Historical U.S. Senators - Statistics

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State, Political Party, and Term Year(s)	U.S. Senator	% Correct
New York, Democrat, 2001-2009	Hillary Clinton	97%
Arizona, Republican, 1987-2018	John McCain	91%
Delaware, Democrat, 1973-2009	Joe Biden	84%
Connecticut, Democrat/Independent, 1989-2013	Joe Lieberman	84%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1962-2009	Ted Kennedy	84%
Tennessee, Democrat, 1985-1993	Al Gore, Jr.	81%
Illinois, Democrat, 2005-2008	Barack Obama	81%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1953-1960	John F. Kennedy	81%
Wisconsin, Republican, 1947-1957	Joseph McCarthy	78%
Texas, Democrat, 1949-1961	Lyndon Johnson	78%
California, Democrat, 1993-2017	Barbara Boxer	75%
Kansas, Republican, 1969-1996	Bob Dole	75%
California, Republican, 1950-1953	Richard Nixon	75%
West Virginia, Democrat, 1959-2010	Robert Byrd	75%
Wisconsin, Republican, 1906-1925	Robert La Follette	75%
Ohio, Republican, 1939-1953 "Mr. Republican"	Robert Taft	75%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1964-1976	Walter Mondale	75%
Nevada, Democrat, 1987-2017	Harry Reid	72%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1949-1964, 1971-1978	Hubert Humphrey	72%
Illinois, Democrat, 1847-1861	Stephen Douglas	72%
South Carolina, Democrat/then Republican, 1954-1956, 1956-2003	Strom Thurmond	72%
Indiana, Republican, 1981-1989	Dan Quayle	69%
South Dakota, Democrat, 1963-1981	George McGovern	69%
Missouri, Democrat, 1935-1945	Harry Truman	69%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1985-2013	John Kerry	69%
Maine, Republican, 1995-2013	Olympia Snowe	69%
Utah, Republican, 1977-2019	Orrin Hatch	69%
Hawaii, Democrat, 1963-2012	Daniel Inouye	66%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1959-1971 (1968 anti-war candidate)	Eugene McCarthy	66%
Massachusetts, Republican, 1893-1924	Henry Cabot Lodge	66%
Pennsylvania, Republican for 4 full terms/Democrat in last term, 1981-2011	Arlen Specter	63%
Arizona, Republican, 1953-1965, 1969-1987	Barry Goldwater	63%
Kentucky, Democratic-Republican/Anti-Jacksonian/Whig, 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842, 1849-1852	Henry Clay	63%
South Carolina, Nullifier/Democrat, 1832-1843, 1845-1850	John C. Calhoun	63%
Alaska, Republican, 1968-2009	Ted Stevens	63%
Tennessee, Democrat/Unionist/Democrat, 1857-1862, 1875	Andrew Johnson	59%
North Carolina, Republican, 1973-2003	Jesse Helms	59%
Ohio, Democrat, 1974-1999	John Glenn	59%
New York, Democrat, 1965-1968	Robert F. Kennedy	59%
Colorado, Democrat/Republican since 1995, 1992-2005	Ben Nighthorse Campbell	56%
Mississippi, Democrat, 1847-1851	Jefferson Davis	56%
Virginia, Anti-Administration, 1790-1794	James Monroe	53%
Texas, Democrat, 1846-1859	Sam Houston	53%
Ohio, Republican, 1915-1921	Warren Harding	50%
New York, Anti-Administration/Democratic-Republican, 1791-1797	Aaron Burr	47%
Massachusetts, Anti-Jacksonian/Whig, 1827-1841, 1845-1850	Daniel Webster	47%
Massachusetts, Federalist, 1803-1808	John Quincy Adams	44%
New Hampshire, Democrat, 1837-1842	Franklin Pierce	41%
Idaho, Republican, 1907-1940	William Borah	41%
Maine, Democrat first term/Republican afterward, 1848-1857, 1857-1861, 1869-1881	Hannibal Hamlin	38%
Massachusetts, Free Soil/Republican/Liberal Republican, 1851-1874	Charles Sumner	34%
Pennsylvania, Jacksonian/Democrat, 1834-1845	James Buchanan	34%
New York, Whig/Republican, 1849-1861	William Seward	34%
Indiana, Republican, 1881-1887	Benjamin Harrison	31%
Mississippi, Republican, 1870-1871	Hiram Rhodes Revels	31%
Virginia, Jacksonian/Anti-Jacksonian, 1827-1836	John Tyler	31%
Michigan, Democrat, 1845-1848, 1849-1857	Lewis Cass	31%
New York, Democratic-Republican/Jacksonian, 1821-1828	Martin Van Buren	31%
Missouri, Democrat, 1821-1851	Thomas Hart Benton	31%
New Jersey, Federalist, 1793-1796 (first in large NJ political dynasty)	Frederick Frelinghuysen	28%
Ohio, Anti-Jacksonian, 1825-1828	William Henry Harrison	25%
Alabama, Democratic-Republican/Jacksonian/Democrat, 1819-1844, 1848-1852	William Rufus King	25%
New York, Republican, 1867-1881 (Republican political boss of NY)	Roscoe Conkling	22%
Ohio, Republican, 1861-1877, 1881-1897	John Sherman	19%
Tennessee, Whig/Know Nothing, 1847-1859	John Bell	16%
Oklahoma, Democrat, 1949-1963	Robert Kerr	16%
Rhode Island, Republican, 1875-1881	Ambrose Burnside	13%
Ohio, Whig/Republican, 1851-1869 (leading Radical Republican)	Benjamin Wade	13%
Pennsylvania, Democrat first term/Republican other terms, 1845-1849, 1857-1861, 1867-1877 (Lincoln's Secretary of War)	Simon Cameron	13%