Class 2
Class 2 U.S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that were elected for two sessions of the U.S. Congress in the first election of 1788 and whose seats in recent years are contested in 1996, 2002, 2008, and 2014.
| # | Senator | Party | Years | Congress | Term | Electoral history |
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| 1 | Pierce Butler | Pro- Administration |
March 4, 1789 – October 25, 1796 |
1 | 1 | Elected in 1789 |
| Anti- Administration |
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| 3 | 2 | Re-elected in 1793 Resigned |
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| Democratic- Republican |
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| Vacant | October 25, 1796 – December 8, 1796 |
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| 2 | John Hunter | Democratic- Republican |
December 8, 1796 – November 26, 1798 |
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Elected to finish Butler's term Resigned |
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| 3 | Charles Pinckney | Democratic- Republican |
December 6, 1798 – June 6, 1801 |
Elected to finish Hunter's term | ||
| 6 | 3 | Elected to full term in 1799 Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Spain |
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| Vacant | June 6, 1801 – December 15, 1801 |
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| 4 | Thomas Sumter | Democratic- Republican |
December 15, 1801 – December 16, 1810 |
7 |
Elected to finish Pinckney's term | |
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| 9 | 4 | Re-elected in 1805 Resigned |
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| Vacant | December 16, 1810 – December 31, 1810 |
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| 5 | John Taylor | Democratic- Republican |
December 31, 1810 – November 1816 |
11 |
Elected to finish Sumter's term | |
| 12 | 5 | Elected in to full term in 1810 Resigned |
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| Vacant | November 1816 – December 4, 1816 |
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| 6 | William Smith | Democratic- Republican |
December 4, 1816 – March 3, 1823 |
14 |
Elected to finish Taylor's term | |
| 15 | 6 | Elected in to full term in 1816 Lost re-election |
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| 7 | Robert Y. Hayne | Jacksonian Republican |
March 4, 1823 – December 13, 1832 |
18 | 7 | Elected in 1822 |
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| 21 | 8 | Re-elected in 1828 Resigned to become Governor of South Carolina |
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| Nullifier | 22 | |||||
| Vacant | December 13, 1832 – December 29, 1832 |
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| 8 | John C. Calhoun | Nullifier | December 29, 1832 – March 3, 1843 |
22 |
Elected to finish Hayne's term | |
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| 24 | 9 | Re-elected in 1834 | ||||
| Democratic | 25 | |||||
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| 27 | 10 | Re-elected in 1840 Resigned |
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| 9 | Daniel Elliott Huger | Democratic | March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845 |
28 | Elected to finish Calhoun's term Resigned |
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| Vacant | March 3, 1845 – November 26, 1845 |
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| 10 | John C. Calhoun | Democratic | November 26, 1845 – March 31, 1850 |
29 |
Re-elected to finish Huger's term | |
| 30 | 11 | Re-elected in 1846 Died |
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| Vacant | March 31, 1850 – April 11, 1850 |
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| 11 | Franklin H. Elmore | Democratic | April 11, 1850 – May 29, 1850 |
Appointed to continue Calhoun's term Died |
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| Vacant | May 29, 1850 – June 4, 1850 |
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| 12 | Robert Woodward Barnwell | Democratic | June 4, 1850 – December 8, 1850 |
Appointed to continue Elmore's term Retired when successor elected |
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| Vacant | December 8, 1850 – December 18, 1850 |
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| 13 | Robert Rhett | Democratic | December 18, 1850 – May 7, 1852 |
31 |
Elected to finish Elmore's term Resgined |
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| Vacant | May 7, 1852 – May 10, 1852 |
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| 14 | William F. De Saussure | Democratic | May 10, 1852 – March 3, 1853 |
32 |
Appointed to continue Rhett's term Elected to finish Rhett's term |
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| 15 | Josiah J. Evans | Democratic | March 4, 1853 – May 6, 1858 |
33 | 12 | Elected in 1852 Died |
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| Vacant | May 6, 1858 – May 11, 1858 |
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| 16 | Arthur P. Hayne | Democratic | May 11, 1858 – December 2, 1858 |
Appointed to continue Evans's term Retired when successor elected |
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| 17 | James Chesnut, Jr. | Democratic | December 3, 1858 – November 10, 1860 |
35 |
Elected to finish Evans's term | |
| 36 | 13 | Re-elected in 1858 Withdrew, and later expelled for his support of the Confederate States |
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| Vacant | November 10, 1860 – July 15, 1868 |
Civil War and Reconstruction | ||||
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| 18 | Thomas J. Robertson | Republican | July 15, 1868 – March 3, 1877 |
Elected to finish vacant term | ||
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| 42 | 15 | Re-elected in 1872 | ||||
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| 19 | Matthew Butler | Democratic | March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1895 |
45 | 16 | Elected in 1876 |
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| 48 | 17 | Re-elected in 1882 | ||||
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| 51 | 18 | Re-elected in 1888 Lost re-election |
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| 20 | Benjamin Tillman | Democratic | March 4, 1895 – July 3, 1918 |
54 | 19 | Elected in 1894 |
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| 57 | 20 | Re-elected in 1900 | ||||
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| 60 | 21 | Re-elected in 1906 | ||||
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| 63 | 22 | Re-elected in 1912 Died |
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| Vacant | July 3, 1918 – July 6, 1918 |
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| 21 | Christie Benet | Democratic | July 6, 1918 – November 5, 1918 |
Appointed to continue Tillman's term Lost election to finish Tillman's term |
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| 22 | William P. Pollock | Democratic | November 6, 1918 – March 3, 1919 |
65 |
Elected to finish Tillman's term |
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| 23 | Nathaniel B. Dial | Democratic | March 3, 1919 – March 3, 1925 |
66 | 23 | Elected in 1918 |
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| 24 | Coleman Livingston Blease | Democratic | March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1931 |
69 | 24 | Elected in 1924 Lost renomination |
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| 25 | James F. Byrnes | Democratic | March 4, 1931 – July 8, 1941 |
72 | 25 | Elected in 1930 |
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| 75 | 26 | Re-elected in 1936 Resigned |
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| Vacant | July 8, 1941 – July 22, 1941 |
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| 26 | Alva M. Lumpkin | Democratic | July 22, 1941 – August 1, 1941 |
Appointed to continue Byrnes's term Died |
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| 27 | Roger C. Peace | Democratic | August 5, 1941 – November 4, 1941 |
Appointed to continue Byrne's term Retired when successor elected |
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| 28 | Burnet R. Maybank | Democratic | November 5, 1941 – September 1, 1954 |
77 |
Elected to finish Byrnes's term | |
| 78 | 27 | Re-elected in 1942 | ||||
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| 81 | 28 | Re-elected in 1948 Died |
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| Vacant | September 1, 1954 – September 6, 1954 |
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| 29 | Charles E. Daniel | Democratic | September 6, 1954 – December 23, 1954 |
Appointed to finish Maybank's term Resigned early to give successor preferential seniority |
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| 30 | Strom Thurmond | Democratic | December 24, 1954 – April 4, 1956 |
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Appointed to finish Daniel's term, having been elected to the next term | |
| 84 | 29 | Elected to full term in 1954 Resigned |
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| 31 | Thomas A. Wofford | Democratic | April 5, 1956 – November 6, 1956 |
Appointed to continue Thurmond's term Retired |
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| 32 | Strom Thurmond | Democratic | November 7, 1956 – January 3, 2003 |
Elected to finish his own term | ||
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| 87 | 30 | Re-elected in 1960 | ||||
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| Republican | 88 |
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| 90 | 31 | Re-elected in 1966 | ||||
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| 93 | 32 | Re-elected in 1972 | ||||
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| 96 | 33 | Re-elected in 1978 | ||||
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| 99 | 34 | Re-elected in 1984 | ||||
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| 102 | 35 | Re-elected in 1990 | ||||
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| 105 | 36 | Re-elected in 1996 Retired |
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| 33 | Lindsey Graham | Republican | January 3, 2003 – Present |
108 | 37 | Elected in 2002 |
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| 111 | 38 | Re-elected in 2008 | ||||
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| # | Senator | Party | Years | Congress | Term | Electoral history |
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