Membership of the 78th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1945

 

First Session:  January 6, 1943 to December 21, 1943

Second Session:  January 10, 1944 to December 19, 1944

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Henry A. Wallace (Iowa)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Carter Glass (Virginia)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Edwin A. Halsey (Virginia)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

Chesley W. Jurney (Texas)
Wall Doxey (Mississippi), from February 1, 1943

 

 

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 (died November 22, 1943)

George W. Andrews (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B, Steagall; served from March 14, 1944)

District 4:

Samuel F. Hobbs

District 5:

Joe Starnes

District 6:

Pete Jarman

District 7:

Carter Manasco

District 8:

John J. Sparkman

District 9:

John P. Newsome

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Carl T. Hayden

Ernest W. McFarland

 

Representatives At Large

 

John R. Murdock

Richard F. Harless

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Hattie Caraway

John L. McClelland

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ezekiel C. Gathings

District 2:

Wilbur D. Mills

District 3:

J. William Fulbright

District 4:

William F. Cravens

District 5:

Brooks Hays

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 (died May 13, 1943)

Clair Engle (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harry Englebright; served from August 31, 1943)

District 3:

J. Leroy Johnson

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:

George E. Outland

District 12:

Jerry Voorhis

District 13:

C. Norris Poulson

District 14:

Thomas F. Ford

District 15:

John M. Costello

District 16:

Will V. Rogers, Jr. (resigned May 23, 1944 to return to the United States Army)

District 17:

Cecil R. King

District 18:

Ward W. Johnson

District 19:

Chester E. Holifield

District 20:

Carl Hinshaw

District 21:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 22:

John Phillips

District 23:

Edouard V. M. Izac

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Edwin C. Johnson

Eugene D. Millikin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lawrence Lewis (died December 9, 1943)

Dean M. Gillespie (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence Lewis; served from March 7, 1944)

District 2:

William S. Hill

District 3:

J. Edgar Chenoweth

District 4:

Robert F. Rockwell

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Francis T. Maloney

John A. Danaher

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Miller

District 2:

John D. McWilliams

District 3:

Ranulf Compton

District 4:

Clare Booth Luce

District 5:

Joseph E. Talbot

At Large:

B. J. Monkiewicz

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James M. Tunnell

C. Douglass Buck

 

Representative At Large

 

Earle D. Willey

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Charles O. Andrews

Claude D. Pepper

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson

District 2:

Emory H. Price

District 3:

Robert L. F. Sikes (resigned October 19, 1944 to enter the United States Army)

District 4:

Pat Cannon

District 5:

Joseph E. Hendricks

At Large:

R. A. "Lex" Green (resigned November 25, 1944 to enter the United States Navy)

 

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:

William L. Dawson

District 2:

William A. Rowan

District 3:

Fred E. Busbey

District 4:

Martin Gorski

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

Leonard W. Schuetz (died February 13, 1944)

District 8:

Thomas S. Gordon

District 9:

Charles S. Dewey

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 (died January 16, 1944)

Rolla C. McMillan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Wheat; served from June 13, 1944)

District 20:

Sidney E. Simpson

District 21:

Evan Howell

District 22:

Calvin Johnson

District 23:

Charles Vursell

District 24:

James Heidinger

District 25:

C. W. "Runt" Bishop

At Large:

Stephen Day

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Fred Van Nuys (died January 25, 1944)

Raymond E. Willis

Samuel E. Jackson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred Van Nuys; served from January 28, 1944 to November 13, 1944, when William E. Jenner was elected)

William E. Jenner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fred Van Nuys; served from November 14, 1944)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ray J. Madden

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:

Charles M. LaFollette

District 9:

Earl Wilson

District 10:

Raymond S. Springer

District 11:

Louis L. Ludlow

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Guy M. Gillette

George A. Wilson (elected for the term beginning January 3, 1943 but preferred to continue as Governor of Iowa; served from January 14, 1943)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas E. Martin

District 2:

Henry O. Talle

District 3:

John W. Gwynne

District 4:

Karl M. LeCompte

District 5:

Paul H. Cunningham

District 6:

Fred C. Gilchrist

District 7:

Ben F. Jensen

District 8:

Charles B. Hoeven

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Arthur Capper

Clyde M. Reed

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William P. Lambertson

District 2:

U. S. Guyer (died June 5, 1943)

Errett P. Scrivner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U. S. Guyer; served from September 14, 1943)

District 3:

Thomas D. Winter

District 4:

Edward H. Rees

District 5:

Clifford R. Hope

District 6:

Frank Carlson

 

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 (died October 13, 1943)

Chester O. Carrier (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward W. Creal; served from November 30, 1943)

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:

Paul H. Maloney

District 3:

James Domengeaux (resigned April 15, 1944 to join the United States Army; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from November 7, 1944)

District 4:

Overton Brooks

District 5:

Charles E. McKenzie

District 6:

James H. Morrison

District 7:

Henry D. Larcade

District 8:

A. Leonard Allen

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Wallace H. White, Jr.

R. Owen Brewster

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Hale

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:

H. Streett Baldwin

District 3:

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

District 4:

Daniel Ellison

District 5:

Lansdale G. Sasscer

District 6:

J. Glenn Beall

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

David I. Walsh

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (resigned February 3, 1944 to go on active duty during the Second World War in the United States Army)

Sinclair Weeks (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; served from February 8, 1944 to to December 19, 1944)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen T. Treadway

District 2:

Charles R. Clason

District 3:

Philip J. Philbin

District 4:

Pehr G. Holmes

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

George J. Bates

District 7:

Thomas J. Lane

District 8:

Angier L. Goodwin

District 9:

Charles L. Gifford

District 10:

Christian A. Herter

District 11:

James M. Curley

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

Richard B. Wigglesworth

District 14:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Arthur H. Vandenberg

Homer S. Ferguson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George G. Sadowski

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:

John B. Bennett

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

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

August H. Andresen

District 2:

Joseph P. O'Hara

District 3:

Richard P. Gale

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Walter H. Judd

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

H. Carl Anderson

District 8:

William A. Pittenger

District 9:

Harold C. Hagen

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Theodore G. Bilbo

James O. Eastland

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Jamie L. Whitten

District 3:

William M. Whittington

District 4:

Thomas G. Abernethy

District 5:

W. Arthur Winstead

District 6:

William M. Colmer

District 7:

Dan R. McGehee

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

J. Bennett Clark

Harry S. Truman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Wat Arnold

District 2:

Max Schwabe

District 3:

William C. Cole

District 4:

C. Jasper Bell

District 5:

Roger C. Slaughter

District 6:

Marion T. Bennett (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Phillip A. Bennett in the previous Congress; served from January 12, 1943)

District 7:

Dewey J. Short

District 8:

William P. Elmer

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Orville Zimmerman

District 11:

Louis E. Miller

District 12:

Walter C. Ploeser

District 13:

John J. Cochran

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Burton K. Wheeler

James E. Murray

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Michael J. Mansfield

District 2:

James F. O'Connor

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Hugh A. Butler

Kenneth S. Wherry

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carl T. Curtis

District 2:

Howard H. Buffett

District 3:

Karl Stefan

District 4:

Arthur L. Miller

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Patrick A. McCarran

James G. Scrugham

 

Representative At Large

 

Maurice J. Sullivan

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges

Charles W. Tobey

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Chester E. Merrow

District 2:

Foster Stearns

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

W. Warren Barbour (died November 22, 1943)

Albert W. Hawkes

Arthur Walsh (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour; served from November 26, 1943 to December 7, 1944, when H. Alexander Smith was elected)

H. Alexander Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of W. Warren Barbour; served from December 7, 1944)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Elmer H. Wene

District 3:

James C. Auchincloss

District 4:

D. Lane Powers

District 5:

Charles A. Eaton

District 6:

Donald H. McLean

District 7: