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List of United States senators from Vermont

List of United States senators from Vermont

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Vermont was admitted to the Union on March 4, 1791. From the 1850s until well into the 20th century, Vermont was always represented by members of the Republican Party. Democrat Patrick Leahy (served 1975–2023) was the longest serving US senator. Its current members of the United States Senate are Independent Bernie Sanders (since 2007) and Democrat Peter Welch (since 2023). Both senators served in the United States House of Representatives immediately prior, where they represented Vermont's only House district.

Current delegation
Bernie Sanders (I)
Peter Welch (D)

List of senators

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Notes

  1. Samuel S. Phelps was appointed by the governor during a recess of the state legislature, and the legislature later convened and adjourned a session without electing a senator to replace fill the vacancy. The Senate ruled that Phelps had lost his entitlement to sit when the legislature adjourned.[8]
  2. Although Bernie Sanders ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he has not joined the Democratic Party on his own Senate webpages.[11]

References

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    "Vermont 1808 U.S. Senate". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved February 18, 2018., citing Weekly Wanderer (Randolph, VT). Nov 7, 1808.
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    "Vermont 1812 U.S. Senate". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved February 23, 2018., citing Columbian Phenix: or, Providence Patriot (Providence, RI). Oct 31, 1812.
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    "Tuesday, Oct 25th: Senator". Vermont Watchman. Montpelier, VT. October 27, 1814. p. 3.
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    "Election results, Vermont 1820 U.S. Senate". A New Nation Votes: American Election returns 1787-1825. Medford, MA: Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
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    "U.S. senator: Samuel Prentiss, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, has been elected a senator to Congress from the state of Vermont, for a term of six years from the fourth of Mar next, in the place of the Hon. Dudley Chase, the present senator, who declined a re-election". Maryland Gazette. Annapolis, MD. November 4, 1830. p. 3.
  6. [6]
    Byrd, p. 176.
  7. [7]
    "Vermont Election of U.S. senator". New-York Daily Tribune. New York, NY. October 21, 1850. p. 4. The ballot stood as follows: Whole number 220; Necessary to a choice 111; Foot 114, Linsley 61, Shafter 18, Smalley 14, Phelps 7, Follett 3, Royce 2, Daniel Roberts, jr 1
  8. [8]
    Currie, David P. (May 10, 2005). The Constitution in Congress. ISBN 9780226129006.
  9. [9]
    "Senator Dillingham Re-elected". The New York Times. October 15, 1902. p. 9.
  10. [10]
    Byrd, p. 175.
  11. [11]
    "Home". sanders.senate.gov.

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