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California U.S. Senators

View a list of California U.S. senators since 1850

 

Senator John C. Fremont 

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1850 - 1851          

Congress: 31st

 

Senator William M. Gwin              

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1850 - 1861          

Congress: 31st-33rd

 

Senator John B. Weller   

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1852 - 1857          

Congress: 32nd-34th

 

Senator David C. Broderick           

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1857 - 1859          

Congress: 35th-36th

 

Senator Henry P. Haun   

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1859 - 1860          

Congress: 36th

 

Senator Milton S. Latham             

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1860 - 1863          

Congress: 36th-37th

 

Senator James A. McDougall       

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1861 - 1867          

Congress: 37th-39th

 

Senator John Conness    

Party: Republican            

Term: 1863 - 1869          

Congress: 38th-40th

 

Senator Cornelius Cole  

Party: Republican            

Term: 1867 - 1873          

Congress: 40th-42nd

 

Senator Eugene Casserly               

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1869 - 1873          

Congress: 41st-43rd

 

Senator John S. Hager    

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1873 - 1875          

Congress: 43rd

 

Senator Aaron A. Sargent              

Party: Republican            

Term: 1873 - 1879          

Congress: 43rd-45th

 

Senator Newton Booth  

Party: Anti-Monopoly   

Term: 1875 - 1881          

Congress: 44th-46th

 

Senator James T. Farley  

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1879 - 1885          

Congress: 46th-48th

 

Senator John F. Miller     

Party: Republican            

Term: 1881 - 1886          

Congress: 47th-49th

 

Senator Leland Stanford                

Party: Republican            

Term: 1885 - 1893          

Congress: 49th-51st

 

Senator George Hearst  

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1886 - 1886          

Congress: 49th

 

Senator Abram P. Williams           

Party: Republican            

Term: 1886 - 1887          

Congress: 49th

 

Senator George Hearst  

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1887 - 1891          

Congress: 50th-51st

 

Senator Charles N. Felton             

Party: Republican            

Term: 1891 - 1893          

Congress: 52nd

 

Senator Stephen M. White           

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1893 - 1899          

Congress: 53rd-55th

 

Senator George C. Perkins            

Party: Republican            

Term: 1893 - 1915          

Congress: 51st-63rd

 

Senator Thomas R. Bard 

Party: Republican            

Term: 1900 - 1905          

Congress: 56th-58th

 

Senator Frank P. Flint      

Party: Republican            

Term: 1905 - 1911          

Congress: 59th-61st

 

Senator John D. Works   

Party: Republican            

Term: 1911 - 1917          

Congress: 62nd-64th

 

Senator James D. Phelan               

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1915 - 1921          

Congress: 64th-66th

 

Senator Hiram W. Johnson           

Party: Republican            

Term: 1917 - 1945          

Congress: 65th-79th

 

Senator Samuel M. Shortridge    

Party: Republican            

Term: 1921 - 1933          

Congress: 67th-72nd

 

Senator William Gibbs McAdoo  

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1933 - 1938          

Congress: 73rd-75th

 

Senator Thomas M. Storke           

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1938 - 1939          

Congress: 75th-76th

 

Senator Sheridan Downey            

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1939 - 1950          

Congress: 77th-81st

 

Senator William F. Knowland       

Party: Republican            

Term: 1945 - 1959          

Congress: 79th-85th

 

Senator Richard M. Nixon             

Party: Republican            

Term: 1950 - 1953          

Congress: 81st-82nd

 

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel           

Party: Republican            

Term: 1953 - 1969          

Congress: 82nd-90th

 

Senator Clair Engle          

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1959 - 1964          

Congress: 86th-88th

 

Senator Pierre E. G. Salinger        

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1964 - 1964          

Congress: 88th

 

Senator George L. Murphy           

Party: Republican            

Term: 1965 - 1971          

Congress: 88th-91st

 

Senator Alan Cranston   

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1969 - 1993          

Congress: 91st-102nd

 

Senator John V. Tunney  

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1971 - 1977          

Congress: 91st-94th

 

Senator Samuel I. Hayakawa       

Party: Republican            

Term: 1977 - 1983          

Congress: 94th-97th

 

Senator Pete Wilson       

Party: Republican            

Term: 1983 - 1991          

Congress: 98th-102nd

 

Senator John Seymour   

Party: Republican            

Term: 1991 - 1992          

Congress: 102nd

 

Senator Dianne Feinstein              

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1992 - 2023          

Congress: 102nd-118th

 

Senator Barbara Boxer 

Party: Democratic            

Term: 1993 - 2017          

Congress: 103rd-114th

 

Senator Kamala Harris   

Party: Democratic            

Term: 2017 - 2021          

Congress: 115th-117th

 

Senator Alex Padilla        

Party: Democratic            

Term: 2021 - Present      

Congress: 117th

 

Senator Laphonza R. Butler          

Party: Democratic            

Term: 2023 - Present      

Congress: 118th

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