1965–1967 U.S. Congress
The89th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of theUnited States federal government , composed of theUnited States Senate and theUnited States House of Representatives . It met inWashington, D.C. , from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1967, during the second and third years ofLyndon B. Johnson's presidency . The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1960 United States census .
Both chambers had aDemocratic supermajority , and with the election ofPresident Lyndon B. Johnson to his own term in office, maintaining an overall federal governmenttrifecta . This is the last time Democrats or any party had a 2/3rd supermajority in the Senate.
The 89th Congress is regarded as "arguably the most productive in American history".[ 1] Social Security Amendments of 1965 (the creation ofMedicare andMedicaid ), theVoting Rights Act ,Higher Education Act ,Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 ,Elementary and Secondary Education Act and theFreedom of Information Act .
October 3, 1965: President Johnson visited theStatue of Liberty to sign theImmigration and Nationality Act of 1965 . The first page of theVoting Rights Act . April 11, 1965:Elementary and Secondary Education Act ,Pub. L. 89–10 July 27, 1965:Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act ,Pub. L. 89–92 July 30, 1965:Social Security Act of 1965 ,Pub. L. 89–97 (includingMedicaid andMedicare ) August 6, 1965:Voting Rights Act ,Pub. L. 89–110 August 10, 1965:Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 ,Pub. L. 89–117 August 26, 1965:Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 ,Pub. L. 89–136 September 9, 1965Department of Housing and Urban Development Act,Pub. L. 89–174 , 79 Stat. 667 September 29, 1965:National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act ,Pub. L. 89–209 October 3, 1965:Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 , (Hart-Celler Act, INS Act)Pub. L. 89–236 October 6, 1965:Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments ,Pub. L. 89–239 October 20, 1965:Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act ,Pub. L. 89–272 (includingSolid Waste Disposal Act ) October 22, 1965:Highway Beautification Act ,Pub. L. 89–285 November 8, 1965:Higher Education Act ,Pub. L. 89–329 November 8, 1965:Vocational Rehabilitation Act AmendmentsPub. L. 89–333 August 26, 1966:Laboratory Animal Welfare Act Now called the Animal Welfare ActPub. L. 89–544 April 13, 1966:Uniform Time Act ,Pub. L. 89–387 July 13, 1966:Cotton Research and Promotion Act ,Pub. L. 89–502 September 6, 1966:Pub. L. 89–554 , which (among other things) enacted what is now called theFreedom of Information Act September 9, 1966:National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act ,Pub. L. 89–563 September 9, 1966:Highway Safety Act ,Pub. L. 89–564 October 15, 1966:National Historic Preservation Act ,Pub. L. 89–665 October 15, 1966:National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 ,Pub. L. 89–669 October 15, 1966:Department of Transportation Act ,Pub. L. 89–670 November 2, 1966:Cuban Adjustment Act ,Pub. L. 89–732 November 3, 1966:Comprehensive Health, Planning and Service Act ,Pub. L. 89–749 Constitutional amendments [ edit ] 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.
House of Representatives [ edit ] 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
House Republicans showing their approval for newly elected House Minority Leader RepresentativeGerald R. Ford as Senate Minority LeaderEverett M. Dirksen raises his hand. [ edit ] [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and representatives are listed by district.
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 this Congress, requiring reelection in 1970; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1966; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1968.
▌ 2.John J. Sparkman (D)▌ 3.J. Lister Hill (D)▌ 2.Bob Bartlett (D)▌ 3.Ernest Gruening (D)▌ 1.Paul Fannin (R)▌ 3.Carl Hayden (D)▌ 2.John L. McClellan (D)▌ 3.J. William Fulbright (D)▌ 1.George Murphy (R)▌ 3.Thomas Kuchel (R)▌ 2.Gordon Allott (R)▌ 3.Peter H. Dominick (R)▌ 1.Thomas J. Dodd (D)▌ 3.Abraham Ribicoff (D)▌ 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)▌ 3.Daniel Inouye (D)▌ 2.Leonard B. Jordan (R)▌ 3.Frank Church (D)▌ 2.Paul Douglas (D)▌ 3.Everett M. Dirksen (R)▌ 1.Vance Hartke (D)▌ 3.Birch Bayh (D)▌ 2.Jack Miller (R)▌ 3.Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)▌ 2.James B. Pearson (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.Joseph Tydings (D)▌ 3.Daniel Brewster (D)▌ 1.Ted Kennedy (D)▌ 2.Leverett Saltonstall (R)▌ 1.Philip Hart (D)▌ 2.Patrick V. McNamara (D), until April 30, 1966▌ Robert P. Griffin (R), from May 11, 1966▌ 1.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)[ a] ▌ 2.Walter Mondale (DFL)[ a] ▌ 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.Thomas J. McIntyre (D)▌ 3.Norris Cotton (R)▌ 1.Harrison A. Williams (D)▌ 2.Clifford P. Case (R)▌ 1.Joseph Montoya (D)▌ 2.Clinton P. Anderson (D)▌ 1.Robert F. Kennedy (D)▌ 3.Jacob Javits (R)▌ 2.B. Everett Jordan (D)▌ 3.Sam Ervin (D)▌ 1.Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)[ a] ▌ 3.Milton Young (R)▌ 1.Stephen M. Young (D)▌ 3.Frank Lausche (D)▌ 2.Fred R. Harris (D)▌ 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 (R)▌ 3.Olin D. Johnston (D), until April 18, 1965▌ Donald S. Russell (D), from April 22, 1965 – November 8, 1966▌ Fritz Hollings (D), from November 9, 1966▌ 2.Karl E. Mundt (R)▌ 3.George McGovern (D)▌ 1.Albert Gore Sr. (D)▌ 2.Ross Bass (D), until January 2, 1967▌ 1.Ralph Yarborough (D)▌ 2.John Tower (R)▌ 1.Frank Moss (D)▌ 3.Wallace F. Bennett (R)▌ 1.Winston L. Prouty (R)▌ 3.George Aiken (R)▌ 1.Harry F. Byrd (D), until November 10, 1965▌ Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D), from November 12, 1965▌ 2.A. Willis Robertson (D), until December 30, 1966▌ William B. Spong Jr. (D), from December 31, 1966▌ 1.Henry M. Jackson (D)▌ 3.Warren G. Magnuson (D)▌ 1.Robert Byrd (D)▌ 2.Jennings Randolph (D)▌ 1.William Proxmire (D)▌ 3.Gaylord Nelson (D)▌ 1.Gale W. McGee (D)▌ 2.Milward Simpson (R)Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 89th Congress in January 1965 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
Senate PresidentHubert Humphrey Senate President pro temporeCarl Hayden Senate Majority leaderMike Mansfield Senate Minority leaderEverett Dirksen
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 Jack Edwards (R)▌ 2 William Louis Dickinson (R)▌ 3 George W. Andrews (D)▌ 4 Glenn Andrews (R)▌ 5 Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D)▌ 6 John Hall Buchanan Jr. (R)▌ 7 James D. Martin (R)▌ 8 Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)▌ At-large Ralph Julian Rivers (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 1 John Jacob Rhodes (R)▌ 2 Mo Udall (D)▌ 3 George F. Senner Jr. (D)▌ 1 Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)▌ 2 Wilbur Mills (D)▌ 3 James William Trimble (D)▌ 4 Oren Harris (D), until February 3, 1966▌ David Pryor (D), from November 8, 1966▌ 1 Donald H. Clausen (R)▌ 2 Harold T. Johnson (D)▌ 3 John E. Moss (D)▌ 4 Robert L. Leggett (D)▌ 5 Phillip Burton (D)▌ 6 William S. Mailliard (R)▌ 7 Jeffery Cohelan (D)▌ 8 George P. Miller (D)▌ 9 Don Edwards (D)▌ 10 Charles Gubser (R)▌ 11 J. Arthur Younger (R)▌ 12 Burt Talcott (R)▌ 13 Charles M. Teague (R)▌ 14 John F. Baldwin Jr. (R), until March 9, 1966▌ Jerome Waldie (D), from June 7, 1966▌ 15 John J. McFall (D)▌ 16 B. F. Sisk (D)▌ 17 Cecil R. King (D)▌ 18 Harlan Hagen (D)▌ 19 Chester E. Holifield (D)▌ 20 H. Allen Smith (R)▌ 21 Augustus Hawkins (D)▌ 22 James C. Corman (D)▌ 23 Del M. Clawson (R)▌ 24 Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)▌ 25 Ronald B. Cameron (D)▌ 26 James Roosevelt (D), until September 30, 1965▌ Thomas M. Rees (D), from December 15, 1965▌ 27 Edwin Reinecke (R)▌ 28 Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (R)▌ 29 George Brown Jr. (D)▌ 30 Edward R. Roybal (D)▌ 31 Charles H. Wilson (D)▌ 32 Craig Hosmer (R)▌ 33 Kenneth W. Dyal (D)▌ 34 Richard T. Hanna (D)▌ 35 James B. Utt (R)▌ 36 Bob Wilson (R)▌ 37 Lionel Van Deerlin (D)▌ 38 John V. Tunney (D)▌ 1 Byron G. Rogers (D)▌ 2 Roy H. McVicker (D)▌ 3 Frank Evans (D)▌ 4 Wayne N. Aspinall (D)▌ 1 Emilio Q. Daddario (D)▌ 2 William St. Onge (D)▌ 3 Robert Giaimo (D)▌ 4 Donald J. Irwin (D)▌ 5 John S. Monagan (D)▌ 6 Bernard F. Grabowski (D)▌ At-large Harris McDowell (D)▌ 1 Robert L. F. Sikes (D)▌ 2 Charles E. Bennett (D)▌ 3 Claude Pepper (D)▌ 4 Dante Fascell (D)▌ 5 Syd Herlong (D)▌ 6 Paul Rogers (D)▌ 7 James A. Haley (D)▌ 8 Donald Ray Matthews (D)▌ 9 Don Fuqua (D)▌ 10 Sam Gibbons (D)▌ 11 Edward Gurney (R)▌ 12 William C. Cramer (R)▌ 1 George Elliott Hagan (D)▌ 2 Maston E. O'Neal Jr. (D)▌ 3 Bo Callaway (R)▌ 4 James MacKay (D)▌ 5 Charles L. Weltner (D)▌ 6 John Flynt (D)▌ 7 John William Davis (D)▌ 8 J. Russell Tuten (D)▌ 9 Phillip M. Landrum (D)▌ 10 Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (D)▌ At-large Spark Matsunaga (D)▌ At-large Patsy Mink (D)▌ 1 Compton I. White Jr. (D)▌ 2 George V. Hansen (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 Daniel J. Ronan (D)▌ 7 Frank Annunzio (D)▌ 8 Dan Rostenkowski (D)▌ 9 Sidney R. Yates (D)▌ 10 Harold R. Collier (R)▌ 11 Roman Pucinski (D)▌ 12 Robert McClory (R)▌ 13 Donald Rumsfeld (R)▌ 14 John N. Erlenborn (R)▌ 15 Charlotte Thompson Reid (R)▌ 16 John B. Anderson (R)▌ 17 Leslie C. Arends (R)▌ 18 Robert H. Michel (R)▌ 19 Gale Schisler (D)▌ 20 Paul Findley (R)▌ 21 Kenneth J. Gray (D)▌ 22 William L. Springer (R)▌ 23 George E. Shipley (D)▌ 24 Melvin Price (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), until December 30, 1966▌ 9 Lee H. Hamilton (D)▌ 10 Ralph Harvey (R), until December 30, 1966▌ 11 Andrew Jacobs Jr. (D)▌ 1 John R. Schmidhauser (D)▌ 2 John Culver (D)▌ 3 H. R. Gross (R)▌ 4 Bert Bandstra (D)▌ 5 Neal Edward Smith (D)▌ 6 Stanley L. Greigg (D)▌ 7 John R. Hansen (D)▌ 1 Bob Dole (R)▌ 2 Chester L. Mize (R)▌ 3 Robert Ellsworth (R)▌ 4 Garner E. Shriver (R)▌ 5 Joe Skubitz (R)▌ 1 Frank Stubblefield (D)▌ 2 William Natcher (D)▌ 3 Charles R. Farnsley (D)▌ 4 Frank Chelf (D)▌ 5 Tim Lee Carter (R)▌ 6 John C. Watts (D)▌ 7 Carl D. Perkins (D)▌ 1 F. Edward Hébert (D)▌ 2 Hale Boggs (D)▌ 3 Edwin E. Willis (D)▌ 4 Joe Waggonner (D)▌ 5 Otto Passman (D)▌ 6 James H. Morrison (D)▌ 7 T. Ashton Thompson (D), until July 1, 1965▌ Edwin Edwards (D), from October 2, 1965▌ 8 Speedy Long (D)▌ 1 Stanley R. Tupper (R)▌ 2 William Hathaway (D)▌ 1 Rogers Morton (R)▌ 2 Clarence Long (D)▌ 3 Edward Garmatz (D)▌ 4 George Hyde Fallon (D)▌ 5 Hervey Machen (D)▌ 6 Charles Mathias (R)▌ 7 Samuel Friedel (D)▌ At-large Carlton R. Sickles (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 Torbert Macdonald (D)▌ 8 Tip O'Neill (D)▌ 9 John W. McCormack (D)▌ 10 Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)▌ 11 James A. Burke (D)▌ 12 Hastings Keith (R)▌ 1 John Conyers (D)▌ 2 Weston E. Vivian (D)▌ 3 Paul H. Todd Jr. (D)▌ 4 J. Edward Hutchinson (R)▌ 5 Gerald Ford (R)▌ 6 Charles E. Chamberlain (R)▌ 7 John C. Mackie (D)▌ 8 R. James Harvey (R)▌ 9 Robert P. Griffin (R), until May 10, 1966▌ Guy Vander Jagt (R), from November 8, 1966▌ 10 Elford Albin Cederberg (R)▌ 11 Raymond F. Clevenger (D)▌ 12 James G. O'Hara (D)▌ 13 Charles Diggs (D)▌ 14 Lucien Nedzi (D)▌ 15 William D. Ford (D)▌ 16 John D. Dingell Jr. (D)▌ 17 Martha Griffiths (D)▌ 18 William Broomfield (R)▌ 19 Billie S. Farnum (D)▌ 1 Al Quie (R)▌ 2 Ancher Nelsen (R)▌ 3 Clark MacGregor (R)▌ 4 Joseph Karth (DFL)[ a] ▌ 5 Donald M. Fraser (DFL)[ a] ▌ 6 Alec G. Olson (DFL)[ a] ▌ 7 Odin Langen (R)▌ 8 John Blatnik (DFL)[ a] ▌ 1 Thomas Abernethy (D)▌ 2 Jamie L. Whitten (D)▌ 3 John Bell Williams (D)▌ 4 Prentiss Walker (R)▌ 5 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 William L. Hungate (D)▌ 10 Paul C. Jones (D)▌ 1 Arnold Olsen (D)▌ 2 James F. Battin (R)▌ 1 Clair Armstrong Callan (D)▌ 2 Glenn Cunningham (R)▌ 3 David Martin (R)▌ At-large Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)▌ 1 Joseph Oliva Huot (D)▌ 2 James Colgate Cleveland (R)▌ 1 William T. Cahill (R)▌ 2 Thomas C. McGrath Jr. (D)▌ 3 James J. Howard (D)▌ 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 Henry Helstoski (D)▌ 10 Peter W. Rodino (D)▌ 11 Joseph Minish (D)▌ 12 Paul J. Krebs (D)▌ 13 Cornelius Gallagher (D)▌ 14 Dominick V. Daniels (D)▌ 15 Edward J. Patten (D)▌ At-large Thomas G. Morris (D)▌ At-large E. S. Johnny Walker (D)▌ 1 Otis G. Pike (D)▌ 2 James R. Grover Jr. (R)▌ 3 Lester L. Wolff (D)▌ 4 John W. Wydler (R)▌ 5 Herbert Tenzer (D)▌ 6 Seymour Halpern (R)▌ 7 Joseph P. Addabbo (D)▌ 8 Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D)▌ 9 James J. Delaney (D)▌ 10 Emanuel Celler (D)▌ 11 Eugene J. Keogh (D)▌ 12 Edna F. Kelly (D)▌ 13 Abraham J. Multer (D)▌ 14 John J. Rooney (D)▌ 15 Hugh Carey (D)▌ 16 John M. Murphy (D)▌ 17 John Lindsay (R), until December 31, 1965▌ Theodore R. Kupferman (R), from February 8, 1966▌ 18 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)▌ 19 Leonard Farbstein (D)▌ 20 William Fitts Ryan (D)▌ 21 James H. Scheuer (D)▌ 22 Jacob H. Gilbert (D)▌ 23 Jonathan Brewster Bingham (D)▌ 24 Paul A. Fino (R)▌ 25 Richard Ottinger (D)▌ 26 Ogden Reid (R)▌ 27 John G. Dow (D)▌ 28 Joseph Y. Resnick (D)▌ 29 Leo W. O'Brien (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 30 Carleton J. King (R)▌ 31 Robert C. McEwen (R)▌ 32 Alexander Pirnie (R)▌ 33 Howard W. Robison (R)▌ 34 James M. Hanley (D)▌ 35 Samuel S. Stratton (D)▌ 36 Frank Horton (R)▌ 37 Barber Conable (R)▌ 38 Charles Goodell (R)▌ 39 Richard D. McCarthy (D)▌ 40 Henry P. Smith III (R)▌ 41 Thaddeus J. Dulski (D)▌ 1 Herbert Covington Bonner (D), until November 7, 1965▌ Walter B. Jones Sr. (D), from February 5, 1966▌ 2 Lawrence H. Fountain (D)▌ 3 David N. Henderson (D)▌ 4 Harold D. Cooley (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 5 Ralph James Scott (D)▌ 6 Horace R. Kornegay (D)▌ 7 Alton Lennon (D)▌ 8 Charles R. Jonas (R)▌ 9 Jim Broyhill (R)▌ 10 Basil Lee Whitener (D)▌ 11 Roy A. Taylor (D)▌ 1 Mark Andrews (R)▌ 2 Rolland W. Redlin (D-NPL)[ a] ▌ 1 John J. Gilligan (D)▌ 2 Donald D. Clancy (R)▌ 3 Rodney M. Love (D)▌ 4 William Moore McCulloch (R)▌ 5 Del Latta (R)▌ 6 Bill Harsha (R)▌ 7 Clarence J. Brown (R), until August 23, 1965▌ Bud Brown (R) from November 2, 1965▌ 8 Jackson Edward Betts (R)▌ 9 Thomas L. Ashley (D)▌ 10 Walter H. Moeller (D)▌ 11 J. William Stanton (R)▌ 12 Samuel L. Devine (R)▌ 13 Charles Adams Mosher (R)▌ 14 William Hanes Ayres (R)▌ 15 Robert T. Secrest (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 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)▌ At-large Robert E. Sweeney (D)▌ 1 Page Belcher (R)▌ 2 Ed Edmondson (D)▌ 3 Carl Albert (D)▌ 4 Tom Steed (D)▌ 5 John Jarman (D)▌ 6 Jed Johnson Jr. (D)▌ 1 Wendell Wyatt (R)▌ 2 Al Ullman (D)▌ 3 Edith Green (D)▌ 4 Robert B. Duncan (D)▌ 1 William A. Barrett (D)▌ 2 Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D)▌ 3 James A. Byrne (D)▌ 4 Herman Toll (D)▌ 5 William J. Green III (D)▌ 6 George M. Rhodes (D)▌ 7 George Watkins (R)▌ 8 Willard S. Curtin (R)▌ 9 Paul B. Dague (R), until December 30, 1966▌ 10 Joseph M. McDade (R)▌ 11 Dan Flood (D)▌ 12 J. Irving Whalley (R)▌ 13 Richard Schweiker (R)▌ 14 William S. Moorhead (D)▌ 15 Fred B. Rooney (D)▌ 16 John C. Kunkel (R), until December 30, 1966▌ 17 Herman T. Schneebeli (R)▌ 18 Robert J. Corbett (R)▌ 19 Nathaniel N. Craley Jr. (D)▌ 20 Elmer J. Holland (D)▌ 21 John Herman Dent (D)▌ 22 John P. Saylor (R)▌ 23 Albert W. Johnson (R)▌ 24 Joseph P. Vigorito (D)▌ 25 Frank M. Clark (D)▌ 26 Thomas E. Morgan (D)▌ 27 James G. Fulton (R)▌ 1 Fernand St Germain (D)▌ 2 John E. Fogarty (D)▌ 1 L. Mendel Rivers (D)▌ 2 Albert Watson (D), until February 1, 1965▌ Albert Watson (R), from June 15, 1965▌ 3 William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)▌ 4 Robert T. Ashmore (D)▌ 5 Thomas S. Gettys (D)▌ 6 John L. McMillan (D)▌ 1 Ben Reifel (R)▌ 2 Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)▌ 1 Jimmy Quillen (R)▌ 2 John Duncan Sr. (R)▌ 3 Bill Brock (R)▌ 4 Joe L. Evins (D)▌ 5 Richard Fulton (D)▌ 6 William Anderson (D)▌ 7 Tom J. Murray (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 8 Fats Everett (D)▌ 9 George W. Grider (D)▌ 1 Wright Patman (D)▌ 2 Jack Brooks (D)▌ 3 Lindley Beckworth (D)▌ 4 Ray Roberts (D)▌ 5 Earle Cabell (D)▌ 6 Olin E. Teague (D)▌ 7 John Dowdy (D)▌ 8 Albert Thomas (D), until February 15, 1966▌ Lera Millard Thomas (D), from March 26, 1966▌ 9 Clark W. Thompson (D), until December 30, 1966▌ 10 J. J. Pickle (D)▌ 11 William R. Poage (D)▌ 12 Jim Wright (D)▌ 13 Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D)▌ 14 John Andrew Young (D)▌ 15 Kika de la Garza (D)▌ 16 Richard Crawford White (D)▌ 17 Omar Burleson (D)▌ 18 Walter E. Rogers (D)▌ 19 George H. Mahon (D)▌ 20 Henry B. González (D)▌ 21 O. C. Fisher (D)▌ 22 Robert R. Casey (D)▌ At-large Joe R. Pool (D)▌ 1 Laurence J. Burton (R)▌ 2 David S. King (D)▌ At-large Robert Stafford (R)▌ 1 Thomas N. Downing (D)▌ 2 Porter Hardy Jr. (D)▌ 3 David E. Satterfield III (D)▌ 4 Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)▌ 5 William M. Tuck (D)▌ 6 Richard Harding Poff (R)▌ 7 John Otho Marsh Jr. (D)▌ 8 Howard W. Smith (D)▌ 9 W. Pat Jennings (D)▌ 10 Joel Broyhill (R)▌ 1 Thomas Pelly (R)▌ 2 Lloyd Meeds (D)▌ 3 Julia Butler Hansen (D)▌ 4 Catherine Dean May (R)▌ 5 Tom Foley (D)▌ 6 Floyd Hicks (D)▌ 7 Brock Adams (D)▌ 1 Arch A. Moore Jr. (R)▌ 2 Harley Orrin Staggers (D)▌ 3 John M. Slack Jr. (D)▌ 4 Ken Hechler (D)▌ 5 James Kee (D)▌ 1 Lynn E. Stalbaum (D)▌ 2 Robert Kastenmeier (D)▌ 3 Vernon Wallace Thomson (R)▌ 4 Clement J. Zablocki (D)▌ 5 Henry S. Reuss (D)▌ 6 John Abner Race (D)▌ 7 Melvin Laird (R)▌ 8 John W. Byrnes (R)▌ 9 Glenn Robert Davis (R)▌ 10 Alvin O'Konski (R)▌ At-large Teno Roncalio (D)▌ Puerto Rico Santiago Polanco-Abreu (Resident Commissioner) (PPD)House SpeakerJohn W. McCormack House SpeakerJohn W. McCormack (standing), speaking at a Department of Defense luncheon, February 1966. House Majority leaderCarl Albert with President Johnson House Majority whipHale Boggs with President Johnson
Changes in membership [ edit ] Replacements: 5 Deaths: 2 Resignations: 2 Senate changes State Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] South Carolina Olin D. Johnston (D)Died April 18, 1965. Donald S. Russell (D)April 22, 1965 Virginia Harry F. Byrd (D)Resigned November 10, 1965. Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D)November 12, 1965 Michigan Patrick V. McNamara (D)Died April 30, 1966. Robert P. Griffin (R)May 11, 1966 South Carolina Donald S. Russell (D)Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term. Fritz Hollings (D)November 9, 1966 Virginia Absalom Willis Robertson (D)Resigned December 30, 1966, having lost renomination. William B. Spong Jr. (D)December 31, 1966 Tennessee Ross Bass (D)Resigned January 2, 1967, having lost renomination. Vacant Not filled this term
House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 9 Deaths: 5 Resignations: 15 Total seats with changes: 20 House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ b] South Carolina 2nd Albert Watson (D)Resigned February 1, 1965, after being stripped of seniority by theHouse Democratic Caucus for supporting Republican Presidential candidateBarry Goldwater . Was re-elected as a Republican in a special election to replace himself. Albert Watson (R)June 15, 1965 Louisiana 7th T. Ashton Thompson (D)Died July 1, 1965 Edwin Edwards (D)October 2, 1965 Ohio 7th Clarence J. Brown (R)Died August 23, 1965 Bud Brown (R)November 2, 1965 California 26th James Roosevelt (D)Resigned September 30, 1965, to become the US Representative to theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council Thomas M. Rees (D)December 15, 1965 North Carolina 1st Herbert Covington Bonner (D)Died November 7, 1965 Walter B. Jones Sr. (D)February 5, 1966 New York 17th John Lindsay (R)Resigned December 31, 1965, after being electedMayor of New York City Theodore R. Kupferman (R)February 8, 1966 Arkansas 4th Oren Harris (D)Resigned February 3, 1966, to become judge of the US Court of theEastern andWestern Districts of Arkansas David Pryor (D)November 8, 1966 Texas 8th Albert Thomas (D)Died February 15, 1966 Lera Millard Thomas (D)March 26, 1966 California 14th John F. Baldwin Jr. (R)Died March 9, 1966 Jerome Waldie (D)June 7, 1966 Michigan 9th Robert P. Griffin (R)Resigned May 10, 1966, after being appointed to theU.S. Senate Guy Vander Jagt (R)November 8, 1966 Alaska at-large Ralph Julian Rivers (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 Vacant Not filled this term Indiana 8th Winfield K. Denton (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 Indiana 10th Ralph Harvey (R)Resigned December 30, 1966 New York 29th Leo W. O'Brien (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 North Carolina 4th Harold D. Cooley (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 Ohio 15th Robert T. Secrest (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 Pennsylvania 9th Paul B. Dague (R)Resigned December 30, 1966 Pennsylvania 16th John C. Kunkel (R)Resigned December 30, 1966 Tennessee 7th Tom J. Murray (D)Resigned December 30, 1966 Texas 9th Clark W. Thompson (D)Resigned December 30, 1966
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.
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