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! scope="row" rowspan="2"|'''[[2nd United States Congress|2nd]]''' (1791–1793)
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|{{Party cell|Pro-Administration Party (US)}} rowspan="2"|[[Roger Sherman]] (PA){{efn|Senator Sherman died while in office.<ref name="politico-sherman-death">{{cite news |last1=Glass |first1=Andrew |title=Roger Sherman, signer of Declaration, died at 72, July 23, 1793 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/this-day-in-politics-094570 |access-date=April 13, 2024 |work=Politico |date=July 23, 2013 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172025/https://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/this-day-in-politics-094570 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
 
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! scope="row" rowspan="2"|'''[[4th United States Congress|4th]]''' (1795–1797)
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|{{Party cell|Federalist Party}}|[[Jonathan Trumbull Jr.]] (F){{efn|Senator Trumbull Jr. resigned to serve as the [[lieutenant governor of Connecticut]] under [[Oliver Wolcott]].<ref name="trumbull-resignation">{{cite web |title=Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Papers |url=https://chs.org/finding_aides/finding_aids/trumj1809.html |website=Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library |publisher=Connecticut Historical Society |access-date=April 14, 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172045/https://chs.org/finding_aides/finding_aids/trumj1809.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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|{{Party cell|Federalist Party|right}} rowspan="9"|[[James Hillhouse]] (F){{efn|Senator Hillhouse resigned to manage the [[Connecticut School Fund]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schiff |first1=Judith Ann |title=James Hillhouse |url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_10/old_yale.html |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=Yale Alumni Magazine |publisher=Yale Alumni Publications |date=October 2001 |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218001533/http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_10/old_yale.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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! scope="row" |'''[[46th United States Congress|46th]]''' (1879–1881)
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|{{Party cell|Republican Party (US)}} rowspan="13"|[[Orville H. Platt]] (R){{efn|Senator Platt died while in office.<ref name="platt-death">{{cite web |title=Who was Platt? - Chickasaw National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/chic/learn/historyculture/who-was-platt.htm |website=National Park Service |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=April 13, 2024 |language=en |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172018/https://www.nps.gov/chic/learn/historyculture/who-was-platt.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
 
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! scope="row" |'''[[59th United States Congress|59th]]''' (1905–1907)
|{{Party cell|Republican Party (US)}} rowspan="10"|[[Frank B. Brandegee]] (R){{efn|Senator Brandegee died while in office.<ref name="theday-brandegee-death">{{cite news |last1=Howard |first1=Lee |title=Student probe puts senator at center of century-old Pequot House arson mystery |url=https://www.theday.com/local-news/20231126/student-investigation-puts-sen-brandegee-at-center-of-century-old-pequot-house-arson-mystery/ |access-date=April 13, 2024 |work=The Day |publisher=The Day Publishing Company |date=November 26, 2023 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172021/https://www.theday.com/local-news/20231126/student-investigation-puts-sen-brandegee-at-center-of-century-old-pequot-house-arson-mystery/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
 
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|{{Party cell|Democratic Party (US)|right}} rowspan="6"|[[Francis T. Maloney]] (D){{efn|Senator Maloney died while in office.<ref name="waterloo-maloney-death">{{cite news |title=Sen. Maloney Dies in Sleep |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-jan-16-1945-4410272/ |access-date=April 13, 2024 |via=[[NewspaperArchive.com]] |work=[[Waterloo Daily Courier]] |agency=The Associated Press |date=January 16, 1945 |page=4 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172021/https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-jan-16-1945-4410272/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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! scope="row" |'''[[74th United States Congress|74th]]''' (1935–1937)
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! scope="row" rowspan="3"|'''[[79th United States Congress|79th]]''' (1945–1947)
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|{{Party cell|Democratic Party (US)}} rowspan="7"|[[Brien McMahon]] (D){{efn|Senator McMahon died while in office.<ref name="npr-mcmahon-death">{{cite news |title=On This Day In 1952: Conn. Sen. McMahon Declares For President |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/on_this_day_in_1952.html |access-date=April 13, 2024 |work=National Public Radio |date=May 1, 2009 |quote=He died in office in 1952. |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172022/https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/on_this_day_in_1952.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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|{{Party cell|Republican Party (US)|right}}|[[Thomas C. Hart]] (R)
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{{Main|List of United States representatives from Connecticut}}
 
[[John Q. Tilson]] served as the [[House Majority Leader]] for the Republican party from 1925 to 1931.<ref name="tilson-death">{{cite news |title=John Q. Tilson, 92, G.O.P. Legislator |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/08/15/79697653.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=April 13, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 15, 1958 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172521/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/08/15/79697653.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Barbara Kennelly]] was the first woman to become the Democratic [[Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives#Whips|chief deputy whip]]. [[Ella T. Grasso]] later became the first female governor elected in the United States.<ref name="ctpost-women-house">{{cite news |last1=Kuznitz |first1=Alison |title=Groundbreaking woman politicians throughout Connecticut history |url=https://www.ctpost.com/news/slideshow/Groundbreaking-woman-politicians-throughout-132698.php |access-date=April 12, 2024 |work=Connecticut Post |publisher=Hearst Media Services Connecticut |date=July 26, 2016 |archive-date=October 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018041955/https://www.ctpost.com/news/slideshow/Groundbreaking-woman-politicians-throughout-132698.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
From 1789 to 1837, representatives from Connecticut were elected from [[Connecticut's at-large congressional district]], which was subsequently replaced with [[Connecticut's congressional districts]].<ref name="districts-established">{{cite web |title=Resolutions of the General Assembly of Connecticut, in favor of the repeal of that proviso in the law for the apportionment of representatives among the several states according to the Sixth Census, which directs that the states shall be divided into districts. January 3, 1843. Read, and ordered to be printed |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2022689631/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172524/https://www.loc.gov/item/2022689631/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the [[2000 United States Census]].<ref name="mirror-ct-districts"/> One member of the House of Representatives is sent from each district via a popular vote.<ref>{{cite constitution |article=I |section=2 |polity=United States |date=1787}}</ref> Districts are redrawn every ten years, after data from the [[US Census]] is collected.<ref name="nyt-districts">{{cite news |last1=Corasaniti |first1=Nick |last2=Epstein |first2=Reid J. |last3=Johnston |first3=Taylor |last4=Lieberman |first4=Rebecca |last5=Weingart |first5=Eden |title=How Maps Reshape American Politics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/07/us/politics/redistricting-maps-explained.html |access-date=April 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=November 8, 2021 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509202358/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/07/us/politics/redistricting-maps-explained.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
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[[File:Clare Boothe Luce (R–CT).jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|alt=Black-and-white photograph of Clare Boothe Luce, the first female member of the house from Connecticut|[[Clare Boothe Luce]], the first female member of the House from Connecticut<ref name="cbl-bio">{{cite web |title=Clare Boothe Luce |url=https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/clare-boothe-luce |website=CT Women’s Hall of Fame |access-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172556/https://www.cwhf.org/inductees/clare-boothe-luce |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File:Chris Shays congressional headshot.jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|alt=refer to caption|[[Chris Shays]], the last Republican to have represented Connecticut in Congress<ref name="shays-out" />]]
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| rowspan=2 {{Party cell|Federalist Party}} | [[James Davenport (Connecticut politician)|James Davenport]] (F){{efn|Representative James Davenport died while in office.<ref name="jamesdavenport-death">{{cite web |title=Davenport, James |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DAVENPORT,-James-(D000073)/ |website=History, Art & Archives |publisher=United States House of Representatives |access-date=April 13, 2024 |language=en |archive-date=January 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103014440/https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/D/DAVENPORT,-James-(D000073)/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
| rowspan=11 {{Party cell|Federalist Party}} | [[Samuel W. Dana]] (F){{efn|Representative Dana resigned to become a member of the Senate.<ref name="dana-resignation">{{cite web |title=Dana, Samuel Whittlesey |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000024 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=April 14, 2024 |archive-date=July 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711172528/https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000024 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
 
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