Ohio's 17th congressional district

The 17th congressional district of Ohio is an obsolete congressional district last represented by Representative Timothy J. Ryan.

This district became obsolete for the 113th Congress in 2013 as congressional district lines were redrawn to accommodate the loss of the seat as a result of the 2010 Census. Most of the territory within the current 17th district has been merged into the Akron-based 13th district.

The district from 2003 to 2013

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Cong ress(es)	Year(s)	Notes
District created March 4, 1833
John Thomson	Jacksonian	23 24	March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837	Redistricted from the 12th district
Andrew W. Loomis	Whig	25	March 4, 1837 – October 20, 1837	Resigned
Vacant		25	October 20, 1837 – December 20, 1837
Charles D. Coffin	Whig	25	December 20, 1837 – March 3, 1839	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John Hastings	Democratic	26 27	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William C. McCauslen	Democratic	28	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
George Fries	Democratic	29 30	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1849	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joseph Cable	Democratic	31 32	March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1853	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Wilson Shannon	Democratic	33	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Charles J. Albright	Opposition	34	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William Lawrence	Democratic	35	March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Thomas Clarke Theaker	Republican	36	March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
James R. Morris	Democratic	37	March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863	Redistricted to the 15th district
Ephraim R. Eckley	Republican	38 39 40	March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Jacob A. Ambler	Republican	41 42	March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Laurin D. Woodworth	Republican	43 44	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William McKinley	Republican	45	March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879	Redistricted to the 16th district
James Monroe	Republican	46	March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881	Redistricted from the 18th district
William McKinley	Republican	47	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883	Redistricted from the 16th district
Joseph D. Taylor	Republican	48	March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885	Redistricted from the 16th district
Adoniram J. Warner	Democratic	49	March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887	Redistricted from the 15th district
Joseph D. Taylor	Republican	50 51	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891	Redistricted to the 18th district
Albert J. Pearson	Democratic	52	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	Redistricted to the 16th district
James A. D. Richards	Democratic	53	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Addison S. McClure	Republican	54	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John A. McDowell	Democratic	55 56	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John W. Cassingham	Democratic	57 58	March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1905	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Martin L. Smyser	Republican	59	March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1907	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Ashbrook	Democratic	60 61 62 63 63 65 66	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1921	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William M. Morgan	Republican	67 68 69 70 71	March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1931	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Charles F. West	Democratic	72 73	March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
William A. Ashbrook	Democratic	74 75 76	January 3, 1935 – January 1, 1940	Died
Vacant		76	January 1, 1940 – February 27, 1940
J. Harry McGregor	Republican	76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85	February 27, 1940 – October 7, 1958	Died
Vacant		86	October 7, 1958 – January 3, 1959
Robert W. Levering	Democratic	86	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
John M. Ashbrook	Republican	87 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97	January 3, 1961 – April 24, 1982	Died
Vacant		97	April 24, 1982 – June 29, 1982
Jean Spencer Ashbrook	Republican	97	June 29, 1982 – January 3, 1983	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Lyle Williams	Republican	98	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985	Redistricted from the 19th district
James Traficant	Democratic	99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107	January 3, 1985 – July 24, 2002	Expelled
Vacant		107	July 24, 2002 – January 3, 2003
Tim Ryan	Democratic	108 109 110 111 112	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2013	Redistricted to the 13th district
District eliminated January 3, 2013

Recent election results

The following chart shows recent election results. Bold type indicates victor. Italic type indicates incumbent.

Year	Democratic	Republican	Other
1920	William A. Ashbrook (inc.): 46,675	√ William M. Morgan: 46,968	(none)
1922	William A. Ashbrook: 41,745	√ William M. Morgan (inc.): 42,331	(none)
1924	J. Freer Bittinger: 36,532	√ William M. Morgan (inc.): 50,226	(none)
1926	J. Freer Bittinger: 29,674	√ William M. Morgan (inc.): 36,249	(none)
1928	Charles F. West: 40,846	√ William M. Morgan (inc.): 56,823	(none)
1930	√ Charles F. West: 45,633	William M. Morgan (inc.): 43,197	(none)
1932	√ Charles F. West (inc.): 55,296	William M. Morgan: 51,601	(none)
1934	√ William A. Ashbrook: 49,211	James A. Glenn: 41,954	(none)
1936	√ William A. Ashbrook (inc.): 69,446	James A. Glenn: 48,270	William Edward Lyle: 2,618
1938	√ William A. Ashbrook (inc.): 51,305	Walter B. Woodward: 46,300	(none)
1940	Ralph C. Lutz: 56,343	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.):[1] 69,102	(none)
1942	Samuel A. Anderson: 28,235	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 47,565	(none)
1944	Thomas A. Wilson: 43,271	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 73,206	(none)
1946	Wesley W. Purdy: 30,406	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 57,167	(none)
1948	Robert W. Levering: 53,651	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 60,234	(none)
1950	Robert W. Levering: 39,726	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 71,382	(none)
1952	James J. Mayor: 44,117	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 94,624	(none)
1954	Robert W. Levering: 34,638	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.): 63,301	(none)
1956	Robert W. Levering: 44,806	√ J. Harry McGregor (inc.):[2] 88,931	(none)
1958	√ Robert W. Levering: 63,650	Laurence Burns: 59,490	(none)
1960	Robert W. Levering (inc.): 70,470	√ John M. Ashbrook: 79,609	(none)
1962	Robert W. Levering: 49,415	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 69,976	(none)
1964	Robert W. Levering: 71,291	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 75,674	(none)
1966	Robert T. Secrest: 59,031	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 73,132	(none)
1968	Robert W. Levering: 54,127	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 100,148	(none)
1970	James C. Hood: 44,066	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 79,472	Clifford J. Simpson (AI): 4,253
1972	Raymond C. Beck: 62,512	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 92,666	Clifford J. Simpson (AI): 6,376
1974	David D. Noble: 63,342	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 70,708	Clifford J. Simpson: 3
1976	John C. McDonald: 72,168	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 94,874	(none)
1978	Kenneth Robert Grier: 42,117	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.): 87,010	(none)
1980	Donald E. Yunker: 47,900	√ John M. Ashbrook (inc.):[3] 128,870	(none)
1982	George D. Tablack: 80,375	√ Lyle Williams:[4] 98,476	(none)
1984	√ Jim Traficant: 123,014	Lyle Williams (inc.): 105,449	Other: 2,198
1986	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 112,855	James H. Fulks: 43,334	(none)
1988	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 162,526	Frederick W. Lenz: 47,929	(none)
1990	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 133,207	Robert R. DeJulio Jr.: 38,199	(none)
1992	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 216,503	Salvatore Pansino: 40,745	(none)
1994	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 149,004	Mike G. Meister: 43,490	(none)
1996	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 218,283	(none)	James M. Cahaney (N): 21,685
1998	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 123,718	Paul H. Alberty: 57,703	(none)
2000	√ Jim Traficant (inc.): 120,333	Paul H. Alberty: 54,751	Randy D. Walter: 51,793 Lou D'Apolito: 9,568 Milton R. Norris (L): 1,278 Carol Ann McCoy (N): 3,154
2002	√ Tim Ryan (inc.):[5] 94,441 (Redistricted from the 14th district)	Ann Womer Benjamin: 62,188	Jim Traficant (inc.):[5] 28,045
2004	√ Tim Ryan (inc.): 208,331	Frank V. Cusimano: 61,727	Randy Walter
2006	√ Tim Ryan (inc.): 166,279	Don Manning II: 41,004	(none)
2008	√ Tim Ryan (inc.): 204,028	Duane Grassell: 56,003[6]	(none)
2010	√ Tim Ryan (inc.): 100,295	Jim Graham: 56,441	Jim Traficant: 29,969 [7]

References

1. In 1940, after the death in office of William Ashbrook, McGregor was elected in a special election to fill out Ashbrook's term.
2. McGregor died in office in October 1958.
3. John Ashbrook died in office in April 1982. His wife, Jean Spencer Ashbrook was elected in a special election in June 1982 to fill out his term.
4. Redistricting following the 1980 census moved Lyle Williams from the 19th district to the 17th district.
5. After being convicted on criminal charges, the previously Democratic Representative Traficant decided to run for re-election as an independent. The new district created after the 2000 census brought incumbent Thomas C. Sawyer, who had been the incumbent in the 14th district, into the new 17th district. However, incumbent Sawyer (seen as anti-labor in a very blue-collar district) lost in the Democratic primary to Ryan, leaving Traficant the only incumbent in the race.
6. http://www.wkyc.com/news/elections/results/20081104/race2026.htm
7. http://www.newsnet5.com/generic/news/political/elections_local/november-2010-election-results

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

Coordinates: 41°11′N 80°59′W / 41.183°N 80.983°W