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United States Congress

United States Congress gathers the members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and the Founding Fathers who shaped the young republic's first statutes and constitutional structure, represented in this subcategory. Its members range from the framers of the United States Constitution itself through the nineteenth century senators and representatives who built the statutory framework of the expanding republic to twentieth and twenty first century members of Congress whose legislation shaped modern American civil rights, financial regulation and constitutional law.

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Members of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States, created by the Constitution's First Article. 1
Formation Year
1789 CE 1
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Barney Frank

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Birch Bayh

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Carter Glass

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Chris Dodd

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Edmund Muskie

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Emanuel Celler

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Estes Kefauver

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Fred A. Hartley Jr.

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Gouverneur Morris

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Henry B. Steagall

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Henry Waxman

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Jim Leach

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John McCain

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John Sherman

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Michael Oxley

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Orrin Hatch

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Paul Sarbanes

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Peter W. Rodino

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Phil Gramm

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Philip A. Hart

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Richard G. Lugar

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Robert A. Taft

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Robert F. Wagner

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Russ Feingold

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Sam Ervin

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Sam Nunn

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Shuji Masutani

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Warren Magnuson

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Warren Rudman

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Sources
1. United States Congress (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • United States Congress, lead section, first meeting sentence
    Congress was created by the Constitution's First Article and first met in 1789, replacing the Congress of the Confederation in its legislative function.
  • United States Congress, lead section, first met year sentence
    Congress was created by the Constitution's First Article and first met in 1789.
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