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U.S. Senators from North Carolina:
Name Dates of Service
Class 2
Samuel Johnston (PRO-ADMIN)
Alexander Martin (ANTI-ADMIN,R)
Jesse Franklin (R)
James Turner (R)
Montfort Stokes (R)
John Branch (CRR,J)
Bedford Brown (J,D)
Willie P. Mangum (W)
David S. Reid (D)
Thomas Bragg (D)
Joseph C. Abbott (R)
Matt W. Ransom (D)
Marion Butler (PO)
Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
Josiah W. Bailey (D)
William B. Umstead (D)
J. Melville Broughton (D)
Frank P. Graham (D)
Willis Smith (D)
Alton A. Lennon (D)
W. Kerr Scott (D)
B. Everett Jordan (D)
Jesse Helms (R)
Elizabeth Dole (R)
Kay R. Hagan (D)
1789-1793
1793-1799
1799-1805
1805-1816
1816-1823
1823-1829
1829-1840
1840-1853
1854-1859
1859-1861
1868-1871
1872-1895
1895-1901
1901-1931
1931-1946
1946-1948
1948-1949
1949-1950
1950-1953
1953-1954
1954-1958
1958-1973
1973-2003
2003-2009
2009--

Name Dates of Service
Class 3
Benjamin Hawkins (PRO-ADMIN, ANTI-ADMIN)
Timothy Bloodworth (R)
David Stone (R)
Jesse Franklin (R)
David Stone(R)
Francis Locke (N/A)
Nathaniel Macon (R,CRR,J)
James Iredell (J)
Willie P. Mangum (J,AJ)
Robert Strange (J,D)
William A. Graham (W)
William H. Haywood, Jr. (D)
George E. Badger (W)
Asa Biggs (D)
Thomas L. Clingman (D)
John Pool (R)
Augustus S. Merrimon (D)
Zebulon B. Vance (D)
Thomas J. Jarvis (D)
Jeter C. Pritchard (R)
Lee S. Overman (D)
Cameron A. Morrison (D)
Robert R. Reynolds (D)
Clyde R. Hoey (D)
Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. (D)
Robert B. Morgan (D)
John P. East (R)
James T. Broyhill (R)
J. Terry Sanford (D)
Duncan McLauchlin (Lauch) Faircloth (R)
John Edwards (D)
Richard Burr (R)
1789-1795
1795-1801
1801-1807
1807-1813
1813-1814
1814-1815
1815-1828
1828-1831
1831-1836
1836-1840
1840-1843
1843-1846
1846-1855
1855-1858
1858-1861
1868-1873
1873-1879
1879-1894
1894-1895
1895-1903
1903-1930
1930-1932
1932-1945
1945-1954
1954-1974
1975-1981
1981-1986
1986-1986
1986-1993
1993-1999
1999-2005
2005---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Furnifold M. Simmons
Lee S. Overman
Jesse Helms
 
North Carolina Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore: Jesse Franklin, Nathaniel Macon, Willie P. Mangum, and Matt W. Ransom.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: Elizabeth Dole

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Jesse Helms

Foreign Relations: Jesse Helms

Government Operations: Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

Rules and Administration: B. Everett Jordan
North Carolina Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Zebulon B. Vance by Gutzon Borglum (Statuary Hall) and Charles B. Aycock by Charles Keck (East central hall)

Paintings: Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard C. Christy (House wing, east stairway). This painting contains portraits of North Carolina's delegates at the Constitutional Convention: Richard D. Spaight, William Blount, and Hugh Williamson.

Portraits: Nathaniel Macon by Robert D. Gauley after W.G. Randall (Speaker's Lobby, House wing, second floor)

 
 
  

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