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page 1United States senators who owned slaves
Andrew Jackson
president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
James Monroe
president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
Martin Van Buren
president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
Andrew Johnson
President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
John Tyler
president of the United States from 1841 to 1845
William Henry Harrison
president of the United States in 1841
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
Aaron Burr
vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)
John C. Calhoun
vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (1782–1850)
Sam Houston
American statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
William R. King
vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)
John C. Breckinridge
vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (1821–1875)
Richard Mentor Johnson
vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
Henry Clay
American politician from Kentucky (1777-1852)
Judah P. Benjamin
American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)
Rebecca Latimer Felton
American politician (1835-1930)
Lewis Cass
American politician (1782-1866)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
American planter and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1832)
Robert Morris
American financier and Founding Father of the United States (1734-1806)
Richard Henry Lee
Founding Father of the United States (1732–1794)
John Forsyth
American politician (1780–1841)
Rufus King
American Founding Father (1755–1827)
William Wyatt Bibb
first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1781-1820)
George Read
American politician (1733-1798)
Robert J. Walker
American politician (1801-1869)
Thomas Hart Benton
State Senator from Tennessee, Senator and U.S. Representative from Missouri (1782–1858)
Charles Pinckney
American politician (1757-1824)
Philip Schuyler
American politician and general (1733–1804)
David Rice Atchison
United States Senator from Missouri (1807-1886)
James Barbour
American statesman and orator (1775-1842)
John J. Crittenden
U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)
Richard Bassett
American politician (1745-1815)
William Blount
American statesman and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution (1749-1800)
John B. Gordon
American politician (1832-1904)
John Breckinridge
American politician (1760–1806)
William Samuel Johnson
British-American politician (1727-1819)
George W. Campbell
American politician (1769-1848)
John Bell
American lawyer and politician (1796–1869)
John Armstrong Jr.
American politician (1758-1843)
Robert M. T. Hunter
American lawyer and politician (1809-1887)
John Randolph of Roanoke
American politician (1773–1833)
Robert Toombs
American politician (1810-1885)
John Eaton
American politician and diplomat (1790-1856)
Wade Hampton III
American politician (1818-1902)
Felix Grundy
American politician (1777-1840)
Pierce Butler
United States Founding Father, from South Carolina
Clement Comer Clay
American politician (1789-1866)
William Mahone
American civil war general and politician (1826-1895)
John M. Berrien
American politician from Georgia, United States (1781-1856)
Alexander Martin
18th century American politician, governor of North Carolina (1740-1807)
William Alexander Graham
American politician (1804-1875)
Zebulon Baird Vance
Confederate military officer in the American Civil War (1830-1894)
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Union Army general, politician (1821–1875)
John Eager Howard
American politician, 5th Governor of Maryland
Richard Coke
American politician (1829-1897)
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
American politician (1803–1857)
John Branch
American politician (1782-1863)
James Jackson
American politician (1757–1806)
John Tyler Morgan
United States politician and Confederate soldier (1824-1907)
William C. C. Claiborne
American frontier politician (c.1773–1817)