The 77th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together the ...
. It met in
Washington, DC
)
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from January 3, 1941, to January 3, 1943, during the ninth and tenth years of
Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
was based on the
Sixteenth Census of the United States in 1930.
Both chambers maintained a
Democratic
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
majority - with the Senate being a
supermajority
A supermajority, supra-majority, qualified majority, or special majority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority. Supermajority r ...
. 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
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...
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 then record third term, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government
trifecta
Trifecta
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.
This was the first Congress to have more than one Senate President (the
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 p ...
),
John Garner and
Henry Wallace, due to the passage of the
20th amendment in 1933.
Major events
* January 20, 1941: 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 third term.
* December 7, 1941:
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawa ...
* December 8, 1941:
Joint Session of Congress
A joint session of the United States Congress is a gathering of members of the two chambers of the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States: the United States Senate, Senate and the United States House o ...
met to hear President Roosevelt deliver his
"Day of Infamy" speech
* December 26, 1941:
Joint session of the United States Congress
A joint session of the United States Congress is a gathering of members of the two chambers of the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Joint sessions can be held on a ...
met in the Senate chamber for an address by
British Prime Minister
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern ...
Winston Churchill.
Major legislation and resolutions
* March 11, 1941:
Lend Lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...
Act, , Sess. 1, ch. 11,
* August 18, 1941:
Flood Control Act of 1941 The Flood Control Act of 1941 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by US President Franklin Roosevelt that authorized civil engineering projects such as dams, levees, dikes, and other flood control measures through the United Sta ...
, , Sess. 1, ch. 377,
* December 8, 1941: Resolution—
War between United States and Japan, , Sess. 1, ch. 561,
* December 11, 1941: Resolution—
War between United States and Germany, , Sess. 1, ch. 564,
* December 11, 1941: Resolution—
War between United States and Italy, , Sess. 1, ch. 565,
* January 27, 1942:
Air Raid Attack Act of 1942, , Sess. 2, ch. 20,
* January 30, 1942:
Emergency Price Control Act of 1942
The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is a United States statute imposing an economic intervention as restrictive measures to control inflationary spiraling and pricing elasticity of goods and services while providing economic efficiency to ...
, , Sess. 2, ch. 26,
* June 5, 1942: Resolution—
War between United States and Bulgaria, , Sess. 2, ch. 323,
* June 5, 1942: Resolution—
War between United States and Hungary, , Sess. 2, ch. 324,
* June 5, 1942: Resolution—
War between United States and Romania, , Sess. 2, ch. 325,
* June 22, 1942: Resolution—
United States Flag Code
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, including recognition of the
Pledge of Allegiance
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, , Sess. 2, ch. 435,
* October 2, 1942:
Stabilization Act of 1942
The Stabilization Act of 1942 (), formally entitled "An Act to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to Aid in Preventing Inflation, and for Other Purposes," and sometimes referred to as the "Inflation Control Act", was an act of Congres ...
, , Sess. 2, ch. 578,
Select committees
*
Truman Committee
The Truman Committee, formally known as the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, was a United States Congressional investigative body, headed by Senator Harry S. Truman. The bipartisan special committee was form ...
(officially the
)
Leadership
Senate
*
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...
:
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Texas who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under Frank ...
(D), until January 20, 1941
**
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, and the 10th U.S. ...
(D), from January 20, 1941
*
President pro tempore
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:
Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Earl ...
(D), until June 22, 1941
**
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 Trea ...
(D), from July 10, 1941
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority leader
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Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
*
Majority Whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology ...
:
Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) ...
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
Joshua B. Lee
Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority leader:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
*
Republican Conference Secretary
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
:
Wallace H. White Jr.
*
National Senatorial Committee Chair:
John G. Townsend Jr.
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
Speaker may refer to:
Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
* A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
** In ...
:
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time ...
(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority leader
In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. :
John William McCormack
*
Democratic Whip
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
:
Patrick J. Boland
Patrick Joseph Boland (January 6, 1880 – May 18, 1942) was a United States representative for Pennsylvania 11th District.
Biography
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Irish immigrants,
he attended St. Thomas College (now the University of S ...
, until May 18, 1942
**
Robert Ramspeck
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Richard M. Duncan
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Patrick H. Drewry
Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority leader:
Joseph William Martin Jr.
Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American Republican politician who served as the 44th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955. He represented a House district ...
*
Republican Whip:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a United States of America, U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House minority whip, House Mino ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman
The Senate Republican Conference is the formal organization of the Republican Senators in the United States Senate, who currently number 50. Over the last century, the mission of the conference has expanded and been shaped as a means of informi ...
:
Roy O. Woodruff
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
J. William Ditter
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Members
Senate
Senators are 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 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1942; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1944; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1946.
Currently, this is the last Congressional session in which the Democratic Party commanded all Senate seats from the
South
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Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...
.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = " Alabama"
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, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...
: 2.
John H. Bankhead II
John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.
He served in the Senate ...
(D)
: 3.
J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) a ...
(D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States. It is the list of U.S. states and territories by area, 6th largest and the list of U.S. states and territories by population, 14 ...
: 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 Ar ...
(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 ...
: 2.
John E. Miller (D), until March 31, 1941
::
G. Lloyd Spencer
George Lloyd Spencer (March 27, 1893January 14, 1981) was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state in the United States Senate from 1941 to 1943.
G. Lloyd Spencer was born in Sarcoxie, Miss ...
(D), from April 1, 1941
: 3.
Hattie Caraway
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American politician who became the first woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator. Caraway represented Arkansas. She was the first woman to preside ...
(D)
California
California is a 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 ...
: 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)
: 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 f ...
(D)
Colorado
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: 2.
Edwin C. Johnson
Edwin Carl Johnson (January 1, 1884 – May 30, 1970) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as both governor of and U.S. senator from the state of Colorado.
Background
Johnson was born in Scandia in Republic County ...
(D)
: 3.
Alva B. Adams (D), until December 1, 1941
::
Eugene Donald Millikin
Eugene Donald Millikin (February 12, 1891July 26, 1958) was a United States senator from Colorado who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956.
Biography
Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Millikin graduated from the law schoo ...
(R), from December 20, 1941
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
: 1.
Francis T. Maloney
Francis Thomas Maloney (March 31, 1894January 16, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1933 to 1935 and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945. He was a Democrat.
Early life
Maloney was born in Meriden, New Haven ...
(D)
: 3.
John A. Danaher (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 adjacen ...
: 1.
James M. Tunnell (D)
: 2.
James H. Hughes (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, a ...
: 1.
Charles O. Andrews
Charles Oscar Andrews (March 7, 1877September 18, 1946) was a Democratic Party politician from Florida, who represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 until 1946.
Early life
Charles O. Andrews was born in Ponce de Leon, Florida ...
(D)
: 3.
Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miam ...
(D)
Georgia
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* 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 t ...
: 2.
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sena ...
(D)
: 3.
Richard Russell Jr.
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almos ...
(D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and W ...
: 2.
John W. Thomas
John William Thomas (January 4, 1874 – November 10, 1945) was an American politician, a United States Senate, United States Senator from Idaho. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he served for a total of over ten years in two dif ...
(R)
: 3.
David Worth Clark
David Worth Clark, aka D. Worth Clark (April 2, 1902June 19, 1955), was a Democratic congressman and United States Senator from Idaho, its first U.S. Senator born in the state.
Early years
Clark was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and attended publi ...
(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 Roc ...
: 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 (1939–195 ...
(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 ...
: 1.
Raymond E. Willis
Raymond Eugene Willis (August 11, 1875March 21, 1956) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Waterloo, Indiana, he attended the public schools and graduated from Wabash College in 1896. He learned the printer's trade in Waterloo and ...
(R)
: 3.
Frederick Van Nuys
Frederick Van Nuys (April 16, 1874 – January 25, 1944) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from Indiana Law School ( ...
(D)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, 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: Wiscon ...
: 2.
Clyde L. Herring (D)
: 3.
Guy Mark Gillette
Guy Mark Gillette (February 3, 1879March 3, 1973) was an American politician serving as a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from Iowa. In the U.S. Senate, Gillette was elected, re-elected, defeated, elected again, and defeated again.
...
(D)
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to ...
: 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 s ...
(R)
: 3.
Clyde M. Reed
Clyde Martin Reed (October 19, 1871 – November 8, 1949) was an American politician from Kansas who served as both the 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state.
Biography
Born in Champaign County, Illinois, Reed moved to Kans ...
(R)
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virgini ...
: 2.
Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his political positions, he also s ...
(D)
: 3.
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
(D)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-smal ...
: 2.
Allen J. Ellender
Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972) was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long. As Senator he co ...
(D)
: 3.
John H. Overton
John Holmes Overton Sr. (September 17, 1875 – May 14, 1948), was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Thomas Overton Brooks, was also a US representative, from the Shreveport-based 4th distric ...
(D)
Maine
Maine () is a U.S. state, state in the New England and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and territories of Canad ...
: 1.
Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, served as the 54th Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1935 to 1941 and in ...
(R)
: 2.
Wallace H. White Jr. (R)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), 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; ...
: 1.
George L. P. Radcliffe (D)
: 3.
Millard Tydings
Millard Evelyn Tydings (April 6, 1890February 9, 1961) was an American attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland, serving in the House from 192 ...
(D)
: 1.
David I. Walsh
David Ignatius Walsh (November 11, 1872June 11, 1947) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 46th Governor of Massachusetts before serving several terms in the Unite ...
(D)
: 2.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and Republican United States senator from Massachusetts in both Senate seats in non-consecutive terms of service and a United States ambassador. He was considered ...
(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 H. Vandenberg
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951. A member of the Republican Party, he participated in the creation of the United Nati ...
(R)
: 2.
Prentiss M. Brown (D)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
: 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
Joseph Hurst Ball (November 3, 1905December 18, 1993) was an American journalist, politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of l ...
(R), until November 17, 1942
::
Arthur E. Nelson
Arthur Emanuel Nelson (May 10, 1892April 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota during the end of 1942 and beginning of 1943
Early life and education
Born in Browns Valley, Minnes ...
(R), from November 18, 1942
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. Mis ...
: 1.
Theodore G. Bilbo (D)
: 2.
Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Earl ...
(D), until June 22, 1941
::
James Eastland
James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation on Dece ...
(D), June 30, 1941 – September 28, 1941
::
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey (August 8, 1892March 2, 1962) was an American politician from Holly Springs, Mississippi. He served as a Democrat from Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941. After t ...
(D), from September 29, 1941
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
: 1.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
(D)
: 3.
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a ...
(D)
Montana
Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...
: 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 p ...
(D)
: 2.
James Edward Murray
James Edward Murray (May 3, 1876March 23, 1961) was an American politician and United States Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961.
Background
Born on a fa ...
(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 so ...
: 1.
Hugh A. Butler (R)
: 2.
George William Norris
George William Norris (July 11, 1861September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of f ...
(I)
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.
Berkeley L. Bunker (D), until December 6, 1942
::
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Scrugham was bo ...
(D), from December 7, 1942
: 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, atten ...
(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
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career i ...
(R)
: 3.
Charles W. Tobey (R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...
: 1.
William Warren Barbour
William Warren Barbour (July 31, 1888November 22, 1943) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 until his death in office in 1943. He was also a bus ...
(R)
: 2.
William H. Smathers
William Howell Smathers (January 7, 1891September 24, 1955) was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey, serving from 1937 to 1943.
Biography
Smathers was born on January 7, 1891, on a plantation near Waynesville, North Carolina.
He a ...
(D)
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
: 1.
Dennis Chavez
Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius.
The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometime ...
(D)
: 2.
Carl Hatch
Carl Atwood Hatch (November 27, 1889 – September 15, 1963) was a United States senator from New Mexico and later was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Education and career
Hat ...
(D)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
: 1.
James M. Mead
James Michael Mead (December 27, 1885March 15, 1964) was an American politician from New York. A Democrat, among the offices in which he served was member of the Erie County Board of Supervisors (1914-1915), New York State Assembly (1915-1918 ...
(D)
: 3.
Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877May 4, 1953) was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.
Born in Prussia, Wagner migrated with his family to the United States in 1885. After graduating ...
(D)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...
: 2.
Josiah William Bailey (D)
: 3.
Robert Rice Reynolds
Robert Rice Reynolds (June 18, 1884 – February 13, 1963) was an American politician who served as a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 to 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among h ...
(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, S ...
: 1.
William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30, 1886November 8, 1959) was a prominent American lawyer and politician from North Dakota, where he was an infamous character, bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of the governor's office and ...
(R-NPL)
: 3.
Gerald Nye
Gerald Prentice Nye (December 19, 1892 – July 17, 1971) was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. He was a Republican and supporter of World War II-era isolationism, chairing the ...
(R)
Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
: 1.
Harold Hitz Burton
Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State ...
(R)
: 3.
Robert A. Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate
The United States Senate is the ...
(R)
Oklahoma
: 2.
Joshua B. Lee (D)
: 3.
Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
(D)
Oregon
Oregon () is a 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 Idah ...
: 2.
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
(R)
: 3.
Rufus C. Holman
Rufus Cecil Holman (October 14, 1877November 27, 1959) was an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator for a single term during World War II. He was an officer in the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, then served a ...
(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, Ma ...
: 1.
Joseph F. Guffey
Joseph Finch "Joe" Guffey (December 29, 1870March 6, 1959) was an American business executive and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Elected from Pennsylvania to the United States Senate ...
(D)
: 3.
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United Sta ...
(R)
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 i ...
: 1.
Peter G. Gerry
Peter Goelet Gerry (September 18, 1879 – October 31, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and later, as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island. He is the only U.S. Senator in American h ...
(D)
: 2.
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
(D)
South Carolina
)'' Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = "Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = G ...
: 2.
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, ...
(D), until July 17, 1941
::
Alva M. Lumpkin
Alva Moore Lumpkin (November 13, 1886 – August 1, 1941) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and the United States District Court for the Western District of South Car ...
(D), July 22, 1941 – August 1, 1941
::
Roger C. Peace
Roger Craft Peace (May 19, 1899August 20, 1968) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville, he attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University in 1919. He was a newspaper repo ...
(D), August 5, 1941 – November 4, 1941
::
Burnet R. Maybank
Burnet Rhett Maybank (March 7, 1899September 1, 1954) was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-186 ...
(D), from November 5, 1941
: 3.
Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
(D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
: 2.
William J. Bulow (D)
: 3.
John Chandler Gurney
John Chandler "Chan" Gurney (May 21, 1896March 9, 1985) was an American businessman and politician from South Dakota. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Senator from 1939 to 1951.
Early life
Gurney was born in Yankton, ...
(R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...
: 1.
Kenneth McKellar (D)
: 2.
Tom Stewart (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
: 1.
Tom Connally
Thomas Terry Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Represent ...
(D)
: 2.
Morris Sheppard (D), until April 9, 1941
::
Andrew Jackson Houston
Andrew Jackson Houston (June 21, 1854June 26, 1941) was an American politician. He was a son of the famous Texas hero and statesman Sam Houston and his wife Margaret Lea Houston, and was named for his father's mentor Andrew Jackson. He served br ...
(D), April 21, 1941, until June 26, 1941
::
W. Lee O'Daniel
Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (March 11, 1890May 11, 1969) was an American Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program. Known for his populist appeal and support of Texas's business communi ...
(D), from June 28, 1941
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 its ...
: 1.
Orrice Abram Murdock Jr.
Orrice Abram "Abe" Murdock Jr. (July 18, 1893September 15, 1979) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress for Utah. From 1947 to 1957, he served as a member of the National Lab ...
(D)
: 3.
Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas w ...
(D)
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
: 1. Warren Austin (R)
: 3. George Aiken (R), from January 10, 1941
List of United States senators from Virginia, Virginia
: 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)
: 2.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Trea ...
(D)
List of United States senators from Washington, Washington
: 1. Monrad Wallgren (D)
: 3. Homer Bone (D)
List of United States senators from West Virginia, West Virginia
: 1. Harley M. Kilgore (D)
: 2. Matthew M. Neely (D), until January 12, 1941
:: Joseph Rosier (D), January 13, 1941 – November 17, 1942
:: Hugh Ike Shott (R), from November 18, 1942
List of United States senators from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: 1. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (P)
: 3. Alexander Wiley (R)
List of United States senators from Wyoming, Wyoming
: 1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)
: 2. Henry H. Schwartz (D)
House of Representatives
List of United States representatives from Alabama, Alabama
: . Frank W. Boykin (D)
: . George M. Grant (D)
: . Henry B. Steagall (D)
: . Sam Hobbs (D)
: . Joe Starnes (D)
: . Pete Jarman (D)
: . Walter W. Bankhead (D), until February 1, 1941
:: Carter Manasco (D), from June 24, 1941
: . John Sparkman (D)
: . Luther Patrick (D)
List of United States representatives from Arizona, Arizona
: . John R. Murdock (politician), John R. Murdock (D)
List of United States representatives from Arkansas, Arkansas
: . Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)
: . Wilbur Mills (D)
: . Clyde T. Ellis (D)
: . William Fadjo Cravens (D)
: . David D. Terry (D)
: . William F. Norrell (D)
: . Oren Harris (D)
List of United States representatives from California, California
: . Clarence F. Lea (D)
: .
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a United States of America, U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House minority whip, House Mino ...
(R)
: . Frank H. Buck (D), until September 17, 1942
: . Thomas Rolph (R)
: . Richard J. Welch (R)
: . Albert E. Carter (R)
: . John H. Tolan (D)
: . Jack Z. Anderson (R)
: . Bertrand W. Gearhart (R)
: . Alfred J. Elliott (D)
: . John Carl Hinshaw (R)
: . Jerry Voorhis (D)
: . Charles Kramer (politician), Charles Kramer (D)
: . Thomas F. Ford (D)
: . John M. Costello (D)
: . Leland M. Ford (R)
: . Lee E. Geyer (D), until October 11, 1941
:: Cecil R. King (D), from August 25, 1942
: . William Ward Johnson (R)
: . Harry R. Sheppard (D)
: . Edouard Izac (D)
List of United States representatives from Colorado, Colorado
: . Lawrence Lewis (politician), Lawrence Lewis (D)
: . William S. Hill (R)
: . John Chenoweth (Colorado politician), John Chenoweth (R)
: . Edward T. Taylor (D), until September 3, 1941
:: Robert F. Rockwell (R), from December 9, 1941
List of United States representatives from Connecticut, Connecticut
: . Lucien J. Maciora (D)
: . Herman P. Kopplemann (D)
: . William J. Fitzgerald (D)
: . James A. Shanley (D)
: . Le Roy D. Downs (D)
: . J. Joseph Smith (D), until November 4, 1941
:: Joseph E. Talbot (R), from January 20, 1942
List of United States representatives from Delaware, Delaware
: . Philip A. Traynor (D)
List of United States representatives from Florida, Florida
: . J. Hardin Peterson (D)
: . Robert A. Green (D)
: . Robert L. F. Sikes (D)
: . Pat Cannon (D)
: . Joe Hendricks (D)
List of United States representatives from Georgia, Georgia
: . Hugh Peterson (D)
: . Edward E. Cox (D)
: . Stephen Pace (politician), Stephen Pace (D)
: . Albert Sidney Camp (D)
: .
Robert Ramspeck (D)
: . Carl Vinson (D)
: . Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
: . John S. Gibson (D)
: . B. Frank Whelchel (D)
: . Paul Brown (Georgia politician), Paul Brown (D)
List of United States representatives from Idaho, Idaho
: . Compton I. White (D)
: . Henry Dworshak (R)
List of United States representatives from Illinois, Illinois
: . Stephen A. Day (R)
: . William Stratton (R)
: . Arthur W. Mitchell (D)
: . Raymond S. McKeough (D)
: . Edward A. Kelly (D)
: . Harry P. Beam (D), until December 6, 1942
: . Adolph J. Sabath (D)
: . A. F. Maciejewski (D), until December 8, 1942
: . Leonard W. Schuetz (D)
: . Leo Kocialkowski (D)
: . Charles S. Dewey (R)
: . George A. Paddock (R)
: . Chauncey W. Reed (R)
: . Noah M. Mason (R)
: . Leo E. Allen (R)
: . Anton J. Johnson (R)
: . Robert B. Chiperfield (R)
: . Everett Dirksen (R)
: . Leslie Cornelius Arends (R)
: . Jessie Sumner (R)
: . William H. Wheat (R)
: . James M. Barnes (congressman), James M. Barnes (D)
: . George Evan Howell (R)
: . Edwin M. Schaefer (D)
: . Laurence F. Arnold (D)
: . James V. Heidinger (R)
: . C. W. Bishop (R)
List of United States representatives from Indiana, Indiana
: . William T. Schulte (D)
: . Charles A. Halleck (R)
: . Robert A. Grant (R)
: . George W. Gillie (R)
: . Forest Harness (R)
: . Noble J. Johnson (R)
: . Gerald W. Landis (R)
: . John W. Boehne Jr. (D)
: . Earl Wilson (politician), Earl Wilson (R)
: . Raymond S. Springer (R)
: . William Larrabee (Indiana), William H. Larrabee (D)
: . Louis Ludlow (D)
List of United States representatives from Iowa, Iowa
: . Thomas E. Martin (R)
: . William S. Jacobsen (D)
: . John W. Gwynne (R)
: . Henry O. Talle (R)
: . Karl M. LeCompte (R)
: . Paul Cunningham (Iowa), Paul H. Cunningham (R)
: . Ben F. Jensen (R)
: . Fred C. Gilchrist (R)
: . Vincent F. Harrington (D), until September 5, 1942
:: Harry E. Narey (R), from November 3, 1942
List of United States representatives from Kansas, Kansas
: . William P. Lambertson (R)
: . U. S. Guyer (R)
: . Thomas Daniel Winter (R)
: . Edward Herbert Rees (R)
: . John Mills Houston (D)
: . Frank Carlson (R)
: . Clifford R. Hope (R)
List of United States representatives from Kentucky, Kentucky
: . Noble Jones Gregory (D)
: . Beverly M. Vincent (D)
: . Emmet O'Neal (Kentucky politician), Emmet O'Neal (D)
: . Edward W. Creal (D)
: . Brent Spence (D)
: . Virgil Chapman (D)
: . Andrew J. May (D)
: . Joe B. Bates (D)
: . John M. Robsion (R)
List of United States representatives from Louisiana, Louisiana
: . Felix Edward Hébert (D)
: . Hale Boggs (D)
: . James R. Domengeaux (D)
: . Overton Brooks (D)
: . Newt V. Mills (D)
: . Jared Y. Sanders Jr. (D)
: . Vance Plauché (D)
: . A. Leonard Allen (D)
List of United States representatives from Maine, Maine
: . James C. Oliver (R)
: . Margaret Chase Smith (R)
: . Frank Fellows (politician), Frank Fellows (R)
List of United States representatives from Maryland, Maryland
: . David Jenkins Ward (D)
: . William Purington Cole Jr. (D), until October 26, 1942
: . Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (D)
: . John Ambrose Meyer (D)
: . Lansdale Sasscer (D)
: . William D. Byron (D), until February 27, 1941
:: Katharine Byron (D), from May 27, 1941
List of United States representatives from Massachusetts, Massachusetts
: . Allen T. Treadway (R)
: . Charles R. Clason (R)
: . Joseph E. Casey (D)
: . Pehr G. Holmes (R)
: . Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
: . George J. Bates (R)
: . Lawrence J. Connery (D), until October 19, 1941
:: Thomas J. Lane (D), from December 30, 1941
: . Arthur D. Healey (D), until August 3, 1942
: . Thomas H. Eliot (D)
: . George H. Tinkham (R)
: . Thomas A. Flaherty (D)
: .
John William McCormack (D)
: . Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
: .
Joseph William Martin Jr.
Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American Republican politician who served as the 44th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955. He represented a House district ...
(R)
: . Charles L. Gifford (R)
List of United States representatives from Michigan, Michigan
: . Rudolph G. Tenerowicz (D)
: . Earl C. Michener (R)
: . Paul W. Shafer (R)
: . Clare Hoffman (R)
: . Bartel J. Jonkman (R)
: . William W. Blackney (R)
: . Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
: . Fred L. Crawford (R)
: . Albert J. Engel (R)
: .
Roy O. Woodruff (R)
: . Frederick Van Ness Bradley, Fred Bradley (R)
: . Frank Eugene Hook (D)
: . George D. O'Brien (D)
: . Louis C. Rabaut (D)
: . John D. Dingell Sr. (D)
: . John Lesinski Sr. (D)
: . George Anthony Dondero (R)
List of United States representatives from Minnesota, Minnesota
: . August H. Andresen (R)
: . Joseph P. O'Hara (R)
: . Richard Pillsbury Gale (R)
: . Melvin Maas (R)
: . Oscar Youngdahl (R)
: . Harold Knutson (R)
: . Herman Carl Andersen (R)
: . William Alvin Pittenger, William Pittenger (R)
: . Rich T. Buckler (FL)
List of United States representatives from Mississippi, Mississippi
: . John E. Rankin (D)
: .
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey (August 8, 1892March 2, 1962) was an American politician from Holly Springs, Mississippi. He served as a Democrat from Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941. After t ...
(D), until September 28, 1941
:: Jamie L. Whitten (D), from November 4, 1941
: . William M. Whittington (D)
: . Aaron L. Ford (D)
: . Ross A. Collins (D)
: . William M. Colmer (D)
: . Dan R. McGehee (D)
List of United States representatives from Missouri, Missouri
: . Milton A. Romjue (D)
: . William L. Nelson (politician), William L. Nelson (D)
: .
Richard M. Duncan (D)
: . C. Jasper Bell (D)
: . Joe Shannon (politician), Joe Shannon (D)
: . Philip Allen Bennett, Philip A. Bennett (R), until December 7, 1942
: . Dewey Jackson Short, Dewey J. Short (R)
: . Clyde Williams (Missouri politician), Clyde Williams (D)
: . Clarence Cannon (D)
: . Orville Zimmerman (D)
: . John B. Sullivan (D)
: . Walter C. Ploeser (R)
: . John J. Cochran (D)
List of United States representatives from Montana, Montana
: . Jeannette Rankin (R)
: . James F. O'Connor (D)
List of United States representatives from Nebraska, Nebraska
: . Oren S. Copeland (R)
: . Charles F. McLaughlin (D)
: . Karl Stefan (R)
: . Carl Curtis (R)
: . Harry B. Coffee (D)
List of United States representatives from Nevada, Nevada
: .
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Scrugham was bo ...
(D), until December 7, 1942
List of United States representatives from New Hampshire, New Hampshire
: . Arthur B. Jenks (R)
: . Foster Waterman Stearns (R)
List of United States representatives from New Jersey, New Jersey
: . Charles A. Wolverton (R)
: . Elmer H. Wene (D)
: . William H. Sutphin (D)
: . D. Lane Powers (R)
: . Charles A. Eaton (R)
: . Donald H. McLean (R)
: . J. Parnell Thomas (R)
: . Gordon Canfield (R)
: . Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)
: . Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)
: . Albert L. Vreeland (R)
: . Robert Kean (R)
: . Mary Teresa Norton (D)
: . Edward J. Hart (D)
List of United States representatives from New Mexico, New Mexico
: . Clinton Presba Anderson (D)
List of United States representatives from New York, New York
: . Leonard W. Hall (R)
: . William Bernard Barry (D)
: . Joseph L. Pfeifer (D)
: . Thomas H. Cullen (D)
: . James J. Heffernan (D)
: . Andrew Lawrence Somers (D)
: . John J. Delaney (D)
: . Donald L. O'Toole (D)
: . Eugene James Keogh (D)
: . Emanuel Celler (D)
: . James A. O'Leary (D)
: . Samuel Dickstein (congressman), Samuel Dickstein (D)
: . Louis Capozzoli (D)
: . Morris Michael Edelstein (D), until June 4, 1941
:: Arthur George Klein (D), from July 29, 1941
: . Michael J. Kennedy (D)
: . William T. Pheiffer (R)
: . Kenneth F. Simpson (R), until January 25, 1941
:: Joseph C. Baldwin (R), from March 11, 1941
: . Martin J. Kennedy (D)
: . Sol Bloom (D)
: . Vito Marcantonio (AL)
: . Joseph A. Gavagan (D)
: . Walter A. Lynch (D)
: . Charles A. Buckley (D)
: . James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
: . Ralph A. Gamble (R)
: . Hamilton Fish III (R)
: . Lewis K. Rockefeller (R)
: . William T. Byrne (D)
: . E. Harold Cluett (R)
: . Frank Crowther (R)
: . Clarence E. Kilburn (R)
: . Francis D. Culkin (R)
: . Fred J. Douglas (R)
: . Edwin Arthur Hall (R)
: . Clarence E. Hancock (R)
: . John Taber (R)
: . W. Sterling Cole (R)
: . Joseph J. O'Brien (R)
: . James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (R)
: . Walter G. Andrews (R)
: . Alfred F. Beiter (D)
: . Pius Schwert (D), until March 11, 1941
:: John Cornelius Butler, John C. Butler (R), from April 22, 1941
: . Daniel A. Reed (politician), Daniel A. Reed (R)
: . Matthew J. Merritt (D)
: . Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (D)
List of United States representatives from North Carolina, North Carolina
: . Herbert Covington Bonner (D)
: . John H. Kerr (D)
: . Graham Arthur Barden (D)
: . Harold D. Cooley (D)
: . Alonzo Dillard Folger (D), until April 30, 1941
:: John Hamlin Folger (D), from June 14, 1941
: . Carl T. Durham (D)
: . J. Bayard Clark (D)
: . William O. Burgin (D)
: . Robert L. Doughton (D)
: . Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
: . Zebulon Weaver (D)
List of United States representatives from North Dakota, North Dakota
: . Charles R. Robertson (R)
: . Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)
List of United States representatives from Ohio, Ohio
: . George H. Bender (R)
: . Stephen M. Young (D)
: . Charles H. Elston (R)
: . William E. Hess (R)
: . Greg J. Holbrock (D)
: . Robert Franklin Jones (R)
: . Cliff Clevenger (R)
: . Jacob E. Davis (D)
: . Clarence J. Brown (R)
: . Frederick Cleveland Smith (R)
: . John F. Hunter (D)
: . Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
: . Harold K. Claypool (D)
: . John M. Vorys (R)
: . Albert David Baumhart Jr. (R), until September 2, 1942
: . Dow W. Harter (D)
: . Robert T. Secrest (D), until August 3, 1942
: . William R. Thom (D)
: . J. Harry McGregor (R)
: . Lawrence E. Imhoff (D)
: . Michael J. Kirwan (D)
: . Martin L. Sweeney (D)
: . Robert Crosser (D)
: . Frances P. Bolton (R)
List of United States representatives from Oklahoma, Oklahoma
: . Will Rogers (Oklahoma politician), Will Rogers (D)
: . Wesley E. Disney (D)
: . John Conover Nichols (D)
: . Wilburn Cartwright (D)
: . Lyle Boren (D)
: . A. S. Mike Monroney (D)
: . Jed Johnson (politician), Jed Johnson (D)
: . Sam C. Massingale (D), until January 17, 1941
:: Victor Wickersham (D), from April 1, 1941
: . Ross Rizley (R)
List of United States representatives from Oregon, Oregon
: . James W. Mott (R)
: . Walter M. Pierce (D)
: . Homer D. Angell (R)
List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
: . Leon Sacks (D)
: . James P. McGranery (D)
: . Michael J. Bradley (politician), Michael J. Bradley (D)
: . John E. Sheridan (politician), John E. Sheridan (D)
: . Francis R. Smith (D)
: . Francis J. Myers (D)
: . Hugh Scott (R)
: . James Wolfenden (R)
: . Charles L. Gerlach (R)
: . J. Roland Kinzer (R)
: .
Patrick J. Boland
Patrick Joseph Boland (January 6, 1880 – May 18, 1942) was a United States representative for Pennsylvania 11th District.
Biography
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Irish immigrants,
he attended St. Thomas College (now the University of S ...
(D), until May 18, 1942
:: Veronica Grace Boland (D), from November 3, 1942
: . J. Harold Flannery (D), until January 3, 1942
:: Thomas B. Miller (R), from May 19, 1942
: . Ivor D. Fenton (R)
: . Guy L. Moser (D)
: . Albert G. Rutherford (R), until August 10, 1941
:: Wilson D. Gillette (R), from November 4, 1941
: . Robert F. Rich (R)
: .
J. William Ditter (R)
: . Richard M. Simpson (R)
: . John C. Kunkel (R)
: . Benjamin Jarrett (R)
: . Francis E. Walter (D)
: . Harry L. Haines (D)
: . James E. Van Zandt (R)
: . J. Buell Snyder (D)
: . Charles I. Faddis (D), until December 4, 1942
: . Louis E. Graham (R)
: . Harve Tibbott (R)
: . Augustine B. Kelley (D)
: . Robert L. Rodgers (R)
: . Thomas E. Scanlon (D)
: . Samuel A. Weiss (D)
: . Herman P. Eberharter (D)
: . Joseph A. McArdle (D), until January 5, 1942
:: Elmer J. Holland (D), from May 19, 1942
: . James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician), James A. Wright (D)
List of United States representatives from Rhode Island, Rhode Island
: . Aime Forand (D)
: . John E. Fogarty (D)
List of United States representatives from South Carolina, South Carolina
: . L. Mendel Rivers (D)
: . Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
: . Butler B. Hare (D)
: . Joseph R. Bryson (D)
: . James P. Richards (D)
: . John L. McMillan (D)
List of United States representatives from South Dakota, South Dakota
: . Karl Earl Mundt (R)
: . Francis H. Case (R)
List of United States representatives from Tennessee, Tennessee
: . B. Carroll Reece (R)
: . John Jennings (American politician), John Jennings Jr. (R)
: . Estes Kefauver (D)
: . Albert Gore Sr. (D)
: . Percy Priest (D)
: . W. Wirt Courtney (D)
: . Herron C. Pearson (D)
: . Jere Cooper (D)
: . Clifford Davis (politician), Clifford Davis (D)
List of United States representatives from Texas, Texas
: . Wright Patman (D)
: . Martin Dies Jr. (D)
: . Lindley Beckworth (D)
: .
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time ...
(D)
: . Hatton W. Sumners (D)
: . Luther Alexander Johnson (D)
: . Nat Patton (D)
: . Albert Thomas (American politician), Albert Thomas (D)
: . Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
: . Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
: . William R. Poage (D)
: . Fritz G. Lanham (D)
: . Ed Gossett (D)
: . Richard M. Kleberg (D)
: . Milton H. West (D)
: . R. Ewing Thomason (D)
: . Sam M. Russell (D)
: . Eugene Worley (D)
: . George H. Mahon (D)
: . Paul J. Kilday (D)
: . Charles L. South (D)
List of United States representatives from Utah, Utah
: . Walter K. Granger (D)
: . J. W. Robinson (D)
List of United States representatives from Vermont, Vermont
: . Charles Albert Plumley (R)
List of United States representatives from Virginia, Virginia
: . S. Otis Bland (D)
: . Colgate Darden (D), until March 1, 1941
:: Winder R. Harris (D), from April 8, 1941
: . Dave E. Satterfield Jr. (D)
: .
Patrick H. Drewry (D)
: . Thomas G. Burch (D)
: . Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
: . Absalom Willis Robertson (D)
: . Howard W. Smith (D)
: . John W. Flannagan Jr. (D)
List of United States representatives from Washington, Washington
: . Warren Magnuson (D)
: . Henry M. Jackson (D)
: . Martin F. Smith (D)
: . Knute Hill (D)
: . Charles H. Leavy (D), until August 1, 1942
: . John M. Coffee (D)
List of United States representatives from West Virginia, West Virginia
: . Robert L. Ramsay (politician), Robert L. Ramsay (D)
: . Jennings Randolph (D)
: . Andrew Edmiston Jr. (D)
: . George William Johnson (congressman), George William Johnson (D)
: . John Kee (D)
: . Joe L. Smith (D)
List of United States representatives from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: . Stephen Bolles (R), until July 8, 1941
:: Lawrence H. Smith (R), from August 29, 1941
: . Harry Sauthoff (P)
: . William H. Stevenson (R)
: . Thaddeus Wasielewski (D)
: . Lewis D. Thill (R)
: . Frank Bateman Keefe (R)
: . Reid F. Murray (R)
: . Joshua L. Johns (R)
: . Merlin Hull (P)
: . Bernard J. Gehrmann (P)
List of United States representatives from Wyoming, Wyoming
: . John J. McIntyre (politician), John J. McIntyre (D)
Non-voting members
: . Anthony Dimond, Anthony J. Dimond (D)
: . Samuel Wilder King (R)
: . Joaquín Miguel Elizalde (I)
: . Bolívar Pagán (Socialist Party (Puerto Rico), Soc.)
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Senate
, -
, List of United States senators from West Virginia, West Virginia
(2)
, nowrap , Matthew M. Neely (D)
, Resigned January 12, 1941, after being elected Governor of West Virginia.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election, which he subsequently lost. In addition, successor took oath of office after the Senate resolved a challenge to the appointment.
, nowrap , Joseph Rosier (D)
, January 13, 1941
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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 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
John E. Miller (D)
, Resigned March 31, 1941, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Successor was appointed to finish the term.
, nowrap ,
G. Lloyd Spencer
George Lloyd Spencer (March 27, 1893January 14, 1981) was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state in the United States Senate from 1941 to 1943.
G. Lloyd Spencer was born in Sarcoxie, Miss ...
(D)
, April 1, 1941
, -
,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Morris Sheppard (D)
, Died April 9, 1941.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Andrew Jackson Houston
Andrew Jackson Houston (June 21, 1854June 26, 1941) was an American politician. He was a son of the famous Texas hero and statesman Sam Houston and his wife Margaret Lea Houston, and was named for his father's mentor Andrew Jackson. He served br ...
(D)
, April 21, 1941
, -
,
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. Mis ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Earl ...
(D)
, Died June 22, 1941.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
James Eastland
James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation on Dece ...
(D)
, June 30, 1941
, -
,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Andrew Jackson Houston
Andrew Jackson Houston (June 21, 1854June 26, 1941) was an American politician. He was a son of the famous Texas hero and statesman Sam Houston and his wife Margaret Lea Houston, and was named for his father's mentor Andrew Jackson. He served br ...
(D)
, Died June 26, 1941.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
W. Lee O'Daniel
Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel (March 11, 1890May 11, 1969) was an American Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program. Known for his populist appeal and support of Texas's business communi ...
(D)
, August 4, 1941
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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 = G ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, ...
(D)
, Resigned July 17, 1941, after being appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Alva M. Lumpkin
Alva Moore Lumpkin (November 13, 1886 – August 1, 1941) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and the United States District Court for the Western District of South Car ...
(D)
, July 22, 1941
, -
,
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 = G ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Alva M. Lumpkin
Alva Moore Lumpkin (November 13, 1886 – August 1, 1941) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and the United States District Court for the Western District of South Car ...
(D)
, Died August 1, 1941.
Successor was appointed to serve until a special election.
, nowrap ,
Roger C. Peace
Roger Craft Peace (May 19, 1899August 20, 1968) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville, he attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University in 1919. He was a newspaper repo ...
(D)
, August 5, 1941
, -
,
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. Mis ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
James Eastland
James Oliver Eastland (November 28, 1904 February 19, 1986) was an American attorney, plantation owner, and politician from Mississippi. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate in 1941 and again from 1943 until his resignation on Dece ...
(D)
, Appointee did not seek election to finish term.
Successor was elected September 28, 1941, to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey (August 8, 1892March 2, 1962) was an American politician from Holly Springs, Mississippi. He served as a Democrat from Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941. After t ...
(D)
, September 29, 1941
, -
,
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 = G ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Roger C. Peace
Roger Craft Peace (May 19, 1899August 20, 1968) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville, he attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University in 1919. He was a newspaper repo ...
(D)
, Appointee did not seek election to finish term.
Successor was elected November 4, 1941, to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Burnet R. Maybank
Burnet Rhett Maybank (March 7, 1899September 1, 1954) was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-186 ...
(D)
, November 5, 1941
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,
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 ...
(3)
, nowrap ,
Alva B. Adams (D)
, Died December 1, 1941.
Successor was appointed to serve until the November 3, 1942, special election, which he won.
, nowrap , Eugene Millikin (R)
, December 20, 1941
, -
, List of United States senators from West Virginia, West Virginia
(2)
, nowrap , Joseph Rosier (D)
, Appointee lost election November 17, 1942, to finish the term.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap , Hugh Ike Shott, Hugh Shott (R)
, November 18, 1942
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,
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 List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
(2)
, nowrap ,
Joseph H. Ball
Joseph Hurst Ball (November 3, 1905December 18, 1993) was an American journalist, politician and businessman. Ball served as a Republican senator from Minnesota from 1940 to 1949. He was a conservative in domestic policy and a leading foe of l ...
(R)
, Appointee did not seek election to finish term.
Successor was elected November 17, 1942, to finish term.
, nowrap ,
Arthur E. Nelson
Arthur Emanuel Nelson (May 10, 1892April 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota during the end of 1942 and beginning of 1943
Early life and education
Born in Browns Valley, Minnes ...
(R)
, November 18, 1942
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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 ,
Berkeley L. Bunker (D)
, Appointee lost election December 7, 1942, to finish the term.
Successor was elected to finish term.
, nowrap ,
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Scrugham was bo ...
(D)
, December 7, 1942
House of Representatives
, -
,
, , Sam C. Massingale (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 17, 1941
, , Victor Wickersham (D)
, April 1, 1941
, -
,
, , Kenneth F. Simpson (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 25, 1941
, , Joseph C. Baldwin (R)
, March 11, 1941
, -
,
, , Walter W. Bankhead (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 1, 1941
, , Carter Manasco (D)
, June 24, 1941
, -
,
, , William D. Byron (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died February 27, 1941
, , Katharine Byron (D)
, May 27, 1941
, -
,
, , Colgate Darden (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned March 1, 1941, to run for Governor of Virginia
, , Winder R. Harris (D)
, April 8, 1941
, -
,
, , Pius L. Schwert (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 11, 1941
, , John Cornelius Butler, John C. Butler (R)
, April 22, 1941
, -
,
, , Alonzo Dillard Folger, Alonzo D. Folger (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died April 30, 1941
, , John Hamlin Folger, John H. Folger (D)
, June 14, 1941
, -
,
, , Morris Michael Edelstein, Morris M. Edelstein (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died June 4, 1941
, , Arthur George Klein, Arthur G. Klein (D)
, July 29, 1941
, -
,
, , Stephen Bolles (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died July 8, 1941
, , Lawrence H. Smith (R)
, August 29, 1941
, -
,
, , Albert G. Rutherford (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died August 10, 1941
, , Wilson D. Gillette (R)
, November 4, 1941
, -
,
, , Edward T. Taylor (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died September 3, 1941
, , Robert F. Rockwell (R)
, December 9, 1941
, -
,
, ,
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey (August 8, 1892March 2, 1962) was an American politician from Holly Springs, Mississippi. He served as a Democrat from Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941. After t ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 28, 1941, after being elected to the US Senate
, , Jamie L. Whitten (D)
, November 4, 1941
, -
,
, , Lee E. Geyer (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 11, 1941
, , Cecil R. King (D)
, August 25, 1942
, -
,
, , Lawrence J. Connery (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 19, 1941
, , Thomas J. Lane (D)
, December 30, 1941
, -
,
, , J. Joseph Smith (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 4, 1941, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
, , Joseph E. Talbot (R)
, January 20, 1942
, -
,
, , J. Harold Flannery (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned January 3, 1942, after becoming judge of common pleas for Luzerne County, PA
, , Thomas B. Miller (R)
, May 19, 1942
, -
,
, , Joseph A. McArdle (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned January 5, 1942, after being elected to the Pittsburgh City Council
, , Elmer J. Holland (D)
, May 19, 1942
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,
, ,
Patrick J. Boland
Patrick Joseph Boland (January 6, 1880 – May 18, 1942) was a United States representative for Pennsylvania 11th District.
Biography
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Irish immigrants,
he attended St. Thomas College (now the University of S ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died May 18, 1942
, , Veronica Grace Boland, Veronica G. Boland (D)
, November 3, 1942
, -
,
, , Arthur Daniel Healey, Arthur D. Healey (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 1, 1942, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Charles H. Leavy (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 3, 1942, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Robert T. Secrest (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 3, 1942, after accepting a commission in the U.S. Navy
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Albert David Baumhart Jr., Albert D. Baumhart Jr. (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 2, 1942, after accepting a commission in the U.S. Navy
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Vincent F. Harrington (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned September 5, 1942, after accepting a commission as major in the United States Army
, , Harry E. Narey (R)
, November 3, 1942
, -
,
, , Frank H. Buck (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died September 17, 1942
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , William Purington Cole Jr. (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned October 26, 1942, after being appointed judge for the United States Customs Court, U.S. Customs Court
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Charles I. Faddis (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 4, 1942, to enter the US Army
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Harry P. Beam (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 6, 1942, after being elected judge for the municipal court of Chicago
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , A. F. Maciejewski (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 6, 1942
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, , Philip Allen Bennett, Philip A. Bennett (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died December 7, 1942
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
, -
,
, ,
James G. Scrugham
James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Biography
Scrugham was bo ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned December 7, 1942, after being elected to the U.S. Senate
, colspan=2 , Vacant until the next Congress
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
; Ranking Member: George W. Norris)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Agricultural Labor Shortages in the West, Agricultural Labor Shortages in the West (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Trea ...
; Ranking Member: Gerald P. Nye)
* 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 (1939–195 ...
; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Robert F. Wagner
Robert Ferdinand Wagner I (June 8, 1877May 4, 1953) was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.
Born in Prussia, Wagner migrated with his family to the United States in 1885. After graduating ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles W. Tobey)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
William J. Bulow; Ranking Member:
Wallace H. White Jr.)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Civil Service Laws, Civil Service Laws (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Prentiss M. Brown; 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 s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman: Josiah W. Bailey; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (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, atten ...
; 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 s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman:
Elbert D. Thomas
Elbert Duncan Thomas (June 17, 1883February 11, 1953) was a Democratic Party politician from Utah. He represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1933 until 1951. He served as the Chair of the Senate Education Committee.
Biography
Thomas w ...
; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Hattie W. Caraway; Ranking Member:
Clyde M. Reed
Clyde Martin Reed (October 19, 1871 – November 8, 1949) was an American politician from Kansas who served as both the 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state.
Biography
Born in Champaign County, Illinois, Reed moved to Kans ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments, Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman:
J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–1938) a ...
; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United Sta ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman:
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sena ...
; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman:
Tom Connally
Thomas Terry Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Represent ...
; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson)
* Fiscal Affairs of the Government (Special)
* Fuel Situation in the Middle West (Special)
* [mFuels in the Areas West of the Mississippi (Special)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Gasoline and Fuel Oil Shortages, Gasoline and Fuel Oil Shortages (Special)
* United States Senate Committee on Immigration, Immigration (Chairman: Richard B. Russell; Ranking Member: Hiram W. Johnson)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
Elmer Thomas
John William Elmer Thomas (September 8, 1876 – September 19, 1965) was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the L ...
; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Interoceanic Canals (Chairman:
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a ...
; Ranking Member:
Styles Bridges
Henry Styles Bridges (September 9, 1898November 26, 1961) was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as the 63rd governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career i ...
)
* 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 p ...
; 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 on Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman:
John H. Bankhead II
John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.
He served in the Senate ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Frederick Van Nuys
Frederick Van Nuys (April 16, 1874 – January 25, 1944) was a United States senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) in 1898 and from Indiana Law School ( ...
; Ranking Member: George W. Norris)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles L. McNary
Charles Linza McNary (June 12, 1874February 25, 1944) was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate from 1917 to 1944 and was Party leaders of the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
John H. Overton
John Holmes Overton Sr. (September 17, 1875 – May 14, 1948), was an attorney and Democratic US Representative and US Senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Thomas Overton Brooks, was also a US representative, from the Shreveport-based 4th distric ...
; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Reynolds; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Joseph F. Guffey
Joseph Finch "Joe" Guffey (December 29, 1870March 6, 1959) was an American business executive and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Elected from Pennsylvania to the United States Senate ...
; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United Sta ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
David I. Walsh
David Ignatius Walsh (November 11, 1872June 11, 1947) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 46th Governor of Massachusetts before serving several terms in the Unite ...
; Ranking Member:
James J. Davis
James John Davis (October 27, 1873November 22, 1947) was a Welsh-born American businessman, author and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United Sta ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Old-Age Pension System, Old-Age Pension System (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman: Homer T. Bone; Ranking Member:
Wallace H. White Jr.)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman: Henry H. Schwartz; 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 Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
Kenneth McKellar; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette Jr.)
* 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: Chan Gurney)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
Theodore F. Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
; Ranking Member: Warren R. Austin)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Francis T. Maloney, Francis Maloney; Ranking Member: W. Warren Barbour)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Carl A. Hatch; Ranking Member: Gerald P. Nye)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Harry F. Byrd; Ranking Member:
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Sr. (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951. A member of the Republican Party, he participated in the creation of the United Nati ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Senatorial Campaign Expenditures, Senatorial Campaign Expenditures (Special) (Chairman: Guy M. Gillette)
* 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: Gerald P. Nye)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wildlife Resources, Wildlife Resources (Special) (Chairman:
Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark (January 8, 1890 – July 13, 1954), better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Wool Production, Wool Production (Special) (Chairman:
Alva B. Adams)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman: John J. Cochran; Ranking Member: James Wolfenden)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman: Hampton P. Fulmer; Ranking Member: Clifford R. Hope)
* United States House Select Committee on Air Accidents, Air Accidents (Select) (Chairman: John Conover Nichols, Jack Nichols)
* 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: Henry B. Steagall; Ranking Member: Jesse P. Wolcott)
* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman: Guy L. Moser; Ranking Member: J. Roland Kinzer)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Civil Service (Chairman:
Robert Ramspeck; Ranking Member: Edith Nourse Rogers)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman: Dan R. McGehee; Ranking Member: J. Parnell Thomas)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Andrew Somers; 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)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: Jennings Randolph; Ranking Member: Everett M. Dirksen)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman: William H. Larrabee; 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: Caroline O'Day; Ranking Member: George H. Tinkham)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman: C. Jasper Bell; Ranking Member: Clarence E. Hancock)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Joseph A. Gavagan; Ranking Member: Francis D. Culkin)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Albert Thomas (American politician), Albert Thomas; Ranking Member: Charles A. Plumley)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan; Ranking Member: Charles Aubrey Eaton)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: James A. O'Leary; Ranking Member: Charles L. Gifford)
* United States House Committee on Flood Control, Flood Control (Chairman: William M. Whittington; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a United States of America, U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House minority whip, House Mino ...
)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Sol Bloom; Ranking Member: Hamilton Fish III)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Samuel Dickstein (congressman), Samuel Dickstein; Ranking Member: Noah M. Mason)
* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman: Will Rogers; Ranking Member: Fred C. Gilchrist)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman: Leo Kocialkowski; Ranking Member: Richard J. Welch)
* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Clarence F. Lea; Ranking Member: Charles A. Wolverton)
* United States House Select Committee to Investigate National Defense Migration, Investigate National Defense Migration (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman: John Lesinski Sr., John Lesinski; Ranking Member: Robert F. Jones)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Compton I. White; Ranking Member: Dewey Jackson Short)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: Hatton W. Sumners; Ranking Member: Ulysses S. Guyer)
* 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: N/A; Ranking Member: Allen T. Treadway)
* United States House Committee on Memorials, Memorials (Chairman: Harry P. Beam; Ranking Member: Frank Crowther)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: S. Otis Bland; Ranking Member: Richard J. Welch)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: Andrew J. May; Ranking Member: Walter G. Andrews)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman: Joe L. Smith; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a United States of America, U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House minority whip, House Mino ...
)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: Carl Vinson; Ranking Member: Melvin J. Maas)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman: Charles Kramer (politician), Charles Kramer; Ranking Member: Fred A. Hartley Jr.)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman: Martin F. Smith; Ranking Member: Fred J. Douglas)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Milton A. Romjue; Ranking Member: Fred A. Hartley Jr.)
* 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: Martin F. Smith; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright (January 2, 1884 – May 13, 1943) was a United States of America, U.S. political figure. He served as a Congressman from California's 2nd congressional district from 1926 to 1943, and as the House minority whip, House Mino ...
)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman: Milton A. Romjue; Ranking Member: Earl C. Michener)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: J.W. Robinson; Ranking Member: Albert E. Carter)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman: Wilburn Cartwright; Ranking Member: Jesse P. Wolcott)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Adolph J. Sabath; Ranking Member: Hamilton Fish III)
* United States House Select Committee on Small Business, Small Business (Select)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman: Robert A. Green; Ranking Member: Lewis K. Rockefeller)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman: Joseph A. Gavagan; Ranking Member: Clare E. Hoffman)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman: Robert L. Doughton; Ranking Member: Allen T. Treadway)
* United States House Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman: John E. Rankin; Ranking Member: Edith Nourse Rogers)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Committee to Arrange the Inauguration for President-elect, Arrange the Inauguration for President-elect (Chairman: Sen. Matthew M. Neely)
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Eradication of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Eradication of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly
* Forestry (Chairman: Sen.
John H. Bankhead II
John Hollis Bankhead II (July 8, 1872 – June 12, 1946) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office.
He served in the Senate ...
; Vice Chairman: Rep. Hampton P. Fulmer)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Government Organization (Chairman: Sen.
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under Presiden ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on 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
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Chairman: Sen.
Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Earl ...
then Rep. Robert L. Doughton; Vice Chairman: Sen.
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sena ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on to Investigate Phosphate Resource of the United States, To Investigate Phosphate Resource of the United States (Chairman: J. Hardin Peterson)
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (architect), David Lynn
* Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
* Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren
* Librarian of Congress: Archibald MacLeish
* Public Printer of the United States: Augustus E. Giegengack
Senate
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Ruskin McArdle
* Secretary for the Majority: Leslie Biffle
* Secretary for the Minority: Carl A. Loeffler
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Chesley W. Jurney
* Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Episcopal), until May 1942
** Frederick Brown Harris (Methodism, Methodist), after October 10, 1942
House of Representatives
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: South Trimble
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Roger M. Calloway (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodism, Methodist)
See also
* United States elections, 1940 (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1940 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1940
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1940
* United States elections, 1942 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** United States Senate elections, 1942
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1942
Notes
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