Michigan Senators
Warren Austin, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, and
George C. Marshall at the United Nations Conference,
1945, from the Vandenberg papers
The following is a list of all the persons who have represented Michigan in the United States Senate. The Bentley holds a collection of papers for each of the senators whose name is preceded by an asterisk. For several of the nineteenth-century senators the collections are very small, and may have no relationship to senatorial activities. Almost all of the senators named are represented in other manuscript collections and/or printed materials in the Bentley Historical Library. Information about these other materials may be found in the MIRLYN database using the senator's name.
| Name | Dates in Office |
|---|---|
| *Lyon, Lucius | 1836-1840 |
| Norvell, John | 1836-1841 |
| Porter, Augustus S. | 1840-1845 |
| *Woodbridge, William | 1841-1847 |
| *Cass, Lewis | 1845-1848, 1849-1857 |
| *Felch, Alpheus | 1847-1853 |
| Fitzgerald, Thomas | 1848-1849 |
| *Stuart, Charles E. | 1853-1859 |
| *Chandler, Zachariah | 1857-1875, 1879 |
| *Bingham, Kinsley S. | 1859-1861 |
| Howard, Jacob M. | 1862-1871 |
| *Ferry, Thomas W. | 1871-1883 |
| *Christiancy, Isaac P. | 1875-1879 |
| Baldwin, Henry P. | 1879-1881 |
| Conger, Omar D. | 1881-1887 |
| Palmer, Thomas W. | 1883-1889 |
| *Stockbridge, Francis B. | 1887-1894 |
| *McMillan, James | 1889-1902 |
| *Patton, John Jr. | 1894-1895 |
| *Burrows, Julius C. | 1895-1911 |
| *Alger, Russell A. | 1902-1907 |
| Smith, William Alden | 1907-1919 |
| *Townsend, Charles Elroy | 1911-1923 |
| Newberry, Truman H. | 1919-1922 |
| Couzens, James | 1922-1936 |
| *Ferris, Woodbridge N. | 1923-1928 |
| *Vandenberg, Arthur H. | 1928-1951 |
| *Brown, Prentiss M. | 1936-1943 |
| *Ferguson, Homer | 1936-1943 |
| *Moody, Blair | 1951-1953 |
| *Potter, Charles E. | 1953-1959 |
| McNamara, Patrick V. | 1955-1966 |
| *Hart, Philip A. | 1959-1976 |
| Griffin, Robert P. | 1966-1979 |
| *Riegle, Donald W., Jr. | 1976-1994 |
| Levin, Carl | 1979- |
| Abraham, Spencer | 1995-2001 |
| Stabenow, Debbie | 2001- |
* collection held at the Bentley Historical Library