Michigan's 5th Congressional District

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

Current Representative

Tim Walberg (Republican) currently represents Michigan's 5th Congressional District. See Tim Walberg's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

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

• Dale Kildee — Democrat (until 2013)
• James Barcia — Democrat (until 2003)
• Harold Sawyer — Republican (until 1985)
• Richard Vander Veen — Democrat (until 1977)
• Gerald Ford — Republican (until 1975)
• Bartel Jonkman — Republican (until 1949)
• Carl Mapes — Republican (until 1941)
• Edwin Sweet — Democrat (until 1913)
• Gerrit Diekema — Republican (until 1911)
• George Richardson — Democrat (until 1895)

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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