List of United States Senators from Alabama
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
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 |
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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 |
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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.