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.
- Andrew HoustonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1941
- Charles CulbersonTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1899–1923
- Earle MayfieldTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1923–1929
- Horace ChiltonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1891–1901
- James FlanaganTexasRepublicanSenate Class I1870–1875
- James HendersonTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1857–1859
- John HemphillTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1859–1861
- John ReaganTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1891
- John TowerTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1961–1985
- Joseph BaileyTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1901–1913
- Kay HutchisonTexasRepublicanSenate Class I1993–2013
- Lloyd Bentsen Jr.TexasDemocraticSenate Class I1971–1993
- Louis WigfallTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1859–1861
- Lyndon JohnsonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1949–1961
- Marion DanielTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1953–1957
- Matthias WardTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1858–1859
- Morgan HamiltonTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1870–1877
- Morris SheppardTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1941
- Pappy O’DanielTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1941–1949
- Phil GrammTexasRepublicanSenate Class II1985–2002
- Ralph YarboroughTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1957–1971
- Richard CokeTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1877–1895
- Rienzi JohnstonTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1913–1913
- Robert KruegerTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1993–1993
- Roger MillsTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1892–1899
- Samuel HoustonTexasAmericanSenate Class II1846–1859
- Samuel MaxeyTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1887
- Thomas RuskTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1846–1857
- Tom ConnallyTexasDemocraticSenate Class I1929–1953
- William BlakleyTexasDemocraticSenate Class II1957–1961