List of members of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina

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Joe Cunningham, current representative of South Carolina's First Congressional Constituency
Joe Wilson, current representative of South Carolina's Second Congressional Constituency
Jeff Duncan, current representative of South Carolina's Third Congressional Constituency
Ralph Norman, current representative of South Carolina's fifth congressional electoral district
Jim Clyburn, current representative of South Carolina’s Sixth Congressional Constituency
Tom Rice, current representative of South Carolina's Seventh Congressional Constituency

This list shows all politicians who since 1789 for South Carolina the United States House of Representatives have listened. The state initially sent five, and later even nine, MPs to Washington . South Carolina currently has seven members in the lower house of Congress . Almost without exception, the MPs were elected according to constituencies ; only in 1873 was there an additional state-wide seat ("at large") to be achieved. From 1861 to 1868, the state's seats remained vacant following the secession of South Carolina from the Union.

1st seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
William Loughton Smith March 4, 1789 - July 10, 1797 federalist
Thomas Pinckney November 23, 1797 - March 3, 1801 federalist
Thomas Lowndes March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1805 federalist
Robert Marion March 4, 1805 - December 4, 1810 Democratic Republican
Langdon Cheves December 31, 1810 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Henry Middleton March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1819 Democratic Republican
Charles Pinckney March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Joel Roberts Poinsett March 4, 1821 - March 7, 1825 Democratic Republican
William Drayton May 17, 1825 - March 3, 1833 democrat
Henry Laurens Pinckney March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835 Nullifier party
Robert Blair Campbell March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 Nullifier party
John Campbell March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Nullifier party
Sampson Hale Butler March 4, 1839 - September 27, 1842 democrat
Samuel Wild's scooter December 17, 1842 - March 3, 1843 democrat
James Augustus Black March 4, 1843 - April 3, 1848 democrat
Daniel Wallace June 12, 1848 - March 3, 1853 democrat
John McQueen March 4, 1853 - December 21, 1860 democrat
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore July 18, 1868 - February 24, 1870 republican
Joseph Hayne Rainey December 12, 1870 - March 3, 1879 republican
John Smythe Richardson March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1883 democrat
Samuel Dibble March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1891 democrat
William Huggins Brawley March 4, 1891 - February 12, 1894 democrat
James Ferdinand Izlar April 12, 1894 - March 3, 1895 democrat
William Elliott March 4, 1895 - June 4, 1896 democrat
George Washington Murray June 4, 1896 - March 3, 1897 republican
William Elliott March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1903 democrat
George Swinton Legare March 4, 1903 - January 31, 1913 democrat
Richard Smith Whaley April 29, 1913 - March 3, 1921 democrat
William Turner Logan March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1925 democrat
Thomas Sanders McMillan March 4, 1925 - September 29, 1939 democrat
Clara Gooding McMillan November 7, 1939 - January 3, 1941 democrat
Lucius Mendel Rivers January 3, 1941 - December 28, 1970 democrat
Mendel Jackson Davis April 27, 1871 - January 3, 1981 democrat
Thomas Forbes Hartnett Jan. 3, 1981 - January 3, 1987 republican
Arthur Ravenel January 3, 1987 - January 3, 1995 republican
Marshall Clement Sanford January 3, 1995 - January 3, 2001 republican
Henry Edward Brown January 3, 2001 - January 3, 2011 republican
Timothy E. Scott January 3, 2011 - January 2, 2013 republican
Marshall Clement Sanford May 7, 2013 - January 3, 2019 republican
Joseph Kendrick Cunningham January 3, 2019 - democrat

2nd seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Aedanus Burke March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1791 independent
Robert Gibbes Barnwell March 4, 1791 - March 3, 1793 independent
John Hunter March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Wade Hampton March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797 Democratic Republican
John Rutledge Jr. March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1803 federalist
William Butler I March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
William Lowndes March 4, 1813 - May 8, 1822 Democratic Republican
James Hamilton Jr. December 13, 1822 - March 3, 1829 Democratic Republican
Robert Woodward Barnwell March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1833 democrat
William John Grayson March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1837 Nullifier party
William Kennedy Clowney March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Nullifier party
John Campbell March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
William Butler II March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 Whig
Richard Franklin Simpson March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849 democrat
James Lawrence Orr March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 democrat
William Aiken Jr. March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1857 democrat
William Porcher Miles March 4, 1857 - December 1860 democrat
Christopher Columbus Bowen July 20, 1868 - March 3, 1871 republican
Robert Carlos De Large March 4, 1871 - January 24, 1873 republican
Alonzo Jacob Ransier March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Edmund William McGregor Mackey March 4, 1875 - July 19, 1876 Independent Republican
Charles Wilson Buttz November 7, 1876 - March 3, 1877 republican
Richard Harvey Cain March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879 republican
Michael Patrick O'Connor March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1881 democrat
Samuel Dibble June 9, 1881 - May 31, 1882 democrat
Edmund William McGregor Mackey May 31, 1882 - March 3, 1883 republican
George Dionysius Tillman March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1893 democrat
William Jasper Talbert March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1903 democrat
George William Croft March 4, 1903 - March 10, 1904 democrat
Theodore Gaillard Croft May 17, 1904 - March 3, 1905 democrat
James O'Hanlon Patterson March 4, 1905 - March 3, 1911 democrat
James Francis Byrnes March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1925 democrat
Butler Black Hare March 4, 1925 - March 3, 1933 democrat
Hampton Pitts Fulmer March 4, 1933 - October 19, 1944 democrat
Willa Lybrand Fulmer November 7, 1944 - January 3, 1945 democrat
John Jacob Riley January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1949 democrat
Hugo Sheridan Sims January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1951 democrat
John Jacob Riley Jan. 3, 1951 - January 1, 1962 democrat
Corinne Boyd Riley April 10, 1962 - January 3, 1963 democrat
Albert William Watson March 4, 1963 - January 3, 1971 democrat
Floyd Davidson Spence Jan. 3, 1971 - August 16, 2001 republican
Addison Graves Wilson December 18, 2001 - republican

3rd seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Daniel Huger March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 independent
Lemuel Benton March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1799 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Huger March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1805 federalist
David Rogerson Williams March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1809 Democratic Republican
Robert Witherspoon March 4, 1809 - March 3, 1811 Democratic Republican
David Rogerson Williams March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Theodore Gourdin March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Benjamin Huger March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 federalist
James Ervin March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Robert Blair Campbell March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1825 democrat
Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell March 4, 1825 - March 3, 1829 democrat
John Campbell March 4, 1829 - March 3, 1831 democrat
Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833 democrat
Thomas Day Singleton March 3, 1833 - November 25, 1833 Nullifier party
Robert Blair Campbell February 27, 1834 - March 3, 1835 Nullifier party
John King Griffin March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 Nullifier party
Franklin Harper Elmore March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 democrat
John King Griffin March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Patrick Calhoun Caldwell March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 democrat
Joseph Addison Woodward March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1853 democrat
Laurence Massillon Keitt March 4, 1853 - December 10, 1860 democrat
Manuel Simeon Corley July 25, 1868 - March 3, 1869 republican
Solomon Lafayette Hoge April 8, 1869 - March 3, 1871 republican
Robert Brown Elliott March 4, 1871 - November 1, 1874 republican
Lewis Cass Carpenter November 3, 1874 - March 3, 1875 republican
Solomon Lafayette Hoge March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 republican
David Wyatt Aiken March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1887 democrat
James Sproull Cothran March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1891 democrat
George Johnstone March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Asbury Churchwell Latimer March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1903 democrat
Wyatt Aiken March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1917 democrat
Frederick Haskell Dominick March 4, 1917 - March 3, 1933 democrat
John Clarence Taylor March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1939 democrat
Butler Black Hare January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1947 democrat
William Jennings Bryan Dorn January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1949 democrat
James Butler Hare January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1951 democrat
William Jennings Bryan Dorn January 3, 1951 - December 31, 1974 democrat
Butler Carson Derrick January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1995 democrat
Lindsey Olin Graham January 3, 1995 - January 3, 2003 republican
James Gresham Barrett January 3, 2003 - January 3, 2011 republican
Jeffrey D. Duncan January 3, 2011 - republican

4th seat (since 1789)

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Sumter March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 independent
Richard Winn March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1797 Democratic Republican
Thomas Sumter March 4, 1797 - December 15, 1801 Democratic Republican
Richard Winn 1802 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Wade Hampton March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 Democratic Republican
O'Brien Smith March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1807 Democratic Republican
John Taylor March 4, 1807 - December 30, 1810 Democratic Republican
William Lowndes March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
John Joel Chappell March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Joseph Bellinger March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819 Democratic Republican
James Overstreet March 4, 1819 - May 24, 1822 Democratic Republican
Andrew Robison Govan December 4, 1822 - March 3, 1827 democrat
William Dickinson Martin March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1831 democrat
John Myers Fields March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1835 democrat
James Henry Hammond March 3, 1835 - February 26, 1836 Nullifier party
Franklin Harper Elmore December 10, 1836 - March 3, 1837 democrat
John King Griffin March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Nullifier party
Isaac Edward Holmes March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
John Campbell March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1845 democrat
Alexander Dromgoole Sims March 4, 1845 - November 22, 1848 democrat
John McQueen February 12, 1849 - March 3, 1853 democrat
Preston Smith Brooks March 4, 1853 - January 27, 1857 democrat
Milledge Luke Bonham March 4, 1857 - December 21, 1860 democrat
James Hamilton Goss July 18, 1868 - March 3, 1869 republican
Alexander Stuart Wallace May 27, 1870 - March 3, 1877 republican
John Hamilton Evins March 4, 1877 - October 28, 1884 democrat
John Bratton December 8, 1884 - March 3, 1885 democrat
William Hayne Perry March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891 democrat
George Washington Shell March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Stanyarne Wilson March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1901 democrat
Joseph Travis Johnson March 4, 1901 - April 19, 1915 democrat
Samuel Jones Nicholls September 14, 1915 - March 3, 1921 democrat
John Jackson McSwain March 4, 1921 - August 6, 1936 democrat
Gabriel Heyward Mahon November 3, 1936 - January 3, 1939 democrat
Joseph Raleigh Bryson January 3, 1939 - March 10, 1953 democrat
Robert Thomas Ashmore June 2, 1953 - January 3, 1969 democrat
James Robert Mann Jan. 3, 1969 - January 3, 1979 democrat
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jan. 3, 1979 - January 3, 1987 republican
Elizabeth Johnston Patterson January 3, 1987 - January 3, 1993 democrat
Robert Durden Inglis January 3, 1993 - January 3, 1999 republican
James Warren DeMint January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2005 republican
Robert Durden Inglis January 3, 2005 - January 3, 2011 republican
Harold W. Gowdy January 3, 2011 - January 3, 2019 republican
William Richardson Timmons IV January 3, 2019 - republican

5th seat (1789–1860 / since 1873)

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Tudor Tucker March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793 independent
Alexander Gillon March 4, 1793 - October 6, 1794 independent
Robert Goodloe Harper February 1795 - March 3, 1801 federalist
William Butler I March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Richard Winn March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
David Reid Evans March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
William Woodward March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Starling Tucker March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
George McDuffie March 4, 1823-1834 democrat
Francis Wilkinson Pickens December 8, 1834 - March 3, 1837 Nullifier party
Hugh Swinton Legare March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 democrat
Francis Wilkinson Pickens March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Isaac Edward Holmes March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 democrat
Armistead Burt March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1853 democrat
James Lawrence Orr March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1859 democrat
John Durant Ashmore March 4, 1859 - December 21, 1860 democrat
Richard Harvey Cain March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Robert Smalls March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1879 republican
George Dionysius Tillman March 4, 1879 - June 19, 1882 democrat
Robert Smalls July 19, 1882 - March 3, 1883 republican
John James Hemphill March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Thomas Jefferson Strait March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1899 democrat
David Edward Finley March 4, 1899 - January 26, 1917 democrat
Paul Grier McCorkle February 21, 1917 - March 3, 1917 democrat
William Francis Stevenson March 4, 1917 - March 3, 1933 democrat
James Prioleau Richards March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1957 democrat
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill Jan. 3, 1957 - May 1, 1964 democrat
Thomas Smithwick Gettys November 3, 1964 - December 31, 1974 democrat
Kenneth Lamar Holland Jan. 3, 1975 - January 3, 1983 democrat
John McKee Spratt January 3, 1983 - January 3, 2011 democrat
John Michael Mulvaney January 3, 2011 - February 16, 2017 republican
February 16, 2017 - June 26, 2017 vacant
Ralph Norman June 26, 2017 - republican

6th seat (1793–1860 / since 1883)

Surname Term of office Political party
Andrew Pickens March 4, 1793 - March 3, 1795 independent
Samuel Earle March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1797 Democratic Republican
William Smith March 4, 1797 - March 3, 1799 Democratic Republican
Abraham Nott March 4, 1799 - March 3, 1801 federalist
Thomas Moore March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1803 Democratic Republican
Levi Casey March 4, 1803 - February 3, 1807 Democratic Republican
Joseph Calhoun June 2, 1807 - March 3, 1811 Democratic Republican
John Caldwell Calhoun March 4, 1811 - November 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Eldred Simkins January 24, 1818 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
George McDuffie March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
John Wilson March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 democrat
Warren Ransom Davis March 4, 1827 - January 29, 1835 democrat
Henry Laurens Pinckney March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 Nullifier party
Francis Wilkinson Pickens March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 Nullifier party
Robert Barnwell Rhett March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Francis Wilkinson Pickens March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 democrat
Isaac Edward Holmes March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1851 democrat
William Aiken Jr. March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1853 democrat
William Waters Boyce March 4, 1853 - December 21, 1860 democrat
George William Dargan March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1891 democrat
Eli Thomas Stackhouse March 4, 1891 - June 14, 1892 democrat
John Lowndes McLaurin December 5, 1892 - May 31, 1897 democrat
James Norton December 6, 1897 - March 3, 1901 democrat
Robert Bethea Scarborough March 4, 1901 - March 3, 1905 democrat
James Edwin Ellerbe March 4, 1905 - March 3, 1913 democrat
James Willard Ragsdale March 4, 1913 - July 23, 1919 democrat
Philip Henry Stoll October 7, 1919 - March 3, 1923 democrat
Allard Henry Gasque March 4, 1923 - June 17, 1938 democrat
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque September 13, 1938 - January 3, 1939 democrat
John Lanneau McMillan January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1973 democrat
Edward Lunn Young Jan. 3, 1973 - January 3, 1975 republican
John Wilson Jenrette January 3, 1975 - December 10, 1980 democrat
John Light Napier Jan. 3, 1981 - January 3, 1983 republican
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993 democrat
James Enos Clyburn January 3, 1993 - democrat

7th seat (1803–1853 / 1883–1933 / since 2013)

Surname Term of office Political party
Thomas Moore March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Elias Earle March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
John Taylor March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Elias Earle March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
John Wilson March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Joseph Gist March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1827 democrat
William Thompson Nuckolls March 4, 1827 - March 3, 1833 democrat
William Kennedy Clowney March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835 Nullifier party
Richard Irvine Manning March 4, 1835 - May 1, 1836 democrat
John Peter Richardson December 19, 1836 - March 3, 1837 democrat
Robert Barnwell Rhett March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 democrat
Thomas De Lage Sumter March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Robert Barnwell Rhett March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1849 democrat
William Ferguson Colcock March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 democrat
Edmund William McGregor Mackey March 4, 1883 - January 27, 1884 republican
Robert Smalls March 18, 1884 - March 3, 1887 republican
William Elliott March 4, 1887 - September 23, 1890 democrat
Thomas Ezekiel Miller September 24, 1890 - March 3, 1891 republican
William Elliott March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
George Washington Murray March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 republican
James William Stokes March 4, 1895 - July 6, 1901 democrat
Asbury Francis Lever November 5, 1901 - August 1, 1919 democrat
Edward Coke man October 7, 1919 - March 3, 1921 democrat
Hampton Pitts Fulmer March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1933 democrat
Hugh Thompson Rice January 3, 2013 - republican

8th seat (1803–1843)

Surname Term of office Political party
John Baylis Earle March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1805 Democratic Republican
Elias Earle March 4, 1805 - March 3, 1807 Democratic Republican
Lemuel James Alston March 4, 1807 - March 3, 1811 Democratic Republican
Elias Earle March 4, 1811 - March 3, 1813 Democratic Republican
Samuel Farrow March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
Thomas Moore March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817 Democratic Republican
Wilson Nesbitt March 4, 1817 - March 3, 1819 Democratic Republican
John McCreary March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
Joseph Gist March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
John Carter March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1829 democrat
James Blair March 4, 1829 - April 1, 1834 democrat
Richard Irvine Manning December 8, 1834 - March 3, 1835 democrat
James Rogers March 4, 1835 - March 3, 1837 democrat
John Peter Richardson March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839 democrat
James Rogers March 4, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Thomas De Lage Sumter March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 democrat

9th seat (1813–1843)

Surname Term of office Political party
John Kershaw March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815 Democratic Republican
William Mayrant March 4, 1815 - October 21, 1816 Democratic Republican
Stephen Decatur Miller January 2, 1817 - March 3, 1819 Democratic Republican
Joseph Brevard March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821 Democratic Republican
James Blair March 4, 1821 - May 8, 1822 Democratic Republican
John Carter December 11, 1822 - March 3, 1823 Democratic Republican
Starling Tucker March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1831 democrat
John King Griffin March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1835 Nullifier party
Waddy Thompson September 10, 1835 - March 3, 1841 Whig
James Rogers March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1843 democrat

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