List of freshman class members of the 110th United States Congress

The 110th United States Congress began on January 4, 2007. There were 10 new senators (8D, 1I, 1R), and 54 new representatives (41D, 13R). The representatives comprise a diverse group reflecting the multiculturalism of the U.S. One representative graduated with a high school class of 25; another is said to have a net worth of $50 million. Backgrounds include teachers, musicians, authors, engineers, a vice admiral, and a professional football player. Religions include Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam (none claims to be atheist or agnostic). When taking office, ages ranged from 33 to 66, placing the class mostly in the baby boomer and generation X categories. Of this group 12 are female.

New members at the beginning of the 110th Congress

These senators and representatives served at the beginning of the Congress on January 4, 2007.

Senate

State	Senator	Party	Seat Changed Party?	Prior background	Religion	Birth year
Maryland	Ben Cardin	Democratic	No Open Seat; Replaced Paul Sarbanes	U.S. House of Representatives	Jewish	1943
Minnesota	Amy Klobuchar	Democratic	No Open Seat; Replaced Mark Dayton	Hennepin County Attorney	Congregationalist	1960
Missouri	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	Yes Defeated Jim Talent	State Auditor	Roman Catholic	1953
Montana	Jon Tester	Democratic	Yes Defeated Conrad Burns	State Senate President	Church of God	1956
Ohio	Sherrod Brown	Democratic	Yes Defeated Mike DeWine	U.S. House of Representatives	Lutheran	1952
Pennsylvania	Bob Casey, Jr.	Democratic	Yes Defeated Rick Santorum	State Treasurer	Roman Catholic	1960
Rhode Island	Sheldon Whitehouse	Democratic	Yes Defeated Lincoln Chafee	State Attorney General	Episcopalian	1955
Tennessee	Bob Corker	Republican	No Open Seat; Replaced Bill Frist	Mayor of Chattanooga	Presbyterian	1952
Vermont	Bernie Sanders	Independent	No Open Seat; Replaced Jim Jeffords	U.S. House of Representatives	Jewish	1941
Virginia	Jim Webb	Democratic	Yes Defeated George Allen	Secretary of the Navy	Protestant	1946

House of Representatives

District	Representative	Party	Seat Changed Party?	Prior background	Religion	Birth year
Arizona 5	Harry Mitchell	Democratic	Yes	Mayor of Tempe	Roman Catholic	1940
Arizona 8	Gabrielle Giffords	Democratic	Yes	State Senator	Jewish	1970
California 11	Jerry McNerney	Democratic	Yes	Engineer	Roman Catholic	1951
California 22	Kevin McCarthy	Republican	No	State Assemblyman	Baptist	1965
Colorado 5	Doug Lamborn	Republican	No	State Senator	Protestant	1954
Colorado 7	Ed Perlmutter	Democratic	Yes	State Senator	Evangelical Christian	1953
Connecticut 2	Joe Courtney	Democratic	Yes	State Representative	Roman Catholic	1953
Connecticut 5	Chris Murphy	Democratic	Yes	State Senator	Protestant	1973
Florida 9	Gus Bilirakis	Republican	No	State Representative	Greek Orthodox	1963
Florida 11	Kathy Castor	Democratic	No	Hillsborough County Commissioner	Presbyterian	1966
Florida 13	Vern Buchanan	Republican	No	Business owner	Baptist	1951
Florida 16	Tim Mahoney	Democratic	Yes	COO of vFinance	Methodist	1956
Florida 22	Ron Klein	Democratic	Yes	State Senator	Jewish	1957
Georgia 4	Hank Johnson	Democratic	No	County Commissioner	Soka Gakkai Buddhist	1954
Hawaii 2	Mazie Hirono	Democratic	No	Lieutenant Governor	Buddhist	1947
Idaho 1	Bill Sali	Republican	No	State Representative	Evangelical Christian	1954
Illinois 6	Peter Roskam	Republican	No	State Senator	Anglican	1961
Illinois 17	Phil Hare	Democratic	No	Union President	Roman Catholic	1949
Indiana 2	Joe Donnelly	Democratic	Yes	Lawyer	Roman Catholic	1955
Indiana 8	Brad Ellsworth	Democratic	Yes	Vanderburgh County Sheriff	Roman Catholic	1958
Indiana 9	Baron Hill	Democratic	Yes	former U.S. Representative	Church of Christ	1953
Iowa 1	Bruce Braley	Democratic	Yes	Lawyer	Presbyterian	1957
Iowa 2	David Loebsack	Democratic	Yes	Political Science Professor	Methodist	1952
Kansas 2	Nancy Boyda	Democratic	Yes	Chemist	Methodist	1955
Kentucky 3	John Yarmuth	Democratic	Yes	Publisher	Jewish	1947
Maryland 3	John Sarbanes	Democratic	No	Lawyer	Greek Orthodox	1962
Michigan 7	Tim Walberg	Republican	No	State Representative	Protestant	1951
Minnesota 1	Tim Walz	Democratic	Yes	Teacher	Lutheran (raised Catholic)	1964
Minnesota 5	Keith Ellison	Democratic	No	State Representative	Sunni Muslim	1963
Minnesota 6	Michele Bachmann	Republican	No	State Senator	Evangelical Lutheran	1956
Nebraska 3	Adrian Smith	Republican	No	State Legislator	Evangelical Christian	1970
Nevada 2	Dean Heller	Republican	No	Secretary of State	Mormon	1960
New Hampshire 1	Carol Shea-Porter	Democratic	Yes	Social Worker	Roman Catholic	1954
New Hampshire 2	Paul Hodes	Democratic	Yes	Assistant State Attorney General	Jewish	1951
New York 11	Yvette D. Clarke	Democratic	No	New York City Council member	African Methodist Episcopal	1964
New York 19	John Hall	Democratic	Yes	Musician	Roman Catholic	1948
New York 20	Kirsten Gillibrand	Democratic	Yes	Lawyer	Roman Catholic	1966
New York 24	Michael Arcuri	Democratic	Yes	Oneida County District Attorney	Roman Catholic	1959
North Carolina 11	Heath Shuler	Democratic	Yes	Real estate professional and former NFL player	Baptist	1971
Ohio 4	Jim Jordan	Republican	No	State Senator	Evangelical Christian	1964
Ohio 6	Charlie Wilson	Democratic	No	State Senator	Roman Catholic	1943
Ohio 13	Betty Sutton	Democratic	No	State Representative	United Methodist	1963
Ohio 18	Zack Space	Democratic	Yes	City Law Director	Greek Orthodox	1961
Oklahoma 5	Mary Fallin	Republican	No	Lieutenant Governor	Protestant	1954
Pennsylvania 4	Jason Altmire	Democratic	Yes	Legislative assistant	Roman Catholic	1968
Pennsylvania 7	Joe Sestak	Democratic	Yes	Navy vice admiral	Roman Catholic	1951
Pennsylvania 8	Patrick Murphy	Democratic	Yes	Professor	Roman Catholic	1973
Pennsylvania 10	Chris Carney	Democratic	Yes	Associate Professor	Roman Catholic	1959
Tennessee 1	David Davis	Republican	No	State Representative	Baptist	1959
Tennessee 9	Steve Cohen	Democratic	No	State Senator	Jewish	1949
Texas 22	Nick Lampson	Democratic	Yes	former U.S. Representative	Roman Catholic	1945
Texas 23	Ciro Rodriguez	Democratic	Yes	former U.S. Representative	Roman Catholic	1946
Vermont At-Large	Peter Welch	Democratic	No^[1]	State Senator	Roman Catholic	1947
Wisconsin 8	Steve Kagen	Democratic	Yes	Medical Doctor	Jewish	1949

New members who joined during the 110th Congress

These members joined after the Congress had started due to the death or resignation of their predecessor.

Senate

State	Image	Senator	Prior background	Religion	Birth Year	Assumed office	Notes
Wyoming		John Barrasso	Physician	Presbyterian	1952	June 25, 2007	Replaced Craig Thomas, who died June 4, 2007
Mississippi		Roger Wicker	U.S. Representative	Southern Baptist	1951	December 31, 2007	Replaced Trent Lott, who resigned December 18, 2007

House of Representatives

District	Representative	Prior background	Religion	Birth year	Assumed office	Notes
Georgia 10	Paul Broun (R)	Physician	Baptist	1946	July 25, 2007	Replaced Charlie Norwood (R), who died February 13, 2007.
California 37	Laura Richardson (D)	State Assemblywoman	Methodist	1962	September 4, 2007	Replaced Juanita Millender-McDonald (D), who died April 22, 2007.
Massachusetts 5	Niki Tsongas (D)	Lawyer: Dean of External Affairs at Middlesex Community College	Greek Orthodox	1946	October 18, 2007	Replaced Marty Meehan (D), who resigned July 1, 2007.
Ohio 5	Bob Latta (R)	Lawyer	Roman Catholic	1956	December 13, 2007	Replaced Paul Gillmor (R), who died September 5, 2007.
Virginia 1	Rob Wittman (R)	State Delegate	Episcopalian	1959	December 13, 2007	Replaced Jo Ann Davis (R), who died October 6, 2007.
Illinois 14	Bill Foster (D)	Businessman, Physicist		1955	March 11, 2008	Replaced Dennis Hastert (R), who resigned November 26, 2007.
Indiana 7	André Carson (D)	Indianapolis City-County Council member	Muslim	1974	March 13, 2008	Replaced Julia Carson (D), who died December 15, 2007.
California 12	Jackie Speier (D)	State Senator	Roman Catholic	1950	April 10, 2008	Replaced Tom Lantos (D), who died February 11, 2008.
Louisiana 6	Don Cazayoux (D)	State Representative	Roman Catholic	1964	May 6, 2008	Replaced Richard Baker (R), who resigned February 2, 2008.
Louisiana 1	Steve Scalise (R)	State Senator	Roman Catholic	1965	May 7, 2008	Replaced Bobby Jindal (R), who resigned January 14, 2008.
Mississippi 1	Travis Childers (D)	Prentiss County Chancery Court Clerk	Baptist	1958	May 20, 2008	Replaced Roger Wicker (R), who resigned December 31, 2007.
Maryland 4	Donna Edwards (D)	Community Activist	Baptist	1958	June 19, 2008	Replaced Albert Wynn (D), who resigned May 31, 2008.
Ohio 11	Marcia Fudge (D)	Mayor of Warrensville Heights	Baptist	1958	November 19, 2008	Replaced Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D), who died August 20, 2008.

References

↑ Independent who caucused with the Democrats and was replaced by a Democrat, so not party shift.

Preceded by List of 109th Congress freshmen	Freshman-class members of the 110th Congress	Succeeded by List of 111th Congress freshmen

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Members and leaders

Members

Current	By length of service Freshmen Youngest members Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Delegates Longest-serving members ever

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Leaders

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House	Speaker Leaders Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group Democratic Caucus Republican Conference

Districts

Caucuses,
women and
minorities

Powers, privileges, procedure, committees, history, and media

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Senate-specific	Advice and consent Classes Executive communication Executive session Filibuster Jefferson's Manual Senate Journal Morning business Nuclear option Presiding Officer Recess appointment Reconciliation Riddick's Senate Procedure Senate hold Senatorial courtesy Seniority Standing Rules Tie-breaking votes Traditions Treaty Clause

Committees	Chairman and ranking member Of the Whole Conference Discharge petition Hearings Markup Oversight List (Joint) List (House) List (Senate) Select and special Standing Subcommittees

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History	Biographical Directory Divided government House Gerrymandering Party control Senate Senate election disputes Senatorial memoirs Representative memoirs

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Offices, employees, services, and the Capitol Complex

Legislative
offices

Offices

Senate	Curator Historical Library

House	Congressional Ethics Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations Interparliamentary Affairs Legislative Counsel Law Revision Counsel Library

Employees

Senate	Secretary Chaplain Curator Inspector General Historian Librarian Pages Parliamentarian Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper

House	Chaplain Chief Administrative Officer Clerk Doorkeeper Floor Operations Floor Services Chief Historian Pages (Page Board) Parliamentarian Postmaster Reading Clerk Sergeant at Arms

Library of
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