Talk:List of United States senators in the 5th Congress

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Dispute accuracy[edit]

This seniority rules used on this page are anachronistic. See Talk:List of United States Senators in the 18th Congress by seniority. -Rrius (talk) 19:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Seniority, in terms of length of service in the US Senate, does not seem to have had much formal influence before the 1840s. The most obvious source we have for seniority, the list accessible from the US Senate official website, just lists Senators with the same seniority date in alphabetical order (until the modern rules are applied starting in 1959). However the official numbering in the list may itself be anachronistic, to some extent. Even the author of the official list, who would presumably have access to all the extant records of the Senate, was not clear when the modern seniority rules were first applied. They may therefore predate 1959. I also recall seeing somewhere an explanation that, where two Senators from the same state had the same seniority date, the senior senator was the one with the shorter term. That principle is not followed by the official list. --Gary J (talk) 14:48, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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