The 89th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the
United States federal government
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, composed of the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
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. It met in
Washington, DC
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from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1967, during the second and third years of
Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
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was based on the
Eighteenth Census of the United States in 1960.
Both chambers had a
Democratic supermajority
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, and with the election of
President
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*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
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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 ...
to his own term in office, maintained an overall federal government
trifecta
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.
The 89th Congress is regarded as "arguably the most productive in American history".
Some of its landmark legislation includes
Social Security Amendments of 1965
The Social Security Amendments of 1965, , was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs: Medicare and Medicaid. The legislation initially provided federal health insurance for the elder ...
(the creation of
Medicare and
Medicaid
Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with healthcare costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, including nursing home care and pers ...
), the
Voting Rights Act
The suffrage, Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of Federal government of the United States, federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President of the United ...
,
Higher Education Act,
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The l ...
,
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-re ...
and the
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* ...
.
Major events
* January 4, 1965: President Johnson proclaimed his "Great Society" during his
State of the Union Address
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.
* January 20, 1965: Inauguration of President
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 ...
for a full term.
* November 8, 1966:
United States elections, 1966
The 1966 United States elections were held on November 8, 1966, and elected the members of the 90th United States Congress. The election was held in the middle of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson's second (only full) term, and during the ...
, including:
**
United States Senate elections, 1966
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**
United States House of Representatives elections, 1966
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Major legislation
* April 11, 1965:
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-re ...
,
* July 27, 1965:
Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act,
* July 30, 1965:
Social Security Act of 1965
The Social Security Amendments of 1965, , was legislation in the United States whose most important provisions resulted in creation of two programs: Medicare and Medicaid. The legislation initially provided federal health insurance for the elde ...
, (including
Medicaid
Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with healthcare costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, including nursing home care and pers ...
and
Medicare)
* August 6, 1965:
Voting Rights Act
The suffrage, Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of Federal government of the United States, federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President of the United ...
,
* August 10, 1965:
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (, ) is a major revision to federal housing policy in the United States which instituted several major expansions in federal housing programs.
The United States Congress passed and President Lyndon B. ...
,
* August 26, 1965:
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 The Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (Pub.L. 89−136, 79 Stat. 552) established the Economic Development Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce
The United States Department of Commerce is an executive department of ...
,
* September 9, 1965
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It administers federal housing and urban development laws. It is headed by the Secretary of Housing and Urb ...
Act, ,
* September 29, 1965:
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act,
* October 3, 1965:
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
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, (Hart-Celler Act, INS Act)
* October 6, 1965:
Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments,
* October 20, 1965:
Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act
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, (including
Solid Waste Disposal Act
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)
* October 22, 1965:
Highway Beautification Act
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,
* November 8, 1965:
Higher Education Act,
* November 8, 1965:
Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments
* August 26, 1966:
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act Now called the Animal Welfare Act
* April 13, 1966:
Uniform Time Act
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,
* July 13, 1966:
Cotton Research and Promotion Act
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,
* September 6, 1966: , which (among other things) enacted what is now called the
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* ...
* September 9, 1966:
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act,
* September 9, 1966:
Highway Safety Act
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,
* October 15, 1966:
National Historic Preservation Act
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,
* October 15, 1966:
National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966,
* October 15, 1966:
Department of Transportation Act,
* November 2, 1966:
Cuban Adjustment Act
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,
* November 3, 1966:
Comprehensive Health, Planning and Service Act,
Constitutional amendments
* July 6, 1965: Approved an amendment to the
United States Constitution
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addressing succession to the
presidency
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and establishing procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the
vice president
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, and for responding to presidential disabilities, and submitted it to the
state legislatures for
ratification
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** Amendment was later ratified on February 10, 1967, becoming the
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution
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It clarifies that the Vice President of the United States, vice president becomes Pr ...
Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President
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:
Hubert Humphrey
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(D), starting January 20, 1965
*
President pro tempore
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:
Carl Hayden
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(D)
*
Permanent Acting President pro tempore:
Lee Metcalf
Lee Warren Metcalf (January 28, 1911 – January 12, 1978) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1953–1961) and a U.S. Senator (1961–1978) from Montana. He was th ...
(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Democratic Conference Chairman:
Mike Mansfield
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*
Majority Whip
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:
Russell B. Long
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*
Caucus Secretary:
George Smathers
George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate from 1951 until 1969 and in the United States House from 1947 to 1951, as ...
Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Everett Dirksen
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*
Minority Whip
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:
Thomas Kuchel
Thomas Henry Kuchel ( ; August 15, 1910 – November 21, 1994)
was an American politician. A moderate Republican, he served as a US Senator from California from 1953 to 1969 and was the minority whip in the Senate, where he was the co-manage ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman
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:
Leverett Saltonstall
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*
Republican Conference Secretary:
Milton Young
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*
National Senatorial Committee Chair:
Thruston Ballard Morton
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Early life
Morton was born on August 19, 1907, ...
*
Policy Committee Chairman:
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
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** I ...
:
John W. McCormack
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(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Carl Albert
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*
Majority Whip
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:
Hale Boggs
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*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Eugene James Keogh
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
Leonor Sullivan
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (August 21, 1902 – September 1, 1988) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. She was a Democrat and the first woman in Congress from Missouri.
Biography
Born Leonor Kretzer in St. Lou ...
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Michael J. Kirwan
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Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Gerald Ford
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*
Minority Whip
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:
Leslie C. Arends
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A native and lifelong resident of Melvin, Illinois, Arends attend ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman
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:
Melvin Laird
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*
Policy Committee Chairman:
John Jacob Rhodes
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
Bob Wilson
Caucuses
*
House Democratic Caucus
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*
Senate Democratic Caucus
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Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and representatives are listed by district.
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 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1970; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1966; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1968.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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: 3.
J. Lister Hill (D)
: 2.
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 St ...
(D)
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...
: 2.
Bob Bartlett
Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 – December 11, 1968), was an Alaska politician and a member of the Democratic Party.
A key fighter for Alaska statehood, Bartlett served as the Secretary of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1945, ...
(D)
: 3.
Ernest Gruening
Ernest Henry Gruening ( ; February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Gruening was the governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from A ...
(D)
Arizona
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: 3.
Carl Hayden
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(D)
: 1.
Paul Fannin
Paul Jones Fannin (January 29, 1907January 13, 2002) was an American businessman and politician. A Republican, he served as a U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1965 to 1977. He previously served as the 11th governor of Arizona from 1959 to 1965.
Ea ...
(R)
Arkansas
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: 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.
J. William Fulbright
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(D)
California
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: 3.
Thomas Kuchel
Thomas Henry Kuchel ( ; August 15, 1910 – November 21, 1994)
was an American politician. A moderate Republican, he served as a US Senator from California from 1953 to 1969 and was the minority whip in the Senate, where he was the co-manage ...
(R)
: 1.
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy (July 4, 1902 – May 3, 1992) was an American dancer, actor, and politician. Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952. He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild fro ...
(R)
Colorado
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: 2.
Gordon Allott
Gordon Llewellyn Allott (January 2, 1907January 17, 1989) was a Republican American politician.
Allott was born in Pueblo, Colorado to Bertha (née Llewellyn) and Leonard J. Allott; his maternal grandparents were Welsh and his paternal grandpar ...
(R)
: 3.
Peter H. Dominick
Peter Hoyt Dominick (July 7, 1915 – March 18, 1981) was an American diplomat, politician and lawyer from Colorado. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1963 to 1975. His uncle, Howard Alexander Smith, wa ...
(R)
Connecticut
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: 1.
Thomas J. Dodd
Thomas Joseph Dodd (May 15, 1907 – May 24, 1971) was an American attorney and diplomat who served as a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut. He is the father of former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Thomas J. Dodd Jr., ...
(D)
: 3.
Abraham Ribicoff
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(D)
Delaware
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: 1.
John J. Williams (R)
: 2.
J. Caleb Boggs
James Caleb Boggs (May 15, 1909 – March 26, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont in New Castle County, Delaware. A member of the Republican Party, he was commonly known by his middle name, Caleb, frequently shortened ...
(R)
Florida
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: 1.
Spessard Holland
Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892 – November 6, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 28th Governor of Florida from 1941 to 1945, and later as a US senator for Florida from 1946 to 1971. He would be the first pers ...
(D)
: 3.
George Smathers
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(D)
Georgia
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* 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.
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(D)
: 3.
Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge (August 9, 1913 – March 21, 2002) was an American politician who served as governor of Georgia in 1947 and from 1948 to 1955 and as a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1957 to 1981. Talmadge, a Democrat, served during a tim ...
(D)
Hawaii
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: 1.
Hiram Fong
Hiram Leong Fong (born Yau Leong Fong; October 15, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician from Hawaii. Born to a sugar plantation Cantonese immigrant worker, Fong became the first Chinese-American and first ...
(R)
: 3.
Daniel Inouye
Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. representative f ...
(D)
Idaho
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: 3.
Frank Church
Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an Americans, American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Idah ...
(D)
: 2.
Leonard B. Jordan
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Early life and education
Born ...
(R)
Illinois
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: 2.
Paul Douglas
Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senat ...
(D)
: 3.
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 ...
(R)
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.
Vance Hartke (D)
: 3.
Birch Bayh
Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (; January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the India ...
(D)
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 ...
: 3.
Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)
: 2.
Jack Miller Jack Miller may refer to:
Military
* Jack Miller (USMC officer) (1920–1942), American marine soldier
* Jack Duppa-Miller (1903–1994), British recipient of the George Cross in World War II, originally called Jack Miller
* USS ''Jack Miller'', ...
(R)
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 ...
: 3.
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 ...
(R)
: 2.
James B. Pearson
James Blackwood Pearson (May 7, 1920January 13, 2009) was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1962 to 1978.
Biography
James Pearson was born in 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Methodist minister. With his parents, he moved to Vi ...
(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.
John Sherman Cooper
John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elect ...
(R)
: 3.
Thruston Ballard Morton
Thruston Ballard Morton (August 19, 1907 – August 14, 1982) was an American politician. A Republican, Morton represented Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Early life
Morton was born on August 19, 1907, ...
(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 ...
: 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.
Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Because of his seniority, he advanced to chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, servin ...
(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 ...
: 2.
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 ...
(R)
: 1.
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 6 ...
(D)
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 ...
: 3.
Daniel Brewster (D)
: 1.
Joseph Tydings
Joseph Davies Tydings (né Cheesborough; May 4, 1928 – October 8, 2018) was an American lawyer and politician. He was most notable for his service as a Democratic member of the United States Senate representing Maryland from 1965 to 1971.
Bo ...
(D)
: 2.
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)
: 1.
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...
(D)
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 ...
: 2.
Patrick V. McNamara (D), until April 30, 1966
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Robert P. Griffin
Robert Paul Griffin (November 6, 1923 – April 16, 2015) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the M ...
(R), from May 11, 1966
: 1.
Philip Hart
Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912December 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington, D.C. in 1976. He was known as t ...
(D)
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.
Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916December 10, 2005) was an American politician, writer, and academic from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. ...
(DFL)
: 2.
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota ...
(DFL)
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 ...
: 2.
James Eastland (D)
: 1.
John C. Stennis (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.
Stuart Symington
William Stuart Symington III (; June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a United States Senator from M ...
(D)
: 3.
Edward V. Long
Edward Vaughn Long (July 18, 1908November 6, 1972) was a United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the United States Democratic Party, Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1960 until 1968. One of his most notable ...
(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.
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 ...
(D)
: 2.
Lee Metcalf
Lee Warren Metcalf (January 28, 1911 – January 12, 1978) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1953–1961) and a U.S. Senator (1961–1978) from Montana. He was th ...
(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.
Roman Hruska
Roman Lee Hruska () (August 16, 1904April 25, 1999) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from the state of Nebraska. Hruska was known as one of the most vocal conservatives in the Senate during the 1960 ...
(R)
: 2.
Carl Curtis (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 ...
: 3.
Alan Bible
Alan Harvey Bible (November 20, 1909 – September 12, 1988) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1954 to 1974. He previously served as Attorney General ...
(D)
: 1.
Howard Cannon
Howard Walter Cannon (January 26, 1912 – March 5, 2002) was an American politician from Nevada. Elected to the first of four consecutive terms in 1958, he served in the United States Senate from 1959 to 1983. He was a member of the Democratic ...
(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 ...
: 3.
Norris Cotton
Norris Henry Cotton (May 11, 1900 – February 24, 1989) was an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative and subsequently as a U.S. Senator.
Early life
Cotton was ...
(R)
: 2.
Thomas J. McIntyre (D)
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 ...
: 2.
Clifford P. Case (R)
: 1.
Harrison A. Williams
Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. (December 10, 1919November 17, 2001) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Sena ...
(D)
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 ...
: 2.
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 ...
(D)
: 1.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Manuel Montoya (September 24, 1915June 5, 1978) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1947–1951 and 1955–1957), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1957 ...
(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
* '' ...
: 3.
Jacob Javits
Jacob Koppel Javits ( ; May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. During his time in politics, he represented the state of New York in both houses of the United States Congress. A member of the Republican Party, he al ...
(R)
: 1.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, ...
(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 ...
: 3.
Sam Ervin
Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896April 23, 1985) was an American politician. A Southern Democrats, Democrat, he served as a United States Senate, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, North Carolina, ...
(D)
: 2.
B. Everett Jordan (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 ...
: 3.
Milton Young
Milton Ruben Young (December 6, 1897 – May 31, 1983) was an American politician, most notable for representing North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1945 until 1981. At the time of his retirement, he was the most senior Republican in the ...
(R)
: 1.
Quentin Burdick
Quentin Northrup Burdick (June 19, 1908 – September 8, 1992) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, he represented North Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives (1959–1960) and the U.S ...
(D-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 ...
: 3.
Frank Lausche
Frank John Lausche (; November 14, 1895 – April 21, 1990) was an American Democratic politician from Ohio. He served as the 47th mayor of Cleveland and the 55th and 57th governor of Ohio, and also served as a United States Senator from Ohio ...
(D)
: 1.
Stephen M. Young (D)
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 ...
: 3.
Mike Monroney
Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney (March 2, 1902February 13, 1980) was an American politician who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Oklahoma from 1951 to 1969, and previously as the United States House of Representatives, ...
(D)
: 2.
Fred R. Harris
Fred Roy Harris (born November 13, 1930) is an American academic, author, and former politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States Senate from Oklahoma.
Born in Walters, Oklahoma, Harris was elected to the Oklahoma Senate ...
(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 ...
: 3.
Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing his party's leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.
...
(D)
: 2.
Maurine Neuberger
Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, best known as Maurine Neuberger (née Brown; January 9, 1907February 22, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the fo ...
(D)
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, ...
: 3.
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (October 21, 1901January 12, 1990) was an American writer, lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvan ...
(D)
: 1.
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 ...
(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.
John Pastore
John Orlando Pastore (March 17, 1907July 15, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1950 to 1976 and as the 61st governor of Rhode Island from 19 ...
(D)
: 2.
Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was an American politician and writer who served as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island for six terms from 1961 to 1997. He was the sponsor of the 1972 bill that reformed the Basic ...
(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 = ...
: 3.
Olin D. Johnston (D), until April 18, 1965
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Donald S. Russell
Donald Stuart Russell (February 22, 1906 – February 22, 1998) was an American attorney from South Carolina who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, President of the University of South Carolina, governor of South Car ...
(D), from April 22, 1965 – November 8, 1966
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Fritz Hollings
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (January 1, 1922April 6, 2019) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005. A conservative Democrat, he was also the 106th governor of South Carolina, ...
(D), from November 9, 1966
: 2.
Strom Thurmond (R)
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.
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 ...
(R)
: 3.
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 pres ...
(D)
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.
Albert Gore Sr. (D)
: 2.
Ross Bass
Ross Bass (March 17, 1918January 1, 1993) was an American Congressman and United States Senator from Tennessee.
Background
Bass was the son of a circuit-riding Methodist minister in rural Giles County, attended the local public schools, and ...
(D), until January 2, 1967
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.
Ralph Yarborough
Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 – January 27, 1996) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his p ...
(D)
: 2.
John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician, serving as a Republican United States Senator from Texas from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower ...
(R)
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 ...
: 3.
Wallace F. Bennett (R)
: 1.
Frank Moss
Frank Edward "Ted" Moss (September 23, 1911 – January 29, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Utah from 1959 to 1977.
Early life and education
Frank Moss was born in Holladay ...
(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 ...
: 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)
: 1.
Winston L. Prouty (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 in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. ...
(D), until November 10, 1965
::
Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harr ...
(D), from November 12, 1965
: 2.
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. Senat ...
(D), until December 30, 1966
::
William B. Spong Jr.
William Belser Spong Jr. (September 29, 1920October 8, 1997) was an American Democratic Party politician and a United States Senator who represented the state of Virginia from 1966 to 1973.
Biography Early life and education
Spong was born in P ...
(D), from December 31, 1966
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 o ...
: 3.
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 1 ...
(D)
: 1.
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 a ...
(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 ...
: 2.
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)
: 1.
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was an American politician and musician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A ...
(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 ...
: 1.
William Proxmire
Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. He holds the record for being the longest-serv ...
(D)
: 3.
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916July 3, 2005) was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States senator and governor. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the founder of Earth Day, which launch ...
(D)
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.
Gale W. McGee
Gale William McGee (March 17, 1915April 9, 1992) was a United States Senate, United States Senator of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, and United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). He represente ...
(D)
: 2.
Milward Simpson
Milward Lee Simpson (November 12, 1897June 11, 1993) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator and as the 23rd Governor of Wyoming, the first born in the state. In 1985, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the Nati ...
(R)
House of Representatives
Names of members 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 ...
: .
Jack Edwards (R)
: .
William Louis Dickinson
William Louis "Bill" Dickinson (June 5, 1925 – March 31, 2008), was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Dickinson served in the United States House of Representatives for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 1965 to ...
(R)
: .
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)
: .
Glenn Andrews
Arthur Glenn Andrews (January 15, 1909 – September 25, 2008) was an American politician and a United States representative from Alabama.
Biography
Andrews was born in Anniston in Calhoun County in North Alabama, a son of Roger Lee Andrews an ...
(R)
: .
Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D)
: .
John Hall Buchanan Jr. (R)
: .
James D. Martin
James Douglas Martin (September 1, 1918 – October 30, 2017) was an American politician.
Martin was born in Tarrant, Alabama. He served as a member for the 7th district of Alabama of the United States House of Representatives
The U ...
(R)
: .
Robert E. Jones Jr.
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. (June 12, 1912 – June 4, 1997) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Alabama's 8th congressional district, 8th district of Alabama. He was the last to represent that district before it was r ...
(D)
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...
: .
Ralph Julian Rivers
Ralph Julian Rivers (May 23, 1903 – August 14, 1976) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician who served as the first United States Representative from Alaska, serving from statehood in 1959 to his resi ...
(D), until December 30, 1966
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 Jacob Rhodes (R)
: .
Mo Udall
Morris King "Mo" Udall (June 15, 1922 – December 12, 1998) was an American attorney and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961, to May 4, 1991. He was a leading contender for the 1976 Democ ...
(D)
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George F. Senner Jr.
George Frederick Senner Jr. (November 24, 1921 – October 6, 2007) was an American Democratic politician from Arizona.
Biography
Senner was born in Miami, Arizona. He graduated from Miami High School, where he played football and was presiden ...
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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 ...
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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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James William Trimble
James William Trimble (February 3, 1894 – March 10, 1972) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas, having served from 1945 to 1967. He was the first Democrat in Arkansas since Reconstruction to los ...
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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), until February 3, 1966
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David Pryor
David Hampton Pryor (born August 29, 1934) is an American politician and former Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Pryor also served as the 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 a ...
(D), from November 8, 1966
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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Donald H. Clausen
Donald Holst "Don" Clausen (April 27, 1923 – February 7, 2015) was an American businessman, World War II veteran, and politician who served ten terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1983.
Biography
Born in Ferndale, Cali ...
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Harold T. Johnson (D)
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John E. Moss (D)
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Robert L. Leggett
Robert Louis Leggett (July 26, 1926 – August 13, 1997) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1979.
Early life
Born in Richmond, California, Leggett attended the pu ...
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Phillip Burton
Phillip Burton (June 1, 1926 – April 10, 1983) was an American politician and attorney who served as a United States representative from California from 1964 until his death in 1983. A Democrat, he was instrumental in creating the Golden Gate ...
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William S. Mailliard (R)
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Jeffery Cohelan
Jeffery Cohelan (June 24, 1914 – February 15, 1999) was an American politician who served six terms as a United States representative from California from 1959 to 1971.
Biography
He was born in San Francisco, California and attended the public ...
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George P. Miller
George Paul Miller (January 15, 1891 – December 29, 1982) was an American veteran of World War I who served 14 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1945 to 1973.
Early life
George Paul Miller was born in San Francisco, Califo ...
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Don Edwards
William Donlon Edwards (January 6, 1915 – October 1, 2015) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California for 32 years in the late 20th century.
Early life
Edwar ...
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Charles Gubser (R)
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J. Arthur Younger (R)
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Burt Talcott
Burt Lacklen Talcott (February 22, 1920 – July 29, 2016) was an American World War II veteran and politician who served seven terms as a member of the United States Congress from the State of California from 1963 to 1977.
Military career
Born i ...
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Charles M. Teague (R)
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John F. Baldwin Jr. (R), until March 9, 1966
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Jerome Waldie (D), from June 7, 1966
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John J. McFall (D)
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B. F. Sisk (D)
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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 ...
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Harlan Hagen (D)
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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 ...
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H. Allen Smith (R)
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Augustus Hawkins
Augustus Freeman Hawkins (August 31, 1907 – November 10, 2007) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served in the California State Assembly from 1935 to 1963 and the U.S. House Of Representatives from 1963 to 1991. Over the ...
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James C. Corman
James Charles Corman (October 20, 1920 – December 30, 2000) was an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1957 to 1961 and as a member of the United States House of Representatives between 1961 and 1981. ...
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Del M. Clawson
Delwin Morgan Clawson (January 11, 1914 – May 5, 1992) was an American politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also served as mayor of Compton, California.
Clawson was born in Thatcher, Arizona and attended Gila ...
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Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)
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Ronald B. Cameron
Ronald Brooks Cameron (August 16, 1927 – February 1, 2006) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from California's 25th congressional district from 1963 to 1 ...
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James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt II (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician. The eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, he served as an official Secret ...
(D), until September 30, 1965
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Thomas M. Rees
Thomas Mankell "Tom" Rees (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1966 to 1977.
Early life and career
Born in Los Angeles, California, R ...
(D), from December 15, 1965
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Edwin Reinecke
Howard Edwin "Ed" Reinecke (January 7, 1924 – December 24, 2016) was an American politician from California. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives. He was the 39th state lieutenant governor from 1969 until his ...
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Alphonzo E. Bell Jr.
Alphonzo Edward Bell, Jr. (September 19, 1914 – April 25, 2004), was a Republican United States Representative from California. Bell represented Malibu and the influential Westside region of Los Angeles for eight terms, from 1961–1977.
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George Brown Jr.
George Edward Brown Jr. (March 6, 1920 – July 15, 1999) was an American Democratic politician from California. He represented suburban portions of Los Angeles County in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and parts of ...
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Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross Roybal (February 10, 1916 – October 24, 2005) was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.
Biography
Roybal was born on February 10, 1916, into a Me ...
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Charles H. Wilson (D)
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Craig Hosmer
Chester Craig Hosmer (May 6, 1915 – October 11, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States representative from California from 1953 to 1974.
Early life and career
Hosmer was born in Brea, California, in Orange ...
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Kenneth W. Dyal
Kenneth Warren Dyal (July 9, 1910 – May 12, 1978) was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1965 to 1967.
Biography
Born in Bisbee, Arizona, Dyal attended the public schools of San Bernardin ...
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Richard T. Hanna (D)
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James B. Utt (R)
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Bob Wilson (R)
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Lionel Van Deerlin
Lionel Van Deerlin (July 25, 1914 – May 17, 2008) was an American journalist and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic United States Representative from California from 1963 to 1981, representing a San Diego area district.
Biograph ...
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John V. Tunney (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 ...
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Byron G. Rogers
Byron Giles Rogers (August 1, 1900 – December 31, 1983) was an American politician from Colorado.
Early life
Rogers was the son of Peter and Minnie May Rogers. Born in Greenville, Texas, he moved with his parents to Oklahoma in April 1902. H ...
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Roy H. McVicker (D)
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Frank Evans (D)
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Wayne N. Aspinall (D)
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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Emilio Q. Daddario
Emilio Quincy Daddario (September 24, 1918 – July 7, 2010) was an Americans, American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Connecticut. He served as a member of the 86th United States Congress, 86th through 91st Unite ...
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William St. Onge
William Leon St. Onge (October 9, 1914 – May 1, 1970) was a United States Representative from Connecticut.
Career
He was born in Putnam, Windham County, Connecticut, and attended the secondary schools of Putnam. He graduated from Tufts Uni ...
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Robert Giaimo
Robert Nicholas Giaimo (October 15, 1919 – May 24, 2006) was a Democratic US Representative from Connecticut. He co-sponsored the legislation creating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He help ...
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Donald J. Irwin
Donald Jay Irwin (September 7, 1926 – July 7, 2013) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th district, Connecticut State Treasurer and mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
Early life and family
He was ...
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John S. Monagan (D)
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Bernard F. Grabowski (D)
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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Harris McDowell
Harris Brown McDowell Jr. (February 10, 1906 – November 24, 1988) was an American farmer and politician from Middletown in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly ...
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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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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 19 ...
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Charles E. Bennett (D)
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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 Mi ...
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Dante Fascell
Dante Bruno Fascell (March 9, 1917 – November 28, 1998) was an American politician who represented Florida as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1993. He served as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committe ...
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Syd Herlong
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. (February 14, 1909 – December 27, 1995) was an American lawyer and politician from Florida who served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Pa ...
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Paul Rogers (D)
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James A. Haley
James Andrew Haley (January 4, 1899 – August 6, 1981) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Florida.
Born in Jacksonville, Alabama, Jacksonville, Alabama, Haley attended the public schools and the Univer ...
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Donald Ray Matthews
Donald Ray "Billy" Matthews (October 3, 1907 – October 26, 1997) was a U.S. Representative from Florida from 1953 to 1967.
Life and career
Born in Micanopy, Florida, Matthews attended the public schools of Hawthorne, Florida.
He graduated ...
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Don Fuqua
John Donald Fuqua (born August 20, 1933) is a former U.S. Democratic politician.
Early years and Education
Don Fuqua was born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida in 1933. Fuqua attended the University of Florida at Gainesville from 1951 t ...
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Sam Gibbons
Sam Melville Gibbons (January 20, 1920 – October 10, 2012) was an American politician from the U.S. state, state of Florida, who served in the Florida State House of Representatives, Florida State Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives. ...
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Edward Gurney
Edward John Gurney Jr. (January 12, 1914 – May 14, 1996) was an attorney and an American politician based in Florida, where he served as a Representative and a United States Senator. Born and reared in Portland, Maine, Gurney moved to Flo ...
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William C. Cramer
William Cato Cramer Sr. (August 4, 1922 – October 18, 2003), was an American attorney and politician, elected in 1954 as a member of the United States House of Representatives from St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the first Florida Republican e ...
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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 ...
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George Elliott Hagan
George Elliott Hagan (May 24, 1916 – December 26, 1990) was an American politician, businessman and farmer and a Democrat.
Early years and education
Hagan was born in Sylvania, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia in Athens.
Polit ...
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Maston E. O'Neal Jr.
Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. (July 19, 1907 – January 9, 1990) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Biography
Born in Bainbridge, Georgia, O'Neal attended the public schools and Marion Military Institute. He graduated from Davidson Colle ...
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Bo Callaway
Howard Hollis Callaway (April 2, 1927 – March 15, 2014) was an American businessman and politician. He served as a Republican member for the 3rd district of Georgia of the United States House of Representatives. He also served as the 11th U ...
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James MacKay (D)
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Charles L. Weltner (D)
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John Flynt (D)
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John William Davis (D)
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J. Russell Tuten (D)
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Phillip M. Landrum (D)
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Robert Grier Stephens Jr.
Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (August 14, 1913 – February 20, 2003) was a United States representative from Georgia.
Stephens was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a great-great nephew of Alexander Stephens, a grandson of Clement Anselm Evans an ...
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Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
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Spark Matsunaga
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga ( ja, 松永 正幸, October 8, 1916April 15, 1990) was an American politician and attorney who served as United States Senator for Hawaii from 1977 until his death in 1990. Matsunaga also represented Hawaii in the U.S. ...
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Patsy Mink
Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third-generation Japanese American, having been born and raised on the island of Maui. ...
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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 Jr. (D)
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George V. Hansen
George Vernon Hansen (September 14, 1930 – August 14, 2014) was a United States Republican Party, Republican politics, politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. He served in the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representative ...
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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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William L. Dawson (D)
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Barratt O'Hara
Barratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was an American Democratic politician serving as a U.S. Congressman from Illinois and lieutenant governor of Illinois. He was the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve ...
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William T. Murphy (D)
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Ed Derwinski
Edward Joseph Derwinski (September 15, 1926 – January 15, 2012) was an American politician who served as the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. W. Bush from March 15, 1989 to Septe ...
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John C. Kluczynski (D)
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Daniel J. Ronan (D)
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Frank Annunzio
Frank Annunzio (January 12, 1915 – April 8, 2001) was an American politician from Chicago, Illinois.
Annunzio, an Italian-American, was born in Chicago, where he remained for his entire childhood and much of his adult life. He attended Cra ...
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Dan Rostenkowski
Daniel David Rostenkowski (January 2, 1928 – August 11, 2010) was a United States Representative from Chicago, serving for 36 years, from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Congress, especially in matters of ta ...
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: . Sidney R. Yates (D)
: . Harold R. Collier (R)
: . Roman Pucinski (D)
: . Robert McClory (R)
: . Donald Rumsfeld (R)
: . John N. Erlenborn (R)
: . Charlotte Thompson Reid (R)
: . John B. Anderson (R)
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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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: . Robert H. Michel (R)
: . Gale Schisler (D)
: . Paul Findley (R)
: . Kenneth J. Gray (D)
: . William L. Springer (R)
: . George E. Shipley (D)
: . Melvin Price (D)
List of United States representatives from Indiana, Indiana
: . Ray Madden (D)
: . Charles A. Halleck (R)
: . John Brademas (D)
: . E. Ross Adair (R)
: . J. Edward Roush (D)
: . Richard L. Roudebush (R)
: . William G. Bray (R)
: . Winfield K. Denton (D), until December 30, 1966
: . Lee H. Hamilton (D)
: . Ralph Harvey (R), until December 30, 1966
: . Andrew Jacobs Jr. (D)
List of United States representatives from Iowa, Iowa
: . John R. Schmidhauser (D)
: . John Culver (D)
: . H. R. Gross (R)
: . Bert Bandstra (D)
: . Neal Edward Smith (D)
: . Stanley L. Greigg (D)
: . John R. Hansen (D)
List of United States representatives from Kansas, Kansas
: . Bob Dole (R)
: . Chester L. Mize (R)
: . Robert Ellsworth (R)
: . Garner E. Shriver (R)
: . Joe Skubitz (R)
List of United States representatives from Kentucky, Kentucky
: . Frank Stubblefield (D)
: . William Natcher (D)
: . Charles R. Farnsley (D)
: . Frank Chelf (D)
: . Tim Lee Carter (R)
: . John C. Watts (D)
: . Carl D. Perkins (D)
List of United States representatives from Louisiana, Louisiana
: . F. Edward Hébert (D)
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Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972; declared dead December 29, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House ma ...
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: . Edwin E. Willis (D)
: . Joe Waggonner (D)
: . Otto Passman (D)
: . James H. Morrison (D)
: . T. Ashton Thompson (D), until July 1, 1965
:: Edwin Edwards (D), from October 2, 1965
: . Speedy Long (D)
List of United States representatives from Maine, Maine
: . Stanley R. Tupper (R)
: . William Hathaway (D)
List of United States representatives from Maryland, Maryland
: . Carlton R. Sickles (D)
: . Rogers Morton (R)
: . Clarence Long (D)
: . Edward Garmatz (D)
: . George Hyde Fallon (D)
: . Hervey Machen (D)
: . Charles Mathias (R)
: . Samuel Friedel (D)
List of United States representatives from Massachusetts, Massachusetts
: . Silvio O. Conte (R)
: . Edward Boland (D)
: . Philip J. Philbin (D)
: . Harold Donohue (D)
: . F. Bradford Morse (R)
: . William H. Bates (R)
: . Torbert Macdonald (D)
: . Tip O'Neill (D)
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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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: . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)
: . James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician), James A. Burke (D)
: . Hastings Keith (R)
List of United States representatives from Michigan, Michigan
: . John Conyers (D)
: . Weston E. Vivian (D)
: . Paul H. Todd Jr. (D)
: . J. Edward Hutchinson (R)
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
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: . Charles E. Chamberlain (R)
: . John C. Mackie (D)
: . R. James Harvey (R)
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Robert P. Griffin
Robert Paul Griffin (November 6, 1923 – April 16, 2015) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the M ...
(R), until May 10, 1966
:: Guy Vander Jagt (R), from November 8, 1966
: . Elford Albin Cederberg (R)
: . Raymond F. Clevenger (D)
: . James G. O'Hara (D)
: . Charles Diggs (D)
: . Lucien Nedzi (D)
: . William D. Ford (D)
: . John Dingell (D)
: . Martha Griffiths (D)
: . William Broomfield (R)
: . Billie S. Farnum (D)
List of United States representatives from Minnesota, Minnesota
: . Al Quie (R)
: . Ancher Nelsen (R)
: . Clark MacGregor (R)
: . Joseph Karth (DFL)
: . Donald M. Fraser (DFL)
: . Alec G. Olson (DFL)
: . Odin Langen (R)
: . John Blatnik (DFL)
List of United States representatives from Mississippi, Mississippi
: . Thomas Abernethy (politician), Thomas Abernethy (D)
: . Jamie Whitten (D)
: . John Bell Williams (D)
: . Prentiss Walker (R)
: . William M. Colmer (D)
List of United States representatives from Missouri, Missouri
: . Frank M. Karsten (D)
: . Thomas B. Curtis (R)
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Leonor Sullivan
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (August 21, 1902 – September 1, 1988) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri. She was a Democrat and the first woman in Congress from Missouri.
Biography
Born Leonor Kretzer in St. Lou ...
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: . William J. Randall (D)
: . Richard Walker Bolling (D)
: . William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D)
: . Durward Gorham Hall (R)
: . Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D)
: . William L. Hungate (D)
: . Paul C. Jones (D)
List of United States representatives from Montana, Montana
: . Arnold Olsen (D)
: . James F. Battin (R)
List of United States representatives from Nebraska, Nebraska
: . Clair Armstrong Callan (D)
: . Glenn Cunningham (Nebraska politician), Glenn Cunningham (R)
: . David Martin (Nebraska politician), David Martin (R)
List of United States representatives from Nevada, Nevada
: . Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)
List of United States representatives from New Hampshire, New Hampshire
: . Joseph Oliva Huot (D)
: . James Colgate Cleveland (R)
List of United States representatives from New Jersey, New Jersey
: . William T. Cahill (R)
: . Thomas C. McGrath Jr. (D)
: . James J. Howard (D)
: . Frank Thompson (D)
: . Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)
: . Florence P. Dwyer (R)
: . William B. Widnall (R)
: . Charles Samuel Joelson (D)
: . Henry Helstoski (D)
: . Peter W. Rodino (D)
: . Joseph Minish (D)
: . Paul J. Krebs (D)
: . Cornelius Gallagher (American politician), Cornelius Gallagher (D)
: . Dominick V. Daniels (D)
: . Edward J. Patten (D)
List of United States representatives from New Mexico, New Mexico
: . Thomas G. Morris (D)
: . E. S. Johnny Walker (D)
List of United States representatives from New York, New York
: . Otis G. Pike (D)
: . James R. Grover Jr. (R)
: . Lester L. Wolff (D)
: . John W. Wydler (R)
: . Herbert Tenzer (D)
: . Seymour Halpern (R)
: . Joseph P. Addabbo (D)
: . Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D)
: . James J. Delaney (D)
: . Emanuel Celler (D)
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Eugene James Keogh (D)
: . Edna F. Kelly (D)
: . Abraham J. Multer (D)
: . John J. Rooney (politician), John J. Rooney (D)
: . Hugh Carey (D)
: . John M. Murphy (D)
: . John Lindsay (R), until December 31, 1965
:: Theodore R. Kupferman (R), from February 8, 1966
: . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)
: . Leonard Farbstein (D)
: . William Fitts Ryan (D)
: . James H. Scheuer (D)
: . Jacob H. Gilbert (D)
: . Jonathan Brewster Bingham (D)
: . Paul A. Fino (R)
: . Richard Ottinger (D)
: . Ogden Reid (R)
: . John G. Dow (D)
: . Joseph Y. Resnick (D)
: . Leo W. O'Brien (D), until December 30, 1966
: . Carleton J. King (R)
: . Robert C. McEwen (R)
: . Alexander Pirnie (R)
: . Howard W. Robison (R)
: . James M. Hanley (D)
: . Samuel S. Stratton (D)
: . Frank Horton (New York politician), Frank Horton (R)
: . Barber Conable (R)
: . Charles Goodell (R)
: . Richard D. McCarthy (D)
: . Henry P. Smith III (R)
: . Thaddeus J. Dulski (D)
List of United States representatives from North Carolina, North Carolina
: . Herbert Covington Bonner (D), until November 7, 1965
:: Walter B. Jones Sr. (D), from February 5, 1966
: . Lawrence H. Fountain (D)
: . David N. Henderson (D)
: . Harold D. Cooley (D), until December 30, 1966
: . Ralph James Scott (D)
: . Horace R. Kornegay (D)
: . Alton Lennon (D)
: . Charles R. Jonas (R)
: . Jim Broyhill (R)
: . Basil Lee Whitener (D)
: . Roy A. Taylor (D)
List of United States representatives from North Dakota, North Dakota
: . Mark Andrews (politician), Mark Andrews (R)
: . Rolland W. Redlin (D-NPL)
List of United States representatives from Ohio, Ohio
: . Robert E. Sweeney (D)
: . John J. Gilligan (D)
: . Donald D. Clancy (R)
: . Rodney M. Love (D)
: . William Moore McCulloch (R)
: . Del Latta (R)
: . Bill Harsha (R)
: . Clarence J. Brown (R), until August 23, 1965
:: Bud Brown (politician), Bud Brown (R) from November 2, 1965
: . Jackson Edward Betts (R)
: . Thomas L. Ashley (D)
: . Walter H. Moeller (D)
: . J. William Stanton (R)
: . Samuel L. Devine (R)
: . Charles Adams Mosher (R)
: . William Hanes Ayres (R)
: . Robert T. Secrest (D), until December 30, 1966
: . Frank T. Bow (R)
: . John M. Ashbrook (R)
: . Wayne Hays (D)
: .
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)
: . Michael A. Feighan (D)
: . Charles Vanik (D)
: . Frances P. Bolton (R)
: . William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)
List of United States representatives from Oklahoma, Oklahoma
: . Page Belcher (R)
: . Ed Edmondson (politician), Edmond Edmondson (D)
: .
Carl Albert
Carl Bert Albert (May 10, 1908 – February 4, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977 and represented Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district as a ...
(D)
: . Tom Steed (D)
: . John Jarman (D)
: . Jed Johnson Jr. (D)
List of United States representatives from Oregon, Oregon
: . Wendell Wyatt (R)
: . Al Ullman (D)
: . Edith Green (D)
: . Robert B. Duncan (D)
List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
: . William A. Barrett (D)
: . Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D)
: . James A. Byrne (D)
: . Herman Toll (D)
: . William J. Green III (D)
: . George M. Rhodes (D)
: . George Watkins (politician), George Watkins (R)
: . Willard S. Curtin (R)
: . Paul B. Dague (R), until December 30, 1966
: . Joseph M. McDade (R)
: . Dan Flood (D)
: . J. Irving Whalley (R)
: . Richard Schweiker (R)
: . William S. Moorhead (D)
: . Fred B. Rooney (D)
: . John C. Kunkel (R), until December 30, 1966
: . Herman T. Schneebeli (R)
: . Robert J. Corbett (R)
: . Nathaniel N. Craley Jr. (D)
: . Elmer J. Holland (D)
: . John Herman Dent (D)
: . John P. Saylor (R)
: . Albert W. Johnson (R)
: . Joseph P. Vigorito (D)
: . Frank M. Clark (D)
: . Thomas E. Morgan (D)
: . James G. Fulton (R)
List of United States representatives from Rhode Island, Rhode Island
: . Fernand St. Germain (D)
: . John E. Fogarty (D)
List of United States representatives from South Carolina, South Carolina
: . L. Mendel Rivers (D)
: . Albert Watson (South Carolina politician), Albert Watson (D), until February 1, 1965
:: Albert Watson (South Carolina politician), Albert Watson (R), from June 15, 1965
: . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)
: . Robert T. Ashmore (D)
: . Thomas S. Gettys (D)
: . John L. McMillan (D)
List of United States representatives from South Dakota, South Dakota
: . Ben Reifel (R)
: . Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)
List of United States representatives from Tennessee, Tennessee
: . Jimmy Quillen (R)
: . John Duncan Sr. (R)
: . Bill Brock (R)
: . Joe L. Evins (D)
: . Richard Fulton (D)
: . William Anderson (naval officer), William Anderson (D)
: . Tom J. Murray (D), until December 30, 1966
: . Fats Everett (D)
: . George W. Grider (D)
List of United States representatives from Texas, Texas
: . Joe R. Pool (D)
: . Wright Patman (D)
: . Jack Brooks (American politician), Jack Brooks (D)
: . Lindley Beckworth (D)
: . Ray Roberts (D)
: . Earle Cabell (D)
: . Olin E. Teague (D)
: . John Dowdy (D)
: . Albert Thomas (American politician), Albert Thomas (D), until February 15, 1966
:: Lera Millard Thomas (D), from March 26, 1966
: . Clark W. Thompson (Texas politician), Clark W. Thompson (D), until December 30, 1966
: . J. J. Pickle (D)
: . William R. Poage (D)
: . Jim Wright (D)
: . Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D)
: . John Andrew Young (D)
: . Kika de la Garza (D)
: . Richard Crawford White (D)
: . Omar Burleson (D)
: . Walter E. Rogers (D)
: . George H. Mahon (D)
: . Henry B. González (D)
: . O. C. Fisher (D)
: . Robert R. Casey (D)
List of United States representatives from Utah, Utah
: . Laurence J. Burton (R)
: . David S. King (D)
List of United States representatives from Vermont, Vermont
: . Robert Stafford (R)
List of United States representatives from Virginia, Virginia
: . Thomas N. Downing (D)
: . Porter Hardy Jr. (D)
: . David E. Satterfield III (D)
: . Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)
: . William M. Tuck (D)
: . Richard Harding Poff (R)
: . John Otho Marsh Jr. (D)
: . Howard W. Smith (D)
: . W. Pat Jennings (D)
: . Joel Broyhill (R)
List of United States representatives from Washington, Washington
: . Thomas Pelly (R)
: . Lloyd Meeds (D)
: . Julia Butler Hansen (D)
: . Catherine Dean May (R)
: . Tom Foley (D)
: . Floyd Hicks (D)
: . Brock Adams (D)
List of United States representatives from West Virginia, West Virginia
: . Arch A. Moore Jr. (R)
: . Harley Orrin Staggers (D)
: . John M. Slack Jr. (D)
: . Ken Hechler (D)
: . James Kee (D)
List of United States representatives from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: . Lynn E. Stalbaum (D)
: . Robert Kastenmeier (D)
: . Vernon Wallace Thomson (R)
: . Clement J. Zablocki (D)
: . Henry S. Reuss (D)
: . John Abner Race (D)
: .
Melvin Laird
Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as United States Secret ...
(R)
: . John W. Byrnes (R)
: . Glenn Robert Davis (R)
: . Alvin O'Konski (R)
List of United States representatives from Wyoming, Wyoming
: . Teno Roncalio (D)
Non-voting member
: . Santiago Polanco-Abreu (Resident Commissioner) (PPD)
Changes in membership
Senate
* Replacements: 5
**
Democratic: 1-seat net loss
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: 1-seat net gain
* Deaths: 2
* Resignations: 2
, -
,
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)
, ,
Olin D. Johnston (D)
, Died April 18, 1965.
Successor appointed April 22, 1965 to continue the term.
, ,
Donald S. Russell
Donald Stuart Russell (February 22, 1906 – February 22, 1998) was an American attorney from South Carolina who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, President of the University of South Carolina, governor of South Car ...
(D)
, April 22, 1965
, -
,
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 in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. ...
(D)
, Resigned November 10, 1965.
Successor appointed November 12, 1965 to continue his father's term.
, ,
Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Harry Flood Byrd Jr. (December 20, 1914 – July 30, 2013) was an American orchardist, newspaper publisher and politician. He served in the Senate of Virginia and then represented Virginia in the United States Senate, succeeding his father, Harr ...
(D)
, November 12, 1965
, -
,
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 ...
(2)
, ,
Patrick V. McNamara (D)
, Died April 30, 1966.
Successor appointed May 11, 1966 to finish the term.
, ,
Robert P. Griffin
Robert Paul Griffin (November 6, 1923 – April 16, 2015) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the M ...
(R)
, May 11, 1966
, -
,
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)
, ,
Donald S. Russell
Donald Stuart Russell (February 22, 1906 – February 22, 1998) was an American attorney from South Carolina who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, President of the University of South Carolina, governor of South Car ...
(D)
, Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term.
Successor elected November 8, 1966.
, ,
Fritz Hollings
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (January 1, 1922April 6, 2019) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005. A conservative Democrat, he was also the 106th governor of South Carolina, ...
(D)
, November 9, 1966
, -
,
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 ...
(2)
, ,
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. Senat ...
(D)
, Resigned December 30, 1966, having lost renomination.
Successor appointed to finish the term, having already been elected to the next term.
, ,
William B. Spong Jr.
William Belser Spong Jr. (September 29, 1920October 8, 1997) was an American Democratic Party politician and a United States Senator who represented the state of Virginia from 1966 to 1973.
Biography Early life and education
Spong was born in P ...
(D)
, December 31, 1966
, -
,
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 ...
(2)
, ,
Ross Bass
Ross Bass (March 17, 1918January 1, 1993) was an American Congressman and United States Senator from Tennessee.
Background
Bass was the son of a circuit-riding Methodist minister in rural Giles County, attended the local public schools, and ...
(D)
, Resigned January 2, 1967, having lost renomination.
Seat remained vacant until the end of the term (the next day).
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
House of Representatives
* Replacements: 9
**
Democratic: no net change
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: no net change
* Deaths: 5
* Resignations: 15
* Total seats with changes: 20
, -
,
, nowrap, Albert Watson (South Carolina politician), Albert Watson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 1, 1965, after being stripped of seniority by the Democratic Caucus of the United States House of Representatives, House Democratic Caucus for supporting Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Was re-elected as a Republican in a special election to replace himself.
, nowrap , Albert Watson (South Carolina politician), Albert Watson (R)
, June 15, 1965
, -
,
, nowrap, T. Ashton Thompson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died July 1, 1965
, nowrap , Edwin Edwards (D)
, October 2, 1965
, -
,
, nowrap, Clarence J. Brown (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died August 23, 1965
, nowrap , Bud Brown (politician), Bud Brown (R)
, November 2, 1965
, -
,
, nowrap,
James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt II (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was an American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician. The eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, he served as an official Secret ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 30, 1965, to become the US Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council
, nowrap ,
Thomas M. Rees
Thomas Mankell "Tom" Rees (March 26, 1925 – December 9, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1966 to 1977.
Early life and career
Born in Los Angeles, California, R ...
(D)
, December 15, 1965
, -
,
, nowrap, Herbert Covington Bonner (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 7, 1965
, nowrap , Walter B. Jones Sr. (D)
, February 5, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, John Lindsay (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 31, 1965, after being elected Mayor of New York City
, nowrap , Theodore R. Kupferman (R)
, February 8, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap,
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)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 3, 1966, to become judge of the US Court of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Eastern and United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, Western Districts of Arkansas
, nowrap ,
David Pryor
David Hampton Pryor (born August 29, 1934) is an American politician and former Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Pryor also served as the 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 a ...
(D)
, November 8, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Albert Thomas (American politician), Albert Thomas (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died February 15, 1966
, nowrap , Lera Millard Thomas (D)
, March 26, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap,
John F. Baldwin Jr. (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 9, 1966
, nowrap ,
Jerome Waldie (D)
, June 7, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap,
Robert P. Griffin
Robert Paul Griffin (November 6, 1923 – April 16, 2015) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Michigan in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate and was a Justice of the M ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned May 10, 1966, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate
, nowrap , Guy Vander Jagt (R)
, November 8, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap,
Ralph Julian Rivers
Ralph Julian Rivers (May 23, 1903 – August 14, 1976) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician who served as the first United States Representative from Alaska, serving from statehood in 1959 to his resi ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, rowspan=10 , Vacant
, rowspan=10 , Not filled this term
, -
,
, nowrap, Winfield K. Denton (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Ralph Harvey (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Leo W. O'Brien (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Harold D. Cooley (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Robert T. Secrest (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Paul B. Dague (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, John C. Kunkel (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Tom J. Murray (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
, -
,
, nowrap, Clark W. Thompson (Texas politician), Clark W. Thompson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1966
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Chairman: Clinton P. Anderson; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (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: George D. Aiken)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (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:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Armed Services (Chairman: Richard B. Russell; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman: A. Willis Robertson; Ranking Member:
Wallace F. Bennett)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman: Warren G. Magnuson; Ranking Member:
Norris Cotton
Norris Henry Cotton (May 11, 1900 – February 24, 1989) was an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative and subsequently as a U.S. Senator.
Early life
Cotton was ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
Alan Bible
Alan Harvey Bible (November 20, 1909 – September 12, 1988) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1954 to 1974. He previously served as Attorney General ...
; Ranking Member:
Winston L. Prouty)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman:
Russell B. Long
Russell Billiu Long (November 3, 1918 – May 9, 2003) was an American Democratic politician and United States Senator from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987. Because of his seniority, he advanced to chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, servin ...
; Ranking Member:
John J. Williams)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman:
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 ...
; Ranking Member:
Bourke B. Hickenlooper)
* United States Senate Committee on Government Operations, Government Operations (Chairman: John Little McClellan; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman:
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 a ...
; Ranking Member: Thomas H. Kuchel)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: James O. Eastland; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman:
J. Lister Hill; Ranking Member: Jacob K. Javits)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Organization of Congress, Organization of Congress (Select) (Chairman: )
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: A.S. Mike Monroney; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Works, Public Works (Chairman: Patrick V. McNamara, Pat McNamara; Ranking Member:
John Sherman Cooper
John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elect ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Rules and Administration (Chairman:
B. Everett Jordan; Ranking Member: Carl T. Curtis)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business (Select) (Chairman: John J. Sparkman)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, Standards and Conduct (Select) (Chairman: ; Ranking Member: )
* Committee of the whole, Whole
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman: Harold D. Cooley; Ranking Member: Paul B. Dague)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman: George H. Mahon; Ranking Member: Frank T. Bow)
* United States House Committee on Armed Services, Armed Services (Chairman: L. Mendel Rivers; Ranking Member: William H. Bates)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman: Wright Patman; Ranking Member: William B. Widnall)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: John L. McMillan; Ranking Member: Ancher Nelsen)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education and Labor (Chairman: Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adam Clayton Powell; Ranking Member: William H. Ayres)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas E. Morgan; Ranking Member: Frances P. Bolton)
* United States House Committee on Government Operations, Government Operations (Chairman:
William L. Dawson; Ranking Member: Clarence J. Brown)
* United States House Committee on House Administration, House Administration (Chairman: Omar Burleson; Ranking Member:
Glenard P. Lipscomb)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman:
Wayne N. Aspinall; Ranking Member: John P. Saylor)
* United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
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 ...
; Ranking Member: William L. Springer)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: Emanuel Celler; Ranking Member: William M. McCulloch)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Edward A. Garmatz; Ranking Member:
William S. Mailliard)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Tom J. Murray; Ranking Member: Robert J. Corbett)
* United States House Committee on Public Works, Public Works (Chairman: George Hyde Fallon; Ranking Member:
William C. Cramer
William Cato Cramer Sr. (August 4, 1922 – October 18, 2003), was an American attorney and politician, elected in 1954 as a member of the United States House of Representatives from St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the first Florida Republican e ...
)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Howard W. Smith; Ranking Member: Clarence J. Brown)
* United States House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Science and Astronautics (Chairman: George Paul Miller; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Martin Jr.)
* United States House Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Joe L. Evins)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct (Chairman: )
* United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, Un-American Activities (Chairman: Edwin E. Willis; Ranking Member: John M. Ashbrook)
* United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: Olin E. Teague; Ranking Member: E. Ross Adair)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman: Wilbur D. Mills; Ranking Member: John W. Byrnes)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Atomic Energy (Chairman: Rep. Chet Holifield; Vice Chairman: Sen. John O. Pastore)
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian, Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Defense Production, Defense Production (Chairman: Sen. A. Willis Robertson; Vice Chairman: Rep. Wright Patman)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers
* Joint Economic Committee, Economic (Chairman: Rep. Wright Patman; Vice Chairman: Sen. Paul H. Douglas)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy, Immigration and Nationality Policy (Chairman: Rep. Michael A. Feighan)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, Legislative Budget
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Rep. Omar Burleson; Vice Chairman: Sen.
B. Everett Jordan)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration, Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
* 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. Omar Burleson)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Vacant; Vice Chairman: Vacant)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chairman: Sen. Harry Flood Byrd, Harry F. Byrd)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: J. George Stewart
* Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver, until 1966
** Rufus Pearson, from 1966
* Comptroller General of the United States: Joseph Campbell (accountant), Joseph Campbell, until July 31, 1965, vacant thereafter
** vacant, July 31, 1965 – March 8, 1966
** Elmer B. Staats, from March 8, 1966
* Librarian of Congress: Lawrence Quincy Mumford
* Public Printer of the United States: James L. Harrison
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodism, ''Methodist'')
* Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, Parliamentarian: Floyd Riddick
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Felton McLellan Johnston, until December 30, 1965
** Emery L. Frazier, January 1, 1966 – September 30, 1966
** Francis R. Valeo, from October 1, 1966
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Richard D. Hupman
* Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party Secretary: Francis R. Valeo, until 1966
** Joseph Stanley Kimmitt, J. Stanley Kimmitt, from 1966
* Republican Party (United States), Republican Party Secretary: J. Mark Trice
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Joseph C. Duke, until December 30, 1965
** Robert G. Dunphy, from January 14, 1966
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian)
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts (politician), Ralph R. Roberts
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Fishbait Miller, William M. Miller
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: H. H. Morris
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Charles W. Hackney Jr. (D) and Joe Bartlett (R)
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Zeake W. Johnson
Footnotes
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See also
* United States elections, 1964 (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1964 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1964
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1964
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United States elections, 1966
The 1966 United States elections were held on November 8, 1966, and elected the members of the 90th United States Congress. The election was held in the middle of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson's second (only full) term, and during the ...
(elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
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United States Senate elections, 1966
The 1966 United States Senate elections were elections on November 8, 1966 for the United States Senate which occurred midway through the second (and only full) term of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The 33 seats of Class 2 were contested in regul ...
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United States House of Representatives elections, 1966
The 1966 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1966 which occurred in the middle of President Lyndon B. Johnson's second term. As the Vietnam War continued to escalate an ...
Notes
References
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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