U.S. Senate · Historical · Michigan
Former U.S. Senators from Michigan
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. SenatorAlpheus FelchMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1847–1853
- Former U.S. SenatorArthur MoodyMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1951–1953
- Former U.S. SenatorArthur VandenbergMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1928–1951
- Former U.S. SenatorAugustus PorterMichiganWhigSenate Class I1840–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorCarl LevinMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1979–2015
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles PotterMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1952–1959
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles StuartMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1853–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles TownsendMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1911–1923
- Former U.S. SenatorDebbie StabenowMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I2001–2025
- Former U.S. SenatorDonald Riegle Jr.MichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1977–1995
- Former U.S. SenatorFrancis StockbridgeMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1887–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry BaldwinMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1879–1881
- Former U.S. SenatorHomer FergusonMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1943–1955
- Former U.S. SenatorIsaac ChristiancyMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1879
- Former U.S. SenatorJacob HowardMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1862–1871
- Former U.S. SenatorJames CouzensMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1922–1936
- Former U.S. SenatorJames McMillanMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1889–1903
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn NorvellMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1837–1841
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn Patton Jr.MichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1894–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorJulius BurrowsMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1895–1911
- Former U.S. SenatorKinsley BinghamMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1859–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorLewis CassMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1857
- Former U.S. SenatorLucius LyonMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1837–1839
- Former U.S. SenatorOmar CongerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1887
- Former U.S. SenatorPatrick McNamaraMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1955–1966
- Former U.S. SenatorPhilip HartMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1959–1977
- Former U.S. SenatorPrentiss BrownMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1936–1943
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert GriffinMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1966–1979
- Former U.S. SenatorRussell AlgerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1902–1907
- Former U.S. SenatorSpencer AbrahamMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1995–2001
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas FerryMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1871–1883
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas FitzgeraldMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1848–1849
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas PalmerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1889
- Former U.S. SenatorTruman NewberryMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1919–1922
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam SmithMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1907–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam WoodbridgeMichiganWhigSenate Class II1841–1847
- Former U.S. SenatorWoodbridge FerrisMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1923–1928
- Former U.S. SenatorZachariah ChandlerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1857–1879