Legacy in Congress: Who We've Helped Elect

We are proud to say that over the last 44 years, the Council has helped elect 118 U.S. arms control candidates to the Senate and 199 candidates to the House of Representatives.

Council supporters, now over 40,000 strong, provide more funds to opponents of the arms race than any other arms control organization in America: over $1.1 million in 2008.

Click here to see some of what they've helped accomplish.

Members of the Senate

Since 1962

Alabama
John Sparkman
Donald Stewart

Alaska
E. L. Bartlett

Arizona
Dennis De Concini

Arkansas
Dale Bumpers
William Fulbright
Mike Gravel
Blanche Lincoln
David Pryor
Mark Pryor

California
Alan Cranston
Barbara Boxer
Dianne Feinstein

Colorado
Floyd Haskell
Gary Hart
Ken Salazar
Mark Udall
Tim Wirth

Connecticut
Chris Dodd
Joseph Lieberman
Abraham Ribicoff

Delaware
Tom Carper
Joseph Biden

Georgia
Max Cleland
Wyche Fowler

Hawaii
Daniel Akaka
Daniel Inouye
Spark Matsunaga

Idaho
Frank Church

Illinois
Carol Moseley Braun
Dick Durbin
Barack Obama
Paul Simon
Adlai Stevenson

Indiana
Birch Bayh
Richard Lugar

Iowa
Dick Clark
John Culver
Tom Harkin

Kansas
James Pearson

Kentucky
Wendell Ford

Maine
William Hathaway
George Mitchell
Edmund Muskie

Maryland
Ben Cardin
Charles Mathias
Barbara Mikulski
Joseph Tydings
Paul Sarbanes

Massachusetts
Edward Brooke
Edward Kennedy
John Kerry

Michigan
Philip Hart
Carl Levin
Debbie Stabenow
Don Riegle

Minnesota
Eugene McCarthy
Walter Mondale
Paul Wellstone
Al Franken

Missouri
Mel Carnahan
Thomas Eagleton

Montana
Max Baucus
Hubert Humphrey
John Melcher
Lee Metcalf
Jon Tester

Nebraska
Robert Kerrey
Ben Nelson

Nevada
Harry Reid

New Hampshire
Jeanne Shaheen

New Jersey
Bill Bradley
Clifford Case
Jon Corzine
Frank Lautenberg
Robert Menendez
Harrison Williams

New Mexico
Jeff Bingaman
Joseph Montoya
Tom Udall

New York
Hillary Clinton
Jacob Javits
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Charles Schumer

North Dakota
Quentin Burdick
Kent Conrad
Byron Dorgan

Ohio
Sherrod Brown
John Glenn
Howard Metzenbaum

Oregon
Gov. Mark Hatfield
Jeff Merkley
Wayne Morse
Ron Wyden

Pennsylvania
Bob Casey
Joseph Clark
Richard Schweiker
Harris Wofford

Rhode Island
Lincoln Chafee
Claiborne Pell
Jack Reed

South Dakota
James Abourezk
Tom Daschle
Tim Johnson
George McGovern

Tennessee
Albert Gore, Sr.
Jim Sasser

Texas
Ralph Yarborough

Utah
Frank Moss

Vermont
James Jeffords
Patrick Leahy
Bernie Sanders
Robert Stafford

Washington
Brock Adams
Maria Cantwell
Patty Murray

West Virginia
Robert Byrd
Jay Rockefeller

Wisconsin
Herbert Kohl
Russ Feingold

Wyoming
Gale McGee

* List does not included 1968 and 1970 elections

Members of the House of Representatives


Since 1982

Arizona
Gabriella Giffords
James McNulty
Karan English

California
Adam Schiff
Anna G. Eshoo
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Lee
Bob Filner
Cal Dooley
Dan Hamburg
Doug Bosco
Ellen Tauscher
George E. Brown, Jr.
George Miller
Jerry McNerney
Lois Capps
Loretta Sanchez
Lynn Woolsey
Marty Martinez
Maxine Waters
Mike Honda
Mike Thompson
Nancy Pelosi
Phillip Burton
Ronald V. Dellums
Sam Farr
Susan Davis

Colorado
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
David Skaggs
Diana DeGette
Betsy Markey
Ed Perlmutter
John T. Salazar
Mark Udall
Patricia Schroeder

Connecticut
Bruce Morrison
Rosa L. DeLauro
Sam Gejdenson
Jim Himes
William Ratchford

Florida
Alan Grayson
Carrie Meek
Dante B. Fascell
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Georgia
Cynthia McKinney
David Scott

Hawaii
Neil Abercrombie
Patsy Mink

Idaho
Richard Stallings

Illinois
Bill Foster
Bruce Terry
George Sangmeister
Jan Schakowsky
John Cox
Lane Evans
Paul Simon
Phil Hare
Rod Blagojevich

Indiana
Baron Hill
Frank McCloskey
Jill Long
Julia Carson
Larry LaRocco

Iowa
Bruce Braley
David Nagle
Jim Jontz
Jim Leach

Kansas
Nancy Boyda

Kentucky
John Yarmuth

Maine
Gerry Studds
Joseph Brennan
Michael Michaud
Chellie Pingree
Tom Allen
Tom Andrews

Maryland
Donna Edwards
Chris Van Hollen
Connie Morella
Michael D. Barnes

Massachusetts
Frank Barney
Jim McGovern
John Olver
John Tierney
Nikki Tsongas
Nicholas Mavroules
William Delahunt

Michigan
Bart Stupak
Bob Carr
David E. Bonior
Gary Peters
Debbie Stabenow
Howard Wolpe
Lynn Rivers

Minnesota
Betty McCollum
Bill Luther
David Minge
Jim Oberstar
Martin Sabo
Timothy Penny
Tim Walz


Mississippi
Mark Espy

Missouri
Karen McCarthy
Russ Carnahan

Montana
Pat Williams

Nebraska
Peter Hoagland

Nevada
Shelly Berkley

New Hampshire
Paul Hodes
Carol Shea-Porter

New Jersey
John Adler
Donald M. Payne
Frank Pallone
Rush Holt
Steve Rothman

New Mexico
Tom Udall

New York
Bill Green
Carolyn Maloney
Dan Maffei
Eric Massa
Carolyn McCarthy
George Hochbrueckner
John Hall
Joseph P Addabbo
Louis Slaughter
Matthew F. McHugh
Maurice Hinchey
Michael Arcuri
Nita Lowey
Robert Mrazek
Steve Israel
Thomas J. Downey

North Carolina
Brad Miller
Cardiss Collins
David Price
Eva Clayton
Jamie Clarke
Mel Watt

North Dakota
Earl Pomeroy

Ohio
Betty Sutton
Dennis E. Eckart
Mary Jo Kilroy
Dennis Kucinich
Ed Feighan
John F. Seiberling
Sherrod Brown
Tim Ryan
Zack Space

Oregon
David Wu
Darlene Hooley
Elizabeth Furse
James Weaver
Les Aucoin
Mike Kopetski
Peter DeFazio

Pennsylvania
Jason Altmire
Kathy Dahlkemper
Joe Hoeffel
Joe Sestak
Lawrence Coughlin
Marjorie Mezvinsky
Patrick Murphy
Paul Kanjorski
Peter Kostmayer
Robert W. Edgar
Tom Foglietta

South Carolina
John Spratt
Liz Patterson
Robin Tallon

South Dakota
Tim Johnson
Thomas A. Daschle

Texas
Henry Cuellar
Lloyd Doggett
Nick Lampson

Utah
Jim Matheson
Karen Shepherd
Wayne Owens

Vermont
Peter Welch

Virginia
Jim Moran
Glenn Nye
Leslie Byrne
Rick Boucher

Washington
Adam Smith
Brian Baird
Jay Inslee
Jolene Unsoeld
Maria Cantwell
Rick Larsen
Ted Strickland

West Virginia
Bob Wise

Wisconsin
Clement J. Zablocki
David Obey
Jay Johnson
Jim Moody
Les Aspin
Robert Kastenmeier
Steve Kagen
Ron Kind
Tammy Baldwin

Rhode Island
Claudine Schneider
Jack Reed