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List of United States Representatives from Texas
From Ballotpedia
Texas was admitted as the 28th state to the United States of America on December 29, 1845. As of 2013, a total of 258 individuals have represented Texas in the U.S. House.
The current members of the U.S. House from Texas are:
- Al Green
- Beto O'Rourke
- Bill Flores
- Blake Farenthold
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Filemon Vela
- Gene Green
- Henry Cuellar
- Jeb Hensarling
- Joaquin Castro
- Joe Barton
- John Carter
- John Culberson
- Kay Granger
- Kenny Marchant
- Kevin Brady
- Lamar Smith
- Lloyd Doggett
- Louis B. "Louie" Gohmert Jr.
- Mac Thornberry
- Marc Veasey
- Michael C. Burgess
- Michael McCaul
- Mike Conaway
- Pete Gallego
- Pete Olson
- Pete Sessions
- Ralph Hall
- Randy Neugebauer
- Randy Weber
- Roger Williams
- Rubén Hinojosa
- Sam Johnson
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- Steve Stockman
- Ted Poe
Historical representatives
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Texas.
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| Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Texas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 54 | |||
| Republican | 5 | |||
| Independent | 1 | |||
| Greenback | 1 | |||
| Know-Nothing | 1 | |||
| Total Representatives | 62 | |||
| Representatives from Texas | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representatives | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Timothy Pilsbury | 1846 - 1849 | Democratic | ||||||
| David S. Kaufman | 1846 - 1851 | Democratic | ||||||
| Volney Howard | 1849 - 1853 | Democratic | ||||||
| Richardson A. Scurry | 1851 - 1853 | Democratic | ||||||
| George W. Smyth | 1853 - 1855 | Democratic | ||||||
| Peter Hansborough Bell | 1853 - 1857 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lemuel D. Evans | 1855 - 1857 | Know-nothing | ||||||
| Guy M. Bryan | 1857 - 1859 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Henninger Reagan | 1857 - 1861, 1883-1887 | Democratic | ||||||
| Andrew Jackson Hamilton | 1859 - 1861 | Democratic | ||||||
| Edward Degener | 1870 - 1871 | Republican | ||||||
| George W. Whitmore | 1870 - 1871 | Republican | ||||||
| William Thomas Clark | 1870 - 1872 | Republican | ||||||
| John C. Conner | 1870 - 1873 | Democratic | ||||||
| William S. Herndon | 1871 - 1875 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Hancoc | 1871 - 1885 | Democratic | ||||||
| Dewitt Clinton Giddings | 1872 - 1875 ,1877-1879 | Democratic | ||||||
| William P. McLean | 1873 - 1875 | Democratic | ||||||
| Asa H. Willie | 1873 - 1875 | Democratic | ||||||
| Roger Q. Mills | 1873 - 1892 | Democratic | ||||||
| Gustav Schleicher | 1875 - 1879 | Democratic | ||||||
| James W. Throckmorton | 1875 - 1879 , 1883-1887 | Democratic | ||||||
| David B. Culberson | 1875 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| George Washington Jones | 1879 - 1883 | Greenback | ||||||
| Christopher C. Upson | 1879 - 1883 | Democratic | ||||||
| Olin Wellborn | 1879 - 1887 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas P. Ochiltree | 1883 - 1885 | Independent | ||||||
| James H. Jones | 1883 - 1887 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Francis Miller | 1883 - 1887 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charles Stewart | 1883 - 1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| S. W. T. Lanham | 1883 - 1893, 1895-1903 | Democratic | ||||||
| William H. Crain | 1885 - 1896 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph D. Sayers | 1885 - 1899 | Democratic | ||||||
| Silas Hare | 1887 - 1891 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Harrison Martin | 1887 - 1891 | Democratic | ||||||
| Littleton W. Moore | 1887 - 1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| Constantine B. Kilgore | 1887 - 1895 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Abbott | 1887- 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| John B. Long | 1891 - 1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Weldon Bailey | 1891 - 1901 | Democratic | ||||||
| Edwin Le Roy Antony | 1892 - 1893 | Democratic | ||||||
| Walter Gresham | 1893 - 1895 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas M. Paschal | 1893 - 1895 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charles K. Bell | 1893 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jeremiah V. Cockrell | 1893 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Chappell Hutcheson | 1893 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| George C. Pendleton | 1893 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| Samuel B. Cooper | 1893 - 1905 ,1907-1909 | Democratic | ||||||
| Miles Crowley | 1895 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| George H. Noonan | 1895 - 1897 | Republican | ||||||
| Charles Henderson Yoakum | 1895 - 1897 | Democratic | ||||||
| Rudolph Kleberg | 1896 - 1903 | Democratic | ||||||
| John W. Cranford | 1897 - 1899 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert E. Burke | 1897 - 1901 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert B. Hawley | 1897 - 1901 | Republican | ||||||
| Reese C. De Graffenreid | 1897 - 1902 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas Henry Ball | 1897 - 1903 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert Lee Henry | 1897 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Hall Stephens | 1897 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Luther Slayden | 1897 - 1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Levi Sheppard | 1899 - 1902 | Democratic | ||||||
| Albert S. Burleson | 1899 - 1913 | Democratic | ||||||
| Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Texas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 141 | |||
| Republican | 28 | |||
| Total Representatives | 169 | |||
| Representatives from Texas | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representatives | Years Served | Party | ||||||
| Dudley G. Wooten | 1901 - 1903 | Democratic | ||||||
| Choice B. Randell | 1901 - 1913 | Democratic | ||||||
| George Farmer Burgess | 1901 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| Gordon J. Russell | 1902 - 1910 | Democratic | ||||||
| Morris Sheppard | 1902 - 1913 | Democratic | ||||||
| John M. Pinckney | 1903 - 1905 | Democratic | ||||||
| Scott Field | 1903 - 1907 | Democratic | ||||||
| Oscar W. Gillespie | 1903 - 1911 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Andrew Beall | 1903 - 1915 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Robert Smith | 1903 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| Alexander W. Gregg | 1903 - 1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Nance Garner | 1903 - 1933 | Democratic | ||||||
| Moses L. Broocks | 1905 - 1907 | Democratic | ||||||
| John M. Moore | 1905 - 1913 | Democratic | ||||||
| Rufus Hardy | 1907 - 1923 | Democratic | ||||||
| Martin Dies, Sr. | 1909 - 1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert M. Lively | 1910 - 1911 | Democratic | ||||||
| Oscar Callaway | 1911 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Young | 1911 - 1921 | Democratic | ||||||
| Horace Worth Vaughan | 1913 - 1915 | Democratic | ||||||
| Daniel E. Garrett | 1913 - 1915 , 1917-1919, 1921-1932 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joe H. Eagle | 1913 - 1921 , 1933-1937 | Democratic | ||||||
| James P. Buchanan | 1913 - 1937 | Democratic | ||||||
| Hatton W. Sumners | 1913 - 1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| Sam Rayburn | 1913 - 1961 | Democratic | ||||||
| James H. Davis | 1915 - 1917 | Democratic | ||||||
| A. Jeff McLemore | 1915 - 1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| Eugene Black | 1915 - 1929 | Democratic | ||||||
| James Clifton Wilson | 1917 - 1919 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tom Connally | 1917 - 1929 | Democratic | ||||||
| Thomas L. Blanton | 1917 - 1937 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Marvin Jones | 1917 - 1940 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph J. Mansfield | 1917 - 1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| Carlos Bee | 1919 - 1921 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lucian W. Parrish | 1919 - 1922 | Democratic | ||||||
| John C. Box | 1919 - 1931 | Democratic | ||||||
| Claude Benton Hudspeth | 1919 - 1931 | Democratic | ||||||
| Clay Stone Briggs | 1919 - 1933 | Democratic | ||||||
| Fritz G. Lanham | 1919 - 1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| Harry M. Wurzbach | 1921 - 1931 | Republican | ||||||
| Morgan G. Sanders | 1921 - 1939 | Democratic | ||||||
| Guinn Williams | 1922 - 1933 | Democratic | ||||||
| Luther Alexander Johnson | 1923 - 1946 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert Quincy Lee | 1929 - 1930 | Democratic | ||||||
| Augustus McCloskey | 1929 - 1930 | Democratic | ||||||
| Oliver H. Cross | 1929 - 1937 | Democratic | ||||||
| Wright Patman | 1929 - 1976 | Democratic | ||||||
| Richard M. Kleberg | 1931 - 1945 | Democratic | ||||||
| Martin Dies, Jr. | 1931 - 1945, 1953-1959 | Democratic | ||||||
| R. Ewing Thomason | 1931 - 1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. | 1933 - 1935 | Democratic | ||||||
| Sterling P. Strong | 1933 - 1935 | Democratic | ||||||
| George B. Terrell | 1933 - 1935 | Democratic | ||||||
| Clark W. Thompson | 1933 - 1935 , 1947-1966 | Democratic | ||||||
| William D. McFarlane | 1933 - 1939 | Democratic | ||||||
| Milton H. West | 1933 - 1948 | Democratic | ||||||
| Maury Maverick | 1935 - 1939 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charles L. South | 1935 - 1943 | Democratic | ||||||
| Nat Patton | 1935 - 1945 | Democratic | ||||||
| George H. Mahon | 1935 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Clyde L. Garrett | 1937 - 1941 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1937 - 1949 | Democratic | ||||||
| Albert Richard Thomas | 1937 - 1966 | Democratic | ||||||
| William R. Poage | 1937 - 1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ed Gossett | 1939 - 1951 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lindley Beckworth | 1939 - 1953 | Democratic | ||||||
| Paul J. Kilday | 1939 - 1961 | Democratic | ||||||
| Sam M. Russell | 1941 - 1947 | Democratic | ||||||
| Eugene Worley | 1941 - 1950 | Democratic | ||||||
| O. C. Fisher | 1943 - 1974 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tom Pickett | 1945 - 1952 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jesse M. Combs | 1945 - 1953 | Democratic | ||||||
| John E. Lyle, Jr. | 1945 - 1955 | Democratic | ||||||
| Olin E. Teague | 1946 - 1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| Wingate H. Lucas | 1947 - 1955 | Democratic | ||||||
| Kenneth M. Regan | 1947 - 1955 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph Franklin Wilson | 1947 - 1955 | Democratic | ||||||
| Omar Burleson | 1947 - 1978 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lloyd Bentsen | 1948 - 1955 | Democratic | ||||||
| Homer Thornberry | 1949 - 1963 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ben H. Guill | 1950 - 1951 | Republican | ||||||
| Frank N. Ikard | 1951 - 1961 | Democratic | ||||||
| Walter Rogers | 1951 - 1967 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Dowdy | 1952 - 1967 | Democratic | ||||||
| Brady P. Gentry | 1953 - 1957 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jack Brooks | 1953 - 1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| John J. Bell | 1955 - 1957 | Democratic | ||||||
| J. T. Rutherford | 1955 - 1963 | Democratic | ||||||
| Bruce Alger | 1955 - 1965 | Republican | ||||||
| Joe M. Kilgore | 1955 - 1965 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jim Wright | 1955 - 1989 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Andrew Young | 1957 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert R. Casey | 1959 - 1976 | Democratic | ||||||
| Henry B. Gonzalez | 1961 - 1999 | Democratic | ||||||
| Graham B. Purcell, Jr. | 1962 - 1973 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ray Roberts | 1962 - 1981 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ed Foreman | 1963 - 1965 | Republican | ||||||
| Joe R. Pool | 1963 - 1968 | Democratic | ||||||
| J. J. Pickle | 1963 - 1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| Earle Cabell | 1965 - 1973 | Democratic | ||||||
| Richard Crawford White | 1965 - 1983 | Democratic | ||||||
| Kika de la Garza | 1965 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lera Millard Thomas | 1966 - 1967 | Democratic | ||||||
| George H. W. Bush | 1967 - 1971 | Republican | ||||||
| Bob Price | 1967 - 1975 | Republican | ||||||
| Robert C. Eckhardt | 1967 - 1981 | Democratic | ||||||
| Abraham Kazen | 1967 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| James M. Collins | 1968 - 1983 | Republican | ||||||
| William Reynolds Archer, Jr. | 1971 - 2001 | Republican | ||||||
| Alan Steelman | 1973 - 1977 | Republican | ||||||
| Barbara Jordan | 1973 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Dale Milford | 1973 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charle Wilson | 1973 - 1996 | Democratic | ||||||
| Bob Krueger | 1975 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jack English Hightower | 1975 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ron Paul | 1976 - 1977 , 1979-1985, 1997-2013 | Republican | ||||||
| Sam B. Hall | 1976 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Robert Gammage | 1977 - 1979 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jim Mattox | 1977 - 1983 | Democratic | ||||||
| Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr. | 1979 - 1981 | Democratic | ||||||
| Phil Gramm | 1979 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Kent Hance | 1979 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Tom Loeffler | 1979 - 1987 | Republican | ||||||
| Mickey Leland | 1979 - 1989 | Democratic | ||||||
| Marvin Leath | 1979 - 1991 | Democratic | ||||||
| Martin Frost | 1979 - 2005 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charles Stenholm | 1979 - 2005 | Democratic | ||||||
| William Neff Patman | 1981 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jack Fields | 1981 - 1997 | Republican | ||||||
| Ralph Hall | 1981 - Present | Republican | ||||||
| Tom Vandergriff | 1983 - 1985 | Democratic | ||||||
| Steve Bartlett | 1983 - 1991 | Republican | ||||||
| Michael A. Andrews | 1983 - 1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| John Wiley Bryant | 1983 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ronald D. Coleman | 1983 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Solomon P. Ortiz | 1983 - 2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| Beau Boulter | 1985 - 1989 | Republican | ||||||
| Mac Sweeney | 1985 - 1989 | Republican | ||||||
| Albert Bustamante | 1985 - 1993 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jim Chapman | 1985 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Dick Armey | 1985 - 2003 | Republican | ||||||
| Larry Combest | 1985 - 2003 | Republican | ||||||
| Tom DeLay | 1985 - 2006 | Republican | ||||||
| Joe Barton | 1985 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Lamar S. Smith | 1987 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Bill Sarpalius | 1989 - 1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| Craig Anthony Washington | 1989 - 1995 | Democratic | ||||||
| Greg Laughlin | 1989 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Pete Geren | 1989 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Chet Edwards | 1991 - 2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| Sam Johnson | 1991 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Frank Tejeda | 1993 - 1997 | Democratic | ||||||
| Henry Bonilla | 1993 - 2007 | Republican | ||||||
| Gene Green | 1993 - present | Democratic | ||||||
| Eddie Bernice Johnson | 1993 - present | Democratic | ||||||
| Steve Stockman | 1995 - 1997 | Republican | ||||||
| Ken Bentsen, Jr. | 1995 - 2003 | Democratic | ||||||
| Lloyd Doggett | 1995 - Present | Democratic | ||||||
| Sheila Jackson Lee | 1995 - present | Democratic | ||||||
| Mac Thornberry | 1995 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Max Sandlin | 1997 - 2005 | Democratic | ||||||
| Jim Turner | 1997 - 2005 | Democratic | ||||||
| Ciro Rodriguez | 1997 - 2005 , 2007-2011 | Democratic | ||||||
| Pete Sessions | 1997 - Present | Republican | ||||||
| Kevin Brady | 1997 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Kay Granger | 1997 - present | Republican | ||||||
| Rubén Hinojosa | 1997 - present | Democratic | ||||||
| Silvestre Reyes | 1997 - 2013 | Democratic | ||||||
| Charlie Gonzalez | 1999 - 2013 | Democratic | ||||||
| Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Texas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Total | |||
| Democratic | 9 | |||
| Republican | 18 | |||
| Total Representatives | 27 | |||
