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{{short description|Senate Republican campaign arm}}
{{more citations needed|date=April 2018}}
{{United States Senate}}
The '''National Republican Senate Committee''' '''(NRSC)''' is the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Hill committee]] for the [[United States Senate]], working to elect Republicans to the Senate. The NRSC was founded in 1916 as the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. It was reorganized in 1948 and renamed the National Republican Senatorial Committee.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) |url=http://www.nrsc.org/ |website=National Republican Senatorial Committee |access-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007000000/http://www.nrsc.org/ |archive-date=October 7, 2019}} [https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0012375/ Alt URL]</ref> It has been chaired by Senator [[Tim Scott]] from [[South Carolina]] since 2025.

The NRSC helps elect Republican incumbents and challengers primarily through fundraising.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/staggering-price-crushing-tea-party-108317.html?hp=t1|title=The price of crushing the tea party|last=Burns|first=Alexander|date=June 25, 2014|website=Politico|publisher=Politico LLC|access-date=April 5, 2018}}</ref>

==List of chairmen==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!State
!Term
|-
|[[Miles Poindexter]]
|[[Washington (state)|WA]]
|1919–1921
|-
|[[Joseph M. McCormick]]
|[[Illinois|IL]]
|1921–1923
|-
|[[George H. Moses]]
|[[New Hampshire|NH]]
|1923–1925
|-
|[[Lawrence C. Phipps]]
|[[Colorado|CO]]
|1925–1927<ref>{{cite news|title=Phipps To Run Campaign Work|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=December 14, 1925}}</ref>
|-
|[[Jesse H. Metcalf]]
|[[Rhode Island|RI]]
|1927–1929
|-
|[[George H. Moses]]
|[[New Hampshire|NH]]
|1929–1931
|-
|[[Henry D. Hatfield]]
|[[West Virginia|WV]]
|1931–1933
|-
|[[Daniel O. Hastings]]
|[[Delaware|DE]]
|1933–1936
|-
|[[John G. Townsend Jr.]]
|[[Delaware|DE]]
|1936–1945
|-
|[[Owen Brewster]]
|[[Maine|ME]]
|1945–1951
|-
|[[Styles Bridges]]
|[[New Hampshire|NH]]
|1951–1951
|-
|[[Everett Dirksen]]
|[[Illinois|IL]]
|1951–1955
|-
|[[Barry Goldwater]]
|[[Arizona|AZ]]
|1955–1957
|-
|[[Everett M. Dirksen]]
|[[Illinois|IL]]
|1957–1959
|-
|[[Andrew Frank Schoeppel]]
|[[Kansas|KS]]
|1959–1961
|-
|[[Barry Goldwater]]
|[[Arizona|AZ]]
|1961–1963
|-
|[[Thruston Ballard Morton]]
|[[Kentucky|KY]]
|1963–1967
|-
|[[George Murphy]]
|[[California|CA]]
|1967–1969
|-
|[[John Tower]]
|[[Texas|TX]]
|1969–1971
|-
|[[Peter H. Dominick]]
|[[Colorado|CO]]
|1971–1973
|-
|[[Bill Brock]]
|[[Tennessee|TN]]
|1973–1975
|-
|[[Ted Stevens]]
|[[Alaska|AK]]
|1975–1977 
|-
|[[Bob Packwood]]
|[[Oregon|OR]]
|1977–1979
|-
|[[H. John Heinz III]]
|[[Pennsylvania|PA]]
|1979–1981
|-
|[[Bob Packwood]]
|[[Oregon|OR]]
|1981–1983 
|-
|[[Richard Lugar]]
|[[Indiana|IN]]
|1983–1985 
|-
|[[H. John Heinz III]]
|[[Pennsylvania|PA]]
|1985–1987 
|-
|[[Rudy Boschwitz]]
|[[Minnesota|MN]]
|1987–1989
|-
|[[Don Nickles]]
|[[Oklahoma|OK]]
|1989–1991
|-
|[[Phil Gramm]]
|[[Texas|TX]]
|1991–1995
|-
|[[Al D'Amato]]
|[[New York (state)|NY]]
|1995–1997 
|-
|[[Mitch McConnell]]
|[[Kentucky|KY]]
|1997–2001
|-
|[[Bill Frist]]
|[[Tennessee|TN]]
|2001–2003
|-
|[[George Allen (U.S. politician)|George Allen]]
|[[Virginia|VA]]
|2003–2005
|-
|[[Elizabeth Dole]]
|[[North Carolina|NC]]
|2005–2007
|-
|[[John Ensign]]
|[[Nevada|NV]]
|2007–2009
|-
|[[John Cornyn]]
|[[Texas|TX]]
|2009–2013
|-
|[[Jerry Moran]]
|[[Kansas|KS]]
|2013–2015
|-
|[[Roger Wicker]]
|[[Mississippi|MS]]
|2015–2017
|-
|[[Cory Gardner]]
|[[Colorado|CO]]
|2017–2019
|-
|[[Todd Young]]
|[[Indiana|IN]]
|2019–2021
|-
|[[Rick Scott]]
|[[Florida|FL]]
|2021–2023
|-
|[[Steve Daines]]
|[[Montana|MT]]
|2023–''2025''
|-
|''[[Tim Scott]]
|''[[South Carolina|SC]]''
|''2025''<!-- –present -->
|}

== See also ==
*[[National Republican Congressional Committee]]
*[[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.nrsc.org/}}

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