who is the longest serving member of the house in history
John Dingell
title: Sidney R. Yates text: In his closing months of service, he surpassed Robert L. Doughton as the oldest person ever to serve in the House (Yates was surpassed in this record by Ralph Hall (R-Texas) in 2012). He holds the record as the 10th longest-serving member in the history of the US Congress, and also has the longest tenure of all members whose time in Congress included a break in service. Yates was married to Adeline Holleb (1914–2002) for 65 years. They were the parents Stephen R. Yates (1940-2000), who served as an Illinois circuit court. Sidney R. Yates Sidney Richard Yates (August 27, title: Dean of the United States House of Representatives text: of the House on March 4, 1789. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries some state delegations to the House were often not elected until after the term had begun. To avoid confusion, this fact is ignored in the list below. Dean of the United States House of Representatives The Dean of the United States House of Representatives is the longest continuously serving member of the House. The current Dean is Don Young, a Republican Party representative from Alaska who has served since 1973, and is the first Republican Dean in more than eighty years, as well as the first from title: John Dingell Sr. text: John Dingell Jr. retired from the House of Representatives as the longest-serving member of Congress in history at 59 years and 21 days and its longest serving Dean at 20 years on January 3, 2015, and was succeeded by his wife, Debbie Dingell. His wife, Debbie Dingell was elected to succeed him. As of 2018, the three Dingells have represented the southeastern Michigan area for 85 consecutive years. A hallmark of their service has been a proposal for a national health insurance system, first introduced by John Sr. in 1933 and re-introduced since at every Congress by the father and title: Father of the House text: until soon before his death during April 1908. On 13 June 2017 Harriet Harman was dubbed "Mother of the House" by Prime Minister Theresa May, in recognition of her status as longest continuously serving woman MP. The title 'Father of the House' is not used in the House of Lords. The longest-serving member is recorded on the House website, though no duties or special distinctions are associated with the position , the longest serving member is The Lord Denham (Conservative), who first took his seat on 13 December 1949 (having suceeded his father in the peerage the previous year). The title: Tip O'Neill text: Tip O'Neill Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994), was an American politician who served as the 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987, representing northern Boston, Massachusetts, as a Democrat from 1953 to 1987. The only Speaker to serve for five complete consecutive Congresses, he is the third longest-serving Speaker in American history after Sam Rayburn and Henry Clay in terms of total tenure, and longest-serving in terms of continuous tenure (Rayburn and Clay having served multiple terms in the Speakership). Born in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, O'Neill began