Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
He was first elected as a Republican, and left the Republican Party to become an independent in early 2020 before switching to the Libertarian Party in April 2020. He did not seek re-election in 2020 [2] and switched back to the Republican Party in 2024 to run for the U.S. Senate election in Michigan. [3]
House of Representatives: 4th 2023 current member, endorsed [50] Lorena Garcia Colorado: House of Representatives: 35th 2023 current [51] Yara Zokaie Colorado: House of Representatives: 52nd 2025 current member, endorsed [52] Gabriel Sanchez Georgia: House of Representatives: 42nd 2025 current endorsee [53] Dylan Wegela Michigan: House of ...
The Minority Leader also speaks for the minority party in the House and its policies, and works to protect the minority party's rights. [2] The assistant majority leader and assistant minority leader of the House, commonly called whips, are the second-ranking members of each party's leadership. The main function of the majority and minority ...
Democratic Party (former Socialist Party of America member) [27] Hugh De Lacy: House January 3, 1945: January 3, 1947: Washington Democratic Party (Communist Party USA member) [29] Bolívar Pagán: House December 26, 1939: January 3, 1945: Puerto Rico: Republican Union (Socialist Party member) Vito Marcantonio: House January 3, 1939: January 3 ...
There currently are 57 African-American representatives and two African-American delegates in the United States House of Representatives, representing 29 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. Most are members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Third-party and independent members of the United States Congress are generally rare. Although the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated U.S. politics in a two-party system since 1856, some independents and members of other political parties have also been elected to the House of Representatives or Senate, or changed their party affiliation during their term.
Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican: He switched parties in the wake of President Pierce's signing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. John J. O'Connor: New York: 16th: October 24, 1938 75th: Democratic: Republican: Lost Democratic renomination, defeated for re-election as a ...