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Tommy Tuberville (R) Katie Britt (R) Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819. The state elects U.S. senators to class 2 and class 3. Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Richard Shelby is Alabama's longest serving ...
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Recorded November 4, 2003. Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021 ...
This is a complete list of United States senators during the 117th United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 2021, to January 3, 2023. It is a historical listing and will contain people who have not served the entire two-year Congress should anyone resign, die, or be expelled. In this Congress, the most junior senior senator ...
t. e. United States senators are conventionally ranked by the length of their tenure in the Senate. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office is known as the senior senator; the other is the junior senator. This convention has no official standing, though seniority confers several benefits, including preference in the choice ...
Dianne Feinstein, whose three decades in the Senate made her the longest-serving female US senator in history, has died following months of declining health. She was 90.
Senator Party Born Occupation(s) Previous elective office(s) Education Assumed office Class Residence [6] Alabama: Tommy Tuberville: Republican September 18, 1954 (age 70) Investment management firm partner
Alabama: December 14, 1819 - April 15, 1844 [1] 8,889 dd December 11, 1845 October 8, 1894 Thomas Hart Benton: Democratic-Republican/ Democratic Missouri: August 10, 1821 - March 3, 1851 10,797 dd October 8, 1894 February 20, 1905 John Sherman: Republican: Ohio: March 21, 1861 - March 8, 1877 March 4, 1881 - March 4, 1897 11,675 dd February 20 ...