Michigan's 12th Congressional District

Michigan's 12th 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 Michigan's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Rashida Tlaib (Democrat) currently represents Michigan's 12th Congressional District. See Rashida Tlaib's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Michigan's 12th Congressional District:

• John Dingell — Democrat (until 2015)
• James O’Hara — Democrat (until 1977)
• John Bennett — Republican (until 1965)
• Frank Hook — Democrat (until 1947)
• William James — Republican (until 1935)
• William MacDonald — Progressive (until 1915)
• Horace Young — Republican (until 1915)
• Carlos Shelden — Republican (until 1903)
• Samuel Stephenson — Republican (until 1897)

Michigan U.S. Senators

• Elissa Slotkin — Democrat Senator
• Gary Peters — Democrat Senator
• Debbie Stabenow — Democrat Senator
• Carl Levin — Democrat Senator
• Spencer Abraham — Republican Senator
• Donald Riegle — Democrat Senator
• Robert Griffin — Republican Senator
• Philip Hart — Democrat Senator
• Patrick McNamara — Democrat Senator
• Charles Potter — Republican Senator
• Homer Ferguson — Republican Senator
• Arthur Moody — Democrat Senator
• Arthur Vandenberg — Republican Senator
• Prentiss Brown — Democrat Senator
• James Couzens — Republican Senator
• Woodbridge Ferris — Democrat Senator
• Charles Townsend — Republican Senator
• Truman Newberry — Republican Senator
• William Smith — Republican Senator
• Julius Burrows — Republican Senator
• Russell Alger — Republican Senator
• James McMillan — Republican Senator
• John Patton — Republican Senator
• Francis Stockbridge — Republican Senator
• Thomas Palmer — Republican Senator
• Omar Conger — Republican Senator
• Thomas Ferry — Republican Senator
• Henry Baldwin — Republican Senator
• Zachariah Chandler — Republican Senator
• Isaac Christiancy — Republican Senator
• Jacob Howard — Republican Senator
• Kinsley Bingham — Republican Senator
• Charles Stuart — Democrat Senator
• Lewis Cass — Democrat Senator
• Alpheus Felch — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Fitzgerald — Democrat Senator
• William Woodbridge — Whig Senator
• Augustus Porter — Whig Senator
• John Norvell — Democrat Senator

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