Kentucky U.S. Senators (2026)

Former Senators from Kentucky

All 64 former U.S. senators who represented Kentucky, most recent first.

• James Bunning 1999 – 2011
• Wendell Ford 1974 – 1999
• Walter Huddleston 1973 – 1985
• Marlow Cook 1968 – 1974
• John Cooper 1946 – 1973
• Thruston Morton 1957 – 1968
• Earle Clements 1950 – 1957
• Robert Humphreys 1956
• Alben Barkley 1927 – 1956
• Thomas Underwood 1951 – 1952
• Virgil Chapman 1949 – 1951
• Garrett Withers 1949 – 1950
• William Stanfill 1945 – 1946
• Happy Chandler 1939 – 1945
• Marvel Logan 1931 – 1939
• Ben Williamson 1930 – 1931
• John Robsion 1930
• Frederic Sackett 1925 – 1930
• Richard Ernst 1921 – 1927
• Augustus Stanley 1919 – 1925
• John Beckham 1915 – 1921
• George Martin 1918 – 1919
• Ollie James 1913 – 1918
• Johnson Camden, Jr. 1914 – 1915
• William Bradley 1909 – 1914
• Thomas Paynter 1907 – 1913
• James McCreary 1903 – 1909
• Joseph Blackburn 1885 – 1907
• William Deboe 1897 – 1903
• William Lindsay 1893 – 1901
• John Carlisle 1890 – 1893
• James Beck 1877 – 1890
• John Williams 1879 – 1885
• Thoms McCreery 1868 – 1879
• John Stevenson 1871 – 1877
• Willis Machen 1872 – 1873
• Garrett Davis 1861 – 1872
• James Guthrie 1865 – 1868
• Lazarus Powell 1859 – 1865
• John Breckinridge 1861
• John Crittenden 1817 – 1861
• John Thompson 1853 – 1859
• Archibald Dixon 1852 – 1855
• Joseph Underwood 1847 – 1853
• David Meriwether 1852
• Henry Clay 1806 – 1852
• Thomas Metcalfe 1848 – 1849
• James Morehead 1841 – 1847
• George Bibb 1811 – 1835
• John Rowan 1825 – 1831
• Richard Johnson 1819 – 1829
• Isham Talbot 1815 – 1825
• William Logan 1819 – 1820
• Martin Hardin 1816 – 1817
• William Barry 1815 – 1816
• George Walker 1814 – 1815
• Jesse Bledsoe 1813 – 1815
• John Pope 1807 – 1813
• Buckner Thurston 1805 – 1809
• John Adair 1805 – 1806
• John Breckinridge 1801 – 1805
• John Brown 1792 – 1805
• Humphrey Marshall 1795 – 1801
• John Edwards 1792 – 1795