List of United States senators from New Jersey
This is a chronological listing of the United States senators from New Jersey. Since the enforcement of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. senators are popularly elected for a six-year term beginning January 3. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Before 1914, they were chosen by the New Jersey Legislature, and before 1935, their terms began March 4. The state's current senators are Democrats Bob Menendez (serving since 2006) and Cory Booker (serving since 2013). Frank Lautenberg was New Jersey's longest-serving senator (1982–2001; 2003–2013).
List of senators[edit]
Living former senators[edit]
As of April 2024, there are five living former U.S. senators from New Jersey. The most recent and most recently serving senator to die was Frank Lautenberg (served 1982–2001 and 2003–2013), who died in office on June 3, 2013.
Senator | Term of office | Date of birth (and age) |
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Bill Bradley | January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1997 | July 28, 1943 |
Nicholas F. Brady | April 12, 1982 – December 27, 1982 | April 11, 1930 |
Robert Torricelli | January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003 | August 27, 1951 |
Jon Corzine | January 3, 2001 – January 17, 2006 | January 1, 1947 |
Jeffrey Chiesa | June 10, 2013 – October 31, 2013 | June 22, 1965 |
Superlatives[edit]
Longest service[edit]
Senator | First served | Last served | Length of service |
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Frank Lautenberg | December 27, 1982Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | January 3, 2001Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Combined total: 28 years, 5 months, 9 days (10,388 days) |
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Clifford P. Case | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 24 years, 0 days (8,766 days) |
Harrison A. Williams | January 3, 1959Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | March 11, 1982Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 22 years, 125 days (8,161 days) |
Bill Bradley | January 3, 1979Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | January 3, 1997Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 18 years, 0 days (6,575 days) |
John R. McPherson | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 17 years, 364 days (6,573 days) |
Shortest service[edit]
Senator | First served | Last served | Length of service |
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James Walter Wall | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days (48 days) |
Richard Stockton Field | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 1 month, 3 weeks and 3 days (54 days) |
Franklin Davenport | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 2 months, 3 weeks and 5 days (88 days) |
Jeffrey Chiesa | June 10, 2013Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | October 31, 2013Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 4 months and 3 weeks (143 days) |
Nicholas F. Brady | April 12, 1982Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | December 27, 1982Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day (259 days) |
Youngest at beginning of service[edit]
Senator | Date of birth | First served | Age |
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John Rutherfurd | September 20, 1760 | March 4, 1791 | 30 years, 5 months and 12 days |
Richard Stockton | April 17, 1764 | November 12, 1796 | 32 years, 6 months and 26 days |
Samuel L. Southard | June 9, 1787 | January 26, 1821 | 33 years, 7 months and 17 days |
William L. Dayton | February 17, 1807 | July 2, 1842 | 35 years, 4 months and 15 days |
Bill Bradley | July 28, 1943 | January 3, 1979 | 35 years, 5 months and 6 days |
Oldest at end of service[edit]
Senator | Date of birth | Last served | Age |
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Frank Lautenberg | January 23, 1924Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | June 3, 2013Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 89 years, 4 months and 11 days |
David Baird Sr. | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 79 years, 10 months and 24 days |
Howard Alexander Smith | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 78 years, 11 months and 4 days |
Clifford P. Case | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 74 years, 8 months and 18 days |
Hamilton Fish Kean | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". | 72 years, 10 months and 7 days |
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- List of United States representatives from New Jersey
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Byrd, p. 142.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "New Jersey 1808 U.S. Senate, Ballot 2". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved Feb 6, 2018., citing The True American and Commercial Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA). Nov 9, 1808.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Byrd, p. 143.
- ↑ "New Jersey 1815 U.S. Senate". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved Feb 26, 2018., citing New Jersey Privy Council Records, 1814. 306-307.
- ↑ "THE RESULT IN NEW-JERSEY.; ELECTION OF JAMES SMITH, JR., THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE". The New York Times. Jan 25, 1893. p. 5.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "KEAN UNITED STATES senator". The New York Times. Jan 25, 1899. p. 2.
- ↑ William H. Smathers was installed late on Apr 15, 1937, remaining until then a member of the state Senate, but that does not affect when his service in the U.S. Senate begins, as there is no prohibition in concurrent service in both federal and state legislatures.
- ↑ Vincent, Isabelle (March 7, 2024). "Gold bar Bob Menendez will not run for re-election to Senate in November — but still refuses to quit". The New York Post. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
References[edit]
- Byrd, Robert C. (October 1, 1993). Wolff, Wendy, ed. The Senate, 1789-1989: Historical Statistics, 1789-1992. United States Senate Historical Office (volume 4 Bicentennial ed.). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160632563. Search this book on