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These are tables of congressional delegations from Virginia to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Virginia's current U.S. Senators are Democrats Mark Warner (serving since 2009) and Tim Kaine (serving since 2013). Virginia is allotted 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives; currently, 6 seats are held by ...
When the Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states, the Continental Congress became the Congress of the Confederation, which helped guide the new nation through the final stages of the Revolutionary War. Under the Articles, the Confederation Congress had limited power.
The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia ordered by District number. 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 Virginia. The list of names ...
The congressional delegation from Pennsylvania consists of 17 members. In the current delegation, 7 representatives are Democrats and 10 are Republicans. The list below identifies the members of the United States House delegation from Pennsylvania, their service start dates, and current court-ordered district boundaries.
Following the 2010 census, the delegation lost one seat. With court-ordered redistricting in Pennsylvania on February 19, 2018, none of the members of congress who served in 115th Congress and were re-elected are in the same district in the 116th Congress.
The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 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 ...
The Choctaw tribe has never appointed a delegate to Congress [22] and the Cherokee had not until 2019. [23] However, the Choctaw did send a non-congressional delegate to Washington for most of the 19th century as an ambassador to represent them before the U.S. government, the most noteworthy being Peter Pitchlynn. [24]
Territorial evolution of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district for the new national capital, which was moved from Philadelphia to what was then called the City of Washington in 1800.