Election Language, 3: "Senator"

       Let us say one of two "rival" "candidates" is fortunate enough to be elected "senator."  Senators are such by virtue of being “old,” from Latin sen-, senex, “old, old man.”  

       Now some U.S. senators truly are old, if not “senile,” and are most likely the “senior” senators from their respective states, therefore, the older elder, i.e., longer in office, of the two senators from that state.
 
       But there also has to be one “junior senator” from each state, (juvenis, “young”), and so you have a “younger oldster” as well as an older oldster.  But if the older oldster is driving a roadster, look out for second childhood and mere oblivion.  In which case, the junior senator will become the senior.