House Democratic Caucus

The **House Democratic Caucus** is a congressional caucus made up of all Democratic representatives in the United States House of Representatives, voting and non-voting, and is responsible for nominating and electing the Democratic Party leadership in the chamber.

The caucus writes and forces rules of conduct for its members, approves committee assignments, and serves as the main meeting space for party policy and legislative priorities.

## Current leadership

Effective with the start of the 118th Congress, the chain of command conference leadership is as follows (from highest to lowest):

- Hakeem Jeffries (NY) as House Minority Leader (Caucus Leader)
- Katherine Clark (MA) as House Minority Whip
- Pete Aguilar (CA) as Caucus Chairman
- Ted Lieu (CA) as Caucus Vice Chair

## Leaders of the House Democratic Caucus

|style="width:5%;"|Congress|colspan="2"|Leader|District|Took office|Left office|colspan="2"|House Speaker||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|20th|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Andrew Stevenson**|rowspan="3"|Virginia 9|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4"|_Himself_||
|21st||||||||||||||||
|22nd||||||||||||||||
|23rd|Virginia 11|||||||||||||||
|23rd||**John Bell**|Tennessee 7|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|24th|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**James K. Polk**|rowspan="2"|Tennessee 9|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Himself_||
|25th|style="background-color:;"|||||||||||||||
|26th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Hunter||||||||||
|27th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|White||||||||||
|28th||**John Winston Jones**|Virginia 6|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|29th||**John Wesley Davis**|Indiana 6|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|30th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Winthrop||||||||||
|31st||**Howell Cobb**|Georgia 6|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|32nd|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Linn Boyd**|rowspan="2"|Kentucky 1|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Himself_||
|33rd||||||||||||||||
|34th||**George Washington Jones**|Tennessee 6|||style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Banks|||||||
|35th||**James Lawrence Orr**|South Carolina 5|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|36th||**George S. Houston**|Alabama 5|||style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Pennington|||||||
|37th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Grow||||||||||
|38th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Colfax||||||||||
|39th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_||||||||||||||
|40th|rowspan="2" colspan="5"|_Unknown_||||||||||||||
|40th|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Pomeroy||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|41st||**Samuel J. Randall**|Pennsylvania 1|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Blaine||||
||**William E. Niblack**|Indiana 1||||||||||||||
|42nd|colspan="5"|_Unknown_||||||||||||||
|43rd||**William E. Niblack**|Indiana 1|||||||||||||
|44th||**Michael C. Kerr**|Indiana 3|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|44th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**Samuel J. Randall**|rowspan="3"|Pennsylvania 3|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3"|_Himself_||
|45th||||||||||||||||
|46th||||||||||||||||
|47th|colspan="5"|_Unknown_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Keifer||||||||||
|48th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**John G. Carlisle**|rowspan="3"|Kentucky 6|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3"|_Himself_||
|49th||||||||||||||||
|50th||||||||||||||||
|51st||**William S. Holman**|Indiana 4|||style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Reed|||||||
|52nd|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Charles Frederick Crisp**|rowspan="2"|Georgia 3|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Himself_||
|53rd||||||||||||||||
|54th||**David B. Culberson**|Texas 4|||rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Reed|||||||
|55th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**James D. Richardson**|rowspan="3"|Tennessee 5|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|||||||
|56th|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Henderson||||||||||||
|57th||||||||||||||||
|58th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**John Sharp Williams**|rowspan="3"|Mississippi 8|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Cannon||
|59th||||||||||||||||
|60th||||||||||||||||
|61st|rowspan="6"||rowspan="6"|**Champ Clark**|rowspan="6"|Missouri 9|rowspan="6"||rowspan="6"|||||||
|62nd|rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4"|_Himself_||||||||||||
|63rd||||||||||||||||
|64th||||||||||||||||
|65th||||||||||||||||
|66th|rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Gillett||||||||||||
|67th||**Claude Kitchin**|North Carolina 2|||||||||||||
|68th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**Finis J. Garrett**|rowspan="3"|Tennessee 9|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|||||||
|69th|rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Longworth||||||||||||
|70th||||||||||||||||
|71st|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**John Nance Garner**|rowspan="2"|Texas 15|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|||||||
|72nd|style="background-color:;"||_Himself_|||||||||||||
|73rd||**Henry Thomas Rainey**|Illinois 20|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|74th||**Jo Byrns**|Tennessee 5|||style="background-color:;"||_Himself_||||||||
|74th|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**William B. Bankhead**|rowspan="3"|Alabama 7|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3"|_Himself_||
|75th||||||||||||||||
|76th||||||||||||||||
|76th|rowspan="12"||rowspan="12"|**Sam Rayburn**|rowspan="12"|Texas 4|rowspan="12"||rowspan="12"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4"|_Himself_||
|77th||||||||||||||||
|78th||||||||||||||||
|79th||||||||||||||||
|80th|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Martin||||||||||||
|81st|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Himself_||||||||||||
|82nd||||||||||||||||
|83rd|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Martin||||||||||||
|84th|rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4"|_Himself_||||||||||||
|85th||||||||||||||||
|86th||||||||||||||||
|87th||||||||||||||||
|87th|rowspan="5"||rowspan="5"|**John W. McCormack**|Massachusetts 12|rowspan="5"||rowspan="5"||rowspan="5" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="5"|_Himself_|||
|88th|rowspan="4"|Massachusetts 9||||||||||||||
|89th||||||||||||||||
|90th||||||||||||||||
|91st||||||||||||||||
|92nd|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**Carl Albert**|rowspan="3"|Oklahoma 3|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3"|_Himself_||
|93rd||||||||||||||||
|94th||||||||||||||||
|95th|rowspan="5"||rowspan="5"|**Tip O'Neill**|rowspan="5"|Massachusetts 8|rowspan="5"||rowspan="5"||rowspan="5" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="5"|_Himself_||
|96th||||||||||||||||
|97th||||||||||||||||
|98th||||||||||||||||
|99th||||||||||||||||
|100th|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Jim Wright**|rowspan="2"|Texas 12|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Himself_||
|101st||||||||||||||||
|101st|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|**Tom Foley**|rowspan="3"|Washington 5|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3"|_Himself_||
|102nd||||||||||||||||
|103rd||||||||||||||||
|104th|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Dick Gephardt**|rowspan="4"|Missouri 3|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Gingrich||
|105th||||||||||||||||
|106th|rowspan="4" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="4" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Hastert||||||||||||
|107th||||||||||||||||
|108th|rowspan="11"||rowspan="11"|**Nancy Pelosi**|rowspan="5"|California 8|rowspan="11"||rowspan="11"|||||||
|109th||||||||||||||||
|110th|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Herself_||||||||||||
|111th||||||||||||||||
|112th|rowspan="3" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="3" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Boehner||||||||||||
|113th|rowspan="6"|California 12||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|114th|||||||||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Ryan|||||||||||||
|115th||||||||||||||||
|116th|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2"|_Herself_||||||||||||
|117th||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|118th|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|**Hakeem Jeffries**|rowspan="4"|New York 8|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|_Incumbent_|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|McCarthy|
|style="background-color:;"||style="background-color:#E6E6AA;"|McHenry|||||||||||||
|rowspan="2" style="background-color:;"||rowspan="2" style="background-color:#EAECF0;"|Johnson|||||||||||||
|119th||||||||||||||||

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: House Democratic Caucus
- **logo**: US Democratic Party Logo.svg
- **leader1 title**: Part of
- **leader1 name**: United States House of Representatives
- **leader2 title**: Floor Leader
- **leader2 name**: Hakeem Jeffries
- **leader3 title**: Floor Whip
- **leader3 name**: Katherine Clark
- **leader4 title**: Chair
- **leader4 name**: Pete Aguilar (California, CA)
- **affiliation1 title**: Affiliation
- **affiliation1**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party
- **seats1 title**: Seats
- **colors**: Blue
- **position**: Center-left
- **ideology**: Liberalism
- **country**: United States