Expelled Senators
| Year | Senator | Party | State | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1797 | William Blount | Democratic-Republican | Tennessee | Expelled for treason and conspiracy to incite the Creek and Cherokee Indians to assist Great Britain in invading Spanish Florida. |
| 1861 | James M. Mason | Democratic | Virginia | Expelled for supporting Confederate rebellion. |
| Robert M. T. Hunter | Democratic | |||
| Thomas L. Clingman | Democratic | North Carolina | ||
| Thomas Bragg | Democratic | |||
| James Chesnut, Jr. | Democratic | South Carolina | ||
| Alfred O. P. Nicholson | Democratic | Tennessee | ||
| William K. Sebastian | Democratic | Arkansas | Expelled for supporting Confederate rebellion. His expulsion was posthumously reversed in 1877. |
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| Charles B. Mitchel | Democratic | Expelled for supporting Confederate rebellion. | ||
| John Hemphill | Democratic | Texas | ||
| Louis Wigfall | Democratic | |||
| John C. Breckinridge | Democratic | Kentucky | ||
| 1862 | Trusten Polk | Democratic | Missouri | |
| Waldo P. Johnson | Democratic | |||
| Jesse D. Bright | Democratic | Indiana |
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