United States congressional delegations from Arkansas

Arkansas

Census Topic	Value
Population	3,011,524
Gender	48.6% Male 51.4% Female
Race	70.2% White 15.1% Black 1.7% Asian 0.9% Native American 0.5% Pacific Islander 4.5% Other (single race) 7.1% Multiple
Ethnicity	8.5% Hispanic or Latino origin
Median household income	$58,773
High school graduation rate	88.6%
College graduation rate	25.1%
Upcoming elections	U.S. House, 2026 U.S. Senate, 2026

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.

This page displays the current and historical members of U.S. Congress from Arkansas.

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

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Arkansas
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	0	0
Republican	2	4	6
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	4	6

Current members

U.S. Senate

See also: Classes of United States Senators

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

Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office	Date term ends
U.S. Senate Arkansas	John Boozman	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 3, 2029
U.S. Senate Arkansas	Tom Cotton	Republican	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2027

U.S. House

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

Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office	Date term ends
U.S. House Arkansas District 1	Rick Crawford	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 3, 2027
U.S. House Arkansas District 2	French Hill	Republican	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2027
U.S. House Arkansas District 3	Steve Womack	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 3, 2027
U.S. House Arkansas District 4	Bruce Westerman	Republican	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2027

Historical members

U.S. Senate

Historical Representation to the U.S. Senate by Party from Arkansas
Party	Total
Democratic	28
Republican	7

Class 2 Senators from Arkansas
Senator	Years Served	Party
William S. Fulton	1836-1844	Democratic
Chester Ashley	1844-1848	Democratic
William K. Sebastian	1848-1861	Democratic
Alexander McDonald	1868-1871	Republican
Powell Clayton	1871-1877	Republican
Augustus H. Garland	1877-1885	Democratic
James H. Berry	1885-1907	Democratic
Jeff Davis	1907-1913	Democratic
John N. Heiskell	1913-1913	Democratic
William M. Kavanaugh	1913-1913	Democratic
Joseph T. Robinson	1913-1937	Democratic
John E. Miller	1937-1941	Democratic
G. Lloyd Spencer	1941-1943	Democratic
John L. McClellan	1943-1977	Democratic
Kaneaster Hodges, Jr.	1977-1979	Democratic
David H. Pryor	1979-1997	Democratic
Timothy Hutchinson	1997-2003	Republican
Mark Pryor	2003-2015	Democratic
Tom Cotton	2015-present	Republican

Class 3 Senators from Arkansas
Senator	Years Served	Party
Ambrose H. Sevier	1836-1848	Democratic
Solon Borland	1848-1853	Democratic
Robert W. Johnson	1853-1861	Democratic
Charles B. Mitchel	1861-1861	Democratic
Benjamin F. Rice	1868-1873	Republican
Stephen W. Dorsey	1873-1879	Republican
James D. Walker	1879-1885	Democratic
James K. Jones	1885-1903	Democratic
James P. Clarke	1903-1916	Democratic
William F. Kirby	1916-1921	Democratic
Thaddeus H. Caraway	1921-1931	Democratic
Hattie W. Caraway	1931-1945	Democratic
J. William Fulbright	1945-1974	Democratic
Dale Bumpers	1975-1999	Democratic
Blanche L. Lincoln	1999-2011	Democratic
John Boozman	2011-Present	Republican

2000s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from Arkansas
Party	Total
Democratic	1
Republican	7
Total Representatives	8

Representatives to the U.S. House from Arkansas
Representative	Years Served	Party
John Boozman	2001-2011	Republican
Mike Ross	2001-2013	Democratic
Tim Griffin	2011-2015	Republican
Rick Crawford	2011-present	Republican
Steve Womack	2011-present	Republican
Tom Cotton	2013-2015	Republican
French Hill	2013-present	Republican
Bruce Westerman	2013-present	Republican

1900s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from Arkansas
Party	Total
Democratic	48
Republican	5
Total Representatives	53

Representatives to the U.S. House from Arkansas
Representative	Years Served	Party
Charles C. Reid	1901-1911	Democratic
Robert M. Wallace	1903-1911	Democratic
Robert B. Macon	1903-1913	Democratic
Joseph Taylor Robinson	1903-1913	Democratic
John C. Floyd	1905-1915	Democratic
William B. Cravens	1907-1913, 1933-1939	Democratic
William Allan Oldfield	1909-1928	Democratic
William S. Goodwin	1911-1921	Democratic
Henderson M. Jacoway	1911-1923	Democratic
Thaddeus H. Caraway	1913-1921	Democratic
Samuel M. Taylor	1913-1921	Democratic
Otis Wingo	1913-1930	Democratic
John N. Tillman	1915-1929	Democratic
Chester W. Taylor	1921-1923	Democratic
Tilman Bacon Parks	1921-1937	Democratic
William J. Driver	1921-1939	Democratic
Lewis E. Sawyer	1923	Democratic
James B. Reed	1923-1929	Democratic
Heartsill Ragon	1923-1933	Democratic
Pearl Peden Oldfield	1929-1931	Democratic
David Delano Glover	1929-1935	Democratic
Claude A. Fuller	1929-1939	Democratic
Effiegene Locke Wingo	1930-1933	Democratic
John E. Miller	1931-1937	Democratic
David D. Terry	1933-1943	Democratic
John Little McClellan	1935-1939	Democratic
Wade H. Kitchens	1937-1941	Democratic
Clyde T. Ellis	1939-1943	Democratic
William Fadjo Cravens	1939-1949	Democratic
William F. Norrell	1939-1961	Democratic
Ezekiel C. Gathings	1939-1969	Democratic
Wilbur Mills	1939-1977	Democratic
Oren Harris	1941-1966	Democratic
J. William Fulbright	1943-1945	Democratic
Brooks Hays	1943-1959	Democratic
James William Trimble	1945-1967	Democratic
Boyd Anderson Tackett	1949-1953	Democratic
Dale Alford	1959-1963	Democratic
Catherine Dorris Norrell	1961-1963	Democratic
David Pryor	1966-1973	Democratic
John Paul Hammerschmidt	1967-1993	Republican
William Vollie Alexander, Jr.	1969-1993	Democratic
Ray Thornton	1973-1979 and 1991-1997	Democratic
Jim Guy Tucker	1977-1979	Democratic
Ed Bethune	1979-1985	Republican
Beryl Anthony, Jr.	1979-1993	Democratic
Tommy F. Robinson	1985-1991	Democratic
Tim Hutchinson	1993-1997	Republican
Blanche Lincoln	1993-1997	Democratic
Jay Dickey	1993-2001	Republican
Asa Hutchinson	1997-2001	Republican
Marion Berry	1997-2011	Democratic
Vic Snyder	1997-2011	Democratic

1800s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from Arkansas
Party	Total
Democratic	26
Republican	9
Whig	1
Laborite	1
Total Representatives	37

Representatives to the U.S. House from Arkansas
Representative	Years Served	Party
Archibald Yell	1836-1839 and 1845-1846	Democratic
Edward Cross	1839-1845	Democratic
Thomas Willoughby Newton	1847	Whig
Robert Ward Johnson	1847-1853	Democratic
Edward A. Warren	1853-1855 and 1857-1859	Democratic
Alfred B. Greenwood	1853-1859	Democratic
Albert Rust	1855-1857 and 1859-1861	Democratic
Thomas C. Hindman	1859-1861	Democratic
James M. Hinds	1868	Republican
Logan Holt Roots	1868-1871	Republican
Thomas Boles	1868-1871 and 1872-1873	Republican
James T. Elliott	1869	Republican
Anthony A.C. Rogers	1869-1871	Democratic
John Edwards	1871-1872	Republican
James M. Hanks	1871-1873	Democratic
Oliver P. Snyder	1871-1875	Republican
William W. Wilshire	1873-1874 and 1875-1877	Republican
Asa Hodges	1873-1875	Republican
William Joseph Hynes	1873-1875	Republican
Thomas M. Gunter	1874-1883	Democratic
Lucien C. Gause	1875-1879	Democratic
William Ferguson Slemons	1875-1881	Democratic
Jordan E. Cravens	1877-1883	Democratic
Poindexter Dunn	1879-1889	Democratic
James Kimbrough Jones	1881-1885	Democratic
John H. Rogers	1883-1891	Democratic
Samuel W. Peel	1883-1893	Democratic
Clifton R. Breckinridge	1883-1894	Democratic
Thomas Chipman McRae	1885-1903	Democratic
William H. Cate	1889-1890 and 1891-1893	Democratic
Lewis P. Featherstone	1890-1891	Laborite
William L. Terry	1891-1901	Democratic
Robert Neill	1893-1897	Democratic
Philip D. McCulloch, Jr.	1893-1903	Democratic
Hugh A. Dinsmore	1893-1905	Democratic
John Sebastian Little	1894-1907	Democratic
Stephen Brundidge, Jr.	1897-1909	Democratic

Footnotes

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Arkansas' current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

John Boozman (R)

Tom Cotton (R)

Representatives

District 1

Rick Crawford (R)

District 2

French Hill (R)

District 3

Steve Womack (R)

District 4

Bruce Westerman (R)

Republican Party (6)