Membership of the 84th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1957

 

First Session:  January 5, 1955 to August 2, 1955

Second Session:  January 3, 1956 to July 27, 1956

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Richard M. Nixon (California)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Walter F. George (Georgia)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Felton McLellan Johnston (Mississippi)

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: 

Zeake W. Johnson, Jr. (Tennessee)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

William M. Miller (Mississippi)

Postmaster of the House: 

H. H. Morris (Kentucky)

 

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:

George Huddleston, Jr.

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Carl T. Hayden

Barry M. Goldwater

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John J. Rhodes

District 2:

Stewart L. Udall

 

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:

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

District 7:

John J. Allen

District 8:

George P. Miller

District 9:

J. Arthur Younger

District 10:

Charles S. Gubser

District 11:

J. Leroy Johnson

District 12:

Bernice F. Sisk

District 13:

Charles M. Teague

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 (died August 5, 1956)

District 21:

Edgar W. Hiestand

District 22:

Joseph F. Holt III

District 23:

Clyde G. Doyle

District 24:

Glenard P. Lipscomb

District 25:

Patrick J. Hillings

District 26:

James Roosevelt

District 27:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 28:

James B. Utt

District 29:

John Phillips

District 30:

Robert C. Wilson

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Eugene D. Millikin

Gordon L. Allott

 

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

 

Harris B. McDowell, Jr.

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Spessard L. Holland

George A. Smathers

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William C. Cramer

District 2:

Charles E. Bennett

District 3:

Robert L. F. Sikes

District 4:

Dante B. Fascell

District 5:

Albert S. Herlong, Jr.

District 6:

Paul G. Rogers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Dwight L. Rogers in the previous Congress; served from January 4, 1955)

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

District 3:

E. L. Forrester

District 4:

John J. Flynt, Jr.

District 5:

James C. Davis

District 6:

Carl Vinson

District 7:

Henderson L. Lanham

District 8:

Iris F. Blitch

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:

James C. Murray

District 4:

William E. McVey

District 5:

John C. Kluczynski

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

James B. Bowler

District 8:

Thomas S. Gordon

District 9:

Sidney R. Yates

District 10:

Richard W. Hoffman

District 11:

Timothy P. Sheehan

District 12:

Charles A. Boyle

District 13:

Marguerite S. Church

District 14:

Chauncey W. Reed (died February 9, 1956)

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:

Kenneth J. Gray

 

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

Thomas E. Martin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fred D. Schwengel

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:

William H. Avery

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

Alben W. Barkley (died April 30, 1956 of a heart attack while speaking at the Washington and Lee University)

Robert Humphreys (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W. Barkley; served from June 21, 1956 to November 6, 1956, when John Sherman Cooper was elected)

John Sherman Cooper (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W. Barkley; served from November 7, 1956)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Noble J. Gregory

District 2:

William H. Natcher

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:

Eugene Siler

 

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:

Richard E. Lankford

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:

Torbert H. Macdonald

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

 

Charles E. Potter

Patrick V. McNamara

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

District 2:

George Meader

District 3:

August E. Johansen

District 4:

Clare E. Hoffman

District 5:

Gerald R. Ford

District 6:

Donald Hayworth

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:

Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

District 14:

Louis C. Rabaut

District 15:

John D. Dingell (died September 19, 1955)

John D. Dingell, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, John D. Dingell, Sr.; served from December 13, 1955)

District 16:

John Lesinski, Jr.

District 17:

Martha W. Griffiths

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:

Coya Knutson

 

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:

George H. Christopher

District 5:

Richard W. Bolling

District 6:

William R. Hull, Jr.

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:

Orvin B. Fjare

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Roman L. Hruska

Carl T. Curtis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Phillip H. Weaver

District 2:

Jackson B. Chase

District 3:

Robert D. Harrison

District 4:

Arthur L. Miller

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

George W. Malone

Alan H. Bible

 

Representatives

 

Clarence C. Young

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges

Norris H. Cotton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Chester E. Merrow

District 2:

Perkins Bass

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

H. Alexander Smith

Clifford P. Case

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

T. Millet Hand (died December 26, 1956)

District 3:

James C. Auchincloss

District 4:

Frank Thompson, Jr.

District 5:

Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr.

District 6:

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

District 7:

William B. Widnall

District 8:

Gordon Canfield

District 9:

Frank C. Osmers, Jr.

District 10:

Peter W. Rodino, Jr.

District 11:

Hugh J. Addonizio

District 12:

Robert W. Kean

District 13:

Alfred D. Sieminski

District 14:

T. James Tumulty

 

New Mexico

 

Senators

 

Dennis Chavez

Clinton P. Anderson

 

Representative At Large

 

John J. Dempsey

Antonio M. Fernandez (died November 7, 1956)

 

New York

 

Senators