List of United States senators from Washington

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Multiple image Washington was admitted to the Union on November 11, 1889, and elects its United States senators to class 1 and class 3. Its current U.S. senators are Democrats Patty Murray (since 1993) and Maria Cantwell (since 2001) making it one of only four states alongside Minnesota, Nevada and New Hampshire to have two female U.S. senators. Warren Magnuson was Washington's longest-serving senator (1944–1981).

List of senators

|- style="height:2em" | colspan=3 | Vacant | nowrap | Nov 11, 1889 –
Nov 20, 1889 | Washington elected its first senators after it was admitted to the Union. | rowspan=3 | 1 | rowspan=2 Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=2 | 1 | Washington elected its first senators after it was admitted to the Union. | nowrap | Nov 11, 1889 –
Nov 20, 1889 | colspan=3 | Vacant

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John B. Allen | rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=2 nowrap | Nov 20, 1889 –
Mar 3, 1893 | rowspan=2 | Elected in 1889.Template:PbLegislature failed to re-elect. | Elected in 1889. | rowspan=5 nowrap | Nov 20, 1889 –
Mar 3, 1897 | rowspan=5 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=5 align=right |
Watson C. Squire ! rowspan=5 | 1

|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=4 | 2 | rowspan=4 | Re-elected in 1891.Template:PbLost re-election.

|- style="height:2em" | colspan=3 | Vacant | nowrap | Mar 4, 1893 –
Feb 19, 1895 | Legislature failed to elect. The governor appointed John Allen, but the Senate rejected his credentials. | rowspan=4 | 2 | rowspan=2 Template:List of United States senators Congress

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 2 | rowspan=3 align=left |
John L. Wilson | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=3 nowrap | Feb 19, 1895 –
Mar 3, 1899 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1895 to finish the vacant term, but took his seat late.Template:PbLost renomination.

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 3 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1897.<ref name=NYT1897>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:PbLost re-election.<ref name=NYT1903>Template:Cite news</ref> | rowspan=3 nowrap | Mar 4, 1897 –
Mar 3, 1903 | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=3 align=right |
George Turner ! rowspan=3 | 2

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 3 | rowspan=3 align=left |
Addison G. Foster | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=3 nowrap | Mar 4, 1899 –
Mar 3, 1905 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1899.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:PbRetired. | rowspan=3 | 3 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 4 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1903.<ref name=NYT1903/>Template:PbLost renomination. | rowspan=3 nowrap | Mar 4, 1903 –
Mar 3, 1909 | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=3 align=right |
Levi Ankeny ! rowspan=3 | 3

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 4 | rowspan=3 align=left |
Samuel H. Piles | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=3 nowrap | Mar 4, 1905 –
Mar 3, 1911 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1905.<ref name=WorldAlmanac>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:PbRetired. | rowspan=3 | 4 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 5 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1909. | rowspan=12 nowrap | Mar 4, 1909 –
Nov 19, 1932 | rowspan=12 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=12 align=right |
Wesley L. Jones ! rowspan=12 | 4

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=6 | 5 | rowspan=6 align=left |
Miles Poindexter | Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=6 nowrap | Mar 4, 1911 –
Mar 3, 1923 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1911. | rowspan=3 | 5 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 6 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1914.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1916.Template:PbLost re-election. | rowspan=3 | 6 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 7 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1920.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=8 | 6 | rowspan=8 align=left |
Clarence Dill | rowspan=8 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=8 nowrap | Mar 4, 1923 –
Jan 3, 1935 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1922. | rowspan=3 | 7 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=5 | 8 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1926.Template:PbDied, having already lost re-election.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=5 | Re-elected in 1928.Template:PbRetired. | rowspan=5 | 8 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" |   | nowrap | Nov 19, 1932 –
Nov 22, 1932 | colspan=3 | Vacant

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to finish Jones's term.Template:PbRetired. | nowrap | Nov 22, 1932 –
Mar 3, 1933 | Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | align=right |
Elijah S. Grammer ! 5

|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 9 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1932. | rowspan=8 nowrap | Mar 4, 1933 –
Nov 13, 1944 | rowspan=8 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=8 align=right |
Homer Bone ! rowspan=8 | 6

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 7 | rowspan=3 align=left |
Lewis B. Schwellenbach | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=3 nowrap | Jan 3, 1935 –
Dec 16, 1940 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1934.Template:PbResigned. | rowspan=5 | 9 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=7 | 10 | rowspan=5 | Re-elected in 1938.Template:PbResigned to become Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

|- style="height:2em" | colspan=3 | Vacant | nowrap | Dec 16, 1940 –
Dec 19, 1940 |  

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=6 | 8 | rowspan=6 align=left |
Monrad Wallgren | rowspan=6 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=6 nowrap | Dec 19, 1940 –
Jan 9, 1945 | Appointed to finish Schwellenbach's term, having already been elected to the next term.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=5 | Elected in 1940.Template:PbResigned. | rowspan=7 | 10 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" |   | nowrap | Nov 13, 1944 –
Dec 14, 1944 | colspan=3 | Vacant

|- style="height:2em" | Appointed to finish Bone's term, having already been elected to the next term. | rowspan=21 nowrap | Dec 14, 1944 –
Jan 3, 1981 | rowspan=21 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=21 align=right |
Warren Magnuson ! rowspan=21 | 7

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|- style="height:2em" ! 9 | align=left |
Hugh Mitchell | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | nowrap | Jan 10, 1945 –
Dec 25, 1946 | Appointed to finish Wallgren's term.Template:PbLost election to next term and resigned.

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Harry P. Cain | rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=4 nowrap | Dec 26, 1946 –
Jan 3, 1953 | Appointed to finish Wallgren's term, having already been elected to the next term.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1946.Template:PbLost re-election. | rowspan=3 | 11 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 12 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1950.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=16 | 11 | rowspan=16 align=left |
Henry M. Jackson | rowspan=16 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=16 nowrap | Jan 3, 1953 –
Sep 1, 1983 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1952. | rowspan=3 | 12 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 13 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1956.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1958. | rowspan=3 | 13 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 14 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1962.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1964. | rowspan=3 | 14 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 15 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1968.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1970. | rowspan=3 | 15 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 16 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1974.Template:PbLost re-election.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1976. | rowspan=3 | 16 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=5 | 17 | rowspan=5 | Elected in 1980.Template:PbLost re-election. | rowspan=5 nowrap | Jan 3, 1981 –
Jan 3, 1987 | rowspan=5 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=5 align=right |
Slade Gorton ! rowspan=5 | 8

|- style="height:2em" | Re-elected in 1982.Template:PbDied. | rowspan=5 | 17 | rowspan=3 Template:List of United States senators Congress

|- style="height:2em" | colspan=3 | Vacant | nowrap | Sep 1, 1983 –
Sep 8, 1983 |  

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=3 | 12 | rowspan=3 align=left |
Daniel J. Evans | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=3 nowrap | Sep 8, 1983 –
Jan 3, 1989 | rowspan=3 | Appointed to continue Jackson's term.Template:PbElected to finish Jackson's term.Template:PbRetired.

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 18 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1986.Template:PbRetired. | rowspan=3 nowrap | Jan 3, 1987 –
Jan 3, 1993 | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=3 align=right |
Brock Adams ! rowspan=3 | 9

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=6 | 13 | rowspan=6 align=left |
Slade Gorton | rowspan=6 Template:Party shading/Republican | Republican | rowspan=6 nowrap | Jan 3, 1989 –
Jan 3, 2001 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1988. | rowspan=3 | 18 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 19 | rowspan=3 | Elected in 1992. | rowspan=18 nowrap | Jan 3, 1993 –
present | rowspan=18 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=18 align=right |
Patty Murray ! rowspan=18 | 10

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1994.Template:PbLost re-election. | rowspan=3 | 19 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 20 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 1998.

|- style="height:2em" ! rowspan=15 | 14 | rowspan=15 align=left |
Maria Cantwell | rowspan=15 Template:Party shading/Democratic | Democratic | rowspan=15 nowrap | Jan 3, 2001 –
present | rowspan=3 | Elected in 2000. | rowspan=3 | 20 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 21 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2004.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2006. | rowspan=3 | 21 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 22 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2010.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2012. | rowspan=3 | 22 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 23 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2016.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2018. | rowspan=3 | 23 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | rowspan=3 | 24 | rowspan=3 | Re-elected in 2022.

|- style="height:2em" | rowspan=3| Re-elected in 2024. | rowspan=3| 24 | Template:List of United States senators Congress

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|- style="height:2em" | Template:List of United States senators Congress | 25 | colspan=5 | To be determined in the 2028 election.

See also

• List of United States representatives from Washington
• United States congressional delegations from Washington
• Elections in Washington (state)