Membership of the 76th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1939 to January 3, 1941

 

First Session:  January 3, 1939 to August 5, 1939

Second Session:  September 21, 1939 to November 3, 1939

Third Session:  January 3, 1940 to January 3, 1941

 

Vice President of the United States: 

John N. Garner (Texas)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Key Pittman (Nevada), died November 10, 1940
William H. King (Utah), from November 19, 1940

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), died September 15, 1940
Sam Rayburn (Texas), from September 16, 1940

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

 

John Hollis Bankhead II

J. Lister Hill

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank W. Boykin

District 2:

George M. Grant

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Samuel F. Hobbs

District 5:

Joe Starnes

District 6:

Pete Jarman

District 7:

William B. Bankhead (died September 15, 1940)

Zadoc L. Weatherford (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William B. Bankhead; served from November 5, 1940)

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

 

Hattie Caraway

John E. Miller

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ezekiel C. Gathings

District 2:

Wilbur D. Mills

District 3:

Clyde T. Ellis

District 4:

William B. Cravens (died January 13, 1939)

William F. Cravens (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, William B. Cravens; served from September 12, 1939)

District 5:

David D. Terry 

District 6:

William F. Norrell

District 7:

Wade H. Kitchens

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

Sheridan Downey

 

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:

Jack Z. Anderson

District 9:

Bertrand W. Gearhart

District 10:

Alfred J. Elliot

District 11:

Carl Hinshaw

District 12:

Jerry Voorhis

District 13:

Charles Kramer

District 14:

Thomas F. Ford

District 15:

John M. Costello

District 16:

Leland Ford

District 17:

Lee E. Geyer

District 18:

Thomas M. Eaton (died September 16, 1939)

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 (died December 23, 1939)

William E. Burney (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Martin; served from November 5, 1940)

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Francis T. Maloney

John A. Danaher

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Miller

District 2:

Thomas R. Ball

District 3:

James A. Shanley

District 4:

Albert E. Austin

District 5:

J. Joseph Smith

At Large:

B. J. Monkiewicz

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John G. Townsend, Jr.

James H. Hughes

 

Representative At Large

 

George S. Williams

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Claude D. Pepper

Charles O. Andrews

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Millard F. Caldwell

District 4:

Pat Cannon

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 (died June 21, 1939)

A. Sidney Camp (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Emmett M. Owen; served from August 1, 1939)

District 5:

Robert C. W. Ramspeck

District 6:

Carl Vinson

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

District 8:

W. Benjamin Gibbs (died August 7, 1940)

Florence R. Gibbs (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, W. Benjamin Gibbs; served from October 1, 1940)

District 9:

B. Frank Whelchel

District 10:

Paul Brown

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

William E. Borah (died January 19, 1940)

D. Worth Clark

John Thomas (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William E. Borah; served from January 27, 1940)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Compton I. White

District 2:

Henry C. Dworshak

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

J. Hamilton Lewis (died April 9, 1939)

Scott W. Lucas

James M. Slattery (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Hamilton Lewis; served from April 14, 1939 to November 21, 1940, when C. Wayland Brooks was elected)

C. Wayland Brooks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Hamilton Lewis; served from November 22, 1940)

 

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:

A. F. Maciejewski

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:

Anton J. Johnson

District 15:

Robert B. Chiperfield

District 16:

Everett M. Dirksen

District 17:

Leslie C. Arends

District 18:

Jessie Sumner

District 19:

William H. Wheat

District 20:

James M. Barnes

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:

John C. Martin

At Large:

Thomas V. Smith

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Fred Van Nuys

Sherman Minton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William T. Schulte

District 2:

Charles A. Halleck

District 3:

Robert A. Grant

District 4:

George W. Gillie

District 5:

Forest A. Harness

District 6:

Noble J. Johnson

District 7:

Gerald W. Landis

District 8:

John W. Boehne, Jr.

District 9:

Eugene B. Crowe

District 10:

Raymond S. Springer

District 11:

William H. Larrabee

District 12:

Louis L. Ludlow

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Guy M. Gillette

Clyde L. Herring

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas E. Martin

District 2:

William S. Jacobsen

District 3:

John W. Gwynne

District 4:

Henry O. Talle

District 5:

Karl M. LeCompte

District 6:

Cassius C. Dowell (died February 4, 1940)

Robert K. Goodwin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cassius C. Dowell; served from March 5, 1940)

District 7:

Ben F. Jensen

District 8:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 9:

Vincent F. Harrington

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

Clyde M. Reed

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

Thomas D. Winter

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 (died October 3, 1939)

Albert B. Chandler (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Marvel M. Logan; served from October 10, 1939)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Noble J. Gregory

District 2:

Beverly Vincent

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:

Joe B. Bates

District 9:

John M. Robsion

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

John H. Overton

Allen J. Ellender

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joachim O. Fernandez

District 2:

Paul H. Maloney (resigned December 15, 1940 to become collector of internal revenue for the New Orleans district)

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 (died April 8, 1940)

Margaret Chase Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Clyde H. Smith; served from June 3, 1940)

District 3:

R. Owen Brewster

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Millard E. Tydings

George L. P. Radcliffe

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

T. Alan Goldsborough (resigned April 5, 1939 to become an associate justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia)

David J. Ward (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of T. Alan Goldsborough; served from June 8, 1939)

District 2:

William P. Cole

District 3:

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

District 4:

Ambrose J. Kennedy

District 5:

Lansdale G. Sasscer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen W. Gambrill in the previous Congress; served from February 3, 1939)

District 6:

William D. Byron

 

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:

Lawrence J. Connery

District 8:

Arthur D. Healy

District 9:

Robert Luce

District 10:

George H. Tinkham

District 11:

Thomas A. Flaherty

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:

Rudolph G. Tenerowicz

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

Paul W. Shafer

District 4:

Clare E. Hoffman

District 5:

Carl E. Mapes (died December 12, 1939)

Bartel J. Jonkman (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Carl E. Mapes; served from February 19, 1940)

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:

Fred V. Bradley

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

Ernest Lundeen (died August 31, 1940 in an airplane crash near Lovettsville, VA)

Joseph H. Ball (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest Lundeen; served from October 14, 1940)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

August H. Andresen

District 2:

Elmer J. Ryan

District 3:

John G. Alexander

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Oscar F. Youngdahl

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

H. Carl Anderson

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:

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. (resigned December 31, 1940 to become circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis, MO)

District 12:

C. Arthur Anderson

District 13:

John J. Cochran

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Burton K. Wheeler

James E. Murray

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jacob Thorkelson

District 2:

James F. O'Connor

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

George W. Norris

Edward R. Burke

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George H. Heinke (died January 2, 1940 as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident near Morrilton, AR)

John H. Sweet (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George H. Heinke; served from April 19, 1940)

District 2:

Charles F. McLaughlin

District 3:

Karl Stefan

District 4:

Carl T. Curtis

District 5:

Harry B. Coffee

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Key Pittman (died November 10, 1940)

Patrick A. McCarran

Berkeley L. Bunker (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Key Pittman; served from November 27, 1940)

 

Representative At Large

 

James G. Scrugham

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges

Charles W. Tobey

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arthur B. Jenks

District 2:

Foster Stearns

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

William H. Smathers

W. Warren Barbour

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Walter S. Jeffries

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 (died August 26, 1940)

District 9:

Frank C. Osmers, Jr.

District 10:

Fred A. Hartley, Jr.

District 11:

Albert L. Vreeland

District 12: