United States congressional delegations from West Virginia

West Virginia

Census Topic	Value
Population	1,793,716
Gender	49.9% Male 50.1% Female
Race	89.8% White 3.7% Black 0.8% Asian 0.2% Native American 0% Pacific Islander
Ethnicity	1.9% Hispanic
Median household income	$55,217
High school graduation rate	88.4%
College graduation rate	22.7%
Upcoming elections	U.S. House, 2024 U.S. Senate, 2024

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2022 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%.

This page displays the current and historical members of U.S. Congress from West Virginia. Here is the current partisan breakdown of the congressional members from West Virginia.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from West Virginia
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	0	0
Republican	1	2	3
Independent	1	0	1
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	2	4

Current members

U.S. Senate

See also: Classes of United States Senators

The current members of the U.S. Senate from West Virginia are:

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Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office	Date term ends
U.S. Senate West Virginia	Shelley Moore Capito	Republican	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2027
U.S. Senate West Virginia	Joe Manchin III	Independent	November 15, 2010	January 3, 2025

U.S. House

The current members of the U.S. House from West Virginia are:

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Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office	Date term ends
U.S. House West Virginia District 1	Carol Miller	Republican	January 3, 2023	January 3, 2025
U.S. House West Virginia District 2	Alexander Mooney	Republican	January 3, 2015	January 3, 2025

Historical members

U.S. Senate

Historical Representation to the U.S. Senate by Party from West Virginia
Party	Total
Democratic	22
Republican	16

Class 1 Senators from West Virginia
Senator	Years Served	Party
Peter G. Van Winkle	1863-1869	Republican
Arthur I. Boreman	1869-1875	Republican
Allen T. Caperton	1875-1876	Democratic
Samuel Price	1876-1877	Democratic
Frank Hereford	1877-1881	Democratic
Johnson N. Camden	1881-1887	Democratic
Charles J. Faulkner	1887-1899	Democratic
Nathan B. Scott	1899-1911	Republican
William E. Chilton	1911-1917	Democratic
Howard Sutherland	1917-1923	Republican
Matthew M. Neely	1923-1929	Democratic
Henry D. Hatfield	1929-1935	Republican
Rush D. Holt	1935-1941	Democratic
Harley M. Kilgore	1941-1956	Democratic
William R. Laird III	1956-1956	Democratic
W. Chapman Revercomb	1956-1959	Republican
Robert C. Byrd	1959-2010	Democratic
Carte Goodwin	2010-2010	Democratic
Joe Manchin III	2010-Present	Independent

Class 2 Senators from West Virginia
Senator	Years Served	Party
Waitman T. Willey	1863-1871	Republican
Henry Gassaway Davis	1871-1883	Democratic
John E. Kenna	1883-1893	Democratic
Johnson N. Camden	1893-1895	Democratic
Stephen B. Elkins	1895-1911	Republican
Davis Elkins	1911-1911	Republican
Clarence W. Watson	1911-1913	Democratic
Nathan Goff	1913-1919	Republican
Davis Elkins	1919-1925	Republican
Guy D. Goff	1925-1931	Republican
Matthew M. Neely	1931-1941	Democratic
Joseph Rosier	1941-1942	Democratic
Hugh Ike Shott	1942-1943	Republican
W. Chapman Revercomb	1943-1949	Republican
Matthew M. Neely	1949-1958	Democratic
John D. Hoblitzell, Jr.	1958-1958	Republican
Jennings Randolph	1958-1985	Democratic
John D. Rockefeller IV	1985-2015	Democratic
Shelley Moore Capito	2015-Present	Republican

U.S. House

The following individuals were elected to the U.S. House from West Virginia.

2000s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 2000s from West Virginia
Party	Total
Democratic	2
Republican	5
Total Representatives	7

Representatives to the U.S. House from West Virginia
Representative	Years Served	Party
Bob Wise	1983-2001	Democratic
Alan B. Mollohan	1983-2011	Democratic
Shelley Moore Capito	2001-2015	Republican
Evan Jenkins	2015-2018	Republican
David McKinley	2011-2023	Republican
Alexander Mooney	2015-present	Republican
Carol Miller	2019-present	Republican

1900s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1900s from West Virginia
Party	Total
Democratic	30
Republican	30
None	1
Total Representatives	61

Representatives to the U.S. House from West Virginia
Representative	Years Served	Party
J. A. Hughes	1901-1903, 1903-1915, 1927-1930	Republican
Joseph H. Gaines	1901-1911	Republican
Harry C. Woodyard	1903-1911	Republican
Thomas B. Davis	1905-1907	Democratic
George Cookman Sturgiss	1907-1911	Republican
William P. Hubbard	1907-1911	None
John W. Davis	1911-1913	Democratic
John M. Hamilton	1911-1913	Democratic
Adam B. Littlepage	1911-1917	Democratic
William Gay Brown, Jr.	1911-1916	Democratic
Samuel B. Avis	1913-1915	Republican
Hunter H. Moss, Jr.	1913-1916	Republican
Howard Sutherland	1913-1917	Republican
Matthew M. Neely	1913-1921, 1945-1947	Democratic
Edward Cooper	1915-1919	Republican
George M. Bowers	1916-1923	Republican
Stuart F. Reed	1917-1925	Republican
Wells Goodykoontz	1919-1923	Republican
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom	1921-1925	Republican
Robert E. Lee Allen	1923-1925	Democratic
Thomas Jefferson Lilly	1923-1925	Democratic
George William Johnson	1923-1925, 1933-1943	Democratic
J. Alfred Taylor	1923-1927	Democratic
Leonard S. Echols	1923-1927	Republican
John M. Wolverton	1925-1927, 1929-1931	Republican
James F. Strother	1925-1929	Republican
Frank L. Bowman	1925-1933	Republican
Carl G. Bachmann	1925-1933	Republican
Edward T. England	1927-1929	Republican
William S. O'Brien	1927-1929	Democratic
Hugh Ike Shott	1929-1933	Republican
Joe L. Smith	1929-1945	Democratic
Robert Lynn Hogg	1930-1933	Republican
Lynn Hornor	1931-1933	Democratic
Robert L. Ramsay	1933-1939, 1941-1943, 1949-1953	Democratic
Andrew Edmiston, Jr.	1933-1943	Democratic
Jennings Randolph	1933-1947	Democratic
John Kee	1933-1951	Democratic
A. C. Schiffler	1939-1941, 1943-1945	Republican
Edward G. Rohrbough	1943-1945, 1947-1949	Republican
Hubert S. Ellis	1943-1949	Republican
Cleveland M. Bailey	1945-1947, 1949-1963	Democratic
E. H. Hedrick	1945-1953	Democratic
Francis J. Love	1947-1949	Republican
Melvin C. Snyder	1947-1949	Republican
M. G. Burnside	1949-1953, 1955-1957	Democratic
Harley O. Staggers	1949-1981	Democratic
Elizabeth Kee	1951-1965	Democratic
Will E. Neal	1953-1955, 1957-1959	Republican
Robert H. Mollohan	1953-1957, 1969-1983	Democratic
Robert Byrd	1953-1959	Democratic
Arch A. Moore, Jr.	1957-1969	Republican
Ken Hechler	1959-1977	Democratic
John M. Slack, Jr.	1959-1980	Democratic
James Kee	1965-1973	Democratic
J. Marshall Hagans	1973-1975	Republican
Nick Rahall	1977-2015	Democratic
John G. Hutchinson	1980-1981	Democratic
Cleve Benedict	1981-1983	Republican
Mick Staton	1981-1983	Republican
Harley O. Staggers, Jr.	1983-1993	Democratic

1800s

Historical Representation to the U.S. House by Party in the 1800s from West Virginia
Party	Total
Democratic	16
Republican	15
Unconditional Unionist	4
Total Representatives	35

Representatives to the U.S. House from West Virginia
Representative	Years Served	Party
Jacob B. Blair	1863-1865	Unconditional Unionist
William Gay Brown, Sr.	1863-1865	Unconditional Unionist
Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley	1863-1867	Unconditional Unionist
George Robert Latham	1865-1867	Unconditional Unionist
Chester D. Hubbard	1865-1869	Republican
Bethuel M. Kitchen	1867-1869	Republican
Daniel Haymond Polsley	1867-1869	Republican
Isaac H. Duval	1869-1871	Republican
John S. Witcher	1869-1871	Republican
James C. McGrew	1869-1873	Republican
John James Davis	1871-1875	Democratic
Charles J. Faulkner, Sr.	1875-1877	Democratic
Benjamin Wilson	1875-1883	Democratic
Frank Hereford	1877-1881	Democratic
Benjamin Franklin Martin	1877-1881	Democratic
John E. Kenna	1877-1883	Democratic
John B. Hoge	1881-1883	Democratic
Eustace Gibson	1883-1887	Democratic
Charles P. Snyder	1883-1889	Democratic
Nathan Goff	1883-1889	Republican
William Lyne Wilson	1883-1895	Democratic
Charles E. Hogg	1887-1889	Democratic
James M. Jackson	1889-1890	Democratic
John O. Pendleton	1889-1895	Democratic
John D. Alderson	1889-1895	Democratic
George W. Atkinson	1890-1891	Republican
Charles Brooks Smith	1890-1891	Republican
James Capehart	1891-1895	Democratic
James Hall Huling	1895-1897	Republican
Warren Miller	1895-1899	Republican
Alston G. Dayton	1895-1905	Republican
Blackburn B. Dovener	1895-1907	Republican
Charles P. Dorr	1897-1899	Republican
David Emmons Johnston	1899-1901	Democratic
Romeo H. Freer	1899-1901	Republican

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West Virginia's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Shelley Capito (R)

Joe Manchin (I)

Representatives

District 1

Carol Miller (R)

District 2

Alexander Mooney (R)

Republican Party (3)

Independent (1)