Maryland's 6th congressional district

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Maryland's Sixth Congressional District elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. Today the district comprises all of Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll Counties, as well as portions of Montgomery, Baltimore, and Harford Counties. The seat is currently represented by Roscoe Bartlett (R).

[edit] List of representatives

Representative		Took office	Left office	Party
1	Daniel Carroll	March 4, 1789	March 3, 1791	Pro-Administration
2	Upton Sheredine	March 4, 1791	March 3, 1793	None
3	Gabriel Christie	March 4, 1793	March 3, 1797	Anti-Administration, Democratic-Republican
4	William Matthews	March 4, 1797	March 3, 1799	Federalist
5	Gabriel Christie	March 4, 1799	March 3, 1801	Democratic-Republican
6	John Archer	March 4, 1801	March 3, 1807	Democratic-Republican
7	John Montgomery	March 4, 1807	April 29, 1811	Democratic-Republican
8	Stevenson Archer	October 26, 1811	March 3, 1817	Democratic-Republican
9	Thomas Culbreth	March 4, 1817	March 3, 1821	Democratic-Republican
10	Jeremiah Cosden	March 4, 1821	March 19, 1822	Democratic-Republican
11	Philip Reed	March 19, 1822	March 3, 1823	Democratic-Republican
12	George Edward Mitchell	March 4, 1823	March 3, 1827	Federalist
13	Levin Gale	March 4, 1827	March 3, 1829	Federalist
14	George Edward Mitchell	December 7, 1829	June 28, 1832	Jacksonian
15	Charles S. Sewall	October 1, 1832	March 3, 1833	Jacksonian
16	William Cost Johnson	March 4, 1833	March 3, 1835	Anti-Jackson
17	Francis Thomas	March 4, 1835	March 3, 1841	Jacksonian, Democratic
18	John Thomson Mason	March 4, 1841	March 3, 1843	Democratic
19	Thomas Ara Spence	March 4, 1843	March 3, 1845	Whig
20	Edward Henry Carroll Long	March 4, 1845	March 3, 1847	Whig
21	John Woodland Crisfield	March 4, 1847	March 3, 1849	Whig
22	John Bozman Kerr	March 4, 1849	March 3, 1851	Whig
23	Joseph Stewart Cottman	March 4, 1851	March 3, 1853	Independent Whig
24	Augustus Rhodes Sollers	March 4, 1853	March 3, 1855	Whig
25	Thomas Fielder Bowie	March 4, 1855	March 3, 1859	Democratic
26	George Wurtz Hughes	March 4, 1859	March 3, 1861	Democratic
27	Charles Benedict Calvert	March 4, 1861	March 3, 1863	Unionist
This seat was abolished after the census of 1860, but was reinstated after the census of 1870.
28	Lloyd Lowndes, Jr.	March 4, 1873	March 3, 1875	Republican
29	William Walsh	March 4, 1875	March 3, 1879	Democratic
30	Milton George Urner	March 4, 1879	March 3, 1883	Republican
31	Louis Emory McComas	March 4, 1883	March 3, 1891	Republican
32	William McMahon McKaig	March 4, 1891	March 3, 1895	Democratic
33	George Louis Wellington	March 4, 1895	March 3, 1897	Republican
34	John McDonald	March 4, 1897	March 3, 1899	Republican
35	George Alexander Pearre	March 4, 1899	March 3, 1911	Republican
36	David John Lewis	March 4, 1911	March 3, 1917	Democratic
37	Frederick Nicholas Zihlman	March 4, 1917	March 3, 1931	Democratic
38	David John Lewis	March 4, 1931	January 3, 1939	Democratic
39	William Devereux Byron	January 3, 1939	February 27, 1941	Democratic
40	Katharine Edgar Byron	May 27, 1941	January 3, 1943	Democratic
41	James Glenn Beall	January 3, 1943	January 3, 1953	Republican
42	DeWitt Stephen Hyde	January 3, 1953	January 3, 1959	Republican
43	John Robert Foley	January 3, 1959	January 3, 1961	Democratic
44	Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr.	January 3, 1961	January 3, 1969	Republican
45	John Glenn Beall, Jr.	January 3, 1969	January 3, 1971	Republican
46	Goodloe Edgar Byron	January 3, 1971	October 11, 1978	Democratic
47	Beverly Barton Butcher Byron	January 3, 1979	January 3, 1993	Democratic
48	Roscoe Gardner Bartlett	January 3, 1993	Present	Republican

Maryland's congressional districts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 From 1803 to 1833, Maryland had nine seats and the 5th district had two representatives. From 1835 to 1843, Maryland had eight seats and the 4th district had two representatives. See also: Maryland's past & present Representatives, Senators, and Delegations All U.S. districts - Apportionment - Redistricting - Gerrymandering - Maps