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Washington 5 4 West Virginia 12 3 Wisconsin 8 6 Wyoming 1 2 Total 677 345 The total of the preceding lists is 1022. Georgia, in spite of non-representation in congress from 1861 to 1871, leads in the number of senators. She has sent 43 to congress. New Hampshire comes second with 39 and Virginia third with 38. New Jersey leads in the first list, that is as having sent the most men to the senate without previous experience in the house. 30 out of her 37 senators have never been sent to congress as representatives. Rhode Island and New York come second with 26 each. Massachusetts and Wyoming are the only states which have elected more by way of the house than have been sent first to the senate.