List of former members of the U.S. Senate

This is a partial listing of notable people who previously served in the United States Senate. See also List of members of the U.S. Senate, List of former members of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senators from 1789 (by State).

A

• James Abourezk
• Spencer Abraham
• Brock Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• George D. Aiken
• Nelson W. Aldrich
• James B. Allen
• William Allen
• William B. Allison
• Adelbert Ames
• Clinton P. Anderson
• Wendell Richard Anderson
• Mark Andrews
• John Ashcroft
• David Rice Atchison

B

• Augustus Bacon
• Edward D. Baker
• Howard Baker Jr.
• Joseph H. Ball
• Thomas R. Bard
• Alben W. Barkley
• Dean Barkley
• Richard Bassett
• Birch Bayh
• Wallace F. Bennett
• Judah Benjamin
• Elmer Austin Benson
• Thomas Hart Benton
• Lloyd Bentsen
• Alan Bible
• Theodore G. Bilbo
• Hugo Black
• James G. Blaine
• J. Caleb Boggs
• Newton Booth
• William E. Borah
• David L. Boren
• Rudy Boschwitz
• Eva Bowring
• James Ware Bradbury
• William Bradford
• Bill Bradley
• Stephen R. Bradley
• Carol Moseley Braun
• John Breaux
• John C. Breckinridge
• John W. Bricker
• Styles Bridges
• David C. Broderick
• Edward William Brooke III
• Smith W. Brookhart
• John Brown
• Blanche Bruce
• Richard Bryan
• James Buchanan
• James L. Buckley
• Dale Bumpers
• Jocelyn Birch Burdick
• Quentin N. Burdick
• Ambrose Burnside
• Harold H. Burton
• Aaron Burr
• Prescott Bush
• Pierce Butler
• Harry F. Byrd
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
• James F. Byrnes

C

• George Cabot
• John C. Calhoun
• Simon Cameron
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell
• Howard W. Cannon
• Homer E. Capehart
• Arthur Capper
• Hattie Caraway
• Frank Carlson
• Jean Carnahan
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton
• Lewis Cass
• Eugene Casserly
• John Chafee
• Albert B. Chandler
• Dennis Chavez
• Frank Church
• Moses E. Clapp
• Dick Clark
• James P. Clarke
• Henry Clay
• Max Cleland
• Daniel R. Coats
• Francis M. Cockrell
• William S. Cohen
• Cornelius Cole
• Roscoe Conkling
• John Conness
• John Sherman Cooper
• Royal S. Copeland
• Norris Cotton
• Paul Coverdell
• Winthrop Murray Crane
• Alan Cranston
• John J. Crittenden
• John Culver
• Carl T. Curtis
• Charles Curtis
• Bronson M. Cutting

D

• George M. Dallas
• Tristram Dalton
• Alfonse M. D'Amato
• Tom Daschle
• Cushman Davis
• Jefferson Davis
• Dennis DeConcini
• Jeremiah Denton
• Chauncey Depew
• Daniel S. Dickinson
• Philemon Dickinson
• Clarence C. Dill
• Everett Dirksen
• Alan J. Dixon
• Augustus C. Dodge
• Henry Dodge
• Bob Dole
• Jonathan P. Dolliver
• James R. Doolittle
• Paul Douglas
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Sheridan Downey
• F. Ryan Duffy
• John Foster Dulles
• David Durenberger
• Charles Durkee

E

• Thomas Eagleton
• James Eastland
• Zales Ecton
• Alonzo J. Edgerton
• George F. Edmunds
• John Edwards
• John Edwards
• Allen Ellender
• Oliver Ellsworth
• Jonathan Elmer
• Clair Engle
• Sam Ervin
• Daniel J. Evans
• Edward Everett
• John J. Exon

F

• James Graham Fair
• Charles W. Fairbanks
• Lauch Faircloth
• Albert B. Fall
• Paul J. Fannin
• James T. Farley
• Charles N. Felton
• Rebecca Latimer Felton
• Reuben Fenton
• Woodbridge Nathan Ferris
• William Few
• Hamilton Fish
• Peter Fitzgerald
• Ralph E. Flanders
• Frank P. Flint
• Wendell H. Ford
• Hiram L. Fong
• Theodore Foster
• Sheila Frahm
• Lynn J. Frazier
• Frederick Frelinghuysen
• John C. Fremont
• William Fulbright

G

• Albert Gallatin
• Jacob H. Gallinger
• Augustus H. Garland
• Jake Garn
• James Z. George
• Walter F. George
• John Glenn
• Barry Goldwater
• Charles Goodell
• Thomas Gore
• Albert Gore, Sr.
• Al Gore
• Slade Gorton
• Bob Graham
• Phil Gramm
• Rod Grams
• Mike Gravel
• William Grayson
• Theodore Francis Green
• James Gunn
• William McKendree Gwin

H

• John S. Hager
• John P. Hale
• Hannibal Hamlin
• Clifford P. Hansen
• Warren G. Harding
• Thomas W. Hardwick
• James Harlan
• Fred Roy Harris
• Isham G. Harris
• Benjamin Harrison
• Pat Harrison
• William Henry Harrison
• Gary Hart
• Philip A. Hart
• Vance Hartke
• Mark Hatfield
• William Hathaway
• Henry P. Haun
• Benjamin Hawkins
• S. I. Hayakawa
• Carl T. Hayden
• George Hearst
• Chic Hecht
• Howell Heflin
• H. John Heinz III
• John Netherland Heiskell
• Jesse Helms
• Thomas A. Hendricks
• John Henry
• Paul Henry
• Bourke B. Hickenlooper
• Joshua Hill
• George Frisbie Hoar
• Clyde R. Hoey
• Spessard Holland
• Fritz Hollings
• Guy V. Howard
• Roman Hruska
• Walter D. Huddleston
• Harold Hughes
• Hubert H. Humphrey
• Muriel Humphrey
• Paul O. Husting
• Tim Hutchinson

I

• Irving Ives
• Ralph Izard

J

• Andrew Jackson
• Henry M. Jackson
• James Jackson
• Jacob Javits
• Andrew Johnson
• Edwin Johnson
• Hiram Johnson
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Magnus Johnson
• Richard M. Johnson
• William S. Johnson
• Samuel Johnston
• George W. Jones

K

• Nancy Landon Kassebaum
• Estes Kefauver
• Frank B. Kellogg
• Dirk Kempthorne
• John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy
• William S. Kenyon
• Bob Kerrey
• Rufus King
• William R. King
• Samuel J. Kirkwood
• William F. Knowland
• Philander Chase Knox
• Tom Kuchel

L

• Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
• Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
• Lucius Q. C. Lamar
• John Langdon
• Milton S. Latham
• Henry Latimer
• Paul Laxalt
• Richard Henry Lee
• Samuel Livermore
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
• Huey P. Long
• Oren E. Long
• Russell B. Long
• Scott Lucas
• Ernest Lundeen
• Hall S. Lusk

M

• Cornelius McGillicuddy III (Connie Mack III)
• William Maclay
• Warren G. Magnuson
• Mike Mansfield
• William L. Marcy
• Alexander Martin
• Stevens T. Mason
• William G. McAdoo
• Eugene McCarthy
• Joseph McCarthy
• John L. McClellan
• James A. McDougall
• Ernest W. McFarland
• George McGovern
• Kenneth D. McKellar
• Samuel J. R. McMillan
• John Melcher
• Howard Metzenbaum
• John F. Miller
• Zell Miller
• Sherman Minton
• George J. Mitchell
• Stephen M. Mitchell
• Walter Mondale
• James Monroe
• Mike Monroney
• Blair Moody
• Robert B. Morgan
• Justin S. Morrill
• Robert Morris
• Wayne L. Morse
• Frank Moss
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Karl Mundt
• Frank Murkowski
• George Murphy
• Edmund S. Muskie

N

• Arthur E. Nelson
• Gaylord Nelson
• Knute Nelson
• Maurine Brown Neuberger
• Richard L. Neuberger
• Harry S. New
• Don Nickles
• Richard M. Nixon
• George William Norris
• Daniel S. Norton
• Sam Nunn
• Gerald P. Nye

O

• Robert L. Owen

P

• Bob Packwood
• Algernon Sidney Paddock
• John O. Pastore
• William Paterson
• Claiborne Pell
• George H. Pendleton
• Claude Pepper
• Charles H. Percy
• George C. Perkins
• James D. Phelan
• Franklin Pierce
• Charles E. Potter
• Richard Potts
• Larry Pressler
• Redfield Proctor
• Winston L. Prouty
• William Proxmire

Q

• Matthew S. Quay
• Dan Quayle

R

• Alexander Ramsey
• Jennings Randolph
• George Read
• Henry Rice
• Charles Robb
• A. Willis Robertson
• Joseph Taylor Robinson
• Moses Robinson
• Elihu Root
• James Ross
• William V. Roth
• Warren Rudman
• Donald S. Russell
• Richard Russell, Jr.
• John Rutherford

S

• Dwight M. Sabin
• Pierre Salinger
• Leverett Saltonstall
• Aaron Augustus Sargent
• James Sasser
• William B. Saxbe
• Thomas D. Schall
• Harrison Schmitt
• Andrew F. Schoeppel
• Philip Schuyler
• Hugh Scott
• Richard Schweiker
• William H. Seward
• John F. Seymour
• John Sherman
• Roger Sherman
• James Shields
• Henrik Shipstead
• Samuel M. Shortridge
• Furnifold M. Simmons
• Paul Simon
• Alan K. Simpson
• Milward Lee Simpson
• George A. Smathers
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Robert C. Smith
• Samuel L. Southard
• John Sparkman
• Robert T. Stafford
• Leland Stanford
• Joseph Stanton, Jr.
• Ozora P. Stearns
• Daniel F. Steck
• John C. Stennis
• Adlai E. Stevenson III
• Thomas M. Storke
• Caleb Strong
• Thomas Sumter
• George Sutherland
• Stuart Symington
• Steven Symms

T

• Robert Taft
• Herman Talmadge
• Glen H. Taylor
• John Taylor of Caroline
• John Taylor (Virginia)
• Henry Tazewell
• J. W. Elmer Thomas
• Fred Thompson
• Allen G. Thurman
• Strom Thurmond
• Edward John Thye
• Robert Torricelli
• Charles A. Towne
• Park Trammell
• Harry S. Truman
• Paul Tsongas
• John V. Tunney
• Millard Tydings
• John Tyler

U

V

• Martin Van Buren
• Arthur H. Vandenberg
• James Vardaman
• John Vining

W

• Robert F. Wagner
• John Walker
• Malcolm Wallop
• William D. Washburn
• James Watson
• James Eli Watson
• Thomas E. Watson
• Daniel Webster
• Sinclair Weeks
• Lowell Weicker
• Adonijah Strong Welch (R-FL 1868-1869)
• Herman Welker
• John B. Weller
• Paul Wellstone
• Burton K. Wheeler
• Edward D. White
• Stephen M. White
• Wallace H. White, Jr.
• Louis T. Wigfall
• Alexander Wiley
• Morton S. Wilkinson
• Abram P. Williams
• Harrison A. Williams
• John J. Williams
• Henry Wilson
• Pete Wilson
• William Windom
• Paine Wingate
• Robert C. Winthrop
• Timothy E. Wirth
• Levi Woodbury
• John Downey Works

X

Y

• Ralph W. Yarborough
• Milton R. Young
• Stephen M. Young

Z

• Edward F. Zorinsky