U.S. Senate · Historical · Connecticut
Former U.S. Senators from Connecticut
Individuals who have served in the United States Senate and have since left office, grouped by the state they represented. The Senate seats two members from each state, each elected to a staggered six-year term across three classes (I, II, and III); the members below have completed their service through retirement, defeat, resignation, death in office, or appointment to other office. Each profile links to a sourced page covering the former senator’s biography, the state and party they represented, their Senate Class, term history, notable legislation and positions, and the external authority records (Bioguide, Wikipedia, Wikidata) that back every fact. Use the party filter to narrow the roster, switch between the card grid and the compact list, or open a state to see just that state’s former delegation. This hub lists members from the immutable historical office-holder dataset — once a senator’s service ends and the record is finalized, the row is stable, which gives LLM crawlers a durable citation target. Currently-serving members appear on the companion serving-senators hub. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.
- Abraham RibicoffConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1963–1981
- Augustine LonerganConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1933–1939
- Brien McMahonConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1945–1953
- Calvin WilleyConnecticutAdamsSenate Class III1825–1831
- Chauncey GoodrichConnecticutFederalistSenate Class III1807–1813
- Christopher DoddConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1981–2011
- David DaggettConnecticutFederalistSenate Class III1813–1819
- Elijah BoardmanConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1821–1823
- Francis GilletteConnecticutFree SoilSenate Class III1854–1855
- Francis MaloneyConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class I1935–1945
- Frank BrandegeeConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1905–1924
- Frederic WalcottConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1929–1935
- George McLeanConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1911–1929
- Gideon TomlinsonConnecticutAnti-JacksonianSenate Class III1831–1837
- Henry EdwardsConnecticutJacksonSenate Class I1823–1827
- Hiram BinghamConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1925–1933
- Isaac TouceyConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class I1852–1857
- Jabez HuntingtonConnecticutWhigSenate Class I1840–1847
- James DixonConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1857–1869
- James EnglishConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1875–1877
- James HillhouseConnecticutFederalistSenate Class I1796–1810
- James LanmanConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1819–1825
- John DanaherConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1939–1945
- John NilesConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1835–1849
- Jonathan Trumbull Jr.ConnecticutFederalistSenate Class III1795–1797
- Joseph HawleyConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1905
- Joseph LiebermanConnecticutIndependentSenate Class I1989–2013
- Lafayette FosterConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1855–1867
- Lowell Weicker Jr.ConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1971–1989
- Morgan BulkeleyConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1905–1911
- Nathan SmithConnecticutAnti-JacksonianSenate Class I1833–1835
- Oliver EllsworthConnecticutFederalistSenate Class I1789–1797
- Orris FerryConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1867–1875
- Orville PlattConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1879–1905
- Perry SmithConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1837–1843
- Prescott BushConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class III1952–1963
- Raymond BaldwinConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1946–1949
- Roger BaldwinConnecticutWhigSenate Class I1847–1851
- Roger ShermanConnecticutPro-AdministrationSenate Class III1791–1793
- Samuel DanaConnecticutFederalistSenate Class I1810–1821
- Samuel FootConnecticutAdamsSenate Class I1827–1833
- Stephen MitchellConnecticutPro-AdministrationSenate Class III1793–1795
- Thaddeus BettsConnecticutWhigSenate Class I1839–1841
- Thomas DoddConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class I1959–1971
- Thomas HartConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1945–1947
- Truman SmithConnecticutWhigSenate Class III1849–1855
- Uriah TracyConnecticutFederalistSenate Class III1796–1807
- William BarnumConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class III1876–1879
- William BentonConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class I1949–1953
- William BuckinghamConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1869–1875
- William EatonConnecticutDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1881
- William JohnsonConnecticutPro-AdministrationSenate Class III1789–1791
- William PurtellConnecticutRepublicanSenate Class I1952–1959