List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 39th Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 39th United States Congress listed by seniority.
As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 39th Congress (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1867). 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.

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 (Previous service, if any)	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Elihu B. Washburne	R	IL-03	March 4, 1853	07th term	Dean of the House
2	Schuyler Colfax	R	IN-09	March 4, 1855	06th term	Speaker of the House
3	Justin S. Morrill	R	VT-02	March 4, 1855	06th term	Left the House in 1867.
4	Henry L. Dawes	R	MA-10	March 4, 1857	05th term
5	Daniel W. Gooch	R	MA-06	January 31, 1858	05th term	Resigned on September 1, 1865.
6	John B. Alley	R	MA-05	March 4, 1859	04th term	Left the House in 1867.
7	James M. Ashley	R	OH-10	March 4, 1859	04th term
8	Thomas D. Eliot	R	MA-01	March 4, 1859 Previous service, 1854–1855.	05th term*
9	James K. Moorhead	R	PA-22	March 4, 1859	04th term
10	Alexander H. Rice	R	MA-03	March 4, 1859	04th term	Left the House in 1867.
11	Thaddeus Stevens	R	PA-09	March 4, 1859 Previous service, 1849–1853.	06th term*
12	Edwin Hanson Webster	UU	MD-02	March 4, 1859	04th term	Resigned in July 1865.
13	William Windom	R	MN-01	March 4, 1859	04th term
14	Sydenham E. Ancona	D	PA-08	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
15	Portus Baxter	R	VT-03	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
16	Fernando C. Beaman	R	MI-01	March 4, 1861	03rd term
17	Henry Grider	D	KY-03	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1843–1847.	05th term*	Died on September 7, 1866.
18	Aaron Harding	R	KY-04	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
19	Philip Johnson	D	PA-11	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Died on January 29, 1867.
20	George W. Julian	R	IN-05	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1849–1851.	04th term*
21	William D. Kelley	R	PA-04	March 4, 1861	03rd term
22	Frederick A. Pike	R	ME-05	March 4, 1861	03rd term
23	Theodore M. Pomeroy	R	NY-24	March 4, 1861	03rd term
24	John H. Rice	R	ME-04	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
25	Edward H. Rollins	R	NH-02	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
26	Francis Thomas	UU	MD-04	March 4, 1861 Previous service, 1831–1841.	08th term*
27	Daniel W. Voorhees	D	IN-07	March 4, 1861	03rd term	Resigned on February 23, 1866.
28	James F. Wilson	R	IA-01	October 8, 1861	03rd term
29	Samuel Hooper	R	MA-04	December 2, 1861	03rd term
30	Walter D. McIndoe	R	WI-06	January 26, 1863	03rd term	Left the House in 1867.
31	William B. Allison	R	IA-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term
32	Oakes Ames	R	MA-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
33	John D. Baldwin	R	MA-08	March 4, 1863	02nd term
34	James G. Blaine	R	ME-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term
35	Henry T. Blow	R	MO-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
36	George S. Boutwell	R	MA-07	March 4, 1863	02nd term
37	Augustus Brandegee	R	CT-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
38	James Brooks	D	NY-08	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1849–1853.	04th term*	Unseated on April 7, 1866.
39	John Martin Broomall	R	PA-07	March 4, 1863	02nd term
40	John W. Chanler	D	NY-07	March 4, 1863	02nd term
41	Amasa Cobb	R	WI-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term
42	Thomas T. Davis	R	NY-23	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
43	John L. Dawson	D	PA-21	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1851–1855.	04th term*	Left the House in 1867.
44	Henry C. Deming	R	CT-01	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
45	Charles Denison	D	PA-12	March 4, 1863	02nd term
46	Nathan F. Dixon II	R	RI-02	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1849–1851.	03rd term*
47	Ignatius L. Donnelly	R	MN-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
48	John F. Driggs	R	MI-06	March 4, 1863	02nd term
49	Ebenezer Dumont	R	IN-06	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
50	Ephraim R. Eckley	R	OH-17	March 4, 1863	02nd term
51	Charles A. Eldredge	D	WI-04	March 4, 1863	02nd term
52	John F. Farnsworth	R	IL-02	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1857–1861.	04th term*
53	William E. Finck	D	OH-12	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
54	James A. Garfield	R	OH-19	March 4, 1863	02nd term
55	Josiah B. Grinnell	R	IA-04	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
56	John A. Griswold	R	NY-15	March 4, 1863	02nd term
57	Benjamin Gwinn Harris	D	MD-05	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
58	William Higby	R	CA-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
59	Giles W. Hotchkiss	R	NY-26	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
60	Asahel W. Hubbard	R	IA-06	March 4, 1863	02nd term
61	John H. Hubbard	R	CT-04	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
62	Calvin T. Hulburd	R	NY-17	March 4, 1863	02nd term
63	Thomas Jenckes	R	RI-01	March 4, 1863	02nd term
64	John A. Kasson	R	IA-05	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
65	Orlando Kellogg	R	NY-16	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1847–1849.	03rd term*	Died on August 24, 1865.
66	Francis Celeste Le Blond	D	OH-05	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
67	Benjamin F. Loan	R	MO-07	March 4, 1863	02nd term
68	John W. Longyear	R	MI-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
69	James M. Marvin	R	NY-18	March 4, 1863	02nd term
70	Joseph W. McClurg	R	MO-05	March 4, 1863	02nd term
71	Daniel Morris	R	NY-25	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
72	Leonard Myers	R	PA-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term
73	Charles O'Neill	R	PA-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
74	Godlove Stein Orth	R	IN-08	March 4, 1863	02nd term
75	James W. Patterson	R	NH-03	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
76	Sidney Perham	R	ME-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
77	Hiram Price	R	IA-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
78	William Radford	D	NY-10	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
79	Samuel J. Randall	D	PA-01	March 4, 1863	02nd term
80	William H. Randall	UU	KY-08	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
81	Andrew J. Rogers	D	NJ-04	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
82	Lewis W. Ross	D	IL-09	March 4, 1863	02nd term
83	Robert C. Schenck	R	OH-03	March 4, 1863 Previous service, 1843–1851.	06th term*
84	Glenni W. Scofield	R	PA-19	March 4, 1863	02nd term
85	Ithamar Sloan	R	WI-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
86	Green C. Smith	UU	KY-06	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Resigned in July 1866.
87	Rufus P. Spalding	R	OH-18	March 4, 1863	02nd term
88	John F. Starr	R	NJ-01	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
89	Myer Strouse	D	PA-10	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
90	Martin R. Thayer	R	PA-05	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
91	Charles Upson	R	MI-02	March 4, 1863	02nd term
92	William B. Washburn	R	MA-09	March 4, 1863	02nd term
93	Thomas Williams	R	PA-23	March 4, 1863	02nd term
94	Charles H. Winfield	D	NY-11	March 4, 1863	02nd term	Left the House in 1867.
95	Frederick E. Woodbridge	R	VT-01	March 4, 1863	02nd term
96	Kellian Whaley	UU	WV-03	December 7, 1863 Previous service, 1861–1863.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1867.
97	Ebon C. Ingersoll	R	IL-05	May 20, 1864	02nd term
98	George W. Anderson	R	MO-09	March 4, 1865	01st term
99	Delos R. Ashley	R	NV	March 4, 1865	01st term
100	Jehu Baker	R	IL-12	March 4, 1865	01st term
101	Abraham Andrews Barker	R	PA-17	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
102	John F. Benjamin	R	MO-08	March 4, 1865	01st term
103	Teunis G. Bergen	D	NY-02	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
104	John Bidwell	R	CA-03	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
105	John Bingham	R	OH-16	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1855–1863.	05th term*
106	Benjamin M. Boyer	D	PA-06	March 4, 1865	01st term
107	Henry P. H. Bromwell	R	IL-07	March 4, 1865	01st term
108	Ralph P. Buckland	R	OH-09	March 4, 1865	01st term
109	Hezekiah S. Bundy	R	OH-11	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
110	Reader W. Clarke	D	OH-06	March 4, 1865	01st term
111	Sidney Clarke	R	KS	March 4, 1865	01st term
112	Roscoe Conkling	R	NY-21	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1859–1863.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1867.
113	Burton C. Cook	R	IL-06	March 4, 1865	01st term
114	Shelby M. Cullom	R	IL-08	March 4, 1865	01st term
115	Charles Vernon Culver	R	PA-20	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
116	William A. Darling	R	NY-09	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
117	Joseph H. Defrees	R	IN-10	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
118	Columbus Delano	R	OH-13	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1845–1847.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1867.
119	James H. D. Henderson	R	OR	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
120	Benjamin Eggleston	R	OH-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
121	John H. Farquhar	R	IN-04	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
122	Thomas W. Ferry	R	MI-04	March 4, 1865	01st term
123	Adam J. Glossbrenner	D	PA-15	March 4, 1865	01st term
124	Charles Goodyear	D	NY-14	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1845–1847.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1867.
125	Abner C. Harding	R	IL-04	March 4, 1865	01st term
126	Roswell Hart	R	NY-28	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
127	Rutherford B. Hayes	R	OH-02	March 4, 1865	01st term
128	Ralph Hill	R	IN-03	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
129	John Hogan	D	MO-01	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
130	Sidney T. Holmes	R	NY-22	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
131	Chester D. Hubbard	UU	WV-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
132	Demas Hubbard, Jr.	R	NY-19	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
133	Edwin N. Hubbell	D	NY-13	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
134	James Randolph Hubbell	R	OH-08	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
135	James Humphrey	R	NY-03	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1859–1861.	02nd term*	Died on June 16, 1866.
136	James M. Humphrey	D	NY-30	March 4, 1865	01st term
137	Morgan Jones	D	NY-04	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
138	John R. Kelso	R	MO-04	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
139	Michael C. Kerr	D	IN-02	March 4, 1865	01st term
140	Andrew J. Kuykendall	R	IL-13	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
141	John H. Ketcham	R	NY-12	March 4, 1865	01st term
142	Addison H. Laflin	R	NY-20	March 4, 1865	01st term
143	George R. Latham	UU	WV-02	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
144	George Van Eman Lawrence	R	PA-24	March 4, 1865	01st term
145	William Lawrence	R	OH-04	March 4, 1865	01st term
146	John Lynch	R	ME-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
147	Samuel S. Marshall	D	IL-11	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1855–1859.	03rd term*
148	Gilman Marston	R	NH-01	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1859–1863.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1867.
149	Ulysses Mercur	R	PA-13	March 4, 1865	01st term
150	Hiram McCullough	D	MD-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
151	Samuel McKee	UU	KY-09	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
152	Donald C. McRuer	R	CA-01	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
153	George F. Miller	R	PA-14	March 4, 1865	01st term
154	Samuel W. Moulton	R	IL	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
155	William A. Newell	R	NJ-02	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1847–1851.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1867.
156	William E. Niblack	D	IN-01	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1857–1861.	03rd term*
157	John A. Nicholson	D	DE	March 4, 1865	01st term
158	Thomas E. Noell	R	MO-03	March 4, 1865	01st term
159	Halbert E. Paine	R	WI-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
160	Charles E. Phelps	UU	MD-03	March 4, 1865	01st term
161	Tobias A. Plants	R	OH-15	March 4, 1865	01st term
162	Henry J. Raymond	R	NY-06	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
163	Burwell C. Ritter	D	KY-02	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
164	Lovell Rousseau	UU	KY-05	March 4, 1865	01st term	Resigned on July 21, 1866. Returned to the House on December 3, 1866. Left the House in 1867.
165	Philetus Sawyer	R	WI-05	March 4, 1865	01st term
166	George S. Shanklin	D	KY-07	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
167	Samuel Shellabarger	R	OH-07	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*
168	Charles Sitgreaves	D	NJ-03	March 4, 1865	01st term
169	Thomas N. Stilwell	R	IN-11	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
170	Stephen Taber	D	NY-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
171	Nelson Taylor	D	NY-05	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
172	Anthony Thornton	D	IL-10	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
173	Lawrence S. Trimble	D	KY-01	March 4, 1865	01st term
174	Rowland E. Trowbridge	R	MI-05	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*
175	Henry Van Aernam	R	NY-31	March 4, 1865	01st term
176	Burt Van Horn	R	NY-29	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*
177	Robert T. Van Horn	R	MO-06	March 4, 1865	01st term
178	Hamilton Ward, Sr.	R	NY-27	March 4, 1865	01st term
179	Samuel L. Warner	R	CT-02	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
180	Martin Welker	R	OH-14	March 4, 1865	01st term
181	John Wentworth	R	IL-01	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1843–1851 and 1853–1855.	06th term**	Left the House in 1867.
182	Stephen F. Wilson	R	PA-18	March 4, 1865	01st term
183	Edwin R. V. Wright	D	NJ-05	March 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	Nathaniel P. Banks	R	MA-06	December 4, 1865 Previous service, 1853–1857.	04th term*
	Robert S. Hale	R	NY-16	December 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	Isaac R. Hawkins	U	TN-07	December 4, 1865	01st term
	John Lewis Thomas Jr.	D	MD-02	December 4, 1865	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	Alexander Hamilton Coffroth	D	PA-16	February 19, 1866 Previous service, 1863–1865.	02nd term*	Resigned on July 18, 1866.
	Henry D. Washburn	R	IN-07	February 23, 1866	01st term
	William E. Dodge	R	NY-08	April 7, 1866	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	William Henry Koontz	R	PA-16	July 18, 1866	01st term
	Samuel M. Arnell	UU	TN-06	July 24, 1866	01st term
	William B. Campbell	U	TN-05	July 24, 1866 Previous service, 1837–1843.	04th term*	Left the House in 1867.
	Edmund Cooper	U	TN-04	July 24, 1866	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	John W. Leftwich	UU	TN-08	July 24, 1866	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	Horace Maynard	UU	TN-02	July 24, 1866 Previous service, 1857–1863.	04th term*
	William Brickly Stokes	UU	TN-03	July 24, 1866 Previous service, 1859–1861.	02nd term*
	Nathaniel G. Taylor	U	TN-01	July 24, 1866 Previous service, 1854–1855.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1867.
	Elijah Hise	D	KY-03	December 3, 1866	01st term
	Andrew H. Ward	D	KY-06	December 3, 1866	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	John W. Hunter	D	NY-03	December 4, 1866	01st term	Left the House in 1867.
	Turner M. Marquett	R	NE-01	March 2, 1867	01st term	Left the House in 1867.

Delegates

Rank	Delegate	Party	District	Seniority date (Previous service, if any)	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Samuel McLean	D	MT	January 6, 1865	02nd term
2	Allen Alexander Bradford	R	CO	March 4, 1865	01st term
3	Walter A. Burleigh	R	DAK	March 4, 1865	01st term
4	José Francisco Chaves	R	NM	March 4, 1865	01st term
5	Phineas Hitchcock	R	NE	March 4, 1865	01st term
6	Edward Dexter Holbrook	D	ID	March 4, 1865	01st term
7	William Henry Hooper	D	UT	March 4, 1865 Previous service, 1859–1861.	02nd term*
8	Arthur A. Denny	R	WA	March 4, 1865	01st term
	John Noble Goodwin	R	AZ	January 17, 1866 Previous service, 1861–1863.	02nd term*

See also

• 39th United States Congress
• List of United States congressional districts
• List of United States senators in the 39th Congress by seniority

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

• United States Congressional Elections 1788-1997, by Michael J. Dubin (McFarland and Company 1998) ISBN 0-7864-0283-0

External links

• Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives