List of Confederate States Senators

The Confederate Senate was the upper house of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Its members were, like those of the United States Senate, elected for six year terms by the state legislature of each state, with each state having two senators. The Confederate Senate met only between 1862 and 1865.

In addition to the eleven states that made up the Confederacy, representatives were also seated from Kentucky and Missouri.

Members of the Confederate Senate were divided into classes by lot on February 21, 1862. Class one 1862-64 and 1864–70, Class two 1862-66, and Class three 1862-68 as follows:

Class 1: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina
Class 2: Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
Class 3: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Alabama

Class 1
- Clement Claiborne Clay 1862–1864
- Richard Wilde Walker 1864–1865
Class 3
- William Lowndes Yancey 1862–1863
- Robert Jemison, Jr. 1863–1865

Arkansas

Class 1
- Robert Ward Johnson 1862–1865
Class 3
- Charles Burton Mitchel 1862–1864
- Augustus Hill Garland 1864–1865

Florida

Class 1
- James McNair Baker 1862–1865
Class 2
- Augustus Emmett Maxwell 1862–1865

Georgia

Class 1
- John Wood Lewis 1862–1863 (Robert Toombs declined)
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson 1863–1865
Class 3
- Benjamin Harvey Hill 1862–1865

Kentucky

Class 1
- William Emmett Simms 1862–1865
Class 3
- Henry Cornelius Burnett 1862–1865

Louisiana

Class 2
- Thomas Jenkins Semmes 1862–1865
Class 3
- Edward Sparrow 1862–1865

Mississippi

Class 1
- James Phelan 1862–1864
- John William Clark Watson 1864–1865
Class 2
- Albert Gallatin Brown 1862–1865

Missouri

Class 1
- John Bullock Clark 1862–1864
- George Graham Vest 1865
Class 2
- Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton 1862–1863
- Waldo Porter Johnson 1863–1865

North Carolina

Class 1
- George Davis 1862–1864
- Edwin Godwin Reade 1864
- William Alexander Graham 1864–1865
Class 2
- William Theophilus Dortch 1862–1865

South Carolina

Class 2
- Robert Woodward Barnwell 1862–1865
Class 3
- James Lawrence Orr 1862–1865

Tennessee

Class 2
- Gustavus Adolphus Henry 1862–1865
Class 3
- Landon Carter Haynes 1862–1865

Texas

Class 2
- Louis Trezevant Wigfall 1862–1865
Class 3
- William Simpson Oldham 1862–1865

Virginia

Class 2
- William Ballard Preston 1862
- Allen T. Caperton 1863–1865
Class 3
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter 1862–1865

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