List of United States Senators from South Carolina
The List of United States Senators from South Carolina 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 class 2 senators will next be elected in November 2020, the elections for the class 3 senators will take place again in 2022.
2nd grade
South Carolina has been a US state since May 23, 1788 and to date has 31 class 2 senators in Congress , two of whom, John Calhoun and Strom Thurmond, served two non-consecutive terms.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Pierce Butler | 1788-1796 | Democratic Republican | July 11, 1744 - February 15, 1822 |
John Hunter | 1796-1798 | Democratic Republican | 1732-1802 |
Charles Pinckney | 1798-1801 | Democratic Republican | October 26, 1757 - October 29, 1824 |
Thomas Sumter | 1801-1810 | Democratic Republican | August 14, 1734 - June 1, 1832 |
John Taylor | 1810-1816 | Democratic Republican | May 4, 1770 - April 16, 1832 |
William Smith | 1816-1823 | Democratic Republican | 1762 - June 26, 1840 |
Robert Young Hayne | 1823-1832 | Democratic Republican | November 10, 1791 - September 24, 1839 |
John Caldwell Calhoun | 1832-1843 | democrat | March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850 |
Daniel Elliott Huger | 1843-1845 | democrat | June 28, 1779 - August 21, 1854 |
John Caldwell Calhoun | 1845-1850 | democrat | March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850 |
Franklin Harper Elmore | 1850 | democrat | October 15, 1799 - May 29, 1850 |
Robert Woodward Barnwell | 1850 | democrat | August 10, 1801 - November 5, 1882 |
Robert Barnwell Rhett | 1850-1852 | democrat | October 21, 1800 - September 14, 1876 |
William Ford De Saussure | 1852-1853 | democrat | February 22, 1792 - March 13, 1870 |
Josiah James Evans | 1853-1858 | democrat | November 27, 1786 - May 6, 1858 |
Arthur Perronneau Hayne | 1858 | democrat | March 12, 1788 - January 7, 1867 |
James Chesnut Jr. | 1858-1861 | democrat | January 18, 1815 - February 1, 1885 |
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Thomas James Robertson | 1868-1877 | republican | August 3, 1823 - October 13, 1897 |
Matthew Calbraith Butler | 1877-1895 | democrat | March 8, 1836 - April 14, 1909 |
Benjamin Ryan Tillman | 1895-1918 | democrat | August 11, 1847 - July 3, 1918 |
Christie Benet | 1918 | democrat | December 26, 1879–30. March 1951 |
William Pegues Pollock | 1918-1919 | democrat | December 9, 1870 - June 2, 1922 |
Nathaniel Barksdale Dial | 1919-1925 | democrat | April 24, 1862 - December 11, 1940 |
Coleman Livingston Blease | 1925-1931 | democrat | October 8, 1868 - January 19, 1942 |
James Francis Byrnes | 1931-1941 | democrat | May 2, 1882 - April 9, 1972 |
Alva Moore Lumpkin | 1941 | democrat | November 13, 1886 - August 1, 1941 |
Roger Craft Peace | 1941 | democrat | May 19, 1899 - August 20, 1968 |
Burnet Rhett Maybank | 1941-1954 | democrat | March 7, 1899 - September 1, 1954 |
Charles Ezra Daniel | 1954 | democrat | November 11, 1895 - September 13, 1964 |
James Strom Thurmond | 1954-1956 | democrat | December 5, 1902 - June 26, 2003 |
Thomas Albert Wofford | 1956 | democrat | September 27, 1908 - February 25, 1978 |
James Strom Thurmond | 1956-2003 | republican | December 5, 1902 - June 26, 2003 |
Lindsey Olin Graham | since 2003 | republican | * July 9, 1955 |
Class 3
To date, South Carolina has 27 class 3 senators .
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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Ralph Izard | 1789-1795 | federalist | January 23, 1741 - May 30, 1804 |
Jacob Read | 1795-1801 | federalist | 1752 - July 17, 1816 |
John Ewing Colhoun | 1801-1802 | Democratic Republican | 1749 - October 26, 1802 |
Pierce Butler | 1802-1804 | Democratic Republican | July 11, 1744 - February 15, 1822 |
John Gaillard | 1804-1826 | Democratic Republican | September 5, 1765 - February 26, 1826 |
William Harper | 1826 | Democratic Republican | January 17, 1790 - October 10, 1847 |
William Smith | 1826-1831 | Democratic Republican | 1762 - June 26, 1840 |
Stephen Decatur Miller | 1831-1833 | democrat | May 8, 1787 - March 8, 1838 |
William Campbell Preston | 1833-1842 | Whig | December 27, 1794 - May 22, 1860 |
George McDuffie | 1842-1846 | democrat | August 10, 1790 - March 11, 1851 |
Andrew Pickens Butler | 1846-1857 | democrat | November 18, 1796 - May 25, 1857 |
James Henry Hammond | 1857-1860 | democrat | November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864 |
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Frederick Adolphus Sawyer | 1868-1873 | republican | December 12, 1822 - July 31, 1891 |
John James Patterson | 1873-1879 | republican | August 8, 1830 - September 28, 1912 |
Wade Hampton III. | 1879-1891 | democrat | March 28, 1818 - April 11, 1902 |
John Laurens Manning Irby | 1891-1897 | democrat | September 10, 1854 - December 9, 1900 |
Joseph Haynsworth Earle | 1897 | democrat | April 30, 1847 - May 20, 1897 |
John Lowndes McLaurin | 1897-1903 | democrat | May 9, 1860 - July 29, 1934 |
Asbury Churchwell Latimer | 1903-1908 | democrat | July 31, 1851 - February 20, 1908 |
Frank Boyd Gary | 1908-1909 | democrat | March 9, 1860 - December 7, 1922 |
Ellison Durant Smith | 1909-1944 | democrat | August 1, 1864 - November 17, 1944 |
Wilton Earle Hall | 1944-1945 | democrat | March 11, 1901 - February 25, 1980 |
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston | 1945-1965 | democrat | November 18, 1896 - April 18, 1965 |
Donald Stuart Russell | 1965-1966 | democrat | February 22, 1906 - February 22, 1998 |
Ernest Frederick Hollings | 1966-2005 | democrat | January 1, 1922 - April 6, 2019 |
James Warren DeMint | 2005-2013 | republican | * September 2, 1951 |
Timothy Eugene Scott | since 2013 | republican | * September 19, 1965 |