This is a complete list of United States senators during the 32nd United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853.
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.gov1820 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 1852 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Terms of service
ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1853 (AL, AR, DE, GA, IA, IL, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MS, NC, NH, NJ, RI, SC, TN, TX, and VA.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1853.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1855 (CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, VT, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1855.Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1857 (AL, AR, CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NY, OH, PA, SC, VT, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1857.
U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 Willie Person Mangum (W-NC)Retired or defeated after 1852 election November 25, 1840 2 John Macpherson Berrien (W-GA)Senator Berrien resigned on May 28, 1852. March 4, 1841 Former senator 3 Jacob Welsh Miller (W-NJ) 4 James Alfred Pearce (W-MD) March 4, 1843 Former representative (6 years); Maryland 15th in population (1840) 5 William Upham (W-VT) 6 David Rice Atchison (D-MO) October 14, 1843 7 Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) March 4, 1845 Indiana 10th in population (1840) 8 John Davis (W-MA) March 24, 1845 9 Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D-TX) February 21, 1846 10 Samuel Houston (D-TX) February 26, 1846 11 George Edmund Badger (W-NC) November 25, 1846 12 Andrew Pickens Butler (D-SC) December 4, 1846 13 James M. Mason (D-VA) January 21, 1847 14 Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA) March 4, 1847 Former representative (8 years); Virginia 4th in population (1840) 15 Joseph Rogers Underwood (W-KY) Former representative (8 years); Kentucky 6th in population (1840) 16 Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL) Former representative (4 years) 17 John P. Hale (FS-NH) Former representative (2 years) 18 Alpheus Felch (D-MI) Former governor 19 James Ware Bradbury (D-ME) Maine 13th in population (1840) 20 Henry Stuart Foote (D-MS) Mississippi 17th in population (1840) 21 Solomon Weathersbee Downs (D-LA) Louisiana 19th in population (1840) 22 John Hopkins Clarke (W-RI) Rhode Island 24th in population (1840) 23 Presley Spruance (W-DE) Delaware 26th in population (1840) 25 Jefferson Davis (D-MS) August 10, 1847 26 John Bell (W-TN) November 22, 1847 27 Solon Borland (W-AR) March 30, 1848 28 William K. Sebastian (W-AR) May 12, 1848 29 Hannibal Hamlin (W-ME) June 8, 1848 Former representative (4 years); Maine 13th in population (1840) 30 Henry Dodge (D-WI) Former delegate (4 years); Wisconsin 28th in population (1840) 31 Isaac Pigeon Walker (D-WI) Wisconsin 28th in population (1840) 32 William Rufus de Vane King (D-AL) July 1, 1848 33 Augustus Caesar Dodge (D-IA) December 7, 1848 Former delegate (6 years) 34 George Wallace Jones (D-IA) Former delegate (3 years) 35 Lewis Cass (D-MI) March 4, 1849 Former senator 36 Salmon P. Chase (FS-OH) 37 William Dawson (W-GA) 38 Jackson Morton (W-FL) 39 Moses Norris, Jr. (D-NH) 40 William H. Seward (W-NY) 41 Truman Smith (W-CT) 42 Pierre Soulé (D-LA) 43 James Whitcomb (D-IN) 44 James Cooper (W-PA) 45 Henry Clay (W-KY) 46 James Shields (D-IL) October 27, 1849 47 Jeremiah Clemens (D-AL) November 30, 1849 48 Thomas Pratt (D-MD) January 12, 1850 49 Franklin Elmore (D-SC) April 11, 1850 50 Robert Barnwell (D-SC) June 4, 1850 51 Thomas Ewing (W-OH) July 20, 1850 52 Robert Winthrop (W-MA) July 22, 1850 Former representative 53 William M. Gwin (D-CA) September 9, 1850 Former representative 54 Robert Rhett (D-SC) December 18, 1850 Former representative 55 Robert Rantoul, Jr. (D-MA) February 1, 1851 56 Solomon Foot (R-VT) March 4, 1851 Former representative 57 James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 58 Stephen Mallory (D-FL) 59 Henry S. Geyer (W-MO) 60 Richard Brodhead (D-PA) Former representative 61 Charles T. James (D-RI) 62 James C. Jones (W-TN) Benjamin Wade (W-OH) March 15, 1851 Hamilton Fish (W-NY) December 1, 1851 Former representative, former governor and former lieutenant governor John J. McRae (D-MS) Walker Brooke (W-MS) February 18, 1852 Stephen Adams (W-MS) March 17, 1852 Former representative William F. De Saussure (D-SC) May 10, 1852 Isaac Toucey (D-CT) May 12, 1852 Robert M. Charlton (D-GA) May 31, 1852 David Meriwether (D-KY) July 6, 1852 Archibald Dixon (W-KY) September 1, 1852 Charles W. Cathcart (D-IN) December 6, 1852 Former representative Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D-AL) January 14, 1853 Former governor Samuel Shethar Phelps (W-VT) January 17, 1853 John Pettit (D-IN) January 18, 1853 Former representative
See also 32nd United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 32nd Congress
Notes
External links Senate Seniority List