| 100% | STROM | 5 | Senator ___ Thurmond who served for 48 years |
| 84% | STROM | 5 | ___ Thurmond, former US senator who served for 48 years |
| 67% | STROM | 5 | Thurmond who was a US senator for 48 years |
| 48% | SELIG | 5 | Bud who served as baseball commissioner for 22 years |
| 48% | KYL | 3 | Jon who served as senator for Arizona alongside John McCain |
| 48% | DOLE | 4 | Robert who served in the US Senate for 27 years |
| 47% | DIANNE | 6 | Feinstein who served in the Senate for more than thirty years |
| 45% | TED | 3 | Kennedy who was a senator for almost 47 years |
| 45% | TED | 3 | Kennedy who was a US senator for almost 47 years |
| 42% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | Former U.S. President who served as State Senator and U.S. Senator of 48-Across (2 wds.) |
| 41% | TAYLOR | 6 | President who served for 492 days |
| 39% | FDR | 3 | 32nd President who served for more than three terms: Abbr. |
| 37% | NERUDA | 6 | Writer who served as a senator in Chile |
| 37% | DOLE | 4 | Senator Bob who ran for president in 1996 |
| 37% | VET | 3 | Former soldier who served in combat, for short |
| 37% | VET | 3 | Retired soldier who served in wartime, for short |
| 37% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for senators |
| 36% | AMY | 3 | Senator Klobuchar who's running for President |
| 36% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for a senator |
| 36% | ONETERM | 7 | Six years, for a Senator |
| 36% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for US senators |
| 36% | KERRY | 5 | Politician who serves as the special presidential envoy for climate |
| 35% | YLD | 3 | WHO measure for disability-adjusted life years: Abbr. |
| 35% | ROTH | 4 | Senator William for whom an IRA is named |
| 35% | INOUYE | 6 | Senator for whom Honolulu's airport is named |
| 35% | PELL | 4 | Senator Claiborne for whom a grant is named |
| 35% | TERM | 4 | Six years, for a US senator |
| 35% | INOUYE | 6 | Hawaiian senator for almost 50 years |
| 35% | BOBDOLE | 7 | Kansas senator for twenty-seven years |
| 35% | ENZI | 4 | Mike who served as a Wyoming senator from 1997 to 2021 |