Jewish Members of U.S. Congress: Senators
(1845 - Present)
Listed Alphabetically, by First Year of Service
|
Senator
|
Party-State
|
Service
|
| David Levy Yulee |
D-FL
|
1845-1851, 1855-1861
|
| Judah Benjamin |
Whig-LA
|
1853-1861
|
| Benjamin Jonas |
D-LA
|
1879-1885
|
| Joseph Simon |
R-OR
|
1898-1903
|
| Isidor Rayner |
D-MD
|
1905-1912
|
| Simon Guggenheim |
R-CO
|
1907-1913
|
| Herbert Lehman |
D-NY
|
1949-1957
|
| Richard Neuberger |
D-OR
|
1955-1960
|
| Jacob Javits |
R-NY
|
1957-1981
|
| Ernest Gruening |
D-AK
|
1959-1969
|
| Abraham Ribicoff |
D-CT
|
1963-1981
|
| Howard Metzenbaum |
D-OH
|
1974, 1976-1995
|
| Richard Stone |
D-FL
|
1975-1980
|
| Edward Zorinsky |
D-NE
|
1976-1987
|
| Rudolph Boschwitz |
R-MN
|
1978-1991
|
| Carl Levin |
D-MI
|
1979-
|
| Warren Rudman |
R-NH
|
1980-1993
|
| Arlen Specter |
R/D-PA*
|
1981-2011
|
| Frank Lautenberg |
D-NJ
|
1982-2001, 2003-2013
|
| Jacob (Chic) Hecht |
R-NV
|
1983-1989
|
| Herb Kohl |
D-WI
|
1989-2013
|
| Joseph Lieberman |
D/I-CT**
|
1989-2013
|
| Paul Wellstone |
D-MN
|
1991-2002
|
| Barbara Boxer |
D-CA
|
1992-2017
|
| Dianne Feinstein |
D-CA
|
1992-
|
| Russ Feingold |
D-WI
|
1993-2011
|
| Ron Wyden |
D-OR
|
1996-
|
| Charles Schumer |
D-NY
|
1999-
|
| Norm Coleman |
R-MN
|
2003-2009
|
| Benjamin Cardin |
D-MD
|
2007-
|
| Bernard Sanders |
I-VT
|
2007-
|
| Michael Bennet |
D-CO
|
2009-
|
| Al Franken |
D-MN
|
2009-2017***
|
| Richard Blumenthal |
D-CT
|
2011-
|
| Brian Schatz |
D-HI
|
2013-
|
| Jacky Rosen | D-NV | 2019- |
| Jon Ossoff**** | D-GA | 2021- |
*Changed party affiliation in 2009 from Republican to Democrat
**Elected as an Independent in 2006
***Resigned December 2017
****Won runoff election in January 2021
Sources: L. Sandy Maisel and Ira Forman, Eds, Jews in American Politics, (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), United States Senate, and various news sources.
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