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

Cardiss Collins

Illinois · District 7

1973–1997 · 23.5 yrs · b. 1931

Sam Farr

California · District 20

1993–2017 · 23.5 yrs · b. 1941

Elijah E. Cummings

Maryland · District 7

1996–2019 · 23.4 yrs · b. 1951

David Scott

Georgia · District 13

2003–2026 · 23.3 yrs · b. 1945

Ed Pastor

Arizona · District 7

1991–2015 · 23.2 yrs · b. 1943

Robert E. Andrews

New Jersey · District 1

1990–2014 · 23.2 yrs · b. 1957

Donald M. Payne

New Jersey · District 10

1989–2012 · 23.1 yrs · b. 1934

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.

Minnesota · Senate

1949–1978 · 23 yrs · b. 1911

Samuel James Ervin Jr.

North Carolina · Senate

1945–1975 · 22.6 yrs · b. 1896

Raúl M. Grijalva

Arizona · District 7

2003–2025 · 22.2 yrs · b. 1948

C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger

Maryland · District 2

2003–2025 · 22 yrs · b. 1946

William J. Coyne

Pennsylvania · District 14

1981–2003 · 22 yrs · b. 1936

William O. Lipinski

Illinois · District 3

1983–2005 · 22 yrs · b. 1937

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff

Connecticut · Senate

1949–1981 · 22 yrs · b. 1910

James R. Langevin

Rhode Island · District 2

2001–2023 · 22 yrs · b. 1964

Tom Udall

New Mexico · Senate

1999–2021 · 22 yrs · b. 1948

Leslie Aspin

Wisconsin · District 1

1971–1993 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1938

John Andrew Young

Texas · District 14

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

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

Harold Eugene Ford

Tennessee · District 9

1975–1997 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1945

Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr.

Pennsylvania · District 2

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1898

William Flynt Nichols

Alabama · District 3

1967–1989 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1918

Paul Martin Simon

Illinois · Senate

1975–1997 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1928

Julian C. Dixon

California · District 32

1979–2001 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1934

John S. Tanner

Tennessee · District 8

1989–2011 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1944

George Stanley McGovern

South Dakota · Senate

1957–1981 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1922

Torbert Hart Macdonald

Massachusetts · District 7

1955–1977 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1917

John Vernard Dowdy

Texas · District 2

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1912

William Singer Moorhead

Pennsylvania · District 14

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1923

Clarence Dickinson Long

Maryland · District 2

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1908

Harold Terry Johnson

California · District 1

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1907

Joseph George Minish

New Jersey · District 11

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1916

Robert Nicholas Giaimo

Connecticut · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1919

John Brademas

Indiana · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1927

John Mark Slack Jr.

West Virginia · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1915

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

Edmund Sixtus Muskie

Maine · Senate

1959–1980 · 21.3 yrs · b. 1914

Gene Taylor

Mississippi · District 4

1989–2011 · 21.2 yrs · b. 1953

Neil Abercrombie

Hawaii · District 1

1985–2010 · 21.1 yrs · b. 1938

Melvin L. Watt

North Carolina · District 12

1993–2014 · 21 yrs · b. 1945

Norman Yoshio Mineta

California · District 15

1975–1995 · 20.7 yrs · b. 1931

Gerald D. Kleczka

Wisconsin · District 4

1984–2005 · 20.7 yrs · b. 1943

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

Michael E. Capuano

Massachusetts · District 7

1999–2019 · 20 yrs · b. 1952

Joseph Crowley

New York · District 14

1999–2019 · 20 yrs · b. 1962

Susan A. Davis

California · District 53

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1944

Michael R. McNulty

New York · District 21

1989–2009 · 20 yrs · b. 1947

Robert Torricelli

New Jersey · Senate

1983–2003 · 20 yrs · b. 1951

Robert A. Borski

Pennsylvania · District 3

1983–2003 · 20 yrs · b. 1948

Alan Harvey Bible

Nevada · Senate

1954–1974 · 20 yrs · b. 1909

Sam Gejdenson

Connecticut · District 2

1981–2001 · 20 yrs · b. 1948

Tim Ryan

Ohio · District 13

2003–2023 · 20 yrs · b. 1973

Wm. Lacy Clay

Missouri · District 1

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1956

William Venroe Chappell Jr.

Florida · District 4

1969–1989 · 19.9 yrs · b. 1922

John Melcher

Montana · Senate

1969–1989 · 19.9 yrs · b. 1924

Harold Lee Volkmer

Missouri · District 9

1977–1997 · 19.9 yrs · b. 1931