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Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818. Class 2 | Senator | Party | From | To | | Jesse B. Thomas | Democrat, National Republican | 1818 | 1829 | | John McLean | Democrat | 1829 | 1830 | | David J. Baker | Democrat | 1830 | | | John M. Robinson | Democrat | 1830 | 1841 | | Samuel McRoberts | Democrat | 1841 | 1843 | | James Semple | Democrat | 1843 | 1847 | | Stephen A. Douglas | Democrat | 1847 | 1861 | | Orville H. Browning | Republican | 1861 | 1863 | | William A. Richardson | Democrat | 1863 | 1865 | | Richard Yates | Republican | 1865 | 1871 | | John A. Logan | Republican | 1871 | 1877 | | David Davis | Independent, Democrat | 1877 | 1883 | | Shelby M. Cullom | Republican | 1883 | 1913 | | James H. Lewis | Democrat | 1913 | 1919 | | Joseph M. McCormick | Republican | 1919 | 1925 | | Charles S. Deneen | Republican | 1925 | 1931 | | James H. Lewis | Democrat | 1931 | 1939 | | James M. Slattery | Democrat | 1939 | 1940 | | Charles W. Brooks | Republican | 1940 | 1949 | | Paul Douglas | Democrat | 1949 | 1967 | | Charles H. Percy | Republican | 1967 | 1985 | | Paul Simon | Democrat | 1985 | 1997 | | Richard Durbin | Democrat | 1997 | | Class 3 | Senator | Party | From | To | | Ninian Edwards | Democrat, National Republican | 1818 | 1824 | | John McLean | Democrat | 1824 | 1825 | | Elias K. Kane | Democrat | 1825 | 1835 | | William Lee D. Ewing | Democrat | 1835 | 1837 | | Richard M. Young | Democrat | 1837 | 1843 | | Sidney Breese | Democrat | 1843 | 1849 | | James Shields | Democrat | 1849 | 1855 | | Lyman Trumbull | Republican | 1855 | 1873 | | Richard J. Oglesby | Republican | 1873 | 1879 | | John A. Logan | Republican | 1879 | 1886 | | Charles B. Farwell | Republican | 1887 | 1891 | | John McAuley Paulmer | Democrat | 1891 | 1897 | | William E. Mason | Republican | 1897 | 1903 | | Albert J. Hopkins | Republican | 1903 | 1909 | | William Lorimer | Republican | 1909 | 1912 | | Lawrence Y. Sherman | Republican | 1913 | 1921 | | William B. McKinley | Republican | 1921 | 1926 | | Frank L. Smith | Republican | 1926 | 1928 | | Otis F. Glenn | Republican | 1928 | 1933 | | William H. Dieterich | Democrat | 1933 | 1939 | | Scott W. Lucas | Democrat | 1939 | 1951 | | Everett McKinley Dirksen | Republican | 1951 | 1969 | | Ralph Tyler Smith | Republican | 1969 | 1970 | | Adlai Stevenson III | Democrat | 1970 | 1981 | | Alan J. Dixon | Democrat | 1981 | 1993 | | Carol Moseley Braun | Democrat | 1993 | 1999 | | Peter G. Fitzgerald | Republican | 1999 | 2005 | | Barack Obama | Democrat | 2005 | | |
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