List of United States Senators from Mississippi
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Mississippi was admitted to the Union on December 10, 1817. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861, owing to its purported secession from the Union. They were filled again beginning in April 1870.
Class 1
Senator | Party | From | To |
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Walter Leake | Democrat | 1817 | 1820 |
David Holmes | Democrat | 1820 | 1825 |
Ellis Powhatan | Democrat | 1825 | 1826 |
Thomas B. Reed | Democrat | 1826 | 1827 |
Ellis Powhatan | Democrat | 1827 | 1832 |
John Black | Democrat | 1832 | 1838 |
James F. Trotter | Democrat | 1838 | |
Thomas H. Williams | Democrat | 1838 | 1839 |
John Henderson | Whig | 1839 | 1845 |
Jesse Speight | Democrat | 1845 | 1847 |
Jefferson Davis | Democrat | 1847 | 1851 |
John J. McRae | Democrat | 1851 | 1852 |
Stephen Adams | Democrat | 1852 | 1857 |
Jefferson Davis | Democrat | 1857 | 1861 |
Vacant | 1861 | 1870 | |
Ames Adelbert | Republican | 1870 | 1874 |
Henry R. Pease | Republican | 1874 | 1875 |
Blanche K. Bruce | Republican | 1875 | 1881 |
James Z. George | Democrat | 1881 | 1897 |
Hernando D. Money | Democrat | 1897 | 1911 |
John S. Williams | Democrat | 1911 | 1923 |
Hubert D. Stephens | Democrat | 1923 | 1935 |
Theodore G. Bilbo | Democrat | 1935 | 1947 |
John C. Stennis | Democrat | 1947 | 1989 |
Trent Lott | Republican | 1989 |
Class 2
Senator | Party | From | To |
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Thomas H. Williams | Democrat | 1817 | 1829 |
Thomas B. Reed | Democrat | 1829 | 1829 |
Robert H. Adams | Democrat | 1830 | 1830 |
George Poindexter | Democrat, National Republican | 1830 | 1835 |
Robert J. Walker | Democrat | 1835 | 1845 |
Joseph W. Chalmers | Democrat | 1845 | 1847 |
Henry S. Foote | Democrat | 1847 | 1852 |
Walter Brooke | Whig | 1852 | 1853 |
Albert G. Brown | Democrat | 1854 | 1861 |
Vacant | 1861 | 1870 | |
Hiram R. Revels | Republican | 1870 | 1871 |
James L. Alcorn | Republican | 1871 | 1877 |
Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Democrat | 1877 | 1885 |
Edward C. Walthall | Democrat | 1885 | 1894 |
Anselm J. McLaurin | Democrat | 1894 | 1895 |
Edward C. Walthall | Democrat | 1895 | 1898 |
William V. Sullivan | Democrat | 1898 | 1901 |
Anselm J. McLaurin | Democrat | 1901 | 1909 |
James Gordon | Democrat | 1909 | 1910 |
Le Roy Percy | Democrat | 1910 | 1913 |
James K. Vardaman | Democrat | 1913 | 1919 |
Byron P. Harrison | Democrat | 1919 | 1941 |
James O. Eastland | Democrat | 1941 | |
Wall Doxey | Democrat | 1941 | 1943 |
James O. Eastland | Democrat | 1943 | 1978 |
Thad Cochran | Republican | 1978 |