# List of United States senators in the 72nd Congress

This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 72nd United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1931, to March 3, 1933.
Order of service is based on the commencement of the senator's first term. Behind this is former service as a senator (only giving the senator seniority within his or her new incoming class), service as vice president, a House member, a cabinet secretary, or a governor of a state. The final factor is the population of the senator's state.
Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 1932 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number.

## Terms of service

| Class | Terms of service of senators that expired in years |
| Class 3 | Terms of service of senators that expired in 1933 (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, NC, ND, NH, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, UT, VT, WA, and WI.) |
| Class 1 | Terms of service of senators that expired in 1935 (AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, and WY.) |
| Class 2 | Terms of service of senators that expired in 1937 (AL, AR, CO, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, and WY.) |

## U.S. Senate seniority list

U.S. Senate seniority :
| Rank | Senator (party-state) | Seniority date | Other factors |
| 1 | Reed Smoot (R-UT) | March 4, 1903 | |
| 2 | William Borah (R-ID) | March 4, 1907 | |
| 3 | Wesley Jones (R-WA) | March 4, 1909 | Former representative |
| 4 | Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) | March 4, 1909 | South Carolina 24th in population (1900) |
| 5 | Duncan U. Fletcher (D-FL) | March 4, 1909 | Florida 33rd in population (1900) |
| 6 | Claude A. Swanson (D-VA) | August 1, 1910 | |
| 7 | Henry F. Ashurst (D-AZ) | April 2, 1912 | |
| 8 | Key Pittman (D-NV) | January 29, 1913 | |
| 9 | Morris Sheppard (D-TX) | February 3, 1913 | |
| 10 | Joseph Robinson (D-AR) | March 4, 1913 | Former representative (10 years), former governor |
| 11 | George W. Norris (R-NE) | March 4, 1913 | Former representative (10 years) |
| 12 | Thomas J. Walsh (D-MT) | March 4, 1913 | |
| 13 | James Watson (R-IN) | November 8, 1916 | |
| 14 | Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) | March 4, 1917 | Former representative (6 years) |
| 15 | William H. King (D-UT) | March 4, 1917 | Former representative (3 years) |
| 16 | Park Trammell (D-FL) | March 4, 1917 | Former governor, Florida 33rd in population (1910) |
| 17 | John B. Kendrick (D-WY) | March 4, 1917 | Former governor, Wyoming 47th in population (1910) |
| 18 | Frederick Hale (R-ME) | March 4, 1917 | |
| 19 | Hiram Johnson (R-CA) | March 16, 1917 | |
| 20 | George H. Moses (R-NH) | November 6, 1918 | |
| 21 | Charles L. McNary (R-OR) | December 18, 1918 | |
| 22 | Arthur Capper (R-KS) | March 4, 1919 | Former governor, Kansas 22nd in population (1910) |
| 23 | Henry W. Keyes (R-NH) | March 4, 1919 | Former governor, New Hampshire 39th in population (1910) |
| 24 | William J. Harris (D-GA) | March 4, 1919 | |
| 25 | Pat Harrison (D-MS) | March 5, 1919 | |
| 26 | Carter Glass (D-VA) | February 2, 1920 | |
| 27 | Thaddeus H. Caraway (D-AR) | March 4, 1921 | Former representative |
| 28 | Peter Norbeck (R-SD) | March 4, 1921 | Former governor |
| 29 | Samuel M. Shortridge (R-CA) | March 4, 1921 | California 8th in population (1920) |
| 30 | Edwin S. Broussard (D-LA) | March 4, 1921 | Louisiana 22nd in population (1920) |
| 31 | Tasker Oddie (R-NV) | March 4, 1921 | Nevada 48th in population (1920) |
| 32 | David A. Reed (R-PA) | August 8, 1922 | |
| 33 | Walter F. George (D-GA) | November 22, 1922 | |
| 34 | James Couzens (R-MI) | November 29, 1922 | |
| 35 | Simeon Fess (R-OH) | March 4, 1923 | Former representative (10 years), Ohio 4th in population (1920) |
| 36 | Hubert D. Stephens (D-MS) | March 4, 1923 | Former representative (10 years), Mississippi 23rd in population (1920) |
| 37 | Clarence Dill (D-WA) | March 4, 1923 | Former representative (4 years) |
| 38 | Lynn Frazier (R-ND) | March 4, 1923 | Former governor |
| 39 | Royal S. Copeland (D-NY) | March 4, 1923 | New York 1st in population (1920) |
| 40 | Henrik Shipstead (FL-MN) | March 4, 1923 | Minnesota 17th in population (1920) |
| 41 | Robert B. Howell (R-NE) | March 4, 1923 | Nebraska 31st in population (1920) |
| 42 | Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) | March 4, 1923 | Montana 39th in population (1920) |
| 43 | Porter H. Dale (R-VT) | November 7, 1923 | |
| 44 | Jesse H. Metcalf (R-RI) | November 4, 1924 | |
| 45 | Hiram Bingham (R-CT) | December 17, 1924 | |
| 46 | Thomas D. Schall (R-MN) | March 4, 1925 | Former representative |
| 47 | Sam G. Bratton (D-NM) | March 4, 1925 | |
| 48 | Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R-WI) | September 30, 1925 | |
| 49 | Arthur Robinson (R-IN) | October 20, 1925 | |
| 50 | Gerald Nye (R-ND) | November 14, 1925 | |
| 51 | David I. Walsh (D-MA) | December 6, 1926 | Previously a senator |
| 52 | Harry B. Hawes (D-MO) | December 6, 1926 |
| 53 | Smith W. Brookhart (R-IA) | March 4, 1927 | Previously a senator |
| 54 | Carl Hayden (D-AZ) | March 4, 1927 | Former representative (15 years) |
| 55 | Alben W. Barkley (D-KY) | March 4, 1927 | Former representative (14 years) |
| 56 | Elmer Thomas (D-OK) | March 4, 1927 | Former representative (4 years), Oklahoma 21st in population (1920) |
| 57 | Millard Tydings (D-MD) | March 4, 1927 | Former representative (4 years), Maryland 28th in population (1920) |
| 58 | John J. Blaine (R-WI) | March 4, 1927 | Former governor |
| 59 | Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) | March 4, 1927 | New York 1st in population (1920) |
| 60 | Hugo Black (D-AL) | March 4, 1927 | Alabama 18th in population (1920) |
| 61 | Charles Waterman (R-CO) | March 4, 1927 | Colorado 33rd in population (1920) |
| 62 | Frederick Steiwer (R-OR) | March 4, 1927 | Oregon 34th in population (1920) |
| 63 | Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) | March 31, 1928 | |
| 64 | John Thomas (R-ID) | June 30, 1928 | |
| 65 | Otis F. Glenn (R-IL) | November 7, 1928 | |
| 66 | Daniel Hastings (R-DE) | December 10, 1928 | |
| 67 | Bronson Cutting (R-NM) | March 4, 1929 | Previously a senator |
| 68 | Tom Connally (D-TX) | March 4, 1929 | Former representative (12 years) |
| 69 | Roscoe C. Patterson (R-MO) | March 4, 1929 | Former representative (2 years) |
| 70 | Henry D. Hatfield (R-WV) | March 4, 1929 | Former governor, West Virginia 27th in population (1920) |
| 71 | Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R-MD) | March 4, 1929 | Former governor, Maryland 28th in population (1920) |
| 72 | John G. Townsend, Jr. (R-DE) | March 4, 1929 | Former governor, Delaware 46th in population (1920) |
| 73 | Hamilton Kean (R-NJ) | March 4, 1929 | New Jersey 10th in population (1920) |
| 74 | Frederic Walcott (R-CT) | March 4, 1929 | Connecticut 29th in population (1920) |
| 75 | Felix Hebert (R-RI) | March 4, 1929 | Rhode Island 38th in population (1920) |
| 76 | Robert J. Bulkley (D-OH) | December 1, 1930 | Former representative |
| 77 | Robert D. Carey (R-WY) | December 1, 1930 | Former governor |
| 78 | George McGill (D-KS) | December 1, 1930 | |
| 79 | James J. Davis (R-PA) | December 2, 1930 | |
| 80 | Dwight Morrow (R-NJ) | December 3, 1930 | |
| 81 | Cameron A. Morrison (D-NC) | December 13, 1930 | |
| 82 | Frank C. Partridge (R-VT) | December 23, 1930 | |
| 83 | Thomas Gore (D-OK) | March 4, 1931 | Previously a senator (14 years) |
| 84 | Matthew M. Neely (D-WV) | March 4, 1931 | Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (8 years) |
| 85 | J. Hamilton Lewis (D-IL) | March 4, 1931 | Previously a senator (6 years), former representative (2 years) |
| 86 | Cordell Hull (D-TN) | March 4, 1931 | Former representative (22 years) |
| 87 | James F. Byrnes (D-SC) | March 4, 1931 | Former representative (14 years), South Carolina 26th in population (1930) |
| 88 | Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) | March 4, 1931 | Former representative (14 years), Maine 35th in population (1930) |
| 89 | L. J. Dickinson (R-IA) | March 4, 1931 | Former representative (12 years) |
| 90 | William J. Bulow (D-SD) | March 4, 1931 | Former governor |
| 91 | Marcus A. Coolidge (D-MA) | March 4, 1931 | Massachusetts 8th in population (1930) |
| 92 | Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) | March 4, 1931 | North Carolina 12th in population (1930) |
| 93 | John H. Bankhead II (D-AL) | March 4, 1931 | Alabama 15th in population (1930) |
| 94 | Marvel M. Logan (D-KY) | March 4, 1931 | Kentucky 17th in population (1930) |
| 95 | Edward Costigan (D-CO) | March 4, 1931 | Colorado 33rd in population (1930) |
| | Warren Austin (R-VT) | April 1, 1931 | |
| | Hattie Caraway (D-AR) | November 13, 1931 | |
| | William Warren Barbour (D-NJ) | December 1, 1931 | |
| 96 | Huey Long (D-LA) | January 25, 1932 | |
| | John S. Cohen (D-GA) | April 25, 1932 | |
| | Walter Walker (D-CO) | September 26, 1932 | |
| | Elijah Grammer (R-WA) | November 22, 1932 | |
| | Robert R. Reynolds (D-NC) | December 5, 1932 | |
| | Karl Schuyler (R-CO) | December 7, 1932 | |
| | Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) | January 12, 1933 | |
| | Bennett Champ Clark (D-MO) | February 4, 1933 | |