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United States congressional delegations from Connecticut

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Map of Connecticut's five congressional districts for the United States House of Representatives since 2022

Since Connecticut became a U.S. state in 1788,[1] it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789.[2] Each state elects two senators to serve for six years in general elections, with their re-election staggered. Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were elected by the Connecticut General Assembly.[3] Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House, depending on population, to two-year terms.[4] Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2000 United States Census.[5]

A total of 292 unique individuals have represented Connecticut in Congress; Connecticut has had 57 senators and 259 representatives, and 24 have served in both the House and the Senate. Nine women from Connecticut have served in the House, the first being Clare Booth Luce,[6] while none have served in the Senate.[7] Two African-Americans from Connecticut, Gary Franks and Jahana Hayes, have served in the House.[8]

The current dean, or longest serving member, of the Connecticut delegation is Representative Rosa DeLauro of the 3rd district, who has served in the House since 1991. She is the longest-serving House member in Connecticut history, and the second longest-serving member of Congress from Connecticut, behind Chris Dodd, who served 36 years combined in the House and Senate.[9] Dodd is also Connecticut's longest-serving senator.[10]

Current delegation

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Current U.S. senators from Connecticut
Connecticut

CPVI (2022):[11]
D+7
Class I senator Class III senator
Photograph of Chris Murphy, the current junior senator from Connecticut
Chris Murphy
(Junior senator)
(Hartford) 		Photograph of Richard Blumenthal, the current senior senator from Connecticut
Richard Blumenthal
(Senior senator)
(Greenwich)
Party Democratic Democratic
Incumbent since January 3, 2013 January 3, 2011

Connecticut's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators and its five representatives, all of whom are Democrats.[12] Connecticut has not had a Republican member of Congress for more than a decade,[13] since Republican representative Chris Shays lost his race against Democrat Jim Himes in the state's 4th congressional district in 2008.[14]

The current dean, or longest serving member, of the Connecticut delegation is Representative Rosa DeLauro of the 3rd district, who has served in the House since 1991. She is the longest-serving House member in Connecticut history, and the second longest-serving member of Congress from Connecticut, behind Chris Dodd, who served 36 years in total.[9]

As of August 2023, the Cook Partisan Voting Index, a determination of how strongly partisan a state is,[15] ranked all districts and senate races in Connecticut as solidly Democratic, except for the 5th House district, currently represented by Jahana Hayes, which was ranked as leaning Republican.[14]

Current U.S. representatives from Connecticut
District Member
(Residence)[16] 		Party Incumbent since CPVI
(2022)[17] 		District map
1st Portrait of John B. Larson, the current U.S. representative for the 1st district of Connecticut
John B. Larson
(East Hartford) 		Democratic January 3, 1999 D+12 Map of Connecticut's 1st congressional district
2nd Portrait of Joe Courtney, the current U.S. representative for the 2nd district of Connecticut
Joe Courtney
(Vernon) 		Democratic January 3, 2007 D+3 Map of Connecticut's 2nd congressional district
3rd Portrait of Rosa DeLauro, the current U.S. representative for the 3rd district of Connecticut
Rosa DeLauro
(New Haven) 		Democratic January 3, 1991 D+7 Map of Connecticut's 3rd congressional district
4th Portrait of Jim Himes, the current U.S. representative for the 4th district of Connecticut
Jim Himes
(Cos Cob) 		Democratic January 3, 2009 D+13 Map of Connecticut's 4th congressional district
5th Portrait of Jahana Hayes, the current U.S. representative for the 5th district of Connecticut
Jahana Hayes
(Wolcott) 		Democratic January 3, 2019 D+3 Map of Connecticut's 5th congressional district

United States Senate

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Main article: List of United States senators from Connecticut

Senators Oliver Ellsworth, William S. Johnson, and Roger Sherman were Founding Fathers.[18] Ellsworth helped write the Judiciary Act of 1789, and later served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.[19] Uriah Tracy served as president pro tempore of the Senate from May 1800 to November 1800, James Hillhouse served as president pro tempore from February 1801 to December 1801, Lafayette Sabine Foster served as president pro tempore from March 1865 to March 1867, and Frank Brandegee served as president pro tempore from May 1912 to March 1913.[20] Senator Orville Platt, along with Nelson Aldrich, William Allison, and John Coit Spooner, formed "The Senate Four", a group of powerful legislators who controlled much of the Senate's operations.[21] Platt also helped draft the Platt Amendment.[22] Senator Joseph Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000.[23][24]

Senators are elected every six years depending on their class, with each senator serving a six-year term, and elections for senators occurring every two years, rotating through each class such that each election, around one-third of the seats in the Senate are up for election.[25] Connecticut's senators are elected in classes I and III.[26] Currently, Connecticut is represented in the Senate by Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.[27]

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Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut senator who drafted the Judiciary Act of 1789[28]
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Orville Platt, Connecticut senator who helped draft the Platt Amendment[22]
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Brien McMahon, Connecticut senator who wrote the Atomic Energy Act of 1946[29]
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Joe Lieberman, Connecticut senator who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, becoming the first Jewish-American to be a major party nominee[30]
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Chris Dodd, Connecticut senator who was a candidate during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries[31]

  Connecticut for Lieberman (CfL)   Democratic (D)   Democratic-Republican (DR)   Federalist (F)   Free Soil (FS)   Jacksonian (J)   Liberal Republican (LR)   National Republican (NR)   Opposition (O)   Pro-Administration (PA)   Republican (R)   Whig (W)

Senators from Connecticut[32]
Class I senator Congress Class III senator
Oliver Ellsworth (PA) 1st (1789–1791) William Samuel
Johnson (PA)[a]
2nd (1791–1793)
Roger Sherman (PA)[b]
3rd (1793–1795)
Stephen Mix Mitchell (PA)
Oliver Ellsworth (F)[c] 4th (1795–1797) Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (F)[d]
James Hillhouse (F)[e] Uriah Tracy (F)[f]
5th (1797–1799)
6th (1799–1801)
7th (1801–1803)
8th (1803–1805)
9th (1805–1807)
10th (1807–1809)
Chauncey Goodrich (F)[g]
11th (1809–1811)
Samuel W. Dana (F)
12th (1811–1813)
13th (1813–1815)
David Daggett (F)
14th (1815–1817)
15th (1817–1819)
16th (1819–1821) James Lanman (DR)
Elijah Boardman (DR)[h] 17th (1821–1823)
18th (1823–1825)
Henry W. Edwards (DR)
Henry W. Edwards (J) 19th (1825–1827) Calvin Willey (NR)
Samuel A. Foot (NR) 20th (1827–1829)
21st (1829–1831)
22nd (1831–1833) Gideon Tomlinson (NR)
Nathan Smith (NR)[i] 23rd (1833–1835)
24th (1835–1837)
John Milton Niles (J)
John Milton Niles (D) 25th (1837–1839) Perry Smith (D)
Thaddeus Betts (W)[j] 26th (1839–1841)
Jabez W. Huntington (W)[k]
27th (1841–1843)
28th (1843–1845) John Milton Niles (D)
29th (1845–1847)
30th (1847–1849)
Roger Sherman
Baldwin (W)
31st (1849–1851) Truman Smith (W)[l]
Isaac Toucey (D) 32nd (1851–1853)
33rd (1853–1855)
Francis Gillette (FS)
34th (1855–1857) Lafayette S. Foster (O)
James Dixon (R) 35th (1857–1859)
36th (1859–1861)
37th (1861–1863) Lafayette S. Foster (R)
38th (1863–1865)
39th (1865–1867)
40th (1867–1869) Orris S. Ferry (R)
William A.
Buckingham (R)[m] 		41st (1869–1871)
42nd (1871–1873)
43rd (1873–1875) Orris S. Ferry (LR)
William W. Eaton (D)
44th (1875–1877) Orris S. Ferry (R)
James E. English (D)
William Barnum (D)
45th (1877–1879)
46th (1879–1881) Orville H. Platt (R)[n]
Joseph R. Hawley (R) 47th (1881–1883)
48th (1883–1885)
49th (1885–1887)
50th (1887–1889)
51st (1889–1891)
52nd (1891–1893)
53rd (1893–1895)
54th (1895–1897)
55th (1897–1899)
56th (1899–1901)
57th (1901–1903)
58th (1903–1905)
Morgan Bulkeley (R) 59th (1905–1907) Frank B. Brandegee (R)[o]
60th (1907–1909)
61st (1909–1911)
George P. McLean (R) 62nd (1911–1913)
63rd (1913–1915)
64th (1915–1917)
65th (1917–1919)
66th (1919–1921)
67th (1921–1923)
68th (1923–1925)
Hiram Bingham III (R)
69th (1925–1927)
70th (1927–1929)
Frederic C. Walcott (R) 71st (1929–1931)
72nd (1931–1933)
73rd (1933–1935) Augustine Lonergan (D)
Francis T. Maloney (D)[p] 74th (1935–1937)
75th (1937–1939)
76th (1939–1941) John A. Danaher (R)
77th (1941–1943)
78th (1943–1945)
79th (1945–1947) Brien McMahon (D)[q]
Thomas C. Hart (R)
Raymond E. Baldwin (R)[r]
80th (1947–1949)
81st (1949–1951)
William Benton (D)
82nd (1951–1953)
William A. Purtell (R)
Prescott Bush (R)
William A. Purtell (R) 83rd (1953–1955)
84th (1955–1957)
85th (1957–1959)
Thomas J. Dodd (D) 86th (1959–1961)
87th (1961–1963)
88th (1963–1965) Abraham Ribicoff (D)
89th (1965–1967)
90th (1967–1969)
91st (1969–1971)
Lowell Weicker (R) 92nd (1971–1973)
93rd (1973–1975)
94th (1975–1977)
95th (1977–1979)
96th (1979–1981)
97th (1981–1983) Chris Dodd (D)
98th (1983–1985)
99th (1985–1987)
100th (1987–1989)
Joe Lieberman (D) 101st (1989–1991)
102nd (1991–1993)
103rd (1993–1995)
104th (1995–1997)
105th (1997–1999)
106th (1999–2001)
107th (2001–2003)
108th (2003–2005)
109th (2005–2007)
Joe Lieberman (CfL) 110th (2007–2009)
111th (2009–2011)
112th (2011–2013) Richard Blumenthal (D)
Chris Murphy (D) 113th (2013–2015)
114th (2015–2017)
115th (2017–2019)
116th (2019–2021)
117th (2021–2023)
117th (2023–2025)

United States House of Representatives

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Main article: List of United States representatives from Connecticut

John Q. Tilson served as the House Majority Leader for the Republican party from 1925 to 1931.[50] Barbara Kennelly was the first woman to become the Democratic chief deputy whip. Ella T. Grasso later became the first female governor elected in the United States.[6]

From 1789 to 1837, representatives from Connecticut were elected from Connecticut's at-large congressional district, which was subsequently replaced with Connecticut's congressional districts.[51] Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2000 United States Census.[5] One member of the House of Representatives is sent from each district via a popular vote.[52] Districts are redrawn every ten years, after data from the US Census is collected.[53]

Black-and-white photograph of Clare Boothe Luce, the first female member of the house from Connecticut
Clare Boothe Luce, the first female member of the House from Connecticut[54]
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Chris Shays, the last Republican to have represented Connecticut in Congress[14]

1789–1793: 5 seats

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Connecticut was granted five seats in the House until the first US census in 1790.

  Pro-Administration (PA)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1789 to 1793
Congress Elected statewide on a general ticket from Connecticut's at-large district
1st seat 2nd seat 3rd seat 4th seat 5th seat
1st (1789–1791) Benjamin Huntington (PA) Roger Sherman (PA) Jonathan
Sturges (PA) 		Jonathan
Trumbull Jr. (PA) 		Jeremiah
Wadsworth (PA)
2nd (1791–1793) James Hillhouse (PA) Amasa Learned (PA)

1793–1823: 7 seats

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Following the 1790 census, Connecticut was apportioned seven seats.

  Democratic-Republican (DR)   Federalist (F)   Pro-Administration (PA)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1793 to 1823
Congress Elected statewide on a general ticket from Connecticut's at-large district
1st seat 2nd seat 3rd seat 4th seat 5th seat 6th seat 7th seat
3rd (1793–1795) James Hillhouse (PA) Amasa Learned (PA) Joshua Coit (PA) Jonathan
Trumbull Jr. (PA) 		Jeremiah
Wadsworth (PA) 		Zephaniah Swift (PA) Uriah Tracy (PA)
4th (1795–1797) James Hillhouse (F) Chauncey
Goodrich (F) 		Joshua Coit (F)[s] Roger Griswold (F)[t] Nathaniel Smith (F) Zephaniah Swift (F) Uriah Tracy (F)[u]
James Davenport (F)[v] Samuel W. Dana (F)[w]
5th (1797–1799) John Allen (F)
William Edmond (F) Jonathan Brace (F)[x]
6th (1799–1801) Elizur Goodrich (F)[y] John Davenport (F)
John Cotton
Smith (F)[z]
7th (1801–1803) Benjamin Tallmadge (F) Calvin Goddard (F)[aa] Elias Perkins (F)
8th (1803–1805) Simeon Baldwin (F)
9th (1805–1807) Jonathan O. Moseley (F)
Theodore Dwight (F) Timothy Pitkin (F) Lewis B. Sturges (F)
10th (1807–1809) Epaphroditus
Champion (F)
11th (1809–1811)
Ebenezer Huntington (F)
12th (1811–1813) Lyman Law (F)
13th (1813–1815)
14th (1815–1817)
15th (1817–1819) Thomas Scott
Williams (F) 		Uriel Holmes (F)[ab] Samuel B.
Sherwood (F) 		Nathaniel Terry (F) Ebenezer Huntington (F)
Sylvester Gilbert (DR)
16th (1819–1821) Gideon Tomlinson (DR) James Stevens (DR) Samuel A. Foot (DR) John Russ (DR) Jonathan O. Moseley (DR) Elisha Phelps (DR) Henry W. Edwards (DR)
17th (1821–1823) Daniel Burrows (DR) Ansel Sterling (DR) Noyes Barber (DR) Ebenezer Stoddard (DR)

1823–1843: 6 seats

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Following the 1820 census, Connecticut was apportioned six seats.

  Democratic (D)   Democratic-Republican (DR)   Jacksonian (J)   National Republican (NR)   Whig (W)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1823 to 1843
Congress Elected statewide on a general ticket from Connecticut's at-large district
1st seat 2nd seat 3rd seat 4th seat 5th seat 6th seat
18th (1823–1825) Gideon Tomlinson (DR)[ac] Lemuel Whitman (DR)[ac] Ansel Sterling (DR)[ac] Samuel A. Foot (DR)[ac] Noyes Barber (DR)[ac] Ebenezer Stoddard (DR)[ac]
19th (1825–1827) Gideon Tomlinson (NR) John Baldwin (NR) Ralph I. Ingersoll (NR) Orange Merwin (NR) Noyes Barber (NR) Elisha Phelps (NR)
20th (1827–1829) David Plant (NR)
21st (1829–1831) William W. Ellsworth (NR)[ad] Jabez W. Huntington (NR) Ebenezer Young (NR) William L. Storrs (NR)[ae]
22nd (1831–1833)
23rd (1833–1835) Samuel A. Foot (NR)[af] Samuel Tweedy (NR)
Joseph Trumbull (NR) Phineas Miner (NR) Ebenezer Jackson Jr. (NR)
24th (1835–1837) Isaac Toucey (J) Samuel Ingham (J) Elisha Haley (J) Zalmon Wildman (J)[ag] Lancelot Phelps (J) Andrew T. Judson (J)[ah]
Thomas T. Whittlesey (J) Orrin Holt (J)
Congress District
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
25th (1837–1839) Isaac Toucey (D) Samuel Ingham (D) Elisha Haley (D) Thomas T. Whittlesey (D) Lancelot Phelps (D) Orrin Holt (D)
26th (1839–1841) Joseph Trumbull (W) William L. Storrs (W) Thomas W. Williams (W) Thomas B. Osborne (W) Truman Smith (W) John H. Brockway (W)
William W. Boardman (W)
27th (1841–1843)

1843–1903: 4 seats

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Following the 1840 census, Connecticut was apportioned four seats.

  Democratic (D)   Free Soil (FS)   Know Nothing (KN)   Republican (R)   Whig (W)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1843 to 1903
Congress 1st district 2nd district 3rd district 4th district
28th (1843–1845) Thomas H. Seymour (D) John Stewart (D) George S. Catlin (D) Samuel Simons (D)
29th (1845–1847) James Dixon (W) Samuel Dickinson
Hubbard (W) 		John A. Rockwell (W) Truman Smith (W)
30th (1847–1849)
31st (1849–1851) Loren P. Waldo (D) Walter Booth (FS) Chauncey Fitch
Cleveland (D) 		Thomas B. Butler (W)
32nd (1851–1853) Charles Chapman (W) Colin M. Ingersoll (D) Origen S. Seymour (D)
33rd (1853–1855) James T. Pratt (D) Nathan Belcher (D)
34th (1855–1857) Ezra Clark Jr. (KN) John Woodruff (KN) Sidney Dean (KN) William W. Welch (KN)
35th (1857–1859) Ezra Clark Jr. (R) Samuel Arnold (D) Sidney Dean (R) William D. Bishop (D)
36th (1859–1861) Dwight Loomis (R) John Woodruff (R) Alfred A. Burnham (R) Orris S. Ferry (R)[ai]
37th (1861–1863) James E. English (D) George Catlin Woodruff (D)
38th (1863–1865) Henry C. Deming (R) Augustus Brandegee (R) John Henry Hubbard (R)
39th (1865–1867) Samuel L. Warner (R)
40th (1867–1869) Richard D. Hubbard (D) Julius Hotchkiss (D) Henry H.
Starkweather (R)[aj] 		William Barnum (D)[ak]
41st (1869–1871) Julius L. Strong (R)[al] Stephen Kellogg (R)
42nd (1871–1873)
Joseph R. Hawley (R)
43rd (1873–1875)
44th (1875–1877) George M. Landers (D) James Phelps (D)
John T. Wait (R) Levi Warner (D)
45th (1877–1879)
46th (1879–1881) Joseph R. Hawley (R) Frederick Miles (R)
47th (1881–1883) John R. Buck (R)
48th (1883–1885) William W. Eaton (D) Charles L. Mitchell (D) Edward W. Seymour (D)
49th (1885–1887) John R. Buck (R)
50th (1887–1889) Robert J. Vance (D) Carlos French (D) Charles Addison
Russell (R)[am] 		Miles T. Granger (D)
51st (1889–1891) William E. Simonds (R) Washington F. Willcox (D) Frederick Miles (R)
52nd (1891–1893) Lewis Sperry (D) Robert E. De Forest (D)
53rd (1893–1895) James P. Pigott (D)
54th (1895–1897) E. Stevens Henry (R) Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) Ebenezer J. Hill (R)[an]
55th (1897–1899)
56th (1899–1901)
57th (1901–1903)
Frank B. Brandegee (R)

1903–1933: 5 seats

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Following the 1900 census, Connecticut was apportioned five seats. The fifth seat was established at-large from 1901[75] to 1911, when it was converted into a fifth district via a redistricting plan.[76]

  Democratic (D)   Republican (R)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1903 to 1933
Congress 1st district 2nd district 3rd district 4th district At-large
58th (1903–1905) E. Stevens Henry (R) Nehemiah D.
Sperry (R) 		Frank B.
Brandegee (R)[ao] 		Ebenezer J. Hill (R) George L. Lilley (R)[ap]
59th (1905–1907)
Edwin W. Higgins (R)
60th (1907–1909)
61st (1909–1911) John Q. Tilson (R)
62nd (1911–1913) Thomas L. Reilly (D)
63rd (1913–1915) Augustine Lonergan (D) Bryan F. Mahan (D) Thomas L. Reilly (D) Jeremiah
Donovan (D) 		5th district
William Kennedy (D)
64th (1915–1917) P. Davis Oakey (R) Richard P.
Freeman (R) 		John Q. Tilson (R)[aq] Ebenezer J. Hill (R) James P. Glynn (R)
65th (1917–1919) Augustine Lonergan (D)
Schuyler Merritt (R)
66th (1919–1921)
67th (1921–1923) E. Hart Fenn (R)
68th (1923–1925) Patrick B. O'Sullivan (D)
69th (1925–1927) James P. Glynn (R)[ar]
70th (1927–1929)
71st (1929–1931)
Edward W. Goss (R)
72nd (1931–1933) Augustine Lonergan (D) William L. Tierney (D)

1933–2003: 6 seats

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Following the 1930 census, Connecticut was apportioned six seats. The sixth seat was established at-large from 1931[81] to 1964, when it was converted into a sixth district via a reapportioning plan.[82]

  Democratic (D)   Republican (R)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1933 to 2003
Congress District
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th At-large
73rd (1933–1935) Herman Kopplemann (D) William L. Higgins (R) Francis T.
Maloney (D) 		Schuyler Merritt (R) Edward W.
Goss (R) 		Charles Montague
Bakewell (R)
74th (1935–1937) James A.
Shanley (D) 		J. Joseph
Smith (D)[as] 		William M. Citron (D)
75th (1937–1939) William J. Fitzgerald (D) Alfred N. Phillips (D)
76th (1939–1941) William J. Miller (R) Thomas R. Ball (R) Albert E. Austin (R) B. J. Monkiewicz (R)
77th (1941–1943) Herman Kopplemann (D) William J. Fitzgerald (D) Le Roy D. Downs (D) Lucien J. Maciora (D)
Joseph E.
Talbot (R)
78th (1943–1945) William J. Miller (R) John D. McWilliams (R) Ranulf Compton (R) Clare Boothe
Luce (R) 		B. J. Monkiewicz (R)
79th (1945–1947) Herman Kopplemann (D) Chase Woodhouse (D) James P. Geelan (D) Joseph F. Ryter (D)
80th (1947–1949) William J. Miller (R) Horace Seely-Brown (R) Ellsworth Foote (R) John Davis
Lodge (R) 		James T.
Patterson (R) 		Antoni Sadlak (R)
81st (1949–1951) Abraham Ribicoff (D) Chase Woodhouse (D) John A. McGuire (D)
82nd (1951–1953) Horace Seely-Brown (R) Albert P.
Morano (R)
83rd (1953–1955) Thomas J. Dodd (D) Albert W.
Cretella (R)
84th (1955–1957)
85th (1957–1959) Edwin H. May Jr. (R)
86th (1959–1961) Emilio Daddario (D) Chester B. Bowles (D) Robert Giaimo (D) Donald J. Irwin (D) John S.
Monagan (D) 		Frank Kowalski (D)
87th (1961–1963) Horace Seely-Brown (R) Abner W. Sibal (R)
88th (1963–1965) William St. Onge (D)[at] Bernard Grabowski (D)
89th (1965–1967) Donald J. Irwin (D) 6th district
Bernard Grabowski (D)
90th (1967–1969) Thomas Meskill (R)
91st (1969–1971) Lowell Weicker (R)
Robert H. Steele (R)
92nd (1971–1973) William R. Cotter (D)[au] Stewart
McKinney (R)[av] 		Ella Grasso (D)
93rd (1973–1975) Ronald A.
Sarasin (R)
94th (1975–1977) Chris Dodd (D) Toby Moffett (D)
95th (1977–1979)
96th (1979–1981) William R.
Ratchford (D)
97th (1981–1983) Sam Gejdenson (D) Larry DeNardis (R)
Barbara B. Kennelly (D)
98th (1983–1985) Bruce Morrison (D) Nancy Johnson (R)
99th (1985–1987) John G.
Rowland (R)
100th (1987–1989)
Chris Shays (R)
101st (1989–1991)
102nd (1991–1993) Rosa DeLauro (D) Gary Franks (R)
103rd (1993–1995)
104th (1995–1997)
105th (1997–1999) James H.
Maloney (D)
106th (1999–2001) John B. Larson (D)
107th (2001–2003) Rob Simmons (R)

2003–present: 5 seats

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Following the 2000 census, Connecticut was apportioned five seats.

  Democratic (D)   Republican (R)

Members of the House of Representatives from Connecticut from 2003 to present
Congress 1st district 2nd district 3rd district 4th district 5th district
108th (2003–2005) John B. Larson (D) Rob Simmons (R) Rosa DeLauro (D) Chris Shays (R) Nancy Johnson (R)
109th (2005–2007)
110th (2007–2009) Joe Courtney (D) Chris Murphy (D)
111th (2009–2011) Jim Himes (D)
112th (2011–2013)
113th (2013–2015) Elizabeth Esty (D)
114th (2015–2017)
115th (2017–2019)
116th (2019–2021) Jahana Hayes (D)
117th (2021–2023)
118th (2023–2025)

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Senator Johnson resigned after Congress moved to Philadelphia, as he wished to continue being the president of Columbia University.[33]
  2. ^ Senator Sherman died while in office.[34]
  3. ^ Senator Ellsworth resigned from the Senate to become the chief justice of the United States.[35]
  4. ^ Senator Trumbull Jr. resigned to serve as the lieutenant governor of Connecticut under Oliver Wolcott.[36]
  5. ^ Senator Hillhouse resigned to manage the Connecticut School Fund.[37]
  6. ^ Senator Tracy died while in office.[38]
  7. ^ Senator Goodrich resigned to become the lieutenant governor of Connecticut.[39]
  8. ^ Senator Boardman died while in office.[40]
  9. ^ Senator Smith died while in office.[41]
  10. ^ Senator Betts died while in office.[42]
  11. ^ Senator Huntington died while in office.[43]
  12. ^ Senator Truman Smith resigned.[44]
  13. ^ Senator Buckingham died while in office.[45]
  14. ^ Senator Platt died while in office.[46]
  15. ^ Senator Brandegee died while in office.[47]
  16. ^ Senator Maloney died while in office.[48]
  17. ^ Senator McMahon died while in office.[29]
  18. ^ Senator Baldwin resigned to become a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.[49]
  19. ^ Representative Coit died in office.[55]
  20. ^ Representative Griswold resigned.[56]
  21. ^ Representative Tracy resigned to become a member of the Senate.[38]
  22. ^ Representative James Davenport died while in office.[57]
  23. ^ Representative Dana resigned to become a member of the Senate.[58]
  24. ^ Representative Brace resigned.[59]
  25. ^ Goldrich resigned to become the customs collector of New Haven, which John Adams had promoted him to; he was later removed by Thomas Jefferson.[60]
  26. ^ Representative John Cotton Smith resigned.[61]
  27. ^ Representative Goddard resigned.[62]
  28. ^ Representatives Holmes resigned.[63]
  29. ^ a b c d e f Supported the Adams-Clay ticket in the 1824 United States presidential election.
  30. ^ Representative Ellsworth resigned.[64]
  31. ^ Representative Storrs resigned to become an associate judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court.[65]
  32. ^ Representative Foot resigned to become the governor of Connecticut.[66]
  33. ^ Representative Wildman died while in office.[67]
  34. ^ Representative Judson resigned to become a justice of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.[68]
  35. ^ Representative Ferry died while in office.[69]
  36. ^ Representative Starkweather died while in office.[70]
  37. ^ Representative Barnum resigned to become a member of the Senate.[71]
  38. ^ Representative Strong died while in office.[72]
  39. ^ Representative Russell died while in office.[73]
  40. ^ Representative Hill died while in office.[74]
  41. ^ Representative Brandegee resigned to become a member of the Senate.[77]
  42. ^ Representative Lilley resigned to become the governor of Connecticut.[78]
  43. ^ Representative Tilson resigned.[79]
  44. ^ Representative Glynn died while in office.[80]
  45. ^ Representative Smith resigned to become a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.[83]
  46. ^ Representative St. Onge died while in office.[84]
  47. ^ Representative Cotter died while in office.[85]
  48. ^ Representative McKinney died while in office.[86]

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