List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 96th Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 96th United States Congress listed by seniority.
As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 96th Congress (January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981). Current seats and party affiliations on the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority will be different for certain members. ^[1]

Seniority depends on the date on which members were sworn into office. Since many members are sworn in on the same day, subsequent ranking is based on previous congressional service of the individual and then by alphabetical order by the last name of the congressman.

Committee chairmanship in the House is often associated with seniority. However, party leadership is typically not associated with seniority.

Note: The "*" indicates that the representative/delegate may have served one or more non-consecutive terms while in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

U.S. House Seniority List

U.S. House Seniority

Rank	Representative	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Jamie Whitten	D	MS-01	November 4, 1941	20th term	Dean of the House
2	Charles Melvin Price	D	IL-23	January 3, 1945	18th term
3	Charles Edward Bennett	D	FL-03	January 3, 1949	16th term
4	Richard Walker Bolling	D	MO-05	January 3, 1949	16th term
5	Carl D. Perkins	D	KY-07	January 3, 1949	16th term
6	Peter W. Rodino	D	NJ-10	January 3, 1949	16th term
7	Harley Orrin Staggers	D	WV-02	January 3, 1949	16th term	Left the House in 1981.
8	Tom Steed	D	OK-04	January 3, 1949	16th term	Left the House in 1981.
9	Clement J. Zablocki	D	WI-04	January 3, 1949	16th term
10	Edward Boland	D	MA-02	January 3, 1953	14th term
11	Jack Brooks	D	TX-09	January 3, 1953	14th term
12	Lawrence H. Fountain	D	NC-02	January 3, 1953	14th term
13	Tip O'Neill	D	MA-08	January 3, 1953	14th term	Speaker of the House
14	John J. Rhodes	R	AZ-01	January 3, 1953	14th term
15	Bob Wilson	R	CA-41	January 3, 1953	14th term	Left the House in 1981.
16	William Natcher	D	KY-02	August 1, 1953	14th term
17	Thomas W. L. Ashley	D	OH-09	January 3, 1955	13th term	Left the House in 1981.
18	Charles Diggs	D	MI-13	January 3, 1955	13th term	Resigned on June 3, 1980.
19	Dante Fascell	D	FL-15	January 3, 1955	13th term
20	Daniel J. Flood	D	PA-11	January 3, 1955 Previous service, 1945–1947 and 1949–1953.	16th term**	Resigned on January 31, 1980.
21	Henry S. Reuss	D	WI-05	January 3, 1955	13th term
22	Frank Thompson	D	NJ-04	January 3, 1955	13th term	Resigned on December 29, 1980.
23	Charles Vanik	D	OH-22	January 3, 1955	13th term	Left the House in 1981.
24	Jim Wright	D	TX-12	January 3, 1955	13th term
25	John Dingell	D	MI-16	December 13, 1955	13th term
26	William Broomfield	R	MI-19	January 3, 1957	12th term
27	Robert Michel	R	IL-18	January 3, 1957	12th term
28	Al Ullman	D	OR-02	January 3, 1957	12th term	Left the House in 1981.
29	John Brademas	D	IN-03	January 3, 1959	11th term	Left the House in 1981.
30	Silvio O. Conte	R	MA-01	January 3, 1959	11th term
31	Ed Derwinski	R	IL-04	January 3, 1959	11th term
32	Samuel L. Devine	R	OH-12	January 3, 1959	11th term	Left the House in 1981.
33	Robert Giaimo	D	CT-03	January 3, 1959	11th term	Left the House in 1981.
34	Harold T. Johnson	D	CA-01	January 3, 1959	11th term	Left the House in 1981.
35	Robert Kastenmeier	D	WI-02	January 3, 1959	11th term
36	Del Latta	R	OH-05	January 3, 1959	11th term
37	William S. Moorhead	D	PA-14	January 3, 1959	11th term
38	Dan Rostenkowski	D	IL-08	January 3, 1959	11th term
39	John M. Slack, Jr.	D	WV-03	January 3, 1959	11th term	Died on March 17, 1980.
40	Neal Smith	D	IA-04	January 3, 1959	11th term
41	Samuel S. Stratton	D	NY-28	January 3, 1959	11th term
42	Joseph Patrick Addabbo	D	NY-07	January 3, 1961	10th term
43	John B. Anderson	R	IL-16	January 3, 1961	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
44	John M. Ashbrook	R	OH-17	January 3, 1961	10th term
45	James C. Corman	D	CA-21	January 3, 1961	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
46	Paul Findley	R	IL-20	January 3, 1961	10th term
47	Fernand St. Germain	D	RI-01	January 3, 1961	10th term
48	Bill Harsha	R	OH-06	January 3, 1961	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
49	Richard Howard Ichord, Jr.	D	MO-08	January 3, 1961	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
50	Mo Udall	D	AZ-02	May 2, 1961	10th term
51	Henry B. González	D	TX-20	November 4, 1961	10th term
52	Lucien N. Nedzi	D	MI-14	November 7, 1961	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
53	Ray Roberts	D	TX-04	January 30, 1962	10th term	Left the House in 1981.
54	Benjamin S. Rosenthal	D	NY-08	February 20, 1962	10th term
55	Jim Broyhill	R	NC-10	January 3, 1963	09th term
56	James Colgate Cleveland	R	NH-02	January 3, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
57	Lionel Van Deerlin	D	CA-42	January 3, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
58	Don Edwards	D	CA-10	January 3, 1963	09th term
59	Don Fuqua	D	FL-02	January 3, 1963	09th term
60	Sam Gibbons	D	FL-07	January 3, 1963	09th term
61	Augustus F. Hawkins	D	CA-29	January 3, 1963	09th term
62	Frank Horton	R	NY-34	January 3, 1963	09th term
63	Clarence Long	D	MD-02	January 3, 1963	09th term
64	Robert McClory	R	IL-13	January 3, 1963	09th term
65	Joseph McDade	R	PA-10	January 3, 1963	09th term
66	Joseph Minish	D	NJ-11	January 3, 1963	09th term
67	John M. Murphy	D	NY-17	January 3, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
68	Edward J. Patten	D	NJ-15	January 3, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
69	Claude Pepper	D	FL-14	January 3, 1963	09th term
70	Jimmy Quillen	R	TN-01	January 3, 1963	09th term
71	Edward R. Roybal	D	CA-25	January 3, 1963	09th term
72	Charles H. Wilson	D	CA-31	January 3, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
73	John W. Wydler	D	NY-05	January 3, 1963	09th term
74	Don H. Clausen	R	CA-02	January 22, 1963	09th term
75	Mark Andrews	R	ND	October 22, 1963	09th term	Left the House in 1981.
76	J. J. Pickle	D	TX-10	December 21, 1963	09th term
77	Phillip Burton	D	CA-06	February 18, 1964	09th term
78	Frank Annunzio	D	IL-11	January 3, 1965	08th term
79	Jonathan Brewster Bingham	D	NY-22	January 3, 1965	08th term
80	John Hall Buchanan, Jr.	R	AL-06	January 3, 1965	08th term	Left the House in 1981.
81	Tim Lee Carter	R	KY-05	January 3, 1965	08th term
82	Barber Conable	R	NY-35	January 3, 1965	08th term
83	John Conyers	D	MI-01	January 3, 1965	08th term
84	Bill Dickinson	R	AL-02	January 3, 1965	08th term
85	John Duncan, Sr.	R	TN-02	January 3, 1965	08th term
86	Jack Edwards	R	AL-01	January 3, 1965	08th term
87	John N. Erlenborn	R	IL-14	January 3, 1965	08th term
88	Tom Foley	D	WA-05	January 3, 1965	08th term
89	William Ford	D	MI-15	January 3, 1965	08th term
90	Kika De la Garza	D	TX-15	January 3, 1965	08th term
91	Lee Hamilton	D	IN-09	January 3, 1965	08th term
92	James M. Hanley	D	NY-32	January 3, 1965	08th term	Left the House in 1981.
93	James J. Howard	D	NJ-03	January 3, 1965	08th term
94	Robert C. McEwen	R	NY-30	January 3, 1965	08th term	Left the House in 1981.
95	David E. Satterfield III	D	VA-03	January 3, 1965	08th term	Left the House in 1981.
96	J. William Stanton	R	OH-11	January 3, 1965	08th term
97	Richard Crawford White	D	TX-16	January 3, 1965	08th term
98	Lester L. Wolff	D	NY-06	January 3, 1965	08th term	Left the House in 1981.
99	Sidney Yates	D	IL-09	January 3, 1965 Previous service, 1949–1963.	15th term*
100	Clarence Brown, Jr.	R	OH-07	November 2, 1965	08th term
101	Walter B. Jones, Sr.	D	NC-01	February 5, 1966	08th term
102	Guy Vander Jagt	R	MI-09	November 8, 1966	08th term
103	Tom Bevill	D	AL-04	January 3, 1967	07th term
104	Jack Thomas Brinkley	D	GA-03	January 3, 1967	07th term
105	Robert C. Eckhardt	D	TX-08	January 3, 1967	07th term	Left the House in 1981.
106	John Paul Hammerschmidt	R	AR-03	January 3, 1967	07th term
107	Margaret Heckler	R	MA-10	January 3, 1967	07th term
108	Abraham Kazen	D	TX-23	January 3, 1967	07th term
109	Clarence E. Miller	R	OH-10	January 3, 1967	07th term
110	Sonny Montgomery	D	MS-03	January 3, 1967	07th term
111	John Myers	R	IN-07	January 3, 1967	07th term
112	Bill Nichols	D	AL-03	January 3, 1967	07th term
113	Tom Railsback	R	IL-19	January 3, 1967	07th term
114	Gene Snyder	R	KY-04	January 3, 1967 Previous service, 1963–1965.	08th term*
115	William C. Wampler	R	VA-09	January 3, 1967 Previous service, 1953–1955.	08th term*
116	Larry Winn	R	KS-03	January 3, 1967	07th term
117	Chalmers Wylie	R	OH-15	January 3, 1967	07th term
118	Pete McCloskey	R	CA-12	December 12, 1967	07th term
119	James M. Collins	R	TX-03	August 24, 1968	07th term
120	Joseph M. Gaydos	D	PA-20	November 5, 1968	07th term
121	Bill Alexander	D	AR-01	January 3, 1969	06th term
122	Glenn M. Anderson	D	CA-32	January 3, 1969	06th term
123	Mario Biaggi	D	NY-10	January 3, 1969	06th term
124	Bill Burlison	D	MO-10	January 3, 1969	06th term	Left the House in 1981.
125	William V. Chappell, Jr.	D	FL-04	January 3, 1969	06th term
126	Shirley Chisholm	D	NY-12	January 3, 1969	06th term
127	Bill Clay	D	MO-01	January 3, 1969	06th term
128	Lawrence Coughlin	R	PA-13	January 3, 1969	06th term
129	Dan Daniel	D	VA-05	January 3, 1969	06th term
130	Hamilton Fish	R	NY-25	January 3, 1969	06th term
131	Bob Mollohan	D	WV-01	January 3, 1969 Previous service, 1953–1957.	08th term*
132	Manuel Lujan, Jr.	R	NM-01	January 3, 1969	06th term
133	L. Richardson Preyer	D	NC-06	January 3, 1969	06th term	Left the House in 1981.
134	Keith Sebelius	R	KS-01	January 3, 1969	06th term	Left the House in 1981.
135	Louis Stokes	D	OH-21	January 3, 1969	06th term
136	G. William Whitehurst	R	VA-02	January 3, 1969	06th term
137	Gus Yatron	D	PA-06	January 3, 1969	06th term
138	Ed Jones	D	TN-07	March 25, 1969	06th term
139	Dave Obey	D	WI-07	April 1, 1969	06th term
140	Barry Goldwater, Jr.	R	CA-20	April 29, 1969	06th term
141	Robert A. Roe	D	NJ-08	November 4, 1969	06th term
142	Phil Crane	R	IL-12	November 25, 1969	06th term
143	John H. Rousselot	R	CA-26	June 30, 1970 Previous service, 1961–1963.	07th term*
144	Edwin B. Forsythe	R	NJ-06	November 3, 1970	06th term
145	Bill Archer	R	TX-07	January 3, 1971	05th term
146	Les Aspin	D	WI-01	January 3, 1971	05th term
147	William R. Cotter	D	CT-01	January 3, 1971	05th term
148	George E. Danielson	D	CA-30	January 3, 1971	05th term
149	Ron Dellums	D	CA-08	January 3, 1971	05th term
150	Robert Drinan	D	MA-04	January 3, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
151	Bill Frenzel	R	MN-03	January 3, 1971	05th term
152	Jack Kemp	R	NY-38	January 3, 1971	05th term
153	Elwood Hillis	R	IN-05	January 3, 1971	05th term
154	Norman F. Lent	R	NY-04	January 3, 1971	05th term
155	Dawson Mathis	D	GA-02	January 3, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
156	Romano Mazzoli	D	KY-03	January 3, 1971	05th term
157	Mike McCormack	D	WA-04	January 3, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
158	K. Gunn McKay	D	UT-01	January 3, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
159	Stewart McKinney	R	CT-04	January 3, 1971	05th term
160	Parren Mitchell	D	MD-07	January 3, 1971	05th term
161	Morgan F. Murphy	D	IL-02	January 3, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
162	Charles B. Rangel	D	NY-19	January 3, 1971	05th term
163	J. Kenneth Robinson	R	VA-07	January 3, 1971	05th term
164	Harold L. Runnels	D	NM-02	January 3, 1971	05th term	Died on August 5, 1980.
165	John F. Seiberling	D	OH-14	January 3, 1971	05th term
166	Floyd Spence	R	SC-02	January 3, 1971	05th term
167	Bill Young	R	FL-06	January 3, 1971	05th term
168	Mendel Jackson Davis	D	SC-01	April 27, 1971	05th term	Left the House in 1981.
169	John Breaux	D	LA-07	September 30, 1972	05th term
170	M. Caldwell Butler	R	VA-06	November 7, 1972	05th term
171	James Abdnor	D	SD-02	January 3, 1973	04th term	Left the House in 1981.
172	Ike F. Andrews	D	NC-04	January 3, 1973	04th term
173	Louis A. Bafalis	R	FL-10	January 3, 1973	04th term
174	Robin Beard	R	TN-06	January 3, 1973	04th term
175	David R. Bowen	D	MS-02	January 3, 1973	04th term
176	George Brown, Jr.	D	CA-36	January 3, 1973 Previous service, 1963–1971.	08th term*
177	Clair Burgener	R	CA-43	January 3, 1973	04th term
178	Robert Daniel	R	VA-04	January 3, 1973	04th term
179	Benjamin A. Gilman	R	NY-26	January 3, 1973	04th term
180	Ronald Ginn	D	GA-01	January 3, 1973	04th term
181	Tennyson Guyer	R	OH-04	January 3, 1973	04th term
182	Marjorie Holt	R	MD-04	January 3, 1973	04th term
183	Elizabeth Holtzman	D	NY-16	January 3, 1973	04th term	Left the House in 1981.
184	James P. Johnson	R	CO-04	January 3, 1973	04th term	Left the House in 1981.
185	James Robert Jones	D	OK-01	January 3, 1973	04th term
186	William Lehman	D	FL-13	January 3, 1973	04th term
187	Gillis W. Long	D	LA-08	January 3, 1973 Previous service, 1963–1965.	05th term*
188	Trent Lott	R	MS-05	January 3, 1973	04th term
189	Edward Rell Madigan	R	IL-21	January 3, 1973	04th term
190	James G. Martin	R	NC-09	January 3, 1973	04th term
191	Donald J. Mitchell	R	NY-31	January 3, 1973	04th term
192	Joe Moakley	D	MA-09	January 3, 1973	04th term
193	Carlos Moorhead	R	CA-22	January 3, 1973	04th term
194	George M. O'Brien	R	IL-17	January 3, 1973	04th term
195	Joel Pritchard	R	WA-01	January 3, 1973	04th term
196	Ralph Regula	R	OH-16	January 3, 1973	04th term
197	Matthew John Rinaldo	R	NJ-12	January 3, 1973	04th term
198	Charlie Rose	D	NC-07	January 3, 1973	04th term
199	Patricia Schroeder	D	CO-01	January 3, 1973	04th term
200	Bud Shuster	R	PA-09	January 3, 1973	04th term
201	Pete Stark	D	CA-09	January 3, 1973	04th term
202	Gerry Studds	D	MA-12	January 3, 1973	04th term
203	Steve Symms	R	ID-01	January 3, 1973	04th term
204	Gene Taylor	R	MO-07	January 3, 1973	04th term
205	David C. Treen	R	LA-03	January 3, 1973	04th term	Resigned on March 10, 1980.
206	Charles Wilson	D	TX-02	January 3, 1973	04th term
207	Don Young	R	AK	March 6, 1973	04th term
208	Lindy Boggs	D	LA-02	March 20, 1973	04th term
209	Cardiss Collins	D	IL-07	June 5, 1973	04th term
210	Robert Bauman	R	MD-01	August 21, 1973	04th term	Left the House in 1981.
211	John Murtha	D	PA-12	February 5, 1974	04th term
212	Robert J. Lagomarsino	R	CA-19	March 5, 1974	04th term
213	J. Bob Traxler	D	MI-08	April 23, 1974	04th term
214	John L. Burton	D	CA-05	June 4, 1974	04th term
215	Jerome Ambro	D	NY-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
216	Les AuCoin	D	OR-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
217	Alvin Baldus	D	WI-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
218	Edward Beard	D	RI-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
219	Berkley Bedell	D	IA-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
220	James Blanchard	D	MI-18	January 3, 1975	03rd term
221	Don Bonker	D	WA-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
222	William M. Brodhead	D	MI-17	January 3, 1975	03rd term
223	Bob Carr	D	MI-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
224	Butler Derrick	D	SC-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
225	Thomas Downey	D	NY-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term
226	Chris Dodd	D	CT-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
227	Norman D'Amours	D	NH-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
228	Robert B. Duncan	D	OR-03	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1963–1967.	05th term*	Left the House in 1981.
229	Joseph D. Early	D	MA-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
230	Robert W. Edgar	D	PA-07	January 3, 1975	03rd term
231	David F. Emery	R	ME-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
232	Glenn English	D	OK-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
233	David W. Evans	D	IN-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
234	Millicent Fenwick	R	NJ-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
235	Joseph L. Fisher	D	VA-10	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
236	Floyd Fithian	D	IN-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term
237	James Florio	D	NJ-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
238	Harold Ford	D	TN-08	January 3, 1975	03rd term
239	Bill Goodling	R	PA-19	January 3, 1975	03rd term
240	Bill Gradison	R	OH-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
241	Chuck Grassley	R	IA-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
242	Tom Hagedorn	R	MN-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term
243	George V. Hansen	R	ID-02	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1969.	05th term*
244	Tom Harkin	D	IA-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
245	Herbert Harris	D	VA-08	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
246	Bill Hefner	D	NC-08	January 3, 1975	03rd term
247	Jack English Hightower	D	TX-13	January 3, 1975	03rd term
248	Kenneth Lamar Holland	D	SC-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
249	Carroll Hubbard	D	KY-01	January 3, 1975	03rd term
250	William Hughes	D	NJ-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term
251	Henry Hyde	R	IL-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
252	Andrew Jacobs, Jr.	D	IN-11	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1973.	07th term*
253	Jim Jeffords	R	VT	January 3, 1975	03rd term
254	John Jenrette	R	SC-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Resigned on December 10, 1980.
255	Richard Kelly	R	FL-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
256	Tom Kindness	R	OH-08	January 3, 1975	03rd term
257	John LaFalce	D	NY-36	January 3, 1975	03rd term
258	Elliott H. Levitas	D	GA-04	January 3, 1975	03rd term
259	James F. Lloyd	D	CA-35	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
260	Marilyn Lloyd	D	TN-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
261	Andrew Maguire	D	NJ-07	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
262	Larry McDonald	D	GA-07	January 3, 1975	03rd term
263	Matthew F. McHugh	D	NY-27	January 3, 1975	03rd term
264	George Miller	D	CA-07	January 3, 1975	03rd term
265	Abner J. Mikva	D	IL-10	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1969–1973.	05th term*	Resigned on September 26, 1979.
266	Norman Mineta	D	CA-13	January 3, 1975	03rd term
267	Toby Moffett	D	CT-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
268	Henson Moore	R	LA-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term
269	Ronald M. Mottl	D	OH-23	January 3, 1975	03rd term
270	Stephen Neal	D	NC-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
271	Rick Nolan	D	MN-06	January 3, 1975	03rd term	Left the House in 1981.
272	Henry J. Nowak	D	NY-37	January 3, 1975	03rd term
273	Jim Oberstar	D	MN-08	January 3, 1975	03rd term
274	Richard Ottinger	D	NY-24	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1971.	06th term*
275	Jerry M. Patterson	D	CA-38	January 3, 1975	03rd term
276	Fred Richmond	D	NY-14	January 3, 1975	03rd term
277	Marty Russo	D	IL-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
278	James David Santini	D	NV	January 3, 1975	03rd term
279	James H. Scheuer	D	NY-11	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1973.	07th term*
280	Richard T. Schulze	R	PA-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
281	Philip Sharp	D	IN-10	January 3, 1975	03rd term
282	Paul Simon	D	IL-24	January 3, 1975	03rd term
283	Virginia D. Smith	R	NE-03	January 3, 1975	03rd term
284	Stephen J. Solarz	D	NY-13	January 3, 1975	03rd term
285	Gladys Spellman	D	MD-05	January 3, 1975	03rd term
286	Henry Waxman	D	CA-24	January 3, 1975	03rd term
287	Jim Weaver	D	OR-04	January 3, 1975	03rd term
288	Tim Wirth	D	CO-02	January 3, 1975	03rd term
289	Leo C. Zeferetti	D	NY-15	January 3, 1975	03rd term
290	John G. Fary	D	IL-05	July 8, 1975	03rd term
291	Stan Lundine	D	NY-39	March 2, 1976	03rd term
292	Sam B. Hall, Jr.	D	TX-01	June 19, 1976	03rd term
293	Earl Thomas Coleman	R	MO-06	November 2, 1976	03rd term
294	Ed Markey	D	MA-07	November 2, 1976	03rd term
295	Michael Myers	D	PA-01	November 2, 1976	03rd term	Resigned on October 2, 1980.
296	Daniel Akaka	D	HI-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term
297	Douglas Applegate	D	OH-18	January 3, 1977	02nd term
298	Robert Badham	R	CA-40	January 3, 1977	02nd term
299	Doug Barnard, Jr.	D	GA-10	January 3, 1977	02nd term
300	Anthony C. Beilenson	D	CA-23	January 3, 1977	02nd term
301	Adam Benjamin, Jr.	D	IN-01	January 3, 1977	02nd term
302	David Bonior	D	MI-12	January 3, 1977	02nd term
303	John Joseph Cavanaugh III	D	NE-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term	Left the House in 1981.
304	Tom Corcoran	R	IL-15	January 3, 1977	02nd term
305	Norm Dicks	D	WA-06	January 3, 1977	02nd term
306	Bob Dornan	R	CA-27	January 3, 1977	02nd term
307	Mickey Edwards	R	OK-05	January 3, 1977	02nd term
308	Allen E. Ertel	D	PA-17	January 3, 1977	02nd term
309	Billy Lee Evans	D	GA-08	January 3, 1977	02nd term
310	Thomas B. Evans, Jr.	R	DE	January 3, 1977	02nd term
311	Ronnie Flippo	D	AL-05	January 3, 1977	02nd term
312	Dick Gephardt	D	MO-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
313	Dan Glickman	D	KS-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
314	Al Gore	D	TN-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
315	V. Lamar Gudger	D	NC-11	January 3, 1977	02nd term	Left the House in 1981.
316	Cecil Heftel	D	HI-01	January 3, 1977	02nd term
317	Harold C. Hollenbeck	R	NJ-09	January 3, 1977	02nd term
318	Jerry Huckaby	D	LA-05	January 3, 1977	02nd term
319	Andy Ireland	D	FL-08	January 3, 1977	02nd term
320	Ed Jenkins	D	GA-09	January 3, 1977	02nd term
321	Dale Kildee	D	MI-07	January 3, 1977	02nd term
322	Peter H. Kostmayer	D	PA-08	January 3, 1977	02nd term	Left the House in 1981.
323	Jim Leach	R	IA-01	January 3, 1977	02nd term
324	Raymond F. Lederer	D	PA-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
325	Tom Luken	D	OH-02	January 3, 1977 Previous service, 1974–1975.	03rd term*
326	Marc L. Marks	R	PA-24	January 3, 1977	02nd term
327	Ron Marlenee	R	MT-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term
328	David D. Marriott	R	UT-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term
329	Jim Mattox	D	TX-05	January 3, 1977	02nd term
330	Barbara Mikulski	D	MD-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
331	Austin Murphy	D	PA-22	January 3, 1977	02nd term
332	Mary Rose Oakar	D	OH-20	January 3, 1977	02nd term
333	Leon Panetta	D	CA-16	January 3, 1977	02nd term
334	Donald J. Pease	D	OH-13	January 3, 1977	02nd term
335	Carl Pursell	R	MI-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term
336	Dan Quayle	R	IN-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term	Left the House in 1981.
337	Nick Rahall	D	WV-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
338	Eldon Rudd	R	AZ-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
339	Harold S. Sawyer	R	MI-05	January 3, 1977	02nd term
340	Ike Skelton	D	MO-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
341	David Stockman	R	MI-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
342	Bob Stump	D	AZ-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
343	Paul S. Trible, Jr.	R	VA-01	January 3, 1977	02nd term
344	Bruce Vento	D	MN-04	January 3, 1977	02nd term
345	Harold Volkmer	D	MO-09	January 3, 1977	02nd term
346	Doug Walgren	D	PA-18	January 3, 1977	02nd term
347	Robert Walker	R	PA-16	January 3, 1977	02nd term
348	Wes Watkins	D	OK-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
349	Theodore S. Weiss	D	NY-20	January 3, 1977	02nd term
350	Charles Whitley	D	NC-03	January 3, 1977	02nd term
351	Robert A. Young	D	MO-02	January 3, 1977	02nd term
352	Arlan Stangeland	R	MN-07	February 22, 1977	02nd term
353	Wyche Fowler	D	GA-05	April 6, 1977	02nd term
354	Bob Livingston	R	LA-01	August 27, 1977	02nd term
355	S. William Green	R	NY-18	February 14, 1978	02nd term
356	Robert Garcia	D	NY-21	February 21, 1978	02nd term
357	Donald J. Albosta	D	MI-10	January 3, 1979	01st term
358	Eugene Atkinson	D	PA-25	January 3, 1979	01st term
359	Beryl Anthony, Jr.	D	AR-04	January 3, 1979	01st term
360	Donald A. Bailey	D	PA-21	January 3, 1979	01st term
361	Michael D. Barnes	D	MD-08	January 3, 1979	01st term
362	Doug Bereuter	R	NE-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
363	Ed Bethune	R	AR-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
364	Bill Boner	D	TN-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
365	Beverly Byron	D	MD-06	January 3, 1979	01st term
366	Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.	R	SC-04	January 3, 1979	01st term
367	William Carney	R	NY-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
368	Dick Cheney	R	WY	January 3, 1979	01st term
369	Bill Clinger	R	PA-23	January 3, 1979	01st term
370	Tony Coelho	D	CA-15	January 3, 1979	01st term
371	Jim Courter	R	NJ-13	January 3, 1979	01st term
372	Dan Crane	R	IL-22	January 3, 1979	01st term
373	William E. Dannemeyer	R	CA-39	January 3, 1979	01st term
374	Thomas Daschle	D	SD-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
375	Robert William Davis	R	MI-11	January 3, 1979	01st term
376	H. Joel Deckard	R	IN-08	January 3, 1979	01st term
377	Julian C. Dixon	D	CA-28	January 3, 1979	01st term
378	Brian J. Donnelly	D	MA-11	January 3, 1979	01st term
379	Charles F. Dougherty	D	PA-04	January 3, 1979	01st term
380	Arlen Erdahl	R	MN-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
381	Vic Fazio	D	CA-04	January 3, 1979	01st term
382	Geraldine Ferraro	D	NY-09	January 3, 1979	01st term
383	Martin Frost	D	TX-24	January 3, 1979	01st term
384	Newt Gingrich	R	GA-06	January 3, 1979	01st term
385	Phil Gramm	D	TX-06	January 3, 1979	01st term
386	William H. Gray	D	PA-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
387	Wayne R. Grisham	R	CA-33	January 3, 1979	01st term
388	Frank Joseph Guarini	D	NJ-14	January 3, 1979	01st term
389	Tony Hall	D	OH-03	January 3, 1979	01st term
390	Kent Hance	D	TX-19	January 3, 1979	01st term
391	Jon Hinson	R	MS-04	January 3, 1979	01st term
392	Larry J. Hopkins	R	KY-06	January 3, 1979	01st term
393	Earl Dewitt Hutto	D	FL-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
394	James Edmund Jeffries	R	KS-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
395	Raymond P. Kogovsek	D	CO-03	January 3, 1979	01st term
396	Ken Kramer	R	CO-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
397	Buddy Leach	D	LA-04	January 3, 1979	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
398	Marvin Leath	D	TX-11	January 3, 1979	01st term
399	Gary A. Lee	R	NY-33	January 3, 1979	01st term
400	Mickey Leland	D	TX-18	January 3, 1979	01st term
401	Jerry Lewis	R	CA-37	January 3, 1979	01st term
402	Tom Loeffler	R	TX-21	January 3, 1979	01st term
403	Mike Lowry	D	WA-07	January 3, 1979	01st term
404	Dan Lungren	R	CA-34	January 3, 1979	01st term
405	Nicholas Mavroules	D	MA-06	January 3, 1979	01st term
406	Bob Matsui	D	CA-03	January 3, 1979	01st term
407	Dan Mica	D	FL-11	January 3, 1979	01st term
408	Bill Nelson	D	FL-09	January 3, 1979	01st term
409	Chip Pashayan	R	CA-17	January 3, 1979	01st term
410	Peter A. Peyser	D	NY-23	January 3, 1979 Previous service, 1971–1977.	04th term*
411	Ron Paul	R	TX-22	January 3, 1979 Previous service, 1976–1977.	02nd term*
412	William R. Ratchford	D	CT-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
413	Donald L. Ritter	R	PA-15	January 3, 1979	01st term
414	Toby Roth	R	WI-08	January 3, 1979	01st term
415	Martin Olav Sabo	D	MN-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
416	James Sensenbrenner	R	WI-09	January 3, 1979	01st term
417	James Shannon	D	MA-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
418	Richard Shelby	D	AL-07	January 3, 1979	01st term
419	Norman D. Shumway	R	CA-14	January 3, 1979	01st term
420	Olympia Snowe	R	ME-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
421	Gerald Solomon	R	NY-29	January 3, 1979	01st term
422	Edward J. Stack	D	FL-12	January 3, 1979	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
423	Charles Stenholm	D	TX-17	January 3, 1979	01st term
424	Bennett M. Stewart	D	IL-01	January 3, 1979	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
425	Al Swift	D	WA-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
426	Mike Synar	D	OK-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
427	Tom Tauke	R	IA-02	January 3, 1979	01st term
428	Bill Thomas	R	CA-18	January 3, 1979	01st term
429	Bob Whittaker	R	KS-05	January 3, 1979	01st term
430	Pat Williams	D	MT-01	January 3, 1979	01st term
431	Lyle Williams	R	OH-19	January 3, 1979	01st term
432	Howard Wolpe	D	MI-03	January 3, 1979	01st term
433	Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr.	D	TX-14	January 3, 1979	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
434	Tom Petri	R	WI-06	April 3, 1979	01st term
	William Royer	R	CA-11	April 3, 1979	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
	John Porter	R	IL-10	January 22, 1980	01st term
	Ray Musto	D	PA-11	April 9, 1980	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
	Billy Tauzin	D	LA-03	May 22, 1980	01st term
	John G. Hutchinson	D	WV-03	June 3, 1980	01st term	Left the House in 1981.
	George W. Crockett, Jr.	D	MI-13	November 4, 1980	01st term

Delegates

Rank	Delegate	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Walter E. Fauntroy	D	DC	March 23, 1971	05th term
2	Antonio Borja Won Pat	D	GU	January 3, 1973	04th term
3	Baltasar Corrada del Río	D	PR	January 3, 1977	02nd term
4	Melvin H. Evans	R	VI	January 3, 1979	01st term

References

1. Delegates are non-voting members and Representatives are voting members of the United States House of Representatives.

 This article incorporates  public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov .

• United States Congressional Elections 1788-1997, by Michael J. Dubin (McFarland and Company 1998) ISBN   0-7864-0283-0

See also

• 96th United States Congress
• List of United States congressional districts
• List of United States Senators in the 96th Congress by seniority

External links

• Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives