List of United States Senators from Alabama

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The List of United States Senators from Alabama lists all the people who ever for this state of the US Senate belonged to the Senate classes sorted. The class shows when that senator will be elected or re-elected for a six-year term. The regular Senate elections for class 2 were last held in November 2014, the elections for class 3 in 2016.

2nd grade

Doug Jones
Richard Shelby

Here are the 18 so far incumbent senators class 2 of Alabama listed. Alabama, part of the Union since December 14, 1819, did not have any senators during the Civil War .

Surname Term of office Political party Life dates
William Rufus DeVane King 1819-1844 Democratic Republican
from 1829 Democrat 		April 7, 1786 - April 18, 1853
Dixon Hall Lewis 1844-1848 democrat August 10, 1802 - October 25, 1848
Benjamin Fitzpatrick 1848-1849 democrat June 30, 1802 - November 21, 1869
Jeremiah Clemens 1849-1853 democrat December 28, 1814 - May 21, 1865
Clement Claiborne Clay 1853-1861 democrat December 13, 1816 - January 3, 1882
vacant
Willard Warner 1868-1871 republican September 4, 1826 - November 23, 1906
George Goldthwaite 1871-1877 democrat December 10, 1809 - March 16, 1879
John Tyler Morgan 1877-1907 democrat June 20, 1824 - June 11, 1907
John Hollis Bankhead 1907-1920 democrat September 13, 1842 - March 1, 1920
Braxton Bragg Comer 1920 democrat November 7, 1848 - August 15, 1927
James Thomas Heflin 1920-1931 democrat April 9, 1869 - April 22, 1951
John Hollis Bankhead II 1931-1946 democrat July 8, 1872 - June 12, 1946
George Robinson Swift 1946 democrat December 19, 1887 - September 10, 1972
John Jackson Sparkman 1946-1979 democrat December 20, 1899 - November 16, 1985
Howell Thomas Heflin 1979-1997 democrat June 19, 1921 - March 29, 2005
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions 1997-2017 republican * December 24, 1946
Luther Johnson Strange III 2017-2018 republican * March 1, 1953
Gordon Douglas Jones since 2018 democrat * May 4, 1954

Class 3

Listed here are the 27 class 3 senators from Alabama in office to date .

Surname Term of office Political party Life dates
John Williams Walker 1819-1822 Democratic Republican August 12, 1783 - April 23, 1823
William Kelly 1822-1825 Democratic Republican September 22, 1786 - August 24, 1834
Henry H. Chambers 1825-1826 Democratic Republican October 1, 1790 - January 24, 1826
Israel Pickens 1826 Democratic Republican January 30, 1780 - April 24, 1827
John McKinley 1826-1831 Democratic Republican May 1, 1780 - July 19, 1852
Gabriel Moore 1831-1837 democrat approx. 1785-1845
John McKinley 1837 democrat May 1, 1780 - July 19, 1852
Clement Comer Clay 1837-1841 democrat December 17, 1789 - September 7, 1866
Arthur Pendleton Bagby 1841-1848 democrat 1794-21. September 1858
William Rufus DeVane King 1848-1852 democrat April 7, 1786 - April 18, 1853
Benjamin Fitzpatrick 1853-1861 democrat June 30, 1802 - November 21, 1869
vacant
George Eliphaz Spencer 1868-1879 republican November 1, 1836 - February 19, 1893
George Smith Houston 1879 democrat January 17, 1811 - December 31, 1879
Luke Pryor 1880 democrat July 5, 1820 - August 5, 1900
James Lawrence Pugh 1880-1897 democrat December 12, 1820 - March 9, 1907
Edmund Winston Pettus 1897-1907 democrat July 6, 1821 - July 27, 1907
Joseph Forney Johnston 1907-1913 democrat March 23, 1843 - August 8, 1913
Francis Shelley White 1914-1915 democrat March 13, 1847 - August 1, 1922
Oscar Wilder Underwood 1915-1927 democrat May 6, 1862 - January 25, 1929
Hugo LaFayette Black 1927-1937 democrat February 27, 1886 - September 25, 1971
Dixie Bibb Graves 1937-1938 democrat July 26, 1882 - January 21, 1965
Joseph Lister Hill 1938-1969 democrat December 29, 1894 - December 21, 1984
James Browning Allen 1969-1988 democrat December 28, 1912 - June 1, 1978
Maryon Pittman Allen 1978 democrat November 30, 1925 - July 23, 2018
Donald Wilbur Stewart 1978-1981 democrat * February 8, 1940
Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. 1981-1987 republican July 15, 1924 - March 28, 2014
Richard Craig Shelby * since 1987 Democrat / Republican * May 6, 1934
  • *) Richard Shelby first entered Congress as a Democrat, but switched to the Republican political camp on November 9, 1994, after they had gained a majority of the votes.

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