U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, 1789-2024(May beincomplete!)
TristramDalton 1789-91CalebStrong 1789-96GeorgeCabot 1791-96BenjaminGoodhue 1796-1800TheodoreSedgwick 1796-99SamuelDexter 1799-1800DwightFoster 1800-03JonathanMason 1800-03JohnQuincy Adams 1803-08TimothyPickering 1803-11JamesLloyd 1808-13JosephB. Varnum 1811-17ChristopherGore 1813-16EliPorter Ashmun 1816-18HarrisonGray Otis 1817-22PrentissMellen 1818-20ElijahH. Mills 1820-27JamesLloyd 1822-26NathanielSilsbee 1826-35DanielWebster 1827-41JohnDavis 1835-41IsaacC. Bates 1841-45RufusChoate 1841-45DanielWebster 1845-50JohnDavis 1845-53RobertC. Winthrop 1850-51RobertRantoul, Jr. 1851CharlesSumner 1851-74EdwardEverett 1853-54JuliusRockwell 1854-55HenryWilson 1855-73GeorgeS. Boutwell 1873-77WilliamB. Washburn 1874-75HenryL. Dawes 1875-93GeorgeF. Hoar 1877-1904HenryCabot Lodge 1893-1924W.Murray Crane 1904-13JohnW. Weeks 1913-19DavidI. Walsh 1919-25WilliamM. Butler 1924-26FrederickH. Gillett 1925-31DavidI. Walsh 1926-47MarcusA. Coolidge 1931-37HenryCabot Lodge, Jr. 1937-44SinclairWeeks 1944LeverettSaltonstall 1945-67HenryCabot Lodge, Jr. 1947-53JohnF. Kennedy 1953-60BenjaminA. Smith II 1960-61BenjaminA. Smith II 1961-62EdwardM. Kennedy 1962-2009EdwardW. Brooke 1967-79PaulE. Tsongas 1979-85JohnF. Kerry 1985-2013PaulG. Kirk, Jr. 2009-10ScottBrown 2010-13ElizabethWarren 2013-MoCowan 2013EdMarkey 2013- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1803 Mar 2:DwightFoster, resigned. 1808 Jun 8:JohnQuincy Adams, resigned. 1818 May 10:EliPorter Ashmun, resigned. 1845 Mar 16:IsaacC. Bates, died in office. 1874 Mar 11:CharlesSumner, died in office. 1904 Sep 30:GeorgeF. Hoar, died in office. 1916 Nov 7:HenryCabot Lodge (Rep), elected;JohnF. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated;WilliamN. McDonald (Socialist), defeated. 1918 Nov 5:DavidI. Walsh (Dem), elected;JohnW. Weeks (Rep), defeated;ThomasW. Lawson (Ind), defeated. 1922 Nov 7:HenryCabot Lodge (Rep), elected;WilliamA. Gaston (Dem), defeated;JohnA. Nicholls (Prohibition & Progressive), defeated;J.Weaver Sherman (Socialist), defeated;WashingtonCook (Ind), defeated;WilliamE. Weeks (Progressive), defeated. 1924:FrederickW. Dallinger, defeated for nomination. 1924 Nov 4:FrederickH. Gillett (Rep), elected;DavidI. Walsh (Dem), defeated;AntoinetteF. Konikow (Workers), defeated. 1924 Nov 9:HenryCabot Lodge, died in office. 1926 Nov 2:DavidI. Walsh (Dem), elected;WilliamM. Butler (Rep), defeated;JohnJ. Ballam (Workers), defeated;WashingtonCook (Modification of Volstead Act), defeated;AlfredB. Lewis (Socialist), defeated. 1928 Nov 6:DavidI. Walsh (Dem), elected;B.Loring Young (Rep), defeated;AlfredB. Lewis (Socialist), defeated;JohnJ. Ballam (Workers), defeated. 1930:JosephF. O'Connell (Dem), defeated in primary. 1930 Nov 4:MarcusA. Coolidge (Dem), elected;WilliamM. Butler (Rep), defeated;SylvesterJ. McBride (Socialist), defeated;OscarKinsalas (Socialist Labor), defeated;MaxLerner (Communist), defeated. 1934:RobertM. Washburn, defeated. 1934 Nov 6:AlbertS. Coolidge (Socialist), defeated. 1936 Nov 3:HenryCabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;JamesM. Curley (Dem), defeated;ThomasC. O'Brien (Union), defeated;AlonzoB. Cook (Townsendite, Prohibition, Economy), defeated;GuyM. Gray (Townsend Social Justice), defeated;AlbertS. Coolidge (Socialist), defeated;MosesH. Gulesian (Townsend Plan), defeated;ErnestL. Dodge (Socialist Labor), defeated;CharlesFlaherty (Communist), defeated;WilburD. Moon (Prohibition), defeated. 1940 Nov 5:DavidI. Walsh (Dem), elected;HenryParkman, Jr. (Rep), defeated;GeorgeL. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated;PhilipFrankfeld (Communist), defeated;GeorgeL. Paine (Socialist), defeated;HoraceI. Hillis (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1942:JosephLee (Dem), defeated in primary. 1942 Nov 3:HenryCabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;JosephE. Casey (Dem), defeated;GeorgeL. Paine (Socialist), defeated;HoraceI. Hillis (Socialist Labor), defeated;GeorgeL. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated. 1944 Feb 3:HenryCabot Lodge, Jr., resigned. 1944 Feb 8:SinclairWeeks, appointed. 1944 Nov 7:LeverettSaltonstall (Rep), elected;JohnH. Corcoran (Dem), defeated;BernardG. Kelly (Socialist Labor), defeated;E.Tallmadge Root (Prohibition), defeated. 1946 Nov 5:HenryCabot Lodge, Jr. (Rep), elected;DavidI. Walsh (Dem), defeated;HenningA. Blomen (Socialist Labor), defeated;MarkR. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated. 1948 Nov 2:LeverettSaltonstall (Rep), elected;JohnI. Fitzgerald (Dem), defeated;HenningA. Blomen (Socialist Labor), defeated;E.Tallmadge Root (Prohibition), defeated. 1952:HenryCabot Lodge, Jr., defeated. 1952 Nov 4:MarkR. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated. 1954:MarkDalton (Dem), defeated in primary. 1954 Nov 2:LeverettSaltonstall (Rep), elected;FosterFurcolo (Dem), defeated;ThelmaIngersoll (Socialist Labor), defeated;HaroldJ. Ireland (Prohibition), defeated. 1958 Nov 4:JohnF. Kennedy (Dem), elected;VincentJ. Celeste (Rep), defeated;LawrenceGilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;MarkR. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated. 1960:FosterFurcolo (Dem), defeated in primary. 1960:ThomasJ. O'Connor, Jr., defeated. 1962:EdwardJ. McCormack (Dem), defeated in primary. 1962:H.Stuart Hughes, defeated. 1962 Sep 18:GeorgeC. Lodge (Rep), nominated. 1962 Nov 6:GeorgeC. Lodge (Rep), defeated. 1964 Nov 3:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;HowardWhitmore, Jr. (Rep), defeated;LawrenceGilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;GraceFarnsworth Luder (Prohibition), defeated. 1966:ThomasB. Adams (Dem), defeated in primary. 1966 Nov 8:EdwardW. Brooke (Rep), elected;EndicottPeabody (Dem), defeated;LawrenceGilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;MarkR. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated. 1970 Nov 3:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;JosiahA. Spaulding (Rep), defeated;LawrenceGilfedder (Socialist Labor), defeated;MarkR. Shaw (Prohibition), defeated. 1972 Nov 7:EdwardW. Brooke (Rep), elected;JohnW. Droney (Dem), defeated;DonaldGurewitz (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1976 Nov 2:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;MichaelS. Robertson (Rep), defeated;CarolHenderson Evans (Socialist Workers), defeated;H.Graham Lowry (U.S. Labor), defeated. 1978:KathleenSullivan Alioto (Dem), defeated in primary;HowardPhillips (Dem), defeated in primary;PaulH. Guzzi (Dem), defeated in primary. 1978 Nov 7:PaulE. Tsongas (Dem), elected;EdwardW. Brooke (Rep), defeated. 1982 Nov 2:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;RaymondShamie (Rep), defeated;HowardKatz (Libertarian), defeated. 1984:JamesM. Shannon (Dem), defeated in primary;MichaelJ. Connolly (Dem), defeated in primary. 1984:ElliotL. Richardson (Rep), defeated in primary. 1984 Nov 6:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), elected;RaymondShamie (Rep), defeated. 1988 Nov 8:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;JosephD. Malone (Rep), defeated;MaryFridley (New Alliance), defeated;FredaL. Nason (Libertarian), defeated. 1990 Nov 6:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), elected;JamesRappaport (Rep), defeated. 1994 Nov 8:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;MittRomney (Rep), defeated;LauraleighDozier (Libertarian), defeated;WilliamA. Ferguson, Jr. (LaRouche Was Right), defeated. 1996 Nov 5:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), elected;WilliamF. Weld (Rep), defeated;SusanC. Gallagher (Conservative), defeated;RobertC. Stowe (Natural Law), defeated. 2000 Nov 7:EdwardM. Kennedy (Dem), elected;JackE. Robinson III (Rep), defeated;CarlaA. Howell (Libertarian), defeated;PhilipF. Lawler (Constitution), defeated;DaleE. Friedgen, defeated;PhilipHyde III (Timesizing Not Downsizing), defeated. 2002 Nov 5:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), elected;MichaelE. Cloud (Libertarian), defeated;RandallForsberg, defeated. 2008 Sep 16:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), nominated;EdwardJ. O'Reilly (Dem), defeated in primary. 2008 Sep 16:JeffreyK. Beatty (Rep), nominated unopposed. 2008 Nov 4:JohnF. Kerry (Dem), elected;JeffreyK. Beatty (Rep), defeated;RobertJ. Underwood (Libertarian), defeated. 2009 Aug 25:EdwardM. Kennedy, died in office. 2009 Sep 24:PaulG. Kirk, Jr., appointed. 2009 Dec 8:MarthaCoakley (Dem), nominated;MikeCapuano (Dem), defeated in primary;AlanKlazei (Dem), defeated in primary;StephenPagliuca (Dem), defeated in primary. 2009 Dec 8:ScottBrown (Rep), nominated;JackE. Robinson III (Rep), defeated in primary. 2010 Jan 19:ScottBrown (Rep), elected;MarthaCoakley (Dem), defeated;JosephL. Kennedy (Ind), defeated. 2012 Nov 6:ElizabethWarren (Dem), elected. 2013 Jun 25:EdMarkey (Dem), elected. 2018 Nov 6:ShivaAyyadurai (Independent), defeated. 2020:ShivaAyyadurai (Rep), defeated in primary. 2024 Nov 5:ShivaAyyadurai (Independent), defeated. | |
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