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U.S. Senators from Illinois:
Name	Dates of Service
*Class 2*
Jesse B. Thomas (R,CRR,ADAMS) John McLean (J) David J. Baker (D) John M. Robinson (J,D) Samuel McRoberts (D) James Semple (D) Stephen A. Douglas (D) Orville H. Browning (R) William A. Richardson (D) Richard Yates (R) John A. Logan (R) David Davis (I) Shelby M. Cullom (R) James Hamilton Lewis (D) J. Medill McCormick (R) Charles S. Deneen (R) James Hamilton Lewis (D) James M. Slattery (D) C. Wayland Brooks (R) Paul H. Douglas (D) Charles H. Percy (R) Paul M. Simon (D) Richard Durbin (D)	1818-1829 1829-1830 1830-1830 1830-1841 1841-1843 1843-1847 1847-1861 1861-1863 1863-1865 1865-1871 1871-1877 1877-1883 1883-1913 1913-1919 1919-1925 1925-1931 1931-1939 1939-1940 1940-1949 1949-1967 1967-1985 1985-1997 1997---

Name	Dates of Service
*Class 3*
Ninian Edwards (R,ADAMS-CLAY R) John McLean (CRR) Elias K. Kane (J) William Lee D. Ewing (J) Richard M. Young (D) Sidney Breese (D) James Shields (D) Lyman Trumbull (D,R) Richard J. Oglesby (R) John A. Logan (R) Charles B. Farwell (R) John McAuley Palmer (D) William E. Mason (R) Albert J. Hopkins (R) William Lorimer (R) Lawrence Y. Sherman (R) William B. McKinley (R) Frank L. Smith (R)* Otis F. Glenn (R) William H. Dieterich (D) Scott W. Lucas (D) Everett McKinley Dirksen (R) Ralph Tyler Smith (R) Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) Alan J. Dixon (D) Carol Moseley-Braun (D) Peter G. Fitzgerald (R) Barack Obama (D) Roland W. Burris (D) Mark Kirk (R)	1818-1824 1824-1825 1825-1835 1835-1837 1837-1843 1843-1849 1849-1855 1855-1873 1873-1879 1879-1886 1887-1891 1891-1897 1897-1903 1903-1909 1909-1912 1913-1921 1921-1926 1926-1928 1928-1933 1933-1939 1939-1951 1951-1969 1969-1970 1970-1981 1981-1993 1993-1999 1999-2005 2005-2008 2009-2010 2010--

*Presented credentials but was eventually denied seat.

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more): Shelby M. Cullom

Illinois Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore: David Davis Party Conference Chairmen: Shelby Cullom, Scott W. Lucas Majority and Minority Leaders: Everett M. Dirksen, Scott W. Lucas Party Whips: J. Hamilton Lewis, Scott W. Lucas, Everett M. Dirksen; Richard Durbin Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947: Foreign Relations: Charles A. Percy Rules and Administration: C. Wayland Brooks
Illinois Senators Depicted on U.S. Postage Stamps
Everett M. Dirksen Stephen Douglas

Illinois Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Frances E. Willard by Helen Farnsworth Mears, located in Statuary Hall; James Shields by Leonard Wells Volk, located in the Hall of Columns. Busts: Abraham Lincoln by Sara Fisher Ames, located in the Senate wing, third floor, east corridor; Abraham Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum, located in the Rotunda Vice Presidents Collection: Charles G. Dawes by Jo Davidson, Senate wing, second floor, main corridor. Paintings: Lincoln ordering the building of the dome to continue during the war, 1863, by Allyn Cox, located on the wall/ceiling of the east corridor, first floor, in the House wing of the Capitol.


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