List of United States Senators who were born or died in the 1940s
This is a list of the 80 United States Senators who were born in the 1940s and of the 99 senators who died in the same period. There are 27 senators listed in bold who died in office.
Births
Senator |
State |
Served |
Party |
Date of birth |
Date of death |
Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Donald Stewart |
Alabama |
1978–1981 |
|Democratic |
February 8, 1940 |
Living |
|
Hank Brown |
Colorado |
1991–1997 |
|Republican |
February 12, 1940 |
Living |
|
Patrick Leahy |
Vermont |
1975– |
|Democratic |
March 31, 1940 |
Living |
|
Lamar Alexander |
Tennessee |
2003– |
|Republican |
July 3, 1940 |
Living |
|
William Cohen |
Maine |
1979–1997 |
|Republican |
August 28, 1940 |
Living |
|
Wyche Fowler |
Georgia |
1987–1993 |
|Democratic |
October 6, 1940 |
Living |
|
Gordon J. Humphrey |
New Hampshire |
1979–1990 |
|Republican |
October 9, 1940 |
Living |
|
Connie Mack III |
Florida |
1989–2001 |
|Republican |
October 29, 1940 |
Living |
|
Barbara Boxer |
California |
1993– |
|Democratic |
November 11, 1940 |
Living |
|
Paul Tsongas |
Massachusetts |
1979–1985 |
|Democratic |
February 14, 1941 |
January 18, 1997 |
|
Bob Smith |
New Hampshire |
1990–2003 |
|Republican |
March 30, 1941 |
Living |
|
David L. Boren |
Oklahoma |
1979–1994 |
|Democratic |
April 21, 1941 |
Living |
|
Ben Nelson |
Nebraska |
2001–2013 |
|Democratic |
May 17, 1941 |
Living |
|
Bernie Sanders |
Vermont |
2007– |
|Independent |
September 8, 1941 |
Living |
|
Trent Lott |
Mississippi |
1989–2007 |
|Republican |
October 9, 1941 |
Living |
|
Max Baucus |
Montana |
1978–2014 |
|Democratic |
December 11, 1941 |
Living |
|
Mitch McConnell |
Kentucky |
1985– |
|Republican |
February 20, 1942 |
Living |
|
Joe Lieberman |
Connecticut |
1989–2013 |
|Democratic, Independent Democratic |
February 24, 1942 |
Living |
|
Larry Pressler |
South Dakota |
1979–1997 |
|Republican |
March 29, 1942 |
Living |
|
Jon Kyl |
Arizona |
1995–2013 |
|Republican |
April 25, 1942 |
Living |
|
John Ashcroft |
Missouri |
1995–2001 |
|Republican |
May 9, 1942 |
Living |
|
Byron Dorgan |
North Dakota |
1992–2011 |
|Democratic |
May 14, 1942 |
Living |
|
Bob Kasten |
Wisconsin |
1981–1993 |
|Republican |
June 19, 1942 |
Living |
|
Phil Gramm |
Texas |
1985–2002 |
|Republican |
July 8, 1942 |
Living |
|
Fred Thompson |
Tennessee |
1994–2003 |
|Republican |
August 19, 1942 |
Living |
|
Max Cleland |
Georgia |
1997–2003 |
|Democratic |
August 24, 1942 |
Living |
|
Bill Nelson |
Florida |
2001– |
|Democratic |
September 29, 1942 |
Living |
|
Joe Biden |
Delaware |
1973–2009 |
|Democratic |
November 20, 1942 |
Living |
|
Jim Risch |
Idaho |
2009– |
|Republican |
May 3, 1943 |
Living |
|
Dan Coats |
Indiana |
1989–1999, 2011– |
|Republican |
May 16, 1943 |
Living |
|
Kay Bailey Hutchison |
Texas |
1993–2013 |
|Republican |
July 22, 1943 |
Living |
|
Bill Bradley |
New Jersey |
1979–1997 |
|Democratic |
July 28, 1943 |
Living |
|
Bob Kerrey |
Nebraska |
1989–2001 |
|Democratic |
August 27, 1943 |
Living |
|
Jeff Bingaman |
New Mexico |
1983–2013 |
|Democratic |
October 3, 1943 |
Living |
|
Ben Cardin |
Maryland |
2007– |
|Democratic |
October 5, 1943 |
Living |
|
Saxby Chambliss |
Georgia |
2003– |
|Republican |
November 10, 1943 |
Living |
|
Wayne Allard |
Colorado |
1997–2009 |
|Republican |
December 2, 1943 |
Living |
|
John Kerry |
Massachusetts |
1985–2013 |
|Democratic |
December 11, 1943 |
Living |
|
Mike Enzi |
Wyoming |
1997– |
|Republican |
February 1, 1944 |
Living |
|
John Breaux |
Louisiana |
1987–2005 |
|Democratic |
March 1, 1944 |
Living |
|
Angus King |
Maine |
2013– |
|Independent |
March 31, 1944 |
Living |
|
Chris Dodd |
Connecticut |
1981–2011 |
|Democratic |
May 27, 1944 |
Living |
|
Paul Wellstone |
Minnesota |
1991–2002 |
|Democratic |
July 21, 1944 |
October 25, 2002 |
|
[...] Durbin |
Illinois |
1997– |
|Democratic |
November 21, 1944 |
Living |
|
Johnny Isakson |
Georgia |
2005– |
|Republican |
December 28, 1944 |
Living |
|
Sheila Frahm |
Kansas |
1996 |
|Republican |
March 22, 1945 |
Living |
|
Larry Craig |
Idaho |
1991–2009 |
|Republican |
July 20, 1945 |
Living |
|
Jim Webb |
Virginia |
2007–2013 |
|Democratic |
February 9, 1946 |
Living |
|
Richard Blumenthal |
Connecticut |
2011– |
|Democratic |
February 13, 1946 |
Living |
|
Ed Markey |
Massachusetts |
2013– |
|Democratic |
July 11, 1946 |
Living |
|
Chuck Hagel |
Nebraska |
1997–2009 |
|Republican |
October 4, 1946 |
Living |
|
Mel Martinez |
Florida |
2005–2009 |
|Republican |
October 23, 1946 |
Living |
|
Jeff Sessions |
Alabama |
1997– |
|Republican |
December 24, 1946 |
Living |
|
Tim Johnson |
South Dakota |
1997– |
|Democratic |
December 28, 1946 |
Living |
|
Paul S. Trible, Jr. |
Virginia |
1983–1989 |
|Republican |
December 29, 1946 |
Living |
|
Jon Corzine |
New Jersey |
2001–2006 |
|Democratic |
January 1, 1947 |
Living |
|
Mike DeWine |
Ohio |
1995–2007 |
|Republican |
January 5, 1947 |
Living |
|
Tom Carper |
Delaware |
2001– |
|Democratic |
January 23, 1947 |
Living |
|
Mark Dayton |
Minnesota |
2001–2007 |
|Democratic |
January 26, 1947 |
Living |
|
Jeanne Shaheen |
New Hampshire |
2009– |
|Democratic |
January 28, 1947 |
Living |
|
Dan Quayle |
Indiana |
1981–1989 |
|Republican |
February 4, 1947 |
Living |
|
Judd Gregg |
New Hampshire |
1993–2011 |
|Republican |
February 14, 1947 |
Living |
|
Olympia Snowe |
Maine |
1995–2013 |
|Republican |
February 21, 1947 |
Living |
|
Carol Moseley Braun |
Illinois |
1993–1999 |
|Democratic |
August 16, 1947 |
Living |
|
Joe Manchin |
West Virginia |
2010– |
|Democratic |
August 24, 1947 |
Living |
|
Hillary Clinton |
New York |
2001–2009 |
|Democratic |
October 26, 1947 |
Living |
|
Mazie Hirono |
Hawaii |
2013– |
|Democratic |
November 3, 1947 |
Living |
|
Tom Daschle |
South Dakota |
1987–2005 |
|Democratic |
December 9, 1947 |
Living |
|
Rod Grams |
Minnesota |
1995–2001 |
|Republican |
February 4, 1948 |
October 8, 2013 |
|
Kent Conrad |
North Dakota |
1987–2013 |
|Democratic |
March 12, 1948 |
Living |
|
Tom Coburn |
Oklahoma |
2005– |
|Republican |
March 14, 1948 |
Living |
|
Al Gore |
Tennessee |
1985–1993 |
|Democratic |
March 31, 1948 |
Living |
|
Tom Udall |
New Mexico |
2009– |
|Democratic |
May 18, 1948 |
Living |
|
Don Nickles |
Oklahoma |
1981–2005 |
|Republican |
December 6, 1948 |
Living |
|
David Karnes |
Nebraska |
1987–1988 |
|Republican |
December 12, 1948 |
Living |
|
Ron Wyden |
Oregon |
1996– |
|Democratic |
May 3, 1949 |
Living |
|
Elizabeth Warren |
Massachusetts |
2013– |
|Democratic |
June 22, 1949 |
Living |
|
Tim Hutchinson |
Arkansas |
1997–2003 |
|Republican |
August 11, 1949 |
Living |
|
Norm Coleman |
Minnesota |
2003–2009 |
|Republican |
August 17, 1949 |
Living |
|
Jack Reed |
Rhode Island |
1997– |
|Democratic |
November 12, 1949 |
Living |
Deaths
Senator |
State |
Served |
Party |
Date of birth |
Date of death |
Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
J. C. W. Beckham |
Kentucky |
1915–1921 |
|Democratic |
August 5, 1869 |
January 9, 1940 |
|
William Borah |
Idaho |
1907–1940 |
|Republican |
June 29, 1865 |
January 19, 1940 |
|
Charles S. Deneen |
Illinois |
1925–1931 |
|Republican |
May 4, 1863 |
February 5, 1940 |
|
Samuel H. Piles |
Washington |
1905–1911 |
|Republican |
December 28, 1858 |
March 11, 1940 |
|
Furnifold McLendel Simmons |
North Carolina |
1901–1931 |
|Democratic |
January 20, 1854 |
April 30, 1940 |
|
Clarence Wayland Watson |
West Virginia |
1911–1913 |
|Democratic |
May 8, 1864 |
May 24, 1940 |
|
Ernest Willard Gibson |
Vermont |
1933–1940 |
|Republican |
December 29, 1872 |
June 20, 1940 |
|
Ernest Lundeen |
Minnesota |
1937–1940 |
|Farmer-Labor |
August 4, 1878 |
August 31, 1940 |
|
Jonathan Bourne, Jr. |
Oregon |
1907–1913 |
|Republican |
February 23, 1855 |
September 1, 1940 |
|
William H. Dieterich |
Illinois |
1933–1939 |
|Democratic |
March 31, 1876 |
October 12, 1940 |
|
Key Pittman |
Nevada |
1913–1940 |
|Democratic |
September 19, 1872 |
November 10, 1940 |
|
Nathaniel B. Dial |
South Carolina |
1919–1925 |
|Democratic |
April 24, 1862 |
December 11, 1940 |
|
Richard C. Hunter |
Nebraska |
1933–1935 |
|Democratic |
December 3, 1884 |
January 23, 1941 |
|
William Gibbs McAdoo |
California |
1933–1938 |
|Democratic |
October 31, 1863 |
February 1, 1941 |
|
Reed Smoot |
Utah |
1903–1933 |
|Republican |
January 10, 1862 |
February 9, 1941 |
|
Morris Sheppard |
Texas |
1913–1941 |
|Democratic |
May 28, 1875 |
April 9, 1941 |
|
Frederic M. Sackett |
Kentucky |
1925–1930 |
|Republican |
December 17, 1868 |
May 18, 1941 |
|
Pat Harrison |
Mississippi |
1919–1941 |
|Democratic |
August 29, 1881 |
June 22, 1941 |
|
Ben M. Williamson |
Kentucky |
1930–1931 |
|Democratic |
October 16, 1864 |
June 23, 1941 |
|
Andrew Jackson Houston |
Texas |
1941 |
|Democratic |
June 21, 1854 |
June 26, 1941 |
|
Alva M. Lumpkin |
South Carolina |
1941 |
|Democratic |
November 13, 1886 |
August 1, 1941 |
|
Simon Guggenheim |
Colorado |
1907–1913 |
|Republican |
December 30, 1867 |
November 2, 1941 |
|
Alva B. Adams |
Colorado |
1923–1924, 1933–1941 |
|Democratic |
October 29, 1875 |
December 1, 1941 |
|
Hamilton Fish Kean |
New York |
1929–1935 |
|Republican |
February 27, 1862 |
December 27, 1941 |
|
William Hall Milton |
Florida |
1908–1909 |
|Democratic |
March 2, 1864 |
January 4, 1942 |
|
Coleman Livingston Blease |
South Carolina |
1925–1931 |
|Democratic |
October 8, 1868 |
January 19, 1942 |
|
Fountain L. Thompson |
North Dakota |
1909–1910 |
|Democratic |
November 18, 1854 |
February 4, 1942 |
|
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. |
Delaware |
1922–1929 |
|Democratic |
June 4, 1868 |
July 12, 1942 |
|
George Sutherland |
Utah |
1905–1917 |
|Republican |
March 25, 1862 |
July 18, 1942 |
|
Johnson N. Camden, Jr. |
Kentucky |
1914–1915 |
|Democratic |
January 5, 1865 |
August 16, 1942 |
|
William B. Pine |
Oklahoma |
1925–1931 |
|Republican |
December 30, 1877 |
August 25, 1942 |
|
Jesse H. Metcalf |
Rhode Island |
1924–1937 |
|Republican |
November 16, 1860 |
October 9, 1942 |
|
Frank C. Partridge |
Vermont |
1930–1931 |
|Republican |
May 7, 1861 |
March 2, 1943 |
|
Alfred E. Reames |
Oregon |
1938 |
|Democratic |
February 5, 1870 |
March 4, 1943 |
|
James Aloysius O'Gorman |
New York |
1911–1917 |
|Democratic |
May 5, 1860 |
May 17, 1943 |
|
Henry L. Myers |
Montana |
1911–1923 |
|Democratic |
October 9, 1862 |
November 11, 1943 |
|
William Warren Barbour |
New Jersey |
1931–1937, 1938–1943 |
|Republican |
July 31, 1888 |
November 22, 1943 |
|
Frederick Van Nuys |
Indiana |
1933–1944 |
|Democratic |
April 16, 1874 |
January 25, 1944 |
|
Thomas W. Hardwick |
Georgia |
1914–1919 |
|Democratic |
December 9, 1872 |
January 31, 1944 |
|
Charles L. McNary |
Oregon |
1917–1918, 1918–1944 |
|Republican |
June 12, 1874 |
February 25, 1944 |
|
Coe I. Crawford |
South Dakota |
1909–1915 |
|Republican |
January 14, 1858 |
April 25, 1944 |
|
Joseph L. Bristow |
Kansas |
1909–1915 |
|Republican |
July 22, 1861 |
July 14, 1944 |
|
George W. Norris |
Nebraska |
1913–1943 |
|Republican, Independent |
July 11, 1861 |
September 2, 1944 |
|
James A. Reed |
Missouri |
1911–1929 |
|Democratic |
November 9, 1861 |
September 8, 1944 |
|
Smith W. Brookhart |
Iowa |
1922–1926, 1927–1933 |
|Republican |
February 2, 1869 |
November 15, 1944 |
|
Ellison D. Smith |
South Carolina |
1909–1944 |
|Democratic |
August 1, 1864 |
November 17, 1944 |
|
Albert B. Fall |
New Mexico |
1912–1921 |
|Republican |
November 26, 1861 |
November 30, 1944 |
|
George H. Moses |
New Hampshire |
1918–1933 |
|Republican |
February 9, 1869 |
December 20, 1944 |
|
Blair Lee I |
Maryland |
1914–1917 |
|Democratic |
August 9, 1857 |
December 25, 1944 |
|
Francis T. Maloney |
Connecticut |
1935–1945 |
|Democratic |
March 31, 1894 |
January 16, 1945 |
|
William M. Calder |
New York |
1917–1923 |
|Republican |
March 3, 1869 |
March 3, 1945 |
|
John Moses |
North Dakota |
1945 |
|Democratic |
June 12, 1885 |
March 3, 1945 |
|
Charles W. F. [...] |
Ohio |
1904–1911 |
|Republican |
November 3, 1858 |
March 13, 1945 |
|
Robert N. Stanfield |
Oregon |
1921–1927 |
|Republican |
July 9, 1877 |
April 13, 1945 |
|
James G. Scrugham |
Nevada |
1942–1945 |
|Democratic |
January 19, 1880 |
June 23, 1945 |
|
Hiram Johnson |
California |
1917–1945 |
|Republican |
September 2, 1866 |
August 6, 1945 |
|
Clyde L. Herring |
Iowa |
1937–1943 |
|Democratic |
May 3, 1879 |
September 15, 1945 |
|
Truman Handy Newberry |
Michigan |
1919–1922 |
|Republican |
November 5, 1864 |
October 3, 1945 |
|
John W. Thomas |
Idaho |
1928–1933, 1940–1945 |
|Republican |
January 4, 1874 |
November 10, 1945 |
|
George B. Martin |
Kentucky |
1918–1919 |
|Democratic |
August 18, 1876 |
November 12, 1945 |
|
Luke Lea |
Tennessee |
1911–1917 |
|Democratic |
April 12, 1879 |
November 18, 1945 |
|
Hubert D. Stephens |
Mississippi |
1923–1935 |
|Democratic |
July 2, 1875 |
March 14, 1946 |
|
A. Victor Donahey |
Ohio |
1935–1941 |
|Democratic |
July 7, 1873 |
April 8, 1946 |
|
William Cabell Bruce |
Maryland |
1923–1929 |
|Democratic |
March 12, 1860 |
May 9, 1946 |
|
John E. Erickson |
Montana |
1933–1934 |
|Democratic |
March 14, 1863 |
May 25, 1946 |
|
Carter Glass |
Virginia |
1920–1946 |
|Democratic |
January 4, 1858 |
May 28, 1946 |
|
John H. Bankhead II |
Alabama |
1931–1946 |
|Democratic |
July 8, 1872 |
June 12, 1946 |
|
Arthur R. Gould |
Maine |
1926–1931 |
|Republican |
March 16, 1857 |
July 24, 1946 |
|
Charles O. Andrews |
Florida |
1936–1946 |
|Democratic |
March 7, 1877 |
September 18, 1946 |
|
Miles Poindexter |
Washington |
1911–1923 |
|Republican |
April 22, 1868 |
September 21, 1946 |
|
Phillips Lee Goldsborough |
Maryland |
1929–1935 |
|Republican |
August 6, 1865 |
October 22, 1946 |
|
Josiah William Bailey |
North Carolina |
1931–1946 |
|Democratic |
September 14, 1873 |
December 15, 1946 |
|
Ovington Weller |
Maryland |
1921–1927 |
|Republican |
January 23, 1862 |
January 5, 1947 |
|
Lynn Frazier |
North Dakota |
1923–1941 |
|Republican |
December 21, 1874 |
January 11, 1947 |
|
Marcus A. Coolidge |
Massachusetts |
1931–1937 |
|Democratic |
October 6, 1865 |
January 23, 1947 |
|
David I. Walsh |
Massachusetts |
1919–1925, 1926–1947 |
|Democratic |
November 11, 1872 |
June 11, 1947 |
|
Robert Latham Owen |
Virginia |
1907–1925 |
|Democratic |
February 2, 1856 |
July 19, 1947 |
|
Harry B. Hawes |
Missouri |
1926–1933 |
|Democratic |
November 15, 1869 |
July 31, 1947 |
|
Theodore G. Bilbo |
Mississippi |
1935–1947 |
|Democratic |
October 13, 1877 |
August 21, 1947 |
|
Augustine Lonergan |
Connecticut |
1933–1939 |
|Democratic |
May 20, 1874 |
October 18, 1947 |
|
James J. Davis |
Pennsylvania |
1930–1945 |
|Republican |
October 27, 1873 |
November 22, 1947 |
|
Arthur Walsh |
New Jersey |
1943–1944 |
|Democratic |
February 26, 1896 |
December 13, 1947 |
|
Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr. |
New Jersey |
1917–1923 |
|Republican |
March 12, 1869 |
February 8, 1948 |
|
John M. Robsion |
Kentucky |
1930 |
|Republican |
January 2, 1873 |
February 17, 1948 |
|
John H. Overton |
Louisiana |
1933–1948 |
|Democratic |
September 17, 1875 |
May 14, 1948 |
|
Lewis B. Schwellenbach |
Wisconsin |
1935–1940 |
|Democratic |
September 20, 1894 |
June 10, 1948 |
|
James Eli Watson |
Indiana |
1916–1933 |
|Republican |
November 2, 1864 |
July 29, 1948 |
|
James M. Slattery |
Illinois |
1939–1940 |
|Democratic |
July 29, 1878 |
August 28, 1948 |
|
Harlan J. Bushfield |
South Dakota |
1943–1948 |
|Republican |
August 6, 1882 |
September 27, 1948 |
|
George L. Berry |
Tennessee |
1937–1938 |
|Democratic |
September 12, 1882 |
December 4, 1948 |
|
Irvine Lenroot |
Wisconsin |
1918–1927 |
|Republican |
January 31, 1869 |
January 26, 1949 |
|
Rice W. Means |
Colorado |
1924–1927 |
|Republican |
November 16, 1877 |
January 30, 1949 |
|
J. Melville Broughton |
North Carolina |
1948–1949 |
|Democratic |
November 17, 1888 |
March 6, 1949 |
|
Thomas Gore |
Oklahoma |
1907–1921, 1931–1937 |
|Democratic |
December 10, 1870 |
March 16, 1949 |
|
Frederic C. Walcott |
Connecticut |
1929–1935 |
|Republican |
February 19, 1869 |
April 27, 1949 |
|
Henry F. Hollis |
New Hampshire |
1913–1919 |
|Democratic |
August 30, 1869 |
July 7, 1949 |
|
Bert H. Miller |
Idaho |
1949 |
|Democratic |
December 15, 1879 |
October 8, 1949 |
|
Clyde M. Reed |
Kansas |
1939–1949 |
|Republican |
October 19, 1871 |
November 8, 1949 |
|
William H. King |
Utah |
1917–1941 |
|Democratic |
June 3, 1863 |
November 27, 1949 |
See also
- List of the oldest United States Senators
- List of longest-living United States Senators
- List of living former United States Senators
- Earliest serving United States Senator
- List of former United States senators