1951–1953 U.S. Congress
The 82nd 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, D.C. , from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1953, during the last two years of President Harry S. Truman 's second term in office .
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1940 United States census .
Both chambers had a Democratic majority (albeit reduced from the 81st Congress ), and with President Truman, maintained an overall federal government trifecta .
Major events [ edit ] March 29, 1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they were sentenced to receive the death penalty. April 11, 1951: President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands. April 13, 1951: Congress passed a large defense budget 372 votes for the budget and 44 votes against the budget. The budget was intended to help the United States combat communism.[1] August 31, 1951: The United States Senate passes the Mutual Security Act by a vote of 61 votes in favor and 5 votes against. The act provided $7.5 billion for foreign military assistance and food aid to America's allies, primarily the United Kingdom .[2] [3] The vote was condemned by the government of the Soviet Union and praised by the government of the United Kingdom .[4] September 5, 1951: Treaty of San Francisco : In San Francisco, California, 48 nations signed a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War. October 24, 1951: President Truman declared an official end to war with Germany . November 10, 1951: Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States. December 31, 1951: The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe . March 29, 1952: President Truman announced that he will not seek reelection. June 19, 1952: The Special Forces created. July 25, 1952: Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States , an unincorporated organized territory, with the ratification of its constitution. November 4, 1952: 1952 United States presidential election : Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson November 4, 1952: National Security Agency founded. Major legislation [ edit ] October 10, 1951: Mutual Security Act , ch. 479, 65 Stat. 373 June 27, 1952: Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act), Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–414 July 14, 1952: McGuire Act , Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–542 , 15 U.S.C. § 42(a) July 16, 1952: Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act , Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–550 July 16, 1952: Federal Coal Mine Safety Act of 1952 , Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–552 July 16, 1952: Wire Fraud Act of 1952 , Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 82–555 Constitutional amendments [ edit ] Treaties [ edit ] Members of the Japanese delegation signing the Treaty of San Francisco . Party summary [ edit ] Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)
Total Vacant Democratic Independent Republican End of previous Congress 53 0 43 96 0 Begin 49 0 47 96 0 March 8, 1951 48 95 1 March 19, 1951 49 96 0 April 18, 1951 46 95 1 April 23, 1951 50 96 0 November 29, 1951 45 95 1 December 10, 1951 46 96 0 July 28, 1952 49 95 1 August 29, 1952 47 96 0 November 5, 1952 47 49 December 31, 1952 48 95 1 Latest voting share 49% 0% 51% Beginning of the next Congress 47 1 48 96 0
House of Representatives [ edit ] Leadership [ edit ] Majority (Democratic) party [ edit ] Minority (Republican) party [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] Majority (Democratic) party [ edit ] Minority (Republican) party [ edit ] Caucuses [ edit ] Members [ edit ] 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, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1952; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1954; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1956.
▌ 2. John J. Sparkman (D) ▌ 3. J. Lister Hill (D) ▌ 1. Ernest McFarland (D) ▌ 3. Carl Hayden (D) ▌ 2. John L. McClellan (D) ▌ 3. J. William Fulbright (D) ▌ 1. William Knowland (R) ▌ 3. Richard Nixon (R), until January 1, 1953 ▌ Thomas Kuchel (R), from January 2, 1953 ▌ 2. Edwin C. Johnson (D) ▌ 3. Eugene Millikin (R) ▌ 1. William Benton (D) ▌ 3. Brien McMahon (D), until July 28, 1952 ▌ William A. Purtell (R), August 29, 1952 – November 4, 1952 ▌ Prescott Bush (R), from November 5, 1952 ▌ 1. John J. Williams (R) ▌ 2. J. Allen Frear Jr. (D) ▌ 1. Spessard Holland (D) ▌ 3. George Smathers (D) ▌ 3. Walter F. George (D) ▌ 2. Richard Russell Jr. (D) ▌ 2. Henry Dworshak (R) ▌ 3. Herman Welker (R) ▌ 2. Paul Douglas (D) ▌ 3. Everett Dirksen (R) ▌ 1. William E. Jenner (R) ▌ 3. Homer E. Capehart (R) ▌ 2. Guy M. Gillette (D) ▌ 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R) ▌ 2. Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R) ▌ 3. Frank Carlson (R) ▌ 2. Virgil Chapman (D), until March 8, 1951 ▌ Thomas R. Underwood (D), March 19, 1951 – November 4, 1952 ▌ John Sherman Cooper (R), from November 5, 1952 ▌ 3. Earle Clements (D) ▌ 2. Allen J. Ellender (D) ▌ 3. Russell B. Long (D) ▌ 1. Ralph Owen Brewster (R), until December 31, 1952 ▌ 2. Margaret Chase Smith (R) ▌ 1. Herbert O'Conor (D) ▌ 3. John Marshall Butler (R) ▌ 1. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) ▌ 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R) ▌ 1. Arthur Vandenberg (R), until April 18, 1951 ▌ Blair Moody (D), April 23, 1951 – November 4, 1952 ▌ Charles E. Potter (R), from November 5, 1952 ▌ 2. Homer S. Ferguson (R) ▌ 1. Edward John Thye (R) ▌ 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL) ▌ 1. John C. Stennis (D) ▌ 2. James Eastland (D) ▌ 1. James P. Kem (R) ▌ 3. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D) ▌ 1. Zales Ecton (R) ▌ 2. James E. Murray (D) ▌ 1. Hugh A. Butler (R) ▌ 2. Kenneth S. Wherry (R), until November 29, 1951 ▌ Fred A. Seaton (R), December 10, 1951 – November 4, 1952 ▌ Dwight Griswold (R), from November 5, 1952 ▌ 1. George W. Malone (R) ▌ 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D) ▌ 2. Styles Bridges (R) ▌ 3. Charles W. Tobey (R) ▌ 1. Howard Alexander Smith (R) ▌ 2. Robert C. Hendrickson (R) ▌ 1. Dennis Chávez (D) ▌ 2. Clinton P. Anderson (D) ▌ 1. Irving Ives (R) ▌ 3. Herbert H. Lehman (D) ▌ 2. Willis Smith (D) ▌ 3. Clyde R. Hoey (D) ▌ 1. William Langer (R-NPL) ▌ 3. Milton Young (R) ▌ 1. John W. Bricker (R) ▌ 3. Robert A. Taft (R) ▌ 2. Robert S. Kerr (D) ▌ 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (D) ▌ 2. Guy Cordon (R) ▌ 3. Wayne Morse (R) ▌ 1. Edward Martin (R) ▌ 3. James H. Duff (R) ▌ 1. John Pastore (D) ▌ 2. Theodore F. Green (D) ▌ 2. Burnet R. Maybank (D) ▌ 3. Olin D. Johnston (D) ▌ 2. Karl E. Mundt (R) ▌ 3. Francis Case (R) ▌ 1. Kenneth McKellar (D) ▌ 2. Estes Kefauver (D) ▌ 1. Tom T. Connally (D) ▌ 2. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ▌ 1. Arthur Vivian Watkins (R) ▌ 3. Wallace F. Bennett (R) ▌ 1. Ralph Flanders (R) ▌ 3. George Aiken (R) ▌ 1. Harry F. Byrd (D) ▌ 2. A. Willis Robertson (D) ▌ 1. Harry P. Cain (R) ▌ 3. Warren G. Magnuson (D) ▌ 1. Harley M. Kilgore (D) ▌ 2. Matthew M. Neely (D) ▌ 1. Joseph McCarthy (R) ▌ 3. Alexander Wiley (R) ▌ 1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D) ▌ 2. Lester C. Hunt (D) Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 82nd Congress in January 1951 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 . Frank W. Boykin (D) ▌ 2 . George M. Grant (D) ▌ 3 . George W. Andrews (D) ▌ 4 . Kenneth A. Roberts (D) ▌ 5 . Albert Rains (D) ▌ 6 . Edward deGraffenried (D) ▌ 7 . Carl Elliott (D) ▌ 8 . Robert E. Jones Jr. (D) ▌ 9 . Laurie C. Battle (D) ▌ 1 . John R. Murdock (D) ▌ 2 . Harold Patten (D) ▌ 1 . Ezekiel C. Gathings (D) ▌ 2 . Wilbur Mills (D) ▌ 3 . James William Trimble (D) ▌ 4 . Boyd Anderson Tackett (D) ▌ 5 . Brooks Hays (D) ▌ 6 . William F. Norrell (D) ▌ 7 . Oren Harris (D) ▌ 1 . Hubert B. Scudder (R) ▌ 2 . Clair Engle (D) ▌ 3 . J. Leroy Johnson (R) ▌ 4 . Franck R. Havenner (D) ▌ 5 . John F. Shelley (D) ▌ 6 . George P. Miller (D) ▌ 7 . John J. Allen Jr. (R) ▌ 8 . Jack Z. Anderson (R) ▌ 9 . Allan O. Hunter (R) ▌ 10 . Thomas H. Werdel (R) ▌ 11 . Ernest K. Bramblett (R) ▌ 12 . Patrick J. Hillings (R) ▌ 13 . Norris Poulson (R) ▌ 14 . Sam Yorty (D) ▌ 15 . Gordon L. McDonough (R) ▌ 16 . Donald L. Jackson (R) ▌ 17 . Cecil R. King (D) ▌ 18 . Clyde Doyle (D) ▌ 19 . Chester E. Holifield (D) ▌ 20 . John Carl Hinshaw (R) ▌ 21 . Harry R. Sheppard (D) ▌ 22 . John R. Phillips (R) ▌ 23 . Clinton D. McKinnon (D) ▌ 1 . Byron G. Rogers (D) ▌ 2 . William S. Hill (R) ▌ 3 . John Chenoweth (R) ▌ 4 . Wayne N. Aspinall (D) ▌ 1 . Abraham Ribicoff (D) ▌ 2 . Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R) ▌ 3 . John A. McGuire (D) ▌ 4 . Albert P. Morano (R) ▌ 5 . James T. Patterson (R) ▌ At-large . Antoni Sadlak (R) ▌ At large . J. Caleb Boggs (R) ▌ 1 . Chester B. McMullen (D) ▌ 2 . Charles E. Bennett (D) ▌ 3 . Robert L. F. Sikes (D) ▌ 4 . Bill Lantaff (D) ▌ 5 . Syd Herlong (D) ▌ 6 . Dwight L. Rogers (D) ▌ 1 . Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (D) ▌ 2 . Edward E. Cox (D), until December 24, 1952 ▌ 3 . Tic Forrester (D) ▌ 4 . Albert Sidney Camp (D) ▌ 5 . James C. Davis (D) ▌ 6 . Carl Vinson (D) ▌ 7 . Henderson Lovelace Lanham (D) ▌ 8 . William McDonald Wheeler (D) ▌ 9 . John S. Wood (D) ▌ 10 . Paul Brown (D) ▌ 1 . John Travers Wood (R) ▌ 2 . Hamer H. Budge (R) ▌ 1 . William L. Dawson (D) ▌ 2 . Richard B. Vail (R) ▌ 3 . Fred E. Busbey (R) ▌ 4 . William E. McVey (R) ▌ 5 . John C. Kluczynski (D) ▌ 6 . Thomas J. O'Brien (D) ▌ 7 . Adolph J. Sabath (D), until November 6, 1952 ▌ 8 . Thomas S. Gordon (D) ▌ 9 . Sidney R. Yates (D) ▌ 10 . Richard W. Hoffman (R) ▌ 11 . Timothy P. Sheehan (R) ▌ 12 . Edgar A. Jonas (R) ▌ 13 . Marguerite S. Church (R) ▌ 14 . Chauncey W. Reed (R) ▌ 15 . Noah M. Mason (R) ▌ 16 . Leo E. Allen (R) ▌ 17 . Leslie C. Arends (R) ▌ 18 . Harold H. Velde (R) ▌ 19 . Robert B. Chiperfield (R) ▌ 20 . Sid Simpson (R) ▌ 21 . Peter F. Mack Jr. (D) ▌ 22 . William L. Springer (R) ▌ 23 . Edward H. Jenison (R) ▌ 24 . Charles W. Vursell (R) ▌ 25 . Melvin Price (D) ▌ 26 . C. W. Bishop (R) ▌ 1 . Ray Madden (D) ▌ 2 . Charles A. Halleck (R) ▌ 3 . Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. (R) ▌ 4 . E. Ross Adair (R) ▌ 5 . John V. Beamer (R) ▌ 6 . Cecil M. Harden (R) ▌ 7 . William G. Bray (R) ▌ 8 . Winfield K. Denton (D) ▌ 9 . Earl Wilson (R) ▌ 10 . Ralph Harvey (R) ▌ 11 . Charles B. Brownson (R) ▌ 1 . Thomas E. Martin (R) ▌ 2 . Henry O. Talle (R) ▌ 3 . H. R. Gross (R) ▌ 4 . Karl M. LeCompte (R) ▌ 5 . Paul H. Cunningham (R) ▌ 6 . James I. Dolliver (R) ▌ 7 . Ben F. Jensen (R) ▌ 8 . Charles B. Hoeven (R) ▌ 1 . Albert M. Cole (R) ▌ 2 . Errett P. Scrivner (R) ▌ 3 . Myron V. George (R) ▌ 4 . Edward Herbert Rees (R) ▌ 5 . Clifford R. Hope (R) ▌ 6 . Wint Smith (R) ▌ 1 . Noble J. Gregory (D) ▌ 2 . John A. Whitaker (D), until December 15, 1951 ▌ Garrett Withers (D), from August 2, 1952 ▌ 3 . Thruston Ballard Morton (R) ▌ 4 . Frank Chelf (D) ▌ 5 . Brent Spence (D) ▌ 6 . Thomas R. Underwood (D), until March 17, 1951 ▌ John C. Watts (D), from April 14, 1951 ▌ 7 . Carl D. Perkins (D) ▌ 8 . Joe B. Bates (D) ▌ 9 . James S. Golden (R) ▌ 1 . F. Edward Hébert (D) ▌ 2 . Hale Boggs (D) ▌ 3 . Edwin E. Willis (D) ▌ 4 . Overton Brooks (D) ▌ 5 . Otto Passman (D) ▌ 6 . James H. Morrison (D) ▌ 7 . Henry D. Larcade Jr. (D) ▌ 8 . A. Leonard Allen (D) ▌ 1 . Robert Hale (R) ▌ 2 . Charles P. Nelson (R) ▌ 3 . Frank Fellows (R), until August 27, 1951 ▌ Clifford McIntire (R), from October 22, 1951 ▌ 1 . Edward Tylor Miller (R) ▌ 2 . James Devereux (R) ▌ 3 . Edward Garmatz (D) ▌ 4 . George Hyde Fallon (D) ▌ 5 . Lansdale G. Sasscer (D) ▌ 6 . James Glenn Beall (R) ▌ 1 . John W. Heselton (R) ▌ 2 . Foster Furcolo (D), until September 30, 1952 ▌ 3 . Philip J. Philbin (D) ▌ 4 . Harold Donohue (D) ▌ 5 . Edith Nourse Rogers (R) ▌ 6 . William H. Bates (R) ▌ 7 . Thomas J. Lane (D) ▌ 8 . Angier Goodwin (R) ▌ 9 . Donald W. Nicholson (R) ▌ 10 . Christian Herter (R) ▌ 11 . John F. Kennedy (D) ▌ 12 . John W. McCormack (D) ▌ 13 . Richard B. Wigglesworth (R) ▌ 14 . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R) ▌ 1 . Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D) ▌ 2 . George Meader (R) ▌ 3 . Paul W. Shafer (R) ▌ 4 . Clare E. Hoffman (R) ▌ 5 . Gerald Ford (R) ▌ 6 . William W. Blackney (R) ▌ 7 . Jesse P. Wolcott (R) ▌ 8 . Fred L. Crawford (R) ▌ 9 . Ruth Thompson (R) ▌ 10 . Roy O. Woodruff (R) ▌ 11 . Charles E. Potter (R), until November 4, 1952 ▌ 12 . John B. Bennett (R) ▌ 13 . George D. O'Brien (D) ▌ 14 . Louis C. Rabaut (D) ▌ 15 . John D. Dingell Sr. (D) ▌ 16 . John Lesinski Jr. (D) ▌ 17 . George Anthony Dondero (R) ▌ 1 . August H. Andresen (R) ▌ 2 . Joseph P. O'Hara (R) ▌ 3 . Roy Wier (DFL) ▌ 4 . Eugene McCarthy (DFL) ▌ 5 . Walter Judd (R) ▌ 6 . Fred Marshall (DFL) ▌ 7 .Herman Carl Andersen (R) ▌ 8 . John Blatnik (DFL) ▌ 9 . Harold Hagen (R) ▌ 1 . John E. Rankin (D) ▌ 2 . Jamie Whitten (D) ▌ 3 . Frank Ellis Smith (D) ▌ 4 . Thomas Abernethy (D) ▌ 5 . W. Arthur Winstead (D) ▌ 6 . William M. Colmer (D) ▌ 7 . John Bell Williams (D) ▌ 1 . Clare Magee (D) ▌ 2 . Morgan M. Moulder (D) ▌ 3 . Phil J. Welch (D) ▌ 4 . Leonard Irving (D) ▌ 5 . Richard Walker Bolling (D) ▌ 6 . Orland K. Armstrong (R) ▌ 7 . Dewey Short (R) ▌ 8 . A. S. J. Carnahan (D) ▌ 9 . Clarence Cannon (D) ▌ 10 . Paul C. Jones (D) ▌ 11 . John B. Sullivan (D), until January 29, 1951 ▌ Claude I. Bakewell (R), from March 9, 1951 ▌ 12 . Thomas B. Curtis (R) ▌ 13 . Frank M. Karsten (D) ▌ 1 . Mike Mansfield (D) ▌ 2 . Wesley A. D'Ewart (R) ▌ 1 . Carl Curtis (R) ▌ 2 . Howard Buffett (R) ▌ 3 . Karl Stefan (R), until October 2, 1951 ▌ Robert Dinsmore Harrison (R), from December 4, 1951 ▌ 4 . Arthur L. Miller (R) ▌ At-large . Walter S. Baring Jr. (D) ▌ 1 . Chester Earl Merrow (R) ▌ 2 . Norris Cotton (R) ▌ 1 . Charles A. Wolverton (R) ▌ 2 . T. Millet Hand (R) ▌ 3 . James C. Auchincloss (R) ▌ 4 . Charles R. Howell (D) ▌ 5 . Charles A. Eaton (R) ▌ 6 . Clifford P. Case (R) ▌ 7 . William B. Widnall (R) ▌ 8 . Gordon Canfield (R) ▌ 9 . Harry L. Towe (R), until September 7, 1951 ▌ Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R), from November 6, 1951 ▌ 10 . Peter W. Rodino (D) ▌ 11 . Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D) ▌ 12 . Robert Kean (R) ▌ 13 . Alfred Dennis Sieminski (D) ▌ 14 . Edward J. Hart (D) ▌ At-large . John J. Dempsey (D) ▌ At-large . Antonio M. Fernández (D) ▌ 1 . Ernest Greenwood (D) ▌ 2 . Leonard W. Hall (R), until December 31, 1952 ▌ 3 . Henry J. Latham (R) ▌ 4 . L. Gary Clemente (D) ▌ 5 . T. Vincent Quinn (D), until December 30, 1951 ▌ Robert Tripp Ross (R), from February 19, 1952 ▌ 6 . James J. Delaney (D) ▌ 7 . Louis B. Heller (D) ▌ 8 . Victor Anfuso (D) ▌ 9 . Eugene J. Keogh (D) ▌ 10 . Edna F. Kelly (D) ▌ 11 . James J. Heffernan (D) ▌ 12 . John J. Rooney (D) ▌ 13 . Donald L. O'Toole (D) ▌ 14 . Abraham J. Multer (D) ▌ 15 . Emanuel Celler (D) ▌ 16 . James J. Murphy (D) ▌ 17 . Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R) ▌ 18 . James G. Donovan (D) ▌ 19 . Arthur George Klein (D) ▌ 20 . Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (D) ▌ 21 . Jacob Javits (R) ▌ 22 . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D) ▌ 23 . Sidney A. Fine (D) ▌ 24 . Isidore Dollinger (D) ▌ 25 . Charles A. Buckley (D) ▌ 26 . Christopher C. McGrath (D) ▌ 27 . Ralph W. Gwinn (R) ▌ 28 . Ralph A. Gamble (R) ▌ 29 . Katharine St. George (R) ▌ 30 . J. Ernest Wharton (R) ▌ 31 . Bernard W. Kearney (R) ▌ 32 . William T. Byrne (D), until January 27, 1952 ▌ Leo W. O'Brien (D), from April 1, 1952 ▌ 33 . Dean P. Taylor (R) ▌ 34 . Clarence E. Kilburn (R) ▌ 35 . William R. Williams (R) ▌ 36 . R. Walter Riehlman (R) ▌ 37 . Edwin Arthur Hall (R) ▌ 38 . John Taber (R) ▌ 39 . W. Sterling Cole (R) ▌ 40 . Kenneth Keating (R) ▌ 41 . Harold C. Ostertag (R) ▌ 42 . William E. Miller (R) ▌ 43 . Edmund P. Radwan (R) ▌ 44 . John Cornelius Butler (R) ▌ 45 . Daniel A. Reed (R) ▌ 1 . Herbert Covington Bonner (D) ▌ 2 . John H. Kerr (D) ▌ 3 . Graham A. Barden (D) ▌ 4 . Harold D. Cooley (D) ▌ 5 . Richard Thurmond Chatham (D) ▌ 6 . Carl T. Durham (D) ▌ 7 . Frank Ertel Carlyle (D) ▌ 8 . Charles B. Deane (D) ▌ 9 . Robert L. Doughton (D) ▌ 10 . Hamilton C. Jones (D) ▌ 11 . Woodrow W. Jones (D) ▌ 12 . Monroe Minor Redden (D) ▌ At-large . Fred G. Aandahl (R) ▌ At-large . Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL) ▌ 1 . Charles H. Elston (R) ▌ 2 . William E. Hess (R) ▌ 3 . Edward G. Breen (D), until October 1, 1951 ▌ Paul F. Schenck (R), from November 6, 1951 ▌ 4 . William Moore McCulloch (R) ▌ 5 . Cliff Clevenger (R) ▌ 6 . James G. Polk (D) ▌ 7 . Clarence J. Brown (R) ▌ 8 . Jackson Edward Betts (R) ▌ 9 . Frazier Reams (I) ▌ 10 . Thomas A. Jenkins (R) ▌ 11 . Walter E. Brehm (R) ▌ 12 . John M. Vorys (R) ▌ 13 . Alvin F. Weichel (R) ▌ 14 . William Hanes Ayres (R) ▌ 15 . Robert T. Secrest (D) ▌ 16 . Frank T. Bow (R) ▌ 17 . J. Harry McGregor (R) ▌ 18 . Wayne Hays (D) ▌ 19 . Michael J. Kirwan (D) ▌ 20 . Michael A. Feighan (D) ▌ 21 . Robert Crosser (D) ▌ 22 . Frances P. Bolton (R) ▌ At-large . George H. Bender (R) ▌ 1 . George B. Schwabe (R), until April 2, 1952 ▌ 2 . William G. Stigler (D), until August 21, 1952 ▌ 3 . Carl Albert (D) ▌ 4 . Tom Steed (D) ▌ 5 . John Jarman (D) ▌ 6 . Toby Morris (D) ▌ 7 . Victor Wickersham (D) ▌ 8 . Page Belcher (R) ▌ 1 . A. Walter Norblad (R) ▌ 2 . Lowell Stockman (R) ▌ 3 . Homer D. Angell (R) ▌ 4 . Harris Ellsworth (R) ▌ 1 . William A. Barrett (D) ▌ 2 . William T. Granahan (D) ▌ 3 . Hardie Scott (R) ▌ 4 . Earl Chudoff (D) ▌ 5 . William J. Green Jr. (D) ▌ 6 . Hugh Scott (R) ▌ 7 . Benjamin F. James (R) ▌ 8 . Albert C. Vaughn (R), until September 1, 1951 ▌ Karl C. King (R), from November 6, 1951 ▌ 9 . Paul B. Dague (R) ▌ 10 . Harry P. O'Neill (D) ▌ 11 . Dan Flood (D) ▌ 12 . Ivor D. Fenton (R) ▌ 13 . George M. Rhodes (D) ▌ 14 . Wilson D. Gillette (R), until August 7, 1951 ▌ Joseph L. Carrigg (R), from November 6, 1951 ▌ 15 . Alvin Bush (R) ▌ 16 . Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R) ▌ 17 . Richard M. Simpson (R) ▌ 18 . Walter M. Mumma (R) ▌ 19 . Leon H. Gavin (R) ▌ 20 . Francis E. Walter (D) ▌ 21 . James F. Lind (D) ▌ 22 . James E. Van Zandt (R) ▌ 23 . Edward L. Sittler Jr. (R) ▌ 24 . Thomas E. Morgan (D) ▌ 25 . Louis E. Graham (R) ▌ 26 . John P. Saylor (R) ▌ 27 . Augustine B. Kelley (D) ▌ 28 . Carroll D. Kearns (R) ▌ 29 . Harmar D. Denny Jr. (R) ▌ 30 . Robert J. Corbett (R) ▌ 31 . James G. Fulton (R) ▌ 32 . Herman P. Eberharter (D) ▌ 33 . Frank Buchanan (D), until April 27, 1951 ▌ Vera Buchanan (D), from July 24, 1951 ▌ 1 . Aime Forand (D) ▌ 2 . John E. Fogarty (D) ▌ 1 . L. Mendel Rivers (D) ▌ 2 . John J. Riley (D) ▌ 3 . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D) ▌ 4 . Joseph R. Bryson (D) ▌ 5 . James P. Richards (D) ▌ 6 . John L. McMillan (D) ▌ 1 . Harold Lovre (R) ▌ 2 . Ellis Yarnal Berry (R) ▌ 1 . B. Carroll Reece (R) ▌ 2 . Howard Baker Sr. (R) ▌ 3 . James B. Frazier Jr. (D) ▌ 4 . Albert Gore Sr. (D) ▌ 5 . Joe L. Evins (D) ▌ 6 . Percy Priest (D) ▌ 7 . James Patrick Sutton (D) ▌ 8 . Tom J. Murray (D) ▌ 9 . Jere Cooper (D) ▌ 10 . Clifford Davis (D) ▌ 1 . Wright Patman (D) ▌ 2 . Jesse M. Combs (D) ▌ 3 . Lindley Beckworth (D) ▌ 4 . Sam Rayburn (D) ▌ 5 . Joseph Franklin Wilson (D) ▌ 6 . Olin E. Teague (D) ▌ 7 . Tom Pickett (D), until June 30, 1952 ▌ John Dowdy (D), from September 23, 1952 ▌ 8 . Albert Thomas (D) ▌ 9 . Clark W. Thompson (D) ▌ 10 . Homer Thornberry (D) ▌ 11 . William R. Poage (D) ▌ 12 . Wingate H. Lucas (D) ▌ 13 . Ed Gossett (D), until July 31, 1951 ▌ Frank N. Ikard (D), from September 8, 1951 ▌ 14 . John E. Lyle Jr. (D) ▌ 15 . Lloyd Bentsen (D) ▌ 16 . Kenneth M. Regan (D) ▌ 17 . Omar Burleson (D) ▌ 18 . Walter E. Rogers (D) ▌ 19 . George H. Mahon (D) ▌ 20 . Paul J. Kilday (D) ▌ 21 . O. C. Fisher (D) ▌ 1 . Walter K. Granger (D) ▌ 2 . Reva Beck Bosone (D) ▌ At-large . Winston L. Prouty (R) ▌ 1 . Edward J. Robeson Jr. (D) ▌ 2 . Porter Hardy Jr. (D) ▌ 3 . J. Vaughan Gary (D) ▌ 4 . Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D) ▌ 5 . Thomas B. Stanley (D) ▌ 6 . Clarence G. Burton (D) ▌ 7 . Burr Harrison (D) ▌ 8 . Howard W. Smith (D) ▌ 9 . Thomas B. Fugate (D) ▌ 1 . Hugh Mitchell (D) ▌ 2 . Henry M. Jackson (D) ▌ 3 . Russell V. Mack (R) ▌ 4 . Hal Holmes (R) ▌ 5 . Walt Horan (R) ▌ 6 . Thor C. Tollefson (R) ▌ 1 . Robert L. Ramsay (D) ▌ 2 . Harley Orrin Staggers (D) ▌ 3 . Cleveland M. Bailey (D) ▌ 4 . Maurice G. Burnside (D) ▌ 5 . John Kee (D), until May 8, 1951 ▌ Elizabeth Kee (D), from July 17, 1951 ▌ 6 . E. H. Hedrick (D) ▌ 1 . Lawrence H. Smith (R) ▌ 2 . Glenn Robert Davis (R) ▌ 3 . Gardner R. Withrow (R) ▌ 4 . Clement J. Zablocki (D) ▌ 5 . Charles J. Kersten (R) ▌ 6 . William Van Pelt (R) ▌ 7 . Reid F. Murray (R), until April 29, 1952 ▌ 8 . John W. Byrnes (R) ▌ 9 . Merlin Hull (R) ▌ 10 . Alvin O'Konski (R) ▌ At-large . William Henry Harrison III (R) Non-voting members [ edit ] ▌ Alaska Territory . Bob Bartlett (D) ▌ Hawaii Territory . Joseph Rider Farrington (R) ▌ Puerto Rico . Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD) House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+ to 100% Democratic
80+ to 100% 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 this Congress.
Senate changes State (class) Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[a] Kentucky (2) Virgil Chapman (D) Died March 8, 1951. Successor appointed March 19, 1951, to continue the term. Thomas R. Underwood (D) March 19, 1951 Michigan (1) Arthur Vandenberg (R) Died April 18, 1951. Successor appointed April 23, 1951, to continue the term. Blair Moody (D) April 23, 1951 Nebraska (2) Kenneth S. Wherry (R) Died November 29, 1951. Successor appointed December 10, 1951, to continue the term. Fred A. Seaton (R) December 10, 1951 Connecticut (3) Brien McMahon (D) Died July 28, 1952. Successor appointed August 29, 1952, to continue the term. William A. Purtell (R) August 29, 1952 Connecticut (3) William A. Purtell (R) Retired upon special election. Successor elected November 4, 1952. Prescott Bush (R) November 5, 1952 Kentucky (2) Thomas R. Underwood (D) Lost election to finish the term. Successor elected November 4, 1952. John Sherman Cooper (R) November 5, 1952 Michigan (1) Blair Moody (D) Lost election to finish the term. Successor elected November 4, 1952. Charles E. Potter (R) November 5, 1952 Nebraska (2) Fred A. Seaton (R) Lost election to finish the term. Successor elected November 4, 1952. Dwight Griswold (R) November 5, 1952 Maine (1) Owen Brewster (R) Resigned December 31, 1952. Seat was not filled during this Congress. Vacant California (3) Richard Nixon (R) Resigned January 1, 1953, after being elected U.S. Vice President . Successor appointed to continue the term. Thomas Kuchel (R) January 2, 1953
House of Representatives [ edit ] House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor's formal installation[a] Missouri 11 John B. Sullivan (D) Died January 29, 1951. Successor elected March 9, 1951 . Claude I. Bakewell (R) March 9, 1951 Kentucky 6 Thomas R. Underwood (D) Resigned March 17, 1951, after being appointed U.S. Senator . Successor elected April 4, 1951 . John C. Watts (D) April 4, 1951 Pennsylvania 33 Frank Buchanan (D) Died April 27, 1951. Successor elected July 24, 1951 . Vera Buchanan (D) July 24, 1951 West Virginia 5 John Kee (D) Died May 8, 1951. Successor elected July 17, 1951 . Elizabeth Kee (D) July 17, 1951 Texas 13 Ed Gossett (D) Resigned July 31, 1951. Successor elected September 8, 1951 . Frank N. Ikard (D) September 8, 1951 Pennsylvania 14 Wilson D. Gillette (R) Died August 7, 1951. Successor elected November 6, 1951 . Joseph L. Carrigg (R) November 6, 1951 Maine 3 Frank Fellows (R) Died August 27, 1951. Successor elected October 22, 1951 . Clifford McIntire (R) October 22, 1951 Pennsylvania 8 Albert C. Vaughn (R) Died September 1, 1951. Successor elected November 6, 1951 . Karl C. King (R) November 6, 1951 New Jersey 9 Harry L. Towe (R) Resigned September 7, 1951, to become Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey . Successor elected November 6, 1951 . Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R) November 6, 1951 Ohio 3 Edward G. Breen (D) Resigned October 1, 1951, due to ill health. Successor elected November 6, 1951 . Paul F. Schenck (R) November 6, 1951 Nebraska 3 Karl Stefan (R) Died October 2, 1951. Successor elected December 4, 1951 . Robert D. Harrison (R) December 4, 1951 Kentucky 2 John A. Whitaker (D) Died December 15, 1951. Successor elected August 2, 1952 . Garrett Withers (D) August 2, 1952 New York 5 T. Vincent Quinn (D) Resigned December 30, 1951, to become District Attorney of Queens County, New York . Successor elected February 19, 1952 . Robert T. Ross (R) February 19, 1952 New York 32 William T. Byrne (D) Died January 27, 1952. Successor elected April 1, 1952 . Leo W. O'Brien (D) April 1, 1952 Oklahoma 1 George B. Schwabe (R) Died April 2, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress. Vacant Wisconsin 7 Reid F. Murray (R) Died April 29, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress. Texas 7 Tom Pickett (D) Resigned June 30, 1952, to become Vice-President of the National Coal Association . Successor elected September 23, 1952 . John Dowdy (D) September 23, 1952 Oklahoma 2 William G. Stigler (D) Died August 21, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress. Vacant Massachusetts 2 Foster Furcolo (D) Resigned September 30, 1952, to become Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts . Seat not filled during this Congress. Michigan 11 Charles E. Potter (R) Resigned November 4, 1952, after being elected U.S. Senator . Seat not filled during this Congress. Illinois 7 Adolph J. Sabath (D) Died November 6, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress. Georgia 2 Edward E. Cox (D) Died December 24, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress. New York 2 Leonard W. Hall (R) Resigned December 31, 1952. Seat not filled during this Congress.
Committees [ edit ] 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.
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Joint committees [ edit ] Employees [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] See also [ edit ] ^ a b When seated or oath administered, not necessarily when service began. References [ edit ] ^ "Voteview | Plot Vote: 82nd Congress > House > 16" . ^ "Mutual Security Act of 1951: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 1762, a Bill to Promote the Foreign Policy and Provide for the Defense and General Welfare of the United States by Furnishing Assistance to Friendly Nations in the Interest of International Security" . 1951. ^ "Voteview | Plot Vote: 82nd Congress > Senate > 150" . ^ Crisis in Britain 1951 by Joan Mitchell Secker & Warburg, 1963 pg. 45 ^ Huckabee, David C. (September 30, 1997). "Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution" (PDF) . Congressional Research Service reports . Washington D.C.: Congressional Research Service , The Library of Congress . ^ " 'Fishbait' Miller, 80, Former Doorkeeper Of the U.S. House" . The New York Times . September 15, 1989. External links [ edit ]