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Democrat Walter Fauntroy won the race and went on to serve in the Congress for nearly 20 years. A week after being sworn in, Fauntroy became one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus. A further effort to grant the District of Columbia full voting rights in Congress via a constitutional amendment came in 1978.
District Image Representative Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref Alabama 2: Shomari Figures (D) New seat: Deputy chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: 1985 Alaska at-large: Nick Begich III (R) Yes Defeated Mary Peltola (D) Software businessman Alaska Policy Forum Board 1977 Arizona 3: Yassamin Ansari (D) No
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of December 14, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
Districts may sometimes retain the same boundaries, while changing their district numbers. The following is a complete list of the 435 current congressional districts for the House of Representatives, and over 200 obsolete districts, and the six current and one obsolete non-voting delegations.
District Seniority date (Previous service, if any) Notes 1 Eleanor Holmes Norton: D District of Columbia at-large: January 3, 1991 2 Gregorio Sablan: I [3] Northern Mariana Islands at-large: January 3, 2009 3 Stacey Plaskett: D United States Virgin Islands at-large: January 3, 2015 4 Amata Coleman Radewagen: R American Samoa at-large: 5 ...
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 Pennsylvania. The list has been updated periodically to reflect changes in membership; current entries are for members of the 118th Congress.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States federal district Washington, D.C. With the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, [1] the district has been permitted to participate in presidential elections. It is part of the "blue wall", [2] having voted for all Democratic nominees since ...
The 117th United States Congress began on January 3, 2021. There were six new senators (two Democrats, four Republicans) and 60 new representatives (15 Democrats, 45 Republicans) at the start of the first session. Additionally, three senators (all Democrats) and 16 representatives (six Democrats, ten Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 117th Congress ...