print email comment close Senate Chamber Desks URL: http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/special/Desks/default.cfm Description: This presentation features historical details about the U.S. Senate chamber desks. "The Senate purchased 48 desks for its chamber in 1819, adding desks as new states joined the Union. To date, more than 1,600 senators have occupied these historic desks." Features a Senate seating plan, an interactive timeline of the evolution of the desks, and "desk history & mystery" (which includes a section about the so-called "Candy Desk"). From the U.S. Senate. Publisher: United States Senate Extra Keywords Cherokee Strip LII Database Information: Record 22939 created by Jennifer English on 11/21/2006 Last modification on 01/08/2007 Published: 01/10/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22939