Membership of the 83rd Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955

 

First Session:  January 3, 1953 to August 3, 1953

Second Session:  January 6, 1954 to December 2, 1954

 

Vice President of the United States:

Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky)
Richard M. Nixon (California), from January 20, 1953

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

H. Styles Bridges (New Hampshire)

Secretary of the Senate: 

J. Mark Trice (Maryland)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:

Forest A. Harness (Indiana)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Represenatives: 

Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (Massachusetts)

Clerk of the House: 

Lyle O. Snader (Illinois)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

William F. Russell (Pennsylvania)
Lyle O. Snader (Illinois), from July 8, 1953
William R. Bonnell (Pennsylvania), from September 15, 1953

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Tom Kennamer (Missouri)

Postmaster of the House: 

Beecher Hess (Ohio)

 

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:

Armistead I. Selden

District 7:

Carl A. Elliott

District 8:

Robert E. Jones, Jr.

District 9:

Laurie C. Battle

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Carl T. Hayden

Barry M. Goldwater

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John J. Rhodes

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:

Oren Harris

District 5:

Brooks Hays

District 6:

William F. Norrell

 

California

 

Senators

 

William F. Knowland

Thomas Kuchel

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Hubert B. Scudder

District 2:

Clair Engle

District 3:

John E. Moss

District 4:

William S. Mailliard

District 5:

John F. Shelley

District 6:

Robert L. Condon

District 7:

John J. Allen, Jr.

District 8:

George P. Miller

District 9:

J. Arthur Younger

District 10:

Charles S. Gubser

District 11:

J. Leroy Johnson

District 12:

A. Oakely Hunter

District 13:

Ernest K. Bramblett

District 14:

Harlen F. Hagen

District 15:

Gordon L. McDonough

District 16:

Donald L. Jackson

District 17:

Cecil R. King

District 18:

Craig Hosmer

District 19:

Chester E. Holifield

District 20:

Carl Hinshaw

District 21:

Edgar W. Hiestand

District 22:

Joseph F. Holt III

District 23:

Clyde G. Doyle

District 24:

C. Norris Poulson (resigned June 11, 1953 to become Mayor of Los Angeles)

Glenard P. Lipscomb (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Norris Poulson; served from November 10, 1953)

District 25:

Patrick J. Hillings

District 26:

Samuel W. Yorty

District 27:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 28:

James B. Utt

District 29:

John Phillips

District 30:

Robert C. Wilson

 

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

 

Prescott S. Bush

William A. Purtell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas J. Dodd

District 2:

Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.

District 3:

Albert W. Cretella

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

 

Herbert B. Warburton

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Spessard L. Holland

George A. Smathers

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Courtney W. Campbell

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 (died December 1, 1954)

District 7:

James A. Haley

District 8:

Donald R. Matthews

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Walter F. George

Richard B. Russell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Prince H. Preston, Jr.

District 2:

John L. Pilcher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward E. Cox in the previous Congress; served from February 4, 1953)

District 3:

E. L. Forrester

District 4:

A. Sidney Camp (died July 24, 1954)

 

John J. Flynt, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative A. Sidney Camp; served from November 2, 1954)

District 5:

James C. Davis

District 6:

Carl Vinson

District 7:

Henderson L. Lanham

District 8:

W. M. Don Wheeler

District 9:

Phillip M. Landrum

District 10:

Paul Brown

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Henry C. Dworshak

Herman Welker

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Gracie B. Pfost

District 2:

Hamer H. Budge

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Paul H. Douglas

Everett M. Dirksen

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William L. Dawson

District 2:

Barratt O'Hara

District 3:

Fred E. Busbey

District 4:

William E. McVey

District 5:

John C. Kluczynski

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

James B. Bowler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Adolph J. Sabath in the previous Congress; served from July 7, 1953)

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:

Charles W. Vursell

District 24:

Melvin Price

District 25:

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:

D. Bailey Merrill

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:

Howard S. Miller

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

 

Earle C. Clements

John Sherman Cooper

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Noble J. Gregory

District 2:

Garrett L. Withers (died April 30, 1953)

 

William H. Natcher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garrett L. Withers; served from August 1, 1953)

District 3:

John M. Robsion, Jr.

District 4:

Frank L. Chelf

District 5:

Brent Spence

District 6:

John C. Watts

District 7:

Carl D. Perkins

District 8:

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:

Theo A. Thompson

District 8:

George S. Long

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Margaret Chase Smith

Frederick G. Payne

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Hale

District 2:

Charles P. Nelson

District 3:

Clifford G. McIntire

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Marshall Butler

J. Glenn Beall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward T. Miller

District 2:

James P. Devereux

District 3:

Edward A. Garmatz

District 4:

George H. Fallon

District 5:

Frank Small, Jr.

District 6:

DeWitt S. Hyde

District 7:

Samuel N. Friedel

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Leverett A. Saltsonstall

John F. Kennedy

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John W. Heselton

District 2:

Edward P. Boland

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:

Laurence Curtis

District 11:

Thomas P. O'Neill

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

Richard B. Wigglesworth

District 14:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Homer S. Ferguson

Charles E. Potter

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

District 2:

George Meader

District 3:

Paul W. Shafer (died August 17, 1954)

District 4:

Clare E. Hoffman

District 5:

Gerald R. Ford

District 6:

Kit F. Clardy

District 7:

Jesse P. Wolcott

District 8:

Alvin M. Bentley

District 9:

Ruth Thompson

District 10:

Elford A. Cederberg

District 11:

Victor A. Knox

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:

Charles G. Oakman

District 18:

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:

Thomas G. Abernethy

District 2:

Jamie L. Whitten

District 3:

Frank E. Smith

District 4:

John Bell Williams

District 5:

W. Arthur Winstead

District 6:

William M. Colmer

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.

Stuart Symington

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank M. Karsten

District 2:

Thomas B. Curtis

District 3:

Leonor K. Sullivan

District 4:

Jeffrey P. Hillelson

District 5:

Richard W. Bolling

District 6:

William C. Cole

District 7:

Dewey J. Short

District 8:

A. S. J. Carnahan

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Paul C. Jones

District 11:

Morgan M. Moulder

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

James E. Murray

Michael J. Mansfield

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lee W. Metcalf

District 2:

Wesley A. D'Ewart

 

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