Membership of the 82nd Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1951 to January 3, 1953

 

First Session:  January 3, 1951 to October 20, 1951

Second Session:  January 8, 1952 to July 7, 1952

 

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:

Kenneth A. Roberts

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

 

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

 

William F. Knowland

Richard M. Nixon (resigned January 1, 1953 to become Vice President of the United States)

Thomas Kuchel (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard M. Nixon; served from January 2, 1953)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Hubert B. Scudder

District 2:

Clair Engle

District 3:

J. Leroy Johnson

District 4:

Franck R. Havenner

District 5:

John F. Shelley

District 6:

George P. Miller

District 7:

John J. Allen, Jr.

District 8:

Jack Z. Anderson

District 9:

A. Oakely Hunter

District 10:

Thomas H. Werdel

District 11:

Ernest K. Bramblett

District 12:

Patrick J. Hillings

District 13:

C. Norris Poulson

District 14:

Samuel W. Yorty

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:

Byron G. Rogers

District 2:

William S. Hill

District 3:

J. Edgar Chenoweth

District 4:

Wayne N. Aspinall

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Brien McMahon (died July 28, 1952)

William B. Benton  

William A. Purtell (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brien McMahon; served from August 29, 1952 to November 4, 1952, when Prescott S. Bush was elected)

Prescott S. Bush (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brien McMahon; served from November 4, 1952)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Abraham A. Ribicoff

District 2:

Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.

District 3:

John A. McGuire

District 4:

Albert P. Morano

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

 

Spessard L. Holland

George A. Smathers

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Chester B. McMullen

District 2:

Charles E. Bennett

District 3:

Robert L. F. Sikes

District 4:

William C. Lantaff

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 (died December 24, 1952)

District 3:

E. L. Forrester

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

 

Henry C. Dworshak

Herman Welker

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John S. Wood

District 2:

Hamer H. Budge

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Paul H. Douglas

Everett M. Dirksen

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William L. Dawson

District 2:

Richard B. Vail

District 3:

Fred E. Busbey

District 4:

William E. McVey

District 5:

John C. Kluczynski

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

Adolph J. Sabath (died November 6, 1952)

District 8:

Thomas S. Gordon

District 9:

Sidney R. Yates

District 10:

Richard W. Hoffman

District 11:

Timothy P. Sheehan

District 12:

Edgar A. Jonas

District 13:

Marguerite S. Church

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:

William L. Springer

District 23:

Edward H. 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:

Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr.

District 4:

E. Ross Adair

District 5:

John V. Beamer

District 6:

Cecil M. Harden

District 7:

William G. Bray

District 8:

Winfield K. Denton

District 9:

Earl Wilson

District 10:

Ralph Harvey

District 11:

Charles B. Brownson

 

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

 

Andrew F. Schoeppel

Frank Carlson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Albert M. Cole

District 2:

Errett P. Scrivner

District 3:

Myron V. George

District 4:

Edward H. Rees

District 5:

Clifford R. Hope

District 6:

Wint Smith

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Virgil M. Chapman (died March 8, 1951 in an automobile accident in Washington, DC)

Earle C. Clements

Thomas R. Underwood (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M. Chapman; served from March 19, 1951 to November 4, 1952, when John Sherman Cooper was elected)

John Sherman Cooper (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M. Chapman; served from November 5, 1952)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Noble J. Gregory

District 2:

John A. Whitaker (died December 15, 1951)

Garrett L. Withers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Whitaker; served from August 2, 1952)

District 3:

Thruston B. Morton

District 4:

Frank L. Chelf

District 5:

Brent Spence

District 6:

Thomas R. Underwood (resigned March 17, 1951 to become Senator)

John C. Watts (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas R. Underwood; served from April 14, 1951)

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 (resigned December 31, 1952)

Margaret Chase Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Hale

District 2:

Charles P. Nelson

District 3:

Frank Fellows (died August 27, 1951)

Clifford G. McIntire (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Fellows; served from October 22, 1951)

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Herbert R. O'Conor

John Marshall Butler

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward T. Miller

District 2:

James P. Devereux

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 (resigned September 30, 1952)

District 3:

Philip J. Philbin

District 4:

Harold D. Donohue

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

William H. Bates

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 (died April 18, 1951)

Homer S. Ferguson

Blair Moody (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Arthur H. Vandenberg; served from April 23, 1951 to November 4, 1952, when Charles Potter was elected)

Charles E. Potter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Arthur H. Vandenberg; served from November 5, 1952)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

District 2:

George Meader

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:

Ruth Thompson

District 10:

Roy O. Woodruff

District 11:

Charles E. Potter (resigned November 4, 1952 to become Senator)

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, Jr.

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:

Frank E. Smith

District 4:

Thomas G. Abernethy

District 5:

W. Arthur Winstead

District 6:

William M. Colmer

District 7:

John Bell Williams

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

James P. Kem

Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.

 

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:

Orland K. Armstrong

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 (died January 29, 1951)

Claude I. Bakewell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John B. Sullivan; served from March 9, 1951)

District 12:

Thomas B. Curtis

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 (died November 29, 1951)

Frederick A. Seaton (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry; served from December 10, 1951 to November 4, 1952, when Dwight P. Griswold was elected)

Dwight P. Griswold (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry; served from November 5, 1952)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carl T. Curtis

District 2:

Howard H. Buffett

District 3:

Karl Stefan (died October 2, 1951)

Robert D. Harrison (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Karl Stefan; served from December 4, 1951)

District 4:

Arthur L. Miller

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Patrick A. McCarran

George W. Malone

 

Representatives

 

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:

William B. Widnall

District 8:

Gordon Canfield

District 9:

Harry L. Towe (resigned September 7, 1951 to become an assistant attorney general of New Jersey)

Frank C. Osmers, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry L. Towe; served from November 6, 1951)

District 10:

Peter W. Rodino, Jr.

District 11:

Hugh J. Addonizio

District 12:

Robert W. Kean

District 13:

Alfred D. Sieminski

District 14:

Edward J. Hart

 

New Mexico

 

Senators

 

Dennis Chavez

Clinton P. Anderson

 

Representatives At Large