94th United States Congress
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The Ninety-fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate
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 and the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1977, during the administration of U.S. President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
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 was based on the Nineteenth Census of the United States in 1970
United States Census, 1970
The Nineteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 203,392,031, an increase of 13.4 percent over the 179,323,175 persons enumerated during the 1960 Census.-Data availability:...

. Both chambers had a Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

 majority.

Major events

  • January 15, 1975: 1975 State of the Union Address
    1975 State of the Union Address
    The 1975 State of the Union address was given by President Gerald Ford to a joint session of the 94th United States Congress on January 15, 1975. The speech was the first State of the Union address of President Ford's tenure as president....

  • April 30, 1975: Fall of Saigon
    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975...

  • June 10, 1975: The Rockefeller Commission
    United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States
    The U.S. President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford in 1975 to investigate the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies within the United States...

     issued its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.
  • September 5, 1975: Failed assassination attempt against President Ford by Lynette Fromme
    Lynette Fromme
    Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme is an American member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975...

  • September 22, 1975: Failed assassination attempt against President Ford by Sara Jane Moore
    Sara Jane Moore
    Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975, outside the St...

  • July 4, 1976: United States Bicentennial
    United States Bicentennial
    The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to the historical events leading up to the creation of the United States as an independent republic...

  • November 2, 1976: United States general elections; Democrats retain congress; Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

     elected President
  • December 12, 1976: Congressional Hispanic Caucus
    Congressional Hispanic Caucus
    The Congressional Hispanic Caucus comprises 21 Democratic members of the United States Congress most of whom are of Hispanic origin. The Caucus is dedicated to voicing and advancing, through the legislative process, issues affecting Hispanics and Latinos in the United States and Puerto Rico...

     formed

Special or select committees

  • Church Committee
    Church Committee
    The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A precursor to the U.S...

     — 1975-07-27 – 1976-05-19; Replaced by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
    United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
    The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the federal government of the United States who provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches. The...

  • Joint Committee on Arrangements for the Bicentennial — 1975-09-05 - 1976-10-01

Major legislation

  • 1975-12-23 — Metric Conversion Act
    Metric Conversion Act
    The Metric Conversion Act is an Act of Congress that then–U.S. President Gerald Ford signed into law on December 23, 1975. It declared the Metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce", but permitted the use of United States customary units in...

    ,
  • 1975-12-23 — Revenue Adjustment Act (Earned Income Tax Credit
    Earned income tax credit
    The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit is a refundable tax credit primarily for individuals and families who have low to moderate earned income. Greater tax credit is given to those who also have qualifying children...

    ), ,
  • 1975-11-29 — Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
    The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a United States federal law that governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education, and related services to children with disabilities...

    , ,
  • 1976-02-05 — Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act
    Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act
    The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, often called the "4R Act," is a United States federal law that established the basic outlines of regulatory reform in the railroad industry and provided transitional operating funds following the 1970 bankruptcy of Penn Central...

    , ,
  • 1976-09-13 — Government in the Sunshine Act
    Government in the Sunshine Act
    The Government in the Sunshine Act is a US law passed in 1976 which affects the operations of the federal government, Congress, Federal Commissions, and other legally constituted federal bodies...

    , ,
  • 1976-09-30 — Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
    Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
    The Hart–Scott–Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 is a set of amendments to the antitrust laws of the United States, principally the Clayton Antitrust Act. The HSR Act was signed into law by President Gerald R. Ford on September 30, 1976...

    , ,
  • 1976-10-11 — Toxic Substances Control Act
    Toxic Substances Control Act
    The Toxic Substances Control Act is a United States law, passed by the United States Congress in 1976, that regulates the introduction of new or already existing chemicals. It grandfathered most existing chemicals, in contrast to the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals ...

    , ,
  • 1976-10-12 — Overhaul of vocational education
    Vocational education
    Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, and totally related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation...

     programs ,
  • 1976-10-19 — Copyright Act of 1976, ,
  • 1976-10-21 — Federal Land Policy and Management Act
    Federal Land Policy and Management Act
    Federal Land Policy Management Act, or FLPMA , is a United States federal law that governs the way in which the public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management are managed. The law was enacted in 1976 by the 94th Congress. Congress recognized the value of the public lands, declaring...

    , ,
  • 1976-10-21 — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
    Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
    The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act , enacted in 1976, is the principal Federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.-History and Goals:...

    , ,
  • 1976-10-22 — National Forest Management Act, ,

Senate

Membership changed with two resignations and a disputed election
United States Senate election in New Hampshire, 1974
The 1974 United States Senate Election in New Hampshire was held on November 5, 1974. It resulted in the longest election contest in United States history.-Campaign:Incumbent Senator Norris Cotton announced he would not seek reelection....

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Party Total
Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

Conservative
Conservative Party of New York
The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party active in the state of New York. It is not part of any nationwide party, nor is it affiliated with the American Conservative Party, which it predates by over 40 years....

Vacant
End of previous Congress
93rd United States Congress
The Ninety-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1975, during the end of Richard...

57 1 40 1 100 0
Begin 60 1 37 1 99 1
End 61 100 0
Final voting share 62% 38%
Beginning of the next Congress
95th United States Congress
The Ninety-fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1979, during the first two years...

60 0 39 0 98 2

House of Representatives

  • Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    : 291 (majority)
  • Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    : 144

Total: 435

Leadership

Senate

  • President of the Senate
    Vice President of the United States
    The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

    : Nelson Rockefeller
    Nelson Rockefeller
    Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st Vice President of the United States , serving under President Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York , as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower administrations in a variety of positions...

     (R)
  • President pro tempore
    President pro tempore of the United States Senate
    The President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...

    : James Eastland
    James Eastland
    James Oliver Eastland was an American politician from Mississippi who briefly served in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1941; and again from 1943 until his resignation December 27, 1978. From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside John Stennis, also a Democrat...

     (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

  • Majority Leader
    Party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively. These leaders serve as the chief Senate spokespeople for their parties and manage and schedule the legislative and executive...

    : Mike Mansfield
    Mike Mansfield
    Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic politician and the longest-serving Majority Leader of the United States Senate, serving from 1961 to 1977. He also served as United States Ambassador to Japan for over ten years...

  • Majority Whip
    Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate are the second-ranking members of the party leadership of the United States Senate....

    : Robert Byrd
    Robert Byrd
    Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...


Minority (Republican) leadership

  • Minority Leader
    Party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively. These leaders serve as the chief Senate spokespeople for their parties and manage and schedule the legislative and executive...

    : Hugh Scott
    Hugh Scott
    Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. was a politician from Pennsylvania who served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and who also served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.- Early life :He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on November 11, 1900...

  • Minority Whip
    Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate are the second-ranking members of the party leadership of the United States Senate....

    : Robert P. Griffin
    Robert P. Griffin
    Robert Paul Griffin was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan and Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court....


House of Representatives

  • Speaker
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...

    : Carl Albert
    Carl Albert
    Carl Bert Albert was a lawyer and a Democratic American politician from Oklahoma.Albert represented the southeastern portion of Oklahoma as a Democrat for 30 years, starting in 1947. He is best known for his service as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977...

     (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

  • Majority Leader
    Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives
    Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot and are also known as floor leaders. The U.S. House of Representatives does not officially use the term "Minority Leader", although the media frequently does...

    : Tip O'Neill
    Tip O'Neill
    Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts in Massachusetts...

  • Majority Whip
    Party whips of the United States House of Representatives
    A whip in the United States House of Representatives manages his party's legislative program on the House floor. The Whip keeps track of all legislation and ensures that all party members are present when important measures are to be voted upon....

    : John J. McFall
    John J. McFall
    John Joseph McFall was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the state of California, rising to the position of House Majority Whip.-Early life and career:...


Minority (Republican) leadership

  • Minority Leader
    Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives
    Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot and are also known as floor leaders. The U.S. House of Representatives does not officially use the term "Minority Leader", although the media frequently does...

    : John Jacob Rhodes
    John Jacob Rhodes
    John Jacob Rhodes, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes was elected as a U.S. Representative from the state of Arizona. He was preceded in office by Democrat John Murdock, and succeeded by fellow Republican John McCain...

  • Minority Whip
    Party whips of the United States House of Representatives
    A whip in the United States House of Representatives manages his party's legislative program on the House floor. The Whip keeps track of all legislation and ensures that all party members are present when important measures are to be voted upon....

    : Robert H. Michel
    Robert H. Michel
    Robert Henry "Bob" Michel is an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. He represented central Illinois' 18th congressional district, and was the GOP leader in Congress, serving as Minority Leader for 14 years during an era...


Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

Alabama

  • 2. John J. Sparkman (D)
  • 3. James B. Allen
    James Allen (United States)
    James Browning Allen was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama. Allen was born in Gadsden, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama Law School. While attending the University of Alabama he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi...

     (D)

Alaska

  • 2. Ted Stevens
    Ted Stevens
    Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history...

     (R)
  • 3. Mike Gravel
    Mike Gravel
    Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election....

     (D)

Arizona

  • 1. Paul J. Fannin (R)
  • 3. Barry Goldwater
    Barry Goldwater
    Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr...

     (R)

Arkansas

  • 2. John L. McClellan (D)
  • 3. Dale L. Bumpers (D)

California

  • 3. Alan MacGregor Cranston (D)
  • 1. John V. Tunney
    John V. Tunney
    John Varick Tunney , is a former Democratic Party United States Senator and Representative.-Biography:He is the son of the famous heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney and Connecticut socialite Polly Lauder Tunney....

     (D) until January 1, 1977
    • S. I. Hayakawa
      S. I. Hayakawa
      Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983...

       (R) from January 2, 1977

Colorado

  • 2. Floyd K. Haskell
    Floyd K. Haskell
    Floyd Kirk Haskell was a United States Senator from Colorado, and a member of the Democratic Party. He graduated from Harvard University 1937; graduated from Harvard Law School 1941; admitted to the New York and Colorado bars in 1946 and commenced practice in Denver, Colorado.; served in the...

     (D)
  • 3. Gary Hart
    Gary Hart
    Gary Hart is an American politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado , and ran in the U.S...

     (D)

Connecticut

  • 3. Abraham A. Ribicoff
    Abraham A. Ribicoff
    Abraham Alexander Ribicoff was an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as the 80th Governor of Connecticut and as President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...

     (D)
  • 1. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
    Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
    Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980...

     (R)

Delaware

  • 1. William V. Roth, Jr.
    William V. Roth, Jr.
    William Victor "Bill" Roth, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Representative and U.S...

     (R)
  • 2. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D)

Florida

  • 1. Lawton Chiles
    Lawton Chiles
    Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. was an American politician from the US state of Florida. In a career spanning four decades, Chiles, a Democrat who never lost an election, served in the Florida House of Representatives , the Florida State Senate , the United States Senate , and as the 41st Governor of...

     (D)
  • 3. Richard Stone (D)

Georgia

  • 3. Herman E. Talmadge (D)
  • 2. Sam Nunn
    Sam Nunn
    Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...

     (D)

Hawaii

  • 1. Hiram L. Fong (R)
  • 3. Daniel K. Inouye (D)

Idaho

  • 3. Frank Church
    Frank Church
    Frank Forrester Church III was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1957 to 1981....

     (D)
  • 2. James A. McClure
    James A. McClure
    James Albertus "Jim" McClure was an American politician from the state of Idaho, most notably serving as a Republican in the U.S. Senate....

     (R)

Illinois

  • 2. Charles H. Percy
    Charles H. Percy
    Charles Harting "Chuck" Percy was president of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964. He was elected United States Senator from Illinois in 1966, re-elected through his term ending in 1985; he concentrated on business and foreign relations...

     (R)
  • 3. Adlai Stevenson III
    Adlai Stevenson III
    Adlai Ewing Stevenson III is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981.-Education, military service, and early career:...

     (D)

Indiana

  • 1. Vance Hartke
    Vance Hartke
    Rupert Vance Hartke was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana from 1959 until 1977.-Early life, education, military service:...

     (D)
  • 3. Birch E. Bayh II (D)

Iowa

  • 2. Richard C. Clark (D)
  • 3. John C. Culver (D)

Kansas

  • 2. James B. Pearson
    James B. Pearson
    James Blackwood Pearson was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1962 to 1979.-Biography:Pearson was born in 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist minister. With his parents, he moved to Virginia in 1934 and attended public school. He went on to attend college at Duke University...

     (R)
  • 3. Bob Dole
    Bob Dole
    Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...

     (R)

Kentucky

  • 2. Walter D. Huddleston (D)
  • 3. Wendell H. Ford
    Wendell H. Ford
    Wendell Hampton Ford is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor, and U.S. senator in Kentucky history...

     (D)

Louisiana

  • 3. Russell B. Long
    Russell B. Long
    Russell Billiu Long was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987.-Early life:...

     (D)
  • 2. J. Bennett Johnston (D)

Maine

  • 1. Edmund S. Muskie (D)
  • 2. William D. Hathaway (D)

Maryland

  • 3. Charles Mathias, Jr.
    Charles Mathias, Jr.
    Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1969 to 1987...

     (R)
  • 1. John Glenn Beall, Jr.
    John Glenn Beall, Jr.
    John Glenn Beall, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland 1971–1977. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates 1962–1968, and the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1969 to 1971...

     (R)

Massachusetts

  • 1. Ted Kennedy
    Ted Kennedy
    Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...

     (D)
  • 2. Edward Brooke
    Edward Brooke
    Edward William Brooke, III is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 60.7%–38.7%...

     (R)

Michigan

  • 1. Philip A. Hart (D), until December 26, 1976
    • Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
      Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
      Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. is an American politician from Michigan, who served for five terms as a Representative and for three terms as a Senator.-Early life:...

       (D), from December 27, 1976
  • 2. Robert P. Griffin
    Robert P. Griffin
    Robert Paul Griffin was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan and Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court....

     (R)

Minnesota

  • 2. Walter Mondale
    Walter Mondale
    Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

     (DFL), until December 30, 1976
    • Wendell Anderson
      Wendell Anderson
      Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order to be named U.S. Senator to replace Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the...

       (DFL), from December 30, 1976
  • 1. Hubert Humphrey
    Hubert Humphrey
    Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...

     (DFL)

Mississippi

  • 2. James O. Eastland (D)
  • 1. John C. Stennis
    John C. Stennis
    John Cornelius Stennis was a U.S. Senator from the state of Mississippi. He was a Democrat who served in the Senate for over 41 years, becoming its most senior member by his retirement.- Early life :...

     (D)

Missouri

  • 1. Stuart Symington
    Stuart Symington
    William Stuart Symington was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.-Education and business career:...

     (D), until December 27, 1976
    • John Danforth
      John Danforth
      John Claggett "Jack" Danforth is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri. He is an ordained Episcopal priest. Danforth is married to Sally D. Danforth and has five adult children.-Education and early career:Danforth was born...

       (R), from December 27, 1976
  • 3. Thomas F. Eagleton (D)


Montana

  • 1. Mike Mansfield
    Mike Mansfield
    Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic politician and the longest-serving Majority Leader of the United States Senate, serving from 1961 to 1977. He also served as United States Ambassador to Japan for over ten years...

     (D)
  • 2. Lee Metcalf
    Lee Metcalf
    Lee Warren Metcalf was an American politician of the Democratic Party and was a United States Representative, and a United States Senator from Montana....

     (D)

Nebraska

  • 1. Roman L. Hruska (R), until December 27, 1976
    • Edward Zorinsky
      Edward Zorinsky
      Edward Zorinsky was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Nebraska, serving from 1976 until his death.- Early life :...

       (D), from December 28, 1976
  • 2. Carl T. Curtis (R)

Nevada

  • 1. Howard W. Cannon (D)
  • 3. Paul Laxalt
    Paul Laxalt
    Paul Dominique Laxalt of Nevada was a former Republican District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, Governor and U.S. Senator. In the media, the words "son of a Basque sheepherder" often accompanied his name. He was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics...

     (R)

New Hampshire

  • 2. Thomas J. McIntyre
    Thomas J. McIntyre
    Thomas James McIntyre was a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, and a member of the Democratic Party.Born in Laconia, New Hampshire, he attended the public and parochial schools of Laconia; he graduated from Manlius Military School in Manlius, New York, in 1933, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New...

     (D)
  • 3. Norris Cotton
    Norris Cotton
    Norris H. Cotton was an American Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire.Norris Cotton was born on a farm in Warren, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Wesleyan University in Connecticut...

     (R), from August 8, 1975 until September 18, 1975
    • John A. Durkin
      John A. Durkin
      John Anthony Durkin was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.Durkin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1959 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1965...

       (D), from September 18, 1975

New Jersey

  • 2. Clifford P. Case
    Clifford P. Case
    Clifford Philip Case was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives and the State of New Jersey in the United States Senate .-Biography:Clifford P. Case was born in Franklin Park in Somerset County, New Jersey...

     (R)
  • 1. Harrison A. Williams
    Harrison A. Williams
    Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams, Jr. was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate . Williams was convicted on May 1, 1981 for taking bribes in the Abscam sting operation, and resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1982...

     (D)

New Mexico

  • 1. Joseph Montoya
    Joseph Montoya
    Joseph Manuel Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator for the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977.-Education:...

     (D)
  • 2. Pete V. Domenici (R)

New York

  • 3. Jacob K. Javits
    Jacob K. Javits
    Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits was a politician who served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. A liberal Republican, he was originally allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, fellow U.S...

     (R)
  • 1. James L. Buckley
    James L. Buckley
    James Lane Buckley is a retired judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and previously served as a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977...

    , (Conservative
    Conservative Party of New York
    The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party active in the state of New York. It is not part of any nationwide party, nor is it affiliated with the American Conservative Party, which it predates by over 40 years....

    )

North Carolina

  • 2. Jesse Helms
    Jesse Helms
    Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001...

     (R)
  • 3. Robert B. Morgan (D)

North Dakota

  • 3. Milton R. Young (R)
  • 1. Quentin N. Burdick
    Quentin N. Burdick
    Quentin Northrup Burdick was a United States Senator from North Dakota from August 8, 1960 until his death in 1992. Prior to that he had served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to August 8, 1960. He was the son of NPL North Dakota Congressman Usher L...

     (D)

Ohio

  • 1. Robert Taft, Jr.
    Robert Taft, Jr.
    Robert Taft Jr. was a member of the Taft political family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. He also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976....

     (R), until December 28, 1976
  • 3. John H. Glenn Jr. (D)

Oklahoma

  • 3. Henry Bellmon
    Henry Bellmon
    Henry Louis "Harry" Bellmon was an American Republican politician from Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma Legislature, the 18th and 23rd Governor of Oklahoma , and a two-term United States Senator.-Service in World War II:Bellmon was born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma and graduated from Billings...

     (R)
  • 2. Dewey F. Bartlett
    Dewey F. Bartlett
    Dewey Follett Bartlett, Sr. , a U.S. politician, served as the 19th Governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971, following his same-party Republican predecessor, Henry Bellmon. State law at that time did not allow consecutive terms for governor. In 1966, he was elected governor after defeating the...

     (R)

Oregon

  • 2. Mark O. Hatfield (R)
  • 3. Robert W. Packwood (R)

Pennsylvania

  • 1. Hugh Scott
    Hugh Scott
    Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr. was a politician from Pennsylvania who served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and who also served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.- Early life :He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on November 11, 1900...

     (R)
  • 3. Richard S. Schweiker (R)

Rhode Island

  • 1. John O. Pastore
    John O. Pastore
    John Orlando Pastore was a Rhode Island Democratic Party politician who was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and the 61st Governor of Rhode Island , and was the first Italian American to hold either position.-Early life and career:Born in Providence on March 17, 1907, he attended...

     (D), until December 28, 1976
    • John Chafee
      John Chafee
      John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.-Early life and family:...

       (R), from December 29, 1976
  • 2. Claiborne Pell
    Claiborne Pell
    Claiborne de Borda Pell was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S. college students. A Democrat, he was that state's longest serving senator.-Early years:Pell...

     (D)

South Carolina

  • 2. Strom Thurmond
    Strom Thurmond
    James Strom Thurmond was an American politician who served as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes...

     (R)
  • 3. Ernest F. Hollings (D)

South Dakota

  • 3. George S. McGovern (D)
  • 2. James Abourezk
    James Abourezk
    James George Abourezk is a former Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator, and was the first Arab-American to serve in the United States Senate. He represented South Dakota in the U.S...

     (D)

Tennessee

  • 2. Howard Baker
    Howard Baker
    Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan.Known in Washington, D.C...

     (R)
  • 1. William E. Brock III (R)

Texas

  • 2. John Tower
    John Tower
    John Goodwin Tower was the first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. He was George H. W...

     (R)
  • 1. Lloyd Bentsen
    Lloyd Bentsen
    Lloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...

     (D)

Utah

  • 1. Frank E. Moss (D)
  • 3. Jake Garn
    Jake Garn
    Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993...

     (R)

Vermont

  • 1. Robert T. Stafford (R)
  • 3. Patrick Leahy
    Patrick Leahy
    Patrick Joseph Leahy is the senior United States Senator from Vermont and member of the Democratic Party. He is the first and only elected Democratic United States Senator in Vermont's history. He is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy is the second most senior U.S. Senator,...

     (D)

Virginia

  • 1. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
    Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
    Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. is a retired American politician. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate from 1965 to 1983. He is most notable for leaving the Democratic Party in 1970 and becoming an Independent, although he continued to caucus with the Democrats. He is the son of Harry F....

    , (I)
  • 2. William L. Scott
    William L. Scott
    William Lloyd Scott was a Republican politician from Virginia.Scott was born in Williamsburg, Virginia. He received a law degree from George Washington University, and was employed by the federal government 1934–1961, principally as trial attorney with Department of Justice...

     (R)

Washington

  • 3. Warren G. Magnuson
    Warren G. Magnuson
    Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party from Washington from 1944 until 1981. Upon leaving the Senate, he was the most senior member of the body...

     (D)
  • 1. Henry M. Jackson
    Henry M. Jackson
    Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death...

     (D)

West Virginia

  • 2. Jennings Randolph
    Jennings Randolph
    Jennings Randolph was an American politician from West Virginia. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was the last surviving member of the United States Congress to have served during the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.-Early life and career:Randolph was born in...

     (D)
  • 1. Robert Byrd
    Robert Byrd
    Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...

     (D)

Wisconsin

  • 1. William Proxmire
    William Proxmire
    Edward William Proxmire was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.-Personal life:...

     (D)
  • 3. Gaylord A. Nelson (D)

Wyoming

  • 1. Gale W. McGee
    Gale W. McGee
    Gale William McGee was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party, and United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States...

     (D)
  • 2. Clifford P. Hansen (R)

House of Representatives

Many of the congressional districts are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

Alabama

. Jack Edwards (R). William Louis Dickinson (R). Bill Nichols
William Flynt Nichols
William Flynt "Bill" Nichols was a Democratic member of United States House of Representatives from Alabama, having served from 1967 until his death in office.-Education:...

 (D). Tom Bevill
Tom Bevill
Tom Bevill , a Democrat, was a fifteen-term U.S. congressman representing Alabama's 4th Congressional District .-Early years and education:...

 (D). Robert E. Jones, Jr.
Robert E. Jones, Jr.
Robert E. Jones, Jr. was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 8th district of Alabama. He was the last to represent that district before it was removed as a result of the 1970 United States Census. Presently there are seven U.S. House districts in Alabama.-Early...

 (D). John Hall Buchanan, Jr.
John Hall Buchanan, Jr.
John Hall Buchanan, Jr. served as a United States Congressman from Alabama's 6th congressional district.- Early life :...

 (R). Walter Flowers
Walter Flowers
Walter Flowers was an American Democratic politician who represented Alabama's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from January 1969 to January 1979.-Private life:...

 (D)

Arizona

. John Jacob Rhodes
John Jacob Rhodes
John Jacob Rhodes, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes was elected as a U.S. Representative from the state of Arizona. He was preceded in office by Democrat John Murdock, and succeeded by fellow Republican John McCain...

 (R). Mo Udall
Mo Udall
Morris King "Mo" Udall was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991...

 (D). Sam Steiger
Sam Steiger
Sam Steiger is an American politician, journalist, political pundit, and rancher. He has served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and one term as mayor of Prescott, Arizona. Steiger has also made an unsuccessful run for the U.S...

 (R). John Bertrand Conlan
John Bertrand Conlan
John Bertrand Conlan is a retired U.S. lawyer and Republican politician. He served as a State Senator from 1965 to 1972 and as a United States Representative from Arizona from 1973 to 1977. In Congress, he was known as a strong and outspoken conservative...

 (R)

Arkansas

. Bill Alexander, Jr. (D). Wilbur Mills
Wilbur Mills
Wilbur Daigh Mills , was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Arkansas...

 (D). John Paul Hammerschmidt
John Paul Hammerschmidt
John Paul Hammerschmidt is an American politician from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A Republican, Hammerschmidt served for thirteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the northwestern Arkansas district before he retired in 1993...

 (R). Ray Thornton
Ray Thornton
Raymond Hoyt "Ray" Thornton, Jr. is a former U.S. Representative from the US state of Arkansas.Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a law degree from the University of Arkansas...

 (D)

California

. Harold T. Johnson
Harold T. Johnson
Harold T. "Bizz" Johnson was an American politician from California and a member of the Democratic party.-Political career:...

 (D). Donald H. Clausen
Donald H. Clausen
Donald Holst Clausen is a former U.S. Representative from California.Born in Ferndale, California, Clausen graduated from elementary and high schools of Ferndale. He attended San José State University, California Polytechnic State University , Weber State University , and Saint Mary's College of...

 (R). John E. Moss
John E. Moss
John Emerson Moss was an American politician of the Democratic party, noted for his championing of the federal Freedom of Information Act through multiple sessions of the United States House of Representatives where he served from 1953 to 1978.Moss was born in Hiawatha, Carbon County, Utah, in...

 (D). Robert L. Leggett
Robert L. Leggett
Robert Louis Leggett was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Richmond, California, Leggett attended the public schools there. He served as an enlisted man in the United States Naval Air Corps from 1944 to 1946....

 (D). John L. Burton
John L. Burton
John Lowell Burton is the current Chairman of the California Democratic Party. He is an American politician who served as a Democratic California State Senator from 1996 until 2004, representing the 3rd district. From 1998 until he was forced out of office by term limits in 2004, he served as the...

 (D). Phillip Burton
Phillip Burton
Phillip Burton was a United States Representative from California. A Democrat, he was instrumental in creating the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Burton was one of the first members of Congress to acknowledge the need for AIDS research and introduce an AIDS bill. He was the brother of...

 (D). George Miller
George Miller (politician)
George Miller III is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1975. He is a member of the Democratic Party. From 2007 through 2010, Miller served as chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, formerly known as the Education and the Workforce Committee.-Early life, education, and early...

 (D). Ronald V. Dellums (D). Pete Stark
Pete Stark
Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1973. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Currently he is the 5th most senior Representative, as well as 6th most senior member of Congress overall...

 (D). Don Edwards
Don Edwards
William Donlon Edwards is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from California.-Biography:...

 (D). Leo Ryan
Leo Ryan
Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. Representative from California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until he was murdered in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple shortly before the Jonestown Massacre in 1978.After the Watts Riots...

 (D). Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (R). Norman Mineta
Norman Mineta
Norman Yoshio Mineta, is a United States politician of the Democratic Party. Mineta most recently served in President George W. Bush's Cabinet as the United States Secretary of Transportation, the only Democratic Cabinet Secretary in the Bush administration...

 (D). John J. McFall
John J. McFall
John Joseph McFall was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the state of California, rising to the position of House Majority Whip.-Early life and career:...

 (D). B. F. Sisk (D). Burt L. Talcott
Burt L. Talcott
Burt Lacklen Talcott is a former member of the United States Congress from the State of California.-Military career:Born in Billings, Montana Talcott received his degree from Stanford University in 1942, after which he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps where he became a bomber pilot...

 (R). John Hans Krebs
John Hans Krebs
John Hans Krebs is a former U.S. Representative from California.Born in Berlin, Germany, Krebs moved to Israel in 1933 and attended Balfour School , 1937.He graduated from Ben Yehuda College in 1945....

 (D). William M. Ketchum
William M. Ketchum
William Matthew Ketchum was a U.S. Representative from California.Ketchum was born on September 2, 1921 in Los Angeles, California. He attended schools in Los Angeles County and military school in North Hollywood, California.He attended Colorado School of Mines from 1939 to 1940, and the...

 (R). Robert J. Lagomarsino
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Robert John "Bob" Lagomarsino is a former Republican congressman from California. Lagomarsino began his service in the United States House of Representatives in 1974 and was re-elected every two years until 1992, when he was defeated for renomination by Michael Huffington...

 (R). Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Barry Goldwater, Jr.
Barry Morris Goldwater, Jr. , is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California, 1969–1983. He is the son of the late Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee who ran against Lyndon B. Johnson for President of the United States during...

 (R). James C. Corman
James C. Corman
James Charles Corman was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961 and a Democratic Congressman from California between 1961 and 1981.-General:...

 (D). Carlos J. Moorhead (R). Thomas M. Rees
Thomas M. Rees
Thomas Mankell Rees was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Los Angeles, California, Rees was educated in local public schools.B.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, 1950....

 (D). Henry Waxman
Henry Waxman
Henry Arnold Waxman is the U.S. Representative for , serving in Congress since 1975. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress...

 (D). Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...

 (D). John H. Rousselot
John H. Rousselot
John Harbin Rousselot was a U.S. Representative from southern California. Born in 1927 in Los Angeles, California, Rousselot attended the public schools of San Marino and South...

 (R). Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr.
Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr.
Alphonzo "Al" Bell, Jr. was an eight-term United States Representative from California, who represented Los Angeles, California's influential Westside.-Family Background & Early Life:...

 (R). Yvonne B. Burke (D). Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins was a prominent African American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress, where he sponsored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full...

 (D). George E. Danielson
George E. Danielson
George Elmore Danielson was an American politician who served as a Democratic Congressional representative from California for the 29th District and 30th District ....

 (D). Charles H. Wilson
Charles H. Wilson
Charles Herbert Wilson was a California Democratic politician from the Los Angeles area. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981.-Early life:...

 (D). Glenn M. Anderson
Glenn M. Anderson
Glenn Malcolm Anderson was an American politician. He was the 37th Lieutenant Governor of California and later as congressman. He was a member of the Democratic Party....

 (D). Del M. Clawson
Del M. Clawson
Delwin Morgan Clawson was born in Thatcher, Arizona and attended Gila College there 1933–1934. He was manager of the Mutual Housing Association of Compton, 1947–1963....

 (R). Mark W. Hannaford
Mark W. Hannaford
Mark Warren Hannaford was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Woodrow, Colorado, Hannaford attended public schools in Anderson, Indiana.B.A., Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1950....

 (D). James F. Lloyd
James F. Lloyd
James Fredrick Lloyd was a California Democratic politician and United States Representative.Lloyd attended public schools in Washington State, California, and Oregon. He attended the University of Oregon, 1940-1942 but did not graduate. He served in the United States Navy as a naval aviator,...

 (D). George Brown, Jr.
George Brown, Jr.
George Edward Brown, Jr. was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1999, representing Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties in California.-Background:Brown was born in Holtville, California...

 (D). Jerry Lyle Pettis (R), until February 14, 1975
    • Shirley Neil Pettis
      Shirley Neil Pettis
      Shirley Neil Pettis was a U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis.- Early Life and Education :...

       (R), from April 29, 1975. Jerry M. Patterson
      Jerry M. Patterson
      Jerry Mumford Patterson is a California lawyer in California and the District of Columbia, educator and politician, who was a United States Representative from California....

       (D). Charles E. Wiggins
      Charles E. Wiggins
      Charles Edward Wiggins was a U.S. Representative from California, and later a United States federal judge.He was initially elected to California's 25th congressional district...

       (R). Andrew J. Hinshaw
      Andrew J. Hinshaw
      Andrew Jackson Hinshaw was a U.S. Congressman who in 1977 was convicted of accepting bribes in his previous job as Orange County, California, assessor.-Biography:...

       (R). Bob Wilson
      Bob Wilson (US politician)
      Robert Carlton "Bob" Wilson was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Biography:...

       (R). Lionel Van Deerlin
      Lionel Van Deerlin
      Lionel Van Deerlin was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Representative from California from 1963 to 1981, representing a San Diego area district.-Biography:...

       (D). Clair W. Burgener (R)

Colorado

. Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder , American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado.- Early years :...

 (D). Tim Wirth
Tim Wirth
Timothy Endicott Wirth is a former United States Senator from Colorado. Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down. He was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs during the Clinton...

 (D). Frank E. Evans
Frank E. Evans
Frank Edward Evans was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Evans attended public schools in Colorado Springs. He entered Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 1941. He interrupted his education in 1943 to serve in the United States Navy as a patrol pilot from 1943...

 (D). James Paul Johnson
James Paul Johnson
James Paul "Jim" Johnson is a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Born in Yankton, Yankton County, S.Dak., JohnsonB.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1952.LL.B., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1959....

 (R). William L. Armstrong
William L. Armstrong
William Lester "Bill" Armstrong is an American businessman and politician. He is member of the Republican party and was a United States Representative and Senator from Colorado. Armstrong was born in Fremont, Nebraska...

 (R)

Connecticut

. William Ross Cotter (D). Christopher John Dodd (D). Robert Nicholas Giaimo (D). Stewart Brett McKinney (R). Ronald A. Sarasin
Ronald A. Sarasin
Ronald Arthur Sarasin is a former U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Sarasin attended Center Elementary School in Beacon Falls, Connecticut and graduated from Naugatuck High School 1952. He served in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1956.Attained rank of...

 (R). Toby Moffett
Toby Moffett
Anthony John "Toby" Moffett, Jr. was an American politician from the state of Connecticut. A Democrat, Moffett served in the United States House of Representatives as the member from Connecticut's 6th congressional district from 1975 to 1983.-Early life and education:Moffett was born in Holyoke,...

 (D)

Delaware

. Pierre S. du Pont, IV
Pierre S. du Pont, IV
Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV is an American lawyer and politician from Rockland, in New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S...

 (R)

Florida

. Robert L.F. Sikes (D). Don Fuqua
Don Fuqua
Don Fuqua is a U.S. Democratic politician.Fuqua graduated from the University of Florida in 1957. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Florida and served from January 3, 1963 to January 3, 1987.During most of his congressional career, Fuqua maintained his...

 (D). Charles Edward Bennett
Charles Edward Bennett
Charles Edward Bennett was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida from 1949 to 1993. He was a Democrat who resided in Jacksonville, Florida.-Early years:...

 (D). William V. Chappell, Jr.
William V. Chappell, Jr.
William Venroe Chappell, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Kendrick, Florida, Chappell was in the University of Florida, B.A., 1947, LL.B., 1949, and J.D., 1967....

 (D). Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly (politician)
Richard Kelly was an American politician from Florida. He was the only Republican convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.-Early life and career:...

 (R). Bill Young
Bill Young
Charles William "Bill" Young is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1971. He is a member of the Republican Party, and is currently the longest-serving Republican member of Congress...

 (R). Sam M. Gibbons (D). James A. Haley
James A. Haley
James Andrew Haley was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Jacksonville, Alabama, Haley attended the public schools and the University of Alabama. During World War I, Haley enlisted in Troop A, Second Cavalry, in April 1917 and served overseas. He was an accountant in Sarasota, Florida from...

 (D). Louis Frey, Jr.
Louis Frey, Jr.
Louis Frey, Jr. is an American+ politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 until 1979...

 (R). Louis A. Bafalis
Louis A. Bafalis
Louis Arthur Bafalis, is a retired American politician, who served as a Representative from Florida....

 (R). Paul G. Rogers (D). J. Herbert Burke
J. Herbert Burke
J. Herbert Burke was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Burke attended the public schools of Chicago, Illinois.He attended Central YMCA College in Chicago, Illinois, and Northwestern University....

 (R). William Lehman
William Lehman (Florida politician)
William H. Lehman was a United States Representative from Florida.Born in Selma, Alabama, he graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School, 1930. He received a B.S...

 (D). Claude Pepper
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s...

 (D). Dante B. Fascell (D)

Georgia

. Ronald B. Ginn (D). Dawson Mathis
Dawson Mathis
Marvin Dawson Mathis is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Nashville, Georgia, Mathis attended the Nashville public schools. He attended South Georgia College in Douglas, Georgia...

 (D). Jack T. Brinkley (D). Elliott H. Levitas
Elliott H. Levitas
Elliott Harris Levitas is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 4th Congressional District.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Levitas graduated from Grady High School in 1948. He attended Emory University, where he was a member of the secret honor society D.V.S.He earned a J.D. from the Emory...

 (D). Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from the 5th district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations...

 (D). John J. Flynt, Jr. (D). Lawrence P. McDonald (D). Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr. (D). Phillip M. Landrum
Phillip M. Landrum
Phillip Mitchell Landrum was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Martin, Georgia, Landrum attended the public schools and Mercer University, in Macon, Georgia....

 (D). Robert G. Stephens, Jr. (D)

Hawaii

. Spark Matsunaga
Spark Matsunaga
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga was a United States Senator from Hawaii. He was an American Democrat whose legislation in the United States Senate led to the creation of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.-Career:Matsunaga became a United States Army Reservist in 1941,...

 (D). Patsy Mink
Patsy Mink
Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink was an American politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third generation Japanese American and member of the Democratic Party. She also was the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.Mink served in the U.S...

 (D)

Idaho

. Steve Symms
Steve Symms
Steven Douglas Symms was a four-term congressman and two-term U.S. senator from Idaho. He was among the most conservative members of the Republican Party...

 (R). George V. Hansen
George V. Hansen
George Vernon Hansen is a Republican politician from the state of Idaho. He served in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1969 and again from 1975 to 1985.- Biography :...

 (R)

Illinois

. Ralph Metcalfe
Ralph Metcalfe
Ralph Harold Metcalfe was an African-American athlete and politician who came second to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Metcalfe jointly held the world record for the 100 meter sprint. Metcalfe was known as the world’s fastest human from 1932 through 1934...

 (D). Morgan F. Murphy
Morgan F. Murphy
Morgan Francis Murphy , was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Murphy attended Chicago parochial schools. He received a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University in 1955 and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Murphy received a J.D. from DePaul University School of Law in 1962...

 (D). Marty Russo
Marty Russo
Martin Anthony Russo is a U.S. Democratic politician and lobbyist.- Political career :He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois and served from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1993.From 1979 to 1992, Russo served on the Ways and Means Committee...

 (D). Ed Derwinski
Ed Derwinski
Edward Joseph Derwinski is an American politician who served as the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. W. Bush from March 15, 1989 to September 26, 1992...

 (R). John C. Kluczynski
John C. Kluczynski
John Carl Kluczynski was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, representing the 5th district.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kluczynski attended public and parochial schools, and during the First World War served overseas as a corporal with the Eighth Field Artillery in 1918 and 1919.He worked in the...

 (D), until January 26, 1975
  • John G. Fary
    John G. Fary
    John G. Fary was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He represented the Illinois's 5th congressional district...

     (D), from July 8, 1975. Henry J. Hyde (R). Cardiss Collins
    Cardiss Collins
    Cardiss H. Collins, originally Cardiss Robertson, is a Democratic politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997...

     (D). Dan Rostenkowski
    Dan Rostenkowski
    Daniel David "Dan" Rostenkowski was a United States Representative from Illinois, serving from 1959 to 1995. Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Rostenkowski rose to become one of the most powerful legislators in Washington. He was a member of the Democratic Party...

     (D). Sidney R. Yates
    Sidney R. Yates
    Sidney Richard Yates was a politician from the state of Illinois.Yates was born in Chicago, Illinois and he graduated from the University of Chicago. He served in the United States Navy during World War II....

     (D). Abner J. Mikva
    Abner J. Mikva
    Abner Joseph Mikva is a Democratic former U.S. Representative, federal judge and law professor from Chicago.-Biography:Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mikva attended the University of Chicago Law School, from which he graduated in 1951...

     (D). Frank Annunzio
    Frank Annunzio
    Frank Annunzio was an American politician from Chicago, Illinois.Annunzio, an Italian-American was born in Chicago, where he remained for his entire childhood and much of his adult life. He attended Crane Technical High School and DePaul University...

     (D). Philip M. Crane (R). Robert McClory
    Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Riverside, Illinois, McClory attended the public schools, L'Institut Sillig, Vevey, Switzerland from 1925 to 1926, and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire from 1926 to 1928. He graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1932...

     (R). John N. Erlenborn
    John N. Erlenborn
    John Neal Erlenborn was a lawyer and a former Republican member of the U.S. Congressional Delegations from Illinois, representing the 14th district. He was a graduate of Loyola University Chicago and Loyola University Chicago School of Law...

     (R). Tim Lee Hall
    Tim Lee Hall
    Tim Lee Hall was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Anderson, Indiana, Hall was educated in West Frankfort public schools. He earned a B.A. from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1951, a M.S. in education from Southern Illinois University in 1956, and did graduate work at Valparaiso University in...

     (D). John B. Anderson
    John B. Anderson
    John Bayard Anderson is a former United States Congressman and Presidential candidate from Illinois. He was a U.S. Representative from the 16th Congressional District of Illinois for ten terms from 1961 through 1981 and an Independent candidate in the 1980 presidential election. He was previously...

     (R). George M. O'Brien
    George M. O'Brien
    George Miller O'Brien is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican who represented Illinois' 17th congressional district....

     (R). Robert H. Michel
    Robert H. Michel
    Robert Henry "Bob" Michel is an American Republican Party politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 38 years. He represented central Illinois' 18th congressional district, and was the GOP leader in Congress, serving as Minority Leader for 14 years during an era...

     (R). Tom Railsback
    Tom Railsback
    Thomas Fisher Railsback served eight terms in the United States Congress from 1967-1983 for in Moline.- Early life :...

     (R). Paul Findley
    Paul Findley
    Paul Findley is a former United States Representative from Illinois, representing its 20th District. A Republican, he was first elected in 1961. Findley lost his seat in 1982 to current United States Senator Dick Durbin. Findley attended Illinois College and is a member of Phi Alpha Literary Society...

     (R). Edward Rell Madigan
    Edward Rell Madigan
    Edward Rell Madigan was a businessman and a Republican Party politician from Lincoln, Illinois. He served almost twenty years in the United States House of Representatives and was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for George H. W. Bush.Madigan was born in Lincoln and attended Lincoln [Junior] College...

     (R). George E. Shipley
    George E. Shipley
    George Edward Shipley was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Richland County, near Olney, Illinois, Shipley attended the East Richland High School, Olney, Illinois....

     (D). Melvin Price (D). Paul Simon
    Paul Simon (politician)
    Paul Martin Simon was an American politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. He was a member of the Democratic Party...

     (D)

Indiana

. Ray J. Madden
Ray J. Madden
Ray John Madden was a United States Representative from Indiana. He was born in Waseca, Minnesota. He attended the public schools and Sacred Heart Academy in his native city. He graduated from the law department of Creighton University with an LL.B...

 (D). Floyd Fithian
Floyd Fithian
Floyd James Fithian was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born and raised in Vesta, Nebraska, Fithian graduated from Vesta High School, 1947. He achieved his B.A., Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska, 1951; an M.A., University of Nebraska, 1955; and a Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1964. He was a...

 (D). John Brademas
John Brademas
John Brademas is an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives...

 (D). J. Edward Roush
J. Edward Roush
John Edward Roush was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, Roush graduated from Huntington High School, Huntington, Indiana, 1938.A.B., Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana, 1942....

 (D). Elwood Hillis
Elwood Hillis
Elwood Haynes "Bud" Hillis is a former U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Born in Kokomo, Indiana, Hillis attended Kokomo public schools.He graduated from Culver Military Academy, 1944.B.S., Indiana University, 1949....

 (R). David W. Evans
David W. Evans
David Walter Evans is a former U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Lafayette, Indiana, Evans attended public schools in Shoals, Indiana. In 1967, he graduated from Indiana University, where he also did some postgraduate work from 1967 to 1969...

 (D). John T. Myers
John T. Myers (Congressman)
John Thomas Myers was a Republican Congressman from Indiana's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997. His son-in-law, Brian D. Kerns, represented the same district from 2001 to 2003. John T...

 (R). Philip H. Hayes
Philip H. Hayes
Philip Harold Hayes was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Hayes attended Rensselaer Elementary School.He graduated from Rensselaer High School, 1958.B.A., Indiana University, 1963....

 (D). Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton
Lee Herbert Hamilton is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999...

 (D). Philip R. Sharp (D). Andrew Jacobs, Jr.
Andrew Jacobs, Jr.
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. usually known as Andy Jacobs is a lawyer and a former Indiana state legislator and Congressman who served for thirty years. His father, Andrew Jacobs, was also a congressman for one term. He was married to one time House colleague Martha Keys of Kansas...

 (D)

Iowa

. Edward Mezvinsky
Edward Mezvinsky
Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky is a former congressman. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977....

 (D). Michael T. Blouin (D). Charles E. Grassley (R). Neal Smith
Neal Smith (politician)
Neal Edward Smith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa from 1959 until 1995 — the longest-serving Iowan in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in his grandparents' home near Hedrick, Keokuk County, Iowa. He served in the United States Army Air...

 (D). Tom Harkin
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin is the junior United States Senator from Iowa and a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives ....

 (D). Berkley Bedell
Berkley Bedell
Berkley Warren Bedell is a former U.S. Representative from Iowa. After starting a successful business in his youth, Berkley Fly Co., he ran for the United States Congress in 1972, but was defeated by incumbent Wiley Mayne...

 (D)

Kansas

. Keith Sebelius
Keith Sebelius
Keith George Sebelius was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1981....

 (R). Martha Elizabeth Keys
Martha Elizabeth Keys
Martha Elizabeth Keys is a retired Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas from 1975 to 1979....

 (D). Larry Winn
Larry Winn
Edward Lawrence Winn, Jr. is a U.S. Republican politician.He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Kansas and served from January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1985. He currently resides in Prairie Village, Kansas.-References:...

 (R). Garner E. Shriver
Garner E. Shriver
Garner E. Shriver was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.-Biography:Born in Towanda, Kansas, Shriver attended the public schools of Towanda and Wichita.He moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1925....

 (R). Joe Skubitz, Jr. (R)

Kentucky

. Carroll Hubbard, Jr. (D). William H. Natcher
William Huston Natcher
William Huston Natcher was a Democratic congressman, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1953 to 1994.-Early life:...

 (D). Romano L. Mazzoli
Romano L. Mazzoli
Romano L. "Ron" Mazzoli represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District Romano L. "Ron" Mazzoli (born November 2, 1932, in Louisville, Kentucky) represented Kentucky's Third Congressional District Romano L. "Ron" Mazzoli (born November 2, 1932, in Louisville, Kentucky) represented Kentucky's...

 (D). Gene Snyder
Gene Snyder
Marion Eugene Snyder was an American politician elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from two different districts in Kentucky....

 (R). Tim Lee Carter
Tim Lee Carter
Tim Lee Carter was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the commonwealth of Kentucky from 1965 till 1981.-Background:...

 (R). John B. Breckinridge
John B. Breckinridge
John Bayne Breckinridge was an American politician, a Democrat who served as Attorney General of Kentucky twice and also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky.-Early life:...

 (D). Carl D. Perkins
Carl D. Perkins
Carl Dewey Perkins , a Democrat, was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky.-Early years:Perkins was born in Hindman, Kentucky...

 (D)

Louisiana

. F. Edward Hébert
Felix Edward Hébert
Felix Edward Hébert , known as F. Edward Hébert, was the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana, having represented the New Orleans-based First Congressional District as a Democrat from 1941 until his retirement in 1977.Hébert was born in...

 (D). Lindy Boggs
Lindy Boggs
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, usually known as Lindy Boggs , is a United States political figure who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later as ambassador to the Vatican. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana...

 (D). David C. Treen
David C. Treen
David Conner "Dave" Treen, Sr. , was an American attorney and politician from Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana – the first Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana since Reconstruction. He was the first Republican in modern times to have served in the U.S...

 (R). Joe Waggonner
Joe Waggonner
Joseph David Waggonner, Jr. , better known as Joe D. Waggonner, was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Bossier Parish who represented the old 4th Congressional District of northwest Louisiana from December 1961 until January 1979. He was also a confidant of Republican U.S...

 (D). Otto Passman
Otto Passman
Otto Ernest Passman was a conservative Democratic congressman from Monroe in northeastern Louisiana, who served from 1947 to 1977. He is primarily remembered for his detailed knowledge and mostly opposition to foreign aid...

 (D). Henson Moore
Henson Moore
William Henson Moore III , is a retired attorney and businessman who is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, having represented the Baton Rouge-based Sixth Congressional District, from 1975-1987. He is only the second Republican to have represented Louisiana in the House since...

 (R). John B. Breaux (D). Gillis W. Long (D)

Maine

. David F. Emery
David F. Emery
David Farnham "Dave" Emery is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Maine. Emery grew up in Rockland before attending college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received a BS in electronics engineering in 1970...

 (R). William Cohen
William Cohen
William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense under Democratic President Bill Clinton.-Early life and education:...

 (R)

Maryland

. Robert Bauman
Robert Bauman
Robert Edmund Bauman is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 1st congressional district. Bauman was a prominent conservative advocate in the House, but lost re-election in 1980 following a political scandal involving male prostitution.-Early life and career:Bauman...

 (R). Clarence Long
Clarence Long
Clarence Dickinson Long, PhD , known as "Doc Long", was a Democratic U.S. Congressman who represented the 2nd congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1963 to January 3, 1985. Long became Chairman of the subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the House Appropriations Committee. In this...

 (D). Paul Sarbanes
Paul Sarbanes
Paul Spyros Sarbanes , a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. He did not seek re-election in 2006, when he was succeeded by fellow Democrat Ben Cardin...

 (D). Marjorie Holt
Marjorie Holt
Marjorie Sewell Holt , a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional district from January 3, 1973 to January 3, 1987. She was the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Maryland....

 (R). Gladys Spellman
Gladys Spellman
Gladys Noon Spellman , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1975 to January 3, 1981....

 (D). Goodloe Byron
Goodloe Byron
Goodloe Edgar Byron , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 until his death on October 11, 1978...

 (D). Parren Mitchell
Parren Mitchell
Parren James Mitchell , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1987. He was the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland....

 (D). Gilbert Gude
Gilbert Gude
Gilbert Gude was a U.S. Congressman who represented the Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1977....

 (R)

Massachusetts

. Silvio O. Conte
Silvio O. Conte
Silvio Ottavio Conte was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for 16 terms, from January 3, 1959, until his death.-Birth:...

 (R). Edward Boland
Edward Boland
Edward Patrick Boland was a politician from the state of Massachusetts. A Democrat, he was a representative from Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district....

 (D). Joseph Early (D). Robert Drinan
Robert Drinan
Robert Frederick Drinan, S.J. was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts...

 (D). Paul Tsongas
Paul Tsongas
Paul Efthemios Tsongas was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1985. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 presidential election. He previously served as a U.S...

 (D). Michael J. Harrington
Michael J. Harrington
Michael Joseph Harrington is a former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Harrington graduated from St. John’s Preparatory School, in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1954, then earned a B.A. at Harvard University in 1958 and a J.D...

 (D). Torbert Macdonald
Torbert Macdonald
Torbert Hart Macdonald , nicknamed Torby, was a politician from Massachusetts. He served as aDemocratic member of the United States House of Representatives....

 (D), until May 21, 1976
    • Edward Markey (D), from November 2, 1976. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Jr.
      Tip O'Neill
      Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts in Massachusetts...

       (D). Joe Moakley
      Joe Moakley
      John Joseph "Joe" Moakley was a Democratic congressman from the Ninth District of Massachusetts, a seat held two years earlier by Speaker John William McCormack. Moakley was the last chairman of the U.S...

       (D). Margaret Heckler
      Margaret Heckler
      Margaret Mary Heckler is a Republican politician from Massachusetts who served in the United States House of Representatives for eight terms, from 1967 until 1983 and was later the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Ambassador to Ireland under President Ronald Reagan...

       (R). James A. Burke
      James A. Burke
      James Anthony Burke was a United States Representative from Massachusetts from 1959 to 1979.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated in the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory School and attended Suffolk University...

       (D). Gerry Studds
      Gerry Studds
      Gerry Eastman Studds was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first openly gay member of Congress in the U.S. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to having had an affair with a 17-year-old page in...

       (D)

Michigan

. John Conyers
John Conyers
John Conyers, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1965 . He is a member of the Democratic Party...

 (D). Marvin L. Esch
Marvin L. Esch
Marvin Leonel Esch was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan and a member of the Republican Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1977 before unsuccessfully seeking a seat in the United States Senate in the 1976 election...

 (R). Garry Brown
Garry Brown
Garry Eldridge Brown was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Garry Brown had four daughters, Frances, Mollie, Amelia, and Abigail. His family owned and operated a dairy farm while he was growing up, in Schoolcraft, Michigan...

 (R). Edward Hutchinson (R). Richard Vander Veen (D). Bob Carr
Milton Robert Carr
Milton Robert Carr, commonly known as Bob Carr, is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Carr served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 6th and 8th congressional districts for eight terms and one term, respectively. Carr's career in the U.S...

 (D). Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. is an American politician from Michigan, who served for five terms as a Representative and for three terms as a Senator.-Early life:...

 (D), until December 30, 1976. Bob Traxler (D). Guy Vander Jagt
Guy Vander Jagt
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt was a Republican politician from Michigan. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee....

 (R). Elford A. Cederberg
Elford Albin Cederberg
Elford Albin "Al" Cederberg was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Cederberg was born to dairy farmers Albin and Helen Cederberg in Bay City, Michigan, where he attended the public schools and at Bay City Junior College .He entered the United States Army in April 1941, and...

 (R). Philip E. Ruppe (R). James G. O'Hara
James G. O'Hara
James Grant O'Hara was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, serving as U.S. Representative from 1959 to 1977.-Early life:...

 (D). Charles Diggs
Charles Diggs
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. was an African-American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Diggs was an early member of the civil rights movement, having been present at the murder trial of Emmett Till and elected the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.Diggs resigned from the...

 (D). Lucien N. Nedzi
Lucien N. Nedzi
Lucien Norbert Nedzi is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Michigan....

 (D). William D. Ford
William D. Ford
William David Ford was a U.S. Representative from Michigan.Ford was born in Detroit and attended Henry Ford Trade School, Melvindale High School, Nebraska State Teachers College, and Wayne State University....

 (D). John Dingell
John Dingell
John David Dingell, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1955 . He is a member of the Democratic Party...

 (D). William M. Brodhead
William M. Brodhead
William McNulty Brodhead is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Brodhead was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended elementary and secondary schools in Cleveland. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University in Detroit, in 1965 and a J.D...

 (D). James J. Blanchard (D). William S. Broomfield (R)

Minnesota

. Al Quie
Al Quie
Albert Harold Quie is an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1979, to January 3, 1983.-State and national government service:...

 (R). Tom Hagedorn
Tom Hagedorn
Thomas Michael Hagedorn was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota, November 27, 1943; graduated from Blue Earth High School, 1961; served in United States Navy, 1961; engaged in grain and livestock farming, Watonwan County, Minnesota; member of the...

 (R). Bill Frenzel
Bill Frenzel
William Eldridge "Bill" Frenzel is a former Republican Congressman from Minnesota, representing Minnesota's Third District, which included the southern and western suburbs of Minneapolis.- Early life and career :...

 (R). Joseph Karth
Joseph Karth
Joseph Edward Karth was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in New Brighton, Ramsey County, Minnesota; he attended public schools and the University of Nebraska School of Engineering; interrupted his education during the Second World War to serve in the United States Army, with service in...

, (DFL). Donald M. Fraser
Donald M. Fraser
Donald MacKay Fraser is an American politician from Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Early life:Donald Fraser played a critical role in making human rights an important part of U.S. policy. Fraser was born on 20 February 1924 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Everett and Lois Fraser. His parents were émigrés...

, (DFL). Richard Nolan
Richard Nolan
Richard Michael Nolan is running for United States Congress in the 8th district of Minnesota . He was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 6th congressional district in the 94th, 95th, and 96th congresses,...

, (DFL). Robert Bergland
Robert Bergland
Robert Selmer Bergland is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program...

, (DFL). Jim Oberstar
Jim Oberstar
James Louis "Jim" Oberstar is a former U.S. Representative who served in the U.S. Congress from 1975 until 2011 as a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. He represented northeastern , which included the cities of Duluth, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, International Falls, and Hibbing...

, (DFL)

Mississippi

. Jamie L. Whitten
Jamie L. Whitten
Jamie Lloyd Whitten was a United States Representative from Mississippi, who was of English and Swedish descent. He is the second-longest serving U.S. Representative ever and the fourth longest serving U.S. member of Congress ever.-Early life:Jamie Whitten was born in Cascilla, Mississippi...

 (D). David R. Bowen
David R. Bowen
David Reece Bowen was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Houston, Mississippi, Bowen graduated from Cleveland High School, 1950.He attended University of Missouri from 1950 to 1952....

 (D). Gillespie V. Montgomery
Gillespie V. Montgomery
Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery was an American politician from Mississippi who served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1967–1997...

 (D). Thad Cochran
Thad Cochran
William Thad Cochran is the senior United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1978, he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and was its chairman and 2005 to 2007.-Early life:He was born in Pontotoc,...

 (R). Trent Lott
Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott, Sr. , is a former United States Senator from Mississippi and has served in numerous leadership positions in the House of Representatives and the Senate....

 (R)

Missouri

. William L. Clay, Sr. (D). James W. Symington
James W. Symington
James Wadsworth Symington is a United States attorney and politician who served as four-term U.S. representative representing Missouri.-Youth, family, and education:...

 (D). Leonor Sullivan
Leonor Sullivan
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. She was a Democrat and the first woman in Congress from Missouri....

 (D). William J. Randall
William J. Randall
William J. Randall was a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Democratic Party from Missouri....

 (D). Richard W. Bolling (D). Jerry Litton
Jerry Litton
Jerry Lon Litton was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri who died with his wife and two children while en route via a small plane to the victory party after winning Missouri's state Democratic primary for U.S. Senate....

 (D), until August 3, 1976
    • Tom Coleman (R), from November 2, 1976. Gene Taylor
      Gene Taylor (Missouri)
      Gene Taylor was a Republican U.S. representative from Missouri.He was born near Sarcoxie, Missouri, where Taylor attended local public schools....

       (R). Richard H. Ichord II
      Richard Howard Ichord Jr.
      Richard Howard Ichord Jr. was a significant U.S. anti-Communist political figure. A member of the...

       (D). William L. Hungate
      William L. Hungate
      William Leonard Hungate was a United States Representative from Missouri from November 3, 1964 to January 3, 1977, representing the Ninth Congressional District. Following his retirement from the U.S...

       (D). William Dean Burlison (D)


Montana

. Max Baucus
Max Baucus
Max Sieben Baucus is the senior United States Senator from Montana and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1978, as of 2010 he is the longest-serving Senator from Montana, and the fifth longest-serving U.S...

 (D). John Melcher
John Melcher
John Melcher is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana as a member of the United States House of Representatives, and as a United States Senator from 1977 until 1989.-Early life:...

 (D)

Nebraska

. Charles Thone
Charles Thone
Charles Thone is an American Republican politician.-Biography:Charles Thone was born in Hartington, Nebraska. He has three brothers, including John Jr. He graduated from Holy Trinity High School . During World War II, he served in the Infantry of the United States Army...

 (R). John Y. McCollister
John Y. McCollister
John Yetter McCollister is a Nebraska Republican politician.He was born to John M. McCollister and Ruth Yetter McCollister in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1939 he graduated from Washington High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and in 1943 he graduated from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He...

 (R). Virginia Smith (R)

New Hampshire

. Norman D'Amours
Norman D'Amours
Norman Edward D'Amours was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire from 1975 to 1985, where he was an active participant on issues related to banking and finance. Mr. D'Amours remains active in New Hampshire and national politics...

 (D). James C. Cleveland
James Colgate Cleveland
James Colgate Cleveland was an American politician in the Republican party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 until 1981....

 (R)

New Jersey

. James J. Florio (D). William J. Hughes
William J. Hughes
William John "Bill" Hughes served as a Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995, representing New Jersey’s Second Congressional District which includes major portions of the Jersey Shore and Pine Barrens, the cities of Vineland and Atlantic City, and the counties...

 (D). James J. Howard
James J. Howard
James John Howard was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1965–1988.-Biography:...

 (D). Frank Thompson
Frank Thompson
Frank Thompson, Jr. was a Democratic Party politician from New Jersey. Thompson represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1980....

 (D). Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Hammond Fenwick was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm...

 (R). Edwin B. Forsythe
Edwin B. Forsythe
Edwin Bell Forsythe was an American Republican Party politician, who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...

 (R). Andrew Maguire
Andrew Maguire
Gene Andrew Maguire is the Executive Director of The GAVI Fund's Immunize Every Child Campaign. He was a Democratic politician who represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1975 to 1981.-Biography:...

 (D). Robert A. Roe
Robert A. Roe
Robert A. Roe is an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for over twenty-three years, serving from November 4, 1969 to January 3, 1993....

 (D). Henry Helstoski
Henry Helstoski
Henry Helstoski was an American politician. Helstoski, a Democrat, represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for twelve years, lasting from 1965 until 1977. He was the representative for New Jersey's 8th congressional district...

 (D). Peter W. Rodino
Peter W. Rodino
Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr. was a Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that led to the resignation of President Richard...

 (D). Joseph Minish
Joseph Minish
Joseph George Minish was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented in the United States House of Representatives....

 (D). Matthew J. Rinaldo (R). Helen Stevenson Meyner
Helen Stevenson Meyner
Helen Day Stevenson Meyner, also known as Helen S. Meyner was a Democratic U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1975 to 1979.-Biography:...

 (D). Dominick V. Daniels
Dominick V. Daniels
Dominick Vincent Daniels was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 14th congressional district from 1959-1977....

 (D). Edward J. Patten
Edward J. Patten
Edward James Patten was an American lawyer and politician. Patten, a Democrat, represented the now-redistricted New Jersey's 15th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for seventeen years, lasting from 1963 until 1980.-Background:Patten was born and attended public...

 (D)

New Mexico

. Manuel Lujan, Jr. (R). Harold L. Runnels
Harold L. Runnels
Harold Lowell Runnels was a U.S. Representative from New Mexico.Runnels attended Dallas public schools and Cameron State Agricultural College in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington D.C. in 1942. From 1945 to 1951, Runnels was a manager for the...

 (D)

New York

. Otis G. Pike
Otis G. Pike
Otis Grey Pike is a retired Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Early life:...

 (D). Thomas J. Downey (D). Jerome A. Ambro, Jr. (D). Norman F. Lent
Norman F. Lent
Norman Frederick Lent is a former Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

 (R). John W. Wydler
John W. Wydler
John Waldemar Wydler was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Wydler was born in Brooklyn. He served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 until 1945. He graduated from Brown University in 1947 and Harvard University Law School in 1950...

 (R). Lester L. Wolff
Lester L. Wolff
Lester Lionel Wolff was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Wolff was born in New York City and lectured at New York University from 1939 until 1941 after studying there. He served in the Civil Air Patrol from 1945 until 1950 and from 1968 until 1980...

 (D). Joseph P. Addabbo
Joseph Patrick Addabbo
Joseph Patrick Addabbo was a New York City politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1986...

 (D). Benjamin S. Rosenthal
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal , a Representative from New York, was born in New York City . He attended public schools , Long Island University, and City College. He served in the United States Army, 1943–1946, and received his LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School as well as an LL.M. from New York...

 (D). James Delaney
James Delaney
James Joseph Delaney was a Representative from New York.Delaney was born in New York City March 19, 1901; attended the public schools in Long Island City, Queens. He graduated from the law department of St. John’s College, Brooklyn, N.Y...

 (D). Mario Biaggi
Mario Biaggi
Mario Biaggi is a former U.S. Representative from New York and former New York City police officer. He was elected as a Democrat from The Bronx in New York City...

 (D). James H. Scheuer
James H. Scheuer
James Haas Scheuer was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was also affiliated with the Liberal Party of New York.-Family and education:...

 (D). Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to Congress...

 (D). Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen Joshua Solarz was a United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a cosponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W...

 (D). Frederick W. Richmond (D). Leo C. Zeferetti
Leo C. Zeferetti
Leo C. Zeferetti was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended public schools in Brooklyn, New York University in 1963, and Baruch College from 1964 until 1966...

 (D). Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman is an American lawyer and former Democratic politician, pioneer woman officeholder, four term U.S. Representative , two term District Attorney of Kings County , and New York City Comptroller .Her role on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal drew national...

 (D). John M. Murphy
John M. Murphy
John Michael Murphy is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.He was born in Staten Island, New York City, New York and attended La Salle Military Academy, Amherst College, and the United States Military Academy in West Point.He served in the U.S...

 (D). Edward I. Koch (D). Charles B. Rangel
Charles B. Rangel
Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the third-longest currently serving member of the House of Representatives. As its most senior member, he is also the Dean of New York's congressional delegation...

 (D). Bella Abzug
Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was an American lawyer, Congresswoman, social activist and a leader of the Women's Movement. In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus...

 (D). Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican to be elected to these posts and be a mayoral candidate in the continental United States.-Early years:Badillo was...

 (D-L
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

). Jonathan Brewster Bingham
Jonathan Brewster Bingham
Jonathan Brewster Bingham was an American politician and diplomat...

 (D). Peter A. Peyser
Peter A. Peyser
Peter A. Peyser was a United States Representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.-Early life:He was born in Cedarhurst, Long Island and grew up there and in Manhattan...

 (R). Richard Ottinger
Richard Ottinger
Richard Ottinger is an American politician of the Democratic Party, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, and a legal educator.-Early years:...

 (D). Hamilton Fish IV
Hamilton Fish IV
See Hamilton Fish for others with the same nameHamilton Fish, Jr. was a Republican politician best known as a member of the U.S. Congressional Delegation from New York....

 (R). Benjamin A. Gilman
Benjamin A. Gilman
Benjamin Arthur "Ben" Gilman is a former Republican United States Representative from New York. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Gilman graduated from Middletown High School in Middletown, New York in 1941 and received a B.S. from the Wharton School Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in...

 (R). Matthew F. McHugh
Matthew F. McHugh
Matthew Francis McHugh is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.McHugh was born in Philadelphia, but spent most of his adult life in New York City. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and Mount St. Mary's University, from which he earned his...

 (D). Samuel S. Stratton (D). Edward W. Pattison
Edward W. Pattison
Edward Worthington Pattison was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

 (D). Robert C. McEwen
Robert C. McEwen
Robert Cameron McEwen was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

 (R). Donald J. Mitchell
Donald J. Mitchell
Donald Jerome Mitchell served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, 1973-1983.-Early life:Donald J...

 (R). James M. Hanley
James M. Hanley
James Michael Hanley was an American politician. He represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1981. He was a Democrat.-External links:...

 (D). William F. Walsh
William F. Walsh
William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

 (R). Frank Horton (R). Barber B. Conable, Jr. (R). John J. LaFalce
John J. LaFalce
John Joseph LaFalce is a former congressman from the state of New York; he served from 1975 to 2003.LaFalce was first elected to the 94th United States Congress in 1974 and re-elected to each succeeding Congress through the 107th, serving his Western New York congressional district for 28 years,...

 (D). Henry J. Nowak
Henry J. Nowak
Henry James Nowak was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York between 1975 and 1993....

 (D). Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st...

 (R). James F. Hastings
James F. Hastings
James Fred Hastings is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Hastings was born in Olean, New York. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 until 1946. He was manager and vice president of radio station WHDL from 1952 until 1966...

 (R), until January 20, 1976
    • Stanley N. Lundine (D), from March 2, 1976

North Carolina

. Walter B. Jones, Sr.
Walter B. Jones, Sr.
Walter Beaman Jones, Sr. , was an American politician from the state of North Carolina who served in the United States House of Representatives, and was the father of Walter Beaman Jones, Jr., who is currently a Representative for the Republican Party.Jones was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,...

 (D). Lawrence H. Fountain
Lawrence H. Fountain
Lawrence H. Fountain , generally known as L.H. Fountain, was a Democratic U.S. representative from North Carolina from 1953 to 1983.-Early life:...

 (D). David N. Henderson
David N. Henderson
David Newton Henderson was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born on a farm near Hubert, North Carolina, HendersonB.S., Wallace High School, Wallace, North Carolina, 1938....

 (D). Ike F. Andrews (D). Stephen L. Neal
Stephen L. Neal
Stephen Lybrook "Steve" Neal was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives ....

 (D). L. Richardson Preyer
L. Richardson Preyer
Lunsford Richardson Preyer , who typically went by 'Richardson' or 'Rich,' was a jurist and a U.S. representative in Congress from North Carolina. He was the grandson of inventor Lunsford Richardson...

 (D). Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose (congressman)
Charles Grandison "Charlie" Rose III is a former Democratic United States Congressman from North Carolina who served from 1973 to 1997....

 (D). Bill Hefner
Bill Hefner
Willie Gathrel "Bill" Hefner , was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving between 1975 and 1999....

 (D). James G. Martin
James G. Martin
James Grubbs "Jim" Martin is the 70th Governor of the state of North Carolina. He served from 1985 to 1993. He was the second Republican elected to the office after Reconstruction, and the fifth overall. He is also the only Republican to serve two full terms as governor.-Early Life &...

 (R). James T. Broyhill (R). Roy A. Taylor
Roy A. Taylor
Roy Arthur Taylor was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Vader, Washington, Taylor graduated from Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina, 1929....

 (D)

North Dakota

. Mark Andrews (R)

Ohio

. Willis D. Gradison Jr. (R). Donald D. Clancy
Donald D. Clancy
Donald D. Clancy was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented the 2nd District of Ohio from 1961 until 1977.-Early life and education:...

 (R). Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
Charles W. Whalen, Jr.
Charles William Whalen Jr. was a Republican U.S. Representative from Ohio's 3rd congressional district. He served 6 terms in congress and was notably the leader of the Republican party's opposition to the Vietnam War....

 (R). Tennyson Guyer
Tennyson Guyer
Tennyson Guyer was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican from Ohio....

 (R). Del Latta
Del Latta
Delbert Leroy "Del" Latta is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Latta was a Republican from Ohio.-Life and career:...

 (R). Bill Harsha
Bill Harsha
William Howard "Bill" Harsha, Jr. was an American politician who represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1981.-Biography:...

 (R). Clarence J. Brown, Jr. (R). Thomas N. Kindness (R). Thomas W. L. Ashley
Thomas W. L. Ashley
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley , usually known as Lud Ashley, was an American politician of the Democratic party. He served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1955 to 1981.-Biography:...

 (D). Clarence E. Miller
Clarence E. Miller
Clarence Ellsworth Miller, Jr. was a Republican Congressman from Ohio, serving January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1993....

 (R). J. William Stanton
J. William Stanton
John William Stanton was a Republican congressman from Ohio who served in the United States Congress from 1965 until his retirement in 1983. Stanton died in Jacksonville, Florida, April 11, 2002 at the age of 78.-External links:* Library of Congress...

 (R). Samuel L. Devine
Samuel L. Devine
Samuel Leeper Devine was an American politician of the Republican party who served in the United States House of Representatives as Representative of the 12th congressional district of Ohio from 3 January 1959 until 3 January 1981; he left office after being defeated by Democrat Bob Shamansky...

 (R). Charles A. Mosher
Charles Adams Mosher
Charles Adams Mosher was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.Charles Adams Mosher was born in Sandwich, Illinois. He graduated from Sandwich High School, and Oberlin College in 1928. He was employed on daily newspapers in Aurora, Illinois, and Janesville,...

 (R). John F. Seiberling
John F. Seiberling
John Frederick Seiberling, Jr. was a United States Representative from Ohio. In 1974, he helped to establish what later became the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and served on the House Judiciary Committee that held the impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.-Biography:Born in Akron,...

 (D). Chalmers Wylie
Chalmers Wylie
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie was an American politician and lawyer from Ohio, who served in various public offices in that state before serving thirteen terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives....

 (R). Ralph S. Regula (R). John M. Ashbrook
John M. Ashbrook
John Milan Ashbrook was an American politician of the Republican Party who served in the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1961 until his death. His father was William A. Ashbrook, a newspaper editor, businessman, and U.S...

 (R). Wayne Hays
Wayne Hays
Wayne Levere Hays was an American politician whose strong rule of the House Administration Committee extended to even the smallest items. In the mid-1970s, lawmakers avoided crossing Hays for fear that he would shut off the air conditioning in their offices...

 (D), until September 1, 1976. Charles J. Carney
Charles J. Carney
Charles Joseph Carney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Carney attended schools in Youngstown and neighboring Campbell, Ohio. He later attended Youngstown State University...

 (D). James V. Stanton
James V. Stanton
James Vincent Stanton was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Stanton graduated from Holy Name High School in 1949 and then served in the United States Air Force from 1950 to 1954, during the Korean War. He earned an A.B. from the University of Dayton in 1958, and a...

 (D). Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes
Louis Stokes is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives....

 (D). Charles A. Vanik (D). Ronald M. Mottl
Ronald M. Mottl
Ronald Milton Mottl is an American politician of the Democratic Party who had been a member of the state House of Representatives of Ohio from 1987 to 1997.Mottl was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the University of Notre Dame...

 (D)

Oklahoma

. James Robert Jones
James Robert Jones
James Robert "Jim" Jones is a lawyer, a Democratic politician, a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, and a former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico....

 (D). Theodore Marshall Risenhoover
Theodore Marshall Risenhoover
Theodore Marshall "Ted" Risenhoover was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma during the 1970s.Risenhoover was born in Haskell County, Oklahoma, in a town called East Liberty. He graduated from Stigler High School in Stigler, Oklahoma, then served in the United States Air Force beginning in 1955...

 (D). Carl Albert
Carl Albert
Carl Bert Albert was a lawyer and a Democratic American politician from Oklahoma.Albert represented the southeastern portion of Oklahoma as a Democrat for 30 years, starting in 1947. He is best known for his service as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977...

 (D). Tom Steed
Tom Steed
Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Steed was a military veteran, newspaper editor and Democratic politician and a retired U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma. He often stated that his experience in journalism, the military and in the U.S...

 (D). John Jarman
John Jarman
John Jarman was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma for 26 years from January, 1951 to January, 1977.-Early life and career:...

 (D to R, January 23, 1975). Glenn English
Glenn English
Glenn Lee English, Jr. is a U.S. Democratic politician who represented Oklahoma's 6th congressional district for 10 successive terms. English is currently the chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.-Military service and business activities:English was born...

 (D)

Oregon

. Les AuCoin
Les AuCoin
Walter Leslie "Les" AuCoin , is an American politician and the first Democrat elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from since it was formed in 1882. The seat has been held by a Democrat ever since....

 (D). Al Ullman
Al Ullman
Albert Conrad "Al" Ullman , was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented from 1957 to 1981...

 (D). Robert B. Duncan
Robert B. Duncan
Robert Blackford Duncan was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he served multiple terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as a U.S. congressman from Oregon. In the Oregon House of Representatives he served as speaker for four years, and in the U.S. House he...

 (D). James H. Weaver
James H. Weaver
James Howard "Jim" Weaver is a former Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon.-Early life:Weaver enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen and served in World War II on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific...

 (D)

Pennsylvania

. William A. Barrett
William A. Barrett
William Aloysius Barrett was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. He worked for a number of years in real estate before running for office.He was first elected to the U.S....

 (D), until April 12, 1976
    • Ozzie Myers
      Michael Myers (politician)
      Michael Joseph "Ozzie" Myers is a politician from the American state of Pennsylvania.He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Myers, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. Myers had previously been a longshoreman. He was regarded as a "maverick"...

       (D), from November 2, 1976. Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.
      Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.
      Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr. was the first African American to represent Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. The Robert N.C...

       (D). William J. Green, III
      William J. Green, III
      William Joseph Green, III is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Green also served as the 94th Mayor of Philadelphia.-Youth:...

       (D). Joshua Eilberg
      Joshua Eilberg
      Joshua Eilberg was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:Eilburg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

       (D). Richard T. Schulze
      Richard T. Schulze
      Richard Taylor "Dick" Schulze was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993. His district encompassed portions of Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester Counties in the western Philadelphia suburbs.-Early life:Schulze attended the University of Houston, Villanova...

       (R). Gus Yatron
      Gus Yatron
      Constantine "Gus" Yatron was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Yatron represented the 6th congressional district of Pennsylvania for twelve terms, from 1969 until his retirement in 1993...

       (D). Robert W. Edgar
      Robert W. Edgar
      Rev. Dr. Robert William Edgar is president and CEO of Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog organization, effective May 2007. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania...

       (D). Edward G. Biester, Jr.
      Edward G. Biester, Jr.
      Edward George Biester, Jr. is a retired Republican politician and judge who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, from 1967 to 1977....

       (R). Bud Shuster
      Bud Shuster
      Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects that critics deride as "pork barrel" spending.-Career:Shuster was born...

       (R). Joseph M. McDade
      Joseph M. McDade
      Joseph Michael "Joe" McDade is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.-Early life and career:...

       (R). Daniel J. Flood
      Daniel J. Flood
      Daniel John "Dan" Flood was a flamboyant and long-serving Democratic United States Representative from Pennsylvania. He was censured for bribery and resigned from the House in 1980.-Early life and career:...

       (D). John P. Murtha (D). R. Lawrence Coughlin (R). William S. Moorhead
      William S. Moorhead
      William Singer Moorhead was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Moorhead was born in Pittsburgh, PA, the son of prominent attorney William Singer Moorhead, Sr...

       (D). Fred B. Rooney
      Fred B. Rooney
      Frederick Bernard Rooney, Jr. was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (D). Edwin D. Eshleman
      Edwin Duing Eshleman
      Edwin Duing Eshleman was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1967 to 1977.-Biography:...

       (R). Herman T. Schneebeli
      Herman T. Schneebeli
      Herman Theodore Schneebeli was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Herman Schneebeli was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1926, Dartmouth College in 1930, and Tuck School of Administration and Finance in 1931...

       (R). H. John Heinz III
      H. John Heinz III
      Henry John Heinz III was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate .-Early life:...

       (R). William F. Goodling
      William F. Goodling
      William Franklin "Bill" Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Goodling, the son of former Congressman George Atlee Goodling, was born in Loganville, Pennsylvania and grew up in York, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S...

       (R). Joseph M. Gaydos
      Joseph M. Gaydos
      Joseph Matthew Gaydos was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joe Gaydos was born in Braddock, Pennsylvania. His Hungarian father was born in Northern Hungary which today is Slovakia after it was annxed by Czechoslovakia following WWI and the Treaty of Trianon...

       (D). John H. Dent
      John H. Dent (politician)
      John Herman Dent was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:John Dent was born in Johnetta, Pennsylvania, to Samuel and Genevieve Dent...

       (D). Thomas E. Morgan
      Thomas E. Morgan
      Thomas Ellsworth Morgan was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Thomas E. Morgan was born in Ellsworth, PA. He graduated from Waynesburg College in 1930, the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery in 1933, and Wayne University in Detroit, MI, in 1934...

        (D). Albert W. Johnson
      Albert W. Johnson
      Albert Walter Johnson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). Joseph P. Vigorito
      Joseph P. Vigorito
      Joseph Phillip Vigorito was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania....

       (D). Gary A. Myers
      Gary A. Myers
      Gary Arthur Myers was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Gary Myers was born in Toronto, Ohio, and grew up in Evans City, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1960, and received his M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964...

       (R)

Rhode Island

. Edward Beard
Edward Beard
Edward Peter Beard was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Beard attended Assumption Elementary School and Hope High School, Providence, where he completed high school as well as a college-level course in agriculture. He worked as a painter. He served in the...

 (D). Fernand St. Germain
Fernand St. Germain
Fernand Joseph St. Germain is a former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, St. Germain attended parochial schools in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He graduated from Our Lady of Providence Seminary High School, 1945, and from Providence College, 1948...

 (D)

South Carolina

. Mendel J. Davis (D). Floyd Spence
Floyd Spence
Floyd Davidson Spence was a Republican politician from South Carolina.-Early life and education:Spence was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1928, but spent most of his life in nearby Lexington County. Shortly after graduating from high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, retiring as...

 (R). Butler Derrick
Butler Derrick
Butler Carson Derrick, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools in Mayesville and Florence, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1958 and earned an LL.B. from the University of Georgia Law...

 (D). James R. Mann
James Robert Mann (South Carolina)
James Robert Mann was a soldier, lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina.-Early life and career:...

 (D). Kenneth Lamar Holland
Kenneth Lamar Holland
Kenneth Lamar Holland is a Democratic former member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.Holland was born in Hickory, North Carolina on November 24, 1934. He attended public schools in Gaffney, South Carolina. Holland served in the National Guard from 1952 to 1959. ...

 (D). John Jenrette
John Jenrette
John Wilson Jenrette, Jr. is a former American politician from South Carolina. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from January 1975 until December 1980. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's Abscam operation.-Biography:Jenrette was born in Horry County,...

 (D)

South Dakota

. Larry Pressler (R). James Abdnor
James Abdnor
James Abdnor is a Republican politician from the state of South Dakota.-Personal:He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1945 where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He served in the United States Army during World War II and from 1957 to 1969 was a member of the South Dakota...

 (R)

Tennessee

. Jimmy Quillen
Jimmy Quillen
James Henry Quillen, usually known as Jimmy Quillen was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee from 1963 to 1997.-Early life:...

 (R). John Duncan, Sr.
John Duncan, Sr.
John James Duncan, Sr. was an American attorney and Republican politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd Congressional District in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1965 until his death in 1988. He also served as Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1959 to 1964, and as assistant attorney...

 (R). Marilyn Lloyd
Marilyn Lloyd
Rachel Marilyn Laird Lloyd is a Tennessee businesswoman and 10-term member of the United States House of Representatives .-Biographical information:...

 (D). Joe L. Evins
Joe L. Evins
Joseph Landon Evins was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1947 to 1977.Evins was a native of the Blend Community of DeKalb County, Tennessee, the son of James Edgar Evins and Myrtie Goodson Evins. His father was a Tennessee state senator and a successful local businessman.Joe L...

 (D). Richard Fulton
Richard Fulton
Richard Harmon "Dick" Fulton was a Democratic politician who served as a member of the Tennessee State Senate and of the United States House of Representatives, and the second mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.- Background :Fulton was educated as a youth in the...

 (D), until August 14, 1975
    • Clifford Allen
      Clifford Allen
      Clifford Robertson Allen was a Tennessee attorney and Democratic politician.-Early life and career:Allen was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Friends High School in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from the Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to...

       (D), from November 25, 1975. Robin L. Beard, Jr. (R). Ed Jones
      Ed Jones (US politician)
      Edward "Ed" Jones was a Democratic Congressman from the state of Tennessee from 1969 to 1989.-Biography:...

       (D). Harold Ford, Sr.
      Harold Ford, Sr.
      Harold Eugene Ford, Sr. was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Memphis, Tennessee area for ten terms—from 1975 until his retirement in 1997. He was the first African-American to represent Tennessee in the U.S...

       (D)

Texas

. Wright Patman
Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency .-Early life:...

 (D), until March 7, 1976
    • Sam B. Hall
      Sam B. Hall
      Sam Blakeley Hall, Jr. , American politician, was a Congressman representing Texas's 1st congressional district from 1976 to 1985 and then a federal judge of the U.S...

       (D), from June 19, 1976. Charles Wilson (D). James M. Collins
      James M. Collins
      James Mitchell Collins, often known as Jim Collins , was a Republican who represented the Third Congressional District of Texas from 1968-1983. The district was based at the time about Irving in Dallas County....

       (R). Ray Roberts
      Ray Roberts
      Herbert Ray Roberts represented Texas's 4th congressional district from 1962 to 1981. Roberts was a Democrat.-Early life and education:...

       (D). Alan Steelman
      Alan Steelman
      Alan Watson Steelman is a Dallas businessman who was a Republican congressman from Texas between 1973 and 1977; at the time of his election, he was the youngest sitting member of Congress. He gave up his Fifth Congressional District seat to challenge Democratic incumbent Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., in...

       (R). Olin E. Teague
      Olin E. Teague
      Olin Earl "Tiger" Teague was a notable World War II veteran and Congressional representative for Texas's 6th congressional district for 32 years, from 1946 to 1978...

       (D). William Reynolds Archer, Jr.
      William Reynolds Archer, Jr.
      William Reynolds “Bill” Archer, Jr. is a former American lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms, from 1967 to 1971, in the Texas House of Representatives — changing from the Democratic to the Republican party in 1969 — and later represented Texas in the United States House as a Republican...

       (R). Robert C. Eckhardt
      Robert C. Eckhardt
      Robert Christian "Bob" Eckhardt was a Democratic United States Representative representing the 8th District of Texas from 1967 to 1981.-Early life and family:Eckhardt was born in Austin, Texas on July 16, 1913...

       (D). Jack B. Brooks
      Jack Brooks (politician)
      Jack Bascom Brooks is a retired Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who served for more than 40 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was defeated for reelection in the 1994 election...

       (D). James J. (Jake) Pickle (D). William R. Poage
      William R. Poage
      William Robert Poage was a Texas politician.Poage was born in Waco, Texas and served in the United States Navy during World War I. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1925 to 1929, and in the Texas Senate from 1931 to 1937.In 1936, Poage was elected to the House of Representatives...

       (D). Jim Wright
      Jim Wright
      James Claude Wright, Jr. , usually known as Jim Wright, is a former Democratic U.S. Congressman from Texas who served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the Speaker of the House from 1987 to 1989.-Early life:...

       (D). Jack Hightower (D). John A. Young
      John Andrew Young
      John Andrew Young was an Democratic politician from Texas who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1957 to 1979....

       (D). Eligio (Kika) de la Garza, II
      Kika de la Garza
      Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II was the Democratic representative for the 15th congressional district of Texas from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1997....

       (D). Richard C. White (D). Omar T. Burleson (D). Barbara Jordan
      Barbara Jordan
      Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives...

       (D). George H. Mahon
      George H. Mahon
      George Herman Mahon was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Lubbock-based 19th congressional district....

       (D). Henry B. González
      Henry B. Gonzalez
      Henry Barbosa González was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999.-Background:...

       (D). Robert Krueger (D). Robert R. Casey
      Robert R. Casey
      Robert Randolph "Bob" Casey was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Democrat from Texas.-Early life:...

       (D), until January 22, 1976
    • Ron Paul
      Ron Paul
      Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

       (R), from April 3, 1976. Abraham Kazen
      Abraham Kazen
      Abraham Kazen, Jr., usually known as Chick Kazen was a U.S. Representative from Texas from 1967 to 1985.- Education :...

       (D). Dale Milford
      Dale Milford
      Dale Milford was a U.S. Representative from Texas.He was born in Bug Tussle, Texas, and attended its public schools, then Baylor University in Waco from 1953 to 1957. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1953, attaining the rank of captain...

       (D)

Utah

. K. Gunn McKay
K. Gunn McKay
Koln Gunn McKay was an American politician who represented the state of Utah. He served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1981, beginning in the ninety-second Congress and in four succeeding congresses.-Biography:...

 (D). Allan Turner Howe (D)

Virginia

. Thomas N. Downing
Thomas N. Downing
Thomas Nelms Downing was a lawyer, politician, and Democratic Congressman from for nine terms.Downing was born and raised in Newport News, Virginia. He attended Newport News High School, and graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1940...

 (D). G. William Whitehurst
G. William Whitehurst
George William Whitehurst is a professor and retired politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Virginia. He began his career as a professor at the Norfolk campus of the College of William and Mary, which became Old Dominion College in 1962...

 (R). David E. Satterfield III
David E. Satterfield III
David Edward Satterfield III was a U.S. Representative from Virginia's 3rd congressional district. He served eight consecutive terms from 1965 until 1981. His father, Dave E...

 (D). Robert Williams Daniel, Jr. (R). Dan Daniel
Dan Daniel (politician)
Wilbur Clarence Daniel was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, USA.Born in Chatham, Virginia, Daniel grew up on a tobacco farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He was educated in Virginia schools, and was a graduate of Dan River Textile School, Danville, Virginia...

 (D). M. Caldwell Butler
M. Caldwell Butler
Manley Caldwell Butler is a U.S. Representative from Virginia, great grandson of James A. Walker.Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Butler graduated from Jefferson Senior High School, Roanoke, Virginia, 1942....

 (R). James Kenneth Robinson (R). Herbert Eugene Harris II (D). William C. Wampler
William C. Wampler
William Creed Wampler is a former United States Representative from Virginia.Born in Pennington Gap, Lee County, Virginia, Wampler attended the public schools in Bristol, Virginia and on May 21, 1943, enlisted in the United States Navy...

 (R). Joseph L. Fisher
Joseph L. Fisher
Joseph Lyman Fisher is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Democrat from Virginia....

 (D)

Washington

. Joel Pritchard
Joel Pritchard
Joel McFee Pritchard was a Republican politician from Washington. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Washington....

 (R). Lloyd Meeds
Lloyd Meeds
Lloyd Meeds , an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1979. He represented the Second Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat....

 (D). Don Bonker
Don Bonker
Don Leroy Bonker is an American former congressman for the state of Washington and a Democrat. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989, representing Washington's third Congressional district.He is a resident of Bainbridge Island, Washington.Bonker...

 (D). Mike McCormack
Mike McCormack (politician)
C.G. Mike McCormack is a retired American politician, who served as U.S. Representative from the State of Washington's Fourth Congressional District from 1971 to 1981. He is a Democrat...

 (D). Tom Foley
Tom Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley was the 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1989 to 1995. He represented Washington's 5th congressional district for 30 years as a Democratic member from 1965 to 1995....

 (D). Floyd V. Hicks (D). Brock Adams
Brock Adams
Brockman "Brock" Adams was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993.Adams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the public...

 (D)

West Virginia

. Robert H. Mollohan (D). Harley O. Staggers
Harley Orrin Staggers
Harley Orrin Staggers, Sr. was a Democratic U.S. politician.-Education:Staggers graduated from Emory and Henry College in 1931 and did graduate work at Duke University.-Career:...

 (D). John M. Slack (D). Ken Hechler
Ken Hechler
Kenneth William Hechler is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1977 and was West Virginia Secretary of State from 1985 to 2001....

 (D)

Wisconsin

. Les Aspin
Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.-Early life:...

 (D). Robert Kastenmeier
Robert Kastenmeier
Robert William Kastenmeier is a United States politician. He represented Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1991, and is a member of the Democratic Party.-Education:...

 (D). Alvin Baldus
Alvin Baldus
Alvin James Baldus is an American Democratic politician and former member of Congress. Baldus graduated from high school in Elkton, Minnesota and went to Riverland Community College in Austin, Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975-1981 representing Wisconsin...

 (D). Clement J. Zablocki
Clement J. Zablocki
Clement John Zablocki was an American politician from the state of Wisconsin.-Career:Zablocki was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he graduated from Marquette University. Zablocki was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1942. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1948 as a Democrat...

 (D). Henry S. Reuss
Henry S. Reuss
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss was a Democrat U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.-Childhood and education:He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in that city's German section. Reuss earned his A.B. from Cornell University in 1933 and was a member of the Sphinx Head Society. He then earned his LL.B...

 (D). William A. Steiger
William A. Steiger
William Albert "Bill" Steiger was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until his death in 1978. He served as a Republican from Wisconsin.-Early life:Steiger was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...

 (R). Dave Obey
Dave Obey
David Ross "Dave" Obey is the former U.S. Representative for , serving 21 consecutive terms from 1969 until 2011. The district includes much of the northwestern portion of the state, including Wausau and Superior...

 (D). Robert John Cornell
Robert John Cornell
Robert John Cornell, O Praem was a Roman Catholic priest and American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1975 to 1979....

 (D). Robert W. Kasten, Jr. (R)

Non-voting members

  • District of Columbia
    United States congressional delegations from the District of Columbia
    The U.S. House of Representatives has one non-voting delegate from the District of Columbia. This is the table of congressional delegates from the District of Columbia.-See also:*District of Columbia voting rights*D.C. statehood movement...

    . Walter E. Fauntroy
    Walter E. Fauntroy
    Walter Edward Fauntroy is the former pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and a civil rights activist. He is also a former member of the United States Congress and was a candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, as well as a human rights activist...

     (D)
  • Guam. Antonio Borja Won Pat
    Antonio Borja Won Pat
    Antonio Borja Won Pat was the first Delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives.He was born in Sumay, Guam, and worked as a teacher. He was first elected to the Advisory Guam Congress in 1936. In 1951 he became speaker of the Guam Assembly. In 1965 he was elected as a...

     (D)
  • Virgin Islands
    United States congressional delegations from U.S. Virgin Islands
    These are tables of non-voting delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands. Delegates represent the United States Virgin Islands' At-large congressional district.-Key:...

    . Ron de Lugo
    Ron de Lugo
    Ron de Lugo was the first Delegate from the United States Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives. His fathers parents were Puerto Ricans his grandfather owned a hardware store and gun dealership in Charlotte Amale, St. Thomas. His parents though living in New Jersey at the...

     (D). Jaime Benitez
    Jaime Benitez
    Jaime Benítez Rexach was a Puerto Rican author, academic and politician. He was the longest serving chancellor and the first president of the University of Puerto Rico.-Early life:...

     (PPD
    Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico
    The Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico is a political party that supports Puerto Rico's right to self-determination and sovereignty, through the enhancement of Puerto Rico's current status as a commonwealth....

    )


Changes in Membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

  • replacements: 7
    • Democratic
      Democratic Party (United States)
      The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

      : 1 seat net loss
    • Republican
      Republican Party (United States)
      The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

      : 1 seat net gain
  • deaths: 1
  • resignations: 6
  • vacancy:
  • Total seats with changes: 8


|-
| nowrap | New Hampshire
(3)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Disputed election. Norris Cotton appointed to seat until special election resolved dispute.
| nowrap | Norris Cotton
Norris Cotton
Norris H. Cotton was an American Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire.Norris Cotton was born on a farm in Warren, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Wesleyan University in Connecticut...


(R)
| August 8, 1975
|-
| nowrap | New Hampshire
(3)
| nowrap | Norris Cotton
Norris Cotton
Norris H. Cotton was an American Republican politician from the state of New Hampshire.Norris Cotton was born on a farm in Warren, New Hampshire. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and Wesleyan University in Connecticut...


(R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Successor elected September 18, 1975
| nowrap | John A. Durkin
John A. Durkin
John Anthony Durkin was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.Durkin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1959 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1965...


(D)
| September 18, 1975
|-
| nowrap | Michigan
(1)
| nowrap | Philip Hart
Philip Hart
Philip Aloysius Hart was a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until 1976. He was nicknamed the Conscience of the Senate.-Early years:...


(D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died December 26, 1976
| nowrap | Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. is an American politician from Michigan, who served for five terms as a Representative and for three terms as a Senator.-Early life:...


(D)
| December 27, 1976
|-
| nowrap | Missouri
(1)
| nowrap | Stuart Symington
Stuart Symington
William Stuart Symington was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.-Education and business career:...


(D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 27, 1976
| nowrap | John Danforth
John Danforth
John Claggett "Jack" Danforth is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri. He is an ordained Episcopal priest. Danforth is married to Sally D. Danforth and has five adult children.-Education and early career:Danforth was born...


(R)
| December 27, 1976
|-
| nowrap | Nebraska
(1)
| nowrap | Roman Hruska
Roman Hruska
Roman Lee Hruska was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the United States Senate during the 1960s and 1970s.-Life and career:...


(R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 27, 1976
| nowrap | Edward Zorinsky
Edward Zorinsky
Edward Zorinsky was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Nebraska, serving from 1976 until his death.- Early life :...


(D)
| December 28, 1976
|-
| nowrap | Ohio
(1)
| nowrap | Robert Taft, Jr.
Robert Taft, Jr.
Robert Taft Jr. was a member of the Taft political family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. He also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976....


(R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 28, 1976
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|-
| nowrap | Rhode Island
(1)
| nowrap | John O. Pastore
John O. Pastore
John Orlando Pastore was a Rhode Island Democratic Party politician who was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and the 61st Governor of Rhode Island , and was the first Italian American to hold either position.-Early life and career:Born in Providence on March 17, 1907, he attended...


(D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 28, 1976
| nowrap | John Chafee
John Chafee
John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.-Early life and family:...


(R)
| December 29, 1976
|-
| nowrap | Minnesota
(2)
| nowrap | Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...


(DFL)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 30, 1976 after being elected Vice-President of the United States.
| nowrap | Wendell Anderson
Wendell Anderson
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order to be named U.S. Senator to replace Walter Mondale, who had been elected Vice President of the...


(DFL)
| December 30, 1976
|-
| nowrap | California
(1)
| nowrap | John V. Tunney
John V. Tunney
John Varick Tunney , is a former Democratic Party United States Senator and Representative.-Biography:He is the son of the famous heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney and Connecticut socialite Polly Lauder Tunney....


(D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 1, 1977
| nowrap | S. I. Hayakawa
S. I. Hayakawa
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry. He was an English professor, and served as president of San Francisco State University and then as United States Senator from California from 1977 to 1983...


(R)
| January 2, 1977
|}

House of Representatives

  • replacements: 3
    • Democratic
      Democratic Party (United States)
      The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

      : 3 seat net loss
    • Republican
      Republican Party (United States)
      The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

      : 2 seat net gain
  • deaths: 2
  • resignations: 2
  • contested election:
  • Total seats with changes: 4


|-
|
| nowrap | John Jarman
John Jarman
John Jarman was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma for 26 years from January, 1951 to January, 1977.-Early life and career:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Changed parties
| nowrap | John Jarman
John Jarman
John Jarman was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma for 26 years from January, 1951 to January, 1977.-Early life and career:...

 (R)
| January 23, 1975
|-
|
| nowrap | John C. Kluczynski
John C. Kluczynski
John Carl Kluczynski was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, representing the 5th district.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kluczynski attended public and parochial schools, and during the First World War served overseas as a corporal with the Eighth Field Artillery in 1918 and 1919.He worked in the...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died January 26, 1975
| nowrap | John G. Fary
John G. Fary
John G. Fary was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He represented the Illinois's 5th congressional district...

 (D)
| July 8, 1975
|-
|
| nowrap | Jerry Pettis
Jerry Pettis
Jerry Lyle Pettis was an American politician and a Congressman from California. He was also a rancher, teacher, aviator, religious leader, and businessman....

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died February 14, 1975
| nowrap | Shirley N. Pettis
Shirley Neil Pettis
Shirley Neil Pettis was a U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis.- Early Life and Education :...

 (R)
| April 29, 1975
|-
|
| nowrap | Richard Fulton
Richard Fulton
Richard Harmon "Dick" Fulton was a Democratic politician who served as a member of the Tennessee State Senate and of the United States House of Representatives, and the second mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.- Background :Fulton was educated as a youth in the...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 14, 1975 after being elected Mayor of Nashville
| nowrap | Clifford Allen
Clifford Allen
Clifford Robertson Allen was a Tennessee attorney and Democratic politician.-Early life and career:Allen was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Friends High School in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from the Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to...

 (D)
| November 25, 1975
|-
|
| nowrap | James F. Hastings
James F. Hastings
James Fred Hastings is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Hastings was born in Olean, New York. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 until 1946. He was manager and vice president of radio station WHDL from 1952 until 1966...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 20, 1976
| nowrap | Stan Lundine
Stan Lundine
Stanley Nelson Lundine is a politician from Jamestown, New York who served as Mayor of Jamestown, a United States Representative, and lieutenant governor of New York. A Democrat, he was inaugurated Mayor in 1970 and served to 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives after the...

 (R)
| March 2, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | Robert R. Casey
Robert R. Casey
Robert Randolph "Bob" Casey was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Democrat from Texas.-Early life:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 22, 1976 after being appointed a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Maritime Commission
The United States Federal Maritime Commission is an independent federal agency, based in Washington D.C., responsible for the regulation of oceanborne transportation in the foreign commerce of the U.S.-Mission:The FMC:...


| nowrap | Ron Paul
Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

 (R)
| April 3, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | Wright Patman
Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency .-Early life:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died March 7, 1976
| nowrap | Sam B. Hall
Sam B. Hall
Sam Blakeley Hall, Jr. , American politician, was a Congressman representing Texas's 1st congressional district from 1976 to 1985 and then a federal judge of the U.S...

 (D)
| June 19, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | William A. Barrett
William A. Barrett
William Aloysius Barrett was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. He worked for a number of years in real estate before running for office.He was first elected to the U.S....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died April 12, 1976
| nowrap | Ozzie Myers
Michael Myers (politician)
Michael Joseph "Ozzie" Myers is a politician from the American state of Pennsylvania.He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Myers, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. Myers had previously been a longshoreman. He was regarded as a "maverick"...

 (D)
| November 2, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | Torbert Macdonald
Torbert Macdonald
Torbert Hart Macdonald , nicknamed Torby, was a politician from Massachusetts. He served as aDemocratic member of the United States House of Representatives....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 21, 1976
| nowrap | Ed Markey
Ed Markey
Edward John "Ed" Markey is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1976. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes most of Boston's northern and western suburbs, such as Medford and Framingham. Markey is the Dean of both the Massachusetts and New England House delegations...

 (D)
| November 2, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | Jerry Litton
Jerry Litton
Jerry Lon Litton was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Missouri who died with his wife and two children while en route via a small plane to the victory party after winning Missouri's state Democratic primary for U.S. Senate....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died August 3, 1976
| nowrap | Tom Coleman
Earl Thomas Coleman
Earl Thomas Coleman was a U.S. Congressman. He attended public schools and received a B.A. from William Jewell College in 1965 and an M.P.A. from New York University's, Wagner School of Public Service, in 1969. He also received a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969...

 (R)
| November 2, 1976
|-
|
| nowrap | Wayne Hays
Wayne Hays
Wayne Levere Hays was an American politician whose strong rule of the House Administration Committee extended to even the smallest items. In the mid-1970s, lawmakers avoided crossing Hays for fear that he would shut off the air conditioning in their offices...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 1, 1976 due to the Elizabeth Ray
Elizabeth Ray
Elizabeth Ray was the central figure in a much publicized sex scandal in 1976 that ended the career of U.S. Rep. Wayne Hays ....

 sex scandal
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|-
|
| nowrap | Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald W. Riegle, Jr.
Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. is an American politician from Michigan, who served for five terms as a Representative and for three terms as a Senator.-Early life:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 30, 1976 after being appointed to the US Senate
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|}

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