1969–1971 U.S. Congress
The91st 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, 1969, to January 3, 1971, during the final weeks of thepresidency of Lyndon Johnson and the first two years of the firstpresidency of Richard Nixon .
The apportionment of seats in thisHouse of Representatives was based on the1960 United States census .
Both chambers had aDemocratic majority - albeit with losing theirsupermajority status in the Senate. WithRichard Nixon being sworn in aspresident on January 20, 1969, this ended the Democrats' overall federal governmenttrifecta that they had held since the87th Congress .
January 20, 1969:Richard M. Nixon became37th President of the United States . July 20, 1969:Space Race :Apollo 11 lands on the Moon's surface, the first humanlanding on Moon . November 15, 1969:Vietnam War : InWashington, D.C. , 250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death". December 1, 1969:Vietnam War : The firstdraft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. November 30, 1970: The1969–1970 recession ends. PresidentRichard Nixon paying his last tributes to Sen.Everett Dirksen , who died September 7, 1969. June 17, 1969:Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act ,Pub. L. 91–222 December 30, 1969:Tax Reform Act of 1969 ,Pub. L. 91–172 December 30, 1969:Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 ,Pub. L. 91–173 January 1, 1970:National Environmental Policy Act ,Pub. L. 91–190 April 3, 1970:Environmental Quality Improvement Act ,Pub. L. 91–224 May 21, 1970:Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–258 , title I August 12, 1970:Postal Reorganization Act (United States Postal Service ),Pub. L. 91–375 August 15, 1970:Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 , Title II ofPub. L. 91–379 , 84 Stat. 799 September 22, 1970:District of Columbia Delegate Act ,Pub. L. 91–405 October 15, 1970:Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–452 (including theRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") October 15, 1970:Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–453 October 26, 1970:Bank Secrecy Act ,Pub. L. 91–508 October 26, 1970:Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 October 27, 1970:Controlled Substances Act ,Pub. L. 91–513 October 30, 1970:Rail Passenger Service Act (Amtrak ),Pub. L. 91–518 December 24, 1970:Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–572 December 24, 1970:Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–577 December 29, 1970:Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA),Pub. L. 91–596 December 31, 1970:Clean Air Act Extension ,Pub. L. 91–604 December 31, 1970:Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 ,Pub. L. 91–609 , including title VII,National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970 January 12, 1971:Foreign Military Sales Act of 1971 ,Pub. L. 91–672 January 13, 1971:Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act ,Pub. L. 91–695 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.
Party standings on the opening day of the 91st Congress House of Representatives [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Members of the House 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 ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1970; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1972; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1974.
▌ 2.John J. Sparkman (D)▌ 3.James Allen (D)▌ 2.Ted Stevens (R)▌ 3.Mike Gravel (D)▌ 1.Paul Fannin (R)▌ 3.Barry Goldwater (R)▌ 2.John L. McClellan (D)▌ 3.J. William Fulbright (D)▌ 1.George Murphy (R), until January 2, 1971▌ John V. Tunney (D), from January 2, 1971▌ 3.Alan Cranston (D)▌ 2.Gordon Allott (R)▌ 3.Peter H. Dominick (R)▌ 1.Thomas J. Dodd (D)▌ 3.Abraham Ribicoff (D)▌ 1.John J. Williams (R), until December 30, 1970▌ William Roth (R), from January 1, 1971▌ 2.J. Caleb Boggs (R)▌ 1.Spessard Holland (D)▌ 3.Edward Gurney (R)▌ 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.Charles H. Percy (R)▌ 3.Everett Dirksen (R), until September 7, 1969▌ Ralph Tyler Smith (R), September 17, 1969 - November 3, 1970▌ Adlai Stevenson III (D), from November 17, 1970▌ 1.Vance Hartke (D)▌ 3.Birch Bayh (D)▌ 2.Jack Miller (R)▌ 3.Harold Hughes (D)▌ 2.James B. Pearson (R)▌ 3.Bob Dole (R)▌ 2.John Sherman Cooper (R)▌ 3.Marlow Cook (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.Charles Mathias (R)▌ 1.Ted Kennedy (D)▌ 2.Edward Brooke (R)▌ 1.Philip Hart (D)▌ 2.Robert P. Griffin (R)▌ 1.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)[ c] ▌ 2.Walter Mondale (DFL)[ c] ▌ 1.John C. Stennis (D)▌ 2.James Eastland (D)▌ 1.Stuart Symington (D)▌ 3.Thomas Eagleton (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.Charles Goodell (R)▌ 3.Jacob Javits (R)▌ 2.B. Everett Jordan (D)▌ 3.Sam Ervin (D)▌ 1.Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)[ c] ▌ 3.Milton Young (R)▌ 1.Stephen M. Young (D)▌ 3.William B. Saxbe (R)▌ 2.Fred R. Harris (D)▌ 3.Henry Bellmon (R)▌ 2.Mark Hatfield (R)▌ 3.Bob Packwood (R)▌ 1.Hugh Scott (R)▌ 3.Richard Schweiker (R)▌ 1.John Pastore (D)▌ 2.Claiborne Pell (D)▌ 2.Strom Thurmond (R)▌ 3.Fritz Hollings (D)▌ 2.Karl E. Mundt (R)▌ 3.George McGovern (D)▌ 1.Albert Gore Sr. (D)▌ 2.Howard Baker (R)▌ 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 Jr. (D)▌ 2.William B. Spong Jr. (D)▌ 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.Clifford Hansen (R)Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 91st Congress in January 1969 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
House of Representatives [ edit ] Some members of the House of Representatives were elected statewide on thegeneral ticket or otherwiseat-large, and others were elected from districts, as listed here as the districts existed at this time.
▌ 1 Jack Edwards (R)▌ 2 William Louis Dickinson (R)▌ 3 George W. Andrews (D)▌ 4 Bill Nichols (D)▌ 5 Walter Flowers (D)▌ 6 John Hall Buchanan Jr. (R)▌ 7 Tom Bevill (D)▌ 8 Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)▌ At-large Howard Wallace Pollock (R)▌ 1 John Jacob Rhodes (R)▌ 2 Mo Udall (D)▌ 3 Sam Steiger (R)▌ 1 William Vollie Alexander Jr. (D)▌ 2 Wilbur Mills (D)▌ 3 John Paul Hammerschmidt (R)▌ 4 David Pryor (D)▌ 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 Pete McCloskey (R)▌ 12 Burt Talcott (R)▌ 13 Charles M. Teague (R)▌ 14 Jerome Waldie (D)▌ 15 John J. McFall (D)▌ 16 B. F. Sisk (D)▌ 17 Glenn M. Anderson (D)▌ 18 Bob Mathias (R)▌ 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), until February 1, 1970▌ John H. Rousselot (R), from June 30, 1970▌ 25 Charles E. Wiggins (R)▌ 26 Thomas M. Rees (D)▌ 27 Edwin Reinecke (R), until January 21, 1969▌ Barry Goldwater Jr. (R), from April 29, 1969▌ 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 Jerry Pettis (R)▌ 34 Richard T. Hanna (D)▌ 35 James B. Utt (R), until March 1, 1970▌ John G. Schmitz (R), from June 30, 1970▌ 36 Bob Wilson (R)▌ 37 Lionel Van Deerlin (D)▌ 38 John V. Tunney (D), until January 2, 1971▌ 1 Byron G. Rogers (D)▌ 2 Donald G. Brotzman (R)▌ 3 Frank Evans (D)▌ 4 Wayne N. Aspinall (D)▌ 1 Emilio Q. Daddario (D)▌ 2 William St. Onge (D), until May 1, 1970▌ Robert H. Steele (R), from November 3, 1970▌ 3 Robert Giaimo (D)▌ 4 Lowell Weicker (R)▌ 5 John S. Monagan (D)▌ 6 Thomas Meskill (R)▌ At-large William Roth (R), until December 31, 1970▌ 1 Robert L. F. Sikes (D)▌ 2 Don Fuqua (D)▌ 3 Charles E. Bennett (D)▌ 4 Bill Chappell (D)▌ 5 Louis Frey Jr. (R)▌ 6 Sam Gibbons (D)▌ 7 James A. Haley (D)▌ 8 William C. Cramer (R)▌ 9 Paul Rogers (D)▌ 10 J. Herbert Burke (R)▌ 11 Claude Pepper (D)▌ 12 Dante Fascell (D)▌ 1 George Elliott Hagan (D)▌ 2 Maston E. O'Neal Jr. (D)▌ 3 Jack Brinkley (D)▌ 4 Benjamin B. Blackburn (R)▌ 5 Fletcher Thompson (R)▌ 6 John Flynt (D)▌ 7 John William Davis (D)▌ 8 W. S. Stuckey Jr. (D)▌ 9 Phillip M. Landrum (D)▌ 10 Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (D)Both members were elected statewide on ageneral ticket .
▌ At-large Spark Matsunaga (D)▌ At-large Patsy Mink (D)▌ 1 James A. McClure (R)▌ 2 Orval H. Hansen (R)▌ 1 William L. Dawson (D), until November 9, 1970▌ 2 Abner J. Mikva (D)▌ 3 William T. Murphy (D)▌ 4 Ed Derwinski (R)▌ 5 John C. Kluczynski (D)▌ 6 Daniel J. Ronan (D), until August 13, 1969▌ George W. Collins (D), from November 3, 1970▌ 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), until May 25, 1969▌ Phil Crane (R), from November 25, 1969▌ 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 Tom Railsback (R)▌ 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 Earl Landgrebe (R)▌ 3 John Brademas (D)▌ 4 E. Ross Adair (R)▌ 5 Richard L. Roudebush (R)▌ 6 William G. Bray (R)▌ 7 John T. Myers (R)▌ 8 Roger H. Zion (R)▌ 9 Lee H. Hamilton (D)▌ 10 David W. Dennis (R)▌ 11 Andrew Jacobs Jr. (D)▌ 1 Fred Schwengel (R)▌ 2 John Culver (D)▌ 3 H. R. Gross (R)▌ 4 John Henry Kyl (R)▌ 5 Neal Edward Smith (D)▌ 6 Wiley Mayne (R)▌ 7 William J. Scherle (R)▌ 1 Keith Sebelius (R)▌ 2 Chester L. Mize (R)▌ 3 Larry Winn (R)▌ 4 Garner E. Shriver (R)▌ 5 Joe Skubitz (R)▌ 1 Frank Stubblefield (D)▌ 2 William Natcher (D)▌ 3 William Cowger (R)▌ 4 Gene Snyder (R)▌ 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 Patrick T. Caffery (D)▌ 4 Joe Waggonner (D)▌ 5 Otto Passman (D)▌ 6 John Rarick (D)▌ 7 Edwin Edwards (D)▌ 8 Speedy Long (D)▌ 1 Peter Kyros (D)▌ 2 William Hathaway (D)▌ 1 Rogers Morton (R)▌ 2 Clarence Long (D)▌ 3 Edward Garmatz (D)▌ 4 George Hyde Fallon (D)▌ 5 Lawrence Hogan (R)▌ 6 J. Glenn Beall Jr. (R)▌ 7 Samuel Friedel (D)▌ 8 Gilbert Gude (R)▌ 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), until June 22, 1969▌ Michael J. Harrington (D), from September 30, 1969▌ 7 Torbert Macdonald (D)▌ 8 Tip O'Neill (D)▌ 9 John W. McCormack (D)▌ 10 Margaret Heckler (R)▌ 11 James A. Burke (D)▌ 12 Hastings Keith (R)▌ 1 John Conyers (D)▌ 2 Marvin L. Esch (R)▌ 3 Garry E. Brown (R)▌ 4 J. Edward Hutchinson (R)▌ 5 Gerald Ford (R)▌ 6 Charles E. Chamberlain (R)▌ 7 Donald Riegle (R)▌ 8 R. James Harvey (R)▌ 9 Guy Vander Jagt (R)▌ 10 Elford Albin Cederberg (R)▌ 11 Philip Ruppe (R)▌ 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 Jack H. McDonald (R)▌ 1 Al Quie (R)▌ 2 Ancher Nelsen (R)▌ 3 Clark MacGregor (R)▌ 4 Joseph Karth (DFL)[ c] ▌ 5 Donald M. Fraser (DFL)[ c] ▌ 6 John M. Zwach (R)▌ 7 Odin Langen (R)▌ 8 John Blatnik (DFL)[ c] ▌ 1 Thomas Abernethy (D)▌ 2 Jamie L. Whitten (D)▌ 3 Charles H. Griffin (D)▌ 4 Sonny Montgomery (D)▌ 5 William M. Colmer (D)▌ 1 Bill Clay (D)▌ 2 James W. Symington (D)▌ 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 Bill Burlison (D)▌ 1 Arnold Olsen (D)▌ 2 James F. Battin (R), until February 27, 1969▌ John Melcher (D), from June 24, 1969▌ 1 Robert Vernon Denney (R)▌ 2 Glenn Cunningham (R)▌ 3 David Martin (R)▌ At-large Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)▌ 1 Louis C. Wyman (R)▌ 2 James Colgate Cleveland (R)▌ 1 John E. Hunt (R)▌ 2 Charles W. Sandman Jr. (R)▌ 3 James J. Howard (D)▌ 4 Frank Thompson (D)▌ 5 Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)▌ 6 William T. Cahill (R), until January 19, 1970▌ Edwin B. Forsythe (R), from November 3, 1970▌ 7 William B. Widnall (R)▌ 8 Charles Samuel Joelson (D), until September 4, 1969▌ Robert A. Roe (D), from November 4, 1969▌ 9 Henry Helstoski (D)▌ 10 Peter W. Rodino (D)▌ 11 Joseph Minish (D)▌ 12 Florence P. Dwyer (R)▌ 13 Cornelius Gallagher (D)▌ 14 Dominick V. Daniels (D)▌ 15 Edward J. Patten (D)▌ 1 Manuel Lujan Jr. (R)▌ 2 Ed Foreman (R)▌ 1 Otis G. Pike (D)▌ 2 James R. Grover Jr. (R)▌ 3 Lester L. Wolff (D)▌ 4 John W. Wydler (R)▌ 5 Allard K. Lowenstein (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 Frank J. Brasco (D)▌ 12 Shirley Chisholm (D)▌ 13 Bertram L. Podell (D)▌ 14 John J. Rooney (D)▌ 15 Hugh Carey (D)▌ 16 John M. Murphy (D)▌ 17 Ed Koch (D)▌ 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 Mario Biaggi (D)▌ 25 Richard Ottinger (D)▌ 26 Ogden Reid (R)▌ 27 Martin B. McKneally (R)▌ 28 Hamilton Fish IV (R)▌ 29 Daniel E. Button (R)▌ 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 James F. Hastings (R)▌ 39 Richard D. McCarthy (D)▌ 40 Henry P. Smith III (R)▌ 41 Thaddeus J. Dulski (D)▌ 1 Walter B. Jones Sr. (D)▌ 2 Lawrence H. Fountain (D)▌ 3 David N. Henderson (D)▌ 4 Nick Galifianakis (D)▌ 5 Wilmer Mizell (R)▌ 6 L. Richardson Preyer (D)▌ 7 Alton Lennon (D)▌ 8 Earl B. Ruth (R)▌ 9 Charles R. Jonas (R)▌ 10 Jim Broyhill (R)▌ 11 Roy A. Taylor (D)▌ 1 Mark Andrews (R)▌ 2 Thomas S. Kleppe (R)▌ 1 Robert Taft Jr. (R)▌ 2 Donald D. Clancy (R)▌ 3 Charles W. Whalen Jr. (R)▌ 4 William Moore McCulloch (R)▌ 5 Del Latta (R)▌ 6 Bill Harsha (R)▌ 7 Bud Brown (R)▌ 8 Jackson Edward Betts (R)▌ 9 Thomas L. Ashley (D)▌ 10 Clarence E. Miller (R)▌ 11 J. William Stanton (R)▌ 12 Samuel L. Devine (R)▌ 13 Charles Adams Mosher (R)▌ 14 William Hanes Ayres (R)▌ 15 Chalmers Wylie (R)▌ 16 Frank T. Bow (R)▌ 17 John M. Ashbrook (R)▌ 18 Wayne Hays (D)▌ 19 Michael J. Kirwan (D), until July 27, 1970▌ Charles J. Carney (D), from November 3, 1970▌ 20 Michael A. Feighan (D)▌ 21 Louis Stokes (D)▌ 22 Charles Vanik (D)▌ 23 William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)▌ 24 Buz Lukens (R)▌ 1 Page Belcher (R)▌ 2 Ed Edmondson (D)▌ 3 Carl Albert (D)▌ 4 Tom Steed (D)▌ 5 John Jarman (D)▌ 6 John Newbold Camp (R)▌ 1 Wendell Wyatt (R)▌ 2 Al Ullman (D)▌ 3 Edith Green (D)▌ 4 John R. Dellenback (R)▌ 1 William A. Barrett (D)▌ 2 Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D)▌ 3 James A. Byrne (D)▌ 4 Joshua Eilberg (D)▌ 5 William J. Green III (D)▌ 6 Gus Yatron (D)▌ 7 Lawrence G. Williams (R)▌ 8 Edward G. Biester Jr. (R)▌ 9 George Watkins (R), until August 7, 1970▌ John H. Ware III (R), from November 3, 1970▌ 10 Joseph M. McDade (R)▌ 11 Dan Flood (D)▌ 12 J. Irving Whalley (R)▌ 13 Lawrence Coughlin (R)▌ 14 William S. Moorhead (D)▌ 15 Fred B. Rooney (D)▌ 16 Edwin Duing Eshleman (R)▌ 17 Herman T. Schneebeli (R)▌ 18 Robert J. Corbett (R)▌ 19 George Atlee Goodling (R)▌ 20 Joseph M. Gaydos (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 Robert Tiernan (D)▌ 1 L. Mendel Rivers (D), until December 28, 1970▌ 2 Albert Watson (R)▌ 3 William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)▌ 4 James Mann (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 Ray Blanton (D)▌ 8 Fats Everett (D), until January 26, 1969▌ Ed Jones (D), from March 25, 1969▌ 9 Dan Kuykendall (R)▌ 1 Wright Patman (D)▌ 2 John Dowdy (D)▌ 3 James M. Collins (R)▌ 4 Ray Roberts (D)▌ 5 Earle Cabell (D)▌ 6 Olin E. Teague (D)▌ 7 George H. W. Bush (R)▌ 8 Robert C. Eckhardt (D)▌ 9 Jack Brooks (D)▌ 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 Bob Price (R)▌ 19 George H. Mahon (D)▌ 20 Henry B. González (D)▌ 21 O. C. Fisher (D)▌ 22 Robert R. Casey (D)▌ 23 Abraham Kazen (D)▌ 1 Laurence J. Burton (R)▌ 2 Sherman P. Lloyd (R)▌ At-large Robert Stafford (R)▌ 1 Thomas N. Downing (D)▌ 2 G. William Whitehurst (R)▌ 3 David E. Satterfield III (D)▌ 4 Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)▌ 5 Dan Daniel (D)▌ 6 Richard Harding Poff (R)▌ 7 John Otho Marsh Jr. (D)▌ 8 William L. Scott (R)▌ 9 William C. Wampler (R)▌ 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 Bob Mollohan (D)▌ 2 Harley Orrin Staggers (D)▌ 3 John M. Slack Jr. (D)▌ 4 Ken Hechler (D)▌ 5 James Kee (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 A. Steiger (R)▌ 7 Melvin Laird (R), until January 21, 1969▌ Dave Obey (D), from April 1, 1969▌ 8 John W. Byrnes (R)▌ 9 Glenn Robert Davis (R)▌ 10 Alvin O'Konski (R)▌ At-large John S. Wold (R)▌ ▌ Puerto Rico at-large Jorge Luis Córdova (Resident Commissioner) (PNP/D)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 ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress
Replacements: 3 Deaths: 1 Resignations: 2 Total seats with changes: 3 House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 14 Deaths: 10 Resignations: 8 Total seats with changes: 18 House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[ d] California 27th Edwin Reinecke (R)Resigned January 21, 1969, after becomingLieutenant Governor of California Barry Goldwater Jr. (R)April 29, 1969 Wisconsin 7th Melvin Laird (R)Resigned January 21, 1969, after being appointedUnited States Secretary of Defense Dave Obey (D)April 1, 1969 Tennessee 8th Fats Everett (D)Died January 26, 1969 Ed Jones (D)March 25, 1969 Montana 2nd James F. Battin (R)Resigned February 27, 1969, after being appointed judge for theUS District Court for the District of Montana John Melcher (D)June 24, 1969 Illinois 13th Donald Rumsfeld (R)Resigned May 25, 1969, after being appointed Director of theOffice of Economic Opportunity Phil Crane (R)November 25, 1969 Massachusetts 6th William H. Bates (R)Died June 22, 1969 Michael J. Harrington (D)September 30, 1969 Illinois 6th Daniel J. Ronan (D)Died August 13, 1969 George W. Collins (D)November 3, 1970 New Jersey 8th Charles Samuel Joelson (D)Resigned September 4, 1969, after becoming judge of Superior Court of New Jersey Robert A. Roe (D)November 4, 1969 New Jersey 6th William T. Cahill (R)Resigned January 19, 1970, after becomingGovernor of New Jersey Edwin B. Forsythe (R)November 3, 1970 California 24th Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)Died February 1, 1970 John H. Rousselot (R)June 30, 1970 California 35th James B. Utt (R)Died March 1, 1970 John G. Schmitz (R)June 30, 1970 Connecticut 2nd William St. Onge (D)Died May 1, 1970 Robert H. Steele (R)November 3, 1970 Ohio 19th Michael J. Kirwan (D)Died July 27, 1970 Charles J. Carney (D)November 3, 1970 Pennsylvania 9th George Watkins (R)Died August 7, 1970 John H. Ware III (R)November 3, 1970 Illinois 1st William L. Dawson (D)Died November 9, 1970 Vacant Not filled this term South Carolina 1st L. Mendel Rivers (D)Died December 28, 1970 Delaware at-large William Roth (R)Resigned December 31, 1970, after being appointed to theU.S. Senate California 38th John V. Tunney (D)Resigned January 2, 1971, after being appointed to theU.S. Senate
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 ]
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