U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, 1789-2018 (May be
incomplete!)
Tristram
Dalton 1789-91
Caleb
Strong 1789-96
George
Cabot 1791-96
Benjamin
Goodhue 1796-1800
Theodore
Sedgwick 1796-99
Samuel
Dexter 1799-1800
Dwight
Foster 1800-03
Jonathan
Mason 1800-03
John
Quincy Adams 1803-08
Timothy
Pickering 1803-11
James
Lloyd 1808-13
Joseph
B. Varnum 1811-17
Christopher
Gore 1813-16
Eli
Porter Ashmun 1816-18
Harrison
Gray Otis 1817-22
Prentiss
Mellen 1818-20
Elijah
H. Mills 1820-27
James
Lloyd 1822-26
Nathaniel
Silsbee 1826-35
Daniel
Webster 1827-41
John
Davis 1835-41
Isaac
C. Bates 1841-45
Rufus
Choate 1841-45
Daniel
Webster 1845-50
John
Davis 1845-53
Robert
C. Winthrop 1850-51
Robert
Rantoul, Jr. 1851
Charles
Sumner 1851-74
Edward
Everett 1853-54
Julius
Rockwell 1854-55
Henry
Wilson 1855-73
George
S. Boutwell 1873-77
William
B. Washburn 1874-75
Henry
L. Dawes 1875-93
George
F. Hoar 1877-1904
Henry
Cabot Lodge 1893-1924
W.
Murray Crane 1904-13
John
W. Weeks 1913-19
David
I. Walsh 1919-25
William
M. Butler 1924-26
Frederick
H. Gillett 1925-31
David
I. Walsh 1926-47
Marcus
A. Coolidge 1931-37
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1937-44
Sinclair
Weeks 1944
Leverett
Saltonstall 1945-67
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1947-53
John
F. Kennedy 1953-60
Benjamin
A. Smith II 1960-61
Benjamin
A. Smith II 1961-62
Edward
M. Kennedy 1962-2009
Edward
W. Brooke 1967-79
Paul
E. Tsongas 1979-85
John
F. Kerry 1985-2013
Paul
G. Kirk, Jr. 2009-10
Scott
Brown 2010-13
Elizabeth
Warren 2013-
Mo
Cowan 2013
Ed
Markey 2013-
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
1803 Mar 2:
Dwight
Foster, resigned.
1808 Jun 8:
John
Quincy Adams, resigned.
1818 May 10:
Eli
Porter Ashmun, resigned.
1845 Mar 16:
Isaac
C. Bates, died in office.
1874 Mar 11:
Charles
Sumner, died in office.
1904 Sep 30:
George
F. Hoar, died in office.
1916 Nov 7:
Henry
Cabot Lodge (Rep), elected;
John
F. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated;
William
N. McDonald (Socialist), defeated.
1918 Nov 5:
David
I. Walsh (Dem), elected;
John
W. Weeks (Rep), defeated;
Thomas
W. Lawson (Ind), defeated.
1922 Nov 7:
Henry
Cabot Lodge (Rep), elected;
William
A. Gaston (Dem), defeated;
John
A. Nicholls (Prohibition & Progressive), defeated;
J.
Weaver Sherman (Socialist), defeated;
Washington
Cook (Ind), defeated;
William
E. Weeks (Progressive), defeated.
1924:
Frederick
W. Dallinger, defeated for nomination.
1924 Nov 4:
Frederick
H. Gillett (Rep), elected;
David
I. Walsh (Dem), defeated;
Antoinette
F. Konikow (Workers), defeated.
1924 Nov 9:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, died in office.
1926 Nov 2:
David
I. Walsh (Dem), elected;
William
M. Butler (Rep), defeated;
John
J. Ballam (Workers), defeated;
Washington
Cook (Modification of Volstead Act), defeated;
Alfred
B. Lewis (Socialist), defeated.
1928 Nov 6:
David
I. Walsh (Dem), elected;
B.
Loring Young (Rep), defeated;
Alfred
B. Lewis (Socialist), defeated;
John
J. Ballam (Workers), defeated.
1930:
Joseph
F. O'Connell (Dem), defeated in primary.
1930 Nov 4:
Marcus
A. Coolidge (Dem), elected;
William
M. Butler (Rep), defeated;
Sylvester
J. McBride (Socialist), defeated;
Oscar
Kinsalas (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Max
Lerner (Communist), defeated.
1934:
Robert
M. Washburn, defeated.
1934 Nov 6:
Albert
S. Coolidge (Socialist), defeated.
1936 Nov 3:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;
James
M. Curley (Dem), defeated;
Thomas
C. O'Brien (Union), defeated;
Alonzo
B. Cook (Townsendite, Prohibition, Economy), defeated;
Guy
M. Gray (Townsend Social Justice), defeated;
Albert
S. Coolidge (Socialist), defeated;
Moses
H. Gulesian (Townsend Plan), defeated;
Ernest
L. Dodge (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Charles
Flaherty (Communist), defeated;
Wilbur
D. Moon (Prohibition), defeated.
1940 Nov 5:
David
I. Walsh (Dem), elected;
Henry
Parkman, Jr. (Rep), defeated;
George
L. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated;
Philip
Frankfeld (Communist), defeated;
George
L. Paine (Socialist), defeated;
Horace
I. Hillis (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1942:
Joseph
Lee (Dem), defeated in primary.
1942 Nov 3:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;
Joseph
E. Casey (Dem), defeated;
George
L. Paine (Socialist), defeated;
Horace
I. Hillis (Socialist Labor), defeated;
George
L. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated.
1944 Feb 3:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., resigned.
1944 Feb 8:
Sinclair
Weeks, appointed.
1944 Nov 7:
Leverett
Saltonstall (Rep), elected;
John
H. Corcoran (Dem), defeated;
Bernard
G. Kelly (Socialist Labor), defeated;
E.
Tallmadge Root (Prohibition), defeated.
1946 Nov 5:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;
David
I. Walsh (Dem), defeated;
Henning
A. Blomen (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Mark
R. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated.
1948 Nov 2:
Leverett
Saltonstall (Rep), elected;
John
I. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated;
Henning
A. Blomen (Socialist Labor), defeated;
E.
Tallmadge Root (Prohibition), defeated.
1952:
Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., defeated.
1952 Nov 4:
Mark
R. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated.
1954:
Mark
Dalton (Dem), defeated in primary.
1954 Nov 2:
Leverett
Saltonstall (Rep), elected;
Foster
Furcolo (Dem), defeated;
Thelma
Ingersoll (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Harold
J. Ireland (Prohibition), defeated.
1958 Nov 4:
John
F. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Vincent
J. Celeste (Rep), defeated;
Lawrence
Gilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Mark
R. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated.
1960:
Foster
Furcolo (Dem), defeated in primary.
1960:
Thomas
J. O'Connor, Jr., defeated.
1962:
Edward
J. McCormack (Dem), defeated in primary.
1962:
H.
Stuart Hughes, defeated.
1962 Sep 18:
George
C. Lodge (Rep), nominated.
1962 Nov 6:
George
C. Lodge (Rep), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Howard
Whitmore, Jr. (Rep), defeated;
Lawrence
Gilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Grace
Farnsworth Luder (Prohibition), defeated.
1966:
Thomas
B. Adams (Dem), defeated in primary.
1966 Nov 8:
Edward
W. Brooke (Rep), elected;
Endicott
Peabody (Dem), defeated;
Lawrence
Gilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Mark
R. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated.
1970 Nov 3:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Josiah
A. Spaulding (Rep), defeated;
Lawrence
Gilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Mark
R. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated.
1972 Nov 7:
Edward
W. Brooke (Rep), elected;
John
W. Droney (Dem), defeated;
Donald
Gurewitz (Socialist Workers), defeated.
1976 Nov 2:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Michael
S. Robertson (Rep), defeated;
Carol
Henderson Evans (Socialist Workers), defeated;
H.
Graham Lowry (U.S. Labor), defeated.
1978:
Howard
Phillips (Dem), defeated in primary;
Kathleen
Sullivan Alioto (Dem), defeated in primary;
Paul
H. Guzzi (Dem), defeated in primary.
1978 Nov 7:
Paul
E. Tsongas (Dem), elected;
Edward
W. Brooke (Rep), defeated.
1982 Nov 2:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Raymond
Shamie (Rep), defeated;
Howard
Katz (Libertarian), defeated.
1984:
James
M. Shannon (Dem), defeated in primary;
Michael
J. Connolly (Dem), defeated in primary.
1984:
Elliot
L. Richardson (Rep), defeated in primary.
1984 Nov 6:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), elected;
Raymond
Shamie (Rep), defeated.
1988 Nov 8:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Joseph
D. Malone (Rep), defeated;
Mary
Fridley (New Alliance), defeated;
Freda
L. Nason (Libertarian), defeated.
1990 Nov 6:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), elected;
James
Rappaport (Rep), defeated.
1994 Nov 8:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Mitt
Romney (Rep), defeated;
Lauraleigh
Dozier (Libertarian), defeated;
William
A. Ferguson, Jr. (LaRouche Was Right), defeated.
1996 Nov 5:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), elected;
William
F. Weld (Rep), defeated;
Susan
C. Gallagher (Conservative), defeated;
Robert
C. Stowe (Natural Law), defeated.
2000 Nov 7:
Edward
M. Kennedy (Dem), elected;
Jack
E. Robinson III (Rep), defeated;
Carla
A. Howell (Libertarian), defeated;
Philip
F. Lawler (Constitution), defeated;
Dale
E. Friedgen, defeated;
Philip
Hyde III (Timesizing Not Downsizing), defeated.
2002 Nov 5:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), elected;
Michael
E. Cloud (Libertarian), defeated;
Randall
Forsberg, defeated.
2008 Sep 16:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), nominated;
Edward
J. O'Reilly (Dem), defeated in primary.
2008 Sep 16:
Jeffrey
K. Beatty (Rep), nominated unopposed.
2008 Nov 4:
John
F. Kerry (Dem), elected;
Jeffrey
K. Beatty (Rep), defeated;
Robert
J. Underwood (Libertarian), defeated.
2009 Aug 25:
Edward
M. Kennedy, died in office.
2009 Sep 24:
Paul
G. Kirk, Jr., appointed.
2009 Dec 8:
Martha
Coakley (Dem), nominated;
Mike
Capuano (Dem), defeated in primary;
Alan
Klazei (Dem), defeated in primary;
Stephen
Pagliuca (Dem), defeated in primary.
2009 Dec 8:
Scott
Brown (Rep), nominated;
Jack
E. Robinson III (Rep), defeated in primary.
2010 Jan 19:
Scott
Brown (Rep), elected;
Martha
Coakley (Dem), defeated;
Joseph
L. Kennedy (Ind), defeated.
2012 Nov 6:
Elizabeth
Warren (Dem), elected.
2013 Jun 25:
Ed
Markey (Dem), elected.
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