United States congressional delegations from California
These are tables of congressional delegations from California to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
House of Representatives
Current Representatives
List of members of the Californian United States House delegation, their terms in office, district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 53 members, with 39 Democrats (including minority leader Nancy Pelosi) and 14 Republicans.
District | Representative | Party | CPVI | Incumbent time in office | District map |
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1st | Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) | Republican | R+10 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
2nd | Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) | Democratic | D+20 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
3rd | John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove) | Democratic | D+3 | November 3, 2009 – present | |
4th | Tom McClintock (R-Elk Grove) | Republican | R+10 | January 3, 2009 – present | |
5th | Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) | Democratic | D+19 | January 3, 1999 – present | |
6th | Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) | Democratic | D+18 | March 8, 2005 – present | |
7th | Ami Bera (D-Elk Grove) | Democratic | EVEN | January 3, 2013 – present | |
8th | Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) | Republican | R+10 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
9th | Jerry McNerney (D-Stockton) | Democratic | D+6 | January 3, 2007 – present | |
10th | Jeff Denham (R-Atwater) | Republican | R+1 | January 3, 2011 – present | |
11th | Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) | Democratic | D+17 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
12th | Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) | Democratic | D+34 | June 2, 1987 – present | |
13th | Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) | Democratic | D+37 | April 7, 1998 – present | |
14th | Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) | Democratic | D+23 | April 8, 2008 – present | |
15th | Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) | Democratic | D+16 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
16th | Jim Costa (D-Fresno) | Democratic | D+7 | January 3, 2005 – present | |
17th | Mike Honda (D-San Jose) | Democratic | D+20 | January 3, 2001 – present | |
18th | Anna Eshoo (D-Atherton) | Democratic | D+18 | January 3, 1993 – present | |
19th | Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) | Democratic | D+19 | January 3, 1995 – present | |
20th | Sam Farr (D-Carmel) | Democratic | D+21 | June 8, 1993 – present | |
21st | David Valadao (R-Hanford) | Republican | D+2 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
22nd | Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) | Republican | R+10 | January 3, 2003 – present | |
23rd | Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) | Republican | R+16 | January 3, 2007 – present | |
24th | Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) | Democratic | D+4 | March 10, 1998 – present | |
25th | Steve Knight (R-Palmdale) | Republican | R+3 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
26th | Julia Brownley (D-Oak Park) | Democratic | D+4 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
27th | Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park) | Democratic | D+11 | July 14, 2009 – present | |
28th | Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) | Democratic | D+20 | January 3, 2001 – present | |
29th | Tony Cardenas (D-San Fernando Valley) | Democratic | D+25 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
30th | Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) | Democratic | D+14 | January 3, 1997 – present | |
31st | Pete Aguilar (D - Fontana) | Democratic | D+5 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
32nd | Grace Napolitano (D-Norwalk) | Democratic | D+12 | January 3, 1999 – present | |
33rd | Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) | Democratic | D+11 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
34th | Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) | Democratic | D+30 | January 3, 1993 – present | |
35th | Norma Torres (D-Pomona) | Democratic | D+15 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
36th | Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert) | Democratic | R+1 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
37th | Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) | Democratic | D+34 | January 3, 2011 – present | |
38th | Linda Sánchez (D-Orange) | Democratic | D+12 | January 3, 2003 – present | |
39th | Ed Royce (R-(Fullerton) | Republican | R+5 | January 3, 1993 – present | |
40th | Lucille Roybal (D-Los Angeles) | Democratic | D+29 | January 3, 1993 – present | |
41st | Mark Takano (D-Riverside) | Democratic | D+9 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
42nd | Ken Calvert (R-Corona) | Republican | R+10 | January 3, 1993 – present | |
43rd | Maxine Waters (D-Inglewood) | Democratic | D+26 | January 3, 1991 – present | |
44th | Janice Hahn (D-Compton) | Democratic | D+32 | July 12, 2011 – present | |
45th | Mimi Walters (R-Laguna Niguel) | Republican | R+7 | January 3, 2015 – present | |
46th | Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim) | Democratic | D+9 | January 3, 1997 – present | |
47th | Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) | Democratic | D+8 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
48th | Dana Rohrabacher (R-Costa Mesa) | Republican | R+7 | January 3, 1989 – present | |
49th | Darrell Issa (R-Vista) | Republican | R+4 | January 3, 2001 – present | |
50th | Duncan D. Hunter (R-Lakeside) | Republican | R+14 | January 3, 2009 – present | |
51st | Juan Vargas (D-San Diego) | Democratic | D+16 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
52nd | Scott Peters (D-La Jolla) | Democratic | D+2 | January 3, 2013 – present | |
53rd | Susan Davis (D-San Diego) | Democratic | D+10 | January 3, 2001 – present |
Delegation timeline (1849 – Present)
Tables showing membership in the California federal House delegation throughout history of statehood in the United States.
1849–1861: 2 seats
Congress | Elected at-large statewide on a general ticket | |
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1st seat | 2nd seat | |
31st (1849–1851) |
George Washington Wright (Ind) |
Edward Gilbert (D) |
32nd (1851–1853) |
Edward C. Marshall (D) |
Joseph W. McCorkle (D) |
33rd (1853–1855) |
Milton S. Latham (D) |
James A. McDougall (D) |
34th (1855–1857) |
James W. Denver (D) |
Philemon T. Herbert (D) |
35th (1857–1859) |
Joseph C. McKibbin (D) |
Charles L. Scott (D) |
36th (1859–1861) |
John C. Burch (D) |
1861–1873: 3 seats
Congress | Elected at-large statewide on a general ticket | ||
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1st seat | 2nd seat | 3rd seat | |
37th (1861–1863) |
Timothy Guy Phelps (R) |
Aaron A. Sargent (R) |
Frederick F. Low (R) |
38th (1863–1865) |
Cornelius Cole (R) |
William Higby (R) |
Thomas B. Shannon (R) |
District | |||
1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
39th (1865–1867) |
Donald C. McRuer (R) |
William Higby (R) |
John Bidwell (R) |
40th (1867–1869) |
Samuel B. Axtell (D) |
James A. Johnson (D) | |
41st (1869–1871) |
Aaron A. Sargent (R) | ||
42nd (1871–1873) |
Sherman O. Houghton (R) |
John M. Coghlan (R) |
1873–1883: 4 seats
Congress | District | ||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | ||
43rd (1873–1875) |
Charles Clayton (R) | Horace F. Page (R) | John K. Luttrell (D) | Sherman O. Houghton (R) | |
44th (1875–1877) |
William Adam Piper (D) | Peter D. Wigginton (D) | |||
45th (1877–1879) |
Horace Davis (R) | Romualdo Pacheco (R) | |||
Peter D. Wigginton (D) | |||||
46th (1879–1881) |
Campbell P. Berry (D) | Romualdo Pacheco (R) | |||
47th (1881–1883) |
William S. Rosecrans (D) |
1883–1893: 6 seats
Congress | District | At-large seats | |||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st seat | 2nd seat | ||
48th (1883–1885) |
William S. Rosecrans (D) | James H. Budd (D) | Barclay Henley (D) | Pleasant B. Tully (D) | John R. Glascock (D) | Charles A. Sumner (D) | |
49th (1885–1887) |
District | ||||||
Barclay Henley (D) | James A. Louttit (R) | Joseph McKenna (R) | William W. Morrow (R) | 5th | 6th | ||
Charles N. Felton (R) | Henry H. Markham (R) | ||||||
50th (1887–1889) |
Thomas Larkin Thompson (D) | Marion Biggs (D) | William Vandever (R) | ||||
51st (1889–1891) |
John J. De Haven (R) | Thomas J. Clunie (D) | |||||
Thomas J. Geary (D) | |||||||
52nd (1891–1893) |
Anthony Caminetti (D) | John T. Cutting (R) | Eugene F. Loud (R) | William W. Bowers (R) | |||
Samuel G. Hilborn (R) |
1893–1903: 7 seats
Congress | District | |||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | ||
53rd (1893–1895) |
Thomas J. Geary (D) | Anthony Caminetti (D) | Samuel G. Hilborn (R) | James G. Maguire (D) | Eugene F. Loud (R) | Marion Cannon (Pop) | William W. Bowers (R) | |
Warren B. English (D) | ||||||||
54th (1895–1897) |
John All Barham (R) | Grove L. Johnson (R) | Samuel G. Hilborn (R) | James McLachlan (R) | ||||
55th (1897–1899) |
Marion De Vries (D) | Charles A. Barlow (Pop) | Curtis H. Castle (Pop) | |||||
56th (1899–1901) |
Victor H. Metcalf (R) | Julius Kahn (R) | Russell J. Waters (R) | James C. Needham (R) | ||||
Samuel D. Woods (R) | ||||||||
57th (1901–1903) |
Frank L. Coombs (R) | James McLachlan (R) |
1903–1913: 8 seats
Congress | District | ||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | ||
58th (1903–1905) |
James N. Gillett (R) | Theodore A. Bell (D) | Victor Metcalf (R) | Edward J. Livernash (D and Union Labor) | William J. Wynn (D) | James C. Needham (R) | James McLachlan (R) | Milton J. Daniels (R) | |
Joseph R. Knowland (R) | |||||||||
59th (1905–1907) |
Duncan E. McKinlay (R) | Julius Kahn (R) | Everis A. Hayes (R) | Sylvester C. Smith (R) | |||||
William F. Englebright (R) | |||||||||
60th (1907–1909) | |||||||||
61st (1909–1911) | |||||||||
62nd (1911–1913) |
John E. Raker (D) | William Kent (Prog. R) | William D. Stephens (R) |
1913–1933: 11 seats
1933–1943: 20 seats
Congress | District | District | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | |||
73rd (1933–1935) |
Clarence F. Lea (D) | Harry L. Englebright (R) | Frank H. Buck (D) | Florence P. Kahn (R) | Richard J. Welch (R) | Albert E. Carter (R) | Ralph R. Eltse (R) | John J. McGrath (D) | Denver S. Church (D) | Henry E. Stubbs (D) | William E. Evans (R) | John H. Hoeppel (D) | Charles Kramer (D) | Thomas F. Ford (D) | William I. Traeger (R) | John F. Dockweiler (D) | Charles J. Colden (D) | John H. Burke (D) | Sam L. Collins (R) | George Burnham (R) | ||
74th (1935–1937) |
John H. Tolan (D) | Bertrand W. Gearhart (R) | John S. McGroarty (D) | John M. Costello (D) | Byron N. Scott (D) | |||||||||||||||||
75th (1937–1939) |
Franck R. Havenner (Prog) | Jerry Voorhis (D) | Harry R. Sheppard (D) | Edouard V. M. Izac (D) | ||||||||||||||||||
Alfred J. Elliott (D) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76th (1939–1941) |
Jack Z. Anderson (R) | John Carl Hinshaw (R) | Leland M. Ford (R) | Lee E. Geyer (D) | Thomas M. Eaton (R) | |||||||||||||||||
77th (1941–1943) |
Thomas Rolph (R) | William Ward Johnson (R) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Cecil R. King (D) |
1943–1953: 23 seats
1953–1963: 30 seats
1963–1973: 38 seats
1973–1983: 43 seats
1983–1993: 45 seats
1993–2003: 52 seats
2003–present: 53 seats
After the 2000 U.S. census, California gained one seat. The 2010 U.S. census, however, kept the state's apportionment at 53 seats.
In 2012, owing to a new reapportionment method, some incumbent members chose to run in differently numbered districts (typically within a similar geographic region, with some changing their residence) and owing to a new open primary system, some incumbents were placed against opponents of their own party in the general election. For details concerning these changes and the specific effects upon the 2012 election see Politics of California.
Key
United States Senate
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) | Senator Barbara Boxer (D) |
Senate delegation timeline (1849 – Present)
Tables showing membership in the California federal Senate delegation throughout history of statehood in the United States.
Class 1 Senators | Congress | Class 3 Senators |
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John C. Frémont (R) | 31st (1849–1851) | William M. Gwin (D) |
John B. Weller (D) | 32nd (1851–1853) | |
33rd (1853–1855) | ||
34th (1855–1857) | Vacant | |
William M. Gwin (D) | ||
David C. Broderick (D) | 35th (1857–1859) | |
Henry P. Haun (D) | ||
Milton S. Latham (D) | ||
36th (1859–1861) | ||
37th (1861–1863) | James A. McDougall (D) | |
John Conness (R) | 38th (1863–1865) | |
39th (1865–1867) | ||
40th (1867–1869) | Cornelius Cole (R) | |
Eugene Casserly (D) | 41st (1869–1871) | |
42nd (1871–1873) | ||
43rd (1873–1875) | Aaron A. Sargent (R) | |
John S. Hager (D) | ||
Newton Booth (AM) |
44th (1875–1877) | |
45th (1877–1879) | ||
46th (1879–1881) | James T. Farley (D) | |
John Franklin Miller (R) | 47th (1881–1883) | |
48th (1883–1885) | ||
49th (1885–1887) | Leland Stanford (R) | |
George Hearst (D) | ||
Abram P. Williams (R) | ||
George Hearst (D) | 50th (1887–1889) | |
51st (1889–1891) | ||
Charles N. Felton (R) | 52nd (1891–1893) | |
Stephen M. White (D) | 53rd (1893–1895) | |
George C. Perkins (R) | ||
54th (1895–1897) | ||
55th (1897–1899) | ||
Thomas R. Bard (R) | 56th (1899–1901) | |
57th (1901–1903) | ||
58th (1903–1905) | ||
Frank P. Flint (R) | 59th (1905–1907) | |
60th (1907–1909) | ||
61st (1909–1911) | ||
John D. Works (R) | 62nd (1911–1913) | |
63rd (1913–1915) | ||
64th (1915–1917) | James D. Phelan (D) | |
Hiram Johnson (R) | 65th (1917–1919) | |
66th (1919–1921) | ||
67th (1921–1923) | Samuel M. Shortridge (R) | |
68th (1923–1925) | ||
69th (1925–1927) | ||
70th (1927–1929) | ||
71st (1929–1931) | ||
72nd (1931–1933) | ||
73rd (1933–1935) | William Gibbs McAdoo (D) | |
74th (1935–1937) | ||
75th (1937–1939) | ||
Thomas M. Storke (D) | ||
76th (1939–1941) | Sheridan Downey (D) | |
77th (1941–1943) | ||
78th (1943–1945) | ||
79th (1945–1947) | ||
William F. Knowland (R) | ||
80th (1947–1949) | ||
81st (1949–1951) | ||
Richard Nixon (R) | ||
82nd (1951–1953) | ||
Thomas H. Kuchel (R) | ||
83rd (1953–1955) | ||
84th (1955–1957) | ||
85th (1957–1959) | ||
Clair Engle (D) | 86th (1959–1961) | |
87th (1961–1963) | ||
88th (1963–1965) | ||
Pierre Salinger (D) | ||
George Lloyd Murphy (R) | ||
89th (1965–1967) | ||
90th (1967–1969) | ||
91st (1969–1971) | Alan Cranston (D) | |
John V. Tunney (D) | ||
92nd (1971–1973) | ||
93rd (1973–1975) | ||
94th (1975–1977) | ||
S. I. Hayakawa (R) | 95th (1977–1979) | |
96th (1979–1981) | ||
97th (1981–1983) | ||
Pete Wilson (R) | 98th (1983–1985) | |
99th (1985–1987) | ||
100th (1987–1989) | ||
101st (1989–1991) | ||
102nd (1991–1993) | ||
John Seymour (R) | ||
Dianne Feinstein (D) | ||
103rd (1993–1995) | Barbara Boxer (D) | |
104th (1995–1997) | ||
105th (1997–1999) | ||
106th (1999–2001) | ||
107th (2001–2003) | ||
108th (2003–2005) | ||
109th (2005–2007) | ||
110th (2007–2009) | ||
111th (2009–2011) | ||
112th (2011–2013) | ||
113th (2013–2015) | ||
114th (2015–2017) |
Mid-term changes
Congress | Senator | Reason for Vacancy | Appointed Successor | Date of Appointment | Elected Successor | Date of Election |
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32nd | Seat was vacant from March 4, 1851 due to failure of the legislature to elect. | John B. Weller | January 30, 1852 | |||
34th | Seat was vacant from March 4, 1855 due to failure of the legislature to elect. | William M. Gwin | January 13, 1857 | |||
35th | David C. Broderick | Died September 16, 1859, mortally wounded in a duel with the chief justice of the supreme court of California. | Henry P. Haun | November 3, 1859 | Milton S. Latham | March 5, 1860 |
43rd | Eugene Casserly | Resigned November 29, 1873. | none | John S. Hager | December 23, 1873 | |
49th | John Franklin Miller | Died March 8, 1886. | George Hearst | March 23, 1886 | Abram P. Williams | August 4, 1886 |
51st, 52nd | George Hearst | Died February 28, 1891. | none | Charles N. Felton | March 19, 1891 | |
53rd | Leland Stanford | Died June 21, 1893. | George C. Perkins | July 26, 1893 | George C. Perkins | |
56th | Seat was vacant from March 4, 1899 due to failure of the legislature to elect. | Thomas R. Bard | February 7, 1900 | |||
75th | William Gibbs McAdoo | Resigned November 8, 1938. | Thomas M. Storke | November 9, 1938 | none | |
79th | Hiram Johnson | Died August 6, 1945. | William F. Knowland | August 26, 1945 | William F. Knowland | General election |
81st | Sheridan Downey | Resigned November 30, 1950 due to ill health. | Richard Nixon | December 1, 1950 | Richard Nixon | General election |
82nd | Richard Nixon | Resigned January 1, 1953 to be Vice President of the United States. | Thomas H. Kuchel | January 2, 1953 | Thomas H. Kuchel | General election |
88th | Clair Engle | Died July 30, 1964. | Pierre Salinger | August 4, 1964 | none | |
88th | Pierre Salinger | Resigned December 31, 1964. | George Lloyd Murphy | January 1, 1965 | George Lloyd Murphy | General election |
91st | George Lloyd Murphy | Resigned January 2, 1971. Tunney had been elected to the next term and took office a day early. | John V. Tunney | January 2, 1971 | John V. Tunney | General election |
94th | John V. Tunney | Resigned January 1, 1977. Hayakawa had been elected to the next term and took office a day early. | S.I. Hayakawa | January 2, 1977 | S.I. Hayakawa | General election |
102nd | Pete Wilson | Resigned January 7, 1991 to be governor of California. | John F. Seymour | January 10, 1991 | Dianne Feinstein | November 10, 1992 |
Living former U.S. Senators from California
As of April 2015, there are three former U.S. Senators from the U.S. State of California who are currently living at this time, all from Class 1.
Senator | Term of office | Class | Date of birth (and age) |
---|---|---|---|
John V. Tunney | 1971–1977 | 1 | June 26, 1934 |
Pete Wilson | 1983–1991 | 1 | August 23, 1933 |
John F. Seymour | 1991–1992 | 1 | December 3, 1937 |
See also
References
- ↑ "The national atlas". nationalatlas.gov. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- ↑ Ronald V. Dellums resigned February 6, 1998, and was replaced by Barbara Lee on April 7, 1998
- ↑ Robert Matsui died January 1, 2005, after re-election to the 109th Congress but before the Congress started, and was replaced by Doris Matsui on March 10, 2005.
- ↑ Tom Lantos died February 11, 2008 and was replaced by Jackie Speier on April 10, 2008.
- ↑ Jane Harman resigned on February 28, 2011, and was replaced by Janice Hahn on July 12, 2011.
- ↑ Juanita Millender-McDonald died April 22, 2007, and was replaced by Laura Richardson on August 21, 2007.