U.S. Senate · Historical · Massachusetts
Former U.S. Senators from Massachusetts
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.
- Former U.S. SenatorBenjamin GoodhueMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1796–1800
- Former U.S. SenatorBenjamin Smith IIMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1960–1963
- Former U.S. SenatorCaleb StrongMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1789–1797
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles SumnerMassachusettsLiberal RepublicanSenate Class I1851–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorChristopher GoreMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1813–1817
- Former U.S. SenatorDaniel WebsterMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1827–1850
- Former U.S. SenatorDavid WalshMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1919–1947
- Former U.S. SenatorDwight FosterMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1800–1803
- Former U.S. SenatorEdward Brooke IIIMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1967–1979
- Former U.S. SenatorEdward EverettMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1853–1855
- Former U.S. SenatorEli AshmunMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1816–1819
- Former U.S. SenatorElijah MillsMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class I1820–1827
- Former U.S. SenatorFrederick GillettMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1925–1931
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge BoutwellMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1873–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge CabotMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1791–1797
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge HoarMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1877–1905
- Former U.S. SenatorHarrison OtisMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1817–1823
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry DawesMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1893
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry LodgeMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1893–1924
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry Lodge Jr.MassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1937–1953
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry WilsonMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1855–1873
- Former U.S. SenatorIsaac BatesMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1841–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorJames LloydMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class II1808–1826
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn AdamsMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1803–1809
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn DavisMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1835–1853
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn KennedyMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1960
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn KerryMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1985–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn WeeksMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1913–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorJonathan MasonMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1800–1803
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph VarnumMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1811–1817
- Former U.S. SenatorJulius RockwellMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1854–1855
- Former U.S. SenatorLeverett SaltonstallMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1945–1967
- Former U.S. SenatorMarcus CoolidgeMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1937
- Former U.S. SenatorMo CowanMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II2013–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorNathaniel SilsbeeMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class II1826–1835
- Former U.S. SenatorPaul Kirk Jr.MassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I2009–2010
- Former U.S. SenatorPaul TsongasMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1979–1985
- Former U.S. SenatorPrentiss MellenMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1818–1821
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert Rantoul Jr.MassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1851–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert WinthropMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1850–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorRufus ChoateMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1841–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorSamuel DexterMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1799–1801
- Former U.S. SenatorScott BrownMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I2010–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorSinclair WeeksMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1944–1945
- Former U.S. SenatorTed KennedyMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1962–2009
- Former U.S. SenatorTheodore SedgwickMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1796–1799
- Former U.S. SenatorTimothy PickeringMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1803–1811
- Former U.S. SenatorTristram DaltonMassachusettsPro-AdministrationSenate Class I1789–1791
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam ButlerMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1924–1927
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam WashburnMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1874–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorWinthrop CraneMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1904–1913