List of United States Representatives from Kentucky

This is a list of all people who have represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives.

Current members

In descending order of seniority:

• Harold Rogers - Kentucky 5th
• Ed Whitfield - Kentucky 1st
• Thomas Massie - Kentucky 4th
• John Yarmuth - Kentucky 3rd
• Brett Guthrie- Kentucky 2nd
• Andy Barr - Kentucky 6th

Previous members

Representative	Years	Party	District
John Adair	1831–1833	Democratic	Kentucky 7th
George Madison Adams	1867–1875	Democratic	Kentucky 8th and Kentucky 9th
Green Adams	1847–1849	Whig	Kentucky 6th
	1859–1861	Oppositionist	Kentucky 11th
Silas Adams	1893–1895	Republican	Kentucky 3rd and Kentucky 10th
Chilton Allan	1831–1835	National Republican	Kentucky 2nd
	1835–1837	Whig	Kentucky 2nd
Henry Dixon Allen	1899–1903	Democratic	Kentucky 1st
Lucien Anderson	1863–1865	Unconditional Unionist	Kentucky 8th
Richard Clough Anderson, Jr.	1817–1821	Democratic-Republican	Kentucky 5th
Simeon H. Anderson	1839–1840	Whig	Kentucky 5th
William Clayton Anderson	1859–1861	Oppositionist	Kentucky 11th
Landaff Andrews	1839–1843	Whig	Kentucky 6th
William Evans Arthur	1871–1875	Democratic	Kentucky 6th
Scotty Baesler	1993–1999	Democratic	Kentucky 1st
Alben W. Barkley	1913–1927	Democratic	Kentucky 1st
Thomas Barlow	1993–1995	Democratic
William T. Barry	1810–1811	Democratic-Republican
Joe B. Bates	1938–1953	Democratic
Martin Beaty	1833–1835	National Republican	Kentucky 1st
James B. Beck	1867–1875	Democratic
William M. Beckner	1894–1895	Democratic
George M. Bedinger	1803–1807	Democratic-Republican
Joshua Fry Bell	1845–1847	Whig
Joseph B. Bennett	1905–1911	Republican
Albert S. Berry	1893–1901	Democratic
Joseph C. S. Blackburn	1875–1885	Democratic
Robert E. Lee Blackburn	1929–1931	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Andrew Boone	1875–1879	Democratic
Vincent Boreing	1899–1903	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Linn Boyd	1835–1837 1839–1855	Democratic
John Boyle	1803–1809	Democratic-Republican
Daniel Breck	1849–1851	Whig
James D. Breckinridge	1821–1823	Democratic-Republican
John B. Breckinridge	1973–1979	Democratic
John C. Breckinridge	1851–1855	Democratic
William Breckinridge	1885–1895	Democratic
Francis Bristow	1854–1855	Whig
	1855–1861	Oppositionist
John Y. Brown	1859–1861 1873–1877	Democratic
John Y. Brown, Sr.	1933–1935	Democratic
William Brown	1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
Aylette Buckner	1847–1849	Whig
Richard A. Buckner	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1829	National Republican
Wingfield Bullock	1821	Democratic-Republican
Jim Bunning	1987–1999	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Frank W. Burke	1959–1963	Democratic
Henry Cornelius Burnett	1855–1861	Democratic
William Orlando Butler	1839–1843	Democratic
George Caldwell	1843–1845 1849–1851	Democratic
John W. Caldwell	1877–1883	Democratic
John Calhoon	1827 1835–1837	National Republican
	1837–1839	Whig
John P. Campbell, Jr.	1855–1857	Know-Nothing
J. Campbell Cantrill	1909–1923	Democratic
Cap R. Carden	1931–1935	Democratic
John Griffin Carlisle	1877–1890	Democratic
Chester O. Carrier	1943–1945	Republican
Tim Lee Carter	1965–1981	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Asher G. Caruth	1887–1895	Democratic
Glover H. Cary	1931–1936	Democratic
Samuel L. Casey	1862–1863	Unionist
John Chambers	1828–1829 1835–1837	National Republican
	1837–1839	Whig
Ben Chandler	2004-2013	Democratic	Kentucky 6th
Virgil Chapman	1925–1929 1931–1949	Democratic
Frank Chelf	1945–1967	Democratic	Kentucky 1st
Thomas Chilton	1827–1831	Democratic
	1833–1835	National Republican
James Chrisman	1853–1855	Democratic
John Daniel Clardy	1895–1899	Democratic
James Clark	1813–1816	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1831	National-Republican
Beverly L. Clarke	1847–1849	Democratic
John B. Clarke	1875–1879	Democratic
Brutus J. Clay	1863–1865	Unionist
Henry Clay	1811–1815 1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
James Brown Clay	1857–1859	Democratic
James Franklin Clay	1883–1885	Democratic
Earle C. Clements	1945–1948	Democratic
Nicholas D. Coleman	1829–1831	Democratic
David G. Colson	1895–1899	Republican
William O. Cowger	1967–1971	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Leander Cox	1853–1855	Whig
	1855–1857	Know-Nothing
John D. Craddock	1929–1931	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Edward W. Creal	1935–1943	Democratic
Henry Crist	1809–1811	Democratic-Republican
John J. Crittenden	1861–1863	Unionist	Kentucky 1st
Edward Crossland	1871–1875	Democratic
William W. Culbertson	1883–1885	Republican
William P. Curlin, Jr.	1971–1973	Democratic
Henry Daniel	1827–1833	Democratic
Amos Davis	1833–1835	National Republican
Garrett Davis	1839–1847	Whig
Thomas Terry Davis	1797–1803	Democratic-Republican
George M. Davison	1897–1899	Republican
Joseph Desha	1807–1819	Democratic-Republican
William Worth Dickerson	1890–1893	Democratic
John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr.	1930–1931	Democratic
Garnett Duncan	1847–1849	Whig
George W. Dunlap	1861–1863	Unionist
Milton J. Durham	1873–1879	Democratic
William Pope Duval	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Don C. Edwards	1905–1911	Republican
John Milton Elliott	1853–1859	Democratic
William Thomas Ellis	1889–1895	Democratic
Walter Evans	1895–1899	Republican
Presley Ewing	1851–1854	Whig
Charles R. Farnsley	1965–1967	Democratic
William J. Fields	1911–1923	Democratic
Charles Finley	1930–1933	Republican
Hugh F. Finley	1887–1891	Republican	Kentucky 1st
Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick	1897–1901	Democratic
Ernie Fletcher	1999–2003	Republican
Thomas Fletcher	1816–1817	Democratic-Republican
John Fowler	1797–1807	Democratic-Republican
Richard French	1835–1837 1843–1845 1847–1849	Democratic
John P. Gaines	1847–1849	Whig
Nathan Gaither	1829–1833	Democratic
June W. Gayle	1900–1901	Democratic
George G. Gilbert	1899–1907	Democratic
Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert	1921–1929 1931–1933	Democratic
James S. Golden	1949–1955	Republican
Jacob Golladay	1867–1870	Democratic
Daniel Linn Gooch	1901–1905	Democratic
Isaac Goodnight	1889–1895	Democratic	Kentucky 1st
William J. Graves	1835–1837	National Republican
	1837–1841	Whig
Willis Green	1839–1845	Whig
Christopher Greenup	1792–1795	Anti-Administration
	1795–1797	Democratic-Republican
Noble Jones Gregory	1937–1959	Democratic
W. Voris Gregory	1927–1936	Democratic
Benjamin E. Grey	1851–1855	Whig
Henry Grider	1843–1847	Whig
	1861–1865	Unionist
	1865–1866	Democratic
Asa Grover	1867–1869	Democratic
John E. Halsell	1883–1887	Democratic
Finley Hamilton	1933–1935	Democratic
Benjamin Hardin	1815–1817 1819–1823	Democratic-Republican
	1833–1837	National Republican
Aaron Harding	1861–1865	Unionist
	1865–1867	Democratic
James Harlan	1835–1837	National Republican
	1837–1839	Whig
Albert G. Hawes	1831–1837	Democratic
Richard Hawes	1837–1841	Whig
Joseph H. Hawkins	1814–1815	Democratic-Republican
Harvey Helm	1907–1919	Democratic
John Kerr Hendrick	1895–1897	Democratic
John F. Henry	1826–1827	National Republican
Robert P. Henry	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1826	Democratic
Clement S. Hill	1853–1855	Whig
Elijah Hise	1866–1867	Democratic
Francis A. Hopkins	1903–1907	Democratic
Larry Hopkins	1979–1993	Republican
Nathan T. Hopkins	1897	Republican
Samuel Hopkins	1813–1815	Democratic-Republican
Benjamin Howard	1807–1810	Democratic-Republican
Carroll Hubbard	1975–1993	Democratic
W. Godfrey Hunter	1887–1889 1895–1897 1903–1905	Republican
Harvey Samuel Irwin	1901–1903	Republican
James S. Jackson	1861	Unionist
Addison James	1907–1909	Republican
Ollie M. James	1903–1913	Democratic
Joshua Jewett	1855–1859	Democratic
Ben Johnson	1907–1927	Democratic
Francis Johnson	1820–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1827	National Republican
James Johnson	1825–1826	Democratic
James Leeper Johnson	1849–1851	Whig
John Telemachus Johnson	1821–1825	Democratic-Republican
Richard Mentor Johnson	1807–1819 1829–1837	Democratic-Republican
Thomas Laurens Jones	1867–1871 1875–1877	Democratic
James Nicholas Kehoe	1901–1905	Democratic
Elva R. Kendall	1929–1931	Republican
John W. Kendall	1891–1892	Democratic
Joseph M. Kendall	1892–1893 1895–1897	Democratic
William P. Kimball	1907–1909	Democratic
John Kincaid	1829–1831	Democratic
David Hayes Kincheloe	1915–1930	Democratic
Andrew Jackson Kirk	1926–1927	Republican
J. Proctor Knott	1867–1871 1875–1883	Democratic
Polk Laffoon	1885–1889	Democratic
John W. Langley	1907–1926	Republican
Katherine G. Langley	1927–1931	Republican
Joseph Lecompte	1825–1833	Democratic
Robert P. Letcher	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1835	National Republican
John W. Lewis	1895–1897	Republican
Joseph Horace Lewis	1870–1873	Democratic
Ron Lewis	1994–2009	Republican
William Lewis	1948–1949	Republican
Marcus C. Lisle	1893–1894	Democratic
James Love	1833–1835	National Republican
Ken Lucas	1999–2005	Democratic
Chittenden Lyon	1827–1835	Democratic
Matthew Lyon	1803–1811	Democratic-Republican
Robert Mallory	1859–1861	Oppositionist
	1861–1865	Unionist
Alexander Marshall	1855–1857	Know-Nothing
Humphrey Marshall	1849–1852	Whig
	1855–1859	Know-Nothing
Thomas A. Marshall	1831–1835	National Republican
Thomas Francis Marshall	1841–1843	Whig
John Preston Martin	1845–1847	Democratic
John C. Mason	1849–1853 1857–1859	Democratic
Andrew J. May	1931–1947	Democratic
Romano L. Mazzoli	1971–1995	Democratic
James B. McCreary	1885–1897	Democratic
Robert L. McHatton	1826–1829	Democratic
Henry D. McHenry	1871–1873	Democratic
John H. McHenry	1845–1847	Whig
Samuel McKee	1809–1817	Democratic-Republican
Samuel McKee	1865–1867	Unconditional Unionist
	1868–1869	Republican
James A. McKenzie	1877–1883	Democratic
Alney McLean	1815–1817 1819–1821	Democratic-Republican
Finis McLean	1849–1851	Whig
Wendell H. Meade	1947–1949	Republican
Richard Menefee	1837–1839	Whig
John W. Menzies	1861–1863	Unionist
Thomas Metcalfe	1819–1821	Federalist
	1821–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1828	National Republican
Charles W. Milliken	1873–1877	Democratic
Alexander B. Montgomery	1887–1895	Democratic
Thomas Montgomery	1813–1815 1820–1823	Democratic-Republican
John William Moore	1925–1933	Democratic
Laban T. Moore	1859–1861	Oppositionist
Thomas P. Moore	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1829	Democratic
Henry D. Moorman	1927–1929	Democratic
Charles S. Morehead	1847–1851	Whig
Joseph W. Morris	1923–1925	Democratic
Thruston Ballard Morton	1947–1953	Republican
J. McKenzie Moss	1902–1903	Republican
John L. Murray	1837–1839	Democratic
William Huston Natcher	1953–1994	Democratic
Anthony New	1811–1813 1817–1819 1821–1823	Anti-Administration
J. Lincoln Newhall	1929–1931	Republican
Anne Northup	1997–2007	Republican
Emmet O'Neal	1935–1947	Democratic
Charles F. Ogden	1919–1923	Republican
Stephen Ormsby	1811–1817	Democratic-Republican
Alexander D. Orr	1792–1795	Anti-Administration
	1795–1797	Democratic-Republican
William Claiborne Owens	1895–1896	Democratic
	1896–1897	Republican
Bryan Owsley	1841–1843	Whig
Edward Y. Parsons	1875–1876	Democratic
Thomas H. Paynter	1889–1895	Democratic
Carl C. Perkins	1984–1993	Democratic
Carl D. Perkins	1949–1984	Democratic
Samuel Peyton	1847–1849 1857–1861	Democratic
Elijah Phister	1879–1883	Democratic
John Pope	1837–1843	Whig
Patrick H. Pope	1833–1835	Democratic
Caleb Powers	1911–1919	Republican
William Preston	1852–1855	Whig
Samuel Johnson Pugh	1895–1901	Republican
Tunstall Quarles	1817–1820	Democratic-Republican
William H. Randall	1863–1867	Unconditional Unionist
William B. Read	1871–1875	Democratic
John S. Rhea	1897–1905	Democratic
Joseph L. Rhinock	1905–1911	Democratic
John McConnell Rice	1869–1873	Democratic
James M. Richardson	1905–1907	Democratic
Burwell C. Ritter	1865–1867	Democratic
Charles W. Roark	1929	Republican
George Robertson	1817–1821	Democratic-Republican
Thomas A. Robertson	1883–1887	Democratic
John M. Robsion	1919–1930 1935–1948	Republican
John M. Robsion, Jr.	1953–1959	Republican
Arthur B. Rouse	1911–1927	Democratic
Lovell Rousseau	1865–1867	Unconditional Unionist
John Rowan	1807–1809	Democratic-Republican
Edward Rumsey	1837–1839	Whig
Thomas Sandford	1803–1807	Democratic-Republican
Evan E. Settle	1897–1899	Democratic
George S. Shanklin	1865–1867	Democratic
Solomon P. Sharp	1813–1817	Democratic-Republican
J. Swagar Sherley	1903–1919	Democratic
Eugene Siler	1955–1965	Republican
William E. Simms	1859–1861	Democratic
David Highbaugh Smith	1897–1907	Democratic
Green Clay Smith	1863–1866	Unconditional Unionist
John Speed Smith	1821–1823	Democratic-Republican
Gene Snyder	1963–1965 1967–1987	Republican
William W. Southgate	1837–1839	Whig
Thomas Speed	1817–1819	Democratic-Republican
Brent Spence	1931–1963	Democratic
James Sprigg	1841–1843	Whig
Elisha Standiford	1873–1875	Democratic
Augustus O. Stanley	1903–1915	Democratic
Richard H. Stanton	1849–1855	Democratic
John W. Stevenson	1857–1861	Democratic
James W. Stone	1843–1845 1851–1853	Democratic
William Johnson Stone	1885–1895	Democratic
Frank Stubblefield	1959–1974	Democratic
William N. Sweeney	1869–1871	Democratic
King Swope	1919–1921	Republican
Samuel F. Swope	1855–1857	Know-Nothing
Albert G. Talbott	1855–1859	Democratic
Micah Taul	1815–1817	Democratic-Republican
William P. Taulbee	1885–1889	Democratic
Maurice Thatcher	1923–1933	Republican
George M. Thomas	1887–1889	Republican
Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.	1909–1925	Democratic
William Thomasson	1843–1847	Whig
John Burton Thompson	1840–1843 1847–1851	Whig
Philip Thompson	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
Philip B. Thompson, Jr.	1879–1885	Democratic
John W. Tibbatts	1843–1847	Democratic
Christopher Tompkins	1831–1835	National Republican
David Trimble	1817–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1827	National Republican
Lawrence S. Trimble	1865–1871	Democratic
South Trimble	1901–1907	Democratic
Philip Triplett	1839–1843	Whig
Andrew Trumbo	1845–1847	Whig
Oscar Turner	1879–1881	Independent Democrat
	1881–1883	Democratic
	1883–1885	Independent Democrat
Oscar Turner	1899–1901	Democratic
Thomas Turner	1877–1881	Democratic
Joseph R. Underwood	1835–1843	Whig
Thomas R. Underwood	1949–1951	Democratic
Warner Underwood	1855–1859	Know-Nothing
Beverly M. Vincent	1937–1945	Democratic
Fred M. Vinson	1924–1929 1931–1938	Democratic
William H. Wadsworth	1861–1865	Unionist
	1885–1887	Republican
David Walker	1817–1820	Democratic-Republican
Lewis L. Walker	1929–1931	Republican
Matthew Walton	1803–1807	Democratic-Republican
Andrew H. Ward	1866–1867	Democratic
Mike Ward	1995–1997	Democratic
William T. Ward	1851–1853	Whig
Orie S. Ware	1927–1929	Democratic
Henry Watterson	1876–1877	Democratic
John C. Watts	1951–1971	Democratic
Charles K. Wheeler	1897–1903	Democratic
John A. Whitaker	1948–1951	Democratic
Addison White	1851–1853	Whig
David White	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
James Bamford White	1901–1903	Democratic
John White	1835–1845	Whig
John D. White	1875–1877 1881–1885	Republican
Charles A. Wickliffe	1823–1825	Democratic-Republican
	1825–1833	Democratic
	1861–1863	Unionist
Sherrod Williams	1835–1841	Whig
Albert S. Willis	1877–1887	Democratic
John H. Wilson	1889–1893	Republican
Boyd Winchester	1869–1873	Democratic
Garrett L. Withers	1952–1953	Democratic
Frank L. Wolford	1883–1887	Democratic
Samuel H. Woodson	1821–1823	Democratic-Republican
Joel Yancey	1827–1831	Democratic
George Helm Yeaman	1862–1865	Unionist
Bryan Rust Young	1845–1847	Whig
John Duncan Young	1873–1875	Democratic
William Singleton Young	1825–1827	National Republican

2008 Election (House)

Party	Total seats	Change	Seat percentage
Republicans	4	0	66.7%
Democrats	2	0	33.3%
Totals	6	+0	100.0%

2010 Election (House)

Party	Total seats	Change	Seat pecentage
Republicans	4	0	66.7%
Democrats	2	0	33.3%
Totals	6	+0	100.0%

2012 Election (House)

Party	Total seats	Change	Seat pecentage
Republicans	5	1	88.3%
Democrats	1	-1	16.7%
Totals	6	+0	100.0%

Source

House of Representatives List of Members