Jewish Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Representative Party/State Years of Service
Lewis Charles Levin Amer.-PA 1845-1851
David Spangler Kaufman D-TX 1846-1851
Emanuel Bernard Hart D-NY 1851-1853
Philip Phillips D-AL 1853-1855
Henry Myer Phillips D-PA 1857-1859
Michael Hahn Unionist; R-LA 1862-1863; 1885-1886
Myer Strouse D-PA 1863-1867
William Mallory Levy D-LA 1875-1877
Leopold Morse D-MA 1877-1885; 1887-1889
Edwin Einstein R-NY 1879-1881
Julius Houseman D-MI 1883-1885
Joseph Pulitzer D-NY 1885-1886
Isidor Rayner D-MD 1887-1889; 1891-1895
Nathan Frank R-MO 1889-1891
Adolph Meyer D-LA 1891-1908
Julius Goldzier D-IL 1893-1895
Irving P.Wanger * R-PA 1893-1911
Isidor Straus D-NY 1894-1895
Israel Frederick Fischer R-NY 1895-1899
Lucius Nathan Littauer R-NY 1897-1907
Mitchell May D-NY 1899-1901
Jefferson Levy D-NY 1899-1901; 1911-1915
Julius Kahn R-CA 1899-1903; 1905-1924
Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY 1901-1915; 1919-1921
Montague Lessler R-NY 1902-1903
Martin Emerich D-IL 1903-1905
Harry Benjamin Wolf D-MD  1907-1909
Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL 1907--1952
Victor Luitpold Berger Soc.-WI  1911--1913; 1919; 1923-1929
Jacob Aaron Cantor, D-NY              1913-1915
Isaac Bacharach R-NJ 1915-1937
Meyer London Soc.-NY 1915-1919, 1921-1923
Isaac Siegel R-NY 1915-1923
Milton Kraus R-IN 1917-1923
Lester David Volk R-NY 1920-1923
Nathan David Perlman R-NY 1920-1927
Martin Charles Ansorge R-NY 1921-1923
Albert Berger Rossdale R-NY 1921-1923
Benjamin Rosenbloom R-WV 1921-1925
Samuel Marx D-NY Elected 1922; died before assuming office
Meyer Jacobstein D-NY 1923-1929
Samuel Dickstein D-NY 1923-1945
Sol Bloom D-NY 1923-1949
Emanuel Celler D-NY 1923-1973
Benjamin Martin Golder R-PA 1925-1933
Florence Prag Kahn R-CA 1925-1937
William Wolfe Cohen D-NY 1927-1929
William Irving Sirovich D-NY 1927-1939
Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY 1933-1937
Henry Ellenbogen D-PA 1933-1938
Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT 1933-1939; 1941-1943:1945-1947
William Paul Citron D-CT 1935-1939
Leon Sacks D-PA 1937-1943
Morris Michael Edelstein D-NY 1940-1941
Arthur George Klein D-NY 1941-1945; 1946-1956
Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA 1941-1946
Daniel EIlison, R-MD 1943-1945
Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY 1945-1947
Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY 1945-1947
Jacob Koppel Javits D-NY 1947-1954
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY 1947-1967
Leo Isacson Am. Lab.-NY 1948-1949
Theodore Irving, D-NY 1949-1953
Abraham A. Ribicoff D-CT 1949-1953
Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY 1949-1954
Earl Chudoff D-PA 1949-1958
Isidore Dollinger D-NY 1949-1959
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL 1949-1963; 1965-1999
Sidney Asher Fine D-NY 1951-1956
Lester Holtzman D-NY 1953-1961
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD 1953-1971
Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY 1955-1956
Herbert Zelenko D-NY 1955-1963
Ludwig Teller D-NY 1957-1961
Leonard Farbstein D-NY 1957-1971
Herman Toll D-PA 1959-1967
Seymour Halpern R-NY 1959-1973
Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY 1960-1971
Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ 1961-1969
Benjamin S. Rosenthal D-NY 1962-1983
Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY 1965-1969
Herbert Tenzer                               D-NY 1965-1969
James Scheuer D-NY 1965-1973; 1975-1993
Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY 1965-1981
Sam Steiger R-AZ  1967-1977
Joshua Eilberg D-PA 1967-1979
Bertram L. Podell D-NY 1968-1975
Allard K. Lowenstein, D-NY 1969-1971
Abner Joseph Mikva, D-IL 1969-1973; 1975-1979
Edward Irving Koch D-NY 1969-1977
Bella Savitsky Abzug D-NY 1971-1977
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY 1973-2003
Edward M. Mezvinsky D-IA     1973-1977
Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY 1973-1981
William Lehman D-FL 1973-1993
Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA     1975-
John Hans Krebs D-CA 1975-1979
Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD 1975-1981
Frederick W. Richmond D-NY 1975-1982
Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA 1975-1985
Willis David Gradison R-OH    1975-1993
Stephen Solarz D-NY 1975-1993
Marc Lincoln Marks R-PA 1977-1983
Theodore S. Weiss D-NY 1977-1992
Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS 1977-1995
Anthony C. Beilenson D-CA 1977-1997
Sedgwick William Green R-NY   1978-1993
(Jonas) Martin Frost D-TX 1979-2005
Kenneth Bentley Kramer R-CO 1979-1987
Howard Elliot Wolpe III D-MI.   1979-1993
Barney Frank D-MA 1981-
Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA 1981-2008
Robert Norton Shamanksy D-OH   1981-1983
Roberta Francis (Bobbi) Fiedler D-CA.  1981-1987
Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR 1981-1996
Charles Ellis Schumer D-NY 1981-1999
Samuel Gejdenson D-CT  1981-2001
Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY 1983-
Howard L. Berman D-CA  1983-
Sander Martin Levin D-MI  1983-
Norman Sisisky D-VA 1983-2001
Sala Galant Burton D-CA 1983-1987
Barbara Boxer D-CA 1983-1992
Benjamin Leader Erdreich D-AL 1983-1993
Meldon Edises Levine D-CA 1983-1993
Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL 1983-1993
John Miller R-WA 1985-1993
Benjamin Cardin D-MD  1987-2006
Eliot Lance Engel D-NY 1989-
Nita Melnikoff Lowey D-NY 1989-
Steve Schiff R-NM 1989-1997
Bernard Sanders Ind.-VT 1991-2006
Richard Zimmer R-NJ 1991-1997
Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY 1992-
Peter R. Deutsch D-FL 1993-2005
Robert Filner D-CA 1993-
Sam Coppersmith D-AZ 1993-1995
Eric Fingerhut D-OH 1993-1995
Daniel Hamburg D-CA 1993-1995
Herbert Charles Klein D-NJ 1993-1995
David A. Levy R-NY 1993-1995
Margolis M. Mezvinsky D-PA 1993-1995
Lynn Schenk D-CA 1993-1995
Jane F. Harman D-CA 1993-1999, 2001-2011
Jon Fox R-PA 1995-1999
Steven R. Rothman D-NJ 1997-
Brad Sherman D-CA 1997-
Robert Wexler D-FL 1997-2010
Shelley Berkley D-NV 1999-
Jan Schakowsky D-IL 1999-
Anthony Weiner D-NY 1999-2011
Eric Cantor R-VA 2001-
Susan Davis D-CA 2001-
Steve Israel D-NY 2001-
Adam Schiff D-CA 2001-
Rahm Emanuel D-IL 2003-2009
Allyson Schwartz D-PA 2004-
Debbie Wasserman Schultz D-FL 2005-
Gabrielle Giffords D-AZ 2007-
Ronald Klein D-FL 2007-2011
John Yarmuth D-KY 2007-
Paul Hodes D-NH 2007-2011
Stephen Cohen D-TN 2007-
Steve Kagen D-WI 2007-2011
John H. Adler D-NJ 2009-2011
Alan Grayson D-FL 2009-2011
Jared Polis D-CO 2009-
Ted Deutch D-FL 2010-
David Cicilline D-RI 2011-

*Several sources suggest Wanger was a Protestant who later joined the Episcopal Church. He is buried in an Episcopalian Lutheran cemetery.

Source: Maisel, L. Sandy and Ira Forman, Eds. Jews in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.