List of new members of the 90th United States Congress

The 90th United States Congress began on January 3, 1967. There were four new senators (all Republicans) and 71 new representatives (13 Democrats, 58 Republicans) at the start of the first session. Additionally, five senators (one Democrat, four Republicans) and six representatives (four Democrats, two Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 90th Congress before it ended on January 3, 1969.

Due to redistricting in multiple states, eight representatives were elected from newly created seats.

Senate

Took office January 3, 1967

State	Image	Senator	Seniority	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Illinois		Charles H. Percy (R)	2nd (97th overall)	Yes Defeated Paul Douglas (D)	President of Bell & Howell U.S. Navy Lieutenant	1919	[1]
Massachusetts		Edward Brooke (R)	3rd (98th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Leverett Saltonstall (R)	Massachusetts Attorney General Chair of the Boston Finance Commission U.S. Army Captain	1919	[2]
Tennessee		Howard Baker (R)	4th (99th overall)	Yes Replaced Ross Bass (D), who lost renomination	Lawyer U.S. Navy	1925	[3]
Wyoming		Clifford Hansen (R)	1st (96th overall)	No Open seat; replaced Milward Simpson (R)	Governor of Wyoming Teton County Commissioner University of Wyoming Board of Trustees	1912	[4]

Took office during the 90th Congress

State	Image	Senator	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Oregon		Mark Hatfield (R)	January 10, 1967	Yes Open seat; replaced Maurine Neuberger (D)	Governor of Oregon Oregon Secretary of State U.S. Navy Lieutenant	1922	[5]
New York		Charles Goodell (R)	September 10, 1968	Yes Appointed; replaced Robert F. Kennedy (D)	U.S. House of Representatives [lower-alpha 1] U.S. Air Force first lieutenant U.S. Navy seaman apprentice	1926	[6]
Kentucky		Marlow Cook (R)	December 17, 1968	No Open seat; replaced Thruston Ballard Morton (R)	Jefferson County Judge Kentucky House of Representatives U.S. Navy	1926	[7]
Alaska		Ted Stevens (R)	December 24, 1968	Yes Appointed; replaced Bob Bartlett (D)	Alaska House of Representatives U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior U.S. Attorney for Alaska Territory	1923	[8]
Missouri		Thomas Eagleton (D)	December 28, 1968	No Defeated Edward V. Long (D) in primary	Lieutenant Governor of Missouri Missouri Attorney General U.S. Navy	1929	[9]

House of Representatives

Took office January 3, 1967

District	Representative	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Alabama 4	Bill Nichols (R)	Yes	State Senator	1918	[10]
Alabama 7	Tom Bevill (D)	Yes	State Representative	1921	[11]
Alaska at-large	Howard Pollock (R)	Yes	State Senator	1920	[12]
Arizona 3	Sam Steiger (R)	Yes	State Senator	1929	[13]
Arkansas 3	John Paul Hammerschmidt (R)	Yes	State Party Chair	1922	[14]
California 18	Bob Mathias (R)	Yes	Olympic decathlete	1930	[15]
California 25	Charles E. Wiggins (R)	Yes	Mayor of El Monte	1927	[16]
California 33	Jerry Pettis (R)	Yes	Businessman	1916	[17]
Colorado 2	Donald G. Brotzman (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 2]	1922	[18]
Connecticut 6	Thomas Meskill (R)	Yes	Mayor of New Britain	1928	[19]
Delaware at-large	William Roth (R)	Yes	State Party Chair	1921	[20]
Florida 10	J. Herbert Burke (R)	New seat	County Commissioner	1913	[21]
Georgia 3	Jack Brinkley (D)	Yes	State Representative	1930	[22]
Georgia 4	Benjamin B. Blackburn (R)	Yes	U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander	1927	[23]
Georgia 5	Fletcher Thompson (R)	Yes	State Senator	1925	[24]
Georgia 8	W. S. Stuckey Jr. (D)	No	Business executive	1935	[25]
Idaho 1	Jim McClure (R)	Yes	State Senator	1924	[26]
Illinois 19	Tom Railsback (R)	Yes	State Representative	1932	[27]
Indiana 7	John T. Myers (R)	New seat	Farmer	1927	[28]
Indiana 8	Roger H. Zion (R)	Yes	Businessman	1921	[29]
Iowa 1	Fred Schwengel (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 3]	1906	[30]
Iowa 4	John Henry Kyl (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 4]	1919	[31]
Iowa 6	Wiley Mayne (R)	Yes	Lawyer	1917	[32]
Iowa 7	William J. Scherle (R)	Yes	State Representative	1923	[33]
Kansas 3	Larry Winn (R)	No	NAHB director	1919	[34]
Kentucky 3	William Cowger (R)	Yes	Mayor of Louisville	1922	[35]
Kentucky 4	Gene Snyder (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 5]	1928	[36]
Louisiana 6	John Rarick (D)	No	District court judge	1924	[37]
Maine 1	Peter Kyros (D)	Yes	Legal counsel	1925	[38]
Maryland 8	Gilbert Gude (R)	New seat	State Senator	1923	[39]
Massachusetts 10	Margaret Heckler (R)	No	Governor's Councilor	1931	[40]
Michigan 2	Marvin L. Esch (R)	Yes	State Representative	1927	[41]
Michigan 3	Garry E. Brown (R)	Yes	State Senate Minority Leader	1923	[42]
Michigan 7	Donald Riegle (R)	Yes [lower-alpha 6]	Businessman	1938	[43]
Michigan 11	Philip Ruppe (R)	Yes	U.S. Navy Lieutenant	1926	[44]
Michigan 19	Jack H. McDonald (R)	Yes	County Commissioner	1932	[45]
Minnesota 6	John M. Zwach (R)	Yes	State Senate Majority Leader	1907	[46]
Mississippi 4	Sonny Montgomery (D)	Yes	State Senator	1920	[47]
Nebraska 1	Robert V. Denney (R)	Yes	State Party Chair	1916	[48]
New Hampshire 1	Louis C. Wyman (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 7]	1917	[49]
New Jersey 1	John E. Hunt (R)	New seat	State Senator	1908	[50]
New Jersey 2	Charles W. Sandman Jr. (R)	Yes	State Senator	1921	[51]
New York 11	Frank J. Brasco (D)	No	Attorney	1932	[52]
New York 29	Daniel E. Button (R)	Yes	Newspaper editor	1917	[53]
North Carolina 4	Jim Gardner (R)	Yes	State Party Chair	1933	[54]
North Carolina 5	Nick Galifianakis (D)	No	State Representative	1928	[55]
North Dakota 2	Thomas S. Kleppe (R)	Yes	Mayor of Bismarck	1919	[56]
Ohio 1	Robert Taft Jr. (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 8]	1917	[57]
Ohio 3	Charles W. Whalen Jr. (R)	Yes	State Senator	1920	[58]
Ohio 10	Clarence E. Miller (R)	Yes	Mayor of Lancaster	1917	[59]
Ohio 15	Chalmers Wylie (R)	New seat	State Representative	1920	[60]
Ohio 24	Buz Lukens (R)	Yes	Congressional staffer	1931	[61]
Oklahoma 6	James Vernon Smith (R)	Yes	Farmer	1926	[62]
Oregon 4	John R. Dellenback (R)	Yes	State Representative	1918	[63]
Pennsylvania 4	Joshua Eilberg (D)	No	State Representative	1921	[64]
Pennsylvania 7	Lawrence G. Williams (R)	New seat	Township Board President	1913	[65]
Pennsylvania 8	Edward G. Biester Jr. (R)	No	Assistant district attorney	1931	[66]
Pennsylvania 16	Edwin D. Eshleman (R)	No	State Representative	1920	[67]
Pennsylvania 19	George A. Goodling (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 9]	1896	[68]
Tennessee 7	Ray Blanton (D)	No	State Representative	1930	[69]
Tennessee 9	Dan Kuykendall (R)	Yes	Business executive	1924	[70]
Texas 7	George H. W. Bush (R)	New seat	Oil business founder	1924	[71]
Texas 8	Bob Eckhardt (D)	No	State Representative	1913	[72]
Texas 18	Bob Price (R)	Yes	U.S. Air Force veteran	1927	[73]
Texas 23	Abraham Kazen (D)	New seat	State Senator	1919	[74]
Utah 2	Sherman P. Lloyd (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 10]	1914	[75]
Virginia 8	William L. Scott (R)	Yes	DOJ attorney	1915	[76]
Virginia 9	William C. Wampler (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 11]	1926	[77]
Wisconsin 1	Henry C. Schadeberg (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 12]	1913	[78]
Wisconsin 6	William A. Steiger (R)	Yes	State Assemblyman	1938	[79]
Wyoming at-large	William Henry Harrison III (R)	Yes	U.S. Representative [lower-alpha 13]	1896	[80]

Took office during the 90th Congress

District	Representative	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Rhode Island 2	Robert Tiernan (D)	March 28, 1967	No	State Senator	1929	[81]
California 11	Pete McCloskey (R)	December 12, 1967	No	Deputy district attorney	1927	[82]
New York 13	Bertram L. Podell (D)	February 20, 1968	No	State Assemblyman	1925	[83]
Mississippi 3	Charles H. Griffin (D)	March 12, 1968	No	Congressional aide	1926	[84]
Texas 3	James M. Collins (R)	August 24, 1968	Yes	Business executive	1916	[85]
Pennsylvania 20	Joseph M. Gaydos (D)	November 5, 1968	No	State Senator	1926	[86]

See also

• List of United States senators in the 90th Congress
• List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 90th Congress by seniority

Notes

1. Elected during the 86th Congress, serving from 1959 to 1963 in New York's 43rd district and from 1963 to 1968 in the 38th district .
2. Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965.
3. Previously elected to the 84th Congress, serving from 1955 to 1965.
4. Previously elected during the 86th Congress, serving from 1959 to 1965.
5. Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965 in the 3rd district .
6. Riegle joined the Democratic Party in February 1973, during the 93rd Congress.
7. Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965.
8. Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965 in the at-large district .
9. Previously elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1965.
10. Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965.
11. Previously elected to the 83rd Congress, serving from 1953 to 1955.
12. Previously elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1965.
13. Previously elected to the 82nd Congress, serving from 1951 to 1955; elected again to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1965.

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Preceded by New members of the 89th Congress	New members of the 90th Congress 1967–1969	Succeeded by New members of the 91st Congress