List of United States senators in the 33rd Congress

This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate 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 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 1854 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 3 Terms 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.)[5]
Class 1 Terms 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.)[6]
Class 2 Terms 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.)[7]

U.S. Senate seniority list

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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

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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 1855.
  6. ^ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1857.
  7. ^ Terms of service of senators that expired in 1859.
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