Longest-serving Representative to serve in the House:  Jamie Whitten of Mississippi served 53 years, two months, 13 days.

The oldest person recorded to have served in the House of Representatives was Representative Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina. Representative Stedman died in office on September 23, 1930, at the age of 89 years, 7 months, and 25 days. More recently, Representative Sidney Yates of Illinois was 89 years, 4 months, and 7 days old when he retired from his seat at the end of the 105th Congress.