Missouri's 1st Congressional District

Missouri'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 Missouri's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Wesley Bell (Democrat) currently represents Missouri's 1st Congressional District. See Wesley Bell's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

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

• Cori Bush — Democrat (until 2025)
• Wm. Clay — Democrat (until 2021)
• William Clay — Democrat (until 2001)
• Frank Karsten — Democrat (until 1969)
• Clare Magee — Democrat (until 1953)
• Samuel Arnold — Republican (until 1949)
• Milton Romjue — Democrat (until 1943)
• Frank Millspaugh — Republican (until 1923)
• James Lloyd — Democrat (until 1917)
• Charles Clark — Republican (until 1897)

Missouri U.S. Senators

• Joshua Hawley — Republican Senator
• Eric Schmitt — Republican Senator
• Roy Blunt — Republican Senator
• Claire McCaskill — Democrat Senator
• Christopher Bond — Republican Senator
• James Talent — Republican Senator
• Jean Carnahan — Democrat Senator
• John Ashcroft — Republican Senator
• John Danforth — Republican Senator
• Thomas Eagleton — Democrat Senator
• William Symington — Democrat Senator
• Edward Long — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Hennings — Democrat Senator
• James Kem — Republican Senator
• Forrest Donnell — Republican Senator
• Frank Briggs — Democrat Senator
• Harry Truman — Democrat Senator
• Joel Clark — Democrat Senator
• Roscoe Patterson — Republican Senator
• Harry Hawes — Democrat Senator
• James Reed — Democrat Senator
• George Williams — Republican Senator
• Selden Spencer — Republican Senator
• William Stone — Democrat Senator
• Xenophon Wilfley — Democrat Senator
• William Warner — Republican Senator
• Francis Cockrell — Democrat Senator
• George Vest — Democrat Senator
• David Armstrong — Democrat Senator
• James Shields — Democrat Senator
• Lewis Bogy — Democrat Senator
• Carl Schurz — Liberal Republican Senator
• Francis Blair — Democrat Senator
• Daniel Jewett — Republican Senator
• Charles Drake — Republican Senator
• John Henderson — Republican Senator
• Benjamin Brown — Republican Senator
• Robert Wilson — Unionist Senator
• Waldo Johnson — Democrat Senator
• Trusten Polk — Democrat Senator
• James Green — Democrat Senator
• Henry Geyer — Ind. Republican-Democrat Senator
• David Atchison — Democrat Senator
• Lewis Linn — Democrat Senator
• Alexander Buckner — Jackson Senator
• David Barton — Adams Senator

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