List of Confederate States senators explained

The Confederate Senate was the upper house of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Its members were, like those of the United States Senate, elected for six year terms by the state legislature of each state, with each state having two senators. The Confederate Senate met only between 1862 and 1865.In addition to the eleven states that made up the Confederacy, representatives were also seated from Kentucky and Missouri.

Members of the Confederate Senate were divided into classes by lot on February 21, 1862 as follows:

• Class 1 (1862-64), (1864–70): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina
• Class 2 (1862-66): Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia
• Class 3 (1862-68): Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Alabama

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Class 1 Image Name Term Clement Claiborne Clay 1862–1864 Richard Wilde Walker 1864–1865

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Class 3 Image Name Term William Lowndes Yancey 1862–1863 Robert Jemison Jr. 1863–1865

Arkansas

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Class 1

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Class 3 Image Name Term Charles Burton Mitchel 1862–1864 Augustus Hill Garland 1864–1865

Florida

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Class 1

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Class 2

Georgia

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Class 1 Image Name Term John Wood Lewis 1862–1863 Herschel Vespasian Johnson 1863–1865

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Class 3

Kentucky

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Class 1

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Class 3

Louisiana

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Class 2

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Class 3

Mississippi

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Class 1 Image Name Term James Phelan Sr. 1862–1864 John William Clark Watson 1864–1865

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Class 2

Missouri

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Class 1 Image Name Term John Bullock Clark 1862–1864 George Graham Vest 1865–1865

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Class 2 Image Name Term Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton 1862–1863 Waldo Porter Johnson 1863–1865

North Carolina

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Class 1 Image Name Term George Davis 1862–1864 Edwin Godwin Reade 1864–1864 William Alexander Graham 1864–1865

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Class 2

South Carolina

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Class 2

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Class 3

Tennessee

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Class 2

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Class 3

Texas

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Class 2

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Class 3

Virginia

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Class 2 Image Name Term 1862–1862 Allen Taylor Caperton 1863–1865

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Class 3