List of United States Senators from South Carolina Totally Explained

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South Carolina ratified the Constitution on May 23, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in July 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1868.

South Carolina Class 2 Senators

Class 2 U.S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for two sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014.

#	Senator	Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	Pierce Butler	March 4 1789	October 25 1796	Pro-Administration	Charleston	Delegate to Constitutional Convention	1	1
				Anti-Administration			2	1
				Anti-Administration			3	2
				Democratic-Republican			4
2	John Hunter	December 8 1796	November 26 1798	Democratic-Republican	Newberry	U.S. Representative (S.C.-2)	4
2	John Hunter	December 8 1796	November 26 1798	Democratic-Republican	Newberry	U.S. Representative (S.C.-2)	5
3	Charles Pinckney	December 6 1798	June 6 1801	Democratic-Republican	Charleston	Governor of South Carolina	5
							6	3
							7
4	Thomas Sumter	December 15 1801	December 16 1810	Democratic-Republican	Stateburg	U.S. Representative (S.C.-4)	7
							8
							9	4
							10
							11
5	John Taylor	December 31 1810	November 1816	Democratic-Republican	Columbia	U.S. Representative (S.C.-4)	11
							12	5
							13
							14
6	William Smith	December 4 1816	March 3 1823	Democratic-Republican	Yorkville	Judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court	14
							15	6
							16
							17
7	Robert Young Hayne	March 4 1823	December 13 1832	Jacksonian/Nullifier	Charleston	Attorney General of South Carolina	18	7
							19
							20
							21	8
							22
8	John C. Calhoun	December 29 1832	March 3 1843	Nullifier/ Democratic	Fort Hill	U.S. Vice President	22
							23
							24	9
							25
							26
							27	10
9	Daniel Elliott Huger	March 4 1843	March 3 1845	Democratic	Charleston	South Carolina Senate	28
10	John C. Calhoun	November 26 1845	March 31 1850	Democratic	Pendleton	U.S. Secretary of State	29
							30	11
							31
11	Franklin H. Elmore	April 11 1850	May 29 1850	Democratic	Columbia	President of the Bank of the State of South Carolina
12	Robert Woodward Barnwell	June 4 1850	December 8 1850	Democratic	Beaufort	President of South Carolina College
13	Robert Barnwell Rhett	December 18 1850	May 7 1852	Democratic	Charleston	U.S. Representative (S.C.-7)
13	Robert Barnwell Rhett	December 18 1850	May 7 1852	Democratic	Charleston	U.S. Representative (S.C.-7)	32
14	William F. De Saussure	May 10 1852	March 3 1853	Democratic	Columbia	Lawyer	32
15	Josiah James Evans	March 4 1853	May 6 1858	Democratic	Society Hill	Judge of the South Carolina Supreme Court	33	12
							34
							35
16	Arthur P. Hayne	May 11 1858	December 2 1858	Democratic	Charleston	Lawyer and Diplomat
17	James Chesnut, Jr.	December 3 1858	November 10 1860	Democratic	Camden	South Carolina Senate
17	James Chesnut, Jr.	December 3 1858	November 10 1860	Democratic	Camden	South Carolina Senate	36	13
Vacant due to the Civil War and Reconstruction		November 10 1860	July 15 1868				36
							37
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							39	14
							40
18	Thomas J. Robertson	July 15 1868	March 3 1877	Republican	Columbia	Planter	40
							41
							42	15
							43
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19	Matthew C. Butler	March 4 1877	March 3 1895	Democrat	Edgefield	Confederate Army General	45	16
							46
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							48	17
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							51	18
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20	Benjamin R. Tillman	March 4 1895	July 3 1918	Democrat	Trenton	Governor of South Carolina	54	19
							55
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							57	20
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							60	21
							61
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							63	22
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21	Christie Benet	July 6 1918	November 5 1918	Democrat	Columbia	Lawyer
22	William P. Pollock	November 6 1918	March 3 1919	Democrat	Cheraw	South Carolina House of Representatives
23	Nathaniel B. Dial	March 4 1919	March 3 1925	Democrat	Laurens	Businessman	66	23
							67
							68
24	Coleman Livingston Blease	March 4 1925	March 3 1931	Democratic	Columbia	Governor of South Carolina	69	24
							70
							71
25	James F. Byrnes	March 4 1931	July 8 1941 (resigned)	Democrat	Spartanburg	U.S. Representative (S.C.-2)	72	25
							73
							74
							75	26
							76
							77
26	Alva M. Lumpkin	July 22 1941	August 1 1941 (died)	Democrat	Columbia	Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
27	Roger C. Peace	August 5 1941	November 4 1941 (did not run)	Democrat	Greenville	Newspaper Publisher
28	Burnet R. Maybank	November 5 1941	September 1 1954	Democrat	Charleston	Governor of South Carolina
							78	27
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							80
							81	28
							82
							83
29	Charles E. Daniel	September 6 1954	December 23 1954	Democrat	Greenville	Businessman
30	Strom Thurmond	December 24 1954	April 4 1956	Democrat	Aiken	Governor of South Carolina
30	Strom Thurmond	December 24 1954	April 4 1956	Democrat	Aiken	Governor of South Carolina	84	29
31	Thomas A. Wofford	April 5 1956	November 6 1956	Democrat	Greenville	Lawyer
32	Strom Thurmond	November 7 1956	January 3 2003	Democrat	Aiken	U.S. Senator
							85
							86
							87	30
							88
				Republican			88
							89
							90	31
							91
							92
							93	32
							94
							95
							96	33
							97
							98
							99	34
							100
							101
							102	35
							103
							104
							105	36
							106
							107
33	Lindsey Graham	January 3 2003	Incumbent	Republican	Seneca	U.S. Representative (S.C.-3)	108	37
							109
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South Carolina Class 3 Senators

Class 3 U.S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for three sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2016.

#	Senator	Took office	Left office	Party	Residence	Background	Congress	Term
1	Ralph Izard	March 4 1789	March 3 1795	Pro-Administration	Charleston	Delegate to the Continental Congress	1	1
							2
							3
2	Jacob Read	March 4 1795	March 3 1801	Federalist	Charleston	Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives	4	2
							5
							6
3	John Ewing Colhoun	March 4 1801	October 26 1802	Democratic-Republican	Pendleton	South Carolina Senate	7	3
4	Pierce Butler	November 4 1802	November 21 1804	Democratic-Republican	Charleston	U.S. Senator	7
4	Pierce Butler	November 4 1802	November 21 1804	Democratic-Republican	Charleston	U.S. Senator	8
5	John Gaillard	December 6 1804	February 26 1826	Democratic-Republican	Charleston/ Pendleton	President of the South Carolina Senate	8
							9
							10	4
							11
							12
							13	5
							14
							15
							16	6
							17
							18
							19	7
6	William Harper	March 8 1826	November 29 1826	Jacksonian	Charleston	Lawyer
7	William Smith	November 29 1826	March 3 1831	Jacksonian	Charleston	U.S. Senator
							20
							21
8	Stephen Decatur Miller	March 4 1831	March 3 1833	Nullifier	Camden	Governor of South Carolina	22	8
9	William C. Preston	November 26 1833	November 29 1842	Nullifier/Whig	Columbia	South Carolina House of Representatives	23
							24
							25	9
							26
							27
10	George McDuffie	December 23 1842	August 17 1846	Democratic	Edgefield	Governor of South Carolina	27
							28	10
							29
11	Andrew Butler	December 4 1846	May 25 1857	Democratic	Edgefield	Judge of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas	29
							30
							31	11
							32
							33
							34	12
							35
12	James Henry Hammond	December 7 1857	November 11 1860	Democratic	Beech Island	Governor of South Carolina	35
12	James Henry Hammond	December 7 1857	November 11 1860	Democratic	Beech Island	Governor of South Carolina	36
Vacant due to the Civil War and Reconstruction		November 11 1860	July 16 1868				36
							37	13
							38
							39
							40	14
13	Frederick A. Sawyer	July 16 1868	March 3 1873	Republican	Charleston	Educator	40
							41
							42
14	John J. Patterson	March 4 1873	March 3 1879	Republican	Columbia	Banker	43	15
							44
							45
15	Wade Hampton III	March 4 1879	March 3 1891	Democrat	Columbia	Governor of South Carolina	46	16
							47
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							49	17
							50
							51
16	John L. M. Irby	March 4 1891	March 3 1897	Democrat	Laurens	Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives	52	18
							53
							54
17	Joseph H. Earle	March 4 1897	May 20 1897	Democrat	Greenville	Attorney General of South Carolina	55	19
18	John L. McLaurin	June 1 1897	March 3 1903	Democrat	Bennettsville	U.S. Representative (S.C.-6)	55
							56
							57
19	Asbury Latimer	March 4 1903	February 20 1908	Democrat	Belton	U.S. Representative (S.C.-3)	58	20
							59
							60
20	Frank B. Gary	March 6 1908	March 3 1909	Democrat	Abbeville	South Carolina House of Representatives	60
21	Ellison D. Smith	March 4 1909	November 17 1944	Democrat	Florence/ Lynchburg	Businessman	61	21
							62
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							64	22
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							67	23
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							70	24
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							73	25
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							76	26
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22	Wilton E. Hall	November 20 1944	January 3 1945	Democrat	Anderson	Newspaper Publisher	78
23	Olin D. Johnston	January 3 1945	April 18 1965	Democrat	Spartanburg	Governor of South Carolina	79	27
							80
							81
							82	28
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							85	29
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							88	30
							89
24	Donald S. Russell	April 22 1965	November 8 1966	Democrat	Spartanburg	Governor of South Carolina
25	Ernest Hollings	November 9 1966	January 3 2005	Democrat	Charleston	Governor of South Carolina
							90
							91	31
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							94	32
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							97	33
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							100	34
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							103	35
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							106	36
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26	James W. DeMint	January 3 2005	Incumbent	Republican	Greenville	U.S. Representative (S.C.-4)	109	37
26	James W. DeMint	January 3 2005	Incumbent	Republican	Greenville	U.S. Representative (S.C.-4)	110

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