List of youngest members of the United States Congress
List of youngest members of the U.S. Senate
Sources: Congressional Biographical Directory and House Document No. 108-222, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 – 2005

List of youngest members of the United States Congress

Section Title: List of youngest members of the U.S. Senate
Table Section Text: Sources: Congressional Biographical Directory and House Document No. 108-222, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 – 2005

Time as youngest member	Name	State	Party	Age

March 4, 1789 – July 25, 1789	James Gunn	Georgia	Anti-Administration	35–36

July 25, 1789 – December 6, 1790	Rufus King	New York	Pro-Administration	34–35

December 6, 1790 – March 4, 1791	James Monroe	Virginia	Anti-Administration	32

March 4, 1791 – December 2, 1793	John Rutherfurd	New Jersey	Pro-Administration	30–33

December 2, 1793 – February 28, 1794	Albert Gallatin	Pennsylvania	Anti-Administration	32–33

February 28, 1794 – April 24, 1794	John Rutherfurd	New Jersey	Pro-Administration	33

April 24, 1794 – December 6, 1796	James Ross	Pennsylvania	Federalist	31–34

April 12, 1796 – December 6, 1796	Josiah Tattnall, Sr.	Georgia	Democratic-Republican	34 (est)

December 6, 1796 – November 22, 1797	Richard Stockton	New Jersey	Federalist	32–33

November 22, 1797 – April, 1798	Andrew Jackson	Tennessee	Democratic-Republican	30–31

April 1798 – February 4, 1799	Ray Greene	Rhode Island	Federalist	33–34

February 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801	William H. Wells	Delaware	Federalist	30–32

March 4, 1801 – October 17, 1803	Samuel White	Delaware	Federalist	30–32

October 17, 1803 – December 29, 1806	Thomas Worthington	Ohio	Democratic-Republican	30–33

December 29, 1806 – March 4, 1807	Henry Clay	Kentucky	Democratic-Republican	29

March 4, 1807 – September 1807	James Fenner	Rhode Island	Democratic-Republican	34

September 1807 – December 9, 1807	John Pope	Kentucky	Democratic-Republican	36/37 (est)

September 1807 – December 9, 1807	Samuel White	Delaware	Federalist	36/37 (est)

December 9, 1807 – January 12, 1810	William Harris Crawford	Georgia	Democratic-Republican	35–37

May 26, 1809 – January 12, 1810	Jenkin Whiteside	Tennessee	Democratic-Republican	37–38 (est)

January 12, 1810 – March 3, 1813	Alexander Campbell	Ohio	Democratic-Republican	30–34 (est)

March 4, 1813 – May 27, 1813	Outerbridge Horsey	Delaware	Federalist	35–36

May 24, 1813 – May 27, 1813	William Bellinger Bulloch	Georgia	Democratic-Republican	36 (est)

May 27, 1813 – December 6, 1813	Robert Henry Goldsborough	Maryland	Federalist	34

December 6, 1813 – April 9, 1814	William Wyatt Bibb	Georgia	Democratic-Republican	32

April 9, 1814}} – February 2, 1815	Jesse Wharton	Tennessee	Democratic-Republican	31–32

February 2, 1815 – January 22, 1816	William Taylor Barry	Kentucky	Democratic-Republican	30–31

January 22, 1816 – March 3, 1817	Armistead Thomson Mason	Virginia	Democratic-Republican	28–29

March 4, 1817 – November 16, 1818	John Jordan Crittenden	Kentucky	Democratic-Republican	29–31

November 16, 1818 – March 3, 1821	John Henry Eaton	Tennessee	Democratic-Republican	28–30

March 4, 1821 – December 3, 1821	Samuel Lewis Southard	New Jersey	Democratic-Republican	33–34

December 3, 1821 – March 3, 1823	John Henry Eaton	Tennessee	Democratic-Republican	31–32

March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	Robert Young Hayne	South Carolina	Jacksonian Republican	31–33

March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829	Elias Kent Kane	Illinois	Jacksonian	30–34

March 4, 1829 – December 16, 1833	John Middleton Clayton	Delaware	Anti-Jacksonian	32–37

December 16, 1833 – December 31, 1833	Lewis Fields Linn	Missouri	Jacksonian	37

December 31, 1833 – March 3, 1835	John Pendleton King	Georgia	Jacksonian	34–35

March 4, 1835 – December 5, 1836	Robert John Walker	Mississippi	Jacksonian	34–35

December 5, 1836 – February 2, 1837	Ambrose H. Sevier	Arkansas	Jacksonian	35

February 2, 1837 – March 3, 1837	Alexander Mouton	Louisiana	Jacksonian	32

March 4, 1837 – January 11, 1841	Franklin Pierce	New Hampshire	Democratic	32–36

January 11, 1841 – February 7, 1842	Alfred O.P. Nicholson	Tennessee	Democratic	32–33

February 7, 1842 – February 28, 1842	Franklin Pierce	New Hampshire	Democratic	37

February 28, 1842 – March 1, 1842	Alexander Mouton	Louisiana	Democratic	37

March 1, 1842 – April 14, 1842	William Alexander Graham	North Carolina	Whig	37

April 14, 1842 – July 6, 1842	Charles Magill Conrad	Louisiana	Whig	37

July 6, 1842 – March 3, 1843	William L. Dayton	New Jersey	Whig	35–36

March 4, 1843 – December 4, 1843	Edward A. Hannegan	Indiana	Democratic	35–36

December 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	David Rice Atchison	Missouri	Democratic	36–37

March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	Jesse D. Bright	Indiana	Democratic	32–34

March 4, 1847 – June 26, 1848	Stephen A. Douglas	Illinois	Democratic	33–35

June 26, 1848 – December 14, 1853	Isaac Pigeon Walker	Wisconsin	Democratic	32–38

December 14, 1853 – March 3, 1855	Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.	Alabama	Democratic	37–38

March 3, 1855 – March 5, 1860	George Ellis Pugh	Ohio	Democratic	32–37

March 5, 1860 – January 22, 1863	Milton Slocum Latham	California	Democratic	32–35

January 22, 1863 – March 3, 1863	David Turpie	Indiana	Democratic	34

March 4, 1863 – June 23, 1868	William Sprague IV	Rhode Island	Republican	32–37

June 23, 1868 – June 30, 1868	Alexander McDonald	Arkansas	Republican	36

June 30, 1868 – July 25, 1868	Thomas Ward Osborn	Florida	Republican	35

July 25, 1868 – March 3, 1873	George Eliphaz Spencer	Alabama	Republican	31–36

March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1879	Stephen Wallace Dorsey	Arkansas	Republican	31–37

March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881	Blanche Kelso Bruce	Mississippi	Republican	38–40

March 4, 1881 – October 11, 1881	Arthur Pue Gorman	Maryland	Democratic	41–42

October 11, 1881 – March 3, 1883	Nelson W. Aldrich	Rhode Island	Republican	39–41

March 4, 1883 – December 2, 1889	John E. Kenna	West Virginia	Democratic	34–41

December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1891	Richard F. Pettigrew	South Dakota	Republican	41–42

March 4, 1891 – January 24, 1895	John L.M. Irby	South Carolina	Democratic	36–40

January 24, 1895 – March 3, 1895	Jeter C. Pritchard	North Carolina	Republican	37

March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1901	Marion Butler	North Carolina	Populist	31–37

March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905	Albert J. Beveridge	Indiana	Republican	38–42

Joseph Weldon Bailey	Texas	Democratic	38–42

March 4, 1905 – January 30, 1907	Elmer J. Burkett	Nebraska	Republican	37–39

January 30, 1907 – March 3, 1907	Frederick W. Mulkey	Oregon	Republican	33

March 4, 1907 – December 16, 1907	Simon Guggenheim	Colorado	Republican	39

December 16, 1907 – January 9, 1908	Thomas P. Gore	Oklahoma	Democratic	37

January 9, 1908 – March 22, 1908	William James Bryan	Florida	Democratic	31

March 22, 1908 – January 9, 1911	Thomas P. Gore	Oklahoma	Democratic	37–40

January 9, 1911 – January 31, 1911	Davis Elkins	West Virginia	Republican	34–35

January 31, 1911 – March 3, 1911	Thomas P. Gore	Oklahoma	Democratic	40

March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1917	Luke Lea	Tennessee	Democratic	31–37

March 4, 1917 – July 8, 1918	Peter Goelet Gerry	Rhode Island	Democratic	37–38

July 8, 1918 – November 5, 1918	Christie Benet	South Carolina	Democratic	38

November 5, 1918 – March 3, 1919	Peter Goelet Gerry	Rhode Island	Democratic	39

March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1923	Pat Harrison	Mississippi	Democratic	37–41

March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1925	Clarence Cleveland Dill	Washington	Democratic	38–40

March 4, 1925 – December 7, 1925	Sam G. Bratton	New Mexico	Democratic	36–37

December 7, 1925 – January 12, 1933	Robert M. La Follette, Jr.	Wisconsin	Republican	30–37

January 12, 1933 – June 21, 1935	Richard B. Russell, Jr.	Georgia	Democratic	35–37

June 21, 1935 – October 17, 1940	Rush Dew Holt, Sr.	West Virginia	Democratic	30–35

October 17, 1940 – December 12, 1940	Joseph H. Ball	Minnesota	Republican	34–35

December 12, 1940 – December 6, 1942	Berkeley L. Bunker	Nevada	Democratic	34–36

December 6, 1942 – January 3, 1943	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	Massachusetts	Republican	40

January 3, 1943 – November 14, 1944	Joseph H. Ball	Minnesota	Republican	37–39

November 14, 1944 – January 3, 1945	William E. Jenner	Indiana	Republican	36

January 3, 1945 – January 18, 1945	Joseph H. Ball	Minnesota	Republican	39

January 18, 1945 – August 26, 1945	Hugh B. Mitchell	Washington	Democratic	37–38

August 26, 1945 – January 3, 1947	William Knowland	California	Republican	37–38

January 3, 1947 – December 31, 1948	Joseph McCarthy	Wisconsin	Republican	38–40

December 31, 1948 – January 3, 1957	Russell Long	Louisiana	Democratic	30–38

January 3, 1957 – June 15, 1961	Frank Church	Idaho	Democratic	32–36

June 15, 1961 – January 10, 1962	John Tower	Texas	Republican	35–36

January 10, 1962 – November 6, 1962	Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.	New Hampshire	Republican	34–35

November 7, 1962 – January 3, 1969	Ted Kennedy	Massachusetts	Democratic	30–36

January 3, 1969 – January 2, 1971	Bob Packwood	Oregon	Republican	36–38

January 2, 1971 – January 3, 1973	John V. Tunney	California	Democratic	36–38

January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1979	Joe Biden	Delaware	Democratic	30–36

January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981	Bill Bradley	New Jersey	Democratic	35–37

January 3, 1981 – March 11, 1987	Don Nickles	Oklahoma	Republican	32–38

March 11, 1987 – November 8, 1988	David Kemp Karnes	Nebraska	Republican	38–39

November 8, 1988 – January 3, 1993	Don Nickles	Oklahoma	Republican	39–44

January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995	Russ Feingold	Wisconsin	Democratic	39–41

January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1999	Rick Santorum	Pennsylvania	Republican	36–40

January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2003	Peter Fitzgerald	Illinois	Republican	38–42

January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009	John E. Sununu	New Hampshire	Republican	38–44

January 3, 2009 – January 22, 2009	Mark Pryor	Arkansas	Democratic	45–46

January 22, 2009 – January 27, 2009	Michael Bennet	Colorado	Democratic	44

January 27, 2009 – September 10, 2009	Kirsten Gillibrand	New York	Democratic	42

September 10, 2009 – July 20, 2010	George LeMieux	Florida	Republican	40–41

July 20, 2010 – November 15, 2010	Carte Goodwin	West Virginia	Democratic	36

November 15, 2010 – January 3, 2011	George LeMieux	Florida	Republican	41

January 3, 2011 – December 26, 2012	Mike Lee	Utah	Republican	39–41

December 26, 2012 – January 3, 2013	Brian Schatz	Hawaii	Democratic	40

January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015	Chris Murphy	Connecticut	Democratic	39–41

January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2019	Tom Cotton	Arkansas	Republican	37–41

January 3, 2019 – present	Josh Hawley	Missouri	Republican	39

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Sununu was the member of the Senate for his entire six-year term.
Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six-year term.

final_sentence: Sununu was the member of the Senate for his entire six-year term.
final_sentence: Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six-year term.