United States congressional delegations from Colorado

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

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

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Colorado
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	2	3	5
	Republican Party	0	4	4
TOTALS		2	7	9

Current members

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U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Mark Udall		U.S. Senate, Colorado	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Wayne Allard (R)
Michael Bennet		U.S. Senate, Colorado	2009	January 3, 2017	November 8, 2016	Link	Ken Salazar (D)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Cory Gardner		District 4	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Betsy Markey (D)
Diana DeGette		District 1	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Pat Schroeder (D)
Doug Lamborn		District 5	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Joel Hefley (R)
Ed Perlmutter		District 7	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bob Beauprez (R)
Jared Polis		District 2	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Mark Udall (D)
Mike Coffman		District 6	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Tom Tancredo (R)
Scott Tipton		District 3	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	John Salazar (D)

Historical members

Senate

Class 2 Senators from Colorado
Senator	Years Served	Party
Henry M. Teller	1876-1882	Republican
George M. Chilcott	1882-1883	Republican
Horace A. W. Tabor	1883-1883	Republican
Thomas M. Bowen	1883-1889	Republican
Edward O. Wolcott	1889-1901	Republican
Thomas M. Patterson	1901-1907	Democratic
Simon Guggenheim	1907-1913	Republican
John F. Shafroth	1913-1919	Democratic
Lawrence C. Phipps	1919-1931	Republican
Edward P. Costigan	1931-1937	Democratic
Edwin C. Johnson	1937-1955	Democratic
Gordon L. Allott	1955-1973	Republican
Floyd K. Haskell	1973-1979	Democratic
William L. Armstrong	1979-1991	Republican
Hank Brown	1991-1997	Republican
Wayne Allard	1997-2009	Republican
Mark Udall	2009-Present	Democratic

Class 3 Senators from Colorado
Senator	Years Served	Party
Jerome B. Chaffee	1876-1879	Republican
Nathaniel P. Hill	1879-1885	Republican
Henry M. Teller	1885-1909	Democratic
Charles J. Hughes, Jr.	1909-1911	Democratic
Charles S. Thomas	1913-1921	Democratic
Samuel D. Nicholson	1921-1923	Republican
Alva B. Adams	1923-1924	Democratic
Rice W. Means	1924-1927	Republican
Charles W. Waterman	1927-1932	Republican
Walter Walker	1932-1932	Democratic
Karl C. Schuyler	1932-1933	Republican
Alva B. Adams	1933-1941	Democratic
Eugene D. Millikin	1941-1957	Republican
John A. Carroll	1957-1963	Democratic
Peter H. Dominick	1963-1975	Republican
Gary W. Hart	1975-1987	Democratic
Timothy E. Wirth	1987-1993	Democratic
Ben Nighthorse Campbell	1993-2005	Republican
Ken Salazar	2005-2009	Democratic
Michael Bennet	2009-Present	Democratic

House

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Colorado
Party	Total
Democratic	1
Republican	4
Populist	2
Total Representatives	7

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
Thomas MacDonald Patterson	1877-1879	Democratic
James Burns Belford	1876-1877 and 1879-1885	Republican
George Gifford Symes	1885–1889	Republican
Hosea Townsend	1889–1893	Republican
Lafayette "Lafe" Pence	1893–1895	Populist
John Calhoun Bell	1893–1903	Populist
John Franklin Shafroth	1895-1904	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Colorado
Party	Total
Democratic	25
Republican	27
Total Representatives	52

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
Franklin Eli Brooks	1903–1907	Republican
Herschel Millard Hogg	1903–1907	Republican
Robert William Bonynge	1904–1909	Republican
George Washington Cook	1907–1909	Republican
Warren Armstrong Haggott	1907–1909	Republican
John Andrew Martin	1909-1913 and 1933-1939	Democratic
Edward Thomas Taylor	1909-1941	Democratic
Atterson Walden Rucker	1909–1913	Democratic
George John Kindel	1913–1915	Democratic
Harry Hunter Seldomridge	1913–1915	Democratic
Edward Keating	1913–1919	Democratic
Benjamin Clark Hilliard	1915–1919	Democratic
Charles Bateman Timberlake	1915–1933	Republican
William Newell Vaile	1919–1927	Republican
Guy Urban Hardy	1919–1933	Republican
Sebasian Harrison White	1927–1929	Democratic
William Robb Eaton	1929–1933	Republican
Fred Nelson Cummings	1933–1941	Democratic
Lawrence Lewis	1933–1943	Democratic
William Evans Burney	1940–1941	Democratic
John Edgar Chenoweth	1941-1949 and 1951-1965	Republican
Robert Fay Rockwell	1941–1949	Republican
William Silas Hill	1941–1959	Republican
Dean Milton Gillespie	1944–1947	Republican
John Albert Carroll	1947–1951	Democratic
John Henry Marsalis	1949–1951	Democratic
Wayne Norviel Aspinall	1949–1973	Democratic
Byron Giles Rogers	1951–1971	Democratic
Byron Lindberg Johnson	1959–1961	Democratic
Peter Hoyt "Pete" Dominick	1961–1963	Republican
Donald Glenn "Don" Brotzman	1963-1965 and 1967-1975	Republican
Roy Harrison McVicker	1965–1967	Democratic
Frank Edward Evans	1965–1979	Democratic
James Douglas "Mike" McKevitt	1971–1973	Republican
William Lester "Bill" Armstrong	1973–1979	Republican
James Paul Johnson	1973–1981	Republican
Patricia Nell Scott "Pat" Schroeder	1973–1997	Democratic
Timothy Endicott "Tim" Wirth	1975–1987	Democratic
Raymond Peter Kogovsek	1979–1985	Democratic
Kenneth Bentley Kramer	1979–1987	Republican
George Hanks "Hank" Brown	1981–1991	Republican
Daniel Schaefer	1983–1999	Republican
Michael Lathrop "Mike" Strang	1985–1987	Republican
Ben Nighthorse Campbell	1987–1993	Democratic
David Evans Skaggs	1987–1999	Democratic
Joel M. Hefley	1987–2007	Republican
Alan Wayne Allard	1991–1997	Republican
Scott McInnis	1993–2005	Republican
Robert W. "Bob" Schaffer	1997–2003	Republican
Diana DeGette	1997–present	Democratic
Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo	1999–2009	Republican
Mark Emery Udall	1999–2009	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Colorado
Party	Total
Democratic	4
Republican	6
Total Representatives	10

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
Robert Louis "Bob" Beauprez	2003–2007	Republican
Marilyn Neoma Shuler Musgrave	2003–2009	Republican
John Tony Salazar	2005–2011	Democratic
Elizabeth Helen "Betsy" Markey	2009–2011	Democratic
Ed Perlmutter	2007–present	Democratic
Doug Lamborn	2007–present	Republican
Mike Coffman	2009–present	Republican
Jared Polis	2009–present	Democratic
Cory Gardner	2011–present	Republican
Scott Tipton	2011–present	Republican