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

Louis Stokes

Ohio · District 11

1969–1999 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1925

George William Andrews

Alabama · District 3

1943–1973 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1906

Bill Nelson

Florida · Senate

1979–2019 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

Otto Ernest Passman

Louisiana · District 5

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1900

Thomas Gerstle Abernethy

Mississippi · District 1

1943–1973 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1903

Bobby L. Rush

Illinois · District 1

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1946

Edolphus Towns

New York · District 10

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1934

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Texas · District 30

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1935

William David Ford

Michigan · District 13

1965–1995 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1927

Samuel Studdiford Stratton

New York · District 23

1959–1989 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1916

Thomas Stephen Foley

Washington · District 5

1965–1995 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1929

Lawrence H. Fountain

North Carolina · District 2

1953–1983 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1913

Tom Bevill

Alabama · District 4

1967–1997 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1921

Edward Ross Roybal

California · District 25

1963–1993 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1916

Gillespie V. Montgomery

Mississippi · District 3

1967–1997 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1920

Andrew Jacobs Jr.

Indiana · District 10

1965–1997 · 29.8 yrs · b. 1932

Sheila Jackson Lee

Texas · District 18

1995–2024 · 29.5 yrs · b. 1950

Earl Blumenauer

Oregon · District 3

1996–2025 · 28.6 yrs · b. 1948

Clinton Presba Anderson

New Mexico · Senate

1941–1973 · 28.5 yrs · b. 1895

Frank R. Lautenberg

New Jersey · Senate

1982–2013 · 28.4 yrs · b. 1924

John Joseph Moakley

Massachusetts · District 9

1973–2001 · 28.3 yrs · b. 1927

Alcee L. Hastings

Florida · District 20

1993–2021 · 28.2 yrs · b. 1936

Debbie Stabenow

Michigan · Senate

1997–2025 · 28 yrs · b. 1950

Tim Johnson

South Dakota · Senate

1987–2015 · 28 yrs · b. 1946

John F. Kerry

Massachusetts · Senate

1985–2013 · 28 yrs · b. 1943

John Anton Blatnik

Minnesota · District 8

1947–1975 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1911

John J. LaFalce

New York · District 29

1975–2003 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1939

Richard Andrew Gephardt

Missouri · District 3

1977–2005 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1941

Wayne Levere Hays

Ohio · District 18

1949–1977 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1911

John McKee Spratt Jr.

South Carolina · District 5

1983–2011 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1942

Jim McDermott

Washington · District 7

1989–2017 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1936

George Paul Miller

California · District 8

1945–1973 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1891

Michael F. Doyle

Pennsylvania · District 18

1995–2022 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1953

Alan B. Mollohan

West Virginia · District 1

1983–2011 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1943

Solomon P. Ortiz

Texas · District 27

1983–2011 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1937

Martin Olav Sabo

Minnesota · District 5

1979–2007 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1938

Frederick C. Boucher

Virginia · District 9

1983–2011 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1946

Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.

Michigan · Senate

1967–1995 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1938

Harold Daniel Donohue

Massachusetts · District 3

1947–1975 · 27.9 yrs · b. 1901

Fernand Joseph St. Germain

Rhode Island · District 1

1961–1989 · 27.8 yrs · b. 1928

Henry Schoellkopf Reuss

Wisconsin · District 5

1955–1983 · 27.8 yrs · b. 1912

Augustus Freeman Hawkins

California · District 29

1963–1991 · 27.8 yrs · b. 1907

Frank Annunzio

Illinois · District 11

1965–1993 · 27.8 yrs · b. 1915

Bill Pascrell, Jr.

New Jersey · District 9

1997–2024 · 27.6 yrs · b. 1937

Walter Beaman Jones Sr.

North Carolina · District 1

1965–1992 · 27.5 yrs · b. 1913

Spark Masayuki Matsunaga

Hawaii · Senate

1963–1990 · 27.2 yrs · b. 1916

Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.

New Jersey · Senate

1953–1982 · 27.1 yrs · b. 1919

Tom Lantos

California · District 12

1981–2008 · 27 yrs · b. 1928

Ronald Vernie Dellums

California · District 9

1971–1998 · 26.9 yrs · b. 1935

Barbara Lee

California · District 12

1998–2025 · 26.7 yrs · b. 1946

John Orlando Pastore

Rhode Island · Senate

1950–1976 · 26 yrs · b. 1907

Kent Conrad

North Dakota · Senate

1987–2013 · 26 yrs · b. 1948

Grace F. Napolitano

California · District 31

1999–2025 · 26 yrs · b. 1936

Robert T. Matsui

California · District 5

1979–2005 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1941

Charles W. Stenholm

Texas · District 17

1979–2005 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1938

David E. Bonior

Michigan · District 10

1977–2003 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1945

Jonas Frost III

Texas · District 24

1979–2005 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1942

John James Flynt Jr.

Georgia · District 6

1953–1979 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1914

Eni F. H. Faleomavaega

American Samoa · At-large

1989–2015 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1943

Thomas A. Daschle

South Dakota · Senate

1979–2005 · 25.9 yrs · b. 1947