Michigan's 8th Congressional District

Michigan's 8th 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

Kristen McDonald Rivet (Democrat) currently represents Michigan's 8th Congressional District. See Kristen McDonald Rivet's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Michigan's 8th Congressional District:

• Daniel Kildee — Democrat (until 2025)
• Mike Bishop — Republican (until 2019)
• Mike Rogers — Republican (until 2015)
• Dick Chrysler — Republican (until 1997)
• Milton Carr — Democrat (until 1995)
• Jerome Traxler — Democrat (until 1993)
• James Harvey — Republican (until 1975)
• Alvin Bentley — Republican (until 1961)
• Fred Crawford — Republican (until 1953)
• Michael Hart — Democrat (until 1935)

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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