List of Confederate States senators

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The Confederate Senate was the upper house of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Its members were, like those of the United States Senate, elected for six year terms by the state legislature of each state, with each state having two senators. The Confederate Senate met only between 1862 and 1865.

In addition to the eleven states that made up the Confederacy, representatives were also seated from Kentucky and Missouri.

Members of the Confederate Senate were divided into classes by lot on February 21, 1862 as follows:

Alabama

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Class 1

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  Clement Claiborne Clay 1862–1864
Richard Wilde Walker 1864–1865

Class 3

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  William Lowndes Yancey 1862–1863
Robert Jemison Jr. 1863–1865

Arkansas

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Class 1

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  Robert Ward Johnson 1862–1865

Class 3

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  Charles Burton Mitchel 1862–1864
  Augustus Hill Garland 1864–1865

Florida

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Class 1

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  James McNair Baker 1862–1865

Class 2

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  Augustus Emmett Maxwell 1862–1865

Georgia

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Class 1

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John Wood Lewis
(Robert Toombs declined)
1862–1863
  Herschel Vespasian Johnson 1863–1865

Class 3

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  Benjamin Harvey Hill 1862–1865

Kentucky

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Class 1

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  William Emmett Simms 1862–1865

Class 3

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  Henry Cornelius Burnett 1862–1865

Louisiana

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Class 2

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  Thomas Jenkins Semmes 1862–1865

Class 3

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  Edward Sparrow 1862–1865

Mississippi

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Class 1

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  James Phelan Sr. 1862–1864
  John William Clark Watson 1864–1865

Class 2

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  Albert Gallatin Brown 1862–1865

Missouri

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Class 1

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  John Bullock Clark 1862–1864
  George Graham Vest 1865–1865

Class 2

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Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton 1862–1863
  Waldo Porter Johnson 1863–1865

North Carolina

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Class 1

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  George Davis 1862–1864
  Edwin Godwin Reade 1864–1864
  William Alexander Graham 1864–1865

Class 2

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  William Theophilus Dortch 1862–1865

South Carolina

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Class 2

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  Robert Woodward Barnwell 1862–1865

Class 3

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  James Lawrence Orr 1862–1865

Tennessee

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Class 2

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  Gustavus Adolphus Henry 1862–1865

Class 3

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  Landon Carter Haynes 1862–1865

Texas

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Class 2

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  Louis Trezevant Wigfall 1862–1865

Class 3

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  Williamson Simpson Oldham 1862–1865

Virginia

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Class 2

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  William Ballard Preston 1862–1862
  Allen Taylor Caperton 1863–1865

Class 3

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  Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter 1862–1865


References

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