This is a complete list of United States senators during the 33rd United States Congress listed by seniority from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855.
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 1854 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 1855 (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 1855.Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1857 (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 1857.Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1859 (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 1859.
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 Former representative 2 David Rice Atchison (D-MO) October 14, 1843 3 Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) March 4, 1845 Former lieutenant governor 4 Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D-TX) February 21, 1846 5 Samuel Houston (D-TX) February 26, 1846 Former representative, former governor 6 George Edmund Badger (W-NC) November 26, 1846 7 Andrew Pickens Butler (D-SC) December 4, 1846 8 James M. Mason (D-VA) January 21, 1847 Former representative 9 Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL) March 4, 1847 Former representative 10 Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA) Former representative 11 John Bell (D-TN) November 22, 1847 Former representative 12 Solon Borland (D-AR) March 30, 1848 13 William K. Sebastian (D-AR) May 12, 1848 14 Henry Dodge (D-WI) June 8, 1848 Former delegate 15 Hannibal Hamlin (D-ME) Former representative 16 Isaac Pigeon Walker (D-WI) 17 Augustus Caesar Dodge (D-IA) December 7, 1848 Former delegate 18 George Wallace Jones (D-IA) Former delegate 19 William H. Seward (R-NY) March 4, 1849 Former governor 20 Lewis Cass (D-MI) 21 Truman Smith (D-CT) Former representative 22 Jackson Morton (W-FL) 23 Moses Norris, Jr. (D-NH) Former representative 24 Salmon P. Chase (R-OH) 25 Pierre Soulé (D-LA) 26 James Cooper (W-PA) 27 William Dawson (W-GA) Former representative 28 James Shields (D-IL) October 27, 1849 29 Thomas Pratt (D-MD) January 12, 1850 30 William M. Gwin (D-CA) September 9, 1850 Former representative 31 Solomon Foot (W-VT) March 4, 1851 32 James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 33 Stephen Mallory (D-FL) 34 Henry S. Geyer (W-MO) 35 Richard Brodhead (D-PA) 36 Charles T. James (D-RI) 37 James C. Jones (D-TN) 38 Benjamin Wade (R-OH) March 15, 1851 39 Charles Sumner (LR-MA) April 11, 1851 40 John M. Clayton (R-NY) December 1, 1851 41 John B. Weller (LD-CA) January 30, 1852 42 Stephen Adams (D-MS) March 17, 1852 43 Isaac Toucey (D-CT) May 12, 1852 44 Archibald Dixon (W-KY) September 1, 1852 45 Samuel Shethar Phelps (W-VT) January 17, 1853 46 John Pettit (D-IN) January 18, 1853 47 John R. Thomson (D-NJ) March 4, 1853 48 Robert Toombs (D-GA) Former representative 49 Judah P. Benjamin (D-LA) 50 Josiah J. Evans (D-SC) 51 Charles E. Stuart (D-MI) Former representative 52 John B. Thompson (KN-KY) Former representative 53 John Middleton Clayton (W-DE) 54 William Wright (D-NJ) 55 Edward Everett (W-MA) Former representative, former governor 56 Charles Gordon Atherton (D-NH) Former representative Robert Ward Johnson (D-AR) July 6, 1853 Former representative Philip Allen (D-RI) July 20, 1853 Former governor Clement Claiborne Clay (D-AL) November 29, 1853 Jared W. Williams (D-NH) Former representative, former governor John Slidell (D-LA) December 5, 1853 Former representative Albert G. Brown (D-MS) January 7, 1854 Former representative, former governor William P. Fessenden (R-ME) February 10, 1854 Former representative Francis Gillette (D-CT) May 24, 1854 Julius Rockwell (W-MA) June 3, 1854 Former representative Lawrence Brainerd (W-VT) October 14, 1854 David Settle Reid (D-NC) December 6, 1854 Former representative, former governor John S. Wells (D-NH) January 16, 1855 Henry Wilson (R-MA) January 31, 1855
See also 33rd United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 33rd Congress
Notes
External links Senate Seniority List