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List of youngest members of the United States Congress


00:02:34 1 List of youngest members of the U.S. Senate
00:02:58 2 List of youngest members of the U.S. House of Representatives
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The following are historical lists of the youngest members of the United States Congress, in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. These members would be the equivalent to the "Baby of the House" in the parliaments of Commonwealth countries; the U.S. Congress does not confer a similar title upon its youngest members.
Minimum ages are written into Article One of the United States Constitution, which bars persons under the age of 25 from serving in the House and persons under the age of 30 from serving in the Senate. In the political culture of the United States, the U.S. House of Representatives is not an entry-level political position, with it actually being the highest level of government even higher than the presidency. Although the vast majority of Members of Congress have experience in state and local politics prior to their election to the federal Congress in Washington, D.C., the number of Senators and Representatives without such experience has increased recently .
In the 115th Congress, which began on January 3, 2017, the youngest member of the United States House of Representatives is Elise Stefanik (R-New York 21), who was born on  (1984-07-02) July 2, 1984 and first elected in 2014. 
On June 26, 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District’s Democratic primary. On November 6, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez and Abby Finkenauer won their general election campaigns, thereby becoming the youngest female congressperson ever elected. Ocasio-Cortez will become the youngest member of the 116th United States Congress and Finkenauer will become the second-youngest. Ocasio-Cortez will be the youngest female congressperson in United States history.
The youngest current U.S. senator is 41-year-old Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who was elected in 2014. He replaces Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) who was the youngest senator of the 113th Congress. The second youngest senator now is Cory Gardner (R-Colorado), at age 44, elected in 2014 like Sen. Cotton. Josh Hawley will become the youngest sitting senator of the 116th United States Congress at age 38 when he is sworn in.The average age of Senators is now higher than in the past. In the 19th century, several state legislatures elected Senators in their late twenties in violation of the Constitutional minimum age of 30; Henry Clay, elected at age 29, is the most notable example.