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United States congressional delegations from Mississippi

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

U.S. House

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

Historical members

List of United States Senators from Mississippi

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

Class 1

  • Republican Party Walter Leake, serving from 1817-1820
  • Republican Party David Holmes (R,JR), serving from 1820-1825
  • Powhatan Ellis (J), serving from 1825-1826
  • Thomas B. Reed (J), serving from 1826-1827
  • Powhatan Ellis (J), serving from 1827-1832
  • John Black (J,AJ,W), serving from 1832-1838
  • Democratic Party (United States) James F. Trotter, serving from 1838-1838
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Hickman Williams, serving from 1838-1839
  • John Henderson (W), serving from 1839-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jesse Speight, serving from 1845-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jefferson Davis, serving from 1847-1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) John J. McRae, serving from 1851-1852
  • Democratic Party (United States) Stephen Adams, serving from 1852-1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jefferson Davis, serving from 1857-1861
  • Republican Party Adelbert Ames, serving from 1870-1874
  • Republican Party Henry R. Pease, serving from 1874-1875
  • Republican Party Blanche K. Bruce, serving from 1875-1881
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Z. George, serving from 1881-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hernando D. Money, serving from 1897-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Sharp Williams, serving from 1911-1923
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hubert D. Stephens, serving from 1923-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Theodore G. Bilbo, serving from 1935-1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Stennis, serving from 1947-1989
  • Republican Party Trent Lott, serving from 1989-2007
  • Republican Party Roger F. Wicker, serving from 2007-Present

Class 2

  • Republican Party Thomas Hill Williams (R,JR,J), serving from 1817-1829
  • Thomas B. Reed (J), serving from 1829-1829
  • Robert H. Adams (J), serving from 1830-1830
  • George Poindexter (J,AJ), serving from 1830-1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert J. Walker (J,D), serving from 1835-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph W. Chalmers, serving from 1845-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry Stuart Foote, serving from 1847-1852
  • Walker Brooke (W), serving from 1852-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Albert G. Brown, serving from 1854-1861
  • Republican Party Hiram R. Revels, serving from 1870-1871
  • Republican Party James L. Alcorn, serving from 1871-1877
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lucius Q.C. Lamar, serving from 1877-1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward C. Walthall, serving from 1885-1894
  • Democratic Party (United States) Anselm J. McLaurin, serving from 1894-1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward C. Walthall, serving from 1895-1898
  • Democratic Party (United States) William V. Sullivan, serving from 1898-1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) Anselm J. McLaurin, serving from 1901-1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Gordon, serving from 1909-1910
  • Democratic Party (United States) Le Roy Percy, serving from 1910-1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) James K. Vardaman, serving from 1913-1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) Byron P. (Pat) Harrison, serving from 1919-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) James O. Eastland, serving from 1941-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wall Doxey, serving from 1941-1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) James O. Eastland, serving from 1943-1978
  • Republican Party Thad Cochran, serving from 1978-Present

List of United States Representatives from Mississippi

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

  • George Poindexter (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1819
  • Christopher Rankin (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819-1826
  • William Hale (Jacksonian), serving from 1826-1828
  • Thomas Hinds (Jacksonian), serving from 1828-1831
  • Franklin E. Plummer (Jacksonian), serving from 1831-1835
  • Harry Cage (Jacksonian), serving from 1833-1835
  • David Dickson (Anti-Jacksonian), serving from 1835-1836
  • John F. H. Claiborne (Jacksonian), serving from 1835-1837 and 1837-1838
  • Samuel J. Gholson (Jacksonian), serving from 1836-1837 and 1837-1838
  • Thomas J. Word (Whig), serving from 1838-1839
  • Sergent S. Prentiss (Whig), serving from 1838-1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Albert G. Brown, serving from 1839-1841
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jacob Thompson, serving from 1839-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) William M. Gwin, serving from 1841-1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. Hammett, serving from 1843-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Tilghman Tucker, serving from 1843-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert W. Roberts, serving from 1843-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jefferson Davis, serving from 1845-1846
  • Democratic Party (United States) Stephen Adams, serving from 1845-1847
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry T. Ellett, serving from 1847-1111111
  • Patrick Watson Tompkins (Whig), serving from 1847-1849
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jacob Thompson, serving from 1847-1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Winfield S. Featherston, serving from 1847-1851
  • Democratic Party (United States) Albert G. Brown, serving from 1847-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) William McWillie, serving from 1849-1851
  • Benjamin Nabers (Unionist), serving from 1851-1853
  • John A. Wilcox (Unionist), serving from 1851-1853
  • John D. Freeman (Unionist), serving from 1851-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) William T. S. Barry, serving from 1853-1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otho Robards Singleton, serving from 1853-1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wiley P. Harris, serving from 1853-1855
  • Democratic Party (United States) Daniel B. Wright, serving from 1853-1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hendley Bennett, serving from 1855-1857
  • William A. Lake (Know-Nothing), serving from 1855-1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) John A. Quitman, serving from 1855-1858
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Barksdale, serving from 1855-1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) L. Q. C. Lamar, serving from 1857-1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) Reuben Davis, serving from 1857-1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otho R. Singleton, serving from 1857-1861
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Jones McRae, serving from 1858-1861
  • Republican Party George C. McKee, serving from 1869-1873
  • Republican Party George E. Harris, serving from 1870-1873
  • Republican Party Joseph Morphis, serving from 1870-1873
  • Republican Party Legrand Winfield Perce, serving from 1870-1873
  • Republican Party Henry Barry, serving from 1870-1875
  • Republican Party Albert Howe, serving from 1873-1875
  • Republican Party Jason Niles, serving from 1873-1875
  • Republican Party George Colin McKee, serving from 1873-1875
  • Democratic Party (United States) L. Q. C. Lamar, serving from 1873-1877
  • Republican Party John R. Lynch, serving from 1873-1877
  • Guilford Wells (Independent-Republican), serving from 1875-1877
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hernando D. Money, serving from 1875-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles E. Hooker, serving from 1875-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otho R. Singleton, serving from 1875-1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) James R. Chalmers, serving from 1877-1882
  • Democratic Party (United States) Van H. Manning, serving from 1877-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry Muldrow, serving from 1877-1885
  • Republican Party John R. Lynch, serving from 1882-1883
  • Republican Party Elza Jeffords, serving from 1883-1885
  • Independent James Ronald Chalmers, serving from 1883-1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Otho Robards Singleton, serving from 1883-1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry Van Eaton, serving from 1883-1887
  • Independent James R. Chalmers, serving from 1884-1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frederick G. Barry, serving from 1885-1889
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Bright Morgan, serving from 1885-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Allen, serving from 1885-1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas C. Catchings, serving from 1885-1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chapman L. Anderson, serving from 1887-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Chapman L. Anderson, serving from 1887-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Stockdale, serving from 1887-1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) Clarke Lewis, serving from 1889-1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph H. Beeman, serving from 1891-1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph Henry Beeman, serving from 1891-1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Curtis Kyle, serving from 1891-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hernando D. Money, serving from 1893-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Sharp Williams, serving from 1893-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Sharp Williams, serving from 1893-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Walter Denny, serving from 1895-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) William V. Sullivan, serving from 1897-1898
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Love, serving from 1897-1898
  • Democratic Party (United States) Andrew F. Fox, serving from 1897-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frank McLain, serving from 1898-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Spight, serving from 1898-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) Patrick Henry, serving from 1901-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr., serving from 1901-1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wilson S. Hill, serving from 1903-1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frank A. McLain, serving from 1903-1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Sharp Williams, serving from 1903-1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) Adam M. Byrd, serving from 1903-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) Eaton Bowers, serving from 1903-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) Benjamin G. Humphreys, serving from 1903-1923
  • Democratic Party (United States) William A. Dickson, serving from 1909-1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas U. Sisson, serving from 1909-1923
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Collier, serving from 1909-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Andrew Witherspoon, serving from 1911-1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hubert D. Stephens, serving from 1911-1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Percy Quin, serving from 1913-1932
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Webb Venable, serving from 1916-1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bill G. Lowrey, serving from 1921-1929
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ross A. Collins, serving from 1921-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Rankin, serving from 1921-1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Yerger Humphreys, serving from 1923-1925
  • Democratic Party (United States) T. Jeff Busby, serving from 1923-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Madison Whittington, serving from 1925-1951
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wall Doxey, serving from 1929-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Lawrence R. Ellzey, serving from 1932-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States) Aubert C. Dunn, serving from 1935-1937
  • Democratic Party (United States) Aaron L. Ford, serving from 1935-1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Dan R. McGehee, serving from 1935-1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ross A. Collins, serving from 1937-1943
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jamie Whitten, serving from 1941-1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Abernethy, serving from 1943-1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) W. Arthur Winstead, serving from 1943-1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Bell Williams, serving from 1947-1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frank E. Smith, serving from 1951-1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Bell Williams, serving from 1953-1963
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Abernethy, serving from 1953-1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) W. Arthur Winstead, serving from 1963-1965
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Bell Williams, serving from 1963-1968
  • Democratic Party (United States) William M. Colmer, serving from 1963-1973
  • Republican Party Prentiss Walker, serving from 1965-1967
  • Democratic Party (United States) Gillespie V. Montgomery, serving from 1967-1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles Hudson Griffin, serving from 1968-1973
  • Republican Party Thad Cochran, serving from 1973-1979
  • Democratic Party (United States) David R. Bowen, serving from 1973-1983
  • Republican Party Trent Lott, serving from 1973-1989
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jamie Whitten, serving from 1973-1995
  • Democratic Party (United States) Sonny Montgomery, serving from 1973-1997
  • Republican Party Jon Hinson, serving from 1979-1981
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wayne Dowdy, serving from 1981-1989
  • Republican Party William Franklin, serving from 1983-1987
  • Democratic Party (United States) Mike Espy, serving from 1987-1993
  • Republican Party Larkin I. Smith, serving from 1989-1989
  • Republican Party Mike Parker, serving from 1989-1999
  • Democratic Party (United States) Gene Taylor, serving from 1989-2003
  • Democratic Party (United States) Bennie Thompson, serving from 1993-present
  • Republican Party Roger Wicker, serving from 1995-2007
  • Republican Party Chip Pickering, serving from 1997-2009
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ronnie Shows, serving from 1999-2003
  • Democratic Party (United States) Gene Taylor, serving from 2003-2010
  • Democratic Party (United States) Travis Childers, serving from 2008-2011
  • Republican Party Gregg Harper, serving from 2009-present
  • Republican Party Steven Palazzo, serving from 2010-present
  • Republican Party Alan Nunnelee, serving from 2011-present


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