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Across both houses of Congress, Rogers' 35 years of service from 1925 to 1960 was the longest for a female member when she died in office in 1960. Her record was surpassed in 2012 by Mikulski, who served a total of 40 years in Congress from 1977 to 2017 (10 years in the House of Representatives and 30 years in the Senate).
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 ...
California 50: January 3, 2021 2001–2019 74 Emanuel Cleaver: D Missouri 5: January 3, 2005 75 Jim Costa: D California 16 76 Henry Cuellar: D Texas 28 77 Jeff Fortenberry: R Nebraska 1 Resigned on March 31, 2022. 78 Virginia Foxx: R North Carolina 5 79 Louie Gohmert: R Texas 1 80 Al Green: D Texas 9 81 Brian Higgins: D New York 26
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.
The Congressional Pictorial Directory is a picture directory of leaders and members of the United States Congress and other key officials including the President.It is published at least once every Congressional Term and is in the public domain.
More Republican women than ever are running for the House in 2020. "My grandmother was the first woman ever elected to Dallas City Council and that was in 1957, so I have been around trailblazing ...
U.S. House of Representatives seniority Rank Representative Party District Seniority date Previous service [2] Notes 1 Don Young: R Alaska at-large
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