List of United States senators from Utah facts for kids

Current delegation

Mike Lee (R)

Mitt Romney (R)

Utah was admitted to the Union on January 4, 1896, and it popularly elects U.S. senators to class 1 and class 3, despite the Utah State Legislature's rejection of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it was passed in 1913. Its current senators are Republicans Mike Lee and Mitt Romney. Orrin Hatch was Utah's longest-serving senator (1977–2019). Utah is one of fifteen states alongside Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada and South Dakota to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.

List of senators

Class 1 Class 1 U.S. senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018. The next election will be in 2024.						C	Class 3 Class 3 U.S. senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 2004, 2010, 2016, and 2022. The next election will be in 2028.
#	Senator	Party	Dates in office	Electoral history	T		T	Electoral history	Dates in office	Party	Senator	#
Vacant			Jan 4, 1896 – Jan 22, 1896	Utah elected its senators 18 days after statehood.	1	54th	1	Utah elected its senators 18 days after statehood.	Jan 4, 1896 – Jan 22, 1896	Vacant
1	Frank J. Cannon	Republican	Jan 22, 1896 – Mar 3, 1899	Elected in 1896.				Elected in 1896. Retired.	Jan 22, 1896 – Mar 3, 1897	Republican	Arthur Brown	1
		Silver Republican				55th	2	Elected in 1897. Lost re-election.	Mar 4, 1897 – Mar 3, 1903	Democratic	Joseph L. Rawlins	2
Vacant			Mar 4, 1899 – Jan 23, 1901	Legislature failed to elect.	2	56th
2	Thomas Kearns	Republican	Jan 23, 1901 – Mar 3, 1905	Elected late in 1901. Retired.
						57th
						58th	3	Elected in 1903.	Mar 4, 1903 – Mar 3, 1933	Republican	Reed Smoot	3
3	George Sutherland	Republican	Mar 4, 1905 – Mar 3, 1917	Elected in 1905.	3	59th
						60th
						61st	4	Re-elected in 1909.
				Re-elected in 1911. Lost re-election.	4	62nd
						63rd
						64th	5	Re-elected in 1914.
4	William H. King	Democratic	Mar 4, 1917 – Jan 3, 1941	Elected in 1916.	5	65th
						66th
						67th	6	Re-elected in 1920.
				Re-elected in 1922.	6	68th
						69th
						70th	7	Re-elected in 1926. Lost re-election.
				Re-elected in 1928.	7	71st
						72nd
						73rd	8	Elected in 1932.	Mar 4, 1933 – Jan 3, 1951	Democratic	Elbert D. Thomas	4
				Re-elected in 1934. Lost renomination.	8	74th
						75th
						76th	9	Re-elected in 1938.
5	Abe Murdock	Democratic	Jan 3, 1941 – Jan 3, 1947	Elected in 1940. Lost re-election.	9	77th
						78th
						79th	10	Re-elected in 1944. Lost re-election.
6	Arthur V. Watkins	Republican	Jan 3, 1947 – Jan 3, 1959	Elected in 1946.	10	80th
						81st
						82nd	11	Elected in 1950.	Jan 3, 1951 – Dec 20, 1974	Republican	Wallace F. Bennett	5
				Re-elected in 1952. Lost re-election.	11	83rd
						84th
						85th	12	Re-elected in 1956.
7	Frank Moss	Democratic	Jan 3, 1959 – Jan 3, 1977	Elected in 1958.	12	86th
						87th
						88th	13	Re-elected in 1962.
				Re-elected in 1964.	13	89th
						90th
						91st	14	Re-elected in 1968. Retired, and resigned early to give successor preferential seniority.
				Re-elected in 1970. Lost re-election.	14	92nd
						93rd
								Appointed to finish Bennett's term, having been elected to the next term.	Dec 21, 1974 – Jan 3, 1993	Republican	Jake Garn	6
						94th	15	Elected in 1974.
8	Orrin Hatch	Republican	Jan 3, 1977 – Jan 3, 2019	Elected in 1976.	15	95th
						96th
						97th	16	Re-elected in 1980.
				Re-elected in 1982.	16	98th
						99th
						100th	17	Re-elected in 1986. Retired.
				Re-elected in 1988.	17	101st
						102nd
						103rd	18	Elected in 1992.	Jan 3, 1993 – Jan 3, 2011	Republican	Bob Bennett	7
				Re-elected in 1994.	18	104th
						105th
						106th	19	Re-elected in 1998.
				Re-elected in 2000.	19	107th
						108th
						109th	20	Re-elected in 2004. Lost renomination.
				Re-elected in 2006.	20	110th
						111th
						112th	21	Elected in 2010.	Jan 3, 2011 – present	Republican	Mike Lee	8
				Re-elected in 2012. Retired.	21	113th
						114th
						115th	22	Re-elected in 2016.
9	Mitt Romney	Republican	Jan 3, 2019 – present	Elected in 2018. Retiring at the end of term.	22	116th
						117th
						118th	23	Re-elected in 2022.
To be determined in the 2024 election.					23	119th
						120th
						121st	24	To be determined in the 2028 election.
#	Senator	Party	Years in office	Electoral history	T e r m		T e r m	Electoral history	Years in office	Party	Senator	#
Class 1							Class 3

See also

• United States congressional delegations from Utah
• List of United States representatives from Utah
• Elections in Utah