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.
- Abraham VenableVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1803–1805
- Absalom RobertsonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1946–1967
- Andrew MooreVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1804–1809
- Armistead MasonVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1816–1817
- Benjamin LeighVirginiaAnti-JacksonianSenate Class II1834–1836
- Carter GlassVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1920–1946
- Charles RobbVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1989–2001
- Claude SwansonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1910–1933
- Eppa HuntonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1892–1895
- George AllenVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I2001–2007
- Harrison RiddlebergerVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1883–1889
- Harry ByrdVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1933–1965
- Harry Byrd Jr.VirginiaIndependentSenate Class I1965–1983
- Henry TazewellVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1794–1799
- Isaac PennybackerVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1845–1847
- James BarbourVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1815–1825
- James MasonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1847–1861
- James MonroeVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class I1790–1794
- James PleasantsVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1819–1823
- Jim WebbVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I2007–2013
- John Barbour Jr.VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1889–1893
- John CarlileVirginiaUnionistSenate Class II1861–1865
- John DanielVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1887–1911
- John EppesVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1817–1819
- John JohnstonVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1870–1883
- John LewisVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1870–1875
- John RandolphVirginiaJacksonSenate Class I1825–1827
- John TaylorVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1792–1824
- John TylerVirginiaSenate Class I1827–1837
- John WalkerVirginiaPro-AdministrationSenate Class I1790–1791
- John WarnerVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1979–2009
- Lemuel BowdenVirginiaUnionistSenate Class I1863–1865
- Littleton TazewellVirginiaJacksonSenate Class II1824–1833
- Paul Trible Jr.VirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1983–1989
- Richard BrentVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1809–1815
- Richard LeeVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class II1789–1793
- Richard ParkerVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1836–1837
- Robert HunterVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1847–1861
- Robert WithersVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class I1875–1881
- Stevens MasonVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1794–1803
- Thomas BurchVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1946–1946
- Thomas MartinVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1895–1919
- William ArcherVirginiaWhigSenate Class II1841–1847
- William GilesVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1804–1815
- William GraysonVirginiaAnti-AdministrationSenate Class I1789–1791
- William MahoneVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class I1881–1887
- William RivesVirginiaWhigSenate Class I1832–1845
- William RoaneVirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1837–1841
- William ScottVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1973–1979
- William Spong Jr.VirginiaDemocraticSenate Class II1966–1973
- Wilson NicholasVirginiaRepublicanSenate Class II1799–1805