There have been 302 senators who have died while in office.
Name (State) | Congress / Session | Date of Death |
---|---|---|
Grayson, William (VA) | 1/2 | 03/12/1790 |
Sherman, Roger (CT) | 2/2 | 07/23/1793* |
Clayton, Joshua (DE) | 5/2 | 08/11/1798* |
Tazewell, Henry (VA) | 5/3 | 01/24/1799 |
Colhoun, John E. (SC) | 7/1 | 10/26/1802* |
Mason, Stevens T. (VA) | 7/2 | 05/10/1803 |
Potter, Samuel J. (RI) | 8/1 | 10/14/1804* |
Jackson, James (GA) | 9/1 | 03/19/1806 |
Baldwin, Abraham (GA) | 9/2 | 03/04/1807 |
Tracy, Uriah (CT) | 9/2 | 07/19/1807* |
Malbone, Francis (RI) | 11/1 | 06/04/1809 |
White, Samuel (DE) | 11/1 | 11/04/1809* |
Gilman, Nicholas (NH) | 13/2 | 05/02/1814* |
Brent, Richard (VA) | 13/3 | 12/30/1814 |
Claiborne, William C. C. (LA) | 14/2 | 11/23/1817* |
Hanson, Alexander Contee (MD) | 15/2 | 04/23/1819* |
Burrill, James , Jr. (RI) | 16/2 | 12/25/1820 |
Trimble, William A. (OH) | 17/1 | 12/13/1821 |
Pinkney, William (MD) | 17/1 | 02/25/1822 |
Boardman, Elijah (CT) | 17/2 | 08/18/1823* |
Taylor, John (VA) | 18/1 | 08/21/1824* |
Ware, Nicholas (GA) | 18/1 | 09/07/1824* |
Chambers, Henry H. (AL) | 19/1 | 01/24/1826 |
Gaillard, John (SC) | 19/1 | 02/26/1826 |
Van Dyke, Nicholas (DE) | 19/1 | 05/21/1826 |
McIlvaine, Joseph (NJ) | 19/1 | 08/19/1826* |
Reed, Thomas B. (MS) | 20/2 | 11/26/1829* |
Adams, Robert H. (MS) | 21/1 | 07/02/1830* |
McLean, John (IL) | 21/1 | 10/14/1830* |
Noble, James (IN) | 21/2 | 02/26/1831 |
Johnston, Josiah S. (LA) | 22/2 | 05/19/1833* |
Buckner, Alexander (MO) | 22/2 | 06/06/1833* |
Smith, Nathan (CT) | 23/2 | 12/06/1835* |
Kane, Elias K. (IL) | 24/1 | 12/12/1835 |
Goldsborough, Robert H. (MD) | 24/2 | 10/05/1836* |
Kent, Joseph (MD) | 25/1 | 11/24/1837* |
Betts, Thaddeus (CT) | 26/1 | 04/07/1840 |
Spence, John S. (MD) | 26/1 | 10/24/1840* |
Grundy, Felix (TN) | 26/2 | 12/19/1840 |
Dixon, Nathan F. (RI) | 27/2 | 01/29/1842 |
Southard, Samuel L. (NJ) | 27/2 | 06/26/1842 |
McRoberts, Samuel (IL) | 27/3 | 03/27/1843* |
Linn, Lewis F. (MO) | 27/3 | 10/03/1843* |
Fulton, William S. (AR) | 28/1 | 08/15/1844* |
Bates, Isaac C. (MA) | 28/2 | 03/16/1845* |
Barrow, Alexander (LA) | 29/2 | 12/29/1846 |
Pennybacker, Isaac S. (VA) | 29/2 | 01/12/1847 |
Speight, Jesse (MS) | 29/2 | 05/01/1847* |
Huntington, Jabez W. (CT) | 29/2 | 11/02/1847* |
Fairfield, John (ME) | 30/1 | 12/24/1847 |
Ashley, Chester (AR) | 30/1 | 04/29/1848 |
Lewis, Dixon H. (AL) | 30/1 | 10/25/1848* |
Calhoun, John C. (SC) | 31/1 | 03/31/1850 |
Elmore, Franklin H. (SC) | 31/1 | 05/29/1850 |
Clay, Henry (KY) | 32/1 | 06/29/1852 |
Whitcomb, James (IN) | 32/1 | 10/04/1852* |
Upham, William (VT) | 32/2 | 01/14/1853 |
Atherton, Charles G. (NH) | 32/2 | 11/15/1853* |
Norris, Moses , Jr. (NH) | 33/2 | 01/11/1855 |
Clayton, John M. (DE) | 34/2 | 11/09/1856* |
Butler, Andrew P. (SC) | 34/3 | 05/25/1857* |
Bell, James (NH) | 34/3 | 05/26/1857* |
Rusk, Thomas J. (TX) | 34/3 | 07/29/1857* |
Evans, Josiah J. (SC) | 35/1 | 05/06/1858 |
Henderson, James P. (TX) | 35/1 | 06/04/1858 |
Broderick, David C. (CA) | 35/2 | 09/16/1859* |
Douglas, Stephen A. (IL) | 36/2 | 06/03/1861* |
Bingham, Kinsley S. (MI) | 37/1 | 10/05/1861* |
Baker, Edward D. (OR) | 37/1 | 10/21/1861* |
Thomson, John R. (NJ) | 37/2 | 09/12/1862* |
Pearce, James A. (MD) | 37/3 | 12/20/1862 |
Bowden, Lemuel J. (VA) | 38/1 | 01/02/1864 |
Hicks, Thomas H. (MD) | 38/2 | 02/14/1865 |
Collamer, Jacob (VT) | 38/2 | 11/09/1865* |
Foot, Solomon (VT) | 39/1 | 03/28/1866 |
Lane, James H. (KS) | 39/1 | 07/11/1866 |
Wright, William (NJ) | 39/1 | 11/01/1866* |
Riddle, George R. (DE) | 40/1 | 03/29/1867 |
Fessenden, William P. (ME) | 41/1 | 09/08/1869* |
Norton, Daniel S. (MN) | 41/2 | 07/13/1870 |
Davis, Garrett (KY) | 42/2 | 09/22/1872* |
Sumner, Charles (MA) | 43/1 | 03/11/1874 |
Buckingham, William A. (CT) | 43/2 | 02/05/1875 |
Johnson, Andrew (TN) | 43/2 | 07/31/1875* |
Ferry, Orris S. (CT) | 43/2 | 11/21/1875* |
Caperton, Allen T. (WV) | 44/1 | 07/26/1876* |
Bogy, Lewis V. (MO) | 44/2 | 09/20/1877* |
Morton, Oliver H. P. T. (IN) | 45/1 | 11/01/1877 |
Chandler, Zachariah (MI) | 46/1 | 11/01/1879* |
Houston, George S. (AL) | 46/2 | 12/31/1879 |
Carpenter, Matthew H. (WI) | 46/3 | 02/24/1881 |
Burnside, Ambrose E. (RI) | 46/3 | 09/13/1881* |
Hill, Benjamin H. (GA) | 47/1 | 08/16/1882* |
Anthony, Henry B. (RI) | 48/1 | 09/02/1884* |
Miller, John F. (CA) | 49/1 | 03/08/1886 |
Pike, Austin F. (NH) | 49/1 | 10/08/1886* |
Logan, John A. (IL) | 49/2 | 12/26/1886 |
Beck, James B. (KY) | 51/1 | 05/03/1890 |
Wilson, Ephraim K. (MD) | 51/2 | 02/24/1891 |
Hearst, George (CA) | 51/2 | 02/28/1891 |
Plumb, Preston B. (KS) | 52/1 | 12/20/1891 |
Barbour, John S., Jr. (VA) | 52/1 | 05/14/1892 |
Gibson, Randell L. (LA) | 52/2 | 12/15/1892 |
Kenna, John E. (WV) | 52/2 | 01/11/1893 |
Stanford, Leland (CA) | 52/2 | 06/21/1893* |
Colquitt, Alfred H. (GA) | 53/2 | 03/26/1894 |
Vance, Zebulon B. (NC) | 53/2 | 04/14/1894 |
Stockbridge, Francis B. (MI) | 53/2 | 04/30/1894 |
Earle, Joseph H. (SC) | 55/1 | 05/20/1897 |
Harris, Isham G. (TN) | 55/1 | 07/08/1897 |
George, James Z. (MS) | 55/1 | 08/14/1897* |
Walthall, Edward C. (MS) | 55/2 | 04/21/1898 |
Morrill, Justin S. (VT) | 55/3 | 12/28/1898 |
Hayward, Monroe L. (NE) | 56/1 | 12/05/1899 |
Gear, John H. (IA) | 56/1 | 07/14/1900* |
Davis, Cushman K. (MN) | 56/1 | 11/27/1900* |
Kyle, James H. (SD) | 57/1 | 07/01/1901* |
Sewell, William J. (NJ) | 57/1 | 12/27/1901 |
McMillan, James (MI) | 57/1 | 08/10/1902* |
Hanna, Mark (OH) | 58/2 | 02/15/1904 |
Quay, Matthew S. (PA) | 58/2 | 05/28/1904* |
Hoar, George F. (MA) | 58/2 | 09/30/1904* |
Bate, William B. (TN) | 58/3 | 03/09/1905* |
Platt, Orville H. (CT) | 58/3 | 04/21/1905* |
Mitchell, John H. (OR) | 59/1 | 12/08/1905 |
Gorman, Arthur P. (MD) | 59/1 | 06/04/1906 |
Alger, Russell A. (MI) | 59/2 | 01/24/1907 |
Morgan, John T. (AL) | 59/2 | 06/11/1907* |
Pettus, Edmund W. (AL) | 59/2 | 07/27/1907* |
Mallory, Stephen R. (FL) | 60/1 | 12/23/1907 |
Latimer, Asbury C. (SC) | 60/1 | 02/20/1908 |
Proctor, Redfield (VT) | 60/1 | 03/04/1908 |
Whyte, William P. (MD) | 60/1 | 03/17/1908 |
Bryan, William J. (FL) | 60/1 | 03/22/1908 |
Allison, William Boyd (IA) | 60/1 | 08/04/1908* |
Johnson, Martin N. (ND) | 61/1 | 10/21/1909* |
McLaurin, Anselm J. (MS) | 61/2 | 12/22/1909 |
McEnery, Samuel D. (LA) | 61/2 | 06/28/1910* |
Daniel, John W. (VA) | 61/2 | 06/29/1910* |
Dolliver, Jonathan P. (IA) | 61/2 | 10/15/1910* |
Clay, Alexander S. (GA) | 61/2 | 11/13/1910* |
Elkins, Stephen B. (WV) | 61/3 | 01/04/1911 |
Hughes, Charles J., Jr. (CO) | 61/3 | 01/11/1911 |
Frye, William P. (ME) | 62/1 | 08/08/1911 |
Taylor, Robert L. (TN) | 62/2 | 03/31/1912 |
Nixon, George S. (NV) | 62/2 | 06/05/1912 |
Heyburn, Weldon B. (ID) | 62/2 | 10/17/1912* |
Rayner, Isidor (MD) | 62/2 | 11/25/1912* |
Davis, Jeff (AR) | 62/3 | 01/03/1913 |
Johnston, Joseph F. (AL) | 63/1 | 08/08/1913 |
Bacon, Augustus O. (GA) | 63/2 | 02/14/1914 |
Bradley, William O. (KY) | 63/2 | 05/23/1914 |
Shively, Benjamin F. (IN) | 64/1 | 03/14/1916 |
Burleigh, Edwin Chick (ME) | 64/1 | 06/16/1916 |
Clarke, James P. (AR) | 64/1 | 10/01/1916* |
Lane, Harry (OR) | 65/1 | 05/23/1917 |
Husting, Paul O. (WI) | 65/1 | 10/21/1917* |
Newlands, Francis G. (NV) | 65/2 | 12/24/1917 |
Brady, James H. (ID) | 65/2 | 01/13/1918 |
Hughes, William (NJ) | 65/2 | 01/30/1918 |
Broussard, Robert F. (LA) | 65/2 | 04/12/1918 |
Stone, William J. (MO) | 65/2 | 04/14/1918 |
Tillman, Benjamin R. (SC) | 65/2 | 07/03/1918 |
Gallinger, Jacob H. (NH) | 65/2 | 08/17/1918 |
James, Ollie M. (KY) | 65/2 | 08/28/1918 |
Martin, Thomas S. (VA) | 66/1 | 11/12/1919 |
Bankhead, John H. (AL) | 66/2 | 03/01/1920 |
Knox, Philander C. (PA) | 67/1 | 10/12/1921 |
Penrose, Boies (PA) | 67/2 | 12/31/1921 |
Crow, William E. (PA) | 67/2 | 08/02/1922 |
Watson, Thomas E. (GA) | 67/2 | 09/26/1922* |
Nicholson, Samuel D. (CO) | 67/4 | 03/24/1923* |
Nelson, Knute (MN) | 67/4 | 04/28/1923* |
Dillingham, William P. (VT) | 67/4 | 07/12/1923* |
Colt, LeBaron B. (RI) | 68/1 | 08/18/1924* |
Brandegee, Frank Bosworth (CT) | 68/1 | 10/14/1924 |
Lodge, Henry C. (MA) | 68/1 | 11/09/1924* |
McCormick, Joseph M. (IL) | 68/2 | 02/25/1925 |
Spencer, Selden P. (MO) | 68/2 | 05/16/1925* |
La Follette, Robert M. (WI) | 68/2 | 06/18/1925* |
Ladd, Edwin F. (ND) | 68/2 | 06/22/1925* |
Ralston, Samuel M. (IN) | 68/2 | 10/14/1925* |
Cummins, Albert B. (IA) | 69/1 | 07/30/1926* |
Fernald, Bert M. (ME) | 69/1 | 08/23/1926* |
McKinley, William B. (IL) | 69/2 | 12/07/1926* |
Jones, Andrieus A. (NM) | 70/1 | 12/20/1927 |
Ferris, Woodbridge N. (MI) | 70/1 | 03/23/1928 |
Willis, Frank B. (OH) | 70/1 | 03/30/1928 |
Gooding, Frank R. (ID) | 70/1 | 06/24/1928* |
Tyson, Lawrence D. (TN) | 71/1 | 08/24/1929* |
Burton, Theodore E. (OH) | 71/1 | 10/28/1929 |
Warren, Francis E. (WY) | 71/1 | 11/24/1929* |
Overman, Lee S. (NC) | 71/3 | 12/12/1930 |
Greene, Frank L. (VT) | 71/3 | 12/17/1930* |
Morrow, Dwight W. (NJ) | 71/3 | 10/05/1931* |
Caraway, Thaddeus H. (AR) | 71/3 | 11/06/1931* |
Harris, William J. (GA) | 72/1 | 04/18/1932 |
Waterman, Charles W. (CO) | 72/1 | 08/27/1932* |
Jones, Wesley L. (WA) | 72/1 | 11/19/1932* |
Walsh, Thomas J. (MT) | 72/2 | 03/02/1933 |
Howell, Robert B. (NE) | 73/1 | 03/11/1933 |
Dale, Porter H. (VT) | 73/1 | 10/06/1933* |
Kendrick, John B. (WY) | 73/1 | 11/03/1933* |
Cutting, Bronson M. (NM) | 74/1 | 05/06/1935 |
Long, Henry P. (LA) | 74/1 | 09/10/1935* |
Schall, Thomas D. (MN) | 74/1 | 12/22/1935* |
Trammell, Park (FL) | 74/2 | 05/08/1936 |
Fletcher, Duncan U. (FL) | 74/2 | 06/17/1936 |
Murphy, Richard L. (IA) | 74/2 | 07/16/1936* |
Couzens, James (MI) | 74/2 | 10/22/1936* |
Norbeck, Peter (SD) | 74/2 | 12/20/1936* |
Bachman, Nathan L. (TN) | 75/1 | 04/23/1937 |
Robinson, Joseph T. (AR) | 75/1 | 07/14/1937 |
Copeland, Royal S. (NY) | 75/3 | 06/17/1938* |
Lewis, James H. (IL) | 76/1 | 04/09/1939 |
Logan, Marvel M. (KY) | 76/2 | 10/03/1939 |
Borah, William E. (ID) | 76/3 | 01/19/1940 |
Gibson, Ernest W. (VT) | 76/3 | 06/20/1940 |
Lundeen, Ernest (MN) | 76/3 | 08/31/1940 |
Pittman, Key (NV) | 76/3 | 11/10/1940 |
Sheppard, Morris (TX) | 77/1 | 04/09/1941 |
Harrison, Pat (MS) | 77/1 | 06/22/1941 |
Houston, Andrew J. (TX) | 77/1 | 06/26/1941 |
Lumpkin, Alva M. (SC) | 77/1 | 08/01/1941 |
Adams, Alva B. (CO) | 77/1 | 12/01/1941 |
Barbour, William W. (NJ) | 78/1 | 11/22/1943 |
Van Nuys, Frederick (IN) | 78/2 | 01/25/1944 |
McNary, Charles L. (OR) | 78/2 | 02/25/1944 |
Smith, Ellison D. (SC) | 78/2 | 11/17/1944 |
Maloney, Francis T. (CT) | 79/1 | 01/16/1945 |
Moses, John (ND) | 79/1 | 03/03/1945 |
Scrugham, James G. (NV) | 79/1 | 06/23/1945 |
Johnson, Hiram W. (CA) | 79/1 | 08/06/1945 |
Thomas, John (ID) | 79/1 | 11/10/1945 |
Glass, Carter (VA) | 79/2 | 05/28/1946 |
Bankhead, John H., II (AL) | 79/2 | 06/12/1946 |
Andrews, Charles O. (FL) | 79/2 | 09/18/1946* |
Bailey, Josiah W. (NC) | 79/2 | 12/15/1946* |
Bilbo, Theodore G. (MS) | 80/1 | 08/21/1947 |
Overton, John H. (LA) | 80/2 | 05/14/1948 |
Bushfield, Harlan J. (SD) | 80/2 | 09/27/1948 |
Broughton, Joseph M. (NC) | 81/1 | 03/06/1949 |
Miller, Bert H. (ID) | 81/1 | 10/08/1949 |
Reed, Clyde M. (KS) | 81/1 | 11/08/1949* |
Chapman, Virgil M. (KY) | 82/1 | 03/08/1951 |
Vandenberg, Arthur H. (MI) | 82/1 | 04/18/1951 |
Wherry, Kenneth S. (NE) | 82/1 | 11/29/1951* |
McMahon, Brien (CT) | 82/2 | 07/28/1952* |
Smith, Willis (NC) | 83/1 | 06/26/1953 |
Tobey, Charles W. (NH) | 83/1 | 07/24/1953 |
Taft, Robert A. (OH) | 83/1 | 07/31/1953 |
Griswold, Dwight P. (NE) | 83/2 | 04/12/1954 |
Hoey, Clyde R. (NC) | 83/2 | 05/12/1954 |
Hunt, Lester C. (WY) | 83/2 | 06/19/1954 |
Butler, Hugh A. (NE) | 83/2 | 07/01/1954 |
Maybank, Burnet R. (SC) | 83/2 | 09/01/1954 |
McCarran, Pat (NV) | 83/2 | 09/28/1954 |
Kilgore, Harley M. (WV) | 84/2 | 02/28/1956 |
Barkley, Alben W. (KY) | 84/2 | 04/30/1956 |
McCarthy, Joseph R. (WI) | 85/1 | 05/02/1957 |
Neely, Matthew M. (WV) | 85/2 | 01/18/1958 |
Scott, William K. (NC) | 85/2 | 04/16/1958 |
Langer, William (ND) | 86/1 | 11/08/1959* |
Neuberger, Richard L. (OR) | 86/2 | 03/09/1960 |
Hennings, Thomas C., Jr. (MO) | 86/2 | 09/13/1960* |
Bridges, H. Styles (NH) | 87/1 | 11/26/1961* |
Schoeppel, Andrew F. (KS) | 87/2 | 01/21/1962 |
Case, Francis H. (SD) | 87/2 | 06/22/1962 |
Dworshak, Henry C. (ID) | 87/2 | 07/23/1962 |
Chavez, Dennis (NM) | 87/2 | 11/18/1962* |
Kerr, Robert S. (OK) | 87/2 | 01/01/1963* |
Kefauver, Carey Estes (TN) | 88/1 | 08/10/1963 |
Engle, Clair (CA) | 88/2 | 07/30/1964 |
Johnston, Olin D. T. (SC) | 89/1 | 04/18/1965 |
McNamara, Patrick V. (MI) | 89/2 | 04/30/1966 |
Kennedy, Robert F. (NY) | 90/2 | 06/06/1968 |
Bartlett, Bob (AK) | 90/2 | 12/11/1968* |
Dirksen, Everett M. (IL) | 91/1 | 09/07/1969 |
Russell, Richard B., Jr. (GA) | 92/1 | 01/21/1971 |
Prouty, Winston L. (VT) | 92/1 | 09/10/1971 |
Ellender, Allen J. (LA) | 92/2 | 07/27/1972 |
Hart, Philip A. (MI) | 94/2 | 12/26/1976 |
McClellan, John L. (AR) | 95/1 | 11/28/1977 |
Metcalf, Lee W. (MT) | 95/2 | 01/12/1978 |
Humphrey, Hubert H., Jr. (MN) | 95/2 | 01/13/1978 |
Allen, James B. (AL) | 95/2 | 06/01/1978 |
Jackson, Scoop (WA) | 98/1 | 09/01/1983 |
East, John P. (NC) | 99/2 | 06/29/1986 |
Zorinsky, Edward (NE) | 100/1 | 03/06/1987 |
Matsunaga, Spark M. (HI) | 101/2 | 04/15/1990 |
Heinz, H. John, III (PA) | 102/1 | 04/04/1991 |
Burdick, Quentin N. (ND) | 102/2 | 09/08/1992 |
Chafee, John H. (RI) | 106/1 | 10/24/1999 |
Coverdell, Paul (GA) | 106/2 | 07/18/2000 |
Wellstone, Paul D. (MN) | 107/2 | 10/25/2002 |
Thomas, Craig L. (WY) | 110/1 | 06/04/2007 |
Kennedy, Edward M. (MA) | 111/1 | 08/25/2009 |
Byrd, Robert C. (WV) | 111/2 | 06/28/2010 |
Inouye, Daniel K. (HI) | 112/2 | 12/17/2012 |
Lautenberg, Frank R. (NJ) | 113/1 | 06/03/2013 |
McCain, John S., III (AZ) | 115/2 | 08/25/2018 |
Feinstein, Dianne (CA) | 118/1 | 09/29/2023 |