The 83rd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1953, until January 3, 1955, during the last two weeks of the Truman administration, with the remainder spanning the first two years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. It was composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The apportionment of seats in the House was based on the 1950 U.S. census.

The Republicans gained the majority in both chambers, winning back full control of Congress for the first time since the 80th Congress in 1947, and with Dwight Eisenhower being sworn in as president on January 20, 1953, this gave the Republicans an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 71st Congress in 1929, and the last time until they briefly did so during the 107th Congress in 2001.

Major events

• January 20, 1953: Dwight Eisenhower is sworn in as President of the United States in his first inauguration

• March 1, 1954: U.S. Capitol shooting incident

• December 2, 1954: Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S. Senate

Major legislation

• July 3, 1953: Small Business Act, , ch. 282,

• August 7, 1953: Refugee Relief Act,

• August 7, 1953: Submerged Lands Act, ch. 345,

• August 14, 1953: Public Law 280, ,

• May 13, 1954: Saint Lawrence Seaway Act, ch. 201,

• August 12, 1954: Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, ch. 649, title II, §201,

• August 13, 1954: Multiple Mineral Development Act, ch. 730,

August 16, 1954: Internal Revenue Code of 1954, , ch. 736,

• Federal Unemployment Tax Act, §1(d),

• National Firearms Act, §1(d),

• August 24, 1954: Communist Control Act of 1954, ch. 886,

• August 30, 1954: Atomic Energy Act of 1954,

• 1954: Agricultural Act of 1954

• 1954: Water Facilities Act of 1954

Party summary

Until the last week of the first session of Congress, Republicans had a 48-47-1 tied-plurality in the Senate which Republican Vice President Richard Nixon broke in the GOP’s favor. At the start of the second session, to account for whenever the Senate became tied 47-47-1 or when the Democrats held the plurality the Republican-turned-Independent, Wayne Morse, caucused with the GOP which gave them a tie-breaking majority, allowing continuity in GOP control of the Senate and the overall trifecta of government. Thus Republican leader William Knowland remained Senate Majority Leader, Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson remained Senate Minority Leader, and the GOP remained continuously in control of the Senate committees. Wayne Morse would begin caucusing with Democrats at the start of the next Congress in 1955 to give them Senate control.

Senate

House of Representatives

Republican majority in the House becomes a plurality after the end of the last congressional session.

Leadership

Senate

President: Alben W. Barkley (D), until January 20, 1953

• Richard Nixon (R), from January 20, 1953

• President pro tempore: Styles Bridges (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

Majority Leader: Robert A. Taft, until July 31, 1953 (died)

• William Knowland, from August 3, 1953

• Majority Whip: Leverett Saltonstall

• Republican Conference Chairman: Eugene Millikin

• Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young

• National Senatorial Committee Chair: Everett Dirksen

• Policy Committee Chairman: Homer S. Ferguson

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader and Conference Chairman: Lyndon B. Johnson

• Minority Whip: Earle Clements

• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Thomas C. Hennings Jr.

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Charles A. Halleck

• Majority Whip: Leslie C. Arends

• Republican Conference Chairman: Clifford R. Hope

• Policy Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Martin Jr.

• Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Richard M. Simpson

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Sam Rayburn

• Minority Whip: John W. McCormack

• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Wilbur Mills

• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edna F. Kelly

• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan

Caucuses

• House Democratic Caucus

• Senate Democratic Caucus

Members

Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every six years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Within each state, senators are listed in order of seniority. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1954; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1956; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1958.

List of United States senators from AlabamaAlabama

1. 2. John Sparkman (D)

2. 3. J. Lister Hill (D)

List of United States senators from ArizonaArizona

1. 1. Barry Goldwater (R)

2. 3. Carl Hayden (D)

List of United States senators from ArkansasArkansas

1. 2. John L. McClellan (D)

2. 3. J. William Fulbright (D)

List of United States senators from CaliforniaCalifornia

1. 1. William Knowland (R)

2. 3. Thomas Kuchel (R)

List of United States senators from ColoradoColorado

1. 2. Edwin C. Johnson (D)

2. 3. Eugene Millikin (R)

List of United States senators from ConnecticutConnecticut

1. 1. William A. Purtell (R)

2. 3. Prescott Bush (R)

List of United States senators from DelawareDelaware

1. 1. John J. Williams (R)

2. 2. J. Allen Frear Jr. (D)

List of United States senators from FloridaFlorida

1. 1. Spessard Holland (D)

2. 3. George Smathers (D)

List of United States senators from GeorgiaGeorgia

1. 2. Richard Russell Jr. (D)

2. 3. Walter F. George (D)

List of United States senators from IdahoIdaho

1. 2. Henry Dworshak (R)

2. 3. Herman Welker (R)

List of United States senators from IllinoisIllinois

1. 2. Paul Douglas (D)

2. 3. Everett Dirksen (R)

List of United States senators from IndianaIndiana

1. 1. William E. Jenner (R)

2. 3. Homer E. Capehart (R)

List of United States senators from IowaIowa

1. 2. Guy M. Gillette (D)

2. 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)

List of United States senators from KansasKansas

1. 2. Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R)

2. 3. Frank Carlson (R)

List of United States senators from KentuckyKentucky

1. 2. John Sherman Cooper (R)

2. 3. Earle Clements (D)

List of United States senators from LouisianaLouisiana

1. 2. Allen J. Ellender (D)

2. 3. Russell B. Long (D)

List of United States senators from MaineMaine

1. 1. Frederick G. Payne (R)

2. 2. Margaret Chase Smith (R)

List of United States senators from MarylandMaryland

1. 1. James Glenn Beall (R)

2. 3. John Marshall Butler (R)

List of United States senators from MassachusettsMassachusetts

1. 1. John F. Kennedy (D)

2. 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

List of United States senators from MichiganMichigan

1. 1. Charles E. Potter (R)

2. 2. Homer S. Ferguson (R)

List of United States senators from MinnesotaMinnesota

1. 1. Edward John Thye (R)

2. 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)

List of United States senators from MississippiMississippi

1. 1. John C. Stennis (D)

2. 2. James Eastland (D)

List of United States senators from MissouriMissouri

1. 1. Stuart Symington (D)

2. 3. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D)

List of United States senators from MontanaMontana

1. 1. Mike Mansfield (D)

2. 2. James E. Murray (D)

List of United States senators from NebraskaNebraska

1. 1. Hugh A. Butler (R), until July 1, 1954

   1. Samuel W. Reynolds (R), July 3, 1954 – November 7, 1954

   2. Roman Hruska (R), from November 8, 1954

   2. Dwight Griswold (R), until April 12, 1954

   1. Eva Bowring (R), April 16, 1954 – November 7, 1954

   2. Hazel Abel (R), November 8, 1954 – December 31, 1954

   3. Carl Curtis (R), from January 1, 1955

List of United States senators from NevadaNevada

1. 1. George W. Malone (R)

2. 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D), until September 28, 1954

   1. Ernest S. Brown (R), October 1, 1954 – December 1, 1954

   2. Alan Bible (D), from December 2, 1954

List of United States senators from New HampshireNew Hampshire

1. 2. Styles Bridges (R)

2. 3. Charles W. Tobey (R), until July 24, 1953

   1. Robert W. Upton (R), August 14, 1953 – November 7, 1954

   2. Norris Cotton (R), from November 8, 1954

List of United States senators from New JerseyNew Jersey

1. 1. Howard Alexander Smith (R)

2. 2. Robert C. Hendrickson (R)

List of United States senators from New MexicoNew Mexico

1. 1. Dennis Chávez (D)

2. 2. Clinton P. Anderson (D)

List of United States senators from New YorkNew York

1. 1. Irving Ives (R)

2. 3. Herbert H. Lehman (D)

List of United States senators from North CarolinaNorth Carolina

1. 2. Willis Smith (D), until June 26, 1953

   1. Alton Lennon (D), July 10, 1953 – November 28, 1954

   2. W. Kerr Scott (D), from November 29, 1954

   3. Clyde R. Hoey (D), until May 12, 1954

   1. Sam Ervin (D), from June 5, 1954

List of United States senators from North DakotaNorth Dakota

1. 1. William Langer (R-NPL)

2. 3. Milton Young (R)

List of United States senators from OhioOhio

1. 1. John W. Bricker (R)

2. 3. Robert A. Taft (R), until July 31, 1953

   1. Thomas A. Burke (D), November 10, 1953 – December 2, 1954

   2. George H. Bender (R), from December 16, 1954

List of United States senators from OklahomaOklahoma

1. 2. Robert S. Kerr (D)

2. 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

List of United States senators from OregonOregon

1. 2. Guy Cordon (R)

2. 3. Wayne Morse (I)

List of United States senators from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania

1. 1. Edward Martin (R)

2. 3. James H. Duff (R)

List of United States senators from Rhode IslandRhode Island

1. 1. John Pastore (D)

2. 2. Theodore F. Green (D)

List of United States senators from South CarolinaSouth Carolina

1. 2. Burnet R. Maybank (D), until September 1, 1954

   1. Charles E. Daniel (D), September 6, 1954 – December 23, 1954

   2. Strom Thurmond (D), from December 24, 1954

   3. Olin D. Johnston (D)

List of United States senators from South DakotaSouth Dakota

1. 2. Karl E. Mundt (R)

2. 3. Francis Case (R)

List of United States senators from TennesseeTennessee

1. 1. Albert Gore Sr. (D)

2. 2. Estes Kefauver (D)

List of United States senators from TexasTexas

1. 1. Price Daniel (D)

2. 2. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

List of United States senators from UtahUtah

1. 1. Arthur Vivian Watkins (R)

2. 3. Wallace F. Bennett (R)

List of United States senators from VermontVermont

1. 1. Ralph Flanders (R)

2. 3. George Aiken (R)

List of United States senators from VirginiaVirginia

1. 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)

2. 2. A. Willis Robertson (D)

List of United States senators from WashingtonWashington

1. 1. Henry M. Jackson (D)

2. 3. Warren G. Magnuson (D)

List of United States senators from West VirginiaWest Virginia

1. 1. Harley M. Kilgore (D)

2. 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

List of United States senators from WisconsinWisconsin

1. 1. Joseph McCarthy (R)

2. 3. Alexander Wiley (R)

List of United States senators from WyomingWyoming

1. 1. Frank A. Barrett (R)

2. 2. Lester C. Hunt (D), until June 19, 1954

   1. Edward D. Crippa (R), June 24, 1954 – November 28, 1954

   2. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), from November 29, 1954

House of Representatives

List of United States representatives from AlabamaAlabama

1. . Frank W. Boykin (D)

2. . George M. Grant (D)

3. . George W. Andrews (D)

4. . Kenneth A. Roberts (D)

5. . Albert Rains (D)

6. . Armistead Selden (D)

7. . Carl Elliott (D)

8. . Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)

9. . Laurie C. Battle (D)

List of United States representatives from ArizonaArizona

1. . John Jacob Rhodes (R)

2. . Harold Patten (D)

List of United States representatives from ArkansasArkansas

1. . Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)

2. . Wilbur Mills (D)

3. . James William Trimble (D)

4. . Oren Harris (D)

5. . Brooks Hays (D)

6. . William F. Norrell (D)

List of United States representatives from CaliforniaCalifornia

1. . Hubert B. Scudder (R)

2. . Clair Engle (D)

3. . John E. Moss (D)

4. . William S. Mailliard (R)

5. . John F. Shelley (D)

6. . Robert Condon (D)

7. . John J. Allen Jr. (R)

8. . George P. Miller (D)

9. . J. Arthur Younger (R)

10. . Charles Gubser (R)

11. . J. Leroy Johnson (R)

12. . Allan O. Hunter (R)

13. . Ernest K. Bramblett (R)

14. . Harlan Hagen (D)

15. . Gordon L. McDonough (R)

16. . Donald L. Jackson (R)

17. . Cecil R. King (D)

18. . Craig Hosmer (R)

19. . Chester E. Holifield (D)

20. . John Carl Hinshaw (R)

21. . Edgar W. Hiestand (R)

22. . Joseph F. Holt (R)

23. . Clyde Doyle (D)

24. . Norris Poulson (R), until June 11, 1953

    1. Glenard P. Lipscomb (R), from November 10, 1953

    . Patrick J. Hillings (R)

25. . Sam Yorty (D)

26. . Harry R. Sheppard (D)

27. . James B. Utt (R)

28. . John R. Phillips (R)

29. . Bob Wilson (R)

List of United States representatives from ColoradoColorado

1. . Byron G. Rogers (D)

2. . William S. Hill (R)

3. . John Chenoweth (R)

4. . Wayne N. Aspinall (D)

List of United States representatives from ConnecticutConnecticut

1. . Thomas J. Dodd (D)

2. . Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R)

3. . Albert W. Cretella (R)

4. . Albert P. Morano (R)

5. . James T. Patterson (R)

6. . Antoni Sadlak (R)

List of United States representatives from DelawareDelaware

1. . Herbert Warburton (R)

List of United States representatives from FloridaFlorida

1. . Courtney W. Campbell (D)

2. . Charles E. Bennett (D)

3. . Robert L. F. Sikes (D)

4. . Bill Lantaff (D)

5. . Syd Herlong (D)

6. . Dwight L. Rogers (D), until December 1, 1954

7. . James A. Haley (D)

8. . Donald Ray Matthews (D)

List of United States representatives from GeorgiaGeorgia

1. . Prince Preston (D)

2. . J. L. Pilcher (D), from February 4, 1953

3. . Tic Forrester (D)

4. . Albert Sidney Camp (D), until July 24, 1954

   1. John Flynt (D), from November 2, 1954

   . James C. Davis (D)

5. . Carl Vinson (D)

6. . Henderson Lovelace Lanham (D)

7. . William McDonald Wheeler (D)

8. . Phil Landrum (D)

9. . Paul Brown (D)

List of United States representatives from IdahoIdaho

1. . Gracie Pfost (D)

2. . Hamer H. Budge (R)

List of United States representatives from IllinoisIllinois

1. . William L. Dawson (D)

2. . Barratt O'Hara (D)

3. . Fred E. Busbey (R)

4. . William E. McVey (R)

5. . John C. Kluczynski (D)

6. . Thomas J. O'Brien (D)

7. . James Bowler (D), from July 7, 1953

8. . Thomas S. Gordon (D)

9. . Sidney R. Yates (D)

10. . Richard W. Hoffman (R)

11. . Timothy P. Sheehan (R)

12. . Edgar A. Jonas (R)

13. . Marguerite S. Church (R)

14. . Chauncey W. Reed (R)

15. . Noah M. Mason (R)

16. . Leo E. Allen (R)

17. . Leslie C. Arends (R)

18. . Harold H. Velde (R)

19. . Robert B. Chiperfield (R)

20. . Sid Simpson (R)

21. . Peter F. Mack Jr. (D)

22. . William L. Springer (R)

23. . Charles W. Vursell (R)

24. . Melvin Price (D)

25. . C. W. Bishop (R)

List of United States representatives from IndianaIndiana

1. . Ray Madden (D)

2. . Charles A. Halleck (R)

3. . Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. (R)

4. . E. Ross Adair (R)

5. . John V. Beamer (R)

6. . Cecil M. Harden (R)

7. . William G. Bray (R)

8. . D. Bailey Merrill (R)

9. . Earl Wilson (R)

10. . Ralph Harvey (R)

11. . Charles B. Brownson (R)

List of United States representatives from IowaIowa

1. . Thomas E. Martin (R)

2. . Henry O. Talle (R)

3. . H. R. Gross (R)

4. . Karl M. LeCompte (R)

5. . Paul H. Cunningham (R)

6. . James I. Dolliver (R)

7. . Ben F. Jensen (R)

8. . Charles B. Hoeven (R)

List of United States representatives from KansasKansas

1. . Howard Shultz Miller (D)

2. . Errett P. Scrivner (R)

3. . Myron V. George (R)

4. . Edward Herbert Rees (R)

5. . Clifford R. Hope (R)

6. . Wint Smith (R)

List of United States representatives from KentuckyKentucky

1. . Noble J. Gregory (D)

2. . Garrett Withers (D), until April 30, 1953

   1. William Natcher (D), from August 1, 1953

   . John M. Robsion Jr. (R)

3. . Frank Chelf (D)

4. . Brent Spence (D)

5. . John C. Watts (D)

6. . Carl D. Perkins (D)

7. . James S. Golden (R)

List of United States representatives from LouisianaLouisiana

1. . F. Edward Hébert (D)

2. . Hale Boggs (D)

3. . Edwin E. Willis (D)

4. . Overton Brooks (D)

5. . Otto Passman (D)

6. . James H. Morrison (D)

7. . T. Ashton Thompson (D)

8. . George S. Long (D)

List of United States representatives from MaineMaine

1. . Robert Hale (R)

2. . Charles P. Nelson (R)

3. . Clifford McIntire (R)

List of United States representatives from MarylandMaryland

1. . Edward Tylor Miller (R)

2. . James Devereux (R)

3. . Edward Garmatz (D)

4. . George Hyde Fallon (D)

5. . Frank Small Jr. (R)

6. . DeWitt Hyde (R)

7. . Samuel Friedel (D)

List of United States representatives from MassachusettsMassachusetts

1. . John W. Heselton (R)

2. . Edward Boland (D)

3. . Philip J. Philbin (D)

4. . Harold Donohue (D)

5. . Edith Nourse Rogers (R)

6. . William H. Bates (R)

7. . Thomas J. Lane (D)

8. . Angier Goodwin (R)

9. . Donald W. Nicholson (R)

10. . Laurence Curtis (R)

11. . Tip O'Neill (D)

12. . John W. McCormack (D)

13. . Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)

14. . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

List of United States representatives from MichiganMichigan

1. . Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)

2. . George Meader (R)

3. . Paul W. Shafer (R), until August 17, 1954

4. . Clare E. Hoffman (R)

5. . Gerald Ford (R)

6. . Kit Clardy (R)

7. . Jesse P. Wolcott (R)

8. . Alvin Morell Bentley (R)

9. . Ruth Thompson (R)

10. . Elford Albin Cederberg (R)

11. . Victor A. Knox (R)

12. . John B. Bennett (R)

13. . George D. O'Brien (D)

14. . Louis C. Rabaut (D)

15. . John D. Dingell Sr. (D)

16. . John Lesinski Jr. (D)

17. . Charles G. Oakman (R)

18. . George A. Dondero (R)

List of United States representatives from MinnesotaMinnesota

1. . August H. Andresen (R)

2. . Joseph P. O'Hara (R)

3. . Roy Wier (DFL)

4. . Eugene McCarthy (DFL)

5. . Walter Judd (R)

6. . Fred Marshall (DFL)

7. . Herman Carl Andersen (R)

8. . John Blatnik (DFL)

9. . Harold Hagen (R)

List of United States representatives from MississippiMississippi

1. . Thomas Abernethy (D)

2. . Jamie L. Whitten (D)

3. . Frank Ellis Smith (D)

4. . John Bell Williams (D)

5. . W. Arthur Winstead (D)

6. . William M. Colmer (D)

List of United States representatives from MissouriMissouri

1. . Frank M. Karsten (D)

2. . Thomas B. Curtis (R)

3. . Leonor Sullivan (D)

4. . Jeffrey Paul Hillelson (R)

5. . Richard Walker Bolling (D)

6. . William Clay Cole (R)

7. . Dewey Short (R)

8. . A. S. J. Carnahan (D)

9. . Clarence Cannon (D)

10. . Paul C. Jones (D)

11. . Morgan M. Moulder (D)

List of United States representatives from MontanaMontana

1. . Lee Metcalf (D)

2. . Wesley A. D'Ewart (R)

List of United States representatives from NebraskaNebraska

1. . Carl Curtis (R), until December 31, 1954

2. . Roman Hruska (R), until November 8, 1954

3. . Robert Dinsmore Harrison (R)

4. . Arthur L. Miller (R)

List of United States representatives from NevadaNevada

1. . Clarence Clifton Young (R)

List of United States representatives from New HampshireNew Hampshire

1. . Chester Earl Merrow (R)

2. . Norris Cotton (R), until November 7, 1954

List of United States representatives from New JerseyNew Jersey

1. . Charles A. Wolverton (R)

2. . T. Millet Hand (R)

3. . James C. Auchincloss (R)

4. . Charles R. Howell (D)

5. . Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)

6. . Clifford P. Case (R), until August 16, 1953

   1. Harrison A. Williams (D), from November 3, 1953

   . William B. Widnall (R)

7. . Gordon Canfield (R)

8. . Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)

9. . Peter W. Rodino (D)

10. . Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D)

11. . Robert Kean (R)

12. . Alfred Dennis Sieminski (D)

13. . Edward J. Hart (D)

List of United States representatives from New MexicoNew Mexico

1. . John J. Dempsey (D)

2. . Antonio M. Fernández (D)

List of United States representatives from New YorkNew York

1. . Stuyvesant Wainwright (R)

2. . Steven Derounian (R)

3. . Frank J. Becker (R)

4. . Henry J. Latham (R)

5. . Albert H. Bosch (R)

6. . Lester Holtzman (D)

7. . James J. Delaney (D)

8. . Louis B. Heller (D), until July 21, 1954

9. . Eugene J. Keogh (D)

10. . Edna F. Kelly (D)

11. . Emanuel Celler (D)

12. . Francis E. Dorn (R)

13. . Abraham J. Multer (D)

14. . John J. Rooney (D)

15. . John H. Ray (R)

16. . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)

17. . Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R)

18. . James G. Donovan (D)

19. . Arthur George Klein (D)

20. . Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (D)

21. . Jacob Javits (R), until December 31, 1954

22. . Sidney A. Fine (D)

23. . Isidore Dollinger (D)

24. . Charles A. Buckley (D)

25. . Paul A. Fino (R)

26. . Ralph A. Gamble (R)

27. . Ralph W. Gwinn (R)

28. . Katharine St. George (R)

29. . J. Ernest Wharton (R)

30. . Leo W. O'Brien (D)

31. . Dean P. Taylor (R)

32. . Bernard W. Kearney (R)

33. . Clarence E. Kilburn (R)

34. . William R. Williams (R)

35. . R. Walter Riehlman (R)

36. . John Taber (R)

37. . W. Sterling Cole (R)

38. . Kenneth Keating (R)

39. . Harold C. Ostertag (R)

40. . William E. Miller (R)

41. . Edmund P. Radwan (R)

42. . John R. Pillion (R)

43. . Daniel A. Reed (R)

List of United States representatives from North CarolinaNorth Carolina

1. . Herbert Covington Bonner (D)

2. . Lawrence H. Fountain (D)

3. . Graham A. Barden (D)

4. . Harold D. Cooley (D)

5. . Richard Thurmond Chatham (D)

6. . Carl T. Durham (D)

7. . Frank Ertel Carlyle (D)

8. . Charles B. Deane (D)

9. . Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)

10. . Charles R. Jonas (R)

11. . Woodrow W. Jones (D)

12. . George A. Shuford (D)

List of United States representatives from North DakotaNorth Dakota

1. . Otto Krueger (R)

2. . Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)

List of United States representatives from OhioOhio

1. . Gordon H. Scherer (R)

2. . William E. Hess (R)

3. . Paul F. Schenck (R)

4. . William Moore McCulloch (R)

5. . Cliff Clevenger (R)

6. . James G. Polk (D)

7. . Clarence J. Brown (R)

8. . Jackson Edward Betts (R)

9. . Frazier Reams (I)

10. . Thomas A. Jenkins (R)

11. . Oliver P. Bolton (R)

12. . John M. Vorys (R)

13. . Alvin F. Weichel (R)

14. . William Hanes Ayres (R)

15. . Robert T. Secrest (D), until September 26, 1954

16. . Frank T. Bow (R)

17. . J. Harry McGregor (R)

18. . Wayne Hays (D)

19. . Michael J. Kirwan (D)

20. . Michael A. Feighan (D)

21. . Robert Crosser (D)

22. . Frances P. Bolton (R)

23. . George H. Bender (R), until December 15, 1954

List of United States representatives from OklahomaOklahoma

1. . Page Belcher (R)

2. . Ed Edmondson (D)

3. . Carl Albert (D)

4. . Tom Steed (D)

5. . John Jarman (D)

6. . Victor Wickersham (D)

List of United States representatives from OregonOregon

1. . A. Walter Norblad (R)

2. . Sam Coon (R)

3. . Homer D. Angell (R)

4. . Harris Ellsworth (R)

List of United States representatives from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania

1. . William A. Barrett (D)

2. . William T. Granahan (D)

3. . James A. Byrne (D)

4. . Earl Chudoff (D)

5. . William J. Green Jr. (D)

6. . Hugh Scott (R)

7. . Benjamin F. James (R)

8. . Karl C. King (R)

9. . Paul B. Dague (R)

10. . Joseph L. Carrigg (R)

11. . Edward Bonin (R)

12. . Ivor D. Fenton (R)

13. . Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)

14. . George M. Rhodes (D)

15. . Francis E. Walter (D)

16. . Walter M. Mumma (R)

17. . Alvin Bush (R)

18. . Richard M. Simpson (R)

19. . S. Walter Stauffer (R)

20. . James E. Van Zandt (R)

21. . Augustine B. Kelley (D)

22. . John P. Saylor (R)

23. . Leon H. Gavin (R)

24. . Carroll D. Kearns (R)

25. . Louis E. Graham (R)

26. . Thomas E. Morgan (D)

27. . James G. Fulton (R)

28. . Herman P. Eberharter (D)

29. . Robert J. Corbett (R)

30. . Vera Buchanan (D)

List of United States representatives from Rhode IslandRhode Island

1. . Aime Forand (D)

2. . John E. Fogarty (D)

List of United States representatives from South CarolinaSouth Carolina

1. . L. Mendel Rivers (D)

2. . John J. Riley (D)

3. . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)

4. . Joseph R. Bryson (D), until March 10, 1953

   1. Robert T. Ashmore (D), from June 2, 1953

   . James P. Richards (D)

5. . John L. McMillan (D)

List of United States representatives from South DakotaSouth Dakota

1. . Harold Lovre (R)

2. . Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)

List of United States representatives from TennesseeTennessee

1. . B. Carroll Reece (R)

2. . Howard Baker Sr. (R)

3. . James B. Frazier Jr. (D)

4. . Joe L. Evins (D)

5. . Percy Priest (D)

6. . James Patrick Sutton (D)

7. . Tom J. Murray (D)

8. . Jere Cooper (D)

9. . Clifford Davis (D)

List of United States representatives from TexasTexas

1. . Wright Patman (D)

2. . Jack Brooks (D)

3. . Brady P. Gentry (D)

4. . Sam Rayburn (D)

5. . Joseph Franklin Wilson (D)

6. . Olin E. Teague (D)

7. . John Dowdy (D)

8. . Albert Thomas (D)

9. . Clark W. Thompson (D)

10. . Homer Thornberry (D)

11. . William R. Poage (D)

12. . Wingate H. Lucas (D)

13. . Frank N. Ikard (D)

14. . John E. Lyle Jr. (D)

15. . Lloyd Bentsen (D)

16. . Kenneth M. Regan (D)

17. . Omar Burleson (D)

18. . Walter E. Rogers (D)

19. . George H. Mahon (D)

20. . Paul J. Kilday (D)

21. . O. C. Fisher (D)

22. . Martin Dies Jr. (D)

List of United States representatives from UtahUtah

1. . Douglas R. Stringfellow (R)

2. . William A. Dawson (R)

List of United States representatives from VermontVermont

1. . Winston L. Prouty (R)

List of United States representatives from VirginiaVirginia

1. . Edward J. Robeson Jr. (D)

2. . Porter Hardy Jr. (D)

3. . J. Vaughan Gary (D)

4. . Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)

5. . Thomas B. Stanley (D), until February 3, 1953

   1. William M. Tuck (D), from April 14, 1953

   . Richard Harding Poff (R)

6. . Burr Harrison (D)

7. . Howard W. Smith (D)

8. . William C. Wampler (R)

9. . Joel Broyhill (R)

List of United States representatives from WashingtonWashington

1. . Thomas Pelly (R)

2. . Jack Westland (R)

3. . Russell V. Mack (R)

4. . Hal Holmes (R)

5. . Walt Horan (R)

6. . Thor C. Tollefson (R)

7. . Donald H. Magnuson (D)

List of United States representatives from West VirginiaWest Virginia

1. . Bob Mollohan (D)

2. . Harley Orrin Staggers (D)

3. . Cleveland M. Bailey (D)

4. . Will E. Neal (R)

5. . Elizabeth Kee (D)

6. . Robert Byrd (D)

List of United States representatives from WisconsinWisconsin

1. . Lawrence H. Smith (R)

2. . Glenn Robert Davis (R)

3. . Gardner R. Withrow (R)

4. . Clement J. Zablocki (D)

5. . Charles J. Kersten (R)

6. . William Van Pelt (R)

7. . Melvin Laird (R)

8. . John W. Byrnes (R)

9. . Merlin Hull (R), until May 17, 1953

   1. Lester Johnson (D), from October 13, 1953

   . Alvin O'Konski (R)

List of United States representatives from WyomingWyoming

1. . William Henry Harrison III (R)

Non-voting members

1. . Bob Bartlett (D)

2. . Joseph Rider Farrington (R), until June 19, 1954

   1. Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (R), from July 31, 1954

   . Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD)

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.

Senate

|- | North Carolina(2) | nowrap | Willis Smith (D) | Died June 26, 1953.Successor appointed July 10, 1953. | nowrap | Alton Lennon (D) | July 10, 1953

|- | New Hampshire(3) | nowrap | Charles W. Tobey (R) | Died July 24, 1953.Successor appointed August 14, 1953. | nowrap | Robert W. Upton (R) | August 14, 1953

|- | Ohio(3) | nowrap | Robert A. Taft (R) | Died July 31, 1953.Successor appointed November 10, 1953. | nowrap | Thomas A. Burke (D) | November 10, 1953

|- | Nebraska(2) | nowrap | Dwight Griswold (R) | Died April 12, 1954.Successor appointed April 16, 1954. | nowrap | Eva Bowring (R) | April 16, 1954

|- | North Carolina(3) | nowrap | Clyde R. Hoey (D) | Died May 12, 1954.Successor appointed May 12, 1954 and then elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Sam Ervin (D) | June 5, 1954

|- | Wyoming(2) | nowrap | Lester C. Hunt (D) | Died June 19, 1954.Successor appointed June 24, 1954. | nowrap | Edward D. Crippa (R) | June 24, 1954

|- | Nebraska(1) | nowrap | Hugh A. Butler (R) | Died July 1, 1954.Successor appointed July 3, 1954. | nowrap | Samuel W. Reynolds (R) | July 3, 1954

|- | South Carolina(2) | nowrap | Burnet R. Maybank (D) | Died September 1, 1954.Successor appointed September 6, 1954. | nowrap | Charles E. Daniel (D) | September 6, 1954

|- | Nevada(3) | nowrap | Pat McCarran (D) | Died September 28, 1954.Successor appointed October 1, 1954. | nowrap | Ernest S. Brown (R) | October 1, 1954

|- | Nebraska(1) | nowrap | Samuel W. Reynolds (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Roman Hruska (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | Nebraska(2) | nowrap | Eva Bowring (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Hazel Abel (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | New Hampshire(3) | nowrap | Robert W. Upton (R) | Lost special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Norris Cotton (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | North Carolina(2) | nowrap | Alton Lennon (D) | Lost special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | W. Kerr Scott (D) | November 29, 1954

|- | Wyoming(2) | nowrap | Edward D. Crippa (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D) | November 29, 1954

|- | Nevada(3) | nowrap | Ernest S. Brown (R) | Lost special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | Alan Bible (D) | December 2, 1954

|- | Ohio(3) | nowrap | Thomas A. Burke (D) | Lost special election to fill seat.Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap | George H. Bender (R) | December 16, 1954

|- | South Carolina(2) | nowrap | Charles E. Daniel (D) | Resigned December 23, 1954.Successor appointed December 24, 1954. | nowrap | Strom Thurmond (D) | December 24, 1954

|- | Nebraska(2) | nowrap | Hazel Abel (R) | Resigned December 31, 1954.Successor was appointed January 1, 1955. | nowrap | Carl Curtis (R) | January 1, 1955

|}

House of Representatives

|- | | Vacant | Rep. E. Eugene Cox died during previous congress | nowrap | J. L. Pilcher (D) | February 4, 1953

|- | | Vacant | Rep. Adolph J. Sabath died during previous congress | nowrap | James Bowler (D) | July 7, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Thomas B. Stanley (D) | Resigned February 3, 1953, to run for Governor of Virginia | nowrap | William M. Tuck (D) | April 14, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Joseph R. Bryson (D) | Died March 10, 1953 | nowrap | Robert T. Ashmore (D) | June 2, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Garrett Withers (D) | Died April 30, 1953 | nowrap | William Natcher (D) | August 1, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Merlin Hull (R) | Died May 17, 1953 | nowrap | Lester Johnson (D) | October 13, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Norris Poulson (R) | Resigned June 11, 1953, after being elected Mayor of Los Angeles | nowrap | Glenard P. Lipscomb (R) | November 10, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Clifford P. Case (R) | Resigned August 16, 1953 | nowrap | Harrison A. Williams (D) | November 3, 1953

|- | | nowrap| Joseph Rider Farrington (R) | Died June 19, 1954 | nowrap | Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (R) | August 4, 1954

|- | | nowrap| Louis B. Heller (D) | Resigned July 21, 1954, after being appointed judge of the Court of Special Sessions of New York City | Vacant | Not filled this term

|- | | nowrap| Albert Sidney Camp (D) | Died July 24, 1954 | nowrap | John Flynt (D) | November 2, 1954

|- | | nowrap| Paul W. Shafer (R) | Died August 17, 1954 | rowspan=8 |Vacant | rowspan=8 |Not filled this term

|- | | nowrap| Robert T. Secrest (D) | Resigned September 26, 1954

|- | | nowrap| Norris Cotton (R) | Resigned November 7, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate

|- | | nowrap| Roman Hruska (R) | Resigned November 8, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate

|- | | nowrap| Dwight L. Rogers (D) | Died December 1, 1954

|- | | nowrap| George H. Bender (R) | Resigned December 15, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate

|- | | nowrap| Carl Curtis (R) | Resigned December 31, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate

|- | | nowrap| Jacob Javits (R) | Resigned December 31, 1954, after being elected New York attorney General

|}

Committees

Senate

• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: George D. Aiken; Ranking Member: Allen J. Ellender)

• Appropriations (Chairman: Styles Bridges; Ranking Member: Carl Hayden)

• Armed Services (Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall; Ranking Member: Richard B. Russell)

• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Homer E. Capehart; Ranking Member: Burnet R. Maybank)

• Censure Charges against Senator McCarthy (Select) (Chairman: ; Ranking Member: )

• Compensation of Members of Congress (Select) (Chairman: ; Ranking Member: )

• District of Columbia (Chairman: Francis Case; Ranking Member: Matthew M. Neely)

• Finance (Chairman: Eugene D. Millikin; Ranking Member: Walter F. George)

• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Alexander Wiley; Ranking Member: Walter F. George)

• Government Operations (Chairman: Joseph R. McCarthy; Ranking Member: James E. Murray)

• Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Hugh Butler; Ranking Member: John L. McClellan)

• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Charles W. Tobey; Ranking Member: Edwin C. Johnson)

• Judiciary (Chairman: William Langer; Ranking Member: Pat McCarran)

• Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman: H. Alexander Smith; Ranking Member: James E. Murray)

• Mail Cover on Senators (Special) (Chairman: ; Ranking Member: )

• Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Frank Carlson; Ranking Member: Olin D. Johnston)

• Public Works (Chairman: Edward Martin; Ranking Member: Dennis Chavez)

• Rules and Administration (Chairman: William E. Jenner; Ranking Member: Carl Hayden)

• Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Edward J. Thye)

• Whole

House of Representatives

• Agriculture (Chairman: Clifford R. Hope; Ranking Member: Carl Vinson)

• Appropriations (Chairman: John Taber; Ranking Member: Brent Spence)

• Armed Services (Chairman: Dewey Jackson Short; Ranking Member: John L. McMillan)

• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Jesse P. Wolcott; Ranking Member: Brent Spence)

• Communist Aggression (Select) (Chairman: Charles J. Kersten)

• Benefits for Dependents of Armed Services Veterans (Select) (Chairman: )

• Defense Production

• District of Columbia (Chairman: Sid Simpson; Ranking Member: John L. McMillan)

• Education and Labor (Chairman: Samuel K. McConnell Jr.; Ranking Member: Graham A. Barden)

• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert B. Chiperfield; Ranking Member: James P. Richards)

• House Administration (Chairman: Karl M. LeCompte; Ranking Member: Omar Burleson)

• Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. (Select) (Chairman: Charles J. Kersten; Ranking Member: )

• Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Arthur L. Miller; Ranking Member: Clair Engle)

• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Charles A. Wolverton; Ranking Member: Robert Crosser)

• Government Operations (Chairman: Clare E. Hoffman; Ranking Member: William L. Dawson)

• Judiciary (Chairman: Chauncey W. Reed; Ranking Member: Emanuel Celler)

• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Alvin F. Weichel; Ranking Member: Edward J. Hart)

• Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Edward H. Rees; Ranking Member: Tom J. Murray)

• Public Works (Chairman: George Anthony Dondero; Ranking Member: Charles A. Buckley)

• Rules (Chairman: Leo E. Allen; Ranking Member: Howard W. Smith)

• Small Business (Select) (Chairman: William S. Hill)

• Standards of Official Conduct

• Survival Benefits (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)

• Un-American Activities (Chairman: Harold H. Velde; Ranking Member: Francis E. Walter)

• Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: Edith Nourse Rogers; Ranking Member: Olin E. Teague)

• Ways and Means (Chairman: Daniel A. Reed; Ranking Member: Jere Cooper)

• Whole

Joint committees

• Atomic Energy

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)

• Disposition of Executive Papers

• Economic (Chairman: Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott; Vice Chairman: Sen. Ralph Flanders)

• Immigration and Nationality Policy (Chairman: Sen. Arthur V. Watkins; Vice Chairman: Rep. Louis E. Graham)

• Legislative Budget

• The Library

• Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration

• Printing (Chairman: Sen. William E. Jenner; Vice Chairman: Rep. Karl M. LeCompte)

• Railroad Retirement Legislation

• Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen. Harry F. Byrd; Vice Chairman: Rep. Daniel A. Reed)

• Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Daniel A. Reed; Vice Chairman: Sen. Eugene D. Millikin)

Employees

List of federal agencies in the United States#United States CongressLegislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (January 3, 1953 – September 30, 1954); J. George Stewart (September 30, 1954 – January 3, 1955)

• Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver

Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren, until April 30, 1954

• Joseph Campbell, from December 14, 1954

Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans, until 1953

• Lawrence Quincy Mumford, from 1954

Public Printer of the United States: John J. Deviny, until 1953

• Raymond Blattenberger, from 1953

Senate

• Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)

• Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins

• Secretary: J. Mark Trice

Librarian: Sterling Dean, until 1954

• Gus J. Miller (acting), from 1954

• Secretary for the Majority: William T. Reed

• Secretary for the Minority: Felton McLellan Johnston

• Sergeant at Arms: Forest A. Harness

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian)

• Clerk: Lyle O. Snader

• Doorkeeper: Tom Kennamer

• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler

• Postmaster: Beecher Hess

• Reading Clerks: George J. Maurer (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)

Sergeant at Arms: William F. Russell, died July 7, 1953

• Lyle O. Snader, July 8, 1953 – September 15, 1953

• William R. Bonsell, starting September 15, 1953

See also

1952 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)

• 1952 United States presidential election

• 1952 United States Senate elections

• 1952 United States House of Representatives elections

1954 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)

• 1954 United States Senate elections

• 1954 United States House of Representatives elections

Notes

References

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