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Thomas Hart Benton, US Sentor, D, 1820-48

Thomas Hart Benton
1820-48

Stuart Symington, US Senator. D, 1952-73

Stuart Symington
1952-70

John C. Danforth, US Senator, R, 1976-95

John C. Danforth
1976-95

Name

Political Party

Elected

Armstrong, David H.14 D

1876

Ashcroft, John R

1994

Atchison, David R.4 D

1843, 1844, 1848

Barton, David¹ R, Adams-Clay R.

1820, 1824

Benton, Thomas Hart2 D

1820–48

Blair, Francis P.12 D

1870

Bogy, Lewis V.13 D

1872

Bond, Samuel Christopher (Kit) R

1986-2004

Briggs, Frank P.22 D

1945

Brown, B. Gratz9 Unconditional Unionist

1862

Buckner, Alexander3 Jacksonian

1830

Carnahan, Jean24 D 2000
Carnahan, Mel23 D 2000
Clark, Joel Bennett (Champ)19, 21 D

1932, 1938

Cockrell, Francis M. D

1874, 1880, 1886, 1892, 1898

Danforth, John C. R

1976, 1982, 1988

Donnell, Forrest R

1944

Drake, Charles D.10 R

1866

Eagleton, Thomas F. D

1968, 1974, 1980

Geyer, Henry S. Whig

1850

Green, James S. D

1856

Hawes, Harry B.19 D

1926

Henderson, John B.8 Unionist

1862

Hennings, Thomas C. Jr. D

1950, 1956

Jewett, Daniel F.11 R

1870

Johnson, Waldo P. D

1860

Kem, James P. R

1946

Linn, Lewis F.3, 4 1) Jacksonian 2) D

1834, 1836, 1842

Long, Edward V. D

1962

Patterson, Roscoe C.20 R

1928

Polk, Trusten D

1856

Reed, James A. D

1910, 1916, 1922

Schurz, Carl R

1868

Shields, James15 D

1878

Spencer, Seldon17, 18 R

1918, 1920

Stone, William Joel6 D

1902, 1908, 1914

Symington, Stuart D

1952, 1958, 1964, 1970

Truman, Harry S22 D

1934, 1940

Vest, George Graham D

1878, 1884, 1890, 1896

Warner, William R

1904

Wilfley, Xenophon P.16 D

1918

Williams, George H.18 R

1924

Wilson, Robert7 Unionist

1862

1Admitted to seat, December 1821.
2Admitted to seat, December 1821.
3Linn was appointed to succeed Alexander Buckner, who died of cholera in 1838.
4Linn died October 3, 1848, and was succeeded by David R. Atchison, who served until 1855.
5Polk was expelled from the Senate on a charge of disloyalty, January 10, 1862.
6Johnson was expelled from the Senate on a charge of disloyalty, January 10, 1862.
7Wilson was appointed by Provisional Governor Hall in the absence of Governor Gamble.
8Henderson was appointed by Provisional Governor Hall in the absence of Governor Gamble.
9Brown was elected for a term ending March 4, 1867.
10Drake resigned in 1871 to become a judge of the U.S. Court of Claims at Washington D.C.
11Jewett was appointed to succeed Charles Drake until the meeting of the Legislature.
12Blair was elected to serve the remainder of Drake’s senate term.
13Bogy died September 20, 1877.
14Armstrong was appointed September 27, 1877, to succeed Bogy until meeting of the Legislature.
15Shields was elected January 21, 1879, to serve the remainder of Bogy’s senate term.
16Stone died April 14, 1918, and was succeeded by Xenophon P. Wilfley, who served until December 5, 1926.
17Spencer was elected November 5, 1918, for a term ending March 4, 1921.
18Spencer died May 16, 1925, and was succeeded by George H. Williams, who served until December 5, 1926.
19Hawes resigned February 3, 1933, and was succeeded by Joel Bennett (Champ) Clark, who was named by Governor Guy B. Clark for the remainder of the term, ending March 4, 1933.
20Patterson’s term expired March 4, 1935.
21Clark was elected November 8, 1932, for a term expiring March 4, 1939.
22Briggs was appointed January 18, 1945, to fill the term of Harry S Truman, who resigned to become Vice President of the United States and succeeded to the Presidency on April 12, 1945, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
23 Mel Carnahan, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, died in a plane crash October 16, 2000; Missouri statutes required that his name remain on the official ballot for the general election as it was too late to remove it. Carnahan won the seat posthumously on November 7, 2000
24 Jean Carnahan, widow of Mel Carnahan, was appointed to a two-year term by Governor Roger B. Wilson to fill the vacancy caused by the posthumous election of Mel Carnahan to the U.S. Senate