Foote (D-MS) 1850-1851 James M. Mason (D-VA) 1851-1861 Charles Sumner (R-MA) 1861-1871 Simon Cameron (R-PA) 1871-1877 Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME) 1877-1879 William W. Eaton (D-CT) 1879-1881 Ambrose E. Burnside (R-RI) 1881 George F. Edmunds (R-VT) 1881 William Windom (R-MN) 1881-1883 John F. Miller (R-CA) 1883-1886 John Sherman (R-OH) 1886-1893 John T. Morgan (D-AL) 1893-1895 John Sherman (R-OH) 1895-1897 William P. Frye (R-ME) 1897 Cushman K. Davis (R-MN) 1897-1901 Shelby M. Cullom (R-IL) 1901-1911 Augustus O. Bacon (D-GA) 1913-1914 William J. Stone (D-MO) 1914-1918 Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D-NE) 1918–1919 Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA) 1919-1924 William E. Borah (R-ID) 1924-1933 Key Pittman (D-NV) 1933-1940 Walter F. George (D-GA) 1940–1941 Tom Connally (D-TX) 1941-1947 Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-MI) 1947-1949 Tom Connally (D-TX) 1949-1953 Alexander Wiley (R-WI) 1953-1955 Walter F. George (D-GA) 1955-1957 Theodore F. Green (D-RI) 1957-1959 J. William Fulbright (D-AR) 1959-1975 John J. Sparkman (D-AL) 1975-1979 Frank F. Church (D-ID) 1979-1981 Charles H. Percy (R-IL) 1981-1985 Richard G. Lugar (R-ID) 1985-1987 Claiborne Pell (D-RI) 1987-1995 Jesse Helms (R-NC) 1995–2001 Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) 2001 Jesse Helms (R-NC) 2001 Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) 2001-2003 Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) 2003-2007 Joseph R.