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List of United States senators from Alabama

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Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819. The state elects U.S. senators to class 2 and class 3. Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Richard Shelby is Alabama's longest serving senator (served 1987–2023). Alabama's current U.S. senators are Republicans Tommy Tuberville (since 2021) and Katie Britt (since 2023).

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List of senators

The next election will be in 2026. The next election will be in 2028.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=21 | 1 William R. King (Cahaba) Republican](democratic-republican-party) Apr 15, 1844 | Dec 12, 1822 Republican](democratic-republican-party) John Williams Walker (Huntsville) ! rowspan=2 | 1

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|- style="height:2em" Mar 3, 1825 Republican](democratic-republican-party) (Huntsville) ! rowspan=2 | 2

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|- style="height:2em" | Elected in 1824 or 1825.Died. | nowrap | Mar 4, 1825 – Jan 24, 1826 | | Jacksonian Henry H. Chambers (Huntsville) ! 3

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| nowrap | Jan 24, 1826 – Feb 17, 1826

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to continue Chambers's term.Successor elected. | nowrap | Feb 17, 1826 – Nov 27, 1826 | | Jacksonian Israel Pickens (Greensboro) ! 4

|- style="height:2em" Mar 3, 1831 John McKinley (Florence) ! rowspan=3 | 5

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|- style="height:2em" | Mar 3, 1837 | | Jacksonian Gabriel Moore (Huntsville) ! rowspan=3 | 6

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|- style="height:2em" | Elected in 1837.Resigned to become a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. | nowrap | Mar 4, 1837 – Apr 22, 1837 | | Democratic John McKinley (Florence) ! 7

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| nowrap | Apr 22, 1837 – Jun 19, 1837

|- style="height:2em" Nov 15, 1841 Clement Comer Clay (Huntsville) ! rowspan=3 | 8

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|- style="height:2em" | Elected to finish McKinley's term. Jun 16, 1848 Arthur P. Bagby (Claiborne) ! rowspan=6 | 9

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|- style="height:2em" | nowrap | Apr 15, 1844 – Apr 22, 1844 |

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=5 | 2 Dixon H. Lewis (Lowndesboro) Oct 24, 1848

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| nowrap | Jun 16, 1848 – Jul 1, 1848

|- style="height:2em" Dec 20, 1852 William R. King (Selma) ! rowspan=6 | 10

|- style="height:2em" | nowrap | Oct 24, 1848 – Nov 25, 1848 |

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=2 | 3 Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Wetumpka) Nov 30, 1849

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=4 | 4 Jeremiah Clemens (Huntsville) Mar 3, 1853

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| nowrap | Dec 20, 1852 – Jan 14, 1853

|- style="height:2em" Mar 3, 1855 Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Wetumpka) ! rowspan=7 | 11

|- style="height:2em" | nowrap | Mar 4, 1853 – Nov 29, 1853 | Legislature failed to elect.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=5 | 5 Clement Claiborne Clay (Huntsville) Jan 21, 1861

|- style="height:2em" | Legislature failed to elect. | nowrap | Mar 4, 1855 – Nov 26, 1855

|- style="height:2em" Jan 21, 1861 Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Wetumpka)

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|- style="height:2em" | Re-elected in 1858.Withdrew.

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=2 | 6 Willard Warner (Montgomery) Mar 3, 1871 Mar 3, 1879 George E. Spencer (Decatur) ! rowspan=6 | 12

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 7 George Goldthwaite (Montgomery) Mar 3, 1877 |

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=19 | 8 John T. Morgan (Selma) Jun 11, 1907 |

|- style="height:2em" | Elected in 1878.Died. | nowrap | Mar 4, 1879 – Dec 31, 1879 | | Democratic George S. Houston (Athens) ! 13

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| nowrap | Dec 31, 1879 – Jan 7, 1880

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to continue Houston's term.Successor qualified. | nowrap | Jan 7, 1880 – Nov 23, 1880 | | Democratic Luke Pryor (Athens) ! 14

|- style="height:2em" Mar 3, 1897 James L. Pugh (Eufaula) ! rowspan=9 | 15

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Jul 27, 1907 Edmund Pettus (Selma) ! rowspan=8 | 16

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|- style="height:2em" | Re-elected in 1907.Died.

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=11 | 9 John H. Bankhead (Fayette) Mar 1, 1920

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|- style="height:2em" | Elected to finish Pettus's term. Aug 8, 1913 Joseph F. Johnston (Birmingham) ! rowspan=4 | 17

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|- style="height:2em" | Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr. (D) was appointed in 1913 to continue the term, but his appointment was challenged and withdrawn. Franklin Potts Glass Sr. (D) was subsequently appointed to continue the term, but the Senate refused to seat him. | Aug 8, 1913 – May 11, 1914

|- style="height:2em" | Elected to finish Johnston's term.Retired. | May 11, 1914 – Mar 3, 1915 | | Democratic Francis S. White (Birmingham) ! 18

|- style="height:2em" | Mar 3, 1927 Oscar Underwood (Birmingham) ! rowspan=9 | 19

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|- style="height:2em" | Re-elected in 1918.Died.

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|- style="height:2em" ! 10 B. B. Comer (Birmingham) | | Democratic | Mar 5, 1920 – Nov 2, 1920 | Appointed to continue Bankhead's term.Successor elected.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=6 | 11 J. Thomas Heflin (Lafayette) Mar 3, 1931

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|- style="height:2em" | Aug 19, 1937 Hugo Black (Birmingham) ! rowspan=6 | 20

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=10 | 12 John H. Bankhead II (Jasper) Jun 12, 1946 |

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|- style="height:2em" | Appointed by her husband to continue Black's term.Resigned when her successor won the Democratic primary. | Aug 20, 1937 – Jan 10, 1938 | | Democratic Dixie Bibb Graves (Montgomery) ! 21

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to continue Black's term.Elected in 1938 to finish Black's term. Jan 3, 1969 J. Lister Hill (Montgomery) ! rowspan=20 | 22

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|- style="height:2em" ! 13 George R. Swift (Atmore) | | Democratic | Jun 15, 1946 – Nov 5, 1946 | Appointed to continue Bankhead's term.Successor elected.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=20 | 14 John Sparkman (Huntsville) Jan 3, 1979

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|- style="height:2em" | Jun 1, 1978 James Allen (Gadsden) ! rowspan=5 | 23

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|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to continue her husband's term.Lost nomination to finish her husband's term. | Jun 8, 1978 – Nov 7, 1978 | | Democratic Maryon Pittman Allen (Birmingham) ! 24

|- style="height:2em" Jan 2, 1981 Donald Stewart (Anniston) ! rowspan=2 | 25

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=11 | 15 Howell Heflin (Tuscumbia) Jan 3, 1997

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to finish James Allen's term, having already been elected to the next term. Jan 3, 1987 Jeremiah Denton (Mobile) ! rowspan=4 | 26

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|- style="height:2em" | Jan 3, 2023 Richard Shelby (Tuscaloosa) ! rowspan=21 | 27

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=11 | 16 Jeff Sessions (Mobile) Feb 8, 2017 |

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|- style="height:2em" ! 17 (Homewood) | | Republican | nowrap | Feb 9, 2017 – Jan 3, 2018 | Appointed to continue Sessions's term.Lost nomination to finish Sessions's term.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=2 | 18 (Birmingham) Jan 3, 2021

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|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 19 (Auburn) present |

|- style="height:2em" | present Katie Britt (Montgomery) ! rowspan=3| 28

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References

References

  1. (1903). "Journal of the Senate of the State of Alabama".
  2. (16 February 2018). "Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age". M.E. Sharpe.
  3. (January 27, 1903). "Senator Pettus Re-elected". [[The New York Times]].
  4. (1908). "The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1908". [[The Tribune Association]].
  5. (January 23, 1907). "NO CHOICE IN RHODE ISLAND". [[The New York Times]].
  6. (1908). "The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1908". [[The Tribune Association]].
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