List of the oldest living members of the United States House of Representatives

This is a list of the oldest currently living former and current members of the United States House of Representatives. The list includes some politicians who were or are Senators. The listed Representatives' ages are in years and days.

Rank	Representative	Date of birth	House term	State served	Party
1	Perkins Bass	October 6, 1912	1955–1963	New Hampshire	Republican
2	Ken Hechler	September 20, 1914	1959–1977	West Virginia	Democratic
3	Don Edwards	January 6, 1915	1963–1995	California	Democratic
4	Charles Gubser	February 1, 1916	1953–1974	California	Republican
5	Lindy Boggs	March 13, 1916	1973–1991	Louisiana	Democratic
6	Donald Tewes	August 4, 1916	1957–1959	Wisconsin	Republican
7	John Wold	August 31, 1916	1969–1971	Wyoming	Republican
8	William Scranton	July 19, 1917	1961–1963	Pennsylvania	Republican
9	Mario Biaggi	October 26, 1917	1969–1988	New York	Democratic
10	Clarence Miller	November 1, 1917	1967–1993	Ohio	Republican
11	James Quigley	March 30, 1918	1955–1957, 1959–1961	Pennsylvania	Democratic
12	Orvin Fjare	April 16, 1918	1955–1957	Montana	Republican
13	Bruce Alger	June 12, 1918	1955–1965	Texas	Republican
14	James Martin	September 1, 1918	1965–1967	Alabama	Republican
15	Lester Wolff	January 4, 1919	1965–1981	New York	Democratic
16	James Grover	March 5, 1919	1963–1975	New York	Republican
17	Hugh Carey	April 11, 1919	1961–1974	New York	Democratic
18	Thomas Morris	August 20, 1919	1959–1969	New Mexico	Democratic
19	Larry Winn	August 22, 1919	1965–1985	Kansas	Republican
20	Sam Gibbons	January 20, 1920	1963–1997	Florida	Democratic
21	Burt Talcott	February 22, 1920	1963–1977	California	Republican
22	Rolland Redlin	February 29, 1920	1965–1967	North Dakota	Democratic
23	Delbert Latta	March 5, 1920	1959–1989	Ohio	Republican
24	Neal Smith	March 23, 1920	1959–1995	Iowa	Democratic
25	William Royer	April 11, 1920	1979–1981	California	Republican
26	Charles Whalen	July 31, 1920	1967–1979	Ohio	Republican
27	Edward Young	September 7, 1920	1973–1975	South Carolina	Republican
28	Marjorie Holt	September 17, 1920	1973–1987	Maryland	Republican
29	Cornelius Gallagher	March 2, 1921	1959–1973	New Jersey	Democratic
30	Berkley Bedell	March 5, 1921	1975–1987	Iowa	Democratic
31	John Gilligan	March 22, 1921	1965–1967	Ohio	Democratic
32	Harry Haskell	May 27, 1921	1957–1959	Delaware	Republican
33	John McCollister	June 10, 1921	1971–1977	Nebraska	Republican
34	Barbara Vucanovich	June 22, 1921	1983–1997	Nevada	Republican
35	Paul Findley	June 23, 1921	1961–1983	Illinois	Republican
36	Otis Pike	August 31, 1921	1961–1979	New York	Democratic
37	Peter Peyser	September 7, 1921	1971–1977, 1979–1983	New York	Republican, Democratic
38	Roger Zion	September 17, 1921	1967–1975	Indiana	Republican
39	Mike McCormack	December 14, 1921	1971–1981	Washington	Democratic
40	John Schmidhauser	January 3, 1922	1965–1967	Iowa	Democratic
41	John Anderson	February 15, 1922	1961–1981	Illinois	Republican
42	Walter McVey	February 19, 1922	1961–1963	Kansas	Republican
43	Doug Barnard	March 20, 1922	1977–1993	Georgia	Democratic
44	William Broomfield	April 28, 1922	1957–1993	Michigan	Republican
45	John Hammerschmidt	May 4, 1922	1967–1993	Arkansas	Republican
46	Carlos Moorhead	May 6, 1922	1973–1997	California	Republican
47	James Harvey	July 4, 1922	1961–1975	Michigan	Republican
48	George McGovern	July 19, 1922	1957–1961	South Dakota	Democratic
49	Melvin Laird	September 1, 1922	1953–1971	Wisconsin	Republican
50	James Lloyd	September 27, 1922	1975–1981	California	Democratic
51	Clarence Young	November 7, 1922	1953–1957	New York	Republican
52	Benjamin Gilman	December 6, 1922	1973–2003	New York	Republican
53	Jack Brooks	December 22, 1922	1953–1995	Texas	Democratic
54	Jim Wright	December 22, 1922	1955–1991	Texas	Democratic
55	Samuel Young	December 26, 1922	1973–1975	Illinois	Republican
56	James Abdnor	February 13, 1923	1973–1981	South Dakota	Republican
57	Robert Michel	March 2, 1923	1957–1995	Illinois	Republican
58	Arch Moore	April 16, 1923	1957–1969	West Virginia	Republican
59	Donald Clausen	April 27, 1923	1963–1983	California	Republican
60	Ralph Hall	May 3, 1923	1981–present	Texas	Democratic, Republican
61	Bernard Grabowski	June 11, 1923	1963–1967	Connecticut	Democratic
62	Bob Dole	July 22, 1923	1961–1969	Kansas	Republican
63	Andrew Hinshaw	August 4, 1923	1973–1976	California	Republican
64	Al Quie	September 18, 1923	1958–1979	Minnesota	Republican
65	Richard Poff	October 19, 1923	1953–1972	Virginia	Republican
66	Robert Griffin	November 6, 1923	1957–1966	Michigan	Republican
67	Frederick Richmond	November 15, 1923	1975–1982	New York	Democratic
68	Helen Bentley	November 28, 1923	1985–1995	Maryland	Republican
69	Frank Denholm	November 29, 1923	1971–1975	South Dakota	Democratic
70	Charles Thone	January 4, 1924	1971–1979	Nebraska	Republican
71	Edwin Reinecke	January 7, 1924	1965–1969	California	Republican
72	Robert Kastenmeier	January 24, 1924	1959–1991	Wisconsin	Democratic
73	Catherine Long	February 7, 1924	1985–1987	Louisiana	Democratic
74	Donald Fraser	February 20, 1924	1963–1979	Minnesota	Democratic-Farmer-Labor
75	William Hathaway	February 21, 1924	1965–1973	Maine	Democratic
76	Robert Roe	February 28, 1924	1969–1993	New Jersey	Democratic
77	George Bush	June 12, 1924	1967–1971	Texas	Republican
78	Shirley Pettis	July 12, 1924	1975–1979	California	Republican
79	Harlan Mitchell	August 17, 1924	1958–1961	Georgia	Democratic
80	Frank Guarini	August 20, 1924	1979–1993	New Jersey	Democratic
81	John Melcher	September 6, 1924	1969–1977	Montana	Democratic
82	Daniel Inouye	September 7, 1924	1959–1963	Hawaii	Democratic
83	Daniel Akaka	September 11, 1924	1977–1990	Hawaii	Democratic
84	Howard Nielson	September 12, 1924	1983–1991	Utah	Republican
85	Merwin Coad	September 28, 1924	1957–1963	Iowa	Democratic
86	Weston Vivian	October 25, 1924	1965–1967	Michigan	Democratic
87	Kenneth Gray	November 14, 1924	1955–1974, 1985–1989	Illinois	Democrat
88	Ralph Regula	December 3, 1924	1973–2009	Ohio	Republican
89	Edward Koch	December 12, 1924	1969–1977	New York	Democratic-Liberal
90	Fletcher Thompson	February 5, 1925	1967–1973	Georgia	Republican
91	Louis Stokes	February 23, 1925	1969–1999	Ohio	Democratic
92	William Whitehurst	March 12, 1925	1967–1987	Virginia	Republican
93	Lucien Nedzi	May 28, 1925	1961–1981	Michigan	Democratic
94	Caldwell Butler	June 2, 1925	1972–1983	Virginia	Republican
95	Ogden Reid	June 24, 1925	1963–1975	New York	Republican, Democratic
96	Tom Luken	July 9, 1925	1974–1975, 1977–1991	Ohio	Democratic
97	Peter Kyros	July 11, 1925	1967–1975	Maine	Democratic
98	Gus Savage	October 30, 1925	1981–1993	Illinois	Democratic
99	Fred Rooney	November 6, 1925	1963–1979	Pennsylvania	Democratic
100	Donald Albosta	December 5, 1925	1979–1985	Michigan	Democratic

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