These are tables of congressional delegations from Louisiana to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
[edit] United States Senate
[edit] United States House of Representatives
[edit] 1806 - 1811: 1 non-voting delegate
The first non-voting delegate took his seat on December 1, 1806.
[edit] 1812 - 1823: 1 seat
Statehood was achieved and a representative elected on April 30, 1812.
[edit] 1823 - 1843: 3 seats
Two more seats were apportioned following the 1820 census.
[edit] 1843 - 1863: 4 seats
A fourth seat was added following the 1840 census.
[edit] 1863 - 1873: 5 seats
A fifth seat was added following the 1860 census. However, the Civil War prevented them from being seated until 1867.
[edit] 1873 - 1903: 6 seats
A sixth seat was added following the 1870 census. From 1873 to 1875, that extra seat was elected at-large state-wide. Starting in 1875, however, the state was redistricted into six districts.
[edit] 1903 - 1913: 7 seats
A seventh seat was added following the 1900 census.
[edit] 1913 - 1993: 8 seats
After the 1910 census, Louisiana's delegation reached its largest size, eight seats, which it held for 80 years.
[edit] 1993 - present: 7 seats
After the 1990 census, Louisiana lost one seat.
- ^ Mann's term began on 1868 July 18. He died on 1868 August 26 after just 5 weeks in office. Despite a special election to replace Mann, the House decided to keep the seat officially vacant until the 41st congress. See John Willis Menard.
- ^ Seat filled by election of Sypher on 1870 November 18, ending Louisiana congressional vacancies related to the American Civil War.
- ^ McCleery died in office.
- ^ Lawrence, a white Democrat, having been permitted permanently to sever black Republican Sypher from the office, served just one day, 1873 March 3, the last business day of the 43rd congress. In the meantime, since Effingham's contested election against incumbent Sypher in 1972, Louisiana's 1st congressional district had elected, as Effingham's replacement, a white Democrat, Randall Lee Gibson, a former Confederate Civil War general and later eponym of Tulane University of Louisiana's Gibson Hall.
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