United States congressional delegations from Connecticut

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

Current members

U.S. Senate

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

• Christopher S. Murphy  
• Richard Blumenthal  

U.S. House

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

• Elizabeth Esty  
• James A. Himes  
• Joe Courtney  
• John B. Larson  
• Rosa L. DeLauro  

List of United States Senators from Connecticut

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

Historical Representation to the US Senate by Party from Connecticut
Party	Total
Democratic	16
Republican	20
Independent	1
Pro-Admin	3
Federalist	7
Jacksonian	1
Anti-Jacksonian	4
Whig	4
Free Soil	1
Total Senators	57

Class 1 Senators from Connecticut
Senator	Years Served	Party
Oliver Ellsworth	1789-1796	Pro-Admin, Federalist
James Hillhouse	1796-1810	Federalist
Samuel W. Dana	1810-1821	Federalist
Elijah Boardman	1821-1823	Republican
Henry W. Edwards	1823-1827	Jacksonian
Samuel A. Foot	1827-1833	Adams, Anti-Jacksonian
Nathan Smith	1833-1835	Anti-Jacksonian
John M. Niles	1835-1839	Democratic
Thaddeus Betts	1839-1840	Whig
Jabez W. Huntington	1840-1847	Whig
Roger S. Baldwin	1847-1851	Whig
Isaac Toucey	1852-1857	Democratic
James Dixon	1857-1869	Republican
William A. Buckingham	1869-1875	Republican
William W. Eaton	1875-1881	Democratic
Joseph R. Hawley	1881-1905	Republican
Morgan G. Bulkeley	1905-1911	Republican
George P. McLean	1911-1929	Republican
Frederic C. Walcott	1929-1935	Republican
Francis T. Maloney	1935-1945	Democratic
Thomas C. Hart	1945-1946	Republican
Raymond E. Baldwin	1946-1949	Republican
William Benton	1949-1953	Democratic
William A. Purtell	1953-1959	Republican
Thomas J. Dodd	1959-1971	Democratic
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.	1971-1989	Republican
Joe Lieberman	1989-2013	Independent
Christopher S. Murphy	2013-present	Democratic

Class 3 Senators from Connecticut
Senator	Years Served	Party
William S. Johnson	1789-1791	Pro-Admin
Roger Sherman	1791-1793	Pro-Admin
Stephen M. Mitchell	1793-1795	Pro-Admin
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.	1795-1796	Federalist
Uriah Tracy	1796-1807	Federalist
Chauncey Goodrich	1807-1813	Federalist
David Daggett	1813-1819	Federalist
James Lanman	1819-1825	Republican
Calvin Willey	1825-1831	Adams, Anti-Jacksonian
Gideon Tomlinson	1831-1837	Anti-Jacksonian
Perry Smith	1837-1843	Democratic
John M. Niles	1843-1849	Democratic
Truman Smith	1849-1854	Whig
Francis Gillette	1854-1855	Free Soil
Lafayette S. Foster	1855-1867	Republican
Orris S. Ferry	1867-1875	Republican
James E. English	1875-1876	Democratic
William H. Barnum	1876-1879	Democratic
Orville H. Platt	1879-1905	Republican
Frank B. Brandegee	1905-1924	Republican
Hiram Bingham	1924-1933	Republican
Augustine Lonergan	1933-1939	Democratic
John A. Danaher	1939-1945	Republican
Brien McMahon	1945-1952	Democratic
William A. Purtell	1952-1952	Republican
Prescott S. Bush	1952-1963	Republican
Abraham A. Ribicoff	1963-1981	Democratic
Christopher J. Dodd	1981-2011	Democratic
Richard Blumenthal	2011-Present	Democratic

List of United States Representatives from Connecticut

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

• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1700s from Connecticut
Party	Total
Pro-Admin	10
Federalist	10
Total Representatives	20

Representatives to the U.S. House in Connecticut in the 1700s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Roger Sherman	1789–1791	Pro-Admin
Benjamin Huntington	1789–1791	Pro-Admin
Jonathan Sturges	1789–1793	Pro-Admin
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.	1789–1795	Pro-Admin
Jeremiah Wadsworth	1789–1795	Pro-Admin
Amasa Learned	1791–1795	Pro-Admin
James Hillhouse	1791–1796	Pro-Admin
Uriah Tracy	1793–1796	Pro-Admin
Zephariah Swift	1793–1797	Pro-Admin
Joshua Coit	1793–1798	Pro-Admin
Nathaniel Smith	1795–1799	Federalist
Chauncey Goodrich	1795–1801	Federalist
Roger Griswold	1795–1805	Federalist
James Davenport	1796–1797	Federalist
John Allen	1797–1799	Federalist
William Edmond	1797–1801	Federalist
Samuel W. Dana	1797–1810	Federalist
Jonathan Brace	1798–1800	Federalist
Elizur Goodrich	1799–1801	Federalist
John Davenport	1799–1817	Federalist

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1800s from Connecticut
Party	Total
Democratic	35
Republican	25
Federalist	17
Democratic-Republican	10
Anti-Jacksonian	15
Adams	1
Jacksonian	3
Whig	11
Free Soil	1
American	1
Total Representatives	119

Representatives to the U.S. House in Connecticut in the 1800s

Representative	Years Served	Party
John Cotton Smith	1800–1806	Federalist
Elias Perkins	1801–1803	Federalist
Calvin Goddard	1801–1805	Federalist
Benjamin Tallmadge	1801–1817	Federalist
Simeon Baldwin	1803–1805	Federalist
Lewis B. Sturges	1805–1817	Federalist
Timothy Pitkin	1805–1819	Federalist
Jonathan O. Moseley	1805–1821	Federalist
Theodore Dwight	1806–1807	Federalist
Epaphroditus Champion	1807–1817	Federalist
Ebenezer Huntington	1810–1811 and 1817-1819	Federalist
Lyman Law	1811–1817	Federalist
Uriel Holmes	1817–1818	Federalist
Nathaniel Terry	1817–1819	Federalist
Thomas Scott Williams	1817–1819	Federalist
Samuel B. Sherwood	1817–1819	Federalist
Sylvester Gilbert	1818–1819	Democratic-Republican
James Stevens	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
Samuel A. Foot	1819–1821	Federalist
Elisha Phelps	1819–1821 and 1825-1829	Democratic-Republican
John Russ	1819–1823	Democratic-Republican
Henry W. Edwards	1819–1823	Democratic-Republican
Gideon Tomlinson	1819–1827	Democratic-Republican
Daniel Burrows	1821–1823	Democratic-Republican
Ebenezer Stoddard	1821–1825	Democratic-Republican
Noyes Barber	1821–1825	Democratic-Republican
Ansel Sterling	1821–1825	Democratic-Republican
Lemuel Whitman	1823–1825	Anti-Jacksonian
John Baldwin	1825–1829	Anti-Jacksonian
Orange Merwin	1825–1829	Anti-Jacksonian
Ralph I. Ingersoll	1825–1833	Anti-Jacksonian
Noyes Barber	1825–1835	Anti-Jacksonian
Elisha Phelps	1825–1929	Adams
David Plant	1827–1829	Anti-Jacksonian
William L. Storrs	1829–1833	Anti-Jacksonian
Jabez W. Huntington	1829–1834	Anti-Jacksonian
William W. Ellsworth	1829–1834	Anti-Jacksonian
Ebenezer Young	1829–1835	Anti-Jacksonian
Samuel A. Foot	1833–1834	Anti-Jacksonian
Joseph Trumbull	1833–1835 and 1839-1843	Anti-Jacksonian
Ebenezer Jackson, Jr.	1834–1835	Anti-Jacksonian
Samuel Tweedy	1834–1835	Anti-Jacksonian
Phineas Miner	1834–1835	Anti-Jacksonian
Zalmon Wildman	1835	Jacksonian
Andrew T. Judson	1835–1836	Jacksonian
Elisha Haley	1835–1839	Democratic
Lancelot Phelps	1835–1839	Democratic
Isaac Toucey	1835–1839	Democratic
Orrin Holt	1836–1839	Democratic
Thomas T. Whittlesey	1836–1839	Jacksonian
Samuel Ingham	1837–1839	Democratic
William L. Storrs	1839–1840	Whig
Thomas W. Williams	1839–1843	Whig
Thomas B. Osborne	1839–1843	Whig
John H. Brockway	1839–1843	Whig
Truman Smith	1839–1843 and 1845-1849	Whig
William W. Boardman	1840–1843	Whig
George S. Catlin	1843–1845	Democratic
Samuel Simons	1843–1845	Democratic
Thomas H. Seymour	1843–1845	Democratic
John Stewart	1843–1845	Democratic
James Dixon	1845–1849	Whig
John A. Rockwell	1845–1849	Whig
Thomas B. Butler	1849–1851	Whig
Walter Booth	1849–1851	Free Soil
Loren P. Waldo	1849–1851	Democratic
Chauncey F. Cleveland	1849–1853	Democratic
Charles Chapman	1851–1853	Whig
Colin M. Ingersoll	1851–1855	Democratic
Origen S. Seymour	1851–1855	Democratic
James T. Pratt	1853–1855	Democratic
Nathan Belcher	1853–1855	Democratic
William W. Welch	1855–1857	American
Ezra Clark, Jr.	1855–1859	Republican
Sidney Dean	1855–1859	Republican
William D. Bishop	1857–1859	Democratic
Samuel Arnold	1857–1859	Democratic
Orris S. Ferry	1859–1861	Republican
John Woodruff	1859–1861	Republican
Alfred A. Burnham	1859–1863	Republican
Dwight Loomis	1859–1863	Republican
George C. Woodruff	1861–1863	Democratic
James E. English	1861–1865	Democratic
John H. Hubbard	1863–1867	Republican
Henry C. Deming	1863–1867	Republican
Augustus Brandegee	1863–1867	Republican
Samuel L. Warner	1865–1867	Republican
Richard D. Hubbard	1867–1869	Democratic
Julius Hotchkiss	1867–1869	Democratic
Samuel D. Hubbard	1867–1869	Whig
Henry H. Starkweather	1867–1876	Republican
William H. Barnum	1867–1876	Democratic
Julius L. Strong	1869–1872	Republican
Stephen W. Kellogg	1869–1875	Republican
Joseph R. Hawley	1872–1875	Republican
George M. Landers	1875–1879	Democratic
James Phelps	1875–1883	Democratic
Levi Warner	1876–1879	Democratic
John T. Wait	1876–1887	Republican
Joseph R. Hawley	1879–1881	Republican
Frederick Miles	1879–1883	Republican
John R. Buck	1881–1883	Republican
William W. Eaton	1883–1885	Democratic
Edward W. Seymour	1883–1887	Democratic
Charles Le Moyne Mitchell	1883–1987	Democratic
John R. Buck	1885–1987	Republican
Carlos French	1887–1889	Democratic
Robert J. Vance	1887–1889	Democratic
Miles T. Granger	1887–1889	Democratic
Charles A. Russell	1887–1902	Republican
Frederick Miles	1889–1891	Republican
William E. Simonds	1889–1891	Republican
Washington F. Willcox	1889–1893	Democratic
Robert E. De Forest	1889–1895	Democratic
Lewis Sperry	1891–1895	Democratic
James P. Pigott	1893–1895	Democratic
Nehemiah D. Sperry	1895–1911	Republican
E. Stevens Henry	1895–1913	Republican
Ebenezer J. Hill	1895–1913	Republican

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 1900s from Connecticut
Party	Total
Democratic	45
Republican	43
Total Representatives	88

Representatives to the U.S. House in Connecticut in the 1900s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Frank B. Brandegee	1902–1905	Republican
George L. Lilley	1903–1909	Republican
Edwin W. Higgins	1905–1913	Republican
John Q. Tilson	1909–1913	Republican
Thomas L. Reilly	1911–1915	Democratic
Jeremiah Donovan	1913–1915	Democratic
William Kennedy	1913–1915	Democratic
Augustine Lonergan	1913–1915	Democratic
Bryan F. Mahan	1913–1915	Democratic
P. Davis Oakey	1915–1917	Republican
Ebenezer J. Hill	1915–1917	Republican
James P. Glynn	1915–1923	Republican
John Q. Tilson	1915–1932	Republican
Richard P. Freeman	1915–1933	Republican
Augustine Lonergan	1917–1921	Democratic
Schuyler Merritt	1917–1931 and 1933-1935	Republican
E. Hart Fenn	1921–1931	Republican
Patrick B. O'Sullivan	1923–1925	Democratic
James P. Glynn	1925–1930	Republican
Edward W. Goss	1930–1935	Republican
William L. Tierney	1931–1933	Democratic
Augustine Lonergan	1931–1933	Democratic
Charles M. Bakewell	1933–1935	Republican
Francis T. Maloney	1933–1935	Democratic
William L. Higgins	1933–1937	Republican
Herman P. Kopplemann	1933–1939	Democratic
William M. Citron	1935–1939	Democratic
J. Joseph Smith	1935–1941	Democratic
James A. Shanley	1935–1943	Democratic
Alfred N. Phillips	1937–1939	Democratic
William J. Fitzgerald	1937–1939 and 1941-1943	Democratic
Thomas R. Ball	1939–1941	Republican
Albert E. Austin	1939–1941	Republican
B. J. Monkiewicz	1939–1941	Republican
William J. Miller	1939–1941, 1943-1945 and 1947-1949	Republican
Lucien J. Maciora	1941–1943	Democratic
Herman P. Kopplemann	1941–1943	Democratic
Le Roy D. Downs	1941–1943	Democratic
Joseph E. Talbot	1942–1947	Republican
John D. McWilliams	1943–1945	Republican
Ranulf Compton	1943–1945	Republican
B. J. Monkiewicz	1943–1945	Republican
Clare B. Luce	1943–1947	Republican
James P. Geelan	1945–1947	Democratic
Joseph F. Ryter	1945–1947	Democratic
Herman P. Kopplemann	1945–1947	Democratic
Chase G. Woodhouse	1945–1947 and 1949-1951	Democratic
Ellsworth B. Foote	1947–1949	Republican
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.	1947–1949, 1951-1959 and 1961-1963	Republican
John D. Lodge	1947–1951	Republican
James T. Patterson	1947–1959	Republican
Antoni N. Sadlak	1947–1959	Republican
John A. McGuire	1949–1953	Democratic
Abraham A. Ribicoff	1949–1953	Democratic
Albert P. Morano	1951–1959	Republican
Thomas J. Dodd	1953–1957	Democratic
Albert W. Cretella	1953–1959	Republican
Edwin H. May, Jr.	1957–1959	Republican
Chester Bowles	1959–1961	Democratic
Donald J. Irwin	1959–1961 and 1965-1969	Democratic
Frank Kowalski	1959–1963	Democratic
Emilio Q. Daddario	1959–1971	Democratic
John S. Monagan	1959–1973	Democratic
Robert N. Giaimo	1959–1981	Democratic
Abner W. Sibal	1961–1965	Republican
Bernard F. Grabowski	1963–1967	Democratic
William L. St. Onge	1963–1970	Democratic
Thomas J. Meskill	1967–1971	Republican
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.	1969–1971	Republican
Robert H. Steele	1970–1975	Republican
Ella T. Grasso	1971–1975	Democratic
William R. Cotter	1971–1981	Democratic
Stewart McKinney	1971–1987	Republican
Ronald A. Sarasin	1973–1979	Republican
Christopher Dodd	1975–1981	Democratic
Toby Moffett	1975–1983	Democratic
William R. Ratchford	1979–1985	Democratic
Lawrence Joseph DeNardis	1981–1983	Republican
Sam Gejdenson	1981–2001	Democratic
Barbara B. Kennelly	1982–1999	Democratic
Bruce Morrison	1983–1991	Democratic
Nancy L. Johnson	1983–2007	Republican
John G. Rowland	1985–1991	Republican
Christopher Shays	1987–2009	Republican
Gary Franks	1991–1997	Republican
Rosa L. DeLauro	1991–present	Democratic
James H. Maloney	1997–2003	Democratic
John B. Larson	1999–present	Democratic

Historical Representation to the US House by Party in the 2000s from Connecticut
Party	Total
Democratic	4
Republican	1
Total Representatives	5

Representatives to the U.S. House in Connecticut in the 2000s

Representative	Years Served	Party
Rob Simmons	2001–2007	Republican
Joe Courtney	2007–present	Democratic
Jim Himes	2009–present	Democratic
Christopher S. Murphy	2007–2013	Democratic
Elizabeth Esty	2013-present	Democratic