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The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Seniority calculation. Seniority is calculated by: Number of total terms served (subtracting one term from the number of non-consecutive terms) Number of consecutive terms served. Alphabetically by last name [1] An additional clause applies for representatives that have a prior tenure of less than two terms.
June 10, 2006 Strom Thurmond: Democratic/ Republican South Carolina December 24, 1954 - April 4, 1956 November 7, 1956 - January 3, 2003 17,325 dd June 10, 2006 Robert Byrd: Democratic West Virginia: January 3, 1959 - June 28, 2010 18,804 dd
April 10, 1983 Sala Burton: Democratic 5th: June 21, 1983 – February 1, 1987 San Francisco: Elected to finish the term of her husband, Phillip Burton. Died. Ken Calvert: Republican 43rd: January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2003 Corona: Elected in 1992. Incumbent. 44th: January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013 42nd: January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2023 ...
The late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall on Tuesday.
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of September 23, 2024, the 118th 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.
Updated March 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM. Tom Williams. GOP Rep. Don Young, the longest-serving member of the current Congress, died Friday at age 88 while traveling home to Alaska, his office said in a ...
Dianne Feinstein. Dianne Emiel Feinstein[b] (née Goldman; June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. [3] A San Francisco native, Feinstein ...