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Age in Congress

Current members, ages as of 2026-11-04.

Group	Members	Average age	Median	Youngest	Oldest
All of Congress	539	59.9	60	29	93
House	439	58.6	58	29	89
Senate	100	65.4	66	39	93
House Democrats	217	59.1	58	29	89
House Republicans	221	58.3	58	32	88
Senate Democrats	45	64.9	66	39	81
Senate Republicans	53	65.2	66	40	93

House: oldest

#	Member	Party	State	Age
1	Eleanor Holmes Norton	D	DC	89
2	Maxine Waters	D	CA	88
3	Harold Rogers	R	KY	88
4	Steny H. Hoyer	D	MD	87
5	Nancy Pelosi	D	CA	86
6	James E. Clyburn	D	SC	86
7	Danny K. Davis	D	IL	85
8	John R. Carter	R	TX	84
9	Virginia Foxx	R	NC	83
10	Rosa L. DeLauro	D	CT	83
11	Frederica S. Wilson	D	FL	83
12	Janice D. Schakowsky	D	IL	82
13	Emanuel Cleaver	D	MO	82
14	Doris O. Matsui	D	CA	82
15	John Garamendi	D	CA	81

House: youngest

#	Member	Party	State	Age
1	Maxwell Frost	D	FL	29
2	Addison P. McDowell	R	NC	32
3	Brandon Gill	R	TX	32
4	Everton Blair Jr.	D	GA	34
5	Yassamin Ansari	D	AZ	34
6	Abraham J. Hamadeh	R	AZ	35
7	Pablo José Hernández	D	PR	35
8	Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr.	R	PA	36
9	Sarah McBride	D	DE	36
10	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	D	NY	37
11	Anna Paulina Luna	R	FL	37
12	Greg Casar	D	TX	37
13	Max L. Miller	R	OH	37
14	Sara Jacobs	D	CA	37
15	Brian Jack	R	GA	38

Senate: oldest

#	Member	Party	State	Age
1	Chuck Grassley	R	IA	93
2	Bernard Sanders	I	VT	85
3	Mitch McConnell	R	KY	84
4	James E. Risch	R	ID	83
5	Angus S. King, Jr.	I	ME	82
6	Richard J. Durbin	D	IL	81
7	Richard Blumenthal	D	CT	80
8	Edward J. Markey	D	MA	80
9	Peter Welch	D	VT	79
10	Mazie K. Hirono	D	HI	79
11	Jeanne Shaheen	D	NH	79
12	Ron Wyden	D	OR	77
13	Elizabeth Warren	D	MA	77
14	Patty Murray	D	WA	76
15	Jack Reed	D	RI	76

Senate: youngest

#	Member	Party	State	Age
1	Jon Ossoff	D	GA	39
2	Tim Sheehy	R	MT	40
3	Andy Kim	D	NJ	44
4	Katie Boyd Britt	R	AL	44
5	Josh Hawley	R	MO	46
6	Ruben Gallego	D	AZ	46
7	Jim Banks	R	IN	47
8	Tom Cotton	R	AR	49
9	Elissa Slotkin	D	MI	50
10	Ashley Moody	R	FL	51
11	Eric Schmitt	R	MO	51
12	Alex Padilla	D	CA	53
13	Christopher Murphy	D	CT	53
14	Ben Ray Luján	D	NM	54
15	Brian Schatz	D	HI	54

Ages come from birth dates and are calculated on the day the site is built. Only members serving at the time of the latest data download are included. The House figures include non-voting delegates.