List of members of the United States Congress from multiple states
Throughout the history of the United States Congress, some members were elected either as representatives and/or senators from more than one U.S. state at different times in their career.
Multiple states in the House[]
Name | State / District | Start | End | Party |
---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Hiester | Pennsylvania (at-large/5th districts) | 1789 | 1795 | Anti-Administration |
1795 | 1796 | Democratic-Republican | ||
Maryland (4th district) | 1801 | 1804 | ||
John Sevier | North Carolina (5th district) | 1790 | 1791 | Pro-Administration |
Tennessee (2nd district) | 1811 | 1815 | Democratic-Republican | |
Anthony New | Virginia (16th/11th district) | 1793 | 1795 | Anti-Administration |
1795 | 1805 | Democratic-Republican | ||
Kentucky (1st district) | 1811 | 1813 | ||
Kentucky (5th district) | 1817 | 1819 | ||
1821 | 1823 | |||
Edward Livingston | New York (2nd district) | 1795 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican |
Louisiana (1st district) | 1823 | 1825 | ||
1825 | 1829 | Jacksonian | ||
Matthew Lyon | Vermont (1st district) | 1797 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican |
Kentucky (1st district) | 1803 | 1811 | ||
Ezekiel Whitman | Massachusetts (15th district) | 1809 | 1811 | Federalist |
1817 | 1821 | |||
Maine (2nd district) | 1821 | 1822 | ||
Daniel Webster | New Hampshire (at-large) | 1813 | 1817 | Federalist |
Massachusetts (1st district) | 1823 | 1825 | ||
1825 | 1827 | National Republican | ||
Enoch Lincoln | Massachusetts (20th district) | 1818 | 1821 | Democratic-Republican |
Maine (7th/5th districts) | 1821 | 1826 | ||
Joshua Cushman | Massachusetts (19th district) | 1819 | 1821 | Democratic-Republican |
Maine (6th/4th districts) | 1821 | 1825 | ||
Mark Hill | Massachusetts (16th district) | 1819 | 1821 | Democratic-Republican |
Maine (3rd district) | 1821 | 1823 | ||
Samuel Clark | New York (25th district) | 1833 | 1835 | Jacksonian |
Michigan (3rd district) | 1853 | 1855 | Democratic | |
William Brown | Virginia (15th district) | 1845 | 1849 | Democratic |
Virginia (10th district) | 1861 | 1863 | Unionist | |
West Virginia (2nd district) | 1863 | 1865 | ||
Charles Faulkner | Virginia (10th/8th districts) | 1851 | 1859 | Democratic |
West Virginia (2nd district) | 1875 | 1877 | ||
Samuel Cox | Ohio (12th/7th districts) | 1857 | 1865 | Democratic |
New York (6th district) | 1869 | 1873 | ||
New York (6th/8th districts) | 1873 | 1885 | ||
New York (9th district) | 1886 | 1889 | ||
Francis Kellogg | Michigan (3rd/4th districts) | 1859 | 1865 | Republican |
Alabama (1st district) | 1868 | 1869 | ||
William Vandever | Iowa (2nd district) | 1859 | 1863 | Republican |
California (6th district) | 1887 | 1891 | ||
Jacob B. Blair | Virginia (11th district) | 1861 | 1863 | Unionist |
West Virginia (1st district) | 1863 | 1865 | ||
Kellian Whaley | Virginia (12th district) | 1861 | 1863 | Unionist |
West Virginia (2nd district) | 1863 | 1867 | Unconditional Unionist | |
Charles A. Towne | Minnesota (6th district) | 1895 | 1897 | Republican |
New York (14th district) | 1905 | 1907 | Democratic | |
Robert P. Hill | Illinois (25th district) | 1913 | 1915 | Democratic |
Oklahoma (5th district) | 1937 | 1937 | ||
Ed Foreman | Texas (16th district) | 1963 | 1965 | Republican |
New Mexico (2nd district) | 1969 | 1971 |
Multiple states in the Senate[]
Only two senators have represented more than one state.[1]
- James Shields uniquely served terms in the US Senate for three states; representing Illinois (1849–55), Minnesota (1858–59), and 20 years later he was appointed by the State of Missouri for a term expiring in just six weeks (1879). He was also a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a Democrat.[2]
- Waitman T. Willey was a Restored Government of Virginia Senator (1861–1863) who helped create West Virginia. He was then appointed as one of the new state's first two senators (1863–1871). He was a Unionist until 1865 and a Republican thereafter.[1]
One state in the House, another in the Senate[]
Name | Offices | Start | End | Party |
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John Brown | Representative from Virginia (2nd district) | 1789 | 1792 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Kentucky | 1792 | 1805 | ||
Robert Harper | Representative from South Carolina (5th district) | 1795 | 1801 | Federalist |
Senator from Maryland | 1816 | 1816 | ||
Edward Livingston | Representative from New York (2nd district) | 1795 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Louisiana | 1829 | 1831 | Jacksonian | |
William Claiborne | Representative from Tennessee (at-large) | 1797 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Louisiana | 1817 | 1817 | ||
David Holmes | Representative from Virginia (2nd/4th districts) | 1797 | 1809 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Mississippi | 1820 | 1825 | ||
John Chandler | Representative from Massachusetts (17th district) | 1805 | 1809 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Maine | 1820 | 1829 | ||
William R. King | Representative from North Carolina (5th district) | 1811 | 1816 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Alabama | 1819 | 1844 | ||
Democratic | ||||
1848 | 1852 | |||
Israel Pickens | Representative from North Carolina (11th/12th districts) | 1811 | 1817 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Alabama | 1826 | 1826 | Jacksonian | |
Daniel Webster | Representative from New Hampshire (at-large) | 1813 | 1817 | Federalist |
Senator from Massachusetts | 1827 | 1833 | National Republican | |
1833 | 1841 | Whig | ||
1845 | 1850 | |||
Albion Parris | Representative from Massachusetts (20th district) | 1815 | 1818 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Maine | 1827 | 1828 | Jacksonian | |
John Holmes | Representative from Massachusetts (14th district) | 1817 | 1820 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Maine | 1820 | 1827 | ||
1829 | 1833 | National Republican | ||
Sam Houston | Representative from Tennessee (7th) | 1823 | 1827 | Democratic-Republican |
Senator from Texas | 1846 | 1859 | Democratic | |
Jesse Speight | Representative from North Carolina (4th district) | 1829 | 1837 | Jacksonian |
Senator from Mississippi | 1845 | 1847 | Democratic | |
John B. Weller | Representative from Ohio (2nd district) | 1839 | 1845 | Democratic |
Senator from California | 1852 | 1857 | ||
William Gwin | Representative from Mississippi (at-large) | 1841 | 1843 | Democratic |
Senator from California | 1850 | 1855 | ||
1857 | 1861 | |||
Alexander Ramsey | Representative from Pennsylvania (15th district) | 1843 | 1847 | Whig |
Senator from Minnesota | 1863 | 1875 | Republican | |
Edward Baker | Representative from Illinois (7th district) | 1845 | 1847 | Whig |
Representative from Illinois (6th district) | 1849 | 1851 | ||
Senator from Oregon | 1860 | 1861 | Republican | |
James Lane | Representative from Indiana (4th district) | 1853 | 1855 | Republican |
Senator from Kansas | 1861 | 1866 | ||
Charles Van Wyck | Representative from New York (10th district) | 1859 | 1863 | Republican |
Representative from New York (11th district) | 1867 | 1869 | ||
1870 | 1871 | |||
Senator from Nebraska | 1881 | 1887 | ||
J. Hamilton Lewis | Representative from Washington (at-large district) | 1897 | 1899 | Democratic |
Senator from Illinois | 1913 | 1919 | ||
1933 | 1939 | |||
Charles A. Towne | Senator from Minnesota | 1900 | 1901 | Democratic |
Representative from New York (14th district) | 1905 | 1907 |
Territories and states[]
- William Henry Harrison – the future president of the United States was a delegate to the 6th United States Congress from Northwest Territory (1799–1800), resigning to become territorial Governor of Indiana. He returned to Congress first as a representative from Ohio's 1st congressional district (1816–19), and then serving an incomplete term as senator for Ohio (1825–28), resigning to become U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Gran Colombia. He was a Whig.
- James M. Cavanaugh – represented Minnesota (1858–59) as a representative and then Montana Territory (1867–71) as a delegate. He was a Democrat.
- Stephen Benton Elkins – represented New Mexico Territory (1873–77) as a delegate and later West Virginia (1895–1911) as a senator. He was a Republican.
- John Noble Goodwin – represented Maine as a representative (1861–63) and later Arizona Territory as a delegate (1866–76). He was also first governor of the Territory of Arizona. He was a Republican.
- George Wallace Jones – was a delegate from Michigan Territory (1835–37) until Michigan was created as a State. He continued representing the remaining renamed Wisconsin Territory as a delegate (1837–39). Later, after Iowa was carved from the Wisconsin Territory and subsequently admitted to the union, he became one of the first senators from Iowa (1848–59). He was a Democrat.
- Richard Cunningham McCormick – represented Arizona Territory (1869–75) and later New York as a representative (1895–97). He was a Unionist as a delegate and a Republican as a representative.
- Henry Hastings Sibley – represented Wisconsin Territory (1848–49) and later Minnesota Territory as a delegate (1849–53). He was a Democrat.
- Jesse B. Thomas – represented Indiana Territory (1808–09) as a delegate and later Illinois (1818–1829) as a senator. He was initially a Democratic-Republican, but became an Anti-Jacksonian while senator.
- William H. Wallace – represented Washington Territory (1861–63) and later Idaho Territory as a delegate (1864–65). He was a Republican.
References[]
- ^ a b "Scott Brown won his primary. Now he wants to be the first multi-state senator in 135 years". www.vox.com.
- ^ "U.S. Senate: Senator for Three States". www.senate.gov.
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