Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The U.S. Senate election of 1954 was a midterm election in the first term of Dwight D. Eisenhower''s presidency. Eisenhower''s Republican party lost a net of two seats to the Democratic opposition. This small change was enough to give Democrats control of the chamber until 1980. Democrats defeated incumbents John S. Cooper (R-KY), Homer Ferguson (R-MI), Ernest S. Brown (R-NV), and Guy Cordon (R-OR), and took an open seat in Wyoming. Republicans took the seats of incumbents Guy M. Gillette (D-IA) and Thomas A. Burke (D-OH), and took an open seat in Colorado.