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United States congressional delegations from Texas
From Ballotpedia
This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Texas.
Current members
U.S. Senate
The current members of the U.S. Senate from Texas are:
U.S. House
The current members of the U.S. House from Texas are:
- Al Green
- Bill Flores
- Blake Farenthold
- Charles A. "Charlie" Gonzalez
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Francisco Canseco
- Gene Green
- Henry Cuellar
- Jeb Hensarling
- Joe Barton
- John Carter
- John Culberson
- Kay Granger
- Kenny Marchant
- Kevin Brady
- Lamar Smith
- Lloyd Doggett
- Louis B. "Louie" Gohmert Jr.
- Mac Thornberry
- Michael C. Burgess
- Michael McCaul
- Mike Conaway
- Pete Olson
- Pete Sessions
- Ralph Hall
- Randy Neugebauer
- Ron Paul
- Rubén Hinojosa
- Sam Johnson
- Sheila Jackson Lee
- Silvestre Reyes
- Ted Poe
Historical members
List of United States Senators from Texas
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas.
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List of United States Representatives from Texas
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Texas.
Timothy Pilsbury, serving from 1846 - 1849
David S. Kaufman, serving from 1846 - 1851
Volney Howard, serving from 1849 - 1853
Richardson A. Scurry, serving from 1851 - 1853
George W. Smyth, serving from 1853 - 1855
Peter Hansborough Bell, serving from 1853 - 1857
- Lemuel D. Evans (Know-nothing), serving from 1855 - 1857
Guy M. Bryan, serving from 1857 - 1859
John Henninger Reagan, serving from 1857 - 1861, 1883-1887
Andrew Jackson Hamilton, serving from 1859 - 1861
Edward Degener, serving from 1870 - 1871
George W. Whitmore, serving from 1870 - 1871
William Thomas Clark, serving from 1870 - 1872
John C. Conner, serving from 1870 - 1873
William S. Herndon, serving from 1871 - 1875
John Hancoc, serving from 1871 - 1885
Dewitt Clinton Giddings, serving from 1872 - 1875 ,1877-1879
William P. McLean, serving from 1873 - 1875
Asa H. Willie, serving from 1873 - 1875
Roger Q. Mills, serving from 1873 - 1892
Gustav Schleicher, serving from 1875 - 1879
James W. Throckmorton, serving from 1875 - 1879 , 1883-1887
David B. Culberson, serving from 1875 - 1897
- George Washington Jones (Greenback), serving from 1879 - 1883
Christopher C. Upson, serving from 1879 - 1883
Olin Wellborn, serving from 1879 - 1887
- Thomas P. Ochiltree (Independent), serving from 1883 - 1885
James H. Jones, serving from 1883 - 1887
James Francis Miller, serving from 1883 - 1887
Charles Stewart, serving from 1883 - 1893
S. W. T. Lanham, serving from 1883 - 1893, 1895-1903
William H. Crain, serving from 1885 - 1896
Joseph D. Sayers, serving from 1885 - 1899
Silas Hare, serving from 1887 - 1891
William Harrison Martin, serving from 1887 - 1891
Littleton W. Moore, serving from 1887 - 1893
Constantine B. Kilgore, serving from 1887 - 1895
Joseph Abbott, serving from 1887- 1897
John B. Long, serving from 1891 - 1893
Joseph Weldon Bailey, serving from 1891 - 1901
Edwin Le Roy Antony, serving from 1892 - 1893
Walter Gresham, serving from 1893 - 1895
Thomas M. Paschal, serving from 1893 - 1895
Charles K. Bell, serving from 1893 - 1897
Jeremiah V. Cockrell, serving from 1893 - 1897
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, serving from 1893 - 1897
George C. Pendleton, serving from 1893 - 1897
Samuel B. Cooper, serving from 1893 - 1905 ,1907-1909
Miles Crowley, serving from 1895 - 1897
George H. Noonan, serving from 1895 - 1897
Charles Henderson Yoakum, serving from 1895 - 1897
Rudolph Kleberg, serving from 1896 - 1903
John W. Cranford, serving from 1897 - 1899
Robert E. Burke, serving from 1897 - 1901
Robert B. Hawley, serving from 1897 - 1901
Reese C. De Graffenreid, serving from 1897 - 1902
Thomas Henry Ball, serving from 1897 - 1903
Robert Lee Henry, serving from 1897 - 1917
John Hall Stephens, serving from 1897 - 1917
James Luther Slayden, serving from 1897 - 1919
John Levi Sheppard, serving from 1899 - 1902
Albert S. Burleson, serving from 1899 - 1913
Dudley G. Wooten, serving from 1901 - 1903
Choice B. Randell, serving from 1901 - 1913
George Farmer Burgess, serving from 1901 - 1917
Gordon J. Russell, serving from 1902 - 1910
Morris Sheppard, serving from 1902 - 1913
John M. Pinckney, serving from 1903 - 1905
Scott Field, serving from 1903 - 1907
Oscar W. Gillespie, serving from 1903 - 1911
James Andrew Beall, serving from 1903 - 1915
William Robert Smith, serving from 1903 - 1917
Alexander W. Gregg, serving from 1903 - 1919
John Nance Garner, serving from 1903 - 1933
Moses L. Broocks, serving from 1905 - 1907
John M. Moore, serving from 1905 - 1913
Rufus Hardy, serving from 1907 - 1923
Martin Dies, Sr., serving from 1909 - 1919
Robert M. Lively, serving from 1910 - 1911
Oscar Callaway, serving from 1911 - 1917
James Young, serving from 1911 - 1921
Horace Worth Vaughan, serving from 1913 - 1915
Daniel E. Garrett, serving from 1913 - 1915 , 1917-1919, 1921-1932
Joe H. Eagle, serving from 1913 - 1921 , 1933-1937
James P. Buchanan, serving from 1913 - 1937
Hatton W. Sumners, serving from 1913 - 1947
Sam Rayburn, serving from 1913 - 1961
James H. Davis, serving from 1915 - 1917
A. Jeff McLemore, serving from 1915 - 1919
Eugene Black, serving from 1915 - 1929
James Clifton Wilson, serving from 1917 - 1919
Tom Connally, serving from 1917 - 1929
Thomas L. Blanton, serving from 1917 - 1937
John Marvin Jones, serving from 1917 - 1940
Joseph J. Mansfield, serving from 1917 - 1947
Carlos Bee, serving from 1919 - 1921
Lucian W. Parrish, serving from 1919 - 1922
John C. Box, serving from 1919 - 1931
Claude Benton Hudspeth, serving from 1919 - 1931
Clay Stone Briggs, serving from 1919 - 1933
Fritz G. Lanham, serving from 1919 - 1947
Harry M. Wurzbach, serving from 1921 - 1931
Morgan G. Sanders, serving from 1921 - 1939
Guinn Williams, serving from 1922 - 1933
Luther Alexander Johnson, serving from 1923 - 1946
Robert Quincy Lee, serving from 1929 - 1930
Augustus McCloskey, serving from 1929 - 1930
Oliver H. Cross, serving from 1929 - 1937
Wright Patman, serving from 1929 - 1976
Richard M. Kleberg, serving from 1931 - 1945
Martin Dies, Jr., serving from 1931 - 1945, 1953-1959
R. Ewing Thomason, serving from 1931 - 1947
Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr., serving from 1933 - 1935
Sterling P. Strong, serving from 1933 - 1935
George B. Terrell, serving from 1933 - 1935
Clark W. Thompson, serving from 1933 - 1935 , 1947-1966
William D. McFarlane, serving from 1933 - 1939
Milton H. West, serving from 1933 - 1948
Maury Maverick, serving from 1935 - 1939
Charles L. South, serving from 1935 - 1943
Nat Patton, serving from 1935 - 1945
George H. Mahon, serving from 1935 - 1979
Clyde L. Garrett, serving from 1937 - 1941
Lyndon B. Johnson, serving from 1937 - 1949
Albert Richard Thomas, serving from 1937 - 1966
William R. Poage, serving from 1937 - 1978
Ed Gossett, serving from 1939 - 1951
Lindley Beckworth, serving from 1939 - 1953
Paul J. Kilday, serving from 1939 - 1961
Sam M. Russell, serving from 1941 - 1947
Eugene Worley, serving from 1941 - 1950
O. C. Fisher, serving from 1943 - 1974
Tom Pickett, serving from 1945 - 1952
Jesse M. Combs, serving from 1945 - 1953
John E. Lyle, Jr., serving from 1945 - 1955
Olin E. Teague, serving from 1946 - 1978
Wingate H. Lucas, serving from 1947 - 1955
Kenneth M. Regan, serving from 1947 - 1955
Joseph Franklin Wilson, serving from 1947 - 1955
Omar Burleson, serving from 1947 - 1978
Lloyd Bentsen, serving from 1948 - 1955
Homer Thornberry, serving from 1949 - 1963
Ben H. Guill, serving from 1950 - 1951
Frank N. Ikard, serving from 1951 - 1961
Walter Rogers, serving from 1951 - 1967
John Dowdy, serving from 1952 - 1967
Brady P. Gentry, serving from 1953 - 1957
Jack Brooks, serving from 1953 - 1995
John J. Bell, serving from 1955 - 1957
J. T. Rutherford, serving from 1955 - 1963
Bruce Alger, serving from 1955 - 1965
Joe M. Kilgore, serving from 1955 - 1965
Jim Wright, serving from 1955 - 1989
John Andrew Young, serving from 1957 - 1979
Robert R. Casey, serving from 1959 - 1976
Henry B. Gonzalez, serving from 1961 - 1999
Graham B. Purcell, Jr., serving from 1962 - 1973
Ray Roberts, serving from 1962 - 1981
Ed Foreman, serving from 1963 - 1965
Joe R. Pool, serving from 1963 - 1968
J. J. Pickle, serving from 1963 - 1995
Earle Cabell, serving from 1965 - 1973
Richard Crawford White, serving from 1965 - 1983
Kika de la Garza, serving from 1965 - 1997
Lera Millard Thomas, serving from 1966 - 1967
George H. W. Bush, serving from 1967 - 1971
Bob Price, serving from 1967 - 1975
Robert C. Eckhardt, serving from 1967 - 1981
Abraham Kazen, serving from 1967 - 1985
James M. Collins, serving from 1968 - 1983
William Reynolds Archer, Jr., serving from 1971 - 2001
Alan Steelman, serving from 1973 - 1977
Barbara Jordan, serving from 1973 - 1979
Dale Milford, serving from 1973 - 1979
Charle Wilson, serving from 1973 - 1996
Bob Krueger, serving from 1975 - 1979
Jack English Hightower, serving from 1975 - 1985
Ron Paul, serving from 1976 - 1977 , 1979-1985, 1997-Present
Sam B. Hall, serving from 1976 - 1985
Robert Gammage, serving from 1977 - 1979
Jim Mattox, serving from 1977 - 1983
Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr., serving from 1979 - 1981
Phil Gramm, serving from 1979 - 1985
Kent Hance, serving from 1979 - 1985
Tom Loeffler, serving from 1979 - 1987
Mickey Leland, serving from 1979 - 1989
Marvin Leath, serving from 1979 - 1991
Martin Frost, serving from 1979 - 2005
Charles Stenholm, serving from 1979 - 2005
William Neff Patman, serving from 1981 - 1985
Jack Fields, serving from 1981 - 1997
Ralph Hall, serving from 1981 - Present
Tom Vandergriff, serving from 1983 - 1985
Steve Bartlett, serving from 1983 - 1991
Michael A. Andrews, serving from 1983 - 1995
John Wiley Bryant, serving from 1983 - 1997
Ronald D. Coleman, serving from 1983 - 1997
Solomon P. Ortiz, serving from 1983 - 2011
Beau Boulter, serving from 1985 - 1989
Mac Sweeney, serving from 1985 - 1989
Albert Bustamante, serving from 1985 - 1993
Jim Chapman, serving from 1985 - 1997
Dick Armey, serving from 1985 - 2003
Larry Combest, serving from 1985 - 2003
Tom DeLay, serving from 1985 - 2006
Joe Barton, serving from 1985 - present
Lamar S. Smith, serving from 1987 - present
Bill Sarpalius, serving from 1989 - 1995
Craig Anthony Washington, serving from 1989 - 1995
Greg Laughlin, serving from 1989 - 1997
Pete Geren, serving from 1989 - 1997
Chet Edwards, serving from 1991 - 2011
Sam Johnson, serving from 1991 - present
Frank Tejeda, serving from 1993 - 1997
Henry Bonilla, serving from 1993 - 2007
Gene Green, serving from 1993 - present
Eddie Bernice Johnson, serving from 1993 - present
Steve Stockman, serving from 1995 - 1997
Ken Bentsen, Jr., serving from 1995 - 2003
Lloyd Doggett, serving from 1995 - Present
Sheila Jackson Lee, serving from 1995 - present
Mac Thornberry, serving from 1995 - present
Max Sandlin, serving from 1997 - 2005
Jim Turner, serving from 1997 - 2005
Ciro Rodriguez, serving from 1997 - 2005 , 2007-2011
Pete Sessions, serving from 1997 - Present
Kevin Brady, serving from 1997 - present
Kay Granger, serving from 1997 - present
Rubén Hinojosa, serving from 1997 - present
Silvestre Reyes, serving from 1997 - present
Charlie Gonzalez, serving from 1999 - present
John Culberson, serving from 2001 - present
Chris Bell, serving from 2003 - 2005
Michael C. Burgess, serving from 2003 - present
John Carter, serving from 2003 - present
Jeb Hensarling, serving from 2003 - present
Randy Neugebauer, serving from 2003 - present
Mike Conaway, serving from 2005 - present
Henry Cuellar, serving from 2005 - present
Louie Gohmert, serving from 2005 - present
Al Green, serving from 2005 - present
Kenny Marchant, serving from 2005 - present
Michael McCaul, serving from 2005 - present
Ted Poe, serving from 2005 - present
Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, serving from 2006 - 2007
Nick Lampson, serving from 2007 - 2009
Pete Olson, serving from 2009 - present
Francisco Canseco, serving from 2011 - present
Blake Farenthold, serving from 2011 - present
Bill Flores, serving from 2011 - present
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