New York's 21st Congressional District

New York's 21st 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 York's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Elise Stefanik (Republican) currently represents New York's 21st Congressional District. See Elise Stefanik's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented New York's 21st Congressional District:

• William Owens — Democrat (until 2015)
• Michael McNulty — Democrat (until 2009)
• Herman Badillo — Democrat (until 1979)
• James Healey — Democrat (until 1965)
• Herbert Zelenko — Democrat (until 1963)
• James Torrens — Democrat (until 1947)
• Joseph Gavagan — Democrat (until 1945)
• Martin Ansorge — Republican (until 1923)
• Jerome Donovan — Democrat (until 1921)
• George Hulbert — Democrat (until 1919)

New York U.S. Senators

• Kirsten Gillibrand — Democrat Senator
• Charles Schumer — Democrat Senator
• Hillary Clinton — Democrat Senator
• Daniel Moynihan — Democrat Senator
• Alfonse D’Amato — Republican Senator
• Jacob Javits — Republican Senator
• James Buckley — Conservative Senator
• Charles Goodell — Republican Senator
• Robert Kennedy — Democrat Senator
• Kenneth Keating — Republican Senator
• Irving Ives — Republican Senator
• Herbert Lehman — Democrat Senator
• John Dulles — Republican Senator
• Robert Wagner — Democrat Senator
• James Mead — Democrat Senator
• Royal Copeland — Democrat Senator
• William Calder — Republican Senator
• James O’Gorman — Democrat Senator
• Elihu Root — Republican Senator
• Chauncey Depew — Republican Senator
• Thomas Platt — Republican Senator
• Edward Murphy — Democrat Senator
• David Hill — Democrat Senator
• Frank Hiscock — Republican Senator
• William Evarts — Republican Senator
• Warner Miller — Republican Senator
• Elbridge Lapham — Republican Senator
• Roscoe Conkling — Republican Senator
• Francis Kernan — Democrat Senator
• Reuben Fenton — Liberal Republican Senator
• Edwin Morgan — Republican Senator
• Ira Harris — Republican Senator
• Preston King — Republican Senator
• William Seward — Republican Senator
• Hamilton Fish — Ind. Republican-Democrat Senator
• Daniel Dickinson — Democrat Senator
• John Dix — Democrat Senator
• Henry Foster — Democrat Senator
• Nathaniel Tallmadge — Whig Senator
• Silas Wright — Democrat Senator
• William Marcy — Jackson Senator
• Charles Dudley — Jackson Senator
• Nathan Sanford — Adams Senator
• Martin Van Buren — Jackson Senator
• Rufus King — Federalist Senator
• Obadiah German — Republican Senator
• John Smith — Republican Senator
• Theodorus Bailey — Republican Senator
• John Armstrong — Republican Senator
• De Clinton — Republican Senator
• Gouverneur Morris — Federalist Senator
• John Laurance — Federalist Senator
• James Watson — Federalist Senator
• John Hobart — Federalist Senator
• William North — Federalist Senator
• Philip Schuyler — Federalist Senator
• Aaron Burr — Republican Senator

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