List of United States Senators from Georgia
The list of United States Senators from Georgia lists everyone who has ever served in the U.S. Senate for the state of Georgia , sorted by Senate class . One class shows when this senator will be re-elected. The class 2 senators will be re-elected in November 2020, the elections for the class 3 senators were last held in 2016.
2nd grade
Georgia has been a US state since January 2, 1788 and to date has had 38 class 2 senators , one of whom, George Troup, served two non-consecutive terms.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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William Few | 1789-1793 | independent | June 8, 1748-16. July 1828 |
James Jackson | 1793-1795 | independent | September 21, 1757-19. March 1806 |
George Walton | 1795-1796 | federalist | 1749-2. February 1804 |
Josiah Tattnall Sr. | 1796-1799 | Democratic Republican | 1762-6. June 1803 |
Abraham Baldwin | 1799-1807 | Democratic Republican | November 23, 1754-4. March 1807 |
George Jones | 1807 | Democratic Republican | February 25, 1766-13. November 1838 |
William Harris Crawford | 1807-1813 | Democratic Republican | February 24, 1772-15. September 1834 |
William Bellinger Bulloch | 1813 | Democratic Republican | 1777-6. May 1852 |
William Wyatt Bibb | 1813-1816 | Democratic Republican | October 2, 1781-10. July 1820 |
George Michael Troup | 1816-1818 | Democratic Republican | September 8, 1780-26. April 1856 |
John Forsyth | 1818-1819 | Democratic Republican | October 22, 1780-21. October 1841 |
Freeman Walker | 1819-1821 | Democratic Republican | October 25, 1780-23. September 1827 |
Nicholas Ware | 1821-1824 | Democratic Republican | 1769-7. September 1824 |
Thomas Willis Cobb | 1824-1828 | Democratic Republican | 1784-1. February 1830 |
Oliver Hillhouse Prince | 1828-1829 | Democratic Republican | 1787-9. October 1837 |
George Michael Troup | 1829-1833 | democrat | September 8, 1780-26. April 1856 |
John Pendleton King | 1833-1837 | democrat | April 3, 1799-19. March 1888 |
Wilson Lumpkin | 1837-1841 | democrat | January 14, 1783-28. December 1870 |
John MacPherson Berrien | 1841-1852 | Whig | August 23, 1781–1. January 1856 |
Robert Milledge Charlton | 1852-1853 | democrat | January 19, 1807-15. January 1854 |
Robert Augustus Toombs | 1853-1861 | Whig | July 2, 1810-15. December 1885 |
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Homer Virgil Milton Miller | 1871 | democrat | April 29, 1814-31. May 1896 |
Thomas Manson Norwood | 1871-1877 | democrat | April 26, 1830-19. June 1913 |
Benjamin Harvey Hill | 1877-1882 | democrat | September 14, 1823-16. August 1882 |
Middleton Pope Barrow | 1882-1883 | democrat | August 1, 1839-23. December 1903 |
Alfred Holt Colquitt | 1883-1894 | democrat | April 20, 1824-26. March 1894 |
Patrick Walsh | 1894-1895 | democrat | January 1, 1840-19. March 1899 |
Augustus Octavius Bacon | 1895-1914 | democrat | October 20, 1839-14. February 1914 |
William Stanley West | 1914 | democrat | August 23, 1849-22. December 1914 |
Thomas William Hardwick | 1914-1919 | democrat | December 9, 1872–31. January 1944 |
William Julius Harris | 1919-1932 | democrat | February 3, 1868-18. April 1932 |
John Sanford Cohen | 1932-1933 | democrat | February 26, 1870-13. May 1935 |
Richard Brevard Russell | 1933-1971 | democrat | November 2, 1897-21. January 1971 |
David Henry Gambrell | 1971-1972 | democrat | * December 20, 1929 |
Samuel Augustus Nunn | 1972-1997 | democrat | * September 8, 1938 |
Joseph Maxwell Cleland | 1997-2003 | democrat | * August 24, 1942 |
Clarence Saxby Chambliss | 2003-2015 | republican | * November 10, 1943 |
David Alfred Perdue | since 2015 | republican | * December 10, 1949 |
Class 3
Georgia has 28 class 3 senators to date , one of whom, John Brown Gordon, served two non-consecutive terms.
Surname | Term of office | Political party | Life dates |
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James Gunn | 1789-1801 | federalist | March 13, 1753-30. July 1801 |
James Jackson | 1801-1806 | Democratic Republican | September 21, 1757-19. March 1806 |
John Milledge | 1806-1809 | Democratic Republican | 1757-9. February 1818 |
Charles Tait | 1809-1819 | Democratic Republican | February 1, 1768–7. October 1835 |
John Elliot | 1819-1825 | Democratic Republican | October 24, 1773–9. August 1827 |
John MacPherson Berrien | 1825-1829 | Democratic Republican | August 23, 1781–1. January 1856 |
John Forsyth | 1829-1834 | democrat | October 22, 1780-21. October 1841 |
Alfred Cuthbert | 1835-1843 | democrat | December 23, 1785-9. July 1856 |
Walter Terry Colquitt | 1843-1848 | democrat | December 27, 1799-7. May 1855 |
Herschel Vespasian Johnson | 1848-1849 | democrat | September 18, 1812-16. August 1880 |
William Crosby Dawson | 1849-1855 | Whig | January 4, 1798-5. May 1856 |
Alfred Iverson | 1855-1861 | democrat | December 3, 1798–4. March 1873 |
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Joshua Hill | 1871-1873 | republican | January 10, 1812–6. March 1891 |
John Brown Gordon | 1873-1880 | democrat | February 6, 1832-9. January 1904 |
Joseph Emerson Brown | 1880-1891 | democrat | April 15, 1821-30. November 1894 |
John Brown Gordon | 1891-1897 | democrat | February 6, 1832-9. January 1904 |
Alexander Stephens Clay | 1897-1910 | democrat | September 25, 1853-13. November 1910 |
Joseph Meriwether Terrell | 1910-1911 | democrat | June 6, 1861–17. November 1912 |
Michael Hoke Smith | 1911-1921 | democrat | September 2, 1855-27. November 1931 |
Thomas Edward Watson | 1921-1922 | democrat | September 5, 1856-26. September 1922 |
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton | 1922 | democrat | June 10, 1835-24. January 1930 |
Walter Franklin George | 1922-1957 | democrat | January 29, 1878–4. August 1957 |
Herman Talmadge | 1957-1981 | democrat | August 9, 1913-21. March 2002 |
Mack Francis Mattingly | 1981-1987 | republican | * January 7, 1931 |
William Wyche Fowler Jr. | 1987-1993 | democrat | * October 6, 1940 |
Paul Douglas Coverdell | 1993-2000 | republican | January 20, 1939-19. July 2000 |
Cell Bryan Miller | 2000-2005 | democrat | February 24, 1932 - March 22, 2018 |
John Hardy Isakson | 2005-2019 | republican | * December 28, 1944 |
Kelly Lynn Loeffler | since 2020 | republican | * November 27, 1970 |