New Jersey's 8th Congressional District

New Jersey'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 New Jersey's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Robert Menendez (Democrat) currently represents New Jersey's 8th Congressional District. See Robert Menendez's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

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

• Albio Sires — Democrat (until 2023)
• William Martini — Republican (until 1997)
• Herbert Klein — Democrat (until 1995)
• Robert Roe — Democrat (until 1993)
• Charles Joelson — Democrat (until 1971)
• Gordon Canfield — Republican (until 1961)
• George Seger — Republican (until 1941)
• Paul Moore — Democrat (until 1929)
• Herbert Taylor — Republican (until 1927)
• Frank McNulty — Democrat (until 1925)

New Jersey U.S. Senators

• Andy Kim — Democrat Senator
• Cory Booker — Democrat Senator
• George Helmy — Democrat Senator
• Robert Menendez — Democrat Senator
• Jeffrey Chiesa — Republican Senator
• Frank Lautenberg — Democrat Senator
• Jon Corzine — Democrat Senator
• Robert Torricelli — Democrat Senator
• William Bradley — Democrat Senator
• Nicholas Brady — Republican Senator
• Harrison Williams — Democrat Senator
• Clifford Case — Republican Senator
• Howard Smith — Republican Senator
• Robert Hendrickson — Republican Senator
• Albert Hawkes — Republican Senator
• Arthur Walsh — Democrat Senator
• William Barbour — Republican Senator
• William Smathers — Democrat Senator
• John Milton — Democrat Senator
• Arthur Moore — Democrat Senator
• Hamilton Kean — Republican Senator
• David Baird — Republican Senator
• Dwight Morrow — Republican Senator
• Walter Edge — Republican Senator
• Edward Edwards — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Frelinghuysen — Republican Senator
• David Baird — Republican Senator
• William Hughes — Democrat Senator
• James Martine — Democrat Senator
• Frank Briggs — Republican Senator
• John Kean — Republican Senator
• John Dryden — Republican Senator
• William Sewell — Republican Senator
• James Smith — Democrat Senator
• John McPherson — Democrat Senator
• Rufus Blodgett — Democrat Senator
• Theodore Randolph — Democrat Senator
• Frederick Frelinghuysen — Republican Senator
• John Stockton — Democrat Senator
• Alexander Cattell — Republican Senator
• William Wright — Democrat Senator
• John Ten Eyck — Republican Senator
• James Wall — Democrat Senator
• Richard Field — Republican Senator
• John Thomson — Democrat Senator
• Robert Stockton — Democrat Senator
• Jacob Miller — Whig Senator
• William Dayton — Whig Senator
• Samuel Southard — Whig Senator
• Garret Wall — Democrat Senator
• Theodore Frelinghuysen — Anti-Jacksonian Senator
• Mahlon Dickerson — Jackson Senator
• Ephraim Bateman — Adams Senator
• Joseph McIlvaine — Adams Senator
• James Wilson — Republican Senator
• John Lambert — Republican Senator
• Aaron Kitchell — Republican Senator
• Jonathan Dayton — Federalist Senator
• Aaron Ogden — Federalist Senator
• John Rutherfurd — Federalist Senator
• Frederick Frelinghuysen — Federalist Senator
• Philemon Dickinson — Pro-Administration Senator
• Jonathan Elmer — Pro-Administration Senator
• William Paterson — Pro-Administration Senator

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