U.S. Senate · Historical · South Carolina
Former U.S. Senators from South Carolina
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. SenatorAlva LumpkinSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorAndrew ButlerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1846–1857
- Former U.S. SenatorArthur HayneSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1858–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorAsbury LatimerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1903–1909
- Former U.S. SenatorBenjamin TillmanSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1895–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorBurnet MaybankSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1955
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles DanielSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1954–1955
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles PinckneySouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1798–1801
- Former U.S. SenatorChristie BenetSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1918–1918
- Former U.S. SenatorColeman BleaseSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1925–1931
- Former U.S. SenatorDaniel HugerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1843–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorDonald RussellSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1965–1967
- Former U.S. SenatorEllison SmithSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1909–1945
- Former U.S. SenatorFrank GarySouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1908–1909
- Former U.S. SenatorFranklin ElmoreSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorFrederick SawyerSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1868–1873
- Former U.S. SenatorFritz HollingsSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1966–2005
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge McDuffieSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1842–1846
- Former U.S. SenatorJ. ThurmondSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1954–2003
- Former U.S. SenatorJacob ReadSouth CarolinaFederalistSenate Class III1795–1801
- Former U.S. SenatorJames ByrnesSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorJames Chesnut Jr.South CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1858–1860
- Former U.S. SenatorJames HammondSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1857–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorJim DeMintSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III2005–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn CalhounSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1832–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn ColhounSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1801–1803
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn GaillardSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1804–1827
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn HunterSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1799
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn IrbySouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1891–1897
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn McLaurinSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1897–1903
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn PattersonSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1873–1879
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn TaylorSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1810–1816
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph EarleSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1897–1897
- Former U.S. SenatorJosiah EvansSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1853–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorMatthew ButlerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorNathaniel DialSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1919–1925
- Former U.S. SenatorOlin JohnstonSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1945–1965
- Former U.S. SenatorPierce ButlerSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1789–1805
- Former U.S. SenatorRalph IzardSouth CarolinaPro-AdministrationSenate Class III1789–1795
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert BarnwellSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1851
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert HayneSouth CarolinaNullifierSenate Class II1823–1833
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert RhettSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1853
- Former U.S. SenatorRoger PeaceSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorStephen MillerSouth CarolinaNullifierSenate Class III1831–1833
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas RobertsonSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1868–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas SumterSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1801–1810
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas WoffordSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1956–1957
- Former U.S. SenatorWade HamptonSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1879–1891
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam De SaussureSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1852–1853
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam HarperSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1826–1827
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam PollockSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1918–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam PrestonSouth CarolinaWhigSenate Class III1833–1843
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam SmithSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1816–1831
- Former U.S. SenatorWilton HallSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1944–1945