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Members of the U.S. Senate from Indiana

Class 1 | Class 3.


U.S. Senators from Indiana

Member of the United States Senate (Class 1) from Indiana
Jesse David Bright

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 18 1812; d. May 20 1875.

Democratic Party

1845 – 1862

David Battle Turpie

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1828; d. April 21 1909.

Democratic Party

1863

Thomas Andrews Hendricks

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 7 1819; d. November 25 1885.

Democratic Party

1863 – 1869

Daniel Darwin Pratt

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 26 1813; d. June 17 1877.

Republican Party

1869 – 1875

Joseph Ewing McDonald

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 29 1819; d. June 21 1891.

Democratic Party

1875 – 1881

Benjamin Harrison

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 20 1833; d. March 13 1901.

Republican Party

1881 – 1887

David Battle Turpie

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 8 1828; d. April 21 1909.

Democratic Party

1887 – 1899

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 6 1862; d. April 27 1927.

Republican Party

1899 – 1911

John Worth Kern

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 20 1849; d. August 17 1917.

Democratic Party

1911 – 1917

Harry Stewart New

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 31 1858; d. May 9 1937.

Republican Party

1917 – 1923

Samuel Moffett Ralston

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 1 1857; d. October 14 1925.

Democratic Party

1923 – 1925

Sherman “Shay” Minton

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 20 1890; d. April 9 1965.

Democratic Party

1935 – 1941

Richard Green Lugar

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 4 1932; d. April 28 2019.

Republican Party

1977 – 2013


Member of the United States Senate (Class 3) from Indiana
William Hendricks

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 12 1782; d. May 16 1850.

National Republican Party (1825 – 1833); Whig Party (1833 – 1837)

1825 – 1837

Henry Smith Lane

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 24 1811; d. June 19 1881.

Republican Party

1861 – 1867

Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 4 1823; d. November 1 1877.

Republican Party

1867 – 1877

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 26 1827; d. April 10 1897.

Democratic Party

1877 – 1897

Charles Warren Fairbanks

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 11 1852; d. June 4 1918.

Republican Party

1897 – 1905

James Alexander Hemenway

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 8 1860; d. February 10 1923.

Republican Party

1905 – 1909

Benjamin Franklin Shively

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 20 1857; d. March 14 1916.

Democratic Party

1909 – 1916

Thomas Taggart

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 17 1856; d. March 6 1929.

Democratic Party

1916

James Eli Watson

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 2 1864; d. July 29 1948.

Republican Party

1916 – 1933

Samuel Dillon Jackson

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 28 1895; d. March 8 1951.

Democratic Party

1944

Birch Evans Bayh, Jr.

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 22 1928; d. March 14 2019.

Democratic Party

1963 – 1981

James Danforth “Dan” Quayle

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 4 1947.

Republican Party

1981 – 1989

Daniel Ray “Dan” Coats

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1943.

Republican Party

1989 – 1999

Birch Evans “Evan” Bayh III

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 26 1955.

Democratic Party

1999 – 2011

Daniel Ray “Dan” Coats

Date of birth/date of death: b. May 16 1943.

Republican Party

2011 – 2017

Todd Christopher Young

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 24 1972.

Republican Party

2017 – present