Jewish Members of U.S. Congress:
House of Representatives

(1845 - Present)

Jewish Congressmen: Table of Contents | Senators | 113th Congress

Listed Alphabetically, by First Year of Service:
(Green - Currently Serving; Red/Blue - Party Affiliation)

Representative	Party/State	Years of Service
Lewis Charles Levin	Amer.-PA	1845-1851
David Spangler Kaufman	D-TX	1846-1851
Emanuel Bernard Hart	D-NY	1851-1853
Philip Phillips	D-AL	1853-1855
Henry Myer Phillips	D-PA	1857-1859
Michael Hahn	Unionist; R-LA	1862-1863; 1885-1886
Myer Strouse	D-PA	1863-1867
William Mallory Levy	D-LA	1875-1877
Leopold Morse	D-MA	1877-1885; 1887-1889
Edwin Einstein	R-NY	1879-1881
Julius Houseman	D-MI	1883-1885
Joseph Pulitzer	D-NY	1885-1886
Isidor Rayner	D-MD	1887-1889; 1891-1895
Nathan Frank	R-MO	1889-1891
Adolph Meyer	D-LA	1891-1908
Julius Goldzier	D-IL	1893-1895
Irving P.Wanger *	R-PA	1893-1911
Isidor Straus	D-NY	1894-1895
Israel Frederick Fischer	R-NY	1895-1899
Lucius Nathan Littauer	R-NY	1897-1907
Mitchell May	D-NY	1899-1901
Jefferson Levy	D-NY	1899-1901; 1911-1915
Julius Kahn	R-CA	1899-1903; 1905-1924
Henry Mayer Goldfogle	D-NY	1901-1915; 1919-1921
Montague Lessler	R-NY	1902-1903
Martin Emerich	D-IL	1903-1905
Harry Benjamin Wolf	D-MD	1907-1909
Adolph Joachim Sabath	D-IL	1907--1952
Victor Luitpold Berger	Soc.-WI	1911--1913; 1919; 1923-1929
Jacob Aaron Cantor	D-NY	1913-1915
Isaac Bacharach	R-NJ	1915-1937
Meyer London	Soc.-NY	1915-1919, 1921-1923
Isaac Siegel	R-NY	1915-1923
Milton Kraus	R-IN	1917-1923
Lester David Volk	R-NY	1920-1923
Nathan David Perlman	R-NY	1920-1927
Martin Charles Ansorge	R-NY	1921-1923
Albert Berger Rossdale	R-NY	1921-1923
Benjamin Rosenbloom	R-WV	1921-1925
Samuel Marx	D-NY	Elected 1922
Meyer Jacobstein	D-NY	1923-1929
Samuel Dickstein	D-NY	1923-1945
Sol Bloom	D-NY	1923-1949
Emanuel Celler	D-NY	1923-1973
Benjamin Martin Golder	R-PA	1925-1933
Florence Prag Kahn	R-CA	1925-1937
William Wolfe Cohen	D-NY	1927-1929
William Irving Sirovich	D-NY	1927-1939
Theodore Albert Peyser	D-NY	1933-1937
Henry Ellenbogen	D-PA	1933-1938
Herman Paul Kopplemann	D-CT	1933-1939; 1941-1943:1945-1947
William Paul Citron	D-CT	1935-1939
Leon Sacks	D-PA	1937-1943
Morris Michael Edelstein	D-NY	1940-1941
Arthur George Klein	D-NY	1941-1945; 1946-1956
Samuel Arthur Weiss	D-PA	1941-1946
Daniel EIlison	R-MD	1943-1945
Benjamin J. Rabin	D-NY	1945-1947
Leo Frederick Rayfiel	D-NY	1945-1947
Jacob Koppel Javits	R-NY	1947-1954
Abraham Jacob Multer	D-NY	1947-1967
Leo Isacson	Am. Lab.-NY	1948-1949
Theodore Irving	D-NY	1949-1953
Abraham A. Ribicoff	D-CT	1949-1953
Louis Benjamin Heller	D-NY	1949-1954
Earl Chudoff	D-PA	1949-1958
Isidore Dollinger	D-NY	1949-1959
Sidney Richard Yates	D-IL	1949-1963; 1965-1999
Sidney Asher Fine	D-NY	1951-1956
Lester Holtzman	D-NY	1953-1961
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel	D-MD	1953-1971
Irwin Delmore Davidson	D-NY	1955-1956
Herbert Zelenko	D-NY	1955-1963
Ludwig Teller	D-NY	1957-1961
Leonard Farbstein	D-NY	1957-1971
Herman Toll	D-PA	1959-1967
Seymour Halpern	R-NY	1959-1973
Jacob H. Gilbert	D-NY	1960-1971
Charles Samuel Joelson	D-NJ	1961-1969
Benjamin S. Rosenthal	D-NY	1962-1983
Joseph Yale Resnick	D-NY	1965-1969
Herbert Tenzer	D-NY	1965-1969
James Scheuer	D-NY	1965-1973; 1975-1993
Lester Lionel Wolff	D-NY	1965-1981
Sam Steiger	R-AZ	1967-1977
Joshua Eilberg	D-PA	1967-1979
Bertram L. Podell	D-NY	1968-1975
Allard K. Lowenstein	D-NY	1969-1971
Abner Joseph Mikva	D-IL	1969-1973; 1975-1979
Edward Irving Koch	D-NY	1969-1977
Bella Savitsky Abzug	D-NY	1971-1977
Benjamin Arthur Gilman	R-NY	1973-2003
Edward M. Mezvinsky	D-IA	1973-1977
Elizabeth Holtzman	D-NY	1973-1981
William Lehman	D-FL	1973-1993
Henry Arnold Waxman	D-CA	1975-
John Hans Krebs	D-CA	1975-1979
Gladys Noon Spellman	D-MD	1975-1981
Frederick W. Richmond	D-NY	1975-1982
Elliott Harris Levitas	D-GA	1975-1985
Willis David Gradison	R-OH	1975-1993
Stephen Solarz	D-NY	1975-1993
Marc Lincoln Marks	R-PA	1977-1983
Theodore S. Weiss	D-NY	1977-1992
Daniel Robert Glickman	D-KS	1977-1995
Anthony C. Beilenson	D-CA	1977-1997
Sedgwick William Green	R-NY	1978-1993
(Jonas) Martin Frost	D-TX	1979-2005
Kenneth Bentley Kramer	R-CO	1979-1987
Howard Elliot Wolpe III	D-MI	1979-1993
Barney Frank	D-MA	1981-2013
Thomas Peter Lantos	D-CA	1981-2008
Robert Norton Shamanksy	D-OH	1981-1983
Roberta Francis (Bobbi) Fiedler	D-CA	1981-1987
Ronald Lee Wyden	D-OR	1981-1996
Charles Ellis Schumer	D-NY	1981-1999
Samuel Gejdenson	D-CT	1981-2001
Gary Leonard Ackerman	D-NY	1983-2013
Howard L. Berman	D-CA	1983-2013
Sander Martin Levin	D-MI	1983-
Norman Sisisky	D-VA	1983-2001
Sala Galant Burton	D-CA	1983-1987
Barbara Boxer	D-CA	1983-1992
Benjamin Leader Erdreich	D-AL	1983-1993
Meldon Edises Levine	D-CA	1983-1993
Lawrence Jack Smith	D-FL	1983-1993
John Miller	R-WA	1985-1993
Benjamin Cardin	D-MD	1987-2006
Eliot Lance Engel	D-NY	1989-
Nita Melnikoff Lowey	D-NY	1989-
Steve Schiff	R-NM	1989-1997
Bernard Sanders	Ind.-VT	1991-2006
Richard Zimmer	R-NJ	1991-1997
Jerrold Lewis Nadler	D-NY	1992-
Peter R. Deutsch	D-FL	1993-2005
Robert Filner	D-CA	1993-2013
Sam Coppersmith	D-AZ	1993-1995
Eric Fingerhut	D-OH	1993-1995
Daniel Hamburg	D-CA	1993-1995
Herbert Charles Klein	D-NJ	1993-1995
David A. Levy	R-NY	1993-1995
Margolis M. Mezvinsky	D-PA	1993-1995
Lynn Schenk	D-CA	1993-1995
Jane F. Harman	D-CA	1993-1999, 2001-2011
Jon Fox	R-PA	1995-1999
Steven R. Rothman	D-NJ	1997-2013
Brad Sherman	D-CA	1997-
Robert Wexler	D-FL	1997-2010
Shelley Berkley	D-NV	1999-2013
Jan Schakowsky	D-IL	1999-
Anthony Weiner	D-NY	1999-2011
Eric Cantor	R-VA	2001-2014
Susan Davis	D-CA	2001-
Steve Israel	D-NY	2001-
Adam Schiff	D-CA	2001-
Rahm Emanuel	D-IL	2003-2009
Allyson Schwartz	D-PA	2005-2015
Debbie Wasserman Schultz	D-FL	2005-
Gabrielle Giffords	D-AZ	2007-2012
Ronald Klein	D-FL	2007-2011
John Yarmuth	D-KY	2007-
Paul Hodes	D-NH	2007-2011
Stephen Cohen	D-TN	2007-
Steve Kagen	D-WI	2007-2011
John H. Adler	D-NJ	2009-2011
Alan Grayson	D-FL	2009-2011, 2013-2017
Jared Polis	D-CO	2009-
Ted Deutch	D-FL	2010-
Nan Hayworth	R-NY	2011-2013
David Cicilline	D-RI	2011-
Lois Frankel	D-FL	2013-
Alan Lowenthal	D-CA	2013-
Brad Schneider	D-IL	2013-2015, 2017-
Lee Zeldin	R-NY	2015-
Josh Gottheimer	D-NJ	2017-
Jacky Rosen	D-NV	2017-
Jamie Raskin	D-MD	2017-
David Kustoff	R-TN	2017-

Sources: Maisel, L. Sandy and Ira Forman, Eds. Jews in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Jewish Members of U.S. Congress: House of Representatives

(1845 - Present)

Jewish Congressmen: Table of Contents | Senators | 113th Congress

Jewish Members of U.S. Congress:
House of Representatives