Membership of the 72nd Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1931 to March 3, 1933

 

First Session:  December 7, 1931 to July 16, 1932

Second Session:  December 5, 1932 to March 3, 1933

 

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: 

John N. Garner (Texas)

Clerk of the House: 

South Trimble (Kentucky)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Joseph G. Rogers (Pennsylvania)
Kenneth Romney (Montana), from December 7, 1931

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Joseph J. Sinnott (Virginia)

Postmaster of the House: 

Finis E. Scott

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Hugo L. Black

John Hollis Bankhead II

 

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 (resigned effective March 4, 1933 to become Director of the Budget)

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson

Thaddeus H. Caraway (died November 6, 1931)

Hattie Caraway (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Thaddeus H. Caraway; served from November 13, 1931)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

John E. Miller

District 3:

Claude A. Fuller

District 4:

Effiegene L. Wingo

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, Jr.

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

 

Charles W. Waterman (died August 27, 1932)

Edward P. Costigan

Walter Walker (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles W. Waterman; served from September 26, 1932 to December 6, 1932, when Karl Schuyler was elected)

Karl C. Schuyler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles W. Waterman; served from December 7, 1932)

 

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:

Augustine Lonergan

District 2:

Richard P. Freeman

District 3:

John Q. Tilson (resigned December 3, 1932)

District 4:

William L. Tierney 

District 5:

Edward W. Goss

 

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 (died April 18, 1932)

Walter F. George

John S. Cohen (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris; served from April 25, 1932 to January 11, 1933, when Richard B. Russell was elected)

Richard B. Russell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris; served from January 12, 1933)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles G. Edwards (died July 13, 1931)

Homer C. Parker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles G. Edwards; served from September 9, 1931)

District 2:

Edward E. Cox

District 3:

Charles R. Crisp (resigned October 7, 1932 to become a member of the United States Tariff Commission)

Bryant T. Castellow (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles R. Crisp; served from November 8, 1932)

District 4:

William C. Wright

District 5:

Robert C. W. Ramspeck

District 6:

Samuel Rutherford (died February 4, 1932)

William C. Mobley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Rutherford; served from March 2, 1932)

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

District 8:

Charles H. Brand

District 9:

John S. Wood

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

 

Otis F. Glenn

J. Hamilton Lewis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Oscar S. De Priest

District 2:

Morton D. Hull

District 3:

Edward A. Kelly

District 4:

Harry P. Beam

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

James T. Igoe

District 7:

Leonard W. Schuetz

District 8:

Peter C. Granata (succeeded April 5, 1932 by Stanley H. Kunz, who contested the election)

Stanley H. Kunz (successfully contested the election of Peter C. Granata; served from April 5, 1932)

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

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:

J. Earl Major

District 22:

Charles A. Karch (died November 6, 1932)

District 23:

William W. Arnold

District 24:

Claude V. Parsons

District 25:

Kent E. Keller

At Large:

Richard Yates

At Large:

William H. Dieterich

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James E. Watson

Arthur R. Robinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John W. Boehne, Jr.

District 2:

Arthur H. Greenwood

District 3:

Eugene B. Crowe

District 4:

Harry C. Canfield

District 5:

Courtland C. Gillen

District 6:

William H. Larrabee

District 7:

Louis L. Ludlow

District 8:

Albert H. Vestal (died April 1, 1932)

District 9:

Fred S. Purnell

District 10:

William R. Wood

District 11:

Glenn H. Griswold

District 12:

David Hogg

District 13:

Samuel B. Pettengill

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Smith W. Brookhart

Lester J. Dickinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William F. Kopp

District 2:

Bernhard M. Jacobson

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:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 11:

Ed H. Campbell

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

George McGill

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

Harold McGugin

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

 

Alben W. Barkley

Marvel M. Logan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

W. Voris Gregory

District 2:

Glover H. Cary

District 3:

John W. Moore

District 4:

Cap R. Carden

District 5:

Maurice H. Thatcher

District 6:

Brent Spence

District 7:

Virgil Chapman

District 8:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert

District 9:

Fred Vinson

District 10:

Andrew J. May

District 11:

Charles Finley

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Edwin S. Broussard

Huey P. Long (elected for the term commencing March 4, 1931 but did not assume these duties until January 1932, preferring to continue as Governor)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joachim O. Fernandez

District 2:

Paul H. Maloney

District 3:

Numa F. Montet

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 (died March 16, 1931)

John H. Overton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James B. Aswell; served from May 12, 1931)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Frederick Hale

Wallace H. White, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carroll L. Beedy

District 2:

Daniel B. Partridge

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:

William P. Cole

District 3:

Vincent L. Palmisano

District 4:

J. Charles Linthicum (died October 5, 1932)

Ambrose J. Kennedy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Charles Linthicum; served from November 8, 1932)

District 5:

Stephen W. Gambrill

District 6:

David J. Lewis

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

David I. Walsh

Marcus A. Coolidge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen T. Treadway

District 2:

William J. Granfield

District 3:

Frank H. Foss

District 4:

Pehr G. Holmes

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

A. Piatt Andrew

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr.

District 8:

Frederick W. Dallinger (resigned October 1, 1932 to become judge of the United States Customs Court)

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:

Seymour H. Person

District 7:

Jesse P. Wolcott

District 8:

Bird J. Vincent (died July 18, 1931 on board the transport Henderson while en route to the United States from Honolulu)

Michael J. Hart (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bird J. Vincent; served from November 3, 1931)

District 9:

James C. McLaughlin (died November 29, 1932)

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:

William I. Nolan

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

Paul J. Kvale

District 8:

William A. Pittenger

District 9:

Conrad G. Selvig

District 10:

Godfrey G. Goodwin (died February 16, 1933 after falling from a fifth-floor window at the Hotel Driscoll, Washington, DC)

 

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 (died February 4, 1932)

Lawrence R. Ellzey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Percy E. Quin; served from March 15, 1932)

District 8:

James W. Collier

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Harry B. Hawes (resigned February 3, 1933)

Roscoe C. Patterson

J. Bennett Clark (elected for the term commencing March 4, 1933 and was subsequently appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry B. Hawes; served from February 3, 1933)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Milton A. Romjue

District 2:

Ralph F. Lozier

District 3:

Jacob L. Milligan

District 4:

David W. Hopkins

District 5:

Joseph B. Shannon

District 6:

Clement C. Dickinson

District 7:

Samuel C. Major (died July 28, 1931)

Robert D. Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel C. Major; served from September 29, 1931)
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:

Clyde Williams

District 14:

James F. Fulbright

District 15:

Joe J. Manlove

District 16:

William E. Barton

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Thomas J. Walsh (died on March 2, 1933 on a train while en route to Washington, DC to accept an appointment as Attorney General of the United States)

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:

H. Malcolm Baldridge

District 3:

Edgar Howard

District 4:

John N. Norton

District 5:

Ashton C. Shallenberger

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 (died October 22, 1931)

William N. Rogers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fletcher Hale; served from January 5, 1932)

District 2:

Edward H. Wason

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Hamilton F. Kean

Dwight W. Morrow (died October 5, 1931)

W. Warren Barbour (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dwight W. Morrow; served from December 1, 1931)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Isaac Bacharach

District 3:

William H. Sutphin

District 4: