The 'Eighty-seventh 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 1961 to
January 3 1963, during the first two years of the administration of
U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
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 1961 –
January 3 1963
★ First session:
January 3 1961 –
September 27 1961
★ Second session:
January 10 1962 –
October 13 1962
Previous congress:
''86th Congress''
Next congress:
''88th Congress''
Major events
:''Main article:
Events of 1961;
Events of 1962''
★
January 20 1961 John F. Kennedy became
President of the United States
Major legislation
:''Main article:
List of United States federal legislation in the 87th Congress
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Officers
Senate
'
President of the Senate':
Richard M. Nixon, ending Jan 20, 1961
Lyndon B. Johnson, beginning Jan 20, 1961
'
President pro tempore':
Carl Hayden
House of Representatives
Speaker of the House: Rayburn, McCormack
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.)'':'Alaska' ★ 2. Bob Bartlett ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Ernest Gruening ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona' ★ 1. Barry Goldwater ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Carl Hayden ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas' ★ 3. J. William Fulbright ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. John Little McClellan ''(Dem.)'':'California' ★ 1. Clair Engle ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Thomas H. Kuchel ''(Rep.)'':'Colorado' ★ 3. John A. Carroll ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Gordon L. Allott ''(Rep.)'':'Connecticut' ★ 3. Prescott Bush ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Thomas J. Dodd ''(Dem.)'':'Delaware' ★ 2. J. Caleb Boggs ''(Rep.)'' ★ 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.)'':'Hawaii' ★ 1. Hiram Fong ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Oren E. Long ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho' ★ 2. Henry Dworshak ''(Rep.)'', died July 23, 1962: ★ 2. Leonard B. Jordan ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy ★ 3. Frank F. Church ''(Dem.)'':'Illinois' ★ 3. Everett Dirksen ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Paul Douglas ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana' ★ 1. Vance Hartke ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Homer E. Capehart ''(Rep.)'':'Iowa' ★ 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Jack R. Miller ''(Rep.)'':'Kansas' ★ 2. Andrew F. Schoeppel ''(Rep.)'', died January 21, 1962: ★ 2. James B. Pearson ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy ★ 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. Edmund Muskie ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Margaret Chase Smith ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland' ★ 1. James Glenn Beall ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. John M. Butler ''(Rep.)'':'Massachusetts' ★ 2. Leverett Saltonstall ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. Benjamin A. Smith II ''(Dem.)'': ★ 1. Ted Kennedy ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'Michigan' ★ 2. Patrick V. McNamara ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Philip A. Hart ''(Dem.)'':'Minnesota' ★ 2. Hubert Humphrey ''(DFL)'' ★ 1. Eugene McCarthy ''(DFL)'' :'Mississippi' ★ 1. John C. Stennis ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. James O. Eastland ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri' ★ 3. Edward V. Long ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Stuart Symington ''(Dem.)'':'Montana' ★ 2. Lee Metcalf ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Michael J. Mansfield ''(Dem.)'' | :'Nebraska' ★ 1. Roman Hruska ''(Rep.)'' ★ 2. Carl Curtis ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada' ★ 3. Alan Bible ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Howard W. Cannon ''(Dem.)'':'New Hampshire' ★ 2. Styles Bridges ''(Rep.)'', died November 26, 1961: ★ 2. Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy:: ★ 2. Thomas J. McIntyre ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ 3. Norris Cotton ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey' ★ 1. Harrison A. Williams, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Clifford P. Case ''(Rep.)'':'New Mexico' ★ 1. Dennis Wyatt Chavez ''(Dem.)'', died November 18, 1962: ★ 1. Edwin L. Mechem ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy ★ 2. Clinton Presba Anderson ''(Dem.)'':'New York' ★ 1. Kenneth Keating ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Jacob K. Javits ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina' ★ 2. B. Everett Jordan ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Sam Ervin ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota' ★ 1. Quentin N. Burdick ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Milton Young ''(Rep.)'':'Ohio' ★ 3. Frank J. Lausche ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Stephen M. Young ''(Dem.)'':'Oklahoma' ★ 2. Robert S. Kerr ''(Dem.)'', died January 1, 1963 ★ 3. A. S. Mike Monroney ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon' ★ 3. Wayne L. Morse ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Maurine Brown Neuberger ''(Dem.)'':'Pennsylvania' ★ 3. Joseph S. Clark ''(Dem.)'' ★ 1. Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ''(Rep.)'':'Rhode Island' ★ 1. John O. Pastore ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Claiborne Pell ''(Dem.)'':'South Carolina' ★ 2. Strom Thurmond ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Olin D. Johnston ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota' ★ 2. Karl E. Mundt ''(Rep.)'' ★ 3. Francis H. Case ''(Rep.)'', died June 23, 1962: ★ 3. Joseph H. Bottum ''(Rep.)'', appointed to fill vacancy:'Tennessee' ★ 1. Albert A. Gore Sr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. C. Estes Kefauver ''(Dem.)'':'Texas' ★ 1. Ralph Yarborough ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. William A. Blakley ''(Dem.)'', appointed to fill vacancy caused by Lyndon Johnson's resignation: ★ 2. John Tower ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'Utah' ★ 1. Frank Moss ''(Dem.)'' ★ 3. Wallace F. Bennett ''(Rep.)'':'Vermont' ★ 1. Winston L. Prouty ''(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. Robert Byrd ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. Jennings Randolph ''(Dem.)'':'Wisconsin' ★ 3. Alexander Wiley ''(Rep.)'' ★ 1. William Proxmire ''(Dem.)'':'Wyoming' ★ 1. Gale W. McGee ''(Dem.)'' ★ 2. John J. Hickey ''(Dem.)'', appointed to fill vacancy: ★ 2. Milward L. Simpson ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy |
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.)'':'Alaska' ★ : Ralph Julian Rivers ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona' ★ . John Jacob Rhodes ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Stewart Lee Udall ''(Dem.)'', resigned January 21, 1961: ★ . Mo Udall ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy :'Arkansas' ★ . Ezekiel C. Gathings ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Wilbur D. Mills ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James William Trimble ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Oren Harris ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Dale Alford ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William F. Norrell ''(Dem.)'', died February 15, 1961: ★ . Catherine Dorris Norrell ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy:'California' ★ . Clement Woodnutt Miller ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Harold T. Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John E. Moss ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William S. Mailliard ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John F. Shelley ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John F. Baldwin, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Jeffery Cohelan ''(Dem.)'' ★ . 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.)'' ★ . Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Cecil R. King ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Craig Hosmer ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Chet Holifield ''(Dem.)'' ★ . H. Allen Smith ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Edgar W. Hiestand ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James C. Corman ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Clyde Doyle ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Glenard P. Lipscomb ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John H. Rousselot ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James Roosevelt ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Harry R. Sheppard ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James B. Utt ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Dalip Singh Saund ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Bob Wilson ''(Rep.)'':'Colorado' ★ . Byron G. Rogers ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Peter H. Dominick ''(Rep.)'' ★ . J. Edgar Chenoweth ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Wayne N. Aspinall ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut' ★ At-Large: Frank Kowalski ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Emilio Q. Daddario ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert N. Giaimo ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Abner W. Sibal ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John S. Monagan ''(Dem.)'':'Delaware' ★ : Harris B. McDowell, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'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' ★ . G. Elliott Hagan ''(Dem.)'' ★ . J. L. Pilcher ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Tic Forrester ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John J. Flynt, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James C. Davis ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Carl Vinson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John W. Davis ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Iris Blitch ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Phillip M. Landrum ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Robert G. Stephens, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'Hawaii' ★ : Daniel Inouye ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho' ★ . Gracie Pfost ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ralph R. Harding ''(Dem.)'':'Illinois' ★ . William L. Dawson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Barratt O'Hara ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William T. Murphy ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edward J. Derwinski ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John C. Kluczynski ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Thomas Joseph O'Brien ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Roland V. Libonati ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Dan Rostenkowski ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Sidney R. Yates ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Harold R. Collier ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Roman C. Pucinski ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edward R. Finnegan ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Marguerite S. Church ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Elmer J. Hoffman ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Noah M. Mason ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John B. Anderson ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Leslie C. Arends ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert H. Michel ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert B. Chiperfield ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Paul Findley ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Peter F. Mack, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William L. Springer ''(Rep.)'' ★ . George E. Shipley ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Melvin Price ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Kenneth J. Gray ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana' ★ . Ray J. Madden ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Charles A. Halleck ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John Brademas ''(Dem.)'' ★ . E. Ross Adair ''(Rep.)'' ★ . J. Edward Roush ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Richard L. Roudebush ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William G. Bray ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Winfield K. Denton ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Earl Wilson ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Ralph Harvey ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Donald C. Bruce ''(Rep.)'':'Iowa' ★ . Fred Schwengel ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James E. Bromwell ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Harold R. Gross ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John Kyl ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Neal Smith ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Merwin Coad ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ben F. Jensen ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Charles B. Hoeven ''(Rep.)'':'Kansas' ★ . William Henry Avery ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert Fred Ellsworth ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Walter Lewis McVey, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Garner E. Shriver ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James Floyd Breeding ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Bob Dole ''(Rep.)'':'Kentucky' ★ . Noble J. Gregory ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William Huston Natcher ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Frank W. Burke ''(Dem.)'' ★ . 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.)'' ★ . Harold B. McSween ''(Dem.)'':'Maine' ★ . Peter A. Garland ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Stanley R. Tupper ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Clifford G. McIntire ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland' ★ . Thomas F. Johnson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Daniel B. Brewster ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edward Garmatz ''(Dem.)'' ★ . George Hyde Fallon ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Richard Lankford ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Charles Mathias, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Samuel Friedel ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts' ★ . Silvio Conte ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Edward Boland ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Philip Philbin ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Harold Donohue ''(Dem.)'' ★ . F. Bradford Morse ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William H. Bates ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Thomas J. Lane ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Torbert H. Macdonald ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Hastings Keith ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Laurence Curtis ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Tip O'Neill ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John W. McCormack ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James Burke ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Joseph W. Martin, Jr. ''(Rep.)'':'Michigan' ★ . Thaddeus M. Machrowicz ''(Dem.)'', resigned September 18, 1961: ★ . Lucien N. Nedzi ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ . George Meader ''(Rep.)'' ★ . August E. Johansen ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Clare E. Hoffman ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Gerald Ford ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Donald Hayworth ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James G. O'Hara ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James Harvey ''(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.)'', died November 12, 1961: ★ . Harold M. Ryan ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ . John Dingell ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John Lesinski, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Martha W. Griffiths ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William S. Broomfield ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota' ★ . Al Quie ''(Rep.)'' ★ .Ancher Nelsen ''(Rep.)'' ★ .Clark MacGregor ''(Rep.)'' ★ .Joseph Karth ''(DFL)'' ★ .Walter Judd ''(Rep.)'' ★ .Fred Marshall ''(DFL)'' ★ .H. Carl Andersen ''(Rep.)'' ★ .John Blatnik ''(DFL)'' ★ .Odin Langen ''(Rep.)'':'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.)'' ★ . William J. Randall ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Richard Bolling ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William Raleigh Hull, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Durward Gorham Hall ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Richard Howard Ichord Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Clarence Cannon ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Paul C. Jones ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Morgan M. Moulder ''(Dem.)'':'Montana' ★ . Arnold Olsen ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James Franklin Battin ''(Rep.)'' | :'Nebraska' ★ . Phillip Hart Weaver ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Glenn Cunningham ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Ralph F. Beermann ''(Rep.)'' ★ . David T. Martin ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada' ★ : Walter S. Baring, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'New Hampshire' ★ . Charles Earl Merrow ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Perkins Bass ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey' ★ . William T. Cahill ''(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.)'' ★ . Charles S. Joelson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Frank C. Osmers, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Peter W. Rodino, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Hugh J. Addonizio ''(Dem.)'' ★ . George M. Wallhauser ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Cornelius E. Gallagher ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Dominick V. Daniels ''(Dem.)'':'New Mexico' ★ At-Large: Thomas G. Morris ''(Dem.)'' ★ At-Large: Joseph Montoya ''(Dem.)'' :'New York' ★ . Otis G. Pike ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Steven B. Derounian ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Frank J. Becker ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Seymour Halpern ''(Rep.)' ★ . Joseph P. Addabbo ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Lester Holtzman ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James J. Delaney ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Victor L. Anfuso ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Eugene J. Keogh ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edna F. Kelly ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Emanuel Celler ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Hugh L. Carey ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Abraham J. Multer ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John J. Rooney ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John H. Ray ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John V. Lindsay ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Alfred E. Santangelo ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Leonard Farbstein ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William Fitts Ryan ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Herbert Zelenko ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James C. Healey ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Jacob H. Gilbert ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Charles A. Buckley ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Paul A. Fino ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Edwin B. Dooley ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert R. Barry ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Katharine St. George ''(Rep.)'' ★ . J. Ernest Wharton ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Leo W. O'Brien ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Carleton J. King ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Samuel S. Stratton ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Clarence E. Kilburn ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Alexander Pirnie ''(Rep.)'' ★ . R. Walter Riehlman ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John Taber ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Howard W. Robison ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Jessica M. Weis ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Harold C. Ostertag ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William E. Miller ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Thaddeus J. Dulski ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John R. Pillion ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Charles E. Goodell ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina' ★ . Herbert C. Bonner ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Lawrence H. Fountain ''(Dem.)'' ★ . David N. Henderson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Harold D. Cooley ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ralph James Scott ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Horace R. Kornegay ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Alton Asa Lennon ''(Dem.)'' ★ . A. Paul Kitchin ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Hugh Quincy Alexander ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Charles R. Jonas ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Basil Whitener ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Roy A. Taylor ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota' ★ : Don L. Short ''(Rep.)'' ★ : Hjalmar Carl Nygaard ''(Rep.)'' :'Ohio' ★ . Gordon H. Scherer ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Donald D. Clancy ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Paul F. Schenck ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William M. McCulloch ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Delbert Latta ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William H. Harsha ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Clarence J. Brown ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Jackson E. Betts ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Thomas L. Ashley ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Walter H. Moeller ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Robert E. Cook ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Samuel L. Devine ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Charles A. Mosher ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William H. Ayres ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Tom Van Horn Moorehead ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Frank T. Bow ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John M. Ashbrook ''(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.)'' ★ . Victor Wickersham ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon' ★ . A. Walter Norblad ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Al Ullman ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edith Green ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Edwin Russell Durno ''(Rep.)'':'Pennsylvania' ★ . William A. Barrett ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Kathryn E. Granahan ''(Dem.)'' ★ . James A. Byrne ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Robert N.C. Nix ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William J. Green, Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Herman Toll ''(Dem.)'' ★ . William H. Milliken, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Willard S. Curtin ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Paul B. Dague ''(Rep.)'' ★ . William Scranton ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Daniel J. Flood ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ivor D. Fenton ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Richard S. Schweiker ''(Rep.)'' ★ . George M. Rhodes ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Francis E. Walter ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Walter M. Mumma ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Herman T. Schneebeli ''(Rep.)'' ★ . J. Irving Whalley ''(Rep.)'' ★ . George Atlee Goodling ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James E. Van Zandt ''(Rep.)'' ★ . John H. Dent ''(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.)'' ★ . William S. Moorhead ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Robert J. Corbett ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Elmer J. Holland ''(Dem.)'':'Rhode Island' ★ . Fernand St. Germain ''(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' ★ . Ben Reifel ''(Rep.)'' ★ . E. Y. Berry ''(Rep.)'' :'Tennessee' ★ . B. Carroll Reece ''(Rep.)'', died March 19, 1961: ★ . Louise G. Reece ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ . Howard Baker, Sr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . James B. Frazier Jr. ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Joe L. Evins ''(Dem.)'' ★ . J. Carlton Loser ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ross Bass ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Tom J. Murray ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Fats Everett ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Clifford Davis ''(Dem.)'':'Texas' ★ . 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.)'' ★ . Robert R. Casey ''(Dem.)'':'Utah' ★ . M. Blaine Peterson ''(Dem.)'' ★ . David S. King ''(Dem.)'':'Vermont' ★ : Robert T. Stafford ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia' ★ . Thomas N. Downing ''(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' ★ . Thomas Minor Pelly ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Alfred Westland ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Russell V. Mack ''(Rep.)'', died March 28, 1960: ★ . Julia Butler Hansen ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy ★ . Catherine Dean Barnes May ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Walt Horan ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Thor C. Tollefson ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Donald Hammer Magnuson ''(Dem.)'':'West Virginia' ★ . Arch A. Moore, Jr. ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Harley O. Staggers ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Cleveland M. Bailey ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Ken Hechler ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Elizabeth Kee ''(Dem.)'' ★ . John M. Slack, Jr. ''(Dem.)'':'Wisconsin' ★ . Henry C. Schadeberg ''(Rep.)'' ★ . Robert Kastenmeier ''(Dem.)'' ★ . Vernon Wallace Thomson ''(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' ★ : William Henry Harrison ''(Rep.)'' |
Resident Commissioners
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Puerto Rico'
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Antonio Fernós Isern,
PPD
Employees
Senate
House of Representatives
References
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The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989,
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The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1982,
External links
★ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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★ U.S. House of Representatives: Congressional History
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★ U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists
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