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U.S. Senators from New York:
Name Dates of Service
Class 1
Philip J. Schuyler (PRO-ADMIN)
Aaron Burr (ANTI-ADMIN,R)
Philip J. Schuyler (F)
John S. Hobart (F)
William North (F)
James Watson (F)
Gouverneur Morris (F)
Theodorus Bailey (R)
John Armstrong, Jr. (R)
Samuel L. Mitchill (R)
Obadiah German (R)
Nathan Sanford (R)
Martin Van Buren (R,CRR,J)
Charles E. Dudley (J)
Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (J,D,W)
Daniel S. Dickinson (D)
Hamilton Fish (W,OP)
Preston King (R)
Edwin D. Morgan (R)
Reuben E. Fenton (R,LR)
Francis Kernan (D)
Thomas C. Platt (R)
Warner Miller (R)
Frank Hiscock (R)
Edward Murphy, Jr. (D)
Chauncey M. Depew (R)
James A. O'Gorman (D)
William M. Calder (R)
Royal S. Copeland (D)
James M. Mead (D)
Irving M. Ives (R)
Kenneth B. Keating (R)
Robert F. Kennedy (D)
Charles E. Goodell (R)
James L. Buckley (C)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
1789-1791
1791-1797
1797-1798
1798-1798
1798-1798
1798-1800
1800-1803
1803-1804
1804-1804
1804-1809
1809-1815
1815-1821
1821-1828
1829-1833
1833-1844
1844-1851
1851-1857
1857-1863
1863-1869
1869-1875
1875-1881
1881-1881
1881-1887
1887-1893
1893-1899
1899-1911
1911-1917
1917-1923
1923-1938
1938-1947
1947-1959
1959-1965
1965-1968
1968-1971
1971-1977
1977-2001
2001---

Name Dates of Service
Class 3
Rufus King (PRO-ADMIN,F)
John Laurance (F)
John Armstrong, Jr. (R)
De Witt Clinton (R)
John Armstrong, Jr. (R)
John Smith (R)
Rufus King (F,ADAMS-CLAY F)
Nathan Sanford (ADAMS,AJ)
William L. Marcy (J)
Silas Wright, Jr. (J,D)
Henry A. Foster (D)
John A. Dix (D)
William H. Seward (W,OP,R)
Ira Harris (R)
Roscoe Conkling (R)
Elbridge G. Lapham (R)
William M. Evarts (R)
David B. Hill (D)
Thomas C. Platt (R)
Elihu Root (R)
James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R)
Robert F. Wagner (D)
John Foster Dulles (R)
Herbert H. Lehman (D)
Jacob K. Javits (R)
Alfonse M. D'Amato (R)
Charles Schumer (D)
1789-1796
1796-1800
1800-1802
1802-1803
1803-1804
1804-1813
1813-1825
1826-1831
1831-1833
1833-1844
1844-1845
1845-1849
1849-1861
1861-1867
1867-1881
1881-1885
1885-1891
1892-1897
1897-1909
1909-1915
1915-1927
1927-1949
1949-1949
1949-1957
1957-1981
1981-1999
1999---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Jacob K. Javits
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
 
New York Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President pro tempore: John Laurance

Republican Conference Secretary: James W. Wadsworth, Jr.

Party Whips: James W. Wadsworth, Jr.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: Alfonse D'Amato

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair: Charles Schumer

Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee Chair: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Alfonse D'Amato

Environment & Public Works: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Finance: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Foreign Relations: Jacob Javits (served one day)
New York Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps:
John Foster Dulles
Robert F. Kennedy
William H. Seward (6 issues)
 
New York Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: George Clinton by Henry K. Brown (small House rotunda); Robert R. Livingston by Erastus D. Palmer (East central hall); Alexander Hamilton by Horatio Stone (Rotunda)

Busts:

Vice President's Collection: Chester A. Arthur by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Aaron Burr by Jacques Jouvenal, George Clinton by Vittorio A. Ciani, Millard Fillmore by Robert Cushing, Daniel D. Tompkins by Charles H. Niehaus, Martin Van Buren by Ulric S.J. Dunbar, William Wheeler by Edward C. Potter (all in Senate chamber gallery); Levi P. Morton by F. Edwin Elwell, Theodore Roosevelt by James Earle Fraser, James S. Sherman by Bessie P. Vonnoh, and Nelson A. Rockefeller by John Calabro (all in Senate wing, second floor corridors near Senate chamber).

Chief Justices Collection: John Jay by John Frazee (S-141, old Supreme Court chamber).

Frescos: Storming of Stony Point by Constantino Brumidi (S-128)

Paintings: Battle of Lake Erie by William H. Powell (Senate wing, east staircase); Discovery of the Hudson River by Albert Bierstadt (Members' private stairway, east corridor); Fort Lafayette, New York by Seth Eastman (Center section, first floor, west corridor); Fort Tompkins and Fort Wadsworth, New York by Seth Eastman (Center section, first floor, west corridor); Fort West Point, New York by Seth Eastman (Center section, first floor, west corridor); Niagara Falls in Winter by Regis Gignoux (Senate wing, third floor, south corridor); Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York by John Trumbull (Rotunda).

Portraits: Alexander Hamilton by Constantino Brumidi (S-216); John W. Taylor by Caroline L.O. Ransom (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor); Theodore M. Pomeroy by George L. Clough (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor).

Medallions: By Constantino Brumidi: John Jay (Senate wing, first floor, west corridor); Robert R. Livingston (2 works--Senate wing, first floor, west corridor and main corridor)

Building Materials, Furniture and Objects: Cast Iron for Capitol Dome--Janes, Fowler & Kirtland.

 
 
  

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