List of new members of the 115th United States Congress

Freshman members on the Capitol steps

The 115th United States Congress began on January 3, 2017. There were seven new senators (five Democrats, two Republicans) and 52 new representatives (25 Democrats, 27 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Republican), at the start of its first session. Additionally, five senators (two Democrats, three Republicans) and 15 representatives (six Democrats, nine Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 115th Congress before it ended on January 3, 2019.

Due to court-ordered redistricting in three states, three representatives were elected from newly established congressional districts.

The co-presidents of the House Democratic freshman class were Nanette Barragán of California, Val Demings of Florida, and Donald McEachin of Virginia, while the president of the House Republican freshman class was Jack Bergman of Michigan. Additionally, the Democratic Freshmen Leadership Representative was Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii (who was elected during the 114th Congress), and the Republican's freshmen liaison was Paul Mitchell of Michigan. ^{[1] [2]}

Senate

Took office January 3, 2017

State	Image	Senator	Seniority	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
California		Kamala Harris (D)	5th (98th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Barbara Boxer (D)	Attorney General of California San Francisco District Attorney	1964	[3]
Illinois		Tammy Duckworth (D)	3rd (96th overall)	Yes Defeated Mark Kirk (R)	U.S. House of Representatives [a] Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs Illinois Director of Veterans' Affairs U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel	1968	[4]
Indiana		Todd Young (R)	2nd (95th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Dan Coats (R)	U.S. House of Representatives [b] Orange County assistant deputy prosecutor U.S. Marine Corps Captain	1972	[5]
Louisiana		John Kennedy (R)	6th (99th overall)	No Open seat; replaced David Vitter (R)	Louisiana State Treasurer Louisiana Secretary of Revenue	1951	[6]
Maryland		Chris Van Hollen (D)	1st (94th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Barbara Mikulski (D)	U.S. House of Representatives [c] Maryland Senate Maryland House of Delegates	1959	[7]
Nevada		Catherine Cortez Masto (D)	7th (100th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Harry Reid (D)	Nevada Attorney General	1964	[8]
New Hampshire		Maggie Hassan (D)	4th (97th overall)	Yes Defeated Kelly Ayotte (R)	Governor of New Hampshire Majority Leader of the New Hampshire Senate	1958	[9]

Took office during the 115th Congress

State	Image	Senator	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Alabama		Luther Strange (R)	February 9, 2017	No Appointed; replaced Jeff Sessions (R)	Attorney General of Alabama	1953	[10]
Alabama		Doug Jones (D)	January 3, 2018	Yes Replaced Luther Strange (R), who was defeated in a primary	U.S. Attorney for Northern Alabama Assistant U.S. Attorney	1954	[11]
Minnesota		Tina Smith (DFL)	January 3, 2018	No Appointed; replaced Al Franken (DFL)	Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Chief of staff to Governor Mark Dayton Chief of staff to Mayor R. T. Rybak	1958	[12]
Mississippi		Cindy Hyde-Smith (R)	April 9, 2018	No Appointed; replaced Thad Cochran (R)	Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Mississippi State Senate	1959	[13]
Arizona		Jon Kyl (R)	September 5, 2018	No Appointed; replaced John McCain (R)	U.S. Senate [d] U.S. House of Representatives [e]	1942	[14]

House of Representatives

Took office January 3, 2017

District	Image	Representative	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Arizona 1		Tom O'Halleran (D)	No Open seat; replaced Ann Kirkpatrick (D)	Arizona Senate Arizona House of Representatives	1946	[15]
Arizona 5		Andy Biggs (R)	No Open seat; replaced Matt Salmon (R)	President of the Arizona Senate Arizona House of Representatives	1958	[16]
California 17		Ro Khanna (D)	No Defeated Mike Honda (D)	Lawyer	1976	[17]
California 20		Jimmy Panetta (D)	No Open seat; replaced Sam Farr (D)	Monterey County deputy district attorney U.S. Navy Reserve	1969	[18]
California 24		Salud Carbajal (D)	No Open seat; replaced Lois Capps (D)	Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors U.S. Marine Corps Reserve	1964	[19]
California 44		Nanette Barragán (D)	No Open seat; replaced Janice Hahn (D)	Hermosa Beach City Council	1976	[20]
California 46		Lou Correa (D)	No Open seat; replaced Loretta Sanchez (D)	California State Senate Orange County Board of Supervisors California State Assembly	1958	[21]
Delaware at-large		Lisa Blunt Rochester (D)	No Open seat; replaced John Carney (D)	Delaware Secretary of Labor CEO of the Wilmington Urban League	1962	[22]
Florida 1		Matt Gaetz (R)	No Open seat; replaced Jeff Miller (R)	Florida House of Representatives	1982	[23]
Florida 2		Neal Dunn (R)	Yes Open seat; replaced Gwen Graham (D)	Surgeon U.S. Army Major	1953	[24]
Florida 4		John Rutherford (R)	No Open seat; replaced Ander Crenshaw (R)	Sheriff of Jacksonville	1952	[25]
Florida 5		Al Lawson (D)	No Defeated Corrine Brown (D) in a primary	Minority Leader of the Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives	1948	[26]
Florida 7		Stephanie Murphy (D)	Yes Defeated John Mica (R)	National security specialist	1978	[27]
Florida 9		Darren Soto (D)	No Open seat; replaced Alan Grayson (D)	Florida Senate Florida House of Representatives	1978	[28]
Florida 10		Val Demings (D)	New seat	Chief of the Orlando Police Department	1957	[29]
Florida 13		Charlie Crist (D)	Yes Defeated David Jolly (R)	Governor of Florida Florida Attorney General Florida Education Commissioner Florida Senate	1956	[30]
Florida 18		Brian Mast (R)	Yes Open seat; replaced Patrick Murphy (D)	National Nuclear Security Administration U.S. Army EOD specialist	1980	[31]
Florida 19		Francis Rooney (R)	No Open seat; replaced Curt Clawson (R)	U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See	1953	[32]
Georgia 3		Drew Ferguson (R)	No Open seat; replaced Lynn Westmoreland (R)	Mayor of West Point Dentist	1966	[33]
Illinois 8		Raja Krishnamoorthi (D)	No Open seat; replaced Tammy Duckworth (D)	Campaign staffer Lawyer	1973	[34]
Illinois 10		Brad Schneider (D)	Yes Defeated Bob Dold (R)	U.S. House of Representatives [f]	1961	[35]
Indiana 3		Jim Banks (R)	No Open seat; replaced Marlin Stutzman (R)	Indiana Senate U.S. Navy Reserve Lieutenant	1979	[36]
Indiana 9		Trey Hollingsworth (R)	No Open seat; replaced Todd Young (R)	Entrepreneur	1983	[37]
Kansas 1		Roger Marshall (R)	No Defeated Tim Huelskamp (R) in a primary	Obstetrician U.S. Army Reserve Captain	1960	[38]
Louisiana 3		Clay Higgins (R)	No Open seat; replaced Charles Boustany (R)	Lafayette City Marshal St. Landry Sheriff's Office Louisiana National Guard Staff Sergeant	1961	[39]
Louisiana 4		Mike Johnson (R)	No Open seat; replaced John Fleming (R)	Louisiana House of Representatives	1972	[40]
Maryland 4		Anthony Brown (D)	No Open seat; replaced Donna Edwards (D)	Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Maryland House of Delegates U.S. Army Reserve Colonel	1961	[41]
Maryland 8		Jamie Raskin (D)	No Open seat; replaced Chris Van Hollen (D)	Maryland Senate	1962	[42]
Michigan 1		Jack Bergman (R)	No Open seat; replaced Dan Benishek (R)	U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General	1947	[43]
Michigan 10		Paul Mitchell (R)	No [g] Open seat; replaced Candice Miller (R)	St. Clair City Council Owner of Ross Medical Education Center	1956	[44]
Minnesota 2		Jason Lewis (R)	No Open seat; replaced John Kline (R)	Radio personality	1955	[45]
Nebraska 2		Don Bacon (R)	Yes Defeated Brad Ashford (D)	Assistant professor at Bellevue University U.S. Air Force Brigadier General	1963	[46]
Nevada 3		Jacky Rosen (D)	Yes Open seat; replaced Joe Heck (R)	Computer software developer	1957	[47]
Nevada 4		Ruben Kihuen (D)	Yes Defeated Cresent Hardy (R)	Nevada Senate Nevada Assembly	1980	[48]
New Hampshire 1		Carol Shea-Porter (D)	Yes Defeated Frank Guinta (R)	U.S. House of Representatives [h]	1952	[49]
New Jersey 5		Josh Gottheimer (D)	Yes Defeated Scott Garrett (R)	Counselor to FCC Chair Julius Genachowski Vice President of Burson Cohn & Wolfe Speechwriter for President Bill Clinton	1975	[50]
New York 3		Thomas Suozzi (D)	No Open seat; replaced Steve Israel (D)	Nassau County Executive Mayor of Glen Cove	1962	[51]
New York 13		Adriano Espaillat (D)	No Open seat; replaced Charles Rangel (D)	New York State Senate New York State Assembly	1954	[52]
New York 19		John Faso (R)	No Open seat; replaced Chris Gibson (R)	Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly	1952	[53]
New York 22		Claudia Tenney (R)	No Open seat; replaced Richard Hanna (R)	New York State Assembly	1961	[54]
North Carolina 13		Ted Budd (R)	New seat	Business owner	1971	[55]
Pennsylvania 8		Brian Fitzpatrick (R)	No Open seat; replaced Mike Fitzpatrick (R)	Assistant U.S. Attorney Federal Bureau of Investigation	1973	[56]
Pennsylvania 16		Lloyd Smucker (R)	No Open seat; replaced Joe Pitts (R)	Pennsylvania State Senate West Lampeter Township Board of Supervisors	1964	[57]
Tennessee 8		David Kustoff (R)	No Open seat; replaced Stephen Fincher (R)	U.S. Attorney for Western Tennessee	1966	[58]
Texas 15		Vicente Gonzalez (D)	No Open seat; replaced Rubén Hinojosa (D)	Lawyer	1967	[59]
Texas 19		Jodey Arrington (R)	No Open seat; replaced Randy Neugebauer (R)	Vice Chancellor of Texas Tech University Chief of staff to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Special Assistant to President George W. Bush	1972	[60]
Virginia 2		Scott Taylor (R)	No Open seat; replaced Scott Rigell (R)	Virginia House of Delegates U.S. Navy SEAL	1979	[61]
Virginia 4		Donald McEachin (D)	New seat	Virginia Senate Virginia House of Delegates	1961	[62]
Virginia 5		Tom Garrett (R)	No Open seat; replaced Robert Hurt (R)	Virginia Senate Louisa County Commonwealth's Attorney	1972	[63]
Washington 7		Pramila Jayapal (D)	No Open seat; replaced Jim McDermott (D)	Washington State Senate	1965	[64]
Wisconsin 8		Mike Gallagher (R)	No Open seat; replaced Reid Ribble (R)	Congressional staffer U.S. Marine Corps Captain	1984	[65]
Wyoming at-large		Liz Cheney (R)	No Open seat; replaced Cynthia Lummis (R)	Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Co-chair of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group	1966	[66]

Non-voting members

District	Image	Delegate	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Puerto Rico at-large		Jenniffer González (NP/R)	No/Yes Open seat; replaced Pedro Pierluisi (NP/D)	Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Chair of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico	1976	[67]

Took office during the 115th Congress

District	Image	Representative	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Kansas 4		Ron Estes (R)	April 25, 2017	No Succeeded Mike Pompeo (R)	Kansas State Treasurer Sedgwick County Treasurer	1956	[68]
Montana at-large		Greg Gianforte (R)	June 21, 2017	No Succeeded Ryan Zinke (R)	Co-founder of RightNow Technologies Electrical engineer	1961	[69]
Georgia 6		Karen Handel (R)	June 26, 2017	No Succeeded Tom Price (R)	Georgia Secretary of State Fulton County Board of Commissioners	1962	[70]
South Carolina 5		Ralph Norman (R)	June 26, 2017	No Succeeded Mick Mulvaney (R)	South Carolina House of Representatives	1953	[71]
California 34		Jimmy Gomez (D)	July 11, 2017	No Succeeded Xavier Becerra (D)	California State Assembly Labor organizer	1974	[72]
Utah 3		John Curtis (R)	November 13, 2017	No Succeeded Jason Chaffetz (R)	Mayor of Provo	1960	[73]
Pennsylvania 18		Conor Lamb (D)	April 12, 2018	Yes Succeeded Tim Murphy (R)	Assistant U.S. Attorney U.S. Marine Corps Major	1984	[74]
Arizona 8		Debbie Lesko (R)	May 7, 2018	No Succeeded Trent Franks (R)	Arizona Senate Arizona House of Representatives	1958	[75]
Texas 27		Michael Cloud (R)	July 10, 2018	No Succeeded Blake Farenthold (R)	Business owner	1975	[76]
Ohio 12		Troy Balderson (R)	September 5, 2018	No Succeeded Pat Tiberi (R)	Ohio Senate Ohio House of Representatives	1962	[77]
New York 25		Joseph Morelle (D)	November 13, 2018	No Succeeded Louise Slaughter (D)	Majority Leader of the New York State Assembly Monroe County Legislature	1957	[78]
Oklahoma 1		Kevin Hern (R)	November 13, 2018	No Open seat; replaced Jim Bridenstine (R)	Businessman	1961	[79]
Pennsylvania 7		Mary Gay Scanlon (D)	November 13, 2018	Yes Succeeded Pat Meehan (R)	Wallingford-Swarthmore School Board	1959	[80]
Pennsylvania 15		Susan Wild (D)	November 27, 2018	Yes Succeeded Charlie Dent (R)	Solicitor of Allentown	1957	[81]
Michigan 13		Brenda Jones (D)	November 29, 2018	No Succeeded John Conyers (D)	President of the Detroit City Council	1959	[82]

See also

• List of United States senators in the 115th Congress
• List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 115th Congress by seniority

Notes

1. Elected to the 113th Congress, serving from 2013 to 2017 in Illinois's 8th district .
2. Elected to the 112th Congress, serving from 2011 to 2017 in Indiana's 9th district .
3. Elected to the 108th Congress, serving from 2003 to 2017 in Maryland's 8th district .
4. Previously elected to the 104th Congress, serving from 1995 to 2013.
5. Elected to the 100th Congress, serving from 1987 to 1995 in Arizona's 4th district .
6. Previously elected to the 113th Congress, serving from 2013 to 2015.
7. Mitchell became an independent in December 2020, during the 116th Congress.
8. Previously elected to the 110th Congress, serving from 2007 to 2011; elected again to the 113th Congress, serving from 2013 to 2015.

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Preceded by New members of the 114th Congress

New members of the 115th Congress 2017–2019

Succeeded by New members of the 116th Congress