The Political Graveyard: U.S. Senators Who Died in Office

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U.S. Senators Who Died While Still Holding Office

The 1790s
- William Grayson (Va.), March 12, 1790
- Roger Sherman (Conn.), July 23, 1793
- Joshua Clayton (Del.), August 11, 1798
- Henry Tazewell (Va.), 1799
The 1800s
- John E. Colhoun (S.C.), October 26, 1802
- Stevens Thomson Mason (Va.), May 9, 1803
- Samuel J. Potter (R.I.), 1804
- James Jackson (Ga.), March 19, 1806
- Abraham Baldwin (Ga.), March 4, 1807
- Uriah Tracy (Conn.), July 19, 1807
- Francis Malbone (R.I.), June 4, 1809
- Samuel White (Del.), November 4, 1809
The 1810s
- Nicholas Gilman (N.H.), May 2, 1814
- Richard Brent (Va.), December 30, 1814
- William C. C. Claiborne (La.), November 23, 1817
- Alexander C. Hanson (Md.), April 23, 1819
The 1820s
- James Burrill, Jr. (R.I.), December 25, 1820
- William Allen Trimble (Ohio), December 13, 1821
- William Pinkney (Md.), February 25, 1822
- Elijah Boardman (Conn.), August 18, 1823
- John Taylor of Caroline (Va.), August 21, 1824
- Nicholas Ware (Ga.), September 7, 1824
- Joseph McIlvaine (N.J.), 1826
- Henry H. Chambers (Ala.), January 24, 1826
- John Gaillard (S.C.), February 26, 1826
- Nicholas Van Dyke (Del.), May 21, 1826
- Thomas Buck Reed (Miss.), November 26, 1829
The 1830s
- Robert H. Adams (Miss.), July 2, 1830
- John McLean (Ill.), October 14, 1830
- James Noble (Ind.), February 26, 1831
- Josiah S. Johnston (La.), May 19, 1833
- Alexander Buckner (Mo.), June 6, 1833
- Nathan Smith (Conn.), December 6, 1835
- Elias K. Kane (Ill.), December 12, 1835
- Robert H. Goldsborough (Md.), October 5, 1836
- Joseph Kent (Md.), November 24, 1837
The 1840s
- Thaddeus Betts (Conn.), April 7, 1840
- John S. Spence (Md.), October 24, 1840
- Felix Grundy (Tenn.), December 19, 1840
- Nathan Fellows Dixon (R.I.), January 29, 1842
- Samuel L. Southard (N.J.), June 26, 1842
- Samuel McRoberts (Ill.), March 27, 1843
- Lewis F. Linn (Mo.), October 3, 1843
- William S. Fulton (Ark.), August 15, 1844
- Isaac C. Bates (Mass.), March 16, 1845
- Alexander Barrow (La.), December 29, 1846
- Isaac Samuels Pennybacker (Va.), 1847
- Jesse Speight (Miss.), May 1, 1847
- Jabez W. Huntington (Conn.), November 1, 1847
- John Fairfield (Maine), December 24, 1847
- Chester Ashley (Ark.), April 29, 1848
- Dixon H. Lewis (Ala.), October 25, 1848
The 1850s
- John C. Calhoun (S.C.), March 31, 1850
- Franklin H. Elmore (S.C.), May 29, 1850
- Henry Clay (Ky.), June 29, 1852
- James Whitcomb (Ind.), October 4, 1852
- William Upham (Vt.), January 14, 1853
- Charles G. Atherton (N.H.), November 15, 1853
- Moses Norris, Jr. (N.H.), January 11, 1855
- John M. Clayton (Del.), November 9, 1856
- Andrew P. Butler (S.C.), May 25, 1857
- James Bell (N.H.), May 26, 1857
- Thomas J. Rusk (Tex.), July 29, 1857
- Josiah J. Evans (S.C.), May 6, 1858
- J. Pinckney Henderson (Tex.), June 4, 1858
- David C. Broderick (Calif.), September 16, 1859
The 1860s
- Stephen A. Douglas (Ill.), June 3, 1861
- Kinsley S. Bingham (Mich.), October 5, 1861
- Edward D. Baker (Ore.), October 21, 1861
- John R. Thomson (N.J.), 1862
- James A. Pearce (Md.), December 20, 1862
- Lemuel Jackson Bowden (Va.), January 2, 1864
- Thomas H. Hicks (Md.), February 14, 1865
- Jacob Collamer (Vt.), November 9, 1865
- Solomon Foot (Vt.), March 28, 1866
- James H. Lane (Kan.), July 11, 1866
- William Wright (N.J.), November 1, 1866
- George R. Riddle (Del.), March 29, 1867
- William Pitt Fessenden (Maine), September 8, 1869
The 1870s
- Daniel S. Norton (Minn.), July 13, 1870
- Garrett Davis (Ky.), September 22, 1872
- Charles Sumner (Mass.), March 11, 1874
- William A. Buckingham (Conn.), February 5, 1875
- Andrew Johnson (Tenn.), July 31, 1875
- Orris S. Ferry (Conn.), November 21, 1875
- Allen T. Caperton (W.Va.), July 26, 1876
- Lewis V. Bogy (Mo.), September 20, 1877
- Oliver P. Morton (Ind.), November 1, 1877
- Zachariah Chandler (Mich.), November 1, 1879
- George S. Houston (Ala.), December 31, 1879
The 1880s
- Matthew H. Carpenter (Wis.), February 24, 1881
- Ambrose E. Burnside (R.I.), September 13, 1881
- Benjamin H. Hill (Ga.), August 16, 1882
- Henry B. Anthony (R.I.), September 2, 1884
- Austin F. Pike (N.H.), 1886
- John F. Miller (Calif.), March 8, 1886
- John A. Logan (Ill.), December 26, 1886
The 1890s
- James B. Beck (Ky.), May 3, 1890
- Ephraim K. Wilson (Md.), February 24, 1891
- George Hearst (Calif.), February 28, 1891
- Preston B. Plumb (Kan.), December 20, 1891
- John S. Barbour, Jr. (Va.), May 14, 1892
- Randall L. Gibson (La.), December 15, 1892
- John E. Kenna (W.Va.), January 11, 1893
- Leland Stanford (Calif.), June 21, 1893
- Alfred H. Colquitt (Ga.), March 26, 1894
- Zebulon B. Vance (N.C.), April 14, 1894
- Francis B. Stockbridge (Mich.), April 30, 1894
- Joseph H. Earle (S.C.), May 20, 1897
- Isham G. Harris (Tenn.), July 8, 1897
- James Z. George (Miss.), August 14, 1897
- Edward C. Walthall (Miss.), April 21, 1898
- Justin S. Morrill (Vt.), December 28, 1898
- Monroe L. Hayward (Neb.), December 5, 1899
The 1900s
- John H. Gear (Iowa), July 14, 1900
- Cushman K. Davis (Minn.), November 27, 1900
- James H. Kyle (S.Dak.), July 1, 1901
- William J. Sewell (N.J.), December 27, 1901
- James McMillan (Mich.), August 10, 1902
- Marcus A. Hanna (Ohio), February 15, 1904
- Matthew S. Quay (Pa.), May 28, 1904
- George F. Hoar (Mass.), September 30, 1904
- William B. Bate (Tenn.), March 9, 1905
- Orville H. Platt (Conn.), April 21, 1905
- John H. Mitchell (Ore.), December 8, 1905
- Arthur P. Gorman (Md.), June 4, 1906
- Russell A. Alger (Mich.), January 24, 1907
- John T. Morgan (Ala.), June 11, 1907
- Edmund W. Pettus (Ala.), July 27, 1907
- Stephen R. Mallory, Jr. (Fla.), December 23, 1907
- Asbury C. Latimer (S.C.), February 20, 1908
- Redfield Proctor (Vt.), March 4, 1908
- William Pinkney Whyte (Md.), March 17, 1908
- William J. Bryan (Fla.), March 22, 1908
- William B. Allison (Iowa), August 4, 1908
- Martin N. Johnson (N.Dak.), October 21, 1909
- A. J. McLaurin (Miss.), December 22, 1909
The 1910s
- Samuel D. McEnery (La.), June 28, 1910
- John W. Daniel (Va.), June 29, 1910
- Jonathan P. Dolliver (Iowa), October 15, 1910
- Alexander S. Clay (Ga.), November 13, 1910
- Stephen B. Elkins (W.Va.), January 4, 1911
- Charles J. Hughes, Jr. (Colo.), January 11, 1911
- William P. Frye (Maine), August 8, 1911
- Robert L. Taylor (Tenn.), March 31, 1912
- George S. Nixon (Nev.), June 5, 1912
- Weldon B. Heyburn (Idaho), October 17, 1912
- Isidor Rayner (Md.), November 25, 1912
- Jeff Davis (Ark.), January 3, 1913
- Joseph F. Johnston (Ala.), August 8, 1913
- Augustus O. Bacon (Ga.), February 14, 1914
- William O. Bradley (Ky.), May 23, 1914
- Benjamin F. Shively (Ind.), March 14, 1916
- Edwin C. Burleigh (Maine), June 16, 1916
- James P. Clarke (Ark.), October 1, 1916
- Harry Lane (Ore.), May 23, 1917
- Paul O. Husting (Wis.), October 21, 1917
- Francis G. Newlands (Nev.), December 24, 1917
- Ollie M. James (Ky.), 1918
- James H. Brady (Idaho), January 13, 1918
- William Hughes (N.J.), January 30, 1918
- Robert F. Broussard (La.), April 12, 1918
- William J. Stone (Mo.), April 14, 1918
- Benjamin R. Tillman (S.C.), July 3, 1918
- Jacob H. Gallinger (N.H.), August 17, 1918
- Thomas S. Martin (Va.), 1919
The 1920s
- John H. Bankhead (Ala.), March 1, 1920
- Philander C. Knox (Pa.), October 12, 1921
- Boies Penrose (Pa.), December 31, 1921
- William E. Crow (Pa.), August 2, 1922
- Thomas E. Watson (Ga.), September 26, 1922
- Samuel D. Nicholson (Colo.), March 24, 1923
- Knute Nelson (Minn.), April 28, 1923
- William P. Dillingham (Vt.), July 12, 1923
- LeBaron B. Colt (R.I.), August 18, 1924
- Frank B. Brandegee (Conn.), October 14, 1924
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Mass.), November 9, 1924
- Medill McCormick (Ill.), February 25, 1925
- Selden P. Spencer (Mo.), May 16, 1925
- Robert M. LaFollette (Wis.), June 18, 1925
- Edwin F. Ladd (N.Dak.), June 22, 1925
- Samuel M. Ralston (Ind.), October 14, 1925
- Albert B. Cummins (Iowa), July 30, 1926
- Bert M. Fernald (Maine), August 23, 1926
- William B. McKinley (Ill.), December 7, 1926
- Andrieus A. Jones (N.M.), December 20, 1927
- Woodbridge N. Ferris (Mich.), March 23, 1928
- Frank B. Willis (Ohio), March 30, 1928
- Frank R. Gooding (Idaho), June 24, 1928
- Lawrence D. Tyson (Tenn.), 1929
- Theodore E. Burton (Ohio), October 28, 1929
- Francis E. Warren (Wyo.), November 24, 1929
The 1930s
- Lee S. Overman (N.C.), December 12, 1930
- Frank L. Greene (Vt.), December 17, 1930
- Dwight W. Morrow (N.J.), October 5, 1931
- Thaddeus H. Caraway (Ark.), November 6, 1931
- William J. Harris (Ga.), April 18, 1932
- Charles W. Waterman (Colo.), August 27, 1932
- Wesley L. Jones (Wash.), November 19, 1932
- Thomas J. Walsh (Mont.), March 2, 1933
- Robert B. Howell (Neb.), March 11, 1933
- Porter H. Dale (Vt.), October 6, 1933
- John B. Kendrick (Wyo.), November 3, 1933
- Bronson M. Cutting (N.M.), May 6, 1935
- Huey P. Long (La.), September 10, 1935
- Thomas D. Schall (Minn.), December 22, 1935
- Park Trammell (Fla.), May 8, 1936
- Duncan U. Fletcher (Fla.), June 17, 1936
- Louis Murphy (Iowa), July 16, 1936
- James Couzens (Mich.), October 22, 1936
- Peter Norbeck (S.Dak.), December 20, 1936
- Nathan L. Bachman (Tenn.), April 23, 1937
- Joseph T. Robinson (Ark.), July 14, 1937
- Royal S. Copeland (N.Y.), June 17, 1938
- J. Hamilton Lewis (Ill.), April 9, 1939
- M. M. Logan (Ky.), October 3, 1939
The 1940s
- William E. Borah (Idaho), January 19, 1940
- Ernest W. Gibson (Vt.), June 20, 1940
- Ernest Lundeen (Minn.), August 31, 1940
- Key Pittman (Nev.), November 10, 1940
- Morris Sheppard (Tex.), April 9, 1941
- Pat Harrison (Miss.), June 22, 1941
- Andrew Jackson Houston (Tex.), June 26, 1941
- Alva M. Lumpkin (S.C.), August 1, 1941
- Alva B. Adams (Colo.), December 1, 1941
- W. Warren Barbour (N.J.), November 22, 1943
- Frederick Van Nuys (Ind.), January 25, 1944
- Charles L. McNary (Ore.), February 25, 1944
- Ellison D. Smith (S.C.), November 17, 1944
- Francis T. Maloney (Conn.), January 16, 1945
- John Moses (N.Dak.), March 3, 1945
- James G. Scrugham (Nev.), June 23, 1945
- Hiram W. Johnson (Calif.), August 6, 1945
- John Thomas (Idaho), November 10, 1945
- Carter Glass (Va.), May 28, 1946
- John H. Bankhead II (Ala.), June 12, 1946
- Charles O. Andrews (Fla.), September 18, 1946
- Josiah W. Bailey (N.C.), December 15, 1946
- Theodore G. Bilbo (Miss.), August 21, 1947
- John H. Overton (La.), May 14, 1948
- Harlan J. Bushfield (S.Dak.), September 27, 1948
- J. Melville Broughton (N.C.), March 6, 1949
- Bert H. Miller (Idaho), October 8, 1949
- Clyde M. Reed (Kan.), November 8, 1949
The 1950s
- Virgil Chapman (Ky.), March 8, 1951
- Arthur H. Vandenberg (Mich.), April 18, 1951
- Kenneth S. Wherry (Neb.), November 29, 1951
- Brien McMahon (Conn.), July 28, 1952
- Willis Smith (N.C.), June 26, 1953
- Charles W. Tobey (N.H.), July 24, 1953
- Robert A. Taft (Ohio), July 31, 1953
- Dwight P. Griswold (Neb.), April 12, 1954
- Clyde R. Hoey (N.C.), May 12, 1954
- Lester Callaway Hunt (Wyo.), June 19, 1954
- Hugh A. Butler (Neb.), July 1, 1954
- Burnet R. Maybank (S.C.), September 1, 1954
- Patrick A. McCarran (Nev.), September 28, 1954
- Harley M. Kilgore (W.Va.), February 28, 1956
- Alben W. Barkley (Ky.), April 30, 1956
- Joseph R. McCarthy (Wis.), May 2, 1957
- Matthew M. Neely (W.Va.), January 18, 1958
- W. Kerr Scott (N.C.), April 16, 1958
- William Langer (N.Dak.), November 8, 1959
The 1960s
- Richard L. Neuberger (Ore.), March 9, 1960
- Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (Mo.), September 13, 1960
- H. Styles Bridges (N.H.), November 26, 1961
- Andrew F. Schoeppel (Kan.), January 21, 1962
- Francis Case (S.Dak.), June 22, 1962
- Henry C. Dworshak (Idaho), July 23, 1962
- Dennis Chavez (N.M.), November 18, 1962
- Robert S. Kerr (Okla.), January 1, 1963
- Estes Kefauver (Tenn.), August 10, 1963
- Clair Engle (Calif.), July 30, 1964
- Olin D. Johnston (S.C.), April 18, 1965
- Patrick V. McNamara (Mich.), April 30, 1966
- Robert F. Kennedy (N.Y.), June 6, 1968
- E. L. 'Bob' Bartlett (Alaska), December 11, 1968
- Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.), September 7, 1969
The 1970s
- Richard B. Russell, Jr. (Ga.), January 21, 1971
- Winston L. Prouty (Vt.), September 10, 1971
- Allen J. Ellender (La.), July 27, 1972
- Philip A. Hart (Mich.), December 26, 1976
- John L. McClellan (Ark.), November 28, 1977
- Lee Metcalf (Mont.), January 12, 1978
- Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.), January 13, 1978
- James B. Allen (Ala.), June 1, 1978
The 1980s
- Henry M. Jackson (Wash.), September 1, 1983
- John P. East (N.C.), June 29, 1986
- Edward Zorinsky (Neb.), March 6, 1987
The 1990s
- Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii), April 15, 1990
- H. John Heinz III (Pa.), April 4, 1991
- Quentin N. Burdick (N.Dak.), September 8, 1992
- John H. Chafee (R.I.), October 24, 1999
The 2000s
- Paul Coverdell (Ga.), July 18, 2000
- Paul Wellstone (Minn.), October 25, 2002
- Craig Thomas (Wyo.), June 4, 2007
- Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.), August 25, 2009
The 2010s
- Frank R. Lautenberg (N.J.), June 3, 2013

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