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The 73rd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935, during the first two years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Because of the newly ratified 20th Amendment, the duration of this Congress, along with the term of office of those elected to it, was shortened by days. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1930 United States census.

The Democrats greatly increased their majority in the House, and won control of the Senate for the first time since the 65th Congress in 1917. With Franklin D. Roosevelt being sworn in as president on March 4, 1933, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta, also for the first time since the 65th Congress.

Major events

Major legislation

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:

  • March 9, 1933: The Emergency Banking Act (ch. 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 1/3 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 altogether.

  • March 20, 1933: 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:

Second Session

Constitutional amendments

Hearings

"Merchants of Death"

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 18 months, the "Nye Committee" (as newspapers called it) held 93 hearings, questioning more than 200 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.

Party summary

For details, see Changes in membership, below.

Senate

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

House of Representatives

Membership changed with twelve deaths and three resignations.

Leadership

Senate

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

House of Representatives

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

Members

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, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1936; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1938.

List of United States senators from AlabamaAlabama

  1. 2. John H. Bankhead II (D)

  2. 3. Hugo Black (D)

List of United States senators from ArizonaArizona

  1. 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)

  2. 3. Carl Hayden (D)

List of United States senators from ArkansasArkansas

  1. 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)

  2. 3. Hattie Caraway (D)

List of United States senators from CaliforniaCalifornia

  1. 1. Hiram W. Johnson (R)

  2. 2. William G. McAdoo (D)

List of United States senators from ColoradoColorado

  1. 2. Edward P. Costigan (D)

  2. 3. Alva B. Adams (D)

List of United States senators from ConnecticutConnecticut

  1. 1. Frederic C. Walcott (R)

  2. 3. Augustine Lonergan (D)

List of United States senators from DelawareDelaware

  1. 1. John G. Townsend Jr. (R)

  2. 2. Daniel O. Hastings (R)

List of United States senators from FloridaFlorida

  1. 1. Park Trammell (D)

  2. 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)

List of United States senators from GeorgiaGeorgia

  1. 2. Walter F. George (D)

  2. 3. Richard B. Russell Jr. (D)

List of United States senators from IdahoIdaho

  1. 2. William E. Borah (R)

  2. 3. James P. Pope (D)

List of United States senators from IllinoisIllinois

  1. 2. James Hamilton Lewis (D)

  2. 3. William H. Dieterich (D)

List of United States senators from IndianaIndiana

  1. 1. Arthur R. Robinson (R)

  2. 3. Frederick Van Nuys (D)

List of United States senators from IowaIowa

  1. 2. Lester J. Dickinson (R)

  2. 3. Richard L. Murphy (D)

List of United States senators from KansasKansas

  1. 2. Arthur Capper (R)

  2. 3. George McGill (D)

List of United States senators from KentuckyKentucky

  1. 2. Marvel M. Logan (D)

  2. 3. Alben W. Barkley (D)

List of United States senators from LouisianaLouisiana

  1. 2. Huey P. Long (D)

  2. 3. John H. Overton (D)

List of United States senators from MaineMaine

  1. 1. Frederick Hale (R)

  2. 2. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)

List of United States senators from MarylandMaryland

  1. 1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)

  2. 3. Millard Tydings (D)

List of United States senators from MassachusettsMassachusetts

  1. 1. David I. Walsh (D)

  2. 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D)

List of United States senators from MichiganMichigan

  1. 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)

  2. 2. James J. Couzens (R)

List of United States senators from MinnesotaMinnesota

  1. 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)

  2. 2. Thomas D. Schall (R)

List of United States senators from MississippiMississippi

  1. 1. Hubert D. Stephens (D)

  2. 2. Pat Harrison (D)

List of United States senators from MissouriMissouri

  1. 1. Roscoe C. Patterson (R)

  2. 3. Bennett Champ Clark (D)

List of United States senators from MontanaMontana

  1. 1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)

  2. 2. John E. Erickson (D), March 13, 1933 – November 7, 1934

    1. James E. Murray (D), from November 7, 1934

List of United States senators from NebraskaNebraska

  1. 1. Robert B. Howell (R), until March 11, 1933

    1. William H. Thompson (D), May 24, 1933 – November 7, 1934

    2. Richard C. Hunter (D), from November 7, 1934

    2. George W. Norris (R)

List of United States senators from NevadaNevada

  1. 1. Key Pittman (D)

  2. 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D)

List of United States senators from New HampshireNew Hampshire

  1. 2. Henry W. Keyes (R)

  2. 3. Fred H. Brown (D)

List of United States senators from New JerseyNew Jersey

  1. 1. Hamilton Fish Kean (R)

  2. 2. William Warren Barbour (R)

List of United States senators from New MexicoNew Mexico

  1. 1. Bronson M. Cutting (R)

  2. 2. Sam G. Bratton (D), until June 24, 1933

    1. Carl Hatch (D), from October 10, 1933

List of United States senators from New YorkNew York

  1. 1. Royal S. Copeland (D)

  2. 3. Robert F. Wagner (D)

List of United States senators from North CarolinaNorth Carolina

  1. 2. Josiah William Bailey (D)

  2. 3. Robert R. Reynolds (D)

List of United States senators from North DakotaNorth Dakota

  1. 1. Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)

  2. 3. Gerald Nye (R)

List of United States senators from OhioOhio

  1. 1. Simeon D. Fess (R)

  2. 3. Robert J. Bulkley (D)

List of United States senators from OklahomaOklahoma

  1. 2. Thomas P. Gore (D)

  2. 3. Elmer Thomas (D)

List of United States senators from OregonOregon

  1. 2. Charles L. McNary (R)

  2. 3. Frederick Steiwer (R)

List of United States senators from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania

  1. 1. David A. Reed (R)

  2. 3. James J. Davis (R)

List of United States senators from Rhode IslandRhode Island

  1. 1. Felix Hebert (R)

  2. 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)

List of United States senators from South CarolinaSouth Carolina

  1. 2. James F. Byrnes (D)

  2. 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

List of United States senators from South DakotaSouth Dakota

  1. 2. William J. Bulow (D)

  2. 3. Peter Norbeck (R)

List of United States senators from TennesseeTennessee

  1. 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D)

  2. 2. Nathan L. Bachman (D)

List of United States senators from TexasTexas

  1. 1. Thomas T. Connally (D)

  2. 2. Morris Sheppard (D)

List of United States senators from UtahUtah

  1. 1. William H. King (D)

  2. 3. Elbert D. Thomas (D)

List of United States senators from VermontVermont

  1. 1. Warren Austin (R)

  2. 3. Porter H. Dale (R), until October 6, 1933

    1. Ernest Willard Gibson (R), from November 21, 1933

List of United States senators from VirginiaVirginia

  1. 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)

  2. 2. Carter Glass (D)

List of United States senators from WashingtonWashington

  1. 1. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)

  2. 3. Homer Bone (D)

List of United States senators from West VirginiaWest Virginia

  1. 1. Henry D. Hatfield (R)

  2. 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

List of United States senators from WisconsinWisconsin

  1. 1. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R)

  2. 3. F. Ryan Duffy (D)

List of United States senators from WyomingWyoming

  1. 1. John B. Kendrick (D), until November 3, 1933

    1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), from January 1, 1934

    2. Robert D. Carey (R)

House of Representatives

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

List of United States representatives from AlabamaAlabama

  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), until June 22, 1933

    1. Archibald Hill Carmichael (D), from November 14, 1933

    . George Huddleston (D)

List of United States representatives from ArizonaArizona

  1. . Isabella Selmes Greenway (D), from October 3, 1933

List of United States representatives from ArkansasArkansas

  1. . William J. Driver (D)

  2. . John E. Miller (D)

  3. . Claude A. Fuller (D)

  4. . William B. Cravens (D)

  5. . Heartsill Ragon (D), until June 16, 1933

    1. David D. Terry (D), from December 19, 1933

    . David D. Glover (D)

  6. . Tilman B. Parks (D)

List of United States representatives from CaliforniaCalifornia

  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)

List of United States representatives from ColoradoColorado

  1. . Lawrence Lewis (D)

  2. . Fred N. Cummings (D)

  3. . John A. Martin (D)

  4. . Edward T. Taylor (D)

List of United States representatives from ConnecticutConnecticut

  1. . Herman P. Kopplemann (D)

  2. . William L. Higgins (R)

  3. . Francis T. Maloney (D)

  4. . Schuyler Merritt (R)

  5. . Edward W. Goss (R)

  6. . Charles M. Bakewell (R)

List of United States representatives from DelawareDelaware

  1. . Wilbur L. Adams (D)

List of United States representatives from FloridaFlorida

  1. . J. Hardin Peterson (D)

  2. . Robert A. Green (D)

  3. . Millard F. Caldwell (D)

  4. . J. Mark Wilcox (D)

  5. . William J. Sears (D)

List of United States representatives from GeorgiaGeorgia

  1. . Homer C. Parker (D)

  2. . E. Eugene 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), until May 17, 1933

    1. Paul Brown (D), from July 5, 1933

List of United States representatives from IdahoIdaho

  1. . Compton I. White (D)

  2. . Thomas C. Coffin (D), until June 8, 1934

List of United States representatives from IllinoisIllinois

  1. . Oscar S. 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), until August 19, 1934

  21. . J. Earl Major (D), until October 6, 1933

  22. . Edwin M. Schaefer (D)

  23. . William W. Arnold (D)

  24. . Claude V. Parsons (D)

  25. . Kent E. Keller (D)

  26. . Martin A. Brennan (D)

  27. . Walter Nesbit (D)

List of United States representatives from IndianaIndiana

  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)

List of United States representatives from IowaIowa

  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)

List of United States representatives from KansasKansas

  1. . William P. Lambertson (R)

  2. . Ulysses S. Guyer (R)

  3. . Harold C. McGugin (R)

  4. . Randolph Carpenter (D)

  5. . William A. Ayres (D), until August 22, 1934

  6. . Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy (D)

  7. . Clifford R. Hope (R)

List of United States representatives from KentuckyKentucky

  1. . John Y. Brown Sr. (D)

  2. . Cap R. Carden (D)

  3. . Glover H. Cary (D)

  4. . Virgil Chapman (D)

  5. . W. Voris Gregory (D)

  6. . Finley Hamilton (D)

  7. . Andrew J. May (D)

  8. . Brent Spence (D)

  9. . Fred M. Vinson (D)

List of United States representatives from LouisianaLouisiana

  1. . Joachim O. Fernández (D)

  2. . Paul H. Maloney (D)

  3. . Numa F. Montet (D)

  4. . John N. Sandlin (D)

  5. . Riley Joseph Wilson (D)

  6. . Bolivar E. Kemp (D), until June 19, 1933

    1. Jared Y. Sanders Jr. (D), from May 1, 1934

    . René L. DeRouen (D)

  7. . Cleveland Dear (D)

List of United States representatives from MaineMaine

  1. . Carroll L. Beedy (R)

  2. . Edward C. Moran Jr. (D)

  3. . John G. Utterback (D)

List of United States representatives from MarylandMaryland

  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)

List of United States representatives from MassachusettsMassachusetts

  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)

List of United States representatives from MichiganMichigan

  1. . George G. Sadowski (D)

  2. . John C. Lehr (D)

  3. . Joseph L. Hooper (R), until February 22, 1934

  4. . George Ernest Foulkes (D)

  5. . Carl Mapes (R)

  6. . Claude E. Cady (D)

  7. . Jesse P. Wolcott (R)

  8. . Michael J. Hart (D)

  9. . Harry W. Musselwhite (D)

  10. . Roy O. Woodruff (R)

  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)

List of United States representatives from MinnesotaMinnesota

  1. . Henry M. Arens (FL)

  2. . Ray P. Chase (R)

  3. . Theodore Christianson (R)

  4. . Einar Hoidale (D)

  5. . Magnus Johnson (FL)

  6. . Harold Knutson (R)

  7. . Paul J. Kvale (FL)

  8. . Ernest Lundeen (FL)

  9. . Francis Shoemaker (FL)

List of United States representatives from MississippiMississippi

  1. . John E. Rankin (D)

  2. . Wall Doxey (D)

  3. . William M. Whittington (D)

  4. . T. Jefferson Busby (D)

  5. . Ross A. Collins (D)

  6. . William M. Colmer (D)

  7. . Lawrence R. Ellzey (D)

List of United States representatives from MissouriMissouri

  1. . Clarence Cannon (D)

  2. . James Robert Claiborne (D)

  3. . John J. Cochran (D)

  4. . Clement C. Dickinson (D)

  5. . Richard M. Duncan (D)

  6. . Frank H. Lee (D)

  7. . Ralph F. Lozier (D)

  8. . Jacob L. Milligan (D)

  9. . Milton A. Romjue (D)

  10. . James Edward Ruffin (D)

  11. . Joseph B. Shannon (D)

  12. . Clyde Williams (D)

  13. . Reuben T. Wood (D)

List of United States representatives from MontanaMontana

  1. . Joseph P. Monaghan (D)

  2. . Roy E. Ayers (D)

List of United States representatives from NebraskaNebraska

  1. . John H. Morehead (D)

  2. . Edward R. Burke (D)

  3. . Edgar Howard (D)

  4. . Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)

  5. . Terry Carpenter (D)

List of United States representatives from NevadaNevada

  1. . James G. Scrugham (D)

List of United States representatives from New HampshireNew Hampshire

  1. . William N. Rogers (D)

  2. . Charles W. Tobey (R)

List of United States representatives from New JerseyNew 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)

List of United States representatives from New MexicoNew Mexico

  1. . Dennis Chávez (D)

List of United States representatives from New YorkNew 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), until June 18, 1934

  24. . James M. Fitzpatrick (D)

  25. . Charles D. Millard (R)

  26. . Hamilton Fish III (R)

  27. . Philip A. Goodwin (R)

  28. . Parker Corning (D)

  29. . James S. Parker (R), until December 19, 1933

    1. William D. Thomas (R), from January 30, 1934

    . Frank Crowther (R)

  30. . Bertrand H. Snell (R)

  31. . Francis D. Culkin (R)

  32. . Fred J. Sisson (D)

  33. . John D. Clarke (R), until November 5, 1933

    1. Marian W. Clarke (R), from December 28, 1933

    . Clarence E. Hancock (R)

  34. . John Taber (R)

  35. . Gale H. Stalker (R)

  36. . James L. Whitley (R)

  37. . James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)

  38. . Walter G. Andrews (R)

  39. . Alfred F. Beiter (D)

  40. . James M. Mead (D)

  41. . Daniel A. Reed (R)

  42. . John Fitzgibbons (D)

  43. . Elmer E. Studley (D)

List of United States representatives from North CarolinaNorth Carolina

  1. . Lindsay C. Warren (D)

  2. . John H. Kerr (D)

  3. . Charles L. Abernethy (D)

  4. . Edward W. Pou (D), until April 1, 1934

    1. Harold D. Cooley (D), from July 7, 1934

    . Franklin W. Hancock Jr. (D)

  5. . William B. Umstead (D)

  6. . J. Bayard Clark (D)

  7. . J. Walter Lambeth (D)

  8. . Robert L. Doughton (D)

  9. . Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)

  10. . Zebulon Weaver (D)

List of United States representatives from North DakotaNorth Dakota

  1. . William Lemke (R-NPL)

  2. . James H. Sinclair (R)

List of United States representatives from OhioOhio

  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 (D)

  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)

  23. . Charles V. Truax (D)

  24. . Stephen M. Young (D)

List of United States representatives from OklahomaOklahoma

  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 J. Johnson (D)

  7. . James V. McClintic (D)

  8. . Ernest W. Marland (D)

  9. . Will Rogers (D)

List of United States representatives from OregonOregon

  1. . James W. Mott (R)

  2. . Walter M. Pierce (D)

  3. . Charles H. Martin (D)

List of United States representatives from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania

  1. . Harry C. Ransley (R)

  2. . James M. Beck (R), until September 30, 1934

  3. . Alfred Marpole Waldron (R)

  4. . George W. Edmonds (R)

  5. . James J. Connolly (R)

  6. . Edward L. Stokes (R)

  7. . George P. Darrow (R)

  8. . James Wolfenden (R)

  9. . Henry Winfield Watson (R), until August 27, 1933

    1. Oliver Walter Frey (D), from November 7, 1933

    . J. Roland Kinzer (R)

  10. . Patrick J. Boland (D)

  11. . C. Murray Turpin (R)

  12. . George F. Brumm (R), until May 29, 1934

  13. . William Emanuel Richardson (D)

  14. . Louis T. McFadden (R)

  15. . Robert F. Rich (R)

  16. . J. William Ditter (R)

  17. . Benjamin K. Focht (R)

  18. . Isaac H. Doutrich (R)

  19. . Thomas C. Cochran (R)

  20. . Francis E. Walter (D)

  21. . Harry L. Haines (D)

  22. . J. Banks Kurtz (R)

  23. . J. Buell Snyder (D)

  24. . Charles I. Faddis (D)

  25. . J. Howard Swick (R)

  26. . Nathan L. Strong (R)

  27. . William M. Berlin (D)

  28. . Charles N. Crosby (D)

  29. . J. Twing Brooks (D)

  30. . M. Clyde Kelly (R)

  31. . Michael Joseph Muldowney (R)

  32. . Henry Ellenbogen (D)

  33. . Matthew A. Dunn (D)

List of United States representatives from Rhode IslandRhode Island

  1. . Francis B. Condon (D)

  2. . John M. O'Connell (D)

List of United States representatives from South CarolinaSouth 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)

List of United States representatives from South DakotaSouth Dakota

  1. . Fred H. Hildebrandt (D)

  2. . Theodore B. Werner (D)

List of United States representatives from TennesseeTennessee

  1. . B. Carroll Reece (R)

  2. . J. Will Taylor (R)

  3. . Samuel 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)

List of United States representatives from TexasTexas

  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 Alexander Johnson (D)

  7. . Clay Stone Briggs (D), until April 29, 1933

    1. Clark W. Thompson (D), from June 24, 1933

    . Joe H. Eagle (D)

  8. . Joseph J. Mansfield (D)

  9. . James P. Buchanan (D)

  10. . Oliver H. Cross (D)

  11. . Fritz G. Lanham (D)

  12. . William D. McFarlane (D)

  13. . Richard M. Kleberg (D)

  14. . Milton H. West (D), from April 22, 1933

  15. . R. Ewing Thomason (D)

  16. . Thomas L. Blanton (D)

  17. . John Marvin Jones (D)

  18. . Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. (D)

  19. . Sterling Price Strong (D)

  20. . George Butler Terrell (D)

List of United States representatives from UtahUtah

  1. . Abe Murdock (D)

  2. . J. W. Robinson (D)

List of United States representatives from VermontVermont

  1. . Ernest Willard Gibson (R), until October 19, 1933

    1. Charles A. Plumley (R), from January 16, 1934

List of United States representatives from VirginiaVirginia

  1. . S. Otis Bland (D)

  2. . Thomas G. Burch (D)

  3. . Colgate W. Darden Jr. (D)

  4. . Patrick H. Drewry (D)

  5. . John W. Flannagan Jr. (D)

  6. . Andrew Jackson Montague (D)

  7. . A. Willis Robertson (D)

  8. . Howard W. Smith (D)

  9. . Clifton A. Woodrum (D)

List of United States representatives from WashingtonWashington

  1. . Marion Anthony Zioncheck (D)

  2. . Monrad C. Wallgren (D)

  3. . Martin F. Smith (D)

  4. . Knute Hill (D)

  5. . Samuel B. Hill (D)

  6. . Wesley Lloyd (D)

List of United States representatives from West VirginiaWest Virginia

  1. . Robert L. Ramsay (D)

  2. . Jennings Randolph (D)

  3. . Lynn Hornor (D), until September 23, 1933

    1. Andrew Edmiston Jr. (D), from November 28, 1933

    . George W. Johnson (D)

  4. . John Kee (D)

  5. . Joe L. Smith (D)

List of United States representatives from WisconsinWisconsin

  1. . George Washington Blanchard (R)

  2. . Charles W. Henney (D)

  3. . Gardner R. Withrow (R)

  4. . Raymond Joseph Cannon (D)

  5. . Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D)

  6. . Michael K. Reilly (D)

  7. . Gerald J. Boileau (R)

  8. . James Frederic Hughes (D)

  9. . James A. Frear (R)

  10. . Hubert H. Peavey (R)

List of United States representatives from WyomingWyoming

  1. . Vincent Carter (R)

Non-voting members

  1. . Anthony J. Dimond (D)

  2. . Lincoln L. McCandless (D)

  3. Philippines: Pedro Guevara (Nac.)

  4. Philippines: Camilo Osías (Nac.)

  5. Puerto Rico: Santiago Iglesias (Coalitionist)

Changes in membership

Senate

|- | Montana(2) | Vacant | Thomas J. Walsh (D) died in office.Successor appointed March 13, 1933, to continue the term.Successor later lost nomination to finish the term, see below. | | John Erickson (D) | March 13, 1933

|- | Nebraska(1) | | Robert Howell (R) | Died March 11, 1933.Successor appointed May 24, 1933, to continue the term.Successor later retired, see below. | | William H. Thompson (D) | May 24, 1933

|- | New Mexico(2) | | Sam Bratton (D) | Resigned June 24, 1933, when appointed Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals.Successor appointed October 10, 1933, and then elected November 6, 1934. | | Carl Hatch (D) | October 10, 1933

|- | Vermont(3) | | Porter Dale (R) | Died October 6, 1933.Successor appointed November 21, 1933, and then elected January 17, 1934. | | Ernest Gibson (R) | November 21, 1933

|- | Wyoming(1) | | John Kendrick (D) | Died November 3, 1933.Successor appointed December 18, 1933, to finish the term. | nowrap | Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D) | January 1, 1934

|- | Nebraska(1) | nowrap | William Thompson (D) | Interim appointee did not run in the special election to finish the term.Successor elected November 6, 1934. | | Richard Hunter (D) | November 7, 1934

|- | Montana(2) | | John Erickson (D) | Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term.Successor elected November 6, 1934. | | James E. Murray (D) | November 7, 1934

|}

House of Representatives

|- | | Vacant | John Garner had resigned at the end of the previous Congress | | Milton H. West | April 22, 1933 |- | | Vacant | Lewis W. Douglas (D) had resigned at the end of the previous Congress | | Isabella Greenway (D) | October 3, 1933 |- | | | Clay Stone Briggs (D) | Died April 29, 1933 | | Clark W. Thompson (D) | June 24, 1933 |- | Arkansas 5th | | Heartsill Ragon (D) | Resigned May 12, 1933, upon appointment as a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas | | David D. Terry (D) | December 19, 1933 |- | | | Charles H. Brand (D) | Died May 17, 1933 | | Paul Brown (D) | July 5, 1933 |- | | | Bolivar E. Kemp (D) | Died June 19, 1933 | | Jared Y. Sanders Jr. (D) | May 1, 1934 |- | | | Edward B. Almon (D) | Died June 22, 1933 | | Archibald Hill Carmichael (D) | November 14, 1933 |- | | | Henry Winfield Watson (R) | Died August 27, 1933 | | Oliver Walter Frey (D) | November 7, 1933 |- | | | Lynn Hornor (D) | Died September 23, 1933 | | Andrew Edmiston Jr. (D) | November 28, 1933 |- | | | J. Earl Major (D) | appointed as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois October 6, 1933 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | Ernest W. Gibson (R) | Appointed U.S. Senator November 21, 1933 | | Charles A. Plumley (R) | January 16, 1934 |- | | | John D. Clarke (R) | Died November 5, 1933 | | Marian W. Clarke (R) | December 28, 1933 |- | | | James S. Parker (R) | Died December 19, 1933 | | William D. Thomas (R) | January 30, 1934 |- | | | Joseph L. Hooper (R) | Died February 22, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | Edward W. Pou (D) | Died April 1, 1934 | | Harold D. Cooley (D) | July 7, 1934 |- | | | George F. Brumm (R) | Died May 29, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | Idaho 2nd | | Thomas C. Coffin (D) | Died June 8, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | Frank Oliver (D) | Resigned June 18, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | Henry T. Rainey (D) | Died August 19, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | William A. Ayres (D) | Resigned August 22, 1934, after being appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |- | | | James M. Beck (R) | Resigned September 30, 1934 | colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress |}

Committees

Senate

House of Representatives

Joint committees

Caucuses

Employees

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

Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter, until 1934

  • Augustus E. Giegengack, from 1934

Senate

House of Representatives

Employees include:

See also

1932 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)

1934 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)

References