WHO HAS HELD THIS SENATE SEAT?

Alan Cranston (1914 - 2000) served 1969-1993	Thomas Henry Kuchel (1910-1994) served 1953-1969	Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) served 1950-1953
Sheridan Downey (1884-1961) served 1939-1950	Thomas More Stork (1876-1971) served 1938-1939	William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) served 1933-1938
Samuel Morgan Shortridge (1861-1952) served 1921-1933	James Duval Phelan (1861-1930) served 1915-1921	George Clement Perkins (1839-1923) served 1893-1915
Leland Stanford (1824-1893) served 1885-1893	James Thompson Farley (1829-1886) served 1879-1885	Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827-1887) served 1873-1879
Cornelius Cole (1822-1924) served 1867-1873	James Alexander McDougall (1817-1867) served 1861-1867	William McKendree Gwin (1805-1885) served 1850-1855 & 1857-1861

Senator Boxer was elected in 1992 and reelected in 1998. She is the first woman to hold this U.S. Senate seat. Senator Boxer came to the Senate from the House of Representatives where she served for ten years representing California's 6th Congressional District.

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