List of living former United States senators
This is a list of living former United States senators. There are currently 146 people listed. Hawaii and Kentucky are currently the only states without a living former senator. Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming each have just one living former senator. Colorado has the most living former senators, with 8 as of July 23, 2024.
Living former senators[edit]
State | Senator | Party | Date of birth | Term | Age (years/days) |
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Alabama | Donald Stewart | Democratic | February 8, 1940 | 1978–1981 | 84 years, 166 days |
Alabama | Richard Shelby | Democratic, then Republican |
May 6, 1934 | 1987–1994 1994–2023 |
90 years, 78 days |
Alabama | Jeff Sessions | Republican | December 24, 1946 | 1997–2017 | 77 years, 212 days |
Alabama | Luther Strange | Republican | March 1, 1953 | 2017–2018 | 71 years, 144 days |
Alabama | Doug Jones | Democratic | May 4, 1954 | 2018–2021 | 70 years, 80 days |
Alaska | Frank Murkowski | Republican | March 28, 1933 | 1981–2002 | 91 years, 117 days |
Alaska | Mark Begich | Democratic | March 30, 1962 | 2009–2015 | 62 years, 115 days |
Arizona | Dennis DeConcini | Democratic | May 8, 1937 | 1977–1995 | 87 years, 76 days |
Arizona | Jon Kyl | Republican | April 25, 1942 | 1995–2013 2018 |
82 years, 89 days |
Arizona | Jeff Flake | Republican | December 31, 1962 | 2013–2019 | 61 years, 205 days |
Arizona | Martha McSally | Republican | March 22, 1966 | 2019–2020 | 58 years, 123 days |
Arkansas | Tim Hutchinson | Republican | August 11, 1949 | 1997–2003 | 74 years, 347 days |
Arkansas | Blanche Lincoln | Democratic | September 30, 1960 | 1999–2011 | 63 years, 297 days |
Arkansas | Mark Pryor | Democratic | January 10, 1963 | 2003–2015 | 61 years, 195 days |
California | Pete Wilson | Republican | August 23, 1933 | 1983–1991 | 90 years, 335 days |
California | John Seymour | Republican | December 3, 1937 | 1991–1992 | 86 years, 233 days |
California | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | November 11, 1940 | 1993–2017 | 83 years, 255 days |
California | Kamala Harris | Democratic | October 20, 1964 | 2017–2021 | 59 years, 277 days |
Colorado | Gary Hart | Democratic | November 28, 1936 | 1975–1987 | 87 years, 238 days |
Colorado | Tim Wirth | Democratic | September 22, 1939 | 1987–1993 | 84 years, 305 days |
Colorado | Hank Brown | Republican | February 12, 1940 | 1991–1997 | 84 years, 162 days |
Colorado | Ben Nighthorse Campbell | Democratic, then Republican |
April 13, 1933 | 1993–2005 | 91 years, 101 days |
Colorado | Wayne Allard | Republican | December 2, 1943 | 1997–2009 | 80 years, 234 days |
Colorado | Ken Salazar | Democratic | March 2, 1955 | 2005–2009 | 69 years, 143 days |
Colorado | Mark Udall | Democratic | July 18, 1950 | 2009–2015 | 74 years, 5 days |
Colorado | Cory Gardner | Republican | August 22, 1974 | 2015–2021 | 49 years, 336 days |
Connecticut | Chris Dodd | Democratic | May 27, 1944 | 1981–2011 | 80 years, 57 days |
Delaware | Joe Biden | Democratic | November 20, 1942 | 1973–2009 | 81 years, 246 days |
Delaware | Ted Kaufman | Democratic | March 15, 1939 | 2009–2010 | 85 years, 130 days |
Florida | Connie Mack III | Republican | October 29, 1940 | 1989–2001 | 83 years, 268 days |
Florida | Bill Nelson | Democratic | September 29, 1942 | 2001–2019 | 81 years, 298 days |
Florida | Mel Martínez | Republican | October 23, 1946 | 2005–2009 | 77 years, 274 days |
Florida | George LeMieux | Republican | May 21, 1969 | 2009–2011 | 55 years, 63 days |
Georgia | Sam Nunn | Democratic | September 8, 1938 | 1972–1997 | 85 years, 319 days |
Georgia | Mack Mattingly | Republican | January 7, 1931 | 1981–1987 | 93 years, 198 days |
Georgia | Wyche Fowler | Democratic | October 6, 1940 | 1987–1993 | 83 years, 291 days |
Georgia | Saxby Chambliss | Republican | November 10, 1943 | 2003–2015 | 80 years, 256 days |
Georgia | David Perdue | Republican | December 10, 1949 | 2015–2021 | 74 years, 226 days |
Georgia | Kelly Loeffler | Republican | November 27, 1970 | 2020–2021 | 53 years, 239 days |
Hawaii | No former senators are living | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Idaho | Steve Symms | Republican | April 23, 1938 | 1981–1993 | 86 years, 91 days |
Idaho | Larry Craig | Republican | July 20, 1945 | 1991–2009 | 79 years, 3 days |
Idaho | Dirk Kempthorne | Republican | October 29, 1951 | 1993–1999 | 72 years, 268 days |
Illinois | Carol Moseley Braun | Democratic | August 16, 1947 | 1993–1999 | 76 years, 342 days |
Illinois | Peter Fitzgerald | Republican | October 20, 1960 | 1999–2005 | 63 years, 277 days |
Illinois | Barack Obama | Democratic | August 4, 1961 | 2005–2008 | 62 years, 354 days |
Illinois | Roland Burris | Democratic | August 3, 1937 | 2009–2010 | 86 years, 355 days |
Illinois | Mark Kirk | Republican | September 15, 1959 | 2010–2017 | 64 years, 312 days |
Indiana | Dan Quayle | Republican | February 4, 1947 | 1981–1989 | 77 years, 170 days |
Indiana | Dan Coats | Republican | May 16, 1943 | 1989–1999 2011–2017 |
81 years, 68 days |
Indiana | Evan Bayh | Democratic | December 26, 1955 | 1999–2011 | 68 years, 210 days |
Indiana | Joe Donnelly | Democratic | September 29, 1955 | 2013–2019 | 68 years, 298 days |
Iowa | Tom Harkin | Democratic | November 19, 1939 | 1985–2015 | 84 years, 247 days |
Kansas | Nancy Kassebaum | Republican | July 29, 1932 | 1978–1997 | 91 years, 360 days |
Kansas | Sheila Frahm | Republican | March 22, 1945 | 1996 | 79 years, 123 days |
Kansas | Sam Brownback | Republican | September 12, 1956 | 1996–2011 | 67 years, 315 days |
Kansas | Pat Roberts | Republican | April 20, 1936 | 1997–2021 | 88 years, 94 days |
Kentucky | No former senators are living | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Louisiana | J. Bennett Johnston | Democratic | June 10, 1932 | 1972–1997 | 92 years, 43 days |
Louisiana | John Breaux | Democratic | March 1, 1944 | 1987–2005 | 80 years, 144 days |
Louisiana | Mary Landrieu | Democratic | November 23, 1955 | 1997–2015 | 68 years, 243 days |
Louisiana | David Vitter | Republican | May 3, 1961 | 2005–2017 | 63 years, 81 days |
Maine | William Cohen | Republican | August 28, 1940 | 1979–1997 | 83 years, 330 days |
Maine | George J. Mitchell | Democratic | August 20, 1933 | 1980–1995 | 90 years, 338 days |
Maine | Olympia Snowe | Republican | February 21, 1947 | 1995–2013 | 77 years, 153 days |
Maryland | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | July 20, 1936 | 1987–2017 | 88 years, 3 days |
Massachusetts | John Kerry | Democratic | December 11, 1943 | 1985–2013 | 80 years, 225 days |
Massachusetts | Paul G. Kirk | Democratic | January 18, 1938 | 2009–2010 | 86 years, 187 days |
Massachusetts | Scott Brown | Republican | September 12, 1959 | 2010–2013 | 64 years, 315 days |
Massachusetts | Mo Cowan | Democratic | April 4, 1969 | 2013 | 55 years, 110 days |
Michigan | Donald Riegle | Democratic | February 4, 1938 | 1976–1995 | 86 years, 170 days |
Michigan | Spencer Abraham | Republican | June 12, 1952 | 1995–2001 | 72 years, 41 days |
Minnesota | Rudy Boschwitz | Independent-Republican | November 7, 1930 | 1978–1991 | 93 years, 259 days |
Minnesota | Mark Dayton | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | January 26, 1947 | 2001–2007 | 77 years, 179 days |
Minnesota | Dean Barkley | Independence | August 31, 1950 | 2002–2003 | 73 years, 327 days |
Minnesota | Norm Coleman | Republican | August 17, 1949 | 2003–2009 | 74 years, 341 days |
Minnesota | Al Franken | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | May 21, 1951 | 2009–2018 | 73 years, 63 days |
Mississippi | Trent Lott | Republican | October 9, 1941 | 1989–2007 | 82 years, 288 days |
Missouri | John Danforth | Republican | September 5, 1936 | 1976–1995 | 87 years, 322 days |
Missouri | Kit Bond | Republican | March 6, 1939 | 1987–2011 | 85 years, 139 days |
Missouri | John Ashcroft | Republican | May 9, 1942 | 1995–2001 | 82 years, 75 days |
Missouri | Jim Talent | Republican | October 18, 1956 | 2002–2007 | 67 years, 279 days |
Missouri | Claire McCaskill | Democratic | July 24, 1953 | 2007–2019 | 70 years, 365 days |
Missouri | Roy Blunt | Republican | January 10, 1950 | 2011–2023 | 74 years, 195 days |
Montana | Max Baucus | Democratic | December 11, 1941 | 1978–2014 | 82 years, 225 days |
Montana | John Walsh | Democratic | November 3, 1960 | 2014–2015 | 63 years, 263 days |
Nebraska | Bob Kerrey | Democratic | August 27, 1943 | 1989–2001 | 80 years, 331 days |
Nebraska | Chuck Hagel | Republican | October 4, 1946 | 1997–2009 | 77 years, 293 days |
Nebraska | Ben Nelson | Democratic | May 17, 1941 | 2001–2013 | 83 years, 67 days |
Nebraska | Mike Johanns | Republican | June 18, 1950 | 2009–2015 | 74 years, 35 days |
Nebraska | Ben Sasse | Republican | February 22, 1972 | 2015–2023 | 52 years, 152 days |
Nevada | Richard Bryan | Democratic | July 16, 1937 | 1989–2001 | 87 years, 7 days |
Nevada | John Ensign | Republican | March 25, 1958 | 2001–2011 | 66 years, 120 days |
Nevada | Dean Heller | Republican | May 10, 1960 | 2011–2019 | 64 years, 74 days |
New Hampshire | Gordon J. Humphrey | Republican | October 9, 1940 | 1979–1990 | 83 years, 288 days |
New Hampshire | Bob Smith | Republican | March 30, 1941 | 1990–2003 | 83 years, 115 days |
New Hampshire | Judd Gregg | Republican | February 14, 1947 | 1993–2011 | 77 years, 160 days |
New Hampshire | John E. Sununu | Republican | September 10, 1964 | 2003–2009 | 59 years, 317 days |
New Hampshire | Kelly Ayotte | Republican | June 27, 1968 | 2011–2017 | 56 years, 26 days |
New Jersey | Bill Bradley | Democratic | July 28, 1943 | 1979–1997 | 80 years, 361 days |
New Jersey | Nicholas F. Brady | Republican | April 11, 1930 | 1982 | 94 years, 103 days |
New Jersey | Robert Torricelli | Democratic | August 27, 1951 | 1997–2003 | 72 years, 331 days |
New Jersey | Jon Corzine | Democratic | January 1, 1947 | 2001–2006 | 77 years, 204 days |
New Jersey | Jeffrey Chiesa | Republican | June 22, 1965 | 2013 | 59 years, 31 days |
New Mexico | Harrison Schmitt | Republican | July 3, 1935 | 1977–1983 | 89 years, 20 days |
New Mexico | Jeff Bingaman | Democratic | October 3, 1943 | 1983–2013 | 80 years, 294 days |
New Mexico | Tom Udall | Democratic | May 18, 1948 | 2009–2021 | 76 years, 66 days |
New York | Al D'Amato | Republican | August 1, 1937 | 1981–1999 | 86 years, 357 days |
New York | Hillary Clinton | Democratic | October 26, 1947 | 2001–2009 | 76 years, 271 days |
North Carolina | John Edwards | Democratic | June 10, 1953 | 1999–2005 | 71 years, 43 days |
North Carolina | Elizabeth Dole | Republican | July 29, 1936 | 2003–2009 | 87 years, 360 days |
North Carolina | Richard Burr | Republican | November 30, 1955 | 2005–2023 | 68 years, 236 days |
North Dakota | Kent Conrad | Democratic-Nonpartisan League | March 12, 1948 | 1987–1992 1992–2013 |
76 years, 133 days |
North Dakota | Byron Dorgan | Democratic-Nonpartisan League | May 14, 1942 | 1992–2011 | 82 years, 70 days |
North Dakota | Heidi Heitkamp | Democratic-Nonpartisan League | October 30, 1955 | 2013–2019 | 68 years, 267 days |
Ohio | Mike DeWine | Republican | January 5, 1947 | 1995–2007 | 77 years, 200 days |
Ohio | Rob Portman | Republican | December 19, 1955 | 2011–2023 | 68 years, 217 days |
Oklahoma | Fred R. Harris | Democratic | November 13, 1930 | 1964–1973 | 93 years, 253 days |
Oklahoma | David Boren | Democratic | April 21, 1941 | 1979–1994 | 83 years, 93 days |
Oklahoma | Don Nickles | Republican | December 6, 1948 | 1981–2005 | 75 years, 230 days |
Oregon | Bob Packwood | Republican | September 11, 1932 | 1969–1995 | 91 years, 316 days |
Oregon | Gordon H. Smith | Republican | May 25, 1952 | 1997–2009 | 72 years, 59 days |
Pennsylvania | Rick Santorum | Republican | May 10, 1958 | 1995–2007 | 66 years, 74 days |
Pennsylvania | Pat Toomey | Republican | November 17, 1961 | 2011–2023 | 62 years, 249 days |
Rhode Island | Lincoln Chafee | Republican | March 26, 1953 | 1999–2007 | 71 years, 119 days |
South Carolina | Jim DeMint | Republican | September 2, 1951 | 2005–2013 | 72 years, 325 days |
South Dakota | Larry Pressler | Republican | March 29, 1942 | 1979–1997 | 82 years, 116 days |
South Dakota | Tom Daschle | Democratic | December 9, 1947 | 1987–2005 | 76 years, 227 days |
South Dakota | Tim Johnson | Democratic | December 28, 1946 | 1997–2015 | 77 years, 208 days |
Tennessee | Jim Sasser | Democratic | September 30, 1936 | 1977–1995 | 87 years, 297 days |
Tennessee | Al Gore | Democratic | March 31, 1948 | 1985–1993 | 76 years, 114 days |
Tennessee | Bill Frist | Republican | February 22, 1952 | 1995–2007 | 72 years, 152 days |
Tennessee | Lamar Alexander | Republican | July 3, 1940 | 2003–2021 | 84 years, 20 days |
Tennessee | Bob Corker | Republican | August 24, 1952 | 2007–2019 | 71 years, 334 days |
Texas | Phil Gramm | Republican | July 8, 1942 | 1985–2002 | 82 years, 15 days |
Texas | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Republican | July 22, 1943 | 1993–2013 | 81 years, 1 day |
Utah | Jake Garn | Republican | October 12, 1932 | 1974–1993 | 91 years, 285 days |
Vermont | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | March 31, 1940 | 1975–2023 | 84 years, 114 days |
Virginia | Paul Trible | Republican | December 29, 1946 | 1983–1989 | 77 years, 207 days |
Virginia | Chuck Robb | Democratic | June 26, 1939 | 1989–2001 | 85 years, 27 days |
Virginia | George Allen | Republican | March 8, 1952 | 2001–2007 | 72 years, 137 days |
Virginia | Jim Webb | Democratic | February 9, 1946 | 2007–2013 | 78 years, 165 days |
Washington | Daniel J. Evans | Republican | October 16, 1925 | 1983–1989 | 98 years, 281 days |
West Virginia | Jay Rockefeller | Democratic | June 18, 1937 | 1985–2015 | 87 years, 35 days |
West Virginia | Carte Goodwin | Democratic | February 27, 1974 | 2010 | 50 years, 147 days |
Wisconsin | Bob Kasten | Republican | June 19, 1942 | 1981–1993 | 82 years, 34 days |
Wisconsin | Russ Feingold | Democratic | March 2, 1953 | 1993–2011 | 71 years, 143 days |
Wyoming | Alan Simpson | Republican | September 2, 1931 | 1979–1997 | 92 years, 325 days |
See also[edit]
- List of former United States senators
- Classes of United States senators
- Seniority in the United States Senate
- List of living former members of the United States House of Representatives
- List of longest-living United States senators
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