) 19 55 Jacob Read (F-SC) 20 58 Josiah Tattnall (DR-GA) February 20, 1796 21 59 Benjamin Goodhue (F-MA) June 11, 1796 22 60 Theodore Sedgwick (F-MA) 23 61 William BlountWilliam Blount was expelled on July 8, 1797 (DR-TN) August 2, 1796 24 62 William CockeWilliam Cocke finished out an interim assignment September 26, 1797 (DR-TN) 25 63 Uriah Tracy (DR-CT) October 13, 1796 26 64 Isaac TichenorIsaac Tichenor resigned October 17, 1797 to become Governor (F-VT) October 18, 1796 27 65 John Laurance (F-NY) November 9, 1796 28 66 Richard Stockton (F-NJ) November 12, 1796 29 67 John Eager Howard (F-MD) November 30, 1796 30 68 James Hillhouse (F-CT) December 6, 1796 31 69 John HunterJohn Hunter resigned November 26, 1798 (DR-SC) December 8, 1796 32 22 Philip John SchuylerPhilip John Schuyler resigned January 3, 1798. He previously served 1789-1791. (F-NY) March 4, 1797 ... 70 Joseph Inslee Anderson (DR-TN) September 26, 1797 ... 71 Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson resigned in April 1798, to become State Supreme Court Judge (DR-TN) September 26, 1797 ... 72 Nathaniel Chipman (F-VT) October 17, 1797 ... 73 Ray Greene (F-RI) November 13, 1797 ... 74 James Lloyd (F-MD) December 11, 1797 ... 75 John Sloss HobartJohn Sloss Hobart resigned April 16, 1798 to become Judge on the United States District Court of New York (F-NY) January 11, 1798 ... 76 Joshua ClaytonJoshua Clayton died August 11, 1798 (F-DE) January 19, 1798 ... 77 William NorthWilliam North served an interim appointment on August 17, 1798 (F-NY) May 15, 1798 ... 78 James Watson (F-NY) August 17, 1798 ... 79 Daniel Smith (DR-TN) October 6, 1798 ... 80 Franklin Davenport (F-NJ) December 5, 1798 ... 81 Charles Pinckney (DR-SC) December 6, 1798 ... 82 William Hill Wells (F-DE) January 17, 1799

See also 5th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 5th Congress

Notes

External links

Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress List of members of the 5th Congress