Membership of the 75th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1937 to January 3, 1939

 

First Session:  January 5, 1937 to August 21, 1937

Second Session:  November 15, 1937 to December 21, 1937

Third Session:  January 3, 1938 to June 16, 1938

 

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: 

William B. Bankhead (Alabama)

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 (resigned August 19, 1937 to become an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court)

John Hollis Bankhead II

Dixie Bibb Graves (appointed by her husband, Governor Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black; served from August 20, 1937; resigned January 10, 1938)

J. Lister Hill (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dixie Bibb Graves; served from January 11, 1938)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank W. Boykin

District 2:

J. Lister Hill (resigned January 11, 1938 to become Senator)

George M. Grant (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Lister Hill; served from June 14, 1938)

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Samuel F. Hobbs

District 5:

Joe Starnes

District 6:

Pete Jarman

District 7:

William B. Bankhead

District 8:

John J. Sparkman

District 9:

Luther Patrick

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Henry F. Ashurst

Carl T. Hayden

 

Representative At Large

 

John R. Murdock

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson (died July 14, 1937)

Hattie Caraway

John E. Miller (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph T. Robinson; served from November 15, 1937)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

John E. Miller (resigned November 14, 1937 to become Senator)

District 3:

Claude A. Fuller

District 4:

William B. Cravens

District 5:

David D. Terry 

District 6:

John L. McClellan

District 7:

Wade H. Kitchens

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

William Gibbs McAdoo (resigned November 8, 1938)

Thomas M. Storke (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo; served from November 9, 1938)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

Harry L. Englebright

District 3:

Frank H. Buck

District 4:

Franck R. Havenner

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 (died February 28, 1937)
Alfred J. Elliot (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry E. Stubbs; served from May 4, 1937)
District 11:

John S. McGroarty

District 12:

Jerry Voorhis

District 13:

Charles Kramer

District 14:

Thomas F. Ford

District 15:

John M. Costello

District 16:

John F. Dockweiler

District 17:

Charles J. Colden (died April 15, 1938)

District 18:

Byron N. Scott

District 19:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 20:

Edouard V. M. Izac

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Alva B. Adams

Edwin C. Johnson

 

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 J. Fitzgerald

District 3:

James A. Shanley

District 4:

Alfred N. Phillips

District 5:

J. Joseph Smith

At Large:

William M. Citron

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John G. Townsend, Jr.

James H. Hughes

 

Representative At Large

 

William F. Allen

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Charles O. Andrews

Claude D. Pepper

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Millard F. Caldwell

District 4:

J. Mark Wilcox

District 5:

Joseph E. Hendricks

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Walter F. George

Richard B. Russell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Hugh Peterson

District 2:

Edward E. Cox

District 3:

Stephen Pace

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:

Noah M. Mason

District 13:

Leo E. Allen

District 14:

Chester C. Thompson

District 15:

Lewis L. Boyer

District 16:

Everett M. Dirksen

District 17:

Leslie C. Arends

District 18:

James A. Meeks

District 19:

Hugh M. Rigney

District 20:

Scott W. Lucas

District 21:

Frank W. Fries

District 22:

Edwin M. Schaefer

District 23:

Lawrence F. Arnold

District 24:

Claude V. Parsons

District 25:

Kent E. Keller

At Large:

Edwin V. Champion

At Large:

Lewis M. Long

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Fred Van Nuys

Sherman Minton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William T. Schulte

District 2:

Charles A. Halleck

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

 

Guy M. Gillette

Clyde L. Herring (elected for the term beginning January 3, 1937 but did not qualify until the expiration of his term as Governor of Iowa; served from January 15, 1937)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward C. Eicher (resigned December 2, 1938 to become a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission)

District 2:

William S. Jacobsen

District 3:

John W. Gwynne

District 4:

Fred E. Biermann

District 5:

Lloyd Thurston

District 6:

Cassius C. Dowell

District 7:

Otha D. Wearin

District 8:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 9:

Vincent F. Harrington

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

George McGill

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

Edward W. Patterson

District 4:

Edward H. Rees

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:

Noble J. Gregory

District 2:

Beverly Vincent (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Glover H. Cary in the previous Congress; served from March 2, 1937)

District 3:

Emmet O'Neal

District 4:

Edward W. Creal

District 5:

Brent Spence

District 6:

Virgil Chapman

District 7:

Andrew J. May

District 8:

Fred Vinson (resigned May 12, 1938 to become an associate justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia)

Joe B. Bates (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fred M. Vinson; served from June 4, 1938)

District 9:

John M. Robsion

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

John H. Overton

Allen J. Ellender

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joachim O. Fernandez

District 2:

Paul H. Maloney

District 3:

Robert L. Mouton

District 4:

Overton Brooks

District 5:

Newt V. Mills

District 6:

John K. Griffith

District 7:

René L. DeRouen

District 8:

A. Leonard Allen

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Frederick Hale

Wallace H. White, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James C. Oliver

District 2:

Clyde H. Smith

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 (died December 19, 1938)

District 6:

David J. Lewis

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

David I. Walsh

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen T. Treadway

District 2:

Charles R. Clason

District 3:

Joseph E. Casey

District 4:

Pehr G. Holmes

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

George J. Bates

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr. (died June 15, 1937)

Lawrence J. Connery (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, William P. Connery, Jr.; served from September 28, 1937)

District 8:

Arthur D. Healy

District 9:

Robert Luce

District 10:

George H. Tinkham

District 11:

John P. Higgins (resigned September 30, 1937 to become chief justice of the superior court of Massachusetts)

Thomas A. Flaherty (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John P. Higgins; served from December 14, 1937)

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

Richard B. Wigglesworth

District 14:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

District 15:

Charles L. Gifford

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Arthur H. Vandenberg

Prentiss M. Brown

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George G. Sadowski

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

Paul W. Shafer

District 4:

Clare E. Hoffman

District 5:

Carl E. Mapes

District 6:

Andrew J. Transue

District 7:

Jesse P. Wolcott

District 8:

Fred L. Crawford

District 9:

Albert J. Engel

District 10:

Roy O. Woodruff

District 11:

John Luecke

District 12:

Frank E. Hook

District 13:

George D. O'Brien

District 14:

Louis C. Rabaut

District 15:

John D. Dingell

District 16:

John Lesinski

District 17:

George A. Dondero

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henrik Shipstead

Ernest Lundeen

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

August H. Andresen

District 2:

Elmer J. Ryan

District 3:

Henry G. Teigan

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Dewey W. Johnson

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

Paul J. Kvale

District 8:

John T. Bernard

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:

Ross A. Collins

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:

C. Arthur Anderson

District 13:

John J. Cochran

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Burton K. Wheeler

James E. Murray

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jerry J. O'Connell

District 2:

James F. O'Connor

 

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

 

Fred H. Brown

H. Styles Bridges

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arthur B. Jenks (succeeded June 9, 1938 by Alphonse Roy, who contested the election)

Alphonse Roy (successfully contested the election of Arthur B. Jenks; served from June 9, 1938)

District 2:

Charles W. Tobey

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

A. Harry Moore (resigned January 17, 1938 to become Governor of New Jersey)

William H. Smathers (elected for the term beginning January 3, 1937 but not sworn in until April 15, 1937, being a member of the State senate until that time)

John G. Milton (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. Harry Moore; served from January 18, 1938 to November 8, 1938, when W. Warren Barbour was elected)

W. Warren Barbour (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. Harry Moore; served from November 9, 1938)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Elmer H. Wene

District 3:

William H. Sutphin

District 4:

D. Lane Powers

District 5:

Charles A. Eaton

District 6:

Donald H. McLean

District 7:

J. Parnell Thomas

District 8:

George N. Seger<