U.S. Senate · Historical · Texas
Former U.S. Senators from Texas
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. SenatorAndrew HoustonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles CulbersonTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1899–1923
- Former U.S. SenatorEarle MayfieldTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1923–1929
- Former U.S. SenatorHorace ChiltonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1891–1901
- Former U.S. SenatorJames FlanaganTexasRepublicanSenate Class I1870–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorJames HendersonTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1857–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn HemphillTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1859–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn ReaganTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1891
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn TowerTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1961–1985
- Former U.S. SenatorJoseph BaileyTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1901–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorKay HutchisonTexasRepublicanSenate Class I1993–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorLloyd Bentsen Jr.TexasDemocraticSenate Class I1971–1993
- Former U.S. SenatorLouis WigfallTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1859–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorLyndon JohnsonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1949–1961
- Former U.S. SenatorMarion DanielTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1957
- Former U.S. SenatorMatthias WardTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1858–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorMorgan HamiltonTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1870–1877
- Former U.S. SenatorMorris SheppardTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1941
- Former U.S. SenatorPappy O’DanielTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1949
- Former U.S. SenatorPhil GrammTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1985–2002
- Former U.S. SenatorRalph YarboroughTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1957–1971
- Former U.S. SenatorRichard CokeTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorRienzi JohnstonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1913
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert KruegerTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1993–1993
- Former U.S. SenatorRoger MillsTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1892–1899
- Former U.S. SenatorSamuel HoustonTexasAmericanSenate Class II1846–1859
- Former U.S. SenatorSamuel MaxeyTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1887
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas RuskTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1846–1857
- Former U.S. SenatorTom ConnallyTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1929–1953
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam BlakleyTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1957–1961