South Carolina U.S. Senators (2026)
SC · U.S. Senate Delegation
Joined the Union
May 23, 1788
Population (Est.)
5,373,555
Current U.S. Senators
Delegation Voting Summary
119th CongressAgreement Rate
100.0%
Tim Scott and Darline Graham Nordone voted the same way on 15 of 15 shared votes
Both are Republicans
Tim Scott
Senior Senator
Party Unity
99.8%
Missed Votes
3.0%
863 votes cast of 890 roll calls
Darline Graham Nordone
Junior Senator
Party Unity
100.0%
Missed Votes
22.7%
15 votes cast of 22 roll calls
Former Senators from South Carolina
All 55 former U.S. senators who represented South Carolina, most recent first.
- Lindsey Graham 2003 – 2026
- James DeMint 2005 – 2013
- Fritz Hollings 1966 – 2005
- Strom Thurmond 1954 – 2003
- Donald Russell 1965 – 1966
- Olin Johnston 1945 – 1965
- Thomas Wofford 1956
- Charles Daniel 1954
- Burnet Maybank 1941 – 1954
- Wilton Hall 1944 – 1945
- Ellison Smith 1909 – 1944
- Roger Peace 1941
- Alva Lumpkin 1941
- James Byrnes 1931 – 1941
- Coleman Blease 1925 – 1931
- Nathaniel Dial 1919 – 1925
- William Pollock 1918 – 1919
- Christie Benet 1918
- Benjamin Tillman 1895 – 1918
- Frank Gary 1908 – 1909
- Asbury Latimer 1903 – 1908
- John McLaurin 1897 – 1903
- Joseph Earle 1897
- John Irby 1891 – 1897
- Matthew Butler 1877 – 1895
- Wade Hampton 1879 – 1891
- John Patterson 1873 – 1879
- Thomas Robertson 1868 – 1877
- Frederick Sawyer 1868 – 1873
- James Hammond 1857 – 1860
- James Chesnut, Jr. 1858 – 1860
- Arthur Hayne 1858
- Josiah Evans 1853 – 1858
- Andrew Butler 1846 – 1857
- William De Saussure 1852 – 1853
- Robert Rhett 1850 – 1852
- Robert Barnwell 1850
- Franklin Elmore 1850
- John Calhoun 1832 – 1850
- George McDuffie 1842 – 1846
- Daniel Huger 1843 – 1845
- William Preston 1833 – 1842
- Stephen Miller 1831 – 1833
- Robert Hayne 1823 – 1832
- William Smith 1816 – 1831
- William Harper 1826
- John Gaillard 1804 – 1826
- John Taylor 1810 – 1816
- Thomas Sumter 1801 – 1810
- Pierce Butler 1789 – 1804
- John Colhoun 1801 – 1802
- Jacob Read 1795 – 1801
- Charles Pinckney 1798 – 1801
- John Hunter 1796 – 1798
- Ralph Izard 1789 – 1795