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Chairman Arlen Specter
Pennsylvania

Chronology of Committee Chairs:

January 6- present, Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania
January 15 - January 6, 2005, Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah
June 6 - January 15, 2003, Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont
January 20- June 5, 2001, Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah
January 3-January 20, 2001, Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vermont
1995-2001, Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah

1987-1995, Joseph R. Biden, Jr , D-Delaware
1981-1987, Strom Thurmond, R-South Carolina
1979-1981, Edward M. Kennedy , D-Massachusetts
1956-1978, James O. Eastland, D-Mississippi
1955-1956, Harley M. Kilgore , D-West Virginia
1953-1955, William Langer, R-North Dakota
1949-1953, Pat McCarran , D-Nevada
1947-1949, Alexander Wiley , R-Wisconsin
1945-1947, Pat McCarran , D-Nevada
1941-1945, Frederick Van Nuys , D-Indiana
1933-1941, Henry F. Ashurst , D-Arizona
1926-1933, George W. Norris , R-Nebraska
1924-1926, Albert B. Cummins , R-Iowa
1923-1924, Frank B. Brandegee , R-Connecticut
1919-1923, Knute Nelson , R-Minnesota
1913-1919, Charles A. Culberson , D-Texas
1905-1912, Clarence D. Clark , R-Wyoming
1904, Orville Platt , R-Connecticut
1895-1904, George F. Hoar, R-Massachusetts
1893-1895, James L. Pugh , D-Alabama
1891-1893, George F. Hoar, R-Massachusetts
1881-1891, George F. Edmunds , R-Vermont
1879-1881, Allen G. Thurman , D-Ohio
1872-1879, George F. Edmunds , R-Vermont
1861-1872, Lyman Trumbull , R-Illinois
1857-1861, James A. Bayard, Jr. , D-Delaware
1848-1857, Andrew P. Butler, D-South Carolina
1845-1847, Chester Ashley , D-Arkansas
1841-1845, John Macpherson Berrien , Georgia
1838-1841, Garret D. Wall , New Jersey
1836-1838, Felix Grundy , Tennessee
1833-1836, John M. Clayton , Delaware
1832-1833, William Wilkins , Pennsylvania
1831-1832, William L. Marcy , New York
1829-1831, John Rowan , Kentucky
1828-1829, John Macpherson Berrien , Georgia
1823-1828, Martin Van Buren , New York
1819-1823, William Smith , South Carolina
1818-1819, James Burrill, Jr. , Rhode Island
1817-1818, John J. Crittenden , Kentucky
1816-1817, Dudley Chase, Vermont

*Italicized~ Members serving at two intervals

   
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