Membership of the 81st Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951

 

First Session:  January 3, 1949 to October 19, 1949

Second Session:  January 3, 1950 to January 2, 1951

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Kenneth D. McKellar (Tennessee)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Leslie L. Biffle (Arkansas)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

Joseph C. Duke (Arizona)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Sam Rayburn (Texas)

Clerk of the House: 

Ralph R. Roberts (Indiana)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Joseph H. Callahan (Kentucky)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

William M. Miller (Mississippi)

Postmaster of the House: 

Finis E. Scott (Tennessee)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

J. Lister Hill

John J. Sparkman

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Frank W. Boykin
District 2:

George M. Grant
District 3:

George W. Andrews
District 4:

Samuel F. Hobbs
District 5:

Albert M. Rains
District 6:

Edward deGraffenried
District 7:

Carl A. Elliott
District 8:

Robert E. Jones, Jr.
District 9:

Laurie C. Battle
 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Carl T. Hayden

Ernest W. McFarland

 

Representatives At Large

 
District 1:

John R. Murdock
District 2:

Harold A. Patten
 

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

John L. McClelland

J. William Fullbright

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Ezekiel C. Gathings
District 2:

Wilbur D. Mills
District 3:

James W. Trimble
District 4:

Boyd A. Tackett
District 5:

Brooks Hays
District 6:

William F. Norrell
District 7:

Oren Harris
 

California

 

Senators

 

Sheridan Downey (resigned November 30, 1950)

William F. Knowland

Richard M. Nixon (elected for the term commencing January 3, 1951; subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sheridan Downey; served from December 1, 1950)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Hubert B. Scudder
District 2:

Clair Engle
District 3:

J. Leroy Johnson
District 4:

Franck R. Havenner
District 5:

John J. Shelley
District 6: Richard J. Welch (died September 10, 1949)
George P. Miller (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard J. Welch; served from November 8, 1949)
District 7:

John J. Allen, Jr.
District 8:

Jack Z. Anderson
District 9:

Cecil F, White
District 10:

Thomas H. Werdel
District 11:

Ernest K. Bramblett
District 12:

Richard M. Nixon (resigned November 30, 1950 to become Senator)
District 13:

C. Norris Poulson
District 14:

Helen Gahagan Douglas
District 15:

Gordon L. McDonough
District 16:

Donald L. Jackson
District 17:

Cecil R. King
District 18:

Clyde G. Doyle
District 19:

Chester E. Holifield
District 20:

Carl Hinshaw
District 21:

Harry R. Sheppard
District 22:

John Phillips
District 23:

Clinton D. McKinnon
 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Edwin C. Johnson

Eugene D. Millikin

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

John A. Carroll
District 2:

William S. Hill
District 3:

John H. Marsalis
District 4:

Wayne N. Aspinall
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Brien McMahon

Raymond E. Baldwin (resigned December 16, 1949)
William B. Benton (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Raymond E. Baldwin; served from December 17, 1949)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Abraham A. Ribicoff
District 2:

Chase G. Woodhouse
District 3:

John A. McGuire
District 4:

John Davis Lodge
District 5:

James T. Patterson
At Large:

Antoni N. Sadlak
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John J. Williams

J. Allen Frear

 

Representative At Large

 

J. Caleb Boggs
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Claude D. Pepper

Spessard L. Holland

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

J. Hardin Peterson
District 2:

Charles E. Bennett
District 3:

Robert L. F. Sikes
District 4:

George A. Smathers
District 5:

Albert S. Herlong, Jr.
District 6:

Dwight L. Rogers
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Walter F. George

Richard B. Russell

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Prince H. Preston, Jr.
District 2:

Edward E. Cox
District 3:

Stephen Pace
District 4:

A. Sidney Camp
District 5:

James C. Davis
District 6:

Carl Vinson
District 7:

Henderson L. Lanham
District 8:

W. M. Don Wheeler
District 9:

John S. Wood
District 10:

Paul Brown
 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Glen H. Taylor

Bert H. Miller (died October 8, 1949)

Henry C. Dworshak (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bert Miller; served from October 14, 1949)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Compton I. White
District 2:

John C. Sanborn
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Scott W. Lucas

Paul H. Douglas

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

William L. Dawson
District 2:

Barratt O'Hara
District 3:

Neil J. Linehan
District 4:

James V. Buckley
District 5:

Martin Gorski (died December 4, 1949)
District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien
District 7:

Adolph J. Sabath
District 8:

Thomas S. Gordon
District 9:

Sidney R. Yates
District 10:

Richard W. Hoffman
District 11:

Chester A. Chesney
District 12:

Edgar A. Jonas
District 13:

Ralph E. Church (died March 21, 1950 while appearing before a House committee)
District 14:

Chauncey W. Reed
District 15:

Noah M. Mason
District 16:

Leo E. Allen
District 17:

Leslie C. Arends
District 18:

Harold H. Velde
District 19:

Robert B. Chiperfield
District 20:

Sidney E. Simpson
District 21:

Peter F. Mack, Jr.
District 22:

Rolla C. McMillan
District 23:

Edward J. Jenison
District 24:

Charles W. Vursell
District 25:

Melvin Price
District 26:

C. W. "Runt" Bishop
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Homer E. Capehart

William E. Jenner

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Ray J. Madden
District 2:

Charles A. Halleck
District 3:

Thurman C. Crook
District 4:

Edward H. Kruse
District 5:

John R. Walsh
District 6:

Cecil M. Harden
District 7:

James E. Noland
District 8:

Winfield K. Denton
District 9:

Earl Wilson
District 10:

Ralph Harvey
District 11:

Andrew Jacobs, Sr.
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Bourke B. Hickenlooper

Guy M. Gillette

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Thomas E. Martin
District 2:

Henry O. Talle
District 3:

Harold R. Gross
District 4:

Karl M. LeCompte
District 5:

Paul H. Cunningham
District 6:

James I. Dolliver
District 7:

Ben F. Jensen
District 8:

Charles B. Hoeven
 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Clyde M. Reed (died November 8, 1949)

Andrew F. Schoeppel

Harry Darby (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clyde M. Reed; served from December 2, 1949 to November 28, 1950, when Frank Carlson was elected)

Frank Carlson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Clyde M. Reed; served from November 29, 1950)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Albert M. Cole
District 2:

Errett P. Scrivner
District 3:

Herbert A. Meyer (died October 2, 1950)

Myron V. George (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Herbert A. Meyer; served from November 7, 1950)
District 4:

Edward H. Rees
District 5:

Clifford R. Hope
District 6:

Wint Smith
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Alben W. Barkley (resigned January 19, 1949 to become Vice President of the United States)

Virgil M. Chapman

Garrett L. Withers (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alben W. Barkley; served from January 20, 1949 to November 26, 1950, when Earle Clements was elected)

Earle C. Clements (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alben W. Barkley and at the same time for a six-year term; served from November 27, 1950)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Noble J. Gregory
District 2:

John A. Whitaker
District 3:

Thruston B. Morton
District 4:

Frank L. Chelf
District 5:

Brent Spence
District 6:

Thomas R. Underwood
District 7:

Carl D. Perkins
District 8:

Joe B. Bates
District 9:

James S. Golden
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Allen J. Ellender

Russell B. Long

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

F. Edward Hébert
District 2:

Hale Boggs
District 3:

Edward E. Willis
District 4:

Overton Brooks
District 5:

Otto E. Passman
District 6:

James H. Morrison
District 7:

Henry D. Larcade
District 8:

A. Leonard Allen
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

R. Owen Brewster

Margaret Chase Smith

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Robert Hale
District 2:

Charles P. Nelson
District 3:

Frank Fellows
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Millard E. Tydings

Herbert R. O'Conor

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Edward T. Miller
District 2:

William P. Bolton
District 3:

Edward A. Garmatz
District 4:

George H. Fallon
District 5:

Lansdale G. Sasscer
District 6:

J. Glenn Beall
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Leverett A. Saltsonstall

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

John W. Heselton
District 2:

Foster Furcolo
District 3:

Philip J. Philbin
District 4:

Harold D. Donohue
District 5:

Edith N. Rogers
District 6:

George J. Bates (died November 1, 1949 in an airplane accident at Washington National Airport)

William H. Bates (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, George J. Bates; served from February 14, 1950)
District 7:

Thomas J. Lane
District 8:

Angier L. Goodwin
District 9:

Donald W. Nicholson
District 10:

Christian A. Herter
District 11:

John F. Kennedy
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:

Gerald R. Ford
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:

Charles E. Potter
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 (died May 27, 1950)
District 17:

George A. Dondero
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Edward J. Thye

Hubert H. Humphrey

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

August H. Andresen
District 2:

Joseph P. O'Hara
District 3:

Roy W. Weir
District 4:

Eugene J. McCarthy
District 5:

Walter H. Judd
District 6:

Fred Marshall
District 7:

H. Carl Anderson
District 8:

John A. Blatnik
District 9:

Harold C. Hagen
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

James O. Eastland

John C. Stennis

 

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:

John Bell Williams
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Forrest C. Donnell

James P. Kem

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Clare Magee
District 2:

Morgan M. Moulder
District 3:

Phil J. Welch
District 4:

Leonard Irving
District 5:

Richard W. Bolling
District 6:

George H. Christopher
District 7:

Dewey J. Short
District 8:

A. S. J. Carnahan
District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon
District 10:

Paul C. Jones
District 11:

John B. Sullivan
District 12:

Raymond W. Karst
District 13:

Frank M. Karsten
 

Montana

 

Senators

 

James E. Murray

Zales N. Ecton

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Michael J. Mansfield
District 2:

Wesley A. D'Ewart
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Hugh A. Butler

Kenneth S. Wherry

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Carl T. Curtis
District 2:

Eugene D. O'Sullivan
District 3:

Karl Stefan
District 4:

Arthur L. Miller
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Patrick A. McCarran

George W. Malone

 

Representative At Large

 

Walter S. Baring, Jr.
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges

Charles W. Tobey

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Chester E. Merrow
District 2:

Norris H. Cotton
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

H. Alexander Smith

Robert C. Hendrickson

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton
District 2:

T. Millet Hand
District 3:

James C. Auchincloss
District 4:

Charles R. Howell
District 5:

Charles A. Eaton
District 6:

Clifford P. Case
District 7:

J. Parnell Thomas (resigned January 2, 1950 following conviction on charges of salary fraud)

William B. Widnall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Parnell Thomas; served from February 6, 1950)
District 8:

Gordon Canfield
District 9:

Harry L. Towe
District 10:

Peter W. Rodino, Jr.
District 11:

Hugh J. Addonizio
District 12:

Robert W. Kean
District 13:

Mary T. Norton
District 14:

Edward J. Hart
 

New Mexico

 

Senators

 

Dennis Chavez

Clinton P. Anderson

 

Representatives At Large

 

John E. Miles

Antonio M. Fernandez