List of United States Senators in the 41st Congress by seniority
This is a classification of members of the United States Senate by seniority during the 41st United States Congress, from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1871.
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 in the middle of the congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1870 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
| Rank | Name | Seniority date | Other factors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Sumner (LR-MA) | April 11, 1851 | ||
| Henry Wilson (R-MA) | January 31, 1855 | ||
| Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) | March 4, 1855 | ||
| Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) | March 4, 1857 | ||
| Henry B. Anthony (R-RI) | March 4, 1859 | Former governor | |
| Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (D-DE) | |||
| James W. Grimes (R-IA) | |||
| Timothy O. Howe (R-WI) | March 4, 1861 | ||
| John Sherman (R-OH) | March 21, 1861 | ||
| Samuel C. Pomeroy (R-KS) | April 4, 1861 | ||
| Garrett Davis (D-KY) | December 23, 1861 | ||
| Jacob M. Howard (R-MI) | January 17, 1862 | ||
| Alexander Ramsey (R-MN) | March 4, 1863 | ||
| William Sprague IV (R-RI) | |||
| Waitman T. Willey (R-VA) | August 4, 1863 | ||
| William M. Stewart (R-NV) | December 15, 1864 | ||
| James W. Nye (R-NV) | December 16, 1864 | ||
| Aaron H. Cragin (R-NH) | March 4, 1865 | ||
| Richard Yates (R-IL) | |||
| William P. Fessenden (R-MA) | |||
| Daniel S. Norton (R-MN) | |||
| George H. Williams (R-OR) | |||
| George F. Edmunds (R-VT) | April 3, 1866 | ||
| Joseph S. Fowler (R-TN) | July 24, 1866 | ||
| Edmund G. Ross (R-KS) | July 25, 1866 | ||
| Alexander G. Cattell (R-NJ) | September 19, 1866 | ||
| Roscoe Conkling (R-NY) | March 4, 1867 | ||
| Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT) | |||
| Oliver P. Morton (R-IN) | |||
| Simon Cameron (R-PA) | |||
| Orris S. Ferry (R-CT) | |||
| Thomas Tipton (R-NE) | |||
| Cornelius Cole (R-CA) | |||
| James Harlan (R-IA) | |||
| James W. Patterson (R-NH) | |||
| Henry W. Corbett (R-OR) | |||
| Charles D. Drake (R-MO) | |||
| John Milton Thayer (R-NE) | |||
| Thomas C. McCreery (D-KY) | February 19, 1868 | ||
| George Vickers (D-MD) | March 7, 1868 | ||
| Alexander McDonald (R-AR) | June 22, 1868 | ||
| Benjamin F. Rice (R-AR) | June 23, 1868 | ||
| Thomas W. Osborn (R-FL) | June 25, 1868 | ||
| John S. Harris (R-LA) | July 8, 1868 | ||
| William P. Kellogg (R-LA) | July 9, 1868 | ||
| George E. Spencer (R-AL) | July 13, 1868 | ||
| Willard Warner (R-AL) | |||
| John Pool (R-SC) | July 14, 1868 | ||
| Joseph Carter Abbott (R-NC) | |||
| Thomas J. Robertson (R-SC) | July 15, 1868 | ||
| Frederick A. Sawyer (R-SC) | July 16, 1868 | ||
| Thomas F. Bayard (D-DE) | March 4, 1869 | ||
| Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME) | |||
| Allen G. Thurman (D-OH) | |||
| Eugene Casserly (D-CA) | |||
| William A. Buckingham (R-CT) | |||
| Abijah Gilbert (R-FL) | |||
| Daniel D. Pratt (R-IN) | |||
| William T. Hamilton (D-MD) | |||
| Carl Schurz (R-MO) | |||
| John P. Stockton (D-NJ) | |||
| Reuben Fenton (R-NY) | |||
| John Scott (R-PA) | |||
| William G. Brownlow (R-TN) | |||
| Arthur I. Boreman (R-WV) | |||
| Matthew H. Carpenter (R-WI) | |||
| Lot M. Morrill (D-ME) | October 30, 1869 | ||
| James B. Howell (R-IA) | January 18, 1870 | ||
| John W. Johnston (D-VA) | January 26, 1870 | ||
| John F. Lewis (R-VA) | |||
| Adelbert Ames (R-MS) | February 23, 1870 | ||
| Hiram R. Revels (R-MS) | |||
| James W. Flanagan (R-TX) | March 30, 1870 | ||
| Morgan C. Hamilton (R-TX) | March 31, 1870 | ||
| William Windom (R-MN) | July 15, 1870 | ||
| Daniel T. Jewett (R-MO) | December 19, 1870 | ||
| Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (D-MO) | January 20, 1871 | ||
| Ozora P. Stearns (R-MN) | January 22, 1871 | ||
| Joshua Hill (R-GA) | February 1, 1871 | ||
| Homer V. M. Miller (D-GA) | February 24, 1871 | ||
Notes
- ↑ A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
- ↑ 1871 U.S Census Report Contains 1870 Census results
- ↑ 1881 U.S Census Report Contains 1880 Census results
- ↑ 1891 U.S Census Report Contains 1890 Census results
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