List of United States Senators from Georgia

This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Georgia.

Georgia ratified the Constitution on January 2, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from February 1871.

United States Senators are popularly elected, for a six year term, beginning January 3. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1st. Before 1914, they were chosen by the Georgia General Assembly, and before 1935, their terms began March 4.

Class II Senators

Class 2 U.S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for two sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014.

#	Senator		Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	William Few		March 4, 1789	March 3, 1793	Anti-Administration	Augusta	Delegate to Constitutional Convention	1	1
								2
2	James Jackson		March 4, 1793	November 16, 1795	Anti-Administration	Savannah	U.S. Representative At-large	3	2
								4
3	George Walton		November 16, 1795	February 20, 1796	Federalist	Augusta	Governor of Georgia
4	Josiah Tattnall		February 20, 1796	March 3, 1799	Democratic-Republican	Savannah	Georgia House of Representatives
								5
5	Abraham Baldwin		March 4, 1799	March 4, 1807	Democratic-Republican	Augusta	U.S. Representative At-large	6	3
								7
								8
								9	4
6	George Jones		August 27, 1807	November 7, 1807	Democratic-Republican	Savannah	Georgia Circuit Court Judge	10
7	William H. Crawford		November 7, 1807	March 23, 1813	Democratic-Republican	Lexington	Georgia House of Representatives
								11
								12	5
								13
8	William Bellinger Bulloch		April 8, 1813	November 6, 1813	Democratic-Republican	Savannah	Mayor of Savannah
9	William Wyatt Bibb		November 6, 1813	November 9, 1816	Democratic-Republican	Petersburg	U.S. Representative At-large
								14
10	George M. Troup		November 13, 1816	September 23, 1818	Democratic-Republican	Dublin	U.S. Representative At-large
								15	6
11	John Forsyth		September 23, 1818	February 17, 1819	Democratic-Republican	Augusta	U.S. Representative At-large
12	Freeman Walker		November 6, 1819	August 6, 1821	Democratic-Republican	Augusta	Mayor of Augusta	16
								17
13	Nicholas Ware		November 10, 1821	September 7, 1824	Democratic-Republican	Augusta	Mayor of Augusta
								18	7
14	Thomas W. Cobb		December 6, 1824	November 7, 1828	Democratic-Republican	Greensboro	U.S. Representative At-large
								19
								20
15	Oliver H. Prince		November 7, 1828	March 3, 1829	Jacksonian	Macon	Georgia Senate
16	George M. Troup		March 4, 1829	November 8, 1833	Jacksonian	Dublin	Governor of Georgia	21	8
								22
								23
17	John Pendleton King		November 21, 1833	November 1, 1837	Jacksonian	Augusta	Court of Common Pleas Judge
								24	9
								25
18	Wilson Lumpkin		November 22, 1837	March 3, 1841	Democrat	Athens	Governor of Georgia
								26
19	John Macpherson Berrien		March 4, 1841	May 28, 1852[1]	Whig	Savannah	U.S. Attorney General	27	10
								28
								29
								30	11
								31
								32
20	Robert M. Charlton		May 31, 1852	March 3, 1853	Democrat	Savannah	Lawyer and Judge
21	Robert A. Toombs		March 4, 1853	February 4, 1861	Democrat	Washington	U.S. Representative (Ga.-8)	33	12
								34
								35
								36	13
Vacant due to the Civil War and Reconstruction			February 1, 1861	February 24, 1871
								37
								38
								39	14
								40
								41
22	Homer V.M. Miller		February 24, 1871	March 3, 1871	Democrat	Rome	Surgeon
Vacant[2]			March 4, 1871	December 13, 1871				42	15
23	Thomas M. Norwood		December 13, 1871	March 3, 1877	Democrat	Savannah	Lawyer
								43
								44
24	Benjamin Harvey Hill		March 4, 1877	August 18, 1882	Democrat	Atlanta	U.S. Representative (Ga.-9)	45	16
								46
								47
25	Middleton Pope Barrow		November 15, 1882	March 3, 1883	Democrat	Athens	Georgia House of Representatives
26	Alfred H. Colquitt		March 4, 1883	March 26, 1894	Democrat	Atlanta	Governor of Georgia	48	17
								49
								50
								51	18
								52
								53
27	Patrick Walsh		April 2, 1894	March 3, 1895	Democrat	Augusta	Newspaper Publisher
28	Augustus Octavius Bacon		March 4, 1895	February 14, 1914	Democrat	Macon	Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives	54	19
								55
								56
								57	20
								58
								59
								60	21
								61
								62
								63	22
29	William S. West		March 2, 1914	November 3, 1914	Democrat	Valdosta	Georgia Senate
30	Thomas W. Hardwick		November 4, 1914	March 3, 1919	Democrat	Sandersville	U.S. Representative (Ga.-10)
								64
								65
31	William J. Harris		March 4, 1919	April 18, 1932	Democrat	Cedartown	Member of the Federal Trade Commission	66	23
								67
								68
								69	24
								70
								71
								72	25
32	John S. Cohen		April 25, 1932	January 11, 1933	Democrat	Atlanta	Newspaper Publisher
33	Richard B. Russell, Jr.		January 12, 1933	January 21, 1971	Democrat	Winder	Governor of Georgia
								73
								74
								75	26
								76
								77
								78	27
								79
								80
								81	28
								82
								83
								84	29
								85
								86
								87	30
								88
								89
								90	31
								91
								92
34	David H. Gambrell		February 1, 1971	November 7, 1972	Democrat	Atlanta	Chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party
35	Sam Nunn		November 8, 1972	January 3, 1997	Democrat	Perry	Georgia House of Representatives
								93	32
								94
								95
								96	33
								97
								98
								99	34
								100
								101
								102	35
								103
								104
36	Max Cleland		January 7, 1997	January 3, 2003	Democratic	Lithonia	Secretary of the State of Georgia	105	36
								106
								107
37	Saxby Chambliss		January 3, 2003	Incumbent	Republican	Moultrie	U.S. Representative (Ga.-8)	108	37
								109
								110
								111	38

Class III Senators

Class 3 U.S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for three sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2016.

#	Senator		Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	James Gunn		March 4, 1789	March 3, 1801	Anti-Administration	Savannah	Lawyer and Soldier	1	1
								2
								3
								4	2
					Federalist			5
								6
2	James Jackson		March 4, 1801	March 19, 1806	Democratic-Republican	Savannah	Governor of Georgia	7	3
								8
								9
3	John Milledge		June 19, 1806	November 14, 1809	Democratic-Republican	Augusta	Governor of Georgia
								10	4
								11
4	Charles Tait		November 27, 1809	March 3, 1819	Democratic-Republican	Elbert	Georgia Circuit Court Judge
								12
								13	5
								14
								15
5	John Elliott		March 4, 1819	March 3, 1825	Democratic-Republican	Sunbury	Lawyer	16	6
								17
								18
6	John Macpherson Berrien		March 4, 1825	March 9, 1829	Jacksonian	Savannah	Georgia Senate	19	7
								20
								21
7	John Forsyth		November 9, 1829	June 27, 1834	Jacksonian	Augusta	Governor of Georgia
								22	8
								23
8	Alfred Cuthbert		January 12, 1835	March 3, 1843	Democrat	Monticello	U.S. Representative At-large
								24
								25	9
								26
								27
9	Walter T. Colquitt		March 4, 1843	February 4, 1848	Democrat	Columbus	U.S. Representative At-large	28	10
								29
								30
10	Herschel Vespasian Johnson		February 4, 1848	March 3, 1849	Democrat	Milledgeville	Lawyer
11	William Crosby Dawson		March 4, 1849	March 3, 1855	Whig	Greensboro	U.S. Representative At-large	31	11
								32
								33
12	Alfred Iverson, Sr.		March 4, 1855	January 28, 1861	Democrat	Columbus	Judge of the Georgia Superior Court	34	12
								35
								36
Vacant due to the Civil War and Reconstruction			January 28, 1861	February 1, 1871
								37	13
								38
								39
								40	14
								41
13	Joshua Hill		February 1, 1871	March 3, 1873	Republican	Madison	U.S. Representative (Ga.-7)
								42
14	John Brown Gordon		March 4, 1873	May 26, 1880	Democrat	Atlanta	Lawyer and Confederate Army General	43	15
								44
								45
								46	16
15	Joseph E. Brown		May 26, 1880	March 3, 1891	Democrat	Atlanta	Governor of Georgia
								47
								48
								49	17
								50
								51
16	John Brown Gordon		March 4, 1891	March 3, 1897	Democrat	Atlanta	Governor of Georgia	52	18
								53
								54
17	Alexander S. Clay		March 4, 1897	November 13, 1910	Democrat	Marietta	Governor of Georgia	55	19
								56
								57
								58	20
								59
								60
								61	21
18	Joseph M. Terrell		November 17, 1910	July 14, 1911	Democrat	Greenville	Governor of Georgia
								62
19	M. Hoke Smith		November 16, 1911	March 3, 1921	Democrat	Atlanta	Governor of Georgia
								63
								64	22
								65
								66
20	Thomas E. Watson		March 4, 1921	September 26, 1922	Democrat	Thomson	U.S. Representative (Ga.-10)	67	23
21	Rebecca Latimer Felton		November 21, 1922	November 22, 1922	Democrat	Cartersville	Political Activist
22	Walter F. George		November 22, 1922	January 2, 1957	Democrat	Vienna	Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
								68
								69
								70	24
								71
								72
								73	25
								74
								75
								76	26
								77
								78
								79	27
								80
								81
								82	28
								83
								84
23	Herman E. Talmadge		January 3, 1957	January 3, 1981	Democrat	Lovejoy	Governor of Georgia	85	29
								86
								87
								88	30
								89
								90
								91	31
								92
								93
								94	32
								95
								96
24	Mack Mattingly		January 3, 1981	January 3, 1987	Republican	St. Simons Island	Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party	97	33
								98
								99
25	Wyche Fowler		January 3, 1987	January 3, 1993	Democrat	Atlanta	U.S. Representative (Ga.-5)	100	34
								101
								102
26	Paul Coverdell		January 3, 1993	July 18, 2000	Republican	Atlanta	Director of the Peace Corps	103	35
								104
								105
								106	36
27	Zell Miller		July 27, 2000	January 3, 2005	Democrat	Young Harris	Governor of Georgia
								107
								108
28	Johnny Isakson		January 3, 2005	Incumbent	Republican	Marietta	U.S. Representative (Ga.-6)	109	37
								110
								111

References

See also

• United States congressional delegations from Georgia

v • d • e United States Senators from Georgia Class 2 Few • Jackson • Walton • Tattnall • Baldwin • Jones • Crawford • Bulloch • Bibb • Troup • Forsyth • Walker • Ware • Cobb • Prince • Troup • King • Lumpkin • Berrien • Charlton • Toombs • H. Miller • Norwood • B. Hill • Barrow • A. Colquitt • Walsh • Bacon • West • Hardwick • Harris • Cohen • Russell • Gambrell • Nunn • Cleland • Chambliss Class 3 Gunn • Jackson • Milledge • Tait • Elliott • Berrien • Forsyth • Cuthbert • W. Colquitt • Johnson • Dawson • Iverson • J. Hill • Gordon • Brown • Gordon • Clay • Terrell • Smith • Watson • Felton • George • Talmadge • Mattingly • Fowler • Coverdell • Z. Miller • Isakson

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