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List of United States senators in the 44th Congress

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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 44th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1877.

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 his or her 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.[1][2][3][4]

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 1876 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

Terms of service

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Class Terms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 2 Terms of service of senators that expired in 1877 (AL, AR, CO, DE, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WV.)[5]
Class 3 Terms of service of senators that expired in 1879 (AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, NH, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, VT, and WI.)[6]
Class 1 Terms of service of senators that expired in 1881 (CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NE, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, and WV.)[7]

U.S. Senate seniority list

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U.S. Senate seniority
Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors
1 Henry B. Anthony (R-RI) March 4, 1859 Former governor
2 Timothy O. Howe (R-WI) March 4, 1861
3 John Sherman (R-OH) March 21, 1861
4 Aaron H. Cragin (R-NH) March 4, 1865
5 George F. Edmunds (R-VT) April 3, 1866
6 Roscoe Conkling (R-NY) March 4, 1867
7 Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT)
8 Oliver P. Morton (R-IN)
9 Simon Cameron (R-PA)
10 Orris S. Ferry (R-CT)
11 George E. Spencer (R-AL) July 13, 1868
12 Thomas J. Robertson (R-SC) July 15, 1868
13 Thomas F. Bayard (D-DE) March 4, 1869
14 Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME) Former governor, former representative, former vice president
15 Allen G. Thurman (D-OH)
16 Lot M. Morrill (R-ME) October 30, 1869
17 Morgan C. Hamilton (R-TX) March 31, 1870
18 Eli Saulsbury (D-DE) March 4, 1871
19 Thomas W. Ferry (R-MI)
20 William Windom (R-MN) Former representative
21 Henry G. Davis (D-WV)
22 George Goldthwaite (D-AL)
23 Powell Clayton (R-AR)
24 John A. Logan (R-IL)
25 George G. Wright (R-IA)
26 John W. Stevenson (D-KY)
27 Joseph R. West (R-LA)
28 Phineas Hitchcock (R-NE) Former delegate
29 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
30 James K. Kelly (D-OR)
31 Henry Cooper (D-TN)
32 John W. Johnston (D-VA) March 15, 1871
33 Thomas M. Norwood (D-GA) November 14, 1871
34 James L. Alcorn (R-MS) December 1, 1871
35 Matt W. Ransom (D-NC) January 30, 1872
36 William B. Allison (R-IA) March 4, 1873 Former representative
37 John P. Jones (R-NV)
38 John Brown Gordon (D-GA)
39 Stephen Wallace Dorsey (R-AR)
40 Aaron A. Sargent (R-CA) Former representative
41 Simon B. Conover (R-FL)
42 Richard J. Oglesby (R-IL)
43 Thomas C. McCreery (D-KY)
44 John J. Ingalls (R-KS)
45 George R. Dennis (D-MD)
46 Lewis V. Bogy (D-MO)
47 Bainbridge Wadleigh (R-NH)
48 Augustus S. Merrimon (D-NC)
49 John H. Mitchell (R-OR)
50 John J. Patterson (R-SC)
51 George S. Boutwell (R-MA) March 17, 1873
52 James M. Harvey (R-KS) February 8, 1874
53 William W. Eaton (D-CT) February 5, 1875
54 Francis Cockrell (D-MO) March 4, 1875
55 Henry L. Dawes (R-MA)
56 Charles W. Jones (D-FL)
57 Samuel J. R. McMillan (R-MN)
58 Samuel B. Maxey (D-TX)
59 Ambrose Burnside (R-RI) Former governor
60 Newton Booth (AM-CA) Former governor
61 Joseph E. McDonald (D-IN) Former representative
62 William Pinkney Whyte (D-MD)
63 Blanche Bruce (R-MS)
64 Algernon Paddock (R-NE)
65 Theodore F. Randolph (D-NJ) Former governor
66 Francis Kernan (D-NY)
67 William A. Wallace (D-PA)
68 Robert E. Withers (D-VA)
69 Isaac P. Christiancy (R-MI)
70 Andrew Johnson (D-TN) Former president, previously a senator
71 Allen T. Caperton (D-WV)
72 William Sharon (R-NV)
David M. Key (D-TN) August 18, 1875
James E. English (D-CT) November 27, 1875 Former representative, former governor
James B. Eustis (D-LA) January 12, 1876
William H. Barnum (D-CT) May 18, 1876
James G. Blaine (R-ME) July 10, 1876 Former representative
Samuel Price (D-TN) August 26, 1876
Henry M. Teller (R-CO) November 15, 1876
Jerome B. Chaffee (R-CO)
James E. Bailey (D-TN) January 19, 1877
Frank Hereford (D-WV) January 31, 1877

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
  2. ^ 1871 U.S Census Report Contains 1870 Census results
  3. ^ 1881 U.S Census Report Contains 1880 Census results
  4. ^ 1891 U.S Census Report Contains 1890 Census results
  5. ^ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1877.
  6. ^ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1879.
  7. ^ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1881.
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