List of United States senators in the 72nd Congress

This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 72nd United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1931, to March 3, 1933.

Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator's first term. Behind this is former service as a senator (only giving the senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as vice president, a House member, a cabinet secretary, or a governor of a state. The final factor is the population of the senator's state.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1932 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

Terms of service

This article is about the terms of service of senators that expired in years. For a list of special elections to the United States Senate, see List of special elections to the United States Senate.

Class	Terms of service of senators that expired in years
Class 3	Terms of service of senators that expired in 1933 (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, ND, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, UT, VT, WA, and WI.)[6]
Class 1	Terms of service of senators that expired in 1935 (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY.)[7]
Class 2	Terms of service of senators that expired in 1937 (AL, AR, CO, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, and WY.)[8]

U.S. Senate seniority list

U.S. Senate seniority

Rank	Senator (party-state)	Seniority date	Other factors
1	Reed Smoot (R-UT) [9]	March 4, 1903
2	William Borah (R-ID)	March 4, 1907
3	Wesley Jones (R-WA) [10]	March 4, 1909	Former representative
4	Ellison D. Smith (D-SC)		South Carolina 24th in population (1900)
5	Duncan U. Fletcher (D-FL)		Florida 33rd in population (1900)
6	Claude A. Swanson (D-VA) [11]	August 1, 1910	Former representative, Former governor
7	Henry F. Ashurst (D-AZ)	April 2, 1912[12]
8	Key Pittman (D-NV)	January 29, 1913
9	Morris Sheppard (D-TX)	February 3, 1913	Former representative
10	Joseph Robinson (D-AR)	March 4, 1913	Former representative (10 years), former governor
11	George W. Norris (R-NE)		Former representative (10 years)
12	Thomas J. Walsh (D-MT) [13]
13	James Watson (R-IN) [9]	November 8, 1916	Former representative
14	Kenneth McKellar (D-TN)	March 4, 1917	Former representative (6 years)
15	William H. King (D-UT)		Former representative (3 years)
16	Park Trammell (D-FL)		Former governor, Florida 33rd in population (1910)
17	John B. Kendrick (D-WY)		Former governor, Wyoming 47th in population (1910)
18	Frederick Hale (R-ME)
19	Hiram Johnson (R-CA)	March 16, 1917
20	George H. Moses (R-NH) [9]	November 6, 1918
21	Charles L. McNary (R-OR)	December 18, 1918	Previously a senator
22	Arthur Capper (R-KS)	March 4, 1919	Former governor, Kansas 22nd in population (1910)
23	Henry W. Keyes (R-NH)		Former governor, New Hampshire 39th in population (1910)
24	William J. Harris (D-GA) [14]
25	Pat Harrison (D-MS)	March 5, 1919
26	Carter Glass (D-VA)	February 2, 1920
27	Thaddeus H. Caraway (D-AR) [15]	March 4, 1921	Former representative
28	Peter Norbeck (R-SD)		Former governor
29	Samuel M. Shortridge (R-CA) [9]		California 8th in population (1920)
30	Edwin S. Broussard (D-LA) [9]		Louisiana 22nd in population (1920)
31	Tasker Oddie (R-NV) [9]		Nevada 48th in population (1920)
32	David A. Reed (R-PA)	August 8, 1922
33	Walter F. George (D-GA)	November 22, 1922
34	James Couzens (R-MI)	November 29, 1922
35	Simeon Fess (R-OH)	March 4, 1923	Former representative (10 years), Ohio 4th in population (1920)
36	Hubert D. Stephens (D-MS)		Former representative (10 years), Mississippi 23rd in population (1920)
37	Clarence Dill (D-WA)		Former representative (4 years)
38	Lynn Frazier (R-ND)		Former governor
39	Royal S. Copeland (D-NY)		New York 1st in population (1920)
40	Henrik Shipstead (FL-MN)		Minnesota 17th in population (1920)
41	Robert B. Howell (R-NE)		Nebraska 31st in population (1920)
42	Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT)		Montana 39th in population (1920)
43	Porter H. Dale (R-VT)	November 7, 1923
44	Jesse H. Metcalf (R-RI)	November 4, 1924
45	Hiram Bingham (R-CT) [9]	December 17, 1924
46	Thomas D. Schall (R-MN)	March 4, 1925	Former representative
47	Sam G. Bratton (D-NM)
48	Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R-WI)	September 30, 1925
49	Arthur Robinson (R-IN)	October 20, 1925
50	Gerald Nye (R-ND)	November 14, 1925
51	David I. Walsh (D-MA)	December 6, 1926	Former governor, Previously a senator
52	Harry B. Hawes (D-MO) [16]
53	Smith W. Brookhart (R-IA) [9]	March 4, 1927	Previously a senator
54	Carl Hayden (D-AZ)		Former representative (15 years)
55	Alben W. Barkley (D-KY)		Former representative (14 years)
56	Elmer Thomas (D-OK)		Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920)
57	Millard Tydings (D-MD)		Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in population (1920)
58	John J. Blaine (R-WI) [9]		Former governor
59	Robert F. Wagner (D-NY)		New York 1st in population (1920)
60	Hugo Black (D-AL)		Alabama 18th in population (1920)
61	Charles Waterman (R-CO) [17]		Colorado 33rd in population (1920)
62	Frederick Steiwer (R-OR)		Oregon 34th in population (1920)
63	Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI)	March 31, 1928
64	John Thomas (R-ID) [9]	June 30, 1928
65	Otis F. Glenn (R-IL) [9]	November 7, 1928
66	Daniel Hastings (R-DE)	December 10, 1928
67	Bronson Cutting (R-NM)	March 4, 1929	Previously a senator
68	Tom Connally (D-TX)		Former representative (12 years)
69	Roscoe C. Patterson (R-MO)		Former representative (2 years)
70	Henry D. Hatfield (R-WV)		Former governor, West Virginia 27th in population (1920)
71	Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R-MD)		Former governor, Maryland 28th in population (1920)
72	John G. Townsend, Jr. (R-DE)		Former governor, Delaware 46th in population (1920)
73	Hamilton Kean (R-NJ)		New Jersey 10th in population (1920)
74	Frederic Walcott (R-CT)		Connecticut 29th in population (1920)
75	Felix Hebert (R-RI)		Rhode Island 38th in population (1920)
76	Robert J. Bulkley (D-OH)	December 1, 1930	Former representative
77	Robert D. Carey (R-WY)		Former governor
78	George McGill (D-KS)
79	James J. Davis (R-PA)	December 2, 1930
80	Dwight Morrow (R-NJ) [18]	December 3, 1930
81	Cameron A. Morrison (D-NC) [19]	December 13, 1930
82	Frank C. Partridge (R-VT) [20]	December 23, 1930
83	Thomas Gore (D-OK)	March 4, 1931	Previously a senator (14 years)
84	Matthew M. Neely (D-WV)		Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (8 years)
85	J. Hamilton Lewis (D-IL)		Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (2 years)
86	Cordell Hull (D-TN) [21]		Former representative (22 years)
87	James F. Byrnes (D-SC)		Former representative (14 years), South Carolina 26th in population (1930)
88	Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME)		Former representative (14 years), Maine 35th in population (1930)
89	L. J. Dickinson (R-IA)		Former representative (12 years)
90	William J. Bulow (D-SD)		Former governor
91	Marcus A. Coolidge (D-MA)		Massachusetts 8th in population (1930)
92	Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC)		North Carolina 12th in population (1930)
93	John H. Bankhead II (D-AL)		Alabama 15th in population (1930)
94	Marvel M. Logan (D-KY)		Kentucky 17th in population (1930)
95	Edward Costigan (D-CO)		Colorado 33rd in population (1930)
	Warren Austin (R-VT)	April 1, 1931
	Hattie Caraway (D-AR)	November 13, 1931
	William Warren Barbour (D-NJ)	December 1, 1931
96	Huey Long (D-LA)	January 25, 1932	Former governor
	John S. Cohen (D-GA) [22]	April 25, 1932
	Walter Walker (D-CO) [23]	September 26, 1932
	Elijah Grammer (R-WA) [9]	November 22, 1932
	Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC)	December 5, 1932
	Karl Schuyler[9] (R-CO)	December 7, 1932
	Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA)	January 12, 1933	Former governor
	Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO)	February 4, 1933

See also

• 72nd United States Congress
• List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 72nd Congress by seniority

Notes

1. A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
2. 1901 U.S Census Report Contains 1900 Census results
3. 1911 U.S Census Report Contains 1910 Census results
4. 1921 U.S Census Report Contains 1920 Census results
5. 1931 U.S Census Report Contains 1930 Census results
6. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1933.
7. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1935.
8. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1937.
9. Retired or defeated after 1932 Election.
10. Senator Jones died on November 19, 1932
11. Senator Swanson resigned on March 3, 1933, to become United States Secretary of the Navy
12. "Four Senators are Sworn In". The Washington Herald. April 3, 1912. p. 3.
13. Senator Walsh died on March 2, 1933
14. Senator Harris died on April 18, 1932
15. Senator Caraway died on November 6, 1931
16. Senator Hawes resigned on February 3, 1933
17. Senator Waterman died on August 27, 1932
18. Senator Morrow died on October 5, 1931
19. Senator Morrison resigned on December 4, 1932
20. Senator Partridge resigned on March 31, 1931
21. Senator Hull resigned on March 3, 1933, to become United States Secretary of State
22. Senator Cohen resigned on January 11, 1933
23. Senator Walker resigned on December 6, 1932

External links

• Senate Seniority List