Michigan's 18th congressional district

Michigan's 18th congressional district is an obsolete United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Congressional district

A congressional district is “a geographical division of a state from which one member of the House of Representatives is elected.”Congressional Districts are made up of three main components, a representative, constituents, and the specific land area that both the representative and the...

in Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. The first Representative to Congress elected from the 18th district, George Anthony Dondero

George Anthony Dondero

George A. Dondero was a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Michigan.- Biography :Dondero was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, which has since become part of Detroit...

, took office in 1953, after reapportionment

United States congressional apportionment

United States congressional apportionment is the process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are redistributed amongst the 50 states following each constitutionally mandated decennial census. Each state is apportioned a number of seats which approximately corresponds to its...

due to the 1950 census

United States Census, 1950

The Seventeenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,697,361, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 Census.-Census questions:...

. In 1933, Dondero had previously been the first representative elected from 17th district

Michigan's 17th congressional district

Michigan's 17th congressional district is an obsolete United States congressional district in Michigan. The first Representative to Congress elected from the 17th district, George Anthony Dondero, took office in 1933, after reapportionment due to the 1930 census. The district was dissolved...

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Congress	Notes
District created		January 3, 1953
George Anthony Dondero George Anthony Dondero George A. Dondero was a Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Michigan.- Biography :Dondero was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, which has since become part of Detroit...	Republican	January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1957	83rd-84th	Redistricted from the
William Broomfield William Broomfield William S. Broomfield, or Bill Broomfield, is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:Broomfield was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He graduated from high school in 1940 and attended Michigan State College at East Lansing. During the Second World War, he served in the...	Republican	January 3, 1957 - January 3, 1973	85th-92nd	Redistricted to the
Robert J. Huber Robert J. Huber Robert James "Bob" Huber was a Republican politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.Huber was born in Detroit, where he completed public school. He attended the University of Detroit from 1935 to 1937 and graduated from Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, in 1939...	Republican	January 3, 1973 - January 3, 1975	93rd
James Blanchard James Blanchard James Johnston "Jim" Blanchard is a politician from the US state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as the 45th Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada....	Democratic	January 3, 1975 - January 3, 1983	94th-97th
William Broomfield William Broomfield William S. Broomfield, or Bill Broomfield, is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:Broomfield was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. He graduated from high school in 1940 and attended Michigan State College at East Lansing. During the Second World War, he served in the...	Republican	January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1993	98th-102nd	>-	District eliminated	January 3, 1993

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