Members of each political party convene in private meetings known as party conferences (or party caucuses) to elect floor leaders, make committee assignments, and set legislative agendas. Each party elects a conference secretary, who is responsible for keeping the minutes. The party conferences first began electing a secretary in the 1890s, but a lack of surviving minutes of conference meetings makes it difficult to identify who held the positions prior to 1903 for the Democrats and 1911 for the Republicans.
Senator | Term |
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Charles Curtis (R-KS) |
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William S. Kenyon (R-IA) |
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James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R-NY) |
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Frederick Hale (R-ME) |
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Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) |
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Harold H. Burton (R-OH) |
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Chan Gurney (R-SD) |
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Milton R. Young (R-ND) |
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Norris H. Cotton (R-NH) |
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Wallace F. Bennett (R-UT) |
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Robert T. Stafford (R-VT) |
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Clifford P. Hansen (R-WY) |
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E. Jacob Garn (Jake) (R-UT) |
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Thad Cochran (R-MS) |
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Robert W. Kasten, Jr. (R-WI) |
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Trent Lott (R-MS) |
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Connie Mack III (R-FL) |
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Paul Coverdell (R-GA) |
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Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) |
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John Cornyn (R-TX) |
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John Thune (R-SD) |
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Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) |
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John Barrasso (R-WY) |
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Roy Blunt (R-MO) |
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Joni Ernst (R-IA) |
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Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) |
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James Lankford (R-OK) |
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Senator | Term |
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Edward W. Carmack (D-TN) |
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Robert L. Owen (D-OK) |
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William E. Chilton (D-WV) |
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Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D-DE) |
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Key Pittman (D-NV) |
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William H. King (D-UT) |
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Hugo L. Black (D-AL) |
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Joshua B. Lee (D-OK) |
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Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) |
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Brien McMahon (D-CT) |
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Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D-MO) |
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George A. Smathers (D-FL) |
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Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) |
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Frank E. Moss (Ted) (D-UT) |
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Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) |
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David H. Pryor (D-AR) |
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Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) |
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Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) |
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Patty Murray (D-WA) |
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Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) |
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