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List of new members of the 91st United States Congress

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The 91st United States Congress began on January 3, 1969. There were 12 new senators (four Democrats, eight Republicans) and 38 new representatives (19 Democrats, 19 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Democrat), at the start of the first session. Additionally, four senators (two Democrats, two Republicans) and 14 representatives (seven Democrats, seven Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 91st Congress before it ended on January 3, 1971.

Due to redistricting in multiple states, eight representatives were elected from newly created seats.

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[2] Gruening ran in the general election as a write-in candidate and was subsequently defeated by Gravel.

[4] Previously elected to the 83rd Congress, serving from 1953 to 1965.

[7] Elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1967 in Florida's 11th district, and from 1967 to 1969 in the 5th district.

[10] Elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1963 in Kansas's 6th district, and from 1963 to 1969 in the 1st district.

[12] Elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1969 in Maryland's 6th district.

[17] Elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1969 in Pennsylvania's 13th district.

[21] Elected to the 90th Congress, serving from 1967 to 1970 in Delaware's at-large district.

[23] Elected to the 89th Congress, serving from 1965 to 1971 in California's 38th district.

[43] Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965 in Texas's 16th district.

[62] Previously elected to the 83rd Congress, serving from 1953 to 1957.

[65] The previous delegate, Santiago Polanco-Abreu, was registered as Popular Democratic/Democratic.

[74] Previously elected to the 87th Congress, serving from 1961 to 1963 in the 25th district.

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State	Senator	Seniority	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Alabama	James Allen (D)	10th (98th overall)	No Open seat; replaced J. Lister Hill (D)	Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Alabama Senate Alabama House of Representatives U.S. Navy Reserve	1912	^[1]
Alaska	Mike Gravel (D)	12th (100th overall)	Yes Replaced Ernest Gruening (D), who lost renomination^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives Counterintelligence Corps	1930	^[2]
Arizona	Barry Goldwater (R)	1st (89th overall)	Yes Open seat; replaced Carl Hayden (D)	U.S. Senate^{[lower-alpha 2]} Phoenix City Council U.S. Air Force Major General	1909	^[3]
California	Alan Cranston (D)	8th (96th overall)	Yes Replaced Thomas Kuchel (R), who lost renomination	California State Controller President of United World Federalists U.S. Army	1914	^[4]
Florida	Edward Gurney (R)	5th (93rd overall)	Yes Open seat; replaced George Smathers (D)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 3]} Mayor of Winter Park U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel	1914	^[5]
Iowa	Harold Hughes (D)	6th (94th overall)	Yes Open seat; replaced Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)	Governor of Iowa U.S. Army Private	1922	^[6]
Kansas	Bob Dole (R)	4th (92nd overall)	No Open seat; replaced Frank Carlson (R)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 4]} Russell County Attorney Kansas House of Representatives U.S. Army Captain	1923	^[7]
Maryland	Charles Mathias (R)	3rd (91st overall)	Yes Defeated Daniel Brewster (D)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 5]} Maryland House of Delegates Frederick City Attorney U.S. Navy Reserve Captain	1922	^[8]
Ohio	William B. Saxbe (R)	9th (97th overall)	Yes Replaced Frank Lausche (D), who lost renomination	Ohio Attorney General Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives U.S. Army Air Corps	1916	^[9]
Oklahoma	Henry Bellmon (R)	7th (95th overall)	Yes Defeated Mike Monroney (D)	Governor of Oklahoma Oklahoma House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps	1921	^[10]
Oregon	Bob Packwood (R)	11th (99th overall)	Yes Defeated Wayne Morse (D)	Oregon House of Representatives	1932	^[11]
Pennsylvania	Richard Schweiker (R)	2nd (90th overall)	Yes Defeated Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 6]} U.S. Navy	1926	^[12]

State	Senator	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Illinois	Ralph T. Smith (R)	September 17, 1969	No Appointed; replaced Everett Dirksen (R)	Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives U.S. Navy Reserve	1915	^[13]
Illinois	Adlai Stevenson III (D)	November 17, 1970	Yes Defeated Ralph T. Smith (R)	Illinois Treasurer Illinois House of Representatives U.S. Marine Corps Captain	1930	^[14]
Delaware	William Roth (R)	January 1, 1971	No Open seat; replaced John J. Williams (R)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 7]} Chair of the Republican State Committee of Delaware U.S. Army	1921	^[15]
California	John V. Tunney (D)	January 2, 1971	Yes Defeated George Murphy (R)	U.S. House of Representatives^{[lower-alpha 8]} U.S. Air Force Captain	1934	^[16]

District	Representative	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Alabama 5	Walter Flowers (D)	No	Lawyer	1933	^[17]
Arkansas 1	Bill Alexander (D)	No	Law clerk	1934	^[18]
California 17	Glenn M. Anderson (D)	No	Lieutenant Governor of California	1913	^[19]
Connecticut 4	Lowell Weicker (R)	Yes	State Representative	1931	^[20]
Florida 4	Bill Chappell (D)	No	State House Speaker	1922	^[21]
Florida 5	Louis Frey Jr. (R)	No	Lawyer	1934	^[22]
Idaho 2	Orval H. Hansen (R)	No	State Senator	1926	^[23]
Illinois 2	Abner Mikva (D)	No	State Representative	1926	^[24]
Indiana 2	Earl Landgrebe (R)	No	State Senator	1916	^[25]
Indiana 10	David W. Dennis (R)	New seat	State Representative	1912	^[26]
Kansas 1	Keith Sebelius (R)	No	State Senator	1916	^[27]
Louisiana 3	Patrick T. Caffery (D)	No	State Representative	1932	^[28]
Maryland 5	Lawrence Hogan (R)	Yes	FBI agent	1928	^[29]
Maryland 6	J. Glenn Beall Jr. (R)	No	State Delegate	1927	^[30]
Missouri 1	Bill Clay (D)	No	Alderman	1931	^[31]
Missouri 2	James W. Symington (D)	Yes	U.S. Chief of Protocol	1927	^[32]
Missouri 10	Bill Burlison (D)	No	Lawyer	1931	^[33]
New Mexico 1	Manuel Lujan Jr. (R)	New seat	Insurance businessman	1928	^[34]
New Mexico 2	Ed Foreman (R)	New seat	U.S. Representative^{[lower-alpha 9]}	1933	^[35]
New York 5	Allard K. Lowenstein (D)	No	Congressional aide	1929	^[36]
New York 12	Shirley Chisholm (D)	New seat	State Assemblywoman	1924	^[37]
New York 17	Ed Koch (D)	Yes	City Councillor	1924	^[38]
New York 24	Mario Biaggi (D)	Yes	Police lieutenant	1917	^[39]
New York 27	Martin B. McKneally (R)	Yes	Commander of the American Legion	1914	^[40]
New York 28	Hamilton Fish IV (R)	Yes	U.S. Foreign Service officer	1926	^[41]
New York 38	James F. Hastings (R)	No	State Senator	1926	^[42]
North Carolina 5	Wilmer Mizell (R)	New seat	Professional baseball player	1930	^[43]
North Carolina 6	L. Richardson Preyer (D)	No	U.S. District Court Judge	1919	^[44]
North Carolina 8	Earl B. Ruth (R)	New seat	City Councillor	1916	^[45]
Ohio 21	Louis Stokes (D)	New seat	Lecturer	1925	^[46]
Oklahoma 6	John Newbold Camp (R)	New seat	State Representative	1908	^[47]
Pennsylvania 6	Gus Yatron (D)	No	State Senator	1927	^[48]
Pennsylvania 13	Lawrence Coughlin (R)	No	State Senator	1929	^[49]
South Carolina 4	James Mann (D)	No	State Representative	1920	^[50]
Virginia 2	G. William Whitehurst (R)	Yes	Journalist	1925	^[51]
Virginia 5	Dan Daniel (D)	No	State Delegate	1914	^[52]
West Virginia 1	Bob Mollohan (D)	Yes	U.S. Representative^{[lower-alpha 10]}	1909	^[53]
Wyoming at-large	John S. Wold (R)	No	State Party Chair	1916	^[54]

District	Representative	Took office	Switched party	Prior background	Birth year	Ref
Tennessee 8	Ed Jones (D)	March 25, 1969	No	State Agriculture Commissioner	1912	^[56]
Wisconsin 7	Dave Obey (D)	April 1, 1969	Yes	State Assemblyman	1938	^[57]
California 27	Barry Goldwater Jr. (R)	April 29, 1969	No	Public relations executive	1938	^[58]
Montana 2	John Melcher (D)	June 24, 1969	Yes	State Senator	1924	^[59]
Massachusetts 6	Michael J. Harrington (D)	September 30, 1969	Yes	State Representative	1936	^[60]
New Jersey 8	Robert A. Roe (D)	November 4, 1969	No	State Conservation Commissioner	1924	^[61]
Illinois 13	Phil Crane (R)	November 25, 1969	No	Educator	1930	^[62]
California 24	John H. Rousselot (R)	June 30, 1970	No	U.S. Representative^{[lower-alpha 12]}	1927	^[63]
California 35	John G. Schmitz (R)	June 30, 1970	No	State Senator	1930	^[64]
Connecticut 2	Robert H. Steele (R)	November 3, 1970	Yes	Securities analyst	1938	^[65]
Illinois 6	George W. Collins (D)	November 3, 1970	No	Alderman	1925	^[66]
New Jersey 6	Edwin B. Forsythe (R)	November 3, 1970	No	State Senator	1916	^[67]
Ohio 19	Charles J. Carney (D)	November 3, 1970	No	State Senator	1913	^[68]
Pennsylvania 9	John H. Ware III (R)	November 3, 1970	No	State Senator	1908	^[69]

List_of_new_members_of_the_91st_United_States_Congress

List of new members of the 91st United States Congress

Senate

Took office January 3, 1969

Took office during the 91st Congress

House of Representatives

Took office January 3, 1969

Non-voting members

Took office during the 91st Congress

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