List of United States Senators from Connecticut
The List of United States Senators from Connecticut lists all the people who ever for this state of the US Senate have listened to the Senate classes sorted. One class shows when this senator will be re-elected. The elections for the class 1 senators were last held in November 2018; the class 3 senators were last re-elected in 2016.
class 1
Connecticut has been a US state since January 19, 1788 and has had 28 class 1 senators to date .
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Oliver Ellsworth | 1789-1796 | federalist | April 29, 1745-26. November 1807 |
James Hillhouse | 1796-1810 | federalist | October 20, 1754-29. December 1832 |
Samuel Whittlesey Dana | 1810-1821 | federalist | February 13, 1760-21. July 1830 |
Elijah Boardman | 1821-1823 | Democratic Republican | March 7, 1760-18. August 1823 |
Henry Waggaman Edwards | 1823-1827 | Democratic Republican | October 1779–22. July 1847 |
Samuel Augustus Foot | 1827-1833 | National Republicans | November 8, 1780-15. September 1846 |
Nathan Smith | 1833-1835 | National Republicans | January 8, 1770–6. December 1835 |
John Milton Niles | 1835-1839 | democrat | August 20, 1787-31. May 1856 |
Thaddeus Betts | 1839-1840 | Whig | February 4, 1789-7. April 1840 |
Jabez Williams Huntington | 1840-1847 | Whig | November 8, 1788–1. November 1847 |
Roger Sherman Baldwin | 1847-1851 | Whig | January 4, 1793-19. February 1863 |
Isaac Toucey | 1852-1857 | democrat | November 15, 1792-30. July 1869 |
James Dixon | 1857-1869 | republican | August 5, 1814-27. March 1873 |
William Alfred Buckingham | 1869-1875 | republican | May 28, 1804-5. February 1875 |
William Wallace Eaton | 1875-1881 | democrat | October 11, 1816-21. September 1898 |
Joseph Roswell Hawley | 1881-1905 | republican | October 31, 1826-18. March 1905 |
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley | 1905-1911 | republican | December 26, 1837–6. November 1922 |
George Payne McLean | 1911-1929 | republican | October 7, 1857–6. June 1932 |
Frederic Collin Walcott | 1929-1935 | republican | February 19, 1869-27. April 1949 |
Francis Thomas Maloney | 1935-1945 | democrat | March 31, 1894–16. January 1945 |
Thomas Charles Hart | 1945-1946 | republican | June 12, 1877–4. July 1971 |
Raymond Earl Baldwin | 1946-1949 | republican | August 31, 1893–4. October 1986 |
William Burnett Benton | 1949-1953 | democrat | April 1, 1900-18. March 1973 |
William Arthur Purtell | 1953-1959 | republican | May 6, 1897-31. May 1978 |
Thomas Joseph Dodd | 1959-1971 | democrat | May 15, 1907-24. May 1971 |
Lowell Palmer Weicker | 1971-1989 | republican | * May 16, 1931 |
Joseph Isadore Lieberman | 1989-2013 | Democrat / Independent | * February 24, 1942 |
Christopher Scott Murphy | since 2013 | democrat | * August 3, 1973 |
Class 3
Connecticut has 29 class 3 senators to date .
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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William Samuel Johnson | 1789-1791 | federalist | October 7, 1727-14. November 1819 |
Roger Sherman | 1791-1793 | federalist | April 19, 1721-23. July 1793 |
Stephen Mix Mitchell | 1793-1795 | federalist | December 9, 1743-30. September 1835 |
Jonathan Trumbull | 1795-1796 | federalist | March 26, 1740-7. August 1809 |
Uriah Tracy | 1796-1807 | federalist | February 2, 1755-19. July 1807 |
Chauncey Goodrich | 1807-1813 | federalist | October 20, 1759-18. August 1815 |
David Daggett | 1813-1819 | federalist | December 31, 1764–12. April 1851 |
James Lanman | 1819-1825 | Democratic Republican | June 14, 1767-7. August 1841 |
Calvin Willey | 1825-1831 | National Republicans | September 15, 1776-23. August 1858 |
Gideon Tomlinson | 1831-1837 | National Republicans | December 31, 1780–8. October 1854 |
Perry Smith | 1837-1843 | democrat | May 12, 1783-8. June 1852 |
John Milton Niles | 1843-1849 | democrat | August 20, 1787-31. May 1856 |
Truman Smith | 1849-1854 | Whig | November 27, 1791-3. May 1884 |
Francis Gillette | 1854-1855 | Free soil | December 14, 1807-30. September 1879 |
Lafayette Sabine Foster | 1855-1867 | Whig / Republican | November 22, 1806-19. September 1880 |
Orris Sanford Ferry | 1867-1875 | republican | August 15, 1823-21. November 1875 |
James Edward English | 1875-1876 | democrat | March 13, 1812–2. March 1890 |
William Henry Barnum | 1876-1879 | democrat | September 17, 1818-30. April 1889 |
Orville Hitchcock Platt | 1879-1905 | republican | July 19, 1827-21. April 1905 |
Frank Bosworth Brandegee | 1905-1924 | republican | July 8, 1864-14. October 1924 |
Hiram Bingham III | 1924-1933 | republican | November 19, 1875–6. June 1956 |
Augustine Lonergan | 1933-1939 | democrat | May 20, 1874-18. October 1947 |
John Anthony Danaher | 1939-1945 | republican | January 9, 1899-22. September 1990 |
James O'Brien McMahon | 1945–1952 | democrat | October 6, 1903-28. July 1952 |
William Arthur Purtell | 1952 | republican | May 6, 1897-31. May 1978 |
Prescott Sheldon Bush | 1952-1963 | republican | May 15, 1895-8. October 1972 |
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff | 1963-1981 | democrat | April 9, 1910-22. February 1998 |
Christopher John Dodd | 1981-2011 | democrat | * May 27, 1944 |
Richard M. Blumenthal | since 2011 | democrat | * February 13, 1946 |