73rd United States Congress

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73rd United States Congress
United States Capitol (1956)
Session:	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935
President of the Senate:	John Nance Garner
President pro tempore of the Senate:	Key Pittman
Speaker of the House:	Henry T. Rainey
Members:	435 Representatives 96 Senators 5 Territorial Representatives
House Majority:	Democratic
Senate Majority:	Democratic

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 (known as the "Hundred Days Congress")
• Second session: January 3, 1934 - June 18, 1934

Previous: 72nd Congress • Next: 74th Congress

[edit] Major events

Main articles: 1933#Events and 1934#Events

• March 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States

[edit] Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation#73rd United States Congress

[edit] First Session

The first session of Congress, known as the "Hundred Days," took place before the regular seating and was called by President Roosevelt specifically to pass two acts:

• 1933-03-09 — The Emergency Banking Act (ch. 1, 48 Stat. 1) was enacted 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.
• 1933-03-10 — The Economy Act of 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.

The session also passed several other major pieces of legislation:

• 1933-03-31 — The Civilian Conservation Corps Reforestation Relief Act (ch. 17, 48 Stat. 22) established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to combat unemployment and poverty.
• 1933-05-12 — The Agricultural Adjustment Act (ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31) 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 unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court because it taxed one group to pay for another.
• 1933-05-12 — The Federal Emergency Relief Act (ch. 30, 48 Stat. 55) established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which develop public works projects to give work to the unemployed.
• 1933-05-18 — The Tennessee Valley Authority Act (ch. 32, 48 Stat. 58) created the Tennessee Valley Authority to relieve the Tennessee Valley by a series of public works projects.
• 1933-06-05 — The Securities Act of 1933 (ch. 38, 48 Stat. 74) established the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as a way for the government to prevent a repeat of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
• 1933-06-12 — The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (ch. 89, 48 Stat. 162) 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.
• 1933-06-16 — The National Industrial Recovery Act ("NIRA," ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195) 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 accomplish a good deal of what it set out to do.

[edit] Second Session

• 1934-06-06 — The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (ch. 404, 48 Stat. 881) grew out of the Securities Act of 1933 and regulated participation in financial markets.

[edit] Constitutional amendments

• The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution became effective in January 1934. It had been ratified during the previous Congress on January 23, 1933. The 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 United States Constitution was ratified on December 5, 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 ratified by convention of states instead of the state legislatures.

[edit] Hearings

[edit] "Merchants of Death"

• Committee: United States Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
• Chairman: Senator Gerald P. Nye (R)
• Duration: September 4, 1934-February 24, 1936

The Senate Munitions Committee came into existence solely 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 companies' 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 organize the hearing in hopes of nationalizing America's munitions industry. The Democrats chose a Republican renowned for his ardent isolationist policies, Senator Gerald P. 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

There were 48 states with two Senators per state gave the Senate 96 seats. Membership changed with four deaths, one resignation, and two appointees who were replaced by electees.

Affiliation					Total		Notes
		Democratic	Republican	Farmer-Labor		Vacant
Members (shading indicates majority caucus)	Begin (1933-03-04)	59	36	1	96	0
	1933-03-11		35		95	1	Robert Howell (R) died.
	1933-05-24	60			96	0	William H. Thompson (D) replaced Howell.
	1933-06-24	59			95	1	Sam Bratton (D) died.
	1933-10-06		34		94	2	Porter Dale (R) died.
	1933-10-19		35		95	1	Ernest Gibson (R) took Dale's seat.
	1933-11-03	58			94	2	John Kendrick (D) died.
	1933-11-06	59			95	1	Carl Hatch (D) took Bratton's seat.
	1934-01-01	60			96	0	Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D) took Kendrick's seat.
	1934-11-07						Richard Hunter (D) was elected and replaced William Thompson (D); James E. Murray (D) was elected and replaced John Erickson (D).
Latest voting share		63%	36%	1%

[edit] House of Representatives

Membership changed with twelve deaths and three resignations.

Affiliation					Total		Notes
		Democratic	Republican	Farmer-Labor		Vacant
Members (shading indicates majority caucus)	Begin (1933-03-04)	311	117	5	433	2	John Garner (D) and Lewis W. Douglas (D) had resigned their seats at the end of the previous Congress.
	1933-04-22	312			434	1	Milton H. West (D) took Garner's seat.
	1933-04-29	311			433	2	Clay Stone Briggs (D) died.
	1933-05-12	310			432	3	Heartsill Ragon (D) resigned.
	1933-05-17	309			431	4	Charles H. Brand (D) died.
	1933-06-19	308			430	5	Bolivar E. Kemp (D) died.
	1933-06-22	307			429	6	Edward B. Almon (D) died.
	1933-06-24	308			430	5	Clark W. Thompson (D) took Briggs's seat.
	1933-07-05	309			431	4	Paul Brown (D) took Brand's seat.
	1933-08-27		116		430	5	Henry Winfield Watson (R) died.
	1933-09-23	308			429	6	Lynn Hornor (D) died.
	1933-10-03	309			430	5	Isabella Greenway (D) took Douglas's seat.
	1933-10-19		115		429	6	Ernest W. Gibson (R) resigned.
	1933-11-05		114		428	7	John D. Clarke (R) died.
	1933-11-07	310			429	6	Oliver Walter Frey (D) took Watson's seat.
	1933-11-14	311			430	5	Archibald Hill Carmichael (D) took Almon's seat.
	1933-11-28	312			431	4	Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D) took Hornor's seat.
	1933-12-19	313			432	3	David D. Terry (D) took Ragon's seat.
	1933-12-19		113		431	4	James S. Parker (R) died.
	1933-12-28		114		432	3	Marian W. Clarke (R) took Clarke's seat.
	1934-01-16		115		433	2	Charles A. Plumley (R) took Gibson's seat.
	1934-01-30		116		434	1	William D. Thomas (R) took Parker's seat
	1934-04-01	312			433	2	Edward W. Pou (D) died.
	1934-05-01	313			434	1	Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D) took Kemp's seat.
	1934-05-29		115		433	2	George F. Brumm (R) died.
	1934-06-08	312			432	3	Thomas C. Coffin (D) died.
	1934-07-07	313			433	2	Harold D. Cooley (D) took Pou's seat.
	1934-08-19	312			432	3	Henry T. Rainey (D) died.
	1934-09-30		114		431	4	James M. Beck (R) resigned.
Latest voting share		72.4%	26.4%	1.2%

[edit] Leadership

Contents: Senate:	Majority (Democratic) leadership • Minority (Republican) leadership
House of Representatives:	Majority (Democratic) leadership • Minority (Republican) leadership

[edit] Senate

• President of the Senate:^[1] John Nance Garner (D)
• President pro tempore: Key Pittman (D)

[edit] Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader and Democratic Conference Chairman:^[2] Joseph T. Robinson
• Assistant Majority Leader (Majority Whip): J. Hamilton Lewis

[edit] Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: Charles L. McNary
• Assistant Minority Leader (Minority Whip): Felix Herbert
• Republican Conference Chairman: Charles L. McNary

[edit] House of Representatives

• Speaker: Henry T. Rainey (D), March 9, 1933 – August 19, 1934 (Vacant thereafter)

[edit] Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader: Joseph W. Byrns
• Majority Whip: Arthur H. Greenwood
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Clarence F. Lea

[edit] Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: Bertrand H. Snell
• Minority Whip: Harry L. Englebright
• Republican Conference Chair: Robert Luce

[edit] Members

[edit] Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election.

See also: Category:United States Senators

See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

[edit] Alabama 3. Hugo Black (D) 2. John H. Bankhead II (D) [edit] Arizona 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D) 3. Carl Hayden (D) [edit] Arkansas 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) 3. Hattie Carraway (D) [edit] California 1. Hiram Johnson (R) 3. William G. McAdoo (D) [edit] Colorado 2. Edward P. Costigan (D) 3. Alva B. Adams (D) [edit] Connecticut 1. Frederic C. Walcott (R) 3. Augustine Lonergan (D) [edit] Delaware 2. Daniel O. Hastings (R) 1. John G. Townsend, Jr. (R) [edit] Florida 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D) 1. Park Trammell (D) [edit] Georgia 2. Walter F. George (D) 3. Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D) [edit] Idaho 2. William E. Borah (R) 3. James P. Pope (D) [edit] Illinois 2. James H. Lewis (D) 3. William H. Dieterich (D) [edit] Indiana 1. Arthur Raymond Robinson (R) 3. Frederick Van Nuys (D) [edit] Iowa 2. L. J. Dickinson (R) 3. Richard L. Murphy (D) [edit] Kansas 2. Arthur Capper (R) 3. George McGill (D) [edit] Kentucky 3. Alben W. Barkley (D) 2. Marvel M. Logan (D) [edit] Louisiana 2. Huey P. Long (D) 3. John H. Overton (D) [edit] Maine 1. Frederick Hale (R) 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R) [edit] Maryland 3. Millard E. Tydings (D) 1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R) [edit] Massachusetts 1. David I. Walsh (D) 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D) [edit] Michigan 2. James Couzens (R) 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) [edit] Minnesota 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL) 2. Thomas D. Schall (R) [edit] Mississippi 2. Pat Harrison (D) 1. Hubert D. Stephens (D) [edit] Missouri 1. Roscoe C. Patterson (R) 3. Joel Bennett Clark (D) [edit] Montana 1. Burton K. Wheeler (D) 2. Vacant since 1933-03-04 John E. Erickson (D), appointed 1933-03-13 James E. Murray (D), elected 1934-11-07 [edit] Nebraska 2. George W. Norris (R) 1. Robert B. Howell (R), died March 11, 1933 William H. Thompson (D), appointed May 24, 1933 Richard C. Hunter (D), elected November 7, 1934

[edit] Nevada 1. Key Pittman (D) 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D) [edit] New Hampshire 2. Henry W. Keyes (R) 3. Fred Brown (D) [edit] New Jersey 1. Hamilton F. Kean (R) 2. William Warren Barbour (R) [edit] New Mexico 2. Sam G. Bratton (D), resigned 1933-06-24 Carl Hatch (D), appointed 1933-11-06 1. Bronson M. Cutting (R) [edit] New York 1. Royal S. Copeland (D) 3. Robert F. Wagner (D) [edit] North Carolina 2. Josiah William Bailey (D) 3. Robert R. Reynolds (D) [edit] North Dakota 1. Lynn Frazier (R) 3. Gerald P. Nye (R) [edit] Ohio 1. Simeon D. Fess (R) 3. Robert J. Bulkley (D) [edit] Oklahoma 3. J. W. Elmer Thomas (D) 2. Thomas P. Gore (D) [edit] Oregon 2. Charles L. McNary (R) 3. Frederick Steiwer (R) [edit] Pennsylvania 1. David A. Reed (R) 3. James J. Davis (R) [edit] Rhode Island 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R) 1. Felix Hebert (R) [edit] South Carolina 3. Ellison D. Smith (D) 2. James F. Byrnes (D) [edit] South Dakota 3. Peter Norbeck (R) 2. William J. Bulow (D) [edit] Tennessee 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D) 2. Nathan Lynn Bachman (D) [edit] Texas 2. Morris Sheppard (D) 1. Thomas T. Connally (D) [edit] Utah 1. William H. King (D) 3. Elbert D. Thomas (D) [edit] Vermont 3. Porter H. Dale (R), died October 6, 1933 Ernest W. Gibson (R), appointed 1933-10-19 1. Warren R. Austin (R) [edit] Virginia 2. Carter Glass (D) 1. Harry F. Byrd (D) [edit] Washington 1. Clarence C. Dill (D) 3. Homer T. Bone (D) [edit] West Virginia 1. Henry D. Hatfield (R) 2. Matthew M. Neely (D) [edit] Wisconsin 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R) 3. F. Ryan Duffy (D) [edit] Wyoming 1. John B. Kendrick (D), died November 3, 1933 Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), appointed 1934-01-01 2. Robert D. Carey (R)

[edit] House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives

See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

Section contents: Alabama — Arizona —Arkansas — California — Colorado — Connecticut — Delaware — Florida — Georgia — Idaho — Illinois — Indiana — Iowa — Kansas — Kentucky — Louisiana — Maine — Maryland — Massachusetts — Michigan — Minnesota — Mississippi — Missouri — Montana — Nebraska — Nevada — New Hampshire — New Jersey — New Mexico — New York — North Carolina — North Dakota — Ohio — Oklahoma — Oregon — Pennsylvania — Rhode Island — South Carolina — South Dakota — Tennessee — Texas — Utah — Vermont — Virginia — Washington — West Virginia — Wisconsin — Wyoming — Non-voting members

[edit] Alabama 1. John McDuffie (D) 2. J. Lister Hill (D) 3. Henry B. Steagall (D) 4. Lamar Jeffers (D) 5. Miles C. Allgood (D) 6. William B. Oliver (D) 7. William B. Bankhead (D) 8. Edward B. Almon (D), died June 22, 1933 Archibald Hill Carmichael (D), elected November 14, 1933 9. George Huddleston (D) [edit] Arizona A/L. Isabella Selmes Greenway (D) [edit] Arkansas 1. William J. Driver (D) 2. John E. Miller (D) 3. Claude A. Fuller (D) 4. William B. Cravens (D) 5. Heartsill Ragon (D), resigned June 16, 1933 5. David D. Terry (D), elected December 19, 1933 6. David Delano Glover (D) 7. Tilman B. Parks (D) [edit] California 1. Clarence F. Lea (D) 2. Harry L. Englebright (R) 3. Frank H. Buck (D) 4. Florence P. Kahn (R) 5. Richard J. Welch (R) 6. Albert E. Carter (R) 7. Ralph R. Eltse (R) 8. John J. McGrath (D) 9. Denver S. Church (D) 10. Henry E. Stubbs (D) 11. William E. Evans (R) 12. John H. Hoeppel (D) 13. Charles Kramer (D) 14. Thomas F. Ford (D) 15. William I. Traeger (R) 16. John F. Dockweiler (D) 17. Charles J. Colden (D) 18. John H. Burke (D) 19. Sam L. Collins (R) 20. George Burnham (R) [edit] Colorado 1. Lawrence Lewis (D) 2. Fred N. Cummings (D) 3. John A. Martin (D) 4. Edward T. Taylor (D) [edit] Connecticut 1. Herman P. Kopplemann (D) 2. William L. Higgins (R) 3. Francis T. Maloney (D) 4. Schuyler Merritt (R) 5. Edward W. Goss (R) A/L. Charles M. Bakewell (R) [edit] Delaware A/L. Wilbur L. Adams (D) [edit] Florida 1. J. Hardin Peterson (D) 2. Robert A. Green (D) 3. Millard F. Caldwell (D) 4. J. Mark Wilcox (D) A/L. William J. Sears (D) [edit] Georgia 1. Homer C. Parker (D) 2. Edward E. Cox (D) 3. Bryant T. Castellow (D) 4. Emmett M. Owen (D) 5. Robert Ramspeck (D) 6. Carl Vinson (D) 7. Malcolm C. Tarver (D) 8. Braswell Deen (D) 9. John S. Wood (D) 10. Charles H. Brand (D), died May 17, 1933 10. Paul Brown (D), elected to fill vacancy [edit] Idaho 1. Compton I. White (D) 2. Thomas C. Coffin (D), died June 8, 1934. Seat remained vacant. [edit] Illinois 1. Oscar De Priest (R) 2. P. H. Moynihan (R) 3. Edward A. Kelly (D) 4. Harry P. Beam (D) 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) 6. Thomas J. O’Brien (D) 7. Leonard W. Schuetz (D) 8. Leo Kocialkowski (D) 9. Frederick A. Britten (R) 10. James Simpson, Jr. (R) 11. Frank R. Reid (R) 12. John T. Buckbee (R) 13. Leo E. Allen (R) 14. Chester C. Thompson (D) 15. J. Leroy Adair (D) 16. Everett M. Dirksen (R) 17. Frank Gillespie (D) 18. James A. Meeks (D) 19. Donald C. Dobbins (D) 20. Henry T. Rainey (D), died August 19, 1934. Seat remained vacant. 21. J. Earl Major (D) 22. Edwin M. Schaefer (D) 23. William W. Arnold (D) 24. Claude V. Parsons (D) 25. Kent E. Keller (D) A/L. Martin A. Brennan (D) A/L. Walter Nesbit (D) [edit] Indiana 1. William T. Schulte (D) 2. George R. Durgan (D) 3. Samuel B. Pettengill (D) 4. James I. Farley (D) 5. Glenn Griswold (D) 6. Virginia E. Jenckes (D) 7. Arthur H. Greenwood (D) 8. John W. Boehne, Jr. (D) 9. Eugene B. Crowe (D) 10. Finly H. Gray (D) 11. William H. Larrabee (D) 12. Louis Ludlow (D) [edit] Iowa 1. Edward C. Eicher (D) 2. Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D) 3. Albert C. Willford (D) 4. Fred Biermann (D) 5. Lloyd Thurston (R) 6. Cassius C. Dowell (R) 7. Otha D. Wearin (D) 8. Fred C. Gilchrist (R) 9. Guy M. Gillette (D) [edit] Kansas 1. William P. Lambertson (R) 2. U. S. Guyer (R) 3. Harold Clement McGugin (R) 4. Randolph Carpenter (D) 5. William A. Ayres (D) 6. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy (D) 7. Clifford R. Hope (R) [edit] Kentucky A/L. John Y. Brown, Sr. (D) A/L. Cap R. Carden (D) A/L. Glover H. Cary (D) A/L. Virgil Chapman (D) A/L. W. Voris Gregory (D) A/L. Finley Hamilton (D) A/L. Andrew J. May (I) A/L. Brent Spence (D) A/L. Fred M. Vinson (D) [edit] Louisiana 1. Joachim O. Fernandez (D) 2. Paul H. Maloney (D) 3. Numa F. Montet (D) 4. John N. Sandlin (D) 5. Riley J. Wilson (D) 6. Bolivar E. Kemp (D), died June 19, 1933 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D), elected to fill vacancy 7. René L. DeRouen (D) 8. Cleveland Dear (D) [edit] Maine 1. Carroll L. Beedy (R) 2. Edward C. Moran, Jr. (D) 3. Ralph O. Brewster (D) [edit] Maryland 1. T. Alan Goldsborough (D) 2. William P. Cole, Jr. (D) 3. Vincent L. Palmisano (D) 4. Ambrose J. Kennedy (D) 5. Stephen W. Gambrill (D) 6. David J. Lewis (D) [edit] Massachusetts 1. Allen T. Treadway (R) 2. William J. Granfield (D) 3. Frank H. Foss (R) 4. Pehr G. Holmes (R) 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (R) 6. A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (R) 7. William P. Connery, Jr. (D) 8. Arthur D. Healey (D) 9. Robert Luce (R) 10. George H. Tinkham (R) 11. John J. Douglass (D) 12. John W. McCormack (D) 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R) 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R) 15. Charles L. Gifford (R) [edit] Michigan 1. George G. Sadowski (D) 2. John C. Lehr (D) 3. Joseph L. Hooper (R) 4. George Ernest Foulkes (D) 5. Carl E. Mapes (D) 6. Claude E. Cady (D) 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (R) 8. Michael J. Hart (D) 9. Harry W. Musselwhite (D) 10. Roy O. Woodruff (D) 11. Prentiss M. Brown (D) 12. W. Frank James (R) 13. Clarence J. McLeod (R) 14. Carl M. Weideman (D) 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (D) 16. John Lesinski, Sr. (D) 17. George A. Dondero (R) [edit] Minnesota A/L. Henry M. Arens (FL) A/L. Ray P. Chase (R) A/L. Theodore Christianson (R) A/L. Einar Hoidale (D) A/L. Magnus Johnson (FL) A/L. Harold Knutson (R) A/L. Paul John Kvale (FL) A/L. Ernest Lundeen (FL) A/L. Francis Shoemaker (FL) [edit] Mississippi 1. John E. Rankin (D) 2. Wall Doxey (D) 3. William M. Whittington (D) 4. T. Jeff Busby (D) 5. Ross A. Collins (D) 6. William M. Colmer (D) 7. Lawrence Russell Ellzey (D) [edit] Missouri A/L. Clarence Cannon (D) A/L. James Robert Claiborne (D) A/L. John J. Cochran (D) A/L. Clement C. Dickinson (D) A/L. Richard M. Duncan (D) A/L. Frank H. Lee (D) A/L. Ralph F. Lozier (D) A/L. Jacob L. Milligan (D) A/L. Milton A. Romjue (D) A/L. James Edward Ruffin (D) A/L. Joseph B. Shannon (D) A/L. Clyde Williams (D) A/L. Reuben T. Wood (D) [edit] Montana 1. Joseph P. Monaghan (D) 2. Roy E. Ayers (D) [edit] Nebraska 1. John H. Morehead (D) 2. Edward R. Burke (D) 3. Edgar Howard (D) 4. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) 5. Terry Carpenter (D) [edit] Nevada A/L. James G. Scrugham (D) [edit] New Hampshire 1. William Nathaniel Rogers (D) 2. Charles W. Tobey (R)

[edit] New Jersey 1. Charles A. Wolverton (R) 2. Isaac Bacharach (R) 3. William H. Sutphin (D) 4. D. Lane Powers (R) 5. Charles A. Eaton (R) 6. Donald H. McLean (R) 7. Randolph Perkins (R) 8. George N. Seger (R) 9. Edward A. Kenney (D) 10. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R) 11. Peter A. Cavicchia (R) 12. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R) 13. Mary T. Norton (D) 14. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D) [edit] New Mexico A/L. Dennis Chavez (D) [edit] New York 1. Robert L. Bacon (R) 2. William F. Brunner (D) 3. George W. Lindsay (D) 4. Thomas H. Cullen (D) 5. Loring M. Black, Jr. (D) 6. Andrew L. Somers (D) 7. John J. Delaney (D) 8. Patrick J. Carley (D) 9. Stephen A. Rudd (D) 10. Emanuel Celler (D) 11. Anning S. Prall (D) 12. Samuel Dickstein (D) 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D) 14. William I. Sirovich (D) 15. John J. Boylan (D) 16. John J. O'Connor (D) 17. Theodore A. Peyser (D) 18. Martin J. Kennedy (D) 19. Sol Bloom (D) 20. James J. Lanzetta (D) 21. Joseph A. Gavagan (D) 22. Anthony J. Griffin (D) 23. Frank Oliver (D) 24. James M. Fitzpatrick (D) 25. Charles D. Millard (R) 26. Hamilton Fish (R) 27. Philip A. Goodwin (R) 28. Parker Corning (D) 29. James S. Parker (R), died December 19, 1933 29. William D. Thomas (R), elected to fill vacancy 30. Frank Crowther (R) 31. Bertrand H. Snell (R) 32. Francis D. Culkin (R) 33. Fred J. Sisson (D) 34. John D. Clarke (R), died November 5, 1933 34. Marian W. Clarke (R), elected to fill vacancy 35. Clarence E. Hancock (R) 36. John Taber (R) 37. Gale H. Stalker (R) 38. James L. Whitley (R) 39. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R) 40. Walter G. Andrews (R) 41. Alfred F. Beiter (D) 42. James M. Mead (D) 43. Daniel A. Reed (R) A/L. John Fitzgibbons (D) A/L. Elmer E. Studley (D) [edit] North Carolina 1. Lindsay C. Warren (D) 2. John H. Kerr (D) 3. Charles Laban Abernethy (D) 4. Edward W. Pou (D), died April 1, 1934 4. Harold D. Cooley (D), elected to fill vacancy 5. Frank Hancock, Jr. (D) 6. William B. Umstead (D) 7. J. Bayard Clark (D) 8. J. Walter Lambeth (D) 9. Robert L. Doughton (D) 10. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D) 11. Zebulon Weaver (D) [edit] North Dakota A/L. William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican) A/L. James H. Sinclair (R) [edit] Ohio 1. John B. Hollister (R) 2. William E. Hess (R) 3. Byron B. Harlan (D) 4. Frank Le Blond Kloeb (D) 5. Frank C. Kniffin (D) 6. James G. Polk (D) 7. Leroy T. Marshall (R) 8. Thomas B. Fletcher (D) 9. Warren J. Duffey (D) 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (R) 11. Mell G. Underwood (D) 12. Arthur P. Lamneck (D) 13. William L. Fiesinger (R) 14. Dow W. Harter (D) 15. Robert T. Secrest (D) 16. William R. Thom (D) 17. Charles F. West (D) 18. Lawrence E. Imhoff (D) 19. John G. Cooper (R) 20. Martin L. Sweeney (D) 21. Robert Crosser (D) 22. Chester C. Bolton (R) A/L. Charles V. Truax (D) A/L. Stephen M. Young (D) [edit] Oklahoma 1. Wesley E. Disney (D) 2. William W. Hastings (D) 3. Wilburn Cartwright (D) 4. Tom D. McKeown (D) 5. Fletcher B. Swank (D) 6. Jed Johnson (D) 7. James V. McClintic (D) 8. Ernest W. Marland (D) A/L. Will Rogers (D) [edit] Oregon 1. James W. Mott (R) 2. Walter M. Pierce (D) 3. Charles H. Martin (D) [edit] Pennsylvania 1. Harry C. Ransley (R) 2. James M. Beck (R), resigned September 30, 1934. Seat remained vacant. 3. Alfred Marpole Waldron (R) 4. George Washington Edmonds (R) 5. James J. Connolly (R) 6. Edward Lowber Stokes (R) 7. George P. Darrow (R) 8. James Wolfenden (R) 9. Henry Winfield Watson (R), died August 27, 1933 9. Oliver Walter Frey (R), elected to fill vacancy 10. J. Roland Kinzer (R) 11. Patrick J. Boland (D) 12. C. Murray Turpin (R) 13. George F. Brumm (R), died May 29, 1934 14. William Emanuel Richardson (D) 15. Louis T. McFadden (R) 16. Robert F. Rich (R) 17. J. William Ditter (R) 18. Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R) 19. Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R) 20. Thomas Cunningham Cochran (R) 21. Francis E. Walter (D) 22. Harry L. Haines (D) 23. J. Banks Kurtz (R) 24. J. Buell Snyder (D) 25. Charles I. Faddis (D) 26. J. Howard Swick (R) 27. Nathan L. Strong (R) 28. William M. Berlin (D) 29. Charles N. Crosby (D) 30. J. Twing Brooks (D) 31. M. Clyde Kelly (R) 32. Michael Joseph Muldowney (R) 33. Henry Ellenbogen (D) 34. Matthew A. Dunn (D) [edit] Rhode Island 1. Francis B. Condon (D) 2. John M. O'Connell (D) [edit] South Carolina 1. Thomas S. McMillan (D) 2. Hampton P. Fulmer (D) 3. John C. Taylor (D) 4. John J. McSwain (D) 5. James P. Richards (D) 6. Allard H. Gasque (D) [edit] South Dakota 1. Fred H. Hildebrandt (D) 2. Theodore B. Werner (D) [edit] Tennessee 1. B. Carroll Reece (R) 2. J. Will Taylor (R) 3. Sam D. McReynolds (D) 4. John Ridley Mitchell (D) 5. Joseph W. Byrns (D) 6. Clarence W. Turner (D) 7. Gordon Browning (D) 8. Jere Cooper (D) 9. Edward H. Crump (D) [edit] Texas 1. Wright Patman (D) 2. Martin Dies, Jr. (D) 3. Morgan G. Sanders (D) 4. Sam Rayburn (D) 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D) 6. Luther A. Johnson (D) 7. Clay Stone Briggs (D), died April 29, 1933 7. Clark W. Thompson (D), elected to fill vacancy 8. Joe H. Eagle (D) 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D) 10. James P. Buchanan (D) 11. Oliver H. Cross (D) 12. Fritz G. Lanham (D) 13. William D. McFarlane (D) 14. Richard M. Kleberg (D) 15. Milton H. West (D), elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John Nance Garner when he became vice president 16. R. Ewing Thomason (D) 17. Thomas L. Blanton (D) 18. Marvin Jones (D) A/L. Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. (D) A/L. Sterling Price Strong (D) A/L. George Butler Terrell (D) [edit] Utah 1. Abe Murdock (D) 2. J. W. Robinson (D) [edit] Vermont A/L. Ernest W. Gibson (R), resigned October 19, 1933 A/L. Charles A. Plumley (R), elected to fill vacancy [edit] Virginia A/L. S. Otis Bland (D) A/L. Thomas G. Burch (D) A/L. Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (D) A/L. Patrick H. Drewry (D) A/L. John W. Flannagan, Jr. (D) A/L. Andrew J. Montague (D) A/L. A. Willis Robertson (D) A/L. Howard W. Smith (D) A/L. Clifton A. Woodrum (D) [edit] Washington 1. Marion Anthony Zioncheck (D) 2. Monrad C. Wallgren (D) 3. Martin F. Smith (D) 4. Knute Hill (D) 5. Samuel Billingsley Hill (D) 6. Wesley Lloyd (D) [edit] West Virginia 1. Robert L. Ramsay (D) 2. Jennings Randolph (D) 3. Lynn Hornor (D), died September 23, 1933 3. Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D), elected to fill vacancy 4. George William Johnson (D) 5. John Kee (D) 6. Joe L. Smith (D) [edit] Wisconsin 1. George Washington Blanchard (R) 2. Charles W. Henney (D) 3. Gardner R. Withrow (Prog) 4. Randolph Joseph Cannon (D) 5. Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D) 6. Michael K. Reilly (D) 7. Gerald J. Boileau (Prog) 8. James Frederic Hughes (D) 9. James A. Frear (R) 10. Hubert H. Peavey (R) [edit] Wyoming A/L. Vincent Carter (R) [edit] Non-voting members Alaska Territory. Anthony J. Dimond (D) Hawaii Territory. Lincoln L. McCandless (D) Philippines: Pedro Guevara (Nacionalista) Philippines: Camilo Osias (Nacionalista) Puerto Rico: Santiago Iglesias (Coalitionist)

[edit] Changes in Membership

[edit] Senate

State	Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
Nebraska	Robert Howell (R)	Died March 11, 1933	William H. Thompson (D)	May 24, 1933
New Mexico	Sam Bratton (D)	Resigned June 24, 1933 when appointed Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit	Carl Hatch (D)	November 6, 1933
Vermont	Porter Dale (R)	Died October 6, 1933	Ernest Gibson (R)	October 19, 1933
Wyoming	John Kendrick (D)	Died November 3, 1933	Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)	January 1, 1934
Nebraska	William Thompson (D)	Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934	Richard Hunter (D)	November 7, 1934
Montana	John Erickson (D)	Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934	James E. Murray (D)	November 7, 1934

[edit] House of Representatives

District	Vacator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of successor's installation
Texas 15th	Vacant	John Garner had resigned at the end of the previous Congress	Milton H. West	April 22, 1933
Arizona At-large	Vacant	Lewis W. Douglas (D) had resigned at the end of the previous Congress	Isabella Greenway (D)	October 3, 1933
Texas 7th	Clay Stone Briggs (D)	Died April 29, 1933	Clark W. Thompson (D)	June 24, 1933
Arkansas 5th	Heartsill Ragon (D)	Resigned May 12, 1933	David D. Terry (D)	December 19, 1933
Georgia 10th	Charles H. Brand (D)	Died May 17, 1933	Paul Brown (D)	July 5, 1933
Louisiana 6th	Bolivar E. Kemp (D)	Died June 19, 1933	Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D)	May 1, 1934
Alabama 8th	Edward B. Almon (D)	Died June 22, 1933	Archibald Hill Carmichael (D)	November 14, 1933
Pennsylvania 9th	Henry Winfield Watson (R)	Died August 27, 1933	Oliver Walter Frey (D)	November 7, 1933
West Virginia 3rd	Lynn Hornor (D)	Died September 23, 1933	Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D)	November 28, 1933
Vermont At-large	Ernest W. Gibson (R)	Appointed U.S. Senator October 19, 1933	Charles A. Plumley (R)	January 16, 1934
New York 34th	John D. Clarke (R)	Died November 5, 1933	Marian W. Clarke (R)	December 28, 1933
New York 29th	James S. Parker (R)	Died December 19, 1933	William D. Thomas (R)	January 30, 1934
North Carolina 4th	Edward W. Pou (D)	Died April 1, 1934	Harold D. Cooley (D)	July 7, 1934
Pennsylvania 13th	George F. Brumm (R)	Died May 29, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Idaho 2nd	Thomas C. Coffin (D)	Died June 8, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Illinois 20th	Henry T. Rainey (D)	Died August 19, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Pennsylvania 2nd	James M. Beck (R)	Resigned September 30, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress

[edit] Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn

[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
• See also: Rules of the House: "Other officers and officials"

[edit] References

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