List of new members of the 93rd United States Congress

The 93rd United States Congress began on January 3, 1973. There were 11 new senators (six Democrats, five Republicans) and 68 new representatives (26 Democrats, 42 Republicans), as well as three new delegates (all Democrats), at the start of the first session. Additionally, seven senators (four Democrats, three Republicans) and 10 representatives (seven Democrats, three Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 93rd Congress before it ended on January 3, 1975.

Due to redistricting after the 1970 census, 17 representatives were elected from newly established congressional districts.

Senate

Took office January 3, 1973

State Image Senator Seniority Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref
Colorado Floyd Haskell (D) 9th
(98th overall)
Yes
Defeated Gordon Allott (R)
Colorado House of Representatives
U.S. Army Major
1916 [1]
Delaware Joe Biden (D) 11th
(100th overall)
Yes
Defeated J. Caleb Boggs (R)
New Castle County Council 1942 [2]
Idaho James A. McClure (R) 3rd
(92nd overall)
No
Open seat; replaced Leonard B. Jordan (R)
U.S. House of Representatives[a]
Idaho Senate
U.S. Navy
1924 [3]
Iowa Dick Clark (D) 8th
(97th overall)
Yes
Defeated Jack Miller (R)
Assistant to Congressman John Culver
Professor
U.S. Army
1928 [4]
Kentucky Walter Dee Huddleston (D) 7th
(96th overall)
Yes
Open seat; replaced John Sherman Cooper (R)
Kentucky Senate
U.S. Army
1926 [5]
Maine William Hathaway (D) 1st
(90th overall)
Yes
Defeated Margaret Chase Smith (R)
U.S. House of Representatives[b]
U.S. Army Air Corps
1924 [6]
New Mexico Pete Domenici (R) 10th
(99th overall)
Yes
Open seat; replaced Clinton Anderson (D)
Mayor of Albuquerque 1932 [7]
North Carolina Jesse Helms (R) 6th
(95th overall)
Yes
Replaced B. Everett Jordan (D), who lost renomination
Capitol Broadcasting Company
Raleigh City Council
U.S. Navy
1921 [8]
Oklahoma Dewey F. Bartlett (R) 5th
(94th overall)
Yes
Open seat; replaced Fred R. Harris (D)
Governor of Oklahoma
Oklahoma Senate
U.S. Marine Corps Captain
1919 [9]
South Dakota James Abourezk (D) 4th
(93rd overall)
Yes
Open seat; replaced Karl Mundt (R)
U.S. House of Representatives[c]
U.S. Navy
1931 [10]
Virginia William L. Scott (R) 2nd
(91st overall)
Yes
Defeated William Spong Jr. (D)
U.S. House of Representatives[d] 1915 [11]

Took office during the 93rd Congress

State Image Senator Took office Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref
Ohio Howard Metzenbaum (D) January 4, 1974 Yes
Appointed; replaced William B. Saxbe (R)
Ohio Senate
Ohio House of Representatives
1917 [12]
Nevada Paul Laxalt (R) December 18, 1974 Yes
Open seat; replaced Alan Bible (D)
Governor of Nevada
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
Ormsby County District Attorney
U.S. Army
1922 [13]
Utah Jake Garn (R) December 21, 1974 No
Open seat; replaced Wallace F. Bennett (R)
Mayor of Salt Lake City
Utah Air National Guard
1932 [14]
Ohio John Glenn (D) December 24, 1974 No
Replaced Howard Metzenbaum (D), who lost nomination
NASA astronaut
U.S. Marine Corps Colonel
1921 [15]
Kentucky Wendell Ford (D) December 28, 1974 Yes
Defeated Marlow Cook (R)
Governor of Kentucky
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
Kentucky Senate
Kentucky Army National Guard
1924 [16]
New Hampshire Louis C. Wyman (R) December 31, 1974 No
Appointed; replaced Norris Cotton (R)
U.S. House of Representatives[e]
Attorney General of New Hampshire
U.S. Navy Lieutenant
1917 [17]
Florida Richard Stone (D) January 1, 1975 Yes
Open seat; replaced Edward Gurney (R)
Secretary of State of Florida
Florida Senate
Miami City Attorney
1928 [18]

House of Representatives

Took office January 3, 1973

District Representative Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref
Arizona 4 John Conlan (R) New seat State Senator 1930 [19]
Arkansas 4 Ray Thornton (D) No Arkansas Attorney General 1928 [20]
California 8 Pete Stark (D) No Bank executive 1931 [21]
California 11 Leo Ryan (D) New seat State Assemblyman 1925 [22]
California 20 Carlos Moorhead (R) No State Assemblyman 1922 [23]
California 36 William M. Ketchum (R) New seat State Assemblyman 1921 [24]
California 37 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (D) New seat State Assemblywoman 1932 [25]
California 38 George Brown Jr. (D) New seat U.S. Representative[f] 1920 [26]
California 39 Andrew J. Hinshaw (R) No County Assessor 1923 [27]
California 42 Clair Burgener (R) New seat State Senator 1921 [28]
Colorado 1 Pat Schroeder (D) Yes Lawyer 1940 [29]
Colorado 4 James Paul Johnson (R) Yes School Board Member 1930 [30]
Colorado 5 William L. Armstrong (R) New seat State Senate President 1937 [31]
Connecticut 5 Ronald A. Sarasin (R) Yes State Representative 1934 [32]
Florida 5 Bill Gunter (D) New seat State Senator 1934 [33]
Florida 10 Skip Bafalis (R) New seat State Senator 1929 [34]
Florida 13 William Lehman (D) New seat School Board Member 1913 [35]
Georgia 1 Bo Ginn (D) No Congressional aide 1934 [36]
Georgia 5 Andrew Young (D) Yes Director of the SCLC 1932 [37]
Idaho 1 Steve Symms (R) No Farmer 1938 [38]
Illinois 3 Robert P. Hanrahan (R) New seat County School Superintendent 1934 [39]
Illinois 10 Samuel H. Young (R) Yes Lawyer 1922 [40]
Illinois 17 George M. O'Brien (R) New seat State Representative 1917 [41]
Illinois 21 Ed Madigan (R) No State Representative 1936 [42]
Indiana 11 William H. Hudnut III (R) Yes Ordained minister 1932 [43]
Iowa 1 Edward Mezvinsky (D) Yes State Representative 1937 [44]
Kentucky 6 John B. Breckinridge (D) No Attorney General of Kentucky 1913 [45]
Louisiana 3 Dave Treen (R) Yes State Party Committeeman 1928 [46]
Louisiana 8 Gillis William Long (D) No U.S. Representative[g] 1923 [47]
Maine 2 William Cohen (R) Yes Mayor of Bangor 1940 [48]
Maryland 4 Marjorie Holt (R) Yes Circuit Court Judge 1920 [49]
Massachusetts 5 Paul W. Cronin (R) No State Representative 1938 [50]
Massachusetts 9 Joe Moakley (D) No[h] City Councillor 1927 [51]
Massachusetts 12 Gerry Studds (D) Yes U.S. Foreign Service officer 1937 [52]
Michigan 18 Robert J. Huber (R) New seat State Senator 1922 [53]
Mississippi 2 David R. Bowen (D) No USCC official 1932 [54]
Mississippi 4 Thad Cochran (R) Yes Lawyer 1937 [55]
Mississippi 5 Trent Lott (R) Yes Congressional aide 1941 [56]
Missouri 6 Jerry Litton (D) No Rancher 1937 [57]
Missouri 7 Gene Taylor (R) No Mayor of Sarcoxie 1928 [58]
Nevada at-large David Towell (R) Yes Real estate broker 1937 [59]
New Jersey 12 Matthew J. Rinaldo (R) No State Senator 1931 [60]
New Jersey 13 Joseph J. Maraziti (R) New seat State Senator 1912 [61]
New York 3 Angelo D. Roncallo (R) New seat County Comptroller 1927 [62]
New York 16 Elizabeth Holtzman (D) No Assistant to Mayor John Lindsay 1941 [63]
New York 26 Benjamin Gilman (R) Yes State Assemblyman 1922 [64]
New York 31 Donald J. Mitchell (R) No State Assemblyman 1923 [65]
New York 33 William F. Walsh (R) No Mayor of Syracuse 1912 [66]
North Carolina 4 Ike Franklin Andrews (D) No State Representative 1925 [67]
North Carolina 7 Charlie Rose (D) No Prosecutor 1939 [68]
North Carolina 9 James G. Martin (R) No County Commissioner 1935 [69]
Ohio 4 Tennyson Guyer (R) No State Senator 1912 [70]
Ohio 16 Ralph Regula (R) No State Senator 1924 [71]
Oklahoma 1 James R. Jones (D) Yes White House Chief of Staff 1939 [72]
Oklahoma 2 Clem McSpadden (D) No State Senator 1925 [73]
Pennsylvania 9 Bud Shuster (R) New seat Business owner 1932 [74]
South Carolina 6 Edward Lunn Young (R) Yes State Representative 1920 [75]
South Dakota 2 James Abdnor (R) Yes Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota 1923 [76]
Tennessee 6 Robin Beard (R) Yes U.S. Marine Corps Reserve 1939 [77]
Texas 2 Charlie Wilson (D) No State Senator 1933 [78]
Texas 5 Alan Steelman (R) Yes Business executive 1942 [79]
Texas 18 Barbara Jordan (D) New seat State Senator 1936 [80]
Texas 24 Dale Milford (D) New seat Meteorologist 1926 [81]
Utah 2 Wayne Owens (D) Yes Congressional staffer 1937 [82]
Virginia 4 Robert Daniel (R) Yes CIA officer 1936 [83]
Virginia 8 Stanford Parris (R) No State Delegate 1929 [84]
Washington 1 Joel Pritchard (R) No State Senator 1925 [85]
Wisconsin 8 Harold Vernon Froehlich (R) No State Assembly Speaker 1932 [86]

Non-voting members

District Delegate Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref
Guam at-large Antonio Borja Won Pat (D) New seat Territorial Legislative Speaker 1908 [87]
Puerto Rico at-large Jaime Benítez Rexach (PD/D) Yes/No[i] University President 1908 [88]
U.S. Virgin Islands at-large Ron de Lugo (D) New seat Territorial Legislator 1930 [89]

Took office during the 95th Congress

District Representative Took office Switched party Prior background Birth year Ref
Alaska at-large Don Young (R) March 6, 1973 Yes State Senator 1933 [90]
Louisiana 2 Lindy Boggs (D) March 20, 1973 No Teacher 1916 [91]
Illinois 7 Cardiss Collins (D) June 5, 1973 No Accountant 1931 [92]
Maryland 1 Robert Bauman (R) August 21, 1973 No State Senator 1937 [93]
Pennsylvania 12 John Murtha (D) February 5, 1974 Yes State Representative 1932 [94]
Michigan 5 Richard Vander Veen (D) February 18, 1974 Yes School Board Member 1922 [95]
California 13 Robert J. Lagomarsino (R) March 5, 1974 No State Senator 1926 [96]
Ohio 1 Tom Luken (D) March 5, 1974 Yes Mayor of Cincinnati 1925 [97]
Michigan 8 J. Bob Traxler (D) April 23, 1974 Yes State Representative 1931 [98]
California 6 John Burton (D) June 4, 1974 Yes State Assemblyman 1932 [99]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Elected to the 90th Congress, serving from 1967 to 1973 in Idaho's 1st district.
  2. ^ Elected to the 89th Congress, serving from 1965 to 1973 in Maine's 2nd district.
  3. ^ Elected to the 92nd Congress, serving from 1971 to 1973 in South Dakota's 2nd district.
  4. ^ Elected to the 90th Congress, serving from 1967 to 1973 in Virginia's 8th district.
  5. ^ Elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965 in New Hampshire's 1st district; elected again to the 90th Congress, serving from 1967 to 1974.
  6. ^ Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1971 in California's 29th district.
  7. ^ Previously elected to the 88th Congress, serving from 1963 to 1965.
  8. ^ Moakley was elected as an independent but joined the Democratic Party before the first session.
  9. ^ The previous delegate, Jorge Luis Córdova, was registered as New Progressive/Democratic.

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