# Who has represented you in Congress?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412 "2019-02-12T17:45:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/1 "2019-02-12T17:45:58Z")
Let’s limit it to your adult (18+) years.
For me, in the House:
-John Dingell
-John Conyers
-Jan Schakowsky
-Bill Huizenga
In the Senate:
-Carl Levin
-Donald Riegle
-Spence Abraham
-Debbie Stabenow
-Gary Peters
-Barack Obama
-Dick Durbin
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### Author:  [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/2 "2019-02-12T18:52:36Z")
House -
Alan Mollohan
David McKinley
(Yep, just the two since 1996.)
Senate
Bob Byrd
Jay Rockefeller
Joe Manchin
Shelley Moore Capito
(Technically, Carte Goodwin also served, but he was a temp appointee that served less than six months until the next special election.)
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/3 "2019-02-12T18:53:17Z")
The only one of note was Joe Gaydos from the few years I spent living outside McKeesport. He had the fame of being the first Slovak-American in Congress. He also had a cute daughter. 😉
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/4 "2019-02-12T19:29:26Z")
Congress:
Otis G. Pike
Sam Stratton
Michael McNulty
Paul Tonko
Senate
Kenneth Keating
Jacob Javits
Robert F. Kennedy
Charles Goodell
Alphonse D’Amato
James Buckley
Daniel P. Moynihan
Chuck Schumer
Hillary Clinton
Kirsten Gillibrand
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/5 "2019-02-12T19:36:28Z")
The ones that I can think of:
House:
John Burton
Barbara Boxer
Ron Dellums
Lynn Woolsey
Mike Thompson
Senate:
Alan Cranston
S.I. Hayakawa
Pete Wilson
John Seymour
Dianne Feinstein
Barbara Boxer
Kamala Harris
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/6 "2019-02-12T20:04:17Z")
When in Ohio:
Reps. Ron Mottl, Mary Rose Oakar, Martin Hoke, Dennis Kucinich
Sens. Howard Metzenbaum, John Glenn, Mike DeWine, George Voinovich
Since moving to Indiana:
Reps. Steve Buyer, Todd Rokita, Jim Baird
Sens. Richard Lugar, Evan Bayh, Dan Coats, Joe Donnelly, Todd Young, Mike Braun
Lists of representatives may be incomplete, as redistricting took place during both my Buckeye and Hoosier years.
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/7 "2019-02-12T21:19:08Z")
House
Carolyn Maloney
Tom Periello
Christopher Shays
Nancy Pelosi
Major Owens
Shirley Chisolm
Senate
Kirsten Gillibrand
Cryin’ Chuck Schumer
Mark Warner
Jim Webb
Chris Dodd
Joe Lieberman (I-Shithead)
Barbara Boxer
Dianne Feinstein
Pete Wilson
John Seymour (who?)
Alan Cranston
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Al D’Amato
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### Author:  [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/8 "2019-02-12T21:32:52Z")
House:
(MD)
Marjorie Holt
Parren Mitchell
Kweisi Mfume
(TX)
Sam Johnson
Sheila Jackson Lee
Ted Poe
Steve Stockman
Brian Babin
Senate
(MD)
Charles Mathias
J. Glenn Beall Jr.
Paul Sarbanes
Barbara Mikulski
(TX)
Phil Gramm
Kay Bailey Hutchison
John Cornyn
Ted Cruz
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/9 "2019-02-12T22:18:45Z")
Lord, I have to do some research here. 🙂
House:
(WI)
Toby Roth
Bob Kastenmeier
(IL)
Henry Hyde
Marty Russo
Bill Lipinski
Dan Lipinski
Luis Gutierrez \*
Chuy Garcia
Senate:
(WI)
William Proxmire
Bob Kasten
Herb Kohl
(IL)
Paul Simon
Alan Dixon
Carol Moseley Braun
Dick Durbin
Peter Fitzgerald
Barack Obama
Roland Burris \*\*
Mark Kirk
Tammy Duckworth
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- The neighborhood to which I moved in '96 has gradually become more Hispanic, enough so that, when they re-drew the minority-majority Hispanic 4th Congressional District in 2011, we wound up in it.
\*\* - Burris’s appointment to the Senate, to fill out Obama’s term after he was elected President, was part of the series of events which led to our governor, Rod Blagojevich, being impeached, and then imprisoned.
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### Author:  [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/10 "2019-02-13T01:50:59Z")
House:
Mike McCormack
Sid Morrison
Jay Inslee
Tom Foley
Doc Hastings
Norm Dicks
Derek Kilmer
Senate:
Warren Magnuson
Scoop Jackson
Dan Evans
Slade Gordon
Patty Murray
Maria Cantwell
In case you don’t recognize those names, I’ve lived my entire life in Washington state.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/11 "2019-02-13T02:48:52Z")
House:
Leslie Byrne
Tom Davis
David Price
Jerry Costello (I think? Wikipedia seems to suggest as much, anyway)
Travis Childers
Alan Nunnelee
Trent Kelly
Senate:
John Warner
Chuck Robb
Jesse Helms
Lauch Faircloth
John Edwards
Elizabeth Dole
Richard Burr
Dick Durbin
Barack Obama
Thad Cochran
Roger Wicker
Cindy Hyde-Smith
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/12 "2019-02-13T04:16:00Z")
House:
No one
Senate: no one
Resident of Washington, DC.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/13 "2019-02-13T15:28:20Z")
I was born into the district of the redoubtable Frances P. Bolton, the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio.
She was succeeded by Charles Vanik of Soviet-era human rights fame in the '70s.
I went to college in St. Louis, where I was represented by Dick Gephardt, who then ran for president.
Then I went to graduate school in Denver, where I was represented by Pat Schroeder, who then ran for president.
At some point my original home in Ohio was redistricted into Dennis Kucinich’s district.
After I moved to Northern Virginia I was bounced back and forth between Frank Wolf’s and Tom Davis’s districts in the '90s and '00s. Now in Northern Virginia I’m represented by Gerry Connolly, who is a decent Democrat who I’m content with, but otherwise not remarkable in any way, which is why you’ve never heard of him.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/14 "2019-02-13T16:09:06Z")
Hmm. Given how much I’ve moved…
Since I turned 18 in 1985
House of Representatives
Mike Barnes
Connie Morella
Leslie Byrne
Tom Taulke
Tom Davis
Connie Morella
Frank Wolf
Ted Strickland
Charlie Wilson
Bill Johnson
Tim Scott
Mark Sanford
Joe Cunningham
Senate
Paul Sarbanes
Charles Mathias
Barbara Mikulski
Chuck Robb
John Warner
George Allen
Tom Harkin
Chuck Grassley
Jim Webb
Mark Warner
Mike DeWine
Sherrod Brown
George Voinovich
Rob Portman
Lindsey Graham
Jim DeMint
Tim Scott
Hmm. More Senators than congressmen. What are the odds of that?
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/15 "2019-02-13T16:12:55Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
>
> Hmm. More Senators than congressmen. What are the odds of that?
I noticed that when I wrote mine up, too. Senators serve longer terms, but you have two Senators representing you, versus one Congressman. I suppose it’s highly variable, depending on if there’s a lot of churn for a seat.
In the 30 years I’ve lived in Illinois, one of our two Senate seats has been held by seven different Senators, and has flipped from Democrat, to Republican, and back to Democrat, twice.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/16 "2019-02-13T16:41:35Z")
I could probably do most of the senators from memory, but I can only remember one or two of the congresscritters before the current one. I had to do some research to refresh my memory.
**Senate**
from Maine
Angus King (I)
Susan Collins ®
Olympia Snowe ®
From New Hampshire
Bob Smith ®
Judd Gregg ®
Gordon Humphrey ®
Warren Rudman ®
From West Virginia
Jay Rockefeller (D)
Robert C. Byrd (D)
From New York
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D)
Al D’Amato ®
**House**
Maine 1st
Chellie Pingree (D)
Thomas Allen (D)
New Hampshire 1st
John E. Sununu ®
Bill Zeliff ®
Bob Smith®
West Virginia 1st
Alan Mollohan (D)
New York 29th
Frank Horton ®
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/17 "2019-02-13T21:12:41Z")
2016-present. Andy Biggs. One of the five worst congressmen currently serving.
I never cared to know before.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/18 "2019-02-13T21:39:04Z")
I can tell you who occupied the office, but not a damn one has ever ‘represented’ me. :mad:
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/19 "2019-02-14T00:02:39Z")
House of Representatives
District 2
John Y McCollister
John J Cavenaugh
John L CHristiansen
Lee Terry
Brad Ashford
Don Bacon
Senate
Roman Hruska
Carl Curtis
Edward Zorinsky
David K Karnes
J James Exon
Bob Kerry
Chuck Hagel
Ben Nelson
Mike Johanns
Deb Fisher
Ben Sasse
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-has-represented-you-in-congress/829412/20 "2019-02-14T02:11:52Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
>
> Hmm. More Senators than congressmen. What are the odds of that?
Excellent odds. It follows from the math. It would be surprising to have it the other way around.
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