1961–1963 U.S. Congress
The87th United States Congress was a meeting of thelegislative 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, 1961, to January 3, 1963, during the final weeks ofDwight D. Eisenhower 'spresidency and the first two years ofJohn F. Kennedy 'spresidency . The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1950 United States census , along with two seats temporarily added in 1959 (one member each from recently admitted states of Alaska and Hawaii).
Both chambers had aDemocratic majority (albeit reduced in the House). With President Kennedy being sworn in on January 20, 1961, this gave the Democrats an overall federal governmenttrifecta for the first time since the82nd Congress in 1952.
January 3, 1961: President Eisenhower severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba. January 20, 1961: Inauguration of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy . April 17, 1961:Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began; it fails by April 19. May 4, 1961:Freedom Riders began interstate bus rides to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision. May 5, 1961:Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3. May 25, 1961: President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade November 16, 1961: House SpeakerSam Rayburn dies frompancreatic cancer . His funeral is held on November 20th. February 3, 1962: Embargo against Cuba was announced February 20, 1962:John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth March 26, 1962: Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order state legislatures to reapportion seats (Baker v. Carr ) October 1, 1962:James Meredith registered as the first black student at theUniversity of Mississippi , escorted by Federal Marshals. October 14, 1962 - October 28, 1962:Cuban Missile Crisis Senate PresidentLyndon Johnson (L) and House SpeakerSam Rayburn seated behind PresidentJohn Kennedy during his first State of the Union address on January 30, 1961. August 30, 1961 :Oil Pollution Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–167 , 75 Stat. 402 September 4, 1961:The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–195 , 75 Stat. 424 September 13, 1961:Interstate Wire Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–216 , 75 Stat. 491 September 21, 1961:Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–256 , 75 Stat. 527 September 22, 1961:Peace Corps Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–293 , 75 Stat. 612 September 26, 1961:Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961 ,Pub. L. 87–297 , 75 Stat. 631 October 15, 1961:Community Health Services and Facilities Act ,Pub. L. 87–395 , 75 Stat. 824 March 15, 1962:Manpower Development and Training Act ,Pub. L. 87–415 , 76 Stat. 23 June 28, 1962:Migration and Refugee Assistance Act ,Pub. L. 87–510 , 76 Stat. 121 August 31, 1962:Communications Satellite Act ,Pub. L. 87–624 , 76 Stat. 419 October 11, 1962:Trade Expansion Act ,Pub. L. 87–794 , 76 Stat. 872 Constitutional amendments [ edit ] The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the24th Amendment as contained in theNational Archives House of Representatives [ edit ] Senate President pro tempore
[ edit ] [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] [ edit ] [ 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 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1962; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1964; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1966.
Currently, this is the last congressional session in which the Democratic Party commanded all Senate seats from theDeep South , a unity broken when aRepublican defeated the appointed successor to Lyndon Johnson's seat in a 1961 Senate special election.
▌ 2.John J. 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. Caleb Boggs (R)▌ 1.Spessard Holland (D)▌ 3.George Smathers (D)▌ 2.Richard Russell Jr. (D)▌ 3.Herman Talmadge (D)▌ 1.Hiram Fong (R)▌ 2.Oren E. Long (D)▌ 2.Henry Dworshak (R), until July 23, 1962▌ Leonard B. Jordan (R), from August 6, 1962▌ 3.Frank Church (D)▌ 2.Paul Douglas (D)▌ 3.Everett M. Dirksen (R)▌ 1.Vance Hartke (D)▌ 3.Homer E. Capehart (R)▌ 2.Jack Miller (R)▌ 3.Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)▌ 2.Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R), until January 21, 1962▌ James B. Pearson (R), from January 31, 1962▌ 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.James Glenn Beall (R)▌ 3.John Marshall Butler (R)▌ 1.Benjamin A. Smith II (D), until November 6, 1962▌ Ted Kennedy (D), from November 7, 1962▌ 2.Leverett Saltonstall (R)▌ 1.Philip Hart (D)▌ 2.Patrick V. McNamara (D)▌ 1.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)[ b] ▌ 2.Hubert Humphrey (DFL)[ b] ▌ 1.John C. Stennis (D)▌ 2.James Eastland (D)▌ 1.Stuart Symington (D)▌ 3.Edward V. Long (D)▌ 1.Mike Mansfield (D)▌ 2.Lee Metcalf (D)▌ 1.Roman Hruska (R)▌ 2.Carl Curtis (R)▌ 1.Howard Cannon (D)▌ 3.Alan Bible (D)▌ 2.Styles Bridges (R), until November 26, 1961▌ Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R), from January 10, 1962 - November 6, 1962▌ Thomas J. McIntyre (D), from November 7, 1962▌ 3.Norris Cotton (R)▌ 2.Clifford P. Case (R)▌ 1.Harrison A. Williams (D)▌ 1.Dennis Chávez (D), until November 18, 1962▌ Edwin L. Mechem (R), from November 30, 1962▌ 2.Clinton P. Anderson (D)▌ 1.Kenneth Keating (R)▌ 3.Jacob Javits (R)▌ 2.B. Everett Jordan (D)▌ 3.Sam Ervin (D)▌ 1.Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)[ b] ▌ 3.Milton Young (R)▌ 1.Stephen M. Young (D)▌ 3.Frank Lausche (D)▌ 2.Robert S. Kerr (D), until January 1, 1963, vacant thereafter▌ 3.A. S. Mike Monroney (D)▌ 2.Maurine Neuberger (D)▌ 3.Wayne Morse (D)▌ 1.Hugh Scott (R)▌ 3.Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D)▌ 1.John Pastore (D)▌ 2.Claiborne Pell (D)▌ 2.Strom Thurmond (D)▌ 3.Olin D. Johnston (D)▌ 2.Karl E. Mundt (R)▌ 3.Francis Case (R), until June 23, 1962▌ Joseph H. Bottum (R), from July 9, 1962▌ 1.Albert Gore Sr. (D)▌ 2.Estes Kefauver (D)▌ 1.Ralph Yarborough (D)▌ 2.Lyndon B. Johnson (D), until January 3, 1961[ 1] ▌ William A. Blakley (D), until June 14, 1961▌ John Tower (R), from June 15, 1961▌ 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.John J. Hickey (D),[ c] ▌ Milward Simpson (R), from November 6, 1962Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 87th Congress in January 1961 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 Julian Rivers (D)▌ 1 John Jacob Rhodes (R)▌ 2 Stewart Udall (D), until January 18, 1961▌ Mo Udall (D), from May 2, 1961▌ 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), until February 15, 1961▌ Catherine Dorris Norrell (D), from April 18, 1961▌ 1 Clement Woodnutt Miller (D), until October 7, 1962▌ 2 Harold T. 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 Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (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 James C. Corman (D)▌ 23 Clyde Doyle (D)▌ 24 Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)▌ 25 John H. Rousselot (R)▌ 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 Peter H. Dominick (R)▌ 3 John Chenoweth (R)▌ 4 Wayne N. Aspinall (D)▌ 1 Emilio Q. Daddario (D)▌ 2 Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R)▌ 3 Robert Giaimo (D)▌ 4 Abner W. Sibal (R)▌ 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 Robert L. F. Sikes (D)▌ 4 Dante Fascell (D)▌ 5 Syd Herlong (D)▌ 6 Paul Rogers (D)▌ 7 James A. Haley (D)▌ 8 Donald Ray Matthews (D)▌ 1 George Elliott Hagan (D)▌ 2 J. L. Pilcher (D)▌ 3 Tic Forrester (D)▌ 4 John Flynt (D)▌ 5 James C. Davis (D)▌ 6 Carl Vinson (D)▌ 7 John William Davis (D)▌ 8 Iris Faircloth Blitch (D)▌ 9 Phillip M. Landrum (D)▌ 10 Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (D)▌ At-large Daniel Inouye (D)▌ 1 Gracie Pfost (D)▌ 2 Ralph R. Harding (D)▌ 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 Edward Rowan Finnegan (D)▌ 13 Marguerite S. Church (R)▌ 14 Elmer J. Hoffman (R)▌ 15 Noah M. Mason (R)▌ 16 John B. Anderson (R)▌ 17 Leslie C. Arends (R)▌ 18 Robert H. Michel (R)▌ 19 Robert B. Chiperfield (R)▌ 20 Paul Findley (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 Richard L. Roudebush (R)▌ 7 William G. Bray (R)▌ 8 Winfield K. Denton (D)▌ 9 Earl Wilson (R)▌ 10 Ralph Harvey (R)▌ 11 Donald C. Bruce (R)▌ 1 Fred Schwengel (R)▌ 2 James E. Bromwell (R)▌ 3 H. R. Gross (R)▌ 4 John Henry Kyl (R)▌ 5 Neal Edward Smith (D)▌ 6 Merwin Coad (D)▌ 7 Ben F. Jensen (R)▌ 8 Charles B. Hoeven (R)▌ 1 William H. Avery (R)▌ 2 Robert Ellsworth (R)▌ 3 Walter Lewis McVey Jr. (R)▌ 4 Garner E. Shriver (R)▌ 5 James Floyd Breeding (D)▌ 6 Bob Dole (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), until September 16, 1961▌ Joe Waggonner (D), from December 19, 1961▌ 5 Otto Passman (D)▌ 6 James H. Morrison (D)▌ 7 T. Ashton Thompson (D)▌ 8 Harold B. McSween (D)▌ 1 Peter A. Garland (R)▌ 2 Stanley R. Tupper (R)▌ 3 Clifford McIntire (R)▌ 1 Thomas F. Johnson (D)▌ 2 Daniel Brewster (D)▌ 3 Edward Garmatz (D)▌ 4 George Hyde Fallon (D)▌ 5 Richard Lankford (D)▌ 6 Charles Mathias (R)▌ 7 Samuel Friedel (D)▌ 1 Silvio O. Conte (R)▌ 2 Edward Boland (D)▌ 3 Philip J. Philbin (D)▌ 4 Harold Donohue (D)▌ 5 F. Bradford Morse (R)▌ 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), until September 18, 1961▌ Lucien Nedzi (D), from November 7, 1961▌ 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 R. James Harvey (R)▌ 9 Robert P. Griffin (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), until November 12, 1961▌ Harold M. Ryan (D), from February 13, 1962▌ 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 Clark MacGregor (R)▌ 4 Joseph Karth (DFL)[ b] ▌ 5 Walter Judd (R)▌ 6 Fred Marshall (DFL)[ b] ▌ 7 Herman Carl Andersen (R)▌ 8 John Blatnik (DFL)[ b] ▌ 9 Odin Langen (R)▌ 1 Thomas Abernethy (D)▌ 2 Jamie L. Whitten (D)▌ 3 Frank Ellis Smith (D), until November 14, 1962▌ 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 William J. Randall (D)▌ 5 Richard Walker Bolling (D)▌ 6 William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D)▌ 7 Durward Gorham Hall (R)▌ 8 Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D)▌ 9 Clarence Cannon (D)▌ 10 Paul C. Jones (D)▌ 11 Morgan M. Moulder (D)▌ 1 Arnold Olsen (D)▌ 2 James F. Battin (R)▌ 1 Phillip Hart Weaver (R)▌ 2 Glenn Cunningham (R)▌ 3 Ralph F. Beermann (R)▌ 4 David Martin (R)▌ 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 Charles Samuel Joelson (D)▌ 9 Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)▌ 10 Peter W. Rodino (D)▌ 11 Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D), until June 30, 1962▌ 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 Otis G. Pike (D)▌ 2 Steven Derounian (R)▌ 3 Frank J. Becker (R)▌ 4 Seymour Halpern (R)▌ 5 Joseph P. Addabbo (D)▌ 6 Lester Holtzman (D), until December 31, 1961▌ Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D), from February 20, 1962▌ 7 James J. Delaney (D)▌ 8 Victor Anfuso (D)▌ 9 Eugene J. Keogh (D)▌ 10 Edna F. Kelly (D)▌ 11 Emanuel Celler (D)▌ 12 Hugh Carey (D)▌ 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 William Fitts Ryan (D)▌ 21 Herbert Zelenko (D)▌ 22 James C. Healey (D)▌ 23 Jacob H. Gilbert (D)▌ 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 Carleton J. King (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 Charles Goodell (R)▌ 1 Herbert Covington Bonner (D)▌ 2 Lawrence H. Fountain (D)▌ 3 David N. Henderson (D)▌ 4 Harold D. Cooley (D)▌ 5 Ralph James Scott (D)▌ 6 Horace R. Kornegay (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 Roy A. Taylor (D)▌ At-large Don L. Short (R)▌ At-large Hjalmar Carl Nygaard (R)▌ 1 Gordon H. Scherer (R)▌ 2 Donald D. Clancy (R)▌ 3 Paul F. Schenck (R)▌ 4 William Moore McCulloch (R)▌ 5 Del Latta (R)▌ 6 Bill Harsha (R)▌ 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 Charles Adams Mosher (R)▌ 14 William Hanes Ayres (R)▌ 15 Tom Van Horn Moorehead (R)▌ 16 Frank T. Bow (R)▌ 17 John M. Ashbrook (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 Al Ullman (D)▌ 3 Edith Green (D)▌ 4 Edwin Durno (R)▌ 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 William Scranton (R)▌ 11 Dan Flood (D)▌ 12 Ivor D. Fenton (R)▌ 13 Richard Schweiker (R)▌ 14 George M. Rhodes (D)▌ 15 Francis E. Walter (D)▌ 16 Walter M. Mumma (R), until February 25, 1961▌ John C. Kunkel (R), from May 16, 1961▌ 17 Herman T. Schneebeli (R)▌ 18 J. Irving Whalley (R)▌ 19 George Atlee Goodling (R)▌ 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 Fernand St Germain (D)▌ 2 John E. Fogarty (D)▌ 1 L. Mendel Rivers (D)▌ 2 John J. Riley (D), until January 1, 1962▌ Corinne Boyd Riley (D), from April 10, 1962▌ 3 William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)▌ 4 Robert T. Ashmore (D)▌ 5 Robert W. Hemphill (D)▌ 6 John L. McMillan (D)▌ 1 Ben Reifel (R)▌ 2 Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)▌ 1 B. Carroll Reece (R), until March 19, 1961▌ Louise Goff Reece (R), from May 16, 1961▌ 2 Howard Baker Sr. (R)▌ 3 James B. Frazier Jr. (D)▌ 4 Joe L. Evins (D)▌ 5 Joseph 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), until November 16, 1961▌ Ray Roberts (D), from January 30, 1962▌ 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), until December 15, 1961▌ Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D), from January 27, 1962▌ 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), until September 24, 1961▌ Henry B. González (D), from November 4, 1961▌ 21 O. C. Fisher (D)▌ 22 Robert R. Casey (D)▌ 1 M. Blaine Peterson (D)▌ 2 David S. King (D)▌ At-large Robert Stafford (R)▌ 1 Thomas N. Downing (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 Julia Butler Hansen (D)▌ 4 Catherine Dean May (R)▌ 5 Walt Horan (R)▌ 6 Thor C. Tollefson (R)▌ 7 Donald H. 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 Henry C. Schadeberg (R)▌ 2 Robert Kastenmeier (D)▌ 3 Vernon Wallace Thomson (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 William Henry Harrison III (R)▌ Puerto Rico Antonio Fernós-Isern (Resident Commissioner) (PPD)House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+% Democratic
80+% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
Changes in membership [ edit ] Senate changes State Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ d] Texas William A. Blakley (D)Lost special election. John Tower (R)June 15, 1961 New Hampshire Styles Bridges (R)Died November 26, 1961. Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R)December 7, 1961 Kansas Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R)Died January 21, 1962. James B. Pearson (R)January 31, 1962 South Dakota Francis H. Case (R)Died June 23, 1962. Joseph H. Bottum (R)July 9, 1962 Idaho Henry Dworshak (R)Died July 23, 1962. Leonard B. Jordan (R)August 6, 1962 Wyoming John J. Hickey (D)Lost special election. Milward Simpson (R)November 6, 1962 Massachusetts Benjamin A. Smith II (D)Successor elected November 6, 1962. Ted Kennedy (D)November 7, 1962 New Hampshire Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R)Lost special election. Thomas J. McIntyre (D)November 7, 1962 New Mexico Dennis Chávez (D)Died November 18, 1962. Edwin L. Mechem (R)November 30, 1962 Oklahoma Robert S. Kerr (D)Died January 1, 1963. Vacant Not filled this term
House of Representatives [ edit ] House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ d] Arizona 2nd Stewart Udall (D)Resigned January 18, 1961 to becomeUnited States Secretary of the Interior . Mo Udall (D)May 2, 1961 Arkansas 6th William F. Norrell (D)Died February 15, 1961. Catherine Dorris Norrell (D)April 18, 1961 Pennsylvania 16th Walter M. Mumma (R)Died February 25, 1961. John C. Kunkel (R)May 16, 1961 Tennessee 1st B. Carroll Reece (R)Died March 19, 1961. Louise Goff Reece (R)May 16, 1961 Louisiana 4th Overton Brooks (D)Died September 16, 1961. Joe Waggonner (D)December 19, 1961 Michigan 1st Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)Resigned September 18, 1961 to become judge of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan . Lucien Nedzi (D)November 7, 1961 Texas 20th Paul J. Kilday (D)Resigned September 24, 1961 to become judge ofUnited States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces . Henry B. González (D)November 4, 1961 Michigan 14th Louis C. Rabaut (D)Died November 12, 1961. Harold M. Ryan (D)February 13, 1962 Texas 4th Sam Rayburn (D)Died November 16, 1961. Ray Roberts (D)January 30, 1962 Texas 13th Frank N. Ikard (D)Resigned December 15, 1961. Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D)January 27, 1962 New York 6th Lester Holtzman (D)Resigned December 31, 1961 to become judge of the New York Supreme Court. Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D)February 20, 1962 South Carolina 2nd John J. Riley (D)Died January 1, 1962. Corinne Boyd Riley (D)April 10, 1962 New Jersey 11th Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D)Resigned June 30, 1962 to becomeMayor of Newark, New Jersey . Vacant Not filled this term California 1st Clement Woodnutt Miller (D)Died October 7, 1962. Mississippi 3rd Frank Ellis Smith (D)Resigned November 14, 1962.
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 ] 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.
