List of United States Senators from Ohio
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The state of Ohio elects one Class I and one Class III senator. Its current senators are George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown.
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[edit] Class I
| Senator | Party | Took office | Left office | Reason | Notes | |
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| John Smith | Democratic- Republican |
April 1, 1803 | April 25, | Resigned | ||
| Return J. Meigs, Jr. | Democratic- Republican |
December 12, 1808 | December 8, 1810 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1810–1814) U.S. Postmaster General (1814–1823) Chief Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court (1803–1804) |
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| Thomas Worthington | ![]() |
Democratic- Republican |
December 15, 1810 | December 1, 1814 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1814–1818) Also served in Ohio's Class III seat |
| Joseph Kerr | Democratic- Republican |
December 10, 1814 | March 4, 1815 | Retired | ||
| Benjamin Ruggles | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1815 | March 4, 1833 | Retired | ||
| National Republican |
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| Thomas Morris | Democratic | March 4, 1833 | December 7, 1839 | Retired | ||
| Benjamin Tappan | Democratic | March 4, 1839 | March 4, 1845 | |||
| Thomas Corwin | Whig | March 4, 1845 | July 20, 1850 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1840–1842) Secretary of the Treasury (1850–1853) Minister to Mexico (1861–1864) |
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| Thomas Ewing | Whig | July 20, 1850 | March 4, 1851 | Lost special election | Secretary of the Treasury (1841) Secretary of the Interior (1849–1850) Also served in Ohio's Class III seat |
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| Benjamin F. Wade | Whig | March 15, 1851 | March 4, 1869 | Lost renomination | Senate President pro tem. (1867–1869) | |
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| Allen G. Thurman | Democratic | March 4, 1869 | March 4, 1881 | Lost re-election | Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1854–1856) Senate President pro tem. (1879–1880) Member of the 1876 Electoral Commission (1877) |
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| John Sherman | Republican | March 4, 1881 | March 21, 1897 | Resigned | Secretary of the Treasury (1877–1881) Secretary of State (1897–1898) Senate President pro tem. (1885–1887) Also served in Ohio's Class III seat |
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| Marcus A. Hanna | Republican | March 5, 1897 | February 15, 1904 | Died | ||
| Charles W. F. Dick | Republican | March 23, 1904 | March 4, 1911 | Lost re-election | ||
| Atlee Pomerene | Democratic | March 4, 1911 | March 4, 1923 | Lost re-election | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1911) | |
| Simeon D. Fess | Republican | March 4, 1923 | January 3, 1935 | Lost re-election | Senate Majority Whip (1929–1933) | |
| A. Victor Donahey | Democratic | January 3, 1935 | January 3, 1941 | Retired | Governor of Ohio (1923–1929) | |
| Harold H. Burton | Republican | January 3, 1941 | September 30, 1945 | Resigned | Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court | |
| James W. Huffman | Democratic | October 8, 1945 | November 5, 1946 | Retired[1] | ||
| Kingsley A. Taft | Republican | November 5, 1946 | January 3, 1947 | Retired | Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1962–1970) | |
| John W. Bricker | Republican | January 3, 1947 | January 3, 1959 | Lost re-election | Governor of Ohio (1939–1945) Ohio Attorney General (1933–1937) |
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| Stephen M. Young | Democratic | January 3, 1959 | January 3, 1971 | Retired | ||
| Robert Taft, Jr. | Republican | January 3, 1971 | December 28, 1976 | Resigned after losing election | ||
| Howard Metzenbaum | Democratic | December 26, 1976 | January 3, 1995 | Retired | Also served in Ohio's Class III seat | |
| Mike DeWine | Republican | January 3, 1995 | January 3, 2007 | Lost re-election | Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1991–1994) | |
| Sherrod Brown | Democratic | January 3, 2007 | Incumbent | |||
[edit] Class III
| Senator | Party | Took office | Left office | Reason | Notes | |
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| Thomas Worthington | ![]() |
Democratic- Republican |
April 1, 1803 | March 4, 1807 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1814–1818) Also served in Ohio's Class I seat |
| Edward Tiffin | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1807 | March 3, 1809 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1803–1805) Speaker of the Ohio House of Reprentatives (1809–1811) |
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| Stanley Griswold | Democratic- Republican |
May 18, 1809 | December 11, 1809 | Appointed, successor elected | ||
| Alexander Campbell | Democratic- Republican |
December 11, 1809 | March 4, 1813 | Speaker of the Ohio House of Reprentatives (1808–1808) | ||
| Jeremiah Morrow | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1813 | March 4, 1819 | Retired | Governor of Ohio (1822–1826) | |
| William A. Trimble | Democratic- Republican |
March 4, 1819 | December 13, 1821 | Died | ||
| Ethan Allen Brown | Democratic- Republican |
January 3, 1822 | March 4, 1825 | Resigned | Governor of Ohio (1818–1822) | |
| National Republican |
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| William Henry Harrison | National Republican |
March 4, 1825 | May 20, 1828 | Resigned | President of the United States (1841) Governor of the Indiana Territory (1800–1812) Minister to Colombia (1828–1829) |
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| Jacob Burnet | National Republican |
December 10, 1828 | March 4, 1831 | Retired | ||
| Thomas Ewing | National Republican |
March 4, 1831 | March 4, 1837 | Lost re-election | Secretary of the Treasury (1841) Secretary of the Interior (1849–1850) Also served in Ohio's Class I seat |
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| William Allen | Democratic | March 4, 1837 | March 4, 1849 | Lost re-election | Governor of Ohio (1874–1876) | |
| Salmon P. Chase | Free Soil | March 4, 1849 | March 4, 1855 | Retired | Chief Justice of the United States (1864–1873) United States Secretary of the Treasury (1861–1864) Governor of Ohio (1856–1860) |
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| George E. Pugh | Democratic | March 4, 1855 | March 4, 1861 | Lost re-election | ||
| Salmon P. Chase | Republican | March 4, 1861 | March 6, 1861 | Resigned | Chief Justice of the United States (1864–1873) United States Secretary of the Treasury (1861–1864) Governor of Ohio (1856–1860) |
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| John Sherman | Republican | March 21, 1861 | March 8, 1877 | Resigned | Secretary of the Treasury (1877–1881) Secretary of State (1897–1898) Senate President pro tem. (1885–1887) Also served in Ohio's Class I seat |
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| Stanley Matthews | Republican | March 21, 1877 | March 4, 1879 | Retired | U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1881–1889) | |
| George H. Pendleton | Democratic | March 4, 1879 | March 4, 1885 | Lost renominiation | Minister to Germany | |
| Henry B. Payne | Democratic | March 4, 1885 | March 4, 1891 | Retired | Member of the 1876 Electoral Commission (1877) | |
| Calvin S. Brice | Democratic | March 4, 1891 | March 4, 1897 | Retired | ||
| Joseph B. Foraker | Republican | March 4, 1897 | March 4, 1909 | Lost re-election | Governor of Ohio (1985–1889) | |
| Theodore E. Burton | Republican | March 4, 1909 | March 4, 1915 | Retired | ||
| Warren G. Harding | Republican | March 4, 1915 | January 13, 1921 | Resigned | President of the United States (1921–1923) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1904–1905) |
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| Frank B. Willis | Republican | January 14, 1921 | March 30, 1928 | Died | Governor of Ohio (1915–1917) | |
| Cyrus Locher | Democratic | April 5, 1928 | December 15, 1928 | Lost nomination | ||
| Theodore E. Burton | Republican | November 6, 1928 | December 15, 1929 | Died | ||
| Roscoe C. McCulloch | Republican | November 5, 1929 | November 30, 1930 | Lost special election | ||
| Robert J. Bulkley | Democratic | December 1, 1930 | January 3, 1939 | Lost re-election | ||
| Robert A. Taft | Republican | January 3, 1939 | July 31, 1953 | Died | Senate Majority Leader (1953) | |
| Thomas A. Burke | Democratic | November 10, 1953 | December 2, 1954 | Lost special election | ||
| George H. Bender | Republican | December 16, 1954 | January 3, 1957 | Lost re-election | ||
| Frank J. Lausche | Democratic | January 3, 1957 | January 3, 1969 | Lost renomination | Governor of Ohio (1945–1947; 1949–1957) | |
| William B. Saxbe | Republican | January 3, 1969 | January 3, 1974 | Resigned | Attorney General of the United States (1973–1975) Ohio Attorney General (1957–1959; 1963–1968) Ambassador to India (1975–1976) |
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| Howard Metzenbaum | Democratic | January 4, 1974 | December 23, 1974 | Resigned | Also served in Ohio's Class I seat | |
| John Glenn | ![]() |
Democratic | December 24, 1974 | January 3, 1999 | Retired | First American to orbit Earth |
| George Voinovich | Republican | January 3, 1999 | Incumbent | Governor of Ohio (1991–1998) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1979) |
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Huffman was appointed to the seat, but did not run in the special election to fill the rest of the term. He did, however, run for the full term commencing in 1947, but he lost.
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