1955–1957 U.S. Congress
The84th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of theUnited States Senate and theUnited States House of Representatives . It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1955, to January 3, 1957, during the third and fourth years ofDwight D. Eisenhower's presidency . The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1950 United States census .
TheDemocratic Party won back majorities in both the House and Senate, thus giving them full control of Congress, although Republican Party briefly won the Senate after the last congressional session. TheDemocratic Party would continue to hold onto its house majority until the104th Congress .
January 28, 1955: Congress authorized the president to use force to protectTaiwan from the People's Republic of China February 10, 1955: TheUnited States Navy helped theRepublic of China evacuate Chinese Nationalist army and residents from theTachen Islands toTaiwan . February 12, 1955: President Eisenhower sent the first U.S. advisers to South Vietnam. July 2, 1955: Senator Lyndon Johnson, Majority Leader of the United States Senate, suffered a major heart attack. September 24, 1955: President Eisenhower suffered acoronary thrombosis . November 5, 1955: Racial segregation was forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce. December 1, 1955:Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. December 5, 1955: TheAmerican Federation of Labor and theCongress of Industrial Organizations merged to become theAFL–CIO . March 12, 1956: 96 Congressmen signed theSouthern Manifesto , a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling (Brown v. Board of Education November 6, 1956:United States elections, 1956 : January 29, 1955:Formosa Resolution March 31, 1955:Career Incentive Act June 28, 1955:Flood Control and Coastal Emergency Act ,Pub. L. 84–99 , 69 Stat. 194 July 11, 1955: To provide that all United States currency shall bear the inscription "In God We Trust ",Pub. L. 84–140 , 69 Stat. 290 ,31 U.S.C. § 5114(b) July 14, 1955:Air Pollution Control Act ,Pub. L. 84–159 , ch. 360, 69 Stat. 322 July 23, 1955:Multiple Surface Use Mining Act ,Pub. L. 94–167 , ch. 730, 68 Stat. 708 August 9, 1955:Reserve Forces Act ,Pub. L. 84–305 , 69 Stat. 598 August 11, 1955:National Housing Act ("Capehart Act "),Pub. L. 84–345 , 69 Stat. 646 August 12, 1955:Poliomyelitis Vaccination Assistance Act ,Pub. L. 84–377 , ch. 863, 69 Stat. 704 April 11, 1956:Colorado River Storage Project Act ,Pub. L. 84–485 June 29, 1956:Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 , (National Interstate and Defense Highways Act),Pub. L. 84–627 July 30, 1956:Health Research Facilities Act ,Pub. L. 84–835 , ch. 779, 70 Stat. 717 August 8, 1956:Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 , ch. 1036, 70 Stat. 1119 ,16 U.S.C. § 742a The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
The independent Wayne Morse, who caucused with Republicans in the second session of the previous Congress, began caucusing with the Democrats at the start of this Congress before ultimately becoming a Democrat himself.
Democrats would briefly lose control of the Senate after the last congressional session.
Affiliation Party(Shading indicates majority caucus)
Total Democratic Independent Republican Vacant End ofprevious Congress 47 1 48 96 0 Begin 48 1 47 96 0 February 17, 1955 49 0 47 96 0 February 28, 1956 48 95 1 March 13, 1956 49 96 0 April 4, 1956 48 95 1 April 5, 1956 49 96 0 April 30, 1956 48 95 1 June 21, 1956 49 96 0 November 6, 1956 46 47 93 3 November 7, 1956 47 49 96 0 Final voting share 49% 0% 50% Beginning of the next Congress 49 0 46 95 1
House of Representatives [ edit ] Senate PresidentRichard Nixon (R) Senate President pro temporeWalter F. George (D) [ edit ] [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] Speaker of the HouseSam Rayburn (D) [ edit ] [ edit ] This list is arranged by chamber, then by state.
Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below areSenate class numbers , which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1958; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, facing re-election in 1960; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1956.
▌ 2.John J. Sparkman (D)▌ 3.J. Lister Hill (D)▌ 1.Barry Goldwater (R)▌ 3.Carl Hayden (D)▌ 2.John L. McClellan (D)▌ 3.J. William Fulbright (D)▌ 1.William Knowland (R)▌ 3.Thomas Kuchel (R)▌ 2.Gordon Allott (R)▌ 3.Eugene Millikin (R)▌ 1.William A. Purtell (R)▌ 3.Prescott Bush (R)▌ 1.John J. Williams (R)▌ 2.J. Allen Frear Jr. (D)▌ 1.Spessard Holland (D)▌ 3.George Smathers (D)▌ 2.Richard Russell Jr. (D)▌ 3.Walter F. George (D)▌ 2.Henry Dworshak (R)▌ 3.Herman Welker (R)▌ 2.Paul Douglas (D)▌ 3.Everett M. Dirksen (R)▌ 1.William E. Jenner (R)▌ 3.Homer E. Capehart (R)▌ 2.Thomas E. Martin (R)▌ 3.Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)▌ 2.Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R)▌ 3.Frank Carlson (R)▌ 2.Alben Barkley (D), until April 30, 1956▌ Robert Humphreys (D), June 21, 1956 – November 6, 1956▌ John Sherman Cooper (R), from November 7, 1956▌ 3.Earle Clements (D)▌ 2.Allen J. Ellender (D)▌ 3.Russell B. Long (D)▌ 1.Frederick G. Payne (R)▌ 2.Margaret Chase Smith (R)▌ 1.James Glenn Beall (R)▌ 3.John Marshall Butler (R)▌ 1.John F. Kennedy (D)▌ 2.Leverett Saltonstall (R)▌ 1.Charles E. Potter (R)▌ 2.Patrick V. McNamara (D)▌ 1.Edward John Thye (R)▌ 2.Hubert Humphrey (DFL)[ a] ▌ 1.John C. Stennis (D)▌ 2.James Eastland (D)▌ 1.Stuart Symington (D)▌ 3.Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D)▌ 1.Mike Mansfield (D)▌ 2.James E. Murray (D)▌ 1.Roman Hruska (R)▌ 2.Carl Curtis (R)▌ 1.George W. Malone (R)▌ 3.Alan Bible (D)▌ 2.Styles Bridges (R)▌ 3.Norris Cotton (R)▌ 1.Howard Alexander Smith (R)▌ 2.Clifford P. Case (R)▌ 1.Dennis Chávez (D)▌ 2.Clinton P. Anderson (D)▌ 1.Irving Ives (R)▌ 3.Herbert H. Lehman (D)▌ 2.W. Kerr Scott (D)▌ 3.Sam Ervin (D)▌ 1.William Langer (R-NPL)▌ 3.Milton Young (R)▌ 1.John W. Bricker (R)▌ 3.George H. Bender (R)▌ 2.Robert S. Kerr (D)▌ 3.A. S. Mike Monroney (D)▌ 2.Richard L. Neuberger (D)▌ ▌ 3.Wayne Morse (I), changed to (D) April 30, 1955▌ 1.Edward Martin (R)▌ 3.James H. Duff (R)▌ 1.John Pastore (D)▌ 2.Theodore F. Green (D)▌ 2.Strom Thurmond (D), until April 4, 1956▌ Thomas A. Wofford (D), April 5, 1956 – November 6, 1956▌ Strom Thurmond (D), from November 7, 1956▌ 3.Olin D. Johnston (D)▌ 2.Karl E. Mundt (R)▌ 3.Francis Case (R)▌ 1.Albert Gore Sr. (D)▌ 2.Estes Kefauver (D)▌ 1.Price Daniel (D)▌ 2.Lyndon B. Johnson (D)▌ 1.Arthur Vivian Watkins (R)▌ 3.Wallace F. Bennett (R)▌ 1.Ralph Flanders (R)▌ 3.George Aiken (R)▌ 1.Harry F. Byrd (D)▌ 2.A. Willis Robertson (D)▌ 1.Henry M. Jackson (D)▌ 3.Warren G. Magnuson (D)▌ 1.Harley M. Kilgore (D), until February 28, 1956▌ William Laird III (D), March 13, 1956 – November 6, 1956▌ Chapman Revercomb (R), from November 7, 1956▌ 2.Matthew M. Neely (D)▌ 1.Joseph McCarthy (R)▌ 3.Alexander Wiley (R)▌ 1.Frank A. Barrett (R)▌ 2.Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 84th Congress in January 1955 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
Senate majority leadership
Senate minority leadership
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 Frank W. Boykin (D)▌ 2 George M. Grant (D)▌ 3 George W. Andrews (D)▌ 4 Kenneth A. Roberts (D)▌ 5 Albert Rains (D)▌ 6 Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D)▌ 7 Carl Elliott (D)▌ 8 Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)▌ 9 George Huddleston Jr. (D)▌ 1 John Jacob Rhodes (R)▌ 2 Stewart Udall (D)▌ 1 Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)▌ 2 Wilbur Mills (D)▌ 3 James William Trimble (D)▌ 4 Oren Harris (D)▌ 5 Brooks Hays (D)▌ 6 William F. Norrell (D)▌ 1 Hubert B. Scudder (R)▌ 2 Clair Engle (D)▌ 3 John E. Moss (D)▌ 4 William S. Mailliard (R)▌ 5 John F. Shelley (D)▌ 6 John F. Baldwin Jr. (R)▌ 7 John J. Allen Jr. (R)▌ 8 George P. Miller (D)▌ 9 J. Arthur Younger (R)▌ 10 Charles Gubser (R)▌ 11 J. Leroy Johnson (R)▌ 12 B. F. Sisk (D)▌ 13 Charles M. Teague (R)▌ 14 Harlan Hagen (D)▌ 15 Gordon L. McDonough (R)▌ 16 Donald L. Jackson (R)▌ 17 Cecil R. King (D)▌ 18 Craig Hosmer (R)▌ 19 Chester E. Holifield (D)▌ 20 John Carl Hinshaw (R), until August 5, 1956▌ 21 Edgar W. Hiestand (R)▌ 22 Joseph F. Holt (R)▌ 23 Clyde Doyle (D)▌ 24 Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)▌ 25 Patrick J. Hillings (R)▌ 26 James Roosevelt (D)▌ 27 Harry R. Sheppard (D)▌ 28 James B. Utt (R)▌ 29 John R. Phillips (R)▌ 30 Bob Wilson (R)▌ 1 Byron G. Rogers (D)▌ 2 William S. Hill (R)▌ 3 John Chenoweth (R)▌ 4 Wayne N. Aspinall (D)▌ 1 Thomas J. Dodd (D)▌ 2 Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R)▌ 3 Albert W. Cretella (R)▌ 4 Albert P. Morano (R)▌ 5 James T. Patterson (R)▌ At-large Antoni Sadlak (R)▌ At-large Harris McDowell (D)▌ 1 William C. Cramer (R)▌ 2 Charles E. Bennett (D)▌ 3 Robert L. F. Sikes (D)▌ 4 Dante Fascell (D)▌ 5 Syd Herlong (D)▌ 6 Paul Rogers (D), from January 11, 1955▌ 7 James A. Haley (D)▌ 8 Donald Ray Matthews (D)▌ 1 Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (D)▌ 2 J. L. Pilcher (D)▌ 3 Tic Forrester (D)▌ 4 John Flynt (D)▌ 5 James C. Davis (D)▌ 6 Carl Vinson (D)▌ 7 Henderson Lovelace Lanham (D)▌ 8 Iris Faircloth Blitch (D)▌ 9 Phillip M. Landrum (D)▌ 10 Paul Brown (D)▌ 1 Gracie Pfost (D)▌ 2 Hamer H. Budge (R)▌ 1 William L. Dawson (D)▌ 2 Barratt O'Hara (D)▌ 3 James C. Murray (D)▌ 4 William E. McVey (R)▌ 5 John C. Kluczynski (D)▌ 6 Thomas J. O'Brien (D)▌ 7 James Bowler (D)▌ 8 Thomas S. Gordon (D)▌ 9 Sidney R. Yates (D)▌ 10 Richard W. Hoffman (R)▌ 11 Timothy P. Sheehan (R)▌ 12 Charles A. Boyle (D)▌ 13 Marguerite S. Church (R)▌ 14 Chauncey W. Reed (R), until February 9, 1956▌ 15 Noah M. Mason (R)▌ 16 Leo E. Allen (R)▌ 17 Leslie C. Arends (R)▌ 18 Harold H. Velde (R)▌ 19 Robert B. Chiperfield (R)▌ 20 Sid Simpson (R)▌ 21 Peter F. Mack Jr. (D)▌ 22 William L. Springer (R)▌ 23 Charles W. Vursell (R)▌ 24 Melvin Price (D)▌ 25 Kenneth J. Gray (D)▌ 1 Ray Madden (D)▌ 2 Charles A. Halleck (R)▌ 3 Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. (R)▌ 4 E. Ross Adair (R)▌ 5 John V. Beamer (R)▌ 6 Cecil M. Harden (R)▌ 7 William G. Bray (R)▌ 8 Winfield K. Denton (D)▌ 9 Earl Wilson (R)▌ 10 Ralph Harvey (R)▌ 11 Charles B. Brownson (R)▌ 1 Fred Schwengel (R)▌ 2 Henry O. Talle (R)▌ 3 H. R. Gross (R)▌ 4 Karl M. LeCompte (R)▌ 5 Paul H. Cunningham (R)▌ 6 James I. Dolliver (R)▌ 7 Ben F. Jensen (R)▌ 8 Charles B. Hoeven (R)▌ 1 William H. Avery (R)▌ 2 Errett P. Scrivner (R)▌ 3 Myron V. George (R)▌ 4 Edward Herbert Rees (R)▌ 5 Clifford R. Hope (R)▌ 6 Wint Smith (R)▌ 1 Noble J. Gregory (D)▌ 2 William Natcher (D)▌ 3 John M. Robsion Jr. (R)▌ 4 Frank Chelf (D)▌ 5 Brent Spence (D)▌ 6 John C. Watts (D)▌ 7 Carl D. Perkins (D)▌ 8 Eugene Siler (R)▌ 1 F. Edward Hébert (D)▌ 2 Hale Boggs (D)▌ 3 Edwin E. Willis (D)▌ 4 Overton Brooks (D)▌ 5 Otto Passman (D)▌ 6 James H. Morrison (D)▌ 7 T. Ashton Thompson (D)▌ 8 George S. Long (D)▌ 1 Robert Hale (R)▌ 2 Charles P. Nelson (R)▌ 3 Clifford McIntire (R)▌ 1 Edward Tylor Miller (R)▌ 2 James Devereux (R)▌ 3 Edward Garmatz (D)▌ 4 George Hyde Fallon (D)▌ 5 Richard Lankford (D)▌ 6 DeWitt Hyde (R)▌ 7 Samuel Friedel (D)▌ 1 John W. Heselton (R)▌ 2 Edward Boland (D)▌ 3 Philip J. Philbin (D)▌ 4 Harold Donohue (D)▌ 5 Edith Nourse Rogers (R)▌ 6 William H. Bates (R)▌ 7 Thomas J. Lane (D)▌ 8 Torbert Macdonald (D)▌ 9 Donald W. Nicholson (R)▌ 10 Laurence Curtis (R)▌ 11 Tip O'Neill (D)▌ 12 John W. McCormack (D)▌ 13 Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)▌ 14 Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)▌ 1 Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)▌ 2 George Meader (R)▌ 3 August E. Johansen (R)▌ 4 Clare Hoffman (R)▌ 5 Gerald Ford (R)▌ 6 Donald Hayworth (D)▌ 7 Jesse P. Wolcott (R)▌ 8 Alvin Morell Bentley (R)▌ 9 Ruth Thompson (R)▌ 10 Elford Albin Cederberg (R)▌ 11 Victor A. Knox (R)▌ 12 John B. Bennett (R)▌ 13 Charles Diggs (D)▌ 14 Louis C. Rabaut (D)▌ 15 John D. Dingell Sr. (D), until September 19, 1955▌ John D. Dingell Jr. (D), from December 13, 1955▌ 16 John Lesinski Jr. (D)▌ 17 Martha Griffiths (D)▌ 18 George A. Dondero (R)▌ 1 August H. Andresen (R)▌ 2 Joseph P. O'Hara (R)▌ 3 Roy Wier (DFL)[ a] ▌ 4 Eugene McCarthy (DFL)[ a] ▌ 5 Walter Judd (R)▌ 6 Fred Marshall (DFL)[ a] ▌ 7 Herman Carl Andersen (R)▌ 8 John Blatnik (DFL)[ a] ▌ 9 Coya Knutson (DFL)[ a] ▌ 1 Thomas Abernethy (D)▌ 2 Jamie L. Whitten (D)▌ 3 Frank Ellis Smith (D)▌ 4 John Bell Williams (D)▌ 5 W. Arthur Winstead (D)▌ 6 William M. Colmer (D)▌ 1 Frank M. Karsten (D)▌ 2 Thomas B. Curtis (R)▌ 3 Leonor Sullivan (D)▌ 4 George H. Christopher (D)▌ 5 Richard Walker Bolling (D)▌ 6 William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D)▌ 7 Dewey Short (R)▌ 8 A. S. J. Carnahan (D)▌ 9 Clarence Cannon (D)▌ 10 Paul C. Jones (D)▌ 11 Morgan M. Moulder (D)▌ 1 Lee Metcalf (D)▌ 2 Orvin B. Fjare (R)▌ 1 Phillip Hart Weaver (R)▌ 2 Jackson B. Chase (R)▌ 3 Robert Dinsmore Harrison (R)▌ 4 Arthur L. Miller (R)▌ At-large Clarence Clifton Young (R)▌ 1 Chester Earl Merrow (R)▌ 2 Perkins Bass (R)▌ 1 Charles A. Wolverton (R)▌ 2 T. Millet Hand (R), until December 26, 1956▌ 3 James C. Auchincloss (R)▌ 4 Frank Thompson (D)▌ 5 Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)▌ 6 Harrison A. Williams (D)▌ 7 William B. Widnall (R)▌ 8 Gordon Canfield (R)▌ 9 Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)▌ 10 Peter W. Rodino (D)▌ 11 Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D)▌ 12 Robert Kean (R)▌ 13 Alfred Dennis Sieminski (D)▌ 14 T. James Tumulty (D)Both representatives were elected statewide on ageneral ticket .
▌ At-large Antonio M. Fernández (D), until November 7, 1956▌ At-large John J. Dempsey (D)▌ 1 Stuyvesant Wainwright (R)▌ 2 Steven Derounian (R)▌ 3 Frank J. Becker (R)▌ 4 Henry J. Latham (R)▌ 5 Albert H. Bosch (R)▌ 6 Lester Holtzman (D)▌ 7 James J. Delaney (D)▌ 8 Victor Anfuso (D)▌ 9 Eugene James Keogh (D)▌ 10 Edna F. Kelly (D)▌ 11 Emanuel Celler (D)▌ 12 Francis E. Dorn (R)▌ 13 Abraham J. Multer (D)▌ 14 John J. Rooney (D)▌ 15 John H. Ray (R)▌ 16 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)▌ 17 Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R)▌ 18 James G. Donovan (D)▌ 19 Arthur George Klein (D), until December 31, 1956▌ 20 Irwin D. Davidson (D-L ), until December 31, 1956▌ 21 Herbert Zelenko (D)▌ 22 Sidney A. Fine (D), until January 2, 1956▌ James C. Healey (D), from February 7, 1956▌ 23 Isidore Dollinger (D)▌ 24 Charles A. Buckley (D)▌ 25 Paul A. Fino (R)▌ 26 Ralph A. Gamble (R)▌ 27 Ralph W. Gwinn (R)▌ 28 Katharine St. George (R)▌ 29 J. Ernest Wharton (R)▌ 30 Leo W. O'Brien (D)▌ 31 Dean P. Taylor (R)▌ 32 Bernard W. Kearney (R)▌ 33 Clarence E. Kilburn (R)▌ 34 William R. Williams (R)▌ 35 R. Walter Riehlman (R)▌ 36 John Taber (R)▌ 37 W. Sterling Cole (R)▌ 38 Kenneth Keating (R)▌ 39 Harold C. Ostertag (R)▌ 40 William E. Miller (R)▌ 41 Edmund P. Radwan (R)▌ 42 John R. Pillion (R)▌ 43 Daniel A. Reed (R)▌ 1 Herbert Covington Bonner (D)▌ 2 Lawrence H. Fountain (D)▌ 3 Graham A. Barden (D)▌ 4 Harold D. Cooley (D)▌ 5 Richard Thurmond Chatham (D)▌ 6 Carl T. Durham (D)▌ 7 Frank Ertel Carlyle (D)▌ 8 Charles B. Deane (D)▌ 9 Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)▌ 10 Charles R. Jonas (R)▌ 11 Woodrow W. Jones (D)▌ 12 George A. Shuford (D)Both representatives were elected statewide on ageneral ticket .
▌ At-large Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)▌ At-large Otto Krueger (R)▌ 1 Gordon H. Scherer (R)▌ 2 William E. Hess (R)▌ 3 Paul F. Schenck (R)▌ 4 William Moore McCulloch (R)▌ 5 Cliff Clevenger (R)▌ 6 James G. Polk (D)▌ 7 Clarence J. Brown (R)▌ 8 Jackson Edward Betts (R)▌ 9 Thomas L. Ashley (D)▌ 10 Thomas A. Jenkins (R)▌ 11 Oliver P. Bolton (R)▌ 12 John M. Vorys (R)▌ 13 Albert David Baumhart Jr. (R)▌ 14 William Hanes Ayres (R)▌ 15 John E. Henderson (R)▌ 16 Frank T. Bow (R)▌ 17 J. Harry McGregor (R)▌ 18 Wayne Hays (D)▌ 19 Michael J. Kirwan (D)▌ 20 Michael A. Feighan (D)▌ 21 Charles Vanik (D)▌ 22 Frances P. Bolton (R)▌ 23 William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)▌ 1 Page Belcher (R)▌ 2 Ed Edmondson (D)▌ 3 Carl Albert (D)▌ 4 Tom Steed (D)▌ 5 John Jarman (D)▌ 6 Victor Wickersham (D)▌ 1 A. Walter Norblad (R)▌ 2 Sam Coon (R)▌ 3 Edith Green (D)▌ 4 Harris Ellsworth (R)▌ 1 William A. Barrett (D)▌ 2 William T. Granahan (D), until May 25, 1956▌ Kathryn E. Granahan (D), from November 6, 1956▌ 3 James A. Byrne (D)▌ 4 Earl Chudoff (D)▌ 5 William J. Green Jr. (D)▌ 6 Hugh Scott (R)▌ 7 Benjamin F. James (R)▌ 8 Karl C. King (R)▌ 9 Paul B. Dague (R)▌ 10 Joseph L. Carrigg (R)▌ 11 Dan Flood (D)▌ 12 Ivor D. Fenton (R)▌ 13 Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)▌ 14 George M. Rhodes (D)▌ 15 Francis E. Walter (D)▌ 16 Walter M. Mumma (R)▌ 17 Alvin Bush (R)▌ 18 Richard M. Simpson (R)▌ 19 James M. Quigley (D)▌ 20 James E. Van Zandt (R)▌ 21 Augustine B. Kelley (D)▌ 22 John P. Saylor (R)▌ 23 Leon H. Gavin (R)▌ 24 Carroll D. Kearns (R)▌ 25 Frank M. Clark (D)▌ 26 Thomas E. Morgan (D)▌ 27 James G. Fulton (R)▌ 28 Herman P. Eberharter (D)▌ 29 Robert J. Corbett (R)▌ 30 Vera Buchanan (D), until November 26, 1955▌ Elmer J. Holland (D), from January 24, 1956▌ 1 Aime Forand (D)▌ 2 John E. Fogarty (D)▌ 1 L. Mendel Rivers (D)▌ 2 John J. Riley (D)▌ 3 William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)▌ 4 Robert T. Ashmore (D)▌ 5 James P. Richards (D)▌ 6 John L. McMillan (D)▌ 1 Harold Lovre (R)▌ 2 Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)▌ 1 B. Carroll Reece (R)▌ 2 Howard Baker Sr. (R)▌ 3 James B. Frazier Jr. (D)▌ 4 Joe L. Evins (D)▌ 5 Percy Priest (D), until October 12, 1956▌ 6 Ross Bass (D)▌ 7 Tom J. Murray (D)▌ 8 Jere Cooper (D)▌ 9 Clifford Davis (D)▌ 1 Wright Patman (D)▌ 2 Jack Brooks (D)▌ 3 Brady P. Gentry (D)▌ 4 Sam Rayburn (D)▌ 5 Bruce Alger (R)▌ 6 Olin E. Teague (D)▌ 7 John Dowdy (D)▌ 8 Albert Thomas (D)▌ 9 Clark W. Thompson (D)▌ 10 Homer Thornberry (D)▌ 11 William R. Poage (D)▌ 12 Jim Wright (D)▌ 13 Frank N. Ikard (D)▌ 14 John J. Bell (D)▌ 15 Joe M. Kilgore (D)▌ 16 J. T. Rutherford (D)▌ 17 Omar Burleson (D)▌ 18 Walter E. Rogers (D)▌ 19 George H. Mahon (D)▌ 20 Paul J. Kilday (D)▌ 21 O. C. Fisher (D)▌ At-large Martin Dies Jr. (D)▌ 1 Henry Aldous Dixon (R)▌ 2 William A. Dawson (R)▌ At-large Winston L. Prouty (R)▌ 1 Edward J. Robeson Jr. (D)▌ 2 Porter Hardy Jr. (D)▌ 3 J. Vaughan Gary (D)▌ 4 Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)▌ 5 William M. Tuck (D)▌ 6 Richard Harding Poff (R)▌ 7 Burr Harrison (D)▌ 8 Howard W. Smith (D)▌ 9 W. Pat Jennings (D)▌ 10 Joel Broyhill (R)▌ 1 Thomas Pelly (R)▌ 2 Jack Westland (R)▌ 3 Russell V. Mack (R)▌ 4 Hal Holmes (R)▌ 5 Walt Horan (R)▌ 6 Thor C. Tollefson (R)▌ At-large Donald H. Magnuson (D)▌ 1 Bob Mollohan (D)▌ 2 Harley Orrin Staggers (D)▌ 3 Cleveland M. Bailey (D)▌ 4 Maurice G. Burnside (D)▌ 5 Elizabeth Kee (D)▌ 6 Robert Byrd (D)▌ 1 Lawrence H. Smith (R)▌ 2 Glenn Robert Davis (R)▌ 3 Gardner R. Withrow (R)▌ 4 Clement J. Zablocki (D)▌ 5 Henry S. Reuss (D)▌ 6 William Van Pelt (R)▌ 7 Melvin Laird (R)▌ 8 John W. Byrnes (R)▌ 9 Lester Johnson (D)▌ 10 Alvin O'Konski (R)▌ At-large Edwin Keith Thomson (R)▌ Alaska Territory Bob Bartlett (D)▌ Hawaii Territory Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (R)▌ Puerto Rico Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD)House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+% to 100% Democratic
80+% to 100% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
House Majority LeaderJohn W. McCormack (D) House Majority WhipLeverett Saltonstall (D) House Minority LeaderJoseph W. Martin Jr. (R) House Minority WhipLeslie C. Arends (R)
Changes in membership [ edit ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Replacements: 3 Deaths: 2 Resignations: 1 Interim appointments: 3 Total seats with changes: 3 Senate changes State Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] Oregon Wayne Morse (I)Changed Political Parties February 17, 1955 Wayne Morse (D)February 17, 1955 West Virginia Harley M. Kilgore (D)Died February 28, 1956 William Laird III (D)March 13, 1956 South Carolina Strom Thurmond (ID)Resigned April 4, 1956, to trigger a contested primary as promised to voters Thomas A. Wofford (D)April 5, 1956 Kentucky Alben W. Barkley (D)Died April 30, 1956 Robert Humphreys (D)June 21, 1956 Kentucky Robert Humphreys (D)Successor elected November 6, 1956 John Sherman Cooper (R)November 7, 1956 South Carolina Thomas A. Wofford (D)Successor elected November 6, 1956 Strom Thurmond (D)November 7, 1956 West Virginia William Laird III (D)Successor elected November 6, 1956 Chapman Revercomb (R)November 7, 1956
House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 5 Deaths: 9 Resignations: 3 Total seats with changes: 12 House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] Florida 6th Vacant Rep.Dwight L. Rogers died during the previous congress after having been re-elected.elected January 11, 1955 . Paul Rogers (D)January 11, 1955 Michigan 15th John Dingell Sr. (D)Died September 19, 1955.elected December 13, 1955 . John Dingell (D)December 13, 1955 Pennsylvania 30th Vera Buchanan (D)Died November 26, 1955.elected January 24, 1956 . Elmer J. Holland (D)January 24, 1956 New York 22nd Sidney A. Fine (D)Resigned January 2, 1956.elected February 7, 1956 . James C. Healey (D)February 7, 1956 Illinois 14th Chauncey W. Reed (R)Died February 9, 1956 Vacant Pennsylvania 2nd William T. Granahan (D)Died May 25, 1956.elected November 6, 1956 . Kathryn E. Granahan (D)November 6, 1956 California 20th John Carl Hinshaw (R)Died August 5, 1956. Vacant Tennessee 5th Percy Priest (D)Died October 12, 1956. Vacant New Mexico at-large Antonio M. Fernández (D)Died November 7, 1956. Vacant New Jersey 2nd T. Millet Hand (R)Died December 26, 1956. Vacant New York 19th Arthur George Klein (D)Resigned December 31, 1956 after being elected to theNew York Supreme Court . Vacant New York 20th Irwin D. Davidson (DL)Resigned December 31, 1956. Vacant
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
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Martis, Kenneth C. (1989).The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. Martis, Kenneth C. (1982).The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
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