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United States congressional delegations from Louisiana

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

U.S. House

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

Historical members

List of United States Senators from Louisiana

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

Class 2

  • Jean N. Destréhan (N/A), serving from 1812-1812
  • Republican Party Thomas Posey, serving from 1812-1813
  • Republican Party James Brown, serving from 1813-1817
  • Republican Party William C. C. Claiborne, serving from 1817-1817
  • Republican Party Henry Johnson, serving from 1818-1824
  • Republican Party C. D. J. Dominique Bouligny, serving from 1824-1829
  • Edward Livingston (J), serving from 1829-1831
  • George A. Waggaman (AJ), serving from 1831-1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert C. Nicholas, serving from 1836-1841
  • Alexander Barrow (W), serving from 1841-1846
  • Democratic Party (United States) Pierre Soulé, serving from 1847-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Solomon W. Downs, serving from 1847-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Judah P. Benjamin, serving from 1853-1861
  • Republican Party John S. Harris, serving from 1868-1871
  • Republican Party J. Rodman West, serving from 1871-1877
  • Republican Party William P. Kellogg, serving from 1877-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) Randall L. Gibson, serving from 1883-1892
  • Democratic Party (United States) Donelson Caffery, serving from 1892-1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) Murphy J. Foster, serving from 1901-1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph E. Ransdell, serving from 1913-1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) Huey P. Long, serving from 1932-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Rose McConnell Long, serving from 1936-1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Allen J. Ellender, serving from 1937-1972
  • Democratic Party (United States) Elaine S. Edwards, serving from 1972-1972
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., serving from 1972-1997
  • Democratic Party (United States) Mary Landrieu, serving from 1997-Present

Class 3

  • Republican Party Allan B. Magruder, serving from 1812-1813
  • Republican Party Eligius Fromentin, serving from 1813-1819
  • Republican Party James Brown, serving from 1819-1823
  • Republican Party Josiah S. Johnston, serving from 1824-1833
  • Alexander Porter (AJ), serving from 1833-1837
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alexander Mouton, serving from 1837-1842
  • Charles M. Conrad (W), serving from 1842-1843
  • Henry Johnson (W), serving from 1844-1849
  • Democratic Party (United States) Pierre Soulé, serving from 1849-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Slidell, serving from 1853-1861
  • Republican Party William P. Kellogg, serving from 1868-1872
  • Democratic Party (United States) James B. Eustis, serving from 1876-1879
  • Democratic Party (United States) Benjamin F. Jonas, serving from 1879-1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) James B. Eustis, serving from 1885-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward D. White, serving from 1891-1894
  • Democratic Party (United States) Newton C. Blanchard, serving from 1894-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel D. McEnery, serving from 1897-1910
  • Democratic Party (United States) John R. Thornton, serving from 1910-1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert F. Broussard, serving from 1915-1918
  • Democratic Party (United States) Walter Guion, serving from 1918-1918
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward J. Gay, serving from 1918-1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edwin S. Broussard, serving from 1921-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) John H. Overton, serving from 1933-1948
  • Democratic Party (United States) William C. Feazel, serving from 1948-1948
  • Democratic Party (United States) Russell B. Long, serving from 1948-1987
  • Democratic Party (United States) John B. Breaux, serving from 1987-2005
  • Republican Party David Vitter, serving from 2005-Present

List of United States Representatives from Louisiana

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

  • Thomas B. Robertson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1812–1818
  • Thomas Butler (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1818–1821
  • Josiah S. Johnston (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1823
  • William Leigh Brent (National Republican), serving from 1823–1829
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward Livingston, serving from 1823–1829
  • Henry Hosford Gurley (National Republican), serving from 1823–1831
  • Democratic Party (United States) Walter Hampden Overton, serving from 1829–1831
  • Edward D. White, Sr. (Whig), serving from 1829–1834 and 1839–1843
  • Henry Adams Bullard (Whig), serving from 1831–1834 and 1850–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Philemon Thomas, serving from 1831–1835
  • Henry Johnson (Whig), serving from 1834–1839
  • Rice Garland (Whig), serving from 1834–1840
  • Democratic Party (United States) Eleazar W. Ripley, serving from 1835–1839
  • Thomas Withers Chinn (Whig), serving from 1839–1841
  • John Moore (Whig), serving from 1840–1843 and 1851–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Bennett Dawson, serving from 1841–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Pierre Bossier, serving from 1843–1844
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alcée Louis la Branche, serving from 1843–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Slidell, serving from 1843–1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Isaac Edward Morse, serving from 1844–1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bannon G. Thibodeaux, serving from 1845–1849
  • Democratic Party (United States) John H. Harmanson, serving from 1845–1850
  • Democratic Party (United States) Emile La Sére, serving from 1846–1851
  • Charles Magill Conrad (Whig), serving from 1849–1850
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alexander G. Penn, serving from 1850–1853
  • Joseph Aristide Landry (Whig), serving from 1851–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Louis St. Martin, serving from 1851–1853 and 1885–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Dunbar, serving from 1853–1855
  • Theodore Gaillard Hunt (Whig), serving from 1853–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Roland Jones, serving from 1853–1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Perkins, Jr., serving from 1853–1855
  • George Eustis Jr. (Know-Nothing), serving from 1855–1859
  • Democratic Party (United States) John M. Sandidge, serving from 1855–1859
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas G. Davidson, serving from 1855–1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) Miles Taylor, serving from 1855–1861
  • John Edward Bouligny (Know-Nothing), serving from 1859–1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) John M. Landrum, serving from 1859–1861
  • Benjamin Flanders (Unionist), serving from 1862–1863
  • Republican Party Michael Hahn, serving from 1862–1863 and 1885–1886
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Mann, serving from 1868
  • Republican Party W. Jasper Blackburn, serving from 1868–1869
  • Republican Party Michel Vidal, serving from 1868–1869
  • Republican Party Joseph P. Newsham, serving from 1868–1871
  • Republican Party J. Hale Sypher, serving from 1868–1875
  • Republican Party Lionel Allen Sheldon, serving from 1869–1875
  • Republican Party Frank Morey, serving from 1869–1876
  • Republican Party Chester Bidwell Darrall, serving from 1869–1878 and 1881–1883
  • Republican Party James McCleery, serving from 1871
  • Alexander Boarman (Liberal Republican), serving from 1872–1873
  • George A. Sheridan (Liberal Republican), serving from 1873–1875
  • Republican Party George Luke Smith, serving from 1873–1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) Effingham Lawrence, serving from 1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) William M. Levy, serving from 1875–1877
  • Republican Party Charles E. Nash, serving from 1875–1877
  • Democratic Party (United States) Randall L. Gibson, serving from 1875–1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) E. John Ellis, serving from 1875–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) William B. Spencer, serving from 1876–1877
  • Republican Party John E. Leonard, serving from 1877–1878
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph Barton Elam, serving from 1877–1881
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward White Robertson, serving from 1877–1883 and 1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Smith Young, serving from 1878–1879
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph H. Acklen, serving from 1878–1881
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Floyd King, serving from 1879–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Newton C. Blanchard, serving from 1881–1894
  • Democratic Party (United States) Carleton Hunt, serving from 1883–1885
  • Republican Party William P. Kellogg, serving from 1883–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward T. Lewis, serving from 1883–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alfred Briggs Irion, serving from 1885–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward J. Gay, serving from 1885–1889
  • Democratic Party (United States) Nathaniel D. Wallace, serving from 1886–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Cherubusco Newton, serving from 1887–1889
  • Democratic Party (United States) Matthew D. Lagan, serving from 1887–1889 and 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Theodore S. Wilkinson, serving from 1887–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Matthews Robertson, serving from 1887–1907
  • Republican Party Hamilton D. Coleman, serving from 1889–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles J. Boatner, serving from 1889–1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Andrew Price, serving from 1889–1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Adolph Meyer, serving from 1891–1908
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert C. Davey, serving from 1893–1895 and 1897–1908
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry W. Ogden, serving from 1894–1899
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles F. Buck, serving from 1895–1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel T. Baird, serving from 1897–1899
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert F. Broussard, serving from 1897–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Phanor Breazeale, serving from 1899–1905
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph E. Ransdell, serving from 1899–1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) Arsène Pujo, serving from 1903–1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) John T. Watkins, serving from 1905–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) George K. Favrot, serving from 1907–1909 and 1921–1925
  • Democratic Party (United States) Albert Estopinal, serving from 1908–1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Louis Gilmore, serving from 1909–1910
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert Charles Wickliffe, serving from 1909–1912
  • Democratic Party (United States) H. Garland Dupré, serving from 1910–1924
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lewis L. Morgan, serving from 1912–1917
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Walter Elder, serving from 1913–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ladislas Lazaro, serving from 1913–1927
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Benjamin Aswell, serving from 1913–1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) Whitmell P. Martin, serving from 1915–1929
  • Democratic Party (United States) Riley J. Wilson, serving from 1915–1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jared Y. Sanders, Sr., serving from 1917–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) James O'Connor, serving from 1919–1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) John N. Sandlin, serving from 1921–1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Z. Spearing, serving from 1924–1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bolivar E. Kemp, serving from 1925–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) René L. De Rouen, serving from 1927–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Numa F. Montet, serving from 1929–1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) John H. Overton, serving from 1931–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Paul H. Maloney, serving from 1931–1940 and 1943–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joachim O. Fernandez, serving from 1931–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Cleveland Dear, serving from 1933–1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., serving from 1934–1937 and 1941–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) John K. Griffith, serving from 1937–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert L. Mouton, serving from 1937–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Newt V. Mills, serving from 1937–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) A. Leonard Allen, serving from 1937–1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) Overton Brooks, serving from 1937–1961
  • Democratic Party (United States) Vance Plauche, serving from 1941–1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hale Boggs, serving from 1941–1943 and 1947–1972
  • Democratic Party (United States) James R. Domengeaux, serving from 1941–1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) F. Edward Hébert, serving from 1941–1977
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles E. McKenzie, serving from 1943–1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry D. Larcade, Jr., serving from 1943–1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) James H. Morrison, serving from 1943–1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otto Passman, serving from 1947–1977
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edwin E. Willis, serving from 1949–1969
  • Democratic Party (United States) George S. Long, serving from 1953–1958
  • Democratic Party (United States) T. Ashton Thompson, serving from 1953–1965
  • Democratic Party (United States) Harold B. McSween, serving from 1959–1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joe Waggonner, serving from 1961–1979
  • Democratic Party (United States) Gillis W. Long, serving from 1963–1965 and 1973–1985
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edwin Edwards, serving from 1965–1972
  • Democratic Party (United States) Speedy O. Long, serving from 1965–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Rarick, serving from 1967–1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) Patrick T. Caffery, serving from 1969–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Breaux, serving from 1972–1987
  • Republican Party David C. Treen, serving from 1973–1980
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lindy Boggs, serving from 1973–1991
  • Republican Party Henson Moore, serving from 1975–1987
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard A. Tonry, serving from 1977
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jerry Huckaby, serving from 1977–1993
  • Republican Party Bob Livingston, serving from 1977–1999
  • Democratic Party (United States) Claude Leach, serving from 1979–1981
  • Republican Party Billy Tauzin, serving from 1980–2005
  • Democratic Party (United States) Buddy Roemer, serving from 1981–1988
  • Democratic Party (United States) Catherine S. Long, serving from 1985–1987
  • Republican Party Clyde C. Holloway, serving from 1987–1993
  • Republican Party Jimmy Hayes, serving from 1987–1997
  • Republican Party Richard Baker, serving from 1987–2008
  • Republican Party Jim McCrery, serving from 1988–2009
  • Democratic Party (United States) William J. Jefferson, serving from 1991–2009
  • Democratic Party (United States) Cleo Fields, serving from 1993–1997
  • Republican Party John Cooksey, serving from 1997–2003
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chris John, serving from 1997–2005
  • Republican Party David Vitter, serving from 1999–2005
  • Republican Party Rodney Alexander, serving from 2003-Present
  • Republican Party Bobby Jindal, serving from 2005–2008
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charlie Melancon, serving from 2005–2011
  • Republican Party Charles Boustany Jr., serving from 2005-Present
  • Democratic Party (United States) Don Cazayoux, serving from 2008–2009
  • Republican Party Steve Scalise, serving from 2008-Present
  • Republican Party Joseph Cao, serving from 2009–2011
  • Republican Party Bill Cassidy, serving from 2009-Present
  • Republican Party John Fleming (Louisiana), serving from 2009-Present
  • Republican Party Jeff Landry, serving from 2011-Present
  • Democratic Party (United States) Cedric Richmond, serving from 2011-Present


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