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.
- Alva LumpkinSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Andrew ButlerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1846–1857
- Arthur HayneSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1858–1859
- Asbury LatimerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1903–1909
- Benjamin TillmanSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1895–1919
- Burnet MaybankSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1955
- Charles DanielSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1954–1955
- Charles PinckneySouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1798–1801
- Christie BenetSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1918–1918
- Coleman BleaseSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1925–1931
- Daniel HugerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1843–1845
- Donald RussellSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1965–1967
- Ellison SmithSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1909–1945
- Frank GarySouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1908–1909
- Franklin ElmoreSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1851
- Frederick SawyerSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1868–1873
- Fritz HollingsSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1966–2005
- George McDuffieSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1842–1846
- J. ThurmondSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1954–2003
- Jacob ReadSouth CarolinaFederalistSenate Class III1795–1801
- James ByrnesSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1931–1941
- James Chesnut Jr.South CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1858–1860
- James HammondSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1857–1861
- Jim DeMintSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III2005–2013
- John CalhounSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1832–1851
- John ColhounSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1801–1803
- John GaillardSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1804–1827
- John HunterSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1796–1799
- John IrbySouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1891–1897
- John McLaurinSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1897–1903
- John PattersonSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1873–1879
- John TaylorSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1810–1816
- Joseph EarleSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1897–1897
- Josiah EvansSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1853–1859
- Matthew ButlerSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1895
- Nathaniel DialSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1919–1925
- Olin JohnstonSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1945–1965
- Pierce ButlerSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class III1789–1805
- Ralph IzardSouth CarolinaPro-AdministrationSenate Class III1789–1795
- Robert BarnwellSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1851
- Robert HayneSouth CarolinaNullifierSenate Class II1823–1833
- Robert RhettSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1850–1853
- Roger PeaceSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Stephen MillerSouth CarolinaNullifierSenate Class III1831–1833
- Thomas RobertsonSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1868–1877
- Thomas SumterSouth CarolinaRepublicanSenate Class II1801–1810
- Thomas WoffordSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1956–1957
- Wade HamptonSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1879–1891
- William De SaussureSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1852–1853
- William HarperSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1826–1827
- William PollockSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class II1918–1919
- William PrestonSouth CarolinaWhigSenate Class III1833–1843
- William SmithSouth CarolinaJacksonSenate Class III1816–1831
- Wilton HallSouth CarolinaDemocraticSenate Class III1944–1945