List of United States Senators from Mississippi

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Mississippi was admitted to the Union on December 10, 1817. Its Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861, due to its secession from the Union. They were filled again beginning in April 1870.

[edit] Class 1

Senator	Party	Term
Walter Leake	Democratic	1817–1820
David Holmes	Democratic	1820–1825
Ellis Powhatan	Democratic	1825–1826
Thomas B. Reed	Democratic	1826–1827
Ellis Powhatan	Democratic	1827–1832
John Black	Democratic	1832–1838
James F. Trotter	Democratic	1838
Thomas Hickman Williams	Democratic	1838–1839
John Henderson	Whig	1839–1845
Jesse Speight	Democratic	1845–1847
Jefferson Davis	Democratic	1847–1851
John J. McRae	Democratic	1851–1852
Stephen Adams	Democratic	1852–1857
Jefferson Davis	Democratic	1857–1861
Vacant		1861–1870
Adelbert Ames	Republican	1870–1874
Henry R. Pease	Republican	1874–1875
Blanche K. Bruce	Republican	1875–1881
James Z. George	Democratic	1881–1897
Hernando D. Money	Democratic	1897–1911
John S. Williams	Democratic	1911–1923
Hubert D. Stephens	Democratic	1923–1935
Theodore G. Bilbo	Democratic	1935–1947
John C. Stennis	Democratic	1947–1989
Trent Lott	Republican	1989–present

[edit] Class 2

Senator	Party	Term
Thomas Hill Williams	Democratic	1817–1829
Thomas Buck Reed	Democratic	1829–1829
Robert H. Adams	Democratic	1830–1830
George Poindexter	Democratic, National Republican	1830–1835
Robert J. Walker	Democratic	1835–1845
Joseph W. Chalmers	Democratic	1845–1847
Henry S. Foote	Democratic	1847–1852
Walter Brooke	Whig	1852–1853
Albert G. Brown	Democratic	1854–1861
Vacant		1861–1870
Hiram R. Revels	Republican	1870–1871
James L. Alcorn	Republican	1871–1877
Lucius Q. C. Lamar	Democratic	1877–1885
Edward C. Walthall	Democratic	1885–1894
Anselm J. McLaurin	Democratic	1894–1895
Edward C. Walthall	Democratic	1895–1898
William V. Sullivan	Democratic	1898–1901
Anselm J. McLaurin	Democratic	1901–1909
James Gordon	Democratic	1909–1910
Le Roy Percy	Democratic	1910–1913
James K. Vardaman	Democratic	1913–1919
Pat Harrison	Democratic	1919–1941
James O. Eastland	Democratic	1941
Wall Doxey	Democratic	1941–1943
James O. Eastland	Democratic	1943–1978
Thad Cochran	Republican	1978–present

[edit] See also

• US Congressional Delegations from Mississippi

Lists of United States congressional delegations (lists of House members, lists of Senators)

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