List of United States senators in the 26th Congress
Introduction This is a '''complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 26th United States Congress''' listed by seniority,  from March 4, 1839, to March 3, 1841.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 1840 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 1841Class 3Terms of service of senators that expired in 1843Class 1Terms of service of senators that expired in 1845
U.S. Senate seniority list +U.S. Senate seniority Rank  Senator (party-state)  Seniority date  Other factors 1  William Rufus de Vane King (D-AL)  December 14, 1819  2  Nehemiah Rice Knight (W-RI)  January 9, 1821 3  Thomas Hart Benton (D-MO)  August 10, 1821 4  Hugh Lawson White (W-TN)  October 28, 1825 5  Daniel Webster (W-MA)  June 8, 1827 6  Bedford Brown (D-NC)  December 9, 1829 7  John McCracken Robinson (D-IL)  December 11, 1830 8  Samuel Prentiss (AJ-VT)  March 4, 1831 9  Henry Clay (W-KY)  November 10, 1831 10  John Caldwell Calhoun (D-SC)  December 29, 1832 11  Silas Wright, Jr. (D-NY)  January 4, 1833 12  Samuel Lewis Southard (W-NJ)  March 4, 1833  Former senator 13  Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (W-NY) 14  Lewis Fields Linn (D-MO)  October 25, 1833 15  William Campbell Preston (N-SC)  November 26, 1833 16  James Buchanan (D-PA)  December 6, 1834 17  Alfred Cuthbert (D-MD)  January 12, 1835 18  John Ruggles (D-ME)  January 20, 1835 19  John Jordan Crittenden (W-KY)  March 4, 1835  Former senator 20  Henry Hubbard (D-NH)  Former representative 21  John Davis (W-MA)  Former governor 22  Garret Dorset Wall (D-NJ)  New Jersey 14th in population (1830) 23  Robert John Walker (D-MS)  Mississippi 22nd in population (1830) 24  Robert Carter Nicholas (D-LA)  January 13, 1836 25  William Cabell Rives (W-VA)  March 4, 1836 26  Richard Henry Bayard (AJ-DE)  June 17, 1836 27  Ambrose Hundley Sevier (D-AR)  September 18, 1836  Former delegate 28  William Savin Fulton (D-AR) 29  Robert Strange (D-NC)  December 5, 1836 30  John Selby Spence (W-MD)  December 31, 1836 31  Thomas Clayton (W-DE)  January 9, 1837 32  Alexander Mouton (D-LA)  January 12, 1837 33  John Norvell (D-MI)  January 26, 1837 34  Franklin Pierce (D-NH)  March 4, 1837  Former representative (4 years) 35  William Allen (D-OH)  Former representative (2 years); Ohio 5th in population (1830) 36  Oliver Hampton Smith (W-IN)  Former representative (2 years); Indiana 13th in population (1830) 37  Reuel Williams (D-ME)  Maine 12th in population (1830) 38  Perry Smith (D-CT)  Connecticut 16th in population (1830) 39  Richard Montgomery Young (D-IL)  Illinois 20th in population (1830) 40  William Henry Roane (D-VA)  March 14, 1837 41  Clement Comer Clay (D-AL)  June 19, 1837 42  Wilson Lumpkin (D-GA)  November 22, 1837 43  William Duhurst Merrick (W-MD)  January 4, 1838 44  Albert Smith White (W-IN)  March 4, 1839  Former representative 45  Benjamin Tappan (D-OH)  Ohio 5th in population (1830) 46  Thaddeus Betts (W-CT)  Connecticut 16th in population (1830) 47  Samuel Shethar Phelps (W-VT)  Vermont 17th in population (1830) 48  John Henderson (W-MS)  Mississippi 22nd in population (1830) 49  Nathan Fellows Dixon (W-RI)  Rhode Island 23rd in population (1830) 50  Felix Grundy (D-TN)  December 14, 1839 51  Daniel Sturgeon (D-PA)  January 14, 1840 52  Augustus Seymour Porter (W-MI)  January 20, 1840  Alexander Outlaw Anderson (D-TN)  February 26, 1840  Jabez Williams Huntington (W-CT)  May 4, 1840  Willie Person Mangum (W-NC)  November 25, 1840  Former senator  William Alexander Graham (W-NC)  Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (D-TN)  December 25, 1840  John Leeds Kerr (W-MD)  January 5, 1841  Isaac Chapman Bates (W-MA)  January 13, 1841  Rufus Choate (W-MA)  February 23, 1841
See also *26th United States Congress*List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 26th Congress by seniority
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External links * Senate Seniority List