View a list of Delaware U.S. Senators since 1789
Senator George Read
Party: Pro-Administration
Term: 1789 - 1793
Congress: 1st-3rd
Senator Richard Bassett
Party: Anti-Administration, Pro-Administration
Term: 1789 - 1793
Congress: 1st-2nd
Senator John Vining
Party: Pro-Administration, Federalist
Term: 1793 - 1798
Congress: 3rd-5th
Senator Henry Lattimer
Party: Federalist
Term: 1795 - 1801
Congress: 3rd-6th
Senator Joshua Clayton
Party: Federalist
Term: 1798 - 1798
Congress: 5th
Senator William H. Wells
Party: Federalist
Term: 1799 - 1804
Congress: 5th-8th
Senator Samuel White
Party: Federalist
Term: 1801 - 1809
Congress: 6th-11th
Senator James A. Bayard Sr.
Party: Federalist
Term: 1804 - 1813
Congress: 8th-12th
Senator Outerbridge Horsey
Party: Federalist
Term: 1810 - 1821
Congress: 11th-16th
Senator William H. Wells
Party: Federalist
Term: 1813 - 1817
Congress: 13th-14th
Senator Nicholas VanDyke
Party: Federalist
Term: 1817 - 1826
Congress: 15th-19th
Senator Caesar A. Rodney
Party: Democratic-Republican
Term: 1822 - 1823
Congress: 17th-18th
Senator Thomas Clayton
Party: National Republican
Term: 1824 - 1827
Congress: 18th-19th
Senator Daniel Rodney
Party: National Republican
Term: 1826 - 1827
Congress: 19th
Senator Louis McLane
Party: Jacksonian
Term: 1827 - 1829
Congress: 20th-21st
Senator Henry M. Ridgely
Party: Jacksonian
Term: 1827 - 1829
Congress: 19th-20th
Senator John M. Clayton
Party: National Republican
Term: 1829 - 1836
Congress: 21st-24th
Senator Arnold Naudain
Party: National Republican
Term: 1830 - 1836
Congress: 21st-24th
Senator Richard H. Bayard
Party: National Republican, Whig
Term: 1836 - 1845
Congress: 24th-28th
Senator Thomas Clayton
Party: National Republican, Whig
Term: 1837 - 1847
Congress: 24th-29th
Senator John M. Clayton
Party: Whig
Term: 1845 - 1849
Congress: 29th-30th
Senator Presley Spruance
Party: Whig
Term: 1847 - 1853
Congress: 30th-32nd
Senator John Wales
Party: Whig
Term: 1849 - 1851
Congress: 30th-31st
Senator James A. Bayard Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1851 - 1864
Congress: 32nd-38th
Senator John M. Clayton
Party: Whig
Term: 1853 - 1856
Congress: 33rd-34th
Senator Joseph P. Comegys
Party: Whig
Term: 1856 - 1857
Congress: 34th
Senator Martin W. Bates
Party: Democratic
Term: 1857 - 1859
Congress: 34th-35th
Senator Willard Saulsbury Sr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1859 - 1871
Congress: 36th-41st
Senator George R. Riddle
Party: Democratic
Term: 1864 - 1867
Congress: 38th-40th
Senator James A. Bayard Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1867 - 1869
Congress: 40th
Senator Thomas F. Bayard Sr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1869 - 1885
Congress: 41st-49th
Senator Eli Saulsbury
Party: Democratic
Term: 1871 - 1889
Congress: 42nd-50th
Senator George Gray
Party: Democratic
Term: 1885 - 1899
Congress: 49th-55th
Senator Anthony Higgins
Party: Republican
Term: 1889 - 1895
Congress: 51st-53rd
Senator Richard R. Kenney
Party: Democratic
Term: 1897 - 1901
Congress: 54th-56th
Senator L. Heisler Ball
Party: Republican
Term: 1903 - 1905
Congress: 57th-58th
Senator James F. Allee
Party: Republican
Term: 1903 - 1907
Congress: 57th-59th
Senator Henry A. du Pont
Party: Republican
Term: 1906 - 1917
Congress: 59th-64th
Senator Willard Saulsbury Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1913 - 1919
Congress: 63rd-65th
Senator Josiah O. Wolcott
Party: Democratic
Term: 1917 - 1921
Congress: 65th-67th
Senator L. Heisler Ball
Party: Republican
Term: 1919 - 1925
Congress: 66th-68th
Senator T. Coleman du Pont
Party: Republican
Term: 1921 - 1922
Congress: 67th
Senator Thomas F. Bayard Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1922 - 1929
Congress: 67th-70th
Senator T. Coleman du Pont
Party: Republican
Term: 1925 - 1928
Congress: 69th-68th
Senator Daniel O. Hastings
Party: Republican
Term: 1928 - 1937
Congress: 70th-74th
Senator John G. Townsend Jr.
Party: Republican
Term: 1929 - 1941
Congress: 71st-76th
Senator James H. Hughes
Party: Democratic
Term: 1937 - 1943
Congress: 75th-77th
Senator James M. Tunnell
Party: Democratic
Term: 1941 - 1947
Congress: 77th-79th
Senator C. Douglass Buck
Party: Republican
Term: 1943 - 1949
Congress: 78th-80th
Senator John J. Willliams
Party: Republican
Term: 1947 - 1970
Congress: 80th-91st
Senator J. Allen Frear Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1949 - 1961
Congress: 81st-86th
Senator J. Caleb Boggs
Party: Republican
Term: 1961 - 1973
Congress: 87th-92nd
Senator William V. Roth Jr.
Party: Republican
Term: 1971 - 2001
Congress: 91st-106th
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 1973 - 2009
Congress: 93rd-111th
Senator Edward E. Kaufman Jr.
Party: Democratic
Term: 2009 - 2010
Congress: 111th
Senator Thomas R. Carper
Party: Democratic
Term: 2001
Present Congress: 107th
Senator Christopher A. Coons
Party: Democratic
Term: 2010 - Present
Congress: 111th
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