List of Mormon members of the United States Congress

This is a list of Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are serving, or have served, in the United States Congress .

Since Utah's admittance to the Union in 1896, many members of the LDS Church have been elected to the United States Congress. A majority have been from Utah (the only state with an LDS Church majority), and most of the rest from other states in the American West.

As of 2025 ^[update] , there are nine LDS Church members serving in Congress; three in the Senate and six in the House of Representatives. All nine are members of the Republican Party.

Senate

Further information: Religious affiliation in the United States Senate

In addition to the senators below, former Senator Larry Pressler (R) of South Dakota joined the LDS Church after his service in Congress. ^[1] Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I) of Arizona grew up in the LDS Church, but left after graduating from Brigham Young University. ^[2] Senator Marco Rubio (R) of Florida was baptized as a child while living in Nevada but left the church after his family moved back to Florida. ^{[3] [2]}

Senator		Party		State	Term			Notes
					Start	End	Length of service
	Frank J. Cannon		Republican	Utah	January 22, 1896	March 4, 1899	3 years, 41 days	[3]
	Reed Smoot		Republican	Utah	March 4, 1903	March 4, 1933	30 years, 0 days	Also served on the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. [3]
	William H. King		Democratic	Utah	March 4, 1917	January 3, 1941	23 years, 305 days	[3]
	Elbert D. Thomas		Democratic	Utah	March 4, 1933	January 3, 1951	17 years, 305 days	[3]
	Berkeley L. Bunker		Democratic	Nevada	November 27, 1940	December 2, 1942	2 years, 5 days	[3]
	Orrice Abram Murdock Jr.		Democratic	Utah	January 3, 1941	January 3, 1947	6 years, 0 days	[3]
	Arthur Vivian Watkins		Republican	Utah	January 3, 1947	January 3, 1959	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	Wallace F. Bennett		Republican	Utah	January 3, 1951	December 20, 1974	23 years, 351 days	[3]
	Howard Cannon		Democratic	Nevada	January 3, 1959	January 3, 1983	24 years, 0 days	[3]
	Frank Moss		Democratic	Utah	January 3, 1959	January 3, 1977	18 years, 0 days	[3]
	Jake Garn		Republican	Utah	December 21, 1974	January 3, 1993	18 years, 13 days	[3]
	Orrin Hatch		Republican	Utah	January 3, 1977	January 3, 2019	42 years, 0 days	[3]
	Paula Hawkins		Republican	Florida	January 1, 1981	January 3, 1987	6 years, 2 days	First Mormon woman and first Mormon from east of the Mississippi River to serve in Congress. [3]
	Harry Reid		Democratic	Nevada	January 3, 1987	January 3, 2017	30 years, 0 days	First Mormon convert to serve in the Senate. [3]
	Bob Bennett		Republican	Utah	January 3, 1993	January 3, 2011	18 years, 0 days	[3]
	Gordon H. Smith		Republican	Oregon	January 3, 1997	January 3, 2009	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	Mike Crapo		Republican	Idaho	January 3, 1999	Incumbent	26 years, 293 days	[3]
	Tom Udall		Democratic	New Mexico	January 3, 2009	January 3, 2021	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	Mike Lee		Republican	Utah	January 3, 2011	Incumbent	14 years, 293 days	[4]
	Dean Heller		Republican	Nevada	May 9, 2011	January 3, 2019	7 years, 239 days	[5]
	Jeff Flake		Republican	Arizona	January 3, 2013	January 3, 2019	6 years, 0 days	[6]
	Mitt Romney		Republican	Utah	January 3, 2019	January 3, 2025	6 years, 0 days	Ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008 and 2012. [7] Retired
	John Curtis		Republican	Utah	January 3, 2025	Incumbent	293 days	[8]

House of Representatives

Further information: Religious affiliation in the United States House of Representatives

In addition to the representatives below, former Representative Jim Gibbons (R) of Nevada and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I) of Arizona grew up in the Church, but left as adults.

Representative		Party		District	Term			Notes
					Start	End	Length of service
	William H. King		Democratic	UT-AL	March 4, 1897	March 3, 1899	1 year, 364 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Utah. [3]
					April 2, 1900	March 3, 1901	335 days
	Joseph Howell		Republican	UT-AL	March 4, 1903	March 3, 1913	13 years, 364 days	[3]
				UT-01	March 3, 1913	March 3, 1917
	Milton H. Welling		Democratic	UT-01	March 4, 1917	March 3, 1921	3 years, 364 days	[3]
	Don B. Colton		Republican	UT-01	March 4, 1921	March 3, 1933	11 years, 364 days	[3]
	Orrice Abram Murdock Jr.		Democratic	UT-01	March 4, 1933	January 3, 1941	7 years, 305 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Utah. [3]
	J. W. Robinson		Democratic	UT-02	March 4, 1933	January 3, 1947	13 years, 305 days	[3]
	Walter K. Granger		Democratic	UT-01	January 3, 1941	January 3, 1953	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	Berkeley L. Bunker		Democratic	NV-AL	January 5, 1945	January 5, 1947	2 years, 0 days	Appointed U.S. Senator from Nevada. [3]
	William A. Dawson		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1947	January 3, 1949	2 years, 0 days	[3]
					January 3, 1953	January 3, 1959	6 years, 0 days
	Hamer H. Budge		Republican	ID-02	January 3, 1951	January 3, 1961	10 years, 0 days	Appointed 16th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. [3]
	John E. Moss		Democratic	CA-03	January 3, 1953	December 31, 1978	25 years, 362 days	[3]
	Douglas R. Stringfellow		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 1953	January 3, 1955	2 years, 0 days	[3]
	Henry Aldous Dixon		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 1955	January 3, 1961	6 years, 0 days	[3]
	Stewart Udall		Democratic	AZ-02	January 3, 1955	January 18, 1961	6 years, 15 days	Appointed 37th United States Secretary of the Interior. [3]
	David S. King		Democratic	UT-02	January 3, 1959	January 3, 1963	4 years, 0 days	[3]
					January 3, 1965	January 3, 1967	2 years, 0 days
	Ralph R. Harding		Democratic	ID-02	January 3, 1961	January 3, 1965	4 years, 0 days	[3]
	M. Blaine Peterson		Democratic	UT-01	January 3, 1961	January 3, 1963	2 years, 0 days	[3]
	Mo Udall		Democratic	AZ-02	May 2, 1961	May 4, 1991	30 years, 2 days	Ran unsuccessfully for president in 1976. [3]
	Laurence J. Burton		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 1963	January 3, 1971	8 years, 0 days	[3]
	Richard T. Hanna		Democratic	CA-34	January 3, 1963	December 31, 1974	11 years, 362 days	[3]
	Sherman P. Lloyd		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1963	January 3, 1965	2 years, 0 days	[3]
					January 3, 1967	January 3, 1973	6 years, 0 days
	Del M. Clawson		Republican	CA-23	June 11, 1963	January 3, 1975	15 years, 203 days	[3]
				CA-33	January 3, 1975	December 31, 1978
	Kenneth W. Dyal		Democratic	CA-33	January 3, 1965	January 3, 1967	2 years, 0 days	[3]
	George V. Hansen		Republican	ID-02	January 3, 1965	January 3, 1969	4 years, 0 days	[3]
					January 3, 1975	January 3, 1985	10 years, 0 days
	Orval H. Hansen		Republican	ID-02	January 3, 1969	January 3, 1975	6 years, 0 days	[3]
	K. Gunn McKay		Democratic	UT-01	January 3, 1971	January 3, 1981	10 years, 0 days	[3]
	Wayne Owens		Democratic	UT-02	January 3, 1973	January 3, 1975	2 years, 0 days	[3]
					January 3, 1987	January 3, 1993	6 years, 0 days
	Clair Burgener		Republican	CA-42	January 3, 1973	January 3, 1975	10 years, 0 days	[3]
				CA-43	January 3, 1975	January 3, 1983
	Allan Turner Howe		Democratic	UT-02	January 3, 1975	January 3, 1977	2 years, 0 days	[3]
	Cecil Heftel		Democratic	HI-01	January 3, 1977	July 11, 1986	11 years, 189 days	[3]
	David Daniel Marriott		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1977	January 3, 1985	8 years, 0 days	[3]
	Norman D. Shumway		Republican	CA-14	January 3, 1979	January 3, 1991	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	James V. Hansen		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 1981	January 3, 2003	22 years, 0 days	[3]
	Howard C. Nielson		Republican	UT-03	January 3, 1983	January 3, 1991	8 years, 0 days	[3]
	Ron Packard		Republican	CA-43	January 3, 1983	January 3, 1993	18 years, 0 days	[3]
				CA-48	January 3, 1993	January 3, 2001
	Harry Reid		Democratic	NV-01	January 3, 1983	January 3, 1987	4 years, 0 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Nevada. [3]
	David Smith Monson		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1985	January 3, 1987	2 years, 0 days	[3]
	Richard H. Stallings		Democratic	ID-02	January 3, 1985	January 3, 1993	8 years, 0 days	[3]
	Wally Herger		Republican	CA-02	January 3, 1987	January 3, 2013	26 years, 0 days	[3]
	John Doolittle		Republican	CA-14	January 3, 1991	January 3, 1993	18 years, 0 days	[3]
				CA-04	January 3, 1993	January 3, 2009
	Bill Orton		Democratic	UT-03	January 3, 1991	January 3, 1997	6 years, 0 days	[3]
	Richard Swett		Democratic	NH-02	January 3, 1991	January 3, 1995	4 years, 0 days	First Mormon elected to the House from a state east of the Mississippi River. [3]
	Mike Crapo		Republican	ID-02	January 3, 1993	January 3, 1999	6 years, 0 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Idaho. [3]
	Ernest Istook		Republican	OK-05	January 3, 1993	January 3, 2007	14 years, 0 days	[3]
	Buck McKeon		Republican	CA-25	January 3, 1993	January 3, 2015	22 years, 0 days	[3]
	Enid Greene Mickelsen		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1995	January 3, 1997	2 years, 0 days	First Mormon woman to serve in the House. [3]
	Matt Salmon		Republican	AZ-01	January 3, 1995	January 3, 2001	6 years, 0 days	[3]
				AZ-05	January 3, 2013	January 3, 2017	4 years, 0 days
	Chris Cannon		Republican	UT-03	January 3, 1997	January 3, 2009	12 years, 0 days	[3]
	Merrill Cook		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 1997	January 3, 2001	4 years, 0 days	[3]
	Mike Simpson		Republican	ID-02	January 3, 1999	Incumbent	26 years, 293 days	[3]
	Tom Udall		Democratic	NM-03	January 3, 1999	January 3, 2009	10 years, 0 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from New Mexico. [3]
	Jeff Flake		Republican	AZ-01	January 3, 2001	January 3, 2003	12 years, 0 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Arizona. [6]
				AZ-06	January 3, 2003	January 3, 2013
	Jim Matheson		Democratic	UT-02	January 3, 2001	January 3, 2013	14 years, 0 days	[9]
				UT-04	January 3, 2013	January 3, 2015
	Rob Bishop		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 2003	January 3, 2021	18 years, 0 days	[8]
	Dean Heller		Republican	NV-02	January 3, 2007	May 9, 2011	4 years, 126 days	Ran successfully for U.S. Senator from Nevada. [5]
	Jason Chaffetz		Republican	UT-03	January 3, 2009	June 30, 2017	8 years, 178 days	[10]
	Raúl Labrador		Republican	ID-01	January 3, 2011	January 3, 2019	8 years, 0 days	First Hispanic Mormon to serve in Congress. [11]
	Chris Stewart		Republican	UT-02	January 3, 2013	September 15, 2023	10 years, 255 days	[8]
	Curt Clawson		Republican	FL-19	June 24, 2014	January 3, 2017	2 years, 193 days	[12]
	Cresent Hardy		Republican	NV-04	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2017	2 years, 0 days	[13]
	Mia Love		Republican	UT-04	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2019	4 years, 0 days	First black Mormon to serve in Congress. [8]
	Andy Biggs		Republican	AZ-05	January 3, 2017	Incumbent	8 years, 293 days	[8]
	John Curtis		Republican	UT-03	November 13, 2017	January 3, 2025	7 years, 51 days	[8]
	Ben McAdams		Democratic	UT-04	January 3, 2019	January 3, 2021	2 years, 0 days	[8]
	Blake Moore		Republican	UT-01	January 3, 2021	Incumbent	4 years, 293 days	[14]
	Burgess Owens		Republican	UT-04	January 3, 2021	Incumbent	4 years, 293 days	First black male Mormon to serve in Congress. [15]
	Celeste Maloy		Republican	UT-02	November 28, 2023	Incumbent	3 years, 329 days	[16]
	Mike Kennedy		Republican	UT-03	January 3, 2025	Incumbent	293 days	[17] [18]

Territorial delegates

Delegate		Party		District	Term			Notes
					Start	End	Length of service
	John Milton Bernhisel		Independent	Utah Territory	March 4, 1851	March 3, 1859	7 years, 364 days	[3]
	William Henry Hooper		Democratic	Utah Territory	March 4, 1859	March 3, 1861	1 year, 364 days	[3]
	George Q. Cannon		Republican	Utah Territory	March 4, 1873	February 25, 1882	8 years, 358 days	Also served on the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as First Counselor in the First Presidency. [3]
	John Thomas Caine		Democratic	Utah Territory	November 7, 1882	March 3, 1893	10 years, 116 days	[3]
	Frank J. Cannon		Republican	Utah Territory	March 4, 1895	January 4, 1896	306 days	[3]
	Eni Faleomavaega		Democratic	American Samoa	January 3, 1989	January 3, 2015	26 years, 0 days	[3]

Elected to the House of Representatives, but not seated

Representative		Party		District	Year elected	Notes
	B. H. Roberts		Democratic	UT-AL	1898	Not seated due to his practice of polygamy [19]

See also

• Latter Day Saint political history
• List of Latter Day Saints
• List of Buddhist members of the United States Congress
• List of Hindu members of the United States Congress
• List of Jewish members of the United States Congress
• List of Muslim members of the United States Congress
• List of Quaker members of the United States Congress

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