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U.S. Senators from Kentucky:
Name Dates of Service
Class 2
John Brown (ANTI-ADMIN,R)
Buckner Thruston (R)
Henry Clay (R)
George M. Bibb (R)
George Walker (R)
William T. Barry (R)
Martin D. Hardin (F)
John J. Crittenden (R)
Richard M. Johnson (R,JR,J)
George M.Bibb (J)
John J. Crittenden (AJ,W)
James T. Morehead (W)
Joseph R. Underwood (W)
John B. Thompson (W,OP,AM)
Lazarus W. Powell (D)
James Guthrie (D)
Thomas C. McCreery (D)
John W. Stevenson (D)
James B. Beck (D)
John G. Carlisle (D)
William Lindsay (D)
Joseph C.S. Blackburn (D)
Thomas H. Paynter (D)
Ollie M. James (D)
George B. Martin (D)
A. Owsley Stanley (D)
Frederic M. Sackett (R)
John M. Robsion (R)
Ben M. Williamson (D)
Marvel M. Logan (D)
Albert B. (Happy) Chandler (D)
William A. Stanfill (R)
John Sherman Cooper (R)
Virgil M. Chapman (D)
Thomas R. Underwood (D)
John Sherman Cooper (R)
Alben W. Barkley (D)
Robert Humphreys (D)
John Sherman Cooper (R)
Walter D. Huddleston (D)
Mitch McConnell (R)
1792-1805
1805-1809
1810-1811
1811-1814
1814-1814
1814-1816
1816-1817
1817-1819
1819-1829
1829-1835
1835-1841
1841-1847
1847-1853
1853-1859
1859-1865
1865-1868
1868-1871
1871-1877
1877-1890
1890-1893
1893-1901
1901-1907
1907-1913
1913-1918
1918-1919
1919-1925
1925-1930
1930-1930
1930-1931
1931-1939
1939-1945
1945-1946
1946-1949
1949-1951
1951-1952
1952-1955
1955-1956
1956-1956
1956-1973
1973-1985
1985---

Name Dates of Service
Class 3
John Edwards (ANTI-ADMIN)
Humphrey Marshall (F)
John Breckinridge (R)
John Adair (R)
Henry Clay (R)
John Pope (R)
Jesse Bledsoe (R)
Isham Talbot (R)
William Logan (R)
Isham Talbot (R,ADAM-CLAY R)
John Rowan (J)
Henry Clay (AJ,W)
John J. Crittenden (W)
Thomas Metcalfe (W)
Henry Clay (W)
David Meriwether (D)
Archibald Dixon (W)
John J. Crittenden (OP,AM)
John C. Breckinridge (D)
Garrett Davis (U,D)
Willis B. Machen (D)
Thomas C. McCreery (D)
John Stuart Williams (D)
Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)
William J. Deboe (R)
James B. McCreary (D)
William O. Bradley (R)
Johnson N. Camden, Jr. (D)
John C. W. Beckham (D)
Richard P. Ernst (R)
Alben W. Barkley (D)
Garrett L. Withers (D)
Earle C. Clements (D)
Thruston B. Morton (R)
Marlow W. Cook (R)
Wendell H. Ford (D)
Jim Bunning (R)
1792-1795
1795-1801
1801-1805
1805-1806
1806-1807
1807-1813
1813-1814
1815-1819
1819-1820
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1825-1831
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1842-1848
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1849-1852
1852-1852
1852-1855
1855-1861
1861-1861
1861-1872
1872-1873
1873-1879
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1903-1909
1909-1914
1914-1915
1915-1921
1921-1927
1927-1949
1949-1950
1950-1957
1957-1968
1968-1974
1974-1999
1999---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Wendell H. Ford

Youngest Senators: Henry Clay was twenty-nine years old in 1806 when he was first sworn in as a senator, less than the thirty years required by the Constitution. Clay is the third youngest member ever to serve in the Senate.

Oldest Senators: Alben W. Barkley was seventy-seven years old when he was reelected to the Senate in 1955 after his service as vice president.

 
Kentucky Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
Senate President (U.S. Vice President): John C. Breckinridge, Alben W. Barkley

President Pro Tempore: John Brown, John Pope

Majority Leader/Minority Leader: Alben W. Barkley; Mitch McConnell

Democratic Conference Chair: Joseph C.S. Blackburn, Alben W. Barkley

Party Whips: Earle C. Clements, Wendell H. Ford, Mitch McConnell

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair: Wendell H. Ford

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: Mitch McConnell

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Aeronautical and Space Sciences: Wendell H. Ford

Rules and Administration: Wendell H. Ford, Mitch McConnell
Kentucky Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps
Henry Clay (Twelve separate issues since 1870.)
 
Kentucky Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Dr. Ephraim McDowell by Charles H. Niehaus (Senate connecting corridor); Henry Clay by Charles H. Niehaus (Statuary Hall); Henry Clay by Thomas Ball (Senate wing, second floor)

Busts:

Vice Presidents Collection: Alben W. Barkley by Kalervo Kallio (Senate wing, second floor, main corridor), John C. Breckinridge by James P. Voorhees (Senate chamber gallery);

Senators Collection: Henry Clay by Albert P. Henry (HB-28)

Portraits: Five portraits of Henry Clay: by Constantino Brumidi (S-118, north wall, Senate wing); by Allyn Cox (one of five outstanding senators memorialized in the Senate Reception Room, S-213); by Henry Darby (Senate wing, second floor, main corridor); by John Neagle (House wing, third floor, east corridor); by Guiseppe Fagnani (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor). John White by Gerard Barry, Linn Boyd by Stanley Middleton, John G. Carlisle by Ellen D. Hale (all in Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor).

Reliefs: Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians by Enrico Causici (Rotunda, above south door)

 
  

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