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This makes Illinois the state with the most African-American senators. Illinois's current U.S. senators are Democrats Dick Durbin (serving since 1997) and Tammy Duckworth (serving since 2017). Shelby Moore Cullom was the longest serving senator, who served from 1883 to 1913.
Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Illinois Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1812 to 1818. These are tables of congressional delegations from Illinois to the United States Senate and the United States House of ...
Ladda Tammy Duckworth [3] (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party , she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress . Party affiliation
At a ceremony in the recently refurbished Illinois Senate Chambers at the State Capitol, state Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, was reelected to be the Senate president for another term.
He became the first senator from Illinois to serve as a Senate Whip since Everett Dirksen in the late 1950s, and the fifth to serve in Senate leadership. [19] Durbin served as assistant minority leader from 2005 to 2007, when the Democrats became the majority party in the Senate. He then assumed the role of assistant majority leader, or ...
Republican Party United States senators from Illinois (22 P) Pages in category "United States senators from Illinois" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Democrat Natalie Toro was appointed to the Illinois Senate on July 10, 2023, after Cristina Pacione-Zayas resigned to join the Johnson administration. [13] As the vacancy was filled with greater than 28 months remaining in the term, state statute requires an election be held. [14] Toro was defeated by Graciela Guzmán in the Democratic primary.