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United States congressional delegations from Virginia
From Ballotpedia
This page displays the historical members of U.S. Congress from Virginia.
Current members
U.S. Senate
The current members of the U.S. Senate from Virginia are:
U.S. House
The current members of the U.S. House from Virginia are:
- Bob Goodlatte
- Eric Cantor
- Frank Wolf
- Gerry Connolly
- Jim Moran
- Morgan Griffith
- Randy Forbes
- Bobby Scott
- Robert Hurt
- Rob Wittman
- Scott Rigell
Historical members
List of United States Senators from Virginia
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from Virginia.
List of United States Representatives from Virginia
The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from Virginia.
- Theodorick Bland(Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1790
- John Brown (Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1792
- Alexander White (Pro-Administration), serving from 1789-1793
- Samuel Griffin(Pro-Administration), serving from 1789-1795
- Richard B. Lee(Pro-Administration), serving from 1789-1795
- John Page (Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1797
- Isaac Coles(Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1797
- James Madison, Jr.(Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1797
- Andrew Moore(Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1797 , 1804
- Josiah Parker(Anti-Administration), serving from 1789-1801
- William B. Giles (Anti-Administration), serving from 1790-1798 ,1801-1803
- Abraham B. Venable(Anti-Administration), serving from 1791-1799
- Joseph Neville (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1795
- Francis Walker(Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1795
- Francis Preston (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1797
- Robert Rutherford (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1797
- George Hancock (Pro-Administration), serving from 1793-1797
- John Heath(Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1797
- Carter B. Harrison(Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1799
- John Nicholas(Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1801
- Thomas Claiborne (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1805
- Anthony New (Anti-Administration), serving from 1793-1805
- George Jackson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795-1797 ,1799-1803
- Richard Brent (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795-1799 ,1801-1803
- John Clopton (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795-1799 ,1801-1816
- Samuel J. Cabell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1795-1803
- James Machir (Federalist), serving from 1797-1799
- Daniel Morgan(Federalist), serving from 1797-1799
- Walter Jones (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797-1799 ,1803-1811
- Thomas Evans (Federalist), serving from 1797-1801
- John J. Trigg (Democratic-Republican) 1797-1804
- Abram Trigg (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797-1809
- David Holmes(Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797-1809
- Matthew Clay(Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797-1813 ,1815
- John Dawson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1797-1814
- Joseph Eggleston (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1798-1801
- John Marshall (Federalist), serving from 1799-1800
- Samuel Goode (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1799-1801
- Henry Lee (Federalist), serving from 1799-1801
- Robert Page (Federalist), serving from 1799-1801
- Leven Powell (Federalist), serving from 1799-1801
- Edwin Gray (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1799-1813
- John Randolph (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1799-1833
- Littleton W. Tazewell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1800-1801
- John Stratton (Federalist), serving from 1801-1803
John Taliaferro , serving from 1801-1803 ,1811-1813 ,1824-1843
- Philip R. Thompson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1801-1807
- John Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1801-1815
Thomas Newton, Jr. , serving from 1801-1833
- Thomas Lewis, Jr. (Federalist), serving from 1803-1804
- Thomas Griffin (Federalist), serving from 1803-1805
- James Stephenson (Federalist), serving from 1803-1805 ,1809-1811 ,1822-1825
- Thomas M. Randolph, Jr. (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803-1807
- John G. Jackson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803-1810 ,1813-1817
- John W. Eppes (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803-1811 ,1813-1815
- Joseph Lewis, Jr. (Federalist), serving from 1803-1817
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1803-1818
- Christopher H. Clark (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1804-1806
- Alexander Wilson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1804-1809
- John Claiborne (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805-1808
- James M. Garnett (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805-1809
- John Morrow (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805-1809
- Burwell Bassett (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1805-1819 ,1821-1823,1825-1829
- William A. Burwell (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1806-1821
- Wilson C. Nicholas (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807-1809
- John Love (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1807-1811
- Thomas Gholson, Jr. (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1808-1816
- Jacob Swoope (Federalist), serving from 1809-1811
- James Breckinridge (Federalist), serving from 1809-1817
- Daniel Sheffey (Federalist), serving from 1809-1817
- John Roane (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1809-1837
- David S. Garland (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1810-1811
- William McKinley (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1810-1811
- John Baker (Federalist), serving from 1811-1813
- Thomas Wilson (Federalist), serving from 1811-1813
- Aylett Hawes (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811-1813 ,1813-1817
- Hugh Nelson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811-1823
- James Pleasants (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811-1819
- William McCoy (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1811-1833
- John P. Hungerford (Democratic-Republican) , serving from 1811,1813-1817
- Thomas M. Bayly (Federalist) , serving from 1813-1815
- Hugh Caperton (Federalist), serving from 1813-1815
- Francis White (Federalist), serving from 1813-1815
- John Kerr (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813-1817
- James Johnson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1813-1820
- Philip P. Barbour (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1814-1830
- William H. Roane (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815-1817
- Henry S. Tucker (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815-1819
- Ballard Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1815-1821
- Thomas M. Nelson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1816-1819
- John Tyler, Jr. (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1816-1821
- Archibald Austin (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1819
- Edward Colston (Federalist), serving from 1817-1819
- William J. Lewis (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1819
- James Pindall (Federalist, serving from 1817-1820
- George F. Strother (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1820
- William L. Ball (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1824
- John Floyd (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1829
- Charles F. Mercer (Federalist), serving from 1817-1839
- Alexander Smyth (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1817-1830
- John Pegram (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1818-1819
- Severn E. Parker (Democratic-Republican) 1819-1821
- Thomas Van Swearingen (Federalist), serving from 1819-1822
- James Jones (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819-1823
- Mark Alexander (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819-1833
- George Tucker (Democratic-Republican) , serving from 1819-1825
- Jared Williams (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1819-1825
- John C. Gray (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1820-1821
- Edward B. Jackson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1820-1823
- Thomas L. Moore (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1820-1823
- William S. Archer (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1820-1833
- Jabez Leftwich (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821-1825
- Arthur Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821-1825
- William Smith (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821-1827
- Andrew Stevenson (Democratic-Republican), serving from 1821-1834
- John S. Barbour (Crawford Republican), serving from 1823--1833
- Joseph Johnson (Jackson Republican), serving from 1823-1827 ,1833,1835-1841 ,1845-1847
- William C. Rives (Crawford Republican), serving from 1823-1829
- Benjamin Estil (Adams Republican), serving from 1825-1827
- Alfred H. Powell (Adams Republican), serving from 1825-1827
- Robert Taylor (Adams Republican), serving from 1825-1827
- William Armstrong (Adams Republican), serving from 1825-1833
- Thomas Davenport (Jackson Republican), serving from 1825-1835
- Nathaniel H. Claiborne (Jackson Republican), serving from 1825-1837
- James Trezvant (Jackson Republican), serving from 1825-1831
- George W. Crump (Jackson Republican), serving from 1826-1827
- Robert Allen (Jackson Republican), serving from 1827-1829
- Isaac Leffler (Adams Republican), serving from 1827-1829
- Lewis Maxwell (Adams Republican), serving from 1827-1833
- Philip Doddridge (National Republican), serving from 1829-1832
- Richard Coke, Jr. (Jacksonian), serving from 1829-1833
- Thomas T. Bouldin (Jacksonian), serving from 1829-1834
- Robert Craig (Jacksonian), serving from 1829-1833 ,1835-1841
- Joseph Draper (Jacksonian), serving from 1830-1831 ,1832-1833
- George Loyall (Jacksonian), serving from 1830-1831 ,1833-1837
- William F. Gordon (Jacksonian), serving from 1830-1835
John M. Patton, serving from 1830-1838
- Charles C. Johnston (Jacksonian), serving from 1831-1832
- John J. Roane (Jacksonian), serving from 1831-1833
Joseph W. Chinn , serving from 1831-1835
- John Y. Mason (Jacksonian), serving from 1831-1837
John H. Fulton, serving from 1833-1835
John J. Allen , serving from 1833-1835
- James H. Gholson (National Republican), serving from 1833-1835
- Samuel M. Moore (National Republican), serving from 1833-1835
- William P. Taylor (National Republican), serving from 1833-1835
- Edgar C. Wilson (National Republican), serving from 1833-1835
William McComas, serving from 1833-1837
Edward Lucas, serving from 1833-1837
James M. H. Beale, serving from 1833-1837 ,1849-1853
Henry A. Wise, serving from 1833-1844
- John Robertson (National Republican), serving from 1834-1839
James W. Bouldin, serving from 1834-1839
William S. Morgan, serving from 1835-1839
James Garland , serving from 1835-1841
George W. Hopkins, serving from 1835-1847 ,1857-1859
George C. Dromgoole, serving from 1835-1841 ,1843-1847
Walter Coles, serving from 1835-1845
James M. Mason , serving from 1837-1839
Isaac S. Pennybacker, serving from 1837-1839
Archibald Stuart, serving from 1837-1839
- Francis Mallory (Whig), serving from 1837-1839 ,1840-1843
Andrew Beirne , serving from 1837-1841
Francis E. Rives, serving from 1837-1841
- Robert M. T. Hunter (Whig), serving from 1837-1843 ,1845-1847
Linn Banks, serving from 1838-1841
Joel Holleman, serving from 1839-1840
- John Hill (Whig), serving from 1839-1841
Green B. Samuels, serving from 1839-1841
William Lucas, serving from 1839-1841 ,1843-1845
- William L. Goggin (Whig), serving from 1839-1843 ,1844-1845 ,1847-1849
- John M. Botts (Whig), serving from 1839-1843 ,1847-1849
Lewis Steenrod, serving from 1839-1845
- William M. McCarty (Whig), serving from 1840-1841
- Richard W. Barton (Whig), serving from 1841-1843
George B. Cary, serving from 1841-1843
William A. Harris, serving from 1841-1843
Samuel L. Hays, serving from 1841-1843
- Cuthbert Powell (Whig), serving from 1841-1843
- Alexander H. H. Stuart, serving from (Whig) 1841-1843
Thomas W. Gilmer, serving from 1841-1844
John W. Jones, serving from 1841-1845
Edmund W. Hubard, serving from 1841-1847
William O. Goode, serving from 1841-1843 ,1853-1859
William Smith , serving from 1841-1843 ,1853-1861
- George W. Summers (Whig), serving from 1841-1845
- Samuel Chilton (Whig), serving from 1843-1845
- Willoughby Newton (Whig), serving from 1843-1845
William Taylor, serving from 1843-1846
Augustus A. Chapman, serving from 1843-1847
Archibald Atkinson, serving from 1843-1849
Thomas H. Bayly, serving from 1844-1856
William M. Tredway, serving from 1845-1847
James A. Seddon, serving from 1845-1847 ,1849-1851
Shelton F. Leake, serving from 1845-1847 ,1859-1861
Henry Bedinger III, serving from 1845-1849
- John S. Pendleton (Whig), serving from 1845-1849
William G. Brown, serving from 1845-1849 ,1861-1863
James McDowell, serving from 1846-1851
- Thomas S. Flournoy (Whig), serving from 1847-1849
- Andrew S. Fulto (Whig), serving from 1847-1849
- William B. Preston (Whig), serving from 1847-1849
Robert A. Thompson, serving from 1847-1849
Richard L. T. Beale, serving from 1847-1849 ,1879-1881
Richard K. Meade, serving from 1847-1853
Thomas S. Bocock, serving from 1847-1853 ,1853-1861
Watkins M. Abbitt, serving from 1948-1973
Alexander Newman , serving from 1849
- Jeremiah Morton (Whig), serving from 1849-1851
- Thomas S. Haymond (Whig), serving from 1849-1851
Richard Parker, serving from 1849-1851
Thomas H. Averett, serving from 1849-1853
Alexander R. Holladay, serving from 1849-1853
John S. Millson , serving from 1849-1853 ,1853-1861
LaFayette McMullen, serving from 1849-1857
Paulus Powell, serving from 1849-1859
Henry A. Edmundson, serving from 1849-1861
George W. Thompson, serving from 1851-1852
- James F. Strother (Whig), serving from 1851-1853
John S. Caskie, serving from 1851-1859
- Charles J. Faulkner (Whig), serving from 1851-1859
John Letcher, serving from 1851-1859
Sherrard Clemens, serving from 1852-1853 ,1857-1861
John F. Snodgrass, serving from 1853-1854
Zedekiah Kidwell, serving from 1853-1857
Charles S. Lewis, serving from 1854-1855
- John S. Carlile (Unionist), serving from 1855-1857 ,1861
Muscoe R. H. Garnett, serving from 1856-1861
Albert G. Jenkins, serving from 1857-1861
Roger A. Pryor, serving from 1859-1861
Alexander R. Boteler , serving from 1859-1861
Daniel C. DeJarnette, Sr., serving from 1859-1861
Elbert S. Martin, serving from 1859-1861
John T. Harris, serving from 1859-1861 ,1871-1873
- Charles H. Upton (Unionist), serving from 1861-1862
- Jacob B. Blair (Unionist), serving from 1861-1863
- Kellian V. Whaley (Unionist), serving from 861-1863
- Joseph E. Segar (Unionist), serving from 1862-1863
Robert Ridgway, serving in 1870
Lewis McKenzie (Unionist), serving from 1863,1870-1871
Richard S. Ayer, serving from 1870-1871
George W. Booker, serving from 1870-1871
James K. Gibson, serving from 1870-1871
William Milnes, Jr., serving from 1870-1871
Richard T. W. Duke, Jr., serving from 1870-1873
Charles H. Porter, serving from 1870-1873
James H. Platt, Jr., serving from 1870-1875
Elliott M. Braxton, serving from 1871-1873
John Critcher, serving from 1871-1873
William Terry, serving from 1871-1873 ,1875-1877
William H. H. Stowell, serving from 1871-1877
Alexander M. Davis, serving from 1873-1874
Rees T. Bowen, serving from 1873-1875
James B. Sener, serving from 873-1875
John A. Smith, serving from 1873-1875
Thomas Whitehead, serving from 1873-1875
Eppa Hunton, Jr., serving from 1873-1881
Christopher Y. Thomas, serving from 1874-1875
Beverly B. Douglas, serving from 1875-1878
Gilbert C. Walker, serving from 1875-1879
John Goode, Jr., serving from 1875-1881
John R. Tucker, serving from 1875-1887
George C. Cabell, serving from 1875-1887
Auburn L. Pridemore, serving from 1877-1879
Joseph Jorgensen, serving from 1877-1883
Joseph E. Johnston, serving from 1879-1881
James B. Richmond, serving from 1879-1881
John F. Dezendorf, serving from 1881-1883
Abram Fulkerson, serving from 1881-1883
- John Paul (Readjuster), serving from 1881-1883
George T. Garrison, serving from 1881-1883 ,1884-1885
John S. Barbour, Jr., serving from 1881-1887
George D. Wise, serving from 1881-1895
- Robert M. Mayo (Readjuster), serving from 1883-1884
- Benjamin S. Hooper (Readjuster), serving from 1883-1885
- Harry Libbey (Readjuster), serving from 1883-1885 ,1885-1887
- Henry Bowen (Readjuster), serving from 1883-1885 ,1887-1889
Charles T. O'Ferrall, serving from 1884-1893
James D. Brady, serving from 1885-1887
Thomas Croxton, serving from 1885-1887
John W. Daniel, serving from 1885-1887
Connally F. Trigg, serving from 1885-1887
John R. Brown, serving from 1887-1889
William E. Gaines , serving from 1887-1889
- Samuel I. Hopkins (Labor Party), serving from 1887-1889
Jacob Yost, serving from 1887-1889 ,1897-1899
George E. Bowden, serving from 1887-1891
Thomas H. B. Browne, serving from 1887-1891
William H. F. Lee, serving from 1887-1891
Edward C. Venable, serving from 1889-1890
John A. Buchanan, serving from 1889-1893
Posey G. Lester, serving from 1889-1893
Paul C. Edmunds, serving from 1889-1895
Henry S. Tucker III, serving from 1889-1897 ,1922-1932
John M. Langston, serving from 1890-1891
Edmund Waddill, Jr., serving from 1890-1891
John W. Lawson, serving from 1891-1893
James F. Epes, serving from 1891-1895
Elisha E. Meredith, serving from 1891-1897
William A. Jones, serving from 1891-1918
James W. Marshall, serving from 1893-1895
D. Gardiner Tyler, serving from 1893-1897
Claude A. Swanson, serving from 1893-1906
Smith S. Turner, serving from 1894-1897
William R. McKenney , serving from 1895-1896
Tazewell Ellett, serving from 1895-1897
James A. Walker, serving from 1895-1899
Peter J. Otey, serving from 1895-1902
Robert T. Thorp, serving from 1896-1899
William A. Young, serving from 1897-1898 ,1899-1900
Sydney P. Epes, serving from 1897-1898 ,1899-1900
John F. Rixey, serving from 1897-1907
John Lamb, serving from 1897-1913
James Hay, serving from 1897-1916
Richard A. Wise, serving from 1898-1899 ,1900
Julian M. Quarles, serving from 1899-1901
William F. Rhea, serving from 1899-1903
Francis R. Lassiter, serving from 1900-1903 ,1907-1909
Harry L. Maynard, serving from 1901-1911
Henry D. Flood, serving from 1901-1921
E. Carter Glass, serving from 1902-1918
Campbell Slemp, serving from 1903-1907
Robert G. Southall, serving from 1903-1907
Edward W. Saunders, serving from 1906-1920
Charles C. Carlin, serving from 1907-1919
C. Bascom Slemp , serving from 1907-1923
Robert Turnbull, serving from 1910-1913
Edward E. Holland, serving from 1911-1921
Walter A. Watson, serving from 1913-1919
Andrew J. Montague, serving from 1913-1937
Thomas W. Harrison, serving from 1916-1922 ,1923-1929
James P. Woods, serving from 1918-1923
S. Otis Bland, serving from 1918-1950
R. Walton Moore, serving from 1919-1931
Rorer A. James, serving from 1920-1921
Patrick H. Drewry, serving from 1920-1947
J. Murray Hooker, serving from 1921-1925
Joseph T. Deal, serving from 1921-1929
John Paul, serving from 1922-1923
George C. Peery, serving from 1923-1929
Clifton A. Woodrum, serving from 1923-1945
Joseph Whitehead, serving from 1925-1931
Jacob A. Garber, serving from 1929-1931
Joseph C. Shaffer, serving from 1929-1931
Menalcus Lankford, serving from 1929-1933
John W. Fishburne, serving from 1931-1933
Thomas G. Burch, serving from 1931-1946
John W. Flannagan, Jr., serving from 1931-1949
Howard W. Smith, serving from 1931-1967
Joel W. Flood, serving from 1932-1933
A. Willis Robertson, serving from 1933-1946
Colgate W. Darden, Jr. , serving from 1935-1937 ,1939-1941
Norman R. Hamilton, serving from 1937-1939
David E. Satterfield, Jr., serving from 1937-1945
Winder R. Harris, serving from 1941-1944
Ralph H. Daughton, serving from 1944-1947
J. Vaughan Gary , serving from 1945-1965
J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., serving from 1946-1948
Thomas B. Stanley, serving from 1946-1953
Burr P. Harrison, serving from 1946-1963
Porter Hardy, Jr., serving from 1947-1969
Clarence G. Burton, serving from 1948-1953
Thomas B. Fugate, serving from 1949-1953
Edward J. Robeson, Jr, serving from 1950-1959
William C. Wampler, serving from 953-1955 ,1967-1983
William M. Tuck, serving from 1953-1969
Richard H. Poff, serving from 1953-1972
Joel T. Broyhill, serving from 1953-1974
William P. Jennings, serving from 1955-1967
Thomas N. Downing, serving from 1959-1977
John O. Marsh, Jr, serving from 1963-1971
David E. Satterfield III , serving from 1965-1981
William L. Scott, serving from 1967-1973
G. William Whitehurst, serving from 1969-1987
W. C. "Dan" Daniel, serving from 1969-1988
J. Kenneth Robinson, serving from 1971-1985
M. Caldwell Butler, serving from 1972-1983
Stanford E. Parris, serving from 1973-1975 ,1981-1991
Robert W. Daniel, Jr., serving from 1973-1983
Joseph L. Fisher, serving from 1974-1981
Herbert E. Harris II, serving from 1975-1981
Paul S. Trible, Jr., serving from 1977-1983
Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., serving from 1981-1993 ,1993-2001
Frank Wolf, serving from 1981-Present
James R. Olin, serving from 1983-1993
Herbert H. Bateman, serving from 1983-2000
Norman Sisisky, serving from 1983-2001
Frederick C. Boucher, serving from 1983-2011
D. French Slaughter, Jr., serving from 1985-1991
Owen B. Pickett , serving from 1987-2001
Lewis F. Payne, Jr., serving from 1988-1997
George Allen , serving from 1991-1993
Jim Moran., serving from 1991-Present
Leslie L. Byrne , serving from 1993-1995
Bob Goodlatte, serving from 1993-Present
Robert Scott, serving from 1993-Present
Thomas M. Davis, serving from 1995-2008
Virgil H. Goode, Jr., serving from 1997-2009
Edward L. Schrock, serving from 2001-2005
Jo Ann Davis, serving from 2001-2007
Eric Cantor, serving from 2001-Present
Randy Forbes, serving from 2001-Present
Thelma D. Drake, serving from 2005-2009
Robert J. Wittman, serving from 2007-Current
Glenn Nye, serving from 2009-2011
Tom Perriello, serving from 2009-2011
Gerry Connolly, serving from 2009-Present
Morgan Griffith, serving from 2011-Present
Robert Hurt, serving from 2011-Present
Scott Rigell, serving from 2011-Present
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