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The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Tammy Baldwin is the longest-serving LGBT woman in both the House and Senate. Nita Lowey is the longest-serving Jewish-American woman in the House. Dianne Feinstein is the longest-serving (and first) Jewish-American woman in the Senate. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both inaugurated in 2019, are the first and longest-serving Muslim women in the ...
Subsequently, Patty Murray surpassed Feinstein as the longest serving woman senator, and continues to serve. In 2012, a record five new female senators were elected. This beat the record of four new female senators from 1992 and set the record of five new women and eleven female senators in one Senate class.
June 10, 2006 Strom Thurmond: Democratic/ Republican South Carolina December 24, 1954 - April 4, 1956 November 7, 1956 - January 3, 2003 17,325 dd June 10, 2006 Robert Byrd: Democratic West Virginia: January 3, 1959 - June 28, 2010 18,804 dd
Its current U.S. senators are Democrats Patty Murray (since 1993) and Maria Cantwell (since 2001) making it one of only four states alongside Minnesota, Nevada and New Hampshire to have two female U.S. senators. Warren Magnuson was Washington's longest-serving senator (1944–1981).
This is a complete list of United States senators during the 119th United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2027. It is a historical listing and will contain people who have not served the entire two-year Congress should anyone resign, die, or be expelled.
This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 114th United States Congress listed by seniority, from January 3, 2015, to January 3, 2017. In this Congress, Barbara Boxer (D-California) was the most senior junior senator and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) was the most junior senior senator.
Knute Nelson is Minnesota's longest-serving senator (1895–1923). Minnesota is one of fifteen states alongside California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.