This is a complete list of United States senators during the 35th United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859.
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 1858 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 1859 (AL, AR, CO, DE, GA, IA, IL, 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 1859.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1861 (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 1861.Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863 (AL, AR, CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, VT, and WI.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1863.
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 Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D-TX) February 21, 1846 4 Samuel Houston (D-TX) February 26, 1846 5 Andrew Pickens Butler (D-SC) December 4, 1846 6 James M. Mason (D-VA) January 21, 1847 7 Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL) March 4, 1847 8 Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA) 9 John Bell (D-TN) November 22, 1847 10 William K. Sebastian (D-AR) May 12, 1848 11 George Wallace Jones (D-IA) December 7, 1848 12 William H. Seward (R-NY) March 4, 1849 13 Solomon Foot (R-VT) March 4, 1851 14 James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 15 Stephen Mallory (D-FL) 16 Benjamin Wade (R-OH) March 15, 1851 17 Charles Sumner (LR-MA) April 11, 1851 18 John R. Thomson (D-NJ) March 4, 1853 19 Robert Toombs (D-GA) 20 Judah P. Benjamin (D-LA) 21 Josiah J. Evans (D-SC) 21 Charles E. Stuart (D-MI) 22 William Wright (D-NJ) 23 John B. Thompson (KN-KY) 24 Robert Ward Johnson (D-AR) July 6, 1853 25 Philip Allen (D-RI) July 20, 1853 26 Clement Claiborne Clay (D-AL) November 29, 1853 27 John Slidell (D-LA) December 5, 1853 28 Albert G. Brown (D-MS) January 7, 1854 29 William P. Fessenden (R-ME) February 10, 1854 30 David Settle Reid (D-NC) December 6, 1854 31 Henry Wilson (R-MA) January 31, 1855 32 Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) March 4, 1855 33 Jacob Collamer (R-VT) 34 Lafayette S. Foster (R-CT) 35 David Levy Yulee (D-FL) 36 Alfred Iverson, Sr. (D-GA) 37 John Jordan Crittenden (KN-KY) 38 George E. Pugh (D-OH) 39 Charles Durkee (R-WI) 40 Asa Biggs (D-NC) 41 James Bell (R-NH) 42 John P. Hale (R-NH) July 30, 1855 43 Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D-AL) November 26, 1855 44 William Bigler (D-PA) January 14, 1856 45 James S. Green (D-MO) January 12, 1857 46 William M. Gwin (D-CA) January 13, 1857 47 Martin W. Bates (D-DE) January 14, 1857 48 James Harlan (R-IA) January 29, 1857 49 Graham N. Fitch (D-IN) February 4, 1857 50 Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) March 4, 1857 51 James Dixon (R-CT) 52 James R. Doolittle (R-WI) 53 Anthony Kennedy (KN-MD) 54 Trusten Polk (D-MO) 55 Preston King (D-NY) 56 James F. Simmons (R-RI) 57 Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME) 58 David C. Broderick (D-CA) 59 Jefferson Davis (D-MS) 60 Simon Cameron (R-PA) Daniel Clark (R-NH) June 27, 1857 Andrew Johnson (D-TN) October 8, 1857 James Pinckney Henderson (D-TX) November 9, 1857 James H. Hammond (D-SC) December 7, 1857 Thomas Lanier Clingman (D-NC) May 7, 1858 Henry Mower Rice (D-MN) May 11, 1858 Arthur P. Hayne (D-SC) James Shields (D-MN) Matthias Ward (D-TX) September 27, 1858 James Chesnut, Jr. (D-SC) December 3, 1858 Joseph Lane (D-OR) February 14, 1859 Delazon Smith (D-OR)
See also 35th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 35th Congress
Notes
External links Senate Seniority List