Rank | Senator (party-state) | Seniority date | Other factors |
1 | George F. Edmunds (R-VT) | April 3, 1866 | |
2 | Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT) | March 4, 1867 | |
3 | Matt W. Ransom (D-NC) | January 30, 1872 | |
4 | William B. Allison (R-IA) | March 4, 1873 | Former representative |
5 | John P. Jones (R-NV) | |
6 | Francis Cockrell (D-MO) | March 4, 1875 | |
7 | Henry L. Dawes (R-MA) | |
8 | George F. Hoar (R-MA) | March 4, 1877 | Former representative |
9 | Isham G. Harris (D-TN) | Former governor |
10 | John Tyler Morgan (D-AL) | |
11 | John R. McPherson (D-NJ) | |
12 | Matthew Butler (D-SC) | |
13 | Richard Coke (D-TX) | |
14 | Preston B. Plumb (R-KS) | |
15 | J. Donald Cameron (R-PA) | March 20, 1877 | |
16 | Daniel W. Voorhees (D-IN) | November 6, 1877 | |
17 | George G. Vest (D-MO) | March 4, 1879 | Missouri 5th in population (1870) |
18 | Orville H. Platt (R-CT) | Connecticut 25th in population (1870) |
19 | Wilkinson Call (D-FL) | Florida 33rd in population (1870) |
20 | Zebulon Baird Vance (D-NC) | |
21 | James L. Pugh (D-AL) | November 24, 1880 | |
22 | John Sherman (R-OH) | March 4, 1881 | Previously a senator |
23 | Eugene Hale (R-ME) | Former representative (10 years) |
24 | Joseph Hawley (R-CT) | Former representative (5 years) |
25 | James Z. George (D-MS) | Mississippi 18th in population (1870) |
26 | Arthur P. Gorman (D-MD) | Maryland 20th in population (1870) |
27 | Philetus Sawyer (R-WI) | |
28 | William P. Frye (R-ME) | March 18, 1881 | |
29 | Nelson Aldrich (R-RI) | October 5, 1881 | |
30 | Alfred H. Colquitt (D-GA) | March 4, 1883 | |
31 | Shelby Moore Cullom (R-IL) | Former governor |
32 | James F. Wilson (R-IA) | |
33 | Charles F. Manderson (R-NE) | |
34 | Joseph N. Dolph (R-OR) | |
35 | Randall L. Gibson (D-LA) | |
36 | John E. Kenna (D-WV) | |
37 | Henry M. Teller (R-CO) | March 4, 1885 | Previously a senator |
38 | Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D-KY) | Former representative |
39 | James K. Jones (D-AR) | |
40 | Leland Stanford (R-CA) | Former governor |
41 | Edward C. Walthall (D-MS) | March 9, 1885 | |
42 | George Gray (D-DE) | March 18, 1885 | |
43 | James H. Berry (D-AR) | March 20, 1885 | |
44 | John H. Mitchell (R-OR) | November 18, 1885 | Previously a senator |
45 | William M. Stewart (R-NV) | March 4, 1887 | Previously a senator (11 years) |
46 | David Turpie (D-IN) | Previously a senator (1 month) |
47 | John W. Daniel (D-VA) | Former representative |
48 | Francis B. Stockbridge (R-MI) | |
49 | William B. Bate (D-TN) | Former governor, Tennessee 12th in population (1880) |
50 | Cushman Davis (R-MN) | Former governor, Minnesota 26th in population (1880) |
51 | Matthew Quay (R-PA) | Pennsylvania 2nd in population (1880) |
52 | Charles J. Faulkner (D-WV) | West Virginia 29th in population (1880) |
53 | Algernon Paddock (R-NE) | |
54 | Rufus Blodgett (R-NJ) | |
55 | Frank Hiscock (R-NY) | |
56 | John Henninger Reagan (D-TX) | |
57 | Samuel Pasco (D-FL) | May 19, 1887 | |
58 | James McMillan (R-MI) | March 4, 1889 | |
59 | Edward O. Wolcott (R-CO) | |
60 | Anthony C. Higgins (R-DE) | |
61 | William D. Washburn (R-MN) | |
62 | John S. Barbour, Jr. (D-VA) | |
63 | Nathan F. Dixon III (R-RI) | April 10, 1889 | |
64 | William E. Chandler (R-NH) | June 18, 1889 | |
65 | Richard F. Pettigrew (R-SD) | November 2, 1889 | |
66 | Watson C. Squire (R-WA) | November 20, 1889 | |
67 | John Beard Allen (R-WA) | |
68 | Lyman R. Casey (R-ND) | November 25, 1889 | |
69 | Wilbur F. Sanders (R-MT) | January 1, 1890 | |
70 | Thomas C. Power (R-MT) | January 2, 1890 | |
71 | John G. Carlisle (D-KS) | May 26, 1890 | |
72 | Joseph M. Carey (R-WY) | November 15, 1890 | |
73 | Francis E. Warren (R-WY) | November 24, 1890 | |
74 | George L. Shoup (R-ID) | December 18, 1890 | |
75 | John Brown Gordon (R-GA) | March 4, 1891 | Previously a senator |
76 | Jacob H. Gallinger (R-NH) | Former representative (4 years) |
77 | Henry C. Hansbrough (R-ND) | Former representative (2 years) |
78 | Fred Dubois (R-ID) | Former delegate |
79 | William F. Vilas (D-WI) | Former cabinet member |
80 | John M. Palmer (D-IL) | Former governor |
81 | Calvin S. Brice (D-OH) | Ohio 3rd in population (1880) |
82 | William A. Peffer (PP-KS) | Kansas 20th in population (1880) |
83 | John Irby (D-SC) | South Carolina 21st in population (1880) |
84 | James H. Kyle (R-SD) | South Dakota 37th in population (1880) |
85 | Edward D. White (D-LA) | |
| Charles N. Felton (R-CA) | March 19, 1891 | |
| Horace Chilton (D-TX) | June 10, 1891 | |
| Bishop W. Perkins (R-KS) | January 1, 1892 | |
| David B. Hill (D-NY) | January 7, 1892 | |
| Roger Q. Mills (D-TX) | March 23, 1892 | |
| Eppa Hunton (D-VA) | May 28, 1892 | |
| Donelson Caffery (D-LA) | December 31, 1892 | |
| Johnson N. Camden (D-WV) | January 25, 1893 | Previously a senator |
| William Lindsay (D-KY) | February 15, 1893 | |