List of United States senators in the 77th Congress

This is a complete list of United States senators during the 77th United States Congress listed by seniority from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1943.

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 Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1942 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

In this Congress, Tom Connally was the most senior junior senator. The most junior senior senator was Robert Taft until January 12, 1941, after which Harley Kilgore became the most junior senior senator.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1943 (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 1943.Class 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.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) March 4, 1909 2 Morris Sheppard (D-TX) Senator Sheppard died on April 9, 1941 February 3, 1913 3 George W. Norris (I-NE) Retired or defeated after 1942 election. March 4, 1913 4 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) March 4, 1917 5 Hiram Johnson (R-CA) March 16, 1917 6 Charles L. McNary (R-OR) December 18, 1918 7 Arthur Capper (R-KS) March 4, 1919 8 Pat Harrison (D-MS) Senator Harrison died on June 22, 1941 March 5, 1919 9 Carter Glass (D-VA) February 2, 1920 10 Walter F. George (D-GA) November 22, 1922 11 Henrik Shipstead (R-MN) March 4, 1923 Minnesota 17th in population (1920) 12 Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) Montana 39th in population (1920) 13 Robert M. La Follette Jr. (WP-WI) September 30, 1925 14 Gerald Nye (R-ND) November 14, 1925 15 David I. Walsh (D-MA) December 6, 1926 16 Carl Hayden (D-AZ) March 4, 1927 Former representative (15 years) 17 Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) Former representative (14 years) 18 Elmer Thomas (D-OK) Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920) 19 Millard Tydings (D-MD) Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in population (1920) 20 Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) 21 Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) March 31, 1928 22 Tom Connally (D-TX) March 4, 1929 23 James J. Davis (R-PA) December 2, 1930 24 Matthew M. Neely (D-WV) Senator Neely resigned on January 12, 1941 March 4, 1931 Previously a senator 25 James F. Byrnes (D-SC) Senator Byrnes resigned on July 17, 1941 to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Former representative (14 years) 26 Wallace H. White Jr. (R-ME) Former representative (7 years) 27 William J. Bulow (D-SD) Former governor 28 Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) North Carolina 12th in population (1930) 29 John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) Alabama 15th in population (1930) 30 Warren Austin (R-VT) April 1, 1931 31 Hattie Caraway (D-AR) November 13, 1931 32 Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC) December 5, 1932 33 Richard Russell Jr. (D-GA) January 12, 1933 34 Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO) February 4, 1933 35 Alva B. Adams (D-CO) Senator Adams died on December 1, 1941 March 4, 1933 Previously a senator 36 John H. Overton (D-LA) Former representative 37 Harry F. Byrd Sr. (D-VA) Former governor 38 Frederick Van Nuys (D-IN) Indiana 11th in population (1930) 39 Homer T. Bone (D-WA) Washington 30th in population (1930) 40 Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) Utah 40th in population (1930) 41 Pat McCarran (D-NV) Nevada 48th in population (1930) 42 Carl Hatch (D-NM) October 10, 1933 43 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) January 1, 1934 44 James Murray (D-MT) November 7, 1934 45 Peter G. Gerry (D-RI) January 3, 1935 Previously a senator 46 Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) Former representative 47 Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) Former governor 48 Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1930) 49 Harry S. Truman (D-MO) Missouri 10th in population (1930) 50 George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) Maryland 28th in population (1930) 51 Dennis Chavez (D-NM) May 11, 1935 52 Guy Mark Gillette (D-IA) November 4, 1936 Former representative 53 Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) "A" 1st in alphabet 54 Claude Pepper (D-FL) "P" 16th in alphabet 55 Prentiss M. Brown (D-MI) November 19, 1936 56 Joshua B. Lee (D-OK) January 3, 1937 Former representative 57 Clyde L. Herring (D-IA) Former governor, Iowa 19th in population (1930) 58 Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) Former governor, Colorado 33rd in population (1930) 59 Theodore F. Green (D-RI) Former governor, Rhode Island 37th in population (1930) 60 Styles Bridges (R-NH) Former governor, New Hampshire 41st in population (1930) 61 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R-MA) Massachusetts 8th in population (1930) 62 Allen J. Ellender (D-LA) Louisiana 22nd in population (1930) 63 James H. Hughes (D-DE) Delaware 46th in population (1930) 64 Henry H. Schwartz (D-WY) Wyoming 47th in population (1930) 65 William H. Smathers (D-NJ) April 15, 1937 66 John E. Miller (D-AR) Senator Miller resigned on March 31, 1941 November 15, 1937 67 Joseph L. Hill (D-AL) January 11, 1938 68 William Warren Barbour (R-NJ) November 9, 1938 Previously a senator 69 Tom Stewart (D-TN) 70 James M. Mead (D-NY) December 3, 1938 71 Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) January 3, 1939 Former representative (6 years) 72 Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) Former representative (4 years), Illinois 3rd in population (1930) 73 D. Worth Clark (D-ID) Former representative (4 years), Idaho 42nd in population (1930) 74 Clyde M. Reed (R-KS) Former governor 75 Robert A. Taft (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1930) 76 Sheridan Downey (D-CA) California 6th in population (1930) 77 Alexander Wiley (R-WI) Wisconsin 13th in population (1930) 78 John A. Danaher (R-CT) Connecticut 29th in population (1930) 79 Rufus C. Holman (R-OR) Oregon 34th in population (1930) 80 John Chandler Gurney (R-SD) South Dakota 36th in population (1930) 81 Albert B. Chandler (D-KY) October 9, 1939 82 John Thomas (R-ID) January 27, 1940 83 Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) Senator Ball resigned on November 17, 1942 October 14, 1940 84 C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL) November 22, 1940 85 Berkeley L. Bunker (D-NV) Senator Bunker resigned on December 6, 1942 November 27, 1940 86 Monrad C. Wallgren (D-WA) December 19, 1940 87 Abe Murdock (D-UT) January 3, 1941 Former representative (8 years) 88 Ralph Owen Brewster (R-ME) Former representative (6 years) 89 William Langer (R-ND) Former governor 90 Harold H. Burton (R-OH) Ohio 4th in population (1940) 91 Raymond E. Willis (R-IN) Indiana 12th in population (1940) 92 Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) 93 Hugh A. Butler (R-NE) Nebraska 32nd in population (1940) 94 Ernest McFarland (D-AZ) Arizona 43rd in population (1940) 95 James M. Tunnell (D-DE) Delaware 47th in population (1940) 96 George Aiken (R-VT) January 10, 1941 Joseph Rosier (D-WV) Senator Rosier resigned on November 17, 1942 January 13, 1941 G. Lloyd Spencer (D-AR) April 1, 1941 Andrew Jackson Houston (D-TX) Senator Houston died on June 26, 1941 April 21, 1941 James Eastland (D-MS) Senator Eastland resigned on September 28, 1941 June 30, 1941 Alva M. Lumpkin (D-SC) Senator Lumpkin died on August 1, 1941 July 22, 1941 W. Lee O'Daniel (D-TX) August 4, 1941 Roger C. Peace (D-SC) Senator Peace resigned on November 4, 1941 August 5, 1941 Wall Doxey (D-MS) September 29, 1941 Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC) November 5, 1941 Eugene D. Millikin (R-CO) December 20, 1941 Arthur E. Nelson (R-MN) November 18, 1942 Minnesota 18th in population (1940) Hugh I. Shott (R-WV) West Virginia 24th in population (1940) James G. Scrugham (D-NV) December 7, 1942

The most senior senators by class were Kenneth McKellar (D-Tennessee) from Class 1, Morris Sheppard (D-Texas) from Class 2, and Ellison D. Smith (D-South Carolina) from Class 3.

See also 77th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 77th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List