List of United States Senators from Delaware
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Delaware ratified the Constitution on December 7, 1787.
Class 1
Senator | Party | From | To |
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George Read | Federalist | 1789 | 1793 |
Henry Latimer | Federalist | 1795 | 1801 |
Samuel White | Federalist | 1801 | 1809 |
Outerbridge Horsey | Federalist | 1810 | 1821 |
Caesar A. Rodney | Democrat | 1822 | 1823 |
Thomas Clayton | Federalist, National Republican | 1824 | 1827 |
Louis McLane | Democrat | 1827 | 1829 |
Arnold Naudain | National Republican | 1830 | 1836 |
Richard H. Bayard | Whig | 1836 | 1839 |
Vacant | 1839 | 1841 | |
Richard H. Bayard | Whig | 1841 | 1845 |
John M. Clayton | Whig | 1845 | 1849 |
John Wales | Whig | 1849 | 1851 |
James A. Bayard, Jr. | Democrat | 1851 | 1864 |
George R. Riddle | Democrat | 1864 | 1867 |
James A. Bayard, Jr. | Democrat | 1867 | 1869 |
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. | Democrat | 1869 | 1885 |
George Gray | Democrat | 1885 | 1899 |
Vacant | 1899 | 1903 | |
L. Heisler Ball | Republican | 1903 | 1905 |
Henry A. Du Pont | Republican | 1906 | 1917 |
Josiah O. Wolcott | Democrat | 1917 | 1921 |
T. Coleman Du Pont | Republican | 1921 | 1922 |
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. | Democrat | 1922 | 1929 |
John G. Townsend, Jr. | Republican | 1929 | 1941 |
James M. Tunnell | Democrat | 1941 | 1947 |
John J. Williams | Republican | 1947 | 1970 |
William V. Roth, Jr. | Republican | 1971 | 2001 |
Thomas R. Carper | Democrat | 2001 |
Class 2
Senator | Party | From | To |
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Richard Bassett | Democrat, Federalist | 1789 | 1793 |
John Vining | Federalist | 1793 | 1798 |
Kensey Johns | Federalist | 1794 | 1794 |
Joshua Clayton | Federalist | 1798 | 1798 |
William H. Wells | Federalist | 1799 | 1804 |
James A. Bayard, Sr. | Federalist | 1804 | 1813 |
William H. Wells | Federalist | 1813 | 1817 |
Nicholas Van Dyke | Federalist, National Republican | 1817 | 1826 |
Daniel Rodney | National Republican | 1826 | 1827 |
Henry M. Ridgeley | Democrat | 1827 | 1829 |
John M. Clayton | National Republican | 1829 | 1836 |
Thomas Clayton | Whig | 1837 | 1847 |
Presley Spruance | Whig | 1847 | 1853 |
John M. Clayton | Whig | 1853 | 1856 |
Joseph P. Comegys | Whig | 1856 | 1857 |
Martin W. Bates | Democrat | 1857 | 1859 |
Willard Saulsbury, Sr. | Democrat | 1859 | 1871 |
Eli Saulsbury | Democrat | 1871 | 1889 |
Anthony Higgins | Republican | 1889 | 1895 |
Henry A. Du Pont | Republican | 1895 | 1896 |
Richard R. Kenney | Democrat | 1897 | 1901 |
James F. Allee | Republican | 1903 | 1907 |
Harry A. Richardson | Republican | 1907 | 1913 |
Willard Saulsbury, Jr. | Democrat | 1913 | 1919 |
L. Heisler Ball | Republican | 1919 | 1925 |
T. Coleman Du Pont | Republican | 1925 | 1928 |
Daniel O. Hastings | Republican | 1928 | 1937 |
James H. Hughes | Democrat | 1937 | 1943 |
Clayton D. Buck | Republican | 1943 | 1949 |
J. Allen Frear, Jr. | Democrat | 1949 | 1961 |
J. Caleb Boggs | Republican | 1961 | 1973 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. | Democrat | 1973 |