List of Members of Congress who have represented Erie, Pennsylvania

This is a list of the Members of Congress who have represented Erie, Pennsylvania to the United States House of Representatives. The list is in chronological order and shows changes in congressional districts over the years, including the creation or elimination of a district. Multiple dates indicate that a Congressman served inconsecutive terms within the same district.

Erie is now in Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district (see map, right), but has also been a part of the 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 24th (twice), 25th (three times), 27th, 28th, and 29th districts as the Congress reapportioned districts in northwestern Pennsylvania based on changes in population.

List of Congressmen

Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
District created in 1795 from Pennsylvania's At-large congressional district
Albert Gallatin	Democratic-Republican Party	1795 – 1801	Appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1801
William Hoge	Democratic-Republican Party	1801 – 1803	Moved to Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district
District eliminated in 1803

Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
William Hoge	Democratic-Republican Party	1803 – 1804	Resigned October 15, 1804
John Hoge	Democratic-Republican Party	1804 – 1805

Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
John B. C. Lucas	Democratic-Republican Party	1803 – 1805	Resigned in 1805
Samuel Smith	Democratic-Republican Party	1805 – 1811	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Abner Lacock	Democratic-Republican Party	1811 – 1813	Resigned when he was elected to the United States Senate

Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Thomas Wilson	Democratic-Republican Party	1813 – 1817
Robert Moore	Democratic-Republican Party	1817 – 1821	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Patrick Farrelly	Democratic-Republican Party	1821 – 1823	Moved to Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
District created in 1823
Patrick Farrelly	Democratic-Republican Party	1823 – 1826
Thomas Hale Sill	National Republican Party	1826 – 1827
Stephen Barlow	Jacksonian Party	1827 – 1829
Thomas Hale Sill	Anti-Jacksonian Party	1829 – 1831
John Banks	Anti-Masonic Party	1831 – 1833

Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
District created in 1833
John Galbraith	Jacksonian Party	1833 – 1837
Arnold Plumer	Democratic Party	1837 – 1839
John Galbraith	Democratic Party	1839 – 1841
Arnold Plumer	Democratic Party	1841 – 1843
District eliminated in 1843

Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Charles Manning Reed	Whig Party	1843 – 1845	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
James Thompson	Democratic Party	1845 – 1851
Carlton Brandaga Curtis	Democratic Party	1851 – 1853

Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
John Dick	Whig Party	1853 – 1855	Switched to Opposition Party

Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
John Dick	Opposition Party	1855 – 1857	Switched to Republican Party
	Republican Party	1857 – 1859
Elijah Babbitt	Republican Party	1859 – 1863
District eliminated in 1863

Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Glenni William Scofield	Republican Party	1863 – 1873
Carlton Brandaga Curtis	Republican Party	1873 – 1875	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection

Pennsylvania's 27th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Albert Gallatin Egbert	Democrat	1875 – 1877
Lewis Findlay Watson	Republican	1877 – 1879
James H. Osmer	Republican	1879 – 1881
Lewis Findlay Watson	Republican	1881 – 1883
Samuel Myron Brainerd	Republican	1883 – 1885	Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
William Lawrence Scott	Democrat	1885 – 1889	Renominated but declined because of the condition of his health
Lewis Findlay Watson	Republican	1889 – 1890	Died in office
Charles Warren Stone	Republican	1890 – 1899	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Joseph C. Sibley	Democratic Party	1899 – 1903

Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Arthur Laban Bates	Republican Party	1903 – 1913
Milton William Shreve	Republican Party	1913 – 1915	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Michael Liebel, Jr.	Democrat	1915 – 1917	Not a candidate for renomination
Henry Alden Clark	Republican	1917 – 1919
Milton William Shreve	Republican	1919 – 1923	Moved to Pennsylvania's 29th congressional district

Pennsylvania's 29th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Milton William Shreve	Republican	1923 – 1933	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Charles N. Crosby	Democratic Party	1933 – 1939	Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
Robert L. Rodgers	Republican	1939 – 1945	Moved to Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district

Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Robert L. Rodgers	Republican	1945 – 1947	Unsuccessful candidate for renomination
Carroll D. Kearns	Republican	1947 – 1953	Moved to Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district

Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Carroll D. Kearns	Republican Party	1953 – 1963	[1]
James D. Weaver	Republican Party	1963 – 1965	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Joseph P. Vigorito	Democratic Party	1965 – 1977	[2] Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Marc L. Marks	Republican Party	1977 – 1983
District eliminated in 1983[2]

Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Tom Ridge	Republican Party	1983 – 1995	[2]
Phil English	Republican Party	1995 – 2003	Moved to Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district
District eliminated in 2003

Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

Member of Congress	Party	Years	Notes
Phil English	Republican Party	2003 – 2009	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Kathy Dahlkemper	Democratic Party	2009 – 2011	Unsuccessful candidate for reelection
Mike Kelly	Republican Party	2011 – present

References

• History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol I, 1884, pp 406, 409

1. Koenig, John, Jr (27 October 1960). "Both Parties Forecast Big Gains From Election in Pennsylvania". Associated Press. Oil City Derrick.
2. Palattella, Ed (21 January 2003). "Running For Congress: Politics Is Timing". Erie Times-News.

External links

• Industrial and Political Map of Pennsylvania (1840) This Library of Congress image from the American Memory map collection includes congressional districts for the entire state at the time of the 1840 US presidential election.