List of United States Senators from Texas

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Texas was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845. Its Senate seats were vacant during the Civil War.

This list presents the men and women who have represented Texas in the United States Senate arranged in chronological order. The use of a class simply identifies which years in which a normal election occurs for that seat. The next election for Senators of class 1 is in 2006, while class 2 is in 2008.

notes	Congress	Years	Class 1	Class 2
	29th	1846-1847	Thomas J. Rusk (D)	Sam Houston (D)
	30th	1847-1849
	31st	1849-1851
	32nd	1851-1853
	33rd	1853-1855
	34th	1855-1857
[1]	35th	1857-1859
[2]			J.Pinckney Henderson (D)
[3]			Matthias Ward (D)
[4]	36th	1859-1861		John Hemphill (D)
[5]			Louis T. Wigfall (D)
[6]	37th	1861
		1861-1870	Vacant due to the American Civil War
[7]	41st	1869-1871	James W. Flanagan (R)	Morgan C. Hamilton (R)
	42nd	1871-1873
	43rd	1873-1875
	44th	1875-1877	Samuel B. Maxey (D)
	45th	1877-1879		Richard Coke (D)
	46th	1879-1881
	47th	1881-1883
	48th	1883-1885
	49th	1885-1887
	50th	1887-1889	John H. Reagan (D)
	51st	1889-1891
[8]	52nd	1891-1893
[9]			Horace Chilton (D)
[10]			Roger Q. Mills (D)
	53rd	1893-1895
	54th	1895-1897		Horace Chilton (D)
	55th	1897-1899
	56th	1899-1901	Charles A. Culberson (D)
	57th	1901-1903		Joseph W. Bailey (D)
	58th	1903-1905
	59th	1905-1907
	60th	1907-1909
	61st	1909-1911
[11]	62nd	1911-1913
[12]				Rienzi M. Johnston (D)
[13]				Morris Sheppard (D)
	63rd	1913-1915
	64th	1915-1917
	65th	1917-1919
	66th	1919-1921
	67th	1921-1923
	68th	1923-1925	Earle B. Mayfield (D)
	69th	1925-1927
	70th	1927-1929
	71st	1929-1931	Tom Connally (D)
	72nd	1931-1933
	73rd	1933-1935
	74th	1935-1936
	75th	1937-1938
	76th	1939-1941
[14]	77th	1941-1942
[15]				Andrew J. Houston (D)
[16]				W. Lee O'Daniel (D)
	78th	1943-1944
	79th	1945-1946
	80th	1947-1948
	81st	1949-1950		Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
	82nd	1951-1952
	83rd	1953-1954	Price Daniel (D)
	84th	1955-1956
[17]	85th	1957-1958
[18]			William A. Blakley (D)
[19]			Ralph Yarborough (D)
	86th	1959-1960
[20]	87th	1961-1962		William A. Blakley (D)
[21]				John Tower (R)
	88th	1963-1964
	89th	1965-1966
	90th	1967-1968
	91st	1969-1970
	92nd	1971-1972	Lloyd Bentsen (D)
	93rd	1973-1974
	94th	1975-1976
	95th	1977-1978
	96th	1979-1980
	97th	1981-1982
	98th	1983-1984
	99th	1985-1986		Phil Gramm
	100th	1987-1988
	101st	1989-1990
	102nd	1991-1992
[22]	103rd	1993-1994
[23]			Bob Krueger (D)
[24]			Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)
	104th	1995-1996
	105th	1997-1998
	106th	1999-2000
[25]	107th	2001 – 2002
[26]				John Cornyn
	108th	2003-2004
	109th	2004-2005

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Rusk died in office on July 29, 1857.
2. ^ Henderson, appointed to replace Rusk, was sworn in on November 9, 1857, and died in office on June 4, 1858.
3. ^ Ward, appointed to replace Henderson, was sworn in on September 27, 1857.
4. ^ A successor having been elected, Ward resigned on December 5, 1859.
5. ^ Wigfall was elected to complete the term originally started by Rusk and was sworn in on December 5, 1859.
6. ^ Confederate states Senators were formally expelled by a Senate vote on July 11, 1861.
7. ^ Texas was readmitted to the Union on March 30, 1870.
8. ^ Reagan resigned on June 10, 1891 to return to Texas.
9. ^ Chilton, appointed to replace Reagan, resigned on March 22, 1892 when Mills was elected.
10. ^ First elected to complete Reagan's term, Mills was sworn in on March 23, 1892.
11. ^ Bailey withdrew from the Senate in 1912 but didn't formally resign until January 3, 1913.
12. ^ Appointed as a courtesy Rienzi served less than a month between terms.
13. ^ Elected to complete Bailey's term and to the next term, Shepard was sworn in on February 3, 1913.
14. ^ Sheppard died in office on April 9, 1941.
15. ^ Appointed to replace Sheppard, Houston was sworn in on April 21, 1941 and died in office on June 26 that same year.
16. ^ First elected to complete Sheppard's term, O'Daniel was sworn in on August 4, 1941.
17. ^ Having been elected governor, Daniel resigned on January 14, 1957.
18. ^ Appointed by Daniel to his former seat, Blakley served from January 15 until a special election was held.
19. ^ First elected to complete Price Daniel's term, Yarborough was sworn in on April 29, 1957.
20. ^ Appointed to replace President Johnson, Blakely was sworn in on January 3, 1961 but later lost the special election for the seat.
21. ^ First elected to replace Johnson, Tower was sworn in on June 5, 1961.
22. ^ Bentsen served only two weeks before resigned the seat on January 20, 1993 to become Treasury Secretary.
23. ^ Appointed to replace Benton, Krueger lost the special election to complete the term and served less than five months.
24. ^ First elected to complete the Bentsen term, Hutchinson was seated on June 14, 1993.
25. ^ Gramm was not a candidate for reelection, and resigned early on November 30, 2002.
26. ^ Senator elect Cornyn was sworn in to the 107th Congress on December 2, 2002.

[edit] See also

• United States Congressional Delegations from Texas: Texas members of both houses by year and seat
• Category:United States Senators from Texas: Senators in alphabetic order
• Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Texas: House members alphabetically
  • List of United States Representatives from Texas

Texas's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators: Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), John Cornyn (R) Representative(s): Louie Gohmert (R), Ted Poe (R), Sam Johnson (R), Ralph Hall (R), Jeb Hensarling (R), Joe Barton (R), John Culberson (R), Kevin Brady (R), Al Green (D), Michael McCaul (R), Mike Conaway (R), Kay Granger (R), Mac Thornberry (R), Ron Paul (R), Rubén Hinojosa (D), Silvestre Reyes (D), Chet Edwards (D), Sheila Jackson Lee (D), Randy Neugebauer (R), Charlie Gonzalez (D), Lamar S. Smith (R), Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (R), Henry Bonilla (R), Kenny Marchant (R), Lloyd Doggett (D), Michael C. Burgess (R), Solomon P. Ortiz (D), Henry Cuellar (D), Gene Green (D), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D), John Carter (R), Pete Sessions (R) All delegations: Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming — American Samoa • District of Columbia • Guam • Puerto Rico • U.S. Virgin Islands

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