Texas's 16th Congressional District

Texas's 16th 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 Texas's two U.S. Senators.

Current Representative

Veronica Escobar (Democrat) currently represents Texas's 16th Congressional District. See Veronica Escobar's full voting record and key issue positions →

District History — Past Representatives

Members of Congress who previously represented Texas's 16th Congressional District:

• Beto O’Rourke — Democrat (until 2019)
• Silvestre Reyes — Democrat (until 2013)
• Ronald Coleman — Democrat (until 1997)
• Richard White — Democrat (until 1983)
• J. Rutherford — Democrat (until 1963)
• Kenneth Regan — Democrat (until 1955)
• Robert Thomason — Democrat (until 1949)
• Claude Hudspeth — Democrat (until 1931)
• William Smith — Democrat (until 1917)

Texas U.S. Senators

• Ted Cruz — Republican Senator
• John Cornyn — Republican Senator
• Kay Hutchison — Republican Senator
• Phil Gramm — Republican Senator
• Robert Krueger — Democrat Senator
• Lloyd Bentsen — Democrat Senator
• John Tower — Republican Senator
• Ralph Yarborough — Democrat Senator
• William Blakley — Democrat Senator
• Lyndon Johnson — Democrat Senator
• Marion Daniel — Democrat Senator
• Thomas Connally — Democrat Senator
• Wilbert O’Daniel — Democrat Senator
• Andrew Houston — Democrat Senator
• Morris Sheppard — Democrat Senator
• Earle Mayfield — Democrat Senator
• Charles Culberson — Democrat Senator
• Rienzi Johnston — Democrat Senator
• Joseph Bailey — Democrat Senator
• Horace Chilton — Democrat Senator
• Roger Mills — Democrat Senator
• Richard Coke — Democrat Senator
• John Reagan — Democrat Senator
• Samuel Maxey — Democrat Senator
• Morgan Hamilton — Republican Senator
• James Flanagan — Republican Senator
• John Hemphill — Democrat Senator
• Louis Wigfall — Democrat Senator
• Matthias Ward — Democrat Senator
• James Henderson — Democrat Senator
• Samuel Houston — American Senator
• Thomas Rusk — Democrat Senator

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