List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 97th Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 97th United States Congress listed by seniority.
As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 97th Congress (January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983). 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	21st term	Dean of the House
2	Charles Melvin Price	D	IL-23	January 3, 1945	19th term
3	Charles Edward Bennett	D	FL-03	January 3, 1949	17th term
4	Richard Walker Bolling	D	MO-05	January 3, 1949	17th term	Left the House in 1983.
5	Carl D. Perkins	D	KY-07	January 3, 1949	17th term
6	Peter W. Rodino	D	NJ-10	January 3, 1949	17th term
7	Clement J. Zablocki	D	WI-04	January 3, 1949	17th term
8	Edward Boland	D	MA-02	January 3, 1953	15th term
9	Jack Brooks	D	TX-09	January 3, 1953	15th term
10	Lawrence H. Fountain	D	NC-02	January 3, 1953	15th term	Left the House in 1983.
11	Tip O'Neill	D	MA-08	January 3, 1953	15th term	Speaker of the House
12	John J. Rhodes	R	AZ-01	January 3, 1953	15th term	Left the House in 1983.
13	William Natcher	D	KY-02	August 1, 1953	15th term
14	Dante Fascell	D	FL-15	January 3, 1955	14th term
15	Henry S. Reuss	D	WI-05	January 3, 1955	14th term	Left the House in 1983.
16	Jim Wright	D	TX-12	January 3, 1955	14th term
17	John Dingell	D	MI-16	December 13, 1955	14th term
18	William Broomfield	R	MI-19	January 3, 1957	13th term
19	Robert Michel	R	IL-18	January 3, 1957	13th term
20	Silvio O. Conte	R	MA-01	January 3, 1959	12th term
21	Ed Derwinski	R	IL-04	January 3, 1959	12th term	Left the House in 1983.
22	Robert Kastenmeier	D	WI-02	January 3, 1959	12th term
23	Del Latta	R	OH-05	January 3, 1959	12th term
24	Dan Rostenkowski	D	IL-08	January 3, 1959	12th term
25	Neal Smith	D	IA-04	January 3, 1959	12th term
26	Samuel S. Stratton	D	NY-28	January 3, 1959	12th term
27	Joseph Patrick Addabbo	D	NY-07	January 3, 1961	11th term
28	Fernand St. Germain	D	RI-01	January 3, 1961	11th term
29	John M. Ashbrook	R	OH-17	January 3, 1961	11th term	Died on April 24, 1982.
30	Paul Findley	R	IL-20	January 3, 1961	11th term	Left the House in 1983.
31	Mo Udall	D	AZ-02	May 2, 1961	11th term
32	Henry B. González	D	TX-20	November 4, 1961	11th term
33	Benjamin S. Rosenthal	D	NY-08	February 20, 1962	11th term
34	Jim Broyhill	R	NC-10	January 3, 1963	10th term
35	Don Edwards	D	CA-10	January 3, 1963	10th term
36	Don Fuqua	D	FL-02	January 3, 1963	10th term
37	Sam Gibbons	D	FL-07	January 3, 1963	10th term
38	Augustus F. Hawkins	D	CA-29	January 3, 1963	10th term
39	Frank Horton	R	NY-34	January 3, 1963	10th term
40	Clarence Long	D	MD-02	January 3, 1963	10th term
41	Robert McClory	R	IL-13	January 3, 1963	10th term	Left the House in 1983.
42	Joseph McDade	R	PA-10	January 3, 1963	10th term
43	Joseph Minish	D	NJ-11	January 3, 1963	10th term
44	Claude Pepper	D	FL-14	January 3, 1963	10th term
45	Jimmy Quillen	R	TN-01	January 3, 1963	10th term
46	Edward R. Roybal	D	CA-25	January 3, 1963	10th term
47	Don H. Clausen	R	CA-02	January 22, 1963	10th term	Left the House in 1983.
48	J. J. Pickle	D	TX-10	December 21, 1963	10th term
49	Phillip Burton	D	CA-06	February 18, 1964	10th term
50	Frank Annunzio	D	IL-11	January 3, 1965	09th term
51	Jonathan Brewster Bingham	D	NY-22	January 3, 1965	09th term	Left the House in 1983.
52	Barber Conable	R	NY-35	January 3, 1965	09th term
53	John Conyers	D	MI-01	January 3, 1965	09th term
54	Bill Dickinson	R	AL-02	January 3, 1965	09th term
55	John Duncan, Sr.	R	TN-02	January 3, 1965	09th term
56	Jack Edwards	R	AL-01	January 3, 1965	09th term
57	John N. Erlenborn	R	IL-14	January 3, 1965	09th term
58	Tom Foley	D	WA-05	January 3, 1965	09th term
59	William Ford	D	MI-15	January 3, 1965	09th term
60	Kika De la Garza	D	TX-15	January 3, 1965	09th term
61	Lee Hamilton	D	IN-09	January 3, 1965	09th term
62	James J. Howard	D	NJ-03	January 3, 1965	09th term
63	J. William Stanton	R	OH-11	January 3, 1965	09th term	Left the House in 1983.
64	Richard Crawford White	D	TX-16	January 3, 1965	09th term	Left the House in 1983.
65	Sidney Yates	D	IL-09	January 3, 1965 Previous service, 1949–1963.	16th term*
66	Clarence Brown, Jr.	R	OH-07	November 2, 1965	09th term	Left the House in 1983.
67	Walter B. Jones, Sr.	D	NC-01	February 5, 1966	09th term
68	Guy Vander Jagt	R	MI-09	November 8, 1966	09th term
69	Tom Bevill	D	AL-04	January 3, 1967	08th term
70	Jack Thomas Brinkley	D	GA-03	January 3, 1967	08th term	Left the House in 1983.
71	John Paul Hammerschmidt	R	AR-03	January 3, 1967	08th term
72	Margaret Heckler	R	MA-10	January 3, 1967	08th term	Left the House in 1983.
73	Abraham Kazen	D	TX-23	January 3, 1967	08th term
74	Clarence E. Miller	R	OH-10	January 3, 1967	08th term
75	Sonny Montgomery	D	MS-03	January 3, 1967	08th term
76	John Myers	R	IN-07	January 3, 1967	08th term
77	Bill Nichols	D	AL-03	January 3, 1967	08th term
78	Tom Railsback	R	IL-19	January 3, 1967	08th term	Left the House in 1983.
79	Gene Snyder	R	KY-04	January 3, 1967 Previous service, 1963–1965.	09th term*
80	William C. Wampler	R	VA-09	January 3, 1967 Previous service, 1953–1955.	09th term*	Left the House in 1983.
81	Larry Winn	R	KS-03	January 3, 1967	08th term
82	Chalmers Wylie	R	OH-15	January 3, 1967	08th term
83	Pete McCloskey	D	CA-12	December 12, 1967	08th term	Left the House in 1983.
84	James M. Collins	R	TX-03	August 24, 1968	08th term	Left the House in 1983.
85	Joseph M. Gaydos	D	PA-20	November 5, 1968	08th term
86	Bill Alexander	D	AR-01	January 3, 1969	07th term
87	Glenn M. Anderson	D	CA-32	January 3, 1969	07th term
88	Mario Biaggi	D	NY-10	January 3, 1969	07th term
89	William V. Chappell, Jr.	D	FL-04	January 3, 1969	07th term
90	Shirley Chisholm	D	NY-12	January 3, 1969	07th term	Left the House in 1983.
91	Bill Clay	D	MO-01	January 3, 1969	07th term
92	Lawrence Coughlin	R	PA-13	January 3, 1969	07th term
93	Dan Daniel	D	VA-05	January 3, 1969	07th term
94	Hamilton Fish	R	NY-25	January 3, 1969	07th term
95	Manuel Lujan, Jr.	R	NM-01	January 3, 1969	07th term
96	Bob Mollohan	D	WV-01	January 3, 1969 Previous service, 1953–1957.	09th term*	Left the House in 1983.
97	Louis Stokes	D	OH-21	January 3, 1969	07th term
98	G. William Whitehurst	R	VA-02	January 3, 1969	07th term
99	Gus Yatron	D	PA-06	January 3, 1969	07th term
100	Ed Jones	D	TN-07	March 25, 1969	07th term
101	Dave Obey	D	WI-07	April 1, 1969	07th term
102	Barry Goldwater, Jr.	R	CA-20	April 29, 1969	07th term	Left the House in 1983.
103	Robert A. Roe	D	NJ-08	November 4, 1969	07th term
104	Phil Crane	R	IL-12	November 25, 1969	07th term
105	John H. Rousselot	R	CA-26	June 30, 1970 Previous service, 1961–1963.	08th term*	Left the House in 1983.
106	Edwin B. Forsythe	R	NJ-06	November 3, 1970	07th term
107	Bill Archer	R	TX-07	January 3, 1971	06th term
108	Les Aspin	D	WI-01	January 3, 1971	06th term
109	William R. Cotter	D	CT-01	January 3, 1971	06th term	Died on September 8, 1981.
110	George E. Danielson	D	CA-30	January 3, 1971	06th term	Resigned on March 9, 1982.
111	Ron Dellums	D	CA-08	January 3, 1971	06th term
112	Bill Frenzel	R	MN-03	January 3, 1971	06th term
113	Elwood Hillis	R	IN-05	January 3, 1971	06th term
114	Jack Kemp	R	NY-38	January 3, 1971	06th term
115	Norman F. Lent	R	NY-04	January 3, 1971	06th term
116	Stewart McKinney	R	CT-04	January 3, 1971	06th term
117	Romano Mazzoli	D	KY-03	January 3, 1971	06th term
118	Parren Mitchell	D	MD-07	January 3, 1971	06th term
119	Charles B. Rangel	D	NY-19	January 3, 1971	06th term
120	J. Kenneth Robinson	R	VA-07	January 3, 1971	06th term
121	John F. Seiberling	D	OH-14	January 3, 1971	06th term
122	Floyd Spence	R	SC-02	January 3, 1971	06th term
123	Bill Young	R	FL-06	January 3, 1971	06th term
124	John Breaux	D	LA-07	September 30, 1972	06th term
125	M. Caldwell Butler	R	VA-06	November 7, 1972	06th term	Left the House in 1983.
126	Ike F. Andrews	D	NC-04	January 3, 1973	05th term
127	Louis A. Bafalis	R	FL-10	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
128	Robin Beard	R	TN-06	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
129	David R. Bowen	D	MS-02	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
130	George Brown, Jr.	D	CA-36	January 3, 1973 Previous service, 1963–1971.	09th term*
131	Clair Burgener	R	CA-43	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
132	Robert Daniel	R	VA-04	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
133	Benjamin A. Gilman	R	NY-26	January 3, 1973	05th term
134	Ronald Ginn	D	GA-01	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
135	Tennyson Guyer	R	OH-04	January 3, 1973	05th term	Died on April 12, 1981.
136	Marjorie Holt	R	MD-04	January 3, 1973	05th term
137	James Robert Jones	D	OK-01	January 3, 1973	05th term
138	William Lehman	D	FL-13	January 3, 1973	05th term
139	Gillis W. Long	D	LA-08	January 3, 1973 Previous service, 1963–1965.	06th term*
140	Trent Lott	R	MS-05	January 3, 1973	05th term
141	Edward Rell Madigan	R	IL-21	January 3, 1973	05th term
142	James G. Martin	R	NC-09	January 3, 1973	05th term
143	Donald J. Mitchell	R	NY-31	January 3, 1973	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
144	Joe Moakley	D	MA-09	January 3, 1973	05th term
145	Carlos Moorhead	R	CA-22	January 3, 1973	05th term
146	George M. O'Brien	R	IL-17	January 3, 1973	05th term
147	Joel Pritchard	R	WA-01	January 3, 1973	05th term
148	Ralph Regula	R	OH-16	January 3, 1973	05th term
149	Matthew John Rinaldo	R	NJ-12	January 3, 1973	05th term
150	Charlie Rose	D	NC-07	January 3, 1973	05th term
151	Patricia Schroeder	D	CO-01	January 3, 1973	05th term
152	Bud Shuster	R	PA-09	January 3, 1973	05th term
153	Pete Stark	D	CA-09	January 3, 1973	05th term
154	Gerry Studds	D	MA-12	January 3, 1973	05th term
155	Gene Taylor	R	MO-07	January 3, 1973	05th term
156	Charles Wilson	D	TX-02	January 3, 1973	05th term
157	Don Young	R	AK	March 6, 1973	05th term
158	Lindy Boggs	D	LA-02	March 20, 1973	05th term
159	Cardiss Collins	D	IL-07	June 5, 1973	05th term
160	John Murtha	D	PA-12	February 5, 1974	05th term
161	Robert J. Lagomarsino	R	CA-19	March 5, 1974	05th term
162	J. Bob Traxler	D	MI-08	April 23, 1974	05th term
163	John L. Burton	D	CA-05	June 4, 1974	05th term	Left the House in 1983.
164	Les AuCoin	D	OR-01	January 3, 1975	04th term
165	Berkley Bedell	D	IA-06	January 3, 1975	04th term
166	James Blanchard	D	MI-18	January 3, 1975	04th term	Resigned on January 1, 1983.
167	Don Bonker	D	WA-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
168	William M. Brodhead	D	MI-17	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
169	Butler Derrick	D	SC-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
170	Thomas Downey	D	NY-02	January 3, 1975	04th term
171	Norman D'Amours	D	NH-01	January 3, 1975	04th term
172	Joseph D. Early	D	MA-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
173	Robert W. Edgar	D	PA-07	January 3, 1975	04th term
174	David F. Emery	R	ME-01	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
175	Glenn English	D	OK-06	January 3, 1975	04th term
176	David W. Evans	D	IN-06	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
177	Millicent Fenwick	R	NJ-05	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
178	Floyd Fithian	D	IN-02	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
179	James Florio	D	NJ-01	January 3, 1975	04th term
180	Harold Ford	D	TN-08	January 3, 1975	04th term
181	Bill Goodling	R	PA-19	January 3, 1975	04th term
182	Bill Gradison	R	OH-01	January 3, 1975	04th term
183	Tom Hagedorn	R	MN-02	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
184	George V. Hansen	R	ID-02	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1969.	06th term*
185	Tom Harkin	D	IA-05	January 3, 1975	04th term
186	Bill Hefner	D	NC-08	January 3, 1975	04th term
187	Jack English Hightower	D	TX-13	January 3, 1975	04th term
188	Kenneth Lamar Holland	D	SC-05	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
189	Carroll Hubbard	D	KY-01	January 3, 1975	04th term
190	William Hughes	D	NJ-02	January 3, 1975	04th term
191	Henry Hyde	R	IL-06	January 3, 1975	04th term
192	Andrew Jacobs, Jr.	D	IN-11	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1973.	08th term*
193	Jim Jeffords	R	VT	January 3, 1975	04th term
194	Tom Kindness	R	OH-08	January 3, 1975	04th term
195	John LaFalce	D	NY-36	January 3, 1975	04th term
196	Elliott H. Levitas	D	GA-04	January 3, 1975	04th term
197	Marilyn Lloyd	D	TN-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
198	Larry McDonald	D	GA-07	January 3, 1975	04th term
199	Matthew F. McHugh	D	NY-27	January 3, 1975	04th term
200	George Miller	D	CA-07	January 3, 1975	04th term
201	Norman Mineta	D	CA-13	January 3, 1975	04th term
202	Toby Moffett	D	CT-06	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
203	Henson Moore	R	LA-06	January 3, 1975	04th term
204	Ronald M. Mottl	D	OH-23	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
205	Stephen Neal	D	NC-05	January 3, 1975	04th term
206	Henry J. Nowak	D	NY-37	January 3, 1975	04th term
207	Jim Oberstar	D	MN-08	January 3, 1975	04th term
208	Richard Ottinger	D	NY-24	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1971.	07th term*
209	Jerry M. Patterson	D	CA-38	January 3, 1975	04th term
210	Fred Richmond	D	NY-14	January 3, 1975	04th term	Resigned on August 25, 1982.
211	Marty Russo	D	IL-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
212	James David Santini	D	NV	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
213	James H. Scheuer	D	NY-11	January 3, 1975 Previous service, 1965–1973.	08th term*
214	Richard T. Schulze	R	PA-05	January 3, 1975	04th term
215	Philip Sharp	D	IN-10	January 3, 1975	04th term
216	Paul Simon	D	IL-24	January 3, 1975	04th term
217	Virginia D. Smith	R	NE-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
218	Stephen J. Solarz	D	NY-13	January 3, 1975	04th term
219	Gladys Spellman	D	MD-05	January 3, 1975	04th term	Declared incapacitated on February 24, 1981.
220	Henry Waxman	D	CA-24	January 3, 1975	04th term
221	Jim Weaver	D	OR-03	January 3, 1975	04th term
222	Tim Wirth	D	CO-02	January 3, 1975	04th term
223	Leo C. Zeferetti	D	NY-15	January 3, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
224	John G. Fary	D	IL-05	July 8, 1975	04th term	Left the House in 1983.
225	Stan Lundine	D	NY-39	March 2, 1976	04th term
226	Sam B. Hall, Jr.	D	TX-01	June 19, 1976	04th term
227	Earl Thomas Coleman	R	MO-06	November 2, 1976	04th term
228	Ed Markey	D	MA-07	November 2, 1976	04th term
229	Daniel Akaka	D	HI-02	January 3, 1977	03rd term
230	Douglas Applegate	D	OH-18	January 3, 1977	03rd term
231	Robert Badham	R	CA-40	January 3, 1977	03rd term
232	Doug Barnard, Jr.	D	GA-10	January 3, 1977	03rd term
233	Anthony C. Beilenson	D	CA-23	January 3, 1977	03rd term
234	Adam Benjamin, Jr.	D	IN-01	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Died on September 7, 1982.
235	David Bonior	D	MI-12	January 3, 1977	03rd term
236	Tom Corcoran	R	IL-15	January 3, 1977	03rd term
237	Norm Dicks	D	WA-06	January 3, 1977	03rd term
238	Bob Dornan	R	CA-27	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
239	Mickey Edwards	R	OK-05	January 3, 1977	03rd term
240	Allen E. Ertel	D	PA-17	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
241	Billy Lee Evans	D	GA-08	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
242	Thomas B. Evans, Jr.	R	DE	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
243	Ronnie Flippo	D	AL-05	January 3, 1977	03rd term
244	Dick Gephardt	D	MO-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term
245	Dan Glickman	D	KS-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
246	Al Gore	D	TN-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
247	Cecil Heftel	D	HI-01	January 3, 1977	03rd term
248	Harold C. Hollenbeck	R	NJ-09	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
249	Jerry Huckaby	D	LA-05	January 3, 1977	03rd term
250	Andy Ireland	D	FL-08	January 3, 1977	03rd term
251	Ed Jenkins	D	GA-09	January 3, 1977	03rd term
252	Dale Kildee	D	MI-07	January 3, 1977	03rd term
253	Jim Leach	R	IA-01	January 3, 1977	03rd term
254	Raymond F. Lederer	D	PA-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Resigned on April 29, 1981.
255	Tom Luken	D	OH-02	January 3, 1977 Previous service, 1974–1975.	04th term*
256	Ron Marlenee	R	MT-02	January 3, 1977	03rd term
257	Marc L. Marks	R	PA-24	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
258	David D. Marriott	R	UT-02	January 3, 1977	03rd term
259	Jim Mattox	D	TX-05	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
260	Barbara Mikulski	D	MD-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term
261	Austin Murphy	D	PA-22	January 3, 1977	03rd term
262	Mary Rose Oakar	D	OH-20	January 3, 1977	03rd term
263	Leon Panetta	D	CA-16	January 3, 1977	03rd term
264	Donald J. Pease	D	OH-13	January 3, 1977	03rd term
265	Carl Pursell	R	MI-02	January 3, 1977	03rd term
266	Nick Rahall	D	WV-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
267	Eldon Rudd	R	AZ-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
268	Harold S. Sawyer	R	MI-05	January 3, 1977	03rd term
269	Ike Skelton	D	MO-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
270	David Stockman	R	MI-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Resigned on January 21, 1981.
271	Bob Stump	D	AZ-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term
272	Paul S. Trible, Jr.	R	VA-01	January 3, 1977	03rd term	Left the House in 1983.
273	Bruce Vento	D	MN-04	January 3, 1977	03rd term
274	Harold Volkmer	D	MO-09	January 3, 1977	03rd term
275	Doug Walgren	D	PA-18	January 3, 1977	03rd term
276	Robert Walker	D	PA-16	January 3, 1977	03rd term
277	Wes Watkins	D	OK-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term
278	Theodore S. Weiss	D	NY-20	January 3, 1977	03rd term
279	Charles Whitley	D	NC-03	January 3, 1977	03rd term
280	Robert A. Young	D	MO-02	January 3, 1977	03rd term
281	Arlan Stangeland	R	MN-07	February 22, 1977	03rd term
282	Wyche Fowler	D	GA-05	April 6, 1977	03rd term
283	Bob Livingston	R	LA-01	August 27, 1977	03rd term
284	S. William Green	R	NY-18	February 14, 1978	03rd term
285	Robert Garcia	D	NY-21	February 21, 1978	03rd term
286	Donald J. Albosta	D	MI-10	January 3, 1979	02nd term
287	Beryl Anthony, Jr.	D	AR-04	January 3, 1979	02nd term
288	Eugene Atkinson	D	PA-25	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
289	Donald A. Bailey	D	PA-21	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
290	Michael D. Barnes	D	MD-08	January 3, 1979	02nd term
291	Doug Bereuter	R	NE-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term
292	Ed Bethune	R	AR-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
293	Bill Boner	D	TN-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
294	Beverly Byron	D	MD-06	January 3, 1979	02nd term
295	Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.	R	SC-04	January 3, 1979	02nd term
296	William Carney	R	NY-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term
297	Dick Cheney	R	WY	January 3, 1979	02nd term
298	Bill Clinger	R	PA-23	January 3, 1979	02nd term
299	Tony Coelho	D	CA-15	January 3, 1979	02nd term
300	Jim Courter	R	NJ-13	January 3, 1979	02nd term
301	Dan Crane	R	IL-22	January 3, 1979	02nd term
302	William E. Dannemeyer	R	CA-39	January 3, 1979	02nd term
303	Thomas Daschle	D	SD-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term
304	Robert William Davis	R	MI-11	January 3, 1979	02nd term
305	H. Joel Deckard	R	IN-08	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
306	Julian C. Dixon	D	CA-28	January 3, 1979	02nd term
307	Brian J. Donnelly	D	MA-11	January 3, 1979	02nd term
308	Charles F. Dougherty	D	PA-04	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
309	Arlen Erdahl	R	MN-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
310	Vic Fazio	D	CA-04	January 3, 1979	02nd term
311	Geraldine Ferraro	D	NY-09	January 3, 1979	02nd term
312	Martin Frost	D	TX-24	January 3, 1979	02nd term
313	Newt Gingrich	R	GA-06	January 3, 1979	02nd term
314	Phil Gramm	D	TX-06	January 3, 1979	02nd term
315	William H. Gray	D	PA-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
316	Wayne R. Grisham	R	CA-33	January 3, 1979	02nd term
317	Frank Joseph Guarini	D	NJ-14	January 3, 1979	02nd term
318	Tony Hall	D	OH-03	January 3, 1979	02nd term
319	Kent Hance	D	TX-19	January 3, 1979	02nd term
320	Jon Hinson	R	MS-04	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Resigned on April 13, 1981.
321	Larry J. Hopkins	R	KY-06	January 3, 1979	02nd term
322	Earl Dewitt Hutto	D	FL-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term
323	James Edmund Jeffries	R	KS-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
324	Ken Kramer	R	CO-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
325	Raymond P. Kogovsek	D	CO-03	January 3, 1979	02nd term
326	Marvin Leath	D	TX-11	January 3, 1979	02nd term
327	Mickey Leland	D	TX-18	January 3, 1979	02nd term
328	Gary A. Lee	R	NY-33	January 3, 1979	02nd term	Left the House in 1983.
329	Jerry Lewis	R	CA-37	January 3, 1979	02nd term
330	Tom Loeffler	R	TX-21	January 3, 1979	02nd term
331	Mike Lowry	D	WA-07	January 3, 1979	02nd term
332	Dan Lungren	R	CA-34	January 3, 1979	02nd term
333	Bob Matsui	D	CA-03	January 3, 1979	02nd term
334	Nicholas Mavroules	D	MA-06	January 3, 1979	02nd term
335	Dan Mica	D	FL-11	January 3, 1979	02nd term
336	Bill Nelson	D	FL-09	January 3, 1979	02nd term
337	Chip Pashayan	R	CA-17	January 3, 1979	02nd term
338	Peter A. Peyser	D	NY-23	January 3, 1979 Previous service, 1971–1977.	05th term*	Left the House in 1983.
339	Ron Paul	R	TX-22	January 3, 1979 Previous service, 1976–1977.	03rd term*
340	William R. Ratchford	D	CT-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
341	Donald L. Ritter	R	PA-15	January 3, 1979	02nd term
342	Toby Roth	R	WI-08	January 3, 1979	02nd term
343	Martin Olav Sabo	D	MN-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
344	James Sensenbrenner	R	WI-09	January 3, 1979	02nd term
345	James Shannon	D	MA-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
346	Richard Shelby	D	AL-07	January 3, 1979	02nd term
347	Norman D. Shumway	R	CA-14	January 3, 1979	02nd term
348	Olympia Snowe	R	ME-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
349	Charles Stenholm	D	TX-17	January 3, 1979	02nd term
350	Gerald Solomon	R	NY-29	January 3, 1979	02nd term
351	Al Swift	D	WA-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
352	Mike Synar	D	OK-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
353	Tom Tauke	R	IA-02	January 3, 1979	02nd term
354	Bill Thomas	R	CA-18	January 3, 1979	02nd term
355	Bob Whittaker	R	KS-05	January 3, 1979	02nd term
356	Pat Williams	D	MT-01	January 3, 1979	02nd term
357	Lyle Williams	R	OH-19	January 3, 1979	02nd term
358	Howard Wolpe	D	MI-03	January 3, 1979	02nd term
359	Tom Petri	R	WI-06	April 3, 1979	02nd term
360	John Porter	R	IL-10	January 22, 1980	02nd term
361	Billy Tauzin	D	LA-03	May 22, 1980	02nd term
362	George W. Crockett, Jr.	D	MI-13	November 4, 1980	02nd term
363	Wendell Bailey	R	MO-08	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
364	Cleve Benedict	R	WV-02	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
365	Thomas Bliley	R	VA-03	January 3, 1981	01st term
366	Hank Brown	R	CO-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
367	Gregory W. Carman	R	NY-03	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
368	Eugene A. Chappie	R	CA-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
369	Dan Coats	R	IN-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
370	James K. Coyne III	R	PA-08	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
371	William Coyne	D	PA-14	January 3, 1981	01st term
372	Larry Craig	R	ID-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
373	Hal Daub	R	NE-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
374	Lawrence J. DeNardis	R	CT-03	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
375	Byron Dorgan	D	ND	January 3, 1981	01st term
376	David Dreier	R	CA-35	January 3, 1981	01st term
377	James Whitney Dunn	R	MI-06	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
378	Bernard J. Dwyer	D	NJ-15	January 3, 1981	01st term
379	Mervyn M. Dymally	D	CA-31	January 3, 1981	01st term
380	Roy Dyson	D	MD-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
381	Dennis E. Eckart	D	OH-22	January 3, 1981	01st term
382	Bill Emerson	R	MO-10	January 3, 1981	01st term
383	T. Cooper Evans	R	IA-03	January 3, 1981	01st term
384	Bobbi Fiedler	R	CA-21	January 3, 1981	01st term
385	Jack Fields	R	TX-08	January 3, 1981	01st term
386	Tom Foglietta	D	PA-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
387	Barney Frank	D	MA-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
388	Sam Gejdenson	D	CT-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
389	Judd Gregg	R	NH-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
390	Steve Gunderson	R	WI-03	January 3, 1981	01st term
391	Ralph Hall	D	TX-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
392	James Hansen	R	UT-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
393	Charles Floyd Hatcher	D	GA-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
394	Thomas F. Hartnett	R	SC-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
395	Bill Hendon	R	NC-11	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
396	Dennis M. Hertel	D	MI-14	January 3, 1981	01st term
397	John P. Hiler	R	IN-03	January 3, 1981	01st term
398	Duncan Hunter	R	CA-42	January 3, 1981	01st term
399	Tom Lantos	D	CA-11	January 3, 1981	01st term
400	John LeBoutillier	R	NY-06	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
401	Bill Lowery	R	CA-41	January 3, 1981	01st term
402	Walter E. Johnston, III	R	NC-06	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
403	David O'Brien Martin	R	NY-30	January 3, 1981	01st term
404	Lynn Morley Martin	R	IL-16	January 3, 1981	01st term
405	Bill McCollum	R	FL-05	January 3, 1981	01st term
406	Dave McCurdy	D	OK-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
407	Bob McEwen	R	OH-06	January 3, 1981	01st term
408	Raymond J. McGrath	R	NY-05	January 3, 1981	01st term
409	Guy Molinari	R	NY-17	January 3, 1981	01st term
410	Sid Morrison	R	WA-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
411	John Light Napier	R	SC-06	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
412	James L. Nelligan	R	PA-11	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
413	Stanford Parris	R	VA-08	January 3, 1981 Previous service, 1973–1975.	02nd term*
414	Clint Roberts	R	SD-02	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
415	Pat Roberts	R	KS-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
416	Buddy Roemer	D	LA-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
417	Hal Rogers	R	KY-05	January 3, 1981	01st term
418	Marge Roukema	R	NJ-07	January 3, 1981	01st term
419	William Neff Patman	D	TX-14	January 3, 1981	01st term
420	Gus Savage	D	IL-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
421	Claudine Schneider	R	RI-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
422	Chuck Schumer	D	NY-16	January 3, 1981	01st term
423	Bob Shamansky	D	OH-12	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
424	E. Clay Shaw, Jr.	R	FL-12	January 3, 1981	01st term
425	Joe Skeen	R	NM-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
426	Albert L. Smith, Jr.	R	AL-06	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
427	Christopher Smith	R	NJ-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
428	Denny Smith	R	OR-04	January 3, 1981	01st term
429	Mick Staton	R	WV-03	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
430	Harold Washington	D	IL-01	January 3, 1981	01st term
431	Ed Weber	R	OH-09	January 3, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
432	Vin Weber	R	MN-06	January 3, 1981	01st term
433	Frank Wolf	R	VA-10	January 3, 1981	01st term
434	George C. Wortley	R	NY-32	January 3, 1981	01st term
435	Ron Wyden	D	OR-02	January 3, 1981	01st term
	Mark D. Siljander	R	MI-04	April 21, 1981	01st term
	Steny H. Hoyer	D	MD-05	May 19, 1981	01st term
	Mike Oxley	R	OH-04	June 25, 1981	01st term
	Wayne Dowdy	D	MS-04	July 7, 1981	01st term
	Joseph F. Smith	D	PA-03	July 21, 1981	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
	Barbara B. Kennelly	D	CT-01	January 12, 1982	01st term
	Jean Spencer Ashbrook	R	OH-17	June 29, 1982	01st term	Left the House in 1983.
	Matthew G. Martínez	D	CA-30	July 13, 1982	01st term
	Katie Hall	D	IN-01	November 2, 1982	01st term

Delegates

Rank	Delegate	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Walter E. Fauntroy	D	DC	March 23, 1971	06th term
2	Antonio Borja Won Pat	D	GU	January 3, 1973	05th term
3	Baltasar Corrada del Río	D	PR	January 3, 1977	03rd term
4	Ron de Lugo	D	VI	January 3, 1981 Previous service, 1973–1979.	04th term*
5	Fofó Iosefa Fiti Sunia	D	AS	January 3, 1981	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

• 97th United States Congress
• List of United States congressional districts
• List of United States Senators in the 97th Congress by seniority

External links

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