This is a
List of United States Senators from Maryland.
Maryland ratified the
Constitution on April 28, 1788, becoming the seventh state to do so. To provide for continuity of government, the framers divided Senators into staggered classes that serve six-year terms, and Maryland's Senators are in the first and third classes. Before the passage of the
Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, which allowed for direct election of Senators, Maryland's Senators were chosen by the
Maryland General Assembly. Until the assembly appointed
George L. Wellington of
Cumberland in 1897, Senators in class 3 were chosen from the
Eastern Shore while Senators in class 1 were chosen from the remainder of the state.