Maryland's 3rd congressional district

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The Third Congressional District of Maryland elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives every two years. The seat is currently represented by Ben Cardin (D), but he will not be seeking re-election to this position. Both of Maryland's current US Senators, Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski represented this district. Should Cardin win the Democratic Senate primary and be elected to the Senate, he would be the third consecutive Representative of this district to go onto the Senate. For more information, see Maryland congressional elections, 2006.

List of representatives from the 3rd district

	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Benjamin Contee	March 4, 1789	March 3, 1791	Anti-Administration
2	William Pinkney	March 4, 1791	November, 1791	Democratic Republican
3	John Francis Mercer	February 5, 1792	March 3, 1793	None
4	Uriah Forrest	March 4, 1793	November 8, 1794	Pro-Administration
5	Benjamin Edwards	January 2, 1795	March 3, 1795	Pro-Administration
6	Jeremiah Crabb	March 4, 1795	June 1, 1796	Federalist
7	William Craik	December 5 1796	March 3 1801	Federalist
8	Thomas Plater	March 4 1801	March 3 1805	Federalist
9	Patrick Magruder	March 4 1805	March 3 1807	Democratic-Republican
10	Philip Barton Key	March 4 1807	March 3 1813	Federalist
11	Alexander Contee Hanson	March 4 1813	1816	Federalist
12	George Peter	October 7 1816	March 3 1819	Federalist
13	Henry Ridgely Warfield	March 4 1819	March 3 1825	None
14	George Peter	March 4 1825	March 3 1827	Federalist
15	George Corbin Washington	March 4 1827	March 3 1833	Anti-Jacksonian
16	James P. Heath	March 4 1833	March 3 1835	Jacksonian
17	James Turner	March 4 1835	March 3 1837	Jacksonian
18	John Tolley Hood Worthington	March 4 1837	March 3 1841	Jacksonian
19	James Wray Williams	March 4 1841	December 2 1842	Democrat
20	Charles S. Sewall	January 2 1843	March 3 1843	Jacksonian
21	John Wethered	March 4 1843	March 3 1845	Whig
22	Thomas Watkins Ligon	March 4 1845	March 3 1849	Democrat
23	Edward Hammond	March 4 1849	March 3 1853	Democrat
24	Joshua Van Sant	March 4 1853	March 3 1855	Democrat
25	James Morrison Harris	March 4 1855	March 3 1861	American/Know-Nothing
26	Cornelius Lawrence Ludlow Leary	March 4 1861	March 3, 1863	Unionist
27	Henry Winter Davis	March 4 1863	March 3 1865	Unconditional Unionist
28	Charles Edward Phelps	March 4 1865	March 3 1869	Conservative
29	Thomas Swann	March 4 1869	March 3 1873	Democrat
30	William James O'Brien	March 4 1873	March 3 1877	Democrat
31	William Kimmel	March 4 1877	March 3 1881	Democrat
32	Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell	March 4 1881	March 3 1885	Democrat
33	William Hinson Cole	March 4 1885	July 8 1886	Democrat
34	Harry Welles Rusk	November 2 1886	March 3 1897	Republican
35	William Samuel Booze	March 4 1897	March 3 1899	Republican
36	Frank Charles Wachter	March 4 1899	March 3 1907	Democrat
37	Harry Benjamin Wolf	March 4 1907	March 3 1909	Democrat
38	John Kronmiller	March 4 1909	March 3 1911	Republican
39	George Konig	March 4 1911	May 31 1913	Democrat
40	Charles Pearce Coady	March 4 1913	March 3 1921	Democrat
41	John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill	March 4 1921	March 3 1927	Republican
42	Vincent Luke Palmisano	March 4 1927	January 3 1939	Democrat
43	Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.	January 3 1939	May 16 1947	Democrat
44	Edward Alexander Garmatz	July 15 1947	January 3 1973	Democrat
45	Paul Spyros Sarbanes	January 3 1973	January 3 1977	Democrat
46	Barbara Ann Mikulski	January 3 1977	January 3 1987	Democrat
47	Benjamin Louis Cardin	January 3 1987	Present	Democrat