U.S. Senators from Illinois
Member of the United States Senate (Class 2) from Illinois
Stephen Arnold Douglas
Date of birth/date of death: b. April 23 1813; d. June 3 1861.
Democratic Party
1847 – 1861
Orville Hickman Browning
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 10 1806; d. August 10 1881.
Republican Party
1861 – 1863
William Alexander Richardson
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 16 1811; d. December 27 1875.
Democratic Party
1863 – 1865
Richard Yates
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 18 1815; d. November 27 1873.
Republican Party
1865 – 1871
John Alexander Logan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 9 1826; d. December 26 1886.
Republican Party
1871 – 1877
David Davis
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 9 1815; d. June 26 1886.
Independent
1877 – 1883
Shelby Moore Cullom
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 22 1829; d. January 28 1914.
Republican Party
1883 – 1913
James Hamilton Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 18 1863; d. April 9 1939.
Democratic Party
1913 – 1919
James Hamilton Lewis
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 18 1863; d. April 9 1939.
Democratic Party
1931 – 1939
Charles Wayland Brooks
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1897; d. January 14 1957.
Republican Party
1940 – 1949
Paul Howard Douglas
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 26 1892; d. September 24 1976.
Democratic Party
1949 – 1967
Paul Martin Simon
Date of birth/date of death: b. November 29 1928; d. December 9 2003.
Democratic Party
1985 – 1997
Member of the United States Senate (Class 3) from Illinois
Jesse Burgess Thomas
Date of birth/date of death: b. 1777; d. May 2 1853.
Democratic-Republican Party (1818 – 1825); National Republican Party (1825 – 1829)
1818 – 1829
James Shields
Date of birth/date of death: b. May 10 1806; d. June 1 1879.
Democratic Party
1849 – 1855
Lyman Trumbull
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 12 1813; d. June 25 1896.
Democratic Party (1855 – 1857); Republican Party (1857 – 1870); Liberal Republican Party (1870 – 1872); Democratic Party (1872 – 1873)
1855 – 1873
Richard James Oglesby
Date of birth/date of death: b. July 25 1824; d. April 24 1899.
Republican Party
1873 – 1879
John Alexander Logan
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 9 1826; d. December 26 1886.
Republican Party
1879 – 1886
John McAuley Palmer
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 13 1817; d. September 25 1900.
Democratic Party (1891 – 1896); National Democratic Party (1896 – 1897)
1891 – 1897
Albert Jarvis Hopkins
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 15 1846; d. August 23 1922.
Republican Party
1903 – 1909
William Henry Dieterich
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 31 1876; d. October 12 1940.
Democratic Party
1933 – 1939
Scott Wike Lucas
Date of birth/date of death: b. February 19 1892; d. February 22 1968.
Democratic Party
1939 – 1951
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Date of birth/date of death: b. January 4 1896; d. September 7 1969.
Republican Party
1951 – 1969
Ralph Tyler Smith
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 6 1915; d. August 13 1972.
Republican Party
1969 – 1970
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 10 1930; September 6 2021.
Democratic Party
1970 – 1981
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 16 1947.
Democratic Party
1993 – 1999
Peter Gosselin Fitzgerald
Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1960.
Republican Party
1999 – 2005
Barack Hussein Obama II
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 4 1961.
Democratic Party
2005 – 2008
Roland Wallace Burris
Date of birth/date of death: b. August 3 1937.
Democratic Party
2009 – 2010
Mark Steven Kirk
Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1959.
Republican Party
2010 – 2017
Ladda Tammy Duckworth
Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1968.
Democratic Party
2017 – present