83rd United States Congress

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Contents 1 Dates of sessions 2 Major events 3 Major legislation 3.1 Key Votes 3.1.1 Senate 3.1.2 House of Representatives 4 Party summary 4.1 Senate 4.2 House of Representatives 5 Officers 5.1 Senate 5.1.1 Majority (Republican) leadership 5.1.2 Minority (Democratic) leadership 5.2 House of Representatives 6 Members 6.1 Senate 6.2 House of Representatives 7 Employees 7.1 Senate 7.2 House of Representatives

The Eighty-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 January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955, during the first two years of the first administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

[edit] Dates of sessions

January 3, 1953 - January 3, 1955

• First session: January 3, 1953 – August 3, 1953
• Second session: January 6, 1954 - December 2, 1954

Previous congress: 82nd Congress
Next congress: 84th Congress

[edit] Major events

Main article: Events of 1953; Events of 1954

• January 20, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower became President of the United States

[edit] Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 83rd Congress

• 1953 - Small Business Act, Pub.L. 83-163
• 1953 - Refugee Relief Act, Pub.L. 83-203
• 1953 - Public Law 280, Pub.L. 83-280, 18 U.S.C. § 1162 & 28 U.S.C. § 1360 & 25 U.S.C. § 1321-1326
• 1953 August 7 - Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, ch. 345, 67 Stat. 462, 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq.
• 1954 May 13 - Saint Lawrence Seaway Act, ch. 201, 68 Stat. 92, 33 U.S.C. ch.19
• 1954 August 2 - Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, ch. 649, title II, §201, 68 Stat. 612, 12 U.S.C. § 1716, et seq.
• 1954 August 13 - Multiple Mineral Development Act, ch. 730, 68 Stat. 708, 30 U.S.C. § 521, et seq.
• 1954 August 16 - Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Pub.L. 83-591, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 3
  • Federal Unemployment Tax Act, §1(d), 68A Stat. 439, 26 U.S.C. ch.23
  • National Firearms Act, §1(d), 68A Stat. 721, 26 U.S.C. § 53
• 1954 August 24 - Communist Control Act of 1954, ch. 886, 68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. § 841, et seq.

[edit] Key Votes

[edit] Senate

Legislation	Party	Yea	Nay
Formosa Policy	Democrats	12	32
Jan 28, 1955	Republicans	1	42
(rejected)		13	74
China Mutual Defense Treaty	Democrats	9	33
Feb 9, 1955	Republicans	1	27
(rejected)		10	60
Raising Congressional Salaries	Democrats	30	13
Feb 23, 1955	Republicans	32	11
(passed)		62	24

[edit] House of Representatives

Legislation	Party	Yea	Nay
Raising Congressional Salaries	Democrats	166	59
Feb 16, 1955	Republicans	117	59
(passed)		283	118
Reciprical Trade Extension	Democrats	80	140
Feb 18, 1955	Republicans	119	66
(rejected)		199	206
Reciprical Trade Extension	Democrats	186	35
Feb 18, 1955	Republicans	109	75
(passed)		295	110
Taxation	Democrats	16	205
Feb 25, 1955	Republicans	189	5
(rejected)		205	210

[edit] Party summary

[edit] Senate

[edit] House of Representatives

Total Membership 435 Representatives, 2 Delegates, 1 Resident Commissioner
Party Divisions 221 Republicans, 213 Democrats, 1 Independent

[edit] Officers

[edit] Senate

• President of the Senate (Vice President of the United States): Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky), until January 20, 1953
  • Richard M. Nixon (R-California), beginning January 20, 1953
• President pro tempore: Styles Bridges (R-New Hampshire)

[edit] Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Robert Taft (R-Ohio), until July 31, 1953 (died in office)
  • William F. Knowland (R-California), beginning August 3, 1953
• Majority Whip: Leverett Saltonstall (R-Massachusetts)

[edit] Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas)
• Minority Whip: Earle Clements (D-Kentucky)

[edit] House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R-Massachusetts)
• Majority Leader: Charles A. Halleck (R-Indiana)
• Minority Leader: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
• Democratic Whip: John W. McCormack (D-Massachusetts)
• Republican Whip: Leslie C. Arends (R-Illinois)
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Wilbur D. Mills (D-Arkansas)
• Republican Conference Chairman: Clifford R. Hope (R-Kansas)

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

Alabama

• 2. John J. Sparkman (Dem.)
• 3. Joseph Lister Hill (Dem.)

Arizona

• 1. Barry Goldwater (Rep.)
• 3. Carl Trumbull Hayden (Dem.)

Arkansas

• 3. J. William Fulbright (Dem.)
• 2. John Little McClellan (Dem.)

California

• 1. William F. Knowland (Rep.)
• 3. Thomas H. Kuchel (Rep.)

Colorado

• 3. Eugene D. Millikin (Rep.)
• 2. Edwin Carl Johnson (Dem.)

Connecticut

• 3. Prescott Bush (Rep.)
• 1. William A. Purtell (Rep.)

Delaware

• 2. J. Allen Frear, Jr. (Dem.)
• 1. John J. Williams (Rep.)

Florida

• 1. Spessard Holland (Dem.)
• 3. George Smathers (Dem.)

Georgia

• 2. Walter Franklin George (Dem.)
• 3. Richard Brevard Russell (Dem.)

Idaho

• 2. Henry Dworshak (Rep.)
• 3. Herman Welker (Rep.)

Illinois

• 3. Everett Dirksen (Rep.)
• 2. Paul Douglas (Dem.)

Indiana

• 1. William E. Jenner (Rep.)
• 3. Homer E. Capehart (Rep.)

Iowa

• 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Rep.)
• 2. Guy M. Gillette (Dem.)

Kansas

• 2. Andrew F. Schoeppel (Rep.)
• 3. Frank Carlson (Rep.)

Kentucky

• 3. Earle C. Clements (Dem.)
• 2. John Sherman Cooper (Rep.)

Louisiana

• 2. Allen Joseph Ellender (Dem.)
• 3. Russell B. Long (Dem.)

Maine

• 1. Frederick G. Payne (Rep.)
• 2. Margaret Chase Smith (Rep.)

Maryland

• 1. James Glenn Beall (Rep.)
• 3. John M. Butler (Rep.)

Massachusetts

• 2. Leverett Saltonstall (Rep.)
• 1. John F. Kennedy (Dem.)

Michigan

• 2. Homer Ferguson (Rep.)
• 1. Charles E. Potter (Rep.)

Minnesota

• 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)
• 1. Edward John Thye (Rep.)

Mississippi

• 1. John C. Stennis (Dem.)
• 2. James O. Eastland (Dem.)

Missouri

• 3. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (Dem.)
• 1. Stuart Symington (Dem.)

Montana

• 2. James Edward Murray (Dem.)
• 1. Michael J. Mansfield (Dem.)

Nebraska

• 1. Hugh A. Butler (Rep.), died July 1, 1954

• 1. Samuel Williams Reynolds (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 1. Roman Hruska (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

• 2. Dwight Griswold (Rep.), died April 12, 1954

• 2. Eva K. Bowring (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 2. Hazel Abel (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy, subsequently resigned

• 2. Carl Curtis (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

Nevada

• 3. Patrick Anthony Mccarran (Dem.), died September 28, 1954

• 3. Ernest S. Brown (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 3. Alan Bible (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 1. George W. Malone (Rep.)

New Hampshire

• 2. Styles Bridges (Rep.)
• 3. Charles W. Tobey (Rep.), died July 24, 1953

• 3. Robert W. Upton (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 3. Norris Cotton (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

New Jersey

• 1. H. Alexander Smith (Rep.)
• 2. Robert C. Hendrickson (Rep.)

New Mexico

• 1. Dennis Wyatt Chavez (Dem.)
• 2. Clinton Presba Anderson (Dem.)

New York

• 1. Irving M. Ives (Rep.)
• 3. Herbert H. Lehman (Dem.)

North Carolina

• 2. Willis Smith (Dem.), died June 26, 1953

• 2. Alton Asa Lennon (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 2. W. Kerr Scott (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 3. Clyde Roark Hoey (Dem.), died May 12, 1954

• 3. Sam Ervin (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy

North Dakota

• 1. William Langer (Rep.)
• 3. Milton Young (Rep.)

Ohio

• 3. Robert Taft (Rep.), died July 31, 1953

• 3. Thomas A. Burke (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 3. George H. Bender (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

• 1. John W. Bricker (Rep.)

Oklahoma

• 2. Robert S. Kerr (Dem.)
• 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (Dem.)

Oregon

• 3. Wayne L. Morse (Independent)
• 2. Guy Cordon (Rep.)

Pennsylvania

• 3. James H. Duff (Rep.)
• 1. Edward Martin (Rep.)

Rhode Island

• 1. John O. Pastore (Dem.)
• 2. Theodore Francis Green (Dem.)

South Carolina

• 2. Burnet R. Maybank (Dem.), died September 1, 1954

• 2. Charles E. Daniel (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 2. Strom Thurmond (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 3. Olin D. Johnston (Dem.)

South Dakota

• 2. Karl E. Mundt (Rep.)
• 3. Francis H. Case (Rep.)

Tennessee

• 1. Albert A. Gore Sr. (Dem.)
• 2. C. Estes Kefauver (Dem.)

Texas

• 1. Price Daniel (Dem.)
• 2. Lyndon Johnson (Dem.)

Utah

• 1. Arthur V. Watkins (Rep.)
• 3. Wallace F. Bennett (Rep.)

Vermont

• 1. Ralph E. Flanders (Rep.)
• 3. George Aiken (Rep.)

Virginia

• 1. Harry Flood Byrd (Dem.)
• 2. Absalom Willis Robertson (Dem.)

Washington

• 3. Warren G. Magnuson (Dem.)
• 1. Henry M. Jackson (Dem.)

West Virginia

• 1. Harley M. Kilgore (Dem.)
• 2. Matthew M. Neely (Rep.)

Wisconsin

• 3. Alexander Wiley (Rep.)
• 1. Joseph McCarthy (Rep.)

Wyoming

• 1. Frank A. Barrett (Rep.)
• 2. Lester C. Hunt (Dem.), died June 19, 1954

• 2. Edward D. Crippa (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

• 2. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

[edit] House of Representatives

Alabama

• 1. Frank W. Boykin (Dem.)
• 2. George M. Grant (Dem.)
• 3. George W. Andrews (Dem.)
• 4. Kenneth A. Roberts (Dem.)
• 5. Albert Rains (Dem.)
• 6. Armistead I. Selden, Jr. (Dem.)
• 7. Carl Elliott (Dem.)
• 8. Robert E. Jones, Jr. (Dem.)
• 9. Laurie C. Battle (Dem.)

Arizona

• 1. John Jacob Rhodes (Rep.)
• 2. Harold A. Patten (Dem.)

Arkansas

• 1. Ezekiel C. Gathings (Dem.)
• 2. Wilbur D. Mills (Dem.)
• 3. James William Trimble (Dem.)
• 4. Oren Harris (Dem.)
• 5. Brooks Hays (Dem.)
• 6. William F. Norrell (Dem.)

California

• 1. Hubert B. Scudder (Rep.)
• 2. Clair Engle (Dem.)
• 3. John E. Moss (Dem.)
• 4. William S. Mailliard (Rep.)
• 5. John F. Shelley (Dem.)
• 6. Robert Condon (Dem.)
• 7. John J. Allen, Jr. (Rep.)
• 8. George P. Miller (Dem.)
• 9. Jesse A. Younger (Rep.)
• 10. Charles S. Gubser (Rep.)
• 11. Justin L. Johnson (Rep.)
• 12. Allan O. Hunter (Rep.)
• 13. Ernest K. Bramblett (Rep.)
• 14. Harlan Hagen (Dem.)
• 15. Gordon L. McDonough (Rep.)
• 16. Donald L. Jackson (Rep.)
• 17. Cecil R. King (Dem.)
• 18. Craig Hosmer (Rep.)
• 19. Chet Holifield (Dem.)
• 20. John Carl Hinshaw (Rep.)
• 21. Edgar W. Hiestand (Rep.)
• 22. Joseph F. Holt (Rep.)
• 23. Clyde Doyle (Dem.)
• 24. C. Norris Poulson (Rep.)
• 25. Patrick J. Hillings (Rep.)
• 26. Samuel W. Yorty (Dem.)
• 27. Harry R. Sheppard (Dem.)
• 28. James B. Utt (Rep.)
• 29. John Phillips (Rep.)
• 30. Bob Wilson (Rep.)

Colorado

• 1. Byron G. Rogers (Dem.)
• 2. William S. Hill (Rep.)
• 3. J. Edgar Chenoweth (Rep.)
• 4. Wayne N. Aspinall (Dem.)

Connecticut

• At-large. Antoni N. Sadlak (Rep.)
• 1. Thomas J. Dodd (Dem.)
• 2. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (Rep.)
• 3. Albert W. Cretella (Rep.)
• 4. Albert P. Morano (Rep.)
• 5. James T. Patterson (Rep.)

Delaware

• At-large. Herbert B. Warburton (Rep.)

Florida

• 1. Courtney W. Campbell (Dem.)
• 2. Charles Edward Bennett (Dem.)
• 3. Robert L. F. Sikes (Dem.)
• 4. William C. Lantaff (Dem.)
• 5. Albert S. Herlong, Jr. (Dem.)
• 6. Dwight L. Rogers (Dem.)
• 7. James A. Haley (Dem.)
• 8. Donald Ray Matthews (Dem.)

Georgia

• 1. Prince H. Preston, Jr. (Dem.)
• 2. J. L. Pilcher (Dem.)
• 3. Tic Forrester (Dem.)
• 4. A. Sidney Camp (Dem.), died July 24, 1954

• 4. John J. Flynt, Jr. (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 5. James C. Davis (Dem.)
• 6. Carl Vinson (Dem.)
• 7. Henderson L. Lanham (Dem.)
• 8. William M. Wheeler (Dem.)
• 9. Phillip M. Landrum (Dem.)
• 10. Paul Brown (Dem.)

Idaho

• 1. Gracie Pfost (Dem.)
• 2. Hamer H. Budge (Rep.)

Illinois

• 1. William L. Dawson (Dem.)
• 2. Barratt O'Hara (Dem.)
• 3. Fred E. Busbey (Rep.)
• 4. William E. McVey (Rep.)
• 5. John C. Kluczynski (Dem.)
• 6. Thomas Joseph O'Brien (Dem.)
• 7. James B. Bowler (Dem.)
• 8. Thomas S. Gordon (Dem.)
• 9. Sidney R. Yates (Dem.)
• 10. Richard W. Hoffman (Rep.)
• 11. Timothy P. Sheehan (Rep.)
• 12. Edgar A. Jonas (Rep.)
• 13. Marguerite S. Church (Rep.)
• 14. Chauncey W. Reed (Rep.)
• 15. Noah M. Mason (Rep.)
• 16. Leo E. Allen (Rep.)
• 17. Leslie C. Arends (Rep.)
• 18. Harold H. Velde (Rep.)
• 19. Robert B. Chiperfield (Rep.)
• 20. Sid Simpson (Rep.)
• 21. Peter F. Mack, Jr. (Dem.)
• 22. William L. Springer (Rep.)
• 23. Charles W. Vursell (Rep.)
• 24. Melvin Price (Dem.)
• 25. C.W. Bishop (Rep.)

Indiana

• 1. Ray J. Madden (Dem.)
• 2. Charles A. Halleck (Rep.)
• 3. Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr. (Rep.)
• 4. E. Ross Adair (Rep.)
• 5. John V. Beamer (Rep.)
• 6. Cecil M. Harden (Rep.)
• 7. William G. Bray (Rep.)
• 8. D. Bailey Merrill (Rep.)
• 9. Earl Wilson (Rep.)
• 10. Ralph Harvey (Rep.)
• 11. Charles B. Brownson (Rep.)

Iowa

• 1. Thomas E. Martin (Rep.)
• 2. Henry O. Talle (Rep.)
• 3. Harold R. Gross (Rep.)
• 4. Karl M. LeCompte (Rep.)
• 5. Paul Cunningham (Rep.)
• 6. James I. Dolliver (Rep.)
• 7. Ben F. Jensen (Rep.)
• 8. Charles B. Hoeven (Rep.)

Kansas

• 1. Howard Shultz Miller (Dem.)
• 2. Everett Power Scrivner (Rep.)
• 3. Myron Virgil George (Rep.)
• 4. Edward Herbert Rees (Rep.)
• 5. Clifford R. Hope (Rep.)
• 6. Wint Smith (Rep.)

Kentucky

• 1. Noble J. Gregory (Dem.)
• 2. Garrett L. Withers (Dem.), died April 30, 1953

• 2. William Huston Natcher (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 3. John M. Robsion, Jr. (Rep.)
• 4. Frank Chelf (Dem.)
• 5. Brent Spence (Dem.)
• 6. John C. Watts (Dem.)
• 7. Carl D. Perkins (Dem.)
• 8. James S. Golden (Rep.)

Louisiana

• 1. F. Edward Hébert (Dem.)
• 2. Hale Boggs (Dem.)
• 3. Edwin E. Willis (Dem.)
• 4. Overton Brooks (Dem.)
• 5. Otto E. Passman (Dem.)
• 6. James H. Morrison (Dem.)
• 7. Theo A. Thompson (Dem.)
• 8. George S. Long (Dem.)

Maine

• 1. Robert Hale (Rep.)
• 2. Charles P. Nelson (Rep.)
• 3. Clifford G. McIntire (Rep.)

Maryland

• 1. Edward T. Miller (Rep.)
• 2. James P. Devereux (Rep.)
• 3. Edward Garmatz (Dem.)
• 4. George Fallon (Dem.)
• 5. Frank Small, Jr. (Rep.)
• 6. DeWitt S. Hyde (Rep.)
• 7. Samuel Friedel (Dem.)

Massachusetts

• 1. John W. Heselton (Rep.)
• 2. Edward Boland (Dem.)
• 3. Philip Philbin (Dem.)
• 4. Harold Donohue (Dem.)
• 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (Rep.)
• 6. William H. Bates (Rep.)
• 7. Thomas J. Lane (Dem.)
• 8. Angier L. Goodwin (Rep.)
• 9. Donald W. Nicholson (Rep.)
• 10. Laurence Curtis (Rep.)
• 11. Tip O'Neill (Dem.)
• 12. John W. McCormack (Dem.)
• 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (Rep.)
• 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Rep.)

Michigan

• 1. Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (Dem.)
• 2. George Meader (Rep.)
• 3. Paul W. Shafer (Rep.)
• 4. Clare E. Hoffman (Rep.)
• 5. Gerald Ford (Rep.)
• 6. Kit F. Clardy (Rep.)
• 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.)
• 8. Alvin M. Bentley (Rep.)
• 9. Ruth Thompson (Rep.)
• 10. Elford Cederberg (Dem.)
• 11. Victor A. Knox (Rep.)
• 12. John B. Bennett (Rep.)
• 13. George D. O'Brien (Dem.)
• 14. Louis C. Rabaut (Dem.)
• 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (Dem.)
• 16. John Lesinski, Jr. (Dem.)
• 17. Charles G. Oakman (Rep.)
• 18. George A. Dondero (Rep.)

Minnesota

• 1. August H. Andresen (Rep.)
• 2.Joseph P. O'Hara (Rep.)
• 3.Roy Wier (DFL)
• 4.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)
• 5.Walter Judd (Rep.)
• 6.Fred Marshall (DFL)
• 7.H. Carl Andersen (Rep.)
• 8.John Blatnik (DFL)
• 9.Harold Hagen (Rep.)

Mississippi

• 1. Thomas G. Abernethy (Dem.)
• 2. Wall Doxey (Dem.)
• 2. Jamie L. Whitten (Dem.)
• 3. Frank Smith (Dem.)
• 4. John B. Williams (Dem.)
• 5. W. Arthur Winstead (Dem.)
• 6. William M. Colmer (Dem.)

Missouri

• 1. Frank M. Karsten (Dem.)
• 2. Thomas B. Curtis (Rep.)
• 3. Leonor Sullivan (Dem.)
• 4. Jeffrey Paul Hillelson (Rep.)
• 5. Richard Bolling (Dem.)
• 6. William C. Cole (Rep.)
• 7. Dewey Short (Rep.)
• 8. A.S.J. Carnahan (Dem.)
• 9. Clarence Cannon (Dem.)
• 10. Paul C. Jones (Dem.)
• 11. Morgan M. Moulder (Dem.)

Montana

• 1. Lee Metcalf (Dem.)
• 2. Wesley A. D'Ewart (Rep.)

Nebraska

• 1. Carl T. Curtis (Rep.)
• 2. Roman L. Hruska (Rep.)
• 3. Robert Dinsmore Harrison (Rep.)
• 4. Arthur L. Miller (Rep.)

Nevada

• At-large. Clarence Clifton Young (Rep.)

New Hampshire

• 1. Charles Earl Merrow (Rep.)
• 2. Norris H. Cotton (Rep.)

New Jersey

• 1. Charles A. Wolverton (Rep.)
• 2. T. Millet Hand (Rep.)
• 3. James C. Auchincloss (Rep.)
• 4. Charles R. Howell (Dem.)
• 5. Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (Rep.)
• 6. Harrison A. Williams (Dem.)
• 7. William B. Widnall (Rep.)
• 8. Gordon Canfield (Rep.)
• 9. Frank C. Osmers, Jr. (Rep.)
• 10. Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (Dem.)'
• 11. Hugh J. Addonizio (Dem.)
• 12. Robert W. Kean (Rep.)
• 13. Alfred D. Sieminski (Dem.)
• 14. Edward J. Hart (Dem.)

New Mexico

• At-Large - John J. Dempsey (Dem.)
• At-Large - Antonio M. Fernández (Dem.)

New York

• 1. Stuyvesant Wainwright (Rep.)
• 2. Steven B. Derounian (Rep.)
• 3. Frank J. Becker (Rep.)
• 4. Henry J. Latham (Rep.)'
• 5. Albert H. Bosch (Rep.)
• 6. Lester Holtzman (Dem.)
• 7. James J. Delaney (Dem.)
• 8. Louis B. Heller (Dem.)
• 9. Eugene J. Keogh (Dem.)
• 10. Edna F. Kelly (Dem.)
• 11. Emanuel Celler (Dem.)
• 12. Francis E. Dorn (Rep.)
• 13. Abraham J. Multer (Dem.)
• 14. John J. Rooney (Dem.)
• 15. John H. Ray (Rep.)
• 16. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (Dem.)
• 17. Frederic R. Coudert, Jr. (Rep.)
• 18. James G. Donovan (Dem.)
• 19. Arthur G. Klein (Dem.)
• 20. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (Dem.)
• 21. Jacob K. Javits (Rep.)
• 22. Sidney A. Fine (Dem.)
• 23. Isidore Dollinger (Dem.)
• 24. Charles A. Buckley (Dem.)
• 25. Paul A. Fino (Rep.)
• 26. Ralph A. Gamble (Rep.)
• 27. Ralph W. Gwinn (Rep.)
• 28. Katharine St. George (Rep.)
• 29. J. Ernest Wharton (Rep.)
• 30. Leo W. O'Brien (Dem.)
• 31. Dean P. Taylor (Rep.)
• 32. Bernard W. Kearney (Rep.)
• 33. Clarence E. Kilburn (Rep.)
• 34. William R. Williams (Rep.)
• 35. R. Walter Riehlman (Rep.)
• 36. John Taber (Rep.)
• 37. W. Sterling Cole (Rep.)
• 38. Kenneth B. Keating (Rep.)
• 39. Harold C. Ostertag (Rep.)
• 40. William E. Miller (Rep.)
• 41. Edmund P. Radwan (Rep.)
• 42. John R. Pillion (Rep.)
• 43. Daniel A. Reed (Rep.)

North Carolina

• 1. Herbert C. Bonner (Dem.)
• 2. Lawrence H. Fountain (Dem.)
• 3. Graham A. Barden (Dem.)
• 4. Harold D. Cooley (Dem.)
• 5. Richard T. Chatham (Dem.)
• 6. Carl T. Durham (Dem.)
• 7. F. Ertel Carlyle (Dem.)
• 8. Charles B. Deane (Dem.)
• 9. Hugh Quincy Alexander (Dem.)
• 10. Charles R. Jonas (Rep.)
• 11. Woodrow W. Jones (Dem.)
• 12. George A. Shuford (Dem.)

North Dakota

• At-large. Otto Krueger (Rep.)
• At-large. Usher L. Burdick (Nonpartisan Republican)

Ohio

• 1. Gordon H. Scherer (Rep.)
• 2. William E. Hess (Rep.)
• 3. Paul F. Schenck (Rep.)
• 4. William M. McCulloch (Rep.)
• 5. Cliff Clevenger (Rep.)
• 6. James G. Polk (Dem.)
• 7. Clarence J. Brown (Rep.)
• 8. Jackson E. Betts (Rep.)
• 9. Frazier Reams (Independent)
• 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (Rep.)
• 11. Oliver P. Bolton (Rep.)
• 12. John M. Vorys (Rep.)
• 13. Alvin F. Weichel (Rep.)
• 14. William H. Ayres (Rep.)
• 15. Robert T. Secrest (Dem.)
• 16. Frank T. Bow (Rep.)
• 17. J. Harry McGregor (Rep.)
• 18. Wayne L. Hays (Dem.)
• 19. Michael J. Kirwan (Dem.)
• 20. Michael A. Feighan (Dem.)
• 21. Robert Crosser (Dem.)
• 22. Frances P. Bolton (Rep.)
• 23. George H. Bender (Rep.)

Oklahoma

• 1. Page Belcher (Rep.)
• 2. Ed Edmondson (Dem.)
• 3. Carl Albert (Dem.)
• 4. Tom Steed (Dem.)
• 5. John Jarman (Dem.)
• 6. Victor Wickersham (Dem.)

Oregon

• 1. A. Walter Norblad (Rep.)
• 2. Sam Coon (Rep.)
• 3. Homer D. Angell (Rep.)
• 4. Harris Ellsworth (Rep.)

Pennsylvania

• 1. William A. Barrett (Dem.)
• 2. William T. Granahan (Dem.)
• 3. James A. Byrne (Dem.)
• 4. Earl Chudoff (Dem.)
• 5. William J. Green, Jr. (Dem.)
• 6. Hugh Scott (Rep.)
• 7. Benjamin F. James (Rep.)
• 8. Karl C. King (Rep.)
• 9. Paul B. Dague (Rep.)
• 10. Joseph L. Carrigg (Rep.)
• 11. Edward J. Bonin (Rep.)
• 12. Ivor D. Fenton (Rep.)
• 13. Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. (Rep.)
• 14. George M. Rhodes (Dem.)
• 15. Francis E. Walter (Dem.)
• 16. Walter M. Mumma (Rep.)
• 17. Alvin Bush (Rep.)
• 18. Richard M. Simpson (Rep.)
• 19. S. Walter Stauffer (Rep.)
• 20. James E. Van Zandt (Rep.)
• 21. Augustine B. Kelley (Dem.)
• 22. John P. Saylor (Rep.)
• 23. Leon H. Gavin (Rep.)
• 24. Carroll D. Kearns (Rep.)
• 25. Louis E. Graham (Rep.)
• 26. Thomas E. Morgan (Dem.)
• 27. James G. Fulton (Rep.)
• 28. Herman P. Eberharter (Dem.)
• 29. Robert J. Corbett (Rep.)
• 30. Vera Buchanan (Dem.)

Rhode Island

• 1. Aime Forand (Dem.)
• 2. John E. Fogarty (Dem.)

South Carolina

• 1. L. Mendel Rivers (Dem.)
• 2. John J. Riley (Dem.)
• 3. W.J. Bryan Dorn (Dem.)
• 4. Joseph R. Bryson (Dem.)
• 5. James P. Richards (Dem.)
• 6. John L. McMillan (Dem.)

South Dakota

• 1. Harold O. Lovre (Rep.)
• 2. E. Y. Berry (Rep.)

Tennessee

• 1. B. Carroll Reece (Rep.)
• 2. Howard Baker, Sr. (Rep.)
• 3. James B. Frazier Jr. (Dem.)
• 4. Joe L. Evins (Dem.)
• 5. J. Percy Priest (Dem.)
• 6. James Patrick Sutton (Dem.)
• 7. Tom J. Murray (Dem.)
• 8. Jere Cooper (Dem.)
• 9. Clifford Davis (Dem.)

Texas

• At-large. Martin Dies, Jr. (Dem.)
• 1. Wright Patman (Dem.)
• 2. Jesse M. Combs (Dem.)
• 3. Brady P. Gentry (Dem.)
• 4. Sam Rayburn (Dem.)
• 5. J. Frank Wilson (Dem.)
• 6. Olin E. Teague (Dem.)
• 7. John V. Dowdy (Dem.)
• 8. Albert Thomas (Dem.)
• 9. Clark W. Thompson (Dem.)
• 10. W. Homer Thornberry (Dem.)
• 11. William R. Poage (Dem.)
• 12. Wingate H. Lucas (Dem.)
• 13. Frank N. Ikard (Dem.)
• 14. John E. Lyle, Jr. (Dem.)
• 15. Lloyd M. Bentsen (Dem.)
• 16. Kenneth M. Regan (Dem.)
• 17. Omar Burleson (Dem.)
• 18. Walter E. Rogers (Dem.)
• 19. George H. Mahon (Dem.)
• 20. Paul J. Kilday (Dem.)
• 21. O. Clark Fisher (Dem.)

Utah

• 1. Douglas R. Stringfellow (Rep.)
• 2. William A. Dawson (Rep.)

Vermont

• At-large. Winston L. Prouty (Rep.)

Virginia

• 1. Edward J. Robeson, Jr. (Dem.)
• 2. Porter Hardy, Jr. (Dem.)
• 3. J. Vaughan Gary (Dem.)
• 4. Watkins Moorman Abbitt (Dem.)
• 5. Thomas Bahnson Stanley (Dem.), resigned February 3, 1953

• 5. William M. Tuck (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 6. Richard Harding Poff (Rep.)
• 7. Burr P. Harrison (Dem.)
• 8. Howard W. Smith (Dem.)
• 9. William Creed Wampler (Rep.)
• 10. Joel T. Broyhill (Rep.)

Washington

• At-large. Donald Hammer Magnuson (Dem.)
• 1. Thomas Minor Pelly (Rep.)
• 2. Alfred Westland (Rep.)
• 3. Russell V. Mack (Rep.)
• 4. Hal Holmes (Rep.)
• 5. Walt Horan (Rep.)
• 6. Thor C. Tollefson (Rep.)

West Virginia

• 1. Robert H. Mollohan (Dem.)
• 2. Harley O. Staggers (Dem.)
• 3. Cleveland M. Bailey (Dem.)
• 4. Will E. Neal (Rep.)
• 5. Elizabeth Kee (Dem.)
• 6. Robert Byrd (Dem.)

Wisconsin

• 1. Lawrence H. Smith (Rep.)
• 2. Glenn R. Davis (Rep.)
• 3. Gardner R. Withrow (Rep.)
• 4. Clement J. Zablocki (Dem.)
• 5. Charles J. Kersten (Rep.)
• 6. William K. Van Pelt (Rep.)
• 7. Melvin R. Laird (Rep.)
• 8. John W. Byrnes (Rep.)
• 9. Merlin Hull (Rep.), died May 17, 1953

• 9. Lester Johnson (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

• 10. Alvin E. O'Konski (Rep.)

Wyoming

• At-large. William Henry Harrison (Rep.)

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Alaska Territory

• At-large. Bob Bartlett (Dem.)

Hawaii Territory

• At-large. Joseph Rider Farrington (Rep.), died June 19, 1954

• Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

Puerto Rico

• At-large. Antonio Fernós Isern, PPD

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• Clerk of the House: Lyle O. Snader
• Doorkeeper: Tom Kennamer - Elected January 3, 1953
• Postmaster: Beecher Hess
• Sergeant at Arms: William F. Russell - Elected January 3, 1953; died July 7, 1953
  • Lyle O. Snader - July 8, 1953 – September 15, 1953
  • William R. Bonnell - Appointed September 15, 1953
• Chaplain of the House: Bernard Braskamp - Presbyterian

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