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.
- Alpheus FelchMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1847–1853
- Arthur MoodyMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1951–1953
- Arthur VandenbergMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1928–1951
- Augustus PorterMichiganWhigSenate Class I1840–1845
- Carl LevinMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1979–2015
- Charles PotterMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1952–1959
- Charles StuartMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1853–1859
- Charles TownsendMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1911–1923
- Debbie StabenowMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I2001–2025
- Donald Riegle Jr.MichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1977–1995
- Francis StockbridgeMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1887–1895
- Henry BaldwinMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1879–1881
- Homer FergusonMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1943–1955
- Isaac ChristiancyMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1879
- Jacob HowardMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1862–1871
- James CouzensMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1922–1936
- James McMillanMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1889–1903
- John NorvellMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1837–1841
- John Patton Jr.MichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1894–1895
- Julius BurrowsMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1895–1911
- Kinsley BinghamMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1859–1861
- Lewis CassMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1857
- Lucius LyonMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1837–1839
- Omar CongerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1887
- Patrick McNamaraMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1955–1966
- Philip HartMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1959–1977
- Prentiss BrownMichiganDemocraticSenate Class II1936–1943
- Robert GriffinMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1966–1979
- Russell AlgerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1902–1907
- Spencer AbrahamMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1995–2001
- Thomas FerryMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1871–1883
- Thomas FitzgeraldMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1848–1849
- Thomas PalmerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1889
- Truman NewberryMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1919–1922
- William SmithMichiganRepublicanSenate Class II1907–1919
- William WoodbridgeMichiganWhigSenate Class II1841–1847
- Woodbridge FerrisMichiganDemocraticSenate Class I1923–1928
- Zachariah ChandlerMichiganRepublicanSenate Class I1857–1879