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Current seniority list

Only relevant factors are listed below. For senators whose seniority is based on their state's respective population, the state population ranking is given as determined by the relevant United States census current at the time that they began service.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Republican (53) Democratic (45) Independent (2)

Current rank	Historical rank^[a]^[4]	Senator	Party		State	Seniority date	Other factors	Committee and leadership positions
1	1743	Chuck Grassley		Republican	Iowa	January 3, 1981
2	1766	Mitch McConnell		Republican	Kentucky	January 3, 1985
3	1810	Patty Murray		Democratic	Washington	January 3, 1993
4	1827	Ron Wyden			Oregon	February 6, 1996
5	1831	Dick Durbin			Illinois	January 3, 1997	Former House member (14 years)
6	1835	Jack Reed			Rhode Island		Former House member (6 years)
7	1842	Susan Collins		Republican	Maine
8	1844	Chuck Schumer		Democratic	New York	January 3, 1999	Former House member (18 years)
9	1846	Mike Crapo		Republican	Idaho	January 3, 1999	Former House member (6 years)
10	1859	Maria Cantwell^[b]		Democratic	Washington	January 3, 2001
11	1867	John Cornyn		Republican	Texas	December 2, 2002
12	1868	Lisa Murkowski			Alaska	December 20, 2002^[c]
13	1870	Lindsey Graham			South Carolina	January 3, 2003
14	1879	John Thune			South Dakota	January 3, 2005
15	1887	Bernie Sanders		Independent	Vermont	January 3, 2007	Former House member (16 years)
16	1893	Amy Klobuchar		Democratic	Minnesota		Minnesota 21st in population (2000)
17	1894	Sheldon Whitehouse		Democratic	Rhode Island		Rhode Island 43rd in population (2000)
18	1896	John Barrasso		Republican	Wyoming	June 22, 2007^[c]
19	1897	Roger Wicker		Republican	Mississippi	December 31, 2007^[c]
20	1901	Jeanne Shaheen		Democratic	New Hampshire	January 3, 2009	Former governor (6 years)
21	1902	Mark Warner		Democratic	Virginia		Former governor (4 years)
22	1903	Jim Risch		Republican	Idaho		Former governor (7 months)
23	1905	Jeff Merkley		Democratic	Oregon
24	1909	Michael Bennet			Colorado	January 21, 2009^[c]
25	1910	Kirsten Gillibrand			New York	January 26, 2009^[c]
26	1917	Chris Coons			Delaware	November 15, 2010
27	1920	Jerry Moran		Republican	Kansas	January 3, 2011	Former House member (14 years)
28	1922	John Boozman			Arkansas		Former House member (9 years)
29	1924	John Hoeven			North Dakota		Former governor
30	1925	Marco Rubio			Florida		Florida 4th in population (2000)
31	1926	Ron Johnson			Wisconsin		Wisconsin 20th in population (2000)
32	1927	Rand Paul			Kentucky		Kentucky 25th in population (2000)
33	1928	Richard Blumenthal		Democratic	Connecticut		Connecticut 29th in population (2000)
34	1929	Mike Lee		Republican	Utah		Utah 34th in population (2000)
35	1932	Brian Schatz		Democratic	Hawaii	December 26, 2012^[c]
36	1933	Tim Scott		Republican	South Carolina	January 2, 2013^[c]
37	1934	Tammy Baldwin		Democratic	Wisconsin	January 3, 2013	Former House member (14 years)
38	1937	Chris Murphy			Connecticut		Former House member (6 years); Connecticut 29th in population (2010)
39	1938	Mazie Hirono			Hawaii		Former House member (6 years); Hawaii 40th in population (2010)
40	1939	Martin Heinrich			New Mexico		Former House member (4 years)
41	1940	Angus King		Independent	Maine		Former governor (8 years)
42	1941	Tim Kaine		Democratic	Virginia		Former governor (4 years)
43	1942	Ted Cruz		Republican	Texas		Texas 2nd in population (2010)
44	1943	Elizabeth Warren		Democratic	Massachusetts		Massachusetts 14th in population (2010)
45	1944	Deb Fischer		Republican	Nebraska		Nebraska 38th in population (2010)
46	1948	Ed Markey		Democratic	Massachusetts	July 16, 2013
47	1949	Cory Booker		Democratic	New Jersey	October 31, 2013
48	1951	Shelley Moore Capito		Republican	West Virginia	January 3, 2015	Former House member (14 years)
49	1952	Gary Peters		Democratic	Michigan		Former House member (6 years); Michigan 8th in population (2010)
50	1953	Bill Cassidy		Republican	Louisiana		Former House member (6 years); Louisiana 25th in population (2010)
51	1955	James Lankford			Oklahoma		Former House member (4 years)
52	1956	Tom Cotton			Arkansas		Former House member (2 years); Arkansas 32nd in population (2010)
53	1957	Steve Daines			Montana		Former House member (2 years); Montana 44th in population (2010)
54	1958	Mike Rounds			South Dakota		Former governor
55	1960	Thom Tillis			North Carolina		North Carolina 10th in population (2010)
56	1961	Joni Ernst			Iowa		Iowa 30th in population (2010)
57	1963	Dan Sullivan			Alaska		Alaska 47th in population (2010)
58	1964	Chris Van Hollen		Democratic	Maryland	January 3, 2017	Former House member (14 years)
59	1965	Todd Young		Republican	Indiana		Former House member (6 years)
60	1966	Tammy Duckworth		Democratic	Illinois		Former House member (4 years)
61	1967	Maggie Hassan		Democratic	New Hampshire		Former governor
62	1969	John Neely Kennedy		Republican	Louisiana		Louisiana 25th in population (2010)
63	1970	Catherine Cortez Masto		Democratic	Nevada		Nevada 35th in population (2010)
64	1972	Tina Smith		Democratic	Minnesota	January 3, 2018^[c]
65	1974	Cindy Hyde-Smith		Republican	Mississippi	April 2, 2018^[c]
66	1975	Marsha Blackburn		Republican	Tennessee	January 3, 2019	Former House member (16 years)
67	1977	Kevin Cramer		Republican	North Dakota		Former House member (6 years)
68	1979	Jacky Rosen		Democratic	Nevada		Former House member (2 years)
69	1982	Josh Hawley		Republican	Missouri
70	1983	Rick Scott		Republican	Florida	January 8, 2019
71	1985	Mark Kelly		Democratic	Arizona	December 2, 2020
72	1986	Ben Ray Luján		Democratic	New Mexico	January 3, 2021	Former House member (12 years)
73	1987	Cynthia Lummis		Republican	Wyoming		Former House member (8 years)
74	1988	Roger Marshall		Republican	Kansas		Former House member (4 years)
75	1989	John Hickenlooper		Democratic	Colorado		Former governor
76	1990	Bill Hagerty		Republican	Tennessee		Tennessee 17th in population (2010)
77	1991	Tommy Tuberville		Republican	Alabama		Alabama 23rd in population (2010)
78	1992	Alex Padilla		Democratic	California	January 18, 2021^[c]
79	1993	Jon Ossoff^[d]			Georgia	January 20, 2021	'O' 15th letter of the alphabet^[5]
80	1994	Raphael Warnock			Georgia	January 20, 2021	'W' 23rd letter of the alphabet^[5]
81	1995	Peter Welch			Vermont	January 3, 2023	Former House member (16 years)
82	1996	Markwayne Mullin		Republican	Oklahoma		Former House member (10 years)
83	1997	Ted Budd		Republican	North Carolina		Former House member (6 years)
84	1998	John Fetterman		Democratic	Pennsylvania		Pennsylvania 5th in population (2020)
85	1999	J. D. Vance		Republican	Ohio		Ohio 7th in population (2020)
86	2000	Eric Schmitt			Missouri		Missouri 19th in population (2020)
87	2001	Katie Britt			Alabama		Alabama 24th in population (2020)
88	2002	Pete Ricketts			Nebraska	January 12, 2023^[c]
89	2004	Adam Schiff		Democratic	California
90	2005	Andy Kim			New Jersey
91	2006	Ruben Gallego			Arizona	January 3, 2025	Former House member (10 years)
92	2007	Jim Banks		Republican	Indiana		Former House member (8 years); Indiana 17th in population (2020)
93	2008	Lisa Blunt Rochester		Democratic	Delaware		Former House member (8 years); Delaware 45th in population (2020)
94	2009	John Curtis		Republican	Utah		Former House member (7 years)
95	2010	Elissa Slotkin		Democratic	Michigan		Former House member (6 years)
96	2011	Jim Justice		Republican	West Virginia		Former Governor
97	2012	David McCormick			Pennsylvania		Pennsylvania 5th in population (2020)
98	2013	Bernie Moreno			Ohio		Ohio 7th in population (2020)
99	2014	Angela Alsobrooks		Democratic	Maryland		Maryland 18th in population (2020)
100	2015	Tim Sheehy		Republican	Montana		Montana 44th in population (2020)
Rank	Historical rank^[a]^[4]	Senator	Party		State	Seniority date	Other factors	Committee and leadership positions

^ "1991 U.S Census Report" (PDF).
^ American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau. "2000 Census State Population Rankings". Factfinder.census.gov. Archived from the original on April 3, 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
^ "Resident Population Data (Text Version) – 2010 Census, by state and census region".
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference chronolist was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Wooten, Nick (January 20, 2021). "Will Ossoff or Warnock be Georgia's senior senator? The answer is a simple one". Ledger-Enquirer. Archived from the original on January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.

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[1] "1991 U.S Census Report" (PDF).

[2] American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau. "2000 Census State Population Rankings". Factfinder.census.gov. Archived from the original on April 3, 2009. Retrieved May 28, 2010.

[3] "Resident Population Data (Text Version) – 2010 Census, by state and census region".

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[Georgia-9] Wooten, Nick (January 20, 2021). "Will Ossoff or Warnock be Georgia's senior senator? The answer is a simple one". Ledger-Enquirer. Archived from the original on January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.

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