U.S. Senators from Rhode Island, 1790-2018(May beincomplete!) TheodoreFoster 1790-1803JosephStanton, Jr. 1790-93WilliamBradford 1793-97RayGreene 1797-1801ChristopherEllery 1801-05SamuelJ. Potter 1803-04BenjaminHowland 1804-09JamesFenner 1805-07ElishaMathewson 1807-11FrancisMalbone 1809ChristopherG. Champlin 1809-11JeremiahBrown Howell 1811-17WilliamHunter 1811-21JamesBurrill, Jr. 1817-20NehemiahR. Knight 1821-41JamesDe Wolf 1821-27AsherRobbins 1825-39NathanFellows Dixon 1839-42JamesF. Simmons 1841-47WilliamSprague 1842-44JohnBrown Francis 1844-45AlbertC. Greene 1845-51JohnHopkins Clarke 1847-53CharlesT. James 1851-57PhilipAllen 1853-59JamesF. Simmons 1857-62HenryB. Anthony 1859-84SamuelG. Arnold 1862-63WilliamSprague 1863-75AmbroseE. Burnside 1875-81NelsonW. Aldrich 1881-1911WilliamPaine Sheffield 1884-85JonathanChace 1885-89NathanF. Dixon 1889-95GeorgeP. Wetmore 1895-1907GeorgeP. Wetmore 1908-13HenryF. Lippitt 1911-17LeBaronB. Colt 1913-24PeterG. Gerry 1917-29JesseH. Metcalf 1924-37FelixHébert 1929-35PeterG. Gerry 1935-47TheodoreF. Green 1937-61J.Howard McGrath 1947-49EdwardL. Leahy 1949-50JohnO. Pastore 1950-76ClaibornePell 1961-97JohnH. Chafee 1976-99JackReed 1997-LincolnChafee 1999-2007SheldonWhitehouse 2007- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1804:SamuelJ. Potter, died in office. 1809 Jun 4:FrancisMalbone, died in office. 1811 Oct 2:ChristopherG. Champlin, resigned. 1820 Dec 25:JamesBurrill, Jr., died in office. 1842 Jan 29:NathanFellows Dixon, died in office. 1881 Sep 13:AmbroseE. Burnside, died in office. 1884 Sep 2:HenryB. Anthony, died in office. 1889 Apr 9:JonathanChace, resigned. 1916 Nov 7:PeterG. Gerry (Dem), elected;HenryF. Lippitt (Rep), defeated;FrederickW. A. Hurst (Socialist), defeated;FrankJ. Sibley (Prohibition), defeated;PeterMcDermott (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1918 Nov 5:LeBaronB. Colt (Rep), elected;GeorgeF. O'Shaunessy (Dem), defeated;FrederickW. A. Hurst (Socialist), defeated. 1922 Nov 7:PeterG. Gerry (Dem), elected;R.Livingston Beeckman (Rep), defeated;JamesI. Bartholomew (Law and Order), defeated;JamesMatthews (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1924 Aug 18:LeBaronB. Colt, died in office. 1924 Nov 4:JesseH. Metcalf (Rep), elected;WilliamS. Flynn (Dem), defeated;JamesP. Reid (Workers), defeated;EdwardM. Sullivan (Liberal Independent), defeated;PeterMcDermott (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1928 Nov 6:FelixHébert (Rep), elected;PeterG. Gerry (Dem), defeated;JamesP. Reid (Workers), defeated. 1930 Nov 4:JesseH. Metcalf (Rep), elected;PeterG. Gerry (Dem), defeated;CharlesF. Bishop (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1936 Nov 3:TheodoreF. Green (Dem), elected;JesseH. Metcalf (Rep), defeated;LudgerL. LaPointe (Union), defeated. 1940 Nov 5:PeterG. Gerry (Dem), elected;JamesO. McManus (Rep), defeated. 1942 Nov 3:TheodoreF. Green (Dem), elected;IraLloyd Letts (Rep), defeated. 1946 Nov 5:J.Howard McGrath (Dem), elected;W.Gurnee Dyer (Rep), defeated. 1960:DennisJ. Roberts, defeated for nomination. 1960:J.Howard McGrath (Dem), defeated in primary. 1964 Nov 3:JohnO. Pastore (Dem), elected;RonaldR. Lagueux (Rep), defeated. 1966 Nov 8:ClaibornePell (Dem), elected;RuthM. Briggs (Rep), defeated. 1970 Nov 3:JohnO. Pastore (Dem), elected;JohnMcLaughlin (Rep), defeated;DavidN. Fenton (Peace and Freedom), defeated;DanielB. Fein (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1972 Nov 7:ClaibornePell (Dem), elected;JohnH. Chafee (Rep), defeated;JohnQuattrocchi, Jr. (Ind), defeated;PatrickM. DeTemple (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1976:PhilipW. Noel (Dem), defeated in primary. 1976 Nov 2:JohnH. Chafee (Rep), elected;RichardP. Lorber (Dem), defeated;MargaretR. Cann (Communist), defeated. 1978 Nov 7:ClaibornePell (Dem), elected;JamesG. Reynolds (Rep), defeated. 1982 Nov 2:JohnH. Chafee (Rep), elected;JuliusC. Michaelson (Dem), defeated. 1984 Nov 6:ClaibornePell (Dem), elected;BarbaraM. Leonard (Rep), defeated. 1988 Nov 8:JohnH. Chafee (Rep), elected;RichardA. Licht (Dem), defeated. 1990 Nov 6:ClaibornePell (Dem), elected;ClaudineSchneider (Rep), defeated. 1994 Nov 8:JohnH. Chafee (Rep), elected;LindaJ. Kushner (Dem), defeated. 1996 Nov 5:JackReed (Dem), elected;NancyJ. Mayer (Rep), defeated;DonaldW. Lovejoy (Ind), defeated. 1999 Oct 24:JohnH. Chafee, died in office. 1999 Nov 2:LincolnChafee, appointed. 2000 Nov 7:LincolnChafee (Rep), elected;RobertA. Weygand (Dem), defeated;ChristopherF. Young (Reform), defeated;KennethP. Proulx (Ind), defeated. 2002 Nov 5:JackReed (Dem), elected;RobertG. Tingle (Rep), defeated. 2006:SheldonWhitehouse (Dem), elected. 2006 Sep 12:ChristopherF. Young (Dem), defeated in primary. 2008 Sep 9:ChristopherF. Young (Dem), defeated in primary. 2008 Nov 4:ChristopherF. Young (Ind), defeated. | |