Illinois's 1st Congressional District

Illinois's 1st 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 Illinois's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Jonathan Jackson (Democrat) currently represents Illinois's 1st Congressional District. See Jonathan Jackson's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Illinois's 1st Congressional District:

• Bobby Rush — Democrat (until 2023)
• Charles Hayes — Democrat (until 1993)
• Harold Washington — Democrat (until 1985)
• Bennett Stewart — Democrat (until 1981)
• Ralph Metcalfe — Democrat (until 1979)
• William Dawson — Democrat (until 1971)
• Arthur Mitchell — Democrat (until 1943)
• Oscar De Priest — Republican (until 1935)
• Martin Madden — Republican (until 1929)
• Martin Emerich — Democrat (until 1905)

Illinois U.S. Senators

• Tammy Duckworth — Democrat Senator
• Richard Durbin — Democrat Senator
• Mark Kirk — Republican Senator
• Roland Burris — Democrat Senator
• Barack Obama — Democrat Senator
• Peter Fitzgerald — Republican Senator
• Carol Moseley Braun — Democrat Senator
• Paul Simon — Democrat Senator
• Alan Dixon — Democrat Senator
• Charles Percy — Republican Senator
• Adlai Stevenson — Democrat Senator
• Ralph Smith — Republican Senator
• Everett Dirksen — Republican Senator
• Paul Douglas — Democrat Senator
• Scott Lucas — Democrat Senator
• Charles Brooks — Republican Senator
• James Slattery — Democrat Senator
• James Lewis — Democrat Senator
• William Dieterich — Democrat Senator
• Otis Glenn — Republican Senator
• Charles Deneen — Republican Senator
• William McKinley — Republican Senator
• Joseph McCormick — Republican Senator
• Lawrence Sherman — Republican Senator
• Shelby Cullom — Republican Senator
• William Lorimer — Republican Senator
• Albert Hopkins — Republican Senator
• John Palmer — Democrat Senator
• Charles Farwell — Republican Senator
• John Logan — Republican Senator
• David Davis — Independent Senator
• Richard Oglesby — Republican Senator
• Lyman Trumbull — Republican Senator
• Richard Yates — Republican Senator
• William Richardson — Democrat Senator
• Orville Browning — Republican Senator
• Stephen Douglas — Democrat Senator
• Sidney Breese — Democrat Senator
• James Semple — Democrat Senator
• Samuel McRoberts — Democrat Senator
• Richard Young — Democrat Senator
• John Robinson — Democrat Senator
• William Ewing — Jackson Senator
• Elias Kane — Jackson Senator
• David Baker — Jackson Senator
• John McLean — Jackson Senator
• Jesse Thomas — Adams Senator
• Ninian Edwards — Republican Senator

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