Membership of the 86th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1961

 

First Session:  January 7, 1959 to September 15, 1959

Second Session:  January 6, 1960 to September 1, 1960

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Richard M. Nixon (California)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Carl T. Hayden (Arizona)

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.

 

Alaska (admitted as a state January 3, 1959)

 

Senators

 

Bob Bartlett

Ernest H. Gruening

 

Representative At Large

 

Ralph J. Rivers

 

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:

Dale Alford

District 6:

William F. Norrell

 

California

 

Senators

 

Thomas Kuchel

Clair Engle

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clement W. Miller

District 2:

Harold T. Johnson

District 3:

John E. Moss

District 4:

William S. Mailliard

District 5:

John F. Shelley

District 6:

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

District 7:

Jeffrey Cohelan

District 8:

George P. Miller

District 9:

J. Arthur Younger

District 10:

Charles S. Gubser

District 11:

John J. McFall

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:

H. Allen Smith

District 21:

Edgar W. Hiestand

District 22:

Joseph F. Holt III

District 23:

Clyde G. Doyle

District 24:

Glenard P. Lipscomb

District 25:

George A. Kasem

District 26:

James Roosevelt

District 27:

Harry R. Sheppard

District 28:

James B. Utt

District 29:

Dalip Singh Saund

District 30:

Robert C. Wilson

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Gordon L. Allott

John A. Carroll

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Byron G. Rogers

District 2:

Byron L. Johnson

District 3:

J. Edgar Chenoweth

District 4:

Wayne N. Aspinall

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Prescott S. Bush

Thomas J. Dodd

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Emilio Quincy Daddario

District 2:

Chester B. Bowles

District 3:

Robert N. Giaimo

District 4:

Donald J. Irwin

District 5:

John S. Monagan

At Large:

Frank Kowalski

 

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

District 7:

James A. Haley

District 8:

Donald R. Matthews

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Richard B. Russell

Herman E. Tallmadge

 

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:

Harlan E. Mitchell

District 8:

Iris F. Blitch

District 9:

Phillip M. Landrum

District 10:

Paul Brown

 

Hawaii (admitted as a state August 21, 1959)

 

Senators

 

Hiram L. Fong (served from August 21, 1959)

Oren E. Long (served from August 21, 1959)

 

Representative At Large

 

Daniel K. Inouye (served from August 21, 1959)

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Henry C. Dworshak

Frank F. Church

 

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:

William T. Murphy

District 4:

Edward J. Derwinski

District 5:

John C. Kluczynski

District 6:

Thomas J. O'Brien

District 7:

Roland V. Libonati

District 8:

Daniel D. Rostenkowski

District 9:

Sidney R. Yates

District 10:

Harold R. Collier

District 11:

Roman C. Pucinski

District 12:

Charles A. Boyle (died November 4, 1959 in an automobile accident in Chicago, IL)

District 13:

Marguerite S. Church

District 14:

Elmer J. Hoffman

District 15:

Noah M. Mason

District 16:

Leo E. Allen

District 17:

Leslie C. Arends

District 18:

Robert H. Michel

District 19:

Robert B. Chiperfield

District 20:

Edna O. Simpson

District 21:

Peter F. Mack, Jr.

District 22:

William L. Springer

District 23:

George E. Shipley

District 24:

Melvin Price

District 25:

Kenneth J. Gray

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Homer E. Capehart

Vance Hartke

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ray J. Madden

District 2:

Charles A. Halleck

District 3:

John Brademas

District 4:

E. Ross Adair

District 5:

J. Edward Roush

District 6:

Fred Wampler

District 7:

William G. Bray

District 8:

Winfield K. Denton

District 9:

Earl Hogan

District 10:

Randall S. Harmon

District 11:

Joseph W. Barr

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Bourke B. Hickenlooper

Thomas E. Martin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fred D. Schwengel

District 2:

Leonard G. Wolf

District 3:

Harold R. Gross

District 4:

Steven V. Carter (died November 4, 1959)

John H. Kyl (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Steven V. Carter; served from December 15, 1959)

District 5:

Neal E. Smith

District 6:

Merwin Coad

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:

Newell A. George

District 3:

Denver D. Hargis

District 4:

Edward H. Rees

District 5:

J. Floyd Breeding

District 6:

Wint Smith

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Sherman Cooper

Thruston B. Morton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank A. Stubblefield

District 2:

William H. Natcher

District 3:

Frank W. Burke

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:

Harold B. McSween

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Margaret Chase Smith

Edmund S. Muskie

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James C. Oliver

District 2:

Frank M. Coffin

District 3:

Clifford G. McIntire

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Marshall Butler

J. Glenn Beall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas F. Johnson

District 2:

Daniel B. Brewster

District 3:

Edward A. Garmatz

District 4:

George H. Fallon

District 5:

Richard E. Lankford

District 6:

John R. Foley

District 7:

Samuel N. Friedel

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Leverett A. Saltsonstall

John F. Kennedy (resigned December 22, 1960 to become President of the United States)

Benjamin A. Smith II (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John F. Kennedy; served from  December 27, 1960)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Silvio O. Conte

District 2:

Edward P. Boland

District 3:

Philip J. Philbin

District 4:

Harold D. Donohue

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers (died September 10, 1960)

District 6:

William H. Bates

District 7:

Thomas J. Lane

District 8:

Torbert H. Macdonald

District 9:

Hastings Keith

District 10:

Laurence Curtis

District 11:

Thomas P. O'Neill

District 12:

John W. McCormack

District 13:

James A. Burke

District 14:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Patrick V. McNamara

Phillip A. Hart

 

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:

Charles E. Chamberlain

District 7:

James G. O'Hara

District 8:

Alvin M. Bentley

District 9:

Robert P. Griffin

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, Jr.

District 16:

John Lesinski, Jr.

District 17:

Martha W. Griffiths

District 18:

William S. Broomfield

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Hubert H. Humphrey

Eugene J. McCarthy

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Al Quie

District 2:

Ancher Nelsen

District 3:

Roy W. Weir

District 4:

Joseph E. Karth

District 5:

Walter H. Judd

District 6:

Fred Marshall

District 7:

H. Carl Anderson

District 8:

John A. Blatnik

District 9:

Odin Langen

 

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. (died September 13, 1960)

Stuart Symington

Edward V. Long (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.; served from September 23, 1960)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank M. Karsten

District 2:

Thomas B. Curtis

District 3:

Leonor K. Sullivan

District 4: George H. Christopher (died January 23, 1959)

William J. Randall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George H. Christopher; served from March 3, 1959)

District 5:

Richard W. Bolling

District 6:

William R. Hull, Jr.

District 7:

Charles H. Brown

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:

LeRoy H. Anderson

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Roman L. Hruska

Carl T. Curtis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Phillip H. Weaver

District 2:

Glenn C. Cunningham

District 3:

Lawrence Brock

District 4:

Donald F. McGinley

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Alan H. Bible

Howard W. Cannon

 

Representatives

 

Walter S. Baring, Jr.

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges

Norris H. Cotton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Chester E. Merrow

District 2:

Perkins Bass

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Clifford P. Case

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William T. Cahill

District 2:

Milton W. Glenn

District 3:

James C. Auchincloss

District 4:

Frank Thompson, Jr.

District 5:

Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr.

District 6:

Florence P. Dwyer

District 7:

William B. Widnall

District 8:

Gordon Canfield

District 9:

Frank C. Osmers, Jr.

District 10:

Peter W. Rodino, Jr.

District 11: