List of members of the United States House of Representatives who were born or died in 1996

This is a list of the 19 voting members of the United States House of Representatives who died in 1996. There is 1 member listed in bold who died in office. No births have been recorded for this year.

Births

  • None

Deaths

Representative

State

District(s)

Served

Party

Date of birth

Date of death

Age

Mike Synar

Oklahoma

2

1979-1995

|Democratic

October 17, 1950

January 9, 1996

Barbara Jordan

Texas

18

1973-1979

|Democratic

February 21, 1936

January 17, 1996

Willard S. Curtin

Pennsylvania

8

1957-1967

|Republican

November 28, 1905

February 4, 1996

Joseph W. Barr

Indiana

11

1959-1961

|Democratic

January 17, 1918

February 23, 1996

Winifred C. Stanley

New York

At-large

1943-1945

|Republican

August 14, 1909

February 29, 1996

Rodney M. Love

Ohio

3

1965-1967

|Democratic

July 18, 1908

May 5, 1996

Edward Gurney

Florida

11, 5

1963-1969

|Republican

January 12, 1914

May 14, 1996

Newt V. Mills

Louisiana

5

1937-1943

|Democratic

September 27, 1899

May 15, 1996

William Van Pelt

Wisconsin

6

1951-1965

|Republican

March 10, 1905

June 2, 1996

Hugh Mitchell

Washington

1

1949-1953

|Democratic

March 22, 1907

June 10, 1996

Bill Emerson

Missouri

10, 8

1981-1996

|Republican

January 1, 1938

June 22, 1996

Edward H. Jenison

Illinois

18, 23

1947-1953

|Republican

July 27, 1907

June 24, 1996

William T. Cahill

New Jersey

1, 6

1961-1969

|Republican

June 25, 1912

July 1, 1996

Hamilton Fish IV

New York

28, 25, 21, 19

1969-1995

|Republican

June 3, 1926

July 23, 1996

Paul J. Krebs

New Jersey

12

1965-1967

|Democratic

May 26, 1912

September 17, 1996

James F. Battin

Montana

2

1961-1969

|Republican

February 13, 1925

September 27, 1996

Leo Isacson

New York

28

1948-1949

|American Labor

April 20, 1910

September 28, 1996

Coya Knutson

Minnesota

9

1955-1959

|Democratic-Farmer-Labor

August 22, 1912

October 10, 1996

Ray Blanton

Tennessee

7

1967-1973

|Democratic

April 10, 1930

November 22, 1996

See also

  • List of the 100 oldest members of the United States House of Representatives
  • List of former members of the United States House of Representatives
  • List of living former members of the United States House of Representatives
  • List of the oldest living members of the United States House of Representatives
  • List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by age