Majority and Minority Party Membership in Congress
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List of party whips, 1901–Present
(Names in Bold indicate Majority)
Dates
Democratic Whip
State
1901-1905
1905-1909 James T. Lloyd
State
James Albertus Tawney Minnesota
Missouri
1909-1913 None
1913-1915 Thomas M. Bell
Republican Whip
Georgia
1915-1919 None
James E. Watson
Indiana
John W. Dwight
New York
Charles H. Burke
South Dakota
Charles M. Hamilton
New York
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
1919-1921 None
1921-1923
1923-1931 William A. Oldfield
Arkansas
Albert H. Vestal
Indiana
1931-1933 John McDuffie
Alabama
Carl G. Bachmann
West Virginia
Harry L. Englebright
California
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
1933-1935 Arthur H. Greenwood Indiana
1935-1942 Patrick J. Boland
Pennsylvania
1942-1943
1943-1945 Robert Ramspeck
Georgia
1945-1947 John J. Sparkman
Alabama
1947-1949 John W. McCormack
Massachusetts Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
1949-1953 J. Percy Priest
Tennessee
Illinois
1953-1955 John W. McCormack
Massachusetts Leslie C. Arends
1955-1961 Carl Albert
Oklahoma
1961-1971 Thomas Hale Boggs
Louisiana
1971-1973 Tip O'Neill
Massachusetts
1973-1975
1975-1977 John J. McFall
California
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
Robert H. Michel
Illinois
1977-1981 John W. Brademas
Indiana
1981-1987 Thomas S. Foley
Washington
1987-1989 Tony Coelho
California
1989
Trent Lott
Mississippi
Dick Cheney
Wyoming
Newt Gingrich
Georgia
1989-1991 William H. Gray, III
Pennsylvania
1991-1995 David E. Bonior
Michigan
1995-2001 David E. Bonior
Michigan
2001-2003 Nancy Pelosi
California
Tom DeLay
Texas
2003-2007 Steny Hoyer
Maryland
Roy Blunt
Missouri
Roy Blunt
Missouri
2007–2009
2009–2011 Jim Clyburn
South Carolina Eric Cantor
2011–
Maryland
Steny Hoyer
Kevin McCarthy
Virginia
California