No, not current senators — don’t get your ignoble hopes up.
With more than 40,000 photographs and other images, the Senate Historical Office has images of almost all people who have served as members of the U.S. Senate. 5o members are completely absent from the Senate collection, however.
Got any idea where to find images of these guys? This comes from the Senate Historical Office:
Senators Not Represented in Senate Historical Office Photo Collection
The Senate Historical Office maintains a collection of more than 40,000 still pictures, slides, and negatives. The collection includes photographs and illustrations of most former senators, but to date no photo or other illustration of about fifty members has been found. Below is a list (by state) of U.S. Senators for whom we have no image in our collection. If you have an image, or information that may lead us to an image, please contact the Senate’s photo historian.
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Alabama: – 2
William Kelly, 1822-1825
John Williams Walker, 1819-1822Connecticut: – 2
Thaddeus Betts, 1839-1840
Perry Smith, 1837-1843Delaware: – 1
Outerbridge Horsey, 1810-1821Georgia: – 5
William Bellinger Bulloch, 1813-1813
Thomas Willis Cobb, 1824-1828
Alfred Cuthbert, 1835-1843
James Gunn, 1789-1801
Josiah Tattnall, 1796-1799Kentucky – 1
George Walker, 1814-1814Louisiana – 3
Eligius Fromentin, 1813-1819
Allan Bowie Magruder, 1812-1813
Robert Carter Nicholas, 1836-1841Massachusetts – 1
Eli Porter Ashmun, 1816-1818Maryland – 6
John Henry, 1789-1797
Robert Henry Goldsborough, 1813-1819, 1835-1836
James Lloyd, 1797-1800
William Dunhurst Merrick, 1838-1845
John Selby Spence, 1836-1840
David Stewart, 1849-1850Mississippi – 4
Robert Huntington Adams, 1830-1830
John Black, 1832-1838
Joseph Williams Chalmers, 1845-1847New Hampshire – 2
Charles Cutts, 1810-1813
Nahum Parker, 1807-1810New Jersey: – 3
Jonathan Elmer, 1789-1791
Aaron Kitchell, 1805-1809
James Jefferson Wilson, 1815-1821New York – 1
Obadiah German, 1809-1815North Carolina – 4
Timothy Bloodworth, 1795-1801
Jesse Franklin, 1799-1805, 1807-1813
Francis Locke, 1814-1815
James Turner, 1805-1816Ohio – 3
Stanley Griswold, 1809-1809
Joseph Kerr, 1814-1815
John Smith, 1803-1808Pennsylvania – 1
Samuel Maclay, 1803-1809Rhode Island – 7
Nathan Dixon, Sr., 1839-1842
Benjamin Howland, 1804-1809
Henry Frederick Lippitt, 1911-1917
Francis Malbone, 1809-1809
Samuel John Potter, 1803-1804
Joseph Stanton, Jr., 1790-1793
William Sprague, 1842-1844South Carolina – 1
John Hunter, 1796-1798Tennessee – 3
Daniel Smith, 1798-1799, 1805-1809
Jesse Wharton, 1814-1815
Jenkin Whiteside, 1809-1811Vermont – 4
Dudley Chase, 1813-1817, 1825-1831
Nathaniel Chipman, 1797-1803
Jonathan Robinson, 1807-1815
Israel Smith, 1803-1807_________________________
You just know that somewhere out there, a local museum has a painting of one of these guys. Or, someone has a painting or drawing of an old-timey guy hanging over a fireplace, a family heirloom that features one of these guys. I mean, how could a guy like Outerbridge Horsey fail to inspire an artist somewhere?
Do you know of one? Contact the Senate Historical Office, and let us know here, too.







A quick look at the list shows two names that are surprises, since they represent Senators whose families sent several members to Congress, Goldsborough of Maryland and Maclay of PA.
In fact, the last Goldsborough to serve was TA who was in Congress as late as 1939, and then a jurist. I’d check Goldsboro Maryland — named after the family despite the different spelling — though it’s a town of only 216.
The Maclays were less prominent, mostly very short timers, but Samuel Maclay’s journal was a published book and frequently such works at the time (1887) had a picture of the author.
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