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

Frank Townsend Bow

Ohio · District 16

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1901

Spencer Bachus

Alabama · District 6

1993–2015 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1947

Craig Hosmer

California · District 32

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1915

Paul Martin Simon

Illinois · Senate

1975–1997 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1928

John Herman Dent

Pennsylvania · District 21

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1908

Jackson Edward Betts

Ohio · District 8

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1904

Leslie Aspin

Wisconsin · District 1

1971–1993 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1938

Page Henry Belcher

Oklahoma · District 1

1951–1973 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1899

Charles Samuel Gubser

California · District 10

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

Robert Paul Griffin

Michigan · Senate

1957–1979 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1923

John S. Tanner

Tennessee · District 8

1989–2011 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1944

Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr.

New Jersey · District 5

1953–1975 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1916

Howard P. "Buck" McKeon

California · District 25

1993–2015 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1938

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

Larry Lee Pressler

South Dakota · Senate

1975–1997 · 21.9 yrs · b. 1942

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

John Mark Slack Jr.

West Virginia · District 3

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1915

William Singer Moorhead

Pennsylvania · District 14

1959–1981 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1923

Paul Findley

Illinois · District 20

1961–1983 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1921

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

Marion Gene Snyder

Kentucky · District 4

1963–1987 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1928

Joseph George Minish

New Jersey · District 11

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1916

Clarence Dickinson Long

Maryland · District 2

1963–1985 · 21.8 yrs · b. 1908

John Clarence Watts

Kentucky · District 6

1951–1973 · 21.6 yrs · b. 1902

Ed Whitfield

Kentucky · District 1

1995–2016 · 21.6 yrs · b. 1943

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

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

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

Johnny Isakson

Georgia · Senate

1999–2019 · 21 yrs · b. 1944

J. Dennis Hastert

Illinois · District 14

1987–2007 · 20.8 yrs · b. 1942

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

John Sherman Cooper

Kentucky · Senate

1946–1973 · 20.5 yrs · b. 1901

Henry John Heinz III

Pennsylvania · Senate

1971–1991 · 20.2 yrs · b. 1938

Phillip Burton

California · District 5

1963–1983 · 20.1 yrs · b. 1926

Jeff Sessions

Alabama · Senate

1997–2017 · 20.1 yrs · b. 1946

W. Curtis Weldon

Pennsylvania · District 7

1987–2007 · 20 yrs · b. 1947

Robert Torricelli

New Jersey · Senate

1983–2003 · 20 yrs · b. 1951

Bill McCollum

Florida · District 8

1981–2001 · 20 yrs · b. 1944

Matthew G. Martínez

California · District 31

1981–2001 · 20 yrs · b. 1929

Joseph Crowley

New York · District 14

1999–2019 · 20 yrs · b. 1962

Tim Ryan

Ohio · District 13

2003–2023 · 20 yrs · b. 1973

Robert A. Borski

Pennsylvania · District 3

1983–2003 · 20 yrs · b. 1948

Alan Harvey Bible

Nevada · Senate

1954–1974 · 20 yrs · b. 1909

Michael R. McNulty

New York · District 21

1989–2009 · 20 yrs · b. 1947

Sam Gejdenson

Connecticut · District 2

1981–2001 · 20 yrs · b. 1948

Susan A. Davis

California · District 53

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1944

Wm. Lacy Clay

Missouri · District 1

2001–2021 · 20 yrs · b. 1956