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U.S. Senators from New Jersey:
Name Dates of Service
Class 1
Jonathan Elmer (PRO-ADMIN)
John Rutherfurd (PRO-ADMIN,F)
Franklin Davenport (F)
James Schureman (F)
Aaron Ogden (F)
John Condit (R)
John Lambert (R)
James J. Wilson (R)
Samuel L. Southard (R)
Joseph McIlvaine (ADAMS-CLAY R,ADAMS)
Ephraim Bateman (ADAMS)
Mahlon Dickerson (J)
Samuel L. Southard (AJ,W)
William L. Dayton (W)
Robert F. Stockton (D)
John R. Thomson (D)
Richard S. Field (R)
James W. Wall (D)
William Wright (D)
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)
John P. Stockton (D)
Theodore F. Randolph (D)
William J. Sewell (R)
Rufus Blodgett (D)
James Smith, Jr. (D)
John Kean (R)
James E. Martine (D)
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R)
Edward I. Edwards (D)
Hamilton F. Kean (R)
A. Harry Moore (D)
John G. Milton (D)
W. Warren Barbour (R)
Arthur Walsh (D)
H. Alexander Smith (R)
Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D)
Nicholas F. Brady (R)
Frank R. Lautenberg (D)
Jon S. Corzine (D)
Robert Menendez (D)
1789-1791
1791-1798
1798-1799
1799-1801
1801-1803
1803-1809
1809-1815
1815-1821
1821-1823
1823-1826
1826-1829
1829-1833
1833-1842
1842-1851
1851-1853
1853-1862
1862-1863
1863-1863
1863-1866
1866-1869
1869-1875
1875-1881
1881-1887
1887-1893
1893-1899
1899-1911
1911-1917
1917-1923
1923-1929
1929-1935
1935-1938
1938-1938
1938-1943
1943-1944
1944-1959
1959-1982
1982-1982
1982-2001
2001-2006
2006---

Name Dates of Service
Class 2
William Paterson (PRO-ADMIN)
Philemon Dickinson (PRO-ADMIN)
Frederick Frelinghuysen (PRO-ADMIN,F)
Richard Stockton (F)
Jonathan Dayton (F)
Aaron Kitchell (R)
John Condit (R)
Mahlon Dickerson (R,CR,J)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (AJ)
Garret D. Wall (J,D)
Jacob W. Miller (W)
William Wright (D)
John C. Ten Eyck (R)
John P. Stockton (D)
Alexander G. Cattell (R)
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)
John R. McPherson (D)
William J. Sewell (R)
John F. Dryden (R)
Frank O. Briggs (R)
William Hughes (D)
David Baird (R)
Walter E. Edge (R)
David Baird, Jr. (R)
Dwight W. Morrow (R)
W. Warren Barbour (R)
William H. Smathers (D)
Albert W. Hawkes (R)
Robert C. Hendrickson (R)
Clifford P. Case (R)
William W. (Bill) Bradley (D)
Robert G. Torricelli (D)
Frank R. Lautenberg (D)
1789-1790
1790-1793
1793-1796
1796-1799
1799-1805
1805-1809
1809-1817
1817-1829
1829-1835
1835-1841
1841-1853
1853-1859
1859-1865
1865-1866
1866-1871
1871-1877
1877-1895
1895-1901
1902-1907
1907-1913
1913-1918
1918-1919
1919-1929
1929-1930
1930-1931
1931-1937
1937-1943
1943-1949
1949-1955
1955-1979
1979-1997
1997-2003
2003--

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Clifford P. Case
Frank R. Lautenberg
 
New Jersey Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
President Pro Tempore: Samuel Southard

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair: Robert G. Torricelli; Jon S. Corzine

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Labor & Human Resources: Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

Labor & Public Welfare: H. Alexander Smith; Harrison A. Williams, Jr.
New Jersey Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: Richard Stockton by Henry Kirke Brown and H.K. Bush-Brown, located in the Hall of Columns; Philip Kearny by Henry Kirke Brown, located in the Hall of Columns.

Busts:

Vice Presidents Collection: Garret A. Hobart by F. Edwin Elwell, located in the Senate wing, second floor, west corridor.

Portraits: Speakers Collection: Jonathan Dayton by Henry Harrison and William Pennington by Joseph Lauber, both located in the House wing, second floor, Speakers Lobby.

 

 

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