Physicians in the Senate |
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Key to Political Party Abbreviations
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Source: U.S., Congress, Senate, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Senator Party/State Term
Elmer, Jonathan (Pro-Admin-NJ) 1789-1791
Bradford, William (Pro-Admin/F-RI) 1793-1797
Latimer, Henry (F-DE) 1795-1801
Clayton, Joshua (F-DE) 1798
Logan, George** (R-PA) 1801-1807
Condit, John (R-NJ) 1803-1817
Mitchill, Samuel Latham (R-NY) 1804-1809
Jones, George (R-GA) 1807
Tiffin, Edward (R-OH) 1807-1809
Campbell, Alexander (R-OH) 1809-1813
Leib, Michael (R-PA) 1809-1814
Hunter, William* (F-RI) 1811-1821
Bibb, William Wyatt (R-GA) 1813-1816
Storer, Clement (R-NH) 1817-1819
Morril, David L. (R-NH) 1817-1823
Pinkney, William** (R-MD) 1819-1822
Ware, Nicholas* (R/CRR-GA) 1821-1824
Chambers, Henry H. (J-AL) 1825-1826
Harrison, William Henry** (Adams-OH) 1825-1828
Harper, William* (J-SC) 1826
Bateman, Ephraim (Adams-NJ) 1826-1829
Naudain, Arnold (AJ-DE) 1830-1836
Kent, Joseph (AJ/W-MD) 1833-1837
Linn, Lewis Fields (J/D-MO) 1833-1843
Spence, John Selby (Anti-Jackson/W-MD) 1836-1840
Sturgeon, Daniel (D-PA) 1840-1851
Borland, Solon (D-AR) 1848-1853
Gwin, William M. (D-CA) 1850-1855, 1857-1861
Wade, Benjamin F.* (W/OP/R-OH) 1851-1869
Nourse, Amos (R-ME) 1857
Bates, Martin Waltham* (D-DE) 1857-1859
Fitch, Graham Newell (D-IN) 1857-1861
Mitchel, Charles Burton (D-AR) 1861
Cowan, Edgar* (R-PA) 1861-1867
Miller, Homer Virgil Milton (D-GA) 1871
Conover, Simon Barkley (R-FL) 1873-1879
Dennis, George Robertson (D-MD) 1873-1879
Withers, Robert Enoch (D-VA) 1875-1881
Chilcott, George Miles** (R-CO) 1882-1883
Gallinger, Jacob Harold (R-NH) 1891-1918
Deboe, William Joseph (R-KY) 1897-1903
Ball, Lewis Heisler (R-DE) 1903-1905, 1919-1925
Lane, Harry (D-OR) 1913-1917
France, Joseph Irvin (R-MD) 1917-1923
Copeland, Royal S. (D-NY) 1923-1938
Ferris, Woodbridge Nathan (D-MI) 1923-1928
Hatfield, Henry D. (R-WV) 1929-1935
Gruening, Ernest** (D-AK) 1959-1969
Frist, William H. (R-TN) 1995-2007
Coburn, Thomas A. (R-OK) 2005-2015
Barrasso, John (R-WY) 2007-
Paul, Rand (R-KY) 2011-
Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) 2015-