Statistics for Historical U.S. Senators

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State, Political Party, and Term Year(s)	U.S. Senator	% Correct
New York, Democrat, 2001-2009	Hillary Clinton	100%
Arizona, Republican, 1987-2018	John McCain	93%
Illinois, Democrat, 2005-2008	Barack Obama	81%
Delaware, Democrat, 1973-2009	Joe Biden	81%
Connecticut, Democrat/Independent, 1989-2013	Joe Lieberman	81%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1962-2009	Ted Kennedy	81%
Tennessee, Democrat, 1985-1993	Al Gore, Jr.	78%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1953-1960	John F. Kennedy	78%
California, Democrat, 1993-2017	Barbara Boxer	74%
Wisconsin, Republican, 1947-1957	Joseph McCarthy	74%
Texas, Democrat, 1949-1961	Lyndon Johnson	74%
Maine, Republican, 1995-2013	Olympia Snowe	74%
Utah, Republican, 1977-2019	Orrin Hatch	74%
California, Republican, 1950-1953	Richard Nixon	74%
Illinois, Democrat, 1847-1861	Stephen Douglas	74%
Pennsylvania, Republican for 4 full terms/Democrat in last term, 1981-2011	Arlen Specter	70%
Kansas, Republican, 1969-1996	Bob Dole	70%
South Dakota, Democrat, 1963-1981	George McGovern	70%
Nevada, Democrat, 1987-2017	Harry Reid	70%
West Virginia, Democrat, 1959-2010	Robert Byrd	70%
Wisconsin, Republican, 1906-1925	Robert La Follette	70%
Ohio, Republican, 1939-1953 "Mr. Republican"	Robert Taft	70%
South Carolina, Democrat/then Republican, 1954-1956, 1956-2003	Strom Thurmond	70%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1964-1976	Walter Mondale	70%
Massachusetts, Republican, 1893-1924	Henry Cabot Lodge	67%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1949-1964, 1971-1978	Hubert Humphrey	67%
Massachusetts, Democrat, 1985-2013	John Kerry	67%
Hawaii, Democrat, 1963-2012	Daniel Inouye	63%
Indiana, Republican, 1981-1989	Dan Quayle	63%
Missouri, Democrat, 1935-1945	Harry Truman	63%
South Carolina, Nullifier/Democrat, 1832-1843, 1845-1850	John C. Calhoun	63%
Alaska, Republican, 1968-2009	Ted Stevens	63%
Minnesota, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, 1959-1971 (1968 anti-war candidate)	Eugene McCarthy	59%
Kentucky, Democratic-Republican/Anti-Jacksonian/Whig, 1806-1807, 1810-1811, 1831-1842, 1849-1852	Henry Clay	59%
Virginia, Anti-Administration, 1790-1794	James Monroe	59%
North Carolina, Republican, 1973-2003	Jesse Helms	59%
Ohio, Democrat, 1974-1999	John Glenn	59%
New York, Democrat, 1965-1968	Robert F. Kennedy	59%
Tennessee, Democrat/Unionist/Democrat, 1857-1862, 1875	Andrew Johnson	56%
Arizona, Republican, 1953-1965, 1969-1987	Barry Goldwater	56%
Mississippi, Democrat, 1847-1851	Jefferson Davis	56%
Colorado, Democrat/Republican since 1995, 1992-2005	Ben Nighthorse Campbell	52%
Texas, Democrat, 1846-1859	Sam Houston	52%
Ohio, Republican, 1915-1921	Warren Harding	52%
New York, Anti-Administration/Democratic-Republican, 1791-1797	Aaron Burr	48%
Massachusetts, Anti-Jacksonian/Whig, 1827-1841, 1845-1850	Daniel Webster	44%
Massachusetts, Federalist, 1803-1808	John Quincy Adams	44%
New Hampshire, Democrat, 1837-1842	Franklin Pierce	41%
Idaho, Republican, 1907-1940	William Borah	41%
Maine, Democrat first term/Republican afterward, 1848-1857, 1857-1861, 1869-1881	Hannibal Hamlin	37%
Mississippi, Republican, 1870-1871	Hiram Rhodes Revels	37%
Pennsylvania, Jacksonian/Democrat, 1834-1845	James Buchanan	37%
Michigan, Democrat, 1845-1848, 1849-1857	Lewis Cass	37%
New York, Whig/Republican, 1849-1861	William Seward	37%
Indiana, Republican, 1881-1887	Benjamin Harrison	33%
Massachusetts, Free Soil/Republican/Liberal Republican, 1851-1874	Charles Sumner	33%
New Jersey, Federalist, 1793-1796 (first in large NJ political dynasty)	Frederick Frelinghuysen	33%
New York, Democratic-Republican/Jacksonian, 1821-1828	Martin Van Buren	33%
Missouri, Democrat, 1821-1851	Thomas Hart Benton	33%
Ohio, Anti-Jacksonian, 1825-1828	William Henry Harrison	30%
Alabama, Democratic-Republican/Jacksonian/Democrat, 1819-1844, 1848-1852	William Rufus King	30%
Virginia, Jacksonian/Anti-Jacksonian, 1827-1836	John Tyler	26%
New York, Republican, 1867-1881 (Republican political boss of NY)	Roscoe Conkling	26%
Tennessee, Whig/Know Nothing, 1847-1859	John Bell	19%
Ohio, Republican, 1861-1877, 1881-1897	John Sherman	19%
Oklahoma, Democrat, 1949-1963	Robert Kerr	19%
Rhode Island, Republican, 1875-1881	Ambrose Burnside	15%
Ohio, Whig/Republican, 1851-1869 (leading Radical Republican)	Benjamin Wade	15%
Pennsylvania, Democrat first term/Republican other terms, 1845-1849, 1857-1861, 1867-1877 (Lincoln's Secretary of War)	Simon Cameron	15%