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The All-Star House: the 435 Greatest Representatives

Posted in History, Politics, tagged , on February 25, 2013| 2 Comments »

When talking with my colleague Neil about the All-Star Senate project, he jokingly asked me if I had done a similar project for the much more numerous House of Representatives.  As it turned out, I did- a year ago.  And just forgot to post it on the Northumbrian Countdown until my conversation with Neil.  So– here is my list for the greatest members of the House of all time, with respect to legislative accomplishment, parliamentarian skill, and when applicable, humanitarian vision.  To avoid repetition, no member of my All-Star Senate was eligible for this project, so that is why you won’t see Clay, Claude Pepper, and other prominent congressmen here.  The number of congressmen allotted to each state corresponds to the historical average of congressmen they have had since admission to the union, and the occasional personal bias (e.g. fleecing the South at the expense of New York and Massachusetts.  Reconstruction, fools!)  The total comes to 435, the number of voting members in the current House of Representatives.  I put in bold the names of figures who I thought were especially interesting, but are not well known, if any of you want to follow up on this project with some reading of your own.

Maine (4):

  1. James G. Blaine (Republican, 1863-1876)
  2. Thomas Reed (Republican, 1877-1899)
  3. Charles Boutelle (Republican, 1883-1901)
  4. Robert Hale (Republican, 1943-1959)

II.  New Hampshire (2):

  1. John P. Hale (Free Soil, 1843-1845)
  2. Robert C. Smith (Republican, 1985-1990)

III.  Vermont (3)

  1. William Slade (Anti-Mason, 1832-1843)
  2. Justin Morrill (Whig, Republican, 1855-1867)
  3. Bernie Sanders (Independent, 1991-2007)

IV.  Massachusetts (16):

  1. Fisher Ames (Federalist, 1789-1797)
  2. Josiah Quincy (Federalist, 1805-1813)
  3. John Quincy Adams (National Republican, Whig, 1831-1848)
  4. Horace Mann (Whig, 1848-1853)
  5. Nathaniel P. Banks (American, Republican, 1853-1857, 1865-1873, 1875-1879, 1889-1891)
  6. Henry L. Dawes (Republican, 1857-1875)
  7. Benjamin Butler (Republican, 1867-1875, 1877-1879)
  8. George F. Hoar (Republican, 1869-1877)
  9. John W. Weeks (Democrat, 1905-1913)
  10. George Tinkham (Republican, 1915-1943)
  11. Joseph William Martin Jr. (Republican, 1925-1967)
  12. Tip O’Neil (Democrat, 1953-1987)
  13. Silvio Conte (Republican, 1953-1991)
  14. Robert Drinan (Democrat, 1971-1981)
  15. Joe Moakley (Democrat, 1973-2001)
  16. Barney Frank (Democrat, 1981-Present)

V.  Rhode Island (2):

  1. Clark Burdick (Republican, 1919-1933)
  2. John Fogarty (Democrat, 1941-1967)

VI.  Connecticut (5):

  1. Roger Griswold (Federalist, 1795-1805)
  2. Benjamin Talmadge (Federalist, 1801-1817)
  3. Emilio Daddario (Democrat, 1959-1971)
  4. Nancy Johnson (Republican, 1983-2003)
  5. Rosie DeLauro (Democrat, 1991-Present)

VII.  New York (35):

  1. Stephen Van Renssellaer (National Republican, 1822-1829)
  2. Millard Fillmore (Whig, 1833-1835, 1837-1843)
  3. Fernando Wood (Democrat, 1841-1843, 1863-1881)
  4. Washington Hunt (Whig, 1843-1849)
  5. John W. Taylor (D-R, National Republican, 1813-1833)
  6. Reuben Fenton (Democrat, Republican, 1853-1864)
  7. William A. Wheeler (Republican, 1863-1869, 1869-1877)
  8. Sereno Payne (Republican, 1883-1914)
  9. James Sherman (Republican, 1887-1909)
  10. Lucius Littaeur (Republican, 1897-1907)
  11. Meyer London (Socialist, 1915-1919, 1921-1923)
  12. Bertrand Snell (Republican, 1915-1939)
  13. Fiorello Laguardia (Republican, 1917-1919, 1923-1933)
  14. Hamilton Fish III (Republican, 1920-1945)
  15. Emanuel Celler (Democrat, 1923-1973)
  16. Robert Bacon (Republican, 1923-1938)
  17. James Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, 1933-1951)
  18. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Democrat, 1945-1971)
  19. Jacob Javits (Republican, 1947-1954)
  20. Edna Kelly (Democrat, 1949-1959)
  21. William E. Miller (Republican, 1951-1965)
  22. Samuel Stratton (Democrat, 1959-1989)
  23. Otis Pike (Democrat, 1961-1979)
  24. Shirley Chisholm (Democrat, 1969-1983)
  25. Jack Kemp (Republican, 1971-1989)
  26. Bella Abzug (Democrat, 1971-1977)
  27. Charles Rangel (Democrat, 1971-present)
  28. Norman Lent (Republican, 1973-1993)
  29. Benjamin Gilman (Republican, 1973-2003)
  30. Geraldine Ferraro (Democrat, 1979-1985)
  31. Sherwood Boehlert (Republican, 1983-2007)
  32. Gary Ackerman (Democrat, 1983-present)
  33. Amo Houghton (Republican, 1985-2005)
  34. Louise Slaughter (Democrat, 1987-present)
  35. Peter King (Republican, 1993-present)

VIII.  New Jersey (13):

  1. Jonathan Dayton (Federalist, 1791-1799)
  2. William McAdoo (Democrat, 1883-1891)
  3. Charles A. Eaton (Republican, 1925-1953)
  4. Charles Wolverton (Republican, 1927-1959)
  5. Mary Norton (Democrat, 1933-1951)
  6. Peter Rodino (Democrat, 1949-1989)
  7. Edward J. Patten (Democrat, 1963-1980)
  8. Joseph Minish (Democrat, 1963-1985)
  9. James J. Howard (Democrat, 1965-1988)
  10. William J. Hughes (Democrat, 1975-1995)
  11. Chris Smith (Republican, 1981-present)
  12. Rodney Frelinghuysen (Republican, 1995-present)
  13. Rush Holt (Democrat, 1999-present)

IX.  Pennsylvania (27):

  1. Frederick Muhlenberg (Pro and Anti-Administration, 1789-1797)
  2. William Findley (Democratic-Republican, 1791-1799, 1803, 1817)
  3. John Sergeant (D-R, National R., Whig, 1815-1823, 1827-1829, 1837-1841)
  4. James Buchanan (Federalist, Democrat, 1821-1831)
  5. Thomas McKennan (Anti-Mason, Whig, 1831-1839, 1842-1849)
  6. Lewis Charles Levin (Know-Nothing, 1845-1851)
  7. Thaddeus Stevens (Whig, Republican, 1849-1868)
  8. Galusha A. Grow (Democrat, Republican, 1851-1863, 1894-1903)
  9. John Covode (Whig, Republican, 1855-1863, 1867-1869)
  10. William D. Kelly (Republican, 1861-1890)
  11. Samuel J. Randall (Democrat, 1863-1890)
  12. John Dalzell (Republican, 1887-1913)
  13. James F. Burke (Republican, 1905-1915)
  14. William S. Vare (Republican, 1912-1927)
  15. James Wolfenden (Republican, 1928-1947)
  16. Francis Walter (Democrat, 1933-1963)
  17. Hugh Scott (Republican, 1941-1959)
  18. Daniel J. Flood (Democrat, 1945-1947, 1949-1953, 1955-1980)
  19. John P. Saylor (Democrat, 1949-1973)
  20. Robert Nix (Democrat, 1958-1979)
  21. Richard Schweiker (Republican, 1961-1969)
  22. Gus Yatron (Democrat, 1961-1993)
  23. Bud Shuster (Republican, 1973-2001)
  24. John Murtha (Democrat, 1974-2010)
  25. Paul Kanjorski (Democrat, 1985-2011)
  26. Curt Weldon (Republican, 1987-2007)
  27. Phil English (Republican, 1995-2009)

X. Delaware (2)

  1. Louis McLane (Federalist, National Republican, 1817-1827)
  2. Mike Castle (Republican, 1993-2011)

XI.  Maryland (9)

  1. Samuel Smith (Democratic-Republican, 1793-1803, 1816-1822)
  2. George Corbin Washington (Anti-Jacksonian, 1827-1837)
  3. Henry Winter Davis (Democrat, Republican, 1855-1861, 1863-1865)
  4. John Charles Linthincum (Democrat, 1911-1932)
  5. Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. (Democrat, 1939-1947)
  6. J. Glenn Beall (Republican, 1943-1953)
  7. Parren Mitchell (Democrat 1971-1987)
  8. Barbara Mikulski (Democrat, 1977-1987)
  9. Steny Hoyer (Democrat, 1983-present)

XII.  Virginia (16)

  1. James Madison (Pro and Anti-Administration, 1789-1797)
  2. Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration, 1789-1795)
  3. John Randolph of Roanoke, (D-R, 1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1823)
  4. Philip P. Barbour (Democratic-Republican, Democrat, 1814-1825, 1827-1830)
  5. John Tyler (Democratic-Republican, 1816-1823)
  6. Charles F. Mercer (Federalist, National Republican, Anti-Jacksonian, Whig, 1817-1839)
  7. John Floyd (Democratic-Republican, 1817-1829)
  8. Henry A. Wise (Democrat, Whig, 1833-1844)
  9. Robert M.T. Hunter (Democrat, 1837-1843, 1845-1847)
  10. John Randolph Tucker (Democrat, 1875-1887)
  11. William Atkinson Jones (Democrat, 1891-1918)
  12. Howard W. Smith (Democrat, 1931-1967)
  13. Richard Harding Poff (Republican, 1953-1972)
  14. Joel Broyhill (Republican, 1953-1974)
  15. James Moran (Democrat, 1991-present)
  16. Eric Cantor (Republican, 2001-present)

XIII.  North Carolina (8)

  1. D.L. Russell (Greenback, 1879-1881)
  2. Alonzo C. Shuford (Populist, 1893-1899)
  3. Claude Kitchin (Democrat, 1901-1923)
  4. Robert Doughton (Democrat, 1911-1953)
  5. Harold D. Cooley (Democrat, 1934-1967)
  6. Jim Broyhill (Republican, 1969-1986)
  7. Charlie Rose III (Democrat, 1973-1997)
  8. Howard Coble (Republican, 1985-present)

XIV.  Florida (12)

  1. Paul Rogers (Democrat, 1955-1979)
  2. Dante Fascell (Democrat, 1955-1993)
  3. Sam Gibbons (Democrat, 1963-1997)
  4. Bill Young (Republican, 1973-present)
  5. Earl Hutto (Democrat, 1979-1995)
  6. Bill McCollum (Republican, 1981-2001)
  7. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Republican, 1989-present)
  8. Cliff Stearns (Republican, 1989-present)
  9. Lincoln Diaz-Barlat (Republican, 1992-2011)
  10. Joe Scarborough (Republican, 1994-2002)
  11. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Democrat, 2005-present)
  12. Alan Grayson (Democrat, 2009-2011)

XV.  Missouri (12):

  1. John S. Phelps (Democrat, 1845-1863)
  2. Francis P. Blair (Democrat, Unionist, 1857-1859, 1860, 1861-1862, 1863-1864)
  3. Henry T. Blow (Republican, 1863-1867)
  4. Richard P. Bland (Democrat, 1873-1895, 1897-1899)
  5. Champ Clark (Democrat, 1893-1895, 1897-1921)
  6. Richard Bartholdt (Republican, 1893-1915)
  7. Dorsey Shackleford (Democrat, 1899-1919)
  8. Milton Romjue (Democrat, 1917-1943)
  9. Clarence Cannon (Democrat, 1923-1964)
  10. Bill Clay (Democrat, 1969-2001)
  11. Dick Gephardt (Democrat, 1977-2005)
  12. Ike Skelton (Democrat, 1977-2011)

XVI.  South Carolina (9)

  1. Langdon Cheves (Democratic-Republican, 1810-1815)
  2. George McDuffie (Democrat, 1821-1834)
  3. Preston Brooks (Democrat, 1853-1857)
  4. Joseph Rainey (Republican, 1870-1879)
  5. Asbury Francis Lever (Democrat, 1901-1919)
  6. James F. Byrnes (Democrat, 1911-1925)
  7. L. Mendell Rivers (Democrat, 1941-1970)
  8. Jim Clyburne (Democrat, 1993-present)
  9. Mark Sanford (Republican, 1995-2001)

XVII.  Georgia (9)

  1. Alexander H. Stevens (Whig, Democrat, 1843-1859, 1873-1882)
  2. Howell Cobb (Democrat, 1843-1853)
  3. James Henderson Blount (Democrat, 1873-1893)
  4. Charles Frederick Crisp (Democrat, 1883-1896)
  5. Carl Vinson (Democrat, 1914-1965)
  6. John S. Gibson (Democrat, 1941-1947)
  7. Philip Landrum (Democrat, 1953-1977)
  8. Newt Gingrich (Republican, 1979-1999)
  9. John L. Lewis (Democrat, 1987-present)

XVIII.  Alabama (7)

  1. Williamson Cobb (Democrat, 1846-1861)
  2. Henry Steagall (Democrat, 1915-1943)
  3. William B. Bankhead (Democrat, 1917-1940)
  4. Carl Elliot (Democrat, 1949-1965)
  5. Jack Edwards (Republican, 1965-1985)
  6. John Hall Buchanan (Republican, 1965-1981)
  7. William Flint Nichols (Democrat, 1967-1988)

XIX.  Mississippi (7)

  1. Lucius Q. C. Lamar (Democrat, 1857-1860, 1873-1877)
  2. John R. Lynch (Republican, 1873-1877, 1882-1883)
  3. John Sharp Williams (Democrat, 1893-1909)
  4. William Colmer (Democrat, 1933-1973)
  5. James L. Whitten (Democrat, 1941-1995)
  6. Gillespie V. Montgomery (Democrat, 1967-1997)
  7. Trent Lott (Republican, 1973-1989)

XX.  Louisiana (7):

  1. Benjamin Flanders (Unionist Republican, 1863-1864)
  2. James Aswell Jr. (Democrat, 1913-1931)
  3. Felix Edward Hebert (Democrat, 1941-1977)
  4. Hale Boggs (Democrat, 1947-1972)
  5. Otto Passman (Democrat, 1947-1977)
  6. Bob Livingston (Republican, 1977-1999)
  7. Joseph Cao (Republican, 2009-2011)

XXI.  Arkansas (5)

  1. James M. Hines (Republican, 1867-1868)
  2. Thomas C. McRae (Democrat, 1885-1903)
  3. Wilbur C. Mills (Democrat, 1939-1977)
  4. Brooks Hays (Democrat, 1943-1959)
  5. John P. Hammerschmidt (Republican, 1967-1993)

XXII.  Kentucky (10)

  1. Matthew Lyon (D-R, 1797-1801, 1803-1811)
  2. Richard Mentor Johnson (D-R, Democrat, 1807-1819, 1829-1837)
  3. Charles A. Wickliffe (Democrat, Whig, Unionist, 1823-1833, 1831-1863)
  4. Linn Boyd (Democrat, 1835-1837, 1839-1855)
  5. J. Proctor Knott (Democrat, 1867-1871, 1875-1883)
  6. John G. Carlisle (Democrat, 1877-1889)
  7. Alben Barkley (Democrat, 1913-1927)
  8. Brent Spence (Democrat, 1931-1963)
  9. Romano Mazzolli (Democrat, 1971-1995)
  10. Hal Rogers (Republican, 1981-present)

XXIII.  Tennessee (11)

  1. James K. Polk (Democrat, 1825-1839)
  2. Davy Crockett (Anti-Jacksonian, 1827-1831, 1833-1835)
  3. John Bell (Democrat, Whig, 1827-1841)
  4. Horace Maynard (Whig, Republican, 1857-1863, 1866-1875)
  5. Walter Brownlow (Republican, 1896-1910)
  6. Cordell Hull (Democrat, 1907-1921, 1923-1931)
  7. Estes Kefauver (Democrat, 1939-1949)
  8. Joe L. Evins (Democrat, 1947-1977)
  9. Marilyn Lloyd (Democrat, 1975-1995)
  10. Jimmy Duncan (Republican, 1988-present)
  11. Harold Ford Jr. (Democrat, 1997-2007)

XXIV.  West Virginia (4)

  1. William Lynn Wilson (Democrat, 1883-1895)
  2. Nathan Goff, Jr. (Republican, 1883-1889)
  3. Jennings Randolph (Democrat, 1933-1947)
  4. Nick Rahall (Democrat, 1977-present)

XXV.  Ohio (20):

  1. Thomas Corwin (Anti-Jacksonian, Republican, 1833-1840, 1859-1861,
  2. Robert C. Scheneck, (Whig, Republican, 1843-1851, 1853-1871)
  3. Joshua R. Giddings (Whig, Free Soil, Republican, 1838-1858)
  4. John A. Bingham (Whig, Republican, 1855-1863, 1865-1873)
  5. George Pendleton (Democrat, 1857-1865)
  6. Clement Vallandigham (Democrat, 1858-1863)
  7. James Garfield (Republican, 1861-1881)
  8. William McKinley (Republican, 1877-1883, 1885-1891)
  9. Nicholas Longworth (Republican, 1903-1913, 1915-1931)
  10. Roy G. Fitzgerald (Republican, 1921-1931)
  11. Francis Bolton (Republican, 1940-1969)
  12. William M. McCullough (Republican, 1947-1973)
  13. John Ashbrook (Republican, 1961-1982)
  14. Clarence E. Miller (Republican, 1967-1993)
  15. Louis Stokes (Democrat, 1969-1999)
  16. Mike Oxley (Republican, 1981-2007)
  17. Mary Kaptur (Democrat, 1983-present)
  18. John Boehner (Republican, 1991-present)
  19. Rob Portman (Republican, 1993-2005)
  20. Dennis Kucinich (Democrat, 1997-present)

XXVI.  Indiana (11):

  1. Caleb Blood Smith (Whig, 1843-1849)
  2. William H. English (Democrat, 1853-1861)
  3. Schuyler Colfax (Republican, 1855-1869)
  4. Daniel W. Voorhes (Democrat, 1869-1873)
  5. James E. Watson (Republican, 1895-1905)
  6. Louis Ludlow (Democrat, 1929-1949)
  7. Samuel Pettingill (Democrat, 1931-1939)
  8. Charles A. Halleck (Republican, 1935-1969)
  9. John Brademas (Democrat, 1959-1981)
  10. Lee Hamilton (Democrat, 1965-1999)
  11. Mike Pence (Republican, 2001—present)

XXVII.  Illinois (21):

  1. John Alexander McClerand (Democrat, 1843-1851, 1859-1861)
  2. Abraham Lincoln (Whig, 1847-1849)
  3. Elihu B. Washburne (Whig, Republican, 1853-1869)
  4. Owen Lovejoy (Republican, 1857-1864)
  5. John F. Farnsworth (Republican, 1857-1861, 1863-1873)
  6. Joe Cannon (Republican, 1873-1891, 1893-1913, 1915-1923)
  7. William M. Springer (Democrat, 1875-1895)
  8. James Robert Mann (Republican, 1897-1922)
  9. Henry Thomas Rainley (Democrat, 1903-1921, 1923-1934)
  10. Ira Copley (Progressive, Republican, 1911-1923)
  11. Oscar De Priest (Republican, 1929-1935)
  12. Leslie Arends (Republican, 1935-1974)
  13. William L. Dawson (Democrat, 1943-1970)
  14. Sidney R. Yates (Democrat, 1949-1963, 1965-1999)
  15. Robert H. Michael (Republican, 1957-1995)
  16. Dan Rosetenkowski (Democrat, 1959-1995)
  17. Dennis Hastert (Republican, 1987-2007)
  18. Bobby Rush (Democrat, 1993-present)
  19. Luis Gutierrez (Democrat, 1993-present)
  20. Ray LaHood (Republican, 1995-2009)
  21. Judy Biggert (Republican, 1999-present)

XXVIII.  Michigan (14):

  1. Robert McClelland (Democrat, 1843-1849)
  2. Kinsley Bingham (Democrat, 1847-1851)
  3. Julius C. Burrows (Republican, 1873-1875, 1879-1883, 1885-1893)
  4. Joseph W. Fordney (Republican, 1899-1923)
  5. Roy Woodruf (Progressive, Republican, 1913-1915, 1921-1953)
  6. John Dingell Sr. (Democrat, 1933-1955)
  7. George Anthony Dondero (Republican, 1933-1957)
  8. Gerald R. Ford (Republican, 1949-1973)
  9. John Dingell Jr. (Democrat, 1955-present)
  10. Martha Griffiths (Democrat, 1955-1974)
  11. John Conyers, Jr. (Democrat, 1965-present)
  12. Guy Vander Jadt (Republican, 1966-1993)
  13. David Bonoir (Democrat, 1977-2003)
  14. Paul Henry (Republican, 1985-1993)

XXIX.  Wisconsin (11)

  1. Charles Durkee (Free Soil, 1949-1953)
  2. Henry A. Cooper (Republican, 1893-1919, 1921-1931)
  3. John Esch (Republican, 1899-1921)
  4. Irvine Lenroot (Republican, 1909-1919)
  5. Victor Berger (Socialist, 1911-1913, 1922-1929)
  6. Melvin Laird (Republican, 1953-1969)
  7. David Obey (Democrat, 1969-2011)
  8. Les Aspin (Democrat, 1971-1993)
  9. Tom Petri (Republican, 1979-present)
  10. Paul Ryan (Republican, 1999-present)
  11. Tammy Baldwin (Democrat, 1999-present)

XXX.  Minnesota (9)

  1. William Windom (Republican, 1859-1869)
  2. Ignatius Donnally (Republican, 1863-1869)
  3. Andrew Volstead (Republican, 1903-1923)
  4. Harold Knudsen (Republican, 1917-1949)
  5. Walter Judd (Republican, 1943-1963)
  6. John Blatnik (Democrat, 1947-1975)
  7. Eugene McCarthy (Democrat, 1949-1959)
  8. Jim Oberstar (Democrat, 1975-2011)
  9. Collin Peterson (Democrat, 1991-present)

XXXI.  Iowa (8)

  1. James Weaver (Greenback, Populist, 1879-1881, 1885-1889)
  2. William Peters Hepburn (Republican, 1881-1887, 1893-1909)
  3. David B. Henderson (Republican, 1883-1903)
  4. Gilbert Haugen (Republican, 1899-1933)
  5. William R. Green (Republican, 1911-1928)
  6. Lester J. Dickinson (Republican, 1919-1931)
  7. John Culver (Democrat, 1965-1975)
  8. Jim Leach (Republican, 1977-2007)

XXXII.  North Dakota (2)

  1. William Lemke 😉 (Republican/Non-Partisan League, 1933-1941, 1943-1950)
  2. Byron Dorgan (Democrat, 1981-1993)

XXXIII.  South Dakota (2)

  1. Charles H. Burke (Republican, 1899-1907, 1909-1915)
  2. Karl Mundt  (Republican, 1939-1948)

XXXIV.  Nebraska (6)

  1. William McKeighan (Populist, 1891-1895)
  2. William Jennings Bryan (Democrat, 1891-1895)
  3. Moses Kincaid (Republican, 1903-1922)
  4. Carl Curtis (Republican, 1943-1955)
  5. Virginia D. Smith (Republican, 1975-1991)
  6. Doug Bereuter (Republican, 1979-2004)

XXXV.  Kansas (7)

  1. Martin Franklin Conway (Republican, 1859-1863)
  2. John Davis (Populist, 1891-1895)
  3. Jerry Simpson (Populist, 1891-1895, 1897-1899)
  4. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (Republican, 1907-1929)
  5. Frank Carlson (Republican, 1935-1947)
  6. Pat Roberts (Republican, 1981-1997)
  7. Todd Tiahrt  (Republican, 1995-2011)

XXXVI.  Montana (2):

  1. Jeanette Rankin (Republican, 1917-1919, 1941, 1943)
  2. Pat Williams (Democrat, 1979-1997)

XXXVII.  Idaho (2)

  1. Burton French (Republican, 1903-1909, 1911-1915, 1917-1933)
  2. Compton White (Democrat, 1933-1947, 1949-1951)

XXXVIII.  Wyoming (1)

  1. Frank Mondell (Republican, 1899-1923)

XXXIX.  Utah (2)

  1. Don B. Colton (Republican, 1921-1933)
  2. K. Gunn McKay (Democrat, 1971-1981)

XL.  Colorado (5)

  1. John F. Shafroth (Silver Republican, 1895-1904)
  2. Edward Thomas Taylor (Democrat, 1909-1941)
  3. Wayne Aspinall (Democrat, 1949-1973)
  4. Pat Schroeder (Democrat, 1973-1997)
  5. Tom Tancredo (Republican, 1999-2009)

XLI.  Oklahoma (6)

  1. Bird Segle McGuire (Republican, 1907-1915)
  2. James S. Davenport (Democrat, 1909-1919)
  3. Wilburn Cartwright (Democrat, 1927-1943)
  4. Carl Albert (Democrat, 1947-1977)
  5. James Robert Jones (Democrat, 1973-1987)
  6. J.C. Watts (Republican, 1995-2003)

XLII. Texas (22)

  1. John Henninger Reagan (Democrat, 1857-1861, 1875-1883)
  2. John Nance Garner (Democrat, 1903-1933)
  3. Sam Rayburn (Democrat, 1913-1961)
  4. Hatton Summers (Democrat, 1913-1947)
  5. Morris Sheppard (Democrat, 1913-1940)
  6. John Marvin Jones (Democrat, 1917-1940)
  7. Wright Patman (Democrat, 1929-1976)
  8. Martin Dies, Jr. (Democrat, 1931-1945, 1953-1958)
  9. Albert Thomas (Democrat, 1937-1966)
  10. George Mahon (Democrat, 1935-1979)
  11. Jack Brooks (Democrat, 1953-1995)
  12. Jim Wright (Democrat, 1955-1989)
  13. Henry Gonzalez (Democrat, 1961-1999)
  14. J. J. Pickle (Democrat, 1963-1995)
  15. Kika de la Garza (Democrat, 1965-1997)
  16. Charles Wilson (Democrat, 1973-1996)
  17. Ron Paul (Republican, 1976-1977, 1979-1985, 1997-2013)
  18. Ralph Hall (Democrat, Republican, 1981-present)
  19. Dick Armey (Republican, 1985-2005)
  20. Tom DeLay (Republican, 1985-2006)
  21. Lamar S. Smith (Republican, 1987-present)
  22. Eddie Bernice Jordan (Democrat, 1993-present)

XLIII.  New Mexico (3)

  1. Joseph Montoya (Democrat, 1957-1964)
  2. Bill Richardson (Democrat, 1983-1997)
  3. Heather Wilson (Republican, 1998-2009)

XLIV.  Arizona (5)

  1. John Jacob Rhodes (Republican, 1953-1983)
  2. Morris Udall (Democrat, 1961-1991)
  3. John McCain (Republican, 1983-1987)
  4. Raul Grijalva (Democrat, 2003-present)
  5. Gabrielle Giffords (Democrat, 2007-2012)

XLV.  Nevada (3)

  1. Francis G. Newlands (Democrat, 1903-1917)
  2. Walter Bering (Democrat, 1949-1953, 1053-1973)
  3. Barbara Vucanovich (Republican, 1983-1997)

XLVI.  California (25)

  1. William Rosencrans (Democrat, 1881-1885)
  2. Julius Kahn (Republican, 1899-1903, 1905-1924)
  3. Joseph Knowland (Republican, 1904-1915)
  4. John A. Elston (Progressive, 1915-1921)
  5. Phil Swing (Republican, 1921-1933)
  6. Bertrand Gearheart (Republican, 1935-1949)
  7. Jerry Voorhis (Democrat, 1937-1947)
  8. Richard Nixon (Republican, 1947-1951)
  9. James Roosevelt (Democrat, 1947-1957)
  10. James B. Utt (Republican, 1953-1970)
  11. John E. Moss (Democrat, 1953-1978)
  12. Alphonzo Bell Jr. (Republican, 1961-1977)
  13. George Brown Jr. (Democrat, 1963-1971, 1973-1999)
  14. Pete McCloskey (Republican, 1967-1983)
  15. Barry Goldwater Jr. (Republican, 1969-1983)
  16. Pete Stark (Democrat, 1973-present)
  17. Henry Waxman (Democrat, 1975-present)
  18. Norman Mineta (Democrat, 1975-1995)
  19. Robert Dornan (Republican, 1977-1983, 1985-1997)
  20. Duncan Hunter (Republican, 1981-2009)
  21. David Drier (Republican, 1981-present)
  22. Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, 1987-present)
  23. Christopher Cox (Republican, 1989-2005)
  24. Xavier Beccera (Democrat, 1993-present)
  25. Jane Harman (Democrat, 1993-1999, 2001-2011)

XLVII: Oregon (4)-

  1. Willis C. Hawley (Republican, 1907-1933)
  2. Les AuCoin (Democrat, 1971-1993)
  3. Peter DeFazio (Democrat, 1987-Present)
  4. Earl Blumenauer (Democrat, 1996-Present)

XLVIII.  Washington (6)

  1. Wesley Livsey Jones (Republican, 1909-1932)
  2. William LaFollette (Republican, 1911-1919)
  3. Albert Johnson (Republican, 1913-1933)
  4. Tom Foley (Democrat, 1965-1995)
  5. Norman Dicks (Democrat, 1977-present)
  6. Jim McDermott (Democrat, 1989-present)

XLIX.  Alaska (1)

  1. Don Young (Republican, 1973-present)

L.  Hawaii (2)

  1. Spark Matsunaga (Democrat, 1963-1977)
  2. Patsy Mink (Democrat, 1965-1977, 1990-2002)

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