List of United States Senators who were born or died in the 1970s
This is a list of the 7 United States Senators who were born in the 1970s and of the 79 senators who died in the same period. There are 8 senators listed in bold who died in office.
Births
Senator |
State |
Served |
Party |
Date of birth |
Date of death |
Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ted Cruz |
Texas |
2013– |
|Republican |
December 22, 1970 |
Living |
|
Marco Rubio |
Florida |
2011– |
|Republican |
May 28, 1971 |
Living |
|
Mike Lee |
Utah |
2011– |
|Republican |
June 4, 1971 |
Living |
|
Martin Heinrich |
New Mexico |
2013– |
|Democratic |
October 17, 1971 |
Living |
|
Brian Schatz |
Hawaii |
2012– |
|Democratic |
October 20, 1972 |
Living |
|
Chris Murphy |
Connecticut |
2013– |
|Democratic |
August 3, 1973 |
Living |
|
Carte Goodwin |
West Virginia |
2010 |
|Democratic |
February 27, 1974 |
Living |
Deaths
Senator |
State |
Served |
Party |
Date of birth |
Date of death |
Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ralph Flanders |
Vermont |
1946–1959 |
|Republican |
September 28, 1880 |
February 19, 1970 |
|
Homer Bone |
Washington |
1933–1944 |
|Democratic |
January 25, 1883 |
March 11, 1970 |
|
Kingsley A. Taft |
Ohio |
1946–1947 |
|Republican |
July 19, 1903 |
March 28, 1970 |
|
Rose McConnell Long |
Louisiana |
1936–1937 |
|Democratic |
April 8, 1892 |
May 27, 1970 |
|
Edwin C. Johnson |
Colorado |
1937–1955 |
|Democratic |
January 1, 1884 |
May 30, 1970 |
|
John J. Hickey |
Wyoming |
1961–1962 |
|Democratic |
August 22, 1911 |
September 22, 1970 |
|
James Glenn Beall |
Maryland |
1953–1965 |
|Republican |
June 5, 1894 |
January 14, 1971 |
|
Richard Russell, Jr. |
Georgia |
1933–1971 |
|Democratic |
November 2, 1897 |
January 21, 1971 |
|
Albert W. Hawkes |
New Jersey |
1943–1949 |
|Democratic |
November 20, 1878 |
May 9, 1971 |
|
Thomas J. Dodd |
Connecticut |
1959–1971 |
|Democratic |
May 15, 1907 |
May 24, 1971 |
|
William A. Stanfill |
Kentucky |
1945–1946 |
|Republican |
January 16, 1892 |
June 12, 1971 |
|
Thomas E. Martin |
Iowa |
1955–1961 |
|Republican |
January 18, 1893 |
June 27, 1971 |
|
Thomas C. Hart |
Connecticut |
1945–1946 |
|Republican |
June 12, 1877 |
July 4, 1971 |
|
Gerald Nye |
North Dakota |
1925–1945 |
|Republican |
December 19, 1892 |
July 17, 1971 |
|
Bourke B. Hickenlooper |
Iowa |
1945–1969 |
|Republican |
July 21, 1896 |
September 4, 1971 |
|
Winston L. Prouty |
Vermont |
1959–1971 |
|Republican |
September 1, 1906 |
September 10, 1971 |
|
Hugo Black |
Alabama |
1927–1937 |
|Democratic |
February 27, 1886 |
September 25, 1971 |
|
Thomas M. Storke |
California |
1938–1939 |
|Democratic |
November 23, 1876 |
October 12, 1971 |
|
Absalom Willis Robertson |
Virginia |
1946–1966 |
|Democratic |
May 27, 1887 |
November 1, 1971 |
|
Spessard Holland |
Florida |
1946–1971 |
|Democratic |
July 10, 1892 |
November 6, 1971 |
|
J. Howard Edmondson |
Oklahoma |
1963–1964 |
|Democratic |
September 27, 1925 |
November 17, 1971 |
|
Thomas A. Burke |
Ohio |
1953–1954 |
|Democratic |
October 30, 1898 |
December 5, 1971 |
|
Carl Hayden |
Arizona |
1927–1969 |
|Democratic |
October 2, 1877 |
January 25, 1972 |
|
Sinclair Weeks |
Massachusetts |
1944 |
|Republican |
June 15, 1893 |
February 7, 1972 |
|
Frank Porter Graham |
North Carolina |
1949–1950 |
|Democratic |
October 14, 1886 |
February 16, 1972 |
|
James F. Byrnes |
South Carolina |
1931–1941 |
|Democratic |
May 2, 1882 |
April 9, 1972 |
|
Robert W. Upton |
New Hampshire |
1953–1954 |
|Republican |
February 3, 1884 |
April 28, 1972 |
|
Allen J. Ellender |
Louisiana |
1937–1972 |
|Democratic |
September 24, 1890 |
July 27, 1972 |
|
Ralph Tyler Smith |
Illinois |
1969–1970 |
|Republican |
October 6, 1915 |
August 13, 1972 |
|
George R. Swift |
Alabama |
1946 |
|Democratic |
December 19, 1887 |
September 10, 1972 |
|
Prescott Bush |
Connecticut |
1952–1963 |
|Republican |
May 15, 1895 |
October 8, 1972 |
|
Tom Stewart |
Tennessee |
1939–1949 |
|Democratic |
January 11, 1892 |
October 10, 1972 |
|
Edward V. Long |
Missouri |
1960–1968 |
|Democratic |
July 18, 1908 |
November 6, 1972 |
|
Harry S. Truman |
Missouri |
1935–1945 |
|Democratic |
May 8, 1884 |
December 26, 1972 |
|
John N. Heiskell |
Arkansas |
1913 |
|Democratic |
November 2, 1872 |
December 28, 1972 |
|
Lyndon B. Johnson |
Texas |
1949–1961 |
|Democratic |
August 27, 1908 |
January 22, 1973 |
|
Guy Gillette |
Iowa |
1936–1945, 1949–1955 |
|Democratic |
February 3, 1879 |
March 3, 1973 |
|
William Benton |
Connecticut |
1949–1953 |
|Democratic |
April 1, 1900 |
March 18, 1973 |
|
Herbert S. Walters |
Tennessee |
1963–1964 |
|Democratic |
November 17, 1891 |
August 17, 1973 |
|
Arthur Vivian Watkins |
Utah |
1947–1959 |
|Republican |
December 18, 1886 |
September 1, 1973 |
|
Prentiss M. Brown |
Michigan |
1936–1943 |
|Democratic |
June 18, 1889 |
December 19, 1973 |
|
William R. Laird, III |
West Virginia |
1956 |
|Democratic |
June 2, 1916 |
January 7, 1974 |
|
Fred Andrew Seaton |
Nebraska |
1951–1952 |
|Republican |
December 11, 1909 |
January 16, 1974 |
|
David W. Stewart |
Iowa |
1926–1927 |
|Republican |
January 22, 1887 |
February 10, 1974 |
|
William F. Knowland |
California |
1945–1959 |
|Republican |
June 26, 1908 |
February 23, 1974 |
|
B. Everett Jordan |
North Carolina |
1958–1973 |
|Democratic |
September 8, 1896 |
March 15, 1974 |
|
Ernest Gruening |
Alaska |
1959–1969 |
|Democratic |
February 6, 1887 |
June 26, 1974 |
|
Wayne Morse |
Oregon |
1945–1969 |
|Republican, Independent, Democratic |
October 20, 1900 |
July 22, 1974 |
|
George L. P. Radcliffe |
Maryland |
1935–1947 |
|Democratic |
August 22, 1877 |
July 29, 1974 |
|
Karl Earl Mundt |
South Dakota |
1948–1973 |
|Republican |
June 3, 1900 |
August 16, 1974 |
|
Charles C. Gossett |
Idaho |
1945–1946 |
|Democratic |
September 2, 1888 |
September 20, 1974 |
|
Burton K. Wheeler |
Montana |
1923–1947 |
|Democratic |
February 27, 1882 |
January 6, 1975 |
|
Kenneth Keating |
New York |
1959–1965 |
|Republican |
May 18, 1900 |
May 5, 1975 |
|
Clinton Presba Anderson |
New Mexico |
1949–1973 |
|Democratic |
October 23, 1895 |
November 11, 1975 |
|
William A. Blakley |
Texas |
1957, 1961 |
|Democratic |
November 17, 1898 |
January 5, 1976 |
|
Vera C. Bushfield |
South Dakota |
1948 |
|Republican |
August 9, 1889 |
April 16, 1976 |
|
Paul Douglas |
Illinois |
1949–1967 |
|Democratic |
March 26, 1892 |
September 24, 1976 |
|
Philip Hart |
Michigan |
1959–1976 |
|Democratic |
December 10, 1912 |
December 26, 1976 |
|
John Gerald Milton |
New Jersey |
1938 |
|Democratic |
January 21, 1881 |
April 14, 1977 |
|
John Little McClellan |
Arkansas |
1943–1977 |
|Democratic |
February 25, 1896 |
November 28, 1977 |
|
Robert Humphreys |
Kentucky |
1956 |
|Democratic |
August 20, 1893 |
December 31, 1977 |
|
Lee Metcalf |
Montana |
1961–1978 |
|Democratic |
January 28, 1911 |
January 12, 1978 |
|
Hubert Humphrey |
Minnesota |
1949–1964, 1971–1978 |
|Democratic |
May 27, 1911 |
January 13, 1978 |
|
Clarence Dill |
Washington |
1923–1935 |
|Democratic |
September 21, 1884 |
January 14, 1978 |
|
Clarence Norman Brunsdale |
North Dakota |
1959–1960 |
|Republican |
July 9, 1891 |
January 27, 1978 |
|
Thomas A. Wofford |
South Carolina |
1956 |
|Democratic |
September 27, 1908 |
February 25, 1978 |
|
John Marshall Butler |
Maryland |
1951–1963 |
|Republican |
July 21, 1897 |
March 14, 1978 |
|
William A. Purtell |
Connecticut |
1952, 1953–1959 |
|Republican |
May 6, 1897 |
May 31, 1978 |
|
James Allen |
Alabama |
1969–1978 |
|Democratic |
December 28, 1912 |
June 1, 1978 |
|
Joseph Montoya |
New Mexico |
1964–1977 |
|Democratic |
September 24, 1915 |
June 8, 1978 |
|
Frederick G. Payne |
Maine |
1953–1959 |
|Republican |
July 24, 1904 |
June 15, 1978 |
|
Dewey F. Bartlett |
Oklahoma |
1973–1979 |
|Republican |
March 28, 1919 |
March 1, 1979 |
|
Harry P. Cain |
Washington |
1946–1953 |
|Republican |
January 10, 1906 |
March 3, 1979 |
|
Leverett Saltonstall |
Massachusetts |
1945–1967 |
|Republican |
September 1, 1892 |
June 17, 1979 |
|
F. Ryan Duffy |
Wisconsin |
1933–1939 |
|Democratic |
June 23, 1888 |
August 16, 1979 |
|
Homer E. Capeheart |
Indiana |
1945–1963 |
|Republican |
June 6, 1897 |
September 3, 1979 |
|
Orrice Abram Murdock, Jr. |
Utah |
1941–1947 |
|Democratic |
July 18, 1893 |
September 15, 1979 |
|
W. Chapman Revercomb |
West Virginia |
1943–1949, 1956–1959 |
|Republican |
July 20, 1895 |
October 6, 1979 |
|
Charles E. Potter |
Michigan |
1952–1959 |
|Republican |
October 30, 1916 |
November 23, 1979 |
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