Membership of the 71st Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1929, to March 3, 1931

 

First Session:  April 15, 1929 to November 22, 1929

Second Session:  December 2, 1929 to July 3, 1930

Third Session:  December 1, 1930 to March 3, 1931

Special Sessions of the Senate:  March 4, 1929 to March 5, 1929; July 7, 1930 to July 21, 1930

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Charles Curtis (Kansas)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

George H. Moses (New Hampshire)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Edwin P. Thayer (Indiana)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

David S. Barry (Rhode Island)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Nicholas Longworth (Ohio)

Clerk of the House: 

William Tyler Page (Maryland)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Joseph G. Rogers (Pennsylvania)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Bert W. Kennedy (Michigan)

Postmaster of the House: 

Frank W. Collier

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

J. Thomas Heflin

Hugo L. Black

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John McDuffie

District 2:

J. Lister Hill

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Lamar Jeffers

District 5:

LaFayette L. Patterson

District 6:

William B. Oliver

District 7:

Miles C. Allgood

District 8:

Edward B. Almon

District 9:

George Huddleston

District 10:

William B. Bankhead

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Henry F. Ashurst

Carl T. Hayden

 

Representative At Large

 

Lewis W. Douglas

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson

Thaddeus H. Caraway

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

Pearl P. Oldfield

District 3:

Claude A. Fuller

District 4:

Otis T. Wingo (died October 21, 1930)

Effiegene L. Wingo (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Otis T. Wingo; served from November 4, 1930)

District 5:

Heartsill Ragon

District 6:

David D. Glover

District 7:

Tilman B. Parks

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

Samuel M. Shortridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

Harry L. Englebright

District 3:

Charles F. Curry (died October 10, 1930)

District 4:

Florence P. Kahn

District 5:

Richard J. Welch

District 6:

Albert E. Carter

District 7:

Henry E. Barbour

District 8:

Arthur M. Free

District 9:

William E. Evans

District 10:

Joe Crail

District 11:

Phillip D. Swing

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Lawrence C. Phipps

Charles W. Waterman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William R. Eaton

District 2:

Charles B. Timberlake

District 3:

Guy U. Hardy

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Hiram Bingham

Frederic C. Walcott

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

E. Hart Fenn

District 2:

Richard P. Freeman

District 3:

John Q. Tilson

District 4:

Schuyler Merritt

District 5:

James P. Glynn (died March 6, 1930)

Edward W. Goss (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James P. Glynn; served from November 4, 1930)

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Daniel O. Hastings

John G. Townsend, Jr.

 

Representative At Large

 

Robert G. Houston

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Duncan U. Fletcher

Park Trammell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Herbert J. Drane

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Thomas A. Yon

District 4:

Ruth B. Owen

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

William J. Harris

Walter F. George

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles G. Edwards

District 2:

Edward E. Cox

District 3:

Charles R. Crisp

District 4:

William C. Wright

District 5:

Leslie J. Steele (died July 24, 1929)

Robert C. W. Ramspeck (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Leslie J. Steele; served from October 2, 1929)

District 6:

Samuel Rutherford

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

District 8:

Charles H. Brand

District 9:

Thomas M. Bell

District 10:

Carl Vinson

District 11:

William C. Lankford

District 12:

William W. Larsen

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

William E. Borah

John Thomas

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Burton L. French

District 2:

Addison T. Smith

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Charles S. Deneen

Otis F. Glenn

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Oscar S. De Priest

District 2:

Morton D. Hull

District 3:

Elliott W. Sproul

District 4:

Thomas A. Doyle

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

James T. Igoe

District 7:

M. Alfred Michaelson

District 8:

Stanley H. Kunz

District 9:

Frederick A. Britten

District 10:

Carl R. Chindblom

District 11:

Frank R. Reid

District 12:

John T. Buckbee

District 13:

William R. Johnson

District 14:

John C. Allen

District 15:

Burnett M. Chiperfield (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward J. King in the previous Congress; served from November 4, 1930)

District 16:

William E. Hull

District 17:

Homer W. Hall

District 18:

William P. Holaday

District 19:

Charles Adkins

District 20:

Henry T. Rainey

District 21:

Frank M. Ramey

District 22:

Edward E. Irwin

District 23:

William W. Arnold

District 24:

Thomas S. Williams (resigned November 11, 1929 to become a judge for the Court of Claims of the United States)

Claude V. Parsons (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas S. Williams; served from November 4, 1930)

District 25:

Edward E. Denison

At Large:

Richard Yates

At Large:

Ruth Hanna McCormick

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James E. Watson

Arthur R. Robinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Harry E. Rowbottom

District 2:

Arthur H. Greenwood

District 3:

James W. Dunbar

District 4:

Harry C. Canfield

District 5:

Noble J. Johnson

District 6:

Richard N. Elliott

District 7:

Louis L. Ludlow

District 8:

Albert H. Vestal

District 9:

Fred S. Purnell

District 10:

William R. Wood

District 11:

Albert R. Hall

District 12:

David Hogg

District 13:

Andrew J. Hickey

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Daniel F. Steck

Smith W. Brookhart

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William F. Kopp

District 2:

F. Dickinson Letts

District 3:

Thomas J. B. Robinson

District 4:

Gilbert N. Haugen

District 5:

Cyrenus Cole

District 6:

C. William Ramseyer

District 7:

Cassius C. Dowell

District 8:

Lloyd Thurston

District 9:

Charles E. Swanson

District 10:

L. J. Dickinson

District 11:

Ed H. Campbell

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

Henry J. Allen (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Curtis; served from April 1, 1929 to November 30, 1930, when George McGill was elected)

George McGill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Curtis; served from December 1, 1930)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

William H. Sproul

District 4:

Homer Hoch

District 5:

James G. Strong

District 6:

Charles I. Sparks

District 7:

Clifford R. Hope

District 8:

William A. Ayres

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Frederic M. Sackett (resigned January 9, 1930 to become Ambassador to Germany)

Alben W. Barkley

John M. Robsion (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederic M. Sackett; served from January 11, 1930, to November 30, 1930, when Ben M. Williamson was elected)

Ben M. Williamson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederic M. Sackett; served from December 1, 1930)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

W. Voris Gregory

District 2:

David H. Kincheloe (resigned October 5, 1930 to become judge of the United States Customs Court)

John L. Dorsey, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David H. Kincheloe; served from November 4, 1930)

District 3:

Charles W. Roark (died April 5, 1929)

John W. Moore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles W. Roark; served from June 1, 1929)

District 4:

John D. Craddock

District 5:

Maurice H. Thatcher

District 6:

J. Lincoln Newhall

District 7:

Robert E. Lee Blackburn

District 8:

Lewis L. Walker

District 9:

Elva R. Kendall

District 10:

Katherine G. Langley

District 11:

John M. Robsion (resigned January 10, 1930 to become Senator)

Charles Finley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Robsion; served from February 15, 1930)

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Joseph E. Ransdell

Edwin S. Broussard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James O'Connor

District 2:

J. Zach Spearing

District 3:

Whitmell P. Martin (died April 6, 1929)

Numa F. Montet (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Whitmell P. Martin; served from August 6, 1929)

District 4:

John N. Sandlin

District 5:

Riley J. Wilson

District 6:

Bolivar E. Kemp

District 7:

René L. DeRouen

District 8:

James P. Aswell

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Frederick Hale

Arthur R. Gould

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carroll L. Beedy

District 2:

Wallace H. White

District 3:

John E. Nelson

District 4:

Donald F. Snow

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Millard E. Tydings

Phillips L. Goldsborough

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

T. Alan Goldsborough

District 2:

Linwood L. Clark

District 3:

Vincent L. Palmisano

District 4:

J. Charles Linthicum

District 5:

Stephen W. Gambrill

District 6:

Frederick N. Zihlman

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Frederick H. Gillett

David I. Walsh

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen T. Treadway

District 2:

William K. Kaynor (died December 20, 1929 in the crash of a military plane, shortly after takeoff from the Bolling Field, Washington, DC)

William J. Granfield (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William K. Kaynor; served from February 11, 1930)

District 3:

Frank H. Foss

District 4:

G. Russell Stobbs

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

A. Piatt Andrew

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr.

District 8:

Frederick W. Dallinger

District 9:

Charles L. Underhill

District 10:

John J. Douglass

District 11:

George H. Tinkham

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

Robert Luce

District 14:

Richard B. Wigglesworth

District 15:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

District 16:

Charles L. Gifford

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

James J. Couzens

Arthur H. Vandenberg

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert H. Clancy

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

Joseph L. Hooper

District 4:

John C. Ketcham

District 5:

Carl E. Mapes

District 6:

Grant M. Hudson

District 7:

Louis C. Cramton

District 8:

Bird J. Vincent

District 9:

James C. McLaughlin

District 10:

Roy O. Woodruff

District 11:

Frank P. Bohn

District 12:

W. Frank James

District 13:

Clarence J. McLeod

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henrik Shipstead

Thomas D. Schall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Victor L. A. Christgau

District 2:

Frank Clague

District 3:

August H. Andresen

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Walter H. Newton (resigned June 30, 1929 to become secretary to President Herbert Hoover)

William I. Nolan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter H. Newton; served from June 17, 1929)

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

O. J. Kvale (died September 11, 1929)

Paul J. Kvale (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, O. J. Kvale; served from October 16, 1929)

District 8:

William A. Pittenger

District 9:

Conrad G. Selvig

District 10:

Godfrey G. Goodwin

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Pat Harrison

Hubert D. Stephens

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Wall Doxey

District 3:

William M. Whittington

District 4:

T. Jeff Busby

District 5:

Ross A. Collins

District 6:

Robert S. Hall

District 7:

Percy E. Quin

District 8:

James W. Collier

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Harry B. Hawes

Roscoe C. Patterson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Milton A. Romjue

District 2:

Ralph F. Lozier

District 3:

Jacob L. Milligan

District 4:

David W. Hopkins

District 5:

Edgar C. Ellis

District 6:

Thomas J. Halsey

District 7:

John W. Palmer

District 8:

William L. Nelson

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Henry F. Niedringhaus

District 11:

John J. Cochran

District 12:

Leonidas C. Dyer

District 13:

Charles E. Kiefner

District 14:

Dewey J. Short

District 15:

Joe J. Manlove

District 16:

Rowland L. Johnston

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Thomas J. Walsh

Burton K. Wheeler

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John M. Evans

District 2:

Scott Leavitt

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

George W. Norris

Robert B. Howell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John H. Morehead

District 2:

Willis G. Sears

District 3:

Edgar Howard

District 4:

Charles H. Sloan

District 5:

Fred G. Johnson

District 6:

Robert G. Simmons

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Key Pittman

Tasker L. Oddie

 

Representative At Large

 

Samuel S. Arentz

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

George H. Moses

Henry W. Keyes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fletcher Hale

District 2:

Edward H. Wason

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Walter E. Edge (resigned November 21, 1929 to become Ambassador to France)

Hamilton F. Kean

David Baird, Jr. (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter E. Edge; served from November 30, 1929 to December 2, 1930, when Dwight W. Morrow was elected)

Dwight W. Morrow (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter E. Edge a