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.
- Benjamin GoodhueMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1796–1800
- Benjamin Smith IIMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1960–1963
- Caleb StrongMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1789–1797
- Charles SumnerMassachusettsLiberal RepublicanSenate Class I1851–1875
- Christopher GoreMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1813–1817
- Daniel WebsterMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1827–1850
- David WalshMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1919–1947
- Dwight FosterMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1800–1803
- Edward Brooke IIIMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1967–1979
- Edward EverettMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1853–1855
- Eli AshmunMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1816–1819
- Elijah MillsMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class I1820–1827
- Frederick GillettMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1925–1931
- George BoutwellMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1873–1877
- George CabotMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1791–1797
- George HoarMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1877–1905
- Harrison OtisMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1817–1823
- Henry DawesMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1893
- Henry LodgeMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1893–1924
- Henry Lodge Jr.MassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1937–1953
- Henry WilsonMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1855–1873
- Isaac BatesMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1841–1845
- James LloydMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class II1808–1826
- John AdamsMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1803–1809
- John DavisMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1835–1853
- John KennedyMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1960
- John KerryMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1985–2013
- John WeeksMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1913–1919
- Jonathan MasonMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1800–1803
- Joseph VarnumMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1811–1817
- Julius RockwellMassachusettsWhigSenate Class II1854–1855
- Leverett SaltonstallMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1945–1967
- Marcus CoolidgeMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1937
- Mo CowanMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II2013–2013
- Nathaniel SilsbeeMassachusettsAdamsSenate Class II1826–1835
- Paul Kirk Jr.MassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I2009–2010
- Paul TsongasMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class II1979–1985
- Prentiss MellenMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class I1818–1821
- Robert Rantoul Jr.MassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1851–1851
- Robert WinthropMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1850–1851
- Rufus ChoateMassachusettsWhigSenate Class I1841–1845
- Samuel DexterMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1799–1801
- Scott BrownMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I2010–2013
- Sinclair WeeksMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1944–1945
- Ted KennedyMassachusettsDemocraticSenate Class I1962–2009
- Theodore SedgwickMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1796–1799
- Timothy PickeringMassachusettsFederalistSenate Class II1803–1811
- Tristram DaltonMassachusettsPro-AdministrationSenate Class I1789–1791
- William ButlerMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1924–1927
- William WashburnMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class I1874–1875
- Winthrop CraneMassachusettsRepublicanSenate Class II1904–1913