Endorsements by Democratic Congressmen, Senators and Governors
Organized alphabetically by state; dates indicate when endorsement announced.
Updated through March 1, 2004 when it became clear that Kerry would prevail.
pre-Iowa caucuses listing >
Edwards (13)
Bill Lipinski (IL-3)   02/09/04   ...had backed Lieberman
Albert Wynn (MD-4)   07/23/03
Ike Skelton (MO-4)   01/28/04   ...had backed Gephardt
Mike McNulty (NY-23)  01/26/04   ...had backed Gephardt
Frank Ballance (NC-1)
Bob Etheridge (NC-2)
David Price (NC-4)     all 6 NC Dems. on 4/03/03
Mike McIntyre (NC-7)
Mel Watt (NC-12)
Brad Miller (NC-13)
Chaka Fattah (PA-2)   01/30/04
Max Sandlin (TX-1)   01/28/04     ...had backed Gephardt
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)    03/19/03

Governor
Mike Easley (NC)  06/05/03
Kerry (80 + 16  ...81 + 16 if one counts the Delegate from USVI)
Ed Pastor (AZ-4)   01/28/04   ...had backed Gephardt

Marion Barry (AR-1)   02/ /04   ...had backed Clark
Vic Snyder (AR-2)   02/ /04   ...had backed Clark
Mike Ross (AR-4)   02/ /04   ...had backed Clark

Mike Thompson (CA-1)    02/ /04   ...had backed Clark
Ellen Tauscher (CA-10)   02/13/04   ...had backed Lieberman
Tom Lantos (CA-12)   02/ /04
Lois Capps (CA-23)   01/24/04
Brad Sherman (CA-27)  01/26/04
Howard Berman (CA-28)  02/ /04
Adam Schiff (CA-29)   02/10/04
Lucille Roybal Allard (CA-34)  02/ /04  ...had backed Dean
Juanita Millender McDonald (CA-37)   01/14/03 sent letter
Linda Sanchez (CA-39)   01/26/04

Diane DeGette (CO-1) 
Mark Udall (CO-2)   02/02/04

John Larson (CT-1)   02/ /04   ...had backed Lieberman
Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)   02/ /04   ...had backed Lieberman

Kendrick Meek (FL-17)   01/30/04

Sanford Bishop (GA-2)   02/21/04   ...had backed Clark
Denise Majette (GA-4)    02/06/04
John Lewis (GA-5)   02/19/04

Bobby Rush (IL-1)   02/  /04  ...had backed Braun, then Clark
Danny Davis (IL-7)  02/ /04    ...had backed Braun

Ed Case (HI-2)  ...had backed Lieberman

Baron Hill (IN-9)  ...around the time of the NH Primary (01/28/04)

Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-2)    02/24/04  ...had backed Gephardt
Ben Cardin (MD-3)    02/24/04  ...had backed Gephardt
Steny Hoyer (MD-5)    02/24/04  ...had backed Gephardt
Chris Van Hollen (MD-8)   02/24/04  ...had backed Gephardt

John Olver (MA-1)
Richard Neal (MA-2)
James McGovern (MA-3)
Barney Frank (MA-4)
Marty Meehan (MA-5)
John Tierney (MA-6) 
Ed Markey (MA-7)
Michael Capuano (MA-8)
Stephen Lynch (MA-9)
Bill Delahunt (MA-10)

Tom Allen (ME-1)    02/11/04

Bart Stupak (MI-1)    02/05/04
Dale Kildee (MI-5)    02/?/04   ...had backed Clark
Sander Levin (MI-12)   01/31/04
John Dingell (MI-15)   02/06/04

Betty McCollum (MN-4)   02/?/04   ...had backed Clark

William Lacy Clay (MO-1)
Dick Gephardt (MO-3)    02/06/04
(note: in technical, delegate counting terms Gephardt is considered a "distinguished party leader")

Bill Pascrell (NJ-8)   10/07/03
Bob Menendez (NJ-13)    02/26/04    ...had backed Dean

Tom Udall (NM-3)    02/ /04 

Tim Bishop (NY-1)   10/29/03
Steve Israel (NY-2)    02/23/04   ...had backed Clark
Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4)   10/29/03
Gary Ackerman (NY-5)     02/?/04 
Gregory Meeks (NY-6)    06/11/03
Joe Crowley (NY-7)     02/23/04
Anthony Weiner (NY-9)     02/23/04   ...had backed Clark
Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-14)   10/27/03
Charles B. Rangel (NY-15)    02/23/04   ...had backed Clark
Eliot Engel (NY-17)   02/?/04   ...had backed Lieberman
Nita Lowey (NY-18)    02/09/04   ...had backed Gephardt
Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)    02/23/04   ...had backed Dean
Louise Slaughter (NY-28)   06/11/03

Earl Pomeroy (ND)   02/ /04 

Sherrod Brown (OH-13)   02/26/04 

Earl Blumenauer (OR-3)   12/01/03

Patrick Kennedy (RI-1)   01/25/04   ...had backed Gephardt

James Clyburn (SC-6)   01/29/04   ...had backed Gephardt

Harold Ford (TN-9)    04/28/03

Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)   02/02/04
Charlie Gonzalez (TX-20)   02/ /04   ...had backed Clark
Ciro Rodriguez (TX-28)   02/ /04 

Jay Inslee (WA-1)   02/04
Rick Larsen (WA-2)    01/30/04
Brian Baird (WA-3)   02/04
Norman Dicks (WA-6)   01/30/04
Adam Smith (WA-9) 

Ron Kind (WI-3)  02/10/04
David Obey (WI-7)  02/10/04   ...had backed Gephardt

Donna Christensen (USVI)    01/16/04


Dianne Feinstein (CA)    09/16/03
Daniel Inouye (HI)   01/24/04
Daniel Akaka (HI)   02/??/04
Jeff Bingaman (NM)   02/12/04
Paul Sarbanes (MD)   02/24/04
Barbara Mikulski (MD)   02/24/04
Edward Kennedy (MA) 
Carl Levin (MI)   02/05/04
Debbie Stabenow (MI)   02/05/04
Mark Dayton (MN)   02/20/04
Jon Corzine (NJ)   01/27/04
Frank Lautenberg (NJ)    02/24/04
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (SC)   01/22/04
Maria Cantwell (WA)    02/02/04
Jay Rockefeller (WV)    02/09/04
Herb Kohl (WI)    02/10/04

Governors
Janet Napolitano (AZ)   03/01/04
Tom Vilsack (IA)   01/29/04
John Baldacci (ME)   02/05/04
Jennifer M. Granholm (MI)   01/31/04
Jim McGreevey (NJ)   02/29/04   ...had backed Dean
Mark Warner (VA)   02/08/04
Gary Locke (WA)   02/01/04

Kucinich (1)
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6)    06/19/03
Sharpton (2)
José E. Serrano (NY-16)   12/16/03
Edolphus Towns (NY-10)   12/16/03
Bush (0 + 1) Zell Miller (GA)  10/29/03*
Former Candidates
Dean   withdrew Feb. 18, 2004
(34 + 2.5   ...35 + 2.5 if one counts the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico) 
Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-7)   08/18/03

Pete Stark (CA-13)   12/31/03
Zoe Lofgren (CA-16)    04/09/03
Xavier Becerra (CA-31)   12/15/03
Hilda Solis (CA-32)    12/16/03
Diane Watson (CA-33)     01/14/04
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)   12/15/03
Grace Napolitano (CA-38)     01/14/04
Loretta Sanchez (CA-47)   12/09/03
Bob Filner (CA-51)    09/04/03

Corrine Brown (FL-3)    01/12/04  ...had backed Graham

Neil Abercrombie (HI-1)    04/10/03

Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2)   12/07/03
Luis Gutierrez (IL-4)   01/09/03
Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)   12/22/03

Elijah E. Cummings (MD-7)   12/13/03

Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (MI-13)   01/16/04  "35th..." (later withdrew)

Bennie Thompson (MS-2)   12/22/03  01/13/04

Rush Holt (NJ-5)   12/19/03
Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-6)     07/21/03
Bob Menendez (NJ-13)     12/27/03

Joseph Crowley (NY-7)   11/23/03
Jerrold Nadler (NY-8)   08/24/03
Major Owens (NY-11)    08/26/03
Nydia Velázquez (NY-12)    11/23/03
Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)   10/30/03

Tim Ryan (OH-17)   10/23/03

David Wu (OR-1)   11/17/03

Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)    11/18/03

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-3)   12/07/03
Jim Moran (VA-8)   11/17/03

Jim McDermott (WA-7)    10/06/03

Alan Mollohan (WV-1)   12/22/03
Nick Rahall (WV-3)    12/22/03

Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (PR) 12/19/03


Tom Harkin (IA)    01/09/03
Patrick Leahy (VT) 
Jim Jeffords (I-VT)  supporting, has not formally endorsed 
 

Governor
James McGreevey (NJ)   12/19/03

Clark(20 + 3)  withdrew Feb. 11, 2004
Marion Berry (AR-1)    09/17/03
Vic Snyder (AR-2)     09/17/03
Mike Ross (AR-4)    09/17/03

Mike Thompson (CA-1)    09/30/03 letter

Sanford Bishop (GA-2)  01/14/04

Bobby Rush (IL-1)   01/26/04   ...had backed Braun
Rahm Emanuel (IL-5)    09/17/03

William Jefferson (LA-2)   01/19/04 

Dale Kildee (MI-5)   12/27/03

Betty McCollum (MN-4)   reported by Roll Call 9/17/03

Gene Taylor (MS-4)    09/30/03 letter

Steve Israel (NY-2)     09/30/03 letter
Anthony Weiner (NY-9)    11/14/03
Charlie Rangel (NY-15)    09/17/03; formally on 12/11/03

Lincoln Davis (TN-4)   12/05/03

Charlie Stenholm (TX-17)   01/08/04
Charlie Gonzalez (TX-20)  01/22/04
Martin Frost (TX-24)    01/08/04
Solomon P. Ortiz (TX-27)   01/10/04

Jim Matheson (UT-2)    09/30/03 letter


Blanche Lincoln (AR)    09/17/03
Mark Pryor (AR)    09/17/03
Max Baucus (MT)    11/14/03
Lieberman (12 + 2)  withdrew Feb. 3, 2004
Dennis Cardoza (CA-18)   04/10/03
Cal Dooley (CA-20)    04/10/03
Ellen Tauscher (CA-10)    04/10/03
Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)   03/03/03  ...the day Dodd said no
John Larson (CT-1)    03/03/03  ...the day Dodd said no
Robert Wexler (FL-19)    04/10/03
Alcee Hastings (FL-23)   11/18/03  ...had backed Graham
Ed Case (HI-2)   04/10/03
Bill Lipinski (IL-3)   03/?/03
Steve Rothman (NJ-9)   03/02/03
Eliot Engel (NY-17)    04/10/03
Brad Carson (OK-2)   03/11/03

Christopher Dodd (CT)   03/17/03
Tom Carper (DE)   08/29/03
Gephardt (34) withdrew Jan. 20, 2004
Ed Pastor (AZ-4), Chief Deputy Whip    05/07/03

Robert Matsui (CA-5)    05/14/03
Nancy Pelosi (CA-8), House Democratic Leader 05/14/03
Lois Capps (CA-23)    05/14/03
Howard Berman (CA-28)    05/14/03
Adam Schiff (CA-29)    05/14/03

Jerry Costello (IL-12)    05/14/03
Lane Evans (IL-17)    05/14/03

Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-2)   05/14/03
Ben Cardin (MD-3)    05/14/03
Steny Hoyer (MD-5), House Democratic Whip    05/14/03

William (Lacy) Clay, Jr. (MO-1)    02/01/03
Karen McCarthy (MO-5)    02/01/03
Ike Skelton (MO-4)    02/01/03

Rob Andrews (NJ-1)    05/14/03

Nita Lowey (NY-18)    05/14/03
Mike McNulty (NY-23)   12/03/03

Ted Strickland (OH-6)   10/02/03
Sherrod Brown (OH-13)    05/14/03

Jack Murtha (PA-12)   05/14/03
Joe Hoeffel (PA-13)    05/14/03
Tim Holden (PA-17)    05/14/03

Patrick Kennedy (RI-1)  first
James Langevin (RI-2)    06/12/02

John Spratt (SC-5)   01/03
Jim Clyburn (SC-6)    12/10/03

Bart Gordon (TN-6)   05/14/03
John Tanner (TN-8)    05/14/03

Max Sandlin (TX-1), Chief Deputy Whip    05/14/03
Chet Edwards (TX-11)    05/14/03
Silvestre Reyes (TX-16)    05/14/03
Chris Bell (TX-25)    05/14/03
Gene Green (TX-29)    05/14/03

David Obey (WI-7)    05/14/03


Governor
Bob Holden (MO)  named as an honorary co-chair of the campaign on Feb. 1, 2003
Moseley Braun(2) withdrew Jan. 15, 2004
Bobby Rush (IL-1)   02/19/03
Danny Davis (IL-7)  02/19/03
Graham (6 + 1)  withdrew Oct. 6, 2003
Alan Boyd (FL)     all 06/27/03
Corrine Brown (FL) 
Jim Davis (FL) 
Peter Deutsch (FL) 
Alcee Hastings (FL) 
Kendrick Meek (FL)

Bill Nelson (FL)  06/27/03

*Zell Miller's interview aired on the Fox News Channel on October 29, 2003:
"This is the statement I gave in interviews today: I believe George Bush is the right man at the right place at the right time. The next five years will determine the direction of the world that my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will live in. I do not want to trust that crucial decision to the current Democratic field. So, I plan to vote for George Bush and will help him any way I can. This does not mean I am going to become a Republican. It simply means that in the year 2004, this Democrat will vote for George Bush."