List of United States senators in the 74th Congress

This is a complete list of United States senators during the 74th United States Congress listed by seniority from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1937.

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 their 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.A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov1901 U.S Census Report Contains 1900 census results1911 U.S Census Report Contains 1910 census results1921 U.S Census Report Contains 1920 census results1931 U.S Census Report Contains 1930 census results

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 1936 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

In this Congress, Park Trammel was the most senior junior senator until his death on May 8, 1936, after which it was Gerald Nye. Four senators held the distinction of most junior senior senator during this Congress: Homer Bone from January 3 to May 6, 1935; Carl Hatch from May 6, 1935 to June 17, 1936; Scott Loftin from June 17 to November 4, 1936; and Charles Andrews from November 4, 1936 to the end of this Congress.

Terms of service

ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 2Terms 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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1937.Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1939 (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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1939.Class 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1941 (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.)Terms of service of senators that expired in 1941.

U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank Senator (party-state) Seniority date Other factors 1 William Borah (R-ID) March 4, 1907 2 Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) March 4, 1909 South Carolina 24th in population (1900) 3 Duncan U. Fletcher (D-FL) Senator Fletcher died on June 17, 1936 Florida 33rd in population (1900) 4 Henry F. Ashurst (D-AZ) April 2, 1912 5 Key Pittman (D-NV) January 29, 1913 6 Morris Sheppard (D-TX) February 3, 1913 7 Joseph Robinson (D-AR) March 4, 1913 Former representative (10 years), Former governor 8 George W. Norris (R-NE) Former representative (10 years) 9 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) March 4, 1917 Former representative (6 years) 10 William H. King (D-UT) Former representative (3 years) 11 Park Trammell (D-FL) Senator Trammell died on May 8, 1936 Former governor 12 Frederick Hale (R-ME) 13 Hiram Johnson (R-CA) March 16, 1917 14 Charles L. McNary (R-OR) December 18, 1918 15 Arthur Capper (R-KS) March 4, 1919 Former governor (4 years) 16 Henry W. KeyesRetired or defeated after 1936 election. (R-NH) Former governor (2 years) 17 Pat Harrison (D-MS) March 5, 1919 18 Carter Glass (D-VA) February 2, 1920 19 Peter Norbeck (R-SD) Senator Norbeck died on December 20, 1936 March 4, 1921 20 Walter F. George (D-GA) November 22, 1922 21 James Couzens (R-MI) Senator Couzens died on October 22, 1936 November 29, 1922 22 Lynn Frazier (R-ND) March 4, 1923 Former governor 23 Royal S. Copeland (D-NY) New York 1st in population (1920) 24 Henrik Shipstead (FL-MN) Minnesota 17th in population (1920) 25 Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) Montana 39th in population (1920) 26 Jesse H. Metcalf (R-RI) November 4, 1924 27 Thomas D. Schall (R-MN) Senator Schall died on December 22, 1935 March 4, 1925 28 Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (WP-WI) September 30, 1925 29 Gerald Nye (R-ND) November 14, 1925 30 David I. Walsh (D-MA) December 6, 1926 31 Carl Hayden (D-AZ) March 4, 1927 Former representative (15 years) 32 Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) Former representative (14 years) 33 Elmer Thomas (D-OK) Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920) 34 Millard Tydings (D-MD) Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in population (1920) 35 Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) New York 1st in population (1920) 36 Hugo Black (D-AL) Alabama 18th in population (1920) 37 Frederick Steiwer (R-OR) Oregon 34th in population (1920) 38 Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) March 31, 1928 39 Daniel Hastings (R-DE) December 10, 1928 40 Bronson Cutting (R-NM) Senator Cutting died on May 6, 1935 March 4, 1929 Previously a senator 41 Tom Connally (D-TX) Former representative 42 John G. Townsend, Jr. (R-DE) Former governor 43 Robert J. Bulkley (D-OH) December 1, 1930 Former representative 44 Robert D. Carey (R-WY) Former governor 45 George McGill (D-KS) 46 James J. Davis (R-PA) December 2, 1930 47 Thomas Gore (D-OK) March 4, 1931 Previously a senator (14 years) 48 Matthew M. Neely (D-WV) Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (8 years) 49 J. Hamilton Lewis (D-IL) Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (2 years) 50 James F. Byrnes (D-SC) Former representative (14 years), South Carolina 26th in population (1930) 51 Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) Former representative (14 years), Maine 35th in population (1930) 52 L. J. Dickinson (R-IA) Former representative (12 years) 53 William J. Bulow (D-SD) Former governor 54 Marcus A. Coolidge (D-MA) Massachusetts 8th in population (1930) 55 Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) North Carolina 12th in population (1930) 56 John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) Alabama 15th in population (1930) 57 Marvel M. Logan (D-KY) Kentucky 17th in population (1930) 58 Edward Costigan (D-CO) Colorado 33rd in population (1930) 59 Warren Austin (R-VT) April 1, 1931 60 Hattie Caraway (D-AR) November 13, 1931 61 William Warren Barbour (R-NJ) December 1, 1931 62 Huey Long (D-LA) Senator Long was assassinated on September 10, 1935 January 25, 1932 63 Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC) December 5, 1932 64 Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) January 12, 1933 65 Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO) February 4, 1933 66 Alva B. Adams (D-CO) March 4, 1933 Previously a senator 67 Augustine Lonergan (D-CT) Former representative (8 years) 68 William H. Dieterich (D-IL) Former representative (2 years), Illinois 3rd in population (1930) 69 John H. Overton (D-LA) Former representative (2 years), Louisiana 22nd in population (1930) 70 Harry F. Byrd, Sr. (D-VA) Former governor (4 years) 71 Fred H. Brown (D-NH) Former governor (2 years) 72 William Gibbs McAdoo (D-CA) California 6th in population (1930) 73 Frederick Van Nuys (D-IN) Indiana 11th in population (1930) 74 F. Ryan Duffy (D-WI) Wisconsin 13th in population (1930) 75 Nathan L. Bachman (D-TN) Tennessee 16th in population (1930) 76 Louis MurphySenator Murphy died on July 16, 1936 (D-IA) Iowa 19th in population (1930) 77 Homer T. Bone (D-WA) Washington 30th in population (1930) 78 Elbert D. Thomas (D-UT) Utah 40th in population (1930) 79 James Pope (D-ID) Idaho 42nd in population (1930) 80 Pat McCarran (D-NV) Nevada 48th in population (1930) 81 Carl Hatch (D-NM) October 10, 1933 82 Ernest W. Gibson (R-VT) November 21, 1933 83 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) January 1, 1934 84 James Murray (D-MT) November 7, 1934 85 Peter G. Gerry (D-RI) January 3, 1935 Previously a senator 86 Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) Former representative (2 years), Connecticut 29th in population (1930) 87 Edward R. Burke (D-NE) Former representative (2 years), Nebraska 32nd in population (1930) 88 Theodore G. Bilbo (D-MS) Former governor (8 years) 89 Vic Donahey (D-OH) Former governor (6 years), Ohio 4th in population (1930) 90 A. Harry Moore (D-NJ) Former governor (6 years), New Jersey 9th in population (1930) 91 Joseph F. Guffey (D-PA) Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1930) 92 Harry S. Truman (D-MO) Missouri 10th in population (1930) 93 Sherman Minton (D-IN) Indiana 11th in population (1930) 94 George L. P. Radcliffe (D-MD) Maryland 28th in population (1930) 95 Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D-WA) Washington 30th in population (1930) Dennis Chavez (D-NM) May 11, 1935 96 Rush D. Holt (D-WV) June 21, 1935 Elmer Benson (FL-MN) Senator Benson resigned on November 3, 1936 December 27, 1935 Rose McConnell Long (D-LA) January 31, 1936 Scott Loftin (D-FL) Senator Loftin resigned on November 3, 1936 May 26, 1936 William L. Hill (D-FL) Senator Hill resigned on November 3, 1936 July 1, 1936 Guy Mark Gillette (D-IA) November 4, 1936 Former representative Guy Howard (R-MN) Minnesota 18th in population (1930) Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) Florida 31st in population (1930); "A" 1st in alphabet Claude Pepper (D-FL)Florida 31st in population (1930); "P" 16th in alphabet Prentiss M. Brown (D-MI) November 19, 1936 Herbert E. Hitchcock (D-SD) December 29, 1936

The most senior senators by class were Henry F. Ashurst (R-Arizona) from Class 1, William Borah (R-Idaho) from Class 2, and Ellison D. Smith (D-South Carolina) from Class 3.

See also 74th United States Congress List of United States representatives in the 74th Congress

Notes

External links Senate Seniority List