United States congressional delegations from Delaware

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

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

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Delaware
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	1	2	3
	Republican Party	0	0	0
TOTALS		1	2	3

Current members

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U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Chris Coons		U.S. Senate, Delaware	2010	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Edward Kaufman (D)
Tom Carper		U.S. Senate, Delaware	2001	January 3, 2019	November 2018	Link	William Roth, Jr. (R)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
John C. Carney Jr.		Delaware's at-large congressional district	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Michael N. Castle (R)

Historical members

Senate

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Delaware
Party	Total
Democratic	19
Republican	15
Adams	3
Pro-Admin	2
Federalist	7
Adams-Clay Federalist	1
Jacksonian	2
Anti-Jacksonian	2
Whig	5
Opposition	2
Total Senators	58

Class 1 Senators from Delaware
Senator	Years Served	Party
George Read	Pro-Admin	1789-1793
Henry Latimer	Federalist	1795-1801
Samuel White	Federalist	1801-1809
Outerbridge Horsey	Federalist	1810-1821
Caesar A. Rodney	Republican	1822-1823
Thomas Clayton	Adams-Clay Federalist, Adams	1824-1827
Louis McLane	Jacksonian	1827-1829
Arnold Naudain	Anti-Jacksonian	1830-1836
Richard H. Bayard	Anti-Jacksonian, Whig	1836-1839, 1841-1845
John M. Clayton	Whig	1845-1849
John Wales	Whig	1849-1851
James Asheton Bayard, Jr.	Democratic	1851-1864
George Read Riddle	Democratic	1864-1867
James Asheton Bayard, Jr.	Democratic	1867-1869
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.	Democratic	1869-1885
George Gray	Democratic	1885-1899
L. Heisler Ball	Republican	1903-1905
Henry A. du Pont	Republican	1906-1917
Josiah O. Wolcott	Democratic	1917-1921
T. Coleman du Pont	Republican	1921-1922
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.	Democratic	1922-1929
John G. Townsend, Jr.	Republican	1929-1941
James M. Tunnell	Democratic	1941-1947
John J. Williams	Republican	1947-1970
William V. Roth, Jr.	Republican	1971-2001
Tom Carper	Democratic	2001-Present

Class 2 Senators from Delaware
Senator	Years Served	Party
Richard Bassett	Anti-Admin, Pro-Admin	1789-1793
John Vining	Pro-Admin, Federalist	1793-1798
Joshua Clayton	Federalist	1798-1798
William Hill Wells	Federalist	1799-1804
James Asheton Bayard, Sr.	Federalist	1804-1813
William Hill Wells	Federalist	1813-1817
Nicholas Van Dyke	Federalist Adams Clay Federalist, Adams	1817-1826
Daniel Rodney	Adams	1826-1827
Henry M. Ridgely	Jacksonian	1827-1829
John M. Clayton	Anti-Jacksonian	1829-1836
Thomas Clayton	Anti-Jacksonian, Whig	1837-1847
Presley Spruance	Whig	1847-1853
John M. Clayton	Whig, Opposition	1853-1856
Joseph P. Comegys	Opposition	1856-1857
Martin W. Bates	Democratic	1857-1859
Willard Saulsbury, Sr.	Democratic	1859-1871
Eli Saulsbury	Democratic	1871-1889
Anthony Higgins	Republican	1889-1895
Richard R. Kenney	Democratic	1897-1901
James F. Allee	Republican	1903-1907
Harry A. Richardson	Republican	1907-1913
Willard Saulsbury, Jr.	Democratic	1913-1919
L. Heisler Ball	Republican	1919-1925
T. Coleman du Pont	Republican	1925-1928
Daniel O. Hastings	Republican	1928-1937
James H. Hughes	Democratic	1937-1943
C. Douglass Buck	Republican	1943-1949
J. Allen Frear, Jr.	Democratic	1949-1961
J. Caleb Boggs	Republican	1961-1973
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.	Democratic	1973-2009
Edward E. Kaufman	Democratic	2009-2010
Chris Coons	Democratic	2010-Present

House

• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1700s from Delaware
Party	Total
Pro-Admin	2
Anti-Admin	1
Democratic-Republican	1
Federalist	1
Total Representatives	5

Representatives to the U.S. House in Delaware in the 1700s

Representative	Years Served	Party
John M. Vining	Pro-Admin	1789-1793
John Patten	Anti-Admin	1793-1794
Henry Latimer	Pro-Admin	1794-1795
John Patten	Democratic-Republican	1795-1797
James A. Bayard, Sr.	Federalist	1797-1803

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Delaware
Party	Total
Democratic-Republican	3
Federalist	7
Anti-Jacksonian	1
Whig	3
American	1
Democratic	12
Republican	5
Total Representatives	32

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
Caesar A. Rodney	Democratic-Republican	1803-1805
James M. Broom	Federalist	1805-1807
Nicholas Van Dyke	Federalist	1807-1811
Henry M. Ridgely	Federalist	1811-1815
Thomas Cooper	Federalist	1813-1817
Thomas Clayton	Federalist	1815-1817
Willard Hall	Democratic-Republican	1817-1821
Louis McLane	Federalist	1817-1827
Caesar A. Rodney	Democratic-Republican	1821-1822
Daniel Rodney	Federalist	1822-1823
Kensey Johns, Jr.	Anti-Jacksonian	1827-1831
John J. Milligan	Anti-Jacksonian, Whig	1831-1839
Thomas Robinson, Jr.	Democratic	1839-1841
George B. Rodney	Whig	1841-1845
John W. Houston	Whig	1845-1851
George R. Riddle	Democratic	1851-1855
Elisha D. Cullen	American	1855-1857
William G. Whitely	Democratic	1857-1861
George P. Fisher	Republican	1861-1863
William Temple	Democratic	1863
Nathaniel B. Smithers	Republican	1863-1865
John A. Nicholson	Democratic	1865-1869
Benjamin T. Biggs	Democratic	1869-1873
James R. Lofland	Republican	1873-1875
James Williams	Democratic	1875-1879
Edward L. Martin	Democratic	1879-1883
Charles B. Lore	Democratic	1883-1887
John B. Penington	Democratic	1887-1891
John W. Causey	Democratic	1891-1895
Jonathan S. Willis	Republican	1895-1897
L. Irving Handy	Democratic	1897-1899
John H. Hoffecker	Republican	1899-1900

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Delaware
Party	Total
Democratic	11
Republican	17
Total Representatives	28

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
Walter O. Hoffecker	Republican	1900-1901
L. Heisler Ball	Republican	1901-1903
Henry A. Houston	Democratic	1903-1905
Hiram R. Burton	Republican	1905-1909
William H. Heald	Republican	1909-1913
Franklin Brockson	Democratic	1913-1915
Thomas W. Miller	Republican	1915-1917
Albert F. Polk	Democratic	1917-1919
Caleb R. Layton	Republican	1919-1923
William H. Boyce	Democratic	1923-1925
Robert G. Houston	Republican	1925-1933
Wilbur L. Adams	Democratic	1933-1935
J. George Stewart	Republican	1935-1937
William F. Allen	Democratic	1937-1939
George S. Williams	Republican	1939-1941
Philip A. Traynor	Democratic	1941-1943
Earle D. Willey	Republican	1943-1945
Philip A. Traynor	Democratic	1945-1947
J. Caleb Boggs	Republican	1947-1953
Herbert B. Warburton	Republican	1953-1955
Harris B. McDowell, Jr.	Democratic	1955-1957
Harry G. Haskell, Jr.	Republican	1957-1959
Harris B. McDowell, Jr.	Democratic	1959-1967
William V. Roth, Jr.	Republican	1967-1970
Pierre S. du Pont, IV	Republican	1971-1977
Thomas B. Evans, Jr.	Republican	1977-1983
Thomas R. Carper	Democratic	1983-1993
Michael N. Castle	Republican	1993-2011

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Delaware
Party	Total
Democratic	1
Total Representatives	1

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

Representative	Years Served	Party
John C. Carney, Jr.	Democratic	2011-Present