Senate

Sherman is the only person to sign the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, an...

Morris signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. As Superintendent of Finance f...

King was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, where he spoke often and signed the Constitution, then moved to New York and...

Ellsworth served as one of Connecticut's first two senators from 1789 to 1796 and was the principal author of the Judiciary Act of...

Maclay served a single term from 1789 to 1791 and left no landmark legislation, but his detailed, acerbic diary of the first Senat...

Baldwin, a Yale-educated minister turned lawyer, moved to Georgia, served in the Continental Congress, and was a delegate to the C...

Webster served New Hampshire and then Massachusetts in both chambers across four decades, from 1827 to 1841 and 1845 to 1850 in th...

Calhoun served as representative, Secretary of War, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, Senator from 1832 t...

Benton sat in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, the first senator to complete five terms. A devoted ally of Andrew Jackson, he fought ...

Douglas arrived in the Senate at 34 and served from 1847 until his death in 1861. He steered the Compromise of 1850 to passage by ...

Seward governed New York, then served in the Senate from 1849 to 1861. He opposed the Compromise of 1850 as violating a higher law...

After defending fugitive slaves in court, Chase was elected to the Senate in 1849 as a Free Soil Democrat, broke with his party ov...

Houston led the Texas army at San Jacinto, served as president of the Republic twice, represented Tennessee in the House in the 18...

Cass was governor of Michigan Territory, Secretary of War under Jackson, minister to France, Senator from 1845 to 1848 and 1849 to...

Davis represented Mississippi in the Senate from 1847 to 1851 and again from 1857 to 1861, with a term as Franklin Pierce's Secret...

After one of the sharpest antislavery speeches of the decade, his Crime against Kansas address attacking slavery and its defenders...

Wade served Ohio in the Senate from 1851 to 1869, rising from antislavery lawyer to leader of the Radical Republicans. With Henry ...

Born free in North Carolina, Revels was a Methodist minister, educator of Black communities across the Midwest and South, and Unio...

Bruce escaped slavery in Virginia, taught school, and rose through Mississippi Reconstruction politics to the Senate, serving a co...

A Democrat turned Republican, Trumbull served in the Senate from 1855 to 1873, winning the seat in a famous 1855 legislative conte...

Fessenden served in the Senate from 1854 to 1864 and 1865 to 1869, and as Lincoln's Treasury Secretary in 1864 stabilized borrowin...

A former wholesale grocer, Aldrich served from 1881 to 1911 and rose to chair Finance, writing or reshaping major tariff laws incl...

Brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman, John Sherman served in the House from 1855 to 1861, the Senate from 1861 to 1877 and ...

Conkling, dashing and athletic, served in the House from 1859 to 1867 and the Senate from 1867 to 1881, where he ran the New York ...

Allison served continuously from 1873 to 1908, five terms ending only with his death. He chaired the Appropriations Committee for ...

Hoar served in the House from 1869 to 1877 and the Senate from 1877 to his death in 1904, chairing the Judiciary Committee for lon...

A Harvard-trained historian and close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Lodge served in the House from 1887 to 1893 and the Senate fro...

After reforming Wisconsin's government as governor from 1901 to 1906 with direct primaries, railroad regulation, and expert commis...

Elected at 36 in 1899, Beveridge made his name with the March of the Flag speech celebrating American expansion, and as imperialis...

Newlands represented Nevada in the House from 1885 to 1903 and the Senate from 1903 to 1917. His Reclamation Act of 1902, passed w...

Dolliver came to the House in 1889 at 31, gaining fame as a spellbinding orator in the McKinley cause, and was promoted to the Sen...

Owen, an attorney of Cherokee descent who ran the Indian school system, was one of Oklahoma's first two senators in 1907 alongside...

Son of President William Howard Taft, Robert Taft represented Ohio in the Senate from 1939 until his death in 1953. He helped writ...

A onetime isolationist and 1940 presidential aspirant, Vandenberg underwent a public conversion, telling the Senate in January 194...

Russell served from 1933 until his death in 1971, entering the Senate at 35 after a term as Georgia's youngest governor. He chaire...

Kefauver served from 1949 until his death in 1963. In 1950 and 1951 his Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Comme...

A wartime marine and circuit judge, McCarthy was elected in 1946 and in February 1950 charged in a Wheeling speech that the State ...

Smith won her late husband's House seat in 1940, moved to the Senate in 1948, and served until 1972, the first woman elected to bo...

Mayor of Minneapolis, Humphrey entered the Senate in 1949, and at the 1948 convention had urged the party to walk into the sunshin...

Appointed in 1931 to succeed her late husband, Caraway won a special election in 1932, surprising the establishment with a Huey Lo...

Hayden began as Arizona's first representative in 1912, moved to the Senate in 1927, and served until 1969, holding the combined-s...

The youngest Kennedy brother took his Senate seat in 1962 and served until his death in 2009, becoming the third-longest-serving s...

Shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain endured five and a half years as a POW, refusing early release. Elected to the House in 1982 ...

Inouye, a Japanese American who lost an arm leading charges in Italy with the 442nd Regiment, for which he received the Medal of H...

Moynihan wrote the secret 1965 report on the Black family that ignited decades of welfare debate, served in the cabinets of Kenned...

A social worker whose activist roots included the defense of Baltimore's Fells Point, Mikulski won a House seat in 1976, and in 19...

Thurmond began as a Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, was elected to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 1954, and set t...

Raised by a coal miner in Raleigh County, a onetime Ku Klux Klan member who renounced the group, Byrd served in the House from 195...

The son of immigrant parents, Javits served in the House from 1947 to 1954, as New York attorney general, and then in the Senate f...

Jackson represented Washington from 1941, first in the House and from 1953 in the Senate, until his sudden death in 1983. He autho...

Elected to Joe McCarthy's old seat in 1957, Proxmire served until 1989, chairing Banking and pressing budget discipline against Pe...

Crittenden served several Senate stints across four decades, as well as attorney general under two presidents and governor of Kent...

Borah entered the Senate in 1907 and served until his death in 1940, earning the nickname the Lion of Idaho for his oratory. A pro...

Born in Germany and raised in New York City, Wagner rose through Tammany Hall politics and, after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fir...

Long built a powerful political machine as governor of Louisiana, paving roads, building schools, and providing free textbooks whi...

Ervin, a former judge on the North Carolina Supreme Court, was appointed to the Senate in 1954 and soon served on the select commi...

Elected to the Senate in 1956 at the age of 32, Church became an early critic of the Vietnam War and co-sponsored the Cooper-Churc...