The 79th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the
United States
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federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
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. It met in
Washington, DC
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from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1947, during the last months of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, and the first two years of
Harry Truman's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this
House of Representatives
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was based on the
Sixteenth Census of the United States in 1940.
Both chambers had a
Democratic majority (including increasing their edge in the House). With the reelection of
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
to a record fourth term, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government
trifecta
file:Trifecta.svg, Trifecta
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.
Major events
* January 20, 1945: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
began his fourth term.
* April 12, 1945: President Roosevelt died, Vice President
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
became
President of the United States
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.
* September 2, 1945:
World War II
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ended.
* September 11, 1945 – June 20, 1946:
Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack conducted its investigation and issued a report.
* November 6, 1946:
1946 United States Senate elections
The 1946 United States Senate elections were held November 5, 1946, in the middle of Democratic President Harry S. Truman's first term after Roosevelt’s passing. The Republicans took control of the Senate by picking up twelve seats, mostly f ...
,
1946 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1946 United States House of Representatives elections took place 19 months after President Harry S. Truman assumed office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Truman was vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was thr ...
: Republicans gained control of both houses.
* January 3, 1947: Proceedings of the U.S. Congress were televised for the first time.
Major legislation
![Atomic Energy Act of 1946 signing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946_signing.jpg)
* March 9, 1945:
McCarran-Ferguson Act
* July 31, 1945:
Bretton Woods Agreements Act
The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries, Australia, and Japan after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement. The Bretto ...
,
* July 31, 1945:
Export-Import Bank Act of 1945
* December 20, 1945:
United Nations Participation Act
The United Nations Participation Act of 1945 was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1945, dealing with the process of United States joining the newly created United Nations and related bodies of the United Nations. This act provides th ...
,
* December 28, 1945:
War Brides Act The War Brides Act (59 Stat. 659, Act of Dec. 28, 1945) was enacted (on December 28, 1945) to allow alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of members of the United States Armed Forces, "if admissible," to enter the U.S. as non-quota ...
* February 18, 1946:
Rescission Act of 1946
The Rescission Act of 1946 (, codified at ) is a law of the United States reducing (rescinding) the amounts of certain funds already designated for specific government programs, much of it for the U.S. military, after World War II concluded and ...
,
* February 20, 1946:
Employment Act
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, , ch. 33,
* May 13, 1946:
Federal Airport Act of 1946
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,
* June 4, 1946:
Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, ch. 281,
* June 11, 1946:
Administrative Procedure Act, ch. 324, ,
* July 2, 1946:
Luce–Celler Act of 1946,
* July 3, 1946:
Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Act, ch. 537, ,
* July 5, 1946:
Lanham Trademark Act of 1946,
* August 1, 1946:
United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946
The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) determined how the United States would control and manage the nuclear technology it had jointly developed with its World War II allies, the United Kingdom and Canada. Most significantly, the Act ruled ...
, ch. 724, ,
* August 2, 1946:
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946
The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (also known as the Congressional Reorganization Act, ch. 753, , enacted August 2, 1946) was the most comprehensive reorganization of the United States Congress in history to that date.
Background
The n ...
, , including Title III:
Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946, Title IV:
Federal Tort Claims Act
The Federal Tort Claims Act (August 2, 1946, ch.646, Title IV, 28 U.S.C. Part VI, Chapter 171and ) ("FTCA") is a 1946 federal statute that permits private parties to sue the United States in a federal court for most torts committed by perso ...
, and Title V:
General Bridge Act
* August 13, 1946:
Foreign Service Act, ch. 957, titles I–X,
* August 13, 1946:
Hospital Survey and Construction Act
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(Hill-Burton Act), , ch. 958,
Treaties ratified
* July 4, 1946: Senate ratified the
Treaty of Manila, which gave independence to the
Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President
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* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
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:
**
Henry A. Wallace (D), until January 20, 1945
**
Harry S. Truman
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(D), January 20, 1945 – April 12, 1945; thereafter vacant
*
President Pro Tempore:
Kenneth McKellar (D)
*
Majority leader
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Alben W. Barkley (D)
*
Minority leader:
Wallace H. White Jr. (R, acting)
*
Majority whip
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:
J. Lister Hill (D)
*
Minority whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holdin ...
:
Kenneth S. Wherry (R), elected 1944
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
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Society and politics
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** I ...
:
Sam Rayburn (D)
*
Majority leader
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John W. McCormack
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(D)
*
Minority leader:
Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)
*
Majority whip
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:
John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946 and the United St ...
(D)
*
Minority whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holdin ...
:
Leslie C. Arends (R)
Members
Senate
Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are
Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing
re-election in 1946; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing
re-election in 1948; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing
re-election in 1950.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
: 2.
John H. Bankhead II (D), until June 12, 1946
::
George R. Swift (D), June 15, 1946 – November 5, 1946
::
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), from November 6, 1946
: 3.
J. Lister Hill (D)
Arizona
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: 1.
Ernest McFarland
Ernest William McFarland (October 9, 1894 – June 8, 1984) was an American politician, jurist and, with Warren Atherton, one of the "Fathers of the G.I. Bill." He is the only Arizonan to serve in the highest office in all three branches of Ari ...
(D)
: 3.
Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Represe ...
(D)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
: 2.
John L. McClellan (D)
: 3.
J. William Fulbright
James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. , Fulbright is the longest serving chair ...
(D)
California
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: 1.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
(R), until August 6, 1945
::
William Knowland
William Fife Knowland (June 26, 1908 – February 23, 1974) was an American politician and newspaper publisher. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from California from 1945 to 1959. He was Senate Majority Le ...
(R), from August 26, 1945
: 3.
Sheridan Downey
Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was an American lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.
Early life
He was born in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in western Wyoming, the son of the ...
(D)
Colorado
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: 2.
Edwin C. Johnson (D)
: 3.
Eugene Millikin (R)
Connecticut
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: 1.
Francis T. Maloney (D), until January 16, 1945
::
Thomas C. Hart
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(R), February 15, 1945 – November 5, 1946
::
Raymond E. Baldwin (R), from December 27, 1946
: 3.
Brien McMahon
Brien McMahon, born James O'Brien McMahon (October 6, 1903July 28, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the est ...
(D)
Delaware
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: 1.
James M. Tunnell (D)
: 2.
C. Douglass Buck (R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
: 1.
Charles O. Andrews (D), until September 18, 1946
::
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), from September 25, 1946
: 3.
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Mi ...
(D)
Georgia
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* Related to the ...
: 2.
Richard Russell Jr.
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(D)
: 3.
Walter F. George (D)
Idaho
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: 2.
John W. Thomas (R), until November 10, 1945
::
Charles C. Gossett (D), November 17, 1945 – November 6, 1946
::
Henry Dworshak
Henry Clarence Dworshak Jr. (August 29, 1894July 23, 1962) was a United States Senator and Congressman from Idaho. Originally from Minnesota, he was a Republican from Burley, and served over 22 years in the House and Senate.
Early years
Born in ...
(R), from November 6, 1946
: 3.
Glen H. Taylor
Glen Hearst Taylor (April 12, 1904 – April 28, 1984) was an American politician, entertainer, businessman, and U.S. senator from Idaho.
He was the vice presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1948 election. Taylor was ...
(D)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
: 2.
Charles W. Brooks (R)
: 3.
Scott W. Lucas
Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1 ...
(D)
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
: 1.
Raymond E. Willis (R)
: 3.
Homer E. Capehart (R)
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 th ...
: 2.
George A. Wilson
George Allison Wilson (April 1, 1884 – September 8, 1953) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States Senate, United States Senator and List of Governors of Iowa, 28th Governor of Iowa.
Personal background
Born on a farm near ...
(R)
: 3.
Bourke B. Hickenlooper (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 th ...
: 2.
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
(R)
: 3.
Clyde M. Reed (R)
Kentucky
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: 2.
Happy Chandler (D), until November 1, 1945
::
William A. Stanfill (R), November 19, 1945 – November 5, 1946
::
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), from November 6, 1946
: 3.
Alben W. Barkley (D)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
: 2.
Allen J. Ellender (D)
: 3.
John H. Overton (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 ...
: 1.
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an Politics of the United States, American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the List of governors of Maine, 54th Governor ...
(R)
: 2.
Wallace H. White Jr. (R)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
: 1.
George L. P. Radcliffe (D)
: 3.
Millard Tydings
Millard Evelyn Tydings (April 6, 1890February 9, 1961) was an American attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland, serving in the House from 19 ...
(D)
Massachusetts
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: 1.
David I. Walsh (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 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States senator ...
(R)
Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...
: 1.
Arthur Vandenberg
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951. A member of the Republican Party, he participated in the creation of the United Natio ...
(R)
: 2.
Homer S. Ferguson (R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
: 1.
Henrik Shipstead
Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1947, from the state of Minnesota. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 an ...
(R)
: 2.
Joseph H. Ball (R)
Mississippi
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: 1.
Theodore G. Bilbo (D)
: 2.
James Eastland (D)
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
: 1.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
(D), until January 17, 1945
::
Frank P. Briggs (D), from January 18, 1945
: 3.
Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest Carl Donnell (August 20, 1884March 3, 1980) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senate, United States senator and the List of governors of Missouri, 40th governor of Missouri.
Early life
Donnell was bor ...
(R)
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 Columb ...
: 1.
Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882January 6, 1975) was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana, which he represented as a United States senator from 1923 until 1947.
Born in Massachusetts, Wheeler began ...
(D)
: 2.
James E. Murray (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 sout ...
: 1.
Hugh A. Butler
Hugh Alfred Butler (February 28, 1878July 1, 1954) was an American United States Republican Party, Republican politician from Nebraska
Life and career
Hugh Butler was born on a farm near Missouri Valley, Iowa on February 28, 1878. He graduated ...
(R)
: 2.
Kenneth S. Wherry (R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the 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. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
: 1.
James G. Scrugham (D), until June 23, 1945
::
Edward P. Carville (D), from July 25, 1945
: 3.
Pat McCarran
Patrick Anthony McCarran (August 8, 1876 – September 28, 1954) was an American farmer, attorney, judge, and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno, Nevada, atte ...
(D)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a 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 to the nor ...
: 2.
Styles Bridges (R)
: 3.
Charles W. Tobey (R)
New Jersey
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: 1.
Howard Alexander Smith
Howard Alexander Smith (January 30, 1880October 27, 1966) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1944 to 1959. He was the uncle of Peter H. Dominick, wh ...
(R)
: 2.
Albert W. Hawkes (R)
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
: 1.
Dennis Chávez (D)
: 2.
Carl Hatch (D)
New York
: 1.
James M. Mead (D)
: 3.
Robert F. Wagner (D)
North Carolina
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: 2.
Josiah Bailey (D), until December 15, 1946
::
William B. Umstead
William Bradley Umstead (May 13, 1895November 7, 1954) was an United States of America, American politician who served as a United States Senators, United States Senator and the List of Governors of North Carolina, 63rd governor of North Carolin ...
(D), from December 18, 1946
: 3.
Clyde R. Hoey
Clyde Roark Hoey (December 11, 1877May 12, 1954) was an American Democratic politician from North Carolina. He served in both houses of the state legislature and served briefly in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1919 to 1921. He was Nor ...
(D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...
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William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
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John Moses John Moses may refer to:
* John Moses (Norwegian politician) (1781–1849), member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly
* John Moses (Illinois politician) (1825–1898), Illinois judge and politician
* John Moses (American politician) (1885–1945) ...
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Milton Young (R), from March 12, 1945
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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Harold H. Burton (R), until September 30, 1945
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James W. Huffman (D), October 8, 1945 – November 5, 1946
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Kingsley A. Taft (R), from November 6, 1946
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Robert A. Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leade ...
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Oklahoma
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Edward H. Moore (R)
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Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
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Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
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Guy Cordon (R)
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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.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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Joseph F. Guffey (D)
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Francis J. Myers (D)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
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Peter G. Gerry (D)
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Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
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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 = ...
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Burnet R. Maybank (D)
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Olin D. Johnston (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large porti ...
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Harlan J. Bushfield (R)
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John Chandler Gurney (R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
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Kenneth McKellar (D)
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Tom Stewart (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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Tom Connally (D)
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W. Lee O'Daniel (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
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Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (D)
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Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas ...
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
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Warren Austin (R), until August 2, 1946
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Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and R ...
(R), from November 1, 1946
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George Aiken
George David Aiken (August 20, 1892November 19, 1984) was an American politician and horticulturist. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 64th governor of Vermont (1937–1941) before serving in the United States Senate for 34 years, ...
(R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...
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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. ...
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Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treas ...
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Thomas G. Burch (D), May 31, 1946 – November 5, 1946
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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), from November 6, 1946
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 ...
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Monrad Wallgren
Monrad Charles Wallgren (April 17, 1891September 18, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of Washington from 1945 to 1949, as well as representing that state in the United States House of Representatives and the United ...
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Hugh Mitchell (D), January 10, 1945 – December 25, 1946
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Harry P. Cain
Harry Pulliam Cain (January 10, 1906 – March 3, 1979) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Washington who served as a Republican from 1946 to 1953. Cain is mainly remembered for his conservative and often hig ...
(R), from December 26, 1946
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Warren Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 1 ...
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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 B ...
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Harley M. Kilgore (D)
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Chapman Revercomb
William Chapman Revercomb (July 20, 1895 – October 6, 1979) was an American politician and lawyer. A Republican, he served two separate terms in the United States Senate representing the state of West Virginia.
Life and career
Revercomb wa ...
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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 ...
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Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P)
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Alexander Wiley (R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the 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 southwest, and Colorado to the s ...
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Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)
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Edward V. Robertson
Edward Vivian Robertson (May 27, 1881April 15, 1963) was a Welsh-born American politician who served as a member of the United States Senate for Wyoming from 1943 to 1949.
Early life
Born in Cardiff, Wales, he served in the Third Battalion of ...
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House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
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Frank W. Boykin (D)
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George M. Grant
George McInvale Grant (July 11, 1897 – November 4, 1982) was an American politician and Democratic Representative from Alabama.
Early life
George McInvale Grant was born in Louisville, Alabama on July 11, 1897. He attended public schools ...
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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 ...
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Sam Hobbs (D)
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Albert Rains (D)
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Pete Jarman (D)
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Carter Manasco
Carter Manasco (January 3, 1902 – February 5, 1992) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Townley, Alabama, Manasco attended the public schools and Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama Sch ...
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John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946 and the United St ...
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Luther Patrick
Luther Patrick (January 23, 1894 – May 26, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Early life
Born near Decatur, Alabama, Patrick attended the local public schools, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, and Purdue University, L ...
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Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
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John R. Murdock (D)
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Richard F. Harless
Richard Fielding Harless (August 6, 1905 – November 24, 1970) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Arizona.
Life and career
Born in Kelsey, Texas, Harless moved to Thatcher, Arizona, in 1917 and attended the ...
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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 O ...
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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 D. Mills (D)
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James William Trimble (D)
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William Fadjo Cravens (D)
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Brooks Hays (D)
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William F. Norrell (D)
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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 ...
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
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Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 – June 20, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Biography
Lea was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwe ...
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Clair Engle
Clair Engle (September 21, 1911July 30, 1964) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the v ...
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J. Leroy Johnson (R)
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Franck R. Havenner (D)
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Richard J. Welch (R)
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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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John H. Tolan (D)
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Jack Z. Anderson (R)
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Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890 – October 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician. Gearhart, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the United States House of Representatives ...
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Alfred J. Elliott (D)
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George E. Outland (D)
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Jerry Voorhis (D)
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Ned R. Healy (D)
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Helen G. Douglas (D)
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Gordon L. McDonough (R)
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Ellis E. Patterson (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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Clyde Doyle (D)
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Chet 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 wa ...
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John Carl Hinshaw (R)
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Harry R. Sheppard
Harry Richard Sheppard (January 10, 1885 – April 28, 1969) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1937 to 1965,
Biography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Sheppard attended the public sch ...
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John Joseph Phillips (R)
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Edouard V. M. Izac (D)
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, 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 wes ...
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Dean M. Gillespie (R)
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William S. Hill
William Silas Hill (January 20, 1886 – August 28, 1972) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado for nine terms. His career was largely focused on agriculture. He studied at the Colorado State College of Agriculture, was a farmer, Secretary ...
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J. Edgar Chenoweth (R)
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Robert F. Rockwell
Robert Fay Rockwell (February 11, 1886 – September 29, 1950) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado. He served in the Colorado Senate and House of Representatives. He was also Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. He was a cattle rancher in ...
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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 capita ...
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Joseph F. Ryter (D)
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Herman P. Kopplemann (D)
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Chase G. Woodhouse
Chase Going Woodhouse (March 3, 1890 – December 12, 1984) was a prominent feminist leader, suffragist, and educator. She served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing the Second Congressional District of Connectic ...
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James P. Geelan (D)
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Clare B. Luce (R)
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Joseph E. Talbot (R)
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
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Philip A. Traynor (D)
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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J. Hardin Peterson (D)
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Emory H. Price
Emory Hilliard Price (December 3, 1899 – February 11, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Born in Bostwick, Florida, Price attended the public schools of Duval County, Florida. He graduated from Jacksonville (Florida) Law ...
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Robert L. F. Sikes (D)
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Pat Cannon (D)
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Joe Hendricks (D)
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Dwight L. Rogers
Dwight Laing Rogers (August 17, 1886 – December 1, 1954) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Born near Reidsville, Georgia, Rogers attended the public schools and Locust Grove Institute at Locust Grove, Georgia. He graduated from the U ...
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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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Hugh Peterson
Hugh Peterson (August 21, 1898 – October 3, 1961) was a U.S. political figure and lawyer from the state of Georgia.
Life
Peterson was born near Ailey, Georgia in 1898 and attended the Brewton–Parker Institute in Mount Vernon, Georgia ...
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Edward E. Cox (D)
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Stephen Pace (D)
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A. Sidney Camp (D)
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Robert Ramspeck (D), until December 31, 1945
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Helen D. Mankin (D), from February 12, 1946
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Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
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Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
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John S. Gibson (D)
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John S. Wood (D)
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Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 – August 5, 1991) was an American football coach and executive in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL). Brown was both the co-founder and first coach of the Clevela ...
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Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyomi ...
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Compton I. White (D)
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Henry C. Dworshak (R), until November 5, 1946, vacant thereafter
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
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Emily T. Douglas (D)
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William L. Dawson (D)
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William A. Rowan (D)
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Edward A. Kelly (D)
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Martin Gorski (D)
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Adolph J. Sabath (D)
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Thomas Joseph O'Brien (D)
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William W. Link (D)
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Thomas S. Gordon
Thomas Sylvy Gordon (December 17, 1893 – January 22, 1959) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Gordon attended the parochial schools and was graduated from St. Stanis ...
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Alexander J. Resa (D)
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Ralph E. Church
Ralph Edwin Church (May 5, 1883 – March 21, 1950) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1917 to 1932 and then represented the northern suburbs of Chicago in the United Sta ...
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Chauncey W. Reed (R)
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Noah M. Mason (R)
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Leo E. Allen (R)
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Anton J. Johnson
Anton Joseph Johnson (October 20, 1878 – April 16, 1958) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Peoria, Illinois to Sweden, Swedish immigrant parents,
Johnson attended the public schools and ...
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Robert B. Chiperfield (R)
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Everett M. Dirksen (R)
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Leslie C. Arends (R)
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Jessie Sumner (R)
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Rolla C. McMillen (R)
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Sid Simpson (R)
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George Evan Howell
George Evan Howell (September 21, 1905 – January 18, 1980) was a United States representative from Illinois and Judge of the United States Court of Claims.
Education and career
Born in Marion, Illinois, Howell attended the public schools ...
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Melvin Price
Charles Melvin Price (January 1, 1905 – April 22, 1988) was a member of the United States House of Representatives for over 40 years, from 1945 to his death. He represented Metro East, the Illinois portion of the Greater St. Louis, St. Louis ...
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Charles W. Vursell (R)
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James V. Heidinger (R), until March 22, 1945
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Roy Clippinger (R), from November 6, 1945
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C. W. Bishop
Cecil William "C. W." Bishop (June 29, 1890 – September 21, 1971) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.
Biography
Bishop was born on a farm near West Vienna, Illinois. After attending the public schools and ...
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Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
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Ray J. Madden (D)
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Charles A. Halleck (R)
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Robert A. Grant (R)
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George W. Gillie (R)
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Forest A. Harness
Forest Arthur Harness (June 24, 1895 – July 29, 1974) was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served five terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.
Biograph ...
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Noble J. Johnson (R)
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Gerald W. Landis
Gerald Wayne Landis (February 23, 1895 – September 6, 1971) was an American educator and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.
Biography
Born in Bloomfield, Indiana, Landis attended the pub ...
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Charles M. LaFollette (R)
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Earl Wilson (R)
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Raymond S. Springer (R)
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Louis Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow (June 24, 1873 – November 28, 1950) was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct atta ...
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Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to th ...
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Thomas E. Martin
Thomas Ellsworth Martin (January 18, 1893June 27, 1971) was a United States representative and Senator from Iowa. Martin, a Republican, served in Congress for 22 consecutive years, from January 1939 to January 1961.
Born in Melrose, Iowa, he ...
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Henry O. Talle (R)
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John W. Gwynne
John Williams Gwynne (October 20, 1889 – July 5, 1972) was a seven-term Republican United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, and a Federal Trade Commission member and chairman during ...
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Karl M. LeCompte (R)
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Paul H. Cunningham (R)
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James I. Dolliver
James Isaac Dolliver (August 31, 1894 – December 10, 1978) served six terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district, beginning in 1944. He was the nephew of U.S. Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver of Iowa.
B ...
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Ben F. Jensen (R)
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Charles B. Hoeven
Charles Bernard Hoeven (March 30, 1895 – November 9, 1980) was an American politician. Elected to represent districts in northern Iowa for eleven terms, from the Seventy-eighth to Eighty-eighth Congresses, in all he held elective office f ...
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...
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Albert McDonald Cole (R)
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Errett P. Scrivner (R)
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Thomas Daniel Winter (R)
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Edward Herbert Rees
Edward Herbert Rees (June 3, 1886 – October 25, 1969) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born on a farm near Emporia, Kansas, his father and maternal grandparents were all born in Wales. Rees attended the public schools and the Kansas S ...
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Clifford R. Hope (R)
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Frank Carlson
Frank Carlson (January 23, 1893May 30, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 30th governor of Kansas, Kansas State representative, United States representative, and United States senator from Kansas. Carlson is the only Kansan to ...
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Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
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Noble J. Gregory
Noble Jones Gregory (August 30, 1897 – September 26, 1971) was a Democrat, who represented Kentucky for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1937 to 1959.
Biography
Gregory was born and raised in Mayfield, Kentuck ...
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Earle C. Clements
Earle Chester Clements (October 22, 1896 – March 12, 1985) was an American farmer and politician. He represented the Commonwealth of Kentucky in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and was its 47th Governor, serving ...
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Emmet O'Neal
Emmet O'Neal (September 23, 1853 – September 7, 1922) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer who was the 34th Governor of Alabama from 1911 to 1915. He was a reformer in the progressive mold, and is best known for securing the ...
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Frank Chelf (D)
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Brent Spence
Brent Spence (December 24, 1874 – September 18, 1967), a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democratic Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky.
Spence was born in Newport, Kentucky to Philip and Virginia (Berry) ...
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Virgil Chapman (D)
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Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his rash disclosure of classified nav ...
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Joe B. Bates
Joseph Bengal Bates (October 29, 1893 – September 10, 1965) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Republican, Kentucky, Bates attended the public schools and the Mountain Training School at Hi ...
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John M. Robsion (R)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
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F. Edward Hébert (D)
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Paul H. Maloney (D)
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James Domengeaux (D)
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Overton Brooks
Thomas Overton Brooks (December 21, 1897 – September 16, 1961) was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwestern Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning on Janu ...
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Charles E. McKenzie (D)
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James H. Morrison (D)
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Henry D. Larcade Jr.
Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. (July 12, 1890 – March 15, 1966) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, Larcade attended the public and parochial schools, Opelousas High School, Academy Immacul ...
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A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen (January 5, 1891 – January 5, 1969) was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat from ...
(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 ...
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Robert Hale (R)
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Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Madeline Smith (née Chase; December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the firs ...
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Frank Fellows (R)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
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Dudley Roe (D)
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H. Streett Baldwin (D)
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Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (D)
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George Hyde Fallon
George Hyde Fallon (July 24, 1902 – March 21, 1980), a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 4th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1971.
Growing up, Fallon attended public schools, Calvert ...
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Lansdale G. Sasscer (D)
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J. Glenn Beall (R)
Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...
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John W. Heselton (R)
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Charles Clason (R)
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Philip Philbin (D)
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Pehr G. Holmes (R)
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Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Rogers (née Nourse; March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare Volunteering, volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts ...
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George J. Bates (R)
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Thomas J. Lane (D)
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Angier L. Goodwin (R)
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Charles L. Gifford (R)
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Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. His moderate ...
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James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Boston. He also served a single term as governor of Massachusetts, characterized ...
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John W. McCormack
John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts. An attorney and a Democrat, McCormack served in the United States Army during World War I, and afterwards won terms in both th ...
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Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
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Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)
Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...
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George G. Sadowski (D)
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Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener (November 30, 1876 – July 4, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Michener had German American, German ancestry. He was born near Attica, Ohio, Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to A ...
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Paul W. Shafer
Paul Werntz Shafer (April 27, 1893 – August 17, 1954) was a politician and judge from Michigan. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1937 until his death.
Biography
Shafer was born in Elkhart, Indiana on Apr ...
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Clare E. Hoffman (R)
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Bartel J. Jonkman
Bartel John Jonkman (April 28, 1884 – June 13, 1955) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Jonkman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he attended the public schools. He was of Dutch (ethnic group), Dutch descent. He graduated ...
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William W. Blackney (R)
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Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
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Fred L. Crawford (R)
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Albert J. Engel (R)
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Roy O. Woodruff (R)
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Fred Bradley (R)
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Frank Eugene Hook (D)
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George D. O'Brien (D)
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Louis C. Rabaut (D)
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John D. Dingell Sr. (D)
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John Lesinski Sr. (D)
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George A. Dondero (R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
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August H. Andresen (R)
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Joseph P. O'Hara (R)
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William Gallagher (DFL), until August 13, 1946
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Frank Starkey (DFL)
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Walter Judd (R)
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Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson (October 20, 1880 – August 21, 1953) was an American politician and journalist, who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1949 as a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 192 ...
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H. Carl Andersen (R)
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William Pittenger (R)
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Harold Hagen (R)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
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John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley A ...
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Jamie L. Whitten (D)
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William M. Whittington (D)
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Thomas G. Abernethy (D)
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W. Arthur Winstead (D)
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William M. Colmer (D)
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Dan R. McGehee (D)
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
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Samuel W. Arnold (R)
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Max Schwabe
Max Schwabe (December 6, 1905 – July 31, 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. He was the brother of George Blaine Schwabe.
Schwabe was born in Columbia, Missouri and attended the University of Missouri. Prior to his career in politi ...
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William C. Cole (R)
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C. Jasper Bell (D)
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Roger C. Slaughter (D)
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Marion T. Bennett (R)
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Dewey Short
Dewey Jackson Short (April 7, 1898 – November 19, 1979) was an American politician from Missouri. He was US Representative for 12 terms (1929-1931, 1935-1957). A member of the Republican Party, he was a staunch opponent of President Franklin ...
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A.S.J. Carnahan (D)
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Clarence Cannon (D)
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Orville Zimmerman (D)
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John B. Sullivan (D)
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Walter C. Ploeser (R)
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John J. Cochran (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 Columb ...
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Mike Mansfield
Michael Joseph Mansfield (March 16, 1903 – October 5, 2001) was an American politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. representative (1943–1953) and a U.S. senator (1953–1977) from Montana. He was the longest-serving Sen ...
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James F. O'Connor (D), until January 15, 1945
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Wesley A. D'Ewart (R), from June 5, 1945
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 sout ...
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Carl T. Curtis (R)
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Howard H. Buffett (R)
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Karl Stefan
Karl Stefan (March 1, 1884 – October 2, 1951) was a Czech-American politician, newspaper editor, publisher, and radio commentator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Nebraska's 3rd congressional district in the U ...
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Arthur L. Miller (R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the 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. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
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Berkeley L. Bunker (D)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a 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 to the nor ...
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Charles Earl Merrow (R)
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Sherman Adams (R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
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Charles A. Wolverton (R)
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T. Millet Hand (R)
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James C. Auchincloss (R)
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D. Lane Powers (R), until August 30, 1945
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Frank A. Mathews Jr. (R), from November 6, 1945
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Charles A. Eaton (R)
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Clifford P. Case (R)
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J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican. He was later a convicted criminal who served nine months in fe ...
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Gordon Canfield (R)
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Harry L. Towe (R)
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Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)
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Frank Sundstrom (R)
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Robert W. Kean (R)
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Mary T. Norton (D)
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Edward J. Hart (D)
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
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Clinton P. 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), until June 30, 1945, vacant thereafter
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Antonio M. Fernández (D)
New York
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Edgar A. Sharp (R)
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Leonard W. Hall (R)
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Henry J. Latham (R)
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William B. Barry (D), until October 20, 1946, vacant thereafter
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James A. Roe (D)
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James J. Delaney (D)
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John J. Delaney (D)
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Joseph L. Pfeifer (D)
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Eugene J. Keogh (D)
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Andrew L. Somers (D)
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James J. Heffernan (D)
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John J. Rooney (D)
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Donald L. O'Toole (D)
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Leo F. Rayfiel (D)
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Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler (May 6, 1888 – January 15, 1981) was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He served as the dean of the United States H ...
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Ellsworth B. Buck
Ellsworth Brewer Buck (July 3, 1892 – August 14, 1970) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York during the 1940s.
Early years
Buck was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Morgan Park Academy. He g ...
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Joseph C. Baldwin (R)
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Vito Marcantonio
Vito is an Italian name that is derived from the Latin word "''vita''", meaning "life".
It is a modern form of the Latin name Vitus, meaning "life-giver," as in San Vito or Saint Vitus, the patron saint of dogs and a heroic figure in southern I ...
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Samuel Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein (February 5, 1885 – April 22, 1954) was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York (22-year tenure), a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy. He played a key role in establishing the committee th ...
(D), until December 30, 1945
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Arthur G. Klein (D), from February 19, 1946
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Sol Bloom
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of ...
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James H. Torrens (D)
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was t ...
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Walter A. Lynch (D)
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Benjamin J. Rabin (D)
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Charles A. Buckley (D)
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Peter A. Quinn (D)
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Ralph W. Gwinn (R)
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Ralph A. Gamble (R)
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Augustus W. Bennet (R)
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Jay LeFevre (R)
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Bernard W. Kearney (R)
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William T. Byrne (D)
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Dean P. Taylor (R)
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Clarence E. Kilburn (R)
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Hadwen C. Fuller (R)
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Clarence E. Hancock (R)
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Edwin Arthur Hall (R)
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John Taber (R)
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W. Sterling Cole (R)
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George F. Rogers (D)
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James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)
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Walter G. Andrews (R)
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Edward J. Elsaesser (R)
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John Cornelius Butler (R)
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Daniel A. Reed (R)
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 ...
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Herbert C. Bonner (D)
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John H. Kerr (D)
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Graham A. Barden (D)
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Harold D. Cooley (D)
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John Hamlin Folger (D)
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Carl T. Durham (D)
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J. Bayard Clark
Jerome Bayard Clark (April 5, 1882 – August 26, 1959) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Early life
Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, where he was a member of the Pi Kap ...
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William O. Burgin (D), until April 11, 1946
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Eliza Jane Pratt
Eliza Jane Pratt (March 5, 1902 – May 13, 1981) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, the first woman to represent her state in the U.S. Congress.
She was the only woman elected to the U.S. House from North Carolina until the 1992 e ...
(D), from May 25, 1946
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Robert L. Doughton (D)
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Joseph Wilson Ervin (D), until December 25, 1945
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Sam Ervin
Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896April 23, 1985) was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often ...
(D), from January 22, 1946
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Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
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Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver (May 12, 1872 – October 29, 1948) was an American lawyer and politician who served 14 terms as a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and again between 1931 and 1947.
Early years and education
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(D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...
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William Lemke
William Frederick Lemke (August 13, 1878 – May 30, 1950) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party. He was also the Union Party's presidential cand ...
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Charles R. Robertson (R)
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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George H. Bender
George Harrison Bender (September 29, 1896June 18, 1961) was an American Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and 1951 to 1954. He also served in the U.S. Senate from 1954 to ...
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Charles H. Elston (R)
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William E. Hess (R)
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Edward J. Gardner (D)
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Robert Franklin Jones (R)
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Cliff Clevenger (R)
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Edward O. McCowen (R)
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Clarence J. Brown
Clarence James Brown, Sr. (July 14, 1893 – August 23, 1965), was an American newspaper publisher and politician; he represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his death in Bethesda, Marylan ...
(R)
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Frederick C. Smith (R)
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Homer A. Ramey (R)
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Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
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Walter E. Brehm (R)
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John M. Vorys (R)
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Alvin F. Weichel (R)
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Walter B. Huber (D)
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Percy W. Griffiths (R)
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William R. Thom (D)
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J. Harry McGregor (R)
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Earl R. Lewis (R)
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Michael J. Kirwan
Michael Joseph Kirwan (December 2, 1886 – July 27, 1970) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Ohio who served as a United States House of Representatives, Representative to the United States Congress ...
(D)
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Michael A. Feighan (D)
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Robert Crosser
Robert Crosser (June 7, 1874 – June 3, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served 19 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He remains the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of ...
(D)
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Frances P. Bolton (R)
Oklahoma
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George B. Schwabe
George Blaine Schwabe (July 26, 1886 – April 2, 1952) was an American politician and a Republican U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma.
Biography
Schwabe was born in Arthur in Vernon County son of George Washington Schwabe and Emily Ellen (Mose) S ...
(R)
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William G. Stigler (D)
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Paul Stewart (D)
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Lyle Boren (D)
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A. S. Mike Monroney (D)
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Jed Johnson (D)
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Victor Wickersham (D)
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Ross Rizley (R)
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ...
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James W. Mott (R), until November 12, 1945
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A. Walter Norblad (R), from January 18, 1946
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Lowell Stockman (R)
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Homer D. Angell
Homer Daniel Angell (January 12, 1875 – March 31, 1968) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon, serving eight terms from 1939 to 1955.
Biography
Angell was born on a farm near The Dalles, Oregon in 1875. He received his undergraduate ...
(R)
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Harris Ellsworth (R)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
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William A. Barrett (D)
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William T. Granahan (D)
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Michael J. Bradley (D)
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John E. Sheridan (D)
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William J. Green Jr.
William Joseph Green Jr. (March 5, 1910 – December 21, 1963) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
William J. Green was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Irish immigrants. ...
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Herbert J. McGlinchey (D)
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James Wolfenden (R)
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Charles L. Gerlach (R)
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J. Roland Kinzer (R)
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John W. Murphy (D), until July 17, 1946
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James P. Scoblick (R), from November 5, 1946
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Daniel J. Flood (D)
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Ivor D. Fenton (R)
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Daniel K. Hoch
Daniel Knabb Hoch (January 31, 1866 – October 11, 1960) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Daniel Hoch was born on a farm near Reading, Pennsylvania. He ...
(D)
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Wilson D. Gillette (R)
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Robert F. Rich (R)
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Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)
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Richard M. Simpson (R)
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John C. Kunkel (R)
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Leon H. Gavin (R)
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Francis E. Walter (D)
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Chester H. Gross (R)
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D. Emmert Brumbaugh (R)
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J. Buell Snyder (D), until February 24, 1946
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Carl Henry Hoffman
Carl Henry Hoffman (August 12, 1896 – November 30, 1980) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Carl H. Hoffman graduated from Juniata College in Huntingdon, ...
(R), from May 21, 1946
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Thomas E. Morgan (D)
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Louis E. Graham (R)
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Harve Tibbott (R)
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Augustine B. Kelley
Augustine Bernard Kelley (July 9, 1883 – November 20, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1957.
Life and career
Kelley was born in New Baltim ...
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Robert L. Rodgers (R)
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Howard E. Campbell (R)
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Robert J. Corbett (R)
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James G. Fulton (R)
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Herman P. Eberharter (D)
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Samuel A. Weiss
Samuel Arthur Weiss (April 15, 1902 – February 1, 1977) was an American attorney, professional football player, and Democratic politician. He represented parts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area in the Pennsylvania House ...
(D), until January 7, 1946
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Frank Buchanan (D), from May 21, 1946
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
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Aime Forand
Aime Joseph Forand (May 23, 1895 – January 18, 1972) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Forand served in the United States House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district from 1937 to 1939 and ...
(D)
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John E. Fogarty (D), from February 7, 1945
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
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L. Mendel Rivers (D)
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John J. Riley (D)
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Butler B. Hare (D)
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Joseph R. Bryson
Joseph Raleigh Bryson (January 18, 1893 – March 10, 1953) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Brevard, North Carolina, Bryson moved, with his parents, to Greenville, South Carolina, i ...
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James P. Richards (D)
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John L. McMillan (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large porti ...
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Karl E. Mundt (R)
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Francis Case (R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
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B. Carroll Reece (R)
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John Jennings Jr. (R)
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C. Estes Kefauver (D)
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Albert A. Gore Sr. (D)
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Harold Earthman (D)
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J. Percy Priest (D)
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W. Wirt Courtney
William Wirt Courtney (September 7, 1889 – April 6, 1961) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
Biography
Born in Franklin, Tennessee, Courtney was the son of Wirt Courtney and Anne (Neely) Courtney. He graduate ...
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Tom J. Murray (D)
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Jere Cooper
Jere Cooper (July 20, 1893 – December 18, 1957) was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee.
Biography
Cooper was born on a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee, son of Joseph W. and Viola May (Cooper) Cooper. He a ...
(D)
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Clifford Davis (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman (August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976) was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to ...
(D)
: .
Jesse M. Combs (D)
: .
Lindley Beckworth
Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. (June 30, 1913 – March 9, 1984) was an American judge and politician who served as a United States representative from Texas and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and career
Born on June 30, ...
(D)
: .
Sam Rayburn (D)
: .
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
(D)
: .
Luther A. Johnson (D), until July 17, 1946
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Olin E. Teague (D), from August 24, 1946
: .
Tom Pickett (D)
: .
Albert Thomas (D)
: .
Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
: .
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 ...
(D)
: .
William R. Poage (D)
: .
Fritz G. Lanham (D)
: .
Ed Gossett (D)
: .
John E. Lyle Jr. (D)
: .
Milton H. West (D)
: .
R. Ewing Thomason (D)
: .
Sam M. Russell (D)
: .
Eugene Worley
Francis Eugene Worley (October 10, 1908 – December 17, 1974) was a United States representative from Texas and later an Associate Judge and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and career
Born on O ...
(D)
: .
George H. Mahon (D)
: .
Paul J. Kilday (D)
: .
O. Clark Fisher (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
: .
Walter K. Granger (D)
: .
J. W. Robinson (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 ...
: .
Charles A. Plumley (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 ...
: .
S. Otis Bland
Schuyler Otis Bland (May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the College of William and Mary. He was a teacher and a lawyer in p ...
(D)
: .
Ralph Hunter Daughton (D)
: .
Dave E. Satterfield Jr. (D), until February 15, 1945
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J. Vaughan Gary
Julian Vaughan Gary (February 25, 1892 – September 6, 1973) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Gary was a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1912, LL.B., 1915). He was admitted to th ...
(D), from March 6, 1945
: .
Patrick H. Drewry (D)
: .
Thomas G. Burch (D), until May 31, 1946
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Thomas Bahnson Stanley (D), from November 5, 1946
: .
Clifton A. Woodrum (D), until December 31, 1945
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J. Lindsay Almond (D), from January 22, 1946
: .
A. Willis Robertson (D), until November 5, 1946
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Burr Harrison
Burr Powell Harrison (July 2, 1904 – December 29, 1973) was a Virginia lawyer, judge and Democratic politician who was a member of the Byrd Organization and served as U.S. Congressman representing Virginia's 7th congressional district (as ha ...
(D), from November 5, 1946
: .
Howard W. Smith (D)
: .
John W. Flannagan Jr.
John William Flannagan Jr. (February 20, 1885 – April 27, 1955) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 - 1949. The John W Flannagan Dam is named af ...
(D)
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
: .
Hugh De Lacy (D)
: .
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)
: .
Charles R. Savage (D)
: .
Hal Holmes (R)
: .
Walt Horan (R)
: .
John M. Coffee (D)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the B ...
: .
Matthew M. Neely (D)
: .
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)
: .
Cleveland M. Bailey (D)
: .
Hubert S. Ellis (R)
: .
John Kee (D)
: .
E. H. Hedrick (D)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: .
Lawrence H. Smith (R)
: .
Robert K. Henry (R), until November 20, 1946, vacant thereafter
: .
William H. Stevenson (R)
: .
Thaddeus Wasielewski (D)
: .
Andrew J. Biemiller (D)
: .
Frank B. Keefe (R)
: .
Reid F. Murray (R)
: .
John W. Byrnes (R)
: .
Merlin Hull
Merlin Gray Hull (December 18, 1870 – May 17, 1953) was a lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin.
Born in Farina, Illinois to John and Adelia Hull, Merlin Hull was a graduate o ...
(P)
: .
Alvin E. O'Konski (R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the 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 southwest, and Colorado to the s ...
: .
Frank A. Barrett (R)
Non-voting members
: :
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)
: :
Joseph Rider Farrington (R)
: :
Carlos Peña Romulo (
Lib.), until July 4, 1946
: :
Jesús T. Piñero Jiménez (PPD), until September 2, 1946
::
Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD), from September 11, 1946
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Senate
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,
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Monrad Wallgren
Monrad Charles Wallgren (April 17, 1891September 18, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 13th governor of Washington from 1945 to 1949, as well as representing that state in the United States House of Representatives and the United ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned January 9, 1945, after being elected
Governor of Washington
The governor of Washington is the head of government of Washington and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.WA Const. art. III, § 2. The officeholder has a duty to enforce state laws,WA Const. art. III, § 5. the power to either a ...
.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election.
, nowrap ,
Hugh Mitchell (D)
, January 10, 1945
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,
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 capita ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Francis T. Maloney (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 16, 1945.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Thomas C. Hart
Thomas Charles Hart (June 12, 1877July 4, 1971) was an admiral in the United States Navy, whose service extended from the Spanish–American War through World War II. Following his retirement from the navy, he served briefly as a United States Se ...
(R)
, February 15, 1945
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,
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned January 17, 1945, after being elected
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...
.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election.
, nowrap ,
Frank P. Briggs (D)
, January 18, 1945
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,
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
John Moses John Moses may refer to:
* John Moses (Norwegian politician) (1781–1849), member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly
* John Moses (Illinois politician) (1825–1898), Illinois judge and politician
* John Moses (American politician) (1885–1945) ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 3, 1945.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election, which he subsequently won.
, nowrap ,
Milton Young (R)
, March 12, 1945
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,
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the 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. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
James G. Scrugham (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died June 23, 1945.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election.
, nowrap ,
Edward P. Carville (D)
, July 25, 1945
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,
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866August 6, 1945) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century. He was elected in 191 ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died August 6, 1945.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election, which he subsequently won.
, nowrap ,
William F. Knowland (R)
, August 26, 1945
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Harold H. Burton (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 30, 1945, after being appointed an
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
James W. Huffman (D)
, October 8, 1945
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,
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Happy Chandler (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 1, 1945, after becoming
Commissioner of Major League Baseball
The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive officer of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the associated Minor League Baseball (MiLB) – a constellation of leagues and clubs known as "organized baseball". Under the direction of the Commiss ...
.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
William A. Stanfill (R)
, November 19, 1945
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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 Wyomi ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
John W. Thomas (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 10, 1945.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election, which he subsequently lost.
, nowrap ,
Charles C. Gossett (D)
, November 17, 1945
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,
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)
, nowrap ,
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Treas ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died May 28, 1946.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Thomas G. Burch (D)
, May 31, 1946
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Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
John H. Bankhead II (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died June 12, 1946.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
George R. Swift (D)
, June 15, 1946
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Warren Austin (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 2, 1946, after being appointed United States representative on the
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...
.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election.
, nowrap ,
Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and R ...
(R)
, November 1, 1946
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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 ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Charles O. Andrews (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died September 18, 1946.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
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)
, September 25, 1946
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Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = "Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,765 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
George R. Swift (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
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)
, November 6, 1946
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,
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 capita ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Thomas C. Hart
Thomas Charles Hart (June 12, 1877July 4, 1971) was an admiral in the United States Navy, whose service extended from the Spanish–American War through World War II. Following his retirement from the navy, he served briefly as a United States Se ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Raymond E. Baldwin (R)
, December 27, 1946
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Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
William A. Stanfill (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946. Successor was elected to finish term
, nowrap ,
John S. Cooper (R)
, November 6, 1946
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
James W. Huffman (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946. Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Kingsley A. Taft (R)
, November 6, 1946
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,
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)
, nowrap ,
Thomas G. Burch (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Absalom W. Robertson (D)
, November 6, 1946
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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 Wyomi ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Charles C. Gossett (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 6, 1946.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Henry Dworshak
Henry Clarence Dworshak Jr. (August 29, 1894July 23, 1962) was a United States Senator and Congressman from Idaho. Originally from Minnesota, he was a Republican from Burley, and served over 22 years in the House and Senate.
Early years
Born in ...
(R)
, November 6, 1946
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,
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 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Josiah Bailey (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died December 15, 1946.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election, which he subsequently lost.
, nowrap ,
William B. Umstead
William Bradley Umstead (May 13, 1895November 7, 1954) was an United States of America, American politician who served as a United States Senators, United States Senator and the List of Governors of North Carolina, 63rd governor of North Carolin ...
(D)
, December 18, 1946
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,
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
(1)
, nowrap ,
Hugh Mitchell (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 25, 1946. Successor was appointed to finish the term already having to be elected the next term.
, nowrap ,
Harry P. Cain
Harry Pulliam Cain (January 10, 1906 – March 3, 1979) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Washington who served as a Republican from 1946 to 1953. Cain is mainly remembered for his conservative and often hig ...
(R)
, December 26, 1946
House of Representatives
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, Vacant
, style="font-size:80%" ,
John E. Fogarty resigned during the previous Congress.
, nowrap ,
John E. Fogarty (D)
, February 7, 1945
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,
, nowrap,
James F. O'Connor (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 15, 1945
, nowrap ,
Wesley A. D'Ewart (R)
, June 5, 1945
, -
,
, nowrap,
Dave E. Satterfield Jr. (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 15, 1945, to become general counsel and executive director of the Life Insurance Association of America
, nowrap ,
J. Vaughan Gary
Julian Vaughan Gary (February 25, 1892 – September 6, 1973) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Gary was a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1912, LL.B., 1915). He was admitted to th ...
(D)
, March 6, 1945
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,
, nowrap,
James V. Heidinger (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 22, 1945
, nowrap ,
Roy Clippinger (R)
, November 6, 1945
, -
,
, nowrap,
Clinton P. 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)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned June 30, 1945, after being appointed
Secretary of Agriculture
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
, -
,
, nowrap,
D. Lane Powers (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 30, 1945, to become a member of the Public Utilities Commission of New Jersey
, nowrap ,
Frank A. Mathews Jr. (R)
, November 6, 1945
, -
,
, nowrap,
James W. Mott (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 12, 1945
, nowrap ,
A. Walter Norblad (R)
, January 18, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Joseph W. Ervin (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died December 25, 1945
, nowrap ,
Sam Ervin
Samuel James Ervin Jr. (September 27, 1896April 23, 1985) was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A native of Morganton, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often ...
(D)
, January 22, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Samuel Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein (February 5, 1885 – April 22, 1954) was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York (22-year tenure), a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and a Soviet spy. He played a key role in establishing the committee th ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 30, 1945
, nowrap ,
Arthur G. Klein (D)
, February 19, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 31, 1945, to become president of the American Plant Food Council, Inc.
, nowrap ,
J. Lindsay Almond (D)
, January 22, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Robert Ramspeck (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 31, 1945, to become executive vice-president of the Air Transport Association
, nowrap ,
Helen D. Mankin (D)
, February 12, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Samuel A. Weiss
Samuel Arthur Weiss (April 15, 1902 – February 1, 1977) was an American attorney, professional football player, and Democratic politician. He represented parts of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area in the Pennsylvania House ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned January 7, 1946, after being elected judge of Common Pleas in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Allegheny County () is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Southwestern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia Co ...
, nowrap ,
Frank Buchanan (D)
, May 21, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
J. Buell Snyder (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died February 24, 1946
, nowrap ,
Carl H. Hoffman (R)
, May 21, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
William O. Burgin (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died April 11, 1946
, nowrap ,
Eliza Jane Pratt
Eliza Jane Pratt (March 5, 1902 – May 13, 1981) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, the first woman to represent her state in the U.S. Congress.
She was the only woman elected to the U.S. House from North Carolina until the 1992 e ...
(D)
, May 25, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Thomas G. Burch (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned May 31, 1946, after being appointed to the
U.S. Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
, nowrap ,
Thomas B. Stanley (D)
, November 5, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Luther A. Johnson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned July 17, 1946, after becoming judge of the
United States Tax Court
The United States Tax Court (in case citations, T.C.) is a federal trial court of record established by Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, section 8 of which provides (in part) that the Congress has the power to "constitute Tr ...
, nowrap ,
Olin E. Teague (D)
, August 24, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
John W. Murphy (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned July 17, 1946, to become judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
, nowrap ,
James P. Scoblick (R)
, November 5, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
William Gallagher (DFL)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died August 13, 1946
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
, -
,
,
Jesús T. Piñero (PPD)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 2, 1946, after being appointed
Governor of Puerto Rico
,
Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD)
, September 11, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
William B. Barry (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 20, 1946
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
, -
,
, nowrap,
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)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 6, 1946, after being elected to the
U.S. Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
, -
,
, nowrap,
Henry Dworshak
Henry Clarence Dworshak Jr. (August 29, 1894July 23, 1962) was a United States Senator and Congressman from Idaho. Originally from Minnesota, he was a Republican from Burley, and served over 22 years in the House and Senate.
Early years
Born in ...
(R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946, after being elected to the
U.S. Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
, -
,
, nowrap,
Absalom W. Robertson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 5, 1946, after being elected to the
U.S. Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
, nowrap ,
Burr Harrison
Burr Powell Harrison (July 2, 1904 – December 29, 1973) was a Virginia lawyer, judge and Democratic politician who was a member of the Byrd Organization and served as U.S. Congressman representing Virginia's 7th congressional district (as ha ...
(D)
, November 5, 1946
, -
,
, nowrap,
Robert K. Henry (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died November 20, 1946
, Vacant
, Not filled this term
Committees
Senate
*
Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
; Ranking Member:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
*
Appropriations (Chairman:
Kenneth McKellar; Ranking Member:
Styles Bridges)
*
Atomic Energy Atomic energy or energy of atoms is energy carried by atoms. The term originated in 1903 when Ernest Rutherford began to speak of the possibility of atomic energy. Isaac Asimov, ''Atom: Journey Across the Sub-Atomic Cosmos'', New York:1992 Plume, ...
(Select)
* United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman:
Scott W. Lucas
Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1 ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles W. Tobey)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Robert F. Wagner; Ranking Member:
Charles W. Tobey)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures Investigation, 1944, Campaign Expenditures Investigation, 1944 (Special) (Chairman:
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures Investigation, 1946, Campaign Expenditures Investigation, 1946 (Special) (Chairman:
Allen J. Ellender)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
Sheridan Downey
Sheridan Downey (March 11, 1884 – October 25, 1961) was an American lawyer and a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950.
Early life
He was born in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in western Wyoming, the son of the ...
; Ranking Member:
William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Civil Service Laws, Civil Service Laws (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Allen J. Ellender; Ranking Member:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman: Josiah W. Bailey; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson then Arthur H. Vandenberg)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
Theodore G. Bilbo; Ranking Member:
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman:
James E. Murray; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member:
Clyde M. Reed)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman:
J. Lister Hill; Ranking Member: George D. Aiken)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman:
Walter F. George; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman:
Tom Connally; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson then
Arthur Capper
Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Immigration, Immigration (Chairman: Richard B. Russell; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson then Chan Gurney)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Interoceanic Canals (Chairman:
Tom Stewart; Ranking Member:
Harlan J. Bushfield)
* United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman:
Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882January 6, 1975) was an attorney and an American politician of the Democratic Party in Montana, which he represented as a United States senator from 1923 until 1947.
Born in Massachusetts, Wheeler began ...
; Ranking Member:
Wallace H. White Jr.)
* United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, Investigate the National Defense Program (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
John H. Overton; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Pat McCarran
Patrick Anthony McCarran (August 8, 1876 – September 28, 1954) was an American farmer, attorney, judge, and Democratic politician who represented Nevada in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1954. McCarran was born in Reno, Nevada, atte ...
; Ranking Member:
Alexander Wiley)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Alben W. Barkley; Ranking Member:
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an Politics of the United States, American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the List of governors of Maine, 54th Governor ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
John H. Overton; Ranking Member:
Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas ...
; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Joseph F. Guffey; Ranking Member:
Clyde M. Reed)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
David I. Walsh; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson then
Charles W. Tobey)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Organization of Congress, Organization of Congress (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
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 ...
; Ranking Member:
Wallace H. White Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
James M. Tunnell; Ranking Member:
Henrik Shipstead
Henrik Shipstead (January 8, 1881June 26, 1960) was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1947, from the state of Minnesota. He served first as a member of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from 1923 to 1941 an ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Resources (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Dennis Chavez; Ranking Member:
Clyde M. Reed)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Represe ...
; Ranking Member:
Raymond E. Willis)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
; Ranking Member:
Styles Bridges)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Charles O. Andrews; Ranking Member:
Robert A. Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leade ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Carl A. Hatch; Ranking Member: Chan Gurney)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Remodeling the Senate Chamber, Remodeling the Senate Chamber (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Harry Flood Byrd, Harry F. Byrd; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Vandenberg)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Small Business Enterprises, Small Business Enterprises (Special) (Chairman:
James E. Murray)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Millard E. Tydings; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Vandenberg)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wildlife Resources, Wildlife Resources (Special)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wool Production, Wool Production (Special) (Chairman:
Joseph C. O'Mahoney)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman:
John J. Cochran; Ranking Member:
Leo E. Allen)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman:
John W. Flannagan Jr.
John William Flannagan Jr. (February 20, 1885 – April 27, 1955) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 - 1949. The John W Flannagan Dam is named af ...
; Ranking Member:
Clifford R. Hope)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Clarence Cannon; Ranking Member:
John Taber)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Brent Spence
Brent Spence (December 24, 1874 – September 18, 1967), a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democratic Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky.
Spence was born in Newport, Kentucky to Philip and Virginia (Berry) ...
; Ranking Member:
Jesse P. Wolcott)
* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen (January 5, 1891 – January 5, 1969) was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana. He served eight terms as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat from ...
; Ranking Member:
J. Roland Kinzer)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph (March 8, 1902May 8, 1998) was an American politician from West Virginia. A Democrat, he was most notable for his service in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1947 and the United States Senate from 1958 to ...
; Ranking Member: Edward H. Rees)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Dan R. McGehee; Ranking Member:
J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican. He was later a convicted criminal who served nine months in fe ...
)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Compton I. White; Ranking Member:
Chauncey W. Reed)
* United States House Select Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources, Conservation of Wildlife Resources (Select) (Chairman:
A. Willis Robertson)
* United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman:
Alfred J. Elliott; Ranking Member:
Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart (May 31, 1890 – October 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and Politics of the United States, politician. Gearhart, a Republican Party (United States), Republican, served as the United States House of Representatives ...
)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
John L. McMillan; Ranking Member:
Everett M. Dirksen)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman:
Graham A. Barden; Ranking Member: George Anthony Dondero, George A. Dondero)
* United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman:
Herbert C. Bonner; Ranking Member:
Ralph A. Gamble)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman:
James Domengeaux; Ranking Member:
Clarence E. Hancock)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman:
Ed Gossett; Ranking Member:
Gerald W. Landis
Gerald Wayne Landis (February 23, 1895 – September 6, 1971) was an American educator and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1939 to 1949.
Biography
Born in Bloomfield, Indiana, Landis attended the pub ...
)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman: O.C. Fisher; Ranking Member:
Charles A. Plumley)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
George F. Rogers; Ranking Member:
B. Carroll Reece)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman:
Carter Manasco
Carter Manasco (January 3, 1902 – February 5, 1992) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Townley, Alabama, Manasco attended the public schools and Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama Sch ...
; Ranking Member:
Clare E. Hoffman)
* United States House Committee on Flood Control, Flood Control (Chairman:
William M. Whittington; Ranking Member: Charles R. Clason)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman:
Sol Bloom
Sol Bloom (March 9, 1870March 7, 1949) was an American song-writer and politician from New York City who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet music publisher in Chicago. He served fourteen terms in the United States House of ...
; Ranking Member: Charles Aubrey Eaton)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: John Lesinski Sr., John Lesinski; Ranking Member:
Noah M. Mason)
* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian 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:
Karl E. Mundt)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman:
C. Jasper Bell; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch)
* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea (July 11, 1874 – June 20, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Biography
Lea was born near Highland Springs, California, in southwe ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles A. Wolverton)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman:
Augustine B. Kelley
Augustine Bernard Kelley (July 9, 1883 – November 20, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1941 to 1957.
Life and career
Kelley was born in New Baltim ...
; Ranking Member:
J. Harry McGregor)
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Beyond their Scope of Authority, Investigate Acts of Executive Agencies Beyond their Scope of Authority (Select) (Chairman:
Howard W. Smith)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
John R. Murdock; Ranking Member: Dewey Jackson Short)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners (May 30, 1875 – April 19, 1962) was a Democratic Congressman from the Dallas, Texas area, serving from 1913 to 1947. He rose to become Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.
Early life and career
Hatto ...
; Ranking Member:
Clarence E. Hancock)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman: Mary Teresa Norton; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch)
* United States House Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Donald L. O'Toole; Ranking Member: C.W. Bishop)
* United States House Committee on Memorials, Memorials (Chairman: Antonio M. Fernandez; Ranking Member: James Heidinger then
Roy Clippinger)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman:
S. Otis Bland
Schuyler Otis Bland (May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the College of William and Mary. He was a teacher and a lawyer in p ...
; Ranking Member:
Richard J. Welch)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 – September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his rash disclosure of classified nav ...
; Ranking Member:
Walter G. Andrews)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman: Andrew Somers; Ranking Member:
John M. Robsion)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883 – June 1, 1981) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years and was influential in the 20th century expansion of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Democratic ...
; Ranking Member:
James W. Mott)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
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 ...
; Ranking Member: Fred A. Hartley)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Charles A. Buckley; Ranking Member:
William H. Stevenson)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
George D. O'Brien; Ranking Member: Fred A. Hartley)
* United States House Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, Post-War Military Policy (Select) (Chairman:
Clifton A. Woodrum)
* United States House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (Special) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Pete Jarman; Ranking Member:
Robert F. Rich)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Fritz G. Lanham; Ranking Member:
Pehr G. Holmes)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
J. Hardin Peterson; Ranking Member:
Karl M. LeCompte)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman:
Eugene J. Keogh; Ranking Member:
John M. Robsion)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman:
Joseph J. Mansfield; Ranking Member: George Anthony Dondero, George A. Dondero)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman: J.W. Robinson; Ranking Member:
Jesse P. Wolcott)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Adolph J. Sabath; Ranking Member:
Leo E. Allen)
* United States House Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business (Select) (Chairman:
Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman (August 6, 1893 – March 7, 1976) was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to ...
)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate the Disposition of Surplus Property, Disposition of Surplus Property (Select) (Chairman:
Roger C. Slaughter)
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
Hugh Peterson
Hugh Peterson (August 21, 1898 – October 3, 1961) was a U.S. political figure and lawyer from the state of Georgia.
Life
Peterson was born near Ailey, Georgia in 1898 and attended the Brewton–Parker Institute in Mount Vernon, Georgia ...
; Ranking Member:
Homer D. Angell
Homer Daniel Angell (January 12, 1875 – March 31, 1968) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon, serving eight terms from 1939 to 1955.
Biography
Angell was born on a farm near The Dalles, Oregon in 1875. He received his undergraduate ...
)
* United States House Committee on Un-American Activities, Un-American Activities (Chairman: John S. Wood; Ranking Member:
J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas (January 16, 1895 – November 19, 1970) was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey as a Republican. He was later a convicted criminal who served nine months in fe ...
)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman:
Clair Engle
Clair Engle (September 21, 1911July 30, 1964) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the v ...
; Ranking Member:
Clare E. Hoffman)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman:
Robert L. Doughton; Ranking Member:
Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson (October 20, 1880 – August 21, 1953) was an American politician and journalist, who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1949 as a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 192 ...
)
* United States House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman:
John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin (March 29, 1882 – November 26, 1960) was a Democratic politician from Mississippi who served sixteen terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley A ...
; Ranking Member:
Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson (October 20, 1880 – August 21, 1953) was an American politician and journalist, who represented Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1949 as a member of the Republican Party. From 1919 to 192 ...
)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Atomic Energy (Chairman: Sen.
Brien McMahon
Brien McMahon, born James O'Brien McMahon (October 6, 1903July 28, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the est ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee to Arrange the Inauguration for President-elect, Arrange the Inauguration for President-elect (Chairman: Sen. Harry Flood Byrd, Harry F. Byrd)
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Legislative Budget, Legislative Budget
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
Alben W. Barkley)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Organization of Congress, Organization of Congress (Chairman: Vacant; Vice Chairman: Rep. Mike Monroney)
* 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 Represe ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep.
Pete Jarman)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen.
Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) was an American newspaper publisher, politician, and leader of the Democratic Party in Virginia for four decades as head of a political faction that became known as the Byrd Organization. ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep.
Robert L. Doughton)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Selective Service Deferments, Selective Service Deferments
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Robert F. Doughton; Vice Chairman: Sen.
Walter F. George)
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (architect), David Lynn
* Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
* Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren
* Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans
* Public Printer of the United States: Augustus E. Giegengack
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
* Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins (Senate Parliamentarian), Charles Watkins
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey, until January 29, 1945
** Leslie Biffle, from February 8, 1945
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Ruskin McArdle
* Secretary for the Majority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Majority: Leslie Biffle, until February 8, 1945
** Felton McLellan Johnston, from October 1945
* Secretary for the Minority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Minority: Carl A. Loeffler
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Wall Doxey
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist)
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: South Trimble, until November 23, 1946
** Harry Newlin Megill, from November 23, 1946
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Ralph R. Roberts (politician), Ralph R. Roberts
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: George J. Maurer (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
See also
* 1944 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1944 United States presidential election
** 1944 United States Senate elections
** 1944 United States House of Representatives elections
* 1946 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
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1946 United States Senate elections
The 1946 United States Senate elections were held November 5, 1946, in the middle of Democratic President Harry S. Truman's first term after Roosevelt’s passing. The Republicans took control of the Senate by picking up twelve seats, mostly f ...
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1946 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1946 United States House of Representatives elections took place 19 months after President Harry S. Truman assumed office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Truman was vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was thr ...
Notes
External links
Clerk of the House of Representatives
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