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United States congressional delegations from West Virginia

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

U.S. House

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

Historical members

List of United States Senators from West Virginia

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. Senate from West Virginia.

Class 1

  • Republican PartyPeter G. Van Winkle, serving from 1863-1869
  • Republican PartyArthur I. Boreman, serving from 1869-1875
  • Democratic Party (United States)Allen T. Caperton, serving from 1875-1876
  • Democratic Party (United States)Samuel Price, serving from 1876-1877
  • Democratic Party (United States)Frank Hereford, serving from 1877-1881
  • Democratic Party (United States)Johnson N. Camden, serving from 1881-1887
  • Democratic Party (United States)Charles J. Faulkner, serving from 1887-1899
  • Republican PartyNathan B. Scott, serving from 1899-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States)William E. Chilton, serving from 1911-1917
  • Republican PartyHoward Sutherland, serving from 1917-1923
  • Democratic Party (United States)Matthew M. Neely, serving from 1923-1929
  • Republican PartyHenry D. Hatfield, serving from 1929-1935
  • Democratic Party (United States)Rush D. Holt, serving from 1935-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States)Harley M. Kilgore, serving from 1941-1956
  • Democratic Party (United States)William R. Laird III, serving from 1956-1956
  • Republican PartyW. Chapman Revercomb, serving from 1956-1959
  • Democratic Party (United States)Robert C. Byrd, serving from 1959-2010
  • Democratic Party (United States)Carte Goodwin, serving from 2010-2010
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joe Manchin III, serving from 2010-Present.

Class 2

  • Republican PartyWaitman T. Willey, serving from 1863-1871
  • Democratic Party (United States) Henry Gassaway Davis, serving from 1871-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States) John E. Kenna, serving from 1883-1893
  • Democratic Party (United States) Johnson N. Camden, serving from 1893-1895
  • Republican PartyStephen B. Elkins, serving from 1895-1911
  • Republican PartyDavis Elkins, serving from 1911-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States) Clarence W. Watson, serving from 1911-1913
  • Republican PartyNathan Goff, serving from 1913-1919
  • Republican PartyDavis Elkins, serving from 1919-1925
  • Republican PartyGuy D. Goff, serving from 1925-1931
  • Democratic Party (United States) Matthew M. Neely, serving from 1931-1941
  • Democratic Party (United States) Joseph Rosier, serving from 1941-1942
  • Republican PartyHugh Ike Shott, serving from 1942-1943
  • Republican PartyW. Chapman Revercomb, serving from 1943-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States) Matthew M. Neely, serving from 1949-1958
  • Republican PartyJohn D. Hoblitzell, Jr., serving from 1958-1958
  • Democratic Party (United States) Jennings Randolph, serving from 1958-1985
  • Democratic Party (United States) John D. Rockefeller IV, serving from 1985-Present

List of United States Representatives from West Virginia

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from West Virginia.

  • Jacob B. Blair (Unconditional Unionist), serving from 1863-1865
  • William Gay Brown, Sr. (Unconditional Unionist), serving from 1863-1865
  • Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (Unconditional Unionist), serving from 1863-1867
  • George Robert Latham (Unconditional Unionist), serving from 1865-1867
  • Republican PartyChester D. Hubbard, serving from 1865-1869
  • Republican PartyBethuel M. Kitchen, serving from 1867-1869
  • Republican PartyDaniel Haymond Polsley, serving from 1867-1869
  • Republican PartyIsaac H. Duval, serving from 1869-1871
  • Republican PartyJohn S. Witcher, serving from 1869-1871
  • Republican PartyJames C. McGrew, serving from 1869-1873
  • Democratic Party (United States)John James Davis, serving from 1871-1875
  • Democratic Party (United States)Charles J. Faulkner, Sr., serving from 1875-1877
  • Democratic Party (United States)Benjamin Wilson, serving from 1875-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States)Frank Hereford, serving from 1877-1881
  • Democratic Party (United States)Benjamin Franklin Martin, serving from 1877-1881
  • Democratic Party (United States)John E. Kenna, serving from 1877-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States)John B. Hoge, serving from 1881-1883
  • Democratic Party (United States)Eustace Gibson, serving from 1883-1887
  • Democratic Party (United States)Charles P. Snyder, serving from 1883-1889
  • Republican PartyNathan Goff, serving from 1883-1889
  • Democratic Party (United States)William Lyne Wilson, serving from 1883-1895
  • Democratic Party (United States)Charles E. Hogg, serving from 1887-1889
  • Democratic Party (United States)James M. Jackson, serving from 1889-1890
  • Democratic Party (United States)John O. Pendleton, serving from 1889-1895
  • Democratic Party (United States)John D. Alderson, serving from 1889-1895
  • Republican PartyGeorge W. Atkinson, serving from 1890-1891
  • Republican PartyCharles Brooks Smith, serving from 1890-1891
  • Democratic Party (United States)James Capehart, serving from 1891-1895
  • Republican PartyJames Hall Huling, serving from 1895-1897
  • Republican PartyWarren Miller, serving from 1895-1899
  • Republican PartyAlston G. Dayton, serving from 1895-1905
  • Republican PartyBlackburn B. Dovener, serving from 1895-1907
  • Republican PartyCharles P. Dorr, serving from 1897-1899
  • Democratic Party (United States)David Emmons Johnston, serving from 1899-1901
  • Republican PartyRomeo H. Freer, serving from 1899-1901
  • Republican PartyJ. A. Hughes, serving from 1901-1903, 1903-1915, 1927-1930
  • Republican PartyJoseph H. Gaines, serving from 1901-1911
  • Republican PartyHarry C. Woodyard, serving from 1903-1911
  • Democratic Party (United States)Thomas B. Davis, serving from 1905-1907
  • Republican PartyGeorge Cookman Sturgiss, serving from 1907-1911

William P. Hubbard, serving from 1907-1911

  • Democratic Party (United States)John W. Davis, serving from 1911-1913
  • Democratic Party (United States)John M. Hamilton, serving from 1911-1913
  • Democratic Party (United States)Adam B. Littlepage, serving from 1911-1917
  • Democratic Party (United States)William Gay Brown, Jr., serving from 1911-1916
  • Republican PartySamuel B. Avis, serving from 1913-1915
  • Republican PartyHunter H. Moss, Jr., serving from 1913-1916
  • Republican PartyHoward Sutherland, serving from 1913-1917
  • Democratic Party (United States)Matthew M. Neely, serving from 1913-1921, 1945-1947
  • Republican PartyEdward Cooper, serving from 1915-1919
  • Republican PartyGeorge M. Bowers, serving from 1916-1923
  • Republican PartyStuart F. Reed, serving from 1917-1925
  • Republican PartyWells Goodykoontz, serving from 1919-1923
  • Republican PartyBenjamin L. Rosenbloom, serving from 1921-1925
  • Democratic Party (United States)Robert E. Lee Allen, serving from 1923-1925
  • Democratic Party (United States)Thomas Jefferson Lilly, serving from 1923-1925
  • Democratic Party (United States)George William Johnson, serving from 1923-1925, 1933-1943
  • Democratic Party (United States)J. Alfred Taylor, serving from 1923-1927
  • Republican PartyLeonard S. Echols, serving from 1923-1927
  • Republican PartyJohn M. Wolverton, serving from 1925-1927, 1929-1931
  • Republican PartyJames F. Strother, serving from 1925-1929
  • Republican PartyFrank L. Bowman, serving from 1925-1933
  • Republican PartyCarl G. Bachmann, serving from 1925-1933
  • Republican PartyEdward T. England, serving from 1927-1929
  • Democratic Party (United States)William S. O'Brien, serving from 1927-1929
  • Republican PartyHugh Ike Shott, serving from 1929-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States)Joe L. Smith, serving from 1929-1945
  • Republican PartyRobert Lynn Hogg, serving from 1930-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States)Lynn Hornor, serving from 1931-1933
  • Democratic Party (United States)Robert L. Ramsay, serving from 1933-1939, 1941-1943, 1949-1953
  • Democratic Party (United States)Andrew Edmiston, Jr., serving from 1933-1943
  • Democratic Party (United States)Jennings Randolph, serving from 1933-1947
  • Democratic Party (United States)John Kee, serving from 1933-1951
  • Republican PartyA. C. Schiffler, serving from 1939-1941, 1943-1945
  • Republican PartyEdward G. Rohrbough, serving from 1943-1945, 1947-1949
  • Republican PartyHubert S. Ellis, serving from 1943-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States)Cleveland M. Bailey, serving from 1945-1947, 1949-1963
  • Democratic Party (United States)E. H. Hedrick, serving from 1945-1953
  • Republican PartyFrancis J. Love, serving from 1947-1949
  • Republican PartyMelvin C. Snyder, serving from 1947-1949
  • Democratic Party (United States)M. G. Burnside, serving from 1949-1953, 1955-1957
  • Democratic Party (United States)Harley O. Staggers, serving from 1949-1981
  • Democratic Party (United States)Elizabeth Kee, serving from 1951-1965
  • Republican PartyWill E. Neal, serving from 1953-1955, 1957-1959
  • Democratic Party (United States)Robert H. Mollohan, serving from 1953-1957, 1969-1983
  • Democratic Party (United States)Robert Byrd, serving from 1953-1959
  • Republican PartyArch A. Moore, Jr., serving from 1957-1969
  • Democratic Party (United States)Ken Hechler, serving from 1959-1977
  • Democratic Party (United States)John M. Slack, Jr., serving from 1959-1980
  • Democratic Party (United States)James Kee, serving from 1965-1973
  • Republican PartyJ. Marshall Hagans, serving from 1973-1975
  • Democratic Party (United States)Nick Rahall, serving from 1977-present
  • Democratic Party (United States)John G. Hutchinson, serving from 1980-1981
  • Republican PartyCleve Benedict, serving from 1981-1983
  • Republican PartyMick Staton, serving from 1981-1983
  • Democratic Party (United States)Harley O. Staggers, Jr., serving from 1983-1993
  • Democratic Party (United States)Bob Wise, serving from 1983-2001
  • Democratic Party (United States)Alan B. Mollohan, serving from 1983-2011
  • Republican PartyShelley Moore Capito, serving from 2001-present
  • Republican PartyDavid McKinley, serving from 2011-present


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