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Jewish Parliamentarians:
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Listed Alphabetically By First Year of Election:
(Green denotes Currently Serving; Red/Blue denotes Party Affiliation)
Senator |
Party/State |
Years
of Service |
| David Levy Yulee | D-FL |
1845-1851, 1855-1861 |
| Judah Benjamin | Whig-LA |
1853-1861 |
| Benjamin Jonas | D-LA |
1879-1885 |
| Joseph Simon | R-OR |
1898-1903 |
| Isidor Rayner | D-MD |
1905-1912 |
| Simon Guggenheim | R-CO |
1907-1913 |
| Herbert Lehman | D-NY |
1949-1957 |
| Richard Neuberger | D-OR |
1955-1960 |
| Jacob Javits | R-NY |
1957-1981 |
| Ernest Gruening | D-AK |
1959-1969 |
| Abraham Ribicoff | D-CT |
1963-1981 |
| Howard Metzenbaum | D-OH |
1974, 1976-1995 |
| Richard Stone | D-FL |
1975-1980 |
| Edward Zorinsky | D-NE |
1976-1987 |
| Rudolph Boschwitz | R-MN |
1978-1991 |
| Carl Levin | D-MI |
1979- |
| Warren Rudman | R-NH |
1980-1993 |
| Arlen Specter | R/D-PA* |
1981-2011 |
| Frank Lautenberg | D-NJ |
1982-2001, 2003- |
| Jacob (Chic) Hecht | R-NV |
1983-1989 |
| Herb Kohl | D-WI |
1989-2013 |
| Joseph Lieberman | D/I-CT** |
1989-2013 |
| Paul Wellstone | D-MN |
1991-2002 |
| Barbara Boxer | D-CA |
1992- |
| Dianne Feinstein | D-CA |
1992- |
| Russ Feingold | D-WI |
1993-2011 |
| Ron Wyden | D-OR |
1996- |
| Charles Schumer | D-NY |
1999- |
| Norm Coleman | R-MN |
2003-2009 |
| Benjamin Cardin | D-MD |
2007- |
| Bernard Sanders | I-VT |
2007- |
| Michael Bennet | D-CO |
2009- |
| Al Franken | D-MN
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2009- |
| Richard Blumenthal | D-CT |
2011- |
| Brian Schatz | D-HI |
2013 - |
*Changed party affiliation in 2009 from Republican to Democrat
**Elected as an Independent in 2006
Sources: L. Sandy Maisel and Ira Forman, Eds, Jews in American Politics, (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), United States Senate, and various news sources.
