Chairmen of the United States Senate Committee on Finance

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The following people have chaired the United States Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) which is a standing committee of the United States Senate.

Chairmen

Senator	Party	State	Years
Max Baucus	Democratic	Montana	2003–present
Chuck Grassley	Republican	Iowa	2003–2006
Max Baucus	Democratic	Montana	2001–2003
Chuck Grassley	Republican	Iowa	2001
Max Baucus	Democratic	Montana	2001
William V. Roth, Jr.	Republican	Delaware	1995–2001
Bob Packwood	Republican	Oregon	1995
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Democratic	New York	1993–1995
Lloyd Bentsen	Democratic	Texas	1987–1993
Bob Packwood	Republican	Oregon	1985–1987
Bob Dole	Republican	Kansas	1981–1985
Russell B. Long	Democratic	Louisiana	1965–1981
Harry F. Byrd	Democratic	Virginia	1955–1965
Eugene D. Millikin	Republican	Colorado	1953–1955
Walter F. George	Democratic	Georgia	1949–1953
Eugene D. Millikin	Republican	Colorado	1947–1949
Walter F. George	Democratic	Georgia	1941–1947
Pat Harrison	Democratic	Mississippi	1933–1941
Reed Smoot	Republican	Utah	1923–1933
Porter J. McCumber	Republican	North Dakota	1921–1923
Boies Penrose	Republican	Pennsylvania	1919–1921
Furnifold M. Simmons	Democratic	North Carolina	1913–1919
Boies Penrose	Republican	Pennsylvania	1911–1913
Nelson W. Aldrich	Republican	Rhode Island	1898–1911
Justin Smith Morrill²	Republican	Vermont	1895–1898
Daniel W. Voorhees	Democratic	Indiana	1893–1895
Justin Smith Morrill	Republican	Vermont	1881–1893
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.	Democratic	Delaware	1879–1881
Justin Smith Morrill	Republican	Vermont	1877–1879
John Sherman	Republican	Ohio	1867–1877
William P. Fessenden	Republican	Maine	1865–1867
John Sherman	Republican	Ohio	1864–1865
William P. Fessenden	Republican	Maine	1861–1864
James A. Pearce	Democratic	Maryland	1861
Robert M. T. Hunter	Democratic	Virginia	1850–1861
Daniel S. Dickinson	Democratic	New York	1849–1850
Charles G. Atherton	Democratic	New Hampshire	1847–1849
Dixon H. Lewis	Democratic	Alabama	1846–1847
John C. Calhoun	Democratic	South Carolina	1845–1846
Levi Woodbury¹	Democratic	New Hampshire	1845
George Evans	Whig	Maine	1841–1845
Henry Clay	Whig	Kentucky	1841
Silas Wright	Democratic, Jacksonian	New York	1836–1841
Daniel Webster	Anti-Jacksonian	Massachusetts	1833–1836
Samuel Smith	Crawford Republican, Jacksonian	Maryland	1823–1833
Walter Lowrie	Democratic-Republican	Pennsylvania	1822–1823
John Holmes	Democratic-Republican	Maine	1821–1822
Nathan Sanford	Democratic-Republican	New York	1819–1821
John Wayles Eppes	Democratic-Republican	Virginia	1818–1819
George W. Campbell	Democratic-Republican	Tennessee	1815–1818

¹ Chaired a special session of the 29th Congress, his ten day chairmanship of the committee is the shortest on record.

² Morrill holds the longest non-continuous service as Chairman at eighteen years. Russell Long holds the longest continuous service as chairman at fourteen years.

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