All-Time Congress Draft

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First round picks:

18th/19th century - John Quincy Adams (Whig, Massachusetts)
20th century - Fiorello La Guardia (Republican, New York)
21st century - Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont)

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Second round picks:

18th/19th century - Adelbert Ames (Republican, Mississippi)
20th century - Helen Gahagan Douglas (Democratic, California)
21st century - Joseph Cao (Republican, Louisiana)

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Third round picks:

18th/19th century - Charles Curtis (Republican, Kansas)
20th century - Ben Reifel (Republican, South Dakota)
21st century - Deb Haaland (Democratic, New Mexico)

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Third round picks:

18th/19th century - Charles Curtis (Republican, Kansas)
20th century - Ben Reifel (Republican, South Dakota)
21st century - Deb Haaland (Democratic, New Mexico)

An all-Native American round. Nice! I know a historian at Dakota Wesleyan named Sean Flynn who has done some research on Reifel.

Thanks for spotting the connection! Reifel is not very well-known at all (indeed, I had no idea who he was until a few hours ago either).

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Fourth round picks:

18th/19th century - Albert Gallatin (Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania)
20th century - John Pastore (Democratic, Rhode Island)
21st century - Elijah Cummings (Democratic, Maryland)

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Fifth round picks:

18th/19th century - Ignatius Donnelly (Republican, Minnesota)
20th century - Lester Hunt (Democratic, Wyoming)
21st century - Dina Titus (Democratic, Nevada)

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Sixth round picks:

18th/19th century - George W. Murray (Republican, South Carolina)
20th century - Robert Latham Owen (Democratic, Oklahoma)
21st century - Pramila Jayapal (Democratic, Washington)

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Seventh round picks:

18th/19th century - Salmon P. Chase (Republican, Ohio)
20th century - Burton K. Wheeler (Democratic, Montana)
21st century - Mitt Romney (Republican, Utah)

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Eighth round picks:

18th/19th century - William V. Allen (Populist, Nebraska)
20th century - Florence P. Dwyer (Republican, New Jersey)
21st century - Jahana Hayes (Democratic, Connecticut)

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While we are waiting for other draft picks to come in, are there any congresspeople you wanted, but were drafted by someone else first?

The list may well be longer but some people I distinctly remember wanting to pick before they were chosen by someone else are Robert Smalls, Estes Kefauver and Schuyler Colfax.

Anyway, I'll make my ninth pick shortly later on.

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Ninth round picks:

18th/19th century - David Davis (Independent, Illinois)
20th century - Matthew Neely (Democratic, West Virginia)
21st century - Kelly Ayotte (Republican, New Hampshire)

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Tenth round picks:

18th/19th century - Peleg Sprague (National Republican, Maine)
20th century - Pat Schroeder (Democratic, Colorado)
21st century - Gabrielle Giffords (Democratic, Arizona)

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Eleventh round picks:

18th/19th century - Henry A. Cooper (Republican, Wisconsin)
20th century - Cecil Harden (Republican, Indiana)
21st century - Ron Wyden (Democratic, Oregon)

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Twelfth round picks:

18th/19th century - Josiah Parker (Federalist, Virginia)
20th century - Debbie Stabenow (Democratic, Michigan)
21st century - Heidi Heitkamp (Democratic, North Dakota)

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Twelfth round picks:

18th/19th century - Josiah Parker (Federalist, Virginia)
20th century - Debbie Stabenow (Democratic, Michigan)
21st century - Heidi Heitkamp (Democratic, North Dakota)

I think you may have already picked John M. Langston as your Virginia guy. Have you got a backup in mind?

As Cao said: Trust me, if I'm told to be careful with my picks, I will be careful with my picks. Langston was picked by Kuumo in Round 10.

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Thirteenth round picks:

18th/19th century - George E. Spencer (Republican, Alabama)
20th century - Romano Mazzoli (Democratic, Kentucky)
21st century - Steve Cohen (Democratic, Tennessee)

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Fourteenth round picks:

18th/19th century - Edward H. Gillette (Greenback, Iowa)
20th century - Hattie Caraway (Democratic, Arkansas)
21st century - Daniel Akaka (Democratic, Hawaii)

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Fifteenth round picks:

18th/19th century - Jeter Connelly Pritchard (Republican, North Carolina)
20th century - William Borah (Republican, Idaho)
21st century - Val Demings (Democratic, Florida)

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Sixteenth round picks:

18th/19th century - Morgan Calvin Hamilton (Republican, Texas)
20th century - Karen McCarthy (Democratic, Missouri)
21st century - Sanford Bishop (Democratic, Georgia)

Seventeenth round pick:
21st century - John Carney (Democratic, Delaware)