1959–1961 U.S. Congress
The86th 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 inWashington, D.C. from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1961, during the last two years of thepresidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower .
The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1950 United States census until Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states in 1959. Then, the membership of the House temporarily increased to 437 (seating one member from each of those newly admitted states and leaving the apportionment of the other 435 seats unchanged); it would remain at 437 untilreapportionment resulting from the1960 census .
TheDemocrats maintained full control of Congress, with greatly increased majorities in both chambers.
1959:Airport Construction Act ,Pub. L. 86–72 September 14, 1959:Landrum–Griffin Act ,Pub. L. 86–257 , 73 Stat. 519 April 22, 1960:Narcotics Manufacturing Act of 1960 ,Pub. L. 86–429 , 74 Stat. 55 May 6, 1960:Civil Rights Act of 1960 ,Pub. L. 86–449 , 74 Stat. 86 June 12, 1960:Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 ,Pub. L. 86–517 , 74 Stat. 215 July 14, 1960:Flood Control Act of 1960 ,Pub. L. 86–845 , 74 Stat. 488 September 13, 1960:Social Security Amendments (Kerr-Mill aid) ,Pub. L. 86–778 , 74 Stat. 976 Constitutional amendments [ edit ] The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the23rd Amendment as contained in theNational Archives Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan January 3, 1959: Alaska was admitted as the 49th state August 21, 1959: Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state House of Representatives [ edit ] Total members: 437. The increase over the usual 435 members was due to the admission of Alaska and Hawaii, whose seats were temporary untilreapportionment following the1960 census .
Senate President pro tempore
Majority (Democratic) leadership[ edit ] Minority (Republican) leadership[ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] Majority (Democratic) leadership[ edit ] Minority (Republican) leadership[ edit ] 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 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1960; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1962; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1964.
▌ 2.John Sparkman (D)▌ 3.J. Lister Hill (D)▌ 2.Bob Bartlett (D)▌ 3.Ernest Gruening (D)▌ 1.Barry Goldwater (R)▌ 3.Carl Hayden (D)▌ 2.John L. McClellan (D)▌ 3.J. William Fulbright (D)▌ 1.Clair Engle (D)▌ 3.Thomas Kuchel (R)▌ 2.Gordon Allott (R)▌ 3.John A. Carroll (D)▌ 1.Thomas J. Dodd (D)▌ 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.Herman Talmadge (D)▌ 1.Hiram Fong (R), from August 21, 1959 (newly admitted state)▌ 3.Oren E. Long (D), from August 21, 1959 (newly admitted state)▌ 2.Henry Dworshak (R)▌ 3.Frank Church (D)▌ 2.Paul Douglas (D)▌ 3.Everett Dirksen (R)▌ 1.Vance Hartke (D)▌ 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.John Sherman Cooper (R)▌ 3.Thruston Ballard Morton (R)▌ 2.Allen J. Ellender (D)▌ 3.Russell B. Long (D)▌ 1.Edmund Muskie (D)▌ 2.Margaret Chase Smith (R)▌ 1.J. Glenn Beall (R)▌ 3.John Marshall Butler (R)▌ 1.John F. Kennedy (D), until December 22, 1960▌ Benjamin A. Smith II (D), from December 27, 1960▌ 2.Leverett Saltonstall (R)▌ 1.Philip Hart (D)▌ 2.Patrick V. McNamara (D)▌ 1.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)[ a] ▌ 2.Hubert Humphrey (DFL)[ a] ▌ 1.John C. Stennis (D)▌ 2.James Eastland (D)▌ 1.Stuart Symington (D)▌ 3.Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D), until September 13, 1960▌ Edward V. Long (D), from September 23, 1960▌ 1.Mike Mansfield (D)▌ 2.James E. Murray (D)▌ 1.Roman Hruska (R)▌ 2.Carl Curtis (R)▌ 1.Howard Cannon (D)▌ 3.Alan Bible (D)▌ 2.Styles Bridges (R)▌ 3.Norris Cotton (R)▌ 1.Harrison A. Williams (D)▌ 2.Clifford P. Case (R)▌ 1.Dennis Chávez (D)▌ 2.Clinton Anderson (D)▌ 1.Kenneth Keating (R)▌ 3.Jacob Javits (R)▌ 2.B. Everett Jordan (D)▌ 3.Sam Ervin (D)▌ 1.William Langer (R-NPL), until November 8, 1959▌ Norman Brunsdale (R), November 19, 1959 – August 7, 1960▌ Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)[ a] , from August 8, 1960▌ 3.Milton Young (R)▌ 1.Stephen M. Young (D)▌ 3.Frank Lausche (D)▌ 2.Robert S. Kerr (D)▌ 3.Mike Monroney (D)▌ 2.Richard L. Neuberger (D), until March 9, 1960▌ Hall S. Lusk (D), March 16, 1960 – November 8, 1960▌ Maurine Neuberger (D), from November 9, 1960▌ 3.Wayne Morse (D)▌ 1.Hugh Scott (R)▌ 3.Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D)▌ 1.John Pastore (D)▌ 2.Theodore F. Green (D)▌ 2.Strom Thurmond (D)▌ 3.Olin D. Johnston (D)▌ 2.Karl Mundt (R)▌ 3.Francis Case (R)▌ 1.Albert Gore Sr. (D)▌ 2.Estes Kefauver (D)▌ 1.Ralph Yarborough (D)▌ 2.Lyndon B. Johnson (D)▌ 1.Frank Moss (D)▌ 3.Wallace F. Bennett (R)▌ 1.Winston L. Prouty (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.Robert Byrd (D)▌ 2.Jennings Randolph (D)▌ 1.William Proxmire (D)▌ 3.Alexander Wiley (R)▌ 1.Gale W. McGee (D)▌ 2.Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)Senate composition by party at the beginning of the 86th Congress (Alaska was admitted as a state on the same day this Congress started). Senators from Hawaii did not take office until later in 1959. 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
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)▌ At-large .Ralph Rivers (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 .Dale Alford (D)▌ 6 .William F. Norrell (D)▌ 1 .Clem Miller (D)▌ 2 .Bizz Johnson (D)▌ 3 .John E. Moss (D)▌ 4 .William S. Mailliard (R)▌ 5 .John F. Shelley (D)▌ 6 .John F. Baldwin Jr. (R)▌ 7 .Jeffery Cohelan (D)▌ 8 .George P. Miller (D)▌ 9 .J. Arthur Younger (R)▌ 10 .Charles Gubser (R)▌ 11 .John J. McFall (D)▌ 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 .Chet Holifield (D)▌ 20 .H. Allen Smith (R)▌ 21 .Edgar W. Hiestand (R)▌ 22 .Joseph F. Holt (R)▌ 23 .Clyde Doyle (D)▌ 24 .Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)▌ 25 .George A. Kasem (D)▌ 26 .James Roosevelt (D)▌ 27 .Harry R. Sheppard (D)▌ 28 .James B. Utt (R)▌ 29 .Dalip Singh Saund (D)▌ 30 .Bob Wilson (R)▌ 1 .Byron G. Rogers (D)▌ 2 .Byron L. Johnson (D)▌ 3 .John Chenoweth (R)▌ 4 .Wayne N. Aspinall (D)▌ 1 .Emilio Q. Daddario (D)▌ 2 .Chester Bowles (D)▌ 3 .Robert Giaimo (D)▌ 4 .Donald J. Irwin (D)▌ 5 .John S. Monagan (D)▌ At-large .Frank Kowalski (D)▌ At-large .Harris McDowell (D)▌ 1 .William C. Cramer (R)▌ 2 .Charles E. Bennett (D)▌ 3 .Bob Sikes (D)▌ 4 .Dante Fascell (D)▌ 5 .Syd Herlong (D)▌ 6 .Paul Rogers (D)▌ 7 .James A. Haley (D)▌ 8 .D. R. 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 .Harlan Mitchell (D)▌ 8 .Iris Faircloth Blitch (D)▌ 9 .Phillip M. Landrum (D)▌ 10 .Paul Brown (D)▌ At-large .Daniel Inouye (D), from August 21, 1959 (newly admitted state)▌ 1 .Gracie Pfost (D)▌ 2 .Hamer H. Budge (R)▌ 1 .William L. Dawson (D)▌ 2 .Barratt O'Hara (D)▌ 3 .William T. Murphy (D)▌ 4 .Ed Derwinski (R)▌ 5 .John C. Kluczynski (D)▌ 6 .Thomas J. O'Brien (D)▌ 7 .Roland V. Libonati (D)▌ 8 .Dan Rostenkowski (D)▌ 9 .Sidney R. Yates (D)▌ 10 .Harold R. Collier (R)▌ 11 .Roman Pucinski (D)▌ 12 .Charles A. Boyle (D), until November 4, 1959▌ 13 .Marguerite Stitt Church (R)▌ 14 .Elmer J. Hoffman (R)▌ 15 .Noah M. Mason (R)▌ 16 .Leo E. Allen (R)▌ 17 .Leslie C. Arends (R)▌ 18 .Robert H. Michel (R)▌ 19 .Robert B. Chiperfield (R)▌ 20 .Edna O. Simpson (R)▌ 21 .Peter F. Mack Jr. (D)▌ 22 .William L. Springer (R)▌ 23 .George E. Shipley (D)▌ 24 .Melvin Price (D)▌ 25 .Kenneth J. Gray (D)▌ 1 .Ray Madden (D)▌ 2 .Charles A. Halleck (R)▌ 3 .John Brademas (D)▌ 4 .E. Ross Adair (R)▌ 5 .J. Edward Roush (D)▌ 6 .Fred Wampler (D)▌ 7 .William G. Bray (R)▌ 8 .Winfield K. Denton (D)▌ 9 .Earl Hogan (D)▌ 10 .Randall S. Harmon (D)▌ 11 .Joseph W. Barr (D)▌ 1 .Fred Schwengel (R)▌ 2 .Leonard G. Wolf (D)▌ 3 .H. R. Gross (R)▌ 4 .Steven V. Carter (D), until November 4, 1959▌ John Henry Kyl (R), from December 15, 1959▌ 5 .Neal Smith (D)▌ 6 .Merwin Coad (D)▌ 7 .Ben F. Jensen (R)▌ 8 .Charles B. Hoeven (R)▌ 1 .William H. Avery (R)▌ 2 .Newell A. George (D)▌ 3 .Denver D. Hargis (D)▌ 4 .Edward H. Rees (R)▌ 5 .J. Floyd Breeding (D)▌ 6 .Wint Smith (R)▌ 1 .Frank Stubblefield (D)▌ 2 .William Natcher (D)▌ 3 .Frank W. Burke (D)▌ 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 .Harold B. McSween (D)▌ 1 .James C. Oliver (D)▌ 2 .Frank M. Coffin (D)▌ 3 .Clifford McIntire (R)▌ 1 .Thomas Francis Johnson (D)▌ 2 .Daniel Brewster (D)▌ 3 .Edward Garmatz (D)▌ 4 .George Hyde Fallon (D)▌ 5 .Richard Lankford (D)▌ 6 .John R. Foley (D)▌ 7 .Samuel Friedel (D)▌ 1 .Silvio O. Conte (R)▌ 2 .Edward Boland (D)▌ 3 .Philip J. Philbin (D)▌ 4 .Harold Donohue (D)▌ 5 .Edith Nourse Rogers (R), until September 10, 1960▌ 6 .William H. Bates (R)▌ 7 .Thomas J. Lane (D)▌ 8 .Torbert Macdonald (D)▌ 9 .Hastings Keith (R)▌ 10 .Laurence Curtis (R)▌ 11 .Tip O'Neill (D)▌ 12 .John W. McCormack (D)▌ 13 .James A. Burke (D)▌ 14 .Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)▌ 1 .Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)▌ 2 .George Meader (R)▌ 3 .August E. Johansen (R)▌ 4 .Clare E. Hoffman (R)▌ 5 .Gerald Ford (R)▌ 6 .Charles E. Chamberlain (R)▌ 7 .James G. O'Hara (D)▌ 8 .Alvin Morell Bentley (R)▌ 9 .Robert P. Griffin (R)▌ 10 .Al 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 Jr. (D)▌ 16 .John Lesinski Jr. (D)▌ 17 .Martha Griffiths (D)▌ 18 .William Broomfield (R)▌ 1 .Al Quie (R)▌ 2 .Ancher Nelsen (R)▌ 3 .Roy Wier (DFL)[ a] ▌ 4 .Joseph Karth (DFL)[ a] ▌ 5 .Walter Judd (R)▌ 6 .Fred Marshall (DFL)[ a] ▌ 7 .H. Carl Andersen (R)▌ 8 .John Blatnik (DFL)[ a] ▌ 9 .Odin Langen (R)▌ 1 .Thomas Abernethy (D)▌ 2 .Jamie 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), until January 23, 1959▌ William J. Randall (D), from March 3, 1959▌ 5 .Richard W. Bolling (D)▌ 6 .William R. Hull Jr. (D)▌ 7 .Charles Harrison Brown (D)▌ 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 .LeRoy H. Anderson (D)▌ 1 .Phil Weaver (R)▌ 2 .Glenn Cunningham (R)▌ 3 .Lawrence Brock (D)▌ 4 .Donald McGinley (D)▌ At-large .Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)▌ 1 .Chester Earl Merrow (R)▌ 2 .Perkins Bass (R)▌ 1 .William T. Cahill (R)▌ 2 .Milton W. Glenn (R)▌ 3 .James C. Auchincloss (R)▌ 4 .Frank Thompson (D)▌ 5 .Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)▌ 6 .Florence P. Dwyer (R)▌ 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 .George M. Wallhauser (R)▌ 13 .Cornelius Gallagher (D)▌ 14 .Dominick V. Daniels (D)▌ At-large .Thomas G. Morris (D)▌ At-large .Joseph Montoya (D)▌ 1 .Stuyvesant Wainwright (R)▌ 2 .Steven Derounian (R)▌ 3 .Frank J. Becker (R)▌ 4 .Seymour Halpern (R)▌ 5 .Albert H. Bosch (R), until December 31, 1960▌ 6 .Lester Holtzman (D)▌ 7 .James J. Delaney (D)▌ 8 .Victor Anfuso (D)▌ 9 .Eugene J. 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 .John Lindsay (R)▌ 18 .Alfred E. Santangelo (D)▌ 19 .Leonard Farbstein (D)▌ 20 .Ludwig Teller (D)▌ 21 .Herbert Zelenko (D)▌ 22 .James C. Healey (D)▌ 23 .Isidore Dollinger (D), until December 31, 1959▌ Jacob H. Gilbert (D), from March 8, 1960▌ 24 .Charles A. Buckley (D)▌ 25 .Paul A. Fino (R)▌ 26 .Edwin B. Dooley (R)▌ 27 .Robert R. Barry (R)▌ 28 .Katharine St. George (R)▌ 29 .J. Ernest Wharton (R)▌ 30 .Leo W. O'Brien (D)▌ 31 .Dean P. Taylor (R)▌ 32 .Samuel S. Stratton (D)▌ 33 .Clarence E. Kilburn (R)▌ 34 .Alexander Pirnie (R)▌ 35 .R. Walter Riehlman (R)▌ 36 .John Taber (R)▌ 37 .Howard W. Robison (R)▌ 38 .Jessica M. Weis (R)▌ 39 .Harold C. Ostertag (R)▌ 40 .William E. Miller (R)▌ 41 .Thaddeus J. Dulski (D)▌ 42 .John R. Pillion (R)▌ 43 .Daniel A. Reed (R), until February 19, 1959▌ Charles Goodell (R), from May 26, 1959▌ 1 .Herbert Covington Bonner (D)▌ 2 .Lawrence H. Fountain (D)▌ 3 .Graham A. Barden (D)▌ 4 .Harold D. Cooley (D)▌ 5 .Ralph James Scott (D)▌ 6 .Carl T. Durham (D)▌ 7 .Alton Lennon (D)▌ 8 .Alvin Paul Kitchin (D)▌ 9 .Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)▌ 10 .Charles R. Jonas (R)▌ 11 .Basil Lee Whitener (D)▌ 12 .David McKee Hall (D), until January 29, 1960▌ Roy A. Taylor (D), from June 25, 1960▌ At-large .Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)[ a] , until August 8, 1960▌ At-large .Don L. Short (R)▌ 1 .Gordon H. Scherer (R)▌ 2 .William E. Hess (R)▌ 3 .Paul F. Schenck (R)▌ 4 .William Moore McCulloch (R)▌ 5 .Del Latta (R)▌ 6 .James G. Polk (D), until April 28, 1959▌ Ward Miller (R), from November 8, 1960▌ 7 .Clarence J. Brown (R)▌ 8 .Jackson Edward Betts (R)▌ 9 .Thomas L. Ashley (D)▌ 10 .Walter H. Moeller (D)▌ 11 .Robert E. Cook (D)▌ 12 .Samuel L. Devine (R)▌ 13 .Albert David Baumhart Jr. (R)▌ 14 .William Hanes Ayres (R)▌ 15 .John E. Henderson (R)▌ 16 .Frank T. Bow (R)▌ 17 .Robert W. Levering (D)▌ 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 .Toby Morris (D)▌ 1 .A. Walter Norblad (R)▌ 2 .Al Ullman (D)▌ 3 .Edith Green (D)▌ 4 .Charles O. Porter (D)▌ 1 .William A. Barrett (D)▌ 2 .Kathryn E. Granahan (D)▌ 3 .James A. Byrne (D)▌ 4 .Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D)▌ 5 .William J. Green Jr. (D)▌ 6 .Herman Toll (D)▌ 7 .William H. Milliken Jr. (R)▌ 8 .Willard S. Curtin (R)▌ 9 .Paul B. Dague (R)▌ 10 .Stanley A. Prokop (D)▌ 11 .Dan Flood (D)▌ 12 .Ivor D. Fenton (R)▌ 13 .John A. Lafore Jr. (R)▌ 14 .George M. Rhodes (D)▌ 15 .Francis E. Walter (D)▌ 16 .Walter M. Mumma (R)▌ 17 .Alvin Bush (R), until November 5, 1959▌ Herman T. Schneebeli (R), from April 26, 1960▌ 18 .Richard M. Simpson (R), until January 7, 1960▌ Douglas Hemphill Elliott (R), April 26, 1960 – June 19, 1960▌ J. Irving Whalley (R), from November 8, 1960▌ 19 .James M. Quigley (D)▌ 20 .James E. Van Zandt (R)▌ 21 .John Herman Dent (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 .William S. Moorhead (D)▌ 29 .Robert J. Corbett (R)▌ 30 .Elmer J. Holland (D)▌ 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 .Robert W. Hemphill (D)▌ 6 .John L. McMillan (D)▌ 1 .George McGovern (D)▌ 2 .E. Y. Berry (R)▌ 1 .B. Carroll Reece (R)▌ 2 .Howard Baker Sr. (R)▌ 3 .James B. Frazier Jr. (D)▌ 4 .Joe L. Evins (D)▌ 5 .J. Carlton Loser (D)▌ 6 .Ross Bass (D)▌ 7 .Tom J. Murray (D)▌ 8 .Fats Everett (D)▌ 9 .Clifford Davis (D)▌ 1 .Wright Patman (D)▌ 2 .Jack Brooks (D)▌ 3 .Lindley Beckworth (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 Andrew Young (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)▌ 22 .Robert R. Casey (D)▌ 1 .Henry Aldous Dixon (R)▌ 2 .David S. King (D)▌ At-large .William H. Meyer (D)▌ 1 .Thomas N. Downing (D)▌ 2 .Porter Hardy Jr. (D)▌ 3 .J. Vaughan Gary (D)▌ 4 .Watkins Abbitt (D)▌ 5 .William M. Tuck (D)▌ 6 .Richard H. 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), until March 28, 1960▌ Julia Butler Hansen (D), from November 8, 1960▌ 4 .Catherine Dean May (R)▌ 5 .Walt Horan (R)▌ 6 .Thor C. Tollefson (R)▌ 7 .Don Magnuson (D)▌ 1 .Arch A. Moore Jr. (R)▌ 2 .Harley Orrin Staggers (D)▌ 3 .Cleveland M. Bailey (D)▌ 4 .Ken Hechler (D)▌ 5 .Elizabeth Kee (D)▌ 6 .John M. Slack Jr. (D)▌ 1 .Gerald T. Flynn (D)▌ 2 .Robert Kastenmeier (D)▌ 3 .Gardner R. Withrow (R)▌ 4 .Clement 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 .Keith Thomson (R), until December 9, 1960▌ Hawaii Territory .John A. Burns (D), until August 21, 1959▌ Puerto Rico .Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD)House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+% Republican
80+% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
up to 60% Republican
up to 60% Democratic
Changes in membership [ edit ] Senate changes State (class) Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] Hawaii (1)New seats Hawaii achieved statehood August 21, 1959. Hiram Fong (R)August 21, 1959 Hawaii (3)Oren E. Long (D)North Dakota (1)William Langer (R)Died November 8, 1959. Norman Brunsdale (R)November 19, 1959 Oregon (2)Richard L. Neuberger (D)Died March 9, 1960 Hall S. Lusk (D)March 16, 1960 North Dakota (1)Norman Brunsdale (R)Successor elected June 28, 1960. Successor qualified August 8, 1960. Quentin Burdick (D)August 8, 1960 Missouri (3)Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D)Died September 13, 1960 Edward V. Long (D)September 23, 1960 Oregon (2)Hall S. Lusk (D)Successor elected November 8, 1960 Maurine Neuberger (D)November 9, 1960 Massachusetts (1)John F. Kennedy (D)Resigned December 22, 1960, after being electedPresident of the United States Benjamin A. Smith II (D)December 27, 1960
House of Representatives [ edit ] House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] Missouri 4th George H. Christopher (D)Died January 23, 1959 William J. Randall (D)March 3, 1959 New York 43rd Daniel A. Reed (R)Died February 19, 1959 Charles Goodell (R)May 26, 1959 Ohio 6th James G. Polk (D)Died April 28, 1959 Ward Miller (R)November 8, 1960 Hawaii Territory at-large John A. Burns (D)Hawaii achieved statehood. Seat eliminated August 21, 1959 Hawaii at-large New seat Hawaii achieved statehood August 21, 1959 Daniel Inouye (D)August 21, 1959 Illinois 12th Charles A. Boyle (D)Died November 4, 1959 Vacant Not filled this term Iowa 4th Steven V. Carter (D)Died November 4, 1959 John Henry Kyl (R)December 15, 1959 Pennsylvania 17th Alvin Bush (R)Died November 5, 1959 Herman T. Schneebeli (R)April 26, 1960 New York 23rd Isidore Dollinger (D)Resigned December 31, 1959 Jacob H. Gilbert (D)March 8, 1960 Pennsylvania 18th Richard M. Simpson (R)Died January 7, 1960 Douglas Hemphill Elliott (R)April 26, 1960 North Carolina 12th David McKee Hall (D)Died January 29, 1960 Roy A. Taylor (D)June 25, 1960 Washington 3rd Russell V. Mack (R)Died March 28, 1960 Julia Butler Hansen (D)November 8, 1960 Pennsylvania 18th Douglas Hemphill Elliott (R)Died June 19, 1960 J. Irving Whalley (R)November 8, 1960 North Dakota at-large Quentin Burdick (D)Resigned August 8, 1960, after becomingU.S. Senator Vacant Not filled this term Massachusetts 5th Edith Nourse Rogers (R)Died September 10, 1960 Wyoming at-large Edwin Keith Thomson (R)Died December 9, 1960 New York 5th Albert H. Bosch (R)Resigned December 31, 1960, after being elected judge of Court ofQueens County
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.
House of Representatives [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] Specific citations General references Gould, Lewis L. (2005).The Most Exclusive Club . Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group.ISBN 0-465-02778-4 . Remini, Robert V. (2006).The House . New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.ISBN 0-06-088434-7 . "Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress" . U.S. Congress. 2005. Archived fromthe original on June 1, 2006. RetrievedJune 1, 2006 ."Congressional History" . U.S. House of Representatives. 2006. Archived fromthe original on June 1, 2006. RetrievedJune 1, 2006 ."Statistics and Lists" . U.S. Senate. 2006.Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. RetrievedJune 1, 2006 .House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 86th Congress (PDF) . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on September 20, 2018. RetrievedJune 6, 2016 .Official Congressional Directory for the 86th Congress, 1st Session . 1809.Official Congressional Directory for the 86th Congress, 2nd Session . 1809.Pocket Congressional Directory for the 86th Congress . U. S. Govt. Print. Off.; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. 1951.