United States congressional delegations from Texas

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

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

Current Congressional Partisan Breakdown from
Party		U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
	Democratic Party	0	12	12
	Republican Party	2	24	26
TOTALS		2	36	38

Current members

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U.S. Senate

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
John Cornyn		U.S. Senate, Texas	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Phil Gramm (R)
Ted Cruz		U.S. Senate, Texas	2013	January 3, 2019	November 2018	Link	Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)

U.S. House

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

Name:	Party:	Position:	Assumed Office:	Term Ends:	Next Election:	Official Website:	Predecessor:
Al Green		District 9	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Nick Lampson (D)
Beto O'Rourke		District 16	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Silvestre Reyes (D)
Bill Flores		District 17	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Chet Edwards (D)
Blake Farenthold		District 27	2011	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Solomon P. Ortiz (D)
Eddie Bernice Johnson		District 30	1993	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Filemon Vela		District 34	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Gene Green		District 29	1993	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Henry Cuellar		District 28	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Ciro Rodriguez (R)
Jeb Hensarling		District 5	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Pete Sessions (R)
Joaquin Castro		District 20	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	[ Link]	Charles Gonzalez (D)
Joe Barton		District 6	1985	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Phil Gramm (D)
John Carter		District 31	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
John Culberson		District 7	2001	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	William Reynolds Archer, Jr. (R)
Kay Granger		District 12	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Pete Geren (D)
Kenny Marchant		District 24	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Martin Frost (D)
Kevin Brady		District 8	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Jack Fields (R)
Lamar Smith		District 21	1987	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Tom Loeffler (R)
Lloyd Doggett		District 35	1995	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link
Louis B. "Louie" Gohmert Jr.		District 1	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Max Sandlin (D)
Mac Thornberry		District 13	1995	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Bill Sarpalius (D)
Marc Veasey		District 33	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Michael C. Burgess		District 26	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Dick Armey (R)
Michael McCaul		District 10	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Lloyd Doggett (D)
Mike Conaway		District 11	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Chet Edwards (D)
Pete Gallego		District 23	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Francisco Canseco (R)
Pete Olson		District 22	2009	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Nick Lampson (D)
Pete Sessions		District 32	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Ralph Hall		District 4	1981	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Ray Roberts (D)
Randy Neugebauer		District 19	2003	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Larry Combest (R)
Randy Weber		District 14	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Ron Paul (R)
Roger Williams		District 25	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Lloyd Doggett (D)
Rubén Hinojosa		District 15	1997	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	[ Link]	Kika de la Garza (D)
Sam Johnson		District 3	1991	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Steve Bartlett (R)
Sheila Jackson Lee		District 18	1995	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Craig Washington (D)
Steve Stockman		District 36	2013	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	N/A
Ted Poe		District 2	2005	January 3, 2015	November 4, 2014	Link	Jim Turner (D)

Historical members

Senate

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Texas
Party	Total
Democratic	27
Republican	7
Total Senators	34

Class 1 Senators from Texas
Senators	Years Served	Party
J. Pinckney Henderson	1857-1858	Democratic
Matthias Ward	1858-1859	Democratic
Louis T. Wigfall	1859-1861	Democratic
James W. Flanagan	1870-1875	Republican
Samuel B. Maxey	1875-1887	Democratic
John H. Reagan	1887-1891	Democratic
Horace Chilton	1891-1892	Democratic
Roger Q. Mills	1892-1899	Democratic
Charles A. Culberson	1899-1923	Democratic
Earle B. Mayfield	1923-1929	Democratic
Thomas T. Connally	1929-1953	Democratic
M. Price Daniel	1953-1957	Democratic
William A. Blakley	1957-1957	Democratic
Ralph W. Yarborough	1957-1971	Democratic
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.	1971-1993	Democratic
Robert C. Krueger	1993-1993	Democratic
Kay Bailey Hutchison	1993-2013	Republican
Ted Cruz	2013-present	Republican

Class 2 Senators from Texas
Senators	Years Served	Party
Samuel Houston	1846-1859	Democratic
John Hemphill	1859-1861	Democratic
Morgan C. Hamilton	1870-1877	Republican
Richard Coke	1877-1895	Democratic
Horace Chilton	1895-1901	Democratic
Joseph W. Bailey	1901-1913	Democratic
Rienzi M. Johnston	1913-1913	Democratic
Morris Sheppard	1913-1941	Democratic
Andrew Jackson Houston	1941-1941	Democratic
W. Lee O'Daniel	1941-1949	Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson	1949-1961	Democratic
William A. Blakley	1961-1961	Democratic
John G. Tower	1961-1985	Republican
Phil Gramm	1985-2002	Republican
John Cornyn	2002-Present	Republican

House

• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Texas
Party	Total
Democratic	54
Republican	5
Independent	1
Greenback	1
Know-Nothing	1
Total Representatives	62

Representatives from Texas
Representatives	Years Served	Party
Timothy Pilsbury	1846 - 1849	Democratic
David S. Kaufman	1846 - 1851	Democratic
Volney Howard	1849 - 1853	Democratic
Richardson A. Scurry	1851 - 1853	Democratic
George W. Smyth	1853 - 1855	Democratic
Peter Hansborough Bell	1853 - 1857	Democratic
Lemuel D. Evans	1855 - 1857	Know-nothing
Guy M. Bryan	1857 - 1859	Democratic
John Henninger Reagan	1857 - 1861, 1883-1887	Democratic
Andrew Jackson Hamilton	1859 - 1861	Democratic
Edward Degener	1870 - 1871	Republican
George W. Whitmore	1870 - 1871	Republican
William Thomas Clark	1870 - 1872	Republican
John C. Conner	1870 - 1873	Democratic
William S. Herndon	1871 - 1875	Democratic
John Hancoc	1871 - 1885	Democratic
Dewitt Clinton Giddings	1872 - 1875 ,1877-1879	Democratic
William P. McLean	1873 - 1875	Democratic
Asa H. Willie	1873 - 1875	Democratic
Roger Q. Mills	1873 - 1892	Democratic
Gustav Schleicher	1875 - 1879	Democratic
James W. Throckmorton	1875 - 1879 , 1883-1887	Democratic
David B. Culberson	1875 - 1897	Democratic
George Washington Jones	1879 - 1883	Greenback
Christopher C. Upson	1879 - 1883	Democratic
Olin Wellborn	1879 - 1887	Democratic
Thomas P. Ochiltree	1883 - 1885	Independent
James H. Jones	1883 - 1887	Democratic
James Francis Miller	1883 - 1887	Democratic
Charles Stewart	1883 - 1893	Democratic
S. W. T. Lanham	1883 - 1893, 1895-1903	Democratic
William H. Crain	1885 - 1896	Democratic
Joseph D. Sayers	1885 - 1899	Democratic
Silas Hare	1887 - 1891	Democratic
William Harrison Martin	1887 - 1891	Democratic
Littleton W. Moore	1887 - 1893	Democratic
Constantine B. Kilgore	1887 - 1895	Democratic
Joseph Abbott	1887- 1897	Democratic
John B. Long	1891 - 1893	Democratic
Joseph Weldon Bailey	1891 - 1901	Democratic
Edwin Le Roy Antony	1892 - 1893	Democratic
Walter Gresham	1893 - 1895	Democratic
Thomas M. Paschal	1893 - 1895	Democratic
Charles K. Bell	1893 - 1897	Democratic
Jeremiah V. Cockrell	1893 - 1897	Democratic
Joseph Chappell Hutcheson	1893 - 1897	Democratic
George C. Pendleton	1893 - 1897	Democratic
Samuel B. Cooper	1893 - 1905 ,1907-1909	Democratic
Miles Crowley	1895 - 1897	Democratic
George H. Noonan	1895 - 1897	Republican
Charles Henderson Yoakum	1895 - 1897	Democratic
Rudolph Kleberg	1896 - 1903	Democratic
John W. Cranford	1897 - 1899	Democratic
Robert E. Burke	1897 - 1901	Democratic
Robert B. Hawley	1897 - 1901	Republican
Reese C. De Graffenreid	1897 - 1902	Democratic
Thomas Henry Ball	1897 - 1903	Democratic
Robert Lee Henry	1897 - 1917	Democratic
John Hall Stephens	1897 - 1917	Democratic
James Luther Slayden	1897 - 1919	Democratic
John Levi Sheppard	1899 - 1902	Democratic
Albert S. Burleson	1899 - 1913	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Texas
Party	Total
Democratic	141
Republican	28
Total Representatives	169

Representatives from Texas
Representatives	Years Served	Party
Dudley G. Wooten	1901 - 1903	Democratic
Choice B. Randell	1901 - 1913	Democratic
George Farmer Burgess	1901 - 1917	Democratic
Gordon J. Russell	1902 - 1910	Democratic
Morris Sheppard	1902 - 1913	Democratic
John M. Pinckney	1903 - 1905	Democratic
Scott Field	1903 - 1907	Democratic
Oscar W. Gillespie	1903 - 1911	Democratic
James Andrew Beall	1903 - 1915	Democratic
William Robert Smith	1903 - 1917	Democratic
Alexander W. Gregg	1903 - 1919	Democratic
John Nance Garner	1903 - 1933	Democratic
Moses L. Broocks	1905 - 1907	Democratic
John M. Moore	1905 - 1913	Democratic
Rufus Hardy	1907 - 1923	Democratic
Martin Dies, Sr.	1909 - 1919	Democratic
Robert M. Lively	1910 - 1911	Democratic
Oscar Callaway	1911 - 1917	Democratic
James Young	1911 - 1921	Democratic
Horace Worth Vaughan	1913 - 1915	Democratic
Daniel E. Garrett	1913 - 1915 , 1917-1919, 1921-1932	Democratic
Joe H. Eagle	1913 - 1921 , 1933-1937	Democratic
James P. Buchanan	1913 - 1937	Democratic
Hatton W. Sumners	1913 - 1947	Democratic
Sam Rayburn	1913 - 1961	Democratic
James H. Davis	1915 - 1917	Democratic
A. Jeff McLemore	1915 - 1919	Democratic
Eugene Black	1915 - 1929	Democratic
James Clifton Wilson	1917 - 1919	Democratic
Tom Connally	1917 - 1929	Democratic
Thomas L. Blanton	1917 - 1937	Democratic
John Marvin Jones	1917 - 1940	Democratic
Joseph J. Mansfield	1917 - 1947	Democratic
Carlos Bee	1919 - 1921	Democratic
Lucian W. Parrish	1919 - 1922	Democratic
John C. Box	1919 - 1931	Democratic
Claude Benton Hudspeth	1919 - 1931	Democratic
Clay Stone Briggs	1919 - 1933	Democratic
Fritz G. Lanham	1919 - 1947	Democratic
Harry M. Wurzbach	1921 - 1931	Republican
Morgan G. Sanders	1921 - 1939	Democratic
Guinn Williams	1922 - 1933	Democratic
Luther Alexander Johnson	1923 - 1946	Democratic
Robert Quincy Lee	1929 - 1930	Democratic
Augustus McCloskey	1929 - 1930	Democratic
Oliver H. Cross	1929 - 1937	Democratic
Wright Patman	1929 - 1976	Democratic
Richard M. Kleberg	1931 - 1945	Democratic
Martin Dies, Jr.	1931 - 1945, 1953-1959	Democratic
R. Ewing Thomason	1931 - 1947	Democratic
Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr.	1933 - 1935	Democratic
Sterling P. Strong	1933 - 1935	Democratic
George B. Terrell	1933 - 1935	Democratic
Clark W. Thompson	1933 - 1935 , 1947-1966	Democratic
William D. McFarlane	1933 - 1939	Democratic
Milton H. West	1933 - 1948	Democratic
Maury Maverick	1935 - 1939	Democratic
Charles L. South	1935 - 1943	Democratic
Nat Patton	1935 - 1945	Democratic
George H. Mahon	1935 - 1979	Democratic
Clyde L. Garrett	1937 - 1941	Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson	1937 - 1949	Democratic
Albert Richard Thomas	1937 - 1966	Democratic
William R. Poage	1937 - 1978	Democratic
Ed Gossett	1939 - 1951	Democratic
Lindley Beckworth	1939 - 1953	Democratic
Paul J. Kilday	1939 - 1961	Democratic
Sam M. Russell	1941 - 1947	Democratic
Eugene Worley	1941 - 1950	Democratic
O. C. Fisher	1943 - 1974	Democratic
Tom Pickett	1945 - 1952	Democratic
Jesse M. Combs	1945 - 1953	Democratic
John E. Lyle, Jr.	1945 - 1955	Democratic
Olin E. Teague	1946 - 1978	Democratic
Wingate H. Lucas	1947 - 1955	Democratic
Kenneth M. Regan	1947 - 1955	Democratic
Joseph Franklin Wilson	1947 - 1955	Democratic
Omar Burleson	1947 - 1978	Democratic
Lloyd Bentsen	1948 - 1955	Democratic
Homer Thornberry	1949 - 1963	Democratic
Ben H. Guill	1950 - 1951	Republican
Frank N. Ikard	1951 - 1961	Democratic
Walter Rogers	1951 - 1967	Democratic
John Dowdy	1952 - 1967	Democratic
Brady P. Gentry	1953 - 1957	Democratic
Jack Brooks	1953 - 1995	Democratic
John J. Bell	1955 - 1957	Democratic
J. T. Rutherford	1955 - 1963	Democratic
Bruce Alger	1955 - 1965	Republican
Joe M. Kilgore	1955 - 1965	Democratic
Jim Wright	1955 - 1989	Democratic
John Andrew Young	1957 - 1979	Democratic
Robert R. Casey	1959 - 1976	Democratic
Henry B. Gonzalez	1961 - 1999	Democratic
Graham B. Purcell, Jr.	1962 - 1973	Democratic
Ray Roberts	1962 - 1981	Democratic
Ed Foreman	1963 - 1965	Republican
Joe R. Pool	1963 - 1968	Democratic
J. J. Pickle	1963 - 1995	Democratic
Earle Cabell	1965 - 1973	Democratic
Richard Crawford White	1965 - 1983	Democratic
Kika de la Garza	1965 - 1997	Democratic
Lera Millard Thomas	1966 - 1967	Democratic
George H. W. Bush	1967 - 1971	Republican
Bob Price	1967 - 1975	Republican
Robert C. Eckhardt	1967 - 1981	Democratic
Abraham Kazen	1967 - 1985	Democratic
James M. Collins	1968 - 1983	Republican
William Reynolds Archer, Jr.	1971 - 2001	Republican
Alan Steelman	1973 - 1977	Republican
Barbara Jordan	1973 - 1979	Democratic
Dale Milford	1973 - 1979	Democratic
Charle Wilson	1973 - 1996	Democratic
Bob Krueger	1975 - 1979	Democratic
Jack English Hightower	1975 - 1985	Democratic
Ron Paul	1976 - 1977 , 1979-1985, 1997-2013	Republican
Sam B. Hall	1976 - 1985	Democratic
Robert Gammage	1977 - 1979	Democratic
Jim Mattox	1977 - 1983	Democratic
Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr.	1979 - 1981	Democratic
Phil Gramm	1979 - 1985	Democratic
Kent Hance	1979 - 1985	Democratic
Tom Loeffler	1979 - 1987	Republican
Mickey Leland	1979 - 1989	Democratic
Marvin Leath	1979 - 1991	Democratic
Martin Frost	1979 - 2005	Democratic
Charles Stenholm	1979 - 2005	Democratic
William Neff Patman	1981 - 1985	Democratic
Jack Fields	1981 - 1997	Republican
Ralph Hall	1981 - Present	Republican
Tom Vandergriff	1983 - 1985	Democratic
Steve Bartlett	1983 - 1991	Republican
Michael A. Andrews	1983 - 1995	Democratic
John Wiley Bryant	1983 - 1997	Democratic
Ronald D. Coleman	1983 - 1997	Democratic
Solomon P. Ortiz	1983 - 2011	Democratic
Beau Boulter	1985 - 1989	Republican
Mac Sweeney	1985 - 1989	Republican
Albert Bustamante	1985 - 1993	Democratic
Jim Chapman	1985 - 1997	Democratic
Dick Armey	1985 - 2003	Republican
Larry Combest	1985 - 2003	Republican
Tom DeLay	1985 - 2006	Republican
Joe Barton	1985 - present	Republican
Lamar S. Smith	1987 - present	Republican
Bill Sarpalius	1989 - 1995	Democratic
Craig Anthony Washington	1989 - 1995	Democratic
Greg Laughlin	1989 - 1997	Democratic
Pete Geren	1989 - 1997	Democratic
Chet Edwards	1991 - 2011	Democratic
Sam Johnson	1991 - present	Republican
Frank Tejeda	1993 - 1997	Democratic
Henry Bonilla	1993 - 2007	Republican
Gene Green	1993 - present	Democratic
Eddie Bernice Johnson	1993 - present	Democratic
Steve Stockman	1995 - 1997	Republican
Ken Bentsen, Jr.	1995 - 2003	Democratic
Lloyd Doggett	1995 - Present	Democratic
Sheila Jackson Lee	1995 - present	Democratic
Mac Thornberry	1995 - present	Republican
Max Sandlin	1997 - 2005	Democratic
Jim Turner	1997 - 2005	Democratic
Ciro Rodriguez	1997 - 2005 , 2007-2011	Democratic
Pete Sessions	1997 - Present	Republican
Kevin Brady	1997 - present	Republican
Kay Granger	1997 - present	Republican
Rubén Hinojosa	1997 - present	Democratic
Silvestre Reyes	1997 - 2013	Democratic
Charlie Gonzalez	1999 - 2013	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Texas
Party	Total
Democratic	9
Republican	18
Total Representatives	27

Representatives from Texas
Representatives	Years Served	Party
John Culberson	2001 - present	Republican
Chris Bell	2003 - 2005	Democratic
Michael C. Burgess	2003 - present	Republican
John Carter	2003 - present	Republican
Jeb Hensarling	2003 - present	Republican
Randy Neugebauer	2003 - present	Republican
Mike Conaway	2005 - present	Republican
Henry Cuellar	2005 - present	Democratic
Louie Gohmert	2005 - present	Republican
Al Green	2005 - present	Democratic
Kenny Marchant	2005 - present	Republican
Michael McCaul	2005 - present	Republican
Ted Poe	2005 - present	Republican
Shelley Sekula-Gibbs	2006 - 2007	Republican
Nick Lampson	2007 - 2009	Democratic
Pete Olson	2009 - present	Republican
Francisco Canseco	2011 - 2013	Republican
Blake Farenthold	2011 - present	Republican
Bill Flores	2011 - present	Republican
Randy Weber	2013 - present	Republican
Roger Williams	2013 - present	Republican
Steve Stockman	2013 - present	Republican
Beto O'Rourke	2013 - present	Democratic
Joaquin Castro	2013 - present	Democratic
Pete Gallego	2013 - present	Democratic
Marc Veasey	2013 - present	Democratic
Filemon Vela	2013 - present	Democratic

External links

• Texas Tribune,"Elected Officials Directory"