These are tables of congressional delegations from Alabama to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
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United States Senate
| Class 2 Senators | Congress | Class 3 Senators |
|---|---|---|
| William Rufus King (D-R) | 16th (1819–1821) | John W. Walker1 (D-R) |
| 17th (1821–1823) | ||
| William Kelly (D-R) | ||
| 18th (1823–1825) | ||
| 19th (1825–1827) | Henry H. Chambers2 (D-R) | |
| Israel Pickens3 (D-R) | ||
| John McKinley (D-R) | ||
| 20th (1827–1829) | ||
| 21st (1829–1831) | ||
| 22nd (1831–1833) | Gabriel Moore (D-R) | |
| 23rd (1833–1835) | ||
| 24th (1835–1837) | ||
| William Rufus King1 (D) | 25th (1837–1839) | John McKinley1 (D-R) |
| Clement Comer Clay1 (D) | ||
| 26th (1839–1841) | ||
| 27th (1841–1843) | ||
| Arthur P. Bagby1 (D) | ||
| 28th (1843–1845) | ||
| Dixon Hall Lewis2 (D) | ||
| 29th (1845–1847) | ||
| 30th (1847–1849) | ||
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick3 (D) | William Rufus King1 (D) | |
| 31st (1849–1851) | ||
| Jeremiah Clemens (D) | ||
| 32nd (1851–1853) | ||
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | ||
| Vacant 4 | 33rd (1853–1855) | |
| Clement Claiborne Clay (D) | ||
| 34th (1855–1857) | Vacant 4 | |
| Benjamin Fitzpatrick (D) | ||
| 35th (1857–1859) | ||
| 36th (1859–1861) | ||
| American Civil War 5 | American Civil War 5 | |
| 37th (1861–1863) | ||
| 38th (1863–1865) | ||
| 39th (1865–1867) | ||
| 40th6 (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 Tyler Morgan2 (D) | 45th (1877–1879) | |
| 46th (1879–1881) | George S. Houston2 (D) | |
| Luke Pryor3 (D) | ||
| James L. Pugh (D) | ||
| 47th (1881–1883) | ||
| 48th (1883–1885) | ||
| 49th (1885–1887) | ||
| 50th (1887–1889) | Edmund Pettus2 (D) | |
| 51st (1889–1891) | ||
| 52nd (1891–1893) | ||
| 53rd (1893–1895) | ||
| 54th (1895–1897) | ||
| 55th (1897–1899) | ||
| 56th (1899–1901) | ||
| 57th (1901–1903) | ||
| 58th (1903–1905) | ||
| 59th (1905–1907) | ||
| 60th (1907–1909) | ||
| John H. Bankhead2 (D) | Joseph F. Johnston2 (D) | |
| 61st (1909–1911) | ||
| 62nd (1911–1913) | ||
| 63rd (1913–1915) | vacant 10 | |
| Francis S. White (D) | ||
| 64th (1915–1917) | Oscar W. Underwood (D) | |
| 65th (1917–1919) | ||
| 66th (1919–1921) | ||
| B. B. Comer3 (D) | ||
| J. Thomas Heflin (D) | ||
| 67th (1921–1923) | ||
| 68th (1923–1925) | ||
| 69th (1925–1927) | ||
| 70th (1927–1929) | Hugo L. Black1 (D) | |
| 71st (1929–1931) | ||
| John H. Bankhead II2 (D) | 72nd (1931–1933) | |
| 73rd (1933–1935) | ||
| 74th (1935–1937) | ||
| 75th (1937–1939) | ||
| Dixie Bibb Graves3 (D) | ||
| J. Lister Hill (D) | ||
| 76th (1939–1941) | ||
| 77th (1941–1943) | ||
| 78th (1943–1945) | ||
| 79th (1945–1947) | ||
| George R. Swift3 (D) | ||
| John J. 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 B. Allen2 (D) | |
| 92nd (1971–1973) | ||
| 93rd (1973–1975) | ||
| 94th (1975–1977) | ||
| 95th (1977–1979) | ||
| Maryon Pittman Allen3 (D) | ||
| Donald W. Stewart1 (D) | ||
| Howell T. Heflin (D) | 96th (1979–1981) | |
| Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. (R) | ||
| 97th (1981–1983) | ||
| 98th (1983–1985) | ||
| 99th (1985–1987) | ||
| 100th (1987–1989) | Richard C. Shelby (D) | |
| 101st (1989–1991) | ||
| 102nd (1991–1993) | ||
| 103rd (1993–1995) | ||
| 104th (1995–1997) | Richard C. Shelby11(R) | |
| Jefferson B. Sessions III (R) | 105th (1997–1999) | |
| 106th (1999–2001) | ||
| 107th (2001–2003) | ||
| 108th (2003–2005) | ||
| 109th (2005–2007) | ||
| 110th (2007–2009) | ||
| 111th (2009–2011) |
House of Representatives
1818 - 1819: 1 non-voting delegate
Starting on January 29, 1818, Alabama Territory sent a non-voting delegate to the House.
| Congress | Delegate |
|---|---|
| 15th (1817 –1819) |
John Crowell (DR) |
1819 - 1823: 1 seat
After statehood, 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
Following the 1820 census, Alabama had three seats.
| Congress | District | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| 18th (1823–1825) | Gabriel Moore (J) | John McKee (J) | George W. Owen (J) |
| 19th (1825–1827) | |||
| 20th (1827–1829) | |||
| 21st (1829–1831) | Clement Comer Clay (D) | Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (J) | Dixon Hall Lewis (D) |
| 22nd (1831–1833) | Samuel Wright Mardis (J) | ||
1833 - 1843: 5 seats
Following the 1830 census, Alabama had five seats. During the 27th Congress, those seats were all elected state-wide at-large on a general ticket.
| Congress | District | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |
| 23rd (1833–1835) | Clement Comer Clay (D) | John McKinley (J) | Samuel Wright Mardis (J) | Dixon Hall Lewis (D) | John Murphy (J) |
| 24th (1835–1837) | Reuben Chapman (D) | Joshua L. Martin (D) | Joab Lawler2 (W) | Francis Strother Lyon (W) | |
| 25th (1837–1839) | |||||
| George Whitfield Crabb (W) | |||||
| 26th (1839–1841) | David Hubbard (D) | James Dellet (W) | |||
| 27th (1841–1843) | 5 seats elected At-large on a general ticket | ||||
| 1st seat | 2nd seat | 3rd seat | 4th seat | 5th seat | |
| Reuben Chapman (D) | George S. Houston (D) | Dixon Hall Lewis1 (D) | William Winter Payne (D) | Benjamin Glover Shields (D) | |
1843 - 1863: 7 seats
Following the 1840 census, Alabama resumed the use of districts, now increased to seven.
1863 - 1873: 6 seats
Following the 1860 census, Alabama was apportioned six seats.
| Congress | District | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | |
| 38th (1863–1865) | American Civil War 5 | |||||
| 39th (1865–1867) | ||||||
| 40th (1867–1869) | Francis William Kellogg (R) | Charles Waldron Buckley (R) | Benjamin White Norris (R) | Charles Wilson Pierce (R) | John Benton Callis (R) | Thomas Haughey (R) |
| 41st (1869–1871) | Alfred Eliab Buck (R) | Robert Stell Heflin (R) | Charles Hays (R) | Peter Myndert Dox (D) | William Crawford Sherrod (D) | |
| 42nd (1871–1873) | Benjamin Sterling Turner (R) | William Anderson Handley (D) | Joseph Humphrey Sloss (D) | |||
1873 - 1893: 9 seats
Following the 1870 census, Alabama was apportioned eight seats. From 1873 to 1877, the two new seats were elected at large, state-wide. After 1877, however, the entire delegation was redistricted.
| Congress | District | At-large | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 1st seat | 2nd seat | |
| 43rd (1873–1875) | Frederick George Bromberg (Liberal R) |
James T. Rapier (R) | Charles Pelham (R) | Charles Hays (R) | John Henry Caldwell (D) | Joseph Humphrey Sloss (D) | Charles Christopher Sheats (R) | Alexander White (R) |
| 44th (1875–1877) | Jeremiah Haralson (R) | Jeremiah Norman Williams (D) | Taul Bradford (D) | Goldsmith W. Hewitt (D) | William H. Forney (D) | Burwell Boykin Lewis (D) | ||
| Congress | District | |||||||
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| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |
| 45th (1877–1879) | James T. Jones (D) | Hilary A. Herbert (D) | Jeremiah Norman Williams (D) | Charles M. Shelley (D]]) | Robert Fulwood Ligon (D) | Goldsmith W. Hewitt (D) | William H. Forney (D) | William Willis Garth (D) |
| 46th (1879–1881) | Thomas H. Herndon2 (D) | William James Samford (D) | Thomas Williams (D) | Burwell Boykin Lewis1 (D) | William M. Lowe (Greenback) |
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| Newton Nash Clements (D) | ||||||||
| 47th (1881–1883) | William C. Oates1 (D) | Goldsmith W. Hewitt (D) | Joseph Wheeler (D) | |||||
| Vacant 9 | William M. Lowe2, 7 (Greenback) |
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| Charles M. Shelley (D) | Joseph Wheeler (D) | |||||||
| 48th (1883–1885) | Luke Pryor (D) | |||||||
| James T. Jones (D) | George Henry Craig7 (R) | |||||||
| 49th (1885–1887) | Alexander C. Davidson (D) | Thomas William Sadler (D) | John Mason Martin (D) | Joseph Wheeler (D) | ||||
| 50th (1887–1889) | James E. Cobb (D) | John H. Bankhead (D | ||||||
| 51st (1889–1891) | Richard Henry Clarke (D) | Louis Washington Turpin (D) | ||||||
| John Van McDuffie7 (R) | ||||||||
| 52nd (1891–1893) | Louis Washington Turpin (D) | |||||||
1893 - present
Following the 1890 census, Alabama was apportioned nine seats. It currently has seven.
Footnotes
- * designates those Congresses in which representatives were elected from the state at large, rather than by district.
- 1. Resigned.
- 2. Died in office.
- 3. Was appointed to the office, and was later replaced by an elected successor.
- 4. Seat was vacant due to failure of legislature to elect a senator by the beginning of the congress.
- 5. From secession until readmission to the Union, Alabama did not participate in the U.S. Congress.
- 6. George S. Houston presented credentials as a senator-elect on February 9, 1866 but was not permitted to take his seat, Alabama having not been re-admitted to the Union.
- 7. Successfully contested the election of the representative that was replaced.
- 8. Elected to fill the vacancy caused by the previous representative being elected to the next term, but dying before the term began.
- 9. Seat was contested by James Q. Smith and declared vacant; the original representative won back his own seat.
- 10. The seat was vacant from August 8, 1913 to May 11, 1914. Henry D. Clayton was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph F. Johnston in 1913, but his appointment was challenged and withdrawn.
- 11. Senator Shelby was elected as a Democrat in 1986, but switched his party affiliation to Republican on November 9, 1994.
- 12. Parker Griffith was elected as a Democrat, but switched his party affiliation to Republican on December 22, 2009.
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