Delaware U.S. Senators (2026)

Former Senators from Delaware

All 50 former U.S. senators who represented Delaware, most recent first.

• Tom Carper 2019 – 2025
• Ted Kaufman 2009 – 2010
• Joe Biden, Jr. 1973 – 2009
• William Roth, Jr. 1971 – 2001
• James Boggs 1961 – 1973
• John Williams 1947 – 1970
• Joseph Frear, Jr. 1949 – 1961
• Clayton Buck 1943 – 1949
• James Tunnell 1941 – 1947
• James Hughes 1937 – 1943
• John Townsend, Jr. 1929 – 1941
• Daniel Hastings 1928 – 1937
• Thomas Bayard, Jr. 1922 – 1929
• Thomas du Pont 1921 – 1928
• Lewis Ball 1903 – 1925
• Josiah Wolcott 1917 – 1921
• Willard Saulsbury, Jr. 1913 – 1919
• Henry du Pont 1906 – 1917
• Harry Richardson 1907 – 1913
• James Allee 1903 – 1907
• Richard Kenney 1897 – 1901
• George Gray 1885 – 1899
• Anthony Higgins 1889 – 1895
• Eli Saulsbury 1871 – 1889
• Thomas Bayard, Sr. 1869 – 1885
• Willard Saulsbury, Sr. 1859 – 1871
• James Bayard, Jr. 1851 – 1869
• George Riddle 1864 – 1867
• Martin Bates 1858 – 1859
• Joseph Comegys 1856 – 1857
• John Clayton 1829 – 1856
• Presley Spruance 1847 – 1853
• John Wales 1849 – 1851
• Thomas Clayton 1824 – 1847
• Richard Bayard 1841 – 1845
• Arnold Naudain 1830 – 1836
• Louis McLane 1827 – 1829
• Henry Ridgely 1827 – 1829
• Daniel Rodney 1826 – 1827
• Nicholas Van Dyke 1817 – 1826
• Caesar Rodney 1822 – 1823
• Outerbridge Horsey 1810 – 1821
• William Wells 1799 – 1817
• James Bayard, Sr. 1804 – 1813
• Samuel White 1801 – 1809
• Henry Latimer 1795 – 1801
• Joshua Clayton 1798
• John Vining 1793 – 1798
• George Read 1789 – 1793
• Richard Bassett 1789 – 1793