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List of United States Senators from Texas

Texas was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861 owing to its purported secession from the Union. They were again filled from March 1870.

Rusk Succession

Senator	Party	From	To
Thomas J. Rusk	Democrat	1846	1857
James P. Henderson	Democrat	1857	1858
Matthias Ward	Democrat	1858	1859
Louis T. Wigfall	Democrat	1859	1861
Vacant		1861	1870
James W. Flanagan	Republican	1870	1875
Samuel B. Maxey	Democrat	1875	1887
John Henninger Reagan	Democrat	1887	1891
Horace Chilton	Democrat	1891	1892
Roger Q. Mills	Democrat	1892	1899
Charles A. Culberson	Democrat	1899	1923
Earle B. Mayfield	Democrat	1923	1929
Tom Connally	Democrat	1929	1953
Price Daniel	Democrat	1953	1957
William A. Blakley	Democrat	1957
Ralph Yarborough	Democrat	1957	1971
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.	Democrat	1971	1993
Bob Krueger	Democrat	1993	1993
Kay Bailey Hutchison	Republican	1993

Houston Succession

Senator	Party	From	To
Sam Houston	Democrat	1846	1859
John Hemphill	Democrat	1859	1861
Vacant		1861	1870
Morgan C. Hamilton	Republican	1870	1877
Richard Coke	Democrat	1877	1895
Horace Chilton	Democrat	1895	1901
Joseph W. Bailey	Democrat	1901	1913
Rienzi M. Johnston	Democrat	1913
John M. Sheppard	Democrat	1913	1941
Andrew J. Houston	Democrat	1941	1941
W. Lee O'Daniel	Democrat	1941	1949
Lyndon B. Johnson	Democrat	1949	1961
William A. Blakley	Democrat	1961
John G. Tower	Republican	1961	1985
Phil Gramm	Republican	1985	2002
John Cornyn	Republican	2002

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