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Republican Whips in the U.S.House of Representatives

 

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Since 1995, the Republican party has enjoyed the (for them) rare status of holding the majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The individuals listed below were the Whips for the Republicans in the House.

Congress

Name

State

Years of Service

55th-58th

James A. Tawney

Minnesota

1897-1905

59th-60th

James E. Watson

Indiana

1905-1909

61st-62nd

John W. Dwight

New York

1909-1913

63rd

Charles H. Burke

South Dakota

1913-1915

64th-65th

Charles M. Hamilton

New York

1915-1919

66th-67th

Harold Knutson

Minnesota

1919-1923

68th-71st

Albert H. Vestal

Indiana

1923-1931

72nd

Carl G. Bachmann

West Virginia

1931-1933

73rd-78th

Harry L. Englebright

California

1933-1943*

78th-93rd

Leslie C. Arends

Illinois

1943-1975

94th-96th

Robert H. Michel

Illinois

1975-1981

97th-100th

Trent Lott

Mississippi

1981-1989

101st

Dick Cheney

Wyoming

1989**

101st-103rd

Newt Gingrich

Georgia

1989-1995**

104th-107th

Tom DeLay

Texas

1995-2003

108th-present

Roy Blunt

Missouri

2003-present

* Died in office on May 13, 1943.

**Newt Gingrich was elected Whip on March 22, 1989, following Dick Cheney's resignation from the House on March 17, 1989 to become Secretary of Defense for the first President Bush.

 

**The term "whip" comes from an old English expression used in the fox hunt where the "whipper in" was charged with keeping the dogs together in pursuit of the prize  

Hillsource: Home page for the House Republican Conference

House of Representatives Clerk's Office

 


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