United States congressional delegations from Alabama
Since Alabama became a U.S. state in 1819, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. Each state votes for senators for 6 years. Each state also votes for a house representative for 2 years. Before become a state, the territory of Alabama elected a non-voting representative for Congress.
These are lists of the delegations from Alabama to the United States Congress.
Current delegation
[change | change source]| Current U.S. senators from Alabama | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alabama
|
Class II senator | Class III senator | ||
 Tommy Tuberville (Senior senator) |
 Katie Britt (Junior senator) | |||
| Party | Republican | Republican | ||
| Incumbent since | January 3, 2021 | January 3, 2023 | ||
Alabama's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress has two senators, who are both Republican. Alabama also has 7 representatives, 6 of them are Republican while the other one is a Democrat.
The current dean of the Alabama delegation is Representative Robert Aderholt. He has served in the U.S. Congress since 1997.
United States Senate
[change | change source]| Class II senator | Congress | Class III senator | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William R. King (DR) | 16th (1819–1821) | John Williams Walker (DR) | ||
| 17th (1821–1823) | ||||
| William Kelly (DR) | ||||
| 18th (1823–1825) | ||||
| William R. King (J) | 19th (1825–1827) | Henry H. Chambers (J) | ||
| Israel Pickens (J) | ||||
| John McKinley (J) | ||||
| 20th (1827–1829) | ||||
| 21st (1829–1831) | ||||
| 22nd (1831–1833) | Gabriel Moore (J) | |||
| 23rd (1833–1835) | Gabriel Moore (NR) | |||
| 24th (1835–1837) | ||||
| William R. King (D) | 25th (1837–1839) | John McKinley (D) | ||
| Clement Comer Clay (D) | ||||
| 26th (1839–1841) | ||||
| 27th (1841–1843) | ||||
| Arthur P. Bagby (D) | ||||
| 28th (1843–1845) | ||||
| Dixon Hall Lewis (D) | ||||
| 29th (1845–1847) | ||||
| 30th (1847–1849) | ||||
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | William R. King (D) | |||
| 31st (1849–1851) | ||||
| Jeremiah Clemens (D) | ||||
| 32nd (1851–1853) | ||||
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | ||||
| vacant[a] | 33rd (1853–1855) | |||
| Clement Claiborne Clay (D) | ||||
| 34th (1855–1857) | vacant[a] | |||
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | ||||
| 35th (1857–1859) | ||||
| 36th (1859–1861) | ||||
| vacant[b] | vacant | |||
| 37th (1861–1863) | ||||
| 38th (1863–1865) | ||||
| 39th (1865–1867) | ||||
| 40th (1867–1869) | ||||
| Willard Warner (R) | George E. Spencer (R) | |||
| 41st (1869–1871) | ||||
| George Goldthwaite (D) | 42nd (1871–1873) | |||
| 43rd (1873–1875) | ||||
| 44th (1875–1877) | ||||
| John T. Morgan (D) | 45th (1877–1879) | |||
| 46th (1879–1881) | George S. Houston (D) | |||
| Luke Pryor (D) | ||||
| James L. Pugh (D) | ||||
| 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) | Edmund Pettus (D) | |||
| 56th (1899–1901) | ||||
| 57th (1901–1903) | ||||
| 58th (1903–1905) | ||||
| 59th (1905–1907) | ||||
| 60th (1907–1909) | ||||
| John H. Bankhead (D) | Joseph F. Johnston (D) | |||
| 61st (1909–1911) | ||||
| 62nd (1911–1913) | ||||
| 63rd (1913–1915) | vacant[c] | |||
| Francis S. White (D) | ||||
| 64th (1915–1917) | Oscar Underwood (D) | |||
| 65th (1917–1919) | ||||
| 66th (1919–1921) | ||||
| B. B. Comer (D) | ||||
| J. Thomas Heflin (D) | ||||
| 67th (1921–1923) | ||||
| 68th (1923–1925) | ||||
| 69th (1925–1927) | ||||
| 70th (1927–1929) | Hugo Black (D) | |||
| 71st (1929–1931) | ||||
| John H. Bankhead II (D) | 72nd (1931–1933) | |||
| 73rd (1933–1935) | ||||
| 74th (1935–1937) | ||||
| 75th (1937–1939) | ||||
| Dixie Bibb Graves (D) | ||||
| J. Lister Hill (D) | ||||
| 76th (1939–1941) | ||||
| 77th (1941–1943) | ||||
| 78th (1943–1945) | ||||
| 79th (1945–1947) | ||||
| George R. Swift (D) | ||||
| John Sparkman (D) | ||||
| 80th (1947–1949) | ||||
| 81st (1949–1951) | ||||
| 82nd (1951–1953) | ||||
| 83rd (1953–1955) | ||||
| 84th (1955–1957) | ||||
| 85th (1957–1959) | ||||
| 86th (1959–1961) | ||||
| 87th (1961–1963) | ||||
| 88th (1963–1965) | ||||
| 89th (1965–1967) | ||||
| 90th (1967–1969) | ||||
| 91st (1969–1971) | James Allen (D) | |||
| 92nd (1971–1973) | ||||
| 93rd (1973–1975) | ||||
| 94th (1975–1977) | ||||
| 95th (1977–1979) | ||||
| Maryon Pittman Allen (D) | ||||
| Donald Stewart (D) | ||||
| Howell Heflin (D) | 96th (1979–1981) | |||
| Jeremiah Denton (R) | ||||
| 97th (1981–1983) | ||||
| 98th (1983–1985) | ||||
| 99th (1985–1987) | ||||
| 100th (1987–1989) | Richard Shelby (D) | |||
| 101st (1989–1991) | ||||
| 102nd (1991–1993) | ||||
| 103rd (1993–1995) | ||||
| Richard Shelby (R) | ||||
| 104th (1995–1997) | ||||
| Jeff Sessions (R) | 105th (1997–1999) | |||
| 106th (1999–2001) | ||||
| 107th (2001–2003) | ||||
| 108th (2003–2005) | ||||
| 109th (2005–2007) | ||||
| 110th (2007–2009) | ||||
| 111th (2009–2011) | ||||
| 112th (2011–2013) | ||||
| 113th (2013–2015) | ||||
| 114th (2015–2017) | ||||
| 115th (2017–2019) | ||||
| Luther Strange (R) | ||||
| Doug Jones (D) | ||||
| 116th (2019–2021) | ||||
| Tommy Tuberville (R) | 117th (2021-2023) | |||
| 118th (2023–2025) | Katie Britt (R) | |||
United States House of Representatives
[change | change source]1818–1819: 1 non-voting delegate
[change | change source]Starting on January 29, 1818, Alabama Territory sent a non-voting delegate to the House.
| Congress | Delegate from Territory's at-large district |
|---|---|
| 15th (1817–1819) | John Crowell (DR) |
| 16th (March 4, 1819– December 14, 1819) |
vacant |
1819–1823: 1 seat
[change | change source]After being allowed into the Union on December 14, 1819, Alabama had one seat in the House.
| Congress | At-large district |
|---|---|
| 16th (1819–1821) | John Crowell (DR) |
| 17th (1821–1823) | Gabriel Moore (DR) |
1823–1833: 3 seats
[change | change source]After the 1820 census, Alabama had three seats.
| Congress | District | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| 18th (1823–1825) | Gabriel Moore (DR)[d] | John McKee (DR)[d] | George W. Owen (DR)[d] |
| 19th (1825–1827) | Gabriel Moore (J) | John McKee (J) | George W. Owen (J) |
| 20th (1827–1829) | |||
| 21st (1829–1831) | Clement Comer Clay (J) | Robert E. B. Baylor (J) | Dixon H. Lewis (J) |
| 22nd (1831–1833) | Samuel W. Mardis (J) | ||
1833–1843: 5 seats
[change | change source]After the 1830 census, Alabama had five seats. During the 27th Congress, those seats were voted on across the state at-large on a general ticket.
| Congress | District | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |
| 23rd (1833–1835) | Clement Comer Clay (J) | John McKinley (J) | Samuel W. Mardis (J) | Dixon H. Lewis (N) | John Murphy (J) |
| 24th (1835–1837) | Reuben Chapman (J) | Joshua L. Martin (J) | Joab Lawler (J) | Francis S. Lyon (NR) | |
| 25th (1837–1839) | Reuben Chapman (D) | Joshua L. Martin (D) | Joab Lawler (W) | Dixon H. Lewis (D) | Francis S. Lyon (W) |
| George W. Crabb (W) | |||||
| 26th (1839–1841) | David Hubbard (D) | James Dellet (W) | |||
| 27th (1841–1843) | 5 seats elected on a general ticket from Alabama's at-large district | ||||
| 1st seat | 2nd seat | 3rd seat | 4th seat | 5th seat | |
| Reuben Chapman (D) | George S. Houston (D) | William Winter Payne (D) |
Dixon H. Lewis (D) | Benjamin G. Shields (D) | |
1843–1863: 7 seats
[change | change source]After the 1840 census, Alabama re-continued using districts. They now had 7 districts.
1863–1873: 6 seats
[change | change source]After the 1860 census, Alabama was given six seats.
| Congress | District | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | |
| 38–39th (1863–1867) | Open during the American Civil War | |||||
| 40th (1867–1869) | ||||||
| Francis W. Kellogg (R) | C. W. Buckley (R) | Benjamin W. Norris (R) | Charles W. Pierce (R) | John B. Callis (R) | Thomas Haughey (R) | |
| 41st (1869–1871) | Alfred Eliab Buck (R) | Robert Stell Heflin (R) | Charles Hays (R) | Peter M. Dox (D) | William C. Sherrod (D) | |
| 42nd (1871–1873) | Benjamin S. Turner (R) | William A. Handley (D) | Joseph H. Sloss (D) | |||
1873–1893: 8 seats
[change | change source]After the 1870 census, Alabama was allowed eight seats. From 1873 to 1877, the two new seats were elected at large, statewide. However after 1877, the delegation was redistricted.
1893–1913: 9 seats
[change | change source]After the 1890 census, Alabama was allowed nine seats.
| Congress | District | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
| 53rd (1893–1895) |
Richard H. Clarke (D) |
Jesse F. Stallings (D) |
William C. Oates (D) | Gaston A. Robbins (D) | James E. Cobb (D) | John H. Bankhead (D) |
William H. Denson (D) |
Joseph Wheeler (D) |
Louis W. Turpin (D) |
| George P. Harrison Jr. (D) | |||||||||
| 54th (1895–1897) |
Milford W. Howard (Pop) |
Oscar Underwood (D) | |||||||
| William F. Aldrich (R) | Albert T. Goodwyn (Pop) | Truman H. Aldrich (R) | |||||||
| 55th (1897–1899) |
George W. Taylor (D) |
Henry D. Clayton Jr. (D) |
Thomas S. Plowman (D) | Willis Brewer (D) | Oscar Underwood (D) | ||||
| William F. Aldrich (R) | |||||||||
| 56th (1899–1901) |
Gaston A. Robbins (D) | John L. Burnett (D) | |||||||
| William F. Aldrich (R) | William Richardson (D) | ||||||||
| 57th (1901–1903) |
Ariosto A. Wiley (D) | Sydney J. Bowie (D) | C. W. Thompson (D) | ||||||
| 58th (1903–1905) | |||||||||
| J. Thomas Heflin (D) | |||||||||
| 59th (1905–1907) | |||||||||
| 60th (1907–1909) |
William Benjamin Craig (D) |
Richmond P. Hobson (D) | |||||||
| Oliver C. Wiley (D) | |||||||||
| 61st (1909–1911) |
S. Hubert Dent Jr. (D) | ||||||||
| 62nd (1911–1913) |
Fred L. Blackmon (D) | ||||||||
| Congress | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
| District | |||||||||
1913–1933: 10 seats
[change | change source]After the 1910 census, Alabama was allowed ten seats. At first, the extra seat was elected at-large. Starting with the 1916 elections, the seats were redistricted and a tenth district was added.
| Congress | District | At-large | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||
| 63rd (1913–1915) | George W. Taylor (D) |
S. Hubert Dent Jr. (D) |
Henry D. Clayton Jr. (D) |
Fred L. Blackmon (D) |
J. Thomas Heflin (D) |
Richmond P. Hobson (D) |
John L. Burnett (D) |
William Richardson (D) | Oscar Underwood (D) |
John Abercrombie (D) |
| William O. Mulkey (D) | C. C. Harris (D) | |||||||||
| 64th (1915–1917) | Oscar Lee Gray (D) |
Henry B. Steagall (D) |
William B. Oliver (D) |
Edward B. Almon (D) | George Huddleston (D) | |||||
| 65th (1917–1919) | 10th district | |||||||||
| William B. Bankhead (D) | ||||||||||
| 66th (1919–1921) | John McDuffie (D) | |||||||||
| William B. Bowling (D) |
Lilius B. Rainey (D) | |||||||||
| 67th (1921–1923) | John R. Tyson (D) |
Lamar Jeffers (D) | ||||||||
| 68th (1923–1925) | Miles C. Allgood (D) | |||||||||
| J. Lister Hill (D) | ||||||||||
| 69th (1925–1927) | ||||||||||
| 70th (1927–1929) | ||||||||||
| LaFayette L. Patterson (D) | ||||||||||
| 71st (1929–1931) | ||||||||||
| 72nd (1931–1933) | ||||||||||
| Congress | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| District | ||||||||||
1933–1963: 9 seats
[change | change source]After the 1930 census, Alabama was allowed nine seats.
| Congress | District | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
| 73rd (1933–1935) | John McDuffie (D) | J. Lister Hill (D) | Henry B. Steagall (D) |
Lamar Jeffers (D) | Miles C. Allgood (D) | William Bacon Oliver (D) |
William B. Bankhead (D) | Archibald H. Carmichael (D) |
George Huddleston (D) |
| 74th (1935–1937) | Frank W. Boykin (D) |
Sam Hobbs (D) | Joe Starnes (D) | ||||||
| 75th (1937–1939) | Pete Jarman (D) | John Sparkman (D) |
Luther Patrick (D) | ||||||
| George M. Grant (D) | |||||||||
| 76th (1939–1941) | |||||||||
| Zadoc Weatherford (D) | |||||||||
| 77th (1941–1943) | Walter W. Bankhead (D) | ||||||||
| Carter Manasco (D) | |||||||||
| 78th (1943–1945) | George W. Andrews (D) |
John P. Newsome (D) | |||||||
| 79th (1945–1947) | Albert Rains (D) | Luther Patrick (D) | |||||||
| 80th (1947–1949) | Bob Jones (D) |
Laurie C. Battle (D) | |||||||
| 81st (1949–1951) | Edward deGraffenried (D) |
Carl Elliott (D) | |||||||
| 82nd (1951–1953) | Kenneth A. Roberts (D) | ||||||||
| 83rd (1953–1955) | Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D) | ||||||||
| 84th (1955–1957) | George Huddleston Jr. (D) | ||||||||
| 85th (1957–1959) | |||||||||
| 86th (1959–1961) | |||||||||
| 87th (1961–1963) | |||||||||
| Congress | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
| District | |||||||||
1963–1973: 8 seats
[change | change source]After the 1960 census, Alabama was allowed eight seats. During the 88th Congress, those seats were all voted on statewide at-large on a general ticket.
| Congress | 8 seats elected on a general ticket from Alabama's at-large district | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st seat | 2nd seat | 3rd seat | 4th seat | 5th seat | 6th seat | 7th seat | 8th seat | |
| 88th (1963–1965) | George Huddleston Jr. (D) |
George M. Grant (D) |
George Andrews (D) | Kenneth A. Roberts (D) |
Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D) |
Albert Rains (D) | Carl Elliott (D) | Bob Jones (D) |
| Congress | District | |||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |
| 89th (1965–1967) | Jack Edwards (R) | Bill Dickinson (R) |
George Andrews (D) | Glenn Andrews (R) | Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D) |
John H. Buchanan Jr. (R) |
James D. Martin (R) | Bob Jones (D) |
| 90th (1967–1969) | Bill Nichols (D) | Tom Bevill (D) | ||||||
| 91st (1969–1971) | Walter Flowers (D) | |||||||
| 92nd (1971–1973) | ||||||||
| Elizabeth Andrews (D) | ||||||||
1973–present: 7 seats
[change | change source]Since the 1970 census, Alabama has been allowed seven seats.
Key
[change | change source]| Democratic (D) |
| Democratic-Republican (DR) |
| Greenback (GB) |
| Jacksonian (J) |
| Know Nothing (KN) |
| National Republican (NR) |
| Nullifier (N) |
| Populist (Pop) |
| Republican (R) |
| Unionist (U) |
| Whig (W) |
Related pages
[change | change source]Notes
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Seat was open due to the failure of the legislature to elect a senator by the beginning of the congress.
- ↑ George S. Houston showed his ability as a senator-elect on February 9, 1866, but was not allowed to take his seat. The reason was that Alabama did not rejoin the Union.
- ↑ The seat was open from August 8, 1913, to May 11, 1914. Henry D. Clayton was made a senator to fill the open seat caused by the death of Joseph F. Johnston in 1913, but his position was debated and taken away. Franklin Potts Glass Sr. was also made a senator, but the U.S. Senate voted not to give him it.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Supported the Jackson faction in the 1824 United States presidential election
- ↑ Seat was contested by James Q. Smith and declared vacant; the original representative won back his own seat.
- ↑ Successfully debated the election of the representative that was replaced.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "2022 Cook PVI: State Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
