List of Senate Members of the 105th Congress of the United States

Each state elects two senators in the Senate of the United States . Until 1913, the senators were determined by the parliaments of the individual states . Beginning in 1913, the 17th Amendment to the American Constitution required that the senators be directly elected by the people of the respective state.

Party system

After the 1996 election , the mandates were distributed among the parties as follows:

	Political party (Coloring indicates the majority)		Total
	republican	Democrats		Vacant
End of the 104th Congress	53	47	100	0
105th Congress	55	45	100	0
Final distribution of votes	55%	45%
Beginning of the 106th Congress	55	45	100	0

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The Vice President of the United States is the ex officio Senate chairman and chairman of all sessions. Even so, the vice-president rarely takes part in the meetings, so the senators elect a president pro tempore (usually the longest-serving senator of the majority party) as the deputy president of the senate. But even this usually passes on his duties to junior senators, since the office is endowed with comparatively little authority.

	position	Surname	Political party	Country	Term of office
	president	Al Gore	democrat	Tennessee	January 20, 1993 - January 20, 2001
	President pro tempore	Strom Thurmond	republican	South carolina	January 3, 1995 - January 3, 2001

Leadership of the majority party

Office		Surname	State	Term of office
	Majority leader	Trent Lott	Mississippi	June 12, 1996 - January 3, 2001
	Majority whip	Don Nickles	Oklahoma	June 12, 1996 - January 3, 2001

Leadership of the minority party

Office		Surname	State	Term of office
	Minority leader	Tom Daschle	South Dakota	January 3, 1995 - January 3, 2001
	Minority whip	Wendell Ford	Kentucky	January 3, 1995 - January 3, 1999

List of Senate Members

	senator	Political party	Country	First elected	Seat up
	Richard Shelby	republican	Alabama	1986	2010
	Jeff Sessions	republican		1996	2008
	Ted Stevens	republican	Alaska	1968	2008
	Frank Murkowski	republican		1980	2002
	John McCain	republican	Arizona	1986	2010
	Jon Kyl	republican		1994	2006
	Dale Bumpers	democrat	Arkansas	1974	1998
	Tim Hutchinson	republican		1996	2002
	Wayne Allard	republican	Colorado	1996	2008
	Ben Nighthorse Campbell	republican		1992	2004
	Chris Dodd	democrat	Connecticut	1980	2010
	Joe Lieberman	democrat		1988	2006
	Joe Biden	democrat	Delaware	1972	2008
	William V. Roth	republican		1970	2000
	Connie Mack III	republican	Florida	1988	2000
	Bob Graham	democrat		1986	2004
	Max Cleland	democrat	Georgia	1996	2002
	Paul Coverdell	republican		1992	July 18, 2000
	Daniel Inouye	democrat	Hawaii	1962	2010
	Daniel Akaka	democrat		1990	2006
	Larry Craig	republican	Idaho	1990	2008
	Dirk Kempthorne	republican		1992	1998
	Dick Durbin	democrat	Illinois	1996	2008
	Carol Moseley Brown	democrat		1992	2000
	Richard Lugar	republican	Indiana	1976	2006
	Dan Coats	republican		1988	1998
	Chuck Grassley	republican	Iowa	1980	2010
	Tom Harkin	democrat		1984	2008
	Dianne Feinstein	democrat	California	1992	2006
	Barbara Boxer	democrat		1992	2010
	Sam Brownback	republican	Kansas	1996	2010
	Pat Roberts	republican		1996	2008
	Mitch McConnell	republican	Kentucky	1984	2008
	Wendell Ford	democrat		1974	1998
	Mary Landrieu	democrat	Louisiana	1996	2008
	John Breaux	democrat		1986	2004
	Olympia Snowe	republican	Maine	1994	2006
	Susan Collins	republican		1996	2008
	Paul Sarbanes	democrat	Maryland	1976	2006
	Barbara Mikulski	democrat		1986	2010
	Edward Kennedy	democrat	Massachusetts	1962	2006
	John Kerry	democrat		1984	2008
	Carl Levin	democrat	Michigan	1978	2008
	Spencer Abraham	republican		1994	2000
	Rod Grams	republican	Minnesota	1994	2000
	Paul Wellstone	Democratic Farmer Labor Party		1992	October 25, 2002
	Thad Cochran	republican	Mississippi	1978	2008
	Trent Lott	republican		1988	2006
	Kit Bond	republican	Missouri	1986	2010
	John Ashcroft	republican		1994	2000
	Max Baucus	democrat	Montana	1978	2008
	Conrad Burns	republican		1988	2006
	Chuck Hagel	republican	Nebraska	1996	2008
	Bob Kerrey	democrat		1988	2000
	Harry Reid	democrat	Nevada	1986	2010
	Richard Bryan	democrat		1988	2000
	Judd Gregg	republican	New Hampshire	1992	2010
	Robert C. Smith	republican		1990	2002
	Frank Lautenberg	democrat	New Jersey	1982	2000
	Robert Torricelli	democrat		1996	2002
	Pete Domenici	republican	New Mexico	1972	2008
	Jeff Bingaman	democrat		1982	2006
	Al D'Amato	republican	new York	1980	1998
	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	democrat		1976	2000
	Jesse Helms	republican	North Carolina	1972	2002
	Leek faircloth	republican		1992	2000
	Kent Conrad	democrat	North Dakota	1986	2006
	Byron Dorgan	democrat		1992	2010
	Mike DeWine	republican	Ohio	1994	2006
	John Glenn	democrat		1974	1998
	Jim Inhofe	republican	Oklahoma	1994	2008
	Don Nickles	republican		1980	2004
	Ron Wyden	democrat	Oregon	1996	2010
	Gordon H. Smith	republican		1996	2008
	Arlen Specter	republican	Pennsylvania	1980	2010
	Rick Santorum	republican		1994	2006
	Jack Reed	democrat	Rhode Island	1996	2008
	John Chafee	republican		1976	October 24, 1999
	Strom Thurmond	republican	South carolina	1956	2002
	Fritz Hollings	democrat		1966	2004
	Tim Johnson	democrat	South Dakota	1986	2008
	Tom Daschle	democrat		1986	2004
	Bill Deadline	republican	Tennessee	1994	2006
	Fred Thompson	republican		1994	2002
	Kay Bailey Hutchison	republican	Texas	1993	2006
	Phil Gramm	republican		1984	2002
	Orrin Hatch	republican	Utah	1976	2006
	Bob Bennett	republican		1992	2010
	Patrick Leahy	democrat	Vermont	1974	2010
	Jim Jeffords	More independent		1988	2006
	John Warner	republican	Virginia	1978	2008
	Chuck Robb	democrat		1988	2000
	Patty Murray	democrat	Washington	1992	2010
	Slade Gorton	republican		1988	2000
	Robert Byrd	democrat	West Virginia	1958	2006
	Jay Rockefeller	democrat		1984	2008
	Herb cabbage	democrat	Wisconsin	1988	2006
	Russ Feingold	democrat		1992	2010
	Craig L. Thomas	republican	Wyoming	1994	2006
	Mike Enzi	republican		1996	2008

See also

• 105th Congress of the United States

Web links

• A Chronological Listing of US Senators , PDF format, approx. 333 kB, US Senate