List of United States senators in the 37th Congress

This is a complete list of United States senators during the 37th United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.

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.gov1871 U.S Census Report Contains 1870 census results1881 U.S Census Report Contains 1880 census results1891 U.S Census Report Contains 1890 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 1862 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863 (CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, VT, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863.Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1865 (AL, AR, DE, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, TN, and TX.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1865.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1867 (AL, AR, CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, VT, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1867.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 James Alfred Pearce (D-MD) March 4, 1843 2 Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) March 4, 1845 3 James M. Mason (D-VA) January 21, 1847 4 Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL) March 4, 1847 5 Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA) 6 William K. Sebastian (D-AR) May 12, 1848 7 Solomon Foot (R-VT) March 4, 1851 8 James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 9 Benjamin Wade (R-OH) March 15, 1851 10 Charles Sumner (LR-MA) April 11, 1851 11 John R. Thomson (D-NJ) March 4, 1853 12 William P. Fessenden (R-ME) February 10, 1854 13 Henry Wilson (R-MA) January 31, 1855 14 Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) March 4, 1855 15 Jacob Collamer (R-VT) 16 Lafayette S. Foster (R-CT) 17 John P. Hale (R-NH) July 30, 1855 18 James Harlan (R-IA) January 29, 1857 19 Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) March 4, 1857 20 James Dixon (R-CT) 21 James R. Doolittle (R-WI) 22 Anthony Kennedy (KN-MD) 23 Trusten Polk (D-MO) 24 Preston King (R-NY) 25 James F. Simmons (R-RI) 26 Daniel Clark (R-NH) June 27, 1857 27 Andrew Johnson (D-TN) October 8, 1857 28 Thomas Lanier Clingman (D-NC) May 7, 1858 29 Henry Mower Rice (D-MN) May 11, 1858 30 Henry B. Anthony (R-RI) March 4, 1859 Former governor 31 Willard Saulsbury Sr. (D-DE) 32 James W. Grimes (R-IA) 33 Lazarus W. Powell (D-KY) 34 Morton S. Wilkinson (R-MN) 35 John C. Ten Eyck (R-NJ) 36 Kinsley S. Bingham (D-MI) 37 Thomas Bragg (D-NC) 38 John Hemphill (D-TX) 39 Louis Wigfall (D-TX) December 5, 1859 40 Milton Latham (LD-CA) March 5, 1860 41 Edward D. Baker (R-OR) October 2, 1860 42 Timothy O. Howe (R-WI) March 4, 1861 43 James A. McDougall (D-CA) 44 Henry S. Lane (R-WI) 45 Ira Harris (R-NJ) 46 James Nesmith (D-OR) 47 Edgar Cowan (R-PA) 48 Charles B. Mitchel (D-AR) 49 John C. Breckinridge (D-KY) 50 Salmon P. Chase (D-OH) David Wilmot (R-PA) March 14, 1861 Waldo P. Johnson (D-MO) March 17, 1861 John Sherman (R-OH) March 21, 1861 Samuel C. Pomeroy (R-KS) April 4, 1861 Jim Lane (R-KS) Orville H. Browning (R-IL) June 26, 1861 John S. Carlile (U-VA) July 9, 1861 Waitman T. Willey (U-VA) Benjamin Stark (D-OR) October 29, 1861 Garrett Davis (U-KY) December 23, 1861 Jacob M. Howard (R-MI) January 17, 1862 John B. Henderson (U-MO) Robert Wilson (U-MO) Joseph A. Wright (D-IN) February 24, 1862 Benjamin F. Harding (D-OR) September 12, 1862 Richard Stockton Field (R-NJ) November 21, 1862 Samuel G. Arnold (R-RI) December 1, 1862 Thomas H. Hicks (U-MD) December 29, 1862 William A. Richardson (D-IL) January 12, 1863 David Turpie (D-IN) January 14, 1863 James W. Wall (D-NJ)

See also 37th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 37th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List