Global political history

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Members of the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma

Class 2 | Class 3


U.S. Senators from Oklahoma

Member of the United States Senate (Class 2) from Oklahoma
Thomas Pryor Gore

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 10 1870; d. March 16 1949.

Democratic Party

1931 – 1937

Robert Samuel Kerr

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 11 1896; d. January 1 1963.

Democratic Party

1949 – 1963

James Howard Edmondson

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 27 1925; d. November 17 1971.

Democratic Party

1963 – 1964

Fred Roy Harris

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1930; d. November 23 2024.

Democratic Party

1964 – 1973

Dewey Follett Bartlett, Sr.

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 28 1919; d. March 1 1979.

Republican Party

1973 – 1979

David Lyle Boren

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 21 1941; d. February 20 2025.

Democratic Party

1979 – 1994


Member of the United States Senate (Class 3) from Oklahoma
Thomas Pryor Gore

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 10 1870; d. March 16 1949.

Democratic Party

1907 – 1921

Henry Louis Bellmon

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 3 1921; d. September 29 2009.

Republican Party

1969 – 1981

Donald Lee “Don” Nickles

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 6 1948.

Republican Party

1981 – 2005

Thomas Allen “Tom” Coburn

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 14 1948; d. March 28 2020.

Republican Party

2005 – 2015

James Paul Lankford

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 4 1968.

Republican Party

2015 – present