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Deans of the U.S. Senate

The Senator with the longest continuous service in the Senate regardless of political affiliation. Not an official position but President Pro Tempore has been the longest serving of the majority party since 1945.
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Party
Home State
Answer
1789 - 1801
Anti-Admin, Democratic Republican
Georgia
James Gunn
1789 - 1801
Pro-Admin, Democratic Republican
New Hampshire
John Langdon
1801 - 1803
Democratic Republican
Rhode Island
Theodore Foster
1803 - 1805
Democratic Republican
Kentucky
John Brown
1805 - 1810
Federalist
Connecticut
James Hillhouse
1810 - 1815
Democratic Republican
Tennessee
Joseph Anderson
1815 - 1826
Democratic Republican
South Carolina
John Gaillard
1826 - 1833
Anti-Jacksonian
Ohio
Benjamin Ruggles
1833 - 1844
Democrat
Alabama
William R. King
1844 - 1851
Democrat
Missouri
Thomas Benton
1851 - 1853
Whig
North Carolina
Willie Person Mangum
1853 - 1862
Whig
Maryland
James Pearce
1862 - 1864
Democrat
Delaware
James A. Bayard Jr.
1862 - 1866
Republican
Vermont
Solomon Foot
1866 - 1869
Republican
Ohio
Benjamin F. Wade
1869 - 1874
Republican
Massachusetts
Charles Sumner
1874 - 1875
Republican
Michigan
Zachariah Chandler
1875 - 1884
Republican
Rhode Island
Henry B. Anthony
1884 - 1891
Republican
Vermont
George F. Edmunds
1891 - 1898
Republican
Vermont
Justin Smith Morrill
1898 - 1908
Republican
Iowa
William B. Allison
1908 - 1911
Republican
Maine
Eugene Hale
1911
Republican
Maine
William P. Frye
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Party
Home State
Answer
1911 - 1913
Republican
Illinois
Shelby Moore Cullom
1913 - 1918
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob Harold Gallinger
1918 - 1924
Republican
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
1924 - 1929
Republican
Wyoming
Francis E. Warren
1929 - 1931
Democrat
North Carolina
Furnifold McLendel Simmons
1931 - 1933
Republican
Utah
Reed Smoot
1933 - 1940
Republican
Idaho
William Edgar Borah
1940 - 1944
Democrat
South Carolina
Ellison D. Smith
1944 - 1953
Democrat
Tennessee
Kenneth McKellar
1953 - 1957
Democrat
Georgia
Walter F. George
1957 - 1969
Democrat
Arizona
Carl Hayden
1971 - 1972
Democrat
Louisiana
Allen J. Ellender
1972 - 1975
Republican
Vermont
George D. Aiken
1975 - 1978
Democrat
Mississippi
James Eastland
1975 - 1977
Democrat
Arkansas
John L. McClellan
1978 - 1981
Democrat
Washington
Warren G. Magnuson
1981 - 1989
Democrat
Mississippi
John C. Stennis
1989 - 2003
Republican
South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
2003 - 2010
Democrat
West Virgina
Robert Byrd
2010 -2012
Democrat
Hawaii
Daniel Inouye
2012 - 2023
Democrat
Vermont
Patrick Leahy
2023 - Present
Republican
Iowa
Chuck Grassley
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2 Comments
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Level 67
Feb 22, 2026
You accidentialy have Strom Thurmond listed as being from South Dakota instead of South Carolina and John McClellan as being from Arizona instead of Arkansas
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Level 36
Feb 24, 2026
Just fixed it.