List of members of the United States Congress from multiple states
Throughout the History of the United States Congress, some members were elected as either Representatives and/or as Senators from more than one U.S. state at different times in their career.
Multiple states in the House
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 Thomas 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Brown | 1789 | 1792 | Democratic-Republican | |
1792 | 1805 | |||
Robert Harper | 1795 | 1801 | Federalist | |
1816 | 1816 | |||
Edward Livingston | 1795 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican | |
1829 | 1831 | Jacksonian | ||
William Claiborne | 1797 | 1801 | Democratic-Republican | |
1817 | 1817 | |||
David Holmes | 1797 | 1809 | Democratic-Republican | |
1820 | 1825 | |||
John Chandler | 1805 | 1809 | Democratic-Republican | |
1820 | 1829 | |||
William R. King | 1811 | 1816 | Democratic-Republican | |
1819 | 1844 | |||
Democratic | ||||
1848 | 1852 | |||
Israel Pickens | 1811 | 1817 | Democratic-Republican | |
1826 | 1826 | Jacksonian | ||
Daniel Webster | 1813 | 1817 | Federalist | |
1827 | 1833 | National Republican | ||
1833 | 1841 | Whig | ||
1845 | 1850 | |||
Albion Parris | 1815 | 1818 | Democratic-Republican | |
1827 | 1828 | Jacksonian | ||
John Holmes | 1817 | 1820 | Democratic-Republican | |
1820 | 1827 | |||
1829 | 1833 | National Republican | ||
Sam Houston | 1823 | 1827 | Democratic-Republican | |
1846 | 1859 | Democratic | ||
Jesse Speight | 1829 | 1837 | Jacksonian | |
1845 | 1847 | Democratic | ||
John B. Weller | 1839 | 1845 | Democratic | |
1852 | 1857 | |||
William Gwin | 1841 | 1843 | Democratic | |
1850 | 1855 | |||
1857 | 1861 | |||
Alexander Ramsey | 1843 | 1847 | Whig | |
1863 | 1875 | Republican | ||
Edward Baker | 1845 | 1847 | Whig | |
1849 | 1851 | |||
1860 | 1861 | Republican | ||
James Lane | 1853 | 1855 | Republican | |
1861 | 1866 | |||
Charles Van Wyck | 1859 | 1863 | Republican | |
1867 | 1869 | |||
1870 | 1871 | |||
1881 | 1887 | |||
J. Hamilton Lewis | 1897 | 1899 | Democratic | |
1913 | 1919 | |||
1933 | 1939 | |||
Charles A. Towne | 1900 | 1901 | Democratic | |
1905 | 1907 |
Territories and states
- 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) as a Delegate. 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 and Anti-Jacksonian while Senator.
- William H. Wallace – represented Washington Territory (1861–63) and later Idaho Territory as a Delegate (1864–65) as a Delegate. He was a Republican.
References
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