Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives

The following is a list of members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have served as chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Chairs are currently limited to two consecutive terms.

## List

|Officeholder|State|Congress|Term|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|James Thompson|Pennsylvania|31st|1849–1851|
|N/A||32nd|1851–1853|
|Edson B. Olds|Ohio|33rd|1853–1855|
|George Washington Jones|Tennessee|34th|1855–1857|
|N/A||35th|1857–1859|
|George S. Houston|Alabama|36th|1859–1861|
|N/A||37th–40th|1861–1869|
|William E. Niblack, Samuel J. Randall|Indiana, Pennsylvania|41st|1869–1871|
|N/A||42nd|1871–1873|
|William E. Niblack|Indiana|43rd|1873–1875|
|Lucius Q.C. Lamar|Mississippi|44th|1875–1877|
|Hiester Clymer|Pennsylvania|45th|1877–1879|
|John F. House|Tennessee|46th|1879–1881|
|N/A||47th|1881–1883|
|George W. Geddes|Ohio|48th|1883–1885|
|J. Randolph Tucker|Virginia|49th|1885–1887|
|Samuel S. Cox|New York|50th|1887–1889|
|William S. Holman|Indiana|51st–53rd|1889–1895|
|David B. Culberson|Texas|54th|1895–1897|
|James D. Richardson|Tennessee|55th|1897–1899|
|James Hay|Virginia|56th–58th|1899–1905|
|Robert L. Henry|Texas|59th|1905–1907|
|Henry D. Clayton|Alabama|60th–61st|1907–1911|
|Albert S. Burleson|Texas|62nd|1911–1913|
|A. Mitchell Palmer|Pennsylvania|63rd|1913–1915|
|Edward W. Saunders|Virginia|64th–65th|1915–1919|
|Arthur G. DeWalt|Pennsylvania|66th|1919–1921|
|Sam Rayburn|Texas|67th|1921–1923|
|Henry T. Rainey|Illinois|68th|1923–1925|
|Charles D. Carter|Oklahoma|69th|1925–1927|
|Arthur H. Greenwood|Indiana|70th|1927–1929|
|David H. Kincheloe|Kentucky|71st|1929–1930|
|William W. Arnold|Illinois|72nd|1931–1933|
|Clarence F. Lea|California|73rd|1933–1935|
|Edward T. Taylor|Colorado|74th|1935–1937|
|Robert L. Doughton|North Carolina|75th|1937–1939|
|John W. McCormack|Massachusetts|76th|1939–1940|
|Richard M. Duncan|Missouri|77th|1941–1943|
|Harry R. Sheppard|California|78th|1943–1945|
|Jere Cooper|Tennessee|79th|1945–1947|
|Aime J. Forand|Rhode Island|80th|1947–1949|
|Francis E. Walter|Pennsylvania|81st|1949–1951|
|Jere Cooper|Tennessee|82nd|1951–1953|
|Wilbur D. Mills|Arkansas|83rd|1953–1955|
|John J. Rooney|New York|84th|1955–1957|
|Melvin Price|Illinois|85th–86th|1957–1961|
|Francis E. Walter|Pennsylvania|87th–88th|1961–1963|
|Albert Thomas|Texas|88th|1964–1965|
|Eugene Keogh|New York|89th|1965–1967|
|Dan Rostenkowski|Illinois|90th–91st|1967–1971|
|Olin Teague|Texas|92nd–93rd|1971–1975|
|Phillip Burton|California|94th|1976–1977|
|Thomas S. Foley|Washington|95th–96th|1977–1981|
|Gillis W. Long|Louisiana|97th–98th|1981–1985|
|Richard A. Gephardt|Missouri|99th–100th|1985–1989|
|William H. Gray III|Pennsylvania|101st|1989|
|Steny H. Hoyer|Maryland|101st–103rd|1989–1995|
|Vic Fazio|California|104th–105th|1995–1999|
|Martin Frost|Texas|106th–107th|1999–2003|
|Bob Menendez|New Jersey|108th–109th|2003–2006|
|James Clyburn|South Carolina|109th|2006–2007|
|Rahm Emanuel|Illinois|110th|2007–2009|
|John B. Larson|Connecticut|111th–112th|2009–2013|
|Xavier Becerra|California|113th–114th|2013–2017|
|Joe Crowley|New York|115th|2017–2019|
|Hakeem Jeffries|New York|116th-117th|2019–2023|
|Pete Aguilar|California|118th|Since 2023|

## Other websites

- Official House history (Public domain)