List of living former United States Senators
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This is a list of former United States Senators, who as of 2012 are still alive:
State | Senator | Party | Date of birth | Term | Age (Years/Days) |
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Alabama | Maryon Pittman Allen | Democratic | November 30, 1925 | 1978 | 86 years, 86 days |
Alabama | Donald W. Stewart | Democratic | February 8, 1940 | 1978 – 1981 | 72 years, 16 days |
Alabama | Jeremiah Denton | Republican | July 15, 1924 | 1981 – 1987 | 87 years, 224 days |
Alaska | Mike Gravel | Democratic | May 13, 1930 | 1969 – 1981 | 81 years, 287 days |
Alaska | Frank Murkowski | Republican | March 28, 1933 | 1981 – 2002 | 78 years, 333 days |
Arizona | Dennis DeConcini | Democratic | May 8, 1937 | 1977 – 1995 | 74 years, 292 days |
Arkansas | Dale Bumpers | Democratic | August 12, 1925 | 1975 – 1999 | 86 years, 196 days |
Arkansas | Kaneaster Hodges, Jr. | Democratic | August 30, 1938 | 1977 – 1979 | 73 years, 178 days |
Arkansas | David Pryor | Democratic | August 29, 1934 | 1979 – 1997 | 77 years, 179 days |
Arkansas | Tim Hutchinson | Republican | August 11, 1949 | 1997 – 2003 | 62 years, 197 days |
Arkansas | Blanche Lincoln | Democratic | September 30, 1960 | 1999 – 2011 | 51 years, 147 days |
California | John V. Tunney | Democratic | June 26, 1934 | 1971 – 1977 | 77 years, 243 days |
California | Pete Wilson | Republican | August 23, 1933 | 1983 – 1991 | 78 years, 185 days |
California | John F. Seymour | Republican | December 3, 1937 | 1991 – 1992 | 74 years, 83 days |
Colorado | Wayne Allard | Republican | December 2, 1943 | 1997 – 2009 | 68 years, 84 days |
Colorado | William L. Armstrong | Republican | March 16, 1937 | 1979 – 1991 | 74 years, 345 days |
Colorado | Hank Brown | Republican | February 12, 1940 | 1991 – 1997 | 72 years, 12 days |
Colorado | Gary Hart | Democratic | November 28, 1936 | 1975 – 1987 | 75 years, 88 days |
Colorado | Tim Wirth | Democratic | September 22, 1939 | 1987 – 1993 | 72 years, 155 days |
Colorado | Ben Nighthorse Campbell | Democratic, Republican | April 13, 1933 | 1993 – 2005 | 78 years, 317 days |
Colorado | Ken Salazar | Democratic | March 2, 1955 | 2005 – 2009 | 56 years, 359 days |
Connecticut | Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | Republican | May 16, 1931 | 1971 – 1989 | 80 years, 284 days |
Connecticut | Christopher Dodd | Democratic | May 27, 1944 | 1981 – 2011 | 67 years, 273 days |
Delaware | Joe Biden | Democratic | November 20, 1942 | 1973 – 2009 | 69 years, 96 days |
Delaware | Ted Kaufman | Democratic | March 15, 1939 | 2009 – 2010 | 72 years, 346 days |
Florida | Connie Mack III | Republican | October 29, 1940 | 1989 – 2001 | 71 years, 118 days |
Florida | Richard Stone | Democratic | September 22, 1928 | 1975 – 1981 | 83 years, 155 days |
Florida | Mel Martinez | Republican | October 23, 1946 | 2005 – 2009 | 65 years, 124 days |
Florida | Bob Graham | Democratic | November 9, 1936 | 1987 – 2005 | 75 years, 107 days |
Florida | George LeMieux | Republican | May 21, 1969 | 2009 – 2011 | 42 years, 279 days |
Georgia | David H. Gambrell | Democratic | December 20, 1929 | 1971 – 1972 | 82 years, 66 days |
Georgia | Sam Nunn | Democratic | September 8, 1938 | 1972 – 1997 | 73 years, 169 days |
Georgia | Max Cleland | Democratic | August 24, 1942 | 1997 – 2003 | 69 years, 184 days |
Georgia | Mack Mattingly | Republican | January 7, 1931 | 1981 – 1987 | 81 years, 48 days |
Georgia | Wyche Fowler | Democratic | October 6, 1940 | 1987 – 1993 | 71 years, 141 days |
Georgia | Zell Miller | Democratic | February 24, 1932 | 2000 – 2005 | 80 years, 0 days |
Idaho | Larry Craig | Republican | July 20, 1945 | 1991 – 2009 | 66 years, 219 days |
Idaho | Steve Symms | Republican | April 23, 1938 | 1981 – 1993 | 73 years, 307 days |
Idaho | Dirk Kempthorne | Republican | October 29, 1951 | 1993 – 1999 | 60 years, 118 days |
Illinois | Adlai Stevenson III | Democratic | October 10, 1930 | 1970 – 1981 | 81 years, 137 days |
Illinois | Alan J. Dixon | Democratic | July 7, 1927 | 1981 – 1993 | 84 years, 232 days |
Illinois | Carol Moseley-Braun | Democratic | August 16, 1947 | 1993 – 1999 | 64 years, 192 days |
Illinois | Peter G. Fitzgerald | Republican | October 20, 1960 | 1999 – 2005 | 51 years, 127 days |
Illinois | Barack Obama | Democratic | August 4, 1961 | 2005 – 2008 | 50 years, 204 days |
Illinois | Roland Burris | Democratic | August 3, 1937 | 2009 – 2010 | 74 years, 177 days |
Indiana | Birch Bayh | Democratic | January 22, 1928 | 1963 – 1981 | 84 years, 33 days |
Indiana | Dan Quayle | Republican | February 4, 1947 | 1981 – 1989 | 65 years, 20 days |
Indiana | Evan Bayh | Democratic | December 26, 1955 | 1999 – 2011 | 56 years, 60 days |
Iowa | Dick Clark | Democratic | September 14, 1928 | 1973 – 1979 | 83 years, 163 days |
Iowa | Roger Jepsen | Republican | December 23, 1928 | 1979 – 1985 | 83 years, 63 days |
Iowa | John Culver | Democratic | August 8, 1932 | 1975 – 1981 | 79 years, 200 days |
Kansas | Nancy Landon Kassebaum | Republican | July 29, 1932 | 1978 – 1997 | 79 years, 210 days |
Kansas | Bob Dole | Republican | July 22, 1923 | 1969 – 1996 | 88 years, 217 days |
Kansas | Sheila Frahm | Republican | March 22, 1945 | 1996 | 66 years, 339 days |
Kansas | Sam Brownback | Republican | September 12, 1956 | 1996 – 2011 | 55 years, 165 days |
Kentucky | Walter Huddleston | Democratic | April 15, 1926 | 1973 – 1985 | 85 years, 315 days |
Kentucky | Marlow Cook | Republican | July 27, 1926 | 1968 – 1974 | 85 years, 212 days |
Kentucky | Wendell H. Ford | Democratic | September 8, 1924 | 1974 – 1999 | 87 years, 169 days |
Kentucky | Jim Bunning | Republican | October 23, 1931 | 1999 – 2011 | 80 years, 124 days |
Louisiana | Elaine Edwards | Democratic | March 8, 1929 | 1972 | 82 years, 353 days |
Louisiana | Bennett Johnston | Democratic | June 30, 1932 | 1972 – 1997 | 79 years, 239 days |
Louisiana | John Breaux | Democratic | March 1, 1944 | 1987 – 2005 | 67 years, 360 days |
Maine | George J. Mitchell | Democratic | August 20, 1933 | 1980 – 1995 | 78 years, 188 days |
Maine | William Hathaway | Democratic | February 21, 1924 | 1973 – 1979 | 88 years, 3 days |
Maine | William Cohen | Republican | August 28, 1940 | 1979 – 1997 | 71 years, 180 days |
Maryland | Joseph Tydings | Democratic | May 4, 1928 | 1965 – 1971 | 83 years, 296 days |
Maryland | Paul Sarbanes | Democratic | February 3, 1933 | 1977 – 2007 | 79 years, 21 days |
Massachusetts | Edward Brooke | Republican | October 26, 1919 | 1967 – 1979 | 92 years, 121 days |
Massachusetts | Paul G. Kirk | Democratic | January 18, 1938 | 2009 – 2010 | 74 years, 37 days |
Michigan | Donald W. Riegle, Jr. | Democratic | February 4, 1938 | 1976 – 1995 | 74 years, 20 days |
Michigan | Spencer Abraham | Republican | June 12, 1952 | 1995 – 2001 | 59 years, 257 days |
Michigan | Robert P. Griffin | Republican | November 6, 1923 | 1966 – 1979 | 88 years, 110 days |
Minnesota | Norm Coleman | Republican | August 17, 1949 | 2003 – 2009 | 62 years, 191 days |
Minnesota | David Durenberger | Republican | August 19, 1934 | 1978 – 1995 | 77 years, 189 days |
Minnesota | Rod Grams | Republican | February 4, 1948 | 1995 – 2001 | 64 years, 20 days |
Minnesota | Mark Dayton | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | January 26, 1947 | 2001 – 2007 | 65 years, 29 days |
Minnesota | Walter Mondale | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | January 5, 1928 | 1964 – 1977 | 84 years, 50 days |
Minnesota | Wendell Anderson | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | February 1, 1933 | 1977 – 1978 | 79 years, 23 days |
Minnesota | Rudy Boschwitz | Republican | November 7, 1930 | 1978 – 1991 | 81 years, 109 days |
Minnesota | Dean Barkley | Independence | August 31, 1950 | 2002 – 2003 | 61 years, 177 days |
Mississippi | Trent Lott | Republican | October 9, 1941 | 1989 – 2007 | 70 years, 138 days |
Missouri | John Danforth | Republican | September 5, 1936 | 1976 – 1995 | 75 years, 172 days |
Missouri | John Ashcroft | Republican | May 9, 1942 | 1995 – 2001 | 69 years, 291 days |
Missouri | Jean Carnahan | Democratic | December 30, 1933 | 2001 – 2002 | 78 years, 56 days |
Missouri | Jim Talent | Republican | October 18, 1956 | 2002 – 2007 | 55 years, 129 days |
Missouri | Kit Bond | Republican | March 6, 1939 | 1987 – 2011 | 72 years, 355 days |
Montana | John Melcher | Democratic | September 6, 1924 | 1977 – 1989 | 87 years, 171 days |
Montana | Conrad Burns | Republican | January 25, 1935 | 1989 – 2007 | 77 years, 30 days |
Nebraska | Chuck Hagel | Republican | October 4, 1946 | 1997 – 2009 | 65 years, 141 days |
Nebraska | David K. Karnes | Republican | December 12, 1948 | 1987 – 1989 | 63 years, 74 days |
Nebraska | Bob Kerrey | Democratic | August 27, 1943 | 1989 – 2001 | 68 years, 181 days |
Nevada | Richard Bryan | Democratic | July 16, 1937 | 1989 – 2001 | 74 years, 223 days |
Nevada | John Ensign | Republican | March 25, 1958 | 2001 – 2011 | 53 years, 336 days |
Nevada | Paul Laxalt | Republican | August 2, 1922 | 1974 – 1987 | 89 years, 206 days |
New Hampshire | Gordon J. Humphrey | Republican | October 9, 1940 | 1979 – 1990 | 71 years, 138 days |
New Hampshire | John A. Durkin | Democratic | March 29, 1936 | 1975 – 1981 | 75 years, 332 days |
New Hampshire | Warren Rudman | Republican | May 18, 1930 | 1981 – 1993 | 81 years, 282 days |
New Hampshire | Robert C. Smith | Republican | March 30, 1941 | 1990 – 2003 | 70 years, 331 days |
New Hampshire | John E. Sununu | Republican | September 6, 1964 | 2003 – 2009 | 47 years, 171 days |
New Hampshire | Judd Gregg | Republican | February 14, 1947 | 1993 – 2011 | 65 years, 10 days |
New Jersey | Nicholas F. Brady | Republican | April 11, 1930 | 1982 | 81 years, 319 days |
New Jersey | Jon Corzine | Democratic | January 1, 1947 | 2001 – 2006 | 65 years, 54 days |
New Jersey | Bill Bradley | Democratic | July 28, 1943 | 1979 – 1997 | 68 years, 211 days |
New Jersey | Robert Torricelli | Democratic | August 27, 1951 | 1997 – 2003 | 60 years, 181 days |
New Mexico | Pete Domenici | Republican | May 7, 1932 | 1973 – 2009 | 79 years, 293 days |
New Mexico | Harrison Schmitt | Republican | July 3, 1935 | 1977 – 1983 | 76 years, 236 days |
New York | James L. Buckley | Conservative | March 9, 1923 | 1971 – 1977 | 88 years, 352 days |
New York | Al D'Amato | Republican | August 1, 1937 | 1981 – 1999 | 74 years, 207 days |
New York | Hillary Clinton | Democratic | October 26, 1947 | 2001 – 2009 | 64 years, 121 days |
North Carolina | Robert B. Morgan | Democratic | October 5, 1925 | 1975 – 1981 | 86 years, 142 days |
North Carolina | Jim Broyhill | Republican | August 19, 1927 | 1986 | 84 years, 189 days |
North Carolina | Elizabeth Dole | Republican | July 29, 1936 | 2003 – 2009 | 75 years, 210 days |
North Carolina | Lauch Faircloth | Republican | January 14, 1928 | 1993 – 1999 | 84 years, 41 days |
North Carolina | John Edwards | Democratic | June 10, 1953 | 1999 – 2005 | 58 years, 259 days |
North Dakota | Jocelyn Burdick | Democratic | February 6, 1922 | 1992 | 90 years, 18 days |
North Dakota | Mark Andrews | Republican | May 19, 1926 | 1981 – 1987 | 85 years, 281 days |
North Dakota | Byron Dorgan | Democratic | May 14, 1942 | 1992 – 2011 | 69 years, 286 days |
Ohio | Mike DeWine | Republican | January 5, 1947 | 1995 – 2007 | 65 years, 50 days |
Ohio | John Glenn | Democratic | July 18, 1921 | 1974 – 1999 | 90 years, 221 days |
Ohio | George Voinovich | Republican | July 15, 1936 | 1999 – 2011 | 75 years, 224 days |
Oklahoma | Fred R. Harris | Democratic | November 13, 1930 | 1964 – 1973 | 81 years, 103 days |
Oklahoma | David L. Boren | Democratic | April 21, 1941 | 1979 – 1994 | 70 years, 309 days |
Oklahoma | Don Nickles | Republican | December 6, 1948 | 1981 – 2005 | 63 years, 80 days |
Oregon | Bob Packwood | Republican | September 11, 1932 | 1969 – 1995 | 79 years, 166 days |
Oregon | Gordon H. Smith | Republican | May 25, 1952 | 1997 – 2009 | 59 years, 275 days |
Pennsylvania | Harris Wofford | Democratic | April 9, 1926 | 1991 – 1995 | 85 years, 321 days |
Pennsylvania | Rick Santorum | Republican | May 10, 1958 | 1995 – 2007 | 53 years, 290 days |
Pennsylvania | Richard S. Schweiker | Republican | June 1, 1926 | 1965 – 1981 | 85 years, 268 days |
Pennsylvania | Arlen Specter | Republican, Democratic | February 12, 1930 | 1981 – 2011 | 82 years, 12 days |
Rhode Island | Lincoln Chafee | Republican | March 26, 1953 | 1999 – 2007 | 58 years, 335 days |
South Carolina | Ernest Hollings | Democratic | January 1, 1922 | 1966 – 2005 | 90 years, 54 days |
South Dakota | James Abourezk | Democratic | February 24, 1931 | 1973 – 1979 | 81 years, 0 days |
South Dakota | Larry Pressler | Republican | March 29, 1942 | 1979 – 1997 | 69 years, 332 days |
South Dakota | George McGovern | Democratic | July 19, 1922 | 1963 – 1981 | 89 years, 220 days |
South Dakota | James Abdnor | Republican | February 13, 1923 | 1981 – 1987 | 89 years, 11 days |
South Dakota | Tom Daschle | Democratic | December 9, 1947 | 1987 – 2005 | 64 years, 77 days |
Tennessee | Bill Brock | Republican | November 23, 1930 | 1971 – 1977 | 81 years, 93 days |
Tennessee | Jim Sasser | Democratic | September 30, 1936 | 1977 – 1995 | 75 years, 147 days |
Tennessee | Bill Frist | Republican | February 22, 1952 | 1995 – 2007 | 60 years, 2 days |
Tennessee | Howard Baker | Republican | November 15, 1925 | 1967 – 1985 | 86 years, 101 days |
Tennessee | Al Gore | Democratic | March 31, 1948 | 1985 – 1993 | 63 years, 330 days |
Tennessee | Harlan Mathews | Democratic | January 17, 1927 | 1993 – 1994 | 85 years, 38 days |
Tennessee | Fred Thompson | Republican | August 19, 1942 | 1994 – 2003 | 69 years, 189 days |
Texas | Bob Krueger | Democratic | September 19, 1935 | 1993 | 76 years, 158 days |
Texas | Phil Gramm | Republican | July 8, 1942 | 1985 – 2003 | 69 years, 231 days |
Utah | Jake Garn | Republican | October 12, 1932 | 1974 – 1993 | 79 years, 135 days |
Utah | Bob Bennett | Republican | September 18, 1933 | 1993 – 2011 | 78 years, 159 days |
Vermont | Jim Jeffords | Republican, Independent | May 11, 1934 | 1989 – 2007 | 77 years, 289 days |
Virginia | George Allen | Republican | March 8, 1952 | 2001 – 2007 | 59 years, 353 days |
Virginia | Harry F. Byrd, Jr. | Democratic, Independent | December 20, 1914 | 1965 – 1983 | 97 years, 66 days |
Virginia | Paul S. Trible, Jr. | Republican | December 29, 1946 | 1983 – 1989 | 65 years, 57 days |
Virginia | Chuck Robb | Democratic | June 26, 1939 | 1989 – 2001 | 72 years, 243 days |
Virginia | John Warner | Republican | February 18, 1927 | 1979 – 2009 | 85 years, 6 days |
Washington | Daniel J. Evans | Republican | October 16, 1925 | 1983 – 1989 | 86 years, 131 days |
Washington | Slade Gorton | Republican | January 8, 1928 | 1981 – 1987, 1989 – 2001 |
84 years, 47 days |
West Virginia | Carte Goodwin | Democratic | February 27, 1974 | 2010 | 37 years, 362 days |
Wisconsin | Bob Kasten | Republican | June 19, 1942 | 1981 – 1993 | 69 years, 250 days |
Wisconsin | Russ Feingold | Democratic | March 2, 1953 | 1993 – 2011 | 58 years, 359 days |
Wyoming | Alan K. Simpson | Republican | September 2, 1931 | 1979 – 1997 | 80 years, 175 days |
[edit] Note
As of 2011, Hawaii is the only state to have no living former senators. (use link in See also)
[edit] See also
- List of current United States Senators by age
- List of former United States Senators
- Classes of United States Senators
- Seniority in the United States Senate
- List of United States Senators from Hawaii