United States congressional delegations from Connecticut
United States congressional delegations from Connecticut
These are tables of congressional delegations from Connecticut to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
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United States Senate
| Class 1 Senators | Congress | Class 3 Senators |
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| Oliver Ellsworth (Pro-Admin) |
1st (1789–1791) | William S. Johnson (Pro-Admin) |
| 2nd (1791–1793) | ||
| Roger Sherman (Pro-Admin) |
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| 3rd (1793–1795) | ||
| Stephen M. Mitchell (Pro-Admin) |
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| 4th (1795–1797) | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (F) | |
| James Hillhouse (F) | Uriah Tracy (F) | |
| 5th (1797–1799) | ||
| 6th (1799–1801) | ||
| 7th (1801–1803) | ||
| 8th (1803–1805) | ||
| 9th (1805–1807) | ||
| 10th (1807–1809) | ||
| Chauncey Goodrich (F) | ||
| 11th (1809–1811) | ||
| Samuel W. Dana (F) | ||
| 12th (1811–1813) | ||
| 13th (1813–1815) | ||
| David Daggett (F) | ||
| 14th (1815–1817) | ||
| 15th (1817–1819) | ||
| 16th (1819–1821) | James Lanman (D-R) | |
| Elijah Boardman (D-R) | 17th (1821–1823) | |
| 18th (1823–1825) | ||
| Henry W. Edwards (D-R) | ||
| 19th (1825–1827) | Calvin Willey (Adams) |
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| Samuel A. Foot (Anti-J) | 20th (1827–1829) | |
| 21st (1829–1831) | ||
| 22nd (1831–1833) | Gideon Tomlinson (Anti-J) | |
| Nathan Smith (Anti-J) | 23rd (1833–1835) | |
| 24th (1835–1837) | ||
| John M. Niles (D-R) | ||
| 25th (1837–1839) | Perry Smith (D) | |
| Thaddeus Betts (W) | 26th (1839–1841) | |
| Jabez W. Huntington (W) | ||
| 27th (1841–1843) | ||
| 28th (1843–1845) | John M. Niles (D) | |
| 29th (1845–1847) | ||
| 30th (1847–1849) | ||
| Roger S. Baldwin (W) | ||
| 31st (1849–1851) | Truman Smith (W) | |
| Isaac Toucey (D) | 32nd (1851–1853) | |
| 33rd (1853–1855) | ||
| Francis Gillette (FS) |
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| 34th (1855–1857) | Lafayette S. Foster (O) | |
| James Dixon (R) | 35th (1857–1859) | |
| 36th (1859–1861) | ||
| 37th (1861–1863) | ||
| 38th (1863–1865) | ||
| 39th (1865–1867) | ||
| 40th (1867–1869) | Orris S. Ferry (R) | |
| William A. Buckingham (R) | 41st (1869–1871) | |
| 42nd (1871–1873) | ||
| 43rd (1873–1875) | ||
| William W. Eaton (D) | ||
| 44th (1875–1877) | ||
| James E. English (D) | ||
| William H. Barnum (D) | ||
| 45th (1877–1879) | ||
| 46th (1879–1881) | Orville H. Platt (R) | |
| Joseph R. Hawley (R) | 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) | ||
| 56th (1899–1901) | ||
| 57th (1901–1903) | ||
| 58th (1903–1905) | ||
| Morgan G. Bulkeley (R) | 59th (1905–1907) | Frank B. Brandegee (R) |
| 60th (1907–1909) | ||
| 61st (1909–1911) | ||
| George P. McLean (R) | 62nd (1911–1913) | |
| 63rd (1913–1915) | ||
| 64th (1915–1917) | ||
| 65th (1917–1919) | ||
| 66th (1919–1921) | ||
| 67th (1921–1923) | ||
| 68th (1923–1925) | ||
| Hiram Bingham III (R) | ||
| 69th (1925–1927) | ||
| 70th (1927–1929) | ||
| Frederic C. Walcott (R) | 71st (1929–1931) | |
| 72nd (1931–1933) | ||
| 73rd (1933–1935) | Augustine Lonergan (D) | |
| Francis T. Maloney (D) | 74th (1935–1937) | |
| 75th (1937–1939) | ||
| 76th (1939–1941) | John A. Danaher (R) | |
| 77th (1941–1943) | ||
| 78th (1943–1945) | ||
| 79th (1945–1947) | Brien McMahon (D) | |
| Thomas C. Hart (R) | ||
| Raymond E. Baldwin (R) | ||
| 80th (1947–1949) | ||
| 81st (1949–1951) | ||
| William Benton (D) | ||
| 82nd (1951–1953) | ||
| William A. Purtell (R) | ||
| Prescott Bush (R) | ||
| William A. Purtell (R) | 83rd (1953–1955) | |
| 84th (1955–1957) | ||
| 85th (1957–1959) | ||
| Thomas J. Dodd (D) | 86th (1959–1961) | |
| 87th (1961–1963) | ||
| 88th (1963–1965) | Abraham A. Ribicoff (D) | |
| 89th (1965–1967) | ||
| 90th (1967–1969) | ||
| 91st (1969–1971) | ||
| Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R) | 92nd (1971–1973) | |
| 93rd (1973–1975) | ||
| 94th (1975–1977) | ||
| 95th (1977–1979) | ||
| 96th (1979–1981) | ||
| 97th (1981–1983) | Christopher Dodd (D) | |
| 98th (1983–1985) | ||
| 99th (1985–1987) | ||
| 100th (1987–1989) | ||
| Joseph Lieberman (D) | 101st (1989–1991) | |
| 102nd (1991–1993) | ||
| 103rd (1993–1995) | ||
| 104th (1995–1997) | ||
| 105th (1997–1999) | ||
| 106th (1999–2001) | ||
| 107th (2001–2003) | ||
| 108th (2003–2005) | ||
| 109th (2005–2007) | ||
| Joseph Lieberman (Independent Democrat) |
110th (2007–2009) | |
| 111th (2009–2011) | ||
| 112th (2011–2013) | Richard Blumenthal (D) |
Passages
| Congress | Senator | Reason for Vacancy | Appointed Successor | Date of Appointment | Elected Successor | Date of Election |
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| 2nd | William S. Johnson | Resigned March 4, 1791. | None | Roger Sherman | June 13, 1791 | |
| 3rd | Roger Sherman | Died July 23, 1793. | None | Stephen M. Mitchell | December 2, 1793 | |
| 4th | Oliver Ellsworth | Resigned March 8, 1796 to be Chief Justice of the United States. | None | James Hillhouse | May 12, 1796 | |
| 4th | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. | Resigned June 10, 1796, possibly to be Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. | None | Uriah Tracy | October 13, 1796 | |
| 10th | Uriah Tracy | Died July 19, 1807. | None | Chauncey Goodrich | October 25, 1807 | |
| 11th | James Hillhouse | Resigned June 18, 1810. | none | Samuel W. Dana | December 4, 1810 | |
| 13th | Chauncey Goodrich | Resigned May 1813 to be Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. | None | David Daggett | May 13, 1813 | |
| 18th | Elijah Boardman | Died August 18, 1823. | Henry W. Edwards | October 8, 1823 | Henry W. Edwards | |
| 19th | James Lanman was elected to the Senate to the term beginning March 4, 1825 but was not permitted to qualify. | |||||
| 24th | Samuel A. Foot | Resigned May 9, 1834 to be Governor of Connecticut. | None; apparently no replacement was made. | |||
| 24th | Nathan Smith | Died December 6, 1835. | John M. Niles | December 21, 1835 | John M. Niles | |
| 26th | Thaddeus Betts | Died April 7, 1840. | none | Jabez W. Huntington | May 4, 1840 | |
| 30th | Jabez W. Huntington | Died November 1, 1847. | Roger S. Baldwin | November 11, 1847 | Roger S. Baldwin | |
| 33rd | Truman Smith | Resigned May 24, 1854. | none | Francis Gillette | May 24, 1854 | |
| 43rd | William A. Buckingham | Died February 5, 1875. | William W. Eaton | February 5, 1875 | none | |
| 44th | Orris S. Ferry | Died November 21, 1875. | James E. English | November 27, 1875 | William H. Barnum | May 18, 1876 |
| 59th | Orville H. Platt | Died April 21, 1905. | none | Frank B. Brandegee | May 10, 1905 | |
| 68th | Frank B. Brandegee | Died October 14, 1924 by suicide. | none | Hiram Bingham | December 17, 1924 | |
| 79th | Francis T. Maloney | Died January 16, 1945 | Thomas C. Hart | February 15, 1945 | Raymond E. Baldwin | December 27, 1946 |
| 81st | Raymond E. Baldwin | Resigned December 16, 1949. | William Benton | December 17, 1949 | William Benton | |
| 82nd | Brien McMahon | Died July 28, 1952. | William A. Purtell | August 29, 1952 | Prescott Bush | November 4, 1952 |
House of Representatives
Main article: List of United States Representatives from Connecticut
| Congress | Elected state-wide at-large on a general ticket | ||||||
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| 1st seat | 2nd seat | 3rd seat | 4th seat | 5th seat | 6th seat | 7th seat | |
| 1st (1789–1791) |
Benjamin Huntington (Pro-Admin) | Roger Sherman (Pro-Admin) | Jonathan Sturges (Pro-Admin) | Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Pro-Admin) | Jeremiah Wadsworth (Pro-Admin) | ||
| 2nd (1791–1793) |
James Hillhouse (Pro-Admin) | Amasa Learned (Pro-Admin) | |||||
| 3rd (1793–1795) |
Joshua Coit (F) | Zephariah Swift (F) | Uriah Tracy (F) | ||||
| 4th (1795–1797) |
Chauncey Goodrich (F) | Roger Griswold (F) | Nathaniel Smith (F) | ||||
| James Davenport (F) | Samuel W. Dana (F) | ||||||
| 5th (1797–1799) |
John Allen (F) | ||||||
| William Edmond (F) | Jonathan Brace (F) | ||||||
| 6th (1799–1801) |
Elizur Goodrich (F) | John Davenport (F) | |||||
| John Cotton Smith (F) | |||||||
| 7th (1801–1803) |
Benjamin Tallmadge (F) | Calvin Goddard (F) | Elias Perkins (F) | ||||
| 8th (1803–1805) |
Simeon Baldwin (F) | ||||||
| 9th (1805–1807) |
Jonathan O. Moseley (F) | ||||||
| Theodore Dwight (F]]) | Timothy Pitkin (F) | Lewis B. Sturges (F) | |||||
| 10th (1807–1809) |
Epaphroditus Champion (F) | ||||||
| 11th (1809–1811) |
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| Ebenezer Huntington (F) | |||||||
| 12th (1811–1813) |
Lyman Law (F) | ||||||
| 13th* (1813–1815) |
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| 14th* (1815–1817) |
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| 15th (1817–1819) |
Ebenezer Huntington (F) | Uriel Holmes (F) | Samuel B. Sherwood (F) | Nathaniel Terry (F) | Thomas Scott Williams (F) | ||
| Sylvester Gilbert (D-R) | |||||||
| 16th (1819–1821) |
Gideon Tomlinson (D-R) | Samuel A. Foot (F) | Elisha Phelps (D-R) | John Russ (D-R) | James Stevens (D-R) | Henry W. Edwards (D-R) | |
| 17th (1821–1823) |
Daniel Burrows (D-R) | Ansel Sterling (D-R) | Noyes Barber (D-R) | Ebenezer Stoddard (D-R) | |||
| 18th (1823–1825) |
Gideon Tomlinson (Anti-J) | Lemuel Whitman (Anti-J) | Ansel Sterling (Anti-J) | Samuel A. Foot (Anti-J) | Noyes Barber (Anti-J) | Ebenezer Stoddard (Anti-J) | |
| 19th (1825–1827) |
John Baldwin (Anti-J) | Ralph I. Ingersoll (Anti-J) | Orange Merwin (Anti-J) | Elisha Phelps (Anti-J) | |||
| 20th (1827–1829) |
David Plant (Anti-J) | ||||||
| 21st (1829–1831) |
William W. Ellsworth (Anti-J) | Jabez W. Huntington (Anti-J) | Ebenezer Young (Anti-J) | William L. Storrs (Anti-J) | |||
| 22nd (1831–1833) |
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| 23rd (1833–1835) |
Samuel A. Foot (Anti-J) | Samuel Tweedy (Anti-J) | |||||
| Joseph Trumbull (Anti-J) | Phineas Miner (Anti-J) | Ebenezer Jackson, Jr. (Anti-J) | |||||
| 24th (1835–1837) |
Elisha Haley (J) | Samuel Ingham (J) | Andrew T. Judson (J) | Lancelot Phelps (J) | Isaac Toucey (D) | Zalmon Wildman (J) | |
| Orrin Holt (J) | Thomas T. Whittlesey (J) | ||||||
Starting in 1837, Connecticut abandoned general tickets and adopted districts instead.
| Congress | District | |||||
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| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | |
| 25th (1837–1839) |
Isaac Toucey (D) | Samuel Ingham (D) | Thomas T. Whittlesey (D) | Elisha Haley (D) | Lancelot Phelps (D) | Orrin Holt (D) |
| 26th (1839–1841) |
Joseph Trumbull (W) | William L. Storrs (W) | Thomas W. Williams (W) | Thomas B. Osborne (W) | Truman Smith (W) | John H. Brockway (W) |
| William W. Boardman (W) | ||||||
| 27th (1841–1843) |
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| 28th (1843–1845) |
Thomas H. Seymour (D) | John Stewart (D) | George S. Catlin (D) | Samuel Simons (D) | ||
| 29th (1845–1847) |
James Dixon (W) | Samuel D. Hubbard (W) | John A. Rockwell (W) | Truman Smith (W) | ||
| 30th (1847–1849) |
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| 31st (1849–1851) |
Loren P. Waldo (D) | Walter Booth (FS) | Chauncey F. Cleveland (D) | Thomas B. Butler (W) | ||
| 32nd (1851–1853) |
Charles Chapman (W) | Colin M. Ingersoll (D) | Origen S. Seymour (D) | |||
| 33rd (1853–1855) |
James T. Pratt (D) | Nathan Belcher (D) | ||||
| 34th (1855–1857) |
Ezra Clark, Jr. (K-N) | John Woodruff (K-N) | Sidney Dean (K-N) | William W. Welch (K-N) | ||
| 35th (1857–1859) |
Ezra Clark, Jr. (R) | Samuel Arnold (D) | Sidney Dean (R) | William D. Bishop (D) | ||
| 36th (1859–1861) |
Dwight Loomis (R) | John Woodruff (R) | Alfred A. Burnham (R) | Orris S. Ferry (R) | ||
| 37th (1861–1863) |
James E. English (D) | George C. Woodruff (D) | ||||
| 38th (1863–1865) |
Henry C. Deming (R) | Augustus Brandegee (R) | John Henry Hubbard (R) | |||
| 39th (1865–1867) |
Samuel L. Warner (R) | |||||
| 40th (1867–1869) |
Richard D. Hubbard (R) | Julius Hotchkiss (D) | Henry H. Starkweather (R) | William H. Barnum (D) | ||
| 41st (1869–1871) |
Julius L. Strong (R) | Stephen W. Kellogg (R) | ||||
| 42nd (1871–1873) |
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| Joseph R. Hawley (R) | ||||||
| 43rd (1873–1875) |
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| 44th (1875–1877) |
George M. Landers (D) | James Phelps (D) | ||||
| John T. Wait (R) | Levi Warner (D) | |||||
| 45th (1877–1879) |
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| 46th (1879–1881) |
Joseph R. Hawley (R) | Frederick Miles (R) | ||||
| 47th (1881–1883) |
John R. Buck (R) | |||||
| 48th (1883–1885) |
William W. Eaton (D) | Charles Le Moyne Mitchell (D) | Edward W. Seymour (D) | |||
| 49th (1885–1887) |
John R. Buck (R) | |||||
| 50th (1887–1889) |
Robert J. Vance (D) | Carlos French (D) | Charles A. Russell (R) | Miles T. Granger (D) | ||
| 51st (1889–1891) |
William E. Simonds (R) | Washington F. Willcox (D) | Frederick Miles (R) | |||
| 52nd (1891–1893) |
Lewis Sperry (D) | Robert E. De Forest (D) | ||||
| 53rd (1893–1895) |
James P. Pigott (D) | |||||
| 54th (1895–1897) |
E. Stevens Henry (R) | Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) | Ebenezer J. Hill (R) | |||
| 55th (1897–1899) |
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| 56th (1899–1901) |
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| 57th (1901–1903) |
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| Frank B. Brandegee (R) | ||||||
| 58th (1903–1905) |
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| George L. Lilley (R) | ||||||
| 59th (1905–1907) |
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| Edwin W. Higgins (R) | ||||||
| 60th (1907–1909) |
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| 61st (1909–1911) |
John Q. Tilson (R) | |||||
| 62nd (1911–1913) |
Thomas L. Reilly (D) | |||||
| 63rd (1913–1915) |
Augustine Lonergan (D) | Bryan F. Mahan (D) | Thomas L. Reilly (D) | Jeremiah Donovan (D) | 5th district | |
| William Kennedy (D) | ||||||
| 64th (1915–1917) |
P. Davis Oakey (R) | Richard P. Freeman (R) | John Q. Tilson (R) | Ebenezer J. Hill (R) | James P. Glynn (R) | |
| 65th (1917–1919) |
Augustine Lonergan (D) | |||||
| Schuyler Merritt (R) | ||||||
| 66th (1919–1921) |
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| 67th (1921–1923) |
E. Hart Fenn (R) | |||||
| 68th (1923–1925) |
Patrick B. O'Sullivan (D) | |||||
| 69th (1925–1927) |
James P. Glynn (R) | |||||
| 70th (1927–1929) |
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| 71st (1929–1931) |
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| Edward W. Goss (R) | ||||||
| 72nd (1931–1933) |
Augustine Lonergan (D) | William L. Tierney (D) | ||||
| 73rd (1933–1935) |
Herman P. Kopplemann (D) | William L. Higgins (R) | Francis T. Maloney (D) | Schuyler Merritt (R) | At-large | |
| Charles M. Bakewell (R) | ||||||
| 74th (1935–1937) |
James A. Shanley (D) | J. Joseph Smith (D) | William M. Citron (D) | |||
| 75th (1937–1939) |
William J. Fitzgerald (D) | Alfred N. Phillips (D) | ||||
| 76th (1939–1941) |
William J. Miller (R) | Thomas R. Ball (R) | Albert E. Austin (R) | B. J. Monkiewicz (R) | ||
| 77th (1941–1943) |
Herman P. Kopplemann (D) | William J. Fitzgerald (D) | Le Roy D. Downs (D) | Lucien J. Maciora (D) | ||
| Joseph E. Talbot (R) | ||||||
| 78th (1943–1945) |
William J. Miller (R) | John D. McWilliams (R) | Ranulf Compton (R) | Clare B. Luce (R) | B. J. Monkiewicz (R) | |
| 79th (1945–1947) |
Herman P. Kopplemann (D) | Chase G. Woodhouse (D) | James P. Geelan (D) | Joseph F. Ryter (D) | ||
| 80th (1947–1949) |
William J. Miller (R) | Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (R) | Ellsworth B. Foote (R) | John D. Lodge (R) | James T. Patterson (R) | Antoni N. Sadlak (R) |
| 81st (1949–1951) |
Abraham A. Ribicoff (D) | Chase G. Woodhouse (D) | John A. McGuire (D) | |||
| 82nd (1951–1953) |
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (R) | Albert P. Morano (R) | ||||
| 83rd (1953–1955) |
Thomas J. Dodd (D) | Albert W. Cretella (R) | ||||
| 84th (1955–1957) |
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| 85th (1957–1959) |
Edwin H. May, Jr. (R) | |||||
| 86th (1959–1961) |
Emilio Q. Daddario (D) | Chester Bowles (D) | Robert N. Giaimo (D) | Donald J. Irwin (D) | John S. Monagan (D) | Frank Kowalski (D) |
| 87th (1961–1963) |
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (R) | Abner W. Sibal (R) | ||||
| 88th (1963–1965) |
William L. St. Onge (D) | Bernard F. Grabowski (D) | ||||
| 89th (1965–1967) |
Donald J. Irwin (D) | 6th district | ||||
| Bernard F. Grabowski (D) | ||||||
| 90th (1967–1969) |
Thomas J. Meskill (R) | |||||
| 91st (1969–1971) |
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (R) | |||||
| Robert H. Steele (R) | ||||||
| 92nd (1971–1973) |
William R. Cotter (D) | Stewart McKinney (R) | Ella T. Grasso (D) | |||
| 93rd (1973–1975) |
Ronald A. Sarasin (R) | |||||
| 94th (1975–1977) |
Christopher Dodd (D) | Toby Moffett (D) | ||||
| 95th (1977–1979) |
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| 96th (1979–1981) |
William R. Ratchford (D) | |||||
| 97th (1981–1983) |
Sam Gejdenson (D) | Lawrence Joseph DeNardis (R) | ||||
| Barbara B. Kennelly (D) | ||||||
| 98th (1983–1985) |
Bruce Morrison (D) | Nancy L. Johnson (R) | ||||
| 99th (1985–1987) |
John G. Rowland (R) | |||||
| 100th (1987–1989) |
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| Christopher Shays (R) | ||||||
| 101st (1989–1991) |
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| 102nd (1991–1993) |
Rosa L. DeLauro (D) | Gary Franks (R) | ||||
| 103rd (1993–1995) |
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| 104th (1995–1997) |
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| 105th (1997–1999) |
James H. Maloney (D) | |||||
| 106th (1999–2001) |
John B. Larson (D) | |||||
| 107th (2001–2003) |
Rob Simmons (R) | |||||
| 108th (2003–2005) |
Nancy L. Johnson (R) | |||||
| 109th (2005–2007) |
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| 110th (2007–2009) |
Joe Courtney (D) | Chris Murphy (D) | ||||
| 111th (2009–2011) |
Jim Himes (D) | |||||
| 112th (2011–2013) |
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- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
- Information from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
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