Jewish Members of U.S. Congress: House of Representatives
(1845 - Present)
Listed Alphabetically by First Year of Service
|
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 |
| 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 |
R-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 |
1981-2013 |
| 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 |
1983-2013 |
| Howard L. Berman |
D-CA |
1983-2013 |
| Sander Martin Levin |
D-MI |
1983-2019 |
| 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 |
1989-2021 |
| Nita Melnikoff Lowey |
D-NY |
1989-2021 |
| 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 |
1993-2013 |
| 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 |
1997-2013 |
| Brad Sherman |
D-CA |
1997- |
| Robert Wexler |
D-FL |
1997-2010 |
| Shelley Berkley |
D-NV |
1999-2013 |
| Jan Schakowsky |
D-IL |
1999- |
| Anthony Weiner |
D-NY |
1999-2011 |
| Eric Cantor |
R-VA |
2001-2014 |
| Susan Davis |
D-CA |
2001- |
| Steve Israel |
D-NY |
2001-2017 |
| Adam Schiff |
D-CA |
2001- |
| Rahm Emanuel |
D-IL |
2003-2009 |
| Allyson Schwartz |
D-PA |
2005-2015 |
| Debbie Wasserman Schultz |
D-FL |
2005- |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
D-AZ |
2007-2012 |
| Ronald Klein |
D-FL |
2007-2011 |
| John Yarmuth |
D-KY |
2007- |
| Paul Hodes |
D-NH |
2007-2011 |
| Steve Cohen |
D-TN |
2007- |
| Steve Kagen |
D-WI |
2007-2011 |
| John H. Adler |
D-NJ |
2009-2011 |
| Michael Bennet** | D-CO | 2009- |
| Alan Grayson |
D-FL |
2009-2011, 2013-2017 |
| Jared Polis |
D-CO |
2009-2019# |
| Ted Deutch |
D-FL |
2010-2023 |
| Nan Hayworth |
R-NY |
2011-2013 |
| David Cicilline |
D-RI |
2011- |
| Suzanne Bonamici## | D-OR | 2012- |
| Lois Frankel |
D-FL |
2013- |
| Alan Lowenthal |
D-CA |
2013- |
| Brad Schneider |
D-IL |
2013-2015, 2017- |
| Lee Zeldin |
R-NY |
2015-2023 |
| Josh Gottheimer |
D-NJ |
2017- |
| Jacky Rosen |
D-NV |
2017-2019* |
| Jamie Raskin |
D-MD |
2017- |
| David Kustoff |
R-TN |
2017- |
| Andy Levin | D-MI | 2019-2023 |
| Mike Levin | D-CA | 2019- |
| Elaine Luria | D-VA | 2019-2023 |
| Dean Phillips | D-MN | 2019- |
| Max Rose | D-NY | 2019-2023 |
| Kim Schrier | D-WA | 2019- |
| Elissa Slotkin | D-MI | 2019- |
| Susan Wild | D-PA | 2019- |
| Jake Auchincloss | D-MA | 2021- |
| Sara Jacobs | D-CA | 2021- |
| Becca Balint | D-VT | 2023- |
| Adam Frisch | D-CO | 2023- |
| Daniel Goldman | D-NY | 2023- |
| Greg Landsman | D-OH | 2023- |
| Seth Magaziner | D-RI | 2023- |
| Max Miller | R-OH | 2023- |
| Jared Moskowitz | D-FL | 2023- |
#Left office to run for governor.
##Won her seat in a special election. Bonamici was raised Episcopalian and Unitarian but now practices Judaism with her Jewish husband, Michael Simon.
*Ran and was elected to the Senate.
**Bennet’s mother was Jewish, but he does not affiliate with any religion.
Sources: Maisel, L. Sandy and Ira Forman, Eds. Jews in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. News sources.
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