Nebraska U.S. Senators (2026)
NE · U.S. Senate Delegation
Joined the Union
March 1, 1867
Population (Est.)
1,978,379
Current U.S. Senators
Delegation Voting Summary
119th CongressAgreement Rate
99.7%
Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer voted the same way on 871 of 874 shared votes
Both are Republicans
Pete Ricketts
Senior Senator
Party Unity
99.5%
Missed Votes
1.0%
881 votes cast of 890 roll calls
Deb Fischer
Junior Senator
Party Unity
99.2%
Missed Votes
1.0%
881 votes cast of 890 roll calls
Former Senators from Nebraska
All 37 former U.S. senators who represented Nebraska, most recent first.
- Ben Sasse 2015 – 2023
- Mike Johanns 2009 – 2015
- Ben Nelson 2001 – 2013
- Chuck Hagel 1997 – 2009
- J. Kerrey 1989 – 2001
- J. Exon 1979 – 1997
- David Karnes 1987 – 1989
- Edward Zorinsky 1976 – 1987
- Carl Curtis 1955 – 1979
- Roman Hruska 1954 – 1976
- Hazel Abel 1954
- Eva Bowring 1954
- Samuel Reynolds 1954
- Hugh Butler 1941 – 1954
- Dwight Griswold 1952 – 1954
- Frederick Seaton 1951 – 1952
- Kenneth Wherry 1943 – 1951
- George Norris 1913 – 1943
- Edward Burke 1935 – 1941
- Richard Hunter 1934 – 1935
- William Thompson 1933 – 1934
- Robert Howell 1923 – 1933
- Gilbert Hitchcock 1911 – 1923
- Norris Brown 1907 – 1913
- Elmer Burkett 1905 – 1911
- Joseph Millard 1901 – 1907
- Charles Dietrich 1901 – 1905
- William Allen 1893 – 1901
- John Thurston 1895 – 1901
- Monroe Hayward 1899
- Charles Manderson 1883 – 1895
- Algernon Paddock 1875 – 1893
- Charles Van Wyck 1881 – 1887
- Alvin Saunders 1877 – 1883
- Phineas Hitchcock 1871 – 1877
- Thomas Tipton 1867 – 1875
- John Thayer 1867 – 1871