The 78th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...
. It met in
Washington, DC
)
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from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1945, during the last two years of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
was based on the
Sixteenth Census of the United States in 1940.
Both chambers had a
Democratic majority - albeit greatly reduced from the
77th Congress
The 77th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1941, ...
, with the Democrats losing their
supermajority
A supermajority, supra-majority, qualified majority, or special majority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority. Supermajority ru ...
in the House and Senate. Along with
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government
trifecta
Trifecta
A trifecta is a parimutuel bet placed on a horse race in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third, in the exact order. Known as a trifecta in the US and Australia, this is known as a tricast in t ...
.
Major events
*
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
continued (1941–1945)
* June 6, 1944:
Battle of Normandy
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Norma ...
* November 7, 1944:
General elections
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
:
** President Roosevelt was
re-elected to a fourth term.
** Senate Democrats
kept their majority despite 1-seat net loss.
** House Democrats
increased their majority with a 20-seat net gain.
Major legislation
* December 17, 1943:
Magnuson Act
The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943, also known as the Magnuson Act, was an immigration law proposed by U.S. Representative (later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and signed into law on December 17, 1943, in the United States. It ...
(Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943), Sess. 1, ch. 344,
* February 3, 1944:
Mustering-out Payment Act
The Mustering-out Payment Act is a United States federal law passed in 1944. It provided money to Soldier, servicemen, returning from the Second World War, to help them restart their lives as civilians.
See also
*Demobilization
*World War II
*Fe ...
, Sess. 2, ,
* June 6, 1944:
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (G.I. Bill), Sess. 2, ch. 268, ,
* June 27, 1944:
Veterans' Preference Act
The Veterans' Preference Act is a United States federal law passed in 1944. It required the federal government to favor returning war veterans when hiring new employees in an attempt to recognize their service, sacrifice, and skills.
Preference ...
, Sess. 2, ch. 287, ,
* July 1, 1944:
Public Health Service Act
The Public Health Service Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1944. The full act is codified in Title 42 of the United States Code (The Public Health and Welfare), Chapter 6A (Public Health Service).
Contents
The act clearly establis ...
, Sess. 2, ch. 373,
* December 22, 1944:
Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act, Sess. 2, ch. 665, ,
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leaders
Senate
*
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
:
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and the 10th U.S. S ...
(D)
*
President pro tempore
A president pro tempore or speaker pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. The phrase ''pro tempore'' is Latin "for the time being". ...
:
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasu ...
(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. :
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
*
Majority Whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology ...
:
J. Lister Hill
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
Francis T. Maloney
Francis Thomas Maloney (March 31, 1894January 16, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1933 to 1935 and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945. He was a Democrat.
Early life
Maloney was born in Meriden, New Haven C ...
Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
, until February 25, 1944
**
Wallace H. White Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
, after February 25, 1944
*
Minority whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
: No Republican whips were appointed from 1935 to 1944 since only 17 Republicans were in the Senate following the landslide reelection of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
in 1936. Accordingly, the minutes of the
Republican Conference for the period state: "On motion of Senator Hastings, duly seconded and carried, it was agreed that no Assistant Leader or Whip be elected but that the chairman be authorized to appoint Senators from time to time to assist him in taking charge of the interests of the minority." A note attached to the conference minutes added: "The chairman of the conference, Senator McNary, apparently appointed Senator Austin of Vermont as assistant leader in 1943 and 1944, until the conference adopted Rules of Organization."
*
Republican Conference Secretary
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
:
Wallace H. White Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
, until February 25, 1944
**
Harold Hitz Burton
Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stat ...
(from February 25, 1944)
*
National Senatorial Committee Chair:
John G. Townsend Jr.
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
Speaker may refer to:
Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
* A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
** I ...
:
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time ...
(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. :
John W. McCormack
John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts. An attorney and a Democrat, McCormack served in the United States Army during World War I, and afterwards won terms in both th ...
*
Majority whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology ...
:
Robert Ramspeck
Robert C. Word Ramspeck (September 5, 1890 – September 10, 1972) was an American politician and businessman.
Ramspeck was born in Decatur, Georgia. As a young man he was a federal police officer. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. He woul ...
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Harry R. Sheppard
Harry Richard Sheppard (January 10, 1885 – April 28, 1969) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1937 to 1965,
Biography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Sheppard attended the public scho ...
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Patrick H. Drewry
Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician who served as the List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives, 44th speaker of the United Sta ...
*
Minority whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
, until May 13, 1943
**
Leslie C. Arends
Leslie Cornelius Arends (September 27, 1895July 17, 1985) was a Republican politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1935 until 1974.
A native and lifelong resident of Melvin, Illinois, Arends attend ...
, from May 13, 1943
*
Republican Conference Chairman
The Senate Republican Conference is the formal organization of the Republican Senators in the United States Senate, who currently number 50. Over the last century, the mission of the conference has expanded and been shaped as a means of informin ...
:
Roy O. Woodruff
Roy Orchard Woodruff (March 14, 1876 – February 12, 1953) was a politician, soldier, printer, and dentist from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Woodruff was born of English and Scottish ancestry to Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff ...
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
Charles A. Halleck
Members
Senate
Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are
Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1944; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1946; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1948.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama"
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, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
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: 2.
John H. Bankhead II
John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.
He served in the Senate ...
(D)
: 3.
J. Lister Hill (D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
: 1.
Ernest McFarland
Ernest William McFarland (October 9, 1894 – June 8, 1984) was an American politician, jurist and, with Warren Atherton, one of the "Fathers of the G.I. Bill." He is the only Arizonan to serve in the highest office in all three branches of Ariz ...
(D)
: 3.
Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Representa ...
(D)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
: 2.
John L. McClellan
John Little McClellan (February 25, 1896 – November 28, 1977) was an American lawyer and a segregationist politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1935–1939) and a U.S. Senator (1943–1977) fro ...
(D)
: 3.
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American politician who became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Caraway represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside ...
(D)
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
: 1.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the Governor of California, 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century ...
(R)
: 3.
Sheridan Downey
Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was an American lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.
Early life
He was born in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in western Wyoming, the son of the ...
(D)
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...
: 2.
Edwin C. Johnson
Edwin Carl Johnson (January 1, 1884 – May 30, 1970) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as both governor of and U.S. senator from the state of Colorado.
Background
Johnson was born in Scandia in Republic County in ...
(D)
: 3.
Eugene Millikin
Eugene Donald Millikin (February 12, 1891July 26, 1958) was a United States senator from Colorado who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956.
Biography
Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Millikin graduated from the law sc ...
(R)
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
: 1.
Francis T. Maloney
Francis Thomas Maloney (March 31, 1894January 16, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1933 to 1935 and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945. He was a Democrat.
Early life
Maloney was born in Meriden, New Haven C ...
(D)
: 3.
John A. Danaher
John Anthony Danaher (January 9, 1899 – September 22, 1990) was a United States senator from Connecticut, and a United States federal judge, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. ...
(R)
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
: 1.
James M. Tunnell
James Miller Tunnell (August 2, 1879 – November 14, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
Early life and ...
(D)
: 2.
C. Douglass Buck (R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
: 1.
Charles O. Andrews
Charles Oscar Andrews (March 7, 1877September 18, 1946) was a Democratic Party politician from Florida, who represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 until 1946.
Early life
Charles O. Andrews was born in Ponce de Leon, Florida ...
(D)
: 3.
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Mia ...
(D)
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
: 2.
Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for alm ...
(D)
: 3.
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sen ...
(D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...
: 2.
John W. Thomas (R)
: 3.
David Worth Clark (D)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...
: 2.
Charles W. Brooks
Charles Wayland Brooks (March 8, 1897 – January 14, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1940 to 1949.
Early life
Born in West Bureau, Illinois, Brooks served in the Marines during World War I as a first lieutenant fro ...
(R)
: 3.
Scott W. Lucas
Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1 ...
(D)
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
: 1.
Raymond E. Willis
Raymond Eugene Willis (August 11, 1875March 21, 1956) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Waterloo, Indiana, he attended the public schools and graduated from Wabash College in 1896. He learned the printer's trade in Waterloo and mo ...
(R)
: 3.
Frederick Van Nuys
Frederick Van Nuys (April 16, 1874 – January 25, 1944) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College ( Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from Indiana Law School ...
(D), until January 25, 1944
::
Samuel D. Jackson (D), January 28, 1944 – November 13, 1944
::
William E. Jenner
William Ezra Jenner (July 21, 1908 – March 9, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Indiana. A Republican, Jenner was an Indiana state senator from 1934 to 1942, and a U.S. Senator from 1944 to 1945 and again from 19 ...
(R), from November 14, 1944
Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
: 2.
George A. Wilson
George Allison Wilson (April 1, 1884 – September 8, 1953) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States Senate, United States Senator and List of Governors of Iowa, 28th Governor of Iowa.
Personal background
Born on a farm near ...
(R)
: 3.
Guy Gillette
Guy Mark Gillette (February 3, 1879March 3, 1973) was an American politician serving as a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from Iowa. In the U.S. Senate, Gillette was elected, re-elected, defeated, elected again, and defeated again. ...
(D)
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
: 2.
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
(R)
: 3.
Clyde M. Reed (R)
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
: 2.
Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his political positions, he also se ...
(D)
: 3.
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
(D)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
: 2.
Allen J. Ellender
Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972) was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat who was originally allied ...
(D)
: 3.
John H. Overton
John Holmes Overton Sr. (September 17, 1875 – May 14, 1948), was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Thomas Overton Brooks, was also a US representative, from the Shreveport-based 4th distri ...
(D)
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
: 1.
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in t ...
(R)
: 2.
Wallace H. White Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
(R)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
: 1.
George L. P. Radcliffe (D)
: 3.
Millard Tydings
Millard Evelyn Tydings (April 6, 1890February 9, 1961) was an American attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland, serving in the House from 192 ...
(D)
: 1.
David I. Walsh (D)
: 2.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R), until February 3, 1944
::
Sinclair Weeks
Charles Sinclair Weeks (June 15, 1893February 7, 1972), better known as Sinclair Weeks, served as United States Senator from Massachusetts (1944) and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Eisenhower's adm ...
(R), February 8, 1944 – December 19, 1944
::
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892June 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the List of Governors of Massachusetts, 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twent ...
(R), from December 19, 1944
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
: 1.
Arthur Vandenberg
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951. A member of the Republican Party, he participated in the creation of the United Nati ...
(R)
: 2.
Homer S. Ferguson
Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889December 17, 1982) was an American attorney, professor, judge, United States senator from Michigan, Ambassador to the Philippines, and later a judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals.
Educa ...
(R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
: 1.
Henrik Shipstead
Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1947, from the state of Minnesota. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 and ...
(R)
: 2.
Joseph H. Ball
Joseph Hurst Ball (November 3, 1905December 18, 1993) was an American journalist, politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of l ...
(R)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
: 1.
Theodore G. Bilbo
Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was an American politician who twice served as governor of Mississippi (1916–1920, 1928–1932) and later was elected a U.S. Senator (1935–1947). A lifelong Democrat, he was a fil ...
(D)
: 2.
James Eastland
James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation on Decem ...
(D)
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
: 1.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
(D)
: 3.
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was ...
(D)
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
: 1.
Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882January 6, 1975) was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana, which he represented as a United States senator from 1923 until 1947.
Born in Massachusetts, Wheeler began ...
(D)
: 2.
James E. Murray
James Edward Murray (May 3, 1876March 23, 1961) was an American politician and United States Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961.
Background
Born on a f ...
(D)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
: 1.
Hugh A. Butler
Hugh Alfred Butler (February 28, 1878July 1, 1954) was an American United States Republican Party, Republican politician from Nebraska
Life and career
Hugh Butler was born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Iowa on February 28, 1878. He graduated ...
(R)
: 2.
Kenneth S. Wherry
Kenneth Spicer Wherry (February 28, 1892November 29, 1951) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1943 until his death in 1951; he was the minorit ...
(R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
: 1.
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Scrugham was born ...
(D)
: 3.
Pat McCarran
Patrick Anthony McCarran (August 8, 1876 – September 28, 1954) was an American farmer, attorney, judge, and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno, Nevada, atte ...
(D)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
: 2.
Styles Bridges
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career ...
(R)
: 3.
Charles W. Tobey
Charles William Tobey (July 22, 1880July 24, 1953) was an American politician, who was the 62nd governor of New Hampshire from 1929 to 1931, and a United States senator.
Biography
He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of William Tobey, ...
(R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
: 1.
William Warren Barbour
William Warren Barbour (July 31, 1888November 22, 1943) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 until his death in office in 1943. He was also a bus ...
(R), until November 22, 1943
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Arthur Walsh (D), November 26, 1943 – December 7, 1944
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Howard Alexander Smith
Howard Alexander Smith (January 30, 1880October 27, 1966) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1959. He was the uncle of Peter H. Dominick, who ...
(R), from December 7, 1944
: 2.
Albert W. Hawkes
Albert Wahl Hawkes (November 20, 1878May 9, 1971) was a United States senator from New Jersey.
Studies
He was born in Chicago on November 20, 1878. He attended the public schools and graduated from Chicago College of Law in 1900, gaining admissio ...
(R)
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
: 1.
Dennis Chávez
Dionisio "Dennis" Chávez (April 8, 1888November 18, 1962) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1935, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962. He was the first Hispanic to be ...
(D)
: 2.
Carl Hatch
Carl Atwood Hatch (November 27, 1889 – September 15, 1963) was a United States senator from New Mexico and later was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Education and career
Hatch w ...
(D)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
: 1.
James M. Mead (D)
: 3.
Robert F. Wagner (D)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...
: 2.
Josiah Bailey
Josiah William Bailey (September 14, 1873 – December 15, 1946) was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946.
Early life and education
Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he grew ...
(D)
: 3.
Robert Rice Reynolds
Robert Rice Reynolds (June 18, 1884 – February 13, 1963) was an American politician who served as a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 to 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among ...
(D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
: 1.
William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
(R-NPL)
: 3.
Gerald Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the Ny ...
(R)
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
: 1.
Harold Hitz Burton
Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stat ...
(R)
: 3.
Robert A. Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leade ...
(R)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
: 2.
Edward H. Moore
Edward Hall Moore (November 19, 1871September 2, 1950) was a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1943 to 1949.
Early years
Born on a farm near Maryville, Missouri, Moore attended the public schools and Chillicothe, Missouri, Chillicothe No ...
(R)
: 3.
Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
(D)
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
: 2.
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
(R), until February 25, 1944
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Guy Cordon
Guy F. Cordon (April 24, 1890June 8, 1969) was an American author, politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Texas, he served in the Army during World War I and later was the district attorney of Douglas County in Southern Orego ...
(R), from March 4, 1944
: 3.
Rufus C. Holman
Rufus Cecil Holman (October 14, 1877November 27, 1959) was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator for a single term during World War II. He was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, then served ...
(R)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
: 1.
Joseph F. Guffey (D)
: 3.
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Wales, Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as United States Secre ...
(R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
: 1.
Peter G. Gerry (D)
: 2.
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
(D)
South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
: 2.
Burnet R. Maybank
Burnet Rhett Maybank (March 7, 1899September 1, 1954) was a three-term United States Senate, US senator, the List of Governors of South Carolina, 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was the first governo ...
(D)
: 3.
Ellison D. Smith (D), until November 17, 1944
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Wilton E. Hall (D), from November 20, 1944
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
: 2.
Harlan J. Bushfield (R)
: 3.
John Chandler Gurney
John Chandler "Chan" Gurney (May 21, 1896March 9, 1985) was an American businessman and politician from South Dakota. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Senator from 1939 to 1951.
Early life
Gurney was born in Yankton, ...
(R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
: 1.
Kenneth McKellar (D)
: 2.
Tom Stewart Thomas Stewart may refer to:
Politicians and nobility
* Thomas A. Stewart (politician) (1849–1920), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Thomas E. Stewart (1824–1904), U.S. Representative from New York
*Thomas Joseph Stewart (1848–1926), ...
(D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
: 1.
Tom Connally
Thomas Terry Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representa ...
(D)
: 2.
W. Lee O'Daniel
Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (March 11, 1890May 11, 1969) was an American Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program. Known for his populist appeal and support of Texas's business commun ...
(D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
: 1.
Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (D)
: 3.
Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas w ...
(D)
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
: 1.
Warren Austin
Warren Robinson Austin (November 12, 1877 – December 25, 1962) was an American politician and diplomat who served as United States Senator from Vermont and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
A native of Highgate Center, Vermont, Austin was ...
(R)
: 3.
George Aiken
George David Aiken (August 20, 1892November 19, 1984) was an American politician and horticulturist. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 64th governor of Vermont (1937–1941) before serving in the United States Senate for 34 years, ...
(R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
: 1.
Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that becam ...
(D)
: 2.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasu ...
(D)
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
: 1.
Monrad Wallgren
Monrad Charles Wallgren (April 17, 1891September 18, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of Washington from 1945 to 1949, as well as representing that state in the United States House of Representatives and the United ...
(D)
: 3.
Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of par ...
(D), until November 13, 1944
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Warren Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 19 ...
(D), from December 14, 1944
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...
: 1.
Harley M. Kilgore (D)
: 2.
Chapman Revercomb
William Chapman Revercomb (July 20, 1895 – October 6, 1979) was an American politician and lawyer. A Republican, he served two separate terms in the United States Senate representing the state of West Virginia.
Life and career
Revercomb was ...
(R)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: 1.
Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P)
: 3.
Alexander Wiley
Alexander Wiley (May 26, 1884 – October 26, 1967) was an American politician who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. When he left the Senate, he was its most senior Republican member.
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(R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...
: 1.
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (November 5, 1884December 1, 1962) was an American journalist, lawyer, and politician. A Democrat, he served four complete terms as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming on two occasions, first from 1934-1953 and then again fro ...
(D)
: 2.
Edward V. Robertson
Edward Vivian Robertson (May 27, 1881April 15, 1963) was a Welsh-born American politician who served as a member of the United States Senate for Wyoming from 1943 to 1949.
Early life
Born in Cardiff, Wales, he served in the Third Battalion of ...
(R)
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama (state song), Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County, Al ...
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Frank W. Boykin
Frank William Boykin Sr. (February 21, 1885 – March 12, 1969) served as a Democratic Congressman in Alabama's 1st congressional district from 1935-1963. The son of sharecroppers, Boykin became the wealthiest man in Mobile, although his entrepre ...
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George M. Grant
George McInvale Grant (July 11, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an American politician and Democratic Representative from Alabama.
Early life
George McInvale Grant was born in Louisville, Alabama on July 11, 1897. He attended public schools ...
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Henry B. Steagall
Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was a United States representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an ac ...
(D), until November 22, 1943
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George W. Andrews
George William Andrews (December 12, 1906 – December 25, 1971) was an American politician and a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Alabama, and the husband of Elizabeth B. Andrews.
Andrews is known for objecting ...
(D), from March 14, 1944
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Sam Hobbs
Samuel Francis Hobbs (October 5, 1887 – May 31, 1952) was a United States Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Born in Selma, Alabama, Hobbs attended the public schools, Callaway's Preparatory School, Marion (Alabama) Military Institute ...
(D)
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Joe Starnes
Joe Starnes (March 31, 1895 – January 9, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Early life
Joe Starnes was born on March 31, 1895, in Guntersville, Alabama, and attended the public schools.
Career
He taught school in Marshall Count ...
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Pete Jarman
Peterson Bryant ″Pete″ Jarman (October 31, 1892 – February 17, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Greensboro, Alabama, Jarman attended the public schools, the Normal College, Livingston, Alabama, and Southern ...
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Carter Manasco
Carter Manasco (January 3, 1902 – February 5, 1992) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Townley, Alabama, Manasco attended the public schools and Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama Sch ...
(D)
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John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946 and the United S ...
(D)
: .
John P. Newsome (D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
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John R. Murdock (D)
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Richard F. Harless
Richard Fielding Harless (August 6, 1905 – November 24, 1970) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Arizona.
Life and career
Born in Kelsey, Texas, Harless moved to Thatcher, Arizona, in 1917 and attended the ...
(D)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
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Ezekiel C. Gathings
Ezekiel Candler "Took" Gathings (November 10, 1903 – May 2, 1979) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, representing Arkansas' First Congressional District from 1939 to 1969. A segregationist conservative, Gathings was an ally of Strom T ...
(D)
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Wilbur Mills
Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992) was an American Democratic politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his retirement in 1977. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from ...
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J. William Fulbright
James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. , Fulbright is the longest serving chair ...
(D)
: .
William Fadjo Cravens
William Fadjo Cravens (February 15, 1899 – April 16, 1974) was an American politician and a United States Congressman
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a cong ...
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: .
Brooks Hays
Lawrence Brooks Hays (August 9, 1898 – October 11, 1981) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas from 1943 to 1959. He was a ...
(D)
: .
William F. Norrell
William Frank Norrell (August 29, 1896 – February 15, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas' former 6th congressional district. Upon his death, he was succeeded in Congress by his widow, Catherine Dorris Norrell.
Born in Milo in A ...
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: .
Oren Harris
Oren Harris (December 20, 1903 – February 5, 1997) was a United States representative from Arkansas and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court ...
(D)
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
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Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 – June 20, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Biography
Lea was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwe ...
(D)
: .
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
(R), until May 13, 1943
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Clair Engle
Clair Engle (September 21, 1911July 30, 1964) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the vo ...
(D), from August 31, 1943
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J. Leroy Johnson
Justin Leroy Johnson (April 8, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Republican Party, Republican United States Congressman from California from 1943 to 1957.
Biography
Born in Wausau, ...
(R)
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Thomas Rolph
Thomas Rolph (January 17, 1885 – May 10, 1956) was a United States representative from California. He was born in San Francisco, California. His older brother was James Rolph, Jr., who would be elected as Mayor of San Francisco in 1911 and ...
(R)
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Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch (February 13, 1869 – September 10, 1949) was an American county clerk and politician. He sat in the United States House of Representatives for 12 terms from 1926 to 1949, serving a district in San Francisco, California. B ...
(R)
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Albert E. Carter
Albert Edward Carter (July 5, 1881 – August 8, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a Republican United States Representative from California from 1925 to 1945.
Early life and career
Carter was born in Lemon ...
(R)
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John H. Tolan
John Harvey Tolan (; January 15, 1877 – June 30, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1935 to 1947.
Biography
Born in St. Peter, Minnesota, Tolan attended the public ...
(D)
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Jack Z. Anderson
John Zuinglius Anderson (March 22, 1904 – February 9, 1981) was an American farmer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1939 to 1953.
Early life and career
Born in Oakland, California, Anderson ...
(R)
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Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890 – October 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician. Gearhart, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the United States House of Representatives ...
(R)
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Alfred J. Elliott (D)
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George E. Outland (D)
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Jerry Voorhis
Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician and educator from California who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th ...
(D)
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Norris Poulson
Charles Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 – September 25, 1982) was an American politician who represented Southern California in public office at the local, state, and federal levels. He served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from ...
(R)
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Thomas F. Ford
Thomas Francis Ford (February 18, 1873 – December 26, 1958) was an American politician, journalist, and editor who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California from 1933 to 1945. He was previously a member of the ...
(D)
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John M. Costello
John Martin Costello (January 15, 1903 – August 28, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1935 to 1945.
Early life and career
Born in Los Angeles, California, the son ...
(D)
: .
Will Rogers Jr. (D), until May 23, 1944
: .
Cecil R. King
Cecil Rhodes King (January 13, 1898 – March 17, 1974) was an American businessman and politician. King, a Democrat, served as the first member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 17th congressional district fo ...
(D)
: .
William Ward Johnson
William Ward Johnson (March 9, 1892 – June 8, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1941 to 1945.
Biography
Born in Brighton, Washington County, Iowa, Johnson atte ...
(R)
: .
Chester E. Holifield
Chester Earl "Chet" Holifield (December 3, 1903 – February 6, 1995) was a businessman and politician, a United States representative from California's 19th congressional district. He was known for his work on issues of atomic energy.
He was ...
(D)
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John Carl Hinshaw
John Carl Hinshaw (July 28, 1894 – August 5, 1956) was a United States representative from California from 1939 to 1956.
Biography
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, son of William Wade and Anna Williams Hinshaw. He attended the public school ...
(R)
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Harry R. Sheppard
Harry Richard Sheppard (January 10, 1885 – April 28, 1969) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1937 to 1965,
Biography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Sheppard attended the public scho ...
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John R. Phillips (R)
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Edouard Izac
Edouard Victor Michel Izac (December 18, 1891 – January 18, 1990) was a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War I, a Representative from California and a Medal of Honor recipient.
Born in Cresco, Iowa, Izac grew up in a rural se ...
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Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...
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Lawrence Lewis (D), until December 9, 1943
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Dean M. Gillespie (R), from March 7, 1944
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William S. Hill
William Silas Hill (January 20, 1886 – August 28, 1972) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado for nine terms. His career was largely focused on agriculture. He studied at the Colorado State College of Agriculture, was a farmer, Secretary ...
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John Chenoweth (R)
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Robert F. Rockwell
Robert Fay Rockwell (February 11, 1886 – September 29, 1950) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Colorado. He served in the Colorado Senate and Colorado House of Representatives, House of Representatives. ...
(R)
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
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B. J. Monkiewicz (R)
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William J. Miller
William Jennings Miller (March 12, 1899 – November 22, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in North Andover, Massachusetts to Canadian-born Catherine (née Stewart) and Scottish-born James B. Miller,
Miller a ...
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John D. McWilliams (R)
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Ranulf Compton
Ranulf Compton (September 16, 1878, Poe, Indiana – January 26, 1974) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He also served as commander of the 327th (345th) Tank Battalion in George S. Patton's 304th (1st Provisional) Tank Brig ...
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Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce ( Ann Clare Boothe; March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American writer, politician, U.S. ambassador, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play '' The Women'', which h ...
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Joseph E. Talbot (R)
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
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Earle D. Willey (R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
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Robert A. Green (D), until November 25, 1944
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J. Hardin Peterson
James Hardin Peterson (February 11, 1894 – March 28, 1978) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Early life and career
Peterson was born in Batesburg, South Carolina. His family moved to Lakeland, Florida, in 1903, and he attended the publ ...
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Emory H. Price
Emory Hilliard Price (December 3, 1899 – February 11, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Born in Bostwick, Florida, Price attended the public schools of Duval County, Florida. He graduated from Jacksonville (Florida) Law ...
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Bob Sikes
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (June 3, 1906September 28, 1994) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented the Florida Panhandle in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1979, with a brief break in 1944 and 1945 ...
(D), until October 19, 1944
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Pat Cannon
Arthur Patrick Cannon (May 22, 1904 – January 23, 1966) was a four-term United States Representative from Florida, serving from 1939 to 1947.
Early life and education
Cannon was born in Powder Springs, Georgia and later moved to Laurens C ...
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Joe Hendricks (D)
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
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Hugh Peterson
Hugh Peterson (August 21, 1898 – October 3, 1961) was a U.S. political figure and lawyer from the state of Georgia.
Life
Peterson was born near Ailey, Georgia in 1898 and attended the Brewton–Parker Institute in Mount Vernon, Georgia ...
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Edward E. Cox
Edward Eugene "Eugene" or "Goober" Cox (April 3, 1880 – December 24, 1952) served as a U.S. representative from Georgia for nearly 28 years. A conservative Democrat who supported racial segregation and opposed President Franklin Roosevelt's " ...
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Stephen Pace (D)
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Albert Sidney Camp
Albert Sidney Camp (July 26, 1892 – July 24, 1954) was an American politician, educator and lawyer.
Biography
Camp was born in Moreland, Georgia. The Camp family was a colonial family with ancestors arriving in the American colonies during th ...
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Robert Ramspeck
Robert C. Word Ramspeck (September 5, 1890 – September 10, 1972) was an American politician and businessman.
Ramspeck was born in Decatur, Georgia. As a young man he was a federal police officer. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. He woul ...
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Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
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Malcolm C. Tarver
Malcolm Connor Tarver (September 25, 1885 – March 5, 1960) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Born in Rural Vale, Georgia, Tarver attended the public schools.
He was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, ...
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John S. Gibson (D)
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B. Frank Whelchel
Benjamin Frank Whelchel (December 16, 1895 – May 11, 1954) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Born in Lumpkin County, near Gainesville, Georgia, Whelchel attended the public schools.
He studied law privately in Gainesville, Georgia ...
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Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL). Brown was both the co-founder and first coach of the Clevela ...
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Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...
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Compton I. White
Compton Ignatius White, Sr. (July 31, 1877 – March 31, 1956), was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Idaho Panhandle, Northern Idaho. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, he represented Idaho's 1st c ...
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Henry Dworshak
Henry Clarence Dworshak Jr. (August 29, 1894July 23, 1962) was a United States Senator and Congressman from Idaho. Originally from Minnesota, he was a Republican from Burley, and served over 22 years in the House and Senate.
Early years
Born in ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolita ...
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Stephen A. Day
Stephen Albion Day (July 13, 1882 – January 5, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Day was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of Mary Elizabeth (Schaefer) and William R. Day, who was a diplomat and jurist. Day attended the ...
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William L. Dawson (D)
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William A. Rowan (D)
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Fred E. Busbey (R)
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Martin Gorski (D)
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Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From 19 ...
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Thomas J. O'Brien (D)
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Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard William Schuetz (November 16, 1887 – February 13, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Schuetz was born in Posen, Germany (later Poland), November 16, 1887. In 1888 he immigrated to the United States with his father, who set ...
(D), until February 13, 1944
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Thomas S. Gordon
Thomas Sylvy Gordon (December 17, 1893 – January 22, 1959) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Gordon attended the parochial schools and was graduated from St. Stanis ...
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Charles S. Dewey
Charles Schuveldt Dewey (November 10, 1880 – December 27, 1980) was a banker and politician from Illinois. The cousin of George Dewey, Charles S. Dewey entered the real estate business in Chicago, Illinois in 1905. He served in the United S ...
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Ralph E. Church
Ralph Edwin Church (May 5, 1883 – March 21, 1950) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1917 to 1932 and then represented the northern suburbs of Chicago in the United Sta ...
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Chauncey W. Reed
Chauncey William Reed (June 2, 1890 – February 9, 1956) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Reed was born in West Chicago, Illinois to William Thomas Reed and Margaret Reed. Reed's father held se ...
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Noah M. Mason
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Noah Morgan Mason (July 19, 1882 – March 29, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. A conservative Republican, he served 13 terms representing first the state's 12th congressional district and then, after a redrawing of bou ...
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Leo E. Allen (R)
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Anton J. Johnson
Anton Joseph Johnson (October 20, 1878 – April 16, 1958) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Peoria, Illinois to Sweden, Swedish immigrant parents,
Johnson attended the public schools and ...
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Robert B. Chiperfield
Robert Bruce Chiperfield (November 20, 1899 - April 9, 1971), son of United States Congressman Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield, was an Illinois lawyer and 12-term U.S. Representative from Illinois. He served as chairman of the House Committee on ...
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Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As Senate Minority Leader from 1959 unt ...
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Leslie C. Arends
Leslie Cornelius Arends (September 27, 1895July 17, 1985) was a Republican politician from Illinois who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1935 until 1974.
A native and lifelong resident of Melvin, Illinois, Arends attend ...
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Jessie Sumner
Jessie Sumner (July 17, 1898 – August 10, 1994) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Milford, Illinois, Sumner attended the public schools. She graduated from Girton School, Winnetka, Illinois, in 1916 and Smith College, Northam ...
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William H. Wheat
William Howard Wheat (February 19, 1879 – January 16, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Kahoka, Missouri, Wheat attended the public schools of Brookfield and Chillicothe, Missouri, and Chaddock College and Gem City Busin ...
(R), until January 16, 1944
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Rolla C. McMillen (R), from June 13, 1944
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Sid Simpson
Sidney Elmer Simpson (September 20, 1894 – October 26, 1958) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1943 to 1958. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Carrollton, Illinois, Simpson att ...
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George Evan Howell
George Evan Howell (September 21, 1905 – January 18, 1980) was a United States representative from Illinois and Judge of the United States Court of Claims.
Education and career
Born in Marion, Illinois, Howell attended the public schools ...
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Calvin D. Johnson (R)
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Charles W. Vursell
Charles Wesley Vursell (February 8, 1881 – September 21, 1974) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Background
Born in Salem, Illinois, Vursell attended the public schools of Marion County, Illinois.
Career
In 1904, Vursell was a hardware ...
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James V. Heidinger (R)
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C. W. Bishop
Cecil William "C. W." Bishop (June 29, 1890 – September 21, 1971) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.
Biography
Bishop was born on a farm near West Vienna, Illinois. After attending the public schools and ...
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Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
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Ray Madden
Ray John Madden (February 25, 1892 – September 28, 1987) was an American lawyer and World War I veteran who served 17 terms as a United States representative from Indiana from 1943 to 1977.
Biography
He was born in Waseca, Minnesota. He atte ...
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Charles A. Halleck (R)
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Robert A. Grant
Robert Allen Grant (July 31, 1905 – March 2, 1998) was a United States representative from Indiana and later a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
E ...
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George W. Gillie
George W. Gillie (August 15, 1880 – July 3, 1963) was an American veterinarian and politician who served five terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.
Biography
Born in Berwickshire, ...
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Forest Harness (R)
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Noble J. Johnson
Noble Jacob Johnson (August 23, 1887 – March 17, 1968) was a United States representative from Indiana and an United States federal judge, Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and ...
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Gerald W. Landis
Gerald Wayne Landis (February 23, 1895 – September 6, 1971) was an American educator and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.
Biography
Born in Bloomfield, Indiana, Landis attended the publ ...
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Charles M. La Follette
Charles Marion La Follette (February 27, 1898 – June 27, 1974) was an American lawyer and politician.
His great-grandfather was William Heilman, who was in the United States House of Representatives from Indiana.
He served as a Republi ...
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Earl Wilson (R)
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Raymond S. Springer (R)
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Louis Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow (June 24, 1873 – November 28, 1950) was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct atta ...
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Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
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Thomas E. Martin
Thomas Ellsworth Martin (January 18, 1893June 27, 1971) was a United States representative and Senator from Iowa. Martin, a Republican, served in Congress for 22 consecutive years, from January 1939 to January 1961.
Born in Melrose, Iowa, he a ...
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Henry O. Talle
Henry Oscar Talle (January 12, 1892 – March 14, 1969) was an economics professor and a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from eastern Iowa. He served in the United States Congress for twenty years from 1939 until 1959.
Background
Born on ...
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John W. Gwynne
John Williams Gwynne (October 20, 1889 – July 5, 1972) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, and a Federal Trade Commission member and chairman during the Eisenhower Administration.
Person ...
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Karl M. LeCompte
Karl Miles LeCompte (May 25, 1887 – September 30, 1972) was a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from south-central Iowa. He won ten consecutive races from 1938 to 1956, before choosing not to run again in 1958.
Born in Corydon, Iowa ...
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Paul Cunningham (R)
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Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred Cramer Gilchrist (June 2, 1868 – March 10, 1950) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa, from 1931 to 1945.
Born in California, Pennsylvania, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gilchrist moved with his parents to ...
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Ben F. Jensen
Benton Franklin Jensen (December 16, 1892 – February 5, 1970) served thirteen consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Iowa's 7th congressional district in the southwestern corner of the state. While on the floor of the U.S. House on Marc ...
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Charles B. Hoeven
Charles Bernard Hoeven (March 30, 1895 – November 9, 1980) was an American politician. Elected to represent districts in northern Iowa for eleven terms, from the 78th United States Congress, Seventy-eighth to 88th United States Congress, Ei ...
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
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William P. Lambertson
William Purnell Lambertson (March 23, 1880 – October 26, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa (Kansas) University, and the law school of the University of C ...
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Ulysses Samuel Guyer
Ulysses Samuel Guyer (December 13, 1868 – June 5, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Paw Paw, Illinois, Guyer attended the public schools, Lane University at Lecompton, Kansas, and the University of Kansas School of Law ...
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Errett P. Scrivner
Errett Power Scrivner (March 20, 1898 – May 5, 1978) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Newton, Kansas, Scrivner attended grade schools and was graduated from Manual Training High ...
(R), from September 14, 1943
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Thomas Daniel Winter
Thomas Daniel Winter (July 7, 1896 – November 7, 1951) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Columbus, Kansas, Winter attended the public and high schools. During the First World War served as ...
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Edward Herbert Rees
Edward Herbert Rees (June 3, 1886 – October 25, 1969) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born on a farm near Emporia, Kansas, his father and maternal grandparents were all born in Wales. Rees attended the public schools and the Kansas St ...
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Clifford R. Hope (R)
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Frank Carlson
Frank Carlson (January 23, 1893May 30, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of Kansas, Kansas State representative, United States representative, and United States senator from Kansas. Carlson is the only Kansan to ...
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Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to ...
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Noble Jones Gregory (D)
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Beverly M. Vincent
Beverly Mills Vincent (March 28, 1890 – August 15, 1980) was a U.S. representative from Kentucky.
He was born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, March 28, 1890; attended the public schools, Western Kentucky State Teachers College a ...
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Emmet O'Neal
Emmet O'Neal (September 23, 1853 – September 7, 1922) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer who was the 34th Governor of Alabama from 1911 to 1915. He was a reformer in the progressive mold, and is best known for securing the c ...
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Edward W. Creal
Edward Wester Creal (November 20, 1883 – October 13, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in a log house in LaRue County, Kentucky near Mount Sherman, Kentucky, Creal attended the public schools of Hart and LaRue Counties, Ken ...
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Chester O. Carrier (R), from November 30, 1943
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Brent Spence
Brent Spence (December 24, 1874 – September 18, 1967), a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democratic Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky.
Spence was born in Newport, Kentucky to Philip and Virginia (Berry) ...
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Virgil Chapman
Virgil Munday Chapman (March 15, 1895March 8, 1951) was an American attorney and Democratic politician who represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate.
Chapman, originally from Middleton, ...
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Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his rash disclosure of classified nav ...
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Joe B. Bates
Joseph Bengal Bates (October 29, 1893 – September 10, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Republican, Kentucky, Bates attended the public schools and the Mountain Training School at Hindman, Kentucky.
He graduated from East ...
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John M. Robsion (R)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
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F. Edward Hébert
Felix Edward Hébert (October 12, 1901 – December 29, 1979) was an American journalist and politician from Louisiana. He represented the New Orleans-based Louisiana's 1st congressional district, 1st congressional district as a Democra ...
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Paul H. Maloney
Paul Herbert Maloney (February 14, 1876 – March 26, 1967) was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1914 to 1916. Later, he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served ...
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James R. Domengeaux
James R. Domengeaux, known as Jimmy Domengeaux (January 6, 1907 – April 11, 1988), was a lawyer from Lafayette, Louisiana, who served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1941 to 1949 ...
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James R. Domengeaux
James R. Domengeaux, known as Jimmy Domengeaux (January 6, 1907 – April 11, 1988), was a lawyer from Lafayette, Louisiana, who served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district from 1941 to 1949 ...
(D), from November 7, 1944
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Overton Brooks
Thomas Overton Brooks (December 21, 1897 – September 16, 1961) was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwestern Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning on Janua ...
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Charles E. McKenzie (D)
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James H. Morrison
James Hobson Morrison (December 8, 1908 - July 20, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician who served twelve terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1943 to 1967.
Early life and caree ...
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Henry D. Larcade Jr.
Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. (July 12, 1890 – March 15, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, Larcade attended the public and parochial schools, Opelousas High School, Academy Immacul ...
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A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen (January 5, 1891 – January 5, 1969) was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat from ...
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Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
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Robert Hale (R)
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Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Madeline Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the firs ...
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Frank Fellows (R)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
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David Jenkins Ward (D)
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Harry Streett Baldwin (D)
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Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 39th mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented in the United States H ...
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Daniel Ellison
Daniel Ellison (February 14, 1886 – August 20, 1960) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.
Born in Russian Empire, Ellison was brought to the United States by his parents as an infant. He attended the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland, ...
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Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer
Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer (September 30, 1893 – November 5, 1964) represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939 to 1953.
Sasscer was born in Upper Marlboro, ...
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James Glenn Beall
James Glenn Beall (June 5, 1894 – January 14, 1971) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. Senator (1953–1965) from Maryland.
Earl ...
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Allen T. Treadway (R)
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Charles R. Clason
Charles Russell Clason (September 3, 1890 – July 7, 1985) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an attorney. Clason was born in Gardiner, Maine. He attended Bates College, and received his ...
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Philip J. Philbin
Philip Joseph Philbin (May 29, 1898 – June 14, 1972) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic United States Congress, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. He was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, where he attended the public and high ...
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Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr Gustaf Holmes (April 9, 1881 – December 19, 1952) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Early life
Holmes was born in Mölnbacka in Forshaga Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. In 1886, when he was 4 years old, Holm ...
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Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Rogers (née Nourse; March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Until 2012, ...
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George J. Bates
George Joseph Bates (February 25, 1891 – November 1, 1949) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1918– ...
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Thomas J. Lane
Thomas Joseph Lane (July 6, 1898 – June 14, 1994) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1941 to 1963, notable for having been re-elected after serving time in federal prison.
Lane was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on July 6, 1898 ...
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Angier Goodwin
Angier Louis Goodwin (January 30, 1881 – June 20, 1975) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
He graduated from Colby College in 1902, and attended Harvard Law School three years later. He was admitted to the Maine bar that s ...
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Charles L. Gifford
Charles Laceille Gifford (March 15, 1871 – August 23, 1947) was a United States representative from Massachusetts He was born in Cotuit on March 15, 1871. Through his father he was a descendant of Robert Pike, George Phillips, Richard Salt ...
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Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate t ...
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James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Boston. He also served a single term as governor of Massachusetts, characterized ...
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John W. McCormack
John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts. An attorney and a Democrat, McCormack served in the United States Army during World War I, and afterwards won terms in both th ...
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Richard B. Wigglesworth
Richard Bowditch "Dick" Wigglesworth (April 25, 1891 – October 22, 1960) was an American football player and coach and United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1908.
He attend ...
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Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician who served as the List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives, 44th speaker of the United Sta ...
(R)
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
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George G. Sadowski
George Gregory Sadowski (March 12, 1903 – October 9, 1961) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Michigan from 1933 to 1939.
Early life and education
Sa ...
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Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener (November 30, 1876 – July 4, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Michener had German American, German ancestry. He was born near Attica, Ohio, Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to A ...
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Paul W. Shafer
Paul Werntz Shafer (April 27, 1893 – August 17, 1954) was a politician and judge from Michigan. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1937 until his death.
Biography
Shafer was born in Elkhart, Indiana on Apr ...
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Clare Hoffman
Clare Eugene Hoffman (September 10, 1875 – November 3, 1967) was a United States representative from Michigan's 4th congressional district.
Background
Hoffman was born in Vicksburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public s ...
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Bartel J. Jonkman
Bartel John Jonkman (April 28, 1884 – June 13, 1955) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Jonkman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he attended the public schools. He was of Dutch (ethnic group), Dutch descent. He graduated ...
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William W. Blackney
William Wallace Blackney (August 28, 1876 – March 14, 1963) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives.
Early life and education
Blackney was born in Clio, Michigan, a ...
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Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse Paine Wolcott (March 3, 1893 – January 28, 1969) was a politician and soldier from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the comm ...
(R)
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Fred L. Crawford
Fred Lewis Crawford (May 5, 1888 – April 13, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Crawford was born in Dublin, Texas and attended local public schools. He went to business college at Peniel (now part of Greenville, Texas), an ...
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Albert J. Engel
Albert Joseph Engel (January 1, 1888 – December 2, 1959) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Biography
Engel was born in New Washington, Ohio. He attended the public schools in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, and the Centra ...
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Roy O. Woodruff
Roy Orchard Woodruff (March 14, 1876 – February 12, 1953) was a politician, soldier, printer, and dentist from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Woodruff was born of English and Scottish ancestry to Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff ...
(R)
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Fred Bradley Frederick Bradley may refer to:
* Frederick Henry Bradley (1876–1943), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
*Frederick Gordon Bradley (1886–1966), Canadian and Dominion of Newfoundland politician
*Frederick Van Ness Bradley (1898–1947), Ame ...
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John B. Bennett (R)
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George D. O'Brien
George Donoghue O'Brien (January 1, 1900 – October 25, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives on three separate occasions.
Early life and education
O'Brien was born in ...
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Louis C. Rabaut
Louis Charles Rabaut (December 5, 1886 – November 12, 1961) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic congressman representing Michigan's 14th congressional distr ...
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John Dingell Sr. (D)
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John Lesinski Sr.
John Lesinski Sr. (January 3, 1885 – May 27, 1950) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the father of John Lesinski Jr., who succeeded him in the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Lesinski was born in Erie ...
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George Anthony Dondero
George Anthony Dondero (December 16, 1883 – January 29, 1968) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan.
Background
Dondero was born on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan, which has since become part of ...
(R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
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August H. Andresen
August Herman Andresen (October 11, 1890 – January 14, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Congress as a Republican for thirty-one years.
Background
August Herman Andresen was born in Newark, Illino ...
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Joseph P. O'Hara (R)
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Richard Pillsbury Gale (R)
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Melvin Maas
Melvin Joseph Maas (May 14, 1898 – April 13, 1964) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota and decorated Major General of the United States Marine Corps Reserve during World War II.
Early years
Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minne ...
(R)
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Walter Judd (R)
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Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson (October 20, 1880 – August 21, 1953) was an American politician and journalist, who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1949 as a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 192 ...
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Herman Carl Andersen (R)
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William Alvin Pittenger
William Alvin Pittenger (December 29, 1885 – November 26, 1951) was a United States Representative from Minnesota's 8th congressional district. He was born on a farm near Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana and attended rural sch ...
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Harold Hagen (FL), changed to (R) on April 15, 1944
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
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John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley A ...
(D)
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Jamie Whitten
Jamie Lloyd Whitten (April 18, 1910September 9, 1995) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented the Deep South state of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He was at the ...
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William Madison Whittington (D)
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Thomas Abernethy (D)
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W. Arthur Winstead
William Arthur Winstead (January 6, 1904 – March 14, 1995) was a farmer and politician, elected as U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 4th congressional district, serving from 1943 to 1965. He surprisingly lost the 1964 election by a su ...
(D)
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William M. Colmer (D)
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Dan R. McGehee (D)
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
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Samuel W. Arnold (R)
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Max Schwabe
Max Schwabe (December 6, 1905 – July 31, 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. He was the brother of George Blaine Schwabe.
Schwabe was born in Columbia, Missouri and attended the University of Missouri. Prior to his career in politi ...
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William Clay Cole
William Clay Cole (August 29, 1897 – September 23, 1965) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States House of Representatives, representative from Missouri's 3rd congressional district from 1943 to 1949 and Missouri's 6t ...
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C. Jasper Bell (D)
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Roger C. Slaughter (D)
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Marion T. Bennett
Marion Tinsley Bennett (June 6, 1914 – September 6, 2000) served as a member of the United States Congress, as a judge of the United States Court of Claims and as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Feder ...
(R), from January 12, 1943
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Dewey Jackson Short
Dewey Jackson Short (April 7, 1898 – November 19, 1979) was an American politician from Missouri. He was US Representative for 12 terms (1929-1931, 1935-1957). A member of the Republican Party, he was a staunch opponent of President Franklin ...
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William P. Elmer
William Price Elmer (March 2, 1871 – May 11, 1956) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Robertsville, Missouri to William J. and Sarah (Wagoner) Elmer, the family moved to Salem, Missour ...
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Clarence Cannon
Clarence Andrew Cannon (April 11, 1879 – May 12, 1964) was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri serving from 1923 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1964. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropri ...
(D)
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Orville Zimmerman
Orville Zimmerman (December 31, 1880 – April 7, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born on a farm near Glenallen in Bollinger County, Missouri, Zimmerman attended the public schools and Mayfield-Smith Academy in Marble Hill, Miss ...
(D)
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Louis E. Miller
Louis Ebenezer Miller (April 30, 1899 – November 1, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Willisburg, Washington County, Kentucky, Miller attended the grade schools of Washington County, Kentucky, Springfield (Kentuc ...
(R)
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Walter C. Ploeser
Walter Christian Ploeser (January 7, 1907 – November 17, 1993) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri and United States Ambassador to Paraguay and Costa Rica.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Ploeser attended the public schools of St. Louis, Mis ...
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John J. Cochran (D)
Montana
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Mike Mansfield
Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American politician and diplomat. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, he served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative (1943–1953) and a ...
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James F. O'Connor
James Francis O'Connor (May 7, 1878 – January 15, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.
Biography
O'Connor was born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa, and attended grade school and normal school in Iowa. He graduated from the ...
(D)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
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Carl Curtis
Carl Thomas Curtis (March 15, 1905 – January 24, 2000) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives (1939–1954) and later the United States Se ...
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Howard Buffett
Howard Homan Buffett (August 13, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He was a four-term Republican United States Representative for the state of Nebraska. He was the father of Warren Buffett, the Ameri ...
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Karl Stefan
Karl Stefan (March 1, 1884 – October 2, 1951) was a Czech-American politician, newspaper editor, publisher, and radio commentator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Nebraska's 3rd congressional district in the U.S ...
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Arthur L. Miller (R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
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Maurice J. Sullivan (D)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
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Chester Earl Merrow (R)
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Foster Waterman Stearns (R)
New Jersey
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Charles A. Wolverton
Charles Anderson Wolverton (October 24, 1880 – May 16, 1969) was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 32 years, from 1927 to 1959.
Car ...
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Elmer H. Wene
Elmer Hartpence Wene (May 1, 1892 – January 25, 1957) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 194 ...
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James C. Auchincloss
James Coats Auchincloss (January 19, 1885 – October 2, 1976) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who represented northern coastal region of New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1943–196 ...
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D. Lane Powers
David Lane Powers (July 29, 1896 – March 28, 1968) was an American Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1945.
Early life and career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Powers a ...
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Charles Aubrey Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton (March 29, 1868January 23, 1953) was a Canadian-born American clergyman and politician who led congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901 ...
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Donald H. McLean
Donald Holman McLean (March 18, 1884, Paterson, New Jersey – August 19, 1975, Burlington, Vermont) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representat ...
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J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican Party (United States), Re ...
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Gordon Canfield
Gordon Canfield (April 15, 1898 in Salamanca, New York – June 20, 1972 in Hawthorne, New Jersey) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician. Canfield, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, was first a sec ...
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Harry Lancaster Towe (R)
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Fred A. Hartley Jr.
Frederick Allan Hartley Jr. (February 22, 1902 – May 11, 1969) was an American Republican politician from New Jersey. Hartley served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jer ...
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Frank Sundstrom
Frank Leander Sundstrom (January 5, 1901 – May 23, 1980) was an American Republican Party politician who represented for three terms from 1943 to 1949.
Early life and education
Born in Massena, New York on January 5, 1901 to a Swedish immig ...
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Robert Kean (R)
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Mary Teresa Norton
Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins; March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951.
She was the first woman m ...
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Edward J. Hart
Edward Joseph Hart (March 25, 1893, Jersey City, New Jersey – April 20, 1961, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 14th congressional district in the United Sta ...
(D)
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
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Clinton Anderson
Clinton Presba Anderson (October 23, 1895 – November 11, 1975) was an American politician who represented New Mexico in the United States Senate from 1949 until 1973. A member of the United States Democratic Party, Democratic Party, he pr ...
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Antonio M. Fernández (D)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
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Matthew J. Merritt
Matthew Joseph Merritt (April 2, 1895 New York City – September 29, 1946 Malba, Queens, NYC) was an American businessman, World War I veteran, and politician from New York. From 1935 to 1945, he served three terms in the U.S. House of Represent ...
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Winifred C. Stanley
Winifred Claire Stanley (August 14, 1909 – February 29, 1996) was an American politician and attorney from New York affiliated with the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Stanley is known for her vigorous women's rights advoc ...
(R)
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Leonard W. Hall
Leonard Wood Hall (October 2, 1900 – June 2, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a United States representative from United States Congressional Delegations from New York, New York from 1939 to 1952.
Early ...
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William Bernard Barry
William Bernard Barry (July 21, 1902 – October 20, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms a United States Representative from New York from 1935 to 1946.
Biography
Barry was born in County Mayo, Ireland and immigrated ...
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Joseph L. Pfeifer
Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer (February 6, 1892 – April 19, 1974) was an American physician and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for New York's 8th congressional district from 1935 to 1951.
Early ...
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Thomas H. Cullen (D), until March 1, 1944
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John J. Rooney (D), from June 6, 1944
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James J. Heffernan
James Joseph Heffernan (November 8, 1888 – January 27, 1967) was an American architect and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1941 to 1953.
Biography
James Joseph Heffernan was born in Brooklyn, ...
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Andrew Lawrence Somers
Andrew Lawrence Somers (March 21, 1895 – April 6, 1949) was an American businessman, World War I veteran, and Democratic politician who served 13 terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1925 until his death in 1949.
Biography
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John J. Delaney (D)
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Donald Lawrence O'Toole
Donald Lawrence O'Toole (August 1, 1902 – September 12, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a United States representative from New York from 1937 to 1953.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, he attended public an ...
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Eugene James Keogh (D)
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Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888 – January 15, 1981) was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He served as the dean of the United States Ho ...
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James A. O'Leary
James Aloysius O'Leary (April 23, 1889 – March 16, 1944) was an American lawyer and businessman who served five terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state), ...
(D), until March 16, 1944
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Ellsworth B. Buck
Ellsworth Brewer Buck (July 3, 1892 – August 14, 1970) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York during the 1940s.
Early years
Buck was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Morgan Park Academy. He g ...
(R), from June 6, 1944
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Samuel Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein (February 5, 1885 – April 22, 1954) was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York (22-year tenure), a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy. He played a key role in establishing the committee th ...
(D)
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Louis Capozzoli
Louis Joseph Capozzoli (March 6, 1901 – October 8, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1941 to 1945.
Biography
Born in Cosenza, Italy, he emigrated to the U ...
(D)
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Arthur George Klein
Arthur is a common male given name of Brittonic languages, Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. An ...
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Thomas F. Burchill
Thomas Francis Burchill (August 3, 1882 – March 26, 1955) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1943 to 1945.
Biography
Born in New York City, he attended the city ...
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James H. Fay (D)
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Joseph C. Baldwin (R)
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Martin J. Kennedy
Martin John Kennedy (August 29, 1892 – October 27, 1955) was an Irish-American politician from New York. A real estate and insurance broker in New York City, Kennedy is most notable for his service as a Democratic member of the New York Stat ...
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Sol Bloom
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of ...
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Vito Marcantonio
Vito is an Italian name that is derived from the Latin word "''vita''", meaning "life".
It is a modern form of the Latin name Vitus, meaning "life-giver," as in San Vito or Saint Vitus, the patron saint of dogs and a heroic figure in southern I ...
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Joseph A. Gavagan
Joseph Andrew Gavagan (August 20, 1892 – October 18, 1968) was an American World War I veteran, lawyer, and politician who served seven terms as a United States representative from New York from 1929 to 1943.
Early life
Born in New York City ...
(D), until December 30, 1943
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James H. Torrens
James H. Torrens (September 12, 1874 – April 5, 1952) was a congressman and New York Tammany Hall figure in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in New York City on September 12, 1874, Torrens attended the city's public schools. Torrens w ...
(D), from February 29, 1944
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Walter A. Lynch
Walter Aloysius Lynch (July 7, 1894 in New York City – September 10, 1957 in Belle Harbor, Queens) was an American lawyer and politician originally from New York. From 1940 to 1951, he served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Ear ...
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Charles A. Buckley
Charles Anthony Buckley (June 23, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a Democratic Party politician from The Bronx, New York. An Irish-American, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bronx County Democratic Party and a member of t ...
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James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
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Ralph A. Gamble
Ralph Abernethy Gamble (May 6, 1885 – March 4, 1959) was a Republican politician who represented Westchester County, New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1957. He was a member of the prominent Gamble family of So ...
(R)
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Hamilton Fish III
Hamilton Fish III (born Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish and also known as Hamilton Fish Jr.; December 7, 1888 – January 18, 1991) was an American soldier and politician from United States Congressional Delegations from New York, New York State. Born ...
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Jay Le Fevre (R)
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William T. Byrne
William Thomas Byrne (March 6, 1876 – January 27, 1952) was an attorney and politician from Albany, New York. He was most notable for his service in the New York State Senate (1923-1936) and a United States Representative from United States ...
(D)
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Dean P. Taylor
Dean Park Taylor (January 1, 1902 – October 16, 1977) was an American attorney and politician from Troy, New York. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a United States Congressman for 18 years (1943–1961) and chairman of the N ...
(R)
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Bernard W. Kearney (R)
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Clarence E. Kilburn
Clarence Evans Kilburn (April 13, 1893 – May 20, 1975) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Kilburn was born in Malone, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1916. He enlisted for Wor ...
(R)
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Francis D. Culkin
Francis Dugan Culkin (November 10, 1874 – August 4, 1943) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Culkin was born in Oswego, New York on November 10, 1874, and attended school in Oswego. ...
(R), until August 4, 1943
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Hadwen C. Fuller
Hadwen Carlton Fuller (August 28, 1895 – January 29, 1990) was a United States representative from United States Congressional Delegations from New York, New York.
Biography
He was born on August 28, 1895, in West Monroe, New York, West Mo ...
(R), from November 2, 1943
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Fred J. Douglas
Fred James Douglas (September 14, 1869 – January 1, 1949) was a United States representative from New York. Born in Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he moved with his parents to Little Falls, New York in 1874. He attended the public ...
(R)
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Edwin Arthur Hall
Edwin Arthur Hall (February 11, 1909 – October 18, 2004) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Hall was born in Binghamton, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1931, and was involve ...
(R)
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Clarence E. Hancock
Clarence Eugene Hancock (February 13, 1885 – January 3, 1948) was an American attorney and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1927 to 1947.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Hancock grad ...
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John Taber
John Taber (May 5, 1880 – November 22, 1965) was an American attorney and New York politician who represented parts of the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1963.
Biography
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W. Sterling Cole (R)
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Joseph J. O'Brien (R)
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (August 12, 1877June 21, 1952) was an American politician, a Republican Party (United States), Republican from New York (state), New York. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth, and the ...
(R)
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Walter G. Andrews
Walter Gresham Andrews (July 16, 1889 – March 5, 1949) was an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Andrews was born in Evanston, Illinois the son of William Henry an ...
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Joseph Mruk
Joseph Mruk (November 6, 1903 – January 21, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican politician from Buffalo, New York. He is most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1945, and ...
(R)
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John Cornelius Butler
John Cornelius Butler (July 2, 1887–August 13, 1953) was a Republican politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1949 and 1951 to 1953.
Biography
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Daniel A. Reed (R)
North Carolina
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Herbert Covington Bonner
Herbert Covington Bonner (May 16, 1891 – November 7, 1965) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1940 and 1965.
Born in Washington, North Carolina, Bonner attended school in Warrenton. He served in the United State ...
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John H. Kerr (D)
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Graham Arthur Barden
Graham Arthur Barden (September 25, 1896 – January 29, 1967) was a US Representative from North Carolina between 1935 and 1961 for the Democratic Party.
Born in Sampson County, North Carolina in 1896, he moved to Burgaw, North Carolina at the ...
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Harold D. Cooley (D)
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John Hamlin Folger
John Hamlin Folger (December 18, 1880 – July 19, 1963) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1941 and 1949.
Born in Rockford, North Carolina, Folger attended public schools in Surry County. He graduated from Guilfor ...
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Carl T. Durham (D)
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J. Bayard Clark
Jerome Bayard Clark (April 5, 1882 – August 26, 1959) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Early life
Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, where he was a member of the Pi Ka ...
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William O. Burgin (D)
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Robert L. Doughton (D)
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Cameron A. Morrison
Cameron A. Morrison (October 5, 1869August 20, 1953) was an American politician and the List of governors of North Carolina, 55th Governor of North Carolina, governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1921 to 1925.
Early life and career ...
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Alfred L. Bulwinkle
Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (April 21, 1883 – August 31, 1950) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Early life
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Bulwinkle moved with his parents to Dallas, North ...
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Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver (May 12, 1872 – October 29, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served 14 terms as a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and again between 1931 and 1947.
Early years and education
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(D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north a ...
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William Lemke
William Frederick Lemke (August 13, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. He was also the Union Party's presidential cand ...
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Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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George H. Bender
George Harrison Bender (September 29, 1896June 18, 1961) was an American Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and 1951 to 1954. He also served in the U.S. Senate from 1954 to ...
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Charles H. Elston (R)
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William E. Hess
William Emil Hess (February 13, 1898 – July 14, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician who served three lengthy, non-consecutive stints as a Republican and a U.S. Representative from Ohio between 1929 and 1961.
Biography
Born in Cincinn ...
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Harry P. Jeffrey (R)
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Robert Franklin Jones (R)
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Cliff Clevenger
Cliff Clevenger (August 20, 1885 – December 13, 1960) was a United States representative from Ohio. He served ten terms in Congress from 1939 to 1959.
Biography
Cliff Clevenger was born on a ranch near Long Pine, Brown County, Nebraska. ...
(R)
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Edward Oscar McCowen
Edward Oscar McCowen (June 29, 1877 – November 4, 1953) was a three-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1943 to 1949.
Biography
Edward O. McCowen was born in Bloom Township, Ohio. He attended the pu ...
(R)
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Clarence J. Brown
Clarence James Brown, Sr. (July 14, 1893 – August 23, 1965), was an American newspaper publisher and politician; he represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland ...
(R)
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Frederick Cleveland Smith
Frederick Cleveland Smith (July 29, 1884 – July 16, 1956) was an American physician and politician who served six terms as a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1939 to 1951 ...
(R)
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Homer A. Ramey
Homer Alonzo Ramey (March 2, 1891 – April 13, 1960) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1943 to 1949.
Biography
He was born on a farm near Sparta, South Bloomfield Township, Oh ...
(R)
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Thomas A. Jenkins
Thomas Albert Jenkins (October 28, 1880 – December 21, 1959) was a member of the Ohio state senate and a long-serving U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th District (from 1925 to 1959). He was born in Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio.
Back ...
(R)
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Walter E. Brehm
Walter Ellsworth Brehm (May 25, 1892 – August 24, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Biography
Born in Somerset, Ohio, Brehm attended the public schools and worked in steel mills, rubber factories, and oil fields after graduation from ...
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John Martin Vorys
John Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Early life
Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pil ...
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Alvin F. Weichel
Alvin Ferdinand Weichel (September 11, 1891 – November 27, 1956) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1943 to 1955.
Life and politics
Weichel was born in Sandusky, Oh ...
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Edmund Rowe (R)
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Percy W. Griffiths (R)
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Henderson H. Carson (R)
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J. Harry McGregor
James Harry McGregor (September 30, 1896 – October 7, 1958) was an American World War I veteran who served nine terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1940 to 1958.
Biography
James Harry McGreg ...
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Earl Ramage Lewis (R)
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Michael J. Kirwan
Michael Joseph Kirwan (December 2, 1886 – July 27, 1970) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Ohio who served as a United States House of Representatives, Representative to the United States Congress ...
(D)
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Michael A. Feighan (D)
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Robert Crosser
Robert Crosser (June 7, 1874 – June 3, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served 19 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He remains the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of ...
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Frances P. Bolton
Frances Payne Bolton (née Bingham; March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio. In the late 1930s Bolton ...
(R)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
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Wesley E. Disney (D)
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John Conover Nichols
John Conover Nichols (August 31, 1896November 7, 1945) was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma from 1935 to 1943.
Biography
Born in Joplin, Missouri, Nichols was ...
(D), until July 3, 1943
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William G. Stigler
William Grady Stigler (July 7, 1891 – August 21, 1952) was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served four terms as and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma from 1944 to 1952.
Biography
Stigler was a citizen of the Cho ...
(D), from March 28, 1944
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Paul Stewart (D)
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Lyle Boren
Lyle Hagler Boren (May 11, 1909 – July 2, 1992) was a United States, U.S. Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma, serving from 1937 to 1947 and was d ...
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Mike Monroney
Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney (March 2, 1902February 13, 1980) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1951 to 1969, and previously as the United States representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressiona ...
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Jed Johnson (D)
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Victor Wickersham
Victor Eugene Wickersham (February 9, 1906 – March 15, 1988) was an American politician and a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Early life and education
Born on a farm near Baxter County, Arkansas, Lone ...
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Ross Rizley
Ross Rizley (born Roscoe Rizley) (July 5, 1892March 4, 1969) was an American politician and United States Representative from Oklahoma and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
E ...
(R)
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
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James W. Mott
James Wheaton Mott (November 12, 1883 – November 12, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Oregon. A graduate of Columbia University and Willamette University's law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter, city attorney, and was elected to th ...
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Lowell Stockman
Lowell Stockman (April 12, 1901 – August 9, 1962) was a representative from Oregon to the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953.
Early life
Stockman was born on a farm near Helix, Oregon. He attended public schools at Pendl ...
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Homer D. Angell
Homer Daniel Angell (January 12, 1875 – March 31, 1968) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon, serving eight terms from 1939 to 1955.
Biography
Angell was born on a farm near The Dalles, Oregon in 1875. He received his undergraduate ...
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Harris Ellsworth
Mathew Harris Ellsworth (September 17, 1899 – February 7, 1986) was an American newspaperman and politician who served six terms as a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Congress, U.S. congressman from Oregon from 1943 to ...
(R)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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William I. Troutman (R), until January 2, 1945
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James A. Gallagher (R)
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James P. McGranery (D), until November 17, 1943
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Joseph Marmaduke Pratt
Joseph Marmaduke Pratt (September 4, 1891 – July 19, 1946) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life
Joseph M. Pratt was born in Paterson, New Jersey, but ...
(R), from January 18, 1944
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Michael J. Bradley (D)
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John E. Sheridan (D)
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C. Frederick Pracht (R)
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Francis J. Myers
Francis John Myers (December 18, 1901 – July 5, 1956) was an American teacher, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician. He represented most of West Philadelphia and Southwest Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives from 1 ...
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Hugh Scott
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (November 11, 1900 – July 21, 1994) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate, from 195 ...
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James Wolfenden
James Paine Wolfenden (July 25, 1889 – April 8, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends' Central School and Penn Ch ...
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Charles L. Gerlach (R)
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J. Roland Kinzer
John Roland Kinzer (March 28, 1874 – July 25, 1955) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
J. Roland Kinzer was born on a farm near Terre Hill, Pennsylvania in East Earl Township, Lancaster ...
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John W. Murphy (D)
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Thomas B. Miller
Thomas Byron Miller (August 11, 1896 – March 20, 1976) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Thomas B. Miller was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. He attended the law school of Dickinson C ...
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Ivor D. Fenton
Ivor David Fenton (August 3, 1889 – October 23, 1986) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life
Ivor Fenton was born in Mahanoy City ( Buck Mountain), Pennsylvania. He attended Bucknell Unive ...
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Daniel K. Hoch
Daniel Knabb Hoch (January 31, 1866 – October 11, 1960) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Daniel Hoch was born on a farm near Reading, Pennsylvania. He ...
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Wilson D. Gillette
Wilson Darwin Gillette (July 1, 1880 – August 7, 1951) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 until his death in Towanda, Pennsylvania in ...
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Thomas E. Scanlon (D)
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J. William Ditter
John William Ditter Sr. (September 5, 1888 – November 21, 1943) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
John William Ditter Sr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 5, 1888. He g ...
(R), until November 21, 1943
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Richard M. Simpson
Richard Murray Simpson (August 30, 1900 – January 7, 1960) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Richard Simpson was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the son of Warren Brown and Sue Simpson. His fat ...
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John C. Kunkel (R)
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Leon H. Gavin
Leon Harry Gavin (February 25, 1893 – September 15, 1963) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Leon H. Gavin was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Oil City, Pennsylvania, in 1915. ...
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Francis E. Walter
Francis Eugene Walter (May 26, 1894 – May 31, 1963) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Walter was a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee ...
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Chester H. Gross
Chester Heilman Gross (October 13, 1888 – January 9, 1973) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Chester H. Gross was born on a farm in East Manchester ...
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James E. Van Zandt (R), until September 24, 1943
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D. Emmert Brumbaugh
David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – April 22, 1977) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
D. Emmert Brumbaugh was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a studen ...
(R), from November 2, 1943
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J. Buell Snyder
John Buell Snyder (July 30, 1877 – February 24, 1946) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pen ...
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Grant Furlong (D)
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Louis E. Graham
Louis Edward Graham (August 4, 1880 – November 9, 1965) was an American politician who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Louis E. Graham was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and mov ...
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Harve Tibbott
Harve Tibbott (May 27, 1885 – December 31, 1969) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Tibbott was born near Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the school of pharmacy of the University of Pitts ...
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Augustine B. Kelley
Augustine Bernard Kelley (July 9, 1883 – November 20, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1957.
Life and career
Kelley was born in New Baltimor ...
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Robert L. Rodgers
Robert Lewis Rodgers (June 2, 1875 – May 9, 1960) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Rodgers was born in El Dorado, Kansas. He was raised on a farm near Jamestown, Pennsylvania. During the war with ...
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Samuel A. Weiss
Samuel Arthur Weiss (April 15, 1902 – February 1, 1977) was an American attorney, professional football player, and Democratic politician. He represented parts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area in the Pennsylvania House ...
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Herman P. Eberharter (D)
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James A. Wright (D)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
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Aime Forand
Aime Joseph Forand (May 23, 1895 – January 18, 1972) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Forand served in the United States House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district from 1937 to 1939 and ...
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John E. Fogarty
John Edward Fogarty (March 23, 1913 – January 10, 1967) was a United States Congress, Congressman from Rhode Island for 26 years. He was a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. John Edward Fogarty was influential in ...
(D), until December 7, 1944
South Carolina
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L. Mendel Rivers
Lucius Mendel Rivers (September 28, 1905 – December 28, 1970) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from South Carolina, representing the Charleston-based 1st congressional district for nearly 30 years. He was chairman of the House Armed Se ...
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Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer (June 23, 1875 – October 19, 1944) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 – October 19, 1944. After his death, his wi ...
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Willa L. Fulmer (D), from November 7, 1944
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Butler B. Hare
Butler Black Hare (November 25, 1875 – December 30, 1967) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Born to James and Elizabeth Hare (née Black), he was one of nine sons born t ...
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Joseph R. Bryson
Joseph Raleigh Bryson (January 18, 1893 – March 10, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Brevard, North Carolina, Bryson moved, with his parents, to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1900.
He attended the public schools.
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James P. Richards
James Prioleau "Dick" Richards (August 31, 1894 – February 21, 1979) was a lawyer, judge, and Democratic Party (United States), Democrat United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from South Carolina between 1933 and 1957. H ...
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John L. McMillan (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
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Karl E. Mundt
Karl Earl Mundt (June 3, 1900August 16, 1974) was an American educator and a Republican member of the United States Congress, representing South Dakota in the United States House of Representatives (1939–48) and in the United States Senate (19 ...
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Francis H. Case
Francis Higbee Case (December 9, 1896June 22, 1962) was an American journalist and politician who served for 25 years as a member of the United States Congress from South Dakota. He was a Republican.
Biography
Case was born in Everly, Iowa, the ...
(R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
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B. Carroll Reece
Brazilla Carroll Reece (December 22, 1889 – March 19, 1961) was an American Republican Party politician from Tennessee. He represented eastern Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives for all but six years from 1921 to 1961 ...
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John Jennings John Jennings may refer to:
Politicians
* John Jenyns (1660–1717), MP
* John Jennings (Burton MP) (1903–1990), British Conservative Party politician
* John Jennings (American politician) (1880–1956), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939 ...
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Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver (;
July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his d ...
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Albert Gore Sr. (D), until December 4, 1944
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Jim Nance McCord
Jim Nance McCord (March 17, 1879 – September 2, 1968) was an American journalist and politician who served as the 40th governor of Tennessee from 1945 to 1949, and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1945. He was ...
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Percy Priest
James Percy Priest (April 1, 1900 – October 12, 1956) was an American teacher, journalist and politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 until his death.
Background
Priest was born in Carte ...
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W. Wirt Courtney
William Wirt Courtney (September 7, 1889 – April 6, 1961) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
Biography
Born in Franklin, Tennessee, Courtney was the son of Wirt Courtney and Anne (Neely) Courtney. He graduate ...
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Tom J. Murray
Thomas Jefferson Murray (August 1, 1894 – November 28, 1971), usually known as Tom J. Murray, was an American politician and a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1943 to 1966.
Biography
Murray was born in Jackson, Tennessee ...
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Jere Cooper
Jere Cooper (July 20, 1893 – December 18, 1957) was a United States Democratic Party, Democratic United States House of Representatives, United States Representative from Tennessee.
Biography
Cooper was born on a farm near Dyersburg, Tennes ...
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Clifford Davis (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
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Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman (August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976) was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1 ...
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Martin Dies Jr.
Martin Dies Jr. (November 5, 1900 – November 14, 1972), also known as Martin Dies Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and after ...
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Lindley Beckworth
Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. (June 30, 1913 – March 9, 1984) was an American judge and politician who served as a United States representative from Texas and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and career
Born on June 30, ...
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Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time ...
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Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
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Luther Alexander Johnson
Luther Alexander Johnson (October 29, 1875 – June 6, 1965) was a United States Congressman from the U.S. state of Texas.
Early years
Luther was born in Corsicana, Texas, where he attended the public schools. He received his L.L.B. in 1896 fr ...
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Nat Patton
Nat Patton (February 26, 1881 – July 27, 1957), also known as "Cousin Nat", was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas from 1935 to 1945.
Patton was born on a farm near tiny Tadm ...
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Albert Thomas (D)
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Joseph J. Mansfield
Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (February 9, 1861 – July 12, 1947) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1947.
Biography
Mansfield was born on February 9, 1861. He was born in Wayne, W ...
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
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William R. Poage
William Robert Poage (December 28, 1899 – January 3, 1987) was a Texas politician who was won election to the United States House of Representatives 21 times, serving 42 years.
Early life and education
William Robert "Bob" Poage was born in ...
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Fritz G. Lanham
Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham (January 3, 1880 – July 31, 1965) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas.
Early life
Born in Weatherford, Texas, Lanham was the son of Sarah Beona (née ...
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Ed Gossett
Ed Lee Gossett (January 27, 1902 – November 6, 1990) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Gossett moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a f ...
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Richard M. Kleberg
Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. (November 18, 1887 – May 8, 1955), a Democrat, was a seven-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th congressional district over the period 1931–1945 and an heir to the King Ranch i ...
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Milton H. West
Milton Horace West (June 30, 1888 – October 28, 1948) was a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 15th congressional district from 1933 until his death in 1948.
Early life
Milton Ho ...
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R. Ewing Thomason
Robert Ewing Thomason known as R. Ewing Thomason (May 30, 1879 – November 8, 1973) was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Repr ...
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Sam M. Russell (D)
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Eugene Worley
Francis Eugene Worley (October 10, 1908 – December 17, 1974) was a United States representative from Texas and later an United States federal judge, Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Ed ...
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George H. Mahon
George Herman Mahon (September 22, 1900 – November 19, 1985) was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms (1935–1979) as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Lubbock-based 19th congressional distri ...
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Paul J. Kilday
Paul Joseph Kilday (March 29, 1900 – October 12, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Early life and education
Born in Sabinal, Texas, Kilday was the sixth child of Patrick Kilday, an immigrant from Ireland who was established as a merch ...
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O. C. Fisher
Ovie Clark Fisher (November 22, 1903 – December 9, 1994) was an attorney and author who served for 32 years as the U.S. representative for Texas's 21st congressional district.
Early life
Fisher was born in Junction in Kimble County, Texas to ...
(D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
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Walter K. Granger (D)
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J. W. Robinson
James William Robinson (January 19, 1878 – December 2, 1964) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Utah's 2nd congressional district from 1933 to 1947.
Early life a ...
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
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Charles Albert Plumley
Charles Albert Plumley (April 14, 1875 – October 31, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a Republican U.S. Representative from Vermont, and was the son of U.S. Representative Frank Plumley.
Biography
Plumley was born in ...
(R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
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S. Otis Bland
Schuyler Otis Bland (May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the College of William and Mary. He was a teacher and a lawyer in p ...
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Winder R. Harris (D), until September 15, 1944
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Ralph Hunter Daughton
Ralph Hunter Daughton (September 23, 1885 – December 22, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia from 1944 to 1947.
Early life and career
Born in Washington, D.C., Daughton attended publi ...
(D), from November 7, 1944
: .
Dave E. Satterfield Jr.
David Edward Satterfield Jr. (September 11, 1894 – December 27, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia's 3rd congressional district. He took office on November 2, 1937 after a special election to fill the vacancy created by the deat ...
(D)
: .
Patrick H. Drewry (D)
: .
Thomas G. Burch (D)
: .
Clifton A. Woodrum
Clifton Alexander Woodrum (April 27, 1887 – October 6, 1950) was a Virginia pharmacist, lawyer and U.S. Representative from Roanoke who was considered a Progressive Democrat for his support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Early and family ...
(D)
: .
Absalom Willis Robertson
Absalom Willis Robertson (May 27, 1887 – November 1, 1971) was an American politician from Virginia who served over 50 years in public office. A member of the Democratic Party and lukewarm ally of the Byrd Organization led by fellow U.S. Senato ...
(D)
: .
Howard W. Smith
Howard Worth Smith (February 2, 1883 – October 3, 1976) was an American politician. A Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia, he was a leader of the informal but powerful conservative coalition.
Early life and education
Howard W ...
(D)
: .
John W. Flannagan Jr.
John William Flannagan Jr. (February 20, 1885 – April 27, 1955) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 - 1949. The John W Flannagan Dam is named aft ...
(D)
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
: .
Warren Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 19 ...
(D), until December 14, 1944
: .
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold War liberal and anti- ...
(D)
: .
Fred B. Norman (R)
: .
Hal Holmes
Otis Halbert Holmes (February 22, 1902 – July 27, 1977) was a U.S. Representative from Washington state, serving a total of eight consecutive terms, from 1943 to 1959. He did not stand for re-election in 1958, retiring to his ranch.
Starting ...
(R)
: .
Walt Horan
Walter Franklin Horan (October 15, 1898 – December 19, 1966) was an American politician, a congressman from eastern Washington for 22 years. First elected in 1942, he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for elev ...
(R)
: .
John M. Coffee (D)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...
: .
A. C. Schiffler
Andrew Charles Schiffler (August 10, 1889 – March 27, 1970) was a Republican United States Representative and attorney from West Virginia. He was born in Wheeling. He served in the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941); ...
(R)
: .
Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph (March 8, 1902May 8, 1998) was an American politician from West Virginia. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1947 and the United States Senate from 1958 to ...
(D)
: .
Edward G. Rohrbough
Edward Gay Rohrbough (January 4, 1874 – December 12, 1956) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in 1874, near Buckhannon, West Virginia, in Upshur County, West Virgini ...
(R)
: .
Hubert S. Ellis (R)
: .
John Kee
John Kee (August 22, 1874 – May 8, 1951) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1 ...
(D)
: .
Joe L. Smith (D)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: .
Lawrence H. Smith
Lawrence Henry Smith (September 15, 1892January 22, 1958) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Smith attended the public schools and Milwaukee State Teachers College. He graduated from the Marquette University ...
(R)
: .
Harry Sauthoff
Harry Edward Sauthoff (June 3, 1879 – June 16, 1966) was an American teacher, coach, lawyer and politician from Madison, Wisconsin. The son of a German immigrant, Sauthoff was a 1909 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. He hel ...
(P)
: .
William H. Stevenson
William Henry Stevenson (September 23, 1891 – March 19, 1978) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin for the years 1941–1949, he served as a Republican.
William Stevenson was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and ...
(R)
: .
Thaddeus Wasielewski
Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski (December 2, 1904 – April 25, 1976) was an American lawyer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who spent six years as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic United States House of Representatives, U.S. Repres ...
(D)
: .
Howard J. McMurray (D)
: .
Frank Bateman Keefe (R)
: .
Reid F. Murray
Reid Fred Murray (October 16, 1887 – April 29, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, businessman, and educator.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1950,' Biographical Sketch of Reid F. Murray, pg. 18, 22
Born in Ogdensburg, Wisconsin, Murray atte ...
(R)
: .
LaVern Dilweg
LaVern Ralph "Lavvie" Dilweg (November 1, 1903 – January 2, 1968) was a professional football player, attorney, and U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin.
Football
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Dilweg attended its public schools and graduated from ...
(D)
: .
Merlin Hull
Merlin Gray Hull (December 18, 1870 – May 17, 1953) was a lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin.
Born in Farina, Illinois to John and Adelia Hull, Merlin Hull was a graduate of ...
(P)
: .
Alvin O'Konski
Alvin Edward O'Konski (May 26, 1904July 8, 1987) was an American politician and educator who served 30 years in the United States House of Representatives. A Republican, he represented northwestern Wisconsin from 1943 until 1973.
Early life an ...
(R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...
: .
Frank A. Barrett (R)
Non-voting members
: .
Anthony Dimond
Anthony Joseph Dimond (November 30, 1881 – May 28, 1953) was an American Democratic Party politician who was the Alaska Territory Delegate in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1945. Dimond was also an early champion of Al ...
(D)
: .
Joseph Rider Farrington
Joseph Rider Farrington (October 15, 1897 – June 19, 1954) was an American newspaper editor and statesman who served in the United States Congress as delegate for the Territory of Hawaii, Territory of Hawai'i.
Education and military car ...
(R)
: .
Joaquín Miguel Elizalde
Joaquín Miguel Elizalde y Díaz (August 2, 1896 – February 9, 1965) was a Filipino diplomat and businessman.
Personal life
Elizalde was born on August 2, 1896 in Manila, the eldest child of José Joaquín Elizalde (who was the Philippine-b ...
(I), until August 9, 1944
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Carlos P. Romulo
Carlos Peña Romulo Sr. (January 14, 1898 – December 15, 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at the age of 16, a newspaper editor by 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of t ...
(
Lib.), from August 10, 1944
: .
Bolívar Pagán
Bolívar Pagán Lucca (May 16, 1897 – February 9, 1961) was a Puerto Rican historian, journalist, and politician.
Early years
Pagán was born in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. He received his primary education in the public schools of Adjuntas, ...
(
Socialist
Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...
)
Changes in membership
Senate
, -
,
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
William Warren Barbour
William Warren Barbour (July 31, 1888November 22, 1943) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 until his death in office in 1943. He was also a bus ...
(R)
, Died November 22, 1943.
Successor was appointed until an election.
, nowrap ,
Arthur Walsh (D)
, November 26, 1943
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,
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
Frederick Van Nuys
Frederick Van Nuys (April 16, 1874 – January 25, 1944) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College ( Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from Indiana Law School ...
(D)
, Died January 25, 1944.
Successor was appointed until an election.
, nowrap ,
Samuel D. Jackson (D)
, January 28, 1944
, -
,
(2)
, nowrap ,
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)
, Resigned February 3, 1944, to go on active duty in the
US Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
.
Success was appointed until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Sinclair Weeks
Charles Sinclair Weeks (June 15, 1893February 7, 1972), better known as Sinclair Weeks, served as United States Senator from Massachusetts (1944) and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Eisenhower's adm ...
(R)
, February 8, 1944
, -
,
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
(R)
, Died February 25, 1944.
Successor was appointed and subsequently won special election
, nowrap ,
Guy Cordon
Guy F. Cordon (April 24, 1890June 8, 1969) was an American author, politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Texas, he served in the Army during World War I and later was the district attorney of Douglas County in Southern Orego ...
(R)
, March 4, 1944
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,
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of par ...
(D)
, Resigned November 13, 1944, to become Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts:
* District ...
.
Successor was appointed to finish the term, having just been elected to the next term.
, nowrap ,
Warren Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 19 ...
(D)
, December 14, 1944
, -
,
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
Samuel D. Jackson (D)
, Appointee was not a candidate to finish the term.
Successor was elected.
, nowrap ,
William E. Jenner
William Ezra Jenner (July 21, 1908 – March 9, 1985) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Indiana. A Republican, Jenner was an Indiana state senator from 1934 to 1942, and a U.S. Senator from 1944 to 1945 and again from 19 ...
(R)
, November 7, 1944
, -
,
South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
Ellison D. Smith (D)
, Died November 17, 1944.
, nowrap ,
Wilton E. Hall (D)
, November 20, 1944
, -
,
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Arthur Walsh (D)
, Appointee was not a candidate to finish the term.
Successor was elected.
, nowrap ,
Howard Alexander Smith
Howard Alexander Smith (January 30, 1880October 27, 1966) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1959. He was the uncle of Peter H. Dominick, who ...
(R)
, December 7, 1944
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,
(2)
, nowrap ,
Sinclair Weeks
Charles Sinclair Weeks (June 15, 1893February 7, 1972), better known as Sinclair Weeks, served as United States Senator from Massachusetts (1944) and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Eisenhower's adm ...
(R)
, Appointee was not a candidate to finish the term.
Successor was elected.
Successor chose not to take the seat until the next Congress, but was nevertheless duly elected and qualified.
,
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892June 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the List of Governors of Massachusetts, 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twent ...
(R)
, January 4, 1945
House of Representatives
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,
, Vacant
, style="font-size:80%" , Rep.
Philip A. Bennett died in previous Congress
, ,
Marion T. Bennett
Marion Tinsley Bennett (June 6, 1914 – September 6, 2000) served as a member of the United States Congress, as a judge of the United States Court of Claims and as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Feder ...
(R)
, January 12, 1943
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,
, ,
Harry L. Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright w ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died May 13, 1943
, ,
Clair Engle
Clair Engle (September 21, 1911July 30, 1964) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the vo ...
(D)
, August 31, 1943
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,
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Ulysses S. Guyer (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died June 5, 1943
, ,
Errett P. Scrivner
Errett Power Scrivner (March 20, 1898 – May 5, 1978) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Newton, Kansas, Scrivner attended grade schools and was graduated from Manual Training High ...
(R)
, September 14, 1943
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,
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John C. Nichols (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned July 3, 1943, to become vice-president of
Transcontinental and Western
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline which operated from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with F ...
Air.
, ,
William G. Stigler
William Grady Stigler (July 7, 1891 – August 21, 1952) was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served four terms as and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma from 1944 to 1952.
Biography
Stigler was a citizen of the Cho ...
(D)
, March 28, 1944
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,
, ,
Francis D. Culkin
Francis Dugan Culkin (November 10, 1874 – August 4, 1943) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Culkin was born in Oswego, New York on November 10, 1874, and attended school in Oswego. ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died August 4, 1943
, ,
Hadwen C. Fuller
Hadwen Carlton Fuller (August 28, 1895 – January 29, 1990) was a United States representative from United States Congressional Delegations from New York, New York.
Biography
He was born on August 28, 1895, in West Monroe, New York, West Mo ...
(R)
, November 2, 1943
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,
, ,
James E. Van Zandt (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 24, 1943, after being called to active duty in the US Armed Forces.
, ,
D. Emmert Brumbaugh
David Emmert Brumbaugh (October 8, 1894 – April 22, 1977) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
D. Emmert Brumbaugh was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a studen ...
(R)
, November 2, 1943
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,
, ,
Edward W. Creal
Edward Wester Creal (November 20, 1883 – October 13, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in a log house in LaRue County, Kentucky near Mount Sherman, Kentucky, Creal attended the public schools of Hart and LaRue Counties, Ken ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 13, 1943
, ,
Chester O. Carrier (R)
, November 30, 1943
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,
, ,
James P. McGranery (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 17, 1943, after being appointed an
Assistant Attorney General
Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an assistant attorney general.
The president of the United States appoints individuals to the position of assistant attorney general with the advice and ...
, ,
Joseph Marmaduke Pratt
Joseph Marmaduke Pratt (September 4, 1891 – July 19, 1946) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life
Joseph M. Pratt was born in Paterson, New Jersey, but ...
(R)
, January 18, 1944
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,
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J. William Ditter
John William Ditter Sr. (September 5, 1888 – November 21, 1943) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
John William Ditter Sr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 5, 1888. He g ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 21, 1943
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
Henry B. Steagall
Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was a United States representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an ac ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 22, 1943
, ,
George W. Andrews
George William Andrews (December 12, 1906 – December 25, 1971) was an American politician and a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Alabama, and the husband of Elizabeth B. Andrews.
Andrews is known for objecting ...
(D)
, March 14, 1944
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,
, ,
Lawrence Lewis (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died December 9, 1943
, ,
Dean M. Gillespie (R)
, March 7, 1944
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,
, ,
Joseph A. Gavagan
Joseph Andrew Gavagan (August 20, 1892 – October 18, 1968) was an American World War I veteran, lawyer, and politician who served seven terms as a United States representative from New York from 1929 to 1943.
Early life
Born in New York City ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1943, after being elected a justice of the
New York Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...
, ,
James H. Torrens
James H. Torrens (September 12, 1874 – April 5, 1952) was a congressman and New York Tammany Hall figure in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in New York City on September 12, 1874, Torrens attended the city's public schools. Torrens w ...
(D)
, February 29, 1944
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,
, ,
William H. Wheat
William Howard Wheat (February 19, 1879 – January 16, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Kahoka, Missouri, Wheat attended the public schools of Brookfield and Chillicothe, Missouri, and Chaddock College and Gem City Busin ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 16, 1944
, ,
Rolla C. McMillen (R)
, June 13, 1944
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,
, ,
Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard William Schuetz (November 16, 1887 – February 13, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Schuetz was born in Posen, Germany (later Poland), November 16, 1887. In 1888 he immigrated to the United States with his father, who set ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died February 13, 1944
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
Thomas H. Cullen (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 1, 1944
, ,
John J. Rooney (D)
, June 6, 1944
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,
, ,
James A. O'Leary
James Aloysius O'Leary (April 23, 1889 – March 16, 1944) was an American lawyer and businessman who served five terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state), ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 16, 1944
, ,
Ellsworth B. Buck
Ellsworth Brewer Buck (July 3, 1892 – August 14, 1970) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York during the 1940s.
Early years
Buck was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Morgan Park Academy. He g ...
(R)
, June 6, 1944
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,
, ,
James Domengeaux (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned April 15, 1944, to join US Armed Forces
, ,
James Domengeaux (D)
, Re-elected to fill his own vacancy November 7, 1944
, -
,
, ,
Harold Hagen (FL)
, style="font-size:80%" , Changed parties April 15, 1944, after
Minnesota Farmer–Labor and
Democratic parties merged to become the
Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) is the Minnesota affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party. As of 2022, it controls four of Minnesota's eight U.S. House seats, both of its U.S. Senate seats, the Minnesota House of Represen ...
(DFL)
, , Harold Hagen (R)
, April 15, 1944
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,
, ,
Will Rogers Jr. (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned May 23, 1944, to enter the
US Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
,
Joaquín Miguel Elizalde
Joaquín Miguel Elizalde y Díaz (August 2, 1896 – February 9, 1965) was a Filipino diplomat and businessman.
Personal life
Elizalde was born on August 2, 1896 in Manila, the eldest child of José Joaquín Elizalde (who was the Philippine-b ...
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 9, 1944, to become a member of the war cabinet of President
Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, (; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier and politician who served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his dea ...
,
Carlos P. Romulo
Carlos Peña Romulo Sr. (January 14, 1898 – December 15, 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at the age of 16, a newspaper editor by 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of t ...
, August 10, 1944
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,
, ,
Winder R. Harris (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 15, 1944
, ,
Ralph Hunter Daughton
Ralph Hunter Daughton (September 23, 1885 – December 22, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia from 1944 to 1947.
Early life and career
Born in Washington, D.C., Daughton attended publi ...
(D)
, November 7, 1944
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,
, ,
Robert L. F. Sikes
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (June 3, 1906September 28, 1994) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented the Florida Panhandle in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 to 1979, with a brief break in 1944 and 1945 ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned October 19, 1944, to enter the
U.S. Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer (June 23, 1875 – October 19, 1944) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 – October 19, 1944. After his death, his wi ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 19, 1944
, ,
Willa L. Fulmer (D)
, November 7, 1944
, -
,
, ,
Robert A. Green (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 25, 1944, to enter the United States Navy
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
Albert Gore Sr. (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 4, 1944, to enter the United States Army
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
John E. Fogarty
John Edward Fogarty (March 23, 1913 – January 10, 1967) was a United States Congress, Congressman from Rhode Island for 26 years. He was a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. John Edward Fogarty was influential in ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 7, 1944, to enter the United States Navy
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
Warren Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 19 ...
(D)
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, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
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William I. Troutman (R)
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, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
Committees
Senate
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Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Ellison D. Smith; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
then
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
*
Appropriations (Chairman:
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasu ...
; Ranking Member:
Gerald P. Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the Nye ...
)
*
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman:
Scott W. Lucas
Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1 ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles W. Tobey
Charles William Tobey (July 22, 1880July 24, 1953) was an American politician, who was the 62nd governor of New Hampshire from 1929 to 1931, and a United States senator.
Biography
He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of William Tobey, ...
)
*
Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Robert F. Wagner; Ranking Member:
Charles W. Tobey
Charles William Tobey (July 22, 1880July 24, 1953) was an American politician, who was the 62nd governor of New Hampshire from 1929 to 1931, and a United States senator.
Biography
He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of William Tobey, ...
)
*
Campaign Expenditures Investigation, 1944 (Special) (Chairman:
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
)
*
Centralization of Heavy Industry in the United States (Select)
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Civil Service
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
(Chairman:
Sheridan Downey
Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was an American lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.
Early life
He was born in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in western Wyoming, the son of the ...
; Ranking Member:
William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
)
*
Civil Service Laws (Special)
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Claims
Claim may refer to:
* Claim (legal)
* Claim of Right Act 1689
* Claims-based identity
* Claim (philosophy)
* Land claim
* A ''main contention'', see conclusion of law
* Patent claim
* The assertion of a proposition; see Douglas N. Walton
* A righ ...
(Chairman:
Allen J. Ellender
Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972) was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat who was originally allied ...
; Ranking Member:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
*
Commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...
(Chairman:
Josiah W. Bailey; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
)
*
District of Columbia
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, image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...
(Chairman:
Pat McCarran
Patrick Anthony McCarran (August 8, 1876 – September 28, 1954) was an American farmer, attorney, judge, and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno, Nevada, atte ...
; Ranking Member:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
*
Education and Labor (Chairman:
Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas w ...
; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
**
Wartime Health and Education
*
Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
Hattie W. Caraway; Ranking Member:
Clyde M. Reed)
*
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman:
J. Lister Hill; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Wales, Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as United States Secre ...
)
*
Finance
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...
(Chairman:
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sen ...
; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
*
Foreign Relations
A state's foreign policy or external policy (as opposed to internal or domestic policy) is its objectives and activities in relation to its interactions with other states, unions, and other political entities, whether bilaterally or through mu ...
(Chairman:
Tom Connally
Thomas Terry Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representa ...
; Ranking Member:
Hiram W. Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
)
*
Fuel Situation in the Middle West (Special)
*
Gasoline and Fuel Oil Shortages (Special)
*
Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...
(Chairman:
Richard B. Russell
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almo ...
; Ranking Member:
Hiram W. Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
)
*
Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to American Indians and Al ...
(Chairman:
Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
*
Interoceanic Canals (Chairman:
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.)
*
Interstate Commerce
The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution ( Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among ...
(Chairman:
Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882January 6, 1975) was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana, which he represented as a United States senator from 1923 until 1947.
Born in Massachusetts, Wheeler began ...
; Ranking Member:
Wallace H. White Jr.
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in the United States Congress from 1917 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
)
*
Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
John H. Bankhead II
John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.
He served in the Senate ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
then
Hiram W. Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, Investigate the National Defense Program (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Pat McCarran
Patrick Anthony McCarran (August 8, 1876 – September 28, 1954) was an American farmer, attorney, judge, and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno, Nevada, atte ...
; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
then
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in t ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
John H. Overton
John Holmes Overton Sr. (September 17, 1875 – May 14, 1948), was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Thomas Overton Brooks, was also a US representative, from the Shreveport-based 4th distri ...
; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Reynolds; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Joseph F. Guffey; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Wales, Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as United States Secre ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
David I. Walsh; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Wales, Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as United States Secre ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman: Homer T. Bone; Ranking Member: Wallace H. White)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
James M. Tunnell
James Miller Tunnell (August 2, 1879 – November 14, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
Early life and ...
; Ranking Member:
Henrik Shipstead
Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1947, from the state of Minnesota. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 and ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Resources (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
Kenneth McKellar; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Wales, Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as United States Secre ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (Special) (Chairman:
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sen ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Representa ...
; Ranking Member:
William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Francis T. Maloney, Francis Maloney; Ranking Member: W. Warren Barbour)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Carl A. Hatch; Ranking Member:
Gerald P. Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the Nye ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that becam ...
; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Vandenberg)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, Senatorial Campaign Expenditures (Special) (Chairman: Ernest W. McFarland)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Small Business Enterprises, Small Business Enterprises (Special) (Chairman:
James E. Murray
James Edward Murray (May 3, 1876March 23, 1961) was an American politician and United States Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961.
Background
Born on a f ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Millard E. Tydings; Ranking Member:
Gerald P. Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the Nye ...
)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wildlife Resources, Wildlife Resources (Special) (Chairman:
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wool Production, Wool Production (Special) (Chairman:
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (November 5, 1884December 1, 1962) was an American journalist, lawyer, and politician. A Democrat, he served four complete terms as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming on two occasions, first from 1934-1953 and then again fro ...
)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman:
John J. Cochran; Ranking Member:
James Wolfenden
James Paine Wolfenden (July 25, 1889 – April 8, 1949) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends' Central School and Penn Ch ...
)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman:
Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer (June 23, 1875 – October 19, 1944) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 – October 19, 1944. After his death, his wi ...
; Ranking Member:
Clifford R. Hope)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Clarence Cannon
Clarence Andrew Cannon (April 11, 1879 – May 12, 1964) was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri serving from 1923 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1964. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropri ...
; Ranking Member:
John Taber
John Taber (May 5, 1880 – November 22, 1965) was an American attorney and New York politician who represented parts of the Finger Lakes and Central New York regions in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1963.
Biography
T ...
)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Brent Spence
Brent Spence (December 24, 1874 – September 18, 1967), a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democratic Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky.
Spence was born in Newport, Kentucky to Philip and Virginia (Berry) ...
; Ranking Member:
Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse Paine Wolcott (March 3, 1893 – January 28, 1969) was a politician and soldier from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the comm ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen (January 5, 1891 – January 5, 1969) was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat from ...
; Ranking Member:
J. Roland Kinzer
John Roland Kinzer (March 28, 1874 – July 25, 1955) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
J. Roland Kinzer was born on a farm near Terre Hill, Pennsylvania in East Earl Township, Lancaster ...
)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
Robert Ramspeck
Robert C. Word Ramspeck (September 5, 1890 – September 10, 1972) was an American politician and businessman.
Ramspeck was born in Decatur, Georgia. As a young man he was a federal police officer. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. He woul ...
; Ranking Member:
Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Rogers (née Nourse; March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Until 2012, ...
)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Dan R. McGehee; Ranking Member:
J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican Party (United States), Re ...
)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Andrew Somers; Ranking Member:
Chauncey W. Reed
Chauncey William Reed (June 2, 1890 – February 9, 1956) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Reed was born in West Chicago, Illinois to William Thomas Reed and Margaret Reed. Reed's father held se ...
)
* United States House Select Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources, Conservation of Wildlife Resources (Select) (Chairman: A. Willis Robertson)
* United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman:
Alfred J. Elliott; Ranking Member:
Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890 – October 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician. Gearhart, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the United States House of Representatives ...
)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph (March 8, 1902May 8, 1998) was an American politician from West Virginia. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1947 and the United States Senate from 1958 to ...
; Ranking Member: Everett M. Dirksen)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman: Graham A. Barden; Ranking Member: George Anthony Dondero, George A. Dondero)
* United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman:
Eugene Worley
Francis Eugene Worley (October 10, 1908 – December 17, 1974) was a United States representative from Texas and later an United States federal judge, Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Ed ...
; Ranking Member:
Ralph A. Gamble
Ralph Abernethy Gamble (May 6, 1885 – March 4, 1959) was a Republican politician who represented Westchester County, New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1957. He was a member of the prominent Gamble family of So ...
)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman:
C. Jasper Bell; Ranking Member:
Clarence E. Hancock
Clarence Eugene Hancock (February 13, 1885 – January 3, 1948) was an American attorney and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1927 to 1947.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Hancock grad ...
)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman:
Ed Gossett
Ed Lee Gossett (January 27, 1902 – November 6, 1990) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Born in a sawmill camp known as Yellow Pine, near Many, Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Gossett moved to Texas in 1908 with his parents, who settled on a f ...
; Ranking Member:
Francis D. Culkin
Francis Dugan Culkin (November 10, 1874 – August 4, 1943) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Culkin was born in Oswego, New York on November 10, 1874, and attended school in Oswego. ...
then
Stephen A. Day
Stephen Albion Day (July 13, 1882 – January 5, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Day was born in Canton, Ohio, the son of Mary Elizabeth (Schaefer) and William R. Day, who was a diplomat and jurist. Day attended the ...
)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman:
Hugh Peterson
Hugh Peterson (August 21, 1898 – October 3, 1961) was a U.S. political figure and lawyer from the state of Georgia.
Life
Peterson was born near Ailey, Georgia in 1898 and attended the Brewton–Parker Institute in Mount Vernon, Georgia ...
; Ranking Member: Charles A. Plumley)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Arthur G. Klein; Ranking Member:
Charles Aubrey Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton (March 29, 1868January 23, 1953) was a Canadian-born American clergyman and politician who led congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901 ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman:
Carter Manasco
Carter Manasco (January 3, 1902 – February 5, 1992) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Townley, Alabama, Manasco attended the public schools and Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama Sch ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles L. Gifford
Charles Laceille Gifford (March 15, 1871 – August 23, 1947) was a United States representative from Massachusetts He was born in Cotuit on March 15, 1871. Through his father he was a descendant of Robert Pike, George Phillips, Richard Salt ...
)
* United States House Committee on Flood Control, Flood Control (Chairman: William M. Whittington; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
then
Charles R. Clason
Charles Russell Clason (September 3, 1890 – July 7, 1985) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and an attorney. Clason was born in Gardiner, Maine. He attended Bates College, and received his ...
)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman:
Sol Bloom
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles Aubrey Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton (March 29, 1868January 23, 1953) was a Canadian-born American clergyman and politician who led congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901 ...
)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman:
Samuel Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein (February 5, 1885 – April 22, 1954) was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York (22-year tenure), a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy. He played a key role in establishing the committee th ...
; Ranking Member:
Noah M. Mason
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Noah Morgan Mason (July 19, 1882 – March 29, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. A conservative Republican, he served 13 terms representing first the state's 12th congressional district and then, after a redrawing of bou ...
)
* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
James F. O'Connor
James Francis O'Connor (May 7, 1878 – January 15, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.
Biography
O'Connor was born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa, and attended grade school and normal school in Iowa. He graduated from the ...
; Ranking Member:
Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred Cramer Gilchrist (June 2, 1868 – March 10, 1950) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa, from 1931 to 1945.
Born in California, Pennsylvania, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gilchrist moved with his parents to ...
)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman:
C. Jasper Bell; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch (February 13, 1869 – September 10, 1949) was an American county clerk and politician. He sat in the United States House of Representatives for 12 terms from 1926 to 1949, serving a district in San Francisco, California. B ...
)
* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 – June 20, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Biography
Lea was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwe ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles A. Wolverton
Charles Anderson Wolverton (October 24, 1880 – May 16, 1969) was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 32 years, from 1927 to 1959.
Car ...
)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman:
Mary Teresa Norton
Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins; March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951.
She was the first woman m ...
; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch (February 13, 1869 – September 10, 1949) was an American county clerk and politician. He sat in the United States House of Representatives for 12 terms from 1926 to 1949, serving a district in San Francisco, California. B ...
)
* United States House Committee on Memorials, Memorials (Chairman:
John R. Murdock; Ranking Member:
Allen T. Treadway)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman:
S. Otis Bland
Schuyler Otis Bland (May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the College of William and Mary. He was a teacher and a lawyer in p ...
; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch (February 13, 1869 – September 10, 1949) was an American county clerk and politician. He sat in the United States House of Representatives for 12 terms from 1926 to 1949, serving a district in San Francisco, California. B ...
)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his rash disclosure of classified nav ...
; Ranking Member:
Walter G. Andrews
Walter Gresham Andrews (July 16, 1889 – March 5, 1949) was an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Andrews was born in Evanston, Illinois the son of William Henry an ...
)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman: John Lesinski Sr., John Lesinski; Ranking Member:
Robert A. Grant
Robert Allen Grant (July 31, 1905 – March 2, 1998) was a United States representative from Indiana and later a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
E ...
)
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Beyond their Scope of Authority, Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Beyond their Scope of Authority (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate the Federal Communications Commission, Investigate the Federal Communications Commission (Select) (Chairman:
Edward E. Cox
Edward Eugene "Eugene" or "Goober" Cox (April 3, 1880 – December 24, 1952) served as a U.S. representative from Georgia for nearly 28 years. A conservative Democrat who supported racial segregation and opposed President Franklin Roosevelt's " ...
)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
Compton I. White
Compton Ignatius White, Sr. (July 31, 1877 – March 31, 1956), was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Idaho Panhandle, Northern Idaho. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, he represented Idaho's 1st c ...
; Ranking Member:
Dewey Jackson Short
Dewey Jackson Short (April 7, 1898 – November 19, 1979) was an American politician from Missouri. He was US Representative for 12 terms (1929-1931, 1935-1957). A member of the Republican Party, he was a staunch opponent of President Franklin ...
)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
; Ranking Member: Ulysses S. Guyer then
Clarence E. Hancock
Clarence Eugene Hancock (February 13, 1885 – January 3, 1948) was an American attorney and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from 1927 to 1947.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Hancock grad ...
)fairs (Chairman:
Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his rash disclosure of classified nav ...
; Ranking Member:
Walter G. Andrews
Walter Gresham Andrews (July 16, 1889 – March 5, 1949) was an American politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Biography
Andrews was born in Evanston, Illinois the son of William Henry an ...
)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Joe L. Smith; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
then
John M. Robsion)
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate the Seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company, Investigate the Seizure of Montgomery Ward and Company (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
; Ranking Member: Melvin J. Maas)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
Frank W. Boykin
Frank William Boykin Sr. (February 21, 1885 – March 12, 1969) served as a Democratic Congressman in Alabama's 1st congressional district from 1935-1963. The son of sharecroppers, Boykin became the wealthiest man in Mobile, although his entrepre ...
; Ranking Member:
Fred A. Hartley Jr.
Frederick Allan Hartley Jr. (February 22, 1902 – May 11, 1969) was an American Republican politician from New Jersey. Hartley served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jer ...
)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Charles A. Buckley
Charles Anthony Buckley (June 23, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a Democratic Party politician from The Bronx, New York. An Irish-American, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bronx County Democratic Party and a member of t ...
; Ranking Member:
Fred J. Douglas
Fred James Douglas (September 14, 1869 – January 1, 1949) was a United States representative from New York. Born in Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he moved with his parents to Little Falls, New York in 1874. He attended the public ...
)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
Thomas G. Burch; Ranking Member:
Fred A. Hartley Jr.
Frederick Allan Hartley Jr. (February 22, 1902 – May 11, 1969) was an American Republican politician from New Jersey. Hartley served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jer ...
)
* United States House Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, Post-War Military Policy (Select) (Chairman:
Clifton A. Woodrum
Clifton Alexander Woodrum (April 27, 1887 – October 6, 1950) was a Virginia pharmacist, lawyer and U.S. Representative from Roanoke who was considered a Progressive Democrat for his support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Early and family ...
)
* United States House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (Special) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Pete Jarman
Peterson Bryant ″Pete″ Jarman (October 31, 1892 – February 17, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Greensboro, Alabama, Jarman attended the public schools, the Normal College, Livingston, Alabama, and Southern ...
; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Fritz G. Lanham
Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham (January 3, 1880 – July 31, 1965) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas.
Early life
Born in Weatherford, Texas, Lanham was the son of Sarah Beona (née ...
; Ranking Member:
Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr Gustaf Holmes (April 9, 1881 – December 19, 1952) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Early life
Holmes was born in Mölnbacka in Forshaga Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. In 1886, when he was 4 years old, Holm ...
)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
J. Hardin Peterson
James Hardin Peterson (February 11, 1894 – March 28, 1978) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Early life and career
Peterson was born in Batesburg, South Carolina. His family moved to Lakeland, Florida, in 1903, and he attended the publ ...
; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House Minority Whip between 1933 and 1943.
Englebright ...
)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman: Eugene J. Keogh; Ranking Member:
Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener (November 30, 1876 – July 4, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Michener had German American, German ancestry. He was born near Attica, Ohio, Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to A ...
)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman:
Joseph J. Mansfield
Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (February 9, 1861 – July 12, 1947) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Texas from 1917 to 1947.
Biography
Mansfield was born on February 9, 1861. He was born in Wayne, W ...
; Ranking Member:
Albert E. Carter
Albert Edward Carter (July 5, 1881 – August 8, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a Republican United States Representative from California from 1925 to 1945.
Early life and career
Carter was born in Lemon ...
)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman: J.W. Robinson; Ranking Member:
Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse Paine Wolcott (March 3, 1893 – January 28, 1969) was a politician and soldier from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy (Paine) Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the comm ...
)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From 19 ...
; Ranking Member:
Hamilton Fish III
Hamilton Fish III (born Hamilton Stuyvesant Fish and also known as Hamilton Fish Jr.; December 7, 1888 – January 18, 1991) was an American soldier and politician from United States Congressional Delegations from New York, New York State. Born ...
)
* United States House Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business (Select) (Chairman:
Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman (August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976) was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1 ...
; Ranking Member:
Usher L. Burdick)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
Robert A. Green; Ranking Member:
Usher L. Burdick)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman:
Edward J. Hart
Edward Joseph Hart (March 25, 1893, Jersey City, New Jersey – April 20, 1961, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 14th congressional district in the United Sta ...
; Ranking Member: Clare E. Hoffman)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman:
Robert L. Doughton; Ranking Member:
Allen T. Treadway)
* United States House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman:
John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley A ...
; Ranking Member:
Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Rogers (née Nourse; March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Until 2012, ...
)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Committee to Commemorate the Centennial of the Telegraph, Commemorate the Centennial of the Telegraph
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen.
Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that becam ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep.
Robert L. Doughton)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Organization of Congress, Organization of Congress
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: Sen.
Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Representa ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep.
Pete Jarman
Peterson Bryant ″Pete″ Jarman (October 31, 1892 – February 17, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Greensboro, Alabama, Jarman attended the public schools, the Normal College, Livingston, Alabama, and Southern ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Selective Service Deferments, Selective Service Deferments
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Chairman: Sen.
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sen ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep.
Robert L. Doughton)
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (architect), David Lynn
* Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
* Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren
* Librarian of Congress: Archibald MacLeish, until 1944
* Public Printer of the United States: Augustus E. Giegengack
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
* Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins (Senate Parliamentarian), Charles Watkins
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Ruskin McArdle
* Secretary for the Majority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Majority: Leslie Biffle
* Secretary for the Minority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Minority: Carl A. Loeffler
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Chesley W. Jurney, until January 31, 1943
** Wall Doxey, from February 1, 1943
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist)
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: South Trimble
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott, until January 27, 1943
** Ralph R. Roberts (politician), Ralph R. Roberts, from February 5, 1943
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: George J. Maurer (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
See also
* United States elections, 1942 (elections leading to this Congress)
** United States Senate elections, 1942
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1942
* United States elections, 1944 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** 1944 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1944
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1944
Notes
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