Members of Congress

Everyone who has served since 1973 — 2,687 people, the earliest of them first elected in 1923.

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Status

In office Former All

Party

Any Democrat Republican Independent

Chamber

Both House Senate

William Flynt Nichols

Alabama · District 3

1967–1989 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1918

Leslie Aspin

Wisconsin · District 1

1971–1993 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1938

John Vernard Dowdy

Texas · District 2

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1912

Frank Townsend Bow

Ohio · District 16

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1901

Jackson Edward Betts

Ohio · District 8

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1904

Page Henry Belcher

Oklahoma · District 1

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1899

Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.

Pennsylvania · District 2

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1898

Jack Kingston

Georgia · District 1

1993–2015 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1955

Howard P. "Buck" McKeon

California · District 25

1993–2015 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1938

John Andrew Young

Texas · District 14

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

Albert Harold Quie

Minnesota · District 1

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1923

John Joseph McFall

California · District 14

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1918

John Herman Dent

Pennsylvania · District 21

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1908

James T. Kolbe

Arizona · District 8

1985–2007 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1942

James O. McCrery III

Louisiana · District 4

1987–2009 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1949

John S. Tanner

Tennessee · District 8

1989–2011 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1944

Torbert Hart Macdonald

Massachusetts · District 7

1955–1977 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1917

Harold Eugene Ford

Tennessee · District 9

1975–1997 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1945

Spencer Bachus

Alabama · District 6

1993–2015 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1947

John Edward Porter

Illinois · District 10

1979–2001 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1935

Norman Frederick Lent

Republican-Conservative

New York · District 4

1971–1993 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1931

William Somers Mailliard

California · District 6

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1917

Craig Hosmer

California · District 32

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1915

Charles Samuel Gubser

California · District 10

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr.

New Jersey · District 5

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

Julian C. Dixon

California · District 32

1979–2001 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1934

Joel Thomas Broyhill

Virginia · District 10

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1919

John Milan Ashbrook

Ohio · District 17

1961–1983 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1928

Harold Terry Johnson

California · District 1

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1907

Robert Nicholas Giaimo

Connecticut · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1919

Samuel Leeper Devine

Ohio · District 12

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1915

John Brademas

Indiana · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1927

Joseph George Minish

New Jersey · District 11

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1916

Paul Findley

Illinois · District 20

1961–1983 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1921

John Mark Slack Jr.

West Virginia · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1915

Marion Gene Snyder

Kentucky · District 4

1963–1987 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1928

Clarence Dickinson Long

Maryland · District 2

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1908

William Singer Moorhead

Pennsylvania · District 14

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1923

Ed Whitfield

Kentucky · District 1

1995–2016 · 21.6 yrs · b. 1943

John Clarence Watts

Kentucky · District 6

1951–1973 · 21.6 yrs · b. 1902

John W. Olver

Massachusetts · District 1

1991–2013 · 21.5 yrs · b. 1936

Chaka Fattah

Pennsylvania · District 2

1995–2016 · 21.4 yrs · b. 1956

Thomas Dale DeLay

Texas · District 22

1985–2006 · 21.4 yrs · b. 1947

Christopher H. Shays

Connecticut · District 4

1987–2009 · 21.3 yrs · b. 1945

Gene Taylor

Mississippi · District 4

1989–2011 · 21.2 yrs · b. 1953

Neil Abercrombie

Hawaii · District 1

1985–2010 · 21.1 yrs · b. 1938

Richard Hugh Baker

Louisiana · District 6

1987–2008 · 21 yrs · b. 1948

Melvin L. Watt

North Carolina · District 12

1993–2014 · 21 yrs · b. 1945

J. Dennis Hastert

Illinois · District 14

1987–2007 · 20.8 yrs · b. 1942

Gerald D. Kleczka

Wisconsin · District 4

1984–2005 · 20.7 yrs · b. 1943

Norman Yoshio Mineta

California · District 15

1975–1995 · 20.7 yrs · b. 1931

Robert A. Brady

Pennsylvania · District 1

1998–2019 · 20.6 yrs · b. 1945

Phillip Burton

California · District 5

1963–1983 · 20.1 yrs · b. 1926

W. Curtis Weldon

Pennsylvania · District 7

1987–2007 · 20 yrs · b. 1947

Tim Ryan

Ohio · District 13

2003–2023 · 20 yrs · b. 1973

Sam Gejdenson

Connecticut · District 2

1981–2001 · 20 yrs · b. 1948

Susan A. Davis

California · District 53

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1944

Joel Hefley

Colorado · District 5

1987–2007 · 20 yrs · b. 1935

Wm. Lacy Clay

Missouri · District 1

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1956

George W. Gekas

Pennsylvania · District 17

1983–2003 · 20 yrs · b. 1930