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At 91 years, 3 months and 26 days of age, Grassley is the oldest sitting United States senator, and is the longest-serving Republican in congressional history and the sixth-longest-serving U.S. senator in history. He served as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate from 2021 to 2025.
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 ...
Because they were both newly elected senators from the same state, with no prior government service, no other tie-breaking criteria could be used. The Senate's official records, as well as the Democratic Caucus, thus consider Ossoff, whose name comes first alphabetically and elected to a full six-year term, as the senior senator. [3] [5] [6]
State Since Senate Majority Leader: John Thune: SD: January 3, 2025 Party leader since January 3, 2025: Senate Majority Whip: John Barrasso: WY: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: Tom Cotton: AR: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV ...
As of January 2025, a total of 2,015 persons have served in the senate (including those currently serving). [ 1 ] In the party affiliation column, if a senator switched parties and served non-consecutive terms, their affiliation for each term is listed on the corresponding line.
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.
Democratic-Republican Tennessee: September 26, 1797 - March 3, 1815 6,366 dd May 12, 1822 March 5, 1841 John Gaillard: Democratic-Republican South Carolina: December 6, 1804 - February 26, 1826 7,752 dd March 5, 1841 December 11, 1845 William R. King: Democratic-Republican/ Democratic: Alabama: December 14, 1819 - April 15, 1844 8,889 dd ...
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 state governor. The final factor is the population of the senator's state. [1] [2] [3 ...