U.S. Senators from North Carolina, 1789-2018(May beincomplete!) BenjaminHawkins 1789-95SamuelJohnston 1789-93AlexanderMartin 1793-99TimothyBloodworth 1795-1801JesseFranklin 1799-1805DavidStone 1801-07JamesTurner 1805-16JesseFranklin 1807-13DavidStone 1813-14FrancisLocke 1814-15NathanielMacon 1815-28MontfortStokes 1816-23JohnBranch 1823-29JamesIredell 1828-31BedfordBrown 1829-40WillieP. Mangum 1831-36RobertStrange 1836-40WilliamA. Graham 1840-43WillieP. Mangum 1840-53WilliamH. Haywood, Jr. 1843-46GeorgeE. Badger 1846-55DavidS. Reid 1854-59AsaBiggs 1855-58ThomasL. Clingman 1858-61ThomasBragg 1859-61JohnPool 1868-73JosephC. Abbott 1868-71MattW. Ransom 1872-95A.S. Merrimon 1873-79ZebulonB. Vance 1879-94ThomasJ. Jarvis 1894-95JeterC. Pritchard 1895-1903MarionButler 1895-1901FurnifoldM. Simmons 1901-31LeeS. Overman 1903-30CameronMorrison 1930-32JosiahW. Bailey 1931-46RobertR. Reynolds 1932-45ClydeR. Hoey 1945-54WilliamB. Umstead 1946-48J.Melville Broughton 1948-49FrankP. Graham 1949-50WillisSmith 1950-53AltonAsa Lennon 1953-54SamJ. Ervin, Jr. 1954-74W.Kerr Scott 1954-58B.Everett Jordan 1958-73JesseHelms 1973-2003RobertMorgan 1975-81JohnP. East 1981-86JamesT. Broyhill 1986TerrySanford 1986-93LauchFaircloth 1993-99JohnEdwards 1999-2005ElizabethDole 2003-KayHagan 2009-15ThomTillis 2015- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1828 Nov 14:NathanielMacon, resigned. 1840 Nov 16:BedfordBrown, resigned. 1846 Jul 25:WilliamH. Haywood, Jr., resigned. 1894 Apr 14:ZebulonB. Vance, died in office. 1912:WalterClark (Dem), defeated in primary. 1914 Nov 3:LeeS. Overman (Dem), elected;AmidasA. Whitener (Rep), defeated;H.J. Oliver (Ind), defeated. 1918 Nov 5:FurnifoldM. Simmons (Dem), elected;JohnM. Morehead (Rep), defeated. 1920 Nov 2:LeeS. Overman (Dem), elected;AlfredE. Holton (Rep), defeated. 1922:AubreyLee Brooks (Dem), defeated in primary. 1924 Nov 4:FurnifoldM. Simmons (Dem), elected;AmidasA. Whitener (Rep), defeated. 1926 Nov 2:LeeS. Overman (Dem), elected;JohnsonJ. Hayes (Rep), defeated. 1930 Nov 4:JosiahW. Bailey (Dem), elected;GeorgeM. Pritchard (Rep), defeated. 1930 Dec 12:LeeS. Overman, died in office. 1932 Nov 8:RobertR. Reynolds (Dem), elected;JakeF. Newell (Rep), defeated. 1936 Nov 3:JosiahW. Bailey (Dem), elected;FrankC. Patton (Rep), defeated. 1938:FrankHancock, Jr., defeated for nomination. 1938 Nov 8:RobertR. Reynolds (Dem), elected;CharlesA. Jonas (Rep), defeated. 1942 Nov 3:JosiahW. Bailey (Dem), elected;SamJ. Morris (Rep), defeated. 1944 May 27:ClydeR. Hoey (Dem), nominated. 1944 Nov 7:ClydeR. Hoey (Dem), elected;A.I. Ferree (Rep), defeated. 1946 Dec 15:JosiahW. Bailey, died in office. 1948 Nov 2:J.Melville Broughton (Dem), elected;JohnA. Wilkinson (Rep), defeated;WilliamT. Brown (Progressive), defeated. 1948 Nov 2:J.Melville Broughton (Dem), elected unopposed. 1949 Mar 6:J.Melville Broughton, died in office. 1949 Mar 29:FrankP. Graham, appointed. 1950 Nov 7:ClydeR. Hoey (Dem), elected;HalseyB. Leavitt (Rep), defeated. 1950 Nov 7:WillisSmith (Dem), elected;EdwinL. Gavin (Rep), defeated;FrankP. Graham, defeated. 1953 Jun 26:WillisSmith, died in office. 1954 May 12:ClydeR. Hoey, died in office. 1954 Nov 2:W.Kerr Scott (Dem), elected;PaulC. West (Rep), defeated. 1954 Nov 2:W.Kerr Scott (Dem), elected unopposed. 1954 Nov 2:SamJ. Ervin, Jr. (Dem), elected unopposed. 1956:JoelA. Johnson (Rep), defeated. 1958:RichardC. Clark, Jr. (Rep), defeated. 1958 Apr 16:W.Kerr Scott, died in office. 1960:KyleHayes (Rep), defeated. 1966 Nov 8:B.Everett Jordan (Dem), elected;JohnS. Shallcross (Rep), defeated. 1968 Nov 5:SamJ. Ervin, Jr. (Dem), elected;RobertVance Somers (Rep), defeated. 1972 Nov 7:JesseHelms (Rep), elected;NickGalifianakis (Dem), defeated. 1974 Nov 5:RobertMorgan (Dem), elected;WilliamE. Stevens (Rep), defeated;RudolphNesmith (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1978 Nov 7:JesseHelms (Rep), elected;JohnR. Ingram (Dem), defeated. 1980 Nov 4:JohnP. East (Rep), elected;RobertMorgan (Dem), defeated;F.W. Pasotto (Libertarian), defeated;RebeccaFinch (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1984 Nov 6:JesseHelms (Rep), elected;JamesB. Hunt, Jr. (Dem), defeated;BobbyY. Emory (Libertarian), defeated;KateDaher (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1986 Jun 29:JohnP. East, died in office. 1986 Nov 4:TerrySanford (Dem), elected;JamesT. Broyhill (Rep), defeated. 1986 Nov 4:TerrySanford (Dem), elected;JamesT. Broyhill (Rep), defeated. 1990:MikeF. Easley (Dem), defeated in primary. 1990 Nov 6:JesseHelms (Rep), elected;HarveyB. Gantt (Dem), defeated. 1992:SueMyrick (Rep), defeated in primary. 1992 Nov 3:LauchFaircloth (Rep), elected;TerrySanford (Dem), defeated;BobbyY. Emory (Libertarian), defeated;BruceKimball (Socialist Workers), defeated;MaryAnn Zakutney (Natural Law), defeated. 1996 Nov 5:JesseHelms (Rep), elected;HarveyB. Gantt (Dem), defeated;RayUbinger (Libertarian), defeated;J.Victor Pardo (Natural Law), defeated. 1998 Nov 3:JohnEdwards (Dem), elected;LauchFaircloth (Rep), defeated;BarbaraJ. Howe (Libertarian), defeated. 2002 Nov 5:ElizabethDole (Rep), elected;ErskineB. Bowles (Dem), defeated;SeanHaugh (Libertarian), defeated;PaulG. DeLaney, defeated. 2004 Nov 2:RichardM. Burr (Rep), elected;ErskineB. Bowles (Dem), defeated;TomBailey (Libertarian), defeated;WalkerF. Rucker, defeated. 2014:KayHagan (Dem), defeated. 2014 Nov 4:SeanHaugh (Libertarian), defeated. 2016 Nov 8:SeanHaugh (Libertarian), defeated. | |