Blanche Lincoln (D) – Senior Senator from Arkansas
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Mark Pryor (D) – Junior Senator from Arkansas
In January 2009, he was the youngest senator – for 19 days. He was the oldest senator to hold the title, at 45 years old. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Dianne Feinstein (D) – Senior Senator from California
The senator is featured in archival footage shown in the Academy Award winning film “Milk”. The 1978 footage shows Feinstein announcing at a press conference that San Francisco mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by Dan White. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Barbara Boxer (D) – Junior Senator from California
She has made cameo appearances as herself in several television shows, including Murphy Brown, Gilmore Girls and Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as a cameo (as herself) in the 2000 film Traffic. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Mark Udall (D) Senior Senator from Colorado Senator
Udall is an avid mountaineer and has climbed all 54 mountains in Colorado with peaks more than 14,000 feet high.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Michael Bennet (D) – Junior Senator from Colorado
He was born in New Delhi while his father, Douglas J. Bennet, was serving as an aide to Chester Bowles, then the U.S. ambassador to India. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
Joe Lieberman (D) – Junior Senator from Connecticut
Before he was the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket, Joe walked to the senior prom rather than drive to it on a Saturday, in violation of Sabbath laws. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Chris Dodd (D) – Senior Senator from Connecticut
Sen. Dodd and former President Bill Clinton are long-time golfing buddies. Clinton even tried to convince Dodd to run for president in 2000. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
Tom Carper (D) – Senior Senator from Delaware
Sen. Carper (center) commutes everyday from his home in Wilmington, DE to Capitol Hill.(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Ted Kaufman (D) – Junior Senator from Delaware
Kaufman began a Senate tradition – called the “Senate’s Champion of Civil Service” by the Washington Post, he honors a different federal employee each week on the Senate floor for his or her dedication to public service. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Bill Nelson (D) – Senior Senator from Florida
In 1986, he became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space, as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia. (Photo by Chris Usher/CBS via Getty Images)
George LeMieux (R) – Junior Senator from Florida
He has his own YouTube channel, which hosts his show The LeMieux report, which talks about economic and political issues in Florida. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Saxby Chambliss (R) – Senior Senator from Georgia
Chambliss and Georgia’s junior senator, Johnny Isakson (R), met at the University of Georgia more than 40 years ago and dated a pair of Phi Mu sorority sisters they later married.(Photo by Dave Martin/Getty Images)
Daniel Inouye (D) – Senior Senator from Hawaii
The most member of the Senate. Also holds the position of President pro tempore of the United States Senate making him the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in American history. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Daniel Akaka (D) – Junior Senator from Hawaii
He is the first native Hawaiian in the Senate, and the only current member of the Senate with Chinese ancestry. His middle name is Hawaiian – Kahikina which means “the east” or “the arrival.”(Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Michael Crapo (R) – Senior Senator from Idaho
Crapo became the first Mormon senator in a state where one-quarter of residents are members of the church of Latter Day Saints.(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Jim Risch (R)- Junior Senator from Idaho
The senator has spent most of his career in public office. He’s run for office 32 times and lost only twice.(Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Dick Durbin (D) – Senior Senator from Illinois
He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.(Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Roland Burris (D) – Junior Senator from Illinois
Burris has built a mausoleum for himself in Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago’s South Side. His tombstone proclaims, “Trail Blazer,” and includes a list of his accomplishments, with space left for future ones.(Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)