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United States congressional delegations from South Carolina

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

U.S. House

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

Historical members

List of United States Senators from South Carolina

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

Class 2

  • Pierce Butler (PRO-ADMIN,ANTI-ADMIN), serving from 1789-1796
  • Republican Party John Hunter, serving from 1796-1798
  • Republican Party Charles Pinckney, serving from 1798-1801
  • Republican Party Thomas Sumter, serving from 1801-1810
  • Republican Party John Taylor, serving from 1810-1816
  • Republican Party William Smith, serving from 1816-1823
  • Robert Young Hayne (J), serving from 1823-1832
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Calhoun, serving from 1832-1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) Daniel Elliott Huger, serving from 1843-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Calhoun, serving from 1845-1850
  • Democratic Party (United States) Franklin H. Elmore, serving from 1850-1850
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert W. Barnwell, serving from 1850-1850
  • Democratic Party (United States) R. Barnwell Rhett, serving from 1850-1852
  • Democratic Party (United States) William F. De Saussure, serving from 1852-1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Josiah J. Evans, serving from 1853-1858
  • Democratic Party (United States) Arthur P. Hayne, serving from 1858-1858
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Chesnut, Jr., serving from 1858-1860
  • Republican Party Thomas J. Robertson, serving from 1868-1877
  • Democratic Party (United States) Matthew C. Butler, serving from 1877-1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) Benjamin R. Tillman, serving from 1895-1918
  • Democratic Party (United States) Christie Benet, serving from 1918-1918
  • Democratic Party (United States) William P. Pollock, serving from 1918-1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) Nathaniel B. Dial, serving from 1919-1925
  • Democratic Party (United States) Coleman L. Blease, serving from 1925-1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) James F. Byrnes, serving from 1931-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alva M. Lumpkin, serving from 1941-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Roger C. Peace, serving from 1941-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Burnet R. Maybank, serving from 1941-1954
  • Democratic Party (United States) Charles E. Daniel, serving from 1954-1954
  • Democratic Party (United States) J.Strom Thurmond, serving from 1954-1956
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas A. Wofford, serving from 1956-1956
  • Republican Party J. Strom Thurmond, serving from 1956-2003
  • Republican Party Lindsey Graham, serving from 2003-Present


Class 3

  • Ralph Izard (PRO-ADMIN), serving from 1789-1795
  • Jacob Read (F), serving from 1795-1801
  • Republican Party John Ewing Colhoun, serving from 1801-1802
  • Republican Party Pierce Butler, serving from 1802-1804
  • Republican Party John Gaillard, serving from 1804-1826
  • William Harper (J), serving from 1826-1826
  • Republican Party William Smith, serving from 1826-1831
  • Stephen D. Miller, serving from 1831-1833
  • William C. Preston (N,W), serving from 1833-1842
  • Democratic Party (United States) George McDuffie, serving from 1842-1846
  • Democratic Party (United States) Andrew P. Butler, serving from 1846-1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) James H. Hammond, serving from 1857-1860
  • Republican Party Frederick A. Sawyer, serving from 1868-1873
  • Republican Party John J. Patterson, serving from 1873-1879
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wade Hampton, serving from 1879-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) John L. M. Irby, serving from 1891-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph H. Earle, serving from 1897-1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) John L. McLaurin, serving from 1897-1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) Asbury C. Latimer, serving from 1903-1908
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frank B. Gary, serving from 1908-1909
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ellison D. Smith, serving from 1909-1944
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wilton E. Hall, serving from 1944-1945
  • Democratic Party (United States) Olin D. T. Johnston, serving from 1945-1965
  • Democratic Party (United States) Donald S. Russell, serving from 1965-1966
  • Democratic Party (United States) Ernest F. Hollings, serving from 1966-2005
  • Republican Party James DeMint, serving from 2005-Present


List of United States Representatives from South Carolina

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

  • Aedanus Burke (Anti-Administration), serving from 1789–1791
  • Daniel Huger (Pro-Administration), serving from 1789–1793
  • Thomas T. Tucker (Anti-Administration), serving from 1789–1793
  • Thomas Sumter (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1789–1793, 1797-1801
  • William L. Smith (Federalist), serving from 1789–1797
  • Robert Barnwell (Pro-Administration), serving from 1791–1793
  • Alexander Gillon (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793–1794
  • John Hunter (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793–1795
  • Andrew Pickens (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793–1795
  • Richard Winn (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1793–1797, 1803-1813
  • Lemuel Benton (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793–1799
  • Robert Goodloe Harper (Federalist), serving from 1795-1801
  • Samuel Earle (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795–1797
  • Wade Hampton I (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795–1797, 1803-1805
  • William Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797–1799
  • Thomas Pinckney (Federalist), serving from 1797–1801
  • John Rutledge, Jr. (Federalist), serving from 1797–1803
  • Abraham Nott (Federalist), serving from 1799–1801
  • Benjamin Huger (Federalist), serving from 1799–1805, 1815-1817
  • Thomas Lowndes (Federalist), serving from 1801–1805
  • William Butler (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1801–1813
  • Thomas Moore (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1801–1813,1815-1817
  • John B. Earle (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803–1805
  • Levi Casey (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803–1807
  • O'Brien Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805–1807
  • Elias Earle (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805–1807, 1811-1815, 1817-1821
  • David Rogerson Williams (Democratic Republican), serving from 1805–1809, 1811-1813
  • Robert Marion (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805–1810
  • John Taylor (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807–1810
  • Lemuel J. Alston (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807–1811
  • Joseph Calhoun (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807–1811
  • Robert Witherspoon (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1809–1811
  • Langdon Cheves (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1810–1815
  • John C. Calhoun (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811–1817
  • William Lowndes (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811–1822
  • David R. Evans (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
  • Samuel Farrow (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
  • Theodore Gourdin (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
  • John Kershaw (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1815
  • John J. Chappell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813–1817
  • William Mayrant (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1816
  • John Taylor (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817
  • William Woodward (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1817
  • Henry Middleton (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815–1819
  • Joseph Bellinger (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
  • Stephen Decatur Miller (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
  • Wilson Nesbitt (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1819
  • James Ervin (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817–1821
  • Democratic Party (United States) Starling Tucker, serving from 1817–1831
  • Eldred Simkins (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1818–1821
  • Joseph Brevard (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821
  • John McCreary (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821
  • Charles Pinckney (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1821
  • James Overstreet (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819–1822
  • James Blair (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1822, 1829-1834
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas R. Mitchell, serving from 1821–1823 ,1825-1829, 1831-1833
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joel Roberts Poinsett, serving from 1821–1825
  • Joseph Gist (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821–1827
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Wilson, serving from 1821–1827
  • Democratic Party (United States) George McDuffie, serving from 1821–1834
  • Andrew R. Govan (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1822–1827
  • John Carter (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1822–1829
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Hamilton, Jr., serving from 1822–1829
  • Robert B. Campbell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1823–1825, 1834-1837
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Drayton, serving from 1825–1833
  • Democratic Party (United States) William D. Martin, serving from 1827–1831
  • Democratic Party (United States) William T. Nuckolls, serving from 1827–1833
  • Democratic Party (United States) Warren R. Davis, serving from 1827–1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Campbell, serving from 1829–1831, 1837-1845
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert Woodward Barnwell, serving from 1829–1833
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Myers Felder, serving from 1831–1835
  • Democratic Party (United States) John K. Griffin, serving from 1831–1841
  • Thomas D. Singleton (Nullifier), serving from 1833
  • William K. Clowney (Nullifier), serving from 1833–1835, 1837-1839
  • William J. Grayson (Nullifier), serving from 1833–1837
  • Henry L. Pinckney (Nullifier), serving from 1833–1837
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard Irvine Manning I, serving from 1834–1836
  • Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Nullifier), serving from 1834–1843
  • James Henry Hammond (Nullifier), serving from 1835–1836
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Rogers, serving from 1835–1837, 1839-1843
  • Waddy Thompson, Jr. (Whig), serving from 1835–1841
  • Democratic Party (United States) Franklin H. Elmore, serving from 1836–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Peter Richardson II, serving from 1836–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hugh S. Legaré, serving from 1837–1839
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert Rhett, serving from 1837–1849
  • Democratic Party (United States) Sampson H. Butler, serving from 1839–1842
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas De Lage Sumter, serving from 1839–1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) Isaac E. Holmes, serving from 1839–1851
  • William Butler (Whig), serving from 1841–1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) Patrick C. Caldwell, serving from 1841–1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel W. Trotti, serving from 1842–1843
  • Democratic Party (United States) James A. Black, serving from 1843–1848
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard F. Simpson, serving from 1843–1849
  • Democratic Party (United States) Armistead Burt, serving from 1843–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph A. Woodward, serving from 1843–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) Alexander D. Sims, serving from 1845–1848
  • Democratic Party (United States) Daniel Wallace, serving from 1848–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) William F. Colcock, serving from 1849–1853
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Lawrence Orr, serving from 1849–1859
  • Democratic Party (United States) John McQueen, serving from 1849–1860
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Aiken, Jr., serving from 1851–1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) Preston Brooks, serving from 1853–1857
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Waters Boyce, serving from 1853–1860
  • Democratic Party (United States) Laurence M. Keitt, serving from 1853–1860
  • Democratic Party (United States) Milledge Luke Bonham, serving from 1857–1860
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Porcher Miles, serving from 1857–1860
  • Democratic Party (United States) John D. Ashmore, serving from 1859–1860
  • Republican Party Manuel S. Corley, serving from 1868–1869
  • Republican Party James H. Goss, serving from 1868–1869
  • Republican Party Benjamin F. Whittemore, serving from 1868–1870
  • Republican Party Christopher C. Bowen, serving from 1868–1871
  • Republican Party Solomon L. Hoge, serving from 1869–1871, 1875-1877
  • Republican Party Alexander S. Wallace, serving from 1870–1877
  • Republican Party Joseph H. Rainey, serving from 1870–1879
  • Republican Party Robert C. De Large, serving from 1871–1873
  • Republican Party Robert B. Elliott, serving from 1871–1874
  • Republican Party Alonzo J. Ransier, serving from 1873–1875
  • Republican Party Richard H. Cain, serving from 1873–1875, 1877-1879
  • Republican Party Lewis C. Carpenter, serving from 1874–1875
  • Republican Party Edmund W. M. Mackey, serving from 1875–1876 , 1882-1884
  • Republican Party Robert Smalls, serving from 1875–1879, 1882-1887
  • Republican Party Charles W. Buttz, serving from 1876–1877
  • Democratic Party (United States) John H. Evins, serving from 1877–1884
  • Democratic Party (United States) D. Wyatt Aiken, serving from 1877–1887
  • Democratic Party (United States) Michael P. O'Connor, serving from 1879–1881
  • Democratic Party (United States) John S. Richardson, serving from 1879–1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) George D. Tillman, serving from 1879–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel Dibble, serving from 1881–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) George W. Dargan, serving from 1883–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) John J. Hemphill, serving from 1883–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Bratton, serving from 1884–1885
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. Perry, serving from 1885–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) James S. Cothran, serving from 1887–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Elliott, serving from 1887–1893, 1895-1903
  • Republican Party Thomas E. Miller, serving from 1890–1891
  • Democratic Party (United States) Eli T. Stackhouse, serving from 1891–1892
  • Democratic Party (United States) George Johnstone, serving from 1891–1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) William H. Brawley, serving from 1891–1894
  • Democratic Party (United States) George W. Shell, serving from 1891–1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) John L. McLaurin, serving from 1892–1897
  • Republican Party George W. Murray, serving from 1893–1897
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas J. Strait, serving from 1893–1899
  • Democratic Party (United States) Asbury Latimer, serving from 1893–1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) W. Jasper Talbert, serving from 1893–1903
  • Democratic Party (United States) James F. Izlar, serving from 1894–1895
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. William Stokes, serving from 1895–1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) Stanyarne Wilson, serving from 1895–1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Norton, serving from 1897–1901
  • Democratic Party (United States) David E. Finley, serving from 1899–1917
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert B. Scarborough, serving from 1901–1905
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph T. Johnson, serving from 1901–1915
  • Democratic Party (United States) Asbury F. Lever, serving from 1901–1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) George W. Croft, serving from 1903–1904
  • Democratic Party (United States) George S. Legaré, serving from 1903–1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) Wyatt Aiken, serving from 1903–1917
  • Democratic Party (United States) Theodore G. Croft, serving from 1904–1905
  • Democratic Party (United States) James O'H. Patterson, serving from 1905–1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Edwin Ellerbe, serving from 1905–1913
  • Democratic Party (United States) James F. Byrnes, serving from 1911–1925
  • Democratic Party (United States) J. Willard Ragsdale, serving from 1913–1919
  • Democratic Party (United States) Richard S. Whaley, serving from 1913–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Samuel J. Nicholls, serving from 1915–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Paul G. McCorkle, serving from 1917
  • Democratic Party (United States) Frederick H. Dominick, serving from 1917–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) William F. Stevenson, serving from 1917–1933
  • Democratic Party (United States) Edward C. Mann, serving from 1919–1921
  • Democratic Party (United States) Philip H. Stoll, serving from 1919–1923
  • Democratic Party (United States) W. Turner Logan, serving from 1921–1925
  • Democratic Party (United States) John J. McSwain, serving from 1921–1936
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hampton P. Fulmer, serving from 1921–1944
  • Democratic Party (United States) Allard H. Gasque, serving from 1923–1938
  • Democratic Party (United States) Butler B. Hare, serving from 1925–1933, 1939-1947
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas S. McMillan, serving from 1925–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) John C. Taylor, serving from 1933–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) James P. Richards, serving from 1933–1957
  • Democratic Party (United States) Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr., serving from 1936–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, serving from 1938–1939
  • Democratic Party (United States) Clara G. McMillan, serving from 1939–1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph R. Bryson, serving from 1939–1953
  • Democratic Party (United States) John L. McMillan, serving from 1939–1973
  • Democratic Party (United States) L. Mendel Rivers, serving from 1941–1970
  • Democratic Party (United States) Willa L. Fulmer, serving from 1944–1945
  • Democratic Party (United States) John J. Riley, serving from 1945–1949, 1951-1962
  • Democratic Party (United States) William Jennings Bryan Dorn, serving from 1947–1949, 1951-1974
  • Democratic Party (United States) James B. Hare, serving from 1949–1951
  • Democratic Party (United States) Hugo S. Sims, Jr., serving from 1949–1951
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert T. Ashmore, serving from 1953–1969
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robert W. Hemphill, serving from 1957–1964
  • Democratic Party (United States) Corinne Boyd Riley, serving from 1962–1963
  • Republican Party Albert Watson, serving from 1963–1971
  • Democratic Party (United States) Thomas S. Gettys, serving from 1964–1974
  • Democratic Party (United States) James Robert Mann, serving from 1969–1979
  • Democratic Party (United States) Mendel J. Davis, serving from 1971–1981
  • Republican Party Floyd Spence, serving from 1971–2001
  • Republican Party Edward Lunn Young, serving from 1973–1975
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Jenrette, serving from 1975–1980
  • Democratic Party (United States) Kenneth Lamar Holland, serving from 1975–1983
  • Democratic Party (United States) Butler Derrick, serving from 1975–1995
  • Republican Party Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., serving from 1979–1987
  • Republican Party John Light Napier, serving from 1981–1983
  • Republican Party Thomas F. Hartnett, serving from 1981–1987
  • Democratic Party (United States) Robin Tallon, serving from 1983–1993
  • Democratic Party (United States) John Spratt, serving from 1983–2011
  • Democratic Party (United States) Liz J. Patterson, serving from 1987–1993
  • Republican Party Arthur Ravenel, Jr., serving from 1987–1995
  • Republican Party Bob Inglis, serving from 1993–1999, 2005-2011
  • Republican Party Mark Sanford, serving from 1995–2001
  • Republican Party Lindsey Graham, serving from 1995–2003
  • Republican Party Jim DeMint, serving from 1999–2005
  • Republican Party Henry Brown, serving from 2001–2011


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