The table below documents the desks known to have been used by members of the U.S. Senate who also served as president of the United States. It includes only senators who served after 1819, the year the Senate acquired the earliest of the Senate Chamber desks that are still in use today.
Desk | Senator | State | Party | Senate Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified* | Andrew Jackson | Tennessee | DR | 1797–1798; 1823–1825 |
Unidentified* | Martin Van Buren | New York | DR, CRR, J | 1821–1828 |
Unidentified* | William H. Harrison | Ohio | A | 1825–1828 |
Unidentified* | John Tyler | Virginia | J, AJ | 1827–1836 |
Unidentified* | James Buchanan | Pennsylvania | J, D | 1834–1845 |
Unidentified* | Franklin Pierce | New Hampshire | D | 1837–1842 |
Unidentified* | Andrew Johnson | Tennessee | D | 1857–1862; 1875 |
Unidentified* | Benjamin Harrison | Indiana | R | 1881–1887 |
4 (IV)
47 (XLVII) 68 (LXVIII) | Warren G. Harding | Ohio | R | 1915–1921 |
2 (II)
18 (XVIII) 37 (XXXVII) 40 (XL) 43 (XLIII) 60 (LX) 65 (LXV) 79 (LXXIX) 89 (LXXXIX) 90 (XC) | Harry S. Truman | Missouri | D | 1935–1945 |
83 (LXXXIII)
90 (XC) 91 (XCI) | John F. Kennedy | Massachusetts | D | 1953–1960 |
10 (X)
18 (XVIII) | Lyndon B. Johnson | Texas | D | 1949–1961 |
47 (XLVII)
70 (LXX) | Richard M. Nixon | California | R | 1950–1953 |
24 (XXIV) | Barack Obama | Illinois | D | 2005–2008 |
22 (XXII)
91 (XCI) 93 (XCIII) | Joe Biden | Delaware | D | 1973–2009 |