U.S. Senate · Historical · Nebraska
Former U.S. Senators from Nebraska
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.
- Algernon PaddockNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1875–1893
- Alvin SaundersNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1877–1883
- Ben NelsonNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I2001–2013
- Ben SasseNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II2015–2023
- Carl CurtisNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1955–1979
- Charles DietrichNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1901–1905
- Charles MandersonNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1895
- Charles Van WyckNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1887
- Chuck HagelNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1997–2009
- David KarnesNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1987–1989
- Dwight GriswoldNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1952–1955
- Edward BurkeNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1935–1941
- Edward ZorinskyNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1976–1987
- Elmer BurkettNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1905–1911
- Eva BowringNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1954–1955
- Frederick SeatonNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1951–1953
- George NorrisNebraskaIndependentSenate Class II1913–1943
- Gilbert HitchcockNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1911–1923
- Hazel AbelNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1954–1955
- Hugh ButlerNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1941–1954
- J. ExonNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class II1979–1997
- J. KerreyNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1989–2001
- John ThayerNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1867–1871
- John ThurstonNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1895–1901
- Joseph MillardNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1901–1907
- Kenneth WherryNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1943–1951
- Mike JohannsNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II2009–2015
- Monroe HaywardNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1899–1899
- Norris BrownNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1907–1913
- Phineas HitchcockNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class II1871–1877
- Richard HunterNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1934–1935
- Robert HowellNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1923–1933
- Roman HruskaNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1954–1976
- Samuel ReynoldsNebraskaRepublicanSenate Class I1954–1955
- Thomas TiptonNebraskaLiberal RepublicanSenate Class I1867–1875
- William AllenNebraskaPopulistSenate Class I1893–1901
- William ThompsonNebraskaDemocraticSenate Class I1933–1935