Members of the U.S. Senate, 111th Congress
Below lists the members of the Senate in the United States' 111th Congress following the November 2008 midterm elections. Dates in left column indicate term in office; birth years are given in parentheses after party affiliation. All terms are for six years and expire in January.
See also: Current and historical biographies of every U.S. congressional member
| Alabama | 1987-2011 Richard Shelby (R) (1934) |
| 1997-2015 Jeff Sessions (R) (1946) | |
| Alaska | 2009-2015 Mark Begich (D) (1962) |
| 2002-2011 Lisa Murkowski (R) (1957) | |
| Arizona | 1987-2011 John McCain (R) (1936) |
| 1995-2013 Jon Kyl (R) (1942) | |
| Arkansas | 1999-2011 Blanche Lincoln (D) (1960) |
| 2003-2015 Mark Pryor (D) (1963) | |
| California | 1993-2013 Dianne Feinstein (D) (1933) |
| 1993-2011 Barbara Boxer (D) (1940) | |
| Colorado | 2009-2015 Mark Udall (D) (1950) |
| 2009-2011 Michael Bennet (D) (1964)# | |
| Connecticut | 1981-2011 Christopher J. Dodd (D) (1944) |
| 1989-2013 Joseph I. Lieberman (I) (1942) | |
| Delaware | 2009-2015 Edward Kaufman (D) (1939)* |
| 2001-2013 Thomas R. Carper (D) (1947) | |
| Florida | 2001-2013 Bill Nelson (D) (1942) |
| 2005-2011 Mel Martinez (R) (1946) | |
| Georgia | 2009-2015 Saxby Chambliss (R) (1943) |
| 2005-2011 Johnny Isakson (R) (1944) | |
| Hawaii | 1963-2011 Daniel K. Inouye (D) (1924) |
| 1990-2013 Daniel K. Akaka (D) (1924) | |
| Idaho | 2009-2015 Jim Risch (R) (1943) |
| 1999-2011 Mike Crapo (R) (1951) | |
| Illinois | 1997-2015 Richard J. Durbin (D) (1944) |
| 2009-2015 Roland Burris (D) (1937)** | |
| Indiana | 1977-2013 Richard G. Lugar (R) (1932) |
| 1999-2011 Evan Bayh (D) (1955) | |
| Iowa | 1981-2011 Charles E. Grassley (R) (1933) |
| 1985-2015 Tom Harkin (D) (1939) | |
| Kansas | 1997-2011 Sam Brownback (R) (1956) |
| 1997-2015 Pat Roberts (R) (1936) | |
| Kentucky | 1985-2015 Mitch McConnell (R) (1942) |
| 1999-2011 Jim Bunning (R) (1931) | |
| Louisiana | 1997-2015 Mary L. Landrieu (D) (1955) |
| 2005-2011 David Vitter (R) (1961) | |
| Maine | 1995-2013 Olympia J. Snowe (R) (1947) |
| 1997-2015 Susan M. Collins (R) (1952) | |
| Maryland | 1987-2011 Barbara A. Mikulski (D) (1936) |
| 2007-2013 Ben Cardin (D) (1943) | |
| Massachusetts | 1985-2015 John F. Kerry (D) (1943) |
| 2010–2013 Scott Brown (R) (1959)## | |
| Michigan | 1979-2015 Carl Levin (D) (1934) |
| 2001-2013 Debbie A. Stabenow (D) (1950) | |
| Minnesota | 2001-2015 Al Franken (D) (1951) |
| 2007-2013 Amy Klobuchar (D) (1960) | |
| Mississippi | 1979-2015 Thad Cochran (R) (1937) |
| 2007-2015 Roger Wicker (R) (1951) | |
| Missouri | 1987-2011 Christopher S. Bond (R) (1939) |
| 2007-2013 Claire McCaskill (D) (1953) | |
| Montana | 1978-2015 Max Baucus (D) (1941) |
| 2007-2013 Jon Tester (D) (1956) | |
| Nebraska | 2009-2015 Mike Johanns (R) (1950) |
| 2001-2013 Ben Nelson (D) (1941) | |
| Nevada | 1987-2011 Harry Reid (D) (1939) |
| 2001-2013 John Ensign (R) (1958) | |
| New Hampshire | 1993-2011 Judd Gregg (R) (1947) |
| 2009-2015 Jeanne Shaheen (D) (1947) | |
| New Jersey | 2003-2015 Frank R. Lautenberg (D) (1924) |
| 2007-2013 Bob Menendez (D) (1954) | |
| New Mexico | 2009-2015 Tom Udall (D) (1948) |
| 1982-2013 Jeff Bingaman (D) (1943) | |
| New York | 1999-2011 Charles E. Schumer (D) (1950) |
| 2009-2011 Kirsten Gillibrand (D) (1947)*** | |
| North Carolina | 2009-2015 Kay Hagan (D) (1951) |
| 2005-2011 Richard Burr (R) (1955) | |
| North Dakota | 1987-2013 Kent Conrad (D) (1948) |
| 1993-2011 Byron L. Dorgan (D) (1942) | |
| Ohio | 1999-2011 George Voinovich (R) (1936) |
| 2007-2013 Sherrod Brown (D) (1952) | |
| Oklahoma | 1994-2015 James Inhofe (R) (1934) |
| 2005-2011 Tom Coburn (R) (1948) | |
| Oregon | 1996-2011 Ron Wyden (D) (1949) |
| 2009-2015 Jeff Merkley (D) (1956) | |
| Pennsylvania | 1981-2011 Arlen Specter (D) (1930) |
| 2007-2013 Bob Casey (D) (1960) | |
| Rhode Island | 1997-2015 Jack Reed (D) (1949) |
| 2007-2013 Sheldon Whitehouse (D) (1955) | |
| South Carolina | 2003-2015 Lindsey Graham (R) (1955) |
| 2005-2011 Jim DeMint (R) (1951) | |
| South Dakota | 1997-2015 Tim Johnson (D) (1946) |
| 2005-2011 John R. Thune (R) (1961) | |
| Tennessee | 2003-2015 Lamar Alexander (R) (1940) |
| 2007-2013 Bob Corker (R) (1952) | |
| Texas | 1995-2013 Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) (1943) |
| 2003-2015 John Cornyn (R) (1952) | |
| Utah | 1977-2013 Orrin G. Hatch (R) (1934) |
| 1993-2011 Robert Bennett (R) (1933) | |
| Vermont | 1975-2011 Patrick J. Leahy (D) (1940) |
| 2007-2013 Bernie Sanders (I) (1941) | |
| Virginia | 2009-2015 Mark Warner (D) (1954) |
| 2007-2013 Jim Webb (D) (1946) | |
| Washington | 1993-2011 Patty Murray (D) (1950) |
| 2001-2013 Maria Cantwell (D) (1958) | |
| West Virginia | 2010–2011 Carte P. Goodwin (D)*# |
| 1985-2015 John D. “Jay“ Rockefeller IV (D) (1937) | |
| Wisconsin | 1989-2013 Herbert Kohl (D) (1935) |
| 1993-2011 Russ Feingold (D) (1953) | |
| Wyoming | 2009-2015 John Barrasso (R) (1952) |
| 1997-2015 Michael B. Enzi (R) (1944) |
# = Michael Bennet was appointed to this seat by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter after Ken Salazar was made Obama's Secretary of the Interior.
* = Joe Biden won reelection to the Senate and was also elected to be the next vice president. The Delaware governor Ruth Ann Minner named Edward Kaufman, Biden's longtime aide, to fill the vacated seat.
** = Roland Burris was appointed by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, shortly before the governor's impeachment, to replace Barack Obama, who vacated the seat when elected President.
*** = Hillary Clinton was elected to this seat, but was chosen by Presdient Barack Obama to become Secretary of State. Kirsten Gillibrand, formerly a Representative, was chosen by New York governor David Paterson to replace Clinton.
## = Scott Brown won the January 2010 special election to fill the seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died in August 2009.
*# = Temporarily filling the seat held by Robery Byrd, who died in July 2010.
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