United States congressional delegations from South Carolina

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

Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from South Carolina.

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from South Carolina
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	0	1	1
	Republican Party	2	5	7
TOTALS		2	6	8

Current members

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U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Lindsey Graham		U.S. Senate, South Carolina	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	J. Strom Thurmond (R)
Tim Scott		U.S. Senate, South Carolina	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Jim DeMint (R)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
James E. Clyburn		District 6	1993	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Robin Tallon (D)
Jeff Duncan		District 3	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	J. Gresham Barrett (R)
Joe Wilson		District 2	2001	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Floyd Spence (R)
Mark Sanford		District 1				Link
Michael "Mick" Mulvaney		District 5	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	John Spratt (D)
Tom Rice		District 7	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Trey Gowdy		District 4	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bob Inglis (R)

Historical members

Senate

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from South Carolina
Party	Total
Democratic	37
Republican	16
Pro-Admin	2
Anti-Admin	1
Nullifier	2
Jacksonian	2
Federalist	1
Whig	1
Total Senators	62

Class 2 Senators from South Carolina

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

Class 3 Senators from South Carolina

Senator	Years Served	Party
Ralph Izard	1789-1795	PRO-ADMIN
Jacob Read	1795-1801	Federalist
John Ewing Colhoun	1801-1802	Republican
Pierce Butler	1802-1804	Republican
John Gaillard	1804-1826	Republican
William Harper	1826-1826	Jacksonian
William Smith	1826-1831	Republican
Stephen D. Miller	1831-1833	Nullifier
William C. Preston	1833-1842	Nullifier, Whig
George McDuffie	1842-1846	Democratic
Andrew P. Butler	1846-1857	Democratic
James H. Hammond	1857-1860	Democratic
Frederick A. Sawyer	1868-1873	Republican
John J. Patterson	1873-1879	Republican
Wade Hampton	1879-1891	Democratic
John L. M. Irby	1891-1897	Democratic
Joseph H. Earle	1897-1897	Democratic
John L. McLaurin	1897-1903	Democratic
Asbury C. Latimer	1903-1908	Democratic
Frank B. Gary	1908-1909	Democratic
Ellison D. Smith	1909-1944	Democratic
Wilton E. Hall	1944-1945	Democratic
Olin D. T. Johnston	1945-1965	Democratic
Donald S. Russell	1965-1966	Democratic
Ernest F. Hollings	1966-2005	Democratic
James DeMint	2005-2013	Republican
Tim Scott	2005-2013	Republican

House

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from South Carolina
Party	Total
Democratic	66
Republican	17
Democratic-Republican	42
Nullifier	6
Whig	2
Federalist	7
Anti-Administration	6
Pro-Administration	2
Total Representatives	148

Representatives to the U.S. House in South Carolina in the 1800s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Aedanus Burke	1789–1791	Anti-Administration
Daniel Huger	1789–1793	Pro-Administration
Thomas T. Tucker	1789–1793	Anti-Administration
Thomas Sumter	1789–1793, 1797-1801	Democratic-Republican
William L. Smith	1789–1797	Federalist
Robert Barnwell	1791–1793	Pro-Administration
Alexander Gillon	1793–1794	Anti-Administration
John Hunter	1793–1795	Anti-Administration
Andrew Pickens	1793–1795	Anti-Administration
Richard Winn	1793–1797, 1803-1813	Democratic-Republican
Lemuel Benton	1793–1799	Anti-Administration
Robert Goodloe Harper	1795-1801	Federalist
Samuel Earle	1795–1797	Democratic-Republican
Wade Hampton I	1795–1797, 1803-1805	Democratic-Republican
William Smith	1797–1799	Democratic-Republican
Thomas Pinckney	1797–1801	Federalist
John Rutledge, Jr.	1797–1803	Federalist
Abraham Nott	1799–1801	Federalist
Benjamin Huger	1799–1805, 1815-1817	Federalist
Thomas Lowndes	1801–1805	Federalist
William Butler	1801–1813	Democratic-Republican
Thomas Moore	1801–1813,1815-1817	Democratic-Republican
John B. Earle	1803–1805	Democratic-Republican
Levi Casey	1803–1807	Democratic-Republican
O'Brien Smith	1805–1807	Democratic-Republican
Elias Earle	1805–1807, 1811-1815, 1817-1821	Democratic-Republican
David Rogerson Williams	1805–1809, 1811-1813	Democratic Republican
Robert Marion	1805–1810	Democratic-Republican
John Taylor	1807–1810	Democratic-Republican
Lemuel J. Alston	1807–1811	Democratic-Republican
Joseph Calhoun	1807–1811	Democratic-Republican
Robert Witherspoon	1809–1811	Democratic-Republican
Langdon Cheves	1810–1815	Democratic-Republican
John C. Calhoun	1811–1817	Democratic-Republican
William Lowndes	1811–1822	Democratic-Republican
David R. Evans	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Samuel Farrow	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Theodore Gourdin	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
John Kershaw	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
John J. Chappell	1813–1817	Democratic-Republican
William Mayrant	1815–1816	Democratic-Republican
John Taylor	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
William Woodward	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
Henry Middleton	1815–1819	Democratic-Republican
Joseph Bellinger	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
Stephen Decatur Miller	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
Wilson Nesbitt	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
James Ervin	1817–1821	Democratic-Republican
Starling Tucker	1817–1831	Democratic
Eldred Simkins	1818–1821	Democratic-Republican
Joseph Brevard	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
John McCreary	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
Charles Pinckney	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
James Overstreet	1819–1822	Democratic-Republican
James Blair	1821–1822, 1829-1834	Democratic-Republican
Thomas R. Mitchell	1821–1823 ,1825-1829, 1831-1833	Democratic
Joel Roberts Poinsett	1821–1825	Democratic
Joseph Gist	1821–1827	Democratic-Republican
John Wilson	1821–1827	Democratic
George McDuffie	1821–1834	Democratic
Andrew R. Govan	1822–1827	Democratic-Republican
John Carter	1822–1829	Democratic-Republican
James Hamilton, Jr.	1822–1829	Democratic
Robert B. Campbell	1823–1825, 1834-1837	Democratic-Republican
William Drayton	1825–1833	Democratic
William D. Martin	1827–1831	Democratic
William T. Nuckolls	1827–1833	Democratic
Warren R. Davis	1827–1835	Democratic
John Campbell	1829–1831, 1837-1845	Democratic
Robert Woodward Barnwell	1829–1833	Democratic
John Myers Felder	1831–1835	Democratic
John K. Griffin	1831–1841	Democratic
Thomas D. Singleton	1833	Nullifier
William K. Clowney	1833–1835, 1837-1839	Nullifier
William J. Grayson	1833–1837	Nullifier
Henry L. Pinckney	1833–1837	Nullifier
Richard Irvine Manning I	1834–1836	Democratic
Francis Wilkinson Pickens	1834–1843	Nullifier
James Henry Hammond	1835–1836	Nullifier
James Rogers	1835–1837, 1839-1843	Democratic
Waddy Thompson, Jr.	1835–1841	Whig
Franklin H. Elmore	1836–1839	Democratic
John Peter Richardson II	1836–1839	Democratic
Hugh S. Legaré	1837–1839	Democratic
Robert Rhett	1837–1849	Democratic
Sampson H. Butler	1839–1842	Democratic
Thomas De Lage Sumter	1839–1843	Democratic
Isaac E. Holmes	1839–1851	Democratic
William Butler	1841–1843	Whig
Patrick C. Caldwell	1841–1843	Democratic
Samuel W. Trotti	1842–1843	Democratic
James A. Black	1843–1848	Democratic
Richard F. Simpson	1843–1849	Democratic
Armistead Burt	1843–1853	Democratic
Joseph A. Woodward	1843–1853	Democratic
Alexander D. Sims	1845–1848	Democratic
Daniel Wallace	1848–1853	Democratic
William F. Colcock	1849–1853	Democratic
James Lawrence Orr	1849–1859	Democratic
John McQueen	1849–1860	Democratic
William Aiken, Jr.	1851–1857	Democratic
Preston Brooks	1853–1857	Democratic
William Waters Boyce	1853–1860	Democratic
Laurence M. Keitt		Democratic
Milledge Luke Bonham	1857–1860	Democratic
William Porcher Miles	1857–1860	Democratic
John D. Ashmore	1859–1860	Democratic
Manuel S. Corley	1868–1869	Republican
James H. Goss	1868–1869	Republican
Benjamin F. Whittemore	1868–1870	Republican
Christopher C. Bowen	1868–1871	Republican
Solomon L. Hoge	1869–1871, 1875-1877	Republican
Alexander S. Wallace	1870–1877	Republican
Joseph H. Rainey	1870–1879	Republican
Robert C. De Large	1871–1873	Republican
Robert B. Elliott	1871–1874	Republican
Alonzo J. Ransier	1873–1875	Republican
Richard H. Cain	1873–1875, 1877-1879	Republican
Lewis C. Carpenter	1874–1875	Republican
Edmund W. M. Mackey	1875–1876 , 1882-1884	Republican
Robert Smalls	1875–1879, 1882-1887	Republican
Charles W. Buttz	1876–1877	Republican
John H. Evins	1877–1884	Democratic
D. Wyatt Aiken	1877–1887	Democratic
Michael P. O'Connor	1879–1881	Democratic
John S. Richardson	1879–1883	Democratic
George D. Tillman	1879–1893	Democratic
Samuel Dibble	1881–1891	Democratic
George W. Dargan	1883–1891	Democratic
John J. Hemphill	1883–1893	Democratic
John Bratton	1884–1885	Democratic
William H. Perry	1885–1891	Democratic
James S. Cothran	1887–1891	Democratic
William Elliott	1887–1893, 1895-1903	Democratic
Thomas E. Miller	1890–1891	Republican
Eli T. Stackhouse	1891–1892	Democratic
George Johnstone	1891–1893	Democratic
William H. Brawley	1891–1894	Democratic
George W. Shell	1891–1895	Democratic
John L. McLaurin	1892–1897	Democratic
George W. Murray	1893–1897	Republican
Thomas J. Strait	1893–1899	Democratic
Asbury Latimer	1893–1903	Democratic
W. Jasper Talbert	1893–1903	Democratic
James F. Izlar	1894–1895	Democratic
J. William Stokes	1895–1901	Democratic
Stanyarne Wilson	1895–1901	Democratic
James Norton	1897–1901	Democratic
David E. Finley	1899–1917	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from South Carolina
Party	Total
Democratic	49
Republican	11
Total Representatives	60

Representatives to the U.S. House in South Carolina in the 1900s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Robert B. Scarborough	1901–1905	Democratic
Joseph T. Johnson	1901–1915	Democratic
Asbury F. Lever	1901–1919	Democratic
George W. Croft	1903–1904	Democratic
George S. Legaré	1903–1913	Democratic
Wyatt Aiken	1903–1917	Democratic
Theodore G. Croft	1904–1905	Democratic
James O'H. Patterson	1905–1911	Democratic
J. Edwin Ellerbe	1905–1913	Democratic
James F. Byrnes	1911–1925	Democratic
J. Willard Ragsdale	1913–1919	Democratic
Richard S. Whaley	1913–1921	Democratic
Samuel J. Nicholls	1915–1921	Democratic
Paul G. McCorkle	1917	Democratic
Frederick H. Dominick	1917–1933	Democratic
William F. Stevenson	1917–1933	Democratic
Edward C. Mann	1919–1921	Democratic
Philip H. Stoll	1919–1923	Democratic
W. Turner Logan	1921–1925	Democratic
John J. McSwain	1921–1936	Democratic
Hampton P. Fulmer	1921–1944	Democratic
Allard H. Gasque	1923–1938	Democratic
Butler B. Hare	1925–1933, 1939-1947	Democratic
Thomas S. McMillan	1925–1939	Democratic
John C. Taylor	1933–1939	Democratic
James P. Richards	1933–1957	Democratic
Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr.	1936–1939	Democratic
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque	1938–1939	Democratic
Clara G. McMillan	1939–1941	Democratic
Joseph R. Bryson	1939–1953	Democratic
John L. McMillan	1939–1973	Democratic
L. Mendel Rivers	1941–1970	Democratic
Willa L. Fulmer	1944–1945	Democratic
John J. Riley	1945–1949, 1951-1962	Democratic
William Jennings Bryan Dorn	1947–1949, 1951-1974	Democratic
James B. Hare	1949–1951	Democratic
Hugo S. Sims, Jr.	1949–1951	Democratic
Robert T. Ashmore	1953–1969	Democratic
Robert W. Hemphill	1957–1964	Democratic
Corinne Boyd Riley	1962–1963	Democratic
Albert Watson	1963–1971	Republican
Thomas S. Gettys	1964–1974	Democratic
James Robert Mann	1969–1979	Democratic
Mendel J. Davis	1971–1981	Democratic
Floyd Spence	1971–2001	Republican
Edward Lunn Young	1973–1975	Republican
John Jenrette	1975–1980	Democratic
Kenneth Lamar Holland	1975–1983	Democratic
Butler Derrick	1975–1995	Democratic
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.	1979–1987	Republican
John Light Napier	1981–1983	Republican
Thomas F. Hartnett	1981–1987	Republican
Robin Tallon	1983–1993	Democratic
John Spratt	1983–2011	Democratic
Liz J. Patterson	1987–1993	Democratic
Arthur Ravenel, Jr.	1987–1995	Republican
Bob Inglis	1993–1999, 2005-2011	Republican
Mark Sanford	1995–2001	Republican
Lindsey Graham	1995–2003	Republican
Jim DeMint	1999–2005	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from South Carolina
Party	Total
Democratic	1
Republican	7
Total Representatives	8

Representatives to the U.S. House in South Carolina in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Henry Brown	2001–2011	Republican
Jim Clyburn	1993-Present	Democratic
Jeff Duncan	2011–Present	Republican
Joe Wilson	2001–Present	Republican
Mick Mulvaney	2011–Present	Republican
Trey Gowdy	2011–Present	Republican
Tim Scott	2011–2013	Republican
Tom Rice	2013–Present	Republican