List of United States Senators from South Carolina

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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

Lindsey Graham
Tim Scott

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
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
vacant
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
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
vacant
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

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