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Jews Who Have Served in the United States House of
Representatives
| Represenative |
Party
and State |
Years
of Service |
| Levin,
Lewis Charles |
Amer.-Pa. |
1845-1851 |
| Kaufman,
David Spangler |
D-Tex. |
1846-1851 |
| Hart,
Emanuel Bernard |
D-N.Y. |
1851-1853 |
| Phillips,
Philip |
D-Ala. |
1853-1855 |
| Phillips,
Henry Myer |
D-Pa. |
1857-1859 |
| Hahn,
Michael |
Unionist;
R-La. |
1862-1863;
1885-1886 |
| Strouse,
Myer |
D-Pa. |
1863-1867 |
| Levy,
William Mallory |
D-La. |
1875-1877 |
| Morse,
Leopold |
D-Mass. |
1877-1885;
1887-1889 |
| Einstein,
Edwin |
R-N.Y. |
1879-1881 |
| Houseman,
Julius |
D-Mich. |
1883-1885 |
| Pulitzer,
Joseph |
D-N.Y, |
1885-1886 |
| Rayner,
Isidor |
D-Md. |
1887-1889;
1891-1895 |
| Frank,
Nathan |
R-Mo. |
1889-1891 |
| Meyer,
Adolph |
D-La. |
1891-1908 |
| Goldzier,
Julius |
D-III. |
1893-1895 |
| Wanger,
Irving P. * |
R-Pa. |
1893-1911 |
| Straus,
Isidor |
D-N.Y. |
1894-1895 |
| Fischer,
Israel Frederick |
R-N.Y. |
1895-1899 |
| Littauer,
Lucius Nathan |
R-N.Y. |
1897-1907 |
| May,
Mitchell |
D-N.Y. |
1899-1901 |
| Levy,
Jefferson |
D-N.Y. |
1899-1901;
1911-1915 |
| Kahn,
Julius |
R-Calif. |
1899-1903;
1905-1924 |
| Goldfogle,
Henry Mayer |
D-N.Y |
1901-1915;
1919-1921 |
| Lessler,
Montague |
R-N.Y. |
1902-1903 |
| Emerich,
Martin |
D-III. |
1903-1905 |
| Wolf,
Harry Benjamin |
D-Md. |
1907-1909 |
| Sabath,
Adolph Joachim |
D-III. |
1907--1952 |
| Berger,
Victor Luitpold |
Soc.-Wis. |
1911--1913;
1919; 1923-1929 |
| Cantor,
Jacob Aaron |
D-N.Y. |
1913-1915 |
| Bacharach,
Isaac |
R-N.J. |
1915-1937 |
| London,
Meyer |
Soc.-N.Y. |
1915-1919,
1921-1923 |
| Siegel,
Isaac |
R-N.Y. |
1915-1923 |
| Kraus,
Milton |
R-Ind. |
1917-1923 |
| Volk,
Lester David |
R-N.Y. |
1920-1923 |
| Perlman,
Nathan David |
R-N.Y. |
1920-1927 |
| Ansorge,
Martin Charles |
R-N.Y. |
1921-1923 |
| Rossdale,
Albert Berger |
R-N.Y. |
1921-1923 |
| Rosenbloom,
Benjamin |
R-W.V. |
1921-1925 |
| Marx,
Samuel |
D-N.Y. |
Elected
1922; died before assuming office |
| Jacobstein.
Meyer |
D-N.Y. |
1923-1929 |
| Dickstein,
Samuel |
D-N.Y. |
1923-1945 |
| Bloom,
Sol |
D-N.Y. |
1923-1949 |
| Celler,
Emanuel |
D-N.Y. |
1923-1973 |
| Golder,
Benjamin Martin |
R-Pa. |
1925-1933 |
| Kahn,
Florence Prag |
R-Calif. |
1925-1937 |
| Cohen,
William Wolfe |
D-N.Y. |
1927-1929 |
| Sirovich,
William Irving |
D-N.Y. |
1927-1939 |
| Peyser,
Theodore Albert |
D-N.Y. |
1933-1937 |
| Ellenbogen,
Henry |
D-Pa. |
1933-1938 |
| Kopplemann,
Herman Paul |
D-Conn. |
1933-1939;
1941-1943:1945-1947 |
| Citron,
William Paul |
D-Conn. |
1935-1939 |
| Sacks,
Leon |
D-Pa. |
1937-1943 |
| Edelstein,
Morris Michael |
D-N.Y. |
1940-1941 |
| Klein,
Arthur George |
D-N.Y. |
1941-1945;
1946-1956 |
| Weiss,
Samuel Arthur |
D-Pa. |
1941-1946 |
| EIlison,
Daniel |
R-Md. |
1943-1945 |
| Rabln,
Benjamin J. |
D-N.Y. |
1945-1947 |
| Rayfiel,
Leo Frederick |
D-N.Y. |
1945-1947 |
| Javits,
Jacob Koppel |
R-N.Y. |
1947-1954 |
| Multer,
Abraham Jacob |
D-N.Y. |
1947-1967 |
| Isacson,
Leo |
Am.
Lab.-N,Y, |
1948-1949 |
| Irving,
Theodore |
D-N.Y. |
1949-1953 |
| Ribicoff,
Abraham A. |
D-Conn. |
1949-1953 |
| Heller,
Louis Benjamin |
D-N.Y. |
1949-1954 |
| Chudoff,
Earl |
D-Pa. |
1949-1958 |
| Dollinger,
Isidore |
D-N.Y. |
1949-1959 |
| Yates,
Sidney Richard |
D-III, |
1949-1963;
1965-1999 |
| Fine,
Sidney Asher |
D-N.Y. |
1951-1956 |
| Holtzman,
Lester |
D-N.Y. |
1953-1961 |
| Friedel,
Samuel Nathaniel |
D-Md. |
1953-1971 |
| Davidson,
Irwin Delmore |
D-N.Y, |
1955-1956 |
| Zelenko,
Herbert |
D-N.Y. |
1955-1963 |
| Teller,
Ludwig |
D-N.Y. |
1957-1961 |
| Farbstein,
Leonard |
D-N.Y. |
1957-1971 |
| Toll,
Herman |
D-Pa. |
1959-1967 |
| Halpern,
Seymour |
R-N.
Y. |
1959-1973 |
| Gilbert,
Jacob H. |
D-N.Y. |
1960-1971 |
| Joelson,
Charles Samuel |
D-N.
J. |
1961-1969 |
| Rosenthal,
Benjamin S. |
D-N.Y. |
1962-1983 |
| Resnick,
Joseph Yale |
D-N.Y. |
1965-1969 |
| Tenzer,
Herbert |
D-N.Y. |
1965-1969 |
| Scheuer,
James |
D-N.Y |
1965-1973;
1975-1993 |
| Wolff,
Lester Lionel |
D-N.Y. |
1965-1981 |
| Steiger,
Sam |
R-Ariz. |
1967-1977 |
| Eilberg,
Joshua |
D-Pa. |
1967-1979 |
| Podell,
Bertram L. |
D-N.Y. |
1968-1975 |
| Lowenstein,
Allard K. |
D-N.Y. |
1969-1971 |
| Mikva,
Abner Joseph |
D-III. |
1969-1973;
1975-1979 |
| Koch,
Edward Irving |
D-N.Y. |
1969-1977 |
| Abzug,
Bella Savitsky |
D-N.Y. |
1971-1977 |
| Gilman,
Benjamin Arthur |
R-N.Y. |
1973 |
| Mezvinsky,
Edward M. |
D-IA |
1973-1977 |
| Holtzman,
Elizabeth |
D-N.Y. |
1973-1981 |
| Lehman,
William |
D-Fla. |
1973-1993 |
| Waxman,
Henry Arnold |
D-Calif. |
1975 |
| Krebs,
John Hans |
D-Calif |
1975-1979 |
| Spellman,
Gladys Noon |
D-Md. |
1975-1981 |
| Richmond,
Frederick W. |
D-N.Y. |
1975-1982 |
| Levitas,
Elliott Harris |
D-Ga. |
1975-1985 |
| Gradison,
Willis David |
R-Ohio |
1975-1993 |
| Solarz,
Stephen |
D-N.Y. |
1975-1993 |
| Marks,
Marc Lincoln |
R-Pa. |
1977-1983 |
| Weiss,
Theodore S. |
D-N.Y. |
1977-1992 |
| Glickman,
Daniel Robert |
D-Kans. |
1977-1995 |
| Beilenson,
Anthony C. |
D-Calif. |
1977-1997 |
| Green,
Sedgwick William |
R-N.Y. |
1978-1993 |
| Frost,
(Jonas) Martin |
D-Tex. |
1979 |
| Kramer,
Kenneth Bentley |
R-Colo. |
1979-1987 |
| Wolpe,
Howard Elliot III |
D-Mich. |
1979-1993 |
| Frank,
Barney |
D-Mass. |
1981 |
| Lantos,
Thomas Peter |
D-Calif. |
1981 |
| Shamanksy,
Robert Norton |
D-Ohio |
1981-1983 |
| Fiedler,
Roberta Francis (Bobbi) |
D-Calif. |
1981-1987 |
| Wyden,
Ronald Lee |
D-Oreg. |
1981-1996 |
| Schumer,
Charles Ellis |
D-N.Y. |
1981-1999 |
| Gejdenson,
Samuel |
D-Conn. |
1981-2001 |
| Ackerman,
Gary Leonard |
D-N.Y. |
1983 |
| Berman,
Howard L. |
D-Calif. |
1983 |
| Levin,
Sander Martin |
D-Mich. |
1983 |
| Sisisky,
Norman |
D-Va. |
1983 |
| Burton,
Sala Galant |
D-Calif. |
1983-1987 |
| Boxer,
Barbara |
D-Cal
if. |
1983-1992 |
| Erdreich,
Benjamin Leader |
D-Ala |
1983-1993 |
| Levine,
Meldon Edises |
D-Calif. |
1983-1993 |
| Smith,
Lawrence Jack |
D-Fla. |
1983-1993 |
| Miller,
John |
R-Wash. |
1985-1993 |
| Cardin,
Benjamin |
D-Md. |
1987-2006 |
| Engel,
Eliot Lanze |
D-N.Y. |
1989 |
| Lowey,
Nita Melnikoff |
D-N.Y. |
1989 |
| Schiff,
Steve |
R-N.M. |
1989-1997 |
| Sanders,
Bernard |
Ind.-Vt. |
1991-2006 |
| Zimmer,
Richard |
R-N.1. |
1991-1997 |
| Nadler,
Jerrold Lewis |
D-N.Y. |
1992 |
| Deutsch,
Peter R. |
D-Fla. |
1993 |
| Filner,
Robert |
D-Calif. |
1993 |
| Coppersmith,
Sam |
D-Ariz. |
1993-1995 |
| Fingerhut,
Eric |
D-Ohio |
1993-1995 |
| Hamburg,
Daniel |
D-Calif. |
1993-1995 |
| Klein,
Herbert Charles |
D-N.J. |
1993-1995 |
| Levy,
David A. |
R-N.Y. |
1993-1995 |
| Mezvinsky,
Margolis M. |
D-Pa. |
1993-1995 |
| Schenk,
Lynn |
D-Calif. |
1993-1995 |
| Harman,
Jane F. |
D-Calif. |
1993-199T2001 |
| Fox,
Jon |
R-Pa. |
1995-1999 |
| Rothman,
Steven R. |
D-N.J. |
1997 |
| Sherman,
Brad |
D-Calif. |
1997 |
| Wexler,
Robert |
D-Fla. |
1997 |
| Berkeley,
Shelley |
D-Nev. |
1999 |
| Schakowsky,
Jan |
D-III. |
1999 |
| Weiner,
Anthony |
D-N.Y. |
1999 |
| Cantor,
Eric |
R-Va. |
2001 |
| Davis,
Susan |
D-Calif. |
2001 |
| Israel,
Steve |
D-N.Y. |
2001 |
| Schiff,
Adam |
D-Calif. |
2001 |
| Rahm
Emanuel |
D-Ill. |
2003 |
Giffords,
Gabrielle
|
D-AZ |
2007 |
Klein,
Ronald
|
D-FL |
2007 |
Yarmuth,
John |
D-KY |
2007 |
Hodes,
Paul |
D-NH |
2007 |
Cohen,
Stephen
|
D-TN |
2007 |
| Kagen, Steve |
D-WI |
2007 |
*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.
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