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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
Resigned after becoming judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois James R. Mann: Republican: 1st: March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1903 [data missing] 2nd: March 4, 1903 – November 30, 1922 Died Donald A. Manzullo: Republican: 16th: January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2013 [data missing] Benjamin F. Marsh: Republican: 10th
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 ...
He is the longest-serving member ever of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Illinois. [18] He holds the record as the 10th longest-serving member in the history of the US Congress, and also has the longest tenure of all members whose time in Congress included a break in service.
Supreme Court justices have life tenure, meaning that they serve until they die, resign, retire, or are impeached and removed from office. For the 107 non-incumbent justices, the average length of service was 6,203 days (16 years, 359 days). [1] [A] The longest serving justice was William O. Douglas, with a tenure of 13,358 days (36
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for twenty-three non-consecutive terms between 1873 and 1923; upon his retirement, he was the longest serving member of the United States Congress ever.
Michael Joseph Madigan (born April 19, 1942) is an American politician who is the former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. [1] He was the longest-serving leader of any state or federal legislative body in the history of the United States, having held the position for all but two years from 1983 to 2021. [2]
Below are lists of the 25 longest-serving justices of the Supreme Court by active service and total service. [3] Their tenures generally differ from those found at list of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office by several days, as that page uses a justice's oath of office, rather than their date of commission, as their start ...