The following list displays those who served as United States Senators for the State of Delaware.   From the year "1789" until "1916" U.S. Senators were chosen by the General Assembly of the State when necessary.   In 1916 the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made it a requirement that each person be elected by the popular vote of the people.

      Each name below is linked to a file that display other information about each individual, many include portraits.   They are in date served sequence.

1789-1793  -  Richard Bassett  -  ( Also served as Governor of Delaware )

1789-1793  -  George Read, Sr.  -  ( Also served in Cont. Congress, U.S. Congress, & as Governor of Delaware )

1793-1798  -  John Vining  -  ( Also served in Cont. Congress & U.S. Congress )

1795-1801  -  Henry Latimer  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1798-1798  -  Joshua Clayton  -  ( Also served as Governor of Delaware )

1799-1804  -  William Hill Wells

1801-1809  -  Samuel White  -  ( Died in Office )

1804-1813  -  James A. Bayard, Sr.  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1810-1821  -  Outerbridge Horsey

1813-1817  -  William Hill Wells

1817-1826  -  Nicholas Van Dyke, Jr.  -  ( Died in Office - Also served in U.S. Congress )

1822-1823  -  Caesar A. Rodney  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1823-1827  -  Thomas Clayton  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1826-1827  -  Daniel Rodney  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress & as Governor of Delaware )

1827-1829  -  Henry M. Ridgely  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1827-1829  -  Louis McLane  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1829-1837  -  John M. Clayton

1830-1836  -  Arnold Naudain

1836-1839  -  Richard H. Bayard

1839-1841  -  One Senate Seat Vacant due to resignation of Senator Bayard - Legislature did not appoint

1837-1847  -  Thomas Clayton  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1841-1845  -  Richard H. Bayard

1845-1849  -  John M. Clayton

1847-1853  -  Presley Spruance

1849-1851  -  John Wales

1851-1864  -  James A. Bayard, Jr.

1853-1856  -  John M. Clayton  -  ( Died in Office )

1856-1857  -  Joseph P. Comegys

1857-1859  -  Martin W. Bates

1859-1871  -  Willard Saulsbury, Sr.

1864-1867  -  George Read Riddle  -  ( Died in Office - Also served in Congress )

1867-1869  -  James A. Bayard, Jr.

1869-1885  -  Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.

1871-1889  -  Eli Saulsbury

1885-1899  -  George Gray

1889-1895  -  Anthony C. Higgins

1895-1897  -  One Senate Seat was Vacant  -   "Story of why coming soon!"

1897-1901  -  Richard R. Kenney

1901-1903  -  Both Senate Seat's Vacant  -   "Story of why coming soon!"

1903-1907  -  James Frank Allee

1903-1905  -  Lewis Heisler Ball  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1905-1917  -  Henry A. duPont

1907-1913  -  Harry A. Richardson

1913-1919  -  Willard Saulsbury, Jr.

1917-1921  -  Josiah O. Wolcott  -  ( First individual elected by popular vote )

1919-1925  -  Lewis Heisler Ball  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1921-1922  -  T. Coleman duPont

1922-1929  -  Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

1925-1928  -  T. Coleman duPont

1928-1937  -  Daniel O. Hastings

1929-1941  -  John G. Townsend, Jr.  -  ( Also served as Governor of Delaware )

1937-1943  -  James H. Hughes

1941-1947  -  James M. Tunnell

1943-1949  -  C. Douglass Buck, Jr.  -  ( Also served as Governor of Delaware )

1947-1971  -  John J. Williams

1949-1961  -  J. Allen Frear, Jr.

1961-1973  -  J. Caleb Boggs  -  ( Also served in Congress & as Governor of Delaware )

1971-2001  -  William V. Roth, Jr.  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress )

1973 - 2009  -  Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

2001 - present  -  Thomas R. Carper  -  ( Also served in U.S. Congress & as Governor of Delaware )

2009 - present  -  Edward E. Kaufman