Membership of the 96th Congress of the United States

 

January 3, 1979 to January 3, 1981

 

First Session:  January 15, 1979 to January 3, 1980

Second Session:  January 3, 1980 to October 15, 1980

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Walter F. Mondale (Minnesota)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Warren G. Magnuson (Washington)

Secretary of the Senate: 

J. Stanley Kimmitt (Virginia)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

F. Nordy Hoffman (Maryland)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts)

Clerk of the House: 

Edmund L. Henshaw, Jr. (Virginia)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Kenneth R. Harding (Virginia), resigned February 29, 1980
Benjamin J. Guthrie (Virginia), interim

Doorkeeper of the House: 

James T. Molloy (New York)

Postmaster of the House: 

Robert V. Rota (Pennsylvania)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Donald W. Stewart (resigned January 1, 1981)

Howell T. Heflin

Jeremiah A. Denton (elected for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1981; subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Donald Stewart; served from January 2, 1981)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jack Edwards

District 2:

William L. Dickinson

District 3:

William F. Nichols

District 4:

Tom Bevill

District 5:

Ronnie G. Flippo

District 6:

John H. Buchanan, Jr.

District 7:

Richard C. Shelby

 

Alaska

 

Senators

 

Theodore F. Stevens

Mike Gravel

 

Representative At Large

 

Don E. Young

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Barry M. Goldwater

Dennis W. DeConcini

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John J. Rhodes

District 2:

Morris K. Udall

District 3:

Robert L. Stump

District 4:

Eldon D. Rudd

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Dale L. Bumpers

David H. Pryor

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Bill Alexander, Jr.

District 2:

Ed Bethune

District 3:

John P. Hammerschmidt

District 4:

Beryl F. Anthony, Jr.

 

California

 

Senators

 

Alan M. Cranston

S. I. Hayakawa

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Harold T. Johnson

District 2:

Don H. Clausen

District 3:

Robert T. Matsui

District 4:

Vic H. Fazio, Jr.

District 5:

John L. Burton

District 6:

Phillip Burton

District 7:

George Miller

District 8:

Ron V. Dellums

District 9:

Fortney H. Stark

District 10:

Don Edwards

District 11:

William H. Royer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Leo J. Ryan in the previous Congress; served from April 3, 1979)

District 12:

Pete McCluskey

District 13:

Norman Y. Mineta

District 14:

Norman D. Shumway

District 15:

Tony Coelho

District 16:

Leon E. Panetta

District 17:

Charles Pashayan, Jr.

District 18:

William M. Thomas

District 19:

Robert J. Lagomarsino

District 20:

Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.

District 21:

James C. Corman

District 22:

Carlos J.  Moorhead

District 23:

Anthony C. Beilenson

District 24:

Henry A. Waxman

District 25:

Edward R. Roybal

District 26:

John H. Rousselot

District 27:

Robert K. Dornan

District 28:

Julian C. Dixon

District 29:

Augustus F. Hawkins

District 30:

George E. Danielson

District 31:

Charles H. Wilson

District 32:

Glenn M. Anderson

District 33:

Wayne R. Grisham

District 34:

Daniel E. Lungren

District 35:

James F. Lloyd

District 36:

George E. Brown, Jr.

District 37:

Jerry Lewis

District 38:

Jerry M. Patterson

District 39:

William E. Dannemeyer

District 40:

Robert E. Badham

District 41:

Bob Wilson

District 42:

Lionel Van Deerlin

District 43:

Clair W. Burgener

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Gary W. Hart

William L. Armstrong

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Patricia S. Schroeder

District 2:

Timothy E. Wirth

District 3:

Raymond P. Kogovsek

District 4:

James P. Johnson

District 5:

Kenneth B. Kramer

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Abraham A. Ribicoff

Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William R. Cotter

District 2:

Chrisopher J. Dodd

District 3:

Robert N. Giaimo

District 4:

Stewart B. McKinney

District 5:

William R. Ratchford

District 6:

Toby Moffett

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

William V. Roth, Jr.

Joseph R. Biden

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas B. Evans, Jr.

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Lawton M. Chiles, Jr.

Richard B. Stone (resigned December 31, 1980)

Paula Hawkins (elected for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1981; subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard B. Stone; served from January 1, 1981)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Earl D. Hutto

District 2:

Don Fuqua

District 3:

Charles E. Bennett

District 4:

William V. Chappell, Jr.

District 5:

Richard Kelly

District 6:

Bill Young

District 7:

Sam M. Gibbons

District 8:

Andy Ireland

District 9:

Bill Nelson

District 10:

Louis A. Bafalis

District 11:

Daniel A. Mica

District 12:

Edward J. Stack

District 13:

William Lehman

District 14:

Claude D. Pepper

District 15:

Dante B. Fascell

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Herman E. Tallmadge

Samuel A. Nunn

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ronald B. Ginn

District 2:

M. Dawson Mathis

District 3:

Jack T. Brinkley

District 4:

Elliott H. Levitas

District 5:

Wyche Fowler, Jr.

District 6:

Newt L. Gingrich

District 7:

Larry P. McDonald

District 8:

Billy Lee Evans

District 9:

Edgar L. Jenkins

District 10:

Doug Barnard, Jr.

 

Hawaii

 

Senators

 

Daniel K. Inouye

Spark M. Matsunaga

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Cecil L. Heftel

District 2:

Daniel K. Akaka

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Frank F. Church

James A. McClure

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Steven D. Symms

District 2:

George V. Hansen

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Charles H. Percy

Adlai E. Stevenson III

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Bennett M. Stewart

District 2:

Morgan F. Murphy

District 3:

Martin A. Russo

District 4:

Edward J. Derwinski

District 5:

John G. Fary

District 6:

Henry J. Hyde

District 7:

Cardiss Collins

District 8:

Daniel D. Rostenkowski

District 9:

Sidney R. Yates

District 10:

Abner J. Mikva (resigned September 26, 1979 to become a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit)

John Edward Porter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abner J. Mikva; served from January 22, 1980)

District 11:

Frank Annunzio

District 12:

Philip M. Crane

District 13:

Robert McClory

District 14:

John N. Erlenborn

District 15:

Thomas J. Corcoran

District 16:

John B. Anderson

District 17:

George M. O'Brien

District 18:

Robert H. Michel

District 19:

Thomas F. Railsback

District 20:

Paul Findley

District 21:

Edward R. Madigan

District 22:

Daniel B. Crane

District 23:

Melvin Price

District 24:

Paul M. Simon

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Birch E. Bayh

Richard G. Lugar

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Adam Benjami, Jr.

District 2:

Floyd J. Fithian

District 3:

John Brademas

District 4:

Dan Quayle

District 5:

Elwood H. Hillis

District 6:

David W. Evans

District 7:

John T. Myers

District 8:

H. Joel Deckard

District 9:

Lee H. Hamilton

District 10:

Philip R. Sharp

District 11:

Andrew Jacobs, Jr.

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

John C. Culver

Roger W. Jepsen

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James A. S. Leach

District 2:

Thomas J. Tauke

District 3:

Charles E. Grassley

District 4:

Neal E. Smith

District 5:

Thomas R. Harkin

District 6:

Berkley W. Bedell

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Robert J. Dole

Nancy L. Kassenbaum

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Keith G. Sebelius

District 2:

James E. Jeffries

District 3:

Larry Winn, Jr.

District 4:

Daniel R. Glickman

District 5:

Robert R. Whittaker

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Walter D. Huddleston

Wendell H. Ford

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carroll Hubbard, Jr.

District 2:

William H. Natcher

District 3:

Romano L. Mazzoli

District 4:

Gene Snyder

District 5:

Tim Lee Carter

District 6:

Larry J. Hopkins

District 7:

Carl D. Perkins

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Russell B. Long

J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert L. Livingston, Jr.

District 2:

Corinne C. Boggs

District 3:

David C. Treen (resigned March 10, 1980 to become Governor of Louisiana)

Billy Tauzin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David C. Treen; served from May 22, 1980)

District 4:

Anthony C. Leach, Jr.

District 5:

Thomas J. Huckaby

District 6:

W. Henson Moore III

District 7:

John B. Breaux

District 8:

Gillis W. Long

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Edmund S. Muskie (resigned May 7, 1980 to become Secretary of State)

William S. Cohen

George J. Mitchell (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edmund S. Muskie; served from May 19, 1980)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

David F. Emery

District 2:

Olympia J. Snowe

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Charles McC. Mathias

Paul S. Sarbanes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert E. Bauman

District 2:

Clarence D. Long

District 3:

Barbara A. Mikulski

District 4:

Marjorie S. Holt

District 5:

Gladys N. Spellman

District 6:

Beverly B. B. Byron

District 7:

Parren J. Mitchell

District 8:

Michael D. Barnes

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Edward M. Kennedy

Paul E. Tsongas

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Silvio O. Conte

District 2:

Edward P. Boland

District 3:

Joseph D. Early

District 4:

Robert F. Drinan

District 5:

James M. Shannon

District 6:

Nicholas J. Mavroules

District 7:

Edward J. Markey

District 8:

Thomas P. O'Neill

District 9:

Joe Moakley

District 10:

Margaret M. Heckler

District 11:

Brian Donnelly

District 12:

Gerry E. Studds

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Donald W. Riegle, Jr.

Carl M. Levin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Conyers, Jr.

District 2:

Carl D. Pursell

District 3:

Howard E. Wolpe

District 4:

David Stockman

District 5:

Harold S. Sawyer

District 6:

Bob Carr

District 7:

Dale E. Kildee

District 8:

J. Bob Traxler

District 9:

Guy Vander Jagt

District 10:

Donald J. Abosta

District 11:

Robert W. Davis

District 12:

David E. Bonior

District 13:

Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (resigned June 3, 1980 after censure by the House and conviction on charges of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms)

George W. Crockett, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles C. Diggs, Jr.; served from November 4, 1980)

District 14:

Lucien N. Nedzi

District 15:

William D. Ford

District 16:

John D. Dingell, Jr.

District 17:

William N. Brodhead

District 18:

James J. Blanchard

District 19:

William S. Broomfield

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

David F. Durenberger

Rudy E. Boschwitz

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Arlen I. Erdahl

District 2:

Tom Hagedorn

District 3:

Bill Frenzel

District 4:

Bruce F. Vento

District 5:

Martin O. Sabo

District 6:

Richard M. Nolan

District 7:

Arlan I. Stangeland

District 8:

James L. Oberstar

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

John C. Stennis

Thad Cochrane

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jamie L. Whitten

District 2:

David R. Bowen

District 3:

Sonny Montgomery

District 4:

Jon C. Hinson

District 5:

Trent Lott

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas F. Eagleton

John C. Danforth

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William L. Clay, Sr.

District 2:

Robert A. Young III

District 3:

Richard A. Gephardt

District 4:

Ike Skelton

District 5:

Richard W. Bolling

District 6:

E. Thomas Coleman

District 7:

Gene Taylor

District 8:

Richard H. Ichord II

District 9:

Harold L. Volkmer

District 10:

William D. Burlison

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

John Melcher

Max S. Baucus

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Pat Williams

District 2:

Roy Marlenee

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Edward Zorinsky

J. James Exon

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Doug Bereuter

District 2:

John J. Cavanaugh III

District 3:

Virginia D. Smith

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Howard W. Cannon

Paul D. Laxalt

 

Representative At Large

 

James D. Santini

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John A. Durkin (resigned December 29, 1980)

Gordon J. Humphrey

Warren B. Rudman (elected for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1981; subsequently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Durkin; served from December 29, 1980)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Norman E. D'Amours

District 2:

James C. Cleveland

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Harrison A. Williams, Jr.

William W. Bradley

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James J. Florio

District 2:

William J. Hughes

District 3:

James J. Howard

District 4:

Frank Thompson, Jr. (resigned December 29, 1980 after his conviction on charges of bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam case)

District 5:

Millicent H. Fenwick

District 6:

Edwin B. Forsythe

District 7:

Andrew Maguire

District 8:

Robert A. Roe

District 9:

Harold C. Hollenbeck

District 10:

Peter W. Rodino, Jr.

District 11:

Joseph G. Minish

District 12:

Matthew J. Rinaldo

District 13:

Jim Courter

District 14:

Frank J. Guarini, Jr.

District 15:

Edward J. Patten

 

New Mexico

 

Senators

 

Pete V. Domenici

Harrison H. Schmitt

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Manuel Lujan

District 2:

Harold L. Runnels (died August 5, 1980)

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Jacob K. Javits

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Carney

District 2:

Thomas J. Downey

District 3:

Jerome A. Ambro, Jr.

District 4:

Norman F. Lent

District 5:

John W. Wydler

District 6:

Lester L. Wolff

District 7:

Joseph P. Addabbo

District 8:

Benjamin S. Rosenthal

District 9:

Geraldine Ferraro

District 10:

Mario Biaggi

District 11:

James H. Scheuer

District 12:

Shirley A. Chisholm