U.S. Senators from Maine 1820- : Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library

Jump to year: 1900 1950 2000 Abbreviations: rs.=resigned; f.v.=filled vacancy; d.=died

Congress	Senator	Party	Residence	Term of Office
16th	John Chandler	Dem.	Monmouth	1820-1823
1820-1821	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1820-1821

17th	John Chandler	Dem.	Monmouth	1820-1823
1821-1823	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1821-1827

18th	John Chandler	Dem.	Monmouth	1823-1829
1823-1825	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1821-1827

19th	John Chandler	Dem.	Monmouth	1823-1829
1825-1827	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1821-1827

20th	John Chandler	Dem.	Monmouth	1823-1829
1827-1829	Albion K. Parris	Dem.	Portland	1827-1828(rs.)
	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	Jan. 1829-1833(f.v.)

21st	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1829-1833
1829-1831	Peleg Sprague	Nat.Rep.	Hallowell	1829-1835

22nd	John Holmes	Dem.	Alfred	1829-1833
1831-1833	Peleg Sprague	Nat.Rep.	Hallowell	1829-1835

23rd	Peleg Sprague	Nat.Rep.	Hallowell	1829-1835(rs.)
1833-1835	John Ruggles	Dem.	Thomaston	Feb.-Mar. 1835(f.v.)
	Ether Shepley	Dem.	Saco	1833-1836(rs.)

24th	Ether Shepley	Dem.	Saco	1833-1836(rs.)
1835-1837	Judah Dana	Dem.	Fryeburg	1836-1837(f.v.)
	John Ruggles	Dem.	Thomaston	1835-1841

25th	John Ruggles	Dem.	Thomaston	1835-1841
1837-1839	Reuel Williams	Dem.	Augusta	1837-1839

26th	John Ruggles	Dem.	Thomaston	1835-1841
1839-1841	Reuel Williams	Dem.	Augusta	1839-1843

27th	Reuel Williams	Dem.	Augusta	1839-1843(r.s.)
1841-1843	John Fairfield	Dem.	Saco	1843-1845(f.v.)
	George Evans	Whig	Gardiner	1841-1847

28th	George Evans	Whig	Gardiner	1841-1847
1843-1845	John Fairfield	Dem.	Saco	1843-1845

29th	George Evans	Whig	Gardiner	1841-1847
1845-1847	John Fairfield	Dem.	Saco	1845-1847

30th	John Fairfield	Dem.	Saco	1845-1847(d)
1847-1849	Wyman B.S. Moor	Dem.	Bangor	Jan.-June 1848(f.v.)
	Hannibal Hamlin	Dem.	Hampden	1848-1851(f.v.)
	James W. Bradbury	Dem.	Augusta	1847-1853

31st	James W. Bradbury	Dem.	Augusta	1847-1853
1849-1851	Hannibal Hamlin	Dem.	Hampden	1848-1853

32nd	James W. Bradbury	Dem.	Augusta	1847-1853
1851-1853	Hannibal Hamlin	Dem.	Hampden	1851-1857

33rd	Hannibal Hamlin	Dem.	Hampden	1851-1857
1853-1855	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1854*-1859

34th	Hannibal Hamlin	Dem.	Hampden	1851-1857(rs.)
1855-1857	Amos Nourse		Bath	Jan-Mar. 1857(f.v.)
	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1854-1859

35th	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1854-1859
1857-1859	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Hampden	1857-1861

36th	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1859-1864
1859-1861	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Hampden	1857-1861(rs.)
	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1861-1863(f.v.)

37th	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1859-1864(rs.)
1861-1863	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1861-1863

38th	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1859-1864(rs.)
1863-1865	Nathan A. Farwell	Rep.	Rockland	1864-1865(f.v.)
	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1863-1869

39th	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1863-1869
1865-1867	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1865-1869

40th	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1863-1869
1867-1869	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1865-1869

41st	William Pitt Fessenden	Whig	Portland	1865-1869(d.)
1869-1871	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1869-1871(f.v.)
	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1869-1875

42nd	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1869-1875
1871-1873	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1871-1876

43rd	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1869-1875
1873-1875	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1871-1876

44th	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1875-1881
1875-1877	Lot M. Morrill	Rep.	Augusta	1871-1876(rs.)
	James G. Blaine	Rep.	Augusta	1876-1877(f.v.)

45th	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1875-1881
1877-1879	James G. Blaine	Rep.	Augusta	1877-1881

46th	Hannibal Hamlin	Rep.	Bangor	1875-1881
1879-1881	James G. Blaine	Rep.	Augusta	1877-1881

47th	James G. Blaine	Rep.	Augusta	1877-1881(rs.)
1881-1883	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1881-1883(f.v.)
	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1881-1887

48th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1881-1887
1883-1885	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1883-1889

49th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1881-1887
1885-1887	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1883-1889

50th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1887-1893
1887-1889	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1883-1889

51st	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1887-1893
1889-1891	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1889-1895

52nd	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1887-1893
1891-1893	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1889-1895

53rd	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1893-1899
1893-1895	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1889-1895

54th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1893-1899
1895-1897	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1895-1901

55th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1893-1899
1897-1899	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1895-1901

56th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1899-1905
1899-1901	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1895-1901

57th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1899-1905
1901-1903	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1901-1907

58th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1899-1905
1903-1905	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1901-1907

59th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1905-1911
1905-1907	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1901-1907

60th	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1905-1911
1907-1909	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1907-1911

61st	Eugene Hale	Rep.	Ellsworth	1905-1911
1909-1911	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1907-1911

62nd	William P. Frye	Rep.	Lewiston	1907-1911(d.)
1911-1913	Obadiah Gardner	Dem.	Rockland	1911-1913(f.v.)
	Charles F. Johnson	Dem.	Waterville	1911-1917

63rd	Charles F. Johnson	Dem.	Waterville	1911-1917
1913-1915	Edwin C.Buleigh	Rep.	Augusta	1913-1916

64th	Charles F. Johnson	Dem.	Waterville	1911-1917
1915-1917	Edwin C. Buleigh	Rep.	Augusta	1913-1916(d.)
	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1916-1919(f.v.)

65th	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1916-1919
1917-1919	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1917-1923

66th	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1917-1925
1919-1921	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1917-1923

67th	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1919-1925
1921-1923	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1917-1923

68th	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1919-1925
1923-1925	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1923-1929

69th	Bert M. Fernald	Rep.	West Poland	1925-1926(d.)
1925-1927	Arthur R. Gould	Rep.	Presque Isle	1926-1931(f.v.)
	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1923-1929

70th	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1923-1929
1927-1929	Arthur R. Gould	Rep.	Presque Isle	1926-1931

71st	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1929-1935
1929-1931	Arthur R. Gould	Rep.	Presque Isle	1926-1931

72nd	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1929-1935
1931-1933	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1931-1937

73rd	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1929-1935
1933-1935	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1931-1937

74th	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1935-1941
1935-1937	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1931-1937

75th	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1935-1941
1937-1939	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1937-1943

76th	Frederick Hale	Rep.	Portland	1935-1941
1939-1941	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1937-1943

77th	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1937-1943
1941-1943	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1941-1947

78th	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1943-1949
1943-1945	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1941-1947

79th	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1943-1949
1945-1947	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1941-1947

80th	Wallace H. White Jr.	Rep.	Auburn	1943-1949
1947-1949	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1947-1952

81st	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1947-1952
1949-1951	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1949-1955

82nd	Ralph O. Brewster	Rep.	Dexter	1947-1952(rs.)
1951-1953	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1949-1955

83rd	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1949-1955
1953-1955	Frederick G. Payne	Rep.	Waldoboro	1953-1959

84th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1955-1961
1955-1957	Frederick G. Payne	Rep.	Waldoboro	1953-1959

85th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1955-1961
1957-1959	Frederick G. Payne	Rep.	Waldoboro	1953-1959

86th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1955-1961
1959-1961	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1959-1965

87th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1961-1967
1961-1963	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1959-1965

88th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1961-1967
1963-1965	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1959-1965

89th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1961-1967
1965-1967	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1965-1971

90th	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1967-1973
1967-1969	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1965-1971

91st	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1967-1973
1969-1971	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1965-1971

92nd	Margaret Chase Smith	Rep.	Skowhegan	1967-1973
1971-1973	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1971-1977

93rd	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1971-1977
1973-1975	William D. Hathaway	Dem.	Auburn	1973-1979

94th	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1971-1977
1975-1977	William D. Hathaway	Dem.	Auburn	1973-1979

95th	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1977-1983
1977-1979	William D. Hathaway	Dem.	Auburn	1973-1979

96th	Edmund S. Muskie	Dem.	Waterville	1977-1980(rs.)
1979-1981	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1980-1983(f.v.)
	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1979-1985

97th	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1979-1985
1981-1983	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1980-1983

98th	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1979-1985
1983-1985	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1983-1989

99th	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1985-1991
1985-1987	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1983-1989

100th	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1985-1991
1987-1989	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1983-1989

101st	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1985-1991
1989-1991	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1989-1995

102nd	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1991-1997
1991-1993	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1989-1995

103rd	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1991-1997
1993-1995	George J. Mitchell	Dem.	Portland	1989-1995

104th	William S. Cohen	Rep.	Bangor	1991-1997
1995-1997	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	1995-2001

105th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	1995-2001
1997-1999	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	1997-2003

106th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	1995-2001
1999-2001	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	1997-2003

107th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2001-2006
2001-2003	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	1997-2003

108th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2001-2006
2003-2005	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2003-2009

109th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2007-2012
2005-2007	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2003-2009

110th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2007-2012
2007-2009	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2009-2015

111th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2007-2012
2009-2011	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2009-2015

112th	Olympia J. Snowe	Rep.	Auburn	2007-2012
2011-2013	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2009-2015

113th	Angus King	Ind.	Brunswick	2013-2018
2013-2015	Susan Collins	Rep.	Bangor	2009-2015

*Elected 1854, for a term commencing in 1853, due to failure of Legislature to elect. Return to Fessenden

Source: Election Results provided by the Elections Division, Maine Secretary of State; Historical Data from the Maine Register, 1979-80, pp. 36-38.

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