Membership of the 74th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937

 

First Session:  January 3, 1935 to August 26, 1935

Second Session:  January 3, 1936 to June 20, 1936

 

Vice President of the United States: 

John N. Garner (Texas)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Key Pittman (Nevada)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Edwin A. Halsey (Virginia)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

Chesley W. Jurney (Texas)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Joseph W. Byrns (Tennessee), died June 4, 1936
William B. Bankhead (Alabama
), from June 4, 1936

Clerk of the House: 

South Trimble (Kentucky)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Kenneth Romney (Montana)

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 (resigned March 2, 1935 to become a judge in the United States district court)

Frank W. Boykin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McDuffie; served from July 30, 1935)
District 2:

J. Lister Hill

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Samuel F. Hobbs

District 5:

Joe Starnes

District 6:

William B. Oliver

District 7:

William B. Bankhead

District 8:

Archibald H. Carmichael 

District 9:

George Huddleston

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Henry F. Ashurst

Carl T. Hayden

 

Representative At Large

 

Isabella S. Greenway

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson

Hattie Caraway

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

John E. Miller

District 3:

Claude A. Fuller

District 4:

William B. Cravens

District 5:

David D. Terry 

District 6:

John L. McClellan

District 7:

Tilman B. Parks

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

William Gibbs McAdoo

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

Harry L. Englebright

District 3:

Frank H. Buck

District 4:

Florence P. Kahn

District 5:

Richard J. Welch

District 6:

Albert E. Carter

District 7:

John H. Tolan

District 8: John J. McGrath
District 9:

Bertrand W. Gearhart

District 10:

Henry E. Stubbs

District 11:

John S. McGroarty

District 12:

John H. Hoeppel

District 13:

Charles Kramer

District 14:

Thomas F. Ford

District 15:

John M. Costello

District 16:

John F. Dockweiler

District 17:

Charles J. Colden

District 18:

Byron N. Scott

District 19:

Sam L. Collins

District 20:

George Burnham

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Edward P. Costigan

Alva B. Adams

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lawrence Lewis

District 2:

Fred N. Cummings

District 3:

John A. Martin

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Augustine Lonergan

Francis T. Maloney

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Herman P. Kopplemann

District 2:

William L. Higgins

District 3:

James A. Shanley

District 4:

Schuyler Merritt

District 5:

J. Joseph Smith

At Large:

William M. Citron

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Daniel O. Hastings

John G. Townsend, Jr.

 

Representative At Large

 

J. George Stewart

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Duncan U. Fletcher (died June 17, 1936)

Park Trammell (died May 8, 1936)

Scott M. Loftin (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Park Trammell; served from May 26, 1936 to November 3, 1936, when Charles O. Andrews was elected)

William S. Hill (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Duncan U. Fletcher; served from July 1, 1936 to November 3, 1936, when Claude D. Pepper was elected)

Claude D. Pepper (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Duncan U. Fletcher; served from November 4, 1936)

Charles O. Andrews (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Park Trammell; served from November 4, 1936)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Millard F. Caldwell

District 4:

J. Mark Wilcox

At Large:

William J. Sears

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Walter F. George

Richard B. Russell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Hugh Peterson

District 2:

Edward E. Cox

District 3:

Bryant T. Castellow

District 4:

Emmett M. Owen

District 5:

Robert C. W. Ramspeck

District 6:

Carl Vinson

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

District 8:

Braswell D. Deen

District 9:

B. Frank Whelchel

District 10:

Paul Brown

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

William E. Borah

James P. Pope

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Compton I. White

District 2:

D. Worth Clark

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

J. Hamilton Lewis 

William H. Dieterich

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arthur W. Mitchell

District 2:

Raymond S. McKeough

District 3:

Edward A. Kelly

District 4:

Harry P. Beam

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

Leonard W. Schuetz

District 8:

Leo P. Kocialkowski

District 9:

James McAndrews

District 10:

Ralph E. Church

District 11:

Chauncey W. Reed

District 12:

John T. Buckbee (died April 23, 1936)

District 13:

Leo E. Allen

District 14:

Chester C. Thompson

District 15:

J. Leroy Adair

District 16:

Everett M. Dirksen

District 17:

Leslie C. Arends

District 18:

James A. Meeks

District 19:

Donald C. Dobbins

District 20:

Scott W. Lucas

District 21:

Harry H. Mason

District 22:

Edwin M. Schaefer

District 23:

William W. Arnold (resigned September 16, 1935 to become a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals)

District 24:

Claude V. Parsons

District 25:

Kent E. Keller

At Large:

Martin A. Brennan

At Large:

Michael L. Igoe (resigned June 2, 1935 to become a United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois)

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Fred Van Nuys

Sherman Minton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William T. Schulte

District 2:

Charles A. Halleck (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman-elect Frederick Landis; served from January 29, 1935)

District 3:

Samuel B. Pettengill

District 4:

James I. Farley

District 5:

Glenn H. Griswold

District 6:

Virginia E. Jenckes

District 7:

Arthur H. Greenwood

District 8:

John W. Boehne, Jr.

District 9:

Eugene B. Crowe

District 10:

Finly H. Gray

District 11:

William H. Larrabee

District 12:

Louis L. Ludlow

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Lester J. Dickinson

Richard L. Murphy (died July 16, 1936 in an automobile accident near Chippewa Falls, WI)

Guy M. Gillette (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard L. Murphy; served from November 4, 1936)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward C. Eicher

District 2:

Bernhard M. Jacobsen (died June 30, 1936)

District 3:

John W. Gwynne

District 4:

Fred E. Biermann

District 5:

Lloyd Thurston

District 6:

Hubert Utterback

District 7:

Otha D. Wearin

District 8:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 9:

Guy M. Gillette (resigned November 3, 1936 to become Senator)

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

George McGill

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

Edward W. Patterson

District 4:

Randolph Carpenter

District 5:

John M. Houston

District 6:

Frank Carlson

District 7:

Clifford R. Hope

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Alben W. Barkley

Marvel M. Logan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

W. Voris Gregory (died October 10, 1936)

District 2:

Glover H. Cary (died December 5, 1936)

District 3:

Emmet O'Neal

District 4:

Cap R. Carden (died June 13, 1935)

Edward W. Creal (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cap R. Carden; served from November 5, 1935)

District 5:

Brent Spence

District 6:

Virgil Chapman

District 7:

Andrew J. May

District 8:

Fred Vinson

District 9:

John M. Robsion

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Huey P. Long (died September 10, 1935 after being shot by Carl Weiss in the State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, LA)

John H. Overton

Rose M. Long (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Huey P. Long; served from January 31, 1936)

 

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:

J. Y. Sanders, Jr.

District 7:

René L. DeRouen

District 8:

Cleveland Dear

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Frederick Hale

Wallace H. White, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Simon M. Hamlin

District 2:

Edward C. Moran

District 3:

R. Owen Brewster

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Millard E. Tydings

George L. P. Radcliffe

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

T. Alan Goldsborough

District 2:

William P. Cole

District 3:

Vincent L. Palmisano

District 4:

Ambrose J. Kennedy

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:

Joseph E. Case

District 4:

Pehr G. Holmes

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

A. Piatt Andrew (died June 3, 1936)

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr.

District 8:

Arthur D. Healy

District 9:

Richard M. Russell

District 10:

George H. Tinkham

District 11:

John P. Higgins

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

Richard B. Wigglesworth

District 14:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

District 15:

Charles L. Gifford

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

James J. Couzens (died October 22, 1936)

Arthur H. Vandenberg

Prentiss M. Brown (elected for the term beginning January 3, 1937, but was subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James J. Couzens; served from November 19, 1936)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George G. Sadowski

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

Henry M. Kimball (died October 19, 1935)

Verner W. Main (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry M. Kimball; served from December 17, 1935)

District 4:

Clare E. Hoffman

District 5:

Carl E. Mapes

District 6:

William W. Blackney

District 7:

Jesse P. Wolcott

District 8:

Fred L. Crawford

District 9:

Albert J. Engel

District 10:

Roy O. Woodruff

District 11:

Prentiss M. Brown (resigned November 18, 1936 to become Senator)

District 12:

Frank E. Hook

District 13:

Clarence J. McLeod

District 14:

Louis C. Rabaut

District 15:

John D. Dingell

District 16:

John Lesinski

District 17:

George A. Dondero

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henrik Shipstead

Thomas D. Schall (died December 22, 1935 after being struck by an automobile in Washington, DC)

Elmer A. Benson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas D. Schall; served from December 27, 1935 to November 3, 1936, when Guy V. Howard was elected)

Guy V. Howard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas D. Schall; served from November 4, 1936)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

August H. Andresen

District 2:

Elmer J. Ryan

District 3:

Ernest Lundeen

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Theodore Christianson

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

Paul J. Kvale

District 8:

William A. Pittenger

District 9:

Richard T. Buckler

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Pat Harrison

Theodore G. Bilbo

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Wall Doxey

District 3:

William M. Whittington

District 4:

Aaron L. Ford

District 5:

Aulbert C. Dunn

District 6:

William M. Colmer

District 7:

Dan R. McGehee

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

J. Bennett Clark

Harry S. Truman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Milton A. Romjue

District 2:

William L. Nelson

District 3:

Richard M. Duncan

District 4:

C. Jasper Bell

District 5:

Joseph B. Shannon

District 6:

Reuben T. Wood

District 7:

Dewey J. Short

District 8:

Clyde Williams

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Orville Zimmerman

District 11:

Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.

District 12:

James R. Claiborne

District 13:

John J. Cochran

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Burton K. Wheeler

James E. Murray

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joseph P. Monaghan

District 2:

Roy E. Ayers

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

George W. Norris

Edward R. Burke

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry C. Luckey

District 2:

Charles F. McLaughlin

District 3:

Karl Stefan

District 4:

Charles G. Binderup

District 5:

Harry B. Coffee

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Key Pittman

Patrick A. McCarran

 

Representative At Large

 

James G. Scrugham

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Henry W. Keyes

Fred H. Brown

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William N. Rogers

District 2:

Charles W. Tobey

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

W. Warren Barbour

A. Harry Moore 

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Isaac Bacharach

District 3:

William H. Sutphin

District 4:

D. Lane Powers

District 5:

Charles A. Eaton

District 6:

Donald H. McLean

District 7:

Randolph Perkins (died May 25, 1936)

District 8:

George N. Seger

District 9:

Edward A. Kenney

District 10:

Fred A. Hartley, Jr.

District 11:

Peter A. Cavicchia

District 12:

Frederick R. Lehlbach

District 13:

Mary T. Norton

District 14:

Edward J. Hart

 

New Mexico

 

Senators

 

Bronson M. Cutting (died May 6, 1935 in an airplane crash near Atlanta, MO)

Carl A. Hatch

Dennis Chavez