Kentucky's 5th Congressional District

Kentucky'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 Kentucky's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Harold Rogers (Republican) currently represents Kentucky's 5th Congressional District. See Harold Rogers's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

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

• Tim Carter — Republican (until 1981)
• Eugene Siler — Republican (until 1965)
• Brent Spence — Democrat (until 1963)
• Maurice Thatcher — Republican (until 1933)
• Charles Ogden — Republican (until 1923)
• Joseph Sherley — Democrat (until 1919)
• Harvey Irwin — Republican (until 1903)
• Oscar Turner — Democrat (until 1901)
• Walter Evans — Republican (until 1899)
• Asher Caruth — Democrat (until 1895)

Kentucky U.S. Senators

• Rand Paul — Republican Senator
• Mitch McConnell — Republican Senator
• Jim Bunning — Republican Senator
• Wendell Ford — Democrat Senator
• Walter Huddleston — Democrat Senator
• Marlow Cook — Republican Senator
• John Cooper — Republican Senator
• Thruston Morton — Republican Senator
• Earle Clements — Democrat Senator
• Robert Humphreys — Democrat Senator
• Alben Barkley — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Underwood — Democrat Senator
• Virgil Chapman — Democrat Senator
• William Stanfill — Republican Senator
• Albert Chandler — Democrat Senator
• Marvel Logan — Democrat Senator
• Frederic Sackett — Republican Senator
• Ben Williamson — Democrat Senator
• Richard Ernst — Republican Senator
• Augustus Stanley — Democrat Senator
• John Beckham — Democrat Senator
• Ollie James — Democrat Senator
• George Martin — Democrat Senator
• William Bradley — Republican Senator
• Johnson Camden — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Paynter — Democrat Senator
• James McCreary — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Blackburn — Democrat Senator
• William Deboe — Republican Senator
• William Lindsay — Democrat Senator
• John Carlisle — Democrat Senator
• James Beck — Democrat Senator
• John Williams — Democrat Senator
• Thomas McCreery — Democrat Senator
• John Stevenson — Democrat Senator
• Garrett Davis — Democrat Senator
• Willis Machen — Democrat Senator
• James Guthrie — Democrat Senator
• Lazarus Powell — Democrat Senator
• John Breckinridge — Democrat Senator
• John Thompson — American Senator
• Archibald Dixon — Whig Senator
• Henry Clay — Whig Senator
• David Meriwether — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Underwood — Whig Senator
• Thomas Metcalfe — Whig Senator
• James Morehead — Whig Senator
• George Bibb — Jackson Senator
• John Rowan — Jackson Senator
• Isham Talbot — Republican Senator
• William Logan — Republican Senator
• William Barry — Republican Senator
• Martin Hardin — Federalist Senator
• Jesse Bledsoe — Republican Senator
• George Walker — Republican Senator
• Buckner Thruston — Republican Senator
• John Breckinridge — Republican Senator
• John Brown — Republican Senator
• Humphrey Marshall — Federalist Senator
• John Edwards — Anti-Administration Senator

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