List of United States senators in the 29th Congress
Introduction This is a '''complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 29th United States Congress''' listed by seniority, from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847.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.Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the two-year congressional term (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1846 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.
Terms of service ClassTerms of service of senators that expired in yearsClass 2Terms of service of senators that expired in 1847Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1849Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1851
U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank  Senator (party-state)  Seniority date  Other factors 1  Thomas Hart Benton (D-MO)  August 10, 1821  2  James Buchanan (D-PA)  December 6, 1834 3  Robert John Walker (D-MS)  March 4, 1835 4  Ambrose Hundley Sevier (D-AR)  September 18, 1836 5  Thomas Clayton (W-DE)  January 9, 1837 6  William Allen (D-OH)  March 4, 1837 7  Samuel Shethar Phelps (W-VT)  March 4, 1839 8  Daniel Sturgeon (D-PA)  January 14, 1840 9  Jabez Williams Huntington (W-CT)  May 4, 1840 10  Willie Person Mangum (W-NC)  November 25, 1840 11  Isaac Chapman Bates (W-MA)  January 13, 1841 12  Levi Woodbury (D-NH)  March 4, 1841  Former senator (5 years) 13  John Macpherson Berrien (W-GA)  Former senator (4 years) 14  William Segar Archer (W-VA)  Former representative (15 years) 15  George Evans (W-ME)  Former representative (11 years) 16  William Woodbridge (W-MI)  Former delegate (1 year) 17  James Turner Morehead (W-KY)  Former governor 18  Jacob Welsh Miller (W-NJ)  New Jersey 14th in population (1830) 19  Alexander Barrow (W-LA)  Louisiana 19th in population (1830) 20  James F. Simmons (W-RI)  Rhode Island 23rd in population (1830) 21  Arthur Pendleton Bagby (D-AL)  November 24, 1841 22  John Jordan Crittenden (W-KY)  March 31, 1842 23  William Lewis Dayton (W-NJ)  July 2, 1842 24  George McDuffie (D-SC)  December 23, 1842 25  James Alfred Pearce (W-MD)  March 4, 1843  Former representative (6 years); Maryland 15th in population (1840) 26  Charles Gordon Atherton (D-NH)  Former representative (6 years); New Hampshire 22nd in population (1840) 27  Edward Allen Hannegan (D-IN)  Former representative (4 years) 28  Walter Terry Colquitt (D-GA)  Former representative (1 year) 29  William Henry Haywood, Jr. (D-NC)  North Carolina 7th in population (1840) 30  Sidney Breese (D-IL)  Illinois 14th in population (1840) 31  William Upham (W-VT)  Vermont 21st in population (1840) 32  David Rice Atchison (D-MO)  October 14, 1843 33  Spencer Jarnagin (W-TN)  October 17, 1843 34  John Fairfield (W-ME)  December 4, 1843  Maine 13th in population (1840) 35  James Semple (D-IL)  Illinois 14th in population (1840) 36  Henry Johnson (W-LA)  February 12, 1844 37  Dixon Hall Lewis (D-AL)  April 22, 1844 38  John Milton Niles (D-CT)  May 16, 1844 39  Chester Ashley (D-AR)  November 8, 1844 40  Daniel Stevens Dickinson (D-NY)  November 30, 1844 41  John Adams Dix (D-NY)  January 27, 1845 42  Daniel Webster (W-MA)  March 4, 1845  Former senator (13 years) 43  John Middleton Clayton (W-DE)  Former senator (7 years) 44  Thomas Corwin (W-OH)  Former representative (9 years) 45  Jesse Speight (D-MS)  Former representative (8 years) 46  Hopkins Lacy Turney (D-TN)  Former representative (6 years) 47  Lewis Cass (D-MI)  Former cabinet member 48  Jesse D. Bright (D-IN)  Indiana 10th in population (1840) 49  Reverdy Johnson (W-MD)  Maryland 15th in population (1840) 50  Albert Collins Greene (W-RI)  Rhode Island 24th in population (1840)  Simon Cameron (D-PA)  March 13, 1845  John Davis (W-MA)  March 24, 1845 51  David Levy Yulee (D-FL)  July 1, 1845  Former delegate 52  James Diament Westcott, Jr. (D-FL)   Joseph Williams Chalmers (D-MS)  November 3, 1845 53  John Caldwell Calhoun (D-SC)  November 26, 1845  Benning Wentworth Jenness (D-NH)  December 1, 1845 54  Isaac Samuels Pennybacker (D-VA)  December 3, 1845 55  Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D-TX)  February 21, 1846  56  Samuel Houston (D-TX)  February 26, 1846    Joseph Cilley (L-NH)  June 13, 1846  George Edmund Badger (W-NC)  November 25, 1846  Andrew Pickens Butler (D-SC)  December 4, 1846  James M. Mason (D-VA)  January 21, 1847  Former representative  Pierre Soulé (D-LA)
See also *29th United States Congress*List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 29th Congress by seniority
Notes
External links * Senate Seniority List