United States congressional delegations from Alabama

This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Alabama.

Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from Alabama.

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Alabama
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	0	1	1
	Republican Party	2	6	8
TOTALS		2	7	9

Current members

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U.S. Senate

The current members of the U.S. Senate from Alabama are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Jeff Sessions		U.S. Senate, Alabama	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Howell Heflin (D)
Richard Shelby		U.S. Senate, Alabama	1987	January 3, 2017	November 8, 2016	Link	Jeremiah Denton (R)

U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from Alabama are:

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Jo Bonner		District 1	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Sonny Callahan (R)
Martha Roby		District 2	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bobby Bright (D)
Mike Rogers		District 3	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bob R. Riley (R)
Mo Brooks		District 5	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Parker Griffith (R)
Robert Aderholt		District 4	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Tom Bevill (D)
Spencer Bachus		District 6	1993	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Ben Erdreich (D)
Terri Sewell		District 7	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Artur Davis (D)

Historical members

Senate

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Alabama
Party	Total
Democratic	31
Republican	8
Jacksonian	4
Total Senators	43

Class 2 Senators from Alabama
Senator	Years Served	Party
William R. King	1819-1844	Republican
Dixon H. Lewis	1844-1848	Democratic
Benjamin Fitzpatrick	1848-1849	Democratic
Jeremiah Clemens	1849-1853	Democratic
Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr.	1853-1861	Democratic
Willard Warner	1868-1871	Republican
George Goldthwaite	1871-1877	Democratic
John T. Morgan	1877-1907	Democratic
John H. Bankhead	1907-1920	Democratic
Braxton B. Comer	1920-1920	Democratic
J. Thomas Heflin	1920-1931	Democratic
John H. Bankhead II	1931-1946	Democratic
George R. Swift	1946-1946	Democratic
John J. Sparkman	1946-1979	Democratic
Howell T. Heflin	1979-1997	Democratic
Jeff Sessions	1997-Present	Republican

Class 3 Senators from Alabama
Senator	Years Served	Party
John W. Walker	1819-1822	Republican
William Kelly	1822-1825	Republican
Henry H. Chambers	1825-1826	Jacksonian
Israel Pickens	1826-1826	Jacksonian
John McKinley	1826-1831	Jacksonian
Gabriel Moore	1831-1837	Jacksonian
John McKinley	1837-1837	Democratic
Clement Comer Clay	1837-1841	Democratic
Arthur P. Bagby	1841-1848	Democratic
William R. King	1848-1852	Democratic
Benjamin Fitzpatrick	1853-1861	Democratic
George E. Spencer	1868-1879	Republican
George S. Houston	1879-1879	Democratic
Luke Pryor	1880-1880	Democratic
James L. Pugh	1880-1897	Democratic
Edmund W. Pettus	1897-1907	Democratic
Joseph F. Johnston	1907-1913	Democratic
Francis S. White	1914-1915	Democratic
Oscar W. Underwood	1915-1927	Democratic
Hugo L. Black	1927-1937	Democratic
Dixie Bibb Graves	1937-1938	Democratic
J. Lister Hill	1938-1969	Democratic
James B. Allen	1969-1978	Democratic
Maryon Pittman Allen	1978-1978	Democratic
Donald W. Stewart	1978-1981	Democratic
Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.	1981-1987	Republican
Richard Shelby	1987-Present	Republican

House

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Alabama
Party	Total
Democratic	75
Republican	21
Whig	6
Know-Nothing	1
Greenbacker	1
Populist	2
Total Representatives	106

Representatives to the U.S. House in Alabama in the 1800s

Representative	Years Served	Party
John Crowell	1819–1821	Democratic
Gabriel Moore	1821–1829	Democratic
John McKee	1823–1829	Democratic
George Washington Owen	1823–1829	Democratic
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor	1829–1831	Democratic
Clement Comer Clay	1829–1835	Democratic
Dixon Hall Lewis	1829–1844	Democratic
Samuel W. Mardis	1831–1835	Democratic
John McKinley	1833–1835	Democratic
John Murphy	1833–1835	Democratic
Joab Lawler	1835-1838	Democratic
Francis S. Lyon	1835–1839	Republican
Joshua L. Martin	1835–1839	Democratic
Reuben Chapman	1835–1847	Democratic
George W. Crabb	1838–1841	Whig
James Dellet	1839–1841 and 1843–1845	Whig
David Hubbard	1839–1841 and 1849–1851	Democratic
Benjamin Glover Shields	1841–1843	Democratic
William W. Payne	1841–1847	Democratic
George S. Houston	1841–1849 and 1851–1861	Democratic
James E. Belser	1843–1845	Democratic
Felix G. McConnell	1843–1846	Democratic
William Lowndes Yancey	1844–1846	Democratic
Edmund S. Dargan	1845–1847	Democratic
Henry W. Hilliard	1845–1851	Whig
James L. Cottrell	1846–1847	Democratic
Franklin Welsh Bowdon	1846–1851	Democratic
John Gayle	1847–1849	Whig
Samuel Williams Inge	1847–1851	Democratic
Sampson Willis Harris	1847–1857	Democratic
Williamson R. W. Cobb	1847–1861	Democratic
William J. Alston	1849–1851	Whig
John Bragg	1851–1853	Democratic
Alexander White	1851–1853 and 1873–1875	Republican
James Abercrombie	1851–1855	Whig
William Russell Smith	1851–1857	Democratic
Philip Phillips	1853–1855	Democratic
James F. Dowdell	1853–1859	Democratic
Percy Walker	1855–1857	Know-Nothing
Eli S. Shorter	1855–1859	Democratic
Jabez L. M. Curry	1857–1861	Democratic
Sydenham Moore	1857–1861	Democratic
James A. Stallworth	1857–1861	Democratic
David Clopton	1859–1861	Democratic
James L. Pugh	1859–1861	Democratic
John B. Callis	1868–1869	Republican
Thomas Haughey	1868–1869	Republican
Francis William Kellogg	1868–1869	Republican
Benjamin White Norris	1868–1869	Republican
Charles W. Pierce	1868–1869	Republican
Charles W. Buckley	1868–1873	Republican
Alfred E. Buck	1869–1871	Republican
Robert S. Heflin	1869–1871	Republican
William C. Sherrod	1869–1871	Democratic
Peter M. Dox	1869–1873	Democratic
Charles Hays	1869–1877	Republican
William A. Handley	1871–1873	Democratic
Benjamin S. Turner	1871–1873	Republican
Joseph H. Sloss	1871–1875	Democratic
Frederick G. Bromberg	1873–1875	Republican
Charles Pelham	1873–1875	Republican
James T. Rapier	1873–1875	Republican
Charles C. Sheats	1873–1875	Republican
John Henry Caldwell	1873–1877	Democratic
Taul Bradford	1875–1877	Democratic
Jeremiah Haralson	1875–1877	Republican
Burwell Boykin Lewis	1875–1880	Democratic
Jeremiah N. Williams	1875–1879	Democratic
Goldsmith W. Hewitt	1875–1879 and 1881–1885	Democratic
William H. Forney	1875–1893	Democratic
William Willis Garth	1877–1879	Democratic
Robert F. Ligon	1877–1879	Democratic
James T. Jones	1877–1879 and 1883–1889	Democratic
Charles M. Shelley	1877–1885	Democratic
Hilary A. Herbert	1877–1893	Democratic
William J. Samford	1879–1881	Democratic
William M. Lowe	1879–1882	Greenbacker
Thomas H. Herndon	1879–1883	Democratic
Thomas Williams	1879–1885	Democratic
Newton N. Clements	1880–1881	Democratic
Joseph Wheeler	1881–1883 and 1885–1890	Democratic
William C. Oates	1881–1894	Democratic
Luke Pryor	1883–1885	Democratic
George H. Craig	1885	Republican
John Mason Martin	1885–1887	Democratic
Thomas W. Sadler	1885–1887	Democratic
Alexander C. Davidson	1885–1889	Democratic
James E. Cobb	1887–1896	Democratic
John H. Bankhead	1887–1907	Democratic
Louis Washington Turpin	1889–1895	Democratic
Richard Henry Clarke	1889–1897	Democratic
John Van McDuffie	1890–1891	Republican
William Henry Denson	1893–1895	Democratic
Gaston A. Robbins	1893–1896,1899–1900	Democratic
Jesse F. Stallings	1893–1901	Democratic
George Paul Harrison	1894–1897	Democratic
Oscar Underwood	1895–1896 and 1897–1915	Democratic
Milford W. Howard	1895–1899	Populist
Truman H. Aldrich	1896–1897	Republican
Albert T. Goodwyn	1896–1897	Populist
William F. Aldrich	1896–1901	Republican
Thomas S. Plowman	1897–1898	Democratic
Willis Brewer	1897–1901	Democratic
Henry D. Clayton	1897–1914	Democratic
George W. Taylor	1897–1915	Democratic
John L. Burnett	1899–1919	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Alabama
Party	Total
Democratic	59
Republican	11
Total Representatives	70

Representatives to the U.S. House in Alabama in the 1900s

Representative	Years Served	Party
William N. Richardson	1900–1914	Democratic
Charles Winston Thompson	1901–1904	Democratic
Sydney J. Bowie	1901–1907	Democratic
Ariosto A. Wiley	1901–1908	Democratic
J. Thomas Heflin	1904–1920	Democratic
William B. Craig	1907–1911	Democratic
Richmond P. Hobson	1907–1915	Democratic
Oliver C. Wiley	1908–1909	Democratic
S. Hubert Dent, Jr.	1909–1921	Democratic
Fred L. Blackmon	1911–1921	Democratic
John Abercrombie	1913–1917	Democratic
Christopher C. Harris	1914–1915	Democratic
William O. Mulkey	1914–1915	Democratic
Oscar L. Gray	1915–1919	Democratic
Edward B. Almon	1915–1933	Democratic
George Huddleston	1915–1937	Democratic
William Bacon Oliver	1915–1937	Democratic
Henry B. Steagall	1915–1943	Democratic
William B. Bankhead	1917–1940	Democratic
Lilius B. Rainey	1919–1923	Democratic
John McDuffie	1919–1935	Democratic
William B. Bowling	1920–1928	Democratic
John R. Tyson	1921–1923	Democratic
Lamar Jeffers	1921–1935	Democratic
Miles C. Allgood	1923–1935	Democratic
J. Lister Hill	1923–1938	Democratic
LaFayette L. Patterson	1928–1933	Democratic
Archibald Hill Carmichael	1933–1937	Democratic
Joe Starnes	1935–1945	Democratic
Sam Hobbs	1935–1951	Democratic
Frank W. Boykin	1935–1963	Democratic
Luther Patrick	1937–1943 and 1945–1947	Democratic
John Sparkman	1937–1946	Democratic
Pete Jarman	1937–1949	Democratic
George M. Grant	1938–1965	Democratic
Zadoc L. Weatherford	1940–1941	Democratic
Walter W. Bankhead	1941	Democratic
Carter Manasco	1941–1949	Democratic
John P. Newsome	1943–1945	Democratic
George W. Andrews	1944–1971	Democratic
Albert Rains	1945–1965	Democratic
Laurie C. Battle	1947–1955	Democratic
Robert E. Jones, Jr.	1947–1977	Democratic
Edward deGraffenried	1949–1953	Democratic
Carl Elliott	1949–1965	Democratic
Kenneth A. Roberts	1951–1965	Democratic
Armistead I. Selden, Jr.	1953–1969	Democratic
George Huddleston, Jr.	1955–1965	Democratic
Glenn Andrews	1965–1967	Republican
James D. Martin	1965–1967	Republican
John Hall Buchanan, Jr.	1965–1981	Republican
Jack Edwards	1965–1985	Republican
William Louis Dickinson	1965–1993	Republican
William Flynt Nichols	1967–1988	Democratic
Tom Bevill	1967–1997	Democratic
Walter Flowers	1969–1979	Democratic
Elizabeth B. Andrews	1972–1973	Democratic
Ronnie Flippo	1977–1991	Democratic
Richard Shelby	1979–1987	Democratic
Albert L. Smith, Jr.	1981–1983	Republican
Ben Erdreich	1983–1993	Democratic
Sonny Callahan	1985–2003	Republican
Claude Harris, Jr.	1987–1993	Democratic
Glen Browder	1989–1997	Democratic
Robert E. Cramer	1991–2009	Democratic
Earl F. Hilliard	1993–2003	Democratic
Terry Everett	1993–2009	Republican
Spencer Bachus	1993-Present	Republican
Bob R. Riley	1997–2003	Republican
Robert Aderholt	1997-Present	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Alabama
Party	Total
Democratic	3
Republican	5
Total Representatives	8

Representatives to the U.S. House in Alabama in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Artur Davis	2003–2011	Democratic
Jo Bonner	2003-Present	Republican
Mike Rogers	2003-Present	Republican
Bobby Bright	2009–2011	Democratic
Parker Griffith	2009–2011	Republican
Martha Roby	2011-Present	Republican
Mo Brooks	2011-Present	Republican
Terri Sewell	2011-Present	Democratic