List of United States Senators from New Jersey

This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from New Jersey.

United States Senators are popularly elected, for a six year term, beginning January 3. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Before 1914, they were chosen by the New Jersey Legislature, and before 1935, their terms began March 4.

[edit] Class 1 Senators

Class 1 senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for one session of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012.

#	Senator		Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	Jonathan Elmer		March 4, 1789	March 3, 1791	Pro-Administration	Bridgeton	Delegate to the Continental Congress	1	1
2	John Rutherfurd		March 4, 1791	December 5, 1798	Federalist	Allamuchy	New Jersey General Assembly	2	2
								3
								4
								5	3
3	Franklin Davenport		December 5, 1798	March 3, 1799	Federalist	Woodbury	New Jersey General Assembly
4	James Schureman		March 4, 1799	February 16, 1801	Federalist	New Brunswick	U.S. Representative	6
5	Aaron Ogden		February 28, 1801	March 3, 1803	Federalist	Elizabeth	Lawyer
								7
Vacant			March 3, 1803	September 1, 1803				8	4
6	John Condit		September 1, 1803	March 3, 1809	Democratic-Republican	Orange	U.S. Representative (N.J.-1)
								9
								10
7	John Lambert		March 4, 1809	March 3, 1815	Democratic-Republican	Lambertville	U.S. Representative At-large	11	5
								12
								13
8	James J. Wilson		March 4, 1815	January 8, 1821	Democratic-Republican	Newark	Newspaper Publisher	14	6
								15
								16
9	Samuel L. Southard		January 26, 1821	March 3, 1823	Democratic-Republican	Trenton	Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
								17	7
Vacant			March 4, 1823	November 12, 1823				18
10	Joseph McIlvaine		November 12, 1823	August 19, 1826	National Republican	Burlington	U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey
								19
11	Ephraim Bateman		November 10, 1826	January 12, 1829	National Republican	Cedarville	U.S. Representative At-large
								20	8
12	Mahlon Dickerson		January 30, 1829	March 3, 1833	Jacksonian	Succasunna	U.S. Senator
								21
								22
13	Samuel L. Southard		March 4, 1833	June 26, 1842	Whig	Trenton	Governor of New Jersey	23	9
								24
								25
								26	10
								27
14	William L. Dayton		July 2, 1842	March 3, 1851	Whig	Trenton	Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
								28
								29	11
								30
								31
15	Robert F. Stockton		March 4, 1851	January 10, 1853	Democratic	Princeton	U.S. Navy Commodore	32	12
16	John Renshaw Thomson		March 4, 1853	September 12, 1862	Democratic	Princeton	Railroad Executive	33
								34
								35	13
								36
								37
17	Richard Stockton Field		November 21, 1862	January 14, 1863	Republican	Princeton	Attorney General of New Jersey
18	James Walter Wall		January 14, 1863	March 3, 1863	Democratic	Burlington	Mayor of Burlington
19	William Wright		March 4, 1863	November 1, 1866	Democratic	Newark	U.S. Senator	38	14
								39
20	Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen		November 12, 1866	March 3, 1869	Republican	Newark	Attorney General of New Jersey
								40
21	John P. Stockton		March 4, 1869	March 3, 1875	Democratic	Trenton	U.S. Senator	41	15
								42
								43
22	Theodore Fitz Randolph		March 4, 1875	March 3, 1881	Democratic	Morristown	Governor of New Jersey	44	16
								45
								46
23	William Joyce Sewell		March 4, 1881	March 3, 1887	Republican	Camden	President of the New Jersey Senate	47	17
								48
								49
24	Rufus Blodgett		March 4, 1887	March 3, 1893	Democratic	Long Branch	Railroad Executive	50	18
								51
								52
25	James Smith, Jr.		March 4, 1893	March 3, 1899	Democratic	Newark	Newark Board of Aldermen	53	19
								54
								55
26	John Kean		March 4, 1899	March 3, 1911	Republican	Elizabeth	U.S. Representative (N.J.-3)	56	20
								57
								58
								59	21
								60
								61
27	James Edgar Martine		March 4, 1911	March 3, 1917	Democratic	Plainfield	Businessman	62	22
								63
								64
28	Joseph S. Frelinghuysen		March 4, 1917	March 3, 1923	Republican	Raritan	New Jersey Senate	65	23
								66
								67
29	Edward I. Edwards		March 4, 1923	March 3, 1929	Democratic	Jersey City	Governor of New Jersey	68	24
								69
								70
30	Hamilton Fish Kean		March 4, 1929	January 3, 1935	Republican	Elizabeth	Businessman	71	25
								72
								73
31	A. Harry Moore		January 3, 1935	January 17, 1938	Democratic	Jersey City	Governor of New Jersey	74	26
								75
32	John Gerald Milton		January 18, 1938	November 8, 1938	Democratic	Jersey City	Lawyer
33	William Warren Barbour		November 8, 1938	November 22, 1943 (Died)	Republican	Locust	U.S. Senator
								76
								77	27
								78
34	Arthur Walsh		November 26, 1943 (Appointed)	December 7, 1944 (Retired and then resigned when successor was elected)	Democratic	South Orange	Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority
35	Howard Alexander Smith		December 7, 1944 (Elected to fill Barbour's vacancy) (Re-elected) (Re-elected)	January 3, 1959 (Retired)	Republican	Princeton	Lawyer
								79
								80	28
								81
								82
								83	29
								84
								85
36	Harrison A. Williams		January 3, 1959 (Elected) (Re-elected) (Re-elected) (Re-elected) (Re-elected)	March 11, 1982 (Resigned)	Democratic	Westfield/Bedminster	U.S. Representative (N.J.-6)	86	30
								87
								88
								89	31
								90
								91
								92	32
								93
								94
								95	33
								96
								97
37	Nicholas F. Brady		April 12, 1982 (Appointed to fill Williams's vacancy)	December 20, 1982 (Resigned early, to give elected successor preferential seniority)	Republican	Far Hills	Banker
38	Frank Lautenberg		December 27, 1982 (Appointed early, having been elected to fill Williams's vacancy ) (Re-elected in 1988) (Re-elected in 1994)	January 3, 2001 (Retired)	Democratic	Montclair/Secaucus/ Cliffside Park	Lawyer
								98	34
								99
								100
								101	35
								102
								103
								104	36
								105
								106
39	Jon S. Corzine		January 3, 2001 (Elected)	January 17, 2006 (Resigned to become Governor of New Jersey)	Democratic	Summit/Hoboken	Banker	107	37
								108
								109
40	Robert Menendez		January 18, 2006 (Appointed to fill Corzine's vacancy) (Elected in 2006)	Incumbent	Democratic	Hoboken	U.S. Representative (N.J.-13)
								110	38
								111

[edit] Class 2 Senators

Class 2 senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for two sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014.

#	Senator		Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	William Paterson		March 4, 1789	November 13, 1790	Pro-Administration	New Brunswick	Delegate to Constitutional Convention	1	1
2	Philemon Dickinson		November 23, 1790	March 3, 1793	Pro-Administration	Trenton	Delegate to the Continental Congress
								2
3	Frederick Frelinghuysen		March 4, 1793	November 12, 1796	Federalist	Somerset County	Soldier and Statesman	3	2
								4
4	Richard Stockton		November 12, 1796	March 3, 1799	Federalist	Princeton	Lawyer
								5
5	Jonathan Dayton		March 4, 1799	March 3, 1805	Federalist	Elizabeth	Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives	6	3
								7
								8
6	Aaron Kitchell		March 4, 1805	March 12, 1809	Democratic-Republican	Hanover	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2nd district)	9	4
								10
								11
7	John Condit		March 21, 1809	March 3, 1817	Democratic-Republican	Orange	U.S. Senator
								12	5
								13
								14
8	Mahlon Dickerson		March 4, 1817	January 30, 1829 (resigned and immediately re-elected for the Class I seat)	Democratic-Republican	Succasunna	Governor of New Jersey	15	6
								16
								17
								18	7
								19
								20
Vacant			January 31, 1828	March 3, 1828
9	Theodore Frelinghuysen		March 4, 1829	March 3, 1835	National Republican	Newark	Attorney General of New Jersey	21	8
								22
								23
10	Garret D. Wall		March 4, 1835	March 3, 1841	Democratic	Burlington	U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey	24	9
								25
								26
11	Jacob W. Miller		March 4, 1841	March 3, 1853	Whig	Morristown	Lawyer	27	10
								28
								29
								30	11
								31
								32
12	William Wright		March 4, 1853	March 3, 1859	Democratic	Newark	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (5th district)	33	12
								34
								35
13	John C. Ten Eyck		March 4, 1859	March 3, 1865	Republican	Mount Holly	Lawyer	36	13
								37
								38
14	John P. Stockton		March 15, 1865	March 27, 1866 (Election disputed)	Democratic	Trenton	Minister to the Papal States	39	14
Vacant			March 27, 1866 (Seat declared vacant)	September 19, 1866
15	Alexander G. Cattell		September 19, 1866 (Election disputed)	March 3, 1871	Republican	Camden	Businessman
								40
								41
16	Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen		March 4, 1871	March 3, 1877	Republican	Newark	U.S. Senator	42	15
								43
								44
17	John R. McPherson		March 4, 1877	March 3, 1895	Democratic	Jersey City	New Jersey Senate	45	16
								46
								47
								48	17
								49
								50
								51	18
								52
								53
18	William Joyce Sewell		March 4, 1895	December 27, 1901	Republican	Camden	U.S. Senator	54	19
								55
								56
								57	20
19	John F. Dryden		January 29, 1902	March 3, 1907	Republican	Newark	Banker
								58
								59
20	Frank O. Briggs		March 4, 1907	March 3, 1913	Republican	Trenton	Treasurer of New Jersey	60	21
								61
								62
21	William Hughes		March 4, 1913	January 30, 1918	Democratic	Paterson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (6th district)	63	22
								64
								65
22	David Baird		February 23, 1918	March 3, 1919	Republican	Camden	Businessman
23	Walter Evans Edge		March 4, 1919	November 21, 1929	Republican	Atlantic City	Governor of New Jersey	66	23
								67
								68
								69	24
								70
								71
24	David Baird, Jr.		November 30, 1929	December 2, 1930	Republican	Camden	Businessman
25	Dwight Morrow		December 3, 1930	October 5, 1931	Republican	Englewood	Ambassador to Mexico
								72	25
26	William Warren Barbour		December 1, 1931	January 3, 1937	Republican	Locust	Businessman
								73
								74
Vacant			January 3, 1937	April 15, 1937				75	26
27	William H. Smathers		April 15, 1937 (Elected, but installed late, remaining until then a member of the state Senate.)	January 3, 1943	Democratic	Atlantic City	New Jersey Senate
								76
								77
27	Albert W. Hawkes		January 3, 1943 (Elected)	January 3, 1949	Republican	Montclair	Businessman	78	27
								79
								80
28	Robert C. Hendrickson		January 3, 1949 (Elected)	January 2, 1955	Republican	Woodbury	Treasurer of New Jersey	81	28
								82
								83
29	Clifford P. Case		January 3, 1955 (Elected)	January 3, 1979	Republican	Rahway	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (6th district)	84	29
								85
								86
								87	30
								88
								89
								90	31
								91
								92
								93	32
								94
								95
30	Bill Bradley		January 3, 1979 (Elected)	January 3, 1997	Democratic	Denville	Athlete	96	33
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								98
								99	34
								100
								101
								102	35
								103
								104
31	Robert Torricelli		January 3, 1997 (Elected)	January 3, 2003 (Retired)	Democratic	Englewood	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (9th district)	105	36
								106
								107
32	Frank Lautenberg		January 3, 2003 (Elected)	Incumbent	Democratic	Cliffside Park	U.S. Senator	108	37
								109
								110
								111	38

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• United States congressional delegations from New Jersey

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