Membership of the 87th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1961 to January 3, 1963

 

First Session:  January 3, 1961 to September 27, 1961

Second Session:  January 10, 1962 to October 13, 1962

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Richard M. Nixon (California)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas), from January 20, 1961

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), died November 16, 1961
John W. McCormack (Massachusetts), from January 10, 1962

Clerk of the House: 

Ralph R. Roberts (Indiana)

Sergeant of 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

 

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 (resigned January 18, 1961 to become Secretary of the Interior)

Morris K. Udall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, Stewart L. Udall; served from May 2, 1961)
 

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 (died February 15, 1961)

Catherine D. Norrell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, William F. Norrell; served from April 18, 1961)

 

California

 

Senators

 

Thomas Kuchel

Clair Engle

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clement W. Miller (died October 7, 1962 in an airplane accident near Eureka, CA)

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:

Alphonzo Bell

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:

James C. Corman

District 23:

Clyde G. Doyle

District 24:

Glenard P. Lipscomb

District 25:

John H. Rousselot

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:

Peter H. Dominick

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:

Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.

District 3:

Robert N. Giaimo

District 4:

Abner W. Sibal

District 5:

John S. Monagan

At Large:

Frank Kowalski

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John J. Williams

J. Caleb Boggs

 

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:

G. Elliott Hagan

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:

John W. Davis

District 8:

Iris F. Blitch

District 9:

Phillip M. Landrum

District 10:

Robert G. Stephens, Jr.

 

Hawaii

 

Senators

 

Hiram L. Fong

Oren E. Long

 

Representative At Large

 

Daniel K. Inouye

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Henry C. Dworshak (died July 23, 1962)

Frank F. Church

Len B. Jordan (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry C. Dworshak; served from August 6, 1962)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Gracie B. Pfost

District 2:

Ralph R. Harding

 

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:

Edward R. Finnegan

District 13:

Marguerite S. Church

District 14:

Elmer J. Hoffman

District 15:

Noah M. Mason

District 16:

John B. Anderson

District 17:

Leslie C. Arends

District 18:

Robert H. Michel

District 19:

Robert B. Chiperfield

District 20:

Paul Findley

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:

Richard L. Roudebush

District 7:

William G. Bray

District 8:

Winfield K. Denton

District 9:

Earl Wilson

District 10:

Ralph Harvey

District 11:

Donald C. Bruce

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Bourke B. Hickenlooper

Jack R. Miller

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fred D. Schwengel

District 2:

James E. Bromwell

District 3:

Harold R. Gross

District 4:

John H. Kyl

District 5:

Neal E. Smith

District 6:

Merwin Coad

District 7:

Ben F. Jensen

District 8:

Charles B. Hoeven

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Andrew F. Schoeppel (died January 21, 1962)

Frank Carlson

James B. Pearson (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew F. Schoeppel; served from January 31, 1962)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William H. Avery

District 2:

Robert F. Ellsworth

District 3:

Walter L. McVey

District 4:

Garner E. Shriver

District 5:

J. Floyd Breeding

District 6:

Robert J. Dole

 

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 (died September 16, 1961)

Joe Waggonner, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Overton Brooks; served from December 19, 1961)

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:

Peter Garland

District 2:

Stanley R. Tupper

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:

Charles McC. Mathias

District 7:

Samuel N. Friedel

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Leverett A. Saltsonstall

Benjamin A. Smith II (resigned November 6, 1962, when Edward M. Kennedy was elected)

Edward M. Kennedy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, John F. Kennedy; served from November 6, 1962)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Silvio O. Conte

District 2:

Edward P. Boland

District 3:

Philip J. Philbin

District 4:

Harold D. Donohue

District 5:

F. Bradford Morse

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 (resigned September 18, 1961 to become  a judge of the United States District Court for the eastern district of Michigan)

Lucien N. Nedzi (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thaddeus M. Machrowicz; served from November 7, 1961)

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:

James Harvey

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 (died November 12, 1961)

Harold M. Ryan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Louis C. Rabaut; served from February 13, 1962)

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:

Clark MacGregor

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 (resigned November 14, 1962 to become a member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority)

District 4:

John Bell Williams

District 5:

W. Arthur Winstead

District 6:

William M. Colmer

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Stuart Symington

Edward V. Long

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frank M. Karsten

District 2:

Thomas B. Curtis

District 3:

Leonor K. Sullivan

District 4:

William J. Randall

District 5:

Richard W. Bolling

District 6:

William R. Hull, Jr.

District 7:

Durward G. Hall

District 8:

Richard H. Ichord II

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Paul C. Jones

District 11:

Morgan M. Moulder

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Michael J. Mansfield

Lee W. Metcalf

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arnold Olson

District 2:

James F. Battin

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Roman L. Hruska

Carl T. Curtis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Phillip H. Weaver

District 2:

Glenn C. Cunningham

District 3:

Ralph F. Beermann

District 4:

David T. Martin

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Alan H. Bible

Howard W. Cannon

 

Representative At Large

 

Walter S. Baring, Jr.

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

H. Styles Bridges (died November 26, 1961)

Norris H. Cotton

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. Styles Bridges; served from January 10, 1962 to November 6, 1962, when Thomas J. McIntyre was elected)

Thomas J. McIntyre (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. Styles Bridges; served from November 7, 1962)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Chester E. Merrow

District 2:

Perkins Bass

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Clifford P. Case

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1: