List of United States Senators in the 33rd Congress by seniority

This is a classification of members of the United States Senate by seniority during the 33rd United States Congress, from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1855.

Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator's first term. Behind this is former service as a senator (only giving the Senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as Vice President, a House member, a Cabinet secretary, or a governor of a state. The final factor is the population of the senator's state.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Senators who were sworn in in the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1854 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

U.S. Senate Seniority
Rank	Name	Seniority Date	Other Factors
	James Pearce (D-MD)	March 4, 1843
	David Rice Atchison (D-MO)	October 14, 1843
	Jesse D. Bright (D-IN)	March 4, 1845
	Thomas Jefferson Rusk (D-TX)	February 21, 1846
	Sam Houston (D-TX)	February 26, 1846
	George E. Badger (W-NC)	November 26, 1846
	Andrew Pickens Butler (D-SC)	December 4, 1846
	James M. Mason (D-VA)	January 21, 1847
	Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL)	March 4, 1847
	Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA)	March 4, 1847
	John Bell (D-TN)	November 22, 1847
	Solon Borland (D-AR)	March 30, 1848
	William K. Sebastian (D-AR)	May 12, 1848
	Henry Dodge (D-WI)	June 8, 1848
	Hannibal Hamlin (D-ME)
	Isaac P. Walker (D-WI)
	Augustus C. Dodge (D-IA)	December 7, 1848
	George W. Jones (D-IA)	December 7, 1848
	William H. Seward (R-NY)	March 4, 1849
	Lewis Cass (D-MI)
	Truman Smith (D-CT)
	Jackson Morton (W-FL)
	Moses Norris, Jr. (D-NH)
	Salmon P. Chase (D-OH)
	Pierre Soulé (D-LA)
	James Cooper (W-PA)
	James Shields (D-IL)	October 27, 1849
	Solomon Foot (R-VT)	March 4, 1851
	James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE)
	Stephen Mallory (D-FL)
	Henry S. Geyer (W-MO)
	Richard Brodhead (D-PA)
	Charles T. James (D-RI)
	James C. Jones (D-TN)
	Benjamin Wade (R-OH)	March 15, 1851
	Charles Sumner (LR-MA)	April 11, 1851
	Isaac Toucey (D-CT)	May 12, 1851
	John M. Clayton (R-NY)	December 1, 1851
	John B. Weller (LD-CA)	January 30, 1852
	Stephen Adams (D-MS)	March 17, 1852
	Archibald Dixon (W-KY)	September 1, 1852
	Samuel S. Phelps (W-VT)	January 17, 1853
	John Pettit (D-IN)	January 18, 1853
	John R. Thomson (D-NJ)	March 4, 1853
	Robert Toombs (D-GA)
	Judah P. Benjamin (D-LA)
	Josiah J. Evans (D-SC)
	Charles E. Stuart (D-MI)
	John B. Thompson (D-KY)
	John M. Clayton (W-DE)
	James Harlan (FS-IA)
	William C. Dawson (W-GA)
	Edward Everett (W-MA)
	Charles G. Atherton (W-NH)
	Robert Ward Johnson (D-AR)	July 6, 1853
	Philip Allen (D-RI)	July 20, 1853
	Clement Claiborne Clay (D-AL)	November 29, 1853
	Jared W. Williams (D-NH)	November 29, 1853
	John Slidell (D-LA)	December 5, 1853
	Albert G. Brown (D-MS)	January 7, 1854
	William P. Fessenden (R-ME)	February 10, 1854
	Francis Gillette (D-CT)	May 24, 1854
	Julius Rockwell (W-MA)	June 3, 1854
	Lawrence Brainerd (W-VT)	October 14, 1854
	David Settle Reid (D-NC)	December 6, 1854
	John S. Wells (D-NH)	January 16, 1855
	Henry Wilson (R-MA)	January 31, 1855

Notes

^ A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
^ 1871 U.S Census Report Contains 1870 Census results
^ 1881 U.S Census Report Contains 1880 Census results
^ 1891 U.S Census Report Contains 1890 Census results

External links

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Lists of United States Senators by Seniority (by Congress) (and years begun)

1 (1789)
2 (1791)
3 (1793)
4 (1795)
5 (1797)
6 (1799)
7 (1801)
8 (1803)
9 (1805)
10 (1807)

11 (1809)
12 (1811)
13 (1813)
14 (1815)
15 (1817)
16 (1819)
17 (1821)
18 (1823)
19 (1825)
20 (1827)

21 (1829)
22 (1831)
23 (1833)
24 (1835)
25 (1837)
26 (1839)
27 (1841)
28 (1843)
29 (1845)
30 (1847)

31 (1849)
32 (1851)
33 (1853)
34 (1855)
35 (1857)
36 (1859)
37 (1861)
38 (1863)
39 (1865)
40 (1867)

41 (1869)
42 (1871)
43 (1873)
44 (1875)
45 (1877)
46 (1879)
47 (1881)
48 (1883)
49 (1885)
50 (1887)

51 (1889)
52 (1891)
53 (1893)
54 (1895)
55 (1897)
56 (1899)
57 (1901)
58 (1903)
59 (1905)
60 (1907)

61 (1909)
62 (1911)
63 (1913)
64 (1915)
65 (1917)
66 (1919)
67 (1921)
68 (1923)
69 (1925)
70 (1927)

71 (1929)
72 (1931)
73 (1933)
74 (1935)
75 (1937)
76 (1939)
77 (1941)
78 (1943)
79 (1945)
80 (1947)

81 (1949)
82 (1951)
83 (1953)
84 (1955)
85 (1957)
86 (1959)
87 (1961)
88 (1963)
89 (1965)
90 (1967)

91 (1969)
92 (1971)
93 (1973)
94 (1975)
95 (1977)
96 (1979)
97 (1981)
98 (1983)
99 (1985)
100 (1987)

101 (1989)
102 (1991)
103 (1993)
104 (1995)
105 (1997)
106 (1999)
107 (2001)
108 (2003)
109 (2005)
110 (2007)

111 (2009)
112 (2011)
113 (2013)
114 (2015)

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List of United States Senators in the 33rd Congress by seniority