Membership of the 77th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1943

 

First Session:  January 3, 1941 to January 2, 1942

Second Session:  January 5, 1942 to December 16, 1942

 

Vice President of the United States: 

John N. Garner (Texas)
Henry A. Wallace (Iowa), from January 20, 1941

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Pat Harrison (Mississippi), died June 22, 1941
Carter Glass (Virginia), from July 10, 1941

Secretary of the Senate: 

Edwin A. Halsey (Virginia)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

Chesley W. Jurney (Texas)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Sam Rayburn (Texas)

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:

Walter W. Bankhead (resigned February 1, 1941)

Carter Manasco (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter W. Bankhead; served from June 24, 1941)

District 8:

John J. Sparkman

District 9:

Luther Patrick

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Carl T. Hayden

Ernest W. McFarland

 

Representative At Large

 

John R. Murdock

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Hattie Caraway

John E. Miller (resigned March 31, 1941 to become United States district judge for the western district of Arkansas)

George L. Spencer (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Miller; served from April 1, 1941)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ezekiel C. Gathings

District 2:

Wilbur D. Mills

District 3:

Clyde T. Ellis

District 4:

William F. Cravens

District 5:

David D. Terry 

District 6:

William F. Norrell

District 7:

Oren Harris

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

Sheridan Downey

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

Harry L. Englebright

District 3:

Frank H. Buck (died September 17, 1942)

District 4:

Thomas Rolph

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 (died October 11, 1941)

Cecil R. King (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lee Geyer; served from August 25, 1942)

District 18:

Ward W. Johnson

District 19:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 20:

Edouard V. M. Izac

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Alva B. Adams (died December 1, 1941)

Edwin C. Johnson

Eugene D. Millikin (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alva B. Adams; served from December 20, 1941)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lawrence Lewis

District 2:

William S. Hill

District 3:

J. Edgar Chenoweth

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor (died September 3, 1941)

Robert F. Rockwell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward T. Taylor; served from December 9, 1941)

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Francis T. Maloney

John A. Danaher

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Herman P. Kopplemann

District 2:

William J. Fitzgerald

District 3:

James A. Shanley

District 4:

Le Roy D. Downs

District 5:

J. Joseph Smith (resigned November 4, 1941 to become a United States district judge for the district of Connecticut)

Joseph E. Talbot (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Joseph Smith; served from January 20, 1942)

At Large:

Lucien J. Maciora

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James H. Hughes

James M. Tunnell

 

Representative At Large

 

Phillip A. Traynor

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Claude D. Pepper

Charles O. Andrews

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Robert L. F. Sikes

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:

A. Sidney Camp

District 5:

Robert C. W. Ramspeck

District 6:

Carl Vinson

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

District 8:

John S. Gibson

District 9:

B. Frank Whelchel

District 10:

Paul Brown

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

D. Worth Clark

John Thomas

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Compton I. White

District 2:

Henry C. Dworshak

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Scott W. Lucas

C. Wayland Brooks

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arthur W. Mitchell

District 2:

Raymond S. McKeough

District 3:

Edward A. Kelly

District 4:

Harry P. Beam (resigned December 6, 1942 to become a judge of the municipal court of Chicago)

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

A. F. Maciejewski (resigned December 8, 1942)

District 7:

Leonard W. Schuetz

District 8:

Leo P. Kocialkowski

District 9:

Charles S. Dewey

District 10:

George A. Paddock

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:

G. Evan Howell

District 22:

Edwin M. Schaefer

District 23:

Lawrence F. Arnold

District 24:

James V. Heidinger

District 25:

C. W. "Runt" Bishop

At Large:

Stephen A. Day

At Large:

William G. Stratton

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Fred Van Nuys

Raymond E. Willis

 

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:

Earl Wilson

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:

Paul H. Cunningham

District 7:

Ben F. Jensen

District 8:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 9:

Vincent F. Harrington (resigned September 5, 1942 to accept a commission as major in the United States Army Air Corps)

Harry E. Narey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Vincent F. Harrington; served from November 3, 1942)

 

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

Albert B. Chandler

 

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:

F. Edward Hébert

District 2:

Hale Boggs

District 3:

James Domengeaux

District 4:

Overton Brooks

District 5:

Newt V. Mills

District 6:

J. Y. Sanders, Jr.

District 7:

Vance Plauché

District 8:

A. Leonard Allen

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Wallace H. White, Jr.

R. Owen Brewster

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James C. Oliver

District 2:

Margaret Chase Smith

District 3:

Frank Fellows

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Millard E. Tydings

George L. P. Radcliffe

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

David J. Ward

District 2:

William P. Cole (resigned October 26, 1942 to become a judge of the United States customs court)

District 3:

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

District 4:

John A. Meyer

District 5:

Lansdale G. Sasscer

District 6:

William D. Byron (died February 27, 1941 in an airplane crash at Jonesboro, GA)

Katharine E. Byron (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, William D. Byron; served from May 27, 1941)

 

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 (died October 19, 1941)

Thomas J. Lane (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence J. Connery; served from December 30, 1941)

District 8:

Arthur D. Healy (resigned August 3, 1942)

District 9:

Thomas H. Eliot

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:

Bartel J. Jonkman

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:

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

Joseph H. Ball (resigned November 17, 1942, when Arthur Nelson was elected)

Arthur Nelson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest Lundeen; served from November 18, 1942)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

August H. Andresen

District 2:

Joseph P. O'Hara

District 3:

Richard P. Gale

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 (died June 22, 1941)

Theodore G. Bilbo

James O. Eastland (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pat Harrison; served from June 30, 1941 to September 28, 1941, when Wall Doxey was elected)

Wall Doxey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pat Harrison; served from September 29, 1941)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Wall Doxey (resigned September 28, 1941 to become Senator)

Jamie L. Whitten (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wall Doxey; served from November 4, 1941)

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:

Philip A. Bennett (died December 7, 1942)

District 7:

Dewey J. Short

District 8:

Clyde Williams

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Orville Zimmerman

District 11:

John B. Sullivan

District 12:

Walter C. Ploeser

District 13:

John J. Cochran

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Burton K. Wheeler

James E. Murray

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jeannette Rankin
District 2: James F. O'Connor
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

George W. Norris

Hugh A. Butler

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Oren S. Copeland

District 2:

Charles F. McLaughlin

District 3:

Karl Stefan

District 4:

Carl T. Curtis

District 5:

Harry B. Coffee

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Patrick A. McCarran

Berkeley L. Bunker (resigned December 6, 1942, when James G. Scrugham was elected)

James G. Scrugham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Key Pittman; served from December 7, 1942)

 

Representative At Large

 

James G. Scrugham (resigned December 7, 1942 to become Senator)

 

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:

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:

Gordon Canfield

District 9:

Frank C. Osmers, Jr.

District 10:

Fred A. Hartley, Jr.

District 11:

Albert L. Vreeland

District 12:

Robert W. Kean

District 13:

Mary T. Norton

District 14: