List of United States Representatives from Delaware

//This is a Complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives from Delaware.

Elections are by a popular vote originally elected on the first Tuesday of October, but after 1831 on the first Tuesday after November 1.

Terms began on the subsequent March 4 until 1935, from when they began on January 3.

Delaware has had only one U.S. Representative, except for 10 years between 1813 and 1823, when there was a second U.S. Representative. This person was elected statewide, at-large, on the same ballot as the first U.S. Representative. The two candidates with the highest number of votes were elected.

Current representative

• John Carney (D) Website 2011-present

List of representatives

#	Representative	Years	Party	Congress	Electoral history
1	John M. Vining	March 4, 1789 – March 4, 1793	Pro- Administration	1 2	Elected in 1789 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
2	John Patten	March 4, 1793 – February 14, 1794	Anti- Administration	3	Elected in 1792 Lost election contest
3	Henry Latimer	February 14, 1794 – February 7, 1795	Pro- Administration		Successfully contested the election of John Patten Resigned to become U.S. Senator
Vacant		February 7, 1795 – March 4, 1795
4	John Patten	March 4, 1795 – March 4, 1797	Democratic- Republican	4	Elected in 1794 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
5	James A. Bayard, Sr.	March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1803	Federalist	5 6 7	Elected in 1796 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
6	Caesar A. Rodney	March 4, 1803 – March 4, 1805	Democratic- Republican	8	Elected in 1802 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
7	James M. Broom	March 4, 1805 – October 6, 1807	Federalist	9 10	Elected in 1804 Resigned
8	Nicholas Van Dyke	October 6, 1807 – March 4, 1811	Federalist	10 11	First elected to finish Broom's term [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
9	Henry M. Ridgely	March 4, 1811 – March 4, 1815	Federalist	12 13	Elected in 1810 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
10	Thomas Clayton	March 4, 1815 – March 4, 1817	Federalist	14	Elected in 1814 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
11	Louis McLane	March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1827	Federalist	15 16 17	Elected in 1816 Resigned to become U.S. Senator
			Crawford Federalist	18
			Jacksonian	19
Vacant		March 3, 1827 – October 2, 1827
12	Kensey Johns, Jr.	October 2, 1827 – March 4, 1831	Adams	20	First elected to finish McLane's term [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
			Anti- Jacksonian	21
13	John J. Milligan	March 4, 1831 – March 4, 1839	Anti- Jacksonian	22 23 24	Elected in 1830 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
			Whig	25
14	Thomas Robinson, Jr.	March 4, 1839 – March 4, 1841	Democratic	26	Elected in 1838 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
15	George B. Rodney	March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845	Whig	27 28	Elected in 1840 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
16	John W. Houston	March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1851	Whig	29 30 31	Elected in 1844 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
17	George R. Riddle	March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1855	Democratic	32 33	Elected in 1850 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
18	Elisha D. Cullen	March 4, 1855 – March 4, 1857	Know Nothing	34	Elected in 1854 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
19	William G. Whiteley	March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861	Democratic	35 36	Elected in 1856 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
20	George P. Fisher	March 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863	Republican	37	Elected in 1860 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
21	William Temple	March 4, 1863 – May 28, 1863	Democratic	38	Elected in 1862 Died
Vacant		May 28, 1863 – December 7, 1863
22	Nathaniel B. Smithers	December 7, 1863 – March 4, 1865	Republican		Elected to finish Temple's term [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
23	John A. Nicholson	March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1869	Democratic	39 40	Elected in 1864 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
24	Benjamin T. Biggs	March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1873	Democratic	41 42	Elected in 1868 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
25	James R. Lofland	March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1875	Republican	43	Elected in 1872 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
26	James Williams	March 4, 1875 – March 4, 1879	Democratic	44 45	Elected in 1874 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
27	Edward L. Martin	March 4, 1879 – March 4, 1883	Democratic	46 47	Elected in 1878 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
28	Charles B. Lore	March 4, 1883 – March 4, 1887	Democratic	48 49	Elected in 1882 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
29	John B. Penington	March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1891	Democratic	50 51	Elected in 1886 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
30	John W. Causey	March 4, 1891 – March 4, 1895	Democratic	52 53	Elected in 1890 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
31	Jonathan S. Willis	March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1897	Republican	54	Elected in 1894 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
32	L. Irving Handy	March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1899	Democratic	55	Elected in 1896 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
33	John H. Hoffecker	March 4, 1899 – June 16, 1900	Republican	56	Elected in 1898 Died
Vacant		June 16, 1900 – November 6, 1900
34	Walter O. Hoffecker	November 6, 1900 – March 4, 1901	Republican	56	Elected to finish his father's term [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
35	L. Heisler Ball	March 4, 1901 – March 4, 1903	Republican	57	Elected in 1900 Resigned to become U.S. Senator
36	Henry A. Houston	March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1905	Democratic	58	Elected in 1902 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
37	Hiram R. Burton	March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909	Republican	59 60	Elected in 1904 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
38	William H. Heald	March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913	Republican	61 62	Elected in 1908 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
39	Franklin Brockson	March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1915	Democratic	63	Elected in 1912 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
40	Thomas W. Miller	March 4, 1915 – March 4, 1917	Republican	64	Elected in 1914 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
41	Albert F. Polk	March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1919	Democratic	65	Elected in 1916 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
42	Caleb R. Layton	March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1923	Republican	66 67	Elected in 1918 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
43	William H. Boyce	March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1925	Democratic	68	Elected in 1922 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
44	Robert G. Houston	March 4, 1925 – March 4, 1933	Republican	69 70 71 72	Elected in 1924 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
45	Wilbur L. Adams	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935	Democratic	73	Elected in 1932 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
46	J. George Stewart	January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937	Republican	74	Elected in 1934 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
47	William F. Allen	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939	Democratic	75	Elected in 1936 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
48	George S. Williams	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941	Republican	76	Elected in 1938 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
49	Philip A. Traynor	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943	Democratic	77	Elected in 1940 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
50	Earle D. Willey	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945	Republican	78	Elected in 1942 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
51	Philip A. Traynor	January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947	Democratic	79	Elected in 1944 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
52	J. Caleb Boggs	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953	Republican	80 81 82	Elected in 1946 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
53	Herbert B. Warburton	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955	Republican	83	Elected in 1952 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
54	Harris B. McDowell, Jr.	January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1957	Democratic	84	Elected in 1954 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
55	Harry G. Haskell, Jr.	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959	Republican	85	Elected in 1956 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
56	Harris B. McDowell, Jr.	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1967	Democratic	86 87 88 89	Elected in 1958 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
57	Bill Roth	January 3, 1967 – December 31, 1970	Republican	90 91	Elected in 1966 Resigned to become U.S. Senator
Vacant		December 31, 1970 – January 3, 1971
58	Pierre S. du Pont IV	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1977	Republican	92 93 94	Elected in 1970 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
59	Thomas B. Evans, Jr.	January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1983	Republican	95 96 97	Elected in 1976 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
60	Tom Carper	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993	Democratic	98 99 100 101 102	Elected in 1982 Retired to run for Governor of Delaware
61	Michael Castle	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2011	Republican	103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111	Elected in 1992 Retired to run for U.S. Senate
62	John Carney	January 3, 2011 — Present	Democratic	112 113 114	First elected in 2010 Re-elected in 2012 Re-elected in 2014

Second at-large seat: 1813–1823

From 1813 to 1823, Delaware elected two members of the United States House of Representatives. Both were elected statewide at-large. This is a list of the four men who held that second seat during that decade.

#	Representative	Years	Party	Congress	Electoral history
1	Thomas Cooper	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817	Federalist	13 14	Elected in 1812 Re-elected in 1814 [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
2	Willard Hall	March 4, 1817 – January 22, 1821	Democratic- Republican	15	Elected in 1816 Re-elected in 1818 Lost re-election and resigned early
			16
Vacant		January 22, 1821 – March 4, 1821
3	Caesar A. Rodney	March 4, 1821 – January 24, 1822	Democratic- Republican	17	Elected in 1820 Resigned when elected to the U.S. Senate
Vacant		January 24, 1822 – October 1, 1822
4	Daniel Rodney	October 1, 1822 – March 3, 1823	Federalist		Elected in 1822 to finish his cousin's term [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]

Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware

As of October 2016, there are four former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. State of Delaware that are currently living. The most recent representative to die was William V. Roth Jr. (1967-1970) on December 13, 2003.

Representative	Term	District	Date of birth (and age)
Pierre S. du Pont IV	1971–1977	At-large	January 22, 1935
Thomas B. Evans, Jr.	1977–1983	At-large	November 5, 1931
Tom Carper	1983–1993	At-large	January 23, 1947
Michael Castle	1993–2011	At-large	July 2, 1939

See also

• United States congressional delegations from Delaware

Footnotes

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.