United States congressional delegations from Nebraska

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

Current members

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

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Nebraska
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	0	0	0
	Republican Party	2	3	5
TOTALS		2	3	5

U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Deb Fischer		U.S. Senate, Nebraska	2013	January 3, 2019	November, 2018	Link	Ben Nelson (D)
Mike Johanns		U.S. Senate, Nebraska	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Chuck Hagel (R)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Adrian Smith		District 3	2007	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Tom Osborne (R)
Jeffrey Fortenberry		District 1	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Doug Bereuter (R)
Lee Terry		District 2	1999	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Jon Christensen (R)

Historical members

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

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Louisiana
Party	Total
Republican	29
Democratic	8
Populist	2
Total Senators	39

Class 1 Senators from Nebraska
Senator	Years Served	Party
Thomas W. Tipton	1867-1875	Republican
Algernon S. Paddock	1875-1881	Republican
Charles H. Van Wyck	1881-1887	Republican
Algernon S. Paddock	1887-1893	Republican
William V. Allen	1893-1899	PO
Monroe L. Hayward	1899-1899	Republican
William V. Allen	1899-1901	PO
Charles H. Dietrich	1901-1905	Republican
Elmer J. Burkett	1905-1911	Republican
Gilbert M. Hitchcock	1911-1923	Democratic
Robert B. Howell	1923-1933	Republican
William H. Thompson	1933-1934	Democratic
Richard C. Hunter	1934-1935	Democratic
Edward R. Burke	1935-1941	Democratic
Hugh A. Butler	1941-1954	Republican
Samuel W. Reynolds	1954-1954	Republican
Roman L. Hruska	1954-1976	Republican
Edward Zorinsky	1976-1987	Democratic
David K. Karnes	1987-1989	Republican
J. Robert Kerrey	1989-2001	Democratic
Ben Nelson	2001-2013	Democratic
Deb Fischer	2013-present	Republican

Class 2 Senators from Nebraska
Senator	Years Served	Party
John M. Thayer	1867-1871	Republican
Phineas W. Hitchcock	1871-1877	Republican
Alvin Saunders	1877-1883	Republican
Charles F. Manderson	1883-1895	Republican
John M. Thurston	1895-1901	Republican
Joseph H. Millard	1901-1907	Republican
Norris Brown	1907-1913	Republican
George W. Norris	1913-1943	Republican
Kenneth S. Wherry	1943-1951	Republican
Frederick A. Seaton	1951-1952	Republican
Dwight P. Griswold	1952-1954	Republican
Eva K. Bowring	1954-1954	Republican
Hazel H. Abel	1954-1954	Republican
Carl T. Curtis	1955-1979	Republican
J. James Exon	1979-1997	Democratic
Chuck Hagel	1997-2009	Republican
Mike Johanns	2009-Present	Republican

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

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Nebraska
Party	Total
Democratic	3
Republican	17
Populist	7
Total Representatives	27

Representative	Years Served	Party
Turner Mastin Marquette	1865-1866	Republican
John Taffe	1867-1872	Republican
Lorenzo Crounse	1873-1876	Republican
Thomas Jefferson Majors	1877-1878	Republican
Frank Welch	1877-1878	Republican
Edward Kimble Valentine	1879-1884	Republican
Archibald Jerard Weaver	1883-1886	Republican
James Laird	1883-1890	Republican
George Washington Emery Dorsey	1885-1890	Republican
John Albert McShane	1887-1888	Democratic
William James Connell	1889-1890	Republican
Gilbert Lafayette Laws	1889-1890	Republican
William Jennings Bryan	1891-1894	Democratic
William Arthur McKeighan	1891-1894	Populist
Omer Madison Kem	1891-1896	Populist
Eugene Jerome Hainer	1893-1896	Republican
George de Rue Meiklejohn	1893-1896	Republican
David Henry Mercer	1893-1902	Republican
Jesse Burr Strode	1895-1898	Republican
William Ezekiel Andrews	1895-1896, 1919-1922	Republican
Samuel Maxwell	1897-1898	Populist
William Laury Greene	1897-1900	Populist
Roderick Dhu Sutherland	1897-1900	Populist
William Ledyard Stark	1897-1902	Populist
William Neville	1899-1902	Populist
John Seaton Robinson	1899-1902	Democratic
Elmer Jacob Burkett	1899-1904	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Nebraska
Party	Total
Democratic	21
Republican	42
Total Representatives	63

Representative	Years Served	Party
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger	1901-1902, 1915-1918, 1923-1928, 1931-1934	Democratic
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock	1903-1904, 1907-1910	Democratic
John Jay McCarthy	1903-1906	Republican
Edmund Howard Hinshaw	1903-1910	Republican
George William Norris	1903-1912	Republican
Moses Pierce Kinkaid	1903-1922	Republican
John Lauderdale Kennedy	1905-1906	Republican
Ernest Mark Pollard	1905-1908	Republican
John Frank Boyd	1907-1908	Republican
James Polk Latta	1909-1912	Democratic
John Arthur Maguire	1909-1914	Democratic
Charles Otto Lobeck	1911-1918	Democratic
Dan Voorhees Stephens	1911-1918	Democratic
Charles Henry Sloan	1911-1930	Republican
Silas Reynolds Barton	1913-1914	Republican
Charles Frank Reavis	1915-1922	Republican
Robert Emory Evans	1919-1922	Republican
Albert Webb Jefferis	1919-1922	Republican
Melvin Orlando McLaughlin	1919-1926	Republican
Augustin Reed Humphrey	1921-1922	Republican
Roy Henry Thorpe	1921-1922	Republican
Willis Gratz Sears	1923-1930	Republican
Robert Glenmore Simmons	1923-1932	Republican
Edgar Howard	1923-1934	Democratic
John Henry Morehead	1923-1934	Democratic
John Nathaniel Norton	1927-1928, 1931-1932	Democratic
Fred Gustus Johnson	1929-1930	Republican
Howard Malcolm Baldrige	1931-1932	Republican
Edward Raymond Burke	1933-1934	Democratic
Terry McGovern Carpenter	1933-1934	Democratic
Charles Gustav Binderup	1935-1938	Democratic
Henry Carl Luckey	1935-1938	Democratic
Harry Buffington Coffee	1935-1942	Democratic
Charles Francis McLaughlin	1935-1942	Democratic
Karl Stefan	1935-1952	Republican
George Henry Heinke	1939-1940	Republican
John Hyde Sweet	1939-1940	Republican
Carl Thomas Curtis	1939-1954	Republican
Oren Sturman Copeland	1941-1942	Republican
Howard Homan Buffett	1943-1948, 1951-1952	Republican
Arthur Lewis Miller	1943-1958	Republican
Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan	1949-1950	Democratic
Robert Dinsmore Harrison	1951-1958	Republican
Roman Lee Hruska	1953-1954	Republican
Jackson Burton Chase	1955-1956	Republican
Phillip Hart Weaver	1955-1962	Republican
Glenn Clarence Cunningham	1957-1970	Republican
Lawrence Brock	1959-1960	Democratic
Donald Francis McGinley	1959-1960	Democratic
Ralph Frederick Beermann	1961-1964	Republican
David Thomas Martin	1961-1974	Republican
Clair Armstrong Callan	1965-1966	Democratic
Robert Vernon Denney	1967-1970	Republican
John Yetter McCollister	1971-1976	Republican
Charles Thone	1971-1978	Republican
Virginia Dodd Smith	1975-1990	Republican
John Joseph Cavanaugh	1977-1980	Democratic
Douglas Kent Bereuter	1979-2004	Republican
Harold John Daub, Jr.,	1981-1988	Republican
Peter D. Hoagland	1989-1994	Democratic
William E. Barrett	1991-2000	Republican
Jon Lynn Christensen	1995-1998	Republican
Lee Raymond Terry	1999-Present	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Nebraska
Party	Total
Democratic	0
Republican	3
Total Representatives	3

Representative	Years Served	Party
Thomas Osborne	2001-2006	Republican
Jeff Fortenberry	2005-Present	Republican
Adrian Smith	2007-Present	Republican