House

Madison served in the Continental Congress and the Annapolis Convention before becoming the chief draftsperson of the 1787 Constit...

After a brief disputed stint in the Senate, Gallatin represented western Pennsylvania in the House from 1795 to 1801, where he bec...

Ames served from 1789 to 1797 and made his name in the first Congress with speeches defending the funding of the national debt. Hi...

Defeated for re-election in 1828, Adams shocked observers by winning election to the House in 1830, where he served from 1831 unti...

Randolph represented Virginia in the House and Senate intermittently from 1799 to 1833. An early Jeffersonian ally who broke with ...

Stevens, whose abolitionism dated to the 1830s, returned to Congress in 1859 and became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, ...

Born enslaved in Charleston, Rainey was drafted into Confederate service, escaped to Bermuda, and returned to win election to Cong...

A self-taught storekeeper, Morrill was elected to the House in 1854 and served there until 1867, then in the Senate until 1898. Th...

Garfield drove Ohio volunteers at Shiloh and Chickamauga before Lincoln urged him to Congress, where he served from 1863 to 1880. ...

Butler commanded the occupation of New Orleans, where his sheltering of escaped slaves as contraband of war coined a legal categor...

McKinley represented his Canton district from 1877 to 1891, serving as Republican leader and then chairman of Ways and Means, wher...

A Republican district judge, Norris entered the House in 1903 and wrote the 1910 resolution that removed the Speaker from the Rule...

Vinson served from 1914 to 1965, 50 years, the first House member to reach that mark. From the Naval Affairs and then Armed Servic...

Celler served from 1923 to 1973, 50 years, and chaired the Judiciary Committee from 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1973, a record tenure...

Powell, minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, won election in 1944 as the first Black member from New York and the Northeast. He ...

A pacifist and lobbyist for national suffrage, Rankin won Montana's at-large seat in 1916, four years before the Nineteenth Amendm...

Chairman of SNCC and the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, Lewis had his skull fractured by Alabama troopers at Se...

Succeeding his father in 1955 at 29, Dingell served until 2015, the longest tenure ever. He sat at the desk where the Medicare bil...

A nursery school teacher and state legislator, Chisholm won a redrawn Brooklyn district in 1968 under the slogan Unbought and Unbo...

A Houston lawyer elected to the Texas Senate in 1966, the first Black state senator since Reconstruction, Jordan won a House seat ...

Gerry signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, then attended the 1787 Constitutional Convent...

In August 1846, as Congress debated money for negotiating an end to the Mexican-American War, first-term representative David Wilm...

Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, Smalls was working as a pilot aboard the Confederate transport Planter when, in May...

Mink was elected to the House in 1964, becoming the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman to serve in Congress. ...