List of United States Senators from Massachusetts
The List of United States Senators from Massachusetts lists all the people who ever for this state of the US Senate belonged to the Senate classes sorted. One class shows when this senator will be re-elected. The elections for the class 1 senators took place in 2018; the class 2 senators were last re-elected in November 2014.
class 1
Massachusetts has been a US state since February 26, 1788 and to date has 27 class 1 senators , one of whom, Daniel Webster, served two non-consecutive terms. Massachusetts did not send senators until 1789.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Tristram Dalton | 1789-1791 | federalist | May 28, 1738-30. May 1817 |
George Cabot | 1791-1796 | federalist | December 3, 1752-18. April 1823 |
Benjamin Goodhue | 1796-1800 | federalist | September 20, 1748-28. July 1814 |
Jonathan Mason | 1800-1803 | federalist | September 12, 1756–1. November 1831 |
John Quincy Adams | 1803-1808 | federalist | July 11, 1767-23. February 1848 |
James Lloyd | 1808-1813 | federalist | December 1769–5. April 1831 |
Christopher Gore | 1813-1816 | federalist | September 21, 1758–1. March 1827 |
Eli Porter Ashmun | 1816-1818 | federalist | June 24, 1770-10. May 1819 |
Prentiss Mellen | 1818-1820 | federalist | October 11, 1764-31. December 1840 |
Elijah Hunt Mills | 1820-1827 | federalist | December 1, 1776-5. May 1829 |
Daniel Webster | 1827-1841 | Whig | January 18, 1782-24. October 1852 |
Rufus Choate | 1841-1845 | Whig | October 1, 1799-13. July 1859 |
Daniel Webster | 1845-1850 | Whig | January 18, 1782-25. October 1852 |
Robert Charles Winthrop | 1850-1851 | Whig | May 12, 1809-16. November 1894 |
Robert Rantoul | 1851 | democrat | August 13, 1805-7. August 1852 |
Charles Sumner | 1851-1874 | Free Soil Republicans from 1857 | January 6, 1811–11. March 1874 |
William Barrett Washburn | 1874-1875 | republican | January 31, 1820–5. October 1887 |
Henry Laurens Dawes | 1875-1893 | republican | October 30, 1816-5. February 1903 |
Henry Cabot Lodge | 1893-1924 | republican | May 12, 1850-9. November 1924 |
William Morgan Butler | 1924-1926 | republican | January 29, 1861-29. March 1937 |
David Ignatius Walsh | 1926-1947 | democrat | November 11, 1872-11. June 1947 |
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | 1947-1953 | republican | July 5, 1902-27. February 1985 |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 1953-1960 | democrat | May 29, 1917-22. November 1963 |
Benjamin Atwood Smith | 1960–1962 | democrat | March 16, 1916–6. September 1991 |
Edward Moore Kennedy | 1962-2009 | democrat | February 22, 1932-25. August 2009 |
Paul Grattan Kirk | 2009-2010 | democrat | * January 18, 1938 |
Scott Philip Brown | 2010-2013 | republican | * September 12, 1959 |
Elizabeth Warren | since 2013 | democrat | * June 22, 1949 |
2nd grade
Massachusetts has 29 class 2 senators to date , one of whom, John Davis, served two non-consecutive terms.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Caleb Strong | 1789-1796 | federalist | January 9, 1745–7. November 1819 |
Theodore Sedgwick | 1796-1799 | federalist | May 9, 1746-24. January 1813 |
Samuel Dexter | 1799-1800 | federalist | May 14, 1761-4. May 1816 |
Dwight Foster | 1800-1803 | federalist | December 7, 1757-29. April 1823 |
Timothy Pickering | 1803-1811 | federalist | July 17, 1745-29. January 1829 |
Joseph Bradley Varnum | 1811-1817 | Democratic Republican | January 29, 1751-21. September 1821 |
Harrison Gray Otis | 1817-1822 | federalist | October 8, 1765-28. October 1848 |
James Lloyd | 1822-1826 | National Republicans | December 1769–5. April 1831 |
Nathaniel Silsbee | 1826-1835 | National Republicans | January 14, 1773-14. July 1850 |
John Davis | 1835-1841 | Whig | January 13, 1787-19. April 1854 |
Isaac Chapman Bates | 1841-1845 | Whig | January 23, 1779–16. March 1845 |
John Davis | 1845-1853 | Whig | January 13, 1787-19. April 1854 |
Edward Everett | 1853-1854 | Whig | April 11, 1794-15. January 1865 |
Julius Rockwell | 1854-1855 | Whig | April 26, 1805-19. May 1888 |
Henry Wilson 1 | 1855-1873 | Free Soil Party | February 16, 1812-22. November 1875 |
George Sewall Boutwell | 1873-1877 | republican | January 28, 1818-27. February 1905 |
George Frisbie Hoar | 1877-1904 | republican | August 29, 1826-30. September 1904 |
Winthrop Murray Crane | 1904-1913 | republican | April 23, 1853–2. October 1920 |
John Wingate Weeks | 1913-1919 | republican | April 11, 1860-12. July 1926 |
David Ignatius Walsh | 1919-1925 | democrat | November 11, 1872-11. June 1947 |
Frederick Huntington Gillett | 1925-1931 | republican | October 16, 1851–31. July 1935 |
Marcus Allen Coolidge | 1931-1937 | democrat | October 6, 1865-23. January 1947 |
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | 1937-1944 | republican | July 5, 1902-27. February 1985 |
Charles Sinclair Weeks | 1944 | republican | June 15, 1893-7. February 1972 |
Leverett Saltonstall | 1945-1967 | republican | September 1, 1892-17. June 1979 |
Edward William Brooke | 1967-1979 | republican | October 26, 1919–3. January 2015 |
Paul Efthemios Tsongas | 1979-1985 | democrat | February 14, 1941-18. January 1997 |
John Forbes Kerry | 1985-2013 | democrat | * December 11, 1943 |
William Maurice Cowan | 2013 | democrat | * April 4, 1969 |
Edward John Markey | since 2013 | democrat | * July 11, 1946 |
1 Wilson served in the Senate for the Free Soil Party in 1855, the Know-Nothing Party from 1855 to 1857, and the Republican Party from 1857 to 1873.