As of August 2014, Patrick Leahy is the longest currently serving Senator, having first been elected in 1974. Overall, Robert Byrd was the longest serving Senator, at 51 years.
As many times as his constituents want to re-elect him. The longest serving senator Robert Byrd had been elected to the senate 9 times and served 51 years 176 days. Patrick Leahy is presently the longest sitting Senator, elected 7 times and serving over 37 years to date, replacing Daniel Inouye of Hawaii (recently deceased) as the longest sitting senator, who had been elected 9 times and served almost 50 years.
he has been a u.s. senator for 36 years
A senator can serve in the United States Senate for six years. The Senator must have been a citizen of the US for at least seven years.
9 years
The Senate President Pro Tempore, the person who substitutes for the U.S. Vice President, who is also President of the Senate, when he is absent or acting as President, is by tradition the most senior Senator (the person who has been a U.S. Senator the longest). Until his death in December 2012 it had been Sen. Inouye of Hawaii. Since December 2012 it has been Sen. Leahy of Vermont, who has been a U.S. Senator since January 1975.
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an elected senate is a senator that has been elected, only for two years and then he or she can run again for senator
36 years he started in 1973.
No, you have to be a US Citizen.
From Article I, Section 3, of the US Constitution: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. So a candidate for Senator must have been a citizen for 9 years.
They must have been citizens for nine years.