Talk:History of the United States Senate

Frank L. Smith was elected by the people of Illinois to serve as their senator in 1927. The Senate voted to not allow him to take his seat. Why? Did this happen ever again/before? Ydorb 22:00, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

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 * To partially answer my own question. See the Frank L. Smith article.  Others have also been denied, William Vare, Rush D. Holt, Sr., James Shields, Albert Gallatin. Ydorb June 30, 2005 19:14 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info. One of these days i'm going to finish the article and write the post-WWII history of the Senate. Dinopup 1 July 2005 02:54 (UTC)

Confusing sentence
This sentence is in the article: "In 1790, it would take a theoretical 30% of the population to elect a majority of the Senate, today it would take 17%." What does that even mean? Couldn't each Senator theoretically be elected by 1 voter, making the % much smaller? Or is there some sort of minimum votes required that I don't know about? I wasn't sure if there's some appropriate tag I can place after this sentence in the article since it seems to be fabricated. Error9900 (talk) 18:46, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Civil War
The article jumps from the Antebellum to the Gilded Age. Readers, like myself, would be well served with some info on how the Senate spent the 1860s. Awg1010 (talk) 05:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Written 18th century quote from James Wilson reference is 2004 Harper's Magazine article?
"Convention delegate James Wilson wrote "Our Constituents, had they voted as their representatives did, would have stood as 2/3 against equality, and 1/3 only in favor of it" (Harpers Magazine, May 2004, 36)." So, this is the earliest, most reliable source for this quote? I doubt it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.191.24.204 (talk) 16:48, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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number of senators missing
Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) says he was confirmed 24 to 23 but says nothing about the total number of senators in 1881 and why the total was an odd number. Even more surprising is that even this article has no info on this topic. --Espoo (talk) 18:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Does anybody have an external URL for the History of the United States Senate
Does anybody have a URL for the History of the United States Senate, because this article certainly does not provide either a history of the U.S. Senate or a URL to an outside source that might have one? Stevenmitchell (talk) 16:55, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

No Historical Overview of the US Senate on Government site
FYI, it should be noted that the U.S. Senate, itself, does not provide a historical overview of the Senate, but instead has a lot of interesting historical trivia on their website, and anecdotal examples (although seemingly arbitrary) that are included with a purported chronology that doesn't even include key events. I had hoped to include a U.S. Senate link under Official Senate Histories, but it doesn't appear that they have one that we can use. That being said, after wasting 2 hours on their website searching, it would benefit Wikipedia if we can develop either a full history or a list of salient events that shaped the Senate into its current form... Stevenmitchell (talk) 00:39, 9 August 2020 (UTC)