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

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Party

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Chamber

Both House Senate

David Dreier

California · District 26

1981–2013 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1952

Barney Frank

Massachusetts · District 4

1981–2013 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1940

Eliot L. Engel

New York · District 16

1989–2021 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1947

Lamar Smith

Texas · District 21

1987–2019 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1947

Nita M. Lowey

New York · District 17

1989–2021 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1937

Omar Truman Burleson

Texas · District 17

1947–1979 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1906

James M. Jeffords

Vermont · Senate

1975–2007 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1934

Silvio Ottavio Conte

Massachusetts · District 1

1959–1991 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1921

Thomas Ellsworth Morgan

Pennsylvania · District 22

1945–1977 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1906

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

John James Rooney

New York · District 14

1943–1975 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1903

Henry John Hyde

Illinois · District 6

1975–2007 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1924

Anna G. Eshoo

California · District 16

1993–2025 · 31.9 yrs · b. 1942

Harley Orrin Staggers

West Virginia · District 2

1949–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1907

Thomas Jefferson Steed

Oklahoma · District 4

1949–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1904

William Lacy Clay Sr.

Missouri · District 1

1969–2001 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1931

James Jarrell Pickle

Texas · District 10

1963–1995 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1913

Robert William Kastenmeier

Wisconsin · District 2

1959–1991 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1924

William Donlon Edwards

California · District 16

1963–1995 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1915

Eligio II de la Garza

Texas · District 15

1965–1997 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1927

Daniel John Flood

Pennsylvania · District 11

1945–1981 · 31.8 yrs · b. 1903

Robert Menendez

New Jersey · Senate

1993–2024 · 31.6 yrs · b. 1954

Lindsey Graham

South Carolina · Senate

1995–2026 · 31.5 yrs · b. 1955

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

Floyd Spence

South Carolina · District 2

1971–2001 · 30.5 yrs · b. 1928

Morris King Udall

Arizona · District 2

1961–1991 · 30.2 yrs · b. 1922

John J. Duncan, Jr.

Tennessee · District 2

1988–2019 · 30.1 yrs · b. 1947

Barry Morris Goldwater

Arizona · Senate

1953–1987 · 30 yrs · b. 1909

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

Jesse Helms

North Carolina · Senate

1973–2003 · 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

Dan Burton

Indiana · District 5

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1938

Robert Emmett Jones Jr.

Alabama · District 5

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1912

William Aloysius Barrett

Pennsylvania · District 1

1945–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1896

Howard L. Berman

California · District 28

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1941

Dana Rohrabacher

California · District 48

1989–2019 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1947

Gary L. Ackerman

New York · District 5

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

Carl Bert Albert

Oklahoma · District 3

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1908

Otto Ernest Passman

Louisiana · District 5

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1900

Robert James Corbett

Pennsylvania · District 18

1939–1973 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1905

Edolphus Towns

New York · District 10

1983–2013 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1934

Benjamin Gilman

New York · District 20

1973–2003 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1922

Collin C. Peterson

Minnesota · District 7

1991–2021 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1944

James A. Leach

Iowa · District 2

1977–2007 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

Alvin Edward O’Konski

Wisconsin · District 10

1943–1973 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1904

Bill Nelson

Florida · Senate

1979–2019 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1942

John W. Warner

Virginia · Senate

1979–2009 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1927

Carolyn B. Maloney

New York · District 12

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1946

Louis Stokes

Ohio · District 11

1969–1999 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1925

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Texas · District 30

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1935

Lucille Roybal-Allard

California · District 40

1993–2023 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1941

Joseph Landon Evins

Tennessee · District 4

1947–1977 · 29.9 yrs · b. 1910