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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 ...
September 26, 1797 - March 3, 1815 6,366 dd May 12, 1822 March 5, 1841 John Gaillard: Democratic-Republican South Carolina: December 6, 1804 - February 26, 1826 7,752 dd March 5, 1841 December 11, 1845 William R. King: Democratic-Republican/ Democratic: Alabama: December 14, 1819 - April 15, 1844 8,889 dd December 11, 1845 September 24, 1896
Florida 1: Matt Gaetz (R) resigned on November 13, 2024, after being nominated by president-elect Donald Trump to become attorney general. [5] The special election will be held on April 1, 2025. Florida 6 : Michael Waltz (R) resigned on January 20, 2025, to become National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. [ 6 ]
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.
The United States' longest-serving congresswoman is headed back for her 22nd term. Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur defeated Republican state Rep. Derek Merrin in a close race for Ohio's 9th ...
Cooper is the third-longest serving member of Congress ever from Tennessee, after Jimmy Quillen and B. Carroll Reece. Due to Cooper's rare split tenure in Congress in two entirely different districts, his career was divided in two fields: regulatory and health care legislation in the rural 4th district and military affairs in the urban 5th.
The longest-serving woman in House history could face her toughest election yet because of redistricting. She says she's running again for the Great Lakes — and to "help Joe as much as I can.”
Patsy Mink, who was the dean of women in the House from 1997 to 2002, was the longest-serving Asian-American woman in the House (and Congress). Carol Moseley Braun is the longest-serving (and first) African-American woman (and woman of color) in the Senate. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the longest-serving Hispanic or Latina American woman in the House.