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Democrat Walter Fauntroy won the race and went on to serve in the Congress for nearly 20 years. A week after being sworn in, Fauntroy became one of the 13 founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus. A further effort to grant the District of Columbia full voting rights in Congress via a constitutional amendment came in 1978.
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 3, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Washington. 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 Washington. The list of names should be complete ...
This is a list of members of the current Washington delegation in the U.S. House, along with their respective tenures in office, district boundaries, and district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 10 members, including 8 Democrats and 2 Republicans.
U.S. House of Representatives seniority Rank Representative Party District Seniority date Previous service [2] Notes 1 Don Young: R Alaska at-large: March 6, 1973 Dean of the House Died on March 18, 2022. 2 Hal Rogers: R Kentucky 5: January 3, 1981 Dean of the House from March 18, 2022 3 Chris Smith: R New Jersey 4 4 Steny Hoyer: D Maryland 5 ...
The 119th United States Congress is the current term of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened on January 3, 2025, during the final month of Joe Biden's presidency, and will end in 2027.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States federal district Washington, D.C. With the enactment of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution in 1961, [ 1 ] the district has been permitted to participate in presidential elections .
Congress issued an updated print edition in 2005. The development and growing use of the Internet in the 1990s led to the creation of websites for the House of Representatives and the Senate. Ray Strong, House Historian and Assistant to the Clerk of the House, advocated publication of the entries from the Biographical Directory on the Internet.