List of United States senators in the 36th Congress

This is a complete list of United States senators during the 36th United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861.

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 1860 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1861 (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 1861.Class 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, TX, and VA.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1865.

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 William H. Seward (R-NY) March 4, 1849 8 Solomon Foot (R-VT) March 4, 1851 9 James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 10 Stephen Mallory (D-FL) 11 Benjamin Wade (R-OH) March 15, 1851 12 Charles Sumner (LR-MA) April 11, 1851 13 John R. Thomson (D-NJ) March 4, 1853 14 Robert Toombs (D-GA) 15 Judah P. Benjamin (D-LA) 16 Robert Ward Johnson (D-AR) July 6, 1853 17 Clement Claiborne Clay (D-AL) November 29, 1853 18 John Slidell (D-LA) December 5, 1853 19 Albert G. Brown (D-MS) January 7, 1854 20 William P. Fessenden (R-ME) February 10, 1854 21 Henry Wilson (R-MA) January 31, 1855 22 Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) March 4, 1855 23 Jacob Collamer (R-VT) 24 Lafayette S. Foster (R-CT) 25 David Levy Yulee (D-FL) 26 Alfred Iverson, Sr. (D-GA) 27 John Jordan Crittenden (KN-KY) 28 George E. Pugh (D-OH) 29 Charles Durkee (R-WI) 30 John P. Hale (R-NH) July 30, 1855 31 Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D-AL) November 26, 1855 32 William Bigler (D-PA) January 14, 1856 33 James S. Green (D-MO) January 12, 1857 34 William M. Gwin (D-CA) January 13, 1857 35 James Harlan (R-IA) January 29, 1857 36 Graham N. Fitch (D-IN) February 4, 1857 37 Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) March 4, 1857 38 James Dixon (R-CT) 39 James R. Doolittle (R-WI) 40 Anthony Kennedy (KN-MD) 41 Trusten Polk (D-MO) 42 Preston King (D-NY) 43 James F. Simmons (R-RI) 44 Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME) 45 David C. Broderick (D-CA) 46 Jefferson Davis (D-MS) 47 Simon Cameron (R-PA) 48 Daniel Clark (R-NH) June 27, 1857 49 Andrew Johnson (D-TN) October 8, 1857 50 James H. Hammond (D-SC) December 7, 1857 51 Thomas Lanier Clingman (D-NC) May 7, 1858 52 Henry Mower Rice (D-MN) May 11, 1858 53 Matthias Ward (D-TX) September 27, 1858 54 James Chesnut, Jr. (D-SC) December 3, 1858 55 Joseph Lane (D-OR) February 14, 1859 56 Henry B. Anthony (R-RI) March 4, 1859 Former governor 57 Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (D-DE) 58 James W. Grimes (R-IA) 59 Lazarus W. Powell (D-KY) 60 Morton S. Wilkinson (R-MN) 61 John C. Ten Eyck (R-NJ) 62 Kinsley S. Bingham (D-MI) 63 Thomas Bragg (D-NC) 64 John Hemphill (D-TX) 65 Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (D-TN) Henry P. Haun (D-CA) November 3, 1859 Louis Wigfall (D-TX) December 5, 1859 Milton Latham (LD-CA) March 5, 1860 Edward D. Baker (R-OR) October 2, 1860

See also 36th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 36th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List