Missouri's 5th Congressional District

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

Current Representative

Emanuel Cleaver (Democrat) currently represents Missouri's 5th Congressional District. See Emanuel Cleaver's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

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

• Karen McCarthy — Democrat (until 2005)
• Alan Wheat — Democrat (until 1995)
• Richard Bolling — Democrat (until 1983)
• Albert Reeves — Republican (until 1949)
• Roger Slaughter — Democrat (until 1947)
• Joseph Shannon — Democrat (until 1943)
• Edgar Ellis — Republican (until 1931)
• George Combs — Democrat (until 1929)
• Henry Jost — Democrat (until 1925)
• William Bland — Democrat (until 1921)

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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