73rd United States Congress
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The Seventy-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1935, during the first two years of the first administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
[edit] Dates of sessions
March 4, 1933 - January 3, 1935
- Special session of the Senate: March 4, 1933 – March 6, 1933
- First session: March 9, 1933 – June 15, 1933
- Second session: January 3, 1934 - June 18, 1934
Previous congress: 72nd Congress
Next congress: 74th Congress
[edit] Major events
- Main article: Events of 1933; Events of 1934
[edit] Major legislation
[edit] Constitutional Amendments
- The twentieth amendment to the Constitution became effective in January 1934. This amendment changed both the date for convening Congress and the date for beginning each term. Thus the first session of the 73rd Congress convened in March 1933, but the second session convened in January 1934.
- The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was ratified in December 1933. This amendment repealed the eighteenth amendment which mandated national prohibition in the United States, which had been in effect since the Volstead Act of 1919. The amendment is unusual due to the fact that it was not passed by Congress, but was forced upon the Federal Government by a convention of states. Even though it was not passed by Congress, it still was the most publicized legislation of the day, and had significant effects on the 73rd Congress, particularly in the south, where prohibition was overwhelmingly embraced, and the amendment was seen as a "coup d'etat of immorality," as one southern Congressman remarked.
[edit] Legislation
[edit] Special Session
The special session of Congress, which took place before the regular seating, was called by President Roosevelt specifically to pass two acts:
- The Emergency Banking Act was passed on March 9, 1933 within four hours of its introduction. It was prompted by the "bank holiday" and was the first step in Roosevelt's "first hundred days" of the New Deal. The Act was drafted in large part by officials appointed by the Hoover administration. The bill provided for the Treasury Department to initiate reserve requirements and a federal bailout to large failing institutions. It also removed the United States from the Gold Standard. All banks had to undergo a federal inspection to deem if they were stable enough to re-open. Within a week 1/3rd of the banks re-opened in the United States and faith was, in large part, restored in the banking system. The act had few opponents, only taking fire from the farthest left elements of Congress who wanted to nationalize banks all-together.
- The Economy Act of 1933 was passed on March 10, 1933. Roosevelt, in sending this act to Congress, warned that if it did not pass, the country faced a billion dollar deficit. The act balanced the federal budget by cutting the salaries of government employees and cutting pensions to veterans by as much as 15 percent. It intended to reassure the deficit hawks that the new president was fiscally conservative. Although the act was heavily protested by left-leaning members of congress, it passed by an overwhelming margin.
[edit] First Session
- The Emergency Conservation Work Act was passed on March 31, 1933. It established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to combat unemployment and poverty.
- The Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed on May 12, 1933. It was part of a plan developed by Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, and was designed to protect American farmers from the uncertainties of the depression through subsidies and production controls. The act laid the frame for long-term government control in the planning of the agricultural sector. In 1936 the act was ruled unconstitution by the United States Supreme Court because it taxed one group to pay for another.
- The Tennessee Valley Authority Act passed on May 18, 1933. It created the Tennessee Valley Authority to relieve the Tennessee Valley by a series of public works projects.
- The Federal Emergency Relief Act passed on May 22, 1933. It established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which develop public works projects to give work to the unemployed.
- The Securities Act of 1933 was passed on June 5, 1933. It established the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as a way for the government to prevent a repeat of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
- The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was passed on June 12, 1933 and was a follow up to the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932. Both acts sought to make banking safer and less prone to speculation. The 1933 act, however, established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was passed on June 16, 1933. It was an anti-deflation scheme promoted by the Chamber of Commerce that reversed anti-trust laws and permit trade associations to cooperate in stabilizing prices within their industries while making businesses ensure that the incomes of workers would rise along with their prices. It guaranteed to workers of the right of collective bargaining and helped spur major union organizing drives in major industries. In case consumer buying power lagged behind, thereby defeating the administration's initiatives, the NIRA created the Public Works Administration (PWA), a major program of public works spending designed to alleviate unemployment, and moreover to transfer funds to certain beneficiaries. The NIRA established the most important, but ultimately least successful provision: a new federal agency known as the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to stabilize prices and wages through cooperative "code authorities" involving government, business, and labor. The NIRA was seen hailed as a miracle, responding to the needs of labor, business, unemployment, and the deflation crisis. Unfortunately, the "sick chicken case" lead to the Supreme Court invalidating NIRA in 1935, although it was in effect long enough for it to accomlish a good deal of what it set out to do.
[edit] Second Session
- The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 was a growth off of the Securities Act of 1933 and regulated participation in financial markets.
[edit] Hearings
[edit] "Merchants of Death" hearings
Committee: U.S. Senate Committee on Munitions
Chairman: Senator Gerald P. Nye (R-North Dakota)
Duration: September 4, 1934-February 1936
The Senate Munitions Committee came into existence souly for the purpose of this hearing. Although World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53,000 Americans, hence the nickname "Merchants of Death".
The Democratic Party, controlling the Senate for the first time since the first world war, used the hype of these reports to organise the hearing in hopes of nationalizing America's munitions industry. The Democrats chose a Republican renowned for his ardent isolationist policies, Senator Nye of North Dakota, to head the hearing. Nye was typical of western agrarian progressives, and adamantly opposed America's involvement in any foreign war. Nye declared at the opening of the hearing "when the Senate investigation is over, we shall see that war and preparation for war is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few."
Over the next eighteen months, the "Nye Committee" (as newspapers called it) held ninety-three hearings, questioning more than two hundred witnesses, including J.P. Morgan, Jr. and Pierre du Pont. Committee members found little hard evidence of an active conspiracy among arms makers, yet the panel’s reports did little to weaken the popular prejudice against "greedy munitions interests."
The hearings overlapped the 73rd and 74th Congresses. They only came to an end after Chairman Nye provoked the Democratic caucus into cutting off funding. Nye, in the last hearing the Committee held in early 1936, attacked former Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, suggesting that Wilson had withheld essential information from Congress as it considered a declaration of war. Democratic leaders, including Appropriations Committee Chairman Carter Glass of Virginia, unleashed a furious response against Nye for "dirtdaubing the sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson." Standing before cheering colleagues in a packed Senate chamber, Glass slammed his fist onto his desk in protest until blood dripped from his knuckles, effectively prompting the Democratic caucus to withhold all funding for further hearings.
Although the "Nye Committee" failed to achieve its goal of nationalizing the arms industry, it inspired three congressional neutrality acts in the mid-1930s that signaled profound American opposition to overseas involvement.
[edit] Party summary
[edit] Senate
Affiliation | Members At Seating | Members At Adjournment | Voting share |
Note | ||
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Democratic Party | 59 | 60 | -% | Senator Robert B. Howell (R-Nebraska) died and was replaced by a Democrat. | ||
Republican Party | 36 | 35 | -% | |||
Farmer Labor Party | 1 | 1 | -% | |||
Total | 96 | 96 |
[edit] House of Representatives
Affiliation | Members At Seating | Members At Adjournment | Voting share |
Note | ||
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Democratic Party | 313 | 312 | -% | |||
Republican Party | 117 | 112 | -% | |||
Farmer Labor Party | 5 | 5 | -% | |||
Progressive Party | 0 | 2 | -% | |||
Total | 435 | 431 | 4 Vacancies [3] |
[edit] Notes
- ^ * Representative Thomas C. Coffin (D-Idaho) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.
- Speaker Henry T. Rainey (D-Illinois) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session. Likewise, a new Speaker was not elected until the next session.
- ^ * Representative Henry W. Watson (R-Pennsylvania) died and was replaced by a Democrat.
- Representative George F. Brumm (R-Pennsylvania) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.
- Representative James M. Beck (R-Pennsylvania) resigned and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.
- Representatives Gardner R. Withrow and Gerald J. Boileau (R-Wisconsin) changed to the Progressive Party.
- ^ 73rd United States Congress#Changes in Membership
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
Position | Name | Party | State | Since | |
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President | John Nance Garner | Democrat | Texas | 1933 | |
President Pro Tempore | Key Pittman | Democrat | Nevada | 1933 |
[edit] Majority leadership
Position | Name | State | Since | |
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Senate Majority Leader | Joseph T. Robinson | Arkansas | 1933 | |
Senate Majority Whip | J. Hamilton Lewis | Illinois | 1933 | |
Democratic Conference Chairman | Joseph T. Robinson | Arkansas | 1923 |
[edit] Minority leadership
Position | Name | State | Since | |
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Senate Minority Leader | Charles L. McNary | Oregon | 1933 | |
Senate Minority Whip | Felix Herbert | Rhode Island | 1933 | |
Republican Conference Chairman | Charles L. McNary | Oregon | 1933 |
[edit] House of Representatives
[edit] Majority leadership
Position | Name | District | Since | |
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Speaker of the House | Henry T. Rainey | Illinois 20th | 1933 | |
House Majority Leader | Joseph W. Byrns | Tennessee 5th | 1933 | |
House Majority Whip | Arthur H. Greenwood | Indiana 7th | 1933 | |
Democratic Caucus Chairman | Clarence F. Lea | California 1st | 1933 |
[edit] Minority leadership
Position | Name | District | Since | |
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House Minority Leader | Bertrand H. Snell | New York 31st | 1931 | |
House Minority Whip | Harry L. Englebright | California 2nd | 1933 | |
Republican Conference Chairman | Robert Luce | Massachusetts 9th | 1933 |
[edit] Members
[edit] Senate
- 3. Hugo Black (Dem.)
- 2. John H. Bankhead II (Dem.)
- 1. Henry F. Ashurst (Dem.)
- 3. Carl Hayden (Dem.)
- 2. Joseph Robinson (Dem.)
- 3. Hattie Carraway (Dem.)
- 1. Hiram Johnson (Rep.)
- 3. William G. McAdoo (Dem.)
- 2. Edward P. Costigan (Dem.)
- 3. Alva B. Adams (Dem.)
- 1. Frederic C. Walcott (Rep.)
- 3. Augustine Lonergan (Dem.)
- 2. Daniel O. Hastings (Rep.)
- 1. John G. Townsend, Jr. (Rep.)
- 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (Dem.)
- 1. Park Trammell (Dem.)
- 2. Walter F. George (Dem.)
- 3. Richard B. Russell, Jr. (Dem.)
- 2. William E. Borah (Rep.)
- 3. James P. Pope (Dem.)
- 2. James H. Lewis (Dem.)
- 3. William H. Dieterich (Dem.)
- 1. Arthur R. Robinson (Rep.)
- 3. Frederick Van Nuys (Dem.)
- 2. L. J. Dickinson (Rep.)
- 3. Louis Murphy (Dem.)
- 2. Arthur Capper (Rep.)
- 3. George McGill (Dem.)
- 3. Alben W. Barkley (Dem.)
- 2. Marvel M. Logan (Dem.)
- 2. Huey P. Long (Dem.)
- 3. John H. Overton (Dem.)
- 1. Frederick Hale (Rep.)
- 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep.)
- 3. Millard E. Tydings (Dem.)
- 1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (Rep.)
- 1. David I. Walsh (Dem.)
- 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (Dem.)
- 2. James Couzens (Rep.)
- 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (Rep.)
- 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)
- 2. Thomas D. Schall (Rep.)
- 2. Pat Harrison (Dem.)
- 1. Hubert D. Stephens (Dem.)
- 1. Roscoe C. Patterson (Rep.)
- 3. Joel Bennett Clark (Dem.)
- 1. Burton K. Wheeler (Dem.)
- 2. John E. Erickson (Dem.), appointed to fill an unexpired term
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- 2. James E. Murray (Dem.) elected to complete term
- 2. George W. Norris (Rep.)
- 1. Robert B. Howell (Rep.), died March 11, 1933
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- 1. William H. Thompson (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy
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- 1. Richard C. Hunter (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy
- 1. Key Pittman (Dem.)
- 3. Patrick A. McCarran (Dem.)
- 2. Henry W. Keyes (Rep.)
- 3. Fred Brown (Dem.)
- 1. Hamilton F. Kean (Rep.)
- 2. Dwight W. Morrow (Rep.)
- 2. Sam G. Bratton (Dem.), resigned
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- 2. Carl Hatch (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy
- 1. Bronson M. Cutting (Rep.)
- 1. Royal S. Copeland (Dem.)
- 3. Robert F. Wagner (Dem.)
- 2. Josiah William Bailey (Dem.)
- 3. Robert R. Reynolds (Dem.)
- 1. Lynn Frazier (Rep.)
- 3. Gerald P. Nye (Rep.)
- 1. Simeon D. Fess (Rep.)
- 3. Robert J. Buckley (Dem.)
- 3. J.W. Elmer Thomas (Dem.)
- 2. Thomas P. Gore (Dem.)
- 2. Charles L. McNary (Rep.)
- 3. Fredrick Steiwer (Rep.)
- 1. David A. Reed (Rep.)
- 3. James J. Davis (Rep.)
- 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (Rep.)
- 1. Felix Hebert (Rep.)
- 3. Ellison D. Smith (Dem.)
- 2. James F. Byrnes (Dem.)
- 3. Peter Norbeck (Rep.)
- 2. William J. Bulow (Dem.)
- 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (Dem.)
- 2. Nathan Lynn Bachman (Dem.)
- 2. Morris Sheppard (Dem.)
- 1. Thomas T. Connally (Dem.)
- 1. William H. King (Dem.)
- 3. Elbert D. Thomas (Dem.)
- 3. Porter H. Dale (Rep.), died October 6, 1933
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- 3. Ernest W. Gibson (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy
- 1. Warren R. Austin (Rep.)
- 2. Carter Glass (Dem.)
- 1. Harry F. Byrd (Dem.)
- 1. Clarence C. Dill (Dem.)
- 3. Homer T. Bone (Dem.)
- 1. Henry D. Hatfield (Rep.)
- 2. Matthew M. Neely (Dem.)
- 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (Rep.)
- 3. F. Ryan Duffy (Dem.)
- 1. John B. Kendrick (Dem.), died November 3, 1933
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- 1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy
- 2. Robert D. Carey (Rep.)
[edit] House of Representatives
- 1. John McDuffie (Dem.)
- 2. J. Lister Hill (Dem.)
- 3. Henry B. Steagall (Dem.)
- 4. Lamar Jeffers (Dem.)
- 5. Miles C. Allgood (Dem.)
- 6. William B. Oliver (Dem.)
- 7. William B. Bankhead (Dem.)
- 8. Edward B. Almon (Dem.), died June 22, 1933
- 9. George Huddleston (Dem.)
- At Large - Isabella Selmes Greenway (Dem.)
- 1. William J. Driver (Dem.)
- 2. John E. Miller (Dem.)
- 3. Claude A. Fuller (Dem.)
- 4. William B. Cravens (Dem.)
- 5. Heartsill Ragon (Dem.), resigned
- 1. Clarence F. Lea (Dem.)
- 2. Harry L. Englebright (Rep.)
- 3. Frank H. Buck (Dem.)
- 4. Florence P. Kahn (Rep.)
- 5. Richard J. Welch (Rep.)
- 6. Albert E. Carter (Rep.)
- 7. Ralph R. Eltse (Rep.)
- 8. John J. McGrath (Dem.)
- 9. Denver S. Church (Dem.)
- 10. Henry E. Stubbs (Dem.)
- 11. William E. Evans (Rep.)
- 12. John H. Hoeppel (Dem.)
- 13. Charles Kramer (Dem.)
- 14. Thomas F. Ford (Dem.)
- 15. William I. Traeger (Rep.)
- 16. John F. Dockweiler (Dem.)
- 17. Charles J. Colden (Dem.)
- 18. John H. Burke (Dem.)
- 19. Sam L. Collins (Rep.)
- 20. George Burnham (Rep.)
- 1. Lawrence Lewis (Dem.)
- 2. Fred N. Cummings (Dem.)
- 3. John A. Martin (Dem.)
- 4. Edward T. Taylor (Dem.)
- At-Large - Charles M. Bakewell (Rep.)
- 1. Herman P. Kopplemann (Dem.)
- 2. William L. Higgins (Rep.)
- 3. Francis T. Maloney (Dem.)
- 4. Schuyler Merritt (Rep.)
- 5. Edward W. Goss (Rep.)
- At Large - Wilbur L. Adams (Dem.)
- At-Large - William J. Sears (Dem.)
- 1. J. Hardin Peterson (Dem.)
- 2. Robert A. Green (Dem.)
- 3. Millard F. Caldwell (Dem.)
- 4. J. Mark Wilcox (Dem.)
- 1. Homer C. Parker (Dem.)
- 2. Edward E. Cox (Dem.)
- 3. Bryant T. Castellow (Dem.)
- 4. Emmett M. Owen (Dem.)
- 5. Robert Ramspeck (Dem.)
- 6. Carl Vinson (Dem.)
- 7. Malcom C. Tarver (Dem.)
- 8. Braswell Deen (Dem.)
- 9. John S. Wood (Dem.)
- 10. Charles H. Brand (Dem.), died May 17, 1933
- 1. Compton I. White (Dem.)
- 2. Thomas C. Coffin (Dem.), died June 8, 1934. Seat remained vacant.
- At-Large - Martin A. Brennan (Dem.)
- At-Large - Walter Nesbit (Dem.)
- 1. Oscar De Priest (Rep.)
- 2. P. H. Moynihan (Rep.)
- 3. Edward A. Kelly (Dem.)
- 4. Harry P. Beam (Dem.)
- 5. Adolph J. Sabath (Dem.)
- 6. Thomas J. O’Brien (Dem.)
- 7. Leonard W. Schuetz (Dem.)
- 8. Leo Kocialkowski (Dem.)
- 9. Frederick A. Britten (Rep.)
- 10. James Simpson, Jr. (Rep.)
- 11. Frank R. Reid (Rep.)
- 12. John T. Buckbee (Rep.)
- 13. Leo E. Allen (Rep.)
- 14. Chester Thompson (Dem.)
- 15. J. Leroy Adair (Dem.)
- 16. Everett M. Dirksen (Rep.)
- 17. Frank Gillespie (Dem.)
- 18. James A. Meeks (Dem.)
- 19. Donald C. Dobbins (Dem.)
- 20. Henry T. Rainey (Dem.), died August 19, 1934. Seat remained vacant.
- 21. J. Earl Major (Dem.)
- 22. Edwin M. Schaefer (Dem.)
- 23. William W. Arnold (Dem.)
- 24. Claude V. Parsons (Dem.)
- 25. Kent E. Keller (Dem.)
- 1. William T. Schulte (Dem.)
- 2. George Richard Durgan (Dem.)
- 3. Samuel B. Pettengill (Dem.)
- 4. James I. Farley (Dem.)
- 5. Glenn Griswold (Dem.)
- 6. Virginia Jenckes (Dem.)
- 7. Arthur H. Greenwood (Dem.)
- 8. John W. Boehne, Jr. (Dem.)
- 9. Eugene B. Crowe (Dem.)
- 10. Finly H. Gray (Dem.)
- 11. William H. Larrabee (Dem.)
- 12. Louis Ludlow (Dem.)
- 1. Edward Clayton Eicher (Dem.)
- 2. Bernhard Martin Jacobsen (Dem.)
- 3. Albert Clinton Willford (Dem.)
- 4. Frederick Elliot Biermann (Dem.)
- 5. Lloyd Thurston (Rep.)
- 6. Cassius C. Dowell (Rep.)
- 7. Otha D. Wearin (Dem.)
- 8. Fred C. Gilchrist (Rep.)
- 9. Guy M. Gillette (Dem.)
- 1. William P. Lambertson (Rep.)
- 2. U. S. Guyer (Rep.)
- 3. Harold Clement McGugin (Rep.)
- 4. Randolph Carpenter (Dem.)
- 5. William A. Ayres (Dem.)
- 6. Kathryn Ellen O'Laughlin McCarthy (Dem.)
- 7. Clifford R. Hope (Rep.)
- At-Large - John Y. Brown (Dem.)
- At-Large - Cap R. Carden (Dem.)
- At-Large - Glover H. Cary (Dem.)
- At-Large - Virgil Chapman (Dem.)
- At-Large - W. Voris Gregory (Dem.)
- At-Large - Finley Hamilton (Dem.)
- At-Large - Andrew J. May (I)
- At-Large - Brent Spence (Dem.)
- At-Large - Fred M. Vinson (Dem.)
- 1. Joachim O. Fernandez (Dem.)
- 2. Paul H. Maloney (Dem.)
- 3. Numa F. Montet (Dem.)
- 4. John N. Sandlin (Dem.)
- 5. Riley J. Wilson (Dem.)
- 6. Bolivar E. Kemp (Dem.), died June 19, 1933
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- 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy
- 7. René L. DeRouen (Dem.)
- 8. Cleveland Dear (Dem.)
- 1. T. Alan Goldsborough (Dem.)
- 2. William P. Cole, Jr. (Dem.)
- 3. Vincent L. Palmisano (Dem.)
- 4. Ambrose J. Kennedy (Dem.)
- 5. Stephen W. Gambrill (Dem.)
- 6. David J. Lewis (Dem.)
- 1. Allen T. Treadway (Rep.)
- 2. William J. Granfield (Dem.)
- 3. Frank H. Foss (Rep.)
- 4. Pehr G. Holmes (Rep.)
- 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (Rep.)
- 6. A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (Rep.)
- 7. William P. Connery, Jr. (Dem.)
- 8. Arthur D. Healey (Dem.)
- 9. Robert Luce (Rep.)
- 10. George H. Tinkham (Rep.)
- 11. John J. Douglass (Dem.)
- 12. John W. McCormack (Dem.)
- 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (Rep.)
- 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Rep.)
- 15. Charles L. Grifford (Rep.)
- 1. George G. Sadowski (Dem.)
- 2. John C. Lehr (Dem.)
- 3. Joseph L. Hooper (Rep.)
- 4. George Foulkes (Dem.)
- 5. Carl E. Mapes (Dem.)
- 6. Claude E. Cady (Dem.)
- 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.)
- 8. Michael J. Hart (Dem.)
- 9. Harry W. Musselwhite (Dem.)
- 10. Roy O. Woodruff (Dem.)
- 11. Prentiss M. Brown (Dem.)
- 12. W. Frank James (Rep.)
- 13. Clarence J. McLeod (Rep.)
- 14. Carl M. Weideman (Dem.)
- 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (Dem.)
- 16. John Lesinski, Sr. (Dem.)
- 17. George A. Dondero (Rep.)
- At-Large - Henry M. Arens (FL)
- At-Large - Ray P. Chase (Rep.)
- At-Large - Theodore Christianson (Rep.)
- At-Large - Einar Hoidale (Dem.)
- At-Large - Magnus Johnson (FL)
- At-Large - Harold Knutson (Rep.)
- At-Large - Paul John Kvale (FL)
- At-Large - Ernest Lundeen (FL)
- At-Large - Francis Shoemaker (FL)
- 1. John E. Rankin (Dem.)
- 2. Wall Doxey (Dem.)
- 3. William M. Whittington (Dem.)
- 4. T. Jeff Busby (Dem.)
- 5. Ross A. Collins (Dem.)
- 6. William M. Colmer (Dem.)
- 7. Lawrence Russell Ellzey (Dem.)
- At-Large - Clarence Cannon (Dem.)
- At-Large - James Robert Claiborne (Dem.)
- At-Large - John J. Cochran (Dem.)
- At-Large - Clement C. Dickinson (Dem.)
- At-Large - Richard M. Duncan (Dem.)
- At-Large - Frank H. Lee (Dem.)
- At-Large - Ralph F. Lozier (Dem.)
- At-Large - Jacob L. Milligan (Dem.)
- At-Large - Milton A. Romjue (Dem.)
- At-Large - James Edward Ruffin (Dem.)
- At-Large - Joseph B. Shannon (Dem.)
- At-Large - Clyde Williams (Dem.)
- At-Large - Reuben T. Wood (Dem.)
- 1. Joseph P. Monaghan (Dem.)
- 2. Roy E. Ayers (Dem.)
- 1. John H. Morehead (Dem.)
- 2. Edward R. Burke (Dem.)
- 3. Edgar Howard (Dem.)
- 4. Ashton C. Shallenberger (Dem.)
- 5. Terry Carpenter (Dem.)
- At-Large - James G. Scrugham (Dem.)
- 1. William Nathaniel Rogers (Dem.)
- 2. Charles W. Tobey (Rep.)
- 1. Charles A. Wolverton (Rep.)
- 2. Issac Bacharach (Rep.)
- 3. William H. Sutphin (Dem.)
- 4. D. Lane Powers (Rep.)
- 5. Charles A. Eaton (Rep.)
- 6. Donald H. McLean (Rep.)
- 7. Randolph Perkins (Rep.)
- 8. George N. Seger (Rep.)
- 9. Edward A. Kenney (Dem.)
- 10. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (Rep.)
- 11. Peter A. Cavicchia (Rep.)
- 12. Frederick R. Lehlbach (Rep.)
- 13. Mary T. Norton (Dem.)
- 14. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (Dem.)
- At-Large - Dennis Chavez (Dem.)
- At-Large - John Fitzgibbons (Dem.)
- At-Large - Elmer E. Studley (Dem.)
- 1. Robert L. Bacon (Rep.)
- 2. William F. Brunner (Dem.)
- 3. George W. Lindsay (Dem.)
- 4. Thomas H. Cullen (Dem.)
- 5. Loring M. Black, Jr. (Dem.)
- 6. Andrew L. Somers (Dem.)
- 7. John J. Delaney (Dem.)
- 8. Patrick J. Carley (Dem.)
- 9. Stephen A. Rudd (Dem.)
- 10. Emanuel Celler (Dem.)
- 11. Anning S. Prall (Dem.)
- 12. Samuel Dickstein (Dem.)
- 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (Dem.)
- 14. William I. Sirovich (Dem.)
- 15. John J. Boylan (Dem.)
- 16. John J. O'Conner (Dem.)
- 17. Theodore A. Peyser (Dem.)
- 18. Martin J. Kennedy (Dem.)
- 19. Sol Bloom (Dem.)
- 20. James J. Lanzetta (Dem.)
- 21. Joseph A. Gavagan (Dem.)
- 22. Anthony J. Griffin (Dem.)
- 23. Frank Oliver (Dem.)
- 24. James M. Fitzpatrick (Dem.)
- 25. Charles D. Millard (Rep.)
- 26. Hamilton Fish (Rep.)
- 27. Philip A. Goodwin (Rep.)
- 28. Parker Corning (Dem.)
- 29. James S. Parker (Rep.), died December 19, 1933
- 30. Frank Crowther (Rep.)
- 31. Bertrand H. Snell (Rep.)
- 32. Francis D. Culkin (Rep.)
- 33. Fred J. Sisson (Dem.)
- 34. John D. Clarke (Rep.), died November 5, 1933
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- 34. Marian W. Clarke (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy
- 35. Clarence E. Hancock (Rep.)
- 36. John Taber (Rep.)
- 37. Gale H. Stalker (Rep.)
- 38. James L. Whitley (Rep.)
- 39. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (Rep.)
- 40. Walter G. Andrews (Rep.)
- 41. Alfred F. Beiter (Dem.)
- 42. James M. Mead (Dem.)
- 43. Daniel A. Reed (Rep.)
- 1. Lindsay C. Warren (Dem.)
- 2. John H. Kerr (Dem.)
- 3. Charles L. Abernathy (Dem.)
- 4. Edward W. Pou (Dem.), died April 1, 1934
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- 4. Harold D. Cooley (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy
- 5. Frank Hancock, Jr. (Dem.)
- 6. William B. Umstead (Dem.)
- 7. J. Bayard Clark (Dem.)
- 8. J. Walter Lambeth (Dem.)
- 9. Robert L. Doughton (Dem.)
- 10. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (Dem.)
- 11. Zebulon Weaver (Dem.)
- At-Large - William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican)
- At-Large - James H. Sinclair (Rep.)
- At-Large - Charles V. Truax (Dem.)
- At-Large - Stephen M. Young (Dem.)
- 1. John B. Hollister (Rep.)
- 2. William E. Hess (Rep.)
- 3. Byron B. Harlan (Dem.)
- 4. Frank Le Blond Kloeb (Dem.)
- 5. Frank Charles Kniffin (Dem.)
- 6. James G. Polk (Dem.)
- 7. Leroy Tate Marshall (Rep.)
- 8. Thomas Brooks Fletcher (Dem.)
- 9. Warren J. Duffey (Dem.)
- 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (Rep.)
- 11. Mell G. Underwood (Dem.)
- 12. Arthur Philip Lamneck (Dem.)
- 13. William Louis Fiesinger (Rep.)
- 14. Dow W. Harter (Dem.)
- 15. Robert T. Secrest (Dem.)
- 16. William R. Thom (Dem.)
- 17. Charles Franklin West (Dem.)
- 18. Lawrence E. Imhoff (Dem.)
- 19. John G. Cooper (Rep.)
- 20. Martin L. Sweeney (Dem.)
- 21. Robert Crosser (Dem.)
- 22. Chester C. Bolton (Rep.)
- At-Large - Will Rogers, Jr. (Dem.)
- 1. Wesley E. Disney (Dem.)
- 2. William W. Hastings (Dem.)
- 3. Wilburn Cartwright (Dem.)
- 4. Tom D. McKeown (Dem.)
- 5. Fletcher B. Swank (Dem.)
- 6. Jed Johnson (Dem.)
- 7. James V. McClintic (Dem.)
- 8. Ernest W. Marland (Dem.)
- 1. James W. Mott (Rep.)
- 2. Walter M. Pierce (Dem.)
- 3. Charles H. Martin (Dem.)
- 1. Harry C. Ransley (Rep.)
- 2. James M. Beck (Rep.), resigned. Seat remained vacant.
- 3. Alfred Marpole Waldron (Rep.)
- 4. George Washington Edmonds (Rep.)
- 5. James J. Connolly (Rep.)
- 6. Edward Lowber Stokes (Rep.)
- 7. George P. Darrow (Rep.)
- 8. James Wolfenden (Rep.)
- 9. Henry W. Watson (Rep.), died August 27, 1933
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- 9. Oliver Walter Frey (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy
- 10. J. Roland Kinzer (Rep.)
- 11. Patrick J. Boland (Dem.)
- 12. C. Murray Turpin (Rep.)
- 13. George F. Brumm (Rep.), died May 29, 1934
- 14. William Emanuel Richardson (Dem.)
- 15. Louis T. McFadden (Rep.)
- 16. Robert F. Rich (Rep.)
- 17. J. William Ditter (Rep.)
- 18. Benjamin Kurtz Focht (Rep.)
- 19. Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (Rep.)
- 20. Thomas Cunningham Cochran (Rep.)
- 21. Francis E. Walter (Dem.)
- 22. Harry L. Haines (Dem.)
- 23. J. Banks Kurtz (Rep.)
- 24. J. Buell Snyder (Dem.)
- 25. Charles I. Faddis (Dem.)
- 26. J. Howard Swick (Rep.)
- 27. Nathan L. Strong (Rep.)
- 28. William M. Berlin (Dem.)
- 29. Charles N. Crosby (Dem.)
- 30. J. Twing Brooks (Dem.)
- 31. M. Clyde Kelly (Rep.)
- 32. Michael Joseph Muldowney (Rep.)
- 33. Henry Ellenbogen (Dem.)
- 34. Matthew A. Dunn (Dem.)
- 1. Thomas S. McMillan (Dem.)
- 2. Hampton P. Fulmer (Dem.)
- 3. John Clarence Taylor (Dem.)
- 4. John J. McSwain (Dem.)
- 5. James P. Richards (Dem.)
- 6. Allard H. Gasque (Dem.)
- 1. B. Carroll Reece (Rep.)
- 2. J. Will Taylor (Rep.)
- 3. Sam D. McReynolds (Dem.)
- 4. John Ridley Mitchell (Dem.)
- 5. Joseph W. Byrns (Dem.)
- 6. Clarence W. Turner (Dem.)
- 7. Gordon Browning (Dem.)
- 8. Jere Cooper (Dem.)
- 9. Edward H. Crump (Dem.)
- At-Large - Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. (Dem.)
- At-Large - Sterling Price Strong (Dem.)
- At-Large - George Butler Terrell (Dem.)
- 1. Wright Patman (Dem.)
- 2. Martin Dies, Jr. (Dem.)
- 3. Morgan G. Sanders (Dem.)
- 4. Sam Rayburn (Dem.)
- 5. Hatton W. Sumners (Dem.)
- 6. Luther A. Johnson (Dem.)
- 7. Clay Stone Briggs (Dem.), died April 29, 1933
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- 7. Clark W. Thompson (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy
- 8. Joe H. Eagle (Dem.)
- 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (Dem.)
- 10. James P. Buchanan (Dem.)
- 11. Oliver H. Cross (Dem.)
- 12. Fritz G. Lanham (Dem.)
- 13. William D. McFarlane (Dem.)
- 14. Richard M. Kleberg (Dem.)
- 15. John Nance Garner (Dem.), resigned.
- 16. R. Ewing Thomason (Dem.)
- 17. Thomas L. Blanton (Dem.)
- 18. Marvin Jones (Dem.)
- 1. Abe Murdock (Dem.)
- 2. J. W. Robinson (Dem.)
- At-Large - Ernest W. Gibson (Rep.), resigned
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- At-Large - Charles A. Plumley (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy
- At-Large - S. Otis Bland (Dem.)
- At-Large - Thomas G. Burch (Dem.)
- At-Large - Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (Dem.)
- At-Large - Patrick H. Drewry (Dem.)
- At-Large - John W. Flannagan, Jr. (Dem.)
- At-Large - Andrew J. Montague (Dem.)
- At-Large - A. Willis Robertson (Dem.)
- At-Large - Howard W. Smith (Dem.)
- At-Large - Clifton A. Woodrum (Dem.)
- 1. Marion Anthony Zioncheck (Dem.)
- 2. Monrad C. Wallgren (Dem.)
- 3. Martin F. Smith (Dem.)
- 4. Knute Hill (Dem.)
- 5. Samuel Billingsley Hill (Dem.)
- 6. Wesley Lloyd (Dem.)
- 1. Robert L. Ramsay (Dem.)
- 2. Jennings Randolph (Dem.)
- 3. Lynn Hornor (Dem.), died September 23, 1933
- 1. George Washington Blanchard (Rep.)
- 2. Charles W. Henney (Dem.)
- 3. Gardner R. Withrow (Progressive)
- 4. Randolph Joseph Cannon (Dem.)
- 5. Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (Dem.)
- 6. Michael K. Reilly (Dem.)
- 7. Gerald J. Boileau (Progressive)
- 8. James Frederic Hughes (Rep.)
- 9. James A. Frear (Rep.)
- 10. Hubert H. Peavey (Rep.)
- At Large - Vincent Carter (Rep.)
[edit] Delegates
[edit] Resident Commissioners
- Pedro Guevara (Nationalist)
- Camilo Osias (Nationalist)
- Santiago Iglesias (Coalitionist)
[edit] Changes in Membership
[edit] Senate
Senator | State | Reason for Vacancy | Successor | Date of Successor's Installation |
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Robert H. Howell | Nebraska | Died March 11, 1933 | William H. Thompson | May 24, 1933 |
Sam G. Bratton | New Mexico | Resigned June 24, 1933 | Carl Hatch | November 6, 1934 |
Porter H. Dale | Vermont | Died October 6, 1933 | Ernest W. Gibson | October 19, 1933 |
John B. Kendrick | Wyoming | Died November 3, 1933 | Joseph C. O'Mahoney | January 1, 1934 |
William H. Thompson | Nebraska | Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934 | Richard C. Hunter | November 7, 1934 |
John E. Erikson | Montana | Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934 | James E. Murray | November 7, 1934 |
[edit] House of Representatives
[edit] Employees
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[edit] Senate
- Secretary of the Senate: Edwin A. Halsey
- Chaplain: ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (Episcopalian)
- Sergeant at Arms: Chesley W. Jurney
[edit] House of Representatives
- Clerk: South Trimble
- Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist)
- Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
- Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
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