United States Senators Known to Have Served in World War II |
Senator |
Military Branch |
Dates of Senate Service |
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Abdnor, James (R-SD) |
Army |
1981-1987 |
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Akaka, Daniel (D-HI) |
Army |
1990-2013 |
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Allott, Gordon (R-CO) |
Army Air Corps |
1955-1973 |
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Andrews, Mark (R-ND) |
Army |
1981-1987 |
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Baker, Howard, Jr. (R-TN) |
Navy |
1967-1985 |
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Bartlett, Dewey (R-OK) |
Marines |
1973-1979 |
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Bass, Ross (D-TN) |
Army Air Corps |
1964-1967 |
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Bentsen, Lloyd (D-TX) |
Army |
1971-1993 |
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Boggs, James C. (R-DE) |
Army |
1961-1973 |
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Brewster, Daniel (D-MD) |
Marines |
1963-1969 |
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Brooke, Edward (R-MA) |
Army |
1967-1979 |
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Brown, Ernest S. (R-NV) |
Army |
1954 |
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Bumpers, Dale (D-AR) |
Marines |
1975-1999 |
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Byrd, Harry F., Jr. (D,I-VA) |
Navy |
1965-1971; 1971-1983 |
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Cain, Harry P. (R-WA) |
Army |
1946-1953 |
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Cannon, Howard (D-NV) |
Army |
1959-1983 |
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Carroll, John A. (D-CO) |
Army |
1957-1963 |
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Chafee, John H. (R-RI) |
Marines |
1976-1999 |
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Church, Frank F. (D-ID) |
Army |
1957-1981 |
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Clark, Joseph S. (D-PA) |
Army Air Corps |
1957-1969 |
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Cook, Marlow (R-KY) |
Navy |
1968-1974 |
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Cooper, John Sherman (R-KY) |
Army |
1946-49, 1952-55, 1956-73 |
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Cranston, Alan (D-CA) |
Army |
1969-1993 |
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Daniel, Marion Price (D-TX) |
Army |
1953-1957 |
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Dole, Robert (R-KS) |
Army |
1969-1996 |
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Dominick, Peter H. (R-CO) |
Army Air Corps |
1963-1975 |
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Douglas, Paul H. (D-IL) |
Marines |
1949-1967 |
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Edmondson, James (D-OK) |
Army |
1963-1964 |
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Evans, Daniel (R-WA) |
Navy |
1983-1989 |
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Exon, James (D-NE) |
Army Signal Corps |
1979-1997 |
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Fong, Hriam (D-HI) |
Army Air Corps |
1959-1977 |
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Ford, Wendell (D-KY) |
Army |
1974-1999 |
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Frear, J. Allen, Jr. (D-DE) |
Army |
1949-1961 |
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Gibson, Ernest, Jr. (R-VT) |
Army |
1940-1941 |
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Glenn, John (D-OH) |
Marines |
1974-1999 |
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Goldwater, Barry (R-AZ) |
Army Air Corps |
1953-65, 1969-87 |
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Goodell, Charles E. (R-NY) |
Navy |
1968-1971 |
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Gore, Albert, Sr. (D-TN) |
Army |
1953-1971 |
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Gorton, Slade (R-WA) |
Army |
1981-87, 1989-2001 |
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Griffin, Robert, P. (R-MI) |
Army |
1966-1979 |
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Gurney, Edward J. (R-FL) |
Army |
1969-1974 |
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Hart, Philip (D-MI) |
Army |
1959-1976 |
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Hart, Thomas C. (R-CT) |
Navy |
1945-1946 |
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Hartke, Rupert Vance (D-IN) |
Navy/Coast Guard |
1959-1977 |
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Hatfield, Mark (R-OR) |
Navy |
1967-1997 |
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Heflin, Howell (D-AL) |
Marines |
1979-1997 |
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Helms, Jesse (R-NC) |
Navy |
1973-2003 |
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Hendrickson, Robert C. (R-NJ) |
Army |
1949-1955 |
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Hennings, Thomas C., Jr. (D-MO) |
Navy |
1951-1960 |
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Hollings, Ernest (D-SC) |
Army |
1966-2005 |
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Huddleston, Walter D. (D-KY) |
Army |
1973-1985 |
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Hughes, Harold (D-IA) |
Army |
1969-1975 |
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Humphreys, Robert (D-KY) |
Medical Corps |
1956 |
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Inouye, Daniel (D-HI) |
Army |
1963-2012 |
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Jackson, Henry "Scoop" (D-WA) |
Army |
1953-1983 |
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Javits, Jacob (R-NY) |
Army |
1957-1981 |
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Jenner, William E. (R-IN) |
Army Air Corps |
1944-45, 1947-59 |
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Johnson, Lyndon B. (D-TX) |
Navy |
1949-1961 |
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Keating, Kenneth (R-NY) |
Army |
1959-1965 |
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Kennedy, John F. (D-MA) |
Navy |
1953-1960 |
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Knowland, William (R-CA) |
Army |
1945-1959 |
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Kuchel, Thomas H. (R-CA) |
Navy |
1953-1969 |
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Laird, William R. (D-WV) |
Navy |
1956 |
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Lautenberg, Frank (D-NJ) |
Army |
1982-2001, 2003-2013 |
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Laxalt, Paul (R-NV) |
Army |
1974-1987 |
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Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. (R-MA) |
Army |
1937-44, 1947-53 |
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Long, Oren E. (D-HI) |
Hawaii Defense Volunteers |
1959-1963 |
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Long, Russell (D-LA) |
Navy |
1948-1987 |
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Magnuson, Warren (D-WA) |
Navy |
1944-1981 |
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Martin, Edward (R-PA) |
Army |
1947-1959 |
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Mathias, Charles M. (R-MD) |
Navy |
1969-1987 |
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Matsunaga, Spark (D-HI) |
Army |
1977-1990 |
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McCarthy, Joseph (R-WI) |
Marines |
1947-1957 |
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McClure, James (R-ID) |
Navy |
1973-1991 |
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McGovern, George (D-SD) |
Army Air Corps |
1963-1981 |
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Melcher, John (D-MT) |
Army |
1977-1989 |
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Metcalf, Lee (D-MT) |
Army |
1961-1978 |
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Miller, Jack (R-IA) |
Army Air Corps |
1961-1973 |
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Morton, Thruston (R-KY) |
Navy |
1957-1968 |
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Moss, Frank (D-UT) |
Army |
1959-1977 |
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Moynihan, Daniel P. (D-NY) |
Navy |
1977-2001 |
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Muskie, Edmund (D-ME) |
Navy |
1959-1980 |
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Nelson, Gaylord (D-WI) |
Army |
1963-1981 |
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Neuberger, Richard L. (D-OR) |
Army |
1955-1960 |
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Nixon, Richard (R-CA) |
Navy |
1950-1953 |
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Payne, Frederick (R-ME) |
Army Air Corps |
1953-1959 |
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Pearson, James (R-KS) |
Navy |
1962-1978 |
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Pell, Claiborne (D-RI) |
Coast Guard |
1961-1997 |
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Percy, Charles (R-IL) |
Navy |
1967-1985 |
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Potter, Charles E. (R-MI) |
Army |
1952-1959 |
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Proxmire, William (D-WI) |
Military Intelligence |
1957-1989 |
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Reynolds, Samuel (R-NE) |
Army |
1954 |
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Roth, William V., Jr. (R-DE) |
Army |
1971-2001 |
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Salinger, Pierre (D-CA) |
Navy |
1964 |
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Saxbe, William (R-OH) |
National Guard |
1969-1974 |
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Schweiker, Richard S. (R-PA) |
Navy |
1969-1981 |
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Scott, Hugh D., Jr. (R-PA) |
Navy |
1959-1977 |
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Smathers, George A. (D-FL) |
Marines |
1951-1969 |
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Smith, Benjamin A. (D-MA) |
Navy |
1960-1962 |
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Spencer, George L. (D-AR) |
Navy |
1941-1943 |
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Stafford, Robert (R-VT) |
Navy |
1971-1989 |
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Stevens, Ted (R-AK) |
Army Air Corps |
1968-2009 |
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Taft, Kingsly (R-OH) |
Army |
1946-1947 |
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Taft, Robert, Jr. (R-OH) |
Navy |
1971-1976 |
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Talmadge, Herman (D-GA) |
Navy |
1957-1981 |
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Thurmond, Strom (I,D,R-SC) |
Army |
1954-56, 1956-64, 1964-2003 |
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Tower, John (R-TX) |
Navy |
1961-1985 |
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Tydings, Joesph D. (D-MD) |
Army |
1965-1971 |
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Warner, John (R-VA) |
Navy, Marines |
1979-2009 |
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Welker, Herman (R-ID) |
Army Air Corps |
1951-1957 |
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Wyman, Louis C. (R-NH) |
Navy |
1974-1975 |
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Yarborough, Ralph (D-TX) |
Army |
1957-1971 |
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Young, Stephen (D-OH) |
Army |
1959-1971 |
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Total= 113 |
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