Georgia's 5th Congressional District

Georgia's 5th Congressional District elects one member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Below is the district's current representative, the members of Congress who held this seat before, and Georgia's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Nikema Williams (Democrat) currently represents Georgia's 5th Congressional District. See Nikema Williams's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District:

• Kwanza Hall — Democrat (until 2021)
• John Lewis — Democrat (until 2020)
• Andrew Young — Democrat (until 1979)
• Standish Thompson — Republican (until 1973)
• Charles Weltner — Democrat (until 1967)
• James Davis — Democrat (until 1963)
• Helen Mankin — Democrat (until 1947)
• Robert Ramspeck — Democrat (until 1947)
• Leslie Steele — Democrat (until 1931)
• William Upshaw — Democrat (until 1927)

Georgia U.S. Senators

• Raphael Warnock — Democrat Senator
• Jon Ossoff — Democrat Senator
• Kelly Loeffler — Republican Senator
• David Perdue — Republican Senator
• John Isakson — Republican Senator
• Saxby Chambliss — Republican Senator
• Zell Miller — Democrat Senator
• J. Cleland — Democrat Senator
• Paul Coverdell — Republican Senator
• Samuel Nunn — Democrat Senator
• Wyche Fowler — Democrat Senator
• Mack Mattingly — Republican Senator
• Herman Talmadge — Democrat Senator
• David Gambrell — Democrat Senator
• Richard Russell — Democrat Senator
• Walter George — Democrat Senator
• John Cohen — Democrat Senator
• William Harris — Democrat Senator
• Rebecca Felton — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Watson — Democrat Senator
• Hoke Smith — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Hardwick — Democrat Senator
• Augustus Bacon — Democrat Senator
• William West — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Terrell — Democrat Senator
• Alexander Clay — Democrat Senator
• John Gordon — Democrat Senator
• Alfred Colquitt — Democrat Senator
• Patrick Walsh — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Brown — Democrat Senator
• Middleton Barrow — Democrat Senator
• Benjamin Hill — Democrat Senator
• Joshua Hill — Republican Senator
• Homer Miller — Democrat Senator
• Robert Toombs — Democrat Senator
• Alfred Iverson — Democrat Senator
• William Dawson — Whig Senator
• John Berrien — Whig Senator
• Robert Charlton — Democrat Senator
• Walter Colquitt — Democrat Senator
• Herschel Johnson — Democrat Senator
• Alfred Cuthbert — Democrat Senator
• Wilson Lumpkin — Democrat Senator
• John King — Democrat Senator
• John Forsyth — Jackson Senator
• George Troup — Jackson Senator
• Thomas Cobb — Jackson Senator
• Oliver Prince — Jackson Senator
• John Elliott — Republican Senator
• Nicholas Ware — Senator
• Freeman Walker — Republican Senator
• Charles Tait — Republican Senator
• William Bibb — Republican Senator
• William Bulloch — Republican Senator
• William Crawford — Republican Senator
• John Milledge — Republican Senator
• George Jones — Republican Senator
• Abraham Baldwin — Republican Senator
• James Jackson — Republican Senator
• James Gunn — Federalist Senator
• Josiah Tattnall — Republican Senator
• George Walton — Federalist Senator
• William Few — Anti-Administration Senator

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