United States Senate
Each state elects two senators by statewide popular vote every six years. The terms of the two senators are staggered so that they are not elected in the same year. Indiana's senators are elected in the years from classes I and III. Senators were originally chosen by the Indiana General Assembly until the Seventeenth Amendment came into force in 1913.
Of the forty-five men who have been Senators from Indiana, there have been three Democratic-Republicans, three Adams Republicans (including James Noble, who was both a Democratic-Republican and Adams Republican), two Whigs, one Unionist, twenty-one Democrats, and sixteen Republicans. Only 45 men have been Senators, though 48 terms have been served; David Turpie, William E. Jenner, and Dan Coats served nonconsecutive terms.
Indiana's Senators in the 113th Congress are Democrat Joe Donnelly, first elected in 2012, and Republican Dan Coats, elected to a second non-consecutive term in 2010.
Anti-Jacksonion (Adams) Democratic (D) Democratic-Republican (D-R) National Union (NU) Republican (R) Whig (Whig)
| Class 1 Senators | Congress | Class 3 Senators | ||
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| James Noble (D-R) | 14th (1815–1817) | Waller Taylor (D-R) | ||
| 15th (1817–1819) | ||||
| 16th (1819–1821) | ||||
| 17th (1821–1823) | ||||
| 18th (1823–1825) | ||||
| James Noble (Adams) |
19th (1825–1827) | William Hendricks (Adams) | ||
| 20th (1827–1829) | ||||
| 21st (1829–1831) | ||||
| Robert Hanna (Adams) |
22nd (1831–1833) | |||
| John Tipton (D-R) |
23rd (1833–1835) | |||
| 24th (1835–1837) | ||||
| 25th (1837–1839) | Oliver H. Smith (W) | |||
| Albert S. White (W) | 26th (1839–1841) | |||
| 27th (1841–1843) | ||||
| 28th (1843–1845) | Edward A. Hannegan (D) | |||
| Jesse D. Bright (D) |
29th (1845–1847) | |||
| 30th (1847–1849) | ||||
| 31st (1849–1851) | James Whitcomb (D) |
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| 32nd (1851–1853) | ||||
| Charles W. Cathcart (D) |
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| John Pettit (D) |
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| 33rd (1853–1855) | ||||
| 34th (1855–1857) | Graham N. Fitch (D) | |||
| 35th (1857–1859) | ||||
| 36th (1859–1861) | Henry Smith Lane (R) | |||
| Joseph A. Wright (NU) |
37th (1861–1863) | |||
| David Turpie (D) |
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| Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | 38th (1863–1865) | |||
| 39th (1865–1867) | Oliver P. Morton (R) |
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| 40th (1867–1869) | ||||
| Daniel D. Pratt (R) | 41st (1869–1871) | |||
| 42nd (1871–1873) | ||||
| 43rd (1873–1875) | ||||
| Joseph E. McDonald (D) | 44th (1875–1877) | |||
| 45th (1877–1879) | ||||
| Daniel W. Voorhees (D) |
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| 46th (1879–1881) | ||||
| Benjamin Harrison (R) | 47th (1881–1883) | |||
| 48th (1883–1885) | ||||
| 49th (1885–1887) | ||||
| David Turpie (D) | 50th (1887–1889) | |||
| 51st (1889–1891) | ||||
| 52nd (1891–1893) | ||||
| 53rd (1893–1895) | ||||
| 54th (1895–1897) | ||||
| 55th (1897–1899) | Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||
| Albert J. Beveridge (R) | 56th (1899–1901) | |||
| 57th (1901–1903) | ||||
| 58th (1903–1905) | ||||
| 59th (1905–1907) | James A. Hemenway (R) | |||
| 60th (1907–1909) | ||||
| 61st (1909–1911) | Benjamin F. Shively (D) |
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| John W. Kern (D) | 62nd (1911–1913) | |||
| 63rd (1913–1915) | ||||
| 64th (1915–1917) | Thomas Taggart (D) |
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| Harry S. New (R) | 65th (1917–1919) | James E. Watson (R) |
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| 66th (1919–1921) | ||||
| 67th (1921–1923) | ||||
| Samuel M. Ralston (D) |
68th (1923–1925) | |||
| 69th (1925–1927) | ||||
| Arthur Raymond Robinson (R) |
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| 70th (1927–1929) | ||||
| 71st (1929–1931) | ||||
| 72nd (1931–1933) | ||||
| 73rd (1933–1935) | Frederick Van Nuys (D) |
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| Sherman Minton (D) | 74th (1935–1937) | |||
| 75th (1937–1939) | ||||
| 76th (1939–1941) | ||||
| Raymond E. Willis (R) | 77th (1941–1943) | |||
| 78th (1943–1945) | Samuel D. Jackson (D) |
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| William E. Jenner (R) |
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| 79th (1945–1947) | Homer E. Capehart (R) | |||
| William E. Jenner (R) | 80th (1947–1949) | |||
| 81st (1949–1951) | ||||
| 82nd (1951–1953) | ||||
| 83rd (1953–1955) | ||||
| 84th (1955–1957) | ||||
| 85th (1957–1959) | ||||
| Vance Hartke (D) | 86th (1959–1961) | |||
| 87th (1961–1963) | ||||
| 88th (1963–1965) | Birch Bayh (D) | |||
| 89th (1965–1967) | ||||
| 90th (1967–1969) | ||||
| 91st (1969–1971) | ||||
| 92nd (1971–1973) | ||||
| 93rd (1973–1975) | ||||
| 94th (1975–1977) | ||||
| Richard Lugar (R) | 95th (1977–1979) | |||
| 96th (1979–1981) | ||||
| 97th (1981–1983) | Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 98th (1983–1985) | ||||
| 99th (1985–1987) | ||||
| 100th (1987–1989) | ||||
| Dan Coats (R) |
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| 101st (1989–1991) | ||||
| 102nd (1991–1993) | ||||
| 103rd (1993–1995) | ||||
| 104th (1995–1997) | ||||
| 105th (1997–1999) | ||||
| 106th (1999–2001) | Evan Bayh (D) | |||
| 107th (2001–2003) | ||||
| 108th (2003–2005) | ||||
| 109th (2005–2007) | ||||
| 110th (2007–2009) | ||||
| 111th (2009–2011) | ||||
| 112th (2011–2013) | Dan Coats (R) | |||
| Joe Donnelly (D) | 113th (2013–2015) | |||
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