List of United States Senators from New Hampshire

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New Hampshire ratified the Constitution on June 21, 1788.

New Hampshire 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	Paine Wingate		March 4 1789	March 3 1793	Anti-Administration	Stratham	Delegate to the Continental Congress	1	1
								2
2	Samuel Livermore		March 4 1793	June 12 1801	Pro-Administration/ Federalist	Holderness	U.S. Representative At-large	3	2
								4
								5
								6	3
								7
3	Simeon Olcott		June 17 1801	March 3 1805	Federalist	Charlestown	Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court
								8
4	Nicholas Gilman		March 4 1805	May 2 1814	Democratic-Republican	Exeter	U.S. Representative At-large	9	4
								10
								11
								12	5
								13
5	Thomas W. Thompson		June 24 1814	March 3 1817	Federalist	Concord	Treasurer of New Hampshire
								14
6	David L. Morril		March 4 1817	March 3 1823	Democratic-Republican	Goffstown	Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives	15	6
								16
								17
7	Samuel Bell		March 4 1823	March 3 1835	National Republican	Chester	Governor of New Hampshire	18	7
								19
								20
								21	8
								22
								23
8	Henry Hubbard		March 4 1835	March 3 1841	Democratic	Charlestown	U.S. Representative At-large	24	9
								25
								26
9	Levi Woodbury		March 4 1841	November 20 1845	Democratic	Portsmouth	U.S. Secretary of the Treasury	27	10
								28
								29
10	Benning Wentworth Jenness		December 1 1845	June 13 1846	Democratic	Strafford	Merchant
11	Joseph Cilley		June 13 1846	March 3 1847	Democratic/Liberty	Nottingham	Soldier
12	John Parker Hale		March 4 1847	March 3 1853	Free Soil	Dover	U.S. Representative At-large	30	11
								31
								32
13	Charles G. Atherton		March 4 1853	November 15 1853	Democratic	Nashua	U.S. Senator	33	12
14	Jared W. Williams		November 29 1853	July 15 1854	Democratic	Lancaster	Governor of New Hampshire
Vacant			July 15 1854	July 30 1855				34
15	John Parker Hale		July 30 1855	March 3 1865	Republican	Dover	U.S. Senator
								35
								36	13
								37
								38
16	Aaron H. Cragin		March 4 1865	March 3 1877	Republican	Lebanon	U.S. Representative (N.H.-3)	39	14
								40
								41
								42	15
								43
								44
17	Edward H. Rollins		March 4 1877	March 3 1883	Republican	Concord	U.S. Representative (N.H.-2)	45	16
								46
								47
18	Austin F. Pike		March 4 1883	October 8 1886	Republican	Franklin	U.S. Representative (N.H.-2)	48	17
								49
19	Person Colby Cheney		November 14 1886	June 24 1887	Republican	Manchester	Governor of New Hampshire
								50
20	William Eaton Chandler		June 14 1887	March 3 1889	Republican	Concord	U.S. Secretary of the Navy
21	Gilman Marston		March 4 1889	June 18 1889	Republican	Exeter	U.S. Representative (N.H.-1)	51	18
22	William Eaton Chandler		June 18 1889	March 3 1901	Republican	Concord	U.S. Senator
								52
								53
								54	19
								55
								56
23	Henry E. Burnham		March 4 1901	March 3 1913	Republican	Manchester	Banker	57	20
								58
								59
								60	21
								61
								62
24	Henry French Hollis		March 13 1913	March 3 1919	Democrat	Concord	Banker	63	22
								64
								65
25	Henry W. Keyes		March 4 1919	January 3 1937	Republican	Haverhill	Governor of New Hampshire	66	23
								67
								68
								69	24
								70
								71
								72	25
								73
								74
26	H. Styles Bridges		January 3 1937	November 26 1961	Republican	Concord	Governor of New Hampshire	75	26
								76
								77
								78	27
								79
								80
								81	28
								82
								83
								84	29
								85
								86
								87	30
27	Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.		January 10 1962	November 6 1962	Republican	Portsmouth	Attorney General of New Hampshire
28	Thomas J. McIntyre		November 7 1962	January 3 1979	Democratic	Laconia	Lawyer
								88
								89
								90	31
								91
								92
								93	32
								94
								95
29	Gordon J. Humphrey		January 3 1979	December 4 1990	Republican	Sunapee/ Chichester	Pilot	96	33
								97
								98
								99	34
								100
								101
30	Robert C. Smith		December 7 1990	January 3 2003	Republican	Tuftonboro	U.S. Representative (N.H.-1)
								102	35
								103
								104
								105	36
								106
								107
31	John E. Sununu		January 3 2003	Incumbent	Republican	Bedford/ Waterville Valley	U.S. Representative (N.H.-1)	108	37
								109
								110

New Hampshire 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	John Langdon		March 4 1789	March 3 1801	Pro-Administration	Portsmouth	Delegate to the Constitutional Convention	1	1
								2
					Anti-Administration			3
					Democratic-Republican			4	2
								5
								6
2	James Sheafe		March 4 1801	June 14 1802	Federalist	Portsmouth	U.S. Representative At-large	7	3
3	William Plumer		June 17 1802	March 3 1807	Federalist	Epping	New Hampshire House of Representatives
								8
								9
4	Nahum Parker		March 4 1807	June 1 1810	Democratic-Republican	Fitzwilliam	New Hampshire House of Representatives	10	4
								11
5	Charles Cutts		June 21 1810	June 10 1813	Democratic-Republican	Portsmouth	Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
								12
								13	5
6	Jeremiah Mason		June 10 1813	June 16 1817	Federalist	Portsmouth	Attorney General of New Hampshire
								14
								15
7	Clement Storer		June 27 1817	March 3 1819	Democratic-Republican	Portsmouth	U.S. Representative At-large
8	John Fabyan Parrott		March 4 1819	March 3 1825	Democratic-Republican	Portsmouth	U.S. Representative At-large	16	6
								17
								18
9	Levi Woodbury		March 16 1825	March 3 1831	Jacksonian	Portsmouth	Governor of New Hampshire	19	7
								20
								21
10	Isaac Hill		March 4 1831	May 30 1836	Jacksonian	Concord	Second Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury	22	8
								23
								24
11	John Page		June 8 1836	March 3 1837	Jacksonian	Haverhill	New Hampshire House of Representatives
12	Franklin Pierce		March 4 1837	February 28 1842	Democratic	Concord	U.S. Representative At-large	25	9
								26
								27
13	Leonard Wilcox		March 1 1842	March 3 1843	Democratic	Orford	Lawyer and Banker
14	Charles G. Atherton		March 4 1843	March 3 1849	Democratic	Nashua	U.S. Representative At-large	28	10
								29
								30
15	Moses Norris, Jr.		March 4 1849	January 11 1855	Democratic	Manchester	Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives	31	11
								32
								33
16	John S. Wells		January 16 1855	March 3 1855	Democratic	Exeter	President of the New Hampshire Senate
Vacant			March 4 1855	July 29 1855				34	12
17	James Bell		July 30 1855	May 26 1857	Republican	Laconia	New Hampshire House of Representatives
								35
18	Daniel Clark		June 27 1857	July 27 1866	Republican	Manchester	New Hampshire House of Representatives
								36
								37	13
								38
								39
19	George G. Fogg		August 31 1866	March 3 1867	Republican	Concord	Minister Resident to Switzerland
20	James W. Patterson		March 4 1867	March 3 1873	Republican	Hanover	U.S. Representative (N.H.-3)	40	14
								41
								42
21	Bainbridge Wadleigh		March 4 1873	March 3 1879	Republican	Milford	New Hampshire House of Representatives	43	15
								44
								45
22	Charles H. Bell		March 18 1879	June 18 1879	Republican	Exeter	President of the New Hampshire Senate	46	16
23	Henry W. Blair		June 20 1879	March 3 1891	Republican	Plymouth/ Manchester	U.S. Representative (N.H.-3)
								47
								48
								49	17
								50
								51
24	Jacob Harold Gallinger		March 4 1891	August 17 1918	Republican	Concord	U.S. Representative (N.H.-2)	52	18
								53
								54
								55	19
								56
								57
								58	20
								59
								60
								61	21
								62
								63
								64	22
								65
25	Irving W. Drew		September 2 1918	November 5 1918	Republican	Lancaster	Businessman
26	George H. Moses		November 6 1918	March 3 1933	Republican	Concord	Minister to Greece and Montenegro
								66
								67	23
								68
								69
								70	24
								71
								72
27	Fred H. Brown		March 4 1933	January 3 1939	Democrat	Somersworth	Governor of New Hampshire	73	25
								74
								75
28	Charles W. Tobey		January 3 1939	July 24 1953	Republican	Temple	U.S. Representative (N.H.-2)	76	26
								77
								78
								79	27
								80
								81
								82	28
								83
29	Robert W. Upton		August 14 1953	November 7 1954	Republican	Concord	Lawyer
30	Norris H. Cotton		November 8 1954	December 31 1974	Republican	Lebanon	U.S. Representative (N.H.-2)
								84
								85	29
								86
								87
								88	30
								89
								90
								91	31
								92
								93
31	Louis C. Wyman		December 31 1974	January 3 1975	Republican	Manchester	U.S. Representative (N.H.-1)
Vacant due to contested election between Louis C. Wyman and John A. Durkin			January 3 1975	August 8 1975				94	32
32	Norris H. Cotton		August 8 1975	September 18 1975	Republican	Lebanon	U.S. Senator
33	John A. Durkin		September 18 1975	December 29 1980	Democratic	Manchester	New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner
								95
								96
34	Warren Rudman		December 29 1980	January 3 1993	Republican	Nashua/ Hollis	Attorney General of New Hampshire
								97	33
								98
								99
								100	34
								101
								102
35	Judd Gregg		January 3 1993	Incumbent	Republican	Greenfield/ Rye	Governor of New Hampshire	103	35
								104
								105
								106	36
								107
								108
								109	37
								110

See also

• US Congressional Delegations from New Hampshire

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