# List of new members of the 93rd United States Congress

The 93rd United States Congress began on January 3, 1973. There were 11 new senators (six Democrats, five Republicans) and 68 new representatives (26 Democrats, 42 Republicans), as well as three new delegates (all Democrats), at the start of the first session. Additionally, seven senators (four Democrats, three Republicans) and 10 representatives (seven Democrats, three Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 93rd Congress before it ended on January 3, 1975.
Due to redistricting after the 1970 census, 17 representatives were elected from newly established congressional districts.

## Senate
### Took office January 3, 1973

| State | Senator | Seniority | Switched party | Prior background | Birth year |
| Colorado | Floyd Haskell (D) | 9th (98th overall) | Yes Defeated Gordon Allott (R) | Colorado House of Representatives U.S. Army Major | 1916 |
| Delaware | Joe Biden (D) | 11th (100th overall) | Yes Defeated J. Caleb Boggs (R) | New Castle County Council | 1942 |
| Idaho | James A. McClure (R) | 3rd (92nd overall) | No Open seat; replaced Leonard B. Jordan (R) | U.S. House of Representatives Idaho Senate U.S. Navy | 1924 |
| Iowa | Dick Clark (D) | 8th (97th overall) | Yes Defeated Jack Miller (R) | Assistant to Congressman John Culver Professor U.S. Army | 1928 |
| Kentucky | Walter Dee Huddleston (D) | 7th (96th overall) | Yes Open seat; replaced John Sherman Cooper (R) | Kentucky Senate U.S. Army | 1926 |
| Maine | William Hathaway (D) | 1st (90th overall) | Yes Defeated Margaret Chase Smith (R) | U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Army Air Corps | 1924 |
| New Mexico | Pete Domenici (R) | 10th (99th overall) | Yes Open seat; replaced Clinton Anderson (D) | Mayor of Albuquerque | 1932 |
| North Carolina | Jesse Helms (R) | 6th (95th overall) | Yes Replaced B. Everett Jordan (D), who was defeated in a primary | Capitol Broadcasting Company Raleigh City Council U.S. Navy | 1921 |
| Oklahoma | Dewey F. Bartlett (R) | 5th (94th overall) | Yes Open seat; replaced Fred R. Harris (D) | Governor of Oklahoma Oklahoma Senate U.S. Marine Corps Captain | 1919 |
| South Dakota | James Abourezk (D) | 4th (93rd overall) | Yes Open seat; replaced Karl Mundt (R) | U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Navy | 1931 |
| Virginia | William L. Scott (R) | 2nd (91st overall) | Yes Defeated William Spong Jr. (D) | U.S. House of Representatives | 1915 |

### Took office during the 93rd Congress

| State | Senator | Took office | Switched party | Prior background | Birth year |
| Ohio | Howard Metzenbaum (D) | January 4, 1974 | Yes Appointed; replaced William B. Saxbe (R) | Ohio Senate Ohio House of Representatives | 1917 |
| Nevada | Paul Laxalt (R) | December 18, 1974 | Yes Open seat; replaced Alan Bible (D) | Governor of Nevada Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Ormsby County District Attorney U.S. Army | 1922 |
| Utah | Jake Garn (R) | December 21, 1974 | No Open seat; replaced Wallace F. Bennett (R) | Mayor of Salt Lake City Utah Air National Guard | 1932 |
| Ohio | John Glenn (D) | December 24, 1974 | No Defeated Howard Metzenbaum (D) in a primary | NASA astronaut U.S. Marine Corps Colonel | 1921 |
| Kentucky | Wendell Ford (D) | December 28, 1974 | Yes Defeated Marlow Cook (R) | Governor of Kentucky Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Kentucky Senate Kentucky Army National Guard | 1924 |
| New Hampshire | Louis C. Wyman (R) | December 31, 1974 | No Appointed; replaced Norris Cotton (R) | U.S. House of Representatives Attorney General of New Hampshire U.S. Navy Lieutenant | 1917 |
| Florida | Richard Stone (D) | January 1, 1975 | Yes Open seat; replaced Edward Gurney (R) | Secretary of State of Florida Florida Senate Miami City Attorney | 1928 |

## House of Representatives
### Took office January 3, 1973

| District | Representative | Switched party | Prior background | Birth year |
| Arizona 4 | John Conlan (R) | New seat | State Senator | 1930 |
| Arkansas 4 | Ray Thornton (D) | No | Arkansas Attorney General | 1928 |
| California 8 | Pete Stark (D) | No | Bank executive | 1931 |
| California 11 | Leo Ryan (D) | New seat | State Assemblyman | 1925 |
| California 20 | Carlos Moorhead (R) | No | State Assemblyman | 1922 |
| California 36 | William M. Ketchum (R) | New seat | State Assemblyman | 1921 |
| California 37 | Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (D) | New seat | State Assemblywoman | 1932 |
| California 38 | George Brown Jr. (D) | New seat | U.S. Representative | 1920 |
| California 39 | Andrew J. Hinshaw (R) | No | County Assessor | 1923 |
| California 42 | Clair Burgener (R) | New seat | State Senator | 1921 |
| Colorado 1 | Pat Schroeder (D) | Yes | Lawyer | 1940 |
| Colorado 4 | James Paul Johnson (R) | Yes | School Board Member | 1930 |
| Colorado 5 | William L. Armstrong (R) | New seat | State Senate President | 1937 |
| Connecticut 5 | Ronald A. Sarasin (R) | Yes | State Representative | 1934 |
| Florida 5 | Bill Gunter (D) | New seat | State Senator | 1934 |
| Florida 10 | Skip Bafalis (R) | New seat | State Senator | 1929 |
| Florida 13 | William Lehman (D) | New seat | School Board Member | 1913 |
| Georgia 1 | Bo Ginn (D) | No | Congressional aide | 1934 |
| Georgia 5 | Andrew Young (D) | Yes | Director of the SCLC | 1932 |
| Idaho 1 | Steve Symms (R) | No | Farmer | 1938 |
| Illinois 3 | Robert P. Hanrahan (R) | New seat | County School Superintendent | 1934 |
| Illinois 10 | Samuel H. Young (R) | Yes | Lawyer | 1922 |
| Illinois 17 | George M. O'Brien (R) | New seat | State Representative | 1917 |
| Illinois 21 | Ed Madigan (R) | No | State Representative | 1936 |
| Indiana 11 | William H. Hudnut III (R) | Yes | Ordained minister | 1932 |
| Iowa 1 | Edward Mezvinsky (D) | Yes | State Representative | 1937 |
| Kentucky 6 | John B. Breckinridge (D) | No | Attorney General of Kentucky | 1913 |
| Louisiana 3 | Dave Treen (R) | Yes | State Party Committeeman | 1928 |
| Louisiana 8 | Gillis William Long (D) | No | U.S. Representative | 1923 |
| Maine 2 | William Cohen (R) | Yes | Mayor of Bangor | 1940 |
| Maryland 4 | Marjorie Holt (R) | Yes | Circuit Court Judge | 1920 |
| Massachusetts 5 | Paul W. Cronin (R) | No | State Representative | 1938 |
| Massachusetts 9 | Joe Moakley (D) | No | City Councillor | 1927 |
| Massachusetts 12 | Gerry Studds (D) | Yes | U.S. Foreign Service officer | 1937 |
| Michigan 18 | Robert J. Huber (R) | New seat | State Senator | 1922 |
| Mississippi 2 | David R. Bowen (D) | No | USCC official | 1932 |
| Mississippi 4 | Thad Cochran (R) | Yes | Lawyer | 1937 |
| Mississippi 5 | Trent Lott (R) | Yes | Congressional aide | 1941 |
| Missouri 6 | Jerry Litton (D) | No | Rancher | 1937 |
| Missouri 7 | Gene Taylor (R) | No | Mayor of Sarcoxie | 1928 |
| Nevada at-large | David Towell (R) | Yes | Real estate broker | 1937 |
| New Jersey 12 | Matthew J. Rinaldo (R) | No | State Senator | 1931 |
| New Jersey 13 | Joseph J. Maraziti (R) | New seat | State Senator | 1912 |
| New York 3 | Angelo D. Roncallo (R) | New seat | County Comptroller | 1927 |
| New York 16 | Elizabeth Holtzman (D) | No | Assistant to Mayor John Lindsay | 1941 |
| New York 26 | Benjamin Gilman (R) | Yes | State Assemblyman | 1922 |
| New York 31 | Donald J. Mitchell (R) | No | State Assemblyman | 1923 |
| New York 33 | William F. Walsh (R) | No | Mayor of Syracuse | 1912 |
| North Carolina 4 | Ike Franklin Andrews (D) | No | State Representative | 1925 |
| North Carolina 7 | Charlie Rose (D) | No | Prosecutor | 1939 |
| North Carolina 9 | James G. Martin (R) | No | County Commissioner | 1935 |
| Ohio 4 | Tennyson Guyer (R) | No | State Senator | 1912 |
| Ohio 16 | Ralph Regula (R) | No | State Senator | 1924 |
| Oklahoma 1 | James R. Jones (D) | Yes | White House Chief of Staff | 1939 |
| Oklahoma 2 | Clem McSpadden (D) | No | State Senator | 1925 |
| Pennsylvania 9 | Bud Shuster (R) | New seat | Business owner | 1932 |
| South Carolina 6 | Edward Lunn Young (R) | Yes | State Representative | 1920 |
| South Dakota 2 | James Abdnor (R) | Yes | Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota | 1923 |
| Tennessee 6 | Robin Beard (R) | Yes | U.S. Marine Corps Reserve | 1939 |
| Texas 2 | Charlie Wilson (D) | No | State Senator | 1933 |
| Texas 5 | Alan Steelman (R) | Yes | Business executive | 1942 |
| Texas 18 | Barbara Jordan (D) | New seat | State Senator | 1936 |
| Texas 24 | Dale Milford (D) | New seat | Meteorologist | 1926 |
| Utah 2 | Wayne Owens (D) | Yes | Congressional staffer | 1937 |
| Virginia 4 | Robert Daniel (R) | Yes | CIA officer | 1936 |
| Virginia 8 | Stanford Parris (R) | No | State Delegate | 1929 |
| Washington 1 | Joel Pritchard (R) | No | State Senator | 1925 |
| Wisconsin 8 | Harold Vernon Froehlich (R) | No | State Assembly Speaker | 1932 |

#### Non-voting members

| District | Delegate | Switched party | Prior background | Birth year |
| Guam at-large | Antonio Borja Won Pat (D) | New seat | Territorial Legislative Speaker | 1908 |
| Puerto Rico at-large | Jaime Benítez Rexach (PD/D) | Yes/No | University President | 1908 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands at-large | Ron de Lugo (D) | New seat | Territorial Legislator | 1930 |

### Took office during the 95th Congress

| District | Representative | Took office | Switched party | Prior background | Birth year |
| Alaska at-large | Don Young (R) | March 6, 1973 | Yes | State Senator | 1933 |
| Louisiana 2 | Lindy Boggs (D) | March 20, 1973 | No | Teacher | 1916 |
| Illinois 7 | Cardiss Collins (D) | June 5, 1973 | No | Accountant | 1931 |
| Maryland 1 | Robert Bauman (R) | August 21, 1973 | No | State Senator | 1937 |
| Pennsylvania 12 | John Murtha (D) | February 5, 1974 | Yes | State Representative | 1932 |
| Michigan 5 | Richard Vander Veen (D) | February 18, 1974 | Yes | School Board Member | 1922 |
| California 13 | Robert J. Lagomarsino (R) | March 5, 1974 | No | State Senator | 1926 |
| Ohio 1 | Tom Luken (D) | March 5, 1974 | Yes | Mayor of Cincinnati | 1925 |
| Michigan 8 | J. Bob Traxler (D) | April 23, 1974 | Yes | State Representative | 1931 |
| California 6 | John Burton (D) | June 4, 1974 | Yes | State Assemblyman | 1932 |