page_title: United States congressional delegations from Indiana
section_title: Senate
hierarchical_section_title: United States congressional delegations from Indiana / Senate
caption_attribution_description: English: Official photo of Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN).
context_page_description: These are tables of congressional delegations from Indiana to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
  Since its statehood in 1816, the U.S. state of Indiana has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state elects two Senators statewide to serve for six years, and their elections are staggered to be held in two of every three even-numbered years—Indiana's Senate election years are to Classes I and III. Before the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, Senators were elected by the Indiana General Assembly. Members of the House of Representatives are elected to two-year terms, one from each of Indiana's nine congressional districts. Before becoming a state, the Indiana Territory elected delegates at-large and sent three to Congress, but the territorial delegates were restricted from voting on legislation.
  The longest-serving of any of Indiana's Congressmen is Senator Richard Lugar, serving from 1977 to 2013. The longest-serving House member is Lee H. Hamilton, who served from 1965 to 1999.
context_section_description: Each state elects two senators by statewide popular vote every six years. The terms of the two senators are staggered so that they are not elected in the same year. Indiana's senators are elected in the years from classes 1 and 3. Senators were originally chosen by the Indiana General Assembly until the Seventeenth Amendment came into force in 1913.
  Of the forty-six men who have been senators from Indiana, there have been three Democratic-Republicans, three Adams Republicans (including James Noble, who was both a Democratic-Republican and Adams Republican), two Whigs, one Unionist, twenty-one Democrats, and seventeen Republicans.
   Anti-Jacksonion (Adams) Democratic (D) Democratic-Republican (D-R) National Union (NU) Republican (R) Whig (Whig)
caption: Richard Lugar, the longest-serving senator from Indiana, served from 1977-2013
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