The 'Seventy-sixth United States Congress' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the
United States federal government, comprised of the
United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives. It met in
Washington, DC from
January 3 1939 to
January 3 1941, during the last two years of the second administration of
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The apportionment of seats in this
House of Representatives was based on the
Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Both chambers had a
Democratic majority.
Dates of sessions
January 3 1939 -
January 3 1941
★ First session:
January 3 1939 –
August 5 1939
★ Second session:
September 21 1939 -
November 3 1939
★ Third session:
January 3 1940 -
January 3 1941
Previous congress:
75th Congress
Next congress:
77th Congress
Major events
:''Main article:
Events of 1939;
Events of 1940''
Major legislation
:''Main article:
List of United States federal legislation in the 76th Congress
★
August 2,
1939 -
Hatch Act of 1939 ("Hatch Political Activity Act", "An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities"), ch. 410, 53 Stat. 1147
★
November 4,
1939 -
Neutrality Act of 1939, ("
Cash and Carry Act"), ch. 2, 54 Stat. 4, et seq.
★ 1940 -
Investment Company Act of 1940
★ 1940 -
Investment Advisers Act of 1940
★ 1940 -
Selective Service Act
★ 1940 -
Alien Registration Act (Smith Act)
Officers
Senate
★
President of the Senate -
John N. Garner
House
★ '
House Minority Leader':
Joseph William Martin, Jr. (R-
Massachusetts 12th)
Members
Senate
Democratic majority: 69 Democrats, 23 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Labor, 1 Progressive, 1 Independent.
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 are
Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election.
:'Alabama' ★ 2. John H. Bankhead II ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Joseph Lister Hill ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona' ★ 1. Henry Fountain Ashurst ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Carl Hayden ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas' ★ 3. Hattie Wyatt Caraway ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. John E. Miller ''(Dem.)'':'California' ★ 1. Hiram Warren Johnson ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Sheridan Downey ''(Dem.)'':'Colorado' ★ 3. Alva Blanchard Adams ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Edwin Carl Johnson ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut' ★ 3. John A. Danaher ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Francis Thomas Maloney ''(Dem.)'':'Delaware' ★ 2. James H. Hughes ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. John G. Townsend, Jr. ''(Rep.)'':'Florida' ★ 1. Charles Oscar Andrews ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Claude Denson Pepper ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia' ★ 2. Walter Franklin George ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Richard Brevard Russell ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho' ★ 2. William Edgar Borah ''(Rep.)'', died January 19, 1940: ★ 2. John Thomas ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ 3. D. Worth Clark ''(Dem.)'':'Illinois' ★ 3. Scott W. Lucas ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. James M. Slattery ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana' ★ 1. Sherman Minton ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Frederick Van Nuys ''(Dem.)'':'Iowa' ★ 3. Guy M. Gillette ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Clyde L. Herring ''(Dem.)'':'Kansas' ★ 2. Arthur Capper ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Clyde M. Reed ''(Rep.)'':'Kentucky' ★ 3. Alben William Barkley ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Marvel Mills Logan ''(Dem.)'', died October 3, 1939: ★ 2. Happy Chandler ''(Dem.)'', appointed to fill vacancy:'Louisiana' ★ 2. Allen Joseph Ellender ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. John Holmes Overton ''(Dem.)'':'Maine' ★ 1. Frederick Hale ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland' ★ 1. George Lovic Radcliffe ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Millard Evelyn Tydings ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts' ★ 2. Henry Cabot Lodge ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. David Ignatius Walsh ''(Dem.)'':'Michigan' ★ 2. Prentiss Marsh Brown ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota' ★ 2. Ernest Lundeen ''(FL)'': ★ 2. Joseph H. Ball ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Henrik Shipstead ''(FL)'':'Mississippi' ★ 1. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Byron Patton Harrison ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri' ★ 3. Bennett Champ Clark ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Harry S. Truman ''(Dem.)'':'Montana' ★ 2. James Edward Murray ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Burton Kendall Wheeler ''(Dem.)'' | :'Nebraska' ★ 1. Edward Raymond Burke ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. George William Norris ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada' ★ 3. Patrick Anthony Mccarran ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Key Denson Pittman ''(Dem.)'': ★ 1. Berkeley L. Bunker ''(Dem.)'':'New Hampshire' ★ 2. Styles Bridges ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Charles W. Tobey ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey' ★ 1. William Warren Barbour ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. William Howell Smathers ''(Dem.)'':'New Mexico' ★ 1. Dennis Wyatt Chavez ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Carl Atwood Hatch ''(Dem.)'':'New York' ★ 1. James Michael Mead ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Robert Ferdinand Wagner ''(Dem.)'':'North Carolina' ★ 2. Josiah William Bailey ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Robert Rice Reynolds ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota' ★ 1. Lynn Joseph Frazier ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Gerald Prentice Nye ''(Rep.)'':'Ohio' ★ 3. Robert Taft ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Alvin Victor Donahey ''(Dem.)'':'Oklahoma' ★ 2. Joshua Lee ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Elmer Thomas ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon' ★ 3. Rufus C. Holman ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Charles L. McNary ''(Rep.)'':'Pennsylvania' ★ 3. James J. Davis ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Joseph F. Guffey ''(Dem.)'':'Rhode Island' ★ 1. Peter Goelet Gerry ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Theodore Francis Green ''(Dem.)'':'South Carolina' ★ 2. James Francis Byrnes ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Ellison Durant Smith ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota' ★ 2. William John Bulow ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. J. Chandler Gurney ''(Rep.)'':'Tennessee' ★ 1. Kenneth D. McKellar ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Arthur Thomas Stewart ''(Dem.)'':'Texas' ★ 1. Thomas Terry Connally ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Morris Sheppard ''(Dem.)'':'Utah' ★ 1. William Henry King ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Elbert Duncan Thomas ''(Dem.)'':'Vermont' ★ 1. Warren Robinson Austin ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Ernest Willard Gibson ''(Rep.)'', died June 20, 1940: ★ 3. Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy:'Virginia' ★ 1. Harry Flood Byrd ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Carter Glass ''(Dem.)'':'Washington' ★ 3. Homer Truett Bone ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach ''(Dem.)'', resigned: ★ 1. Monrad Wallgren ''(Dem.)'':'West Virginia' ★ 1. Rush D. Holt ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Matthew Mansfield Neely ''(Dem.)'':'Wisconsin' ★ 3. Alexander Wiley ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Robert Marion La Follette ''(Progressive)'':'Wyoming' ★ 1. Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Henry H. Schwartz ''(Dem.)'' |
House of Representatives
Democratic majority 273 to 177 Republicans, 3 Progressives, 1 Non-Partisan League, 1 Farmer-Labor and 1 American Labor.
The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide ''at-large,'' are preceded by an "At-Large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
:'Alabama' ★ Frank W. Boykin ''(Dem.)'' ★ George M. Grant ''(Dem.)'' ★ Henry B. Steagall ''(Dem.)'' ★ Sam Hobbs ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joe Starnes ''(Dem.)'' ★ Pete Jarman ''(Dem.)'' ★ Zadoc L. Weatherford ''(Dem.)'' ★ John J. Sparkman ''(Dem.)'' ★ Luther Patrick ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona' ★ At-Large: John R. Murdock ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas' ★ Ezekiel C. Gathings ''(Dem.)'' ★ Wilbur D. Mills ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clyde T. Ellis ''(Dem.)'' ★ William B. Cravens ''(Dem.)'', died January 13, 1939: ★ William Fadjo Cravens ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ David D. Terry ''(Dem.)'' ★ William F. Norrell ''(Dem.)'' ★ Wade H. Kitchens ''(Dem.)'':'California' ★ Clarence F. Lea ''(Dem.)'' ★ Harry L. Englebright ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frank H. Buck ''(Dem.)'' ★ Franck R. Havenner ''(Progressive)'' ★ Richard J. Welch ''(Rep.)'' ★ Albert E. Carter ''(Rep.)'' ★ John H. Tolan ''(Dem.)'' ★ Jack Z. Anderson ''(Rep.)'' ★ Bertrand W. Gearhart ''(Rep.)'' ★ Alfred J. Elliott ''(Dem.)'' ★ John Carl Hinshaw ''(Rep.)'' ★ Jerry Voorhis ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles Kramer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas F. Ford ''(Dem.)'' ★ John M. Costello ''(Dem.)'' ★ Leland M. Ford ''(Rep.)'' ★ Lee E. Geyer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas M. Eaton ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harry R. Sheppard ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edouard V. M. Izac ''(Dem.)'':'Colorado' ★ Lawrence Lewis ''(Dem.)'' ★ Fred N. Cummings ''(Dem.)'' ★ John A. Martin ''(Dem.)'', died December 23, 1939: ★ William E. Burney ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ Edward T. Taylor ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut' ★ At-Large: B. J. Monkiewicz ''(Rep.)'' ★ William J. Miller ''(Rep.)'' ★ Thomas R. Ball ''(Rep.)'' ★ James A. Shanley ''(Dem.)'' ★ Albert E. Austin ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Joseph Smith ''(Dem.)'':'Delaware' ★ At-Large: George S. Williams ''(Rep.)'' :'Florida' ★ J. Hardin Peterson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert A. Green ''(Dem.)'' ★ Millard F. Caldwell ''(Dem.)'' ★ Pat Cannon ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joe Hendricks ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia' ★ Hugh Peterson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edward E. Cox ''(Dem.)'' ★ Stephen Pace ''(Dem.)'' ★ Emmett M. Owen ''(Dem.)'' : ★ A. Sidney Camp ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert Ramspeck ''(Dem.)'' ★ Carl Vinson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Malcolm C. Tarver ''(Dem.)'' ★ W. Benjamin Gibbs ''(Dem.)'' : ★ Florence R. Gibbs ''(Dem.)'' ★ B. Frank Whelchel ''(Dem.)'' ★ Paul Brown ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho' ★ Compton I. White ''(Dem.)'' ★ Henry C. Dworshak ''(Rep.)'':'Illinois' ★ At-Large: John C. Martin ''(Dem.)'' ★ At-Large: Thomas V. Smith ''(Dem.)'' ★ Arthur W. Mitchell ''(Dem.)'' ★ Raymond S. McKeough ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edward A. Kelly ''(Dem.)'' ★ Harry P. Beam ''(Dem.)'' ★ Adolph J. Sabath ''(Dem.)'' ★ A.F. Maciejewski ''(Dem.)'' ★ Leonard W. Schuetz ''(Dem.)'' ★ Leo Kocialkowski ''(Dem.)'' ★ James McAndrews ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ralph E. Church ''(Rep.)'' ★ Chauncey W. Reed ''(Rep.)'' ★ Noah M. Mason ''(Rep.)'' ★ Leo E. Allen ''(Rep.)'' ★ Anton J. Johnson ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert B. Chiperfield ''(Rep.)'' ★ Everett M. Dirksen ''(Rep.)'' ★ Leslie C. Arends ''(Rep.)'' ★ Jessie Sumner ''(Rep.)'' ★ William H. Wheat ''(Rep.)'' ★ James M. Barnes ''(Dem.)'' ★ Frank W. Fries ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edwin M. Schaefer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Laurence F. Arnold ''(Dem.)'' ★ Claude V. Parsons ''(Dem.)'' ★ Kent E. Keller ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana' ★ William T. Schulte ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles A. Halleck ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert A. Grant ''(Rep.)'' ★ George W. Gillie ''(Rep.)'' ★ Forest A. Harness ''(Rep.)'' ★ Noble J. Johnson ''(Rep.)'' ★ Gerald W. Landis ''(Rep.)'' ★ John W. Boehne, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Eugene B. Crowe ''(Dem.)'' ★ Raymond S. Springer ''(Rep.)'' ★ William H. Larrabee ''(Dem.)'' ★ Louis Ludlow ''(Dem.)'':'Iowa' ★ Thomas E. Martin ''(Rep.)'' ★ William S. Jacobsen ''(Dem.)'' ★ John W. Gwynne ''(Rep.)'' ★ Henry O. Talle ''(Rep.)'' ★ Karl M. LeCompte ''(Rep.)'' ★ Cassius C. Dowell ''(Rep.)'' ★ Ben F. Jensen ''(Rep.)'' ★ Fred C. Gilchrist ''(Rep.)'' ★ Vincent F. Harrington ''(Dem.)'':'Kansas' ★ William P. Lambertson ''(Rep.)'' ★ U. S. Guyer ''(Rep.)'' ★ Thomas Daniel Winter ''(Rep.)'' ★ Edward Herbert Rees ''(Rep.)'' ★ John Mills Houston ''(Dem.)'' ★ Frank Carlson ''(Rep.)'' ★ Clifford R. Hope ''(Rep.)'':'Kentucky' ★ Noble J. Gregory ''(Dem.)'' ★ Beverly M. Vincent ''(Dem.)'' ★ Emmet O'Neal ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edward W. Creal ''(Dem.)'' ★ Brent Spence ''(Dem.)'' ★ Virgil Chapman ''(Dem.)'' ★ Andrew J. May ''(I)'' ★ Joe B. Bates ''(Dem.)'' ★ John M. Robsion ''(Rep.)'':'Louisiana' ★ Joachim O. Fernandez ''(Dem.)'' ★ Paul H. Maloney ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert L. Mouton ''(Dem.)'' ★ Overton Brooks ''(Dem.)'' ★ Newt V. Mills ''(Dem.)'' ★ John K. Griffith ''(Dem.)'' ★ René L. DeRouen ''(Dem.)'' ★ A. Leonard Allen ''(Dem.)'':'Maine' ★ James C. Oliver ''(Rep.)'' ★ Clyde H. Smith ''(Rep.)'', died April 8, 1940: ★ Margaret Chase Smith ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ Ralph Owen Brewster ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland' ★ David J. Ward ''(Dem.)'' ★ William P. Cole, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ambrose J. Kennedy ''(Dem.)'' ★ Lansdale G. Sasscer ''(Dem.)'' ★ William D. Byron ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts' ★ Allen T. Treadway ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles Clason ''(Rep.)'' ★ Joseph E. Casey ''(Dem.)'' ★ Pehr G. Holmes ''(Rep.)'' ★ Edith Nourse Rogers ''(Rep.)'' ★ George J. Bates ''(Rep.)'' ★ Lawrence J. Connery ''(Dem.)'' ★ Arthur D. Healey ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert Luce ''(Rep.)'' ★ George H. Tinkham ''(Rep.)'' ★ Thomas A. Flaherty ''(Dem.)'' ★ John W. McCormack ''(Dem.)'' ★ Richard B. Wigglesworth ''(Rep.)'' ★ Joseph W. Martin, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles L. Gifford ''(Rep.)'':'Michigan' ★ Rudolph G. Tenerowicz ''(Dem.)'' ★ Earl C. Michener ''(Rep.)'' ★ Paul W. Shafer ''(Rep.)'' ★ Clare E. Hoffman ''(Rep.)'' ★ Carl E. Mapes ''(Rep.)'', died December 12, 1939: ★ Bartel J. Jonkman ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ William W. Blackney ''(Rep.)'' ★ Jesse P. Wolcott ''(Rep.)'' ★ Fred L. Crawford ''(Rep.)'' ★ Albert J. Engel ''(Rep.)'' ★ Roy O. Woodruff ''(Dem.)'' ★ Fred Bradley ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frank Hook ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clarence McLeod ''(Rep.)'' ★ Louis C. Rabaut ''(Dem.)'' ★ John D. Dingell, Sr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ John Lesinski, Sr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ George A. Dondero ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota' ★ August H. Andresen ''(Rep.)'' ★ Elmer Ryan ''(Dem.)'' ★ John G. Alexander ''(Rep.)'' ★ Melvin Maas ''(Rep.)'' ★ Oscar Youngdahl '(Rep.)'' ★ Harold Knutson ''(Rep.)'' ★ H. Carl Andersen ''(Rep.)'' ★ William Pittenger ''(Rep.)'' ★ Rich T. Buckler ''(FL)'':'Mississippi' ★ John E. Rankin ''(Dem.)'' ★ Wall Doxey ''(Dem.)'' ★ William M. Whittington ''(Dem.)'' ★ Aaron L. Ford ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ross A. Collins ''(Dem.)'' ★ William M. Colmer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Dan R. McGehee ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri' ★ Milton A. Romjue ''(Dem.)'' ★ William L. Nelson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Richard M. Duncan ''(Dem.)'' ★ C. Jasper Bell ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joseph B. Shannon ''(Dem.)'' ★ Reuben T. Wood ''(Dem.)'' ★ Dewey Short ''(Rep.)'' ★ Clyde Williams ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clarence Cannon ''(Dem.)'' ★ Orville Zimmerman ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles Arthur Anderson ''(Dem.)'' ★ John J. Cochran ''(Dem.)'':'Montana' ★ Jacob Thorkelson ''(Rep.)'' ★ James F. O'Connor ''(Dem.)'':'Nebraska' ★ George H. Heinke ''(Rep.)'', died January 2, 1940: ★ John Hyde Sweet ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ Charles F. McLaughlin ''(Dem.)'' ★ Karl Stefan ''(Rep.)'' ★ Carl T. Curtis ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harry B. Coffee ''(Dem.)'':'Nevada' ★ At-Large: James G. Scrugham ''(Dem.)'' | :'New Hampshire' ★ Arthur B. Jenks ''(Rep.)'' ★ Foster Waterman Stearns ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey' ★ Charles A. Wolverton ''(Rep.)'' ★ Walter S. Jeffries ''(Rep.)'' ★ William H. Sutphin ''(Dem.)'' ★ D. Lane Powers ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles A. Eaton ''(Rep.)'' ★ Donald H. McLean ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Parnell Thomas ''(Rep.)'' ★ George N. Seger ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frank C. Osmers, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Fred A. Hartley, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Albert L. Vreeland ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert W. Kean ''(Rep.)'' ★ Mary T. Norton ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edward J. Hart ''(Dem.)'':'New Mexico' ★ At-Large: John J. Dempsey ''(Dem.)'':'New York' ★ At-Large: Matthew J. Merritt ''(Dem.)'' ★ At-Large: Caroline O'Day ''(Dem.)'' ★ Leonard W. Hall ''(Rep.)'' ★ William B. Barry ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joseph L. Pfeifer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas H. Cullen ''(Dem.)'' ★ Marcellus H. Evans ''(Dem.)'' ★ Andrew L. Somers ''(Dem.)'' ★ John J. Delaney ''(Dem.)'' ★ Donald L. O'Toole ''(Dem.)'' ★ Eugene J. Keogh ''(Dem.)'' ★ Emanuel Celler ''(Dem.)'' ★ James A. O'Leary ''(Dem.)'' ★ Samuel Dickstein ''(Dem.)'' ★ Christopher D. Sullivan ''(Dem.)'' ★ William I. Sirovich ''(Dem.)'' ★ Michael J. Kennedy ''(Dem.)'' ★ James H. Fay ''(Dem.)'' ★ Bruce Barton ''(Rep.)'' ★ Martin J. Kennedy ''(Dem.)'' ★ Sol Bloom ''(Dem.)'' ★ Vito Marcantonio ''(AL)'' ★ Joseph A. Gavagan ''(Dem.)'' ★ Edward W. Curley ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles A. Buckley ''(Dem.)'' ★ James M. Fitzpatrick ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ralph A. Gamble ''(Rep.)'' ★ Hamilton Fish ''(Rep.)'' ★ Lewis K. Rockefeller ''(Rep.)'' ★ William T. Byrne ''(Dem.)'' ★ E. Harold Cluett ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frank Crowther ''(Rep.)'' ★ Bertrand H. Snell ''(Rep.)'' ★ Francis D. Culkin ''(Rep.)'' ★ Fred J. Douglas ''(Dem.)'' ★ Bert Lord ''(Rep.)'' ★ Clarence E. Hancock ''(Rep.)'' ★ John Taber ''(Rep.)'' ★ W. Sterling Cole ''(Rep.)'' ★ Joseph J. O'Brien ''(Rep.)'' ★ James W. Wadsworth, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Walter G. Andrews ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Francis Harter ''(Rep.)'' ★ Pius L. Schwert ''(Dem.)'' ★ Daniel A. Reed ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina' ★ Lindsay C. Warren ''(Dem.)'', resigned: ★ Herbert C. Bonner ''(Dem.)'' ★ John H. Kerr ''(Dem.)'' ★ Graham A. Barden ''(Dem.)'' ★ Harold D. Cooley ''(Dem.)'' ★ Alonzo D. Folger ''(Dem.)'' ★ Carl T. Durham ''(Dem.)'' ★ J. Bayard Clark ''(Dem.)'' ★ William O. Burgin ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert L. Doughton ''(Dem.)'' ★ Alfred L. Bulwinkle ''(Dem.)'' ★ Zebulon Weaver ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota' ★ At-Large: William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican) ★ At-Large: Usher L. Burdick (Nonpartisan Republican):'Ohio' ★ At-Large: George H. Bender ''(Rep.)'' ★ At-Large: L.L. Marshall ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles H. Elston ''(Rep.)'' ★ William E. Hess ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harry N. Routzohn ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert F. Jones ''(Rep.)'' ★ Cliff Clevenger ''(Rep.)'' ★ James G. Polk ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clarence J. Brown ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frederick C. Smith ''(Rep.)'' ★ John F. Hunter ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas A. Jenkins ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harold K. Claypool ''(Dem.)'' ★ John M. Vorys ''(Rep.)'' ★ Dudley A. White ''(Rep.)'' ★ Dow W. Harter ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert T. Secrest ''(Dem.)'' ★ James Seccombe ''(Rep.)'' ★ William A. Ashbrook ''(Dem.)'' ★ Earl R. Lewis ''(Rep.)'' ★ Michael J. Kirwan ''(Dem.)'' ★ Martin L. Sweeney ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert Crosser ''(Dem.)'' ★ Chester C. Bolton ''(Rep.)'', died October 29, 1939: ★ Frances P. Bolton ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'Oklahoma' ★ At-Large: Will Rogers, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Wesley E. Disney ''(Dem.)'' ★ John Conover Nichols ''(Dem.)'' ★ Wilburn Cartwright ''(Dem.)'' ★ Lyle Boren ''(Dem.)'' ★ A. S. Mike Monroney ''(Dem.)'' ★ Jed Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Sam C. Massingale ''(Dem.)'' ★ Phil Ferguson ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon' ★ James W. Mott ''(Rep.)'' ★ Walter M. Pierce ''(Dem.)'' ★ Homer D. Angell ''(Rep.)'':'Pennsylvania' ★ Leon Sacks ''(Dem.)'' ★ James P. McGranery ''(Dem.)'' ★ Michael J. Bradley ''(Dem.)'' ★ J. Burrwood Daly ''(Dem.)'' ★ Fred C. Gartner ''(Rep.)'' ★ Michael J. Stack ''(Dem.)'' ★ George P. Darrow ''(Rep.)'' ★ James Wolfenden ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles L. Gerlach ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Roland Kinzer ''(Rep.)'' ★ Patrick J. Boland ''(Dem.)'' ★ J. Harold Flannery ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ivor D. Fenton ''(Rep.)'' ★ Guy L. Moser ''(Dem.)'' ★ Albert G. Rutherford ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert F. Rich ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. William Ditter ''(Rep.)'' ★ Richard M. Simpson ''(Rep.)'' ★ John C. Kunkel ''(Rep.)'' ★ Benjamin Jarrett ''(Rep.)'' ★ Francis E. Walter ''(Dem.)'' ★ Chester H. Gross ''(Rep.)'' ★ James E. Van Zandt ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Buell Snyder ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles I. Faddis ''(Dem.)'' ★ Louis E. Graham ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harve Tibbott ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert G. Allen ''(Dem.)'' ★ Robert L. Rodgers ''(Rep.)'' ★ Robert J. Corbett ''(Rep.)'' ★ John McDowell ''(Rep.)'' ★ Herman P. Eberharter ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joseph A. McArdle ''(Dem.)'' ★ Matthew A. Dunn ''(Dem.)'':'Rhode Island' ★ Charles Risk ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harry Sandager ''(Rep.)'' :'South Carolina' ★ Thomas S. McMillan ''(Dem.)'' ★ Hampton P. Fulmer ''(Dem.)'' ★ Butler B. Hare ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joseph R. Bryson ''(Dem.)'' ★ James P. Richards ''(Dem.)'' ★ John L. McMillan ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota' ★ Karl E. Mundt ''(Rep.)'' ★ Francis Case ''(Rep.)'' :'Tennessee' ★ B. Carroll Reece ''(Rep.)'' ★ J. Will Taylor ''(Rep.)'': ★ John Jennings, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Sam D. McReynolds ''(Dem.)'', died July 11, 1939: ★ C. Estes Kefauver ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ Albert A. Gore Sr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Jo Byrns, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clarence W. Turner ''(Dem.)'', died March 23, 1939: ★ W. Wirt Courtney ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ Herron C. Pearson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Jere Cooper ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clifford Davis ''(Dem.)'':'Texas' ★ Wright Patman ''(Dem.)'' ★ Martin Dies, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Lindley Beckworth ''(Dem.)'' ★ Sam Rayburn ''(Dem.)'' ★ Hatton W. Sumners ''(Dem.)'' ★ Luther A. Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Nat Patton ''(Dem.)'' ★ Albert Thomas ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joseph J. Mansfield ''(Dem.)'' ★ Lyndon B. Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ William R. Poage ''(Dem.)'' ★ Fritz G. Lanham ''(Dem.)'' ★ Ed Gossett ''(Dem.)'' ★ Richard M. Kleberg ''(Dem.)'' ★ Milton H. West ''(Dem.)'' ★ R. Ewing Thomason ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clyde L. Garrett ''(Dem.)'' ★ Marvin Jones ''(Dem.)'' ★ George H. Mahon ''(Dem.)'' ★ Paul J. Kilday ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles L. South ''(Dem.)'':'Utah' ★ Abe Murdock ''(Dem.)'' ★ J. W. Robinson ''(Dem.)'':'Vermont' ★ At-Large: Charles A. Plumley ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia' ★ S. Otis Bland ''(Dem.)'' ★ Colgate Darden ''(Dem.)'' ★ Dave E. Satterfield, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ Patrick H. Drewry ''(Dem.)'' ★ Thomas G. Burch ''(Dem.)'' ★ Clifton A. Woodrum ''(Dem.)'' ★ A. Willis Robertson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Howard W. Smith ''(Dem.)'' ★ John W. Flannagan, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'Washington' ★ Warren G. Magnuson ''(Dem.)'' ★ Monrad C. Wallgren ''(Dem.)'' ★ Martin F. Smith ''(Dem.)'' ★ Knute Hill ''(Dem.)'' ★ Charles H. Leavy ''(Dem.)'' ★ John M. Coffee ''(Dem.)'':'West Virginia' ★ A. C. Schiffler ''(Rep.)'' ★ Jennings Randolph ''(Dem.)'' ★ Andrew Edmiston, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ George William Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ John Kee ''(Dem.)'' ★ Joe L. Smith ''(Dem.)'':'Wisconsin' ★ Stephen Bolles ''(Rep.)'' ★ Charles Hawks, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ Harry W. Griswold''(Rep.)'' ★ John C. Schafer ''(Rep.)'' ★ Lewis D. Thill ''(Rep.)'' ★ Frank B. Keefe ''(Rep.)'' ★ Reid F. Murray ''(Rep.)'' ★ Joshua L. Johns ''(Rep.)'' ★ Merlin Hull ''(Progressive)'' ★ Bernard J. Gehrmann ''(Progressive)'':'Wyoming' ★ At-Large: Frank O. Horton ''(Rep.)'' |
Delegates
:'
Alaska Territory'
★
Anthony J. Dimond ''(
Dem.)''
:'
Hawaii Territory'
★
Samuel Wilder King ''(
Rep.)''
Resident Commissioners
:'
United States Congressional Delegations from Philippines'
★
Joaquin Miguel Elizalde
:'
United States Congressional Delegations from Puerto Rico'
★
Santiago Iglesias Pantin, Coalitionist, (died
December 5,
1939)
★
Bolívar Pagán ''(
Sol.)'' (appointed
December 26,
1939)
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