List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 21st Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 21st United States Congress listed by seniority.
As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 21st Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831). Current seats and party affiliations on the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority will be different for certain members.[1]

Seniority depends on the date on which members were sworn into office. Since many members are sworn in on the same day, subsequent ranking is based on previous congressional service of the individual and then by alphabetical order by the last name of the congressman.

Committee chairmanship in the House is often associated with seniority. However, party leadership is typically not associated with seniority.

Note: The "*" indicates that the representative/delegate may have served one or more non-consecutive terms while in the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.

U.S. House Seniority List

U.S. House Seniority

Rank	Representative	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Thomas Newton, Jr.	AJ	VA-01	March 4, 1801	15th term	Dean of the House Resigned on March 9, 1830.
2	William McCoy	AJ	VA-19	March 4, 1811	10th term	Dean of the House after Newton resigned.
3	John W. Taylor	AJ	NY-17	March 4, 1813	09th term
4	Lewis Williams	AJ	NC-13	March 4, 1815	08th term
5	Charles F. Mercer	AJ	VA-14	March 4, 1817	07th term
6	Starling Tucker	J	SC-09	March 4, 1817	07th term	Left the House in 1831.
7	Mark Alexander	J	VA-04	March 4, 1819	06th term
8	William S. Archer	J	VA-03	January 3, 1820	06th term
9	Rollin Carolas Mallary	AJ	VT-02	January 13, 1820	06th term
10	Noyes Barber	AJ	CT	March 4, 1821	05th term
11	James Buchanan	J	PA-04	March 4, 1821	05th term	Left the House in 1831.
12	Henry William Connor	J	NC-11	March 4, 1821	05th term
13	Henry W. Dwight	AJ	MA-09	March 4, 1821	05th term	Left the House in 1831.
14	Jacob C. Isacks	J	TN-04	March 4, 1821	05th term
15	George McDuffie	N	SC-05	March 4, 1821	05th term
16	John Reed, Jr.	AJ	MA-13	March 4, 1821 Previous service, 1813–1817.	07th term*
17	Andrew Stevenson	J	VA-09	March 4, 1821	05th term	Speaker of the House
18	Samuel Swan	AJ	NJ	March 4, 1821	05th term	Left the House in 1831.
19	Wiley Thompson	J	GA	March 4, 1821	05th term
20	Joseph Vance	J	OH-04	March 4, 1821	05th term
21	Lewis Condict	AJ	NJ	October 9, 1821 Previous service, 1811–1817.	08th term*
22	Samuel D. Ingham	J	PA-08	October 7, 1822 Previous service, 1813–1818.	08th term*	Resigned in March 1829.
23	Churchill C. Cambreleng	J	NY-03	December 3, 1821	05th term
24	Jonathan Jennings	AJ	IN-02	December 2, 1822 Previous service, 1809–1816.	09th term*	Left the House in 1831.
25	Mordecai Bartley	AJ	OH-14	March 4, 1823	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
26	John S. Barbour	J	VA-15	March 4, 1823	04th term
27	John Blair	J	TN-01	March 4, 1823	04th term
28	Benjamin Williams Crowninshield	AJ	MA-02	March 4, 1823	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
29	Henry Hosford Gurley	AJ	LA-02	March 4, 1823	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
30	Robert P. Letcher	AJ	KY-04	March 4, 1823	04th term
31	Henry C. Martindale	AJ	NY-18	March 4, 1823	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
32	Daniel H. Miller	J	PA-03	March 4, 1823	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
33	William Cabell Rives	J	VA-10	March 4, 1823	04th term	Resigned in 1829.
34	James Strong	AJ	NY-08	March 4, 1823 Previous service, 1819–1821.	05th term*	Left the House in 1831.
35	Henry R. Storrs	AJ	NY-14	March 4, 1823 Previous service, 1817–1821.	06th term*	Left the House in 1831.
36	Samuel Finley Vinton	AJ	OH-07	March 4, 1823	04th term
37	Elisha Whittlesey	AJ	OH-13	March 4, 1823	04th term
38	Charles A. Wickliffe	J	KY-09	March 4, 1823	04th term
39	John Taliaferro	AJ	VA-13	March 24, 1824 Previous service, 1801–1803 and 1811–1813.	06th term**	Left the House in 1831.
40	George Wolf	J	PA-08	December 9, 1824	04th term	Resigned in 1829.
41	John Bailey	AJ	MA-10	December 13, 1824	04th term	Left the House in 1831.
42	Willis Alston	J	NC-02	March 4, 1825 Previous service, 1799–1815.	11th term*	Left the House in 1831.
43	John Anderson	J	ME-02	March 4, 1825	03rd term
44	William Armstrong	AJ	VA-16	March 4, 1825	03rd term
45	Tristam Burges	AJ	RI	March 4, 1825	03rd term
46	Samuel Price Carson	J	NC-12	March 4, 1825	03rd term
47	Nathaniel Claiborne	J	VA-07	March 4, 1825	03rd term
48	Thomas Davenport	J	VA-06	March 4, 1825	03rd term
49	John Davis	AJ	MA-05	March 4, 1825	03rd term
50	Clement Dorsey	AJ	MD-01	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
51	Edward Everett	AJ	MA-04	March 4, 1825	03rd term
52	James Findlay	J	OH-01	March 4, 1825	03rd term
53	Jonathan Harvey	J	NH	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
54	Charles Eaton Haynes	J	GA	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
55	Gabriel Holmes	J	NC-05	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Died on September 26, 1829.
56	Michael Hoffman	J	NY-15	March 4, 1825	03rd term
57	Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll	AJ	CT	March 4, 1825	03rd term
58	Joseph Lecompte	J	KY-06	March 4, 1825	03rd term
59	Dutee Jerauld Pearce	J	RI	March 4, 1825	03rd term
60	James K. Polk	J	TN-06	March 4, 1825	03rd term
61	James Trezvant	J	VA-02	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
62	John Varnum	AJ	MA-03	March 4, 1825	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
63	Gulian C. Verplanck	J	NY-03	March 4, 1825	03rd term
64	William Drayton	J	SC-01	May 17, 1825	03rd term
65	James Clark	W	KY-03	August 1, 1825 Previous service, 1813–1816.	05th term*	Left the House in 1831.
66	James W. Ripley	J	ME-05	September 11, 1826	03rd term	Resigned on March 12, 1830.
67	Daniel Laurens Barringer	J	NC-08	December 4, 1826	03rd term
68	Chauncey Forward	J	PA-13	December 4, 1826	03rd term	Left the House in 1831.
69	Robert Allen	J	VA-17	March 4, 1827	02nd term
70	Philip P. Barbour	J	VA-11	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1814–1825.	07th term*	Resigned on October 15, 1830.
71	Isaac C. Bates	AJ	MA-08	March 4, 1827	02nd term
72	John Bell	J	TN-07	March 4, 1827	02nd term
73	Samuel Butman	AJ	ME-07	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
74	Thomas Chilton	J	KY-11	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
75	Richard Coulter	J	PA-17	March 4, 1827	02nd term
76	Davy Crockett	AJ	TN-09	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
77	Henry Daniel	J	KY-01	March 4, 1827	02nd term
78	Warren R. Davis	N	SC-06	March 4, 1827	02nd term
79	Robert Desha	J	TN-05	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
80	John D. Dickinson	AJ	NY-09	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1819–1823.	04th term*	Left the House in 1831.
81	Joseph Duncan	J	IL	March 4, 1827	02nd term
82	Jonas Earll, Jr.	J	NY-23	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
83	Joseph Fry, Jr.	J	PA-07	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
84	Innis Green	J	PA-06	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
85	Thomas H. Hall	J	NC-03	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1817–1825.	06th term*
86	James L. Hodges	AJ	MA-12	March 4, 1827	02nd term
87	Jonathan Hunt	AJ	VT-01	March 4, 1827	02nd term
88	Adam King	J	PA-10	March 4, 1827	02nd term
89	Pryor Lea	J	TN-02	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
90	Wilson Lumpkin	J	GA	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1815–1817.	03rd term*
91	Chittenden Lyon	J	KY-12	March 4, 1827	02nd term
92	John Magee	J	NY-28	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
93	William D. Martin	J	SC-04	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
94	Lewis Maxwell	AJ	VA-21	March 4, 1827	02nd term
95	William T. Nuckolls	J	SC-07	March 4, 1827	02nd term
96	Isaac Pierson	AJ	NJ	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
97	William Ramsey	J	PA-11	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
98	Joseph Richardson	AJ	MA-11	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
99	John Roane	J	VA-12	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1809–1815.	05th term*
100	William Russell	J	OH-05	March 4, 1827	02nd term
101	Augustine Henry Shepperd	J	NC-09	March 4, 1827	02nd term
102	Alexander Smyth	J	VA-22	March 4, 1827 Previous service, 1817–1825.	06th term*	Died on April 17, 1830.
103	Michael Sprigg	J	MD-04	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
104	John Benton Sterigere	J	PA-05	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
105	Joel Barlow Sutherland	J	PA-01	March 4, 1827	02nd term
106	Benjamin Swift	AJ	VT-04	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
107	George Corbin Washington	AJ	MD-03	March 4, 1827	02nd term
108	Ephraim King Wilson	J	MD-08	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
109	Joseph F. Wingate	AJ	ME-03	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
110	Joel Yancey	J	KY-10	March 4, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
111	Benjamin Gorham	AJ	MA-01	July 23, 1827 Previous service, 1820–1823.	04th term*	Left the House in 1831.
112	Rufus McIntire	J	ME-01	September 10, 1827	02nd term
113	Kensey Johns, Jr.	AJ	DE	October 2, 1827	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
114	William Stanbery	J	OH-08	October 9, 1827	02nd term
115	Phineas L. Tracy	AM	NY-29	November 5, 1827	02nd term
116	Richard Henry Wilde	J	GA	November 17, 1827 Previous service, 1815–1817 and 1825.	04th term**
117	Thomas Hinds	J	MS	October 21, 1828	02nd term	Left the House in 1831.
118	James F. Randolph	AJ	NJ	December 1, 1828	02nd term
119	William G. Angel	J	NY-13	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1825–1827.	02nd term*
120	Benedict Arnold	AJ	NY-16	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
121	Robert Woodward Barnwell	J	SC-02	March 4, 1829	01st term
122	Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor	J	AL-02	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
123	Thomas Beekman	AJ	NY-22	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
124	James Blair	J	SC-08	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1821–1822.	02nd term*
125	Abraham Bockee	J	NY-05	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
126	Ratliff Boon	J	IN-01	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1825–1827.	02nd term*
127	Peter I. Borst	J	NY-12	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
128	Thomas Bouldin	J	VA-05	March 4, 1829	01st term
129	John Brodhead	J	NH	March 4, 1829	01st term
130	Elias Brown	J	MD-05	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
131	William Cahoon	AM	VT-05	March 4, 1829	01st term
132	John Campbell	J	SC-03	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
133	Timothy Childs	AM	NY-27	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
134	Thomas Chandler	J	NH	March 4, 1829	01st term
135	Clement Comer Clay	J	AL-01	March 4, 1829	01st term
136	Richard Coke, Jr.	J	VA-08	March 4, 1829	01st term
137	Nicholas D. Coleman	J	KY-02	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
138	Richard M. Cooper	AJ	NJ	March 4, 1829	01st term
139	Henry B. Cowles	AJ	NY-04	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
140	Hector Craig	J	NY-06	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1823–1825.	02nd term*	Resigned on July 12, 1830.
141	Robert Craig	J	VA-20	March 4, 1829	01st term
142	Joseph Halsey Crane	AJ	OH-03	March 4, 1829	01st term
143	Thomas Hartley Crawford	J	PA-11	March 4, 1829	01st term
144	William Creighton, Jr.	AJ	OH-06	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1813–1817 and 1827–1828.	04th term**
145	Jacob Crocheron	J	NY-02	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
146	Edmund Deberry	AJ	NC-07	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
147	Harmar Denny	AM	PA-16	March 4, 1829	01st term
148	Charles G. DeWitt	AJ	NY-07	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
149	Philip Doddridge	AJ	VA-18	March 4, 1829	01st term
150	William W. Ellsworth	AJ	CT	March 4, 1829	01st term
151	Joshua Evans, Jr.	J	PA-04	March 4, 1829	01st term
152	Horace Everett	AJ	VT-03	March 4, 1829	01st term
153	Isaac Finch	AJ	NY-19	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
154	George Fisher	AJ	NY-20	March 4, 1829	01st term	Resigned on February 5, 1830.
155	James Ford	J	PA-09	March 4, 1829	01st term
156	Thomas Flournoy Foster	J	GA	March 4, 1829	01st term
157	Nathan Gaither	J	KY-08	March 4, 1829	01st term
158	John Gilmore	J	PA-16	March 4, 1829	01st term
159	John M. Goodenow	J	OH-11	March 4, 1829	01st term	Resigned on April 9, 1830.
160	George Grennell, Jr.	AJ	MA-07	March 4, 1829	01st term
161	Jehiel H. Halsey	J	NY-26	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
162	Joseph Hammons	J	NH	March 4, 1829	01st term
163	Joseph Hawkins	AJ	NY-20	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
164	Joseph Hemphill	J	PA-02	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1801-1803 and 1819–1826.	06th term**	Left the House in 1831.
165	Benjamin Chew Howard	J	MD-05	March 4, 1829	01st term
166	Henry Hubbard	J	NH	March 4, 1829	01st term
167	Thomas H. Hughes	J	NJ	March 4, 1829	01st term
168	Jabez W. Huntington	AJ	CT	March 4, 1829	01st term
169	Thomas Irwin	J	PA-14	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
170	William W. Irvin	J	OH-09	March 4, 1829	01st term
171	Leonard Jarvis	J	ME-06	March 4, 1829	01st term
172	Cave Johnson	J	TN-08	March 4, 1829	01st term
173	Richard Mentor Johnson	J	KY-05	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1807–1819.	07th term*
174	Joseph G. Kendall	AJ	MA-06	March 4, 1829	01st term
175	William Kennon, Sr.	J	OH-10	March 4, 1829	01st term
176	John Kincaid	J	KY-07	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
177	Perkins King	J	NY-11	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
178	George Gray Leiper	J	PA-04	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
179	James Lent	J	NY-01	March 4, 1829	01st term
180	Dixon H. Lewis	J	AL-03	March 4, 1829	01st term
181	Alem Marr	J	PA-09	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
182	Thomas Maxwell	J	NY-25	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
183	William McCreery	J	PA-15	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
184	Robert Monell	J	NY-21	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1819–1821.	02nd term*	Resigned on February 21, 1831.
185	Henry A. P. Muhlenberg	J	PA-07	March 4, 1829	01st term
186	Ebenezer F. Norton	J	NY-30	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
187	Walter Hampden Overton	J	LA-03	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
188	Spencer Darwin Pettis	J	MO	March 4, 1829	01st term
189	Robert Potter	J	NC-06	March 4, 1829	01st term
190	Gershom Powers	J	NY-24	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
191	Abraham Rencher	J	NC-10	March 4, 1829	01st term
192	Robert S. Rose	J	NY-26	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1823–1827.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1831.
193	John Scott	J	PA-12	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
194	Benedict Joseph Semmes	AJ	MD-02	March 4, 1829	01st term
195	William Biddle Shepard	AJ	NC-01	March 4, 1829	01st term
196	James Shields	J	OH-02	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
197	Thomas Hale Sill	AJ	PA-18	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1826–1827.	02nd term*	Left the House in 1831.
198	Jesse Speight	J	NC-04	March 4, 1829	01st term
199	Ambrose Spencer	AJ	NY-10	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
200	Richard Spencer	J	MD-07	March 4, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
201	James Israel Standifer	J	TN-03	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1823–1825.	02nd term*
202	Philander Stephens	J	PA-09	March 4, 1829	01st term
203	William L. Storrs	AJ	CT	March 4, 1829	01st term
204	John Test	AJ	IN-03	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1823–1827.	03rd term*	Left the House in 1831.
205	John Thomson	J	OH-12	March 4, 1829 Previous service, 1825–1827.	02nd term*
206	James Moore Wayne	J	GA	March 4, 1829	01st term
207	John W. Weeks	J	NH	March 4, 1829	01st term
208	Campbell P. White	J	NY-03	March 4, 1829	01st term
209	Edward Douglass White, Sr.	AJ	LA-01	March 4, 1829	01st term
210	Ebenezer Young	AJ	CT	March 4, 1829	01st term
	George Evans	AJ	ME-04	July 20, 1829	01st term
	Peter Ihrie, Jr.	J	PA-08	October 13, 1829	01st term
	Samuel A. Smith	J	PA-08	October 13, 1829	01st term
	Edward Bishop Dudley	J	NC-05	November 10, 1829	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
	Henry Graybill Lamar	J	GA	December 7, 1829	01st term
	George Edward Mitchell	J	MD-06	December 7, 1829 Previous service, 1823–1827.	03rd term*
	William F. Gordon	J	VA-10	January 25, 1830	01st term
	George Loyall	J	VA-01	March 9, 1830	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
	Samuel W. Eager	AJ	NY-06	November 2, 1830	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
	Jonah Sanford	J	NY-20	November 3, 1830	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
	John M. Patton	D	VA-11	November 25, 1830	01st term
	Joseph Draper	J	VA-22	December 6, 1830	01st term	Left the House in 1831.
	Cornelius Holland	J	ME-05	December 6, 1830	01st term
	Humphrey H. Leavitt	J	OH-11	December 6, 1830	01st term

Delegates

Rank	Delegate	Party	District	Seniority date	No.# of term(s)	Notes
1	Joseph M. White	J	FL	March 4, 1825	03rd term
2	Ambrose Hundley Sevier	J	AR	February 13, 1828	02nd term
3	John Biddle	J	MI	March 4, 1829	01st term

References

1. Delegates are non-voting members and Representatives are voting members of the United States House of Representatives.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

• United States Congressional Elections 1788-1997, by Michael J. Dubin (McFarland and Company 1998) ISBN 0-7864-0283-0

See also

• 21st United States Congress
• List of United States congressional districts
• List of United States Senators in the 21st Congress by seniority

External links

• Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives