AHC: How many Udalls can we get?

From 2010-2014, there were three members of the House of Udall in the United States Senate.

Mike Lee of Utah
Mark Udall of Colorado
Tom Udall of New Mexico

My challenge is: How many Udalls can we cram into the United States Senate at the same time?

Gordon Smith winning in 2008 would get us to four Udalls.
 
From 2010-2014, there were three members of the House of Udall in the United States Senate.

Mike Lee of Utah
Mark Udall of Colorado
Tom Udall of New Mexico

My challenge is: How many Udalls can we cram into the United States Senate at the same time?

Gordon Smith winning in 2008 would get us to four Udalls.

Mike Lee is stretching things. "Mike Lee and Thomas R. Lee, though not Udalls, are second cousins to Mark and Tom Udall and Gordon Smith; their father, Rex E. Lee, a well-known scholar of Constitutional Law and Solicitor General from 1981 to 1985, was a first cousin of Stewart and Morris Udall.." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udall_family
 
Has nobody of a cadet branch ever assumed a throne before? :p
The Lees aren't a cadet branch (not that the main/cadet distinction makes much sense in a setting where primogeniture doesn't matter) of the Udalls. If they were, their relation would be through the male line, and we would call them...

...Udalls.
 
The Lees aren't a cadet branch (not that the main/cadet distinction makes much sense in a setting where primogeniture doesn't matter) of the Udalls. If they were, their relation would be through the male line, and we would call them...

...Udalls.

For the purposes of this thread, we're counting Mike Lee as part of the expanded Udall family.


A fifth Senator could me Milan Dale Smith Jr if he ran for Senate in Oregon in 2010 and won, but that'd be difficult as Wyden had strong approvals. Smith was confirmed 93-0 by the Senate though.
 
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