List of United States Representatives from Nebraska
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Nebraska. 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 Nebraska. The list of names should be complete (as of January 3, 2015), but other data may be incomplete. It includes members who have represented both the state and the Territory, both past and present.
Current members
Updated January 2017.[1]
- Nebraska's 1st district: Jeff Fortenberry (R) (2005)
- Nebraska's 2nd district: Don Bacon (R) (2017)
- Nebraska's 3rd district: Adrian Smith (R) (2007)
List of members and delegates
Representative | Party | Years | District | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
William E. Andrews | Republican | March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1923 | [data unknown/missing] | |||
Brad Ashford | Democratic | January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Don Bacon | Republican | January 3, 2017 – present | 2nd | Incumbent |
H. Malcolm Baldrige | Republican | March 4, 1931 – March 4, 1933 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Bill Barrett | Republican | January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2001 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Silas Reynolds Barton | Republican | March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1915 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
Ralph F. Beermann | Republican | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965 | 1st | |||
Doug Bereuter | Republican | January 3, 1979 – August 31, 2004 | 1st | Resigned to become president of The Asia Foundation |
Charles Gustav Binderup | Democratic | January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
John Frank Boyd | Republican | March 4, 1907 – March 4, 1909 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Lawrence Brock | Democratic | January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | March 4, 1891 – March 4, 1895 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Howard H. Buffett | Republican | January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1953 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] | ||
Edward R. Burke | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Elmer Burkett | Republican | March 4, 1899 – March 4, 1905 | 1st | Resigned after being elected U.S. Senator |
Clair A. Callan | Democratic | January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Terry Carpenter | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
John Joseph Cavanaugh III | Democratic | January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1981 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Bird Beers Chapman | Democratic | March 4, 1855 – March 4, 1857 | Territory | [data unknown/missing] |
Jackson B. Chase | Republican | January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1957 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Jon L. Christensen | Republican | January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1999 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Harry B. Coffee | Democratic | January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1943 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
William J. Connell | Republican | March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1891 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Oren S. Copeland | Republican | January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Lorenzo Crounse | Republican | March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1877 | At-large | [data unknown/missing] |
Glenn Cunningham | Republican | January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1971 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Carl T. Curtis | Republican | January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943 | 4th | Resigned to become U.S. Senator |
January 3, 1943 – December 31, 1954 | 1st | |||
Samuel Gordon Daily | Republican | May 18, 1860 – March 4, 1865 | Territory | Won contested election |
Hal Daub, Jr. | Republican | January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1989 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Robert V. Denney | Republican | January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
George W. E. Dorsey | Republican | March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1891 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Experience Estabrook | Democratic | March 4, 1859 – May 18, 1860 | Territory | Lost contested election |
Robert E. Evans | Republican | March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1923 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Fenner Ferguson | Democratic | March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1859 | Territory | [data unknown/missing] |
Jeff Fortenberry | Republican | January 3, 2005 – Present | 1st | Incumbent |
Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings | Democratic | January 5, 1855 – March 4, 1855 | Territory | [data unknown/missing] |
William L. Greene | Populist | March 4, 1897 – March 11, 1899 | 6th | Died |
Eugene Jerome Hainer | Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
Robert Dinsmore Harrison | Republican | October 4, 1951 – January 3, 1959 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
George H. Heinke | Republican | January 3, 1939 – January 2, 1940 | 1st | Died |
Edmund H. Hinshaw | Republican | March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1911 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
Gilbert M. Hitchcock | Democratic | March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1905 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1907 – March 4, 1911 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] | ||
Phineas Hitchcock | Republican | March 4, 1865 – March 1, 1867 | Territory | Nebraska gains statehood |
Peter Hoagland | Democratic | January 3, 1989 – January 3, 1995 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Edgar Howard | Democratic | March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Roman L. Hruska | Republican | January 3, 1953 – November 8, 1954 | 2nd | Resigned when elected U.S. Senator |
Augustin Reed Humphrey | Republican | November 7, 1922 – March 4, 1923 | 6th | [data unknown/missing] |
Albert W. Jefferis | Republican | March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1923 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Fred Gustus Johnson | Republican | March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1931 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
Omer Madison Kem | Populist | March 4, 1891 – March 4, 1893 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | 6th | |||
John L. Kennedy | Republican | March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Moses P. Kinkaid | Republican | March 4, 1903 – July 6, 1922 | 6th | Died |
James Laird | Republican | March 4, 1883 – August 17, 1889 | 2nd | Died |
James P. Latta | Democratic | March 4, 1909 – September 11, 1911 | 3rd | Died |
Gilbert L. Laws | Republican | December 2, 1889 – March 4, 1891 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Charles O. Lobeck | Democratic | March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1919 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Henry C. Luckey | Democratic | January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
John A. Maguire | Democratic | March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1915 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Thomas Jefferson Majors | Republican | November 5, 1878 – March 3, 1879 | At-large | [data unknown/missing] |
Turner M. Marquette | Republican | March 2, 1867 – March 3, 1867 | At-large | [data unknown/missing] |
David T. Martin | Republican | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 | 4th | Resigned |
January 3, 1963 – December 31, 1974 | 3rd | |||
Samuel Maxwell | Populist | March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1899 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
John J. McCarthy | Republican | March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1907 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
John Y. McCollister | Republican | January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1977 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Donald Francis McGinley | Democratic | January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
William A. McKeighan | Populist | March 4, 1891 – March 4, 1893 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1895 | 5th | |||
Charles F. McLaughlin | Democratic | January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1943 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Melvin O. McLaughlin | Republican | March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1927 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
John A. McShane | Democratic | March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1889 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
George de Rue Meiklejohn | Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
David Henry Mercer | Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1903 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Arthur L. Miller | Republican | January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1959 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
John H. Morehead | Democratic | March 4, 1923 – January 3, 1935 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
William Neville | Populist | December 4, 1899 – March 4, 1903 | 6th | [data unknown/missing] |
George W. Norris | Republican | March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1913 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
John N. Norton | Democratic | March 4, 1927 – March 4, 1929 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1931 – March 4, 1933 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] | ||
Eugene D. O'Sullivan | Democratic | January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Tom Osborne | Republican | January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2007 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Ernest M. Pollard | Republican | July 18, 1905 – March 4, 1909 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
C. Frank Reavis | Republican | March 4, 1915 – June 3, 1922 | 1st | Resigned to become special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General |
John Seaton Robinson | Democratic | March 4, 1899 – March 4, 1903 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Willis G. Sears | Republican | March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1931 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Ashton C. Shallenberger | Democratic | March 4, 1901 – March 4, 1903 | 5th | Lost re-election |
March 4, 1915 – March 4, 1919 | 5th | Lost re-election | ||
March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1929 | 5th | Lost re-election | ||
March 4, 1931 – March 4, 1933 | 5th | Lost renomination | ||
March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935 | 4th | |||
Robert G. Simmons | Republican | March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1933 | 6th | [data unknown/missing] |
Charles Henry Sloan | Republican | March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1919 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1931 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] | ||
Adrian Smith | Republican | January 3, 2007 – Present | 3rd | Incumbent |
Virginia Smith | Republican | January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1991 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
William Ledyard Stark | Populist | March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1903 | 4th | [data unknown/missing] |
Karl Stefan | Republican | January 3, 1935 – October 2, 1951 | 3rd | Died |
Dan V. Stephens | Democratic | November 7, 1911 – March 4, 1919 | 3rd | [data unknown/missing] |
Jesse B. Strode | Republican | March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1899 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Roderick Dhu Sutherland | Populist | March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1901 | 5th | [data unknown/missing] |
John H. Sweet | Republican | April 19, 1940 – January 3, 1941 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
John Taffe | Republican | March 4, 1867 – March 4, 1873 | At-large | [data unknown/missing] |
Lee Terry | Republican | January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2015 | 2nd | [data unknown/missing] |
Charles Thone | Republican | January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1979 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Roy H. Thorpe | Republican | November 7, 1922 – March 4, 1923 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Edward K. Valentine | Republican | March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883 | At-large | Retired |
March 4, 1883 – March 4, 1885 | 3rd | |||
Archibald J. Weaver | Republican | March 4, 1883 – March 4, 1887 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Phillip H. Weaver | Republican | January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1963 | 1st | [data unknown/missing] |
Frank Welch | Republican | March 4, 1877 – September 4, 1878 | At-large | Died |
Living former members
As of January 2017, there are 7 living former members. The most recent member to die was Charles Thone (served 1971–1979) on March 7, 2018. The most recently serving member to die was Bill Barrett (served 1991–2001) on September 20, 2016.
Member | Term of office | Date of birth (and age) |
---|---|---|
John J. Cavanaugh III | 1977–1981 | August 1, 1945 |
Doug Bereuter | 1979–2004 | October 6, 1939 |
Hal Daub | 1981–1989 | April 23, 1941 |
Jon L. Christensen | 1995–1999 | February 20, 1963 |
Lee Terry | 1999–2015 | January 29, 1962 |
Tom Osborne | 2001–2007 | February 23, 1937 |
Brad Ashford | 2015–2017 | November 10, 1949 |
References
- "Directory of Representatives". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
See also
- List of United States Senators from Nebraska
- United States congressional delegations from Nebraska