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This is a complete list of members of the United States Senate during the 5th United States Congress listed by seniority, from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1799.

The United States Senate has an official chronological list of senators, accessible from its website.

Seniority rules

A Chronological List of United States Senators includes the following explanation of how it assigns seniority.

From 1789 to 1958, senators whose terms began on the same day are listed alphabetically. Beginning in 1959, senators are listed according to commencement of first Senate term by order of service, determined by former service in order as senator, vice president, House member, cabinet secretary, governor, and then by state population. This latter system for calculating order of service has been used by the modern Senate for many years for the purposes of office assignment. It is unclear just when the Senate first began applying such criteria.

Rank column: This consecutively numbers senators, serving in the relevant Congress, according to seniority in that Congress. Seniority is based upon the method used by the chronological list. If the senator is not the first person to hold the seat, no number is included in the list.

A senator with broken service is placed before other senators starting service on the same day, but after senators with unbroken service starting before that date.

Senate No. column: The chronological guide gives an official number to each senator. This is the number set out in this column. That number is retained even if the senator has broken service.

As an historical article, the states and party affiliations listed reflect those during the Congress. Seats and party affiliations on similar lists for other Congresses will be different for certain members. During this Congress, there were two parties represented. Senators are classified as Democratic-Republican (DR) or Federalist (F).

Terms of service

Seniority list

Notes

1. A Chronological List of United States Senators 1789-Present, via www.Senate.gov
2. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1799.
3. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1801.
4. Terms of service of senators that expired in 1803.
5. John Henry resigned December 10, 1797, to become governor.
6. John Rutherfurd resigned December 5, 1798
7. William Bradford resigned in October 1797
8. John Vining resigned January 19, 1798
9. Henry Tazewell died January 24, 1799
10. William Blount was expelled on July 8, 1797
11. William Cocke finished out an interim assignment September 26, 1797
12. Isaac Tichenor resigned October 17, 1797 to become Governor
13. John Hunter resigned November 26, 1798
14. Philip John Schuyler resigned January 3, 1798. He previously served 1789-1791.
15. Andrew Jackson resigned in April 1798, to become State Supreme Court Judge
16. John Sloss Hobart resigned April 16, 1798 to become Judge on the United States District Court of New York
17. Joshua Clayton died August 11, 1798
18. William North served an interim appointment on August 17, 1798

See also

• 5th United States Congress
• List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 5th Congress by seniority

External links

• "Senate Seniority List" (PDF). United States Senate.
• Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• List of members of the 5th Congress

• Lists of United States senators by seniority