75th United States Congress
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The Seventy-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, 1937 to January 3, 1939, during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
. (Because of the 20th amendment
, starting in 1937 the new Presidential term began 17 days after that of the new Congress). The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives
was based on the Fifteenth United States Census, conducted in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic
supermajority
.
TOTAL members: 96
TOTAL members: 435
, which indicate the cycle of their election.
As of the beginning of the 112th Congress
in 2011, this was the last Congress in which Kansas
was represented by a Democratic senator.
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(D). J. Lister Hill
(D), resigned January 11, 1938
(D). John E. Miller
(D), until November 14, 1937, vacant thereafter. Claude A. Fuller
(D). William B. Cravens
(D). David D. Terry
(D). John L. McClellan (D). Wade H. Kitchens
(D)
(D). Harry L. Englebright (R). Frank H. Buck
(D). Franck R. Havenner
(Prog.
). Richard J. Welch
(R). Albert E. Carter
(R). John H. Tolan
(D). John J. McGrath
(D). Bertrand W. Gearhart
(R). Henry E. Stubbs
(D), until February 28, 1937
(D). John A. Martin
(D). Edward T. Taylor
(D)
(D). William J. Fitzgerald
(D). James A. Shanley
(D). Alfred N. Phillips
(D). J. Joseph Smith
(D). William M. Citron
(D)
(D). Robert A. Green
(D). Millard F. Caldwell
(D). J. Mark Wilcox
(D). Joe Hendricks
(D)
(D). Edward E. Cox
(D). Stephen Pace
(D). Emmett M. Owen (D). Robert Ramspeck
(D). Carl Vinson
(D). Malcolm C. Tarver
(D). Braswell Deen
(D). B. Frank Whelchel
(D). Paul Brown
(D)
(D). D. Worth Clark (D)
(D). Raymond S. McKeough
(D). Edward A. Kelly
(D). Harry P. Beam
(D). Adolph J. Sabath
(D). Thomas J. O’Brien (D). Leonard W. Schuetz
(D). Leo Kocialkowski
(D). James McAndrews
(D). Ralph E. Church
(R). Chauncey W. Reed
(R). Noah M. Mason
(R). Leo E. Allen
(R). Chester C. Thompson
(D). Lewis L. Boyer
(D). Everett M. Dirksen (R). Leslie C. Arends (R). James A. Meeks
(D). Hugh M. Rigney
(D). Scott W. Lucas
(D). Frank W. Fries
(D). Edwin M. Schaefer
(D). Laurence F. Arnold
(D). Claude V. Parsons
(D). Kent E. Keller
(D). Edwin V. Champion
(D). Lewis M. Long
(D)
(D). Charles A. Halleck
(R). Samuel B. Pettengill
(D). James I. Farley (D). Glenn Griswold
(D). Virginia E. Jenckes
(D). Arthur H. Greenwood
(D). John W. Boehne, Jr.
(D). Eugene B. Crowe
(D). Finly H. Gray
(D). William H. Larrabee (D). Louis Ludlow
(D)
(D), until December 2, 1938, vacant thereafter. William S. Jacobsen
(D). John W. Gwynne
(R). Fred Biermann
(D). Lloyd Thurston
(R). Cassius C. Dowell
(R). Otha D. Wearin (D). Fred C. Gilchrist
(R). Vincent F. Harrington
(D)
(R). U. S. Guyer
(R). Edward White Patterson
(D). Edward Herbert Rees
(R). John Mills Houston
(D). Frank Carlson
(R). Clifford R. Hope
(R)
(D). Emmet O'Neal
(D). Edward W. Creal
(D). Brent Spence
(D). Virgil Chapman
(D). Andrew J. May
(D). Fred M. Vinson
(D)
(D). Paul H. Maloney
(D). Robert L. Mouton
(D). Overton Brooks
(D). Newt V. Mills
(D). John K. Griffith
(D). René L. DeRouen (D). A. Leonard Allen
(D)
(R). Clyde H. Smith (R). Ralph Owen Brewster (R)
(R). Charles Clason (R). Joseph E. Casey
(D). Pehr G. Holmes
(R). Edith Nourse Rogers
(R). George J. Bates
(R). William P. Connery, Jr.
(D), died June 15, 1937
(D). Earl C. Michener
(R). Paul W. Shafer
(R). Clare E. Hoffman (R). Carl E. Mapes
(R). Andrew J. Transue
(D). Jesse P. Wolcott
(R). Fred L. Crawford
(R). Albert J. Engel
(R). Roy O. Woodruff
(R). John F. Luecke
(D). Frank Hook (D). George D. O'Brien
(D). Louis C. Rabaut
(D). John D. Dingell, Sr.
(D). John Lesinski, Sr.
(D). George A. Dondero (R)
(D). Henry Teigan
(FL). Melvin Maas
(R). Dewey Johnson
(FL). Harold Knutson
(R). Paul John Kvale
(FL). John Bernard
(FL). Rich T. Buckler
(FL)
(D). Wall Doxey
(D). William M. Whittington (D). Aaron L. Ford
(D). Ross A. Collins
(D). William M. Colmer
(D). Dan R. McGehee
(D)
(D). William L. Nelson
(D). Richard M. Duncan
(D). C. Jasper Bell
(D). Joseph B. Shannon (D). Reuben T. Wood
(D). Dewey Short (R). Clyde Williams (D). Clarence Cannon
(D). Orville Zimmerman
(D). Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
(D). Charles Arthur Anderson
(D). John J. Cochran
(D)
(D). James F. O'Connor
(D)
(D). Charles F. McLaughlin
(D). Karl Stefan
(R). Charles Gustav Binderup
(D). Harry B. Coffee
(D)
(R)
(R). Elmer H. Wene
(D). William H. Sutphin
(D). D. Lane Powers
(R). Charles A. Eaton (R). Donald H. McLean
(R). J. Parnell Thomas
(R). George N. Seger
(R). Edward A. Kenney (D), died January 27, 1938, vacant to end. Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
(R). Edward L. O'Neill
(D). Frank W. Towey, Jr.
(D). Mary T. Norton (D). Edward J. Hart
(D)
(D)
(R), died September 12, 1938, vacant to end. William B. Barry (D). Joseph L. Pfeifer
(D). Thomas H. Cullen
(D). Marcellus H. Evans
(D). Andrew L. Somers (D). John J. Delaney
(D). Donald L. O'Toole
(D). Eugene J. Keogh (D). Emanuel Celler
(D). James A. O'Leary
(D). Samuel Dickstein
(D). Christopher D. Sullivan
(D). William I. Sirovich
(D). John J. Boylan
(D), died October 5, 1938, vacant to end. John J. O'Connor
(D). Theodore A. Peyser
(D), died August 8, 1937
(D). Graham A. Barden (D). Harold D. Cooley
(D). Frank Hancock, Jr. (D). William B. Umstead
(D). J. Bayard Clark
(D). J. Walter Lambeth
(D). Robert L. Doughton
(D). Alfred L. Bulwinkle
(D). Zebulon Weaver
(D)
(Nonpartisan Republican). Usher L. Burdick
(Nonpartisan Republican)
(D). Herbert S. Bigelow
(D). Byron B. Harlan
(D). Frank Le Blond Kloeb
(D), resigned August 19, 1937
(D). John Conover Nichols
(D). Wilburn Cartwright
(D). Lyle Boren
(D). Robert Potter Hill (D), died October 29, 1937
(R). Walter M. Pierce
(D). Nan Wood Honeyman
(D)
(D). James P. McGranery
(D). Michael J. Bradley
(D). J. Burrwood Daly
(D). Frank J.G. Dorsey (D). Michael J. Stack
(D). Ira W. Drew
(D). James Wolfenden
(R). Oliver Walter Frey (D). J. Roland Kinzer
(R). Patrick J. Boland
(D). J. Harold Flannery
(D). James H. Gildea
(D). Guy L. Moser
(D). Albert G. Rutherford
(R). Robert F. Rich
(R). J. William Ditter
(R). Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R), died March 27, 1937
(D). John M. O'Connell (D)
(D). Hampton P. Fulmer
(D). John C. Taylor
(D). Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr.
(D). James P. Richards
(D). Allard H. Gasque
(D), died June 17, 1938
(D). Francis Case (R)
(R). J. Will Taylor
(R). Sam D. McReynolds
(D). John Ridley Mitchell
(D). Richard Merrill Atkinson
(D). Clarence W. Turner
(D). Herron C. Pearson
(D). Jere Cooper
(D). Walter Chandler
(D)
(D). Martin Dies, Jr.
(D). Morgan G. Sanders
(D). Sam Rayburn
(D). Hatton W. Sumners
(D). Luther A. Johnson (D). Nat Patton
(D). Albert Thomas
(D). Joseph J. Mansfield
(D). James P. Buchanan
(D)
(D)
(D). Andrew J. Montague (D), died January 4, 1937
(D). Monrad C. Wallgren (D). Martin F. Smith
(D). Knute Hill
(D). Charles H. Leavy
(D). John M. Coffee
(D)
(D). Jennings Randolph
(D). Andrew Edmiston, Jr.
(D). George William Johnson
(D). John Kee
(D). Joe L. Smith
(D)
(Prog.
). Harry Sauthoff
(Prog.
). Gardner R. Withrow
(Prog.
). Randolph Joseph Cannon (D). Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D). Michael K. Reilly (D). Gerald J. Boileau
(Prog.
). George J. Schneider
(Prog.
). Merlin Hull
(Prog.
). Bernard J. Gehrmann
(Prog.
)
(D)
(D). Samuel Wilder King
(R). Quintin Paredes
(Nac.
), until September 29, 1938
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
and the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1939, during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
. (Because of the 20th amendment
Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices. It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect...
, starting in 1937 the new Presidential term began 17 days after that of the new Congress). The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
was based on the Fifteenth United States Census, conducted in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
supermajority
Supermajority
A supermajority or a qualified majority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level or type of support which exceeds a simple majority . In some jurisdictions, for example, parliamentary procedure requires that any action that may alter the rights of the minority has a supermajority...
.
Major events
- January 20, 1937: Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and John Nance GarnerJohn Nance GarnerJohn Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...
as Vice President - February 5, 1937: President Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan proposed
- March 26, 1937: William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to a federal judgeship.
- April 12, 1937: National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel CorporationNational Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel CorporationNational Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1 , was a United States Supreme Court case that declared that the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 was constitutional...
: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled the National Labor Relations ActNational Labor Relations ActThe National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act , is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions , engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in...
constitutional. - July 22, 1937: Senate rejects the court-packing plan
- October 5, 1937: Roosevelt's delivers the Quarantine SpeechQuarantine SpeechThe Quarantine Speech was given by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on October 5, 1937, in Chicago, calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and non-intervention that was prevalent at the time...
Major legislation
- May 1, 1937: Neutrality Acts of 1937
- June 3, 1937: Agricultural Marketing Agreement ActAgricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937The Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, signed June 3, 1937 , provided authority for federal marketing orders, and also reaffirmed the marketing agreements provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933...
, ch. 296, - August 5, 1937: National Cancer Institute Act, , ch. 565,
- August 17, 1937: Miller-Tydings Act, ch. 690, title VIII,
- March 21, 1938: Wheeler-Lea ActWheeler-Lea ActThe Wheeler–Lea Act of 1938 is a United States federal law that amended Section 5 the Federal Trade Commission Act to proscribe “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” as well as “unfair methods of competition.” . It provided civil penalties for violations of Section 5 orders...
, ch. 49, - June 8, 1938: Foreign Agents Registration ActForeign Agents Registration ActThe Foreign Agents Registration Act is a United States law passed in 1938 requiring that agents representing the interests of foreign powers be properly identified to the American public. The act was passed in response to German propaganda in the lead-up to World War II...
, ch. 327, - June 21, 1938: Natural Gas Act, ch. 556,
- June 25, 1938: Civil Aeronautics Act, ch. 601,
- June 25, 1938: Fair Labor Standards ActFair Labor Standards ActThe Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA established a national minimum wage, guaranteed 'time-and-a-half' for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor," a term that is defined in the statute...
, ch. 676, - June 25, 1938: Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ActFederal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ActThe United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act , is a set of laws passed by Congress in 1938 giving authority to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to oversee the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics. A principal author of this law was Royal S. Copeland, a three-term U.S. Senator from...
, ch. 675, - June 25, 1938: Javits-Wagner-O'Day ActJavits-Wagner-O'Day ActThe Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act et seq. is a U.S. federal law requiring that all federal agencies purchase specified supplies and services from nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other significant disabilities. The Act was passed by the 92nd United States Congress in 1971; it...
, ch. 697,
Senate
- DemocraticDemocratic Party (United States)The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
(D): 76 (majority) - RepublicanRepublican Party (United States)The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
(R): 16 - Farmer-LaborFarmer-Labor PartyThe first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into World War I put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail prices during the war years, and farmers and workers sought...
(FL): 2 - Wisconsin ProgressiveWisconsin Progressive PartyThe Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
(P): 1 - Independent (I): 1
TOTAL members: 96
House of Representatives
- Democratic (D)Democratic Party (United States)The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
: 334 (majority) - Republican (R)Republican Party (United States)The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
: 88 - Wisconsin ProgressiveWisconsin Progressive PartyThe Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
(P): 7 - ProgressiveProgressive Party (United States, 1924)The Progressive Party of 1924 was a new party created as a vehicle for Robert M. La Follette, Sr. to run for president in the 1924 election. It did not run candidates for other offices, and it disappeared after the election except in Wisconsin. Its name resembles the 1912 Progressive Party, which...
(P): 1 - Farmer-Labor (FL)Farmer-Labor PartyThe first modern Farmer–Labor Party in the United States emerged in Minnesota in 1918. Economic dislocation caused by American entry into World War I put agricultural prices and workers' wages into imbalance with rapidly escalating retail prices during the war years, and farmers and workers sought...
: 5
TOTAL members: 435
Senate
- President: John N. Garner (D)
- President pro temporePresident pro tempore of the United States SenateThe President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...
: Key PittmanKey PittmanKey Denson Pittman was a United States Senator from Nevada. He was a Democrat.Pittman was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1872 and was educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He studied law, then later became a lawyer...
(D)
House of Representatives
- SpeakerSpeaker of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
: William B. BankheadWilliam B. BankheadWilliam Brockman Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House. He was a Democrat. Bankhead was a prominent supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of pro-labor union legislation, thus clashing with most other southern...
(D)
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 numbersClasses of United States Senators
The three classes of United States Senators are currently made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats. The purpose of the classes is to determine which Senate seats will be up for election in a given year. The three groups are staggered so that one of them is up for election every two years.A senator's...
, which indicate the cycle of their election.
As of the beginning of the 112th Congress
112th United States Congress
The One Hundred Twelfth United States Congress is the current 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 convened in Washington, D.C. on January 3, 2011, and will end on January...
in 2011, this was the last Congress in which Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
was represented by a Democratic senator.
Alabama
- 2. John H. Bankhead IIJohn H. Bankhead IIJohn Hollis Bankhead II was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office....
(D) - 3. Hugo Lafayette Black (D), resigned August 19, 1937
- Dixie Bibb GravesDixie Bibb GravesDixie Bibb Graves was a United States Senator and former First Lady from the state of Alabama. The first woman Senator from Alabama, she was appointed to the Senate by her husband, then Governor Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black...
(D), appointed - Joseph Lister Hill (D), elected
- Dixie Bibb Graves
Arizona
- 1. Henry Fountain Ashurst (D)
- 3. Carl Hayden (D)
Arkansas
- 3. Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D)
- 2. Joseph Taylor RobinsonJoseph Taylor RobinsonJoseph Taylor Robinson was an American politician from Arkansas, of the Democratic Party. He was a state representative, U.S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U.S...
(D), died July 14, 1937- John E. MillerJohn E. MillerJohn Elvis Miller was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 until 1937, and in the United States Senate from 1937 until 1941....
(D), elected
- John E. Miller
California
- 1. Hiram Warren Johnson (R)
- 3. William Gibbs McadooWilliam Gibbs McAdooWilliam Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration...
(D), resigned November 8, 1938- Thomas More Storke (D), appointed
Colorado
- 3. Alva Blanchard Adams (D)
- 2. Edwin Carl Johnson (D)
Connecticut
- 3. Augustine LonerganAugustine LonerganAugustine Lonergan , of Hartford, Connecticut, was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1913 to 1915, 1917 to 1921, and from 1931 to 1933. He was also a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1933 to 1939. He was a Democrat....
(D) - 1. Francis Thomas Maloney (D)
Delaware
- 2. James H. HughesJames H. HughesJames Hurd Hughes was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early life and family:...
(D) - 1. John G. Townsend, Jr.John G. Townsend, Jr.John Gillis Townsend, Jr. was an American businessman and politician from Selbyville, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as Governor and two terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware....
(R)
Florida
- 1. Charles Oscar Andrews (D)
- 3. Claude Denson Pepper (D)
Georgia
- 2. Walter Franklin George (D)
- 3. Richard Brevard Russell (D)
Idaho
- 2. William Edgar BorahWilliam Edgar BorahWilliam Edgar Borah was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views. One of his nicknames later in life was "The Lion of Idaho."...
(R) - 3. James Pinckney Pope (D)
Illinois
- 3. William Henry Dieterich (D)
- 2. James Hamilton Lewis (D)
Indiana
- 1. Sherman MintonSherman MintonSherman "Shay" Minton was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the most educated justice during his time on the Supreme Court, having attended Indiana University, Yale and the Sorbonne...
(D) - 3. Frederick Van NuysFrederick Van NuysFrederick Van Nuys was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born in Falmouth, he attended the public schools and graduated from Earlham College in 1898 and from the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis in 1900. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Shelbyville...
(D)
Iowa
- 3. Guy M. Gillette (D)
- 2. Clyde L. HerringClyde L. HerringClyde LaVerne Herring , an American politician and Democrat, served as the 26th Governor of Iowa, and then one of its U.S. Senators, during the last part of the Great Depression and the first part of World War II....
(D), from January 15, 1937
Kansas
- 2. Arthur CapperArthur CapperArthur Capper was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and a United States Senator from 1919 to 1949....
(R) - 3. George McGillGeorge McGillGeorge S. McGill was an American politician from Kansas.Born in Lucas County, Iowa, he moved with his parents to Kansas when he was 5. He graduated from Central Normal College in Great Bend, Kansas at the turn of the century and was admitted to the state bar two years later...
(D)
Kentucky
- 3. Alben William Barkley (D)
- 2. Marvel Mills Logan (D)
Louisiana
- 2. Allen Joseph Ellender (D)
- 3. John Holmes Overton (D)
Maine
- 1. Frederick HaleFrederick HaleFrederick Hale was a politician from the U.S. state of Maine, representing the state in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler, both also U.S. Senators, brother of diplomat Chandler Hale, and the cousin of U.S...
(R) - 2. Wallace H. White, Jr.Wallace H. White, Jr.Wallace Humphrey White, Jr. was a prominent American politician and Republican leader in United States Congress from 1916 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S...
(R)
Maryland
- 1. George Lovic Radcliffe (D)
- 3. Millard Evelyn Tydings (D)
Massachusetts
- 2. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See . He was the Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1960 Presidential election.-Early life:Lodge was born in Nahant,...
(R) - 1. David Ignatius Walsh (D)
Michigan
- 2. Prentiss Marsh Brown (D)
- 1. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (R)
Minnesota
- 2. Ernest LundeenErnest LundeenErnest Lundeen was an American lawyer and politician.Lundeen was born and raised on his father's homestead in Brooklyn Township of Lincoln County near Beresford, South Dakota. His father, C. H...
(FL) - 1. Henrik ShipsteadHenrik ShipsteadHenrik Shipstead was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947, from the state of Minnesota in the 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, 78th, and 79th Congresses...
(FL)
Mississippi
- 1. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (D)
- 2. Byron Patton Harrison (D)
Missouri
- 3. Bennett Champ ClarkBennett Champ ClarkJoel Bennett Clark , better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a United States federal judge.-Biography:...
(D) - 1. Harry S. TrumanHarry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
(D)
Montana
- 2. James Edward MurrayJames Edward MurrayJames Edward Murray was a United States Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961....
(D) - 1. Burton Kendall Wheeler (D)
Nebraska
- 1. Edward Raymond Burke (D)
- 2. George William NorrisGeorge William NorrisGeorge William Norris was a U.S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress...
(IIndependent (politician)In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
)
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Nevada
- 3. Patrick Anthony McCarran (D)
- 1. Key Denson Pittman (D)
New Hampshire
- 2. Styles BridgesStyles BridgesHenry Styles Bridges was an American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. He served one term as 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four year career in the United States Senate.Bridges was born in West Pembroke, Maine. He attended the public...
(R) - 3. Fred H. BrownFred H. BrownFred Herbert Brown was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Somersworth, New Hampshire. He served as mayor of Somersworth and as United States Attorney for New Hampshire before his term as Governor of New Hampshire from 1923 to 1925, and later served in the United States Senate.Brown...
(D)
New Jersey
- 1. Arthur Harry Moore (D), resigned January 17, 1938
- John Gerald MiltonJohn Gerald MiltonJohn Gerald Milton was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey; attended the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Jersey City, N.J.; appointed on January 18, 1938, as a Democrat to the United States Senate, to...
(D), appointed - William Warren BarbourWilliam Warren BarbourWilliam Warren Barbour was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 until his death in office in 1943...
(R), elected
- John Gerald Milton
- 2. William Howell Smathers (D)
New Mexico
- 1. Dennis Wyatt Chavez (D)
- 2. Carl Atwood Hatch (D)
New York
- 1. Royal Samuel Copeland (D), died June 17, 1938
- James Michael Mead (D), elected
- 3. Robert Ferdinand Wagner (D)
North Carolina
- 2. Josiah William BaileyJosiah William BaileyJosiah William Bailey was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1931 and 1946. Born in Warrenton, NC, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College...
(D) - 3. Robert Rice ReynoldsRobert Rice ReynoldsRobert Rice Reynolds was a Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina between 1932 and 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among supporters back home, acquired distinction as a passionate isolationist and increasingly as an apologist for Nazi aggression...
(D)
North Dakota
- 1. Lynn Joseph Frazier (R)
- 3. Gerald Prentice Nye (R)
Ohio
- 3. Robert Johns Bulkley (D)
- 1. Alvin Victor Donahey (D)
Oklahoma
- 2. Joshua B. LeeJoshua B. LeeJoshua Bryan Lee was a United States Representative and Senator from Oklahoma.-Early life:Born in Childersburg, Alabama, he moved with his parents to Pauls Valley, Oklahoma , and then to Kiowa County, near Hobart, in 1901...
(D) - 3. Elmer Thomas (D)
Oregon
- 3. Frederick SteiwerFrederick SteiwerFrederick Steiwer was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was county district attorney and member of the Oregon State Senate from Eastern Oregon and a veteran of World War I. A Republican, he was elected to the United States Senate and served there...
(R), resigned- Alfred Evan Reames (D), appointed
- Alexander Grant Barry (R), elected
- 2. Charles L. McNaryCharles L. McNaryCharles Linza McNary was a United States Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the Senate from 1917 to 1944, and was Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to 1944. In the Senate, McNary helped to pass legislation that led to the construction of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, and worked...
(R)
Pennsylvania
- 3. James J. DavisJames J. DavisJames John Davis was an American steel worker and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate...
(R) - 1. Joseph F. GuffeyJoseph F. GuffeyJoseph Frank Guffey was an American business executive and Democratic Party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1935 until 1947.-Early life:...
(D)
Rhode Island
- 1. Peter Goelet Gerry (D)
- 2. Theodore Francis Green (D)
South Carolina
- 2. James Francis Byrnes (D)
- 3. Ellison Durant Smith (D)
South Dakota
- 2. William John Bulow (D)
- 3. Herbert Emery Hitchcock (D), until November 8, 1938
- Gladys PyleGladys PyleGladys Pyle was a South Dakota politician and the first woman elected to the United States Senate without having previously been appointed to her position; she was also the first female senator to serve as a Republican and the first female senator from South Dakota...
(R), from November 9, 1938
- Gladys Pyle
Tennessee
- 2. Nathan Lynn Bachman (D), died April 23, 1937
- George L. BerryGeorge L. BerryGeorge Leonard Berry was president of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America from 1907 to 1948 and a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1937 to 1938.-Early life:...
(D), appointed - Arthur Thomas Stewart (D), elected
- George L. Berry
- 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
Texas
- 1. Thomas Terry Connally (D)
- 2. Morris SheppardMorris SheppardJohn Morris Sheppard was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment and introduced it in the Senate, so that he is referred to as "the father of national Prohibition."-Biography:John Morris Sheppard was born in Morris County...
(D)
Utah
- 1. William Henry King (D)
- 3. Elbert Duncan Thomas (D)
Vermont
- 1. Warren Robinson Austin (R)
- 3. Ernest Willard GibsonErnest Willard GibsonErnest Willard Gibson was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont.Gibson graduated from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont in 1894 where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and from the University of Michigan Law School. He was elected to the Vermont House of...
(R)
Virginia
- 1. Harry Flood Byrd (D)
- 2. Carter GlassCarter GlassCarter Glass was a newspaper publisher and politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He served many years in Congress as a member of the Democratic Party. As House co-sponsor, he played a central role in the development of the 1913 Glass-Owen Act that created the Federal Reserve System. Glass...
(D)
Washington
- 3. Homer Truett Bone (D)
- 1. Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach (D)
West Virginia
- 1. Rush D. Holt Sr.Rush D. Holt Sr.Rush Dew Holt, Sr. was an American politician who was a United States Senator from West Virginia and a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates ....
(D) - 2. Matthew Mansfield Neely (D)
Wisconsin
- 3. Francis Ryan Duffy (D)
- 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr.Robert M. La Follette, Jr.Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette, Jr. was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.- Early life:La Follette was born in Madison,...
(Prog.Wisconsin Progressive PartyThe Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
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Wyoming
- 1. Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (D)
- 2. Henry H. SchwartzHenry H. SchwartzHenry Herman "Harry" Schwartz was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Wyoming.Schwartz was born on a farm near Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools of Mercer County and Cincinnati, Ohio...
(D)
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.Alabama
. Frank W. BoykinFrank W. Boykin
Frank William Boykin, Sr. served as a Democratic Congressman in Alabama's 1st congressional district from 1935-1963....
(D). J. Lister Hill
J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama. He was elected to fill the term left by the resignation of Dixie Bibb Graves and was reelected five times, serving in the Senate from January 11, 1938 until January 3, 1969...
(D), resigned January 11, 1938
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- George M. GrantGeorge M. GrantGeorge McInvale Grant was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Alabama.Grant was born in Louisville, Alabama. He obtained a law degree from University of Alabama in 1922...
(D), elected. Henry B. SteagallHenry B. SteagallHenry Bascom Steagall was a United States Representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933 co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an act that introduced banking reforms and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ....
(D). Sam HobbsSam HobbsSamuel Francis Hobbs was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Selma, Alabama, Hobbs attended the public schools, Callaway's Preparatory School, Marion Military Institute, and Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, graduating from the law department of the University of Alabama at...
(D). Joe StarnesJoe StarnesJoe Starnes was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.-Biography:Born in Guntersville, Alabama, Starnes attended the public schools....
(D). Pete JarmanPete JarmanPeterson Bryant Jarman was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.-Early life:Born in Greensboro, Alabama, Jarman attended the public schools, the Normal College, Livingston, Alabama, and Southern University, Greensboro, Alabama...
(D). William B. BankheadWilliam B. BankheadWilliam Brockman Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House. He was a Democrat. Bankhead was a prominent supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of pro-labor union legislation, thus clashing with most other southern...
(D). John J. Sparkman (D). Luther PatrickLuther PatrickLuther Patrick was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born near Decatur, Alabama, Patrick attended the public schools, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana....
(D)
- George M. Grant
Arkansas
. William J. DriverWilliam J. Driver
William Joshua Driver was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born near Osceola, Arkansas, Driver attended the public schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Osceola, Arkansas....
(D). John E. Miller
John E. Miller
John Elvis Miller was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 until 1937, and in the United States Senate from 1937 until 1941....
(D), until November 14, 1937, vacant thereafter. Claude A. Fuller
Claude A. Fuller
Claude Albert Fuller — was a lawyer, farmer, member of Arkansas State House of Representatives from 1903–05, and of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd District of Arkansas from 1929-39....
(D). William B. Cravens
William B. Cravens
William Ben Cravens was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, father of William Fadjo Cravens and cousin of Jordan Edgar Cravens....
(D). David D. Terry
David D. Terry
David Dickson Terry was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas and son of William Leake Terry.Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Terry attended public schools, along with the Bethel Military Academy in Fauquier County, Virginia and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville...
(D). John L. McClellan (D). Wade H. Kitchens
Wade H. Kitchens
Wade Hampton Kitchens was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born on a farm near Falcon, Nevada County, Arkansas, Kitchens attended the common schools, Southern Academy, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville....
(D)
California
. Clarence F. LeaClarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea was a U.S. Representative from California.Born near Highland Springs, California, in southwestern Lake County, Lea attended Lakeport Academy in Lakeport, and Stanford University. He obtained a degree in law from the University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado, in 1898...
(D). Harry L. Englebright (R). Frank H. Buck
Frank H. Buck
Frank Henry Buck was a U.S. Representative from California.Born on a ranch near Vacaville, California, Buck attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1908 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1911...
(D). Franck R. Havenner
Franck R. Havenner
Franck Roberts Havenner was a six term United States Representative from California's 4th congressional district beginning in 1936. He is a graduate from Columbian College...
(Prog.
Progressive Party (United States, 1924)
The Progressive Party of 1924 was a new party created as a vehicle for Robert M. La Follette, Sr. to run for president in the 1924 election. It did not run candidates for other offices, and it disappeared after the election except in Wisconsin. Its name resembles the 1912 Progressive Party, which...
). Richard J. Welch
Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Monroe County, New York, Welch was educated in the public schools.He moved to California in early boyhood and settled in San Francisco....
(R). Albert E. Carter
Albert E. Carter
Albert Edward Carter was a United States Representative from California. He was born in Lemoncove, near Visalia, Tulare County, California. He attended the public schools was graduated from San Jose State Normal School in 1903. He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law...
(R). John H. Tolan
John H. Tolan
John Harvey Tolan was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota, Tolan attended the public schools.He moved to Anaconda, Montana, in 1897....
(D). John J. McGrath
John J. McGrath
John Joseph McGrath was a U.S. Representative from California from 1933-39. Born in Limerick, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen, living initially in Chicago. He studied law briefly and worked as a salesman and sales manager for many year, becoming a U. S. citizen...
(D). Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart was an American lawyer and politician. Gearhart, a Republican, served as the United States Representative for California's 9th congressional district from 1935 to 1949.-Background:...
(R). Henry E. Stubbs
Henry E. Stubbs
Henry Elbert Stubbs was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Nampa, Texas, Stubbs attended the public schools in Groesbeck, Texas, and Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma....
(D), until February 28, 1937
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- Alfred J. ElliottAlfred J. ElliottAlfred James Elliott was a Democratic Representative from California.He was born in Guinda, California and moved with his parents to Winters, California, in 1901, and to Tulare, California, in 1910, where he resided until his death in 1973. He worked as a farmer and livestock breeder and was the...
(D). John S. McGroartyJohn S. McGroartyJohn Steven McGroarty was a poet, Los Angeles Times columnist and author who also served two terms as a Democratic Congressman from California.-Biography:...
(D). Jerry VoorhisJerry VoorhisHorace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County...
(D). Charles KramerCharles Kramer (politician)Charles Kramer was a Representative from California. He was born in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, and moved to Chicago during his infancy. He attended the public and parochial schools, and attended Illinois College of Law and De Paul University. He was admitted to the bar in 1904 and began...
(D). Thomas F. FordThomas F. FordThomas Francis Ford of California was a member of the U.S. Congress, an editor, a specialist in international trade and the only person ever sent to the Los Angeles City Council by a write-in vote.-Biography:...
(D). John M. CostelloJohn M. CostelloJohn Martin Costello was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Los Angeles, California, Costello attended the public schools.He was graduated from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, in 1924....
(D). John F. DockweilerJohn F. DockweilerJohn Francis Dockweiler was a U.S. Representative from California.-Biography:John Francis Dockweiler was born in Los Angeles to Isidore Bernard Dockweiler and Gertrude Reeve. Dockweiler attended parochial schools. He graduated from Loyola College, Los Angeles in 1918 and from the University of...
(D). Charles J. ColdenCharles J. ColdenCharles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
(D), until April 15, 1938, vacant thereafter. Byron N. ScottByron N. ScottByron Nicholson Scott was an American lawyer and politician. The Democrat Scott served as the second United States Representative for California's 18th congressional district for two terms, from 1935 to 1939.-Background:...
(D). Harry R. SheppardHarry R. SheppardHarry Richard Sheppard was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Mobile, Alabama, Sheppard attended the public schools.He studied law.He was employed in transportation department of the Santa Fe Railroad....
(D). Edouard V. M. Izac (D)
- Alfred J. Elliott
Colorado
. Lawrence Lewis (D). Fred N. CummingsFred N. Cummings
Fred Nelson Cummings was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Born on a farm near Groveton, New Hampshire, CummingsIn 1865 moved with his parents to Clinton, Iowa, and in 1879 to a farm near West Union, Nebraska....
(D). John A. Martin
John Andrew Martin
Maj. John Andrew Martin raised and for ten months was in command of the First Battalion, Second Colorado Regiment....
(D). Edward T. Taylor
Edward T. Taylor
Edward Thomas Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Taylor was born on a farm near Metamora, Illinois. He attended the common schools of Illinois and Kansas, and graduated from the high school at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1881. Taylor moved to Leadville, Colorado and was principal of...
(D)
Connecticut
. Herman P. KopplemannHerman P. Kopplemann
Herman Paul Kopplemann was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Odessa, Russia, Kopplemann immigrated to the United States in 1882 with his parents, who settled in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended the grade and high schools. He engaged as publishers' agent for newspapers and magazines...
(D). William J. Fitzgerald
William J. Fitzgerald
William Joseph Fitzgerald was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Fitzgerald attended St...
(D). James A. Shanley
James A. Shanley
James Andrew Shanley was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shanley attended the public schools.Graduate of Battery Commander School at Fort Sill, Arkansas, in 1917....
(D). Alfred N. Phillips
Alfred N. Phillips
Alfred Noroton Phillips was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Darien, Connecticut, Phillips attended the public schools, Betts Academy, Stamford, Connecticut, and Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1917...
(D). J. Joseph Smith
J. Joseph Smith
John Joseph Smith was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Smith attended the public schools before attending Yale University, from which he received his B.A. degree in 1925. Two years later, he received his LL.B. degree from Yale Law School...
(D). William M. Citron
William M. Citron
William Michael Citron was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Citron moved with his parents to Middletown, Connecticut, in 1899.He attended the grammar and high schools....
(D)
Florida
. J. Hardin PetersonJ. Hardin Peterson
James Hardin Peterson was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Peterson was born in Batesburg, South Carolina. His family moved to Lakeland, Florida, in 1903, and he attended the public schools there. Peterson graduated from the University of Florida College of Law in 1914...
(D). Robert A. Green
Robert A. Green
Robert Alexis Green was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born near Lake Butler, Bradford County , Florida, Green attended the rural schools....
(D). Millard F. Caldwell
Millard F. Caldwell
Millard Fillmore Caldwell was an American politician. He was the 29th Governor of Florida and served in all three branches of government at various times in his life, including as a U.S. Representative and Florida Supreme Court justice.Caldwell was born in the rural area of Beverly, Tennessee,...
(D). J. Mark Wilcox
J. Mark Wilcox
James Mark Wilcox was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Willacoochee, Georgia, Wilcox attended the public schools and Emory College, Atlanta, Georgia....
(D). Joe Hendricks
Joe Hendricks
Joseph Edward Hendricks was a United States Representative from Florida. He was born at Lake Butler, Florida where he attended the rural schools and Montverde School. He also attended Stetson University in De Land, Florida and graduated with an undergraduate degree in 1930 and a graduate degree...
(D)
Georgia
. Hugh PetersonHugh Peterson
Hugh Peterson was a U.S. political figure and lawyer from the state of Georgia.Peterson was born near Ailey, Georgia in 1898 and attended the Brewton Parker Institute in Mount Vernon, Georgia and the University of Georgia in Athens. He studied law, gained admission to the state bar in 1921 and...
(D). Edward E. Cox
Edward E. Cox
Edward Eugene "Eugene" or "Goober" Cox served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia for nearly twenty-eight years. A conservative Democrat who supported segregation and opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal," Cox became the most senior Democrat on the House Committee on Rules...
(D). Stephen Pace
Stephen Pace
Olin Stephen Pace was an American politician and lawyer.Pace was born near Dawson, Georgia. He attended the Georgia School of Technology and graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens in 1914 with a Bachelor of Laws degree...
(D). Emmett M. Owen (D). Robert Ramspeck
Robert Ramspeck
Robert C. Word Ramspeck was an American politician and businessman.-Biography:Ramspeck was born in Decatur, Georgia. As a young man he was a federal police officer. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. He would go on to be a Democratic congressman from Georgia from 1929 to 1945. In the period of...
(D). Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives...
(D). Malcolm C. Tarver
Malcolm C. Tarver
Malcolm Connor Tarver was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Rural Vale, Georgia, Tarver attended the public schools.He was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1904....
(D). Braswell Deen
Braswell Deen
Braswell Drue Deen was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born on a farm near Baxley, Georgia, Deen attended public and high schools and South Georgia College, McRae, Georgia ....
(D). B. Frank Whelchel
B. Frank Whelchel
Benjamin Frank Whelchel was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Lumpkin County, near Gainesville, Georgia, Whelchel attended the public schools....
(D). Paul Brown
Paul Brown (Georgia politician)
Paul Brown was an American politician and lawyer.Brown was born in Hartwell, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1901. He was admitted to the state bar in that year and began practicing law in Lexington, Georgia...
(D)
Idaho
. Compton I. WhiteCompton I. White
Compton Ignatius White, Sr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Idaho, who served in the United States House of Representatives, chairing a committee.-Biography:...
(D). D. Worth Clark (D)
Illinois
. Arthur W. MitchellArthur W. Mitchell
Arthur Wergs Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Mitchell was the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat....
(D). Raymond S. McKeough
Raymond S. McKeough
Raymond Stephen McKeough was a Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1935 to 1943....
(D). Edward A. Kelly
Edward A. Kelly
Edward Austin Kelly of Chicago was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1931–43, 1945-47. He was a Democrat.-External links: Retrieved on 2008-01-21...
(D). Harry P. Beam
Harry P. Beam
Harry Peter Beam was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Peoria Illinois, Beam moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, in 1899. He attended St. Mary's School, Marshalltown, Iowa, and Holy Family School, Chicago, Illinois, was graduated from St...
(D). Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death.He immigrated to America at age 15, became active in real estate, and received his LL.B...
(D). Thomas J. O’Brien (D). Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard William Schuetz was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Posen, Germany , SchuetzIn 1888 immigrated to the United States with his father, who settled in Chicago, Illinois....
(D). Leo Kocialkowski
Leo Kocialkowski
Leo Paul Kocialkowski was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kocialkowski was orphaned at an early age.He was educated in private schools, which he supplemented by a business course....
(D). James McAndrews
James McAndrews
James McAndrews was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, McAndrews attended the common schools. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in business, serving as building commissioner of Chicago.McAndrews was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and...
(D). Ralph E. Church
Ralph E. Church
Ralph Edwin Church , a U.S. Congressman, was born in Vermilion County, Illinois. Church, a Republican, represented the 10th and 13th Congressional districts of Illinois in the U.S. Congress. Congressman Church was also a candidate for U.S Senator in 1940...
(R). Chauncey W. Reed
Chauncey W. Reed
Chauncey William Reed was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Chauncey Reed was born in West Chicago, Illinois to William Thomas Reed and Margaret Reed...
(R). Noah M. Mason
Noah M. Mason
Noah Morgan Mason was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Mason was a representative conservative Republican in Congress who represented a rural downstate district...
(R). Leo E. Allen
Leo E. Allen
Leo Elwood Allen , American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for fourteen terms, 1933–1961, representing the 13th District of Illinois 1933–1949, and the 16th District of Illinois 1949–1961. He was born in Elizabeth, Illinois and...
(R). Chester C. Thompson
Chester C. Thompson
Chester Charles Thompson was an Illinois politician who represented Illinois' 14th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1939. Before serving in Congress he served the people as Rock Island County Treasurer and as mayor of Rock Island.-Early life:Thompson was born...
(D). Lewis L. Boyer
Lewis L. Boyer
Lewis Leonard Boyer was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born on a farm near Richfield, Richfield Township, Illinois, Boyer attended the rural schools....
(D). Everett M. Dirksen (R). Leslie C. Arends (R). James A. Meeks
James A. Meeks
James Andrew Meeks was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in New Matamoras, Washington County, Ohio, Meeks moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled on a farm near Danville, Vermilion County, in 1865....
(D). Hugh M. Rigney
Hugh M. Rigney
Hugh McPheeters Rigney was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Arthur, Illinois, Rigney attended the local schools and was graduated from the high school of his native city....
(D). Scott W. Lucas
Scott W. Lucas
Scott Wike Lucas was a two-term Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, and the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1948 to 1950....
(D). Frank W. Fries
Frank W. Fries
Frank William Fries was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Hornsby, Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, Fries moved with his parents to Gillespie, Illinois, in 1904.He attended the public schools....
(D). Edwin M. Schaefer
Edwin M. Schaefer
Edwin Martin Schaefer was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, Schaefer attended the public schools, Western Military Academy, Alton, Illinois, and the University of Illinois at Urbana.He graduated from Washington University in St...
(D). Laurence F. Arnold
Laurence F. Arnold
Laurence Fletcher Arnold was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Newton, Illinois, Arnold attended the public and high schools of his native city and the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.He studied law....
(D). Claude V. Parsons
Claude V. Parsons
Claude VanCleve Parsons was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born on a farm near McCormick, Pope County, Illinois, Parsons attended the public schools....
(D). Kent E. Keller
Kent E. Keller
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(D). Edwin V. Champion
Edwin V. Champion
Edwin Van Meter Champion was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Mansfield, Illinois, Champion attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois at Urbana, 1912...
(D). Lewis M. Long
Lewis M. Long
Lewis Marshall Long was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Gardner, Illinois, Long attended the public schools of Aurora, Illinois, the Plano High School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana....
(D)
Indiana
. William T. SchulteWilliam T. Schulte
William Theodore Schulte was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in St. Bernard Township, Platte County, Nebraska, Schulte attended the public schools of St...
(D). Charles A. Halleck
Charles A. Halleck
Charles Abraham Halleck was a Republican leader of the United States House of Representatives from the second district of Indiana....
(R). Samuel B. Pettengill
Samuel B. Pettengill
Samuel Barrett Pettengill was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, representing Indiana's 3rd congressional district and nephew of William Horace Clagett.- Early life :...
(D). James I. Farley (D). Glenn Griswold
Glenn Griswold
Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in New Haven, Missouri, Griswold attended the public schools.He moved to Peru, Indiana, in 1911.He attended Valparaiso Law School....
(D). Virginia E. Jenckes
Virginia E. Jenckes
Virginia Ellis Jenckes was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. She was the first woman to serve in the U.S. House from the state of Indiana....
(D). Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur Herbert Greenwood was an United States Representative for Indiana for 2nd District from 1923–1933 and for the 7th District 1933–1939. Greenwood was defeated in 1938....
(D). John W. Boehne, Jr.
John W. Boehne, Jr.
John William Boehne, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, son of John William Boehne.Born in Evansville, Indiana, Boehne attended the public and parochial schools....
(D). Eugene B. Crowe
Eugene B. Crowe
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(D). Finly H. Gray
Finly H. Gray
Finly Hutchinson Gray was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Born near Orange, Indiana, Gray attended the common schools.He studied law....
(D). William H. Larrabee (D). Louis Ludlow
Louis Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct attack...
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Iowa
. Edward C. EicherEdward C. Eicher
Edward C. Eicher was a three-term congressman, federal securities regulator, and federal district court judge during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was considered a consummate "New Deal" liberal....
(D), until December 2, 1938, vacant thereafter. William S. Jacobsen
William S. Jacobsen
William Sebastian Jacobsen was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district who served three terms from 1937 to 1942. He was the son of his predecessor, Bernhard M...
(D). John W. Gwynne
John W. Gwynne
John Williams Gwynne was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, and a Federal Trade Commission member and chairman during the Eisenhower Administration.- Personal background :...
(R). Fred Biermann
Fred Biermann
Frederick Elliott Biermann was a three-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district...
(D). Lloyd Thurston
Lloyd Thurston
Lloyd Thurston was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from southern Iowa. First elected in 1924, he served until 1938, when he unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. Senate. By his final term, he had served on three of the most powerful House committees.Born in Osceola, Iowa, Thurston...
(R). Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius Clay Dowell was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to his death in 1940, except for a two-year period in 1935-36 resulting from a 1934 election loss....
(R). Otha D. Wearin (D). Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred Cramer Gilchrist was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa, from 1931 to 1945.Born in California, Pennsylvania, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gilchrist moved with his parents to Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1871.He attended the public schools. He graduated from State Teachers'...
(R). Vincent F. Harrington
Vincent F. Harrington
Vincent Francis Harrington was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa. Harrington was commissioned in the United States Army Air Corps after the Pearl Harbor attack, resigned from Congress when President Franklin D...
(D)
Kansas
. William P. LambertsonWilliam P. Lambertson
William Purnell Lambertson was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.He engaged in agricultural pursuits.He served as member of the State house of...
(R). U. S. Guyer
U. S. Guyer
Ulysses Samuel Guyer was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born near Paw Paw, Illinois, Guyer attended the public schools, Lane University at Lecompton, Kansas, and the University of Kansas School of Law at Lawrence....
(R). Edward White Patterson
Edward White Patterson
Edward White Patterson was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.-Background:Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, Patterson attended the public schools....
(D). Edward Herbert Rees
Edward Herbert Rees
Edward Herbert Rees was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born on a farm near Emporia, Kansas, Rees attended the public schools and the Kansas State Teachers' College at Emporia...
(R). John Mills Houston
John Mills Houston
John Mills Houston was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 5th congressional district of Kansas from 1935 to 1943. He was also a member of the National Labor Relations Board from 1943 to 1953....
(D). Frank Carlson
Frank Carlson
Frank Carlson was an American politician who served as the 30th Governor of Kansas and United States Representative and United States Senator from Kansas.-Biography:...
(R). Clifford R. Hope
Clifford R. Hope
Clifford R. Hope was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born in Birmingham, Iowa, Hope attended public schools and Nebraska Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He served during the First World War, as a second lieutenant. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives...
(R)
Kentucky
. Noble J. Gregory (D). Beverly M. VincentBeverly M. Vincent
Beverly Mills Vincent was a Representative from Kentucky.He was born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, March 28, 1890; attended the public schools, Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, and the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington; was admitted to...
(D). Emmet O'Neal
Emmet O'Neal (Kentucky)
Emmet O'Neal was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and an ambassador to the Philippines. A member of the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame, his brother was Louisville Mayor Joseph T. O'Neal.-Biography:...
(D). Edward W. Creal
Edward W. Creal
Edward Wester Creal was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in a log house in LaRue County, Kentucky near Mount Sherman, Kentucky, Creal attended the public schools of Hart and Larue Counties, Kentucky....
(D). Brent Spence
Brent Spence
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(D). Virgil Chapman
Virgil Chapman
Virgil Munday Chapman , a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate....
(D). Andrew J. May
Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May was a Kentucky attorney and influential New Deal-era politician, best known for his chairmanship of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, and his subsequent conviction for bribery...
(D). Fred M. Vinson
Fred M. Vinson
Frederick Moore Vinson served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family. In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisa, Kentucky, for twelve years...
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- Joe B. BatesJoe B. BatesJoseph Bengal Bates was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Republican, Kentucky, Bates attended the public schools and the Mountain Training School at Hindman, Kentucky....
(D). John M. RobsionJohn M. RobsionJohn Marshall Robsion , a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
(R)
- Joe B. Bates
Louisiana
. Joachim O. FernandezJoachim O. Fernandez
Joachim Octave Fernández was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He was a Democrat....
(D). Paul H. Maloney
Paul H. Maloney
Paul Herbert Maloney was a member of Louisiana House of Representatives 1914-1916 was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served seven terms as a Democrat....
(D). Robert L. Mouton
Robert L. Mouton
Robert Louis Mouton was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.Born in Duchamp, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, Mouton moved with his parents to Lafayette, Louisiana, where he attended the public schools. He was graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana. He was employed as...
(D). Overton Brooks
Overton Brooks
Thomas Overton Brooks was a Democratic U.S. representative from the Shreveport-based Fourth Congressional District of northwest Louisiana, having served for a quarter century beginning on January 3, 1937. Brooks was a nephew of U.S. Senator John Holmes Overton as well as a great-grandson of Walter...
(D). Newt V. Mills
Newt V. Mills
Newt Virgus Mills was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.Born in Calhoun, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, Mills attended the public schools of his native city, Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Normal College at Natchitoches, and Spencer...
(D). John K. Griffith
John K. Griffith
John Keller Griffith was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana. Born in Baton Rouge on October 16, 1882, he earned a college degree from Louisiana State University. Griffith later earned a medical degree from Tulane University and began working at an insane asylum in...
(D). René L. DeRouen (D). A. Leonard Allen
A. Leonard Allen
Asa Leonard Allen was an educator, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana...
(D)
Maine
. James C. OliverJames C. Oliver
James Churchill Oliver was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in South Portland, Maine, Oliver attended the public schools.Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, A.B., 1917....
(R). Clyde H. Smith (R). Ralph Owen Brewster (R)
Maryland
. T. Alan Goldsborough (D). William P. Cole, Jr. (D). Vincent L. Palmisano (D). Ambrose J. Kennedy (D). Stephen W. Gambrill (D), died December 19, 1938, vacant for remainder of term. David J. Lewis (D)Massachusetts
. Allen T. TreadwayAllen T. Treadway
Allen Towner Treadway was a Massachusetts Republican who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as a member, and President of, the Massachusetts Senate and a member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1913 until January 3, 1945...
(R). Charles Clason (R). Joseph E. Casey
Joseph E. Casey
Joseph Edward Casey was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Clinton, he attended the public schools, served as a private in the United States Army at Camp Lee, Virginia in 1918, and was graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1920. He was admitted to the bar...
(D). Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr Gustaf Holmes was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.Holmes was born in Mölnbacka in Forshaga Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. In 1886 he immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Worcester, Massachusetts. Holmes attended public schools, and engaged in...
(R). Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who was one of the first women to serve in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to congress from Massachusetts...
(R). George J. Bates
George J. Bates
George Joseph Bates was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Bates was elected Mayor of Salem in 1924 at the age of 33. He served as mayor until 1937, at which time he was sworn in as a Republican member of the House...
(R). William P. Connery, Jr.
William P. Connery, Jr.
William Patrick Connery, Jr., ; was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Lynn on August 24, 1888. He attended St. Mary’s School at Lynn, Collège de Montréal in Canada, and the College of the Holy Cross. He entered the theatrical profession as an actor...
(D), died June 15, 1937
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- Lawrence J. ConneryLawrence J. ConneryLawrence Joseph Connery was a United States House Representative from Massachusetts.Connery was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 17, 1895. He attended the local parochial and public schools, and St. Mary's College, St...
(D). Arthur D. Healey (D). Robert LuceRobert LuceRobert Luce was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Auburn, Maine, Luce attended the public schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Massachusetts...
(R). George H. TinkhamGeorge H. TinkhamGeorge Holden Tinkham was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts....
(R). John P. Higgins (D), resigned September 30, 1937 - Thomas A. FlahertyThomas A. FlahertyThomas Aloysius Flaherty was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Flaherty was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 21, 1898. He attended the public schools, Boston College High School and Northeastern University Law School.He served as a private in the United...
(D). John W. McCormack (D). Richard B. Wigglesworth (R). Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R). Charles L. GiffordCharles L. GiffordCharles Laceille Gifford was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Cotuit on March 15, 1871. Gifford attended the common schools, and taught in Massachusetts and Connecticut from 1890 to 1900...
(R)
- Lawrence J. Connery
Michigan
. George G. SadowskiGeorge G. Sadowski
George Gregory Sadowski was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Sadowski was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended Ferry School. He attended high school in Foley, Alabama, and then returned to Detroit, where he graduated from Northeastern High School in 1920 and from the law...
(D). Earl C. Michener
Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Michener was born near Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Adrian, Michigan in 1889 and attended the public schools there. During the Spanish-American War, he served in the U.S...
(R). Paul W. Shafer
Paul W. Shafer
Paul Werntz Shafer was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.Shafer was born in Elkhart, Indiana and moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Shafer, to Three Rivers, Michigan, where he attended public schools...
(R). Clare E. Hoffman (R). Carl E. Mapes
Carl E. Mapes
Carl Edgar Mapes was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Mapes was born on a farm near Kalamo, Michigan, to Selah W. and Sarah Ann Mapes. His father was born in New York and came with his parents at the age of seven to Kalamo Michigan, where he became a county district schoolteacher and...
(R). Andrew J. Transue
Andrew J. Transue
Andrew Jackson Transue was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Transue was born in Clarksville, Michigan and attended the local schools. He graduated from the Detroit College of Law, LL.B., 1926 and J.D., 1968. He was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced the practice of law in...
(D). Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse Paine Wolcott was a politician and soldier from the U.S. state of Michigan.Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the common and high schools there...
(R). Fred L. Crawford
Fred L. Crawford
Fred Lewis Crawford was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Crawford was born in Dublin, Texas and attended local public schools. He went to business college at Peniel , and attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He engaged in accountancy at Des Moines, Iowa, and Detroit,...
(R). Albert J. Engel
Albert J. Engel
Albert Joseph Engel was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Engel was born in New Washington, Ohio. He attended the public schools in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, and the Central YMCA College in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the law department of Northwestern University,...
(R). Roy O. Woodruff
Roy O. Woodruff
Roy Orchard Woodruff was a politician, soldier, printer and dentist from the U.S. state of Michigan....
(R). John F. Luecke
John F. Luecke
John Frederick Luecke was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Luecke was born in Escanaba, Michigan and attended the public elementary schools...
(D). Frank Hook (D). George D. O'Brien
George D. O'Brien
George Donoghue O’Brien was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives....
(D). Louis C. Rabaut
Louis C. Rabaut
Louis Charles Rabaut was politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was a Democratic congressman representing Michigan's 14th congressional district from 1935 to 1947, and from 1949 to 1961...
(D). John D. Dingell, Sr.
John D. Dingell, Sr.
John David Dingell, Sr. was an American politician who represented Michigan's 15th congressional district from 1933 to 1955.-Life and career:Dingell was born in Detroit...
(D). John Lesinski, Sr.
John Lesinski, Sr.
John Lesinski, Sr. was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the father of John Lesinski, Jr., who took his seat in the United States House of Representatives upon his father's death....
(D). George A. Dondero (R)
Minnesota
. August H. Andresen (R). Elmer RyanElmer Ryan
Elmer James Ryan was a United States Representative from Minnesota.He was born in Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, May 26, 1907. He attended the public schools, was graduated from the law department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1929, was admitted to the bar the same year...
(D). Henry Teigan
Henry Teigan
Henry George Teigan was an American labor leader and editor who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota.-Background:...
(FL). Melvin Maas
Melvin Maas
Melvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Biography:Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898. He moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1898. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from St. Thomas College at St. Paul in 1919 and also...
(R). Dewey Johnson
Dewey Johnson
Dewey William Johnson was an American lawyer and politician from Minnesota. Johnson was born in Minneapolis and attended the local public schools, followed by the University of Minnesota and William Mitchell College of Law .After graduation from law school, he began work in the insurance business...
(FL). Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson was born in Skien, in Telemark county, Norway. At the age of 6 he and his family moved to the United States initially settling in Chicago, Illinois, but later moving to Sherburne County, Minnesota. He became the editor for the St. Cloud Daily Journal-Press and later president of the...
(R). Paul John Kvale
Paul John Kvale
Paul John Kvale was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Early life:Kvale was born in Orfordville, Wisconsin as son of Ole J. Kvale. He attended the Orfordville school and the University of Illinois. In 1917, he moved to Benson, Minnesota with his parents...
(FL). John Bernard
John Bernard
John Toussaint Bernard was a United States Representative from Minnesota.A native of the French island of Corsica, Bernard was born in 1893 in the town of Bastia. Moving to the United States in 1907, he would later work as an iron miner before enlisting in the United States Army during World War I...
(FL). Rich T. Buckler
Rich T. Buckler
Richard Thompson Buckler was a Representative from Minnesota; born on a farm near Oakland, Coles County, Illinois; he attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Coles County; moved to Andover Township, Polk County, Minnesota in 1904 and continued agricultural pursuits; active...
(FL)
Mississippi
. John E. RankinJohn E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin was a Democratic congressman from the U.S. State of Mississippi who supported racial segregation and, on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, voiced racist views on African Americans and Jews and even accused Albert Einstein of being a communist agitator.In...
(D). Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey was an American politician from Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941; after the death of U.S. Senator Pat Harrison, Doxey won a special election to his seat, and served in the United States Senate from 1941 until 1943...
(D). William M. Whittington (D). Aaron L. Ford
Aaron L. Ford
Aaron Lane Ford was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Potts Camp, Mississippi, Ford attended public schools in Mississippi and Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee....
(D). Ross A. Collins
Ross A. Collins
Ross Alexander Collins was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Collinsville, Mississippi, Collins attended the public schools of Meridian, Mississippi, and Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College....
(D). William M. Colmer
William M. Colmer
William Meyers Colmer was a Mississippi politician.Colmer was born in Moss Point, Mississippi, and attended Millsaps College...
(D). Dan R. McGehee
Dan R. McGehee
Daniel Rayford McGehee was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Little Springs, Mississippi, McGehee attended the public schools....
(D)
Missouri
. Milton A. RomjueMilton A. Romjue
Milton Andrew Romjue was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.-Personal life and education:Congressman Romjue was born to Andrew Jackson Romjue & Susan E. Romjue on December 5, 1874 near Love Lake, Macon County, Missouri...
(D). William L. Nelson
William L. Nelson
William Lester Nelson was an American farmer and politician from Columbia, Missouri. He represented Missouri as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives for several terms: 1919-1921, 1925–1933 and 1935-1943. He is buried at the Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri.-External...
(D). Richard M. Duncan
Richard M. Duncan
Richard Meloan Duncan was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born near Edgerton, Missouri, Duncan attended the public schools.He was graduated from Christian Brothers College, St...
(D). C. Jasper Bell
C. Jasper Bell
Charles Jasper Bell was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Lake City, Colorado, Bell attended the country schools in Jackson County, Missouri, Lees Summit High School, and the University of Missouri...
(D). Joseph B. Shannon (D). Reuben T. Wood
Reuben T. Wood
Reuben Terrell Wood was a Democratic Representative representing Missouri's 6th congressional district from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1941....
(D). Dewey Short (R). Clyde Williams (D). Clarence Cannon
Clarence Cannon
Clarence Andrew Cannon was a Democratic Congressmember from Missouri. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.-Biography:...
(D). Orville Zimmerman
Orville Zimmerman
Orville Zimmerman was a U.S. Democratic politician.He was born on a farm near Glenallen, Missouri. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Missouri and served from January 3, 1935 until his death in Washington, D.C.-References:* at Find-A-Grave...
(D). Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr. was an American political figure from Missouri, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives , and the United States Senate ....
(D). Charles Arthur Anderson
Charles Arthur Anderson
Charles Arthur Anderson was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anderson attended the public schools....
(D). John J. Cochran
John J. Cochran
John Joseph Cochran was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Cochran was born in Webster Groves, Missouri and attended the public schools there. He was employed in the editorial department of various St. Louis newspapers for many years, and served as assistant to the election commissioners of St...
(D)
Montana
. Jerry J. O'ConnellJerry J. O'Connell
Jerry Joseph O'Connell was a U.S. Representative from Montana.-Background:Born in Butte, Montana, O'Connell attended the parochial schools and Butte Central High School. He graduated from Carroll College , Helena, Montana, in 1931, and from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1934...
(D). James F. O'Connor
James F. O'Connor
James Francis O'Connor was a U.S. Representative from Montana.He was born on a farm near California Junction, Iowa, and attended the grade schools and normal school in Iowa....
(D)
Nebraska
. Henry Carl LuckeyHenry Carl Luckey
Henry Carl Luckey was a Nebraska Democratic politician.He was born on November 22, 1868 near East St. Louis, Illinois . In 1873 he moved to Nebraska settling on a farm with his parents near Columbus, Nebraska. He farmed their from 1894 to 1900. He moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and graduated from...
(D). Charles F. McLaughlin
Charles F. McLaughlin
Charles Francis McLaughlin was a Nebraska Democratic politician.Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he graduated from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1908 and the law department of Columbia University, New York City in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He...
(D). Karl Stefan
Karl Stefan
Karl Stefan was a US State of Nebraska Republican politician.He was born on a farm in Zebrakov, Bohemia on March 1, 1884. In 1885 he moved with his parents to Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.. He was taught in the public schools and later a Y.M.C.A. night school...
(R). Charles Gustav Binderup
Charles Gustav Binderup
Charles Gustav Binderup was a Nebraska Democratic politician.Born in Horsens, Denmark, when he was six months old his parents immigrated to the United States settling on a farm near Hastings, Nebraska. He attended Grand Island Business College and farmed near Hastings and Minden, Nebraska...
(D). Harry B. Coffee
Harry B. Coffee
Harry Buffington Coffee was a Nebraska Democratic politician.Born near Harrison, Nebraska on March 16, 1890, a son of Samuel Buffington Coffee and May Elizabeth Tisdale. Harry graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1913. He sold real estate and insurance in Chadron, Nebraska from...
(D)
New Hampshire
. Arthur B. JenksArthur B. Jenks
Arthur Byron Jenks was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in West Dennis, Massachusetts, Jenks attended public schools. He was employed as a shoe worker in 1881. He engaged in the shoe manufacturing business at Manchester, New Hampshire from 1902 to 1930...
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- Alphonse RoyAlphonse RoyAlphonse Roy was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Saint-Simon, Quebec, Canada, Roy moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1901...
(D), contested election, seated June 9, 1938. Charles W. TobeyCharles W. TobeyCharles William Tobey was an American politician, who was a Governor of New Hampshire and a United States senator, was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of William Tobey, an accountant, and Ellen Hall Parker Tobey. His father had moved to Massachusetts from Maine in the 1860s. Charles Tobey...
(R)
- Alphonse Roy
New Jersey
. Charles A. WolvertonCharles A. Wolverton
Charles Anderson Wolverton was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 32 years, from 1927 to 1959.After receiving a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1900, Wolverton practiced...
(R). Elmer H. Wene
Elmer H. Wene
Elmer H. Wene was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
(D). William H. Sutphin
William H. Sutphin
William Halstead Sutphin was an American military, business and Democratic Party politician who represented from 1931-1943.-Biography:...
(D). D. Lane Powers
D. Lane Powers
David Lane Powers was an American Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1945....
(R). Charles A. Eaton (R). Donald H. McLean
Donald H. McLean
Donald Holman McLean was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1933 to 1945.Born in Paterson, New Jersey on March 18, 1884, McLean attended the city's public schools...
(R). J. Parnell Thomas
J. Parnell Thomas
John Parnell Thomas was a stockbroker and politician. He was elected to seven terms as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey...
(R). George N. Seger
George N. Seger
George Nicholas Seger was an American politician. Seger, a Republican, represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for eighteen years, lasting from 1923 until his death on August 26, 1940...
(R). Edward A. Kenney (D), died January 27, 1938, vacant to end. Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
Fred Allan Hartley, Jr. was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey. Hartley served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jersey's 10th congressional districts...
(R). Edward L. O'Neill
Edward L. O'Neill
Edward Leo O'Neill was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1937-1939.-Biography:...
(D). Frank W. Towey, Jr.
Frank W. Towey, Jr.
Frank William Towey, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. Towey, a Democrat, served as the United States Representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939.-Background:...
(D). Mary T. Norton (D). Edward J. Hart
Edward J. Hart
Edward Joseph Hart was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 14th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1935-1955.-Early years and education:Hart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 25, 1893, where he...
(D)
New Mexico
. John J. DempseyJohn J. Dempsey
John Joseph Dempsey was a United States Representative from New Mexico who also served as the 13th Governor of New Mexico. He was born in White Haven, Pennsylvania where he attended grade school. Employed as a telegrapher, he held various positions with the Brooklyn Union Elevator Company...
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New York
. Robert L. BaconRobert L. Bacon
Robert Low Bacon was a banker, Lieutenant Colonel, and congressman from New York.-Biography:Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the son of Martha Waldron Cowdin and future Secretary of State Robert Bacon, he received a common school education as a child...
(R), died September 12, 1938, vacant to end. William B. Barry (D). Joseph L. Pfeifer
Joseph L. Pfeifer
Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended St. Nicholas Parochial School, St. Leonard's Academy, and St. Francis College in Brooklyn. He graduated from Long Island Medical College in 1914 and was licensed to practice the same year...
(D). Thomas H. Cullen
Thomas H. Cullen
Thomas Henry Cullen was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the local parochial schools, and graduated from St. Francis College in 1880. He became engaged in the marine insurance and shipping business, and was a member of the New York State Assembly from...
(D). Marcellus H. Evans
Marcellus H. Evans
Marcellus Hugh Evans was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended St. John the Baptist School and St. James Academy in Brooklyn and was graduated from the law department of Fordham University in 1910...
(D). Andrew L. Somers (D). John J. Delaney
John J. Delaney
John Joseph Delaney was a United States Representative from New York.-Biography:Delaney was born in Brooklyn, he attended St. Ann's Parochial School and St. James' Academy in Brooklyn and Manhattan College. He engaged in the diamond business in 1897, was graduated from the Brooklyn Law School of St...
(D). Donald L. O'Toole
Donald L. O'Toole
Donald Lawrence O'Toole was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended public and parochial schools, graduated from St. James Academy in Brooklyn in 1916, and from the law department of Fordham University in 1925...
(D). Eugene J. Keogh (D). Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler
Emanuel Celler was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He was a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life:...
(D). James A. O'Leary
James A. O'Leary
James Aloysius O'Leary was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.O'Leary was born in New Brighton, Staten Island. He unsuccessfully ran for a New York State Senate seat in 1930...
(D). Samuel Dickstein
Samuel Dickstein (congressman)
Samuel Dickstein was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York and a New York State Supreme Court Justice. He played a key role in establishing the committee that would become the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which he used to attack fascists, including Nazi...
(D). Christopher D. Sullivan
Christopher D. Sullivan
Christopher Daniel Sullivan was a United States Representative from New York from 1917 to 1941. Born in New York City, he attended public schools, St. James Parochial School, and St. Mary's Academy in New York City...
(D). William I. Sirovich
William I. Sirovich
William Irving Sirovich was an American politician from New York.Sirovich was born in 1882 in York County, Pennsylvania to Hungarian immigrants Rev. Jacob and Rose Sirovich . The family moved to New York City in 1888...
(D). John J. Boylan
John J. Boylan
John Joseph Boylan was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Boylan was born in New York City. He attended Manhattan College. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1910 until 1912 and the New York State Senate from 1913 until 1922...
(D), died October 5, 1938, vacant to end. John J. O'Connor
John J. O'Connor
John Joseph O'Connor was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(D). Theodore A. Peyser
Theodore A. Peyser
Theodore Albert Peyser was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(D), died August 8, 1937
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- Bruce F. BartonBruce Fairchild BartonBruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York.-Biography:...
(R). Martin J. KennedyMartin J. KennedyMartin John Kennedy of Manhattan, New York was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1930 to 1945. He was a Democrat....
(D). Sol BloomSol BloomSol Bloom was an entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives.-Early life:...
(D). James J. LanzettaJames J. LanzettaJames Joseph Lanzetta was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Born in New York City, he attended the public schools there, then graduating from the Columbia University School of Engineering in 1917...
(D). Joseph A. GavaganJoseph A. GavaganJoseph Andrew Gavagan was a United States Representative from New York.Born in New York City, he attended the public and parochial schools and graduated from the law department of Fordham University in 1920...
(D). Edward W. CurleyEdward W. CurleyEdward Walter Curley was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Curley was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He attended the College of the City of New York. He was a member of the New York City Council from 1916 until 1935. He was elected to Congress in 1935...
(D). Charles A. BuckleyCharles A. BuckleyCharles Anthony Buckley was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(D). James M. FitzpatrickJames M. FitzpatrickJames Martin Fitzpatrick of the Bronx was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1927 to 1945. He was a Democrat. He is buried in Saint Raymond's Cemetery.- External links :...
(D). Charles D. MillardCharles D. MillardCharles Dunsmore Millard was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(R) resigned September 29, 1937 - Ralph A. GambleRalph A. GambleRalph Abernethy Gamble was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Gamble was born in Yankton, South Dakota. He graduated from Princeton University in 1909, George Washington University Law School in 1911 and from Columbia Law School in 1912. He was a member...
(R). Hamilton FishHamilton FishHamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...
(R). Philip A. GoodwinPhilip A. GoodwinPhilip Arnold Goodwin was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Goodwin was born in Athens, New York. He was in the steel bridge construction business in Albany, New York from 1902 until 1916. From 1916 until his death he owned and operated a lumber...
(R), died June 6, 1937 - Lewis K. RockefellerLewis K. RockefellerLewis Kirby Rockefeller was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Schenectady, he attended the public schools and graduated from New York State College in Albany, 1898...
(R). William T. ByrneWilliam T. ByrneWilliam Thomas Byrne was a United States Representative from New York.-Biography:Born in the town of Florida, Montgomery County, New York he attended the public schools and graduated from Albany Law School, a branch of Union University, in 1904. He was admitted to the bar the same year and...
(D). E. Harold CluettE. Harold CluettErnest Harold Cluett was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Troy, he attended the public schools and was graduated from The Albany Academy in Albany, New York, in 1892 and from Williams College, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1896; he also studied at Oxford...
(R). Frank CrowtherFrank CrowtherFrank Crowther was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Liverpool, England, he immigrated to the United States in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Canton, Massachusetts...
(R). Bertrand H. Snell (R). Francis D. CulkinFrancis D. CulkinFrancis Dugan Culkin was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...
(R). Fred J. DouglasFred J. DouglasFred James Douglas was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, he moved with his parents to Little Falls, New York in 1874. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College in 1895...
(R). Bert LordBert LordBert Lord was a United States Representative from New York.Born in the town of Sanford, Broome County, he attended the public schools and the Afton Union School and Academy. He engaged in the mercantile business at Afton from 1893 to 1918, when he entered the lumber business and operated sawmills...
(R). Clarence E. HancockClarence E. Hancock-Biography:Born February 13, 1885 in Syracuse, New York, Hancock graduated from Wesleyan University in 1906 and New York Law School in 1908.Hancock represented New York in the House of Representatives as a Republican from 1927 to 1947. When Hancock represented the 35th district from 1927 to 1945,...
(R). John TaberJohn TaberJohn Taber was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(R). W. Sterling ColeW. Sterling ColeWilliam Sterling Cole was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Cole was born in Painted Post, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1925 and Albany Law School in 1929. He was elected to Congress in 1934 and served from January 3, 1935 until...
(R). George B. KellyGeorge B. KellyGeorge Bradshaw Kelly was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(D). James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R). Walter G. AndrewsWalter G. AndrewsWalter Gresham Andrews was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...
(R). Alfred F. BeiterAlfred F. BeiterAlfred Florian Beiter was a United States Representative from New York.Alfred was born in Clarence, Erie County, New York. He attended Williamsville High School and Niagara University....
(D). James M. MeadJames M. MeadJames Michael Mead represented New York in the United States Senate from 1938 until 1947.Born in Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, Mead moved to Buffalo with his family at the age of four...
(D), resigned December 2, 1938, vacant to end. Daniel A. ReedDaniel A. Reed-External links:...
(R). Matthew J. MerrittMatthew J. MerrittMatthew Joseph Merritt was an American politician from New York.-Life:He attended the public and high schools, and during the First World War served in 1918 as a sergeant in Company C, Three Hundred and Twenty-seventh Battalion, Tank Corps...
(D). Caroline O'Day (D)
- Bruce F. Barton
North Carolina
. Lindsay C. Warren (D). John H. KerrJohn H. Kerr
John Hosea Kerr , grand-nephew of John Kerr and relative of John Kerr, Jr., was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing North Carolina from 1923 to 1953...
(D). Graham A. Barden (D). Harold D. Cooley
Harold D. Cooley
Harold Dunbar Cooley was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the Fourth Congressional district of North Carolina from 1934 - 1967...
(D). Frank Hancock, Jr. (D). William B. Umstead
William B. Umstead
William Bradley Umstead was an American Senator and the 63rd Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.-Biography:Umstead was born in the northern Durham County town of Bahama in 1895...
(D). J. Bayard Clark
J. Bayard Clark
Jerome Bayard Clark was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.-Early life:Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied law. Clark was admitted to the bar in 1906 and...
(D). J. Walter Lambeth
J. Walter Lambeth
John Walter Lambeth was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Thomasville, North Carolina, Lambeth attended local public schools....
(D). Robert L. Doughton
Robert L. Doughton
Robert Lee "Bob" Doughton , of Alleghany County, North Carolina, sometimes known as "Farmer Bob," was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina for 42 consecutive years...
(D). Alfred L. Bulwinkle
Alfred L. Bulwinkle
Alfred Lee Bulwinkle was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Bulwinkle moved with his parents to Dallas, North Carolina, in 1891.He attended the common schools....
(D). Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and between 1931 and 1947.-Early years and education:...
(D)
North Dakota
. William LemkeWilliam Lemke
William Frederick Lemke was a United States politician.-Life and career:He was born in Albany, Minnesota, and raised in Towner County, North Dakota, the son of Fred Lemke and Julia Anna Klier, pioneer farmers who had accumulated some of land...
(Nonpartisan Republican). Usher L. Burdick
Usher L. Burdick
Usher Lloyd Burdick was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Dakota. He was the father of Quentin N. Burdick.-Early life and career:...
(Nonpartisan Republican)
Ohio
. Joseph A. DixonJoseph A. Dixon
Joseph Andrew Dixon was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dixon attended St. Patrick's School, Hughes High School, and Xavier University in Cincinnati. He served as clerk in a mercantile store 1893-1900. He engaged in retail clothing business in Anderson, Indiana, Hartford...
(D). Herbert S. Bigelow
Herbert S. Bigelow
Herbert Seely Bigelow was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Bigelow attended the public schools, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio....
(D). Byron B. Harlan
Byron B. Harlan
Byron Berry Harlan was an attorney, prosecutor, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio....
(D). Frank Le Blond Kloeb
Frank Le Blond Kloeb
Frank Le Blond Kloeb was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.-Biography:Frank L. Kloeb was born in Celina, Ohio. He attended the parochial and public schools, Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
(D), resigned August 19, 1937
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- Walter H. AlbaughWalter H. AlbaughWalter Hugh Albaugh was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Phoneton, Ohio, Albaugh attended both the public and high schools of his native city. He worked as a civil engineer where he surveyed fuel lands in Ohio and West Virginia from 1910 until 1911...
(R). Frank C. KniffinFrank C. KniffinFrank Charles Kniffin was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born on a farm near Stryker, Ohio, Kniffin attended the public schools and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Napoleon, Ohio...
(D). James G. PolkJames G. PolkJames Gould Polk was a prominent U.S. politician of the Democratic Party during the middle of the 20th century....
(D). Arthur W. AleshireArthur W. AleshireArthur William Aleshire was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born near Luray, Virginia, Aleshire attended the rural schools. He moved to Clark County, Ohio, in 1912 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Springfield. He was employed by a railway express company in 1921 and 1922...
(D). Thomas B. FletcherThomas B. Fletcherthumb|right|250pxThomas Brooks Fletcher was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Mechanicstown, Ohio, Fletcher attended the public schools, a private school at Augusta, Ohio, and the Richard School of Dramatic Art in Cleveland.He graduated from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, in 1900.He...
(D). John F. HunterJohn F. HunterJohn Feeney Hunter was a lawyer, soldier, and three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Ford City, Pennsylvania, Hunter moved with his parents in 1907 to Toledo, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of St. John's University in Toledo in 1918...
(D). Thomas A. JenkinsThomas A. JenkinsThomas Albert Jenkins of Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio was a member of the Ohio state senate and a long-serving U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th District...
(R). Harold K. ClaypoolHarold K. ClaypoolHarold Kile Claypool was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Horatio Clifford Claypool and cousin of John Barney Peterson....
(D). Arthur P. LamneckArthur P. LamneckArthur Philip Lamneck was a four-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Port Washington, Ohio, Lamneck attended the public schools and graduated from the Port Washington High School in 1897. He engaged in the sheet metal business at Columbus, Ohio, from 1907 to 1929. Lamneck served as delegate...
(D). Dudley A. WhiteDudley A. WhiteDudley Allen White was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in New London, Ohio, White attended the public schools and was graduated from the New London High School in 1918....
(R). Dow W. HarterDow W. HarterDow Watters Harter was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Akron, Ohio, Harter attended the Akron public schools....
(D). Robert T. SecrestRobert T. SecrestRobert Thompson Secrest was an American Democratic representative to the United States Congress from the state of Ohio. He served in Congress three separate times: 1933 to 1942, 1949 to 1954, and 1963 to 1966, resigning each time prior to the end of his term.-External links:*...
(D). William R. ThomWilliam R. ThomWilliam Richard Thom was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Canton, Ohio, Thom attended the public schools.He engaged as a newspaper reporter 1905-1909....
(D). William A. AshbrookWilliam A. AshbrookWilliam Albert Ashbrook was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and Democratic politician from Ohio....
(D). Lawrence E. ImhoffLawrence E. ImhoffLawrence E. Imhoff was a soldier, lawyer, and a four-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born at Round Bottom, Ohio, Imhoff moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1907. He attended the rural schools and St...
(D). Michael J. KirwanMichael J. KirwanMichael Joseph Kirwan was a United States Democrat from Ohio who served as a Representative to the United States Congress from 1937 to 1970 elected in the 19th electoral district of Ohio...
(D). Martin L. SweeneyMartin L. SweeneyMartin Leonard Sweeney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and the father of Robert E. Sweeney.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sweeney attended parochial and public schools in the area. Prior to his political career Sweeney worked as a laborer, hoisting engineer and a salesman from 1901-1913...
(D). Robert CrosserRobert CrosserRobert Crosser was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Crosser emigrated to the United States in 1881 with his parents and settled in Cleveland, Ohio....
(D). Anthony A. FlegerAnthony A. FlegerAnthony Alfred Fleger was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Austria-Hungary, in 1903 Fleger immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the public schools and graduated from the John Marshall School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926...
(D). John McSweeneyJohn McSweeney (politician)John McSweeney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Wooster, Ohio, McSweeney attended the public schools and was graduated from Wooster University in 1912....
(D). Harold G. MosierHarold G. MosierHarold Gerard Mosier was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mosier attended the public and high schools of his native city. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1912 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1915. He was admitted to...
(D)
- Walter H. Albaugh
Oklahoma
. Wesley E. DisneyWesley E. Disney
Wesley Ernest Disney was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born in Richland, Kansas, Disney attended the public schools of Kansas and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1906....
(D). John Conover Nichols
John Conover Nichols
John Conover Nichols was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.-Biography:Born in Joplin, Missouri, Nichols attended the public schools in Joplin, Missouri, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the teachers college at Emporia, Kansas.He studied law in the office of his brother in Eufaula, Oklahoma.He...
(D). Wilburn Cartwright
Wilburn Cartwright
Wilburn Cartwright was a lawyer, educator, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, and United States Army officer in World War II...
(D). Lyle Boren
Lyle Boren
Lyle Hagler Boren was a U.S. Democratic Party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma, serving from 1937 to 1947 and was defeated for renomination in 1946...
(D). Robert Potter Hill (D), died October 29, 1937
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- Gomer Griffith SmithGomer Griffith SmithGomer Griffith Smith was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born on a farm near Kansas City, Missouri, Smith attended the common and high schools of Missouri....
(D). Jed Johnson (D). Sam C. MassingaleSam C. MassingaleSamuel Chapman Massingale was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born in Quitman, Mississippi, Massingale attended the public schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford where he studied law....
(D). Phil FergusonPhil FergusonPhillip Colgan Ferguson was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Phil Ferguson was born on August 15, 1903 in Wellington, Kansas to W. M. and May Deems Ferguson. Ferguson attended public schools in Wellington, the Kemper Military School in Missouri, and graduated from the University of Kansas at...
(D). Will Rogers (D)
- Gomer Griffith Smith
Oregon
. James W. MottJames W. Mott
James Wheaton Mott was a U.S. Representative from Oregon. A graduate of Columbia University and Willamette University's law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter, city attorney, and was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives.-Early life:Born near New Washington, Pennsylvania, Mott...
(R). Walter M. Pierce
Walter M. Pierce
Walter Marcus Pierce was an American politician, a Democrat, who served as the 17th Governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from . A native of Illinois, he served in the Oregon State Senate before the governorship, and again after leaving the U.S. House...
(D). Nan Wood Honeyman
Nan Wood Honeyman
Nan Wood Honeyman was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A native of New York, she was the daughter of author and attorney Charles Erskine Scott Wood. After growing up in Oregon, she served in the Oregon House of Representatives and the Oregon State Senate...
(D)
Pennsylvania
. Leon SacksLeon Sacks
Leon Sacks was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:Leon Sacks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1923, and from the law department of the University of...
(D). James P. McGranery
James P. McGranery
James Patrick McGranery was an American lawyer and politician.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, he served in World War I as an observation balloon pilot with the United States Army Air Service, and as an adjutant in the One Hundred and Eleventh Infantry...
(D). Michael J. Bradley
Michael J. Bradley
Michael Joseph Bradley was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania....
(D). J. Burrwood Daly
J. Burrwood Daly
John Burrwood Daly was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Burrwood Daly was born in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia in 1890 and from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1896. He served as...
(D). Frank J.G. Dorsey (D). Michael J. Stack
Michael J. Stack
Michael Joseph Stack was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939.-Biography:...
(D). Ira W. Drew
Ira W. Drew
Ira Walton Drew was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Ira drew was born in Hardwick, VT. He apprenticed as a printer, becoming a journeyman in 1899. He was a newspaper reporter in Burlington, VT, from 1899 through 1906, and a reporter and news editor in...
(D). James Wolfenden
James Wolfenden
James Paine Wolfenden was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends' Central School and Penn Charter Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
(R). Oliver Walter Frey (D). J. Roland Kinzer
J. Roland Kinzer
John Roland Kinzer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Roland Kinzer was born on a farm near Terre Hill, Pennsylvania in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in...
(R). Patrick J. Boland
Patrick J. Boland
Patrick Joseph Boland was a United States representative for Pennsylvania 11th District.-Biography:Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he attended St. Thomas College. He worked as a carpenter and general contractor. He was on the Scranton city council from 1905 to 1906, the Board of education from...
(D). J. Harold Flannery
J. Harold Flannery
John Harold Flannery was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Harold Flannery was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1917 and from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in...
(D). James H. Gildea
James H. Gildea
James Hilary Gildea was a newspaperman and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
(D). Guy L. Moser
Guy L. Moser
Guy Louis Moser was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Guy L. Moser was born on a farm in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He attended the Keystone State Teachers’ College in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in painting and paperhanging...
(D). Albert G. Rutherford
Albert G. Rutherford
Albert Grieg Rutherford was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Albert G. Rutherford was born in Watford, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to the United States in 1883 with his parents, who settled in Carbondale, Pennsylvania...
(R). Robert F. Rich
Robert F. Rich
Robert Fleming Rich was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:...
(R). J. William Ditter
J. William Ditter
John William Ditter was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(R). Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R), died March 27, 1937
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- Richard M. SimpsonRichard M. SimpsonRichard Murray Simpson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Richard Simpson was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, in 1923 and from Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C., in 1942...
(R). Guy J. SwopeGuy J. SwopeGuy Jacob Swope was an American teacher, accountant, and Democratic politician. His career included one term as a United States Congressman in the Seventy-seventh United States Congress, serving as a Director in the United States Department of Interior under Franklin D...
(D). Benjamin JarrettBenjamin JarrettBenjamin Jarrett was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Benjamin Jarrett was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He worked as a telegraph operator and later as foreman in a steel mill. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in...
(R). Francis E. WalterFrancis E. WalterFrancis Eugene Walter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(D). Harry L. HainesHarry L. HainesHarry Luther Haines was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
(D). Don Gingery (D). J. Buell SnyderJ. Buell SnyderJohn Buell Snyder was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Buell Snyder was born on a farm in Upper Turkeyfoot Township, Pennsylvania. He attended summer sessions of Harvard University, and Columbia University in New York City...
(D). Charles I. FaddisCharles I. FaddisCharles Isiah Faddis was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:...
(D). Charles R. EckertCharles R. EckertCharles R. Eckert was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
(D). Joseph GrayJoseph Anthony GrayJoseph Anthony Gray was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph Gray was born in Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Eastman College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1905...
(D). Robert G. AllenRobert G. AllenRobert Gray Allen was an American businessman and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(D). Charles N. Crosby (D). Peter J. De MuthPeter J. De Muthright|300px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves [[White House]] after asking [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for $80,000,000 for flood control in [[Ohio Valley]], March 7, 1938. front: l-r [[Joseph A. Dixon]], [[James G. Polk]], [[Eugene B. Crowe]], [[George William Johnson |G W Johnson]], [[Lawrence E....
(D). James L. QuinnJames L. Quinn (politician)James Leland Quinn was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(D). Herman P. EberharterHerman P. EberharterHerman Peter Eberharter was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(D). Henry EllenbogenHenry EllenbogenHenry Clayton Ellenbogen was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Henry Ellenbogen was born in to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. He attended the University of Vienna Law School in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to the United States and settled in...
(D), resigned January 3, 1938, vacant remainder of term. Matthew A. DunnMatthew A. DunnMatthew Anthony Dunn was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
(D)
- Richard M. Simpson
Rhode Island
. Aime ForandAime Forand
Aime Joseph Forand was a U.S. Democratic politician.He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island in 1936 and served from January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1939, having lost his re-election campaign in 1938...
(D). John M. O'Connell (D)
South Carolina
. Thomas S. McMillanThomas S. McMillan
Thomas Sanders McMillan was a lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina.Born in the town of Ulmer in Allendale County, McMillan received his early childhood education at the schools in Ulmer. He graduated from the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute in 1907 and taught school for...
(D). Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 - October 19, 1944. After his death, his wife Willa L. Fulmer took over his seat.Fulmer was born near Springfield, South Carolina...
(D). John C. Taylor
John C. Taylor
John Clarence Taylor, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. He served for three terms from 1933 to 1939.-Biography:...
(D). Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr.
Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr.
Gabriel Heyward Mahon, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.Born in Williamston, South Carolina, Mahon moved with his parents to Greenville, South Carolina, in 1898....
(D). James P. Richards
James P. Richards
James Prioleau "Dick" Richards was a lawyer, judge, and Democrat U.S. Representative from South Carolina between 1933 and 1957. He later served as a special ambassador under Republican President Eisenhower....
(D). Allard H. Gasque
Allard H. Gasque
Allard Henry Gasque was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, husband of Elizabeth Hawley Gasque.Born on Friendfield plantation, near Hyman, Marion County, South Carolina, Gasque attended the public schools....
(D), died June 17, 1938
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- Elizabeth Hawley GasqueElizabeth Hawley GasqueElizabeth Hawley Gasque was a Congresswoman from South Carolina, the first woman elected to Congress from that state....
(D)
- Elizabeth Hawley Gasque
South Dakota
. Fred H. HildebrandtFred H. Hildebrandt
Fred Herman Hildebrandt was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota, serving three consecutive terms...
(D). Francis Case (R)
Tennessee
. B. Carroll ReeceB. Carroll Reece
Brazilla Carroll Reece was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.-Early life and career:Reece was born on a farm near Butler, Tennessee, one of thirteen children of John Isaac and Sarah Maples Reece...
(R). J. Will Taylor
J. Will Taylor
James Willis Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.Born near Lead Mine Bend in Union County, Tennessee, Taylor attended the public schools, Holbrook Normal College, Fountain City, Tennessee, and the American Temperance University, Harriman, Tennessee.He taught school for several years.He...
(R). Sam D. McReynolds
Sam D. McReynolds
Samuel Davis McReynolds was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on a farm near Pikeville, Tennessee in Bledsoe County on April 16, 1872. He attended the rural schools, People's College at...
(D). John Ridley Mitchell
John Ridley Mitchell
John Ridley Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.Born in Livingston, Tennessee, Mitchell attended the public schools.He was graduated from Peabody College of Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1896....
(D). Richard Merrill Atkinson
Richard Merrill Atkinson
Richard Merrill Atkinson was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Atkinson attended the public schools....
(D). Clarence W. Turner
Clarence W. Turner
Clarence Wyly Turner was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.-Biography:He was born on October 22, 1866 on a farm near Clydeton, Tennessee in Humphreys County. He attended the public schools, a preparatory school in Edgewood, Tennessee in...
(D). Herron C. Pearson
Herron C. Pearson
Herron Carney Pearson was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Born in Taylor, Texas, Pearson moved to Jackson, Tennessee, in 1891.He attended the public and high schools....
(D). Jere Cooper
Jere Cooper
Jere Cooper was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Cooper was born on a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee...
(D). Walter Chandler
Walter Chandler
Walter "Clift" Chandler was an American politician from Tennessee.Walter Chandler was born in Memphis in 1887 to parents of Scots/English descent. He attended public schools before going on to earn his law degree at the University of Tennessee...
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Texas
. Wright PatmanWright Patman
John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency .-Early life:...
(D). Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies, Jr. was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. His father, Martin Dies, was also a member of the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...
(D). Morgan G. Sanders
Morgan G. Sanders
Morgan Gurley Sanders was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born near Ben Wheeler, Texas, Sanders attended the public schools.He graduated from and taught school for three years.He owned and published a weekly newspaper....
(D). Sam Rayburn
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn , often called "Mr. Sam," or "Mr. Democrat," was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for seventeen years, the longest tenure in U.S. history.- Background :Rayburn was born in Roane County, Tennessee, and...
(D). Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners was a Congressman from Texas from 1913—1947 and served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.-Early life and career:...
(D). Luther A. Johnson (D). Nat Patton
Nat Patton
Nat Patton was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District of Texas from 1935 to 1945....
(D). Albert Thomas
Albert Richard Thomas
This article is about the US Congressman. For the article on the French Socialist and First Director of the International Labour Organisation see Albert Thomas ....
(D). Joseph J. Mansfield
Joseph J. Mansfield
Joseph Jefferson Mansfield was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Texas from 1917-1947.Mansfield was born on February 9, 1861. He was born in Wayne, West Virginia. However when he was born this was still part of state of Virginia...
(D). James P. Buchanan
James P. Buchanan
James Paul Buchanan served as U.S. Representative from the 10th district of Texas from 1913 until his death on 22 February 1937. He was the chair of the Appropriations committee from 1933 on.-Legacy:...
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- Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
(D), elected April 10, 1937. William R. PoageWilliam R. PoageWilliam Robert Poage was a Texas politician.Poage was born in Waco, Texas and served in the United States Navy during World War I. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1925 to 1929, and in the Texas Senate from 1931 to 1937.In 1936, Poage was elected to the House of Representatives...
(D). Fritz G. LanhamFritz G. LanhamFrederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. A Democrat, Lanham was the son of Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham, a governor of Texas and himself a member of Congress. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a...
(D). William D. McFarlaneWilliam D. McFarlaneWilliam Doddridge McFarlane was a United States Representative from Texas.Born in Greenwood, Arkansas, McFarlane attended public schools and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1909-1914. He engaged in the mercantile business in Greenwood, Arkansas from 1914 to 1918...
(D). Richard M. KlebergRichard M. KlebergRichard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr. , a Democrat, was a seven-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th congressional district over the period 1931–1945 and an heir to the King Ranch in South Texas. He was first elected in 1931 in a special election called due to the...
(D). Milton H. WestMilton H. WestMilton Horace West was a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 15th congressional district from 1933 until his death in 1948.-Early life:...
(D). R. Ewing ThomasonR. Ewing ThomasonRobert Ewing Thomason was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, and a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.Partner in a El Paso...
(D). Clyde L. GarrettClyde L. GarrettClyde Leonard Garrett was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born on a farm near Gorman, Texas, Garrett attended the public schools and Hankins' Normal College in his native city.Raised on a farm....
(D). Marvin JonesJohn Marvin JonesJudge John Marvin Jones was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas and Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims.-Biography:...
(D). George H. MahonGeorge H. MahonGeorge Herman Mahon was a Texas politician who served twenty-two consecutive terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the Lubbock-based 19th congressional district....
(D). Maury MaverickMaury MaverickFontaine Maury Maverick was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1939. He is best remembered for his independence from the party and for coining the term "gobbledygook" for obscure and euphemistic bureaucratic language...
(D). Charles L. SouthCharles L. SouthCharles Lacy South was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born on a farm near Damascus, Virginia. South moved with his parents to Callahan County, Texas, in 1898 and to Coleman County, Texas, in 1914....
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- Lyndon B. Johnson
Utah
. Abe Murdock (D). J. W. RobinsonJ. W. Robinson
James William Robinson was a U.S. Representative from Utah.Born in Coalville, Utah, Robinson attended public schools...
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Virginia
. S. Otis Bland (D). Norman R. HamiltonNorman R. Hamilton
Norman Rond Hamilton was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Hamilton attended the public and high schools.Newspaper reporter in Norfolk 1895-1914....
(D). Andrew J. Montague (D), died January 4, 1937
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- Dave E. Satterfield, Jr.Dave E. Satterfield, Jr.Dave Edward Satterfield, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Virginia's 3rd congressional district. He took office on November 2, 1937 after a special election to fill the vacancy created by the death of Andrew J...
(D). Patrick H. DrewryPatrick H. DrewryPatrick Henry Drewry was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Drewry attended the public schools, Petersburg High School, and McCabe's University School....
(D). Thomas G. BurchThomas G. BurchThomas Granville Burch was an American farmer, tobacco manufacturer, and politician from Martinsville, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1931 until 1946. In 1946 he served as a U.S...
(D). Clifton A. WoodrumClifton A. WoodrumClifton Alexander Woodrum was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Woodrum attended the public schools of his native city and the University College of Medicine , Richmond, Virginia.He became a registered pharmacist and engaged in his profession in Roanoke.He studied law at...
(D). A. Willis Robertson (D). Howard W. SmithHoward W. SmithHoward Worth Smith , Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia, was a leader of the conservative coalition who supported both racial segregation and women's rights.-Early life and education:...
(D). John W. Flannagan, Jr.John W. Flannagan, Jr.John William Flannagan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 - 1949.-Reference:...
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- Dave E. Satterfield, Jr.
Washington
. Warren G. MagnusonWarren G. Magnuson
Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson was a United States Senator of the Democratic Party from Washington from 1944 until 1981. Upon leaving the Senate, he was the most senior member of the body...
(D). Monrad C. Wallgren (D). Martin F. Smith
Martin F. Smith
Martin Fernard Smith was a U.S. Representative from Washington.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Smith attended the public schools, Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois, and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois....
(D). Knute Hill
Knute Hill
Knute Hill was a United States Representative from the state of Washington.-Background:Born on a farm near Creston, Illinois, Hill moved to De Forest, Wisconsin in 1877 and later to Red Wing, Minnesota in 1889. He attended both Red Wing Seminary and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis...
(D). Charles H. Leavy
Charles H. Leavy
Charles Henry Leavy was a U.S. Representative and U.S. District Judge from Washington.Born on a farm near York, Pennsylvania, Leavy moved to Kansas City, Missouri, with his parents in 1887....
(D). John M. Coffee
John M. Coffee
John Main Coffee was a U.S. Representative from Washington.Born in Tacoma, Washington, Coffee attended the public schools.He was in the University of Washington in Seattle, A.B...
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West Virginia
. Robert L. RamsayRobert L. Ramsay (politician)
Robert Lincoln Ramsay was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from West Virginia. The son of a coal miner, Robert Ramsay was born in Witton Gilbert, County Durham, England. Ramsay immigrated to the United States in 1881 with his parents, who settled in New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia...
(D). Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph was an American politician from West Virginia. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was the last surviving member of the United States Congress to have served during the first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.-Early life and career:Randolph was born in...
(D). Andrew Edmiston, Jr.
Andrew Edmiston, Jr.
Andrew Edmiston, Jr was a Democratic politician who served as a United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in Weston in Lewis County, West Virginia on November 13, 1892. He served in the Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses...
(D). George William Johnson
George William Johnson (congressman)
George William Johnson was a lawyer and Democratic politician who served as United States Representative from West Virginia.-Early life:He was born near Charles Town, West Virginia in Jefferson County on November 10, 1869...
(D). John Kee
John Kee
John Kee was a U.S. Democratic politician.-Biography:He was born in Glenville, West Virginia. He attended Glenville State Normal School and West Virginia University and was admitted to the bar in 1897...
(D). Joe L. Smith
Joe L. Smith
Joseph Luther Smith, commonly known as Joe L. Smith , was an American politician, and a member of the Democratic Party from West Virginia....
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Wisconsin
. Thomas Ryum AmlieThomas Ryum Amlie
Thomas Ryum Amlie was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939. He was a member of the Wisconsin Progressive Party.-External links:* at Find-A-Grave----...
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). Harry Sauthoff
Harry Sauthoff
Harry Sauthoff, Sr. , son of a German immigrant and brother of Dr. August Sauthoff, was a lawyer and politician from Madison, Wisconsin. A 1909 law graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he was district attorney of Dane County, Wisconsin, from 1915 to 1919. In 1921 Sauthoff served as...
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). Gardner R. Withrow
Gardner R. Withrow
Gardner Robert Withrow was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931–1939 and again from 1949–1961, when he did not seek reelection. Withrow was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and worked for the railroad and was involved in the labor union. He was a member of the Wisconsin...
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). Randolph Joseph Cannon (D). Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D). Michael K. Reilly (D). Gerald J. Boileau
Gerald J. Boileau
Gerald John Boileau was first a Republican, then a Wisconsin Progressive Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1939. After service in World War I, Boileau attended Marquette University Law School and was subsequently admitted to the bar...
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). George J. Schneider
George J. Schneider
George John Schneider was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Schneider moved to Appleton with his parents, attended the public schools of Appleton, Wisconsin....
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). Merlin Hull
Merlin Hull
Merlin Hull was a Wisconsin lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a member of the United States House of Representatives....
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
). Bernard J. Gehrmann
Bernard J. Gehrmann
Bernard John Gehrmann was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Gnesen, near Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Germany, Gehrmann attended the common schools in Germany....
(Prog.
Wisconsin Progressive Party
The Wisconsin Progressive Party , was a third party which briefly held a dominant role in Wisconsin politics. The Party was the brainchild of Philip La Follette and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., the sons of the famous Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr....
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Wyoming
. Paul Ranous GreeverPaul Ranous Greever
Paul Ranous Greever was a United States Representative from Wyoming. Born in Lansing, Kansas, he attended public and high schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1917...
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Non-voting members
. Anthony J. DimondAnthony Dimond
Anthony Joseph Dimond was an American Democratic Party politician who was the Alaska Territory Delegate in the United States House of Representatives for many years...
(D). Samuel Wilder King
Samuel Wilder King
Samuel Wilder King was the eleventh Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1953 to 1957. He was appointed to the office after the term of Oren E. Long. Previously, King served in the United States House of Representatives as a delegate from the Territory of Hawaii...
(R). Quintin Paredes
Quintín Paredes
Quintín B. Paredes was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and statesman.He was born in Bangued, Abra, Philippines in 1884 to Juan Felix Paredes and Regine Babila.-Education and early career:...
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Nacionalista Party
The Nacionalista Party is the oldest political party in the Philippines today and was responsible for leading the country throughout the majority of the 20th century since its founding in 1907...
), until September 29, 1938
- Joaquin Miguel ElizaldeJoaquín Miguel ElizaldeJoaquín Miguel Elizalde was a Philippine politician.He was educated at St. Joseph's College, London, and Dr. Schmidt’s Institute in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Elizalde was an industrialist and financier and economic adviser to President Manuel L...
(Nac.Nacionalista PartyThe Nacionalista Party is the oldest political party in the Philippines today and was responsible for leading the country throughout the majority of the 20th century since its founding in 1907...
), from September 29, 1938. Santiago Iglesias Pantín (Coalitionist)
Senate
- ChaplainChaplain of the United States SenateThe Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families. The Chaplain is appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Senate...
: - CuratorCurator of the United States SenateThe United States Senate Curator is an employee of the United States Senate who is responsible for developing and implementing the museum and preservation programs for the Senate Commission on Art. The Curator Office collects, preserves, and interprets the Senate's fine and decorative arts,...
: - HistorianHistorian of the United States SenateThe Historian of the United States Senate heads the United States Senate Historical Office, which was created in 1975 to record and preserve historical information about the United States Senate. The current Historian of the Senate is Donald A...
: - ParliamentarianParliamentarian of the United States SenateThe Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is the official advisor to the United States Senate on the interpretation of Standing Rules of the United States Senate and parliamentary procedure....
: - SecretarySecretary of the United States SenateThe Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...
: - Sergeant at ArmsSergeant at Arms of the United States SenateThe Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is the law enforcer for the United States Senate. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant is to hold the gavel used at every session...
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House of Representatives
- ChaplainChaplain of the United States House of RepresentativesThe election of William Linn as Chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Continental Congresses of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. The early Chaplains alternated duties with their Senate counterparts on a weekly basis, covering the...
: James Shera MontgomeryJames Shera MontgomeryJames Shera Montgomery was an American Methodist minister who served as the 55th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, April 11, 1921 - January 3, 1950.-Life and works:Montgomery served as House Chaplain for 19 years...
(Methodist) - ClerkClerk of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House....
: South TrimbleSouth TrimbleSouth Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.-Biography:... - DoorkeeperDoorkeeper of the United States House of RepresentativesAn appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...
: Joseph J. Sinnott - HistorianHistorian of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Historian of the United States House of Representatives is an official appointed by the United States House of Representatives to study and document its past....
: - ParliamentarianParliamentarian of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives manages, supervises, and administers its Office of the Parliamentarian, which is responsible for advising presiding officers, Members, and staff on procedural questions under the U.S...
: Lewis DeschlerLewis DeschlerLewis Deschler was the first, and longest serving, Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives. He started his term on February 1, 1927 during the 70th United States Congress following the retirement of Lehr Fess... - PostmasterPostmaster of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives was an employee of the United States Congress from 1834 to 1993.Before the creation of the office of Postmaster, mail duties were handled by workers in the office of the Doorkeeper, who were paid additional compensation...
: Finis E. Scott - Reading ClerksReading Clerk of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor...
: - Sergeant at ArmsSergeant at Arms of the United States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities. The Sergeant at Arms is elected at the beginning of each Congress by the membership of the chamber...
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