U.S. Senate · Historical · Virginia
Former U.S. Senators from Virginia
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. SenatorAbraham VenableVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1803–1805
- Former U.S. SenatorAbsalom RobertsonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1946–1967
- Former U.S. SenatorAndrew MooreVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1804–1809
- Former U.S. SenatorArmistead MasonVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1816–1817
- Former U.S. SenatorBenjamin LeighVirginiaAnti-JacksonianSenate Class II1834–1836
- Former U.S. SenatorCarter GlassVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1920–1946
- Former U.S. SenatorCharles RobbVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1989–2001
- Former U.S. SenatorClaude SwansonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1910–1933
- Former U.S. SenatorEppa HuntonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1892–1895
- Former U.S. SenatorGeorge AllenVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I2001–2007
- Former U.S. SenatorHarrison RiddlebergerVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1889
- Former U.S. SenatorHarry ByrdVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1933–1965
- Former U.S. SenatorHarry Byrd Jr.VirginiaIndependentSenate Class I1965–1983
- Former U.S. SenatorHenry TazewellVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1794–1799
- Former U.S. SenatorIsaac PennybackerVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1847
- Former U.S. SenatorJames BarbourVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1815–1825
- Former U.S. SenatorJames MasonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1847–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorJames MonroeVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class I1790–1794
- Former U.S. SenatorJames PleasantsVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1819–1823
- Former U.S. SenatorJim WebbVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I2007–2013
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn Barbour Jr.VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1889–1893
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn CarlileVirginiaUnionistSenate Class II1861–1865
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn DanielVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1911
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn EppesVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1817–1819
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn JohnstonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1870–1883
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn LewisVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1870–1875
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn RandolphVirginiaJacksonSenate Class I1825–1827
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn TaylorVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1792–1824
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn TylerVirginiaSenate Class I1827–1837
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn WalkerVirginiaPro-AdministrationSenate Class I1790–1791
- Former U.S. SenatorJohn WarnerVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1979–2009
- Former U.S. SenatorLemuel BowdenVirginiaUnionistSenate Class I1863–1865
- Former U.S. SenatorLittleton TazewellVirginiaJacksonSenate Class II1824–1833
- Former U.S. SenatorPaul Trible Jr.VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1983–1989
- Former U.S. SenatorRichard BrentVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1809–1815
- Former U.S. SenatorRichard LeeVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class II1789–1793
- Former U.S. SenatorRichard ParkerVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1836–1837
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert HunterVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1847–1861
- Former U.S. SenatorRobert WithersVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1881
- Former U.S. SenatorStevens MasonVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1794–1803
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas BurchVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1946–1946
- Former U.S. SenatorThomas MartinVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1895–1919
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam ArcherVirginiaWhigSenate Class II1841–1847
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam GilesVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1804–1815
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam GraysonVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class I1789–1791
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam MahoneVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1887
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam RivesVirginiaWhigSenate Class I1832–1845
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam RoaneVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1837–1841
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam ScottVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1973–1979
- Former U.S. SenatorWilliam Spong Jr.VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1966–1973
- Former U.S. SenatorWilson NicholasVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1799–1805