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Illinois: March 4, 1907 - November 6, 1952 (H) 16,684 dd October 24, 1957 November 18, 2009 Carl Hayden: Democratic Arizona: February 19, 1912 - January 3, 1969 (S, H) 20,773 dd November 18, 2009 June 6, 2013 Robert Byrd: Democratic West Virginia: January 3, 1953 - June 28, 2010 (S, H) 20,995 dd June 6, 2013 John Dingell: Democratic Michigan
For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Illinois. The list of names should be complete as of January 3, 2019, but other data may be incomplete. Illinois became the 21st state on December 3, 1818.
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
The more senior a representative is, the more likely the representative is to receive desirable committee assignments or leadership posts. Seniority also affects access to more desirable office space in the House Office Buildings: [ 3 ] after an office is vacated, members next in seniority can choose whether to move into it.
Illinois's current congressional delegation in the 119th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and its 17 representatives: 14 Democrats and 3 Republicans. The current dean of the Illinois delegation is Senator Dick Durbin , having served in the Senate since 1997 and in Congress since 1983.
The late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Tuesday.
John Dennis Hastert (/ ˈ h æ s t ər t / HASS-tərt; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician, teacher, and wrestling coach who represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. [1]
John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who entered the House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father's term and served until 2015, died Thursday. John Dingell, longest-serving member of U ...