List of United States Senators from Virginia
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Virginia ratified the Constitution on June 25 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861 owing to its purported secession from the Union, but Senators representing its western counties continued to sit until March 1863. Virginia's Senate seats were again filled from January 1870.
Class 1
Senator | Party | From | To |
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William Grayson | Democrat | 1789 | 1790 |
John Walker | Federalist | 1790 | |
James Monroe | Democrat | 1790 | 1794 |
Stevens T. Mason | Democrat | 1794 | 1803 |
John Taylor of Caroline | Democrat | 1803 | |
Abraham B. Venable | Democrat | 1803 | 1804 |
William Branch Giles | Democrat | 1804 | 1815 |
Andrew Moore | Democrat | 1804 | 1809 |
Richard Brent | Democrat | 1809 | 1814 |
James C. Barbour | Democrat | 1815 | 1825 |
John Randolph | Democrat | 1825 | 1827 |
John Tyler | Democrat,Whig | 1827 | 1836 |
William C. Rives | Democrat | 1836 | 1839 |
Vacant | 1839 | 1841 | |
William C. Rives | Whig | 1841 | 1845 |
Isaac S. Pennybacker | Democrat | 1845 | 1847 |
James M. Mason | Democrat | 1847 | 1861 |
Waitman T. Willey | Unionist | 1861 | 1863 |
Lemuel J. Bowden | Unionist | 1863 | 1864 |
Vacant | 1864 | 1870 | |
John F. Lewis | Republican | 1870 | 1875 |
Robert E. Withers | Democrat | 1875 | 1881 |
William Mahone | Republican | 1881 | 1887 |
John W. Daniel | Democrat | 1887 | 1910 |
Claude A. Swanson | Democrat | 1910 | 1933 |
Harry F. Byrd | Democrat | 1933 | 1965 |
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. | Democrat, Independent |
1965 | 1983 |
Paul S. Trible, Jr. | Republican | 1983 | 1989 |
Charles S. Robb | Democrat | 1989 | 2001 |
George Allen | Republican | 2001 |
Class 2
Senator | Party | From | To |
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Richard H. Lee | Democrat | 1789 | 1792 |
John Taylor of Caroline | Democrat | 1792 | 1794 |
Henry Tazewell | Democrat | 1794 | 1799 |
Wilson C. Nicholas | Democrat | 1799 | 1804 |
Armistead T. Mason | Democrat | 1816 | 1817 |
John W. Eppes | Democrat | 1817 | 1819 |
James Pleasants | Democrat | 1819 | 1822 |
John Taylor of Caroline | Democrat | 1822 | 1824 |
Littleton W. Tazewell | Democrat | 1824 | 1832 |
William C. Rives | Democrat | 1832 | 1834 |
Benjamin W. Leigh | National Republican |
1834 | 1836 |
Richard E. Parker | Democrat | 1836 | 1837 |
William H. Roane | Democrat | 1837 | 1841 |
William S. Archer | Whig | 1841 | 1847 |
Robert M. T. Hunter | Democrat | 1847 | 1861 |
John S. Carlile | Unionist | 1861 | 1865 |
Vacant | 1865 | 1870 | |
John W. Johnston | Democrat | 1870 | 1883 |
Harrison H. Riddleberger | Republican | 1883 | 1889 |
John S. Barbour, Jr. | Democrat | 1889 | 1892 |
Eppa Hunton | Democrat | 1892 | 1895 |
Thomas S. Martin | Democrat | 1895 | 1919 |
Carter Glass | Democrat | 1920 | 1946 |
Thomas G. Burch | Democrat | 1946 | 1946 |
Absalom W. Robertson | Democrat | 1946 | 1966 |
William B. Spong, Jr. | Democrat | 1966 | 1973 |
William L. Scott | Republican | 1973 | 1979 |
John W. Warner | Republican | 1979 |