List of members of the US House of Representatives from Wisconsin

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Bryan Steil, current representative of Wisconsin's First Congressional Constituency
Mark Pocan, current Wisconsin Second Congressional District Representative
Ron Kind, current Wisconsin Third Congressional District Representative
Gwen Moore, current Wisconsin Fourth Congressional District Representative
Jim Sensenbrenner, current representative of Wisconsin's fifth congressional electoral district
Glenn Grothman, current Wisconsin Sixth Congressional District Representative
Tom Tiffany, current Representative for Wisconsin's Seventh Congressional Constituency
Mike Gallagher, current representative of Wisconsin's eighth Congressional electoral district

This list shows all politicians, which since 1836 for the Wisconsin Territory and for the later state of Wisconsin to the United States House of Representatives have listened. While Wisconsin had two members of parliament in the lower house after the state joined the Union, this number rose temporarily to eleven. Since 1933 the number of MPs has decreased due to adjustments made after the respective censuses; it is currently eight. Elections were consistently separated according to constituencies . There is a temporal overlap in the transition from the Wisconsin Territory to the state: Even after its establishment, the territory provided a delegate until the following year. The reason was that part of the territorial area did not join the state of Wisconsin, but from 1849 belonged to the new Minnesota Territory .

With Paul Ryan was previously a spokesman for the US House of Representatives from Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Territory Delegate (1836–1849)

Surname Term of office Political party
George Wallace Jones July 3, 1836 - January 14, 1839 democrat
James Duane Doty January 14, 1839 - March 3, 1841 democrat
Henry Dodge March 4, 1841 - March 3, 1845 democrat
Morgan Lewis Martin July 4, 1845 - March 3, 1847 democrat
John Hubbard Tweedy March 4, 1847 - May 29, 1848 Whig
Henry Hastings Sibley October 30, 1848 - March 3, 1849 democrat

1st seat (since 1848)

Surname Term of office Political party
William Pitt Lynde June 5, 1848 - March 3, 1849 democrat
Charles Durkee March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 Free Soil Party
Daniel Wells Jr. March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1857 democrat
John Fox Potter March 4, 1857 - March 3, 1863 republican
James Sproat Brown March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1865 democrat
Halbert Eleazer Paine March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1871 republican
Alexander Mitchell March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1873 democrat
Charles Grandison Williams March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1883 republican
John Winans March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891 republican
Clinton Babbitt March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Henry Allen Cooper March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1919 republican
Clifford Ellsworth Randall March 4, 1919 - March 3, 1921 republican
Henry Allen Cooper March 4, 1921 - March 1, 1931 republican
Thomas Ryum Amlie October 13, 1931 - March 3, 1933 republican
George Washington Blanchard March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 republican
Thomas Ryum Amlie January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1939 Progressive party
Stephen Bolles January 3, 1939 - July 8, 1941 republican
Lawrence Henry Smith August 29, 1941 - January 22, 1958 republican
Gerald Thomas Flynn Jan. 3, 1959 - January 3, 1961 democrat
Henry Carl Schadeberg January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1965 republican
Lynn Ellsworth Stalbaum January 3, 1965 - January 3, 1967 democrat
Henry Carl Schadeberg Jan. 3, 1967 - January 3, 1971 republican
Leslie Aspin Jan. 3, 1971 - January 20, 1993 democrat
Peter William Barca May 4, 1993 - January 3, 1995 democrat
Mark W. Neumann January 3, 1995 - January 3, 1999 republican
Paul D. Ryan January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2019 republican
Bryan George Steep January 3, 2019 - republican

2nd seat (since 1848)

Surname Term of office Political party
Mason Cook Darling June 9, 1848 - March 3, 1849 democrat
Orsamus Cole March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1851 Whig
Ben C. Eastman March 4, 1851 - March 3, 1855 democrat
Cadwallader Colden Washburn March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1861 republican
Luther Hanchett March 4, 1861 - November 24, 1862 republican
Walter Duncan McIndoe January 26, 1863 - March 3, 1863 republican
Ithamar Conkey Sloan March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867 republican
Benjamin Franklin Hopkins March 4, 1867 - January 1, 1870 republican
David Atwood February 23, 1870 - March 3, 1871 republican
Gerry Whiting Hazelton March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1875 republican
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1883 republican
Daniel Hadley Sumner March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1887 democrat
Richard William Guenther March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 republican
Charles Barwig March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Edward pickled herring March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1899 republican
Herman Bjorn Dahle March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1903 republican
Henry Cullen Adams March 4, 1903 - July 9, 1906 republican
John Mandt Nelson September 4, 1906 - March 3, 1913 republican
Michael Edmund Burke March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1917 democrat
Edward Voigt March 4, 1917 - March 3, 1927 republican
Charles August Kading March 4, 1927 - March 3, 1933 republican
Charles William Francis Henney March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 democrat
Harry Sauthoff January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1939 Progressive party
Charles Hawks January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1941 republican
Harry Sauthoff January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1945 Progressive party
Robert Kirkland Henry January 3, 1945 - November 20, 1946 republican
Glenn Robert Davis April 22, 1947 - January 3, 1957 republican
Donald Edgar Tewes Jan. 3, 1957 - January 3, 1959 republican
Robert William Kastenmeier Jan. 3, 1959 - January 3, 1991 democrat
Scott L. Smart January 3, 1991 - January 3, 1999 republican
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2013 democrat
Mark Pocan January 3, 2013 - democrat

3rd seat (since 1849)

Surname Term of office Political party
James Duane Doty March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853 democrat
John B. Macy March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855 democrat
Charles Billinghurst March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1859 republican
Charles Hathaway Larrabee March 4, 1859 - March 3, 1861 democrat
Andrew Scott Sloan March 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863 republican
Amasa Cobb March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1871 republican
Joel Allen Barber March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1875 republican
Henry Sterling Magoon March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 republican
George Cochrane Hazelton March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
Burr W. Jones March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Robert Marion La Follette Sr. March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891 republican
Allen Ralph Bushnell March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Joseph Weeks Babcock March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1907 republican
James William Murphy March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1909 democrat
Arthur William Kopp March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1913 republican
John Mandt Nelson March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1919 republican
James Gideon Monahan March 4, 1919 - March 3, 1921 republican
John Mandt Nelson March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1933 republican
Gardner Robert Withrow March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1939 republican
Harry Wilbur Griswold January 3, 1939 - July 4, 1939 republican
William Henry Stevenson January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1949 republican
Gardner Robert Withrow January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1961 republican
Vernon Wallace Thomson January 3, 1961 - December 31, 1974 republican
Alvin James Baldus Jan. 3, 1975 - January 3, 1981 democrat
Steven Craig Gunderson Jan. 3, 1981 - January 3, 1997 republican
Ronald James child January 3, 1997 - democrat

4th seat (since 1863)

Surname Term of office Political party
Charles Augustus Eldredge March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1873 democrat
Alexander Mitchell March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 democrat
William Pitt Lynde March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1879 democrat
Peter Victor Deuster March 4, 1879 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1887 republican
Henry Smith March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 Labor Party
Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
John Lendrum Mitchell March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Peter J. Somers August 27, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Theobald Otjen March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1907 republican
William Joseph Cary March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1919 republican
John Casimir Kleczka March 4, 1919 - March 3, 1923 republican
John C. Schafer March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1933 republican
Raymond Joseph Cannon March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1939 democrat
John C. Schafer January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1941 republican
Thaddeus Wasielewski January 3, 1941 - January 3, 1947 democrat
John Charles Brophy January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1949 republican
Clement John Zablocki January 3, 1949 - December 3, 1983 democrat
Gerald Daniel Kleczka April 3, 1984 - January 3, 2005 democrat
Gwendolynne Sophia Moore January 3, 2005 - democrat

5th seat (since 1863)

Surname Term of office Political party
Ezra Wheeler March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1865 democrat
Philetus Sawyer March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1875 republican
Charles Augustus Eldredge March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 democrat
Samuel Dickinson Burchard March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 democrat
Joseph Rankin March 4, 1883 - January 24, 1886 democrat
Thomas Richard Hudd March 8, 1886 - March 3, 1889 democrat
George H. Brickner March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Samuel Stebbins Barney March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1903 republican
William Henry Stafford March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1911 republican
Victor Luitpold Berger March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 socialist
William Henry Stafford March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1919 republican
Victor Luitpold Berger Seat was refused socialist
William Henry Stafford March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1923 republican
Victor Luitpold Berger March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1929 socialist
William Henry Stafford March 4, 1929 - March 3, 1933 republican
Thomas David Patrick O'Malley March 4, 1833 - January 3, 1939 democrat
Lewis Dominic Thill January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1943 republican
Howard Johnstone McMurray January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1945 democrat
Andrew John Biemiller January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1947 democrat
Charles Joseph Kersten January 3, 1947 - January 3, 1949 republican
Andrew John Biemiller January 3, 1949 - January 3, 1951 democrat
Charles Joseph Kersten Jan. 3, 1951 - January 3, 1955 republican
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss Jan. 3, 1955 - January 3, 1983 democrat
James Powers Moody January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993 democrat
Thomas M. Barrett January 3, 1993 - December 3, 2003 democrat
Frank James scythe burner January 3, 2003 - republican

6th seat (since 1863)

Surname Term of office Political party
Walter Duncan McIndoe March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867 republican
Cadwallader Colden Washburn March 4, 1867 - March 3, 1871 republican
Jeremiah McLain Rusk March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1873 republican
Philetus Sawyer March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
Alanson Mellen Kimball March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 republican
Gabriel Bouck March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881 democrat
Richard William Guenther March 4, 1881 - March 3, 1887 republican
Charles Benjamin Clark March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1891 republican
Lucas Miltiades Miller March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
Owen Augustine Wells March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Samuel Andrew Cook March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1897 republican
James Henry Davidson March 4, 1897 - March 3, 1903 republican
Charles Herman Weisse March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1911 democrat
Michael Edmund Burke March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913 democrat
Michael Kieran Reilly March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1917 democrat
James Henry Davidson March 4, 1917 - August 6, 1918 republican
Florian Lampert November 5, 1918 - July 18, 1930 republican
Michael Kieran Reilly November 4, 1930 - January 3, 1939 democrat
Frank Bateman Keefe January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1951 republican
William Kaiser Van Pelt Jan. 3, 1951 - January 3, 1965 republican
John Abner Race January 3, 1965 - January 3, 1967 democrat
William Albert Steiger Jan. 3, 1967 - December 4, 1978 republican
Thomas Evert Petri April 3, 1979 - January 3, 2015 republican
Glenn Grothman January 3, 2015 - republican

7th seat (since 1873)

Surname Term of office Political party
Jeremiah McLain Rusk March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1877 republican
Herman Leon Humphrey March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
Gilbert Motier Woodward March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 democrat
Ormsby Brunson Thomas March 4, 1885 - March 3, 1891 republican
Frank Potter Coburn March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1893 democrat
George Bulls Shaw March 4, 1893 - August 27, 1894 republican
Michael Griffin November 5, 1894 - March 3, 1899 republican
John Jacob Esch March 4, 1899 - March 3, 1921 republican
Joseph David Beck March 4, 1921 - March 3, 1929 republican
Merlin Hull March 4, 1929 - March 3, 1931 republican
Gardner Robert Withrow March 4, 1931 - March 3, 1933 republican
Gerald John Boileau March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1939 republican
Reid Fred Murray January 3, 1939 - April 29, 1952 republican
Melvin Robert Laird Jan. 3, 1953 - January 21, 1969 republican
David Ross Obey April 1, 1969 - January 3, 2011 democrat
Sean P. Duffy January 3, 2011 - September 23, 2019 republican
vacant September 23, 2019 - May 19, 2020
Thomas P. Tiffany May 19, 2020 - republican

8th seat (since 1873)

Surname Term of office Political party
Alexander Stuart McDill March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875 republican
George Washington Cate March 4, 1875 - March 3, 1877 democrat
Thaddeus Coleman Pound March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 republican
William Thompson Price March 4, 1883 - December 6, 1886 republican
Hugh Hiram Price January 18, 1887 - March 3, 1887 republican
Nils Pederson Haugen March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1893 republican
Lyman Eddy Barnes March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Edward Sloman Minor March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1903 republican
James Henry Davidson March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1913 republican
Edward Everts Browne March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1931 republican
Gerald John Boileau March 4, 1931 - March 3, 1933 republican
James Frederic Hughes March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 democrat
George John Schneider January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1939 Progressive party
Joshua Leroy Johns January 3, 1939 - January 3, 1943 republican
LaVern Ralph Dilweg January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1945 democrat
John William Byrnes January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1973 republican
Harold Vernon Froehlich Jan. 3, 1973 - January 3, 1975 republican
Robert John Cornell Jan. 3, 1975 - January 3, 1979 democrat
Tobias Anton Roth Jan. 3, 1979 - January 3, 1997 republican
Jay W. Johnson January 3, 1997 - January 3, 1999 democrat
Mark Andrew Green January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2007 republican
Steven Leslie Kagen January 3, 2007 - January 3, 2011 democrat
Reid Ribble January 3, 2011 - January 3, 2017 republican
Michael John Gallagher January 3, 2017 - republican

9th seat (1883–2003)

Surname Term of office Political party
Isaac Stephenson March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1889 republican
Myron Hawley McCord March 4, 1889 - March 3, 1891 republican
Thomas Lynch March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895 democrat
Alexander Stewart March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1901 republican
Webster Everett Brown March 4, 1901 - March 3, 1903 republican
Edward Sloman Minor March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907 republican
Gustav Küstermann March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1911 republican
Thomas Frank Konop March 4, 1911 - March 3, 1917 democrat
David Guy Classon March 4, 1917 - March 3, 1923 republican
George John Schneider March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1933 republican
James Archibald Frear March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 republican
Merlin Hull January 3, 1935 - May 17, 1953 Progressive party
Lester Roland Johnson October 13, 1953 - January 3, 1965 democrat
Glenn Robert Davis January 3, 1965 - December 31, 1974 republican
Robert Walter Kasten Jan. 3, 1975 - January 3, 1979 republican
Frank James scythe burner January 3, 1979 - January 3, 2003 republican

10th seat (1893–1973)

Surname Term of office Political party
Nils Pederson Haugen March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1895 republican
John James Jenkins March 4, 1895 - March 3, 1903 republican
Webster Everett Brown March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1907 republican
Elmer Addison Morse March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1913 republican
James Archibald Frear March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1933 republican
Hubert Haskell Peavey March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935 republican
Bernard John Gehrmann January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1943 Progressive party
Alvin Edward O'Konski January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1973 republican

11th seat (1903–1933)

Surname Term of office Political party
John James Jenkins March 4, 1903 - March 3, 1909 republican
Irvine Luther Lenroot March 4, 1909 - April 17, 1918 republican
Adolphus Peter Nelson November 5, 1918 - March 3, 1923 republican
Hubert Haskell Peavey March 4, 1923 - March 3, 1933 republican

See also

Web links

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