The 'Eighty-fifth United States Congress' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the
United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives. It met in
Washington, DC from
January 3 1957 to
January 3 1959, during the first two years of the second administration of
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The apportionment of seats in this
House of Representatives was based on the
Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a
Democratic majority.
Dates of sessions
January 3 1957 –
January 3 1959
★ First session:
January 3 1957 –
August 30 1957
★ Second session:
January 7 1958 –
August 24 1958
Previous congress:
''84th Congress''
Next congress:
''86th Congress''
Major events
:''Main article:
Events of 1957;
Events of 1958''
Major legislation
:''Main article:
List of United States federal legislation in the 85th Congress
★
January 3 1959 Alaska was admitted as a state into the Union.
Party divisions
Senate
House
Plus 2 Delegates and 1 Resident Commissioner
Officers
Senate
★ '
President of the Senate':
Richard M. Nixon (R-California)
★ '
President pro tempore':
Carl Hayden (D-
Arizona
★ '
Senate Majority Leader':
Lyndon B. Johnson (D-
Texas)
★ '
Senate Minority Leader':
William F. Knowland (R-
California)
★ '
Senate Majority Whip':
Michael J. Mansfield (D-
Montana)
House
★ '
Speaker of the House':
Sam Rayburn (D-
Texas)
★ '
House Majority Leader':
John W. McCormack (D-
Massachusetts)
★ '
House Majority Whip':
Carl Albert (D-
Oklahoma)
★ '
House Minority Leader':
Joseph William Martin, Jr. (R-
Massachusetts 12th)
★ '
House Minority Whip':
Leslie C. Arends (R-
Illinois)
★ '
House Democratic Caucus Chairman':
Melvin Price (D-
Illinois)
★ '
House Republican Conference Chairman':
Charles Hoeven (R-
Iowa)
Members
Senate
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 J. Sparkman ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. Joseph Lister Hill ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona'
★ 1. Barry Goldwater ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Carl Hayden ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas'
★ 3. J. William Fulbright ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. John Little McClellan ''(Dem.)'':'California'
★ 1. William F. Knowland ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Thomas H. Kuchel ''(Rep.)'':'Colorado'
★ 3. John A. Carroll ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. Gordon L. Allott ''(Rep.)'':'Connecticut'
★ 3. Prescott Bush ''(Rep.)''
★ 1. William A. Purtell ''(Rep.)'':'Delaware'
★ 2. J. Allen Frear, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. John J. Williams ''(Rep.)'':'Florida'
★ 1. Spessard Holland ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. George Smathers ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia'
★ 2. Herman E. Talmadge ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. Richard Brevard Russell ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho'
★ 2. Henry Dworshak ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Frank F. Church ''(Dem.)'':'Illinois'
★ 3. Everett Dirksen ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Paul Douglas ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana'
★ 1. William E. Jenner ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Homer E. Capehart ''(Rep.)'':'Iowa'
★ 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Thomas E. Martin ''(Rep.)'':'Kansas'
★ 2. Andrew F. Schoeppel ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Frank Carlson ''(Rep.)'':'Kentucky'
★ 3. Thruston B. Morton ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. John Sherman Cooper ''(Rep.)'':'Louisiana'
★ 2. Allen Joseph Ellender ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. Russell B. Long ''(Dem.)'':'Maine'
★ 1. Frederick G. Payne ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Margaret Chase Smith ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland'
★ 1. James Glenn Beall ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. John M. Butler ''(Rep.)'':'Massachusetts'
★ 2. Leverett Saltonstall ''(Rep.)''
★ 1. John F. Kennedy ''(Dem.)'':'Michigan'
★ 2. Patrick V. McNamara ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. Charles E. Potter ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota'
★ 2. Hubert Humphrey ''(DFL)''
★ 1. Edward John Thye ''(Rep.)'':'Mississippi'
★ 1. John C. Stennis ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. James O. Eastland ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri'
★ 3. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. Stuart Symington ''(Dem.)'':'Montana'
★ 2. James Edward Murray ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. Michael J. Mansfield ''(Dem.)'':'Nebraska'
★ 1. Roman Hruska ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Carl Curtis ''(Rep.)'' | :'Nevada'
★ 3. Alan Bible ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. George W. Malone ''(Rep.)'':'New Hampshire'
★ 2. Styles Bridges ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Norris Cotton ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey'
★ 1. H. Alexander Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Clifford P. Case ''(Rep.)'':'New Mexico'
★ 1. Dennis Wyatt Chavez ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. Clinton Presba Anderson ''(Dem.)'':'New York'
★ 1. Irving M. Ives ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Jacob K. Javits ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina'
★ 2. W. Kerr Scott ''(Dem.)'', died April 16, 1958:
★ 2. B. Everett Jordan ''(Dem.)'', appointed to fill vacancy
★ 3. Sam Ervin ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota'
★ 1. William Langer ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Milton Young ''(Rep.)'':'Ohio'
★ 3. Frank J. Lausche ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. John W. Bricker ''(Rep.)'':'Oklahoma'
★ 2. Robert S. Kerr ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. A. S. Mike Monroney ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon'
★ 3. Wayne L. Morse ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. Richard L. Neuberger ''(Dem.)'':'Pennsylvania'
★ 3. Joseph S. Clark ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. Edward Martin ''(Rep.)'':'Rhode Island'
★ 1. John O. Pastore ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. Theodore Francis Green ''(Dem.)'':'South Carolina'
★ 2. Strom Thurmond ''(Dem.)''
★ 3. Olin D. Johnston ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota'
★ 2. Karl E. Mundt ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Francis H. Case ''(Rep.)'':'Tennessee'
★ 1. Albert A. Gore Sr. ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. C. Estes Kefauver ''(Dem.)'':'Texas'
★ 1. Price Daniel ''(Dem.)'', resigned January 14, 1957:
★ 1. William A. Blakley ''(Dem.)'', appointed to fill vacancy::
★ 1. Ralph Yarborough ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ 2. Lyndon Johnson ''(Dem.)'':'Utah'
★ 1. Arthur V. Watkins ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. Wallace F. Bennett ''(Rep.)'':'Vermont'
★ 1. Ralph E. Flanders ''(Rep.)''
★ 3. George Aiken ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia'
★ 1. Harry Flood Byrd ''(Dem.)''
★ 2. Absalom Willis Robertson ''(Dem.)'':'Washington'
★ 3. Warren G. Magnuson ''(Dem.)''
★ 1. Henry M. Jackson ''(Dem.)'':'West Virginia'
★ 1. W. Chapman Revercomb ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Matthew M. Neely ''(Rep.)'', died January 18, 1958:
★ 2. John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy::
★ 2. Jennings Randolph ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'Wisconsin'
★ 3. Alexander Wiley ''(Rep.)''
★ 1. Joseph McCarthy ''(Rep.)'', died May 2, 1957:
★ 1. William Proxmire ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'Wyoming'
★ 1. Frank A. Barrett ''(Rep.)''
★ 2. Joseph C. O'Mahoney ''(Dem.)'' |
House of Representatives
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.)''
★ . George W. Andrews ''(Dem.)''
★ . Kenneth A. Roberts ''(Dem.)''
★ . Albert Rains ''(Dem.)''
★ . Armistead I. Selden, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl Elliott ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert E. Jones, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Huddleston, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona'
★ . John Jacob Rhodes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Stewart Lee Udall ''(Dem.)'' :'Arkansas'
★ . Ezekiel C. Gathings ''(Dem.)''
★ . Wilbur D. Mills ''(Dem.)''
★ . James William Trimble ''(Dem.)''
★ . Oren Harris ''(Dem.)''
★ . Brooks Hays ''(Dem.)''
★ . William F. Norrell ''(Dem.)'':'California'
★ . Hubert B. Scudder ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clair Engle ''(Dem.)''
★ . John E. Moss ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Mailliard ''(Rep.)''
★ . John F. Shelley ''(Dem.)''
★ . John F. Baldwin, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. Allen, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . George P. Miller ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jesse A. Younger ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles S. Gubser ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. McFall ''(Dem.)''
★ . Bernice F. Sisk ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles M. Teague ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harlan Hagen ''(Dem.)''
★ . Gordon L. McDonough ''(Rep.)''
★ . Donald L. Jackson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Cecil R. King ''(Dem.)''
★ . Craig Hosmer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Chet Holifield ''(Dem.)''
★ . H. Allen Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edgar W. Hiestand ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph F. Holt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clyde Doyle ''(Dem.)''
★ . Glenard P. Lipscomb ''(Rep.)''
★ . Patrick J. Hillings ''(Rep.)''
★ . James Roosevelt ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harry R. Sheppard ''(Dem.)''
★ . James B. Utt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Dalip Singh Saund ''(Dem.)''
★ . Bob Wilson ''(Rep.)'':'Colorado'
★ . Byron G. Rogers ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Hill ''(Rep.)''
★ . J. Edgar Chenoweth ''(Rep.)''
★ . Wayne N. Aspinall ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut'
★ At-Large — Antoni N. Sadlak ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edwin H. May, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Albert W. Cretella ''(Rep.)''
★ . Albert P. Morano ''(Rep.)''
★ . James T. Patterson ''(Rep.)'' :'Delaware'
★ At Large — Harry G. Haskell, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' :'Florida'
★ . William C. Cramer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles Edward Bennett ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert L. F. Sikes ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dante B. Fascell ''(Dem.)''
★ . Albert S. Herlong, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Paul G. Rogers ''(Dem.)''
★ . James A. Haley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Donald Ray Matthews ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia'
★ . Prince H. Preston, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. L. Pilcher ''(Dem.)''
★ . Tic Forrester ''(Dem.)''
★ . John J. Flynt, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . James C. Davis ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl Vinson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henderson L. Lanham ''(Dem.)'', died November 10, 1957:
★ . Harlan Erwin Mitchell ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Iris Blitch ''(Dem.)''
★ . Phillip M. Landrum ''(Dem.)''
★ . Paul Brown ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho'
★ . Gracie Pfost ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hamer H. Budge ''(Rep.)'':'Illinois'
★ . William L. Dawson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Barratt O'Hara ''(Dem.)''
★ . Emmet F. Byrne ''(Rep.)''
★ . William E. McVey ''(Rep.)''
★ . John C. Kluczynski ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas Joseph O'Brien ''(Dem.)''
★ . James B. Bowler ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas S. Gordon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Sidney R. Yates ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harold R. Collier ''(Rep.)''
★ . Timothy P. Sheehan ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles A. Boyle ''(Dem.)''
★ . Marguerite S. Church ''(Rep.)''
★ . Russell W. Keeney ''(Rep.)''
★ . Noah M. Mason ''(Rep.)''
★ . Leo E. Allen ''(Rep.)''
★ . Leslie C. Arends ''(Rep.)''
★ . Robert H. Michel ''(Rep.)''
★ . Robert B. Chiperfield ''(Rep.)''
★ . Sid Simpson ''(Rep.)'', died October 26, 1958
★ . Peter F. Mack, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . William L. Springer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles W. Vursell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Melvin Price ''(Dem.)''
★ . Kenneth J. Gray ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana'
★ . Ray J. Madden ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles A. Halleck ''(Rep.)''
★ . F. Jay Nimtz ''(Rep.)''
★ . E. Ross Adair ''(Rep.)''
★ . John V. Beamer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Cecil M. Harden ''(Rep.)''
★ . William G. Bray ''(Rep.)''
★ . Winfield K. Denton ''(Dem.)''
★ . Earl Wilson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ralph Harvey ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles B. Brownson ''(Rep.)'':'Iowa'
★ . Fred Schwengel ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry O. Talle ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harold R. Gross ''(Rep.)''
★ . Karl M. LeCompte ''(Rep.)''
★ . Paul Cunningham ''(Rep.)''
★ . Merwin Coad ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ben F. Jensen ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles B. Hoeven ''(Rep.)'':'Kansas'
★ . William Henry Avery ''(Rep.)''
★ . Everett Power Scrivner ''(Rep.)''
★ . Myron Virgil George ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward Herbert Rees ''(Rep.)''
★ . James Floyd Breeding ''(Dem.)''
★ . Wint Smith ''(Rep.)'':'Kentucky'
★ . Noble J. Gregory ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Huston Natcher ''(Dem.)''
★ . John M. Robsion, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank Chelf ''(Dem.)''
★ . Brent Spence ''(Dem.)''
★ . John C. Watts ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl D. Perkins ''(Dem.)''
★ . Eugene Siler ''(Rep.)'':'Louisiana'
★ . F. Edward Hébert ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hale Boggs ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edwin E. Willis ''(Dem.)''
★ . Overton Brooks ''(Dem.)''
★ . Otto E. Passman ''(Dem.)''
★ . James H. Morrison ''(Dem.)''
★ . Theo A. Thompson ''(Dem.)''
★ . George S. Long ''(Dem.)'':'Maine'
★ . Robert Hale ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank M. Coffin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Clifford G. McIntire ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland'
★ . Edward T. Miller ''(Rep.)''
★ . James P. Devereux ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward Garmatz ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Hyde Fallon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Richard Lankford ''(Dem.)''
★ . DeWitt S. Hyde ''(Rep.)''
★ . Samuel Friedel ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts'
★ . John W. Heselton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward Boland ''(Dem.)''
★ . Philip Philbin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harold Donohue ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edith Nourse Rogers ''(Rep.)''
★ . William H. Bates ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas J. Lane ''(Dem.)''
★ . Torbert H. Macdonald ''(Dem.)''
★ . Donald W. Nicholson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Laurence Curtis ''(Rep.)''
★ . Tip O'Neill ''(Dem.)''
★ . John W. McCormack ''(Dem.)''
★ . Richard B. Wigglesworth ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph W. Martin, Jr. ''(Rep.)'':'Michigan'
★ . Thaddeus M. Machrowicz ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Meader ''(Rep.)''
★ . August E. Johansen ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clare E. Hoffman ''(Rep.)''
★ . Gerald Ford ''(Rep.)''
★ . Donald Hayworth ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert J. McIntosh ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alvin M. Bentley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Robert P. Griffin ''(Rep.)''
★ . Elford Cederberg ''(Dem.)''
★ . Victor A. Knox ''(Rep.)''
★ . John B. Bennett ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles C. Diggs, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Louis C. Rabaut ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Dingell ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Lesinski, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Martha W. Griffiths ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Broomfield ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota'
★ . August H. Andresen ''(Rep.)'', died on January 14, 1958:
★ . Al Quie ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ .Joseph P. O'Hara ''(Rep.)''
★ .Roy Wier ''(DFL)''
★ .Eugene McCarthy ''(DFL)''
★ .Walter Judd ''(Rep.)''
★ .Fred Marshall ''(DFL)''
★ .H. Carl Andersen ''(Rep.)''
★ .John Blatnik ''(DFL)''
★ .Coya Knutson ''(DFL)'' :'Mississippi'
★ . Thomas G. Abernethy ''(Dem.)''
★ . Wall Doxey ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jamie L. Whitten ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frank Smith ''(Dem.)''
★ . John B. Williams ''(Dem.)''
★ . W. Arthur Winstead ''(Dem.)''
★ . William M. Colmer ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri'
★ . Frank M. Karsten ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas B. Curtis ''(Rep.)''
★ . Leonor Sullivan ''(Dem.)''
★ . George H. Christopher ''(Dem.)''
★ . Richard Bolling ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Raleigh Hull, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles Brown ''(Dem.)''
★ . A.S.J. Carnahan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Clarence Cannon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Paul C. Jones ''(Dem.)''
★ . Morgan M. Moulder ''(Dem.)'':'Montana'
★ . Lee Metcalf ''(Dem.)''
★ . LeRoy H. Anderson ''(Dem.)'' | :'Nebraska'
★ . Phillip Hart Weaver ''(Rep.)''
★ . Glenn Cunningham ''(Rep.)''
★ . Robert Dinsmore Harrison ''(Rep.)''
★ . Arthur L. Miller ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada'
★ At-Large — Walter S. Baring, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'New Hampshire'
★ . Charles Earl Merrow ''(Rep.)''
★ . Perkins Bass ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey'
★ . Charles A. Wolverton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Milton W. Glenn ''(Rep.)''
★ . James C. Auchincloss ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank Thompson, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Florence P. Dwyer ''(Rep.)''
★ . William B. Widnall ''(Rep.)''
★ . Gordon Canfield ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank C. Osmers, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Peter W. Rodino, Jr. ''(Dem.)'
★ . Hugh J. Addonizio ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert W. Kean ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alfred D. Sieminski ''(Dem.)''
★ . Vincent J. Dellay ''(Rep.)'':'New Mexico'
★ At-Large — John J. Dempsey ''(Dem.)'', died March 11, 1958
★ At-Large — Joseph Montoya ''(Dem.)'' :'New York'
★ . Stuyvesant Wainwright ''(Rep.)''
★ . Steven B. Derounian ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank J. Becker ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry J. Latham ''(Rep.)'
★ . Albert H. Bosch ''(Rep.)''
★ . Lester Holtzman ''(Dem.)''
★ . James J. Delaney ''(Dem.)''
★ . Victor L. Anfuso ''(Dem.)''
★ . Eugene J. Keogh ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edna F. Kelly ''(Dem.)''
★ . Emanuel Celler ''(Dem.)''
★ . Francis E. Dorn ''(Rep.)''
★ . Abraham J. Multer ''(Dem.)''
★ . John J. Rooney ''(Dem.)''
★ . John H. Ray ''(Rep.)''
★ . Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frederic R. Coudert, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alfred E. Santangelo ''(Dem.)''
★ . Leonard Farbstein ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ludwig Teller ''(Dem.)''
★ . Herbert Zelenko ''(Dem.)''
★ . James C. Healey ''(Dem.)''
★ . Isidore Dollinger ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles A. Buckley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Paul A. Fino ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edwin B. Dooley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ralph W. Gwinn ''(Rep.)''
★ . Katharine St. George ''(Rep.)''
★ . J. Ernest Wharton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Leo W. O'Brien ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dean P. Taylor ''(Rep.)''
★ . Bernard W. Kearney ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clarence E. Kilburn ''(Rep.)''
★ . William R. Williams ''(Rep.)''
★ . R. Walter Riehlman ''(Rep.)''
★ . John Taber ''(Rep.)''
★ . W. Sterling Cole ''(Rep.)''
★ . Kenneth B. Keating ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harold C. Ostertag ''(Rep.)''
★ . William E. Miller ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edmund P. Radwan ''(Rep.)''
★ . John R. Pillion ''(Rep.)''
★ . Daniel A. Reed ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina'
★ . Herbert C. Bonner ''(Dem.)''
★ . Lawrence H. Fountain ''(Dem.)''
★ . Graham A. Barden ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harold D. Cooley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ralph James Scott ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl T. Durham ''(Dem.)''
★ . Alton Asa Lennon ''(Dem.)''
★ . A. Paul Kitchin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hugh Quincy Alexander ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles R. Jonas ''(Rep.)''
★ . Basil Whitener ''(Dem.)''
★ . George A. Shuford ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota'
★ At-Large — Otto Krueger ''(Rep.)''
★ At-Large — Usher L. Burdick ''(Nonpartisan Republican)'':'Ohio'
★ . Gordon H. Scherer ''(Rep.)''
★ . William E. Hess ''(Rep.)''
★ . Paul F. Schenck ''(Rep.)''
★ . William M. McCulloch ''(Rep.)''
★ . Cliff Clevenger ''(Rep.)''
★ . James G. Polk ''(Dem.)''
★ . Clarence J. Brown ''(Rep.)''
★ . Jackson E. Betts ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas L. Ashley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas A. Jenkins ''(Rep.)''
★ . David S. Dennison ''(Rep.)''
★ . John M. Vorys ''(Rep.)''
★ . A. David Baumhart Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . William H. Ayres ''(Rep.)''
★ . John E. Henderson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank T. Bow ''(Rep.)''
★ . J. Harry McGregor ''(Rep.)''
★ . Wayne L. Hays ''(Dem.)''
★ . Michael J. Kirwan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Michael A. Feighan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles A. Vanik ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frances P. Bolton ''(Rep.)''
★ . William E. Minshall, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' :'Oklahoma'
★ . Page Belcher ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ed Edmondson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl Albert ''(Dem.)''
★ . Tom Steed ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Jarman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Toby Morris ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon'
★ . A. Walter Norblad ''(Rep.)''
★ . Al Ullman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edith Green ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles O. Porter ''(Dem.)'':'Pennsylvania'
★ . William A. Barrett ''(Dem.)''
★ . Kathryn E. Granahan ''(Dem.)''
★ . James A. Byrne ''(Dem.)''
★ . Earl Chudoff ''(Dem.)''
★ . William J. Green, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hugh Scott ''(Rep.)''
★ . Benjamin F. James ''(Rep.)''
★ . Willard S. Curtin ''(Rep.)''
★ . Paul B. Dague ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph L. Carrigg ''(Rep.)''
★ . Daniel J. Flood ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ivor D. Fenton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . George M. Rhodes ''(Dem.)''
★ . Francis E. Walter ''(Dem.)''
★ . Walter M. Mumma ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alvin Bush ''(Rep.)''
★ . Richard M. Simpson ''(Rep.)''
★ . S. Walter Stauffer ''(Rep.)''
★ . James E. Van Zandt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Augustine B. Kelley ''(Dem.)''
★ . John P. Saylor ''(Rep.)''
★ . Leon H. Gavin ''(Rep.)''
★ . Carroll D. Kearns ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank M. Clark ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas E. Morgan ''(Dem.)''
★ . James G. Fulton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Herman P. Eberharter ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert J. Corbett ''(Rep.)''
★ . Elmer J. Holland ''(Dem.)'':'Rhode Island'
★ . Aime Forand ''(Dem.)''
★ . John E. Fogarty ''(Dem.)'':'South Carolina'
★ . L. Mendel Rivers ''(Dem.)''
★ . John J. Riley ''(Dem.)''
★ . W.J. Bryan Dorn ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert T. Ashmore ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert W. Hemphill ''(Dem.)''
★ . John L. McMillan ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota'
★ . George McGovern ''(Dem.)''
★ . E. Y. Berry ''(Rep.)'' :'Tennessee'
★ . B. Carroll Reece ''(Rep.)''
★ . Howard Baker, Sr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . James B. Frazier Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joe L. Evins ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Carlton Loser ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ross Bass ''(Dem.)''
★ . Tom J. Murray ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jere Cooper ''(Dem.)'', died December 18, 1957:
★ . Fats Everett ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Clifford Davis ''(Dem.)'':'Texas'
★ At-Large — Martin Dies, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Wright Patman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jack Brooks ''(Dem.)''
★ . Lindley Beckworth ''(Dem.)''
★ . Sam Rayburn ''(Dem.)''
★ . Bruce R. Alger ''(Rep.)''
★ . Olin E. Teague ''(Dem.)''
★ . John V. Dowdy ''(Dem.)''
★ . Albert Thomas ''(Dem.)''
★ . Clark W. Thompson ''(Dem.)''
★ . W. Homer Thornberry ''(Dem.)''
★ . William R. Poage ''(Dem.)''
★ . James C. Wright, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frank N. Ikard ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Andrew Young ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joe M. Kilgore ''(Dem.)''
★ . J.T. Rutherford ''(Dem.)''
★ . Omar Burleson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Walter E. Rogers ''(Dem.)''
★ . George H. Mahon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Paul J. Kilday ''(Dem.)''
★ . O. Clark Fisher ''(Dem.)'':'Utah'
★ . Henry Aldous Dixon ''(Rep.)''
★ . William A. Dawson ''(Rep.)'':'Vermont'
★ At-Large — Winston L. Prouty ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia'
★ . Edward J. Robeson, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Porter Hardy, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Vaughan Gary ''(Dem.)''
★ . Watkins Moorman Abbitt ''(Dem.)''
★ . William M. Tuck ''(Dem.)''
★ . Richard Harding Poff ''(Rep.)''
★ . Burr Harrison ''(Dem.)''
★ . Howard W. Smith ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Pat Jennings ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joel T. Broyhill ''(Rep.)'':'Washington'
★ At-Large — Donald Hammer Magnuson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas Minor Pelly ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alfred Westland ''(Rep.)''
★ . Russell V. Mack ''(Rep.)''
★ . Hal Holmes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Walt Horan ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thor C. Tollefson ''(Rep.)'':'West Virginia'
★ . Arch A. Moore, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harley O. Staggers ''(Dem.)''
★ . Cleveland M. Bailey ''(Dem.)''
★ . Will E. Neal ''(Rep.)''
★ . Elizabeth Kee ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert Byrd ''(Dem.)'':'Wisconsin'
★ . Lawrence H. Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ . Donald Edgar Tewes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Gardner R. Withrow ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clement J. Zablocki ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry S. Reuss ''(Dem.)''
★ . William K. Van Pelt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Melvin R. Laird ''(Rep.)''
★ . John W. Byrnes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Lester Johnson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Alvin E. O'Konski ''(Rep.)'':'Wyoming'
★ At Large — Edwin Keith Thomson ''(Rep.)'' |
Delegates
:'
Alaska Territory'
★
Bob Bartlett ''(
Dem.)''
:'
Hawaii Territory'
★
John Anthony Burns ''(
Dem.)''
Resident Commissioners
:'
Puerto Rico'
★
Antonio Fernós Isern,
PPD
Employees
Senate
House of Representatives
★ '
Clerk of the House':
Ralph R. Roberts
★ '
Doorkeeper of the House':
William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
★ '
Postmaster of the House':
H. H. Morris
★ '
Sergeant at Arms of the House':
Zeake W. Johnson, Jr. Elected
January 3,
1957
★ '
Chaplain of the House':
Rev. Bernard Braskamp -
Presbyterian
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