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

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Chamber

Both House Senate

Clement John Zablocki

Wisconsin · District 4

1949–1983 · 34.7 yrs · b. 1912

George E. Brown Jr.

California · District 42

1963–1999 · 34.4 yrs · b. 1920

James Claude Wright Jr.

Texas · District 12

1955–1989 · 34.3 yrs · b. 1922

Thomas R. Carper

Delaware · Senate

1983–2025 · 34 yrs · b. 1947

Barbara Boxer

California · Senate

1983–2017 · 34 yrs · b. 1940

Harry Reid

Nevada · Senate

1983–2017 · 34 yrs · b. 1939

John B. Breaux

Louisiana · Senate

1971–2005 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1944

John Lanneau McMillan

South Carolina · District 6

1939–1973 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1898

Michael Joseph Mansfield

Montana · Senate

1943–1977 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1903

Ike Skelton

Missouri · District 4

1977–2011 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1931

Ray John Madden

Indiana · District 1

1943–1977 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1892

David E. Price

North Carolina · District 4

1987–2023 · 33.9 yrs · b. 1940

Thomas Phillip O’Neill Jr.

Massachusetts · District 8

1953–1987 · 33.8 yrs · b. 1912

Sam Melville Gibbons

Florida · District 11

1963–1997 · 33.8 yrs · b. 1920

Lee Herbert Hamilton

Indiana · District 9

1965–1999 · 33.8 yrs · b. 1931

Richard Walker Bolling

Missouri · District 5

1949–1983 · 33.8 yrs · b. 1916

Quentin Northrup Burdick

North Dakota · Senate

1959–1992 · 33.6 yrs · b. 1908

John Lewis

Georgia · District 5

1987–2020 · 33.5 yrs · b. 1940

Olin Earl Teague

Texas · District 6

1946–1979 · 32.2 yrs · b. 1910

James William Fulbright

Arkansas · Senate

1943–1975 · 32 yrs · b. 1905

Sherrod Brown

Ohio · Senate

1993–2025 · 32 yrs · b. 1952

James Joseph Delaney

New York · District 9

1945–1979 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1901

Anna G. Eshoo

California · District 16

1993–2025 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1942

John James Rooney

New York · District 14

1943–1975 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1903

Omar Truman Burleson

Texas · District 17

1947–1979 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1906

Barney Frank

Massachusetts · District 4

1981–2013 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1940

Chester Earl Holifield

California · District 19

1943–1975 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1903

Jim Cooper

Tennessee · District 5

1983–2023 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1954

Ovie Clark Fisher

Texas · District 21

1943–1975 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1903

Thomas Ellsworth Morgan

Pennsylvania · District 22

1945–1977 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1906

Nita M. Lowey

New York · District 17

1989–2021 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1937

Eliot L. Engel

New York · District 16

1989–2021 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1947

William Lacy Clay Sr.

Missouri · District 1

1969–2001 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1931

Robert William Kastenmeier

Wisconsin · District 2

1959–1991 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1924

Thomas Jefferson Steed

Oklahoma · District 4

1949–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1904

Eligio II de la Garza

Texas · District 15

1965–1997 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1927

Harley Orrin Staggers

West Virginia · District 2

1949–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1907

Daniel John Flood

Pennsylvania · District 11

1945–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1903

James Jarrell Pickle

Texas · District 10

1963–1995 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1913

William Donlon Edwards

California · District 16

1963–1995 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1915

Robert Menendez

New Jersey · Senate

1993–2024 · 31.6 yrs · b. 1954

William Proxmire

Wisconsin · Senate

1957–1989 · 31.3 yrs · b. 1915

Louise McIntosh Slaughter

New York · District 25

1987–2018 · 31.1 yrs · b. 1929

Dianne Feinstein

California · Senate

1992–2023 · 30.9 yrs · b. 1933

José E. Serrano

New York · District 15

1990–2021 · 30.7 yrs · b. 1943

Morris King Udall

Arizona · District 2

1961–1991 · 30.2 yrs · b. 1922

Jeff Bingaman

New Mexico · Senate

1983–2013 · 30 yrs · b. 1943

Byron L. Dorgan

North Dakota · Senate

1981–2011 · 30 yrs · b. 1942

Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.

Texas · Senate

1947–1993 · 30 yrs · b. 1921

Arlen Specter

Pennsylvania · Senate

1981–2011 · 30 yrs · b. 1930

John D. Rockefeller, IV

West Virginia · Senate

1985–2015 · 30 yrs · b. 1937

Otto Ernest Passman

Louisiana · District 5

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1900

Howard L. Berman

California · District 28

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1941

Bill Nelson

Florida · Senate

1979–2019 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

Joseph Landon Evins

Tennessee · District 4

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1910

Louis Stokes

Ohio · District 11

1969–1999 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1925

Gary L. Ackerman

New York · District 5

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

William Aloysius Barrett

Pennsylvania · District 1

1945–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1896

Carl Bert Albert

Oklahoma · District 3

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1908

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Texas · District 30

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1935