In the Senate he would serve for 30 years, and now holds the record for longest serving Senator from Oregon.

He was reelected in 1986, 1992, 1998, 2004, and 2010; he is the second-longest serving Senator in Iowa history.

McDowell, first elected in 1976, is the longest serving Senator.

He is the longest serving Senator in Jamaican history, serving from 1977-2011.

He is the longest serving Republican Senator in the history of Montana.

He is the sixth longest serving Senator in American history.

He served as Democratic State Senator representing Concordia Parish from 1880 to 1884.

As of 2010 he is the sixth-longest currently serving Senator, and the third longest-serving Republican.

At the time of his retirement he was the longest serving Senator.

He was the first serving Australian Senator to die.