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U.S. Senators from Alabama:
Name Dates of Service
Class 2
William R. King (R,JR,J,D)
Dixon H. Lewis (D)
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D)
Jeremiah Clemens (D)
Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. (D)
Willard Warner (R)
George Goldthwaite (D)
John T. Morgan (D)
John H. Bankhead (D)
Braxton B. Comer (D)
J. Thomas Heflin (D)
John H. Bankhead II (D)
George R. Swift (D)
John J. Sparkman (D)
Howell T. Heflin (D)
Jeff Sessions (R)
1819-1844
1844-1848
1848-1849
1849-1853
1853-1861
1868-1871
1871-1877
1877-1907
1907-1920
1920-1920
1920-1931
1931-1946
1946-1946
1946-1979
1979-1997
1997---

Name Dates of Service
Class 3
John W. Walker (R)
William Kelly (R,JR)
Henry H. Chambers (J)
Israel Pickens (J)
John McKinley (J)
Gabriel Moore (J,AJ)
John McKinley (D)
Clement Comer Clay (D)
Arthur P. Bagby (D)
William R. King (D)
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D)
George E. Spencer (R)
George S. Houston (D)
Luke Pryor (D)
James L. Pugh (D)
Edmund W. Pettus (D)
Joseph F. Johnston (D)
Francis S. White (D)
Oscar W. Underwood (D)
Hugo L. Black (D)
Dixie Bibb Graves (D)
J. Lister Hill (D)
James B. Allen (D)
Maryon Pittman Allen (D)
Donald W. Stewart (D)
Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. (R)
Richard C. Shelby (D,R)
1819-1822
1822-1825
1825-1826
1826-1826
1826-1831
1831-1837
1837-1837
1837-1841
1841-1848
1848-1852
1853-1861
1868-1879
1879-1879
1880-1880
1880-1897
1897-1907
1907-1913
1914-1915
1915-1927
1927-1937
1937-1938
1938-1969
1969-1978
1978-1978
1978-1981
1981-1987
1987---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
John T. Morgan
John J. Sparkman
Lister Hill
William R. King
 
Alabama Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore:William R. King, Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Party Conference Chairmen (& Floor Leaders): Oscar W. Underwood

Party Whips: Lister Hill

Party Conference Secretaries: Hugo L. Black

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs: John Sparkman, Richard C. Shelby

Foreign Relations: John J. Sparkman

Labor and Public Welfare: J. Lister Hill
Alabama Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps
Hugo L. Black
 
Alabama Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry by Dante Sodini, located in the Hall of Columns; Joseph Wheeler by Berthold Nebel, located in Statuary Hall.

Busts:

Senate Chamber gallery: William R. King by William C. McCauslen.
 
  

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