United States congressional delegations from Nebraska

These are tables of congressional delegations from Nebraska to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

The current dean of the Nebraska delegation is Representative Adrian Smith (NE-3), having served in the House since 2007.

U.S. House of Representatives

Current members

List of members, their terms in office, district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has 3 members, all Republicans.

Current U.S. representatives from Nebraska
District	Member (Residence)^[2]	Party	Incumbent since	CPVI (2022)^[3]	District map
1st	Mike Flood (Norfolk)	Republican	June 28, 2022	R+9
2nd	Don Bacon (Papillion)	Republican	January 3, 2017	EVEN
3rd	Adrian Smith (Gering)	Republican	January 3, 2007	R+29

Delegate from Nebraska Territory

Congress	Delegate
33rd (1853–1855)	Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings (D)
34th (1855–1857)	Bird Beers Chapman (D)
35th (1857–1859)	Fenner Ferguson (D)
36th (1859–1861)	Experience Estabrook (D)
36th (1859–1861)	Samuel Gordon Daily (R)
37th (1861–1863)
38th (1863–1865)
39th (1865–1867)	Phineas Hitchcock (R)

1867–1883: One seat

Congress	At-large
39th (1867)^[4]	Turner M. Marquett (R)
40th (1867–1869)	John Taffe (R)
41st (1869–1871)
42nd (1871–1873)
43rd (1873–1875)	Lorenzo Crounse (R)
44th (1875–1877)	Lorenzo Crounse (R)
45th (1877–1879)	Frank Welch (R)
45th (1877–1879)	Thomas Jefferson Majors (R)
46th (1879–1881)	Edward K. Valentine (R)
47th (1881–1883)	Edward K. Valentine (R)

1883–1893: Three seats

Congress	1st district	2nd district	3rd district
48th (1883–1885)	Archibald J. Weaver (R)	James Laird (R)	Edward K. Valentine (R)
49th (1885–1887)	Archibald J. Weaver (R)		George W. E. Dorsey (R)
50th (1887–1889)	John A. McShane (D)
51st (1889–1891)	William James Connell (R)
51st (1889–1891)	William James Connell (R)	Gilbert L. Laws (R)
52nd (1891–1893)	William Jennings Bryan (D)	William A. McKeighan (Pop)	Omer M. Kem (Pop)

1893–1933: Six seats

Congress	1st district	2nd district	3rd district	4th district	5th district	6th district
53rd (1893–1895)	William Jennings Bryan (D)	David Henry Mercer (R)	George de Rue Meiklejohn (R)	Eugene J. Hainer (R)	William A. McKeighan (Pop)	Omer M. Kem (Pop)
54th (1895–1897)	Jesse B. Strode (R)		George de Rue Meiklejohn (R)	Eugene J. Hainer (R)	William E. Andrews (R)	Omer M. Kem (Pop)
55th (1897–1899)	Jesse B. Strode (R)		Samuel Maxwell (Pop)	William L. Stark (Pop)	Roderick D. Sutherland (Pop)	William Laury Greene (Pop)
56th (1899–1901)	Elmer Burkett (R)		John Seaton Robinson (D)			William Laury Greene (Pop)
56th (1899–1901)						William Neville (Pop)
57th (1901–1903)					Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)	William Neville (Pop)
58th (1903–1905)		Gilbert Hitchcock (D)	John McCarthy (R)	Edmund H. Hinshaw (R)	George W. Norris (R)	Moses Kinkaid (R)
59th (1905–1907)		John L. Kennedy (R)
59th (1905–1907)	Ernest M. Pollard (R)	John L. Kennedy (R)
60th (1907–1909)	Ernest M. Pollard (R)	Gilbert Hitchcock (D)	John Frank Boyd (R)
61st (1909–1911)	John A. Maguire (D)	Gilbert Hitchcock (D)	James P. Latta (D)
62nd (1911–1913)		Charles O. Lobeck (D)	James P. Latta (D)	Charles H. Sloan (R)
62nd (1911–1913)			Dan V. Stephens (D)
63rd (1913–1915)					Silas Reynolds Barton (R)
64th (1915–1917)	C. Frank Reavis (R)				Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
65th (1917–1919)					Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
66th (1919–1921)		Albert W. Jefferis (R)	Robert E. Evans (R)	Melvin O. McLaughlin (R)	William E. Andrews (R)
67th (1921–1923)
67th (1921–1923)	Roy H. Thorpe (R)					Augustin Reed Humphrey (R)
68th (1923–1925)	John H. Morehead (D)	Willis G. Sears (R)	Edgar Howard (D)		Ashton C. Shallengerger (D)	Robert G. Simmons (R)
69th (1925–1927)
70th (1927–1929)				John N. Norton (D)
71st (1929–1931)				Charles H. Sloan (R)	Fred G. Johnson (R)
72nd (1931–1933)		Howard M. Baldrige (R)		John N. Norton (D)	Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)

1933–1943: Five seats

Congress	1st district	2nd district	3rd district	4th district	5th district
73rd (1933–1935)	John H. Morehead (D)	Edward R. Burke (D)	Edgar Howard (D)	Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)	Terry Carpenter (D)
74th (1935–1937)	Henry C. Luckey (D)	Charles F. McLaughlin (D)	Karl Stefan (R)	Charles Binderup (D)	Harry B. Coffee (D)
75th (1937–1939)	Henry C. Luckey (D)			Charles Binderup (D)
76th (1939–1941)	George H. Heinke (R)			Carl Curtis (R)
76th (1939–1941)	John Hyde Sweet (R)
77th (1941–1943)	Oren S. Copeland

1943–1963: Four seats

Congress	1st district	2nd district	3rd district	4th district
78th (1943–1945)	Carl Curtis (R)	Howard Buffett (R)	Karl Stefan (R)	Arthur L. Miller (R)
79th (1945–1947)
80th (1947–1949)
81st (1949–1951)		Eugene D. O'Sullivan (D)
82nd (1951–1953)		Howard Buffett (R)
82nd (1951–1953)		Howard Buffett (R)	R. D. Harrison (R)
83rd (1953–1955)		Roman Hruska (R)
83rd (1953–1955)		vacant
84th (1955–1957)	Phil Weaver (R)	Jackson B. Chase (R)
85th (1957–1959)		Glenn Cunningham (R)
86th (1959–1961)			Lawrence Brock (D)	Donald McGinley (D)
87th (1961–1963)			Ralph F. Beermann (R)	David Martin (R)

1963–present: Three seats

Congress	1st district	2nd district	3rd district
88th (1963–1965)	Ralph F. Beermann (R)	Glenn Cunningham (R)	David Martin (R)
89th (1965–1967)	Clair A. Callan (D)
90th (1967–1969)	Robert V. Denney (R)
91st (1969–1971)	Robert V. Denney (R)
92nd (1971–1973)	Charles Thone (R)	John Y. McCollister (R)
93rd (1973–1975)
94th (1975–1977)			Virginia D. Smith (R)
95th (1977–1979)		John J. Cavanaugh III (D)
96th (1979–1981)	Doug Bereuter (R)	John J. Cavanaugh III (D)
97th (1981–1983)		Hal Daub (R)
98th (1983–1985)
99th (1985–1987)
100th (1987–1989)
101st (1989–1991)		Peter Hoagland (D)
102nd (1991–1993)			Bill Barrett (R)
103rd (1993–1995)
104th (1995–1997)		Jon Christensen (R)
105th (1997–1999)		Jon Christensen (R)
106th (1999–2001)		Lee Terry (R)
107th (2001–2003)			Tom Osborne (R)
108th (2003–2005)
108th (2003–2005)	vacant
109th (2005–2007)	Jeff Fortenberry (R)
110th (2007–2009)			Adrian Smith (R)
111th (2009–2011)
112th (2011–2013)
113th (2013–2015)
114th (2015–2017)		Brad Ashford (D)
115th (2017–2019)		Don Bacon (R)
116th (2019–2021)
117th (2021–2023)
117th (2021–2023)	Mike Flood (R)
118th (2023–2025)	Mike Flood (R)

U.S. Senate

Current U.S. senators from Nebraska

Nebraska

CPVI (2022):^[5]
R+13

Class I senator

Class II senator

Deb Fischer
(Senior senator)
(Lincoln)

Pete Ricketts
(Junior senator)
(Omaha)

Party

Republican

Incumbent since

January 3, 2013

January 12, 2023

Class I senator	Congress
Thomas Tipton (R)	39th (1867)^[4]	John Milton Thayer (R)
	40th (1867–1869)
	41st (1869–1871)
	42nd (1871–1873)	Phineas Hitchcock (R)
	43rd (1873–1875)
Algernon Paddock (R)	44th (1875–1877)
	45th (1877–1879)	Alvin Saunders (R)
	46th (1879–1881)
Charles Van Wyck (R)	47th (1881–1883)
	48th (1883–1885)	Charles F. Manderson (R)
	49th (1885–1887)
Algernon Paddock (R)	50th (1887–1889)
	51st (1889–1891)
	52nd (1891–1893)
William V. Allen (Pop)	53rd (1893–1895)
	54th (1895–1897)	John Mellen Thurston (R)
	55th (1897–1899)
Monroe Hayward (R)	56th (1899–1901)
William V. Allen (Pop)	56th (1899–1901)
William V. Allen (Pop)	57th (1901–1903)	Joseph Millard (R)
Charles H. Dietrich (R)	57th (1901–1903)
Charles H. Dietrich (R)	58th (1903–1905)
Elmer Burkett (R)	59th (1905–1907)
	60th (1907–1909)	Norris Brown (R)
	61st (1909–1911)
Gilbert Hitchcock (D)	62nd (1911–1913)
	63rd (1913–1915)	George W. Norris (R)
	64th (1915–1917)
	65th (1917–1919)
	66th (1919–1921)
	67th (1921–1923)
Robert B. Howell (R)	68th (1923–1925)
	69th (1925–1927)
	70th (1927–1929)
	71st (1929–1931)
	72nd (1931–1933)
	73rd (1933–1935)
William H. Thompson (D)
Richard C. Hunter (D)
Edward R. Burke (D)	74th (1935–1937)
	74th (1935–1937)	George W. Norris (I)
	75th (1937–1939)
	76th (1939–1941)
Hugh A. Butler (R)	77th (1941–1943)
	78th (1943–1945)	Kenneth S. Wherry (R)
	79th (1945–1947)
	80th (1947–1949)
	81st (1949–1951)
	82nd (1951–1953)
		Fred A. Seaton (R)
		Dwight Griswold (R)
	83rd (1953–1955)	Dwight Griswold (R)
		Eva Bowring (R)
Samuel W. Reynolds (R)		Hazel Abel (R)
Roman Hruska (R)		Carl Curtis (R)
	84th (1955–1957)
	85th (1957–1959)
	86th (1959–1961)
	87th (1961–1963)
	88th (1963–1965)
	89th (1965–1967)
	90th (1967–1969)
	91st (1969–1971)
	92nd (1971–1973)
	93rd (1973–1975)
	94th (1975–1977)
Edward Zorinsky (D)	94th (1975–1977)
	95th (1977–1979)
	96th (1979–1981)	J. James Exon (D)
	97th (1981–1983)
	98th (1983–1985)
	99th (1985–1987)
	100th (1987–1989)
David Karnes (R)	100th (1987–1989)
Bob Kerrey (D)	101st (1989–1991)
	102nd (1991–1993)
	103rd (1993–1995)
	104th (1995–1997)
	105th (1997–1999)	Chuck Hagel (R)
	106th (1999–2001)
Ben Nelson (D)	107th (2001–2003)
	108th (2003–2005)
	109th (2005–2007)
	110th (2007–2009)
	111th (2009–2011)	Mike Johanns (R)
	112th (2011–2013)
Deb Fischer (R)	113th (2013–2015)
	114th (2015–2017)	Ben Sasse (R)
	115th (2017–2019)
	116th (2019–2021)
	117th (2021–2023)
	118th (2023–2025)
	118th (2023–2025)	Pete Ricketts (R)

Key

Democratic (D)
Populist (Pop)
Republican (R)
Independent (I)

References

^ "The national atlas". nationalatlas.gov. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
^ "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives". clerk.house.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". The Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Nebraska became a state so late that its first representative and senators were only able to serve for the final two days of the 39th Congress.
^ "2022 Cook PVI: State Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved 2023-01-07.

[1] "The national atlas". nationalatlas.gov. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.

[2] "Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives". clerk.house.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-06.

[3] "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". The Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2023.

[RNB1-4] Nebraska became a state so late that its first representative and senators were only able to serve for the final two days of the 39th Congress.

[5] "2022 Cook PVI: State Map and List". Cook Political Report. Retrieved 2023-01-07.

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