United States congressional delegations from North Carolina
These are tables of congressional delegations from North Carolina to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
The current dean of the North Carolina delegation is Senator Richard Burr, having served in the Senate since 2005 and in Congress since 1995. David Price (NC-4) has served for longer than Burr, as he was first elected in 1987; however, his tenure was interrupted in 1995, when he lost reelection. Price has continuously served since 1997.
U.S. House of Representatives
Current members
The delegation has 13 members, 8 Republicans, and 5 Democrats.
District | Representative | Party | CPVI | Incumbency | District Map |
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1st | ![]() G. K. Butterfield (Wilson) |
Democratic | D+3 | Since 20 July 2004 | ![]() |
2nd | ![]() Deborah Ross (Raleigh) |
Democratic | D+12 | Since 3 January 2021 | ![]() |
3rd | ![]() Greg Murphy (Greenville) |
Republican | R+14 | Since 17 September 2019 | ![]() |
4th | ![]() David Price (Chapel Hill) |
Democratic | D+16 | Since 3 January 1997 | ![]() |
5th | ![]() Virginia Foxx (Banner Elk) |
Republican | R+20 | Since 3 January 2005 | ![]() |
6th | ![]() Kathy Manning (Greensboro) |
Democratic | D+10 | Since 3 January 2021 | ![]() |
7th | ![]() David Rouzer (Benson) |
Republican | R+11 | Since 3 January 2015 | ![]() |
8th | ![]() Richard Hudson (Concord) |
Republican | R+6 | Since 3 January 2013 | ![]() |
9th | ![]() Dan Bishop (Charlotte) |
Republican | R+6 | Since 17 September 2019 | ![]() |
10th | ![]() Patrick McHenry (Cherryville) |
Republican | R+21 | Since 3 January 2005 | ![]() |
11th | ![]() Madison Cawthorn (Hendersonville) |
Republican | R+9 | Since 3 January 2021 | ![]() |
12th | ![]() Alma Adams (Charlotte) |
Democratic | D+19 | Since 4 November 2014 | ![]() |
13th | ![]() Ted Budd (Advance) |
Republican | R+20 | Since 3 January 2017 | ![]() |
1789–1793: 5 seats
After North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution, on November 21, 1789, it was apportioned five seats.
Congress | District | ||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |
1st (1789–1791) | John Baptista Ashe (AA) | John Steele (PA) | Hugh Williamson (PA) | Timothy Bloodworth (AA) | John Sevier (PA)[lower-alpha 1] |
2nd (1791–1793) | William Barry Grove (PA) | Nathaniel Macon (AA) |
1793–1803: 10 seats
Following the 1790 census, North Carolina was apportioned 10 seats.
Congress | District | |||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
3rd (1793–1795) | William Johnston Dawson (AA) |
Matthew Locke (AA) |
"Pleasant Gardens Joe" McDowell (AA) |
Alexander Mebane (AA) |
Nathaniel Macon (AA) |
James Gillespie (AA) |
William Barry Grove (PA) |
Benjamin Williams (AA) |
Thomas Blount (AA) |
Joseph Winston (AA) |
4th (1795–1797) | Jesse Franklin (DR) | Matthew Locke (DR) |
James Holland (DR) | Absalom Tatom (DR) | Nathaniel Macon (DR) |
James Gillespie (DR) |
William Barry Grove (F) |
Dempsey Burgess (DR) |
Thomas Blount (DR) |
Nathan Bryan (DR) |
William F. Strudwick (F) | ||||||||||
5th (1797–1799) | "Quaker Meadows Joe" McDowell (DR) |
Robert Williams (DR) | Richard Stanford (DR) | |||||||
Richard Dobbs Spaight (DR) | ||||||||||
6th (1799–1801) | Joseph Dickson (F) | Willis Alston (DR) |
William Henry Hill (F) |
Archibald Henderson (F) |
David Stone (DR) | |||||
7th (1801–1803) | Charles Johnson (DR) | John Stanly (F) | James Holland (DR) | |||||||
Thomas Wynns (DR) |
1803–1813: 12 seats
Following the 1800 census, North Carolina was apportioned 12 seats.
Congress | District | District | ||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | |
8th (1803–1805) |
Thomas Wynns (DR) |
Willis Alston (DR) |
William Kennedy (DR) | William Blackledge (DR) |
James Gillespie (DR) |
Nathaniel Macon (DR) |
Samuel D. Purviance (F) |
Richard Stanford (DR) |
Marmaduke Williams (DR) |
Nathaniel Alexander (DR) |
James Holland (DR) |
Joseph Winston (DR) |
9th (1805–1807) |
Thomas Blount (DR) | Thomas S. Kenan (DR) |
Duncan McFarlan (DR) | |||||||||
Evan Shelby Alexander (DR) | ||||||||||||
10th (1807–1809) |
Lemuel Sawyer (DR) |
John Culpepper (F) |
Meshack Franklin (DR) | |||||||||
11th (1809–1811) |
William Kennedy (DR) | John Stanly (F) | Archibald McBryde (F) |
James Cochran (DR) |
Joseph Pearson (F) | |||||||
12th (1811–1813) |
Thomas Blount (DR) | William Blackledge (DR) |
William R. King (DR) |
Israel Pickens (DR) | ||||||||
William Kennedy (DR) |
1813–1843: 13 seats
Following the 1810 census, North Carolina was apportioned 13 seats.
1843–1853: 9 seats
Following the 1840 census, North Carolina was apportioned nine seats.
Congress | District | ||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
28th (1843–1845) |
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D) |
Daniel Moreau Barringer (W) |
David Settle Reid (D) | Edmund Deberry (W) | Romulus Mitchell Saunders (D) |
James Iver McKay (D) |
John Reeves Jones Daniel (D) |
Archibald Hunter Arrington (D) |
Kenneth Rayner (W) |
29th (1845–1847) |
James Graham (W) | Alfred Dockery (W) | James C. Dobbin (D) | Henry Selby Clark (D) | Asa Biggs (D) | ||||
30th (1847–1849) |
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D) |
Nathaniel Boyden (W) | Daniel Moreau Barringer (W) |
Augustine Henry Shepperd (W) |
Abraham Watkins Venable (D) |
John Reeves Jones Daniel (D) |
James Iver McKay (D) |
Richard Spaight Donnell (W) |
David Outlaw (W) |
31st (1849–1851) |
Joseph Person Caldwell (W) |
Edmund Deberry (W) | William Shepperd Ashe (D) |
Edward Stanly (W) | |||||
32nd (1851–1853) |
Alfred Dockery (W) | James Turner Morehead (W) |
1853–1863: 8 seats
Following the 1850 census, North Carolina was apportioned eight seats.
Congress | District | |||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |
33rd (1853–1855) |
Henry Marchmore Shaw (D) |
Thomas Hart Ruffin (D) |
William Shepperd Ashe (D) |
Sion Hart Rogers (W) |
John Kerr Jr. (W) | Richard Clauselle Puryear (W) |
Francis Burton Craige (D) |
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D) |
34th (1855–1857) |
Robert Treat Paine (KN) |
Warren Winslow (D) |
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (D) |
Edwin Godwin Reade (KN) |
Richard Clauselle Puryear (KN) | |||
35th (1857–1859) |
Henry Marchmore Shaw (D) |
John Adams Gilmer (KN) |
Alfred Moore Scales (D) | |||||
Zebulon Baird Vance (D) | ||||||||
36th (1859–1861) |
William Nathan Harrell Smith (O) |
John Adams Gilmer (O) |
James Madison Leach (O) | |||||
37th (1861–1863) |
Vacant during American Civil War |
1863–1873: 7 seats
Following the 1860 census, North Carolina was apportioned seven seats.
Congress | District | ||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | |
38–39th (1863–1867) |
Vacant during American Civil War | ||||||
40th (1867–1869) | |||||||
John R. French (R) | David Heaton (R) | Oliver H. Dockery (R) |
John T. Deweese (R) |
Israel G. Lash (R) | Nathaniel Boyden (Con) | Alexander H. Jones (R) | |
41st (1869–1871) | Clinton L. Cobb (R) | Francis Edwin Shober (D) | |||||
Joseph Dixon (R) | |||||||
42nd (1871–1873) | Charles R. Thomas (R) | Alfred M. Waddell (D) | Sion Hart Rogers (D) | James M. Leach (D) | James C. Harper (D) |
1873–1883: 8 seats
Following the 1870 census, North Carolina was apportioned eight seats.
Congress | District | |||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |
43rd (1873–1875) |
Clinton L. Cobb (R) |
Charles R. Thomas (R) |
Alfred Moore Waddell (D) |
William Alexander Smith (R) |
James Madison Leach (D) |
Thomas Samuel Ashe (D) |
William M. Robbins (D) |
Robert B. Vance (D) |
44th (1875–1877) |
Jesse Johnson Yeates (D) |
John Adams Hyman (R) |
Joseph J. Davis (D) | Alfred Moore Scales (D) | ||||
45th (1877–1879) |
Curtis Hooks Brogden (R) | |||||||
46th (1879–1881) |
Joseph John Martin (R) |
William H. Kitchin (D) |
Daniel Lindsay Russell (GB) |
Walter Leak Steele (D) |
Robert Franklin Armfield (D) | |||
Jesse Johnson Yeates (D) | ||||||||
47th (1881–1883) |
Louis C. Latham (D) |
Orlando Hubbs (R) | John Williams Shackelford (D) |
William Ruffin Cox (D) |
Clement Dowd (D) |
1883–1903: 9 seats
Following the 1880 census, North Carolina was apportioned nine seats. At first, the extra seat was elected at-large. Starting with the 1884 elections, the seats were redistricted and a ninth district was added.
1903–1933: 10 seats
Following the 1900 census, North Carolina was apportioned 10 seats.
1933–1943: 11 seats
Following the 1930 census, North Carolina was apportioned 11 seats.
Congress | District | ||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | |
73rd (1933–1935) | Lindsay Carter Warren (D) |
John H. Kerr (D) |
Charles Laban Abernethy (D) |
E. W. Pou (D) | Franklin W. Hancock Jr. (D) |
William B. Umstead (D) |
J. Bayard Clark (D) |
Walter Lambeth (D) |
Bob Doughton (D) |
Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D) |
Zebulon Weaver (D) |
Harold D. Cooley (D) | |||||||||||
74th (1935–1937) | Graham Arthur Barden (D) | ||||||||||
75th (1937–1939) | |||||||||||
76th (1939–1941) | Alonzo D. Folger (D) |
Carl T. Durham (D) |
William O. Burgin (D) | ||||||||
Herbert C. Bonner (D) | |||||||||||
77th (1941–1943) | John H. Folger (D) |
1943–1963: 12 seats
Following the 1940 census, North Carolina was apportioned 12 seats.
Congress | District | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | |
78th (1943–1945) | Herbert C. Bonner (D) |
John H. Kerr (D) |
Graham A. Barden (D) |
Harold D. Cooley (D) |
John Hamlin Folger (D) |
Carl T. Durham (D) |
J. Bayard Clark (D) |
William O. Burgin (D) |
Bob Doughton (D) |
Cameron A. Morrison (D) |
Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D) |
Zebulon Weaver (D) |
79th (1945–1947) | Joseph Ervin (D) | |||||||||||
Eliza Jane Pratt (D) | Sam Ervin (D) | |||||||||||
80th (1947–1949) | Charles B. Deane (D) |
Hamilton C. Jones (D) |
Monroe Minor Redden (D) | |||||||||
81st (1949–1951) | Thurmond Chatham (D) |
Frank Ertel Carlyle (D) | ||||||||||
Woodrow W. Jones (D) | ||||||||||||
82nd (1951–1953) | ||||||||||||
83rd (1953–1955) | Lawrence H. Fountain (D) |
Hugh Quincy Alexander (D) |
Charles R. Jonas (R) |
George A. Shuford (D) | ||||||||
84th (1955–1957) | ||||||||||||
85th (1957–1959) | Ralph James Scott (D) |
Alton Lennon (D) |
Alvin Paul Kitchin (D) |
Basil Lee Whitener (D) | ||||||||
86th (1959–1961) | David M. Hall (D) | |||||||||||
Roy A. Taylor (D) | ||||||||||||
87th (1961–1963) | David N. Henderson (D) |
Horace R. Kornegay (D) |
1963–1993: 11 seats
Following the 1960 census, North Carolina was apportioned 11 seats.
1993–2003: 12 seats
Following the 1990 census, North Carolina was apportioned 12 seats.
Congress | District | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | |
103rd (1993–1995) | Eva Clayton (D) |
Tim Valentine (D) | Martin Lancaster (D) |
David Price (D) | Steve Neal (D) |
Howard Coble (R) |
Charlie Rose (D) |
Bill Hefner (D) |
Alex McMillan (R) |
Cass Ballenger (R) |
Charles Taylor (R) |
Mell Watt (D) |
104th (1995–1997) | David Funderburk (R) | Walter B. Jones Jr. (R) |
Fred Heineman (R) | Richard Burr (R) |
Sue Myrick (R) | |||||||
105th (1997–1999) | Bob Etheridge (D) | David Price (D) | Mike McIntyre (D) | |||||||||
106th (1999–2001) | Robin Hayes (R) | |||||||||||
107th (2001–2003) |
2003–present: 13 seats
Since the 2000 census, North Carolina has been apportioned 13 seats.
Congress | District | District | |||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | |
108th (2003–2005) | F. Ballance (D) | Bob Etheridge (D) |
Walter Jones (R) |
David Price (D) |
Richard Burr (R) |
Howard Coble (R) |
Mike McIntyre (D) |
Robin Hayes (R) |
Sue Myrick (R) |
Cass Ballenger (R) |
Charles Taylor (R) |
Mel Watt (D) |
Brad Miller (D) |
G. K. Butterfield (D) | |||||||||||||
109th (2005–2007) | Virginia Foxx (R) |
Patrick McHenry (R) | |||||||||||
110th (2007–2009) | Heath Shuler (D) | ||||||||||||
111th (2009–2011) | Larry Kissell (D) | ||||||||||||
112th (2011–2013) | Renee Ellmers (R) | ||||||||||||
113th (2013–2015) | Richard Hudson (R) |
Robert Pittenger (R) |
Mark Meadows (R) |
George Holding (R) | |||||||||
Alma Adams (D) | |||||||||||||
114th (2015–2017) | Mark Walker (R) |
David Rouzer (R) | |||||||||||
115th (2017–2019) | George Holding (R) |
Ted Budd (R) | |||||||||||
116th (2019–2021) | Dan Bishop (R) | ||||||||||||
Greg Murphy (R) | |||||||||||||
117th (2021–2023) | Deborah Ross (D) |
Kathy Manning (D) |
Madison Cawthorn (R) |
U.S. Senate
(R)
(R)
Class II senators | Congress | Class III senators | ||
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Samuel Johnston (PA) | 1st (1789–1791) | Benjamin Hawkins (PA) | ||
2nd (1791–1793) | ||||
Alexander Martin (AA) | 3rd (1793–1795) | |||
Alexander Martin (DR) | 4th (1795–1797) | Timothy Bloodworth (DR) | ||
5th (1797–1799) | ||||
Jesse Franklin (DR) | 6th (1799–1801) | |||
7th (1801–1803) | David Stone (DR) | |||
8th (1803–1805) | ||||
James Turner (DR) | 9th (1805–1807) | |||
10th (1807–1809) | Jesse Franklin (DR) | |||
11th (1809–1811) | ||||
12th (1811–1813) | ||||
13th (1813–1815) | David Stone (DR) | |||
Francis Locke Jr. (DR) | ||||
14th (1815–1817) | ||||
Montfort Stokes (DR) | Nathaniel Macon (DR) | |||
15th (1817–1819) | ||||
16th (1819–1821) | ||||
17th (1821–1823) | ||||
John Branch (DR) | 18th (1823–1825) | |||
John Branch (J) | 19th (1825–1827) | Nathaniel Macon (J) | ||
20th (1827–1829) | ||||
James Iredell Jr. (J) | ||||
21st (1829–1831) | ||||
Bedford Brown (J) | ||||
22nd (1831–1833) | Willie Person Mangum (D) | |||
23rd (1833–1835) | Willie Person Mangum (NR) | |||
24th (1835–1837) | ||||
Robert Strange (J) | ||||
Bedford Brown (D) | 25th (1837–1839) | Robert Strange (D) | ||
26th (1839–1841) | ||||
Willie Person Mangum (W) | William Alexander Graham (W) | |||
27th (1841–1843) | ||||
28th (1843–1845) | William Henry Haywood Jr. (D) | |||
29th (1845–1847) | ||||
George Edmund Badger (W) | ||||
30th (1847–1849) | ||||
31st (1849–1851) | ||||
32nd (1851–1853) | ||||
David Settle Reid (D) | 33rd (1853–1855) | |||
34th (1855–1857) | Asa Biggs (D) | |||
35th (1857–1859) | ||||
Thomas Lanier Clingman (D) | ||||
Thomas Bragg (D) | 36th (1859–1861) | |||
37th (1861–1863) | ||||
vacant | vacant | |||
38th (1863–1865) | ||||
39th (1865–1867) | ||||
40th (1867–1869) | ||||
Joseph Carter Abbott (R) | John Pool (R) | |||
41st (1869–1871) | ||||
Matt Whitaker Ransom (D) | 42nd (1871–1873) | |||
43rd (1873–1875) | Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (D) | |||
44th (1875–1877) | ||||
45th (1877–1879) | ||||
46th (1879–1881) | Zebulon Baird Vance (D) | |||
47th (1881–1883) | ||||
48th (1883–1885) | ||||
49th (1885–1887) | ||||
50th (1887–1889) | ||||
51st (1889–1891) | ||||
52nd (1891–1893) | ||||
53rd (1893–1895) | ||||
Thomas Jordan Jarvis (D) | ||||
Jeter Connelly Pritchard (R) | ||||
Marion Butler (Pop) | 54th (1895–1897) | |||
55th (1897–1899) | ||||
56th (1899–1901) | ||||
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (D) |
57th (1901–1903) | |||
58th (1903–1905) | Lee Slater Overman (D) | |||
59th (1905–1907) | ||||
60th (1907–1909) | ||||
61st (1909–1911) | ||||
62nd (1911–1913) | ||||
63rd (1913–1915) | ||||
64th (1915–1917) | ||||
65th (1917–1919) | ||||
66th (1919–1921) | ||||
67th (1921–1923) | ||||
68th (1923–1925) | ||||
69th (1925–1927) | ||||
70th (1927–1929) | ||||
71st (1929–1931) | ||||
Cameron A. Morrison (D) | ||||
Josiah Bailey (D) | 72nd (1931–1933) | |||
Robert Rice Reynolds (D) | ||||
73rd (1933–1935) | ||||
74th (1935–1937) | ||||
75th (1937–1939) | ||||
76th (1939–1941) | ||||
77th (1941–1943) | ||||
78th (1943–1945) | ||||
79th (1945–1947) | Clyde R. Hoey (D) | |||
William B. Umstead (D) | ||||
80th (1947–1949) | ||||
J. Melville Broughton (D) | ||||
81st (1949–1951) | ||||
Frank Porter Graham (D) | ||||
Willis Smith (D) | ||||
82nd (1951–1953) | ||||
83rd (1953–1955) | ||||
Alton Lennon (D) | Sam Ervin (D) | |||
W. Kerr Scott (D) | ||||
84th (1955–1957) | ||||
85th (1957–1959) | ||||
B. Everett Jordan (D) | ||||
86th (1959–1961) | ||||
87th (1961–1963) | ||||
88th (1963–1965) | ||||
89th (1965–1967) | ||||
90th (1967–1969) | ||||
91st (1969–1971) | ||||
92nd (1971–1973) | ||||
Jesse Helms (R) | 93rd (1973–1975) | |||
94th (1975–1977) | Robert Burren Morgan (D) | |||
95th (1977–1979) | ||||
96th (1979–1981) | ||||
97th (1981–1983) | John Porter East(R) | |||
98th (1983–1985) | ||||
99th (1985–1987) | ||||
Jim Broyhill (R) | ||||
Terry Sanford (D) | ||||
100th (1987–1989) | ||||
101st (1989–1991) | ||||
102nd (1991–1993) | ||||
103rd (1993–1995) | Lauch Faircloth (R) | |||
104th (1995–1997) | ||||
105th (1997–1999) | ||||
106th (1999–2001) | John Edwards (D) | |||
107th (2001–2003) | ||||
Elizabeth Dole (R) | 108th (2003–2005) | |||
109th (2005–2007) | Richard Burr (R) | |||
110th (2007–2009) | ||||
Kay Hagan (D) | 111th (2009–2011) | |||
112th (2011–2013) | ||||
113th (2013–2015) | ||||
Thom Tillis (R) | 114th (2015–2017) | |||
115th (2017–2019) | ||||
116th (2019–2021) | ||||
117th (2021–2023) |
Key
Notes
- The district was ceded to the federal government to become Tennessee before Sevier could take his seat, but was seated anyway.
- Supported the Crawford faction in the 1824 United States presidential election
- Supported the Jackson faction in the 1824 United States presidential election
- Supported the Adams-Clay faction in the 1824 United States presidential election