List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 38th Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 38th United States Congress listed by seniority.
As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 38th Congress (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1865). Current seats and party affiliations on the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority will be different for certain members.^[1]

Seniority depends on the date on which members were sworn into office. Since many members are sworn in on the same day, subsequent ranking is based on previous congressional service of the individual and then by alphabetical order by the last name of the congressman.

Committee chairmanship in the House is often associated with seniority. However, party leadership is typically not associated with seniority.

Note: The "*" indicates that the representative/delegate may have served one or more non-consecutive terms while in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

U.S. House Seniority List

U.S. House Seniority
Rank	Representative	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Elihu B. Washburne	R	IL-03	March 4, 1853	06th term	Dean of the House
2	Schuyler Colfax	R	IN-09	March 4, 1855	05th term	Speaker of the House
3	Justin S. Morrill	R	VT-02	March 4, 1855	05th term
4	Samuel S. Cox	D	OH-07	March 4, 1857	04th term	Left the House in 1865.
5	Henry L. Dawes	R	MA-10	March 4, 1857	04th term
6	Reuben Fenton	R	NY-31	March 4, 1857 Previous service, 1853–1855.	05th term*	Resigned on December 20, 1864.
7	Owen Lovejoy	R	IL-05	March 4, 1857	04th term	Died on March 25, 1864.
8	George H. Pendleton	D	OH-01	March 4, 1857	04th term	Left the House in 1865.
9	Daniel W. Gooch	R	MA-06	January 31, 1858	04th term
10	John B. Alley	R	MA-05	March 4, 1859	03rd term
11	James M. Ashley	R	OH-10	March 4, 1859	03rd term
12	Thomas D. Eliot	R	MA-01	March 4, 1859 Previous service, 1854–1855.	03rd term*
13	Augustus Frank	R	NY-29	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
14	James T. Hale	R	PA-18	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
15	William S. Holman	D	IN-04	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
16	Francis William Kellogg	R	MI-04	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
17	Robert Mallory	UU	KY-05	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
18	James K. Moorhead	R	PA-22	March 4, 1859	03rd term
19	John W. Noell	UU	MO-03	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Died on March 14, 1863.
20	Alexander H. Rice	R	MA-03	March 4, 1859	03rd term
21	James C. Robinson	D	IL-11	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
22	Thaddeus Stevens	R	PA-09	March 4, 1859 Previous service, 1849–1853.	05th term*
23	Edwin H. Webster	UU	MD-02	March 4, 1859	03rd term	Left the House in 1865.
24	William Windom	R	MN-01	March 4, 1859	03rd term
25	Sydenham E. Ancona	D	PA-08	March 4, 1861	02nd term
26	Isaac N. Arnold	R	IL-01	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
27	Joseph Bailey	D	PA-15	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
28	Portus Baxter	R	VT-03	March 4, 1861	02nd term
29	Fernando C. Beaman	R	MI-01	March 4, 1861	02nd term
30	Francis Preston Blair, Jr.	R	MO-01	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1857–1859 and 1860.	04th term**	Resigned on June 10, 1864.
31	William G. Brown, Sr.	UU	WV-02	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1845–1849.	04th term*	Left the House in 1865.
32	Ambrose W. Clark	R	NY-20	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
33	Erastus Corning	D	NY-14	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1857–1859.	03rd term*	Resigned on October 5, 1863.
34	James A. Cravens	D	IN-02	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
35	James E. English	D	CT-02	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
36	Henry Grider	U	KY-03	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1843–1847.	04th term*
37	Aaron Harding	U	KY-04	March 4, 1861	02nd term
38	Philip Johnson	D	PA-11	March 4, 1861	02nd term
39	George W. Julian	D	IN-05	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1849–1851.	03rd term*
40	William D. Kelley	R	PA-04	March 4, 1861	02nd term
41	John Law	D	IN-01	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
42	Jesse Lazear	D	PA-24	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
43	James R. Morris	D	OH-15	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
44	Warren P. Noble	D	OH-09	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
45	John B. Steele	D	NY-13	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
46	Moses F. Odell	D	NY-03	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
47	Nehemiah Perry	D	NJ-05	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
48	Frederick A. Pike	R	ME-05	March 4, 1861	02nd term
49	Theodore M. Pomeroy	R	NY-24	March 4, 1861	02nd term
50	John H. Rice	R	ME-04	March 4, 1861	02nd term
51	Edward H. Rollins	R	NH-02	March 4, 1861	02nd term
52	James S. Rollins	U	MO-09	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
53	William G. Steele	D	NJ-03	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
54	Francis Thomas	UU	MD-04	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1831–1841.	07th term*
55	Robert B. Van Valkenburgh	R	NY-27	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
56	Daniel W. Voorhees	D	IN-07	March 4, 1861	02nd term
57	William H. Wadsworth	U	KY-09	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
58	Elijah Ward	D	NY-06	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1857–1859.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1865.
59	Chilton A. White	D	OH-06	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
60	Benjamin Wood	D	NY-04	March 4, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
61	James F. Wilson	R	IA-01	October 8, 1861	02nd term
62	Samuel Hooper	R	MA-04	December 2, 1861	02nd term
63	Anthony L. Knapp	D	IL-10	December 12, 1861	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
64	William A. Hall	U	MO-08	January 20, 1862	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
65	William J. Allen	D	IL-13	June 2, 1862	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
66	John D. Stiles	D	PA-06	June 3, 1862	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
67	George H. Yeaman	U	KY-02	December 1, 1862	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
68	Walter D. McIndoe	R	WI-06	January 26, 1863	02nd term
69	James C. Allen	D	IL	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1853–1856 and 1856-1857.	04th term**	Left the House in 1865.
70	William B. Allison	R	IA-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
71	Oakes Ames	R	MA-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
72	Lucien Anderson	UU	KY-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
73	Augustus C. Baldwin	D	MI-05	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
74	John D. Baldwin	R	MA-08	March 4, 1863	01st term
75	James G. Blaine	R	ME-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
76	George Bliss	D	OH-14	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1853–1855.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1865.
77	Henry T. Blow	UU	MO-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
78	George S. Boutwell	D	MA-07	March 4, 1863	01st term
79	Sempronius H. Boyd	UU	MO-04	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
80	Augustus Brandegee	R	CT-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
81	James Brooks	D	NY-08	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1849–1853.	03rd term*
82	John Martin Broomall	R	PA-07	March 4, 1863	01st term
83	James S. Brown	D	WI-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
84	John W. Chanler	D	NY-07	March 4, 1863	01st term
85	Freeman Clarke	R	NY-28	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
86	Brutus J. Clay	U	KY-07	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
87	John Creswell	UU	MD-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
88	Amasa Cobb	R	WI-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
89	Alexander Hamilton Coffroth	R	PA-16	March 4, 1863	01st term
90	Cornelius Cole	R	CA	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
91	John L. Dawson	D	PA-21	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1851–1855.	03rd term*
92	Henry W. Davis	UU	MD-03	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1855–1861.	04th term*	Left the House in 1865.
93	Thomas T. Davis	R	NY-23	March 4, 1863	01st term
94	Henry C. Deming	R	CT-01	March 4, 1863	01st term
95	Charles Denison	D	PA-12	March 4, 1863	01st term
96	Nathan F. Dixon II	R	RI-02	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1849–1851.	02nd term*
97	Ignatius L. Donnelly	R	MN-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
98	John F. Driggs	R	MI-06	March 4, 1863	01st term
99	Ebenezer Dumont	R	IN-06	March 4, 1863	01st term
100	Josiah B. Grinnell	R	IA-04	March 4, 1863	01st term
101	John R. Eden	D	IL-07	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
102	Joseph K. Edgerton	D	IN-10	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
103	Charles A. Eldredge	D	WI-04	March 4, 1863	01st term
104	John F. Farnsworth	R	IL-02	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1857–1861.	03rd term*
105	William E. Finck	D	OH-12	March 4, 1863	01st term
106	John Ganson	D	NY-30	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1865.
107	James A. Garfield	R	OH-19	March 4, 1863	01st term
108	John A. Griswold	D	NY-15	March 4, 1863	01st term
100	Ephraim R. Eckley	R	OH-17	March 4, 1863	01st term
109	Benjamin Gwinn Harris	D	MD-05	March 4, 1863	01st term
110	Charles M. Harris	D	IL-04	March 4, 1863	01st term
111	Henry W. Harrington	D	IN-03	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
112	Anson Herrick	D	NY-09	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
113	William Higby	R	CA	March 4, 1863	01st term
114	Giles W. Hotchkiss	R	NY-26	March 4, 1863	01st term
115	Asahel W. Hubbard	R	IA-06	March 4, 1863	01st term
116	John H. Hubbard	R	CT-04	March 4, 1863	01st term
117	Calvin T. Hulburd	R	NY-17	March 4, 1863	01st term
118	Wells A. Hutchins	R	OH-11	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
119	Thomas Jenckes	R	RI-01	March 4, 1863	01st term
120	William Johnston	D	OH-08	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
121	John A. Kasson	R	IA-05	March 4, 1863	01st term
122	Martin Kalbfleisch	D	NY-02	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
123	Orlando Kellogg	R	NY-16	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1847–1849.	02nd term*
124	Francis Kernan	D	NY-21	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
125	Austin A. King	U	MO-06	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
126	Francis Celeste Le Blond	D	OH-05	March 4, 1863	01st term
127	DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn	R	NY-22	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
128	Benjamin F. Loan	UU	MO-07	March 4, 1863	01st term
129	Alexander Long	D	OH-02	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
130	John W. Longyear	R	MI-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
131	Daniel Marcy	D	NH-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
132	James M. Marvin	R	NY-18	March 4, 1863	01st term
133	Archibald McAllister	D	PA-17	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
134	John R. McBride	R	OR	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
135	Joseph W. McClurg	UU	MO-05	March 4, 1863	01st term
136	James F. McDowell	D	IN-11	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
137	John F. McKinney	D	OH-04	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
138	George Middleton	D	NJ-02	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
139	William H. Miller	D	PA-14	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
140	Samuel F. Miller	R	NY-19	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
141	Daniel Morris	R	NY-25	March 4, 1863	01st term
142	William R. Morrison	D	IL-12	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
143	Amos Myers	R	PA-20	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
144	Leonard Myers	R	PA-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
145	Homer A. Nelson	D	NY-12	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
146	Jesse O. Norton	R	IL-06	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1853–1857.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1865.
147	Charles O'Neill	R	PA-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
148	John O'Neill	D	OH-13	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
149	Godlove Stein Orth	D	IN-08	March 4, 1863	01st term
150	James W. Patterson	R	NH-03	March 4, 1863	01st term
151	Sidney Perham	R	ME-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
152	Hiram Price	R	IA-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
153	William Radford	D	NY-10	March 4, 1863	01st term
154	Samuel J. Randall	D	PA-01	March 4, 1863	01st term
155	William H. Randall	UU	KY-08	March 4, 1863	01st term
156	Andrew J. Rogers	D	NJ-04	March 4, 1863	01st term
157	Lewis W. Ross	D	IL-09	March 4, 1863	01st term
158	Robert C. Schenck	D	OH-03	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1843–1851.	05th term*
159	Glenni W. Scofield	R	PA-19	March 4, 1863	01st term
160	Thomas B. Shannon	R	CA	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
161	Ithamar Sloan	R	WI-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
162	Green C. Smith	UU	KY-06	March 4, 1863	01st term
163	Rufus P. Spalding	R	OH-18	March 4, 1863	01st term
164	John F. Starr	R	NJ-01	March 4, 1863	01st term
165	Henry G. Stebbins	D	NY-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Resigned on October 24, 1864.
166	Myer Strouse	D	PA-10	March 4, 1863	01st term
167	John T. Stuart	D	IL-08	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1839–1843.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1865.
168	Lorenzo De Medici Sweat	D	ME-01	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
169	William Temple	D	DE	March 4, 1863	01st term	Died on May 28, 1863.
170	Martin R. Thayer	R	PA-05	March 4, 1863	01st term
171	Henry W. Tracy	R	PA-13	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
172	Charles Upson	R	MI-02	March 4, 1863	01st term
173	William B. Washburn	R	MA-09	March 4, 1863	01st term
174	Ezra Wheeler	D	WI-05	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
175	Joseph W. White	D	OH-16	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
176	Abel C. Wilder	R	KS	March 4, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
177	Thomas Williams	R	PA-23	March 4, 1863	01st term
178	Charles H. Winfield	D	NY-11	March 4, 1863	01st term
179	Fernando Wood	D	NY-05	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1841–1843.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1865.
180	Frederick E. Woodbridge	R	VT-01	March 4, 1863	01st term
	John V. L. Pruyn	D	NY-14	December 7, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
	John G. Scott	D	MO-03	December 7, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
	Nathaniel B. Smithers	UU	DE	December 7, 1863	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
	Kellian Whaley	UU	WV-03	December 7, 1863	01st term
	Jacob B. Blair	UU	WV-01	December 17, 1863 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1865.
	Ebon C. Ingersoll	R	IL-05	May 20, 1864	01st term
	Samuel Knox	UU	MO-01	June 10, 1864	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
	Henry G. Worthington	R	NV	October 31, 1864	01st term	Left the House in 1865.
	Dwight Townsend	D	NY-01	December 5, 1864	01st term	Left the House in 1865.

Delegates

Rank	Delegate	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)
1	Samuel Gordon Daily	R	NE	May 18, 1860	03rd term
2	Hiram Pitt Bennet	R	CO	August 19, 1861	02nd term
3	George Edward Cole	D	WA	March 4, 1863	01st term
4	William Jayne		DAK	March 4, 1863	01st term
5	John F. Kinney	D	UT	March 4, 1863	01st term
6	Gordon Newell Mott	R	NV	March 4, 1863	01st term
7	Francisco Perea	R	NM	March 4, 1863	01st term
	William H. Wallace	R	ID	February 1, 1864	01st term
	John Blair Smith Todd	D	DAK	June 17, 1864 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*
	Charles Debrille Poston	R	AZ	December 5, 1864	01st term
	Samuel McLean	D	MT	January 6, 1865	01st term

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