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United States congressional delegations from Connecticut

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

U.S. House

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

Historical members

List of United States Senators from Connecticut

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Connecticut.

Class 1

  • Oliver Ellsworth (PRO-ADMIN,F), serving from 1789-1796
  • James Hillhouse (F), serving from 1796-1810
  • Samuel W. Dana (F), serving from 1810-1821
  • Republican Party Elijah Boardman, serving from 1821-1823
  • Henry W. Edwards (JR, J), serving from 1823-1827
  • Samuel A. Foot (ADAMS, AJ), serving from 1827-1833
  • Nathan Smith (AJ), serving from 1833-1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) John M. Niles, serving from 1835-1839
  • Thaddeus Betts (W), serving from 1839-1840
  • Jabez W. Huntington (W), serving from 1840-1847
  • Roger S. Baldwin (W), serving from 1847-1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Isaac Toucey, serving from 1852-1857
  • Republican Party James Dixon, serving from 1857-1869
  • Republican Party William A. Buckingham, serving from 1869-1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) William W. Eaton, serving from 1875-1881
  • Republican Party Joseph R. Hawley, serving from 1881-1905
  • Republican Party Morgan G. Bulkeley, serving from 1905-1911
  • Republican Party George P. McLean, serving from 1911-1929
  • Republican Party Frederic C. Walcott, serving from 1929-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Francis T. Maloney, serving from 1935-1945
  • Republican Party Thomas C. Hart, serving from 1945-1946
  • Republican Party Raymond E. Baldwin, serving from 1946-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Benton, serving from 1949-1953
  • Republican Party William A. Purtell, serving from 1953-1959
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas J. Dodd, serving from 1959-1971
  • Republican Party Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., serving from 1971-1989
  • Independent Joe Lieberman, serving from 1989-Present

Class 3

  • William S. Johnson (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789-1791
  • Roger Sherman (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1791-1793
  • Stephen M. Mitchell (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1793-1795
  • Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (F), serving from 1795-1796
  • Uriah Tracy (F), serving from 1796-1807
  • Chauncey Goodrich (F), serving from 1807-1813
  • David Daggett (F), serving from 1813-1819
  • Republican Party James Lanman, serving from 1819-1825
  • Calvin Willey (ADAMS,AJ), serving from 1825-1831
  • Gideon Tomlinson (AJ), serving from 1831-1837
  • Democratic Party (United States) Perry Smith, serving from 1837-1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) John M. Niles, serving from 1843-1849
  • Truman Smith (W), serving from 1849-1854
  • Francis Gillette (FS), serving from 1854-1855
  • Republican Party Lafayette S. Foster, serving from 1855-1867
  • Republican Party Orris S. Ferry, serving from 1867-1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) James E. English, serving from 1875-1876
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. Barnum, serving from 1876-1879
  • Republican Party Orville H. Platt, serving from 1879-1905
  • Republican Party Frank B. Brandegee, serving from 1905-1924
  • Republican Party Hiram Bingham, serving from 1924-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustine Lonergan, serving from 1933-1939
  • Republican Party John A. Danaher, serving from 1939-1945
  • Democratic Party (United States) Brien McMahon, serving from 1945-1952
  • Republican Party William A. Purtell, serving from 1952-1952
  • Republican Party Prescott S. Bush, serving from 1952-1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) Abraham A. Ribicoff, serving from 1963-1981
  • Democratic Party (United States) Christopher J. Dodd, serving from 1981-2011
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard Blumenthal, serving from 2011-Present

List of United States Representatives from Connecticut

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Connecticut.

  • Roger Sherman (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789–1791
  • Benjamin Huntington (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789–1791
  • Jonathan Sturges (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789–1793
  • Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789–1795
  • Jeremiah Wadsworth (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789–1795
  • Amasa Learned (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1791–1795
  • James Hillhouse (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1791–1796
  • Uriah Tracy (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1793–1796
  • Zephariah Swift (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1793–1797
  • Joshua Coit (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1793–1798
  • Nathaniel Smith (Federalist), serving from 1795–1799
  • Chauncey Goodrich (Federalist), serving from 1795–1801
  • Roger Griswold (Federalist), serving from 1795–1805
  • James Davenport (Federalist), serving from 1796–1797
  • John Allen (Federalist), serving from 1797–1799
  • William Edmond (Federalist), serving from 1797–1801
  • Samuel W. Dana (Federalist), serving from 1797–1810
  • Jonathan Brace (Federalist), serving from 1798–1800
  • Elizur Goodrich (Federalist), serving from 1799–1801
  • John Davenport (Federalist), serving from 1799–1817
  • John Cotton Smith (Federalist), serving from 1800–1806
  • Elias Perkins (Federalist), serving from 1801–1803
  • Calvin Goddard (Federalist), serving from 1801–1805
  • Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist), serving from 1801–1817
  • Simeon Baldwin (Federalist), serving from 1803–1805
  • Lewis B. Sturges (Federalist), serving from 1805–1817
  • Timothy Pitkin (Federalist), serving from 1805–1819
  • Jonathan O. Moseley (Federalist), serving from 1805–1821
  • Theodore Dwight (Federalist), serving from 1806–1807
  • Epaphroditus Champion (Federalist), serving from 1807–1817
  • Ebenezer Huntington (Federalist), serving from 1810–1811 and 1817-1819
  • Lyman Law (Federalist), serving from 1811–1817
  • Uriel Holmes (Federalist), serving from 1817–1818
  • Nathaniel Terry (Federalist), serving from 1817–1819
  • Thomas Scott Williams (Federalist), serving from 1817–1819
  • Samuel B. Sherwood (Federalist), serving from 1817–1819
  • Sylvester Gilbert (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1818–1819
  • James Stevens (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821
  • Samuel A. Foot (Federalist), serving from 1819–1821
  • Elisha Phelps (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821 and 1825-1829
  • John Russ (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1823
  • Henry W. Edwards (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1823
  • Gideon Tomlinson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1827
  • Daniel Burrows (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1823
  • Ebenezer Stoddard (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1825
  • Noyes Barber (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1825
  • Ansel Sterling (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1825
  • Lemuel Whitman (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1823–1825
  • John Baldwin (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1825–1829
  • Orange Merwin (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1825–1829
  • Ralph I. Ingersoll (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1825–1833
  • Noyes Barber (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1825–1835
  • Elisha Phelps, serving from 1825–1929 (Adams)
  • David Plant (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1827–1829
  • William L. Storrs (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1829–1833
  • Jabez W. Huntington (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1829–1834
  • William W. Ellsworth (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1829–1834
  • Ebenezer Young (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1829–1835
  • Samuel A. Foot (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1833–1834
  • Joseph Trumbull (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1833–1835 and 1839-1843
  • Ebenezer Jackson, Jr. (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1834–1835
  • Samuel Tweedy (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1834–1835
  • Phineas Miner (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1834–1835
  • Zalmon Wildman (Jacksonian), serving from 1835
  • Andrew T. Judson (Jacksonian), serving from 1835–1836
  • Democratic Party (United States) Elisha Haley, serving from 1835–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lancelot Phelps, serving from 1835–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Isaac Toucey, serving from 1835–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Orrin Holt, serving from 1836–1839
  • Thomas T. Whittlesey (Jacksonian), serving from 1836–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Ingham, serving from 1837–1839
  • William L. Storrs (Whig), serving from 1839–1840
  • Thomas W. Williams (Whig), serving from 1839–1843
  • Thomas B. Osborne (Whig), serving from 1839–1843
  • John H. Brockway (Whig), serving from 1839–1843
  • Truman Smith (Whig), serving from 1839–1843 and 1845-1849
  • William W. Boardman (Whig), serving from 1840–1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) George S. Catlin, serving from 1843–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Simons, serving from 1843–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas H. Seymour, serving from 1843–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Stewart, serving from 1843–1845
  • James Dixon (Whig), serving from 1845–1849
  • John A. Rockwell (Whig), serving from 1845–1849
  • Thomas B. Butler (Whig), serving from 1849–1851
  • Walter Booth (Free Soil), serving from 1849–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Loren P. Waldo, serving from 1849–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chauncey F. Cleveland, serving from 1849–1853
  • Charles Chapman (Whig), serving from 1851–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Colin M. Ingersoll, serving from 1851–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Origen S. Seymour, serving from 1851–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) James T. Pratt, serving from 1853–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Nathan Belcher, serving from 1853–1855
  • William W. Welch (American), serving from 1855–1857
  • Republican Party Ezra Clark, Jr., serving from 1855–1859
  • Republican Party Sidney Dean, serving from 1855–1859
  • Democratic Party (United States) William D. Bishop, serving from 1857–1859
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Arnold, serving from 1857–1859
  • Republican Party Orris S. Ferry, serving from 1859–1861
  • Republican Party John Woodruff, serving from 1859–1861
  • Republican Party Alfred A. Burnham, serving from 1859–1863
  • Republican Party Dwight Loomis, serving from 1859–1863
  • Democratic Party (United States) George C. Woodruff, serving from 1861–1863
  • Democratic Party (United States) James E. English, serving from 1861–1865
  • Republican Party John H. Hubbard, serving from 1863–1867
  • Republican Party Henry C. Deming, serving from 1863–1867
  • Republican Party Augustus Brandegee, serving from 1863–1867
  • Republican Party Samuel L. Warner, serving from 1865–1867
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard D. Hubbard, serving from 1867–1869
  • Democratic Party (United States) Julius Hotchkiss, serving from 1867–1869
  • Samuel D. Hubbard (Whig), serving from 1867–1869
  • Republican Party Henry H. Starkweather, serving from 1867–1876
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. Barnum, serving from 1867–1876
  • Republican Party Julius L. Strong, serving from 1869–1872
  • Republican Party Stephen W. Kellogg, serving from 1869–1875
  • Republican Party Joseph R. Hawley, serving from 1872–1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) George M. Landers, serving from 1875–1879
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Phelps, serving from 1875–1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) Levi Warner, serving from 1876–1879
  • Republican Party John T. Wait, serving from 1876–1887
  • Republican Party Joseph R. Hawley, serving from 1879–1881
  • Republican Party Frederick Miles, serving from 1879–1883
  • Republican Party John R. Buck, serving from 1881–1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) William W. Eaton, serving from 1883–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward W. Seymour, serving from 1883–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles Le Moyne Mitchell, serving from 1883–1987
  • Republican Party John R. Buck, serving from 1885–1987
  • Democratic Party (United States) Carlos French, serving from 1887–1889
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert J. Vance, serving from 1887–1889
  • Democratic Party (United States) Miles T. Granger, serving from 1887–1889
  • Republican Party Charles A. Russell, serving from 1887–1902
  • Republican Party Frederick Miles, serving from 1889–1891
  • Republican Party William E. Simonds, serving from 1889–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Washington F. Willcox, serving from 1889–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert E. De Forest, serving from 1889–1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lewis Sperry, serving from 1891–1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) James P. Pigott, serving from 1893–1895
  • Republican Party Nehemiah D. Sperry, serving from 1895–1911
  • Republican Party E. Stevens Henry, serving from 1895–1913
  • Republican Party Ebenezer J. Hill, serving from 1895–1913
  • Republican Party Frank B. Brandegee, serving from 1902–1905
  • Republican Party George L. Lilley, serving from 1903–1909
  • Republican Party Edwin W. Higgins, serving from 1905–1913
  • Republican Party John Q. Tilson, serving from 1909–1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas L. Reilly, serving from 1911–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jeremiah Donovan, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Kennedy, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustine Lonergan, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bryan F. Mahan, serving from 1913–1915
  • Republican Party P. Davis Oakey, serving from 1915–1917
  • Republican Party Ebenezer J. Hill, serving from 1915–1917
  • Republican Party James P. Glynn, serving from 1915–1923
  • Republican Party John Q. Tilson, serving from 1915–1932
  • Republican Party Richard P. Freeman, serving from 1915–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustine Lonergan, serving from 1917–1921
  • Republican Party Schuyler Merritt, serving from 1917–1931 and 1933-1935
  • Republican Party E. Hart Fenn, serving from 1921–1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) Patrick B. O'Sullivan, serving from 1923–1925
  • Republican Party James P. Glynn, serving from 1925–1930
  • Republican Party Edward W. Goss, serving from 1930–1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) William L. Tierney, serving from 1931–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Augustine Lonergan, serving from 1931–1933
  • Republican Party Charles M. Bakewell, serving from 1933–1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Francis T. Maloney, serving from 1933–1935
  • Republican Party William L. Higgins, serving from 1933–1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Herman P. Kopplemann, serving from 1933–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) William M. Citron, serving from 1935–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Joseph Smith, serving from 1935–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) James A. Shanley, serving from 1935–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alfred N. Phillips, serving from 1937–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) William J. Fitzgerald, serving from 1937–1939 and 1941-1943
  • Republican Party Thomas R. Ball, serving from 1939–1941
  • Republican Party Albert E. Austin, serving from 1939–1941
  • Republican Party B. J. Monkiewicz, serving from 1939–1941
  • Republican Party William J. Miller, serving from 1939–1941, 1943-1945 and 1947-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lucien J. Maciora, serving from 1941–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Herman P. Kopplemann, serving from 1941–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Le Roy D. Downs, serving from 1941–1943
  • Republican Party Joseph E. Talbot, serving from 1942–1947
  • Republican Party John D. McWilliams, serving from 1943–1945
  • Republican Party Ranulf Compton, serving from 1943–1945
  • Republican Party B. J. Monkiewicz, serving from 1943–1945
  • Republican Party Clare B. Luce, serving from 1943–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) James P. Geelan, serving from 1945–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph F. Ryter, serving from 1945–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Herman P. Kopplemann, serving from 1945–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chase G. Woodhouse, serving from 1945–1947 and 1949-1951
  • Republican Party Ellsworth B. Foote, serving from 1947–1949
  • Republican Party Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., serving from 1947–1949, 1951-1959 and 1961-1963
  • Republican Party John D. Lodge, serving from 1947–1951
  • Republican Party James T. Patterson, serving from 1947–1959
  • Republican Party Antoni N. Sadlak, serving from 1947–1959
  • Democratic Party (United States) John A. McGuire, serving from 1949–1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) Abraham A. Ribicoff, serving from 1949–1953
  • Republican Party Albert P. Morano, serving from 1951–1959
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas J. Dodd, serving from 1953–1957
  • Republican Party Albert W. Cretella, serving from 1953–1959
  • Republican Party Edwin H. May, Jr., serving from 1957–1959
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chester Bowles, serving from 1959–1961
  • Democratic Party (United States) Donald J. Irwin, serving from 1959–1961 and 1965-1969
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frank Kowalski, serving from 1959–1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) Emilio Q. Daddario, serving from 1959–1971
  • Democratic Party (United States) John S. Monagan, serving from 1959–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert N. Giaimo, serving from 1959–1981
  • Republican Party Abner W. Sibal, serving from 1961–1965
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bernard F. Grabowski, serving from 1963–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) William L. St. Onge, serving from 1963–1970
  • Republican Party Thomas J. Meskill, serving from 1967–1971
  • Republican Party Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., serving from 1969–1971
  • Republican Party Robert H. Steele, serving from 1970–1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ella T. Grasso, serving from 1971–1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) William R. Cotter, serving from 1971–1981
  • Republican Party Stewart McKinney, serving from 1971–1987
  • Republican Party Ronald A. Sarasin, serving from 1973–1979
  • Democratic Party (United States) Christopher Dodd, serving from 1975–1981
  • Democratic Party (United States) Toby Moffett, serving from 1975–1983
  • Democratic Party (United States) William R. Ratchford, serving from 1979–1985
  • Republican Party Lawrence Joseph DeNardis, serving from 1981–1983
  • Democratic Party (United States) Sam Gejdenson, serving from 1981–2001
  • Democratic Party (United States) Barbara B. Kennelly, serving from 1982–1999
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bruce Morrison, serving from 1983–1991
  • Republican Party Nancy L. Johnson, serving from 1983–2007
  • Republican Party John G. Rowland, serving from 1985–1991
  • Republican Party Christopher Shays, serving from 1987–2009
  • Republican Party Gary Franks, serving from 1991–1997
  • Democratic Party (United States) Rosa L. DeLauro, serving from 1991–present
  • Democratic Party (United States) James H. Maloney, serving from 1997–2003
  • Democratic Party (United States) John B. Larson, serving from 1999–present
  • Republican Party Rob Simmons, serving from 2001–2007
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joe Courtney, serving from 2007–present
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chris Murphy, serving from 2007–present
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jim Himes, serving from 2009–present


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