72nd United States Congress
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The Seventy-second United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 and the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

. It met in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 from March 4, 1931 to March 4, 1933, during the last two years of Herbert C. Hoover's presidency
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 was based on the Thirteenth Decennial Census of the United States in 1910
United States Census, 1910
The Thirteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 Census...

. The Senate had a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 majority, and the House had a Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

 majority.

Major events

  • Ongoing: Great Depression
    Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

  • January 12, 1932: Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. (Rebecca Latimer Felton
    Rebecca Latimer Felton
    Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton was an American writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate...

     of Georgia had been appointed to fill a vacancy in 1922; the 87-year-old Felton served one day as a Senator.) Caraway had won a special election to fill the remaining months of the term of her late husband, Senator Thaddeus Caraway. She won re-election to a full term in 1932 and again in 1938 and served in the Senate until January 1945.
  • July 28, 1932: Bonus Army
    Bonus Army
    The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates...

     was dispersed.
  • November 8, 1932: United States elections, 1932:
    • United States presidential election, 1932
      United States presidential election, 1932
      The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the Revenue Act of 1932, and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. President Herbert Hoover's popularity was falling as...

      : Incumbent Republicans Herbert Hoover
      Herbert Hoover
      Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

       and Charles Curtis
      Charles Curtis
      Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

       lost to Democrats Franklin Roosevelt as President, and John Nance Garner
      John Nance Garner
      John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

       as Vice President.
    • United States Senate elections, 1932: Democrats gained a 60–35 majority
    • United States House of Representatives elections, 1932: Democrats gained a 313–117 majority

Major legislation

  • January 22, 1932: Reconstruction Finance Corporation
    Reconstruction Finance Corporation
    The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an independent agency of the United States government, established and chartered by the US Congress in 1932, Act of January 22, 1932, c. 8, 47 Stat. 5, during the administration of President Herbert Hoover. It was modeled after the War Finance Corporation...

     Act, Sess. 1, ch. 8,
  • March 23, 1932: Norris-LaGuardia Act
    Norris-LaGuardia Act
    The Norris–La Guardia Act was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions...

    , Sess. 1, ch. 90,
  • June 6, 1932: Revenue Act of 1932
    Revenue Act of 1932
    The Revenue Act of 1932 raised United States tax rates across the board, with the rate on top incomes rising from 25 percent to 63 percent...

    , Sess. 1, ch. 209,
  • July 22, 1932: Federal Home Loan Bank Act
    Federal Home Loan Bank Act
    The Federal Home Loan Bank Act, , is a United States federal law passed under President Herbert Hoover in order to lower the cost of home ownership.It established the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter and supervise federal savings and loan institutions...

    , Sess. 1, ch. 522,
  • March 3, 1933: Buy American Act
    Buy American Act
    The Buy American Act passed in 1933 by Congress and signed by President Hoover on his last full day in office , required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made products in itspurchases...

    , Sess. 2, ch. 212, title III,

Constitutional amendments

  • February 20, 1933: 21st Amendment
    Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
    The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition...

    , to repeal prohibition, was proposed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

  • Republican (R)
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    : 48 (majority)
  • Democratic (D)
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    : 47
  • Farmer-Labor (FL)
    Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
    The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party was a political party in the United States state of Minnesota, the most successful and longest-lasting of the constituent elements of the national Farmer–Labor Party movement, which had a presence in other states...

    : 1

TOTAL members: 96

House of Representatives

  • Democratic (D)
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    : 217 (majority)
  • Republican (R)
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    : 217
  • Farmer-Labor (FL)
    Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
    The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party was a political party in the United States state of Minnesota, the most successful and longest-lasting of the constituent elements of the national Farmer–Labor Party movement, which had a presence in other states...

    : 1

TOTAL members: 435

Senate

  • President: Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis
    Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    of Kansas
    Kansas
    Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

  • President pro tempore
    President pro tempore of the United States Senate
    The President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...

    : George H. Moses
    George H. Moses
    George Higgins Moses was a U.S. diplomat and political figure.He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1887 and Dartmouth College with the class of 1890....

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    of New Hampshire
    New Hampshire
    New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Majority Leader: James E. Watson
    James Eli Watson
    James Eli Watson was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Indiana. He was the Senate's second official majority leader. While an article published by the Senate gives his year of birth as 1862, this is most probably incorrect.He was born in Winchester, Indiana, one of six children...

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    of Indiana
    Indiana
    Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

  • Minority Leader: Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph Taylor Robinson
    Joseph Taylor Robinson was an American politician from Arkansas, of the Democratic Party. He was a state representative, U.S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U.S...

    , Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    of Arkansas
    Arkansas
    Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

  • Majority Whip
    Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate are the second-ranking members of the party leadership of the United States Senate....

    : Simeon D. Fess
    Simeon D. Fess
    Simeon Davison Fess was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.-Early life:...

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    of Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

  • Minority Whip
    Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate
    The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate are the second-ranking members of the party leadership of the United States Senate....

    : Morris Sheppard
    Morris Sheppard
    John Morris Sheppard was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment and introduced it in the Senate, so that he is referred to as "the father of national Prohibition."-Biography:John Morris Sheppard was born in Morris County...

    , Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    of Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...



House of Representatives

  • Speaker
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...

    : John N. Garner
    John Nance Garner
    John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

    , Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    of Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Majority Leader: Henry T. Rainey
    Henry T. Rainey
    Henry Thomas Rainey was a prominent U.S. politician during the first third of the 20th century. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1921 and from 1923 to his death as a Democrat from Illinois, and was its Speaker during the famous Hundred days of Franklin D...

    , Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

    of Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

  • Minority Leader
    Minority leader of the United States House of Representatives
    The House Minority Leader is one of the party leaders of the United States House of Representatives. This title is currently held by Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi of California....

    : Bertrand H. Snell
    Bertrand Snell
    Bertrand Hollis Snell represented the state of New York in the United States House of Representatives.- Early life :Snell was born in Colton, New York, the son of Hollis Snell, a lumberman, and Flora E. Kimball...

    , Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

    of NewYork

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

Senate

Senators were elected every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers
Classes of United States Senators
The three classes of United States Senators are currently made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats. The purpose of the classes is to determine which Senate seats will be up for election in a given year. The three groups are staggered so that one of them is up for election every two years.A senator's...

, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1936; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1932.

Alabama 

  • 3: Hugo Black
    Hugo Black
    Hugo Lafayette Black was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme...

     (D)
  • 2: John H. Bankhead, II
    John H. Bankhead II
    John Hollis Bankhead II was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Like his father, John H. Bankhead, he was elected three times to the Senate, and like his father, he died in office....

     (D)

Arizona 

  • 1: Henry F. Ashurst
    Henry F. Ashurst
    Henry Fountain Ashurst was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two Senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of the Arizona Territorial legislature before fulfilling his childhood ambition of joining the United States Senate...

     (D)
  • 3: Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas 

  • 2: Joseph T. Robinson
    Joseph Taylor Robinson
    Joseph Taylor Robinson was an American politician from Arkansas, of the Democratic Party. He was a state representative, U.S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U.S...

     (D)
  • 3: Thaddeus H. Caraway
    Thaddeus H. Caraway
    Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state first in the U.S. House of Representatives and then in the U.S. Senate ....

     (D), until November 6, 1931 (died)
    • Hattie Caraway
      Hattie Caraway
      Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to serve as a United States Senator. Senator Caraway represented Arkansas.-Biography:...

       (D), from November 13, 1931 (appointed, later elected)

California 

  • 1: Hiram Johnson
    Hiram Johnson
    Hiram Warren Johnson was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as the 23rd Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945.-Early life:...

     (R)
  • 3: Samuel M. Shortridge
    Samuel M. Shortridge
    Samuel Morgan Shortridge was a Republican Senator from California.A descendant of Daniel Boone, he was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and moved to California as a child with his family, which settled in San Jose in 1875. He practiced law in San Francisco, California for most of his life.He lost the...

     (R)

Colorado 

  • 3: Charles W. Waterman
    Charles W. Waterman
    Charles Winfield Waterman was a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont, he attended the rural schools and St. Johnsbury Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1885, and taught school in Connecticut and also at Fort Dodge,...

     (R), until August 27, 1932 (died)
    • Walter Walker
      Walter Walker (U.S. Senator)
      Walter Walker was a Democratic United States Senator from Colorado for less than 3 months in late 1932. He was appointed September 26, 1932 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Charles W. Waterman. He ran in the special election for the remainder of the term, but was defeated by Republican...

       (D), September 16, 1932 (appointed) – December 6, 1932 (lost special election)
    • Karl C. Schuyler
      Karl C. Schuyler
      Karl Cortlandt Schuyler was a United States Senator from Colorado.Born in Colorado Springs, he attended the public schools in that city and worked on the Colorado Midland Railroad. He graduated from the law school of the University of Denver in 1898, and was admitted to the bar the same year and...

       (R), from December 7, 1932 (elected)
  • 2: Edward P. Costigan
    Edward P. Costigan
    Edward Prentiss Costigan was a Democratic Party politician who represented Colorado in the United States Senate from 1931 until 1937. He was a founding member of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912....

     (D)

Connecticut 

  • 3: Hiram Bingham III
    Hiram Bingham III
    Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...

     (R)
  • 1: Frederic C. Walcott
    Frederic C. Walcott
    Frederic Collin Walcott was a United States Senator from Connecticut. Born in New York Mills, Oneida County, New York, he attended the public schools of Utica, New York and graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1886, from Phillips Academy in 1887 and from Yale University in 1891, where he was a...

     (R)

Delaware 

  • 2: Daniel O. Hastings
    Daniel O. Hastings
    Daniel Oren Hastings was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early Life and Family:...

     (R)
  • 1: John G. Townsend, Jr.
    John G. Townsend, Jr.
    John Gillis Townsend, Jr. was an American businessman and politician from Selbyville, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as Governor and two terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware....

     (R)

Florida 

  • 3: Duncan U. Fletcher
    Duncan U. Fletcher
    Duncan Upshaw Fletcher was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history.-Early life and career:...

     (D)
  • 1: Park Trammell
    Park Trammell
    Park Monroe Trammell , an American politician of the Democratic Party, was the 21st Governor of Florida and represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1917 until 1936....

     (D)

Georgia 

  • 2: William J. Harris
    William J. Harris
    William Julius Harris was a United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He was a great-grandson of Charles Hooks, who had been a Representative from North Carolina, and son-in-law of Joseph Wheeler, Confederate General and Representative from Alabama.- Early life :Harris was born in Cedartown...

     (D), until April 18, 1932 (died)
    • John S. Cohen
      John S. Cohen
      John Sanford Cohen was a United States Senator from Georgia. Born in Augusta, Georgia to a father from a long-established Jewish family, but was raised in his mother's Episcopalian faith. He was educated at private schools in Augusta, the Richmond Academy, and Shenandoah Valley Academy at...

       (D), April 25, 1932 (appointed) – January 11, 1933 (did not run in special election)
    • Richard Russell, Jr.
      Richard Russell, Jr.
      Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was a Democratic Party politician from the southeastern state of Georgia. He served as state governor from 1931 to 1933 and United States senator from 1933 to 1971....

       (D), from January 12, 1933 (elected)
  • 3: Walter F. George
    Walter F. George
    Walter Franklin George was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a long-time United States Senator and was President pro tempore. He was a Democrat.-Early years:...

     (D)

Idaho 

  • 2: William E. Borah
    William Edgar Borah
    William Edgar Borah was a prominent Republican attorney and longtime United States Senator from Idaho noted for his oratorical skills and isolationist views. One of his nicknames later in life was "The Lion of Idaho."...

     (R)
  • 3: John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas
    John W. Thomas was an American Politician. A Republican, he served on two occasions as a United States Senator from Idaho, both times appointed after his predecessor died in office.-Early life:...

     (R)

Illinois 

  • 3: Otis F. Glenn
    Otis F. Glenn
    Otis Ferguson Glenn was a Republican United States Senator from the State of Illinois.He was born in Mattoon, Illinois on August 27, 1879. After graduating law school in 1900 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he began practicing law in Murphysboro...

     (R)
  • 2: J. Hamilton Lewis
    J. Hamilton Lewis
    James Hamilton Lewis was the first Senator to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate. Lewis was born in Danville, Virginia, and also grew up in Augusta, Georgia...

     (D)

Indiana 

  • 3: James E. Watson
    James Eli Watson
    James Eli Watson was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Indiana. He was the Senate's second official majority leader. While an article published by the Senate gives his year of birth as 1862, this is most probably incorrect.He was born in Winchester, Indiana, one of six children...

     (R)
  • 1: Arthur R. Robinson
    Arthur Raymond Robinson
    Arthur Raymond Robinson was a United States Senator from Indiana.-Early life:Born in Pickerington, Ohio, Robinson attended the common schools, graduated from the Ohio Northern University in 1901, the Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis in 1910, and the University of Chicago in 1913...

     (R)

Iowa 

  • 3: Smith W. Brookhart
    Smith W. Brookhart
    Smith Wildman Brookhart , was twice elected as a Republican to represent Iowa in the United States Senate. He was considered an "insurgent" within the Republican Party; his criticisms of the Harding and Coolidge Administrations and of business interests alienated others within the Republican...

     (R)
  • 2: Lester J. Dickinson
    Lester J. Dickinson
    Lester Jesse Dickinson was a Republican United States Representative and Senator from Iowa. He was, in the words of Time magazine, "a big, friendly, white-thatched Iowa lawyer." In early 1936 he dreamed of winning the presidency...

     (R)

Kansas 

  • 2: Arthur Capper
    Arthur Capper
    Arthur Capper was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and a United States Senator from 1919 to 1949....

     (R)
  • 3: George McGill
    George McGill
    George S. McGill was an American politician from Kansas.Born in Lucas County, Iowa, he moved with his parents to Kansas when he was 5. He graduated from Central Normal College in Great Bend, Kansas at the turn of the century and was admitted to the state bar two years later...

     (D)

Kentucky 

  • 3: Alben W. Barkley
    Alben W. Barkley
    Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....

     (D)
  • 2: Marvel M. Logan
    M. M. Logan
    Marvel Mills Logan , a Democrat, served as a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.Mills was born on a farm near Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky. He taught school for two years and also conducted a training school for teachers. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in...

     (D)

Louisiana 

  • 3: Edwin S. Broussard
    Edwin S. Broussard
    Edwin Sidney Broussard I was a United States senator from Louisiana. He was born in the village of Loureauville in Iberia Parish in the sugar-growing country of south Louisiana and attended public schools. He graduated from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1896. He taught in the...

     (D)
  • 2: Huey Long
    Huey Long
    Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...

     (D), from January 25, 1932 (having remained as Governor)

Maine 

  • 1: Frederick Hale
    Frederick Hale
    Frederick Hale was a politician from the U.S. state of Maine, representing the state in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1941. He was the son of Eugene Hale, the grandson of Zachariah Chandler, both also U.S. Senators, brother of diplomat Chandler Hale, and the cousin of U.S...

     (R)
  • 2: Wallace H. White, Jr.
    Wallace H. White, Jr.
    Wallace Humphrey White, Jr. was a prominent American politician and Republican leader in United States Congress from 1916 until 1949. White was from the U.S. state of Maine and served in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S...

     (R)

Maryland 

  • 3: Millard Tydings
    Millard Tydings
    Millard Evelyn Tydings was an attorney, author, soldier, state legislator, and served as a Democratic Representative and Senator in the United States Congress from Maryland.-Early life:...

     (D)
  • 1: Phillips Lee Goldsborough
    Phillips Lee Goldsborough
    Phillips Lee Goldsborough I , was a Republican member of the United States Senate representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935...

     (R)

Massachusetts 

  • 1: David I. Walsh
    David I. Walsh
    David Ignatius Walsh was a United States politician from Massachusetts. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served in the state legislature and then as Lieutenant Governor and then as the 46th Governor . His first term in the U.S...

     (D)
  • 2: Marcus A. Coolidge
    Marcus A. Coolidge
    Marcus Allen Coolidge was a Democratic United States Senator representing Massachusetts from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1937.Coolidge was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, son of Frederick Spaulding Coolidge...

     (D)

Michigan 

  • 2: James J. Couzens
    James J. Couzens
    James J. Couzens was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan, the Mayor of Detroit, an industrialist, and philanthropist.-Early life and career:...

     (R)
  • 1: Arthur H. Vandenberg
    Arthur H. Vandenberg
    Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was a Republican Senator from the U.S. state of Michigan who participated in the creation of the United Nations.-Early life and family:...

     (R)

Minnesota 

  • 1: Henrik Shipstead
    Henrik Shipstead
    Henrik Shipstead was an American politician. He served in the United States Senate from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947, from the state of Minnesota in the 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, 78th, and 79th Congresses...

     (FL)
  • 2: Thomas D. Schall
    Thomas D. Schall
    Thomas David Schall was an American lawyer and politician. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota. He was initially elected as a Progressive but later joined the Republican Party.Schall was born in Reed City, Michigan, and moved...

     (R)

Mississippi 

  • 2: Pat Harrison
    Pat Harrison
    Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death....

     (D)
  • 1: Hubert D. Stephens
    Hubert D. Stephens
    Hubert Durrett Stephens was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Mississippi from 1923 until 1935....

     (D)

Missouri 

  • 3: Harry B. Hawes
    Harry B. Hawes
    Harry Bartow Hawes was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from Missouri....

     (D), until February 3, 1933 (resigned to focus on wildlife conservation and law)
    • Bennett Champ Clark
      Bennett Champ Clark
      Joel Bennett Clark , better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945, and was later a United States federal judge.-Biography:...

       (D), from February 3, 1933 (appointed to serve early, having been elected)
  • 1: Roscoe C. Patterson
    Roscoe C. Patterson
    Roscoe Conkling Patterson was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from the law department of Washington University Roscoe Conkling...

     (R)

Montana 

  • 2: Thomas J. Walsh
    Thomas J. Walsh
    Thomas James Walsh was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana, in the United States.-Background:...

     (D), until March 2, 1933, vacant thereafter
  • 1: Burton K. Wheeler
    Burton K. Wheeler
    Burton Kendall Wheeler was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947.-Early life:...

     (D)


Nebraska 

  • 2: George W. Norris
    George William Norris
    George William Norris was a U.S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress...

     (R)
  • 1: Robert B. Howell
    Robert B. Howell
    Robert Howell was a Trial Attorney and a member of the Justice League. He was born in Fort Pierce, Florida. He graduated from Harvard in 2005. Afterwards he went to the Harvard School of Law. He moved to Miami , Florida in 2007....

     (R)

Nevada 

  • 1: Key Pittman
    Key Pittman
    Key Denson Pittman was a United States Senator from Nevada. He was a Democrat.Pittman was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1872 and was educated by private tutors and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He studied law, then later became a lawyer...

     (D)
  • 3: Tasker Oddie
    Tasker Oddie
    Tasker Lowndes Oddie was an American politician. He was the 12th Governor of Nevada and a United States Senator. He was a member of the Republican Party.-Biography:...

     (R)

New Hampshire 

  • 3: George H. Moses
    George H. Moses
    George Higgins Moses was a U.S. diplomat and political figure.He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1887 and Dartmouth College with the class of 1890....

     (R)
  • 2: Henry W. Keyes
    Henry W. Keyes
    Henry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...

     (R)

New Jersey 

  • 1: Hamilton F. Kean
    Hamilton Fish Kean
    Hamilton Fish Kean was a U.S. senator from New Jersey.Kean was the son of Lucy and John Kean. He was related to several prominent American politicians including his great-grandfather John Kean , his brother John Kean , and his son Robert Kean...

     (R)
  • 2: Dwight Morrow
    Dwight Morrow
    Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat.-Life:Born in Huntington, West Virginia, he moved with his parents, James E. and Clara Morrow to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1875. His father James, was principal of Marshall College, which is now Marshall University...

     (R), until October 5, 1931 (died)
    • W. Warren Barbour
      William Warren Barbour
      William Warren Barbour was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937 and again from 1938 until his death in office in 1943...

       (R), from December 1, 1931 (appointed, later elected)

New Mexico 

  • 2: Sam G. Bratton
    Sam G. Bratton
    Sam Gilbert Bratton was a Democratic Party politician from the state of New Mexico who served in the United States Senate from 1925 until 1933....

     (D)
  • 1: Bronson M. Cutting
    Bronson M. Cutting
    Bronson Murray Cutting was a United States Senator from New Mexico, publisher, and military attaché.-Biography:Bronson Cutting was born in Great River, Long Island, New York, on June 23, 1888 at his family's country seat of Westbrook. He was the third of four children born to William Bayard...

     (R)

New York 

  • 1: Royal S. Copeland
    Royal S. Copeland
    Royal Samuel Copeland was an American academic, homeopathic physician, and politician who held elected offices in both Michigan and New York . He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1923 until 1938.-Early life and medical career:Born in Dexter, Michigan to parents Roscoe P....

     (D)
  • 3: Robert F. Wagner
    Robert F. Wagner
    Robert Ferdinand Wagner I was an American politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949.-Origin and early life:...

     (D)

North Carolina 

  • 3: Cameron A. Morrison
    Cameron A. Morrison
    Cameron A. Morrison was the 55th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1921 to 1925.He was born in 1869 in Richmond County, North Carolina. With the backing of Sen. Furnifold Simmons and the help of race-baiting tactics employed by A. D. Watts, Morrison defeated O. Max Gardner in the...

     (D), until December 4, 1932 (lost special election to fill vacancy for which he had been appointed)
    • Robert R. Reynolds
      Robert Rice Reynolds
      Robert Rice Reynolds was a Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina between 1932 and 1945. Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among supporters back home, acquired distinction as a passionate isolationist and increasingly as an apologist for Nazi aggression...

       (D), from December 5, 1932 (elected)
  • 2: Josiah W. Bailey
    Josiah William Bailey
    Josiah William Bailey was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1931 and 1946. Born in Warrenton, NC, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College...

     (D)

North Dakota 

  • 1: Lynn Frazier
    Lynn Frazier
    Lynn Joseph Frazier was a politician from North Dakota, serving as a U.S. Senator from 1923 to 1941 and the 12th Governor of North Dakota of that state from 1917 until being recalled in 1921. He was the first American governor ever successfully recalled from office...

     (R)
  • 3: Gerald Nye
    Gerald Nye
    Gerald Prentice Nye was a United States politician, representing North Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1925-45...

     (R)

Ohio 

  • 1: Simeon D. Fess
    Simeon D. Fess
    Simeon Davison Fess was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.-Early life:...

     (R)
  • 3: Robert J. Bulkley
    Robert J. Bulkley
    Robert Johns Bulkley was a United States Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1930 until 1939....

     (D)

Oklahoma 

  • 3: Elmer Thomas (D)
  • 2: Thomas Gore
    Thomas Gore
    Thomas Gore was a Democratic politician. He was blind and served as a United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1907 until 1921 and from 1931 until 1937. He was the maternal grandfather of author Gore Vidal.-Life and career:...

     (D)

Oregon 

  • 2: Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary
    Charles Linza McNary was a United States Republican politician from Oregon. He served in the Senate from 1917 to 1944, and was Senate Minority Leader from 1933 to 1944. In the Senate, McNary helped to pass legislation that led to the construction of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, and worked...

     (R)
  • 3: Frederick Steiwer
    Frederick Steiwer
    Frederick Steiwer was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was county district attorney and member of the Oregon State Senate from Eastern Oregon and a veteran of World War I. A Republican, he was elected to the United States Senate and served there...

     (R)

Pennsylvania 

  • 1: David A. Reed
    David A. Reed
    David Aiken Reed was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate....

     (R)
  • 3: James J. Davis
    James J. Davis
    James John Davis was an American steel worker and Republican Party politician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate...

     (R)

Rhode Island 

  • 2: Jesse H. Metcalf
    Jesse H. Metcalf
    Jesse Houghton Metcalf was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he was educated in private schools there, studied textile manufacturing in Yorkshire, England, and engaged in textile manufacturing. In 1889 Metcalf received a large bequest from his father's business...

     (R)
  • 1: Felix Hebert
    Felix Hebert
    Felix Hebert was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born near St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, he came to the United States when his parents, Edouard and Catherine Hebert, returned in 1880 and resumed their residence in the town of Coventry, Rhode Island.He attended La Salle Academy...

     (R)

South Carolina 

  • 3: Ellison D. Smith
    Ellison D. Smith
    Ellison DuRant "Cotton Ed" Smith was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1944....

     (D)
  • 2: James F. Byrnes
    James F. Byrnes
    James Francis Byrnes was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives , as a Senator , as Justice of the Supreme Court , as Secretary of State , and as the 104th Governor of South Carolina...

     (D)

South Dakota 

  • 3: Peter Norbeck
    Peter Norbeck
    Peter Norbeck served as the ninth Governor of South Dakota, and as a United States Senator. Norbeck was the first Governor of South Dakota to have been born within the borders of the state.-Biography:...

     (R)
  • 2: William J. Bulow
    William J. Bulow
    William John Bulow was an American politician and a lawyer. He was the first Democratic Governor of South Dakota, receiving the highest vote ever received by a Democratic candidate for governor up to that time,, and then went on to serve as a member of the United States Senate.-Biography:Bulow...

     (D)

Tennessee 

  • 1: Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953...

     (D)
  • 2: Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull
    Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II...

     (D)

Texas 

  • 2: Morris Sheppard
    Morris Sheppard
    John Morris Sheppard was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment and introduced it in the Senate, so that he is referred to as "the father of national Prohibition."-Biography:John Morris Sheppard was born in Morris County...

     (D)
  • 1: Tom Connally (D)

Utah 

  • 3: Reed Smoot (R)
  • 1: William H. King
    William H. King
    William Henry King was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from Salt Lake City, Utah. A Democrat, he represented Utah in the United States Senate from 1917 until 1941.-Life:...

     (D)

Vermont 

  • 1: Porter H. Dale
    Porter H. Dale
    Porter Hinman Dale was a member of both the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate from Vermont.-Early life and career:Dale was born in Island Pond, Vermont in 1867....

     (R)
  • 3: Frank C. Partridge
    Frank C. Partridge
    Frank Charles Partridge was a United States Senator from Vermont.- Biography :Frank Charles Partridge was in East Middlebury, Vermont to Charles Frank Partridge and Sarah Ann Partridge. He graduated from Amherst College in 1882 and from the Columbia University Law School in 1884, earning an LL.B...

     (R), until March 31, 1931 (lost special election to fill vacancy for which he had been appointed)
    • Warren Austin
      Warren Austin
      Warren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont....

       (R), from April 1, 1931 (elected)

Virginia 

  • 1: Claude A. Swanson
    Claude A. Swanson
    Claude Augustus Swanson was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Virginia.He served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1893 until 1906, was the 45th Governor of Virginia from 1906 until 1910, and represented Virginia as a United States Senator from 1910 until...

     (D)
  • 2: Carter Glass
    Carter Glass
    Carter Glass was a newspaper publisher and politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He served many years in Congress as a member of the Democratic Party. As House co-sponsor, he played a central role in the development of the 1913 Glass-Owen Act that created the Federal Reserve System. Glass...

     (D)

Washington 

  • 3: Wesley L. Jones
    Wesley Livsey Jones
    -External links:...

     (R), until November 19, 1932 (died)
    • Elijah S. Grammer
      Elijah S. Grammer
      Elijah Sherman Grammer was a Republican Senator from Washington from 1932-1933.Grammer was a businessman and logger by profession.-External links: Congressional biography...

       (R), from November 22, 1932 (appointed)
  • 1: Clarence Dill
    Clarence Dill
    Clarence Cleveland Dill was an American politician from the state of Washington. He was a Democrat.Dill was born in Knox County, Ohio. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi....

     (D)

West Virginia 

  • 1: Henry D. Hatfield
    Henry D. Hatfield
    Henry Drury Hatfield was a Republican politician from Logan County, West Virginia. He served a term as the 14th Governor of the state, in addition to one term in the United States Senate...

     (R)
  • 2: Matthew M. Neely
    Matthew M. Neely
    Matthew Mansfield Neely was a Democratic politician from West Virginia. He is the only West Virginian to serve in both houses of the United States Congress and as the Governor of West Virginia...

     (D)

Wisconsin 

  • 1: Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
    Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
    Robert Marion "Young Bob" La Follette, Jr. was an American senator from Wisconsin from 1925 to 1947, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., the brother of Philip La Follette, and Fola La Follette, whose husband was the playwright George Middleton.- Early life:La Follette was born in Madison,...

     (R)
  • 3: John J. Blaine
    John J. Blaine
    John James Blaine was the 24th Governor of Wisconsin and a United States Senator. He served as Mayor of Boscobel, on the Grant County Board of Supervisors, Wisconsin Attorney General, and in the Wisconsin State Senate...

     (R)

Wyoming 

  • 1: John B. Kendrick
    John B. Kendrick
    John Benjamin Kendrick was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Wyoming.Kendrick was born near Rusk, Texas, where he attended the public schools, and then moved to Wyoming in 1879 and settled on a ranch near Sheridan, where he raised cattle.He was a member of the State...

     (D)
  • 2: Robert D. Carey
    Robert D. Carey
    Robert Davis Carey was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and was an important political figure in the state of Wyoming. He was a Republican.In 1919, Carey was elected the 11th Governor of Wyoming and served as such until 1923...

     (R)


House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

 or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama 

. John McDuffie
John McDuffie
John McDuffie was born in River Ridge, Alabama in Monroe County on September 25, 1883. He was educated by private tutors. He attended college at Southern University in Greensboro. He later attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama, where he in graduated in 1904...

 (D). J. Lister Hill
J. Lister Hill
Joseph Lister Hill was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama. He was elected to fill the term left by the resignation of Dixie Bibb Graves and was reelected five times, serving in the Senate from January 11, 1938 until January 3, 1969...

 (D). Henry B. Steagall
Henry B. Steagall
Henry Bascom Steagall was a United States Representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933 co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an act that introduced banking reforms and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ....

 (D). Lamar Jeffers
Lamar Jeffers
Lamar Jeffers was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Anniston, Alabama, Jeffers attended the public schools and the Alabama Presbyterian College at Anniston.He served with the Alabama National Guard from 1904 to 1914....

 (D). LaFayette L. Patterson
Lafayette L. Patterson
LaFayette Lee Patterson was a United States Representative from Alabama. He served three terms in the U. S. Congress, from 1928 to 1933....

 (D). William B. Oliver
William Bacon Oliver
William Bacon Oliver was a Congressman from Alabama.He was born in Eutaw, Alabama, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1887 and from the law department in 1889...

 (D). Miles C. Allgood
Miles C. Allgood
Miles Clayton Allgood was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Chepultepec , Blount County, Alabama, Allgood attended the common schools of his native county and was graduated from the State Normal College at Florence, Alabama , in 1898.He taught school in Blount County...

 (D). Edward B. Almon
Edward B. Almon
Edward Berton Almon was a democratic member of the United States House of Representatives who represented northwest Alabama's 8th congressional district.- Early life :Almon was born near Moulton, Alabama in Lawrence County, April 18, 1860...

 (D). George Huddleston
George Huddleston
George Huddleston was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, father of George Huddleston, Jr.Born on a farm near Lebanon, Tennessee, Huddleston attended the common schools....

 (D). William B. Bankhead
William B. Bankhead
William Brockman Bankhead was an American politician from Alabama who served as U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House. He was a Democrat. Bankhead was a prominent supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal of pro-labor union legislation, thus clashing with most other southern...

 (D)

Arizona 

. Lewis W. Douglas
Lewis Williams Douglas
Lewis Williams Douglas was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic.-Early life and education:...

 (D), until March 4, 1933 (before the opening of the new Congress)

Arkansas 

. William J. Driver
William J. Driver
William Joshua Driver was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born near Osceola, Arkansas, Driver attended the public schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Osceola, Arkansas....

 (D). John E. Miller
John E. Miller
John Elvis Miller was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 until 1937, and in the United States Senate from 1937 until 1941....

 (D). Claude A. Fuller
Claude A. Fuller
Claude Albert Fuller — was a lawyer, farmer, member of Arkansas State House of Representatives from 1903–05, and of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 3rd District of Arkansas from 1929-39....

 (D). Effiegene L. Wingo
Effiegene Locke Wingo
Effiegene Locke Wingo was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, wife of Otis Theodore Wingo and great-great-great-granddaughter of Matthew Locke....

 (D). Heartsill Ragon
Heartsill Ragon
Heartsill Ragon was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born in Dublin, Arkansas, Ragon attended the common schools, the Clarksville High School, the College of the Ozarks , Clarksville, Arkansas, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.He graduated from the law department of Washington and...

 (D). David D. Glover
David Delano Glover
David Delano Glover was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.-Life and work:Born in Prattsville in Grant County, Glover attended the public schools of Prattsville and Sheridan, the seat of Grant County....

 (D). Tilman B. Parks (D)

California 

. Clarence F. Lea
Clarence F. Lea
Clarence Frederick Lea was a U.S. Representative from California.Born near Highland Springs, California, in southwestern Lake County, Lea attended Lakeport Academy in Lakeport, and Stanford University. He obtained a degree in law from the University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado, in 1898...

 (D). Harry L. Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright
Harry Lane Englebright was a U.S. political figure. He served as the House minority whip between 1933 and 1943....

 (R). Charles F. Curry, Jr.
Charles F. Curry, Jr.
Charles Forrest Curry, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from California and the son of Charles Forrest Curry....

 (R). Florence P. Kahn
Florence Prag Kahn
Florence Prag Kahn was an American teacher and politician who in 1925 became the first Jewish woman to serve in the United States Congress. She was only the fifth woman to serve in Congress, and the second from California, after fellow San Franciscoan Mae Nolan...

 (R). Richard J. Welch
Richard J. Welch
Richard Joseph Welch was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Monroe County, New York, Welch was educated in the public schools.He moved to California in early boyhood and settled in San Francisco....

 (R). Albert E. Carter
Albert E. Carter
Albert Edward Carter was a United States Representative from California. He was born in Lemoncove, near Visalia, Tulare County, California. He attended the public schools was graduated from San Jose State Normal School in 1903. He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law...

 (R). Henry E. Barbour
Henry E. Barbour
Henry Ellsworth Barbour was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, Barbour attended the public schools of his native city, the local "Free Academy" at Ogdensburg, Union College at Schenectady, New York, and the law department of George Washington...

 (R). Arthur M. Free
Arthur M. Free
Arthur Monroe Free was a United States Representative from California. He was born in San Jose, California. He attended the public schools of Santa Clara and the University of the Pacific. He graduated from Stanford University in 1901 and from its law department in 1903. He was admitted to the...

 (R). William E. Evans
William E. Evans
William Elmer Evans was a Republican United States Congressman from California.-Biography:William Elmer Evans was born in Laurel County, Kentucky in 1877. He was educated at public schools and Sue Bennett Memorial College, in London, Kentucky.Evans studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1902...

 (R). Joe Crail
Joe Crail
Joe Crail was a United States Representative from California. He was born in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa. He attended the public schools and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in 1898....

 (R). Phil Swing
Phil Swing
Philip David "Phil" Swing is a former American Republican politician from Imperial County, California.-Biography:...

 (R)

Colorado 

. William R. Eaton
William R. Eaton
William Robb Eaton was a U.S. Representative from Colorado, nephew of Charles Aubrey Eaton.Born in Pugwash, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, Eaton immigrated to the United States with his parents who settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1878, and in Denver, Colorado, in 1881.He attended public and...

 (R). Charles B. Timberlake
Charles B. Timberlake
Charles Bateman Timberlake was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Timberlake attended the common schools and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana from 1871 to 1874.He taught school....

 (R). Guy U. Hardy
Guy U. Hardy
Guy Urban Hardy was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Born in Abingdon, Illinois, Hardy attended the public schools, Albion Normal College, Albion, Illinois, and Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. He taught school in Illinois and Florida 1890-1893. He moved to Canon City, Colorado, in...

 (R). Edward T. Taylor
Edward T. Taylor
Edward Thomas Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.Taylor was born on a farm near Metamora, Illinois. He attended the common schools of Illinois and Kansas, and graduated from the high school at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1881. Taylor moved to Leadville, Colorado and was principal of...

 (D)

Connecticut 

. Augustine Lonergan
Augustine Lonergan
Augustine Lonergan , of Hartford, Connecticut, was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1913 to 1915, 1917 to 1921, and from 1931 to 1933. He was also a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1933 to 1939. He was a Democrat....

 (D). Richard P. Freeman
Richard P. Freeman
Richard Patrick Freeman was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in New London, Connecticut, Freeman attended the public schools....

 (R). John Q. Tilson
John Q. Tilson
John Quillin Tilson was a Republican politician in the United States, on both state and national levels, and a lawyer....

 (R), until December 3, 1932 (resigned), vacant thereafter. William L. Tierney
William L. Tierney
William Laurence Tierney was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Tierney attended the public schools....

 (D). Edward W. Goss
Edward W. Goss
Edward Wheeler Goss was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Goss attended the public schools and was graduated from Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania....

 (R)

Delaware 

. Robert G. Houston
Robert G. Houston
Robert Griffith Houston was an American lawyer, publisher and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served four terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware...

 (R)

Florida 

. Herbert J. Drane
Herbert J. Drane
Herbert Jackson Drane was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Franklin, Kentucky, Drane attended the public schools of Louisville, Kentucky, and Brevards Academy at Franklin, Kentucky....

 (D). Robert A. Green
Robert A. Green
Robert Alexis Green was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born near Lake Butler, Bradford County , Florida, Green attended the rural schools....

 (D). Tom A. Yon
Tom A. Yon
Thomas Alva Yon was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Yon was born near Blountstown, Florida. At the age of five his family moved to a farm in Jackson County, Florida. Yon attended rural schools and graduated from Lanier Southern Business College in Macon, Georgia, in 1903...

 (D). Ruth Bryan Owen
Ruth Bryan Owen
Ruth Bryan Owen was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan and mother of Helen Rudd Brown. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district. Representative Owen was also the first woman to earn a spot on the...

 (D)

Georgia 

. Charles G. Edwards
Charles Gordon Edwards
Charles Gordon Edwards was a U.S. political figure from the state of Georgia.Edwards was born in Daisy, Georgia in 1878 and attended the Gordon Institute in Barnesville, Georgia and Florida State College in Lake City...

 (D), until July 13, 1931 (died)
    • Homer C. Parker
      Homer C. Parker
      Homer Cling Parker was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Baxley, Georgia, Parker attended the public schools.He graduated from Statesboro High School, Statesboro, Georgia,1904....

       (D), from September 9, 1931. Edward E. Cox
      Edward E. Cox
      Edward Eugene "Eugene" or "Goober" Cox served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia for nearly twenty-eight years. A conservative Democrat who supported segregation and opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal," Cox became the most senior Democrat on the House Committee on Rules...

       (D). Charles R. Crisp
      Charles R. Crisp
      Charles Robert Crisp was a U.S. Representative from Georgia, son of Charles Frederick Crisp.Born in Ellaville, Georgia, Crisp attended the public schools of Americus, Georgia....

       (D), until October 7, 1932 (resigned to become a member of the United States Tariff Commission)
    • Bryant T. Castellow
      Bryant Thomas Castellow
      Bryant Thomas Castellow was an American politician, educator and lawyer.-Biography:Castellow was born near Georgetown, Georgia in Quitman County. He attended high schools in Eufaula, Alabama and Coleman, Georgia. He then attended Mercer University and the University of Georgia School of Law...

       (D), from November 8, 1932. William C. Wright
      William C. Wright
      William Carter Wright was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born on a farm in Carroll County, Georgia, Wright moved with his parents to Newnan, Georgia, in 1869.He attended the common and high schools of Newnan....

       (D). Robert Ramspeck
      Robert Ramspeck
      Robert C. Word Ramspeck was an American politician and businessman.-Biography:Ramspeck was born in Decatur, Georgia. As a young man he was a federal police officer. He was admitted to the bar in 1920. He would go on to be a Democratic congressman from Georgia from 1929 to 1945. In the period of...

       (D). Samuel Rutherford
      Samuel Rutherford (Georgia politician)
      Samuel Rutherford was an American politician, businessman, jurist and lawyer.Rutherford was born near Culloden, Georgia in 1870, attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens in 1881 with a Bachelor of Laws degree...

       (D), until February 4, 1932 (died)
    • Carlton Mobley
      Carlton Mobley
      William Carlton Mobley was a noted jurist and politician from the American state of Georgia.Mobley was born near Hillsboro, Jones County, Georgia; attended the common schools; and graduated from Mercer University with a law degree in 1928...

       (D), from March 2, 1932. Malcolm C. Tarver
      Malcolm C. Tarver
      Malcolm Connor Tarver was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Rural Vale, Georgia, Tarver attended the public schools.He was graduated from the law department of Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1904....

       (D). Charles H. Brand
      Charles Hillyer Brand
      Charles Hillyer Brand was an American politician, businessman, jurist and lawyer.Brand was born in Loganville, Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens in 1881. He was admitted to the state bar in 1882....

       (D). John S. Wood
      John Stephens Wood
      John Stephens Wood was an American politician from the state of Georgia, USA. He served in the United States House of Representatives, 1931–1935 and 1945–1953....

       (D). Carl Vinson
      Carl Vinson
      Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives...

       (D). William C. Lankford
      William Chester Lankford
      William Chester Lankford was an American politician, teacher, jurist and lawyer from the state of Georgia....

       (D). William W. Larsen
      William Washington Larsen
      William Washington Larsen was a United States Representative from Georgia.-Personal life:Larsen was born in Hagan, Georgia. He attended the Bryan Institute in Lanier, Georgia, the South Georgia Military Academy in Thomasville, Georgia, and the University of Georgia in Athens; however, he did not...

       (D)

Idaho 

. Burton L. French
Burton L. French
Burton Lee French was a United States Representative from Idaho. French served as a Republican in the House from 1903 to 1909, 1911 to 1915 and 1917 to 1933. With a combined 26 years in office, he remains the longest-serving U.S...

 (R). Addison T. Smith
Addison T. Smith
Addison Taylor Smith was a United States Representative from Idaho. Smith served as a Republican in the House from 1913 to 1933....

 (R)

Illinois 

. Oscar S. De Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest
Oscar Stanton De Priest was an American lawmaker and civil rights advocate who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1929 to 1935. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century....

 (R). Morton D. Hull
Morton D. Hull
Morton Denison Hull was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hull attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1885. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced the practice of law in...

 (R). Edward A. Kelly
Edward A. Kelly
Edward Austin Kelly of Chicago was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1931–43, 1945-47. He was a Democrat.-External links: Retrieved on 2008-01-21...

 (D). Harry P. Beam
Harry P. Beam
Harry Peter Beam was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Peoria Illinois, Beam moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, in 1899. He attended St. Mary's School, Marshalltown, Iowa, and Holy Family School, Chicago, Illinois, was graduated from St...

 (D). Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death.He immigrated to America at age 15, became active in real estate, and received his LL.B...

 (D). James T. Igoe
James T. Igoe
James Thomas Igoe was a United States Representative from Illinois. He attended the St. Ignatius College . He became engaged in the printing and publishing business in 1907....

 (D). Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard W. Schuetz
Leonard William Schuetz was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Posen, Germany , SchuetzIn 1888 immigrated to the United States with his father, who settled in Chicago, Illinois....

 (D). Peter C. Granata
Peter C. Granata
Peter Charles Granata was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Granata attended the public and high schools of his native city....

 (R), until April 5, 1932 (election was contested)
    • Stanley H. Kunz
      Stanley H. Kunz
      Stanley Henry Kunz was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Kunz attended the public schools, St...

       (D), from April 5, 1932. Frederick A. Britten
      Frederick A. Britten
      Frederick Albert Britten was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Career:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Britten attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, California. He was a Construction worker and a Business executive before his political career began. He served as member of the Chicago,...

       (R). Carl R. Chindblom
      Carl R. Chindblom
      Carl Richard Chindblom was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Chindblom attended the public schools. He was graduated from Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, in 1890 and from the Kent College of Law at Chicago in 1898...

       (R). Frank R. Reid
      Frank R. Reid
      Frank R. Reid was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was christened without a middle name and chose the letter "R" for an initial....

       (R). John T. Buckbee
      John T. Buckbee
      John Theodore Buckbee was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born on a farm near Rockford, Illinois, Buckbee attended the public schools of Rockford....

       (R). William R. Johnson
      William Richard Johnson
      William Richard Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Johnson moved with his parents to Freeport, Illinois, in 1879....

       (R). John C. Allen
      John Clayton Allen
      John Clayton Allen was an American politician who represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1925-1933....

       (R). Burnett M. Chiperfield
      Burnett M. Chiperfield
      Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, father of Robert Bruce Chiperfield.-Early life:...

       (R). William E. Hull
      William E. Hull
      William Edgar Hull was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Lewistown, Illinois, Hull attended the common schools, Lewistown High School, and Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois....

       (R). Homer W. Hall
      Homer W. Hall
      Homer William Hall was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Shelbyville, Illinois, Hall moved with his parents to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1876....

       (R). William P. Holaday
      William P. Holaday
      William Perry Holaday was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Ridgefarm, Illinois, Holaday attended the common schools, Vermilion Grove Academy, Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and the University of Missouri.He graduated from the law department of the University of Illinois at Urbana...

       (R). Charles Adkins (R). Henry T. Rainey
      Henry T. Rainey
      Henry Thomas Rainey was a prominent U.S. politician during the first third of the 20th century. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1921 and from 1923 to his death as a Democrat from Illinois, and was its Speaker during the famous Hundred days of Franklin D...

       (D). J. Earl Major
      J. Earl Major
      James Earl Major was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and a United States federal judge.Born in Donellson, Illinois, Major attended the common and high schools of his native city....

       (D). Charles A. Karch
      Charles A. Karch
      Charles Adam Karch was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born on a farm in Engleman Township, St. Clair County, Illinois, Karch attended the public schools....

       (D), until November 6, 1932 (died), vacant thereafter. William W. Arnold
      William W. Arnold
      William Wright Arnold was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Life and career:Born in Oblong, Illinois, Arnold attended the country schools of his native county and Austin College, Effingham, Illinois....

       (D). Claude V. Parsons
      Claude V. Parsons
      Claude VanCleve Parsons was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born on a farm near McCormick, Pope County, Illinois, Parsons attended the public schools....

       (D). Kent E. Keller
      Kent E. Keller
      right|300px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves [[White House]] after asking [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for $80,000,000 for flood control in [[Ohio Valley]], March 7, 1938. front: l-r [[Joseph A. Dixon]], [[James G. Polk]], [[Eugene B. Crowe]], [[George William Johnson |G W Johnson]], [[Lawrence E....

       (D). William H. Dieterich
      William H. Dieterich (senator)
      William Henry Dieterich was a United States Senator and Congressman from the State of Illinois. He was born near Cooperstown, Illinois. He was a Democrat....

       (D). Richard Yates
      Richard Yates (son)
      Richard Yates, Jr. was the 22nd Governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905. From 1919 to 1933, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Although he failed to receive his party's nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, he was later appointed nominee and elected in place...

       (R)

Indiana 

. John W. Boehne, Jr.
John W. Boehne, Jr.
John William Boehne, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, son of John William Boehne.Born in Evansville, Indiana, Boehne attended the public and parochial schools....

 (D). Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur H. Greenwood
Arthur Herbert Greenwood was an United States Representative for Indiana for 2nd District from 1923–1933 and for the 7th District 1933–1939. Greenwood was defeated in 1938....

 (D). Eugene B. Crowe
Eugene B. Crowe
right|300px|thumb|Group of legislators leaves [[White House]] after asking [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for $80,000,000 for flood control in [[Ohio Valley]], March 7, 1938. front: l-r [[Joseph A. Dixon]], [[James G. Polk]], [[Eugene B. Crowe]], [[George William Johnson |G W Johnson]], [[Lawrence E....

 (D). Harry C. Canfield
Harry C. Canfield
Harry Clifford Canfield was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born near Moores Hill, Indiana, Canfield attended the public schools, Moores Hill College, Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana, and Vorhies Business College, Indianapolis, Indiana.He taught school in Dearborn County 1896-1898.He...

 (D). Courtland C. Gillen
Courtland C. Gillen
Courtland Craig Gillen was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Roachdale, Indiana, Gillen attended the rural schools.He was graduated from Fincastle High School in 1897....

 (D). William H. Larrabee
William Larrabee (Indiana)
William Henry Larrabee was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Early life:Larrabee was born on a farm near Crawfordsville, Indiana. He attended the public schools, Indiana Central Normal School at Danville, and Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute...

 (D). Louis Ludlow
Louis Ludlow
Louis Leon Ludlow was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct attack...

 (D). Albert H. Vestal
Albert Henry Vestal
Albert Henry Vestal was a U.S. political figure. Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madison County, Indiana, on January 18, 1875, he attended common schools, worked in steel mills and factories and attended the Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, at Terre Haute...

 (R), until April 1, 1932 (died), vacant for remainder of term. Fred S. Purnell
Fred S. Purnell
Fred Sampson Purnell was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born on a farm near Veedersburg, Indiana, Purnell attended the common schools and the high school at Veedersburg....

 (R). William R. Wood
William R. Wood (Indiana)
William Robert Wood was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Oxford, Indiana, Wood attended the public schools of Oxford. Then he went on to college and eventually graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1882. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced...

 (R). Glenn Griswold
Glenn Griswold
Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in New Haven, Missouri, Griswold attended the public schools.He moved to Peru, Indiana, in 1911.He attended Valparaiso Law School....

 (D). David Hogg
David Hogg
David Hogg was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born near Crothersville, Indiana, Hogg attended the common schools....

 (R). Samuel B. Pettengill
Samuel B. Pettengill
Samuel Barrett Pettengill was a U.S. Representative from Indiana, representing Indiana's 3rd congressional district and nephew of William Horace Clagett.- Early life :...

 (D)

Iowa 

. William F. Kopp
William F. Kopp
William Frederick Kopp was a six-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district.Born near Dodgeville, Iowa, Kopp attended the common schools. He was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College at Mount Pleasant in 1892 and from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa...

 (R). Bernhard M. Jacobsen
Bernhard M. Jacobsen
Bernhard Martin Jacobsen was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa who served nearly three full terms during the Great Depression. He was the father of William S. Jacobsen, who succeeded him in Congress following his death....

 (D). Thomas J. B. Robinson
Thomas J. B. Robinson
Thomas John Bright Robinson was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district. Elected in an era in which Republicans held every Iowa U.S. House seat, Robinson served five terms before losing in the 1932 general election.Born in New Diggings, Wisconsin, Robinson moved...

 (R). Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert Nelson Haugen was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member of the House...

 (R). Cyrenus Cole
Cyrenus Cole
Cyrenus Cole was a newspaper editor, columnist and historian, then a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 5th congressional district for over eleven years....

 (R). C. William Ramseyer
C. William Ramseyer
Christian William Ramseyer was a nine-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district....

 (R). Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius Clay Dowell was a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to his death in 1940, except for a two-year period in 1935-36 resulting from a 1934 election loss....

 (R). Lloyd Thurston
Lloyd Thurston
Lloyd Thurston was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from southern Iowa. First elected in 1924, he served until 1938, when he unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. Senate. By his final term, he had served on three of the most powerful House committees.Born in Osceola, Iowa, Thurston...

 (R). Charles E. Swanson
Charles Edward Swanson
Charles Edward Swanson served two terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district. His congressional career ended in the landslide that accompanied the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to his first term as president.Swanson was born on a farm near Galesburg,...

 (R). Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred C. Gilchrist
Fred Cramer Gilchrist was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa, from 1931 to 1945.Born in California, Pennsylvania, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Gilchrist moved with his parents to Cedar Falls, Iowa, in 1871.He attended the public schools. He graduated from State Teachers'...

 (R). Ed H. Campbell
Ed H. Campbell
Ed Hoyt Campbell was the last U.S. Representative from Iowa's 11th congressional district. When Iowa lost two seats in Congress due to the 1930 census, Campbell's district was renumbered but its boundaries were left intact...

 (R)

Kansas 

. William P. Lambertson
William P. Lambertson
William Purnell Lambertson was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Fairview, Kansas, Lambertson attended the public schools, Ottawa University, and the law school of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.He engaged in agricultural pursuits.He served as member of the State house of...

 (R). Ulysses S. Guyer
U. S. Guyer
Ulysses Samuel Guyer was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born near Paw Paw, Illinois, Guyer attended the public schools, Lane University at Lecompton, Kansas, and the University of Kansas School of Law at Lawrence....

 (R). Harold C. McGugin
Harold C. McGugin
Harold Clement Mcgugin was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born on a farm near Liberty, Kansas, McGugin attended the public schools of Liberty, Kansas.He moved to Coffeyville, Kansas, in 1908....

 (R). Homer Hoch
Homer Hoch
Homer Hoch was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Marion, Kansas, Hoch graduated from Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, in 1902....

 (R). James G. Strong
James G. Strong
James George Strong was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Dwight, Illinois, Strong attended the public schools of Dwight, Illinois from 1876 to 1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Dak. from 1879 to 1880, the public school at St...

 (R). Charles I. Sparks
Charles I. Sparks
Charles Isaac Sparks was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township, Iowa, Sparks was educated in the rural schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa....

 (R). Clifford R. Hope
Clifford R. Hope
Clifford R. Hope was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born in Birmingham, Iowa, Hope attended public schools and Nebraska Wesleyan University, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He served during the First World War, as a second lieutenant. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives...

 (R). William A. Ayres
William Augustus Ayres
William Augustus Ayres was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas.William A. Ayres was born in Elizabethtown, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kansas, in 1881. He attended the common schools and Garfield University in Wichita, Kansas...

 (D)

Kentucky 

. William V. Gregory
William Voris Gregory
William Voris Gregory , a Democrat, was a United States Representative from Kentucky.Gregory was born in Graves County and after college he taught school and served as superintendent of schools there...

 (D). Glover H. Cary
Glover H. Cary
Glover H. Cary was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky.He was born in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky in 1885. He attended public and private schools and Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He was employed as deputy clerk, bank cashier, and newspaper editor...

 (D). John W. Moore
John William Moore
John William Moore was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Morgantown, Kentucky, Moore attended the public schools and completed a commercial course at Bryant and Stratton College at Louisville in 1897....

 (D). Cap R. Carden
Cap R. Carden
Cap Robert Carden was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born on a farm near Munfordville, Kentucky, Carden attended the rural schools and Bowling Green Business and Normal School . He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Munfordville, Kentucky...

 (D). Maurice H. Thatcher
Maurice Thatcher
Maurice Hudson Thatcher was a U.S. Congressman. Thatcher was elected to Congress in 1922 from Kentucky. He served until 1933.- Biography :...

 (R). Brent Spence
Brent Spence
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 (D). Virgil Chapman
Virgil Chapman
Virgil Munday Chapman , a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate....

 (D). Ralph W. E. Gilbert
Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert
Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, son of George Gilmore Gilbert.Born in Taylorsville, Kentucky, Gilbert attended the public schools and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville....

 (D). Fred M. Vinson
Fred M. Vinson
Frederick Moore Vinson served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family. In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisa, Kentucky, for twelve years...

 (D). Andrew J. May
Andrew J. May
Andrew Jackson May was a Kentucky attorney and influential New Deal-era politician, best known for his chairmanship of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, and his subsequent conviction for bribery...

 (D). Charles Finley
Charles Finley (politician)
Charles Finley was a United States Representative from Kentucky and son of Hugh Franklin Finley. He was born in Williamsburg, Kentucky were he attended the common and subscription schools. Later, he attended Milligan College...

 (R)

Louisiana 

. Joachim O. Fernández
Joachim O. Fernandez
Joachim Octave Fernández was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He was a Democrat....

 (D). Paul H. Maloney
Paul H. Maloney
Paul Herbert Maloney was a member of Louisiana House of Representatives 1914-1916 was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served seven terms as a Democrat....

 (D). Numa F. Montet
Numa F. Montet
Numa François Montet was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.Born in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Montet attended the common schools and Louisiana State Normal College at Natchitoches....

 (D). John N. Sandlin
John N. Sandlin
John Nicholas Sandlin, Sr. , of Minden, Louisiana, represented his state's Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1937. In 1936, rather than seeking a ninth term in the House, Sandlin, upon the request of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt,...

 (D). Riley J. Wilson
Riley J. Wilson
Riley Joseph Wilson was a Louisiana educator, attorney, and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United States House of Representatives from 1915 until 1937...

 (D). Bolivar E. Kemp
Bolivar E. Kemp
Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Sr. , was an attorney and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 6th congressional district....

 (D). René L. De Rouen
René L. De Rouen
René Louis De Rouen was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.Born on a farm near Ville Platte, then in St. Landry Parish , De Rouen attended private and public schools, and St. Charles College in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. He graduated in 1892 from Holy Cross College in New Orleans...

 (D). James B. Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell, Sr. , was a prominent educator and a Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days into his tenth term.-Life and career:...

 (D)
    • John H. Overton
      John H. Overton
      John Holmes Overton was an attorney and Democratic United States representative and U.S. senator from Louisiana...

       (D)

Maine 

. Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll L. Beedy
Carroll L. Beedy was a U.S. Representative from Maine from 1921-1935.He was born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, on August 3, 1880. He attended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine and graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, in 1903 and from the law department of...

 (R). Donald B. Partridge
Donald B. Partridge
Donald Barrows Partridge was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Partridge was a lawyer, jurist, and Republican Party leader before he was elected to U.S. House of Representatives, where he served a single term in the 1930s.Partridge was born in Norway, Maine, a town in Oxford...

 (R). John E. Nelson
John E. Nelson (Maine)
John Edward Nelson was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in China, Kennebec County, Maine on July 12, 1874.He attended the common and high schools of Waterville, Maine...

 (R). Donald F. Snow
Donald F. Snow
Donald Francis Snow was a member of the US House of Representatives from Maine. He was born in Bangor, Maine on September 6, 1877. He attended the public schools of his native city and was graduated from Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine, in 1901. He later attended the law school of the...

 (R)

Maryland 

. T. Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough
Thomas Alan Goldsborough was a U.S. jurist and politician.Goldsborough was born in Greensboro, Maryland. He attended the public schools and the local academy at Greensboro, later graduating from Washington College of Chestertown, Maryland, in 1899...

 (D). William P. Cole, Jr.
William Purington Cole, Jr.
William Purington Cole, Jr. was an American jurist and politician. From 1927 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1942, Cole was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second district of Maryland....

 (D). Vincent L. Palmisano
Vincent Luke Palmisano
Vincent Luke Palmisano was an American politician from Maryland.Born in Termini Imerse, Italy, Palmisano immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1887. He attended parochial schools and studied law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore...

 (D). J. Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum was a U.S. Congressman from the 4th Congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932....

 (D), until October 5, 1932 (died)
    • Ambrose J. Kennedy
      Ambrose Jerome Kennedy
      Ambrose Jerome Kennedy was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Kennedy attended parochial schools, Calvert Hall College, and Polytechnic Institute. He was employed as a clerk for an insurance company from 1909 to 1924, and engaged in the brokerage and insurance...

       (D), from November 8, 1932. Stephen W. Gambrill
      Stephen Warfield Gambrill
      Stephen Warfield Gambrill was an American politician.Born near Savage, Maryland, Gambrill attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College Stephen Warfield Gambrill (October 2, 1873 – December 19, 1938) was an American politician.Born near Savage, Maryland, Gambrill attended the...

       (D). David J. Lewis
      David John Lewis
      David John Lewis was an American politician.Born near Osceola Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania, David worked in the local coal mines from 1878 to 1892...

       (D)

Massachusetts 

. Allen T. Treadway
Allen T. Treadway
Allen Towner Treadway was a Massachusetts Republican who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as a member, and President of, the Massachusetts Senate and a member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1913 until January 3, 1945...

 (R). William J. Granfield
William J. Granfield
William Joseph Granfield was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Springfield on December 18, 1889. He attended the grammar and high schools, and graduated from Williston Academy, and from the Notre Dame Law School. He was a member of the common council. He was...

 (D). Frank H. Foss
Frank H. Foss
Frank Herbert Foss was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.He attended public schools in Augusta, Maine and graduated from Kent Hill Seminary in 1886...

 (R). Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr G. Holmes
Pehr Gustaf Holmes was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.Holmes was born in Mölnbacka in Forshaga Municipality in Värmland, Sweden. In 1886 he immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Worcester, Massachusetts. Holmes attended public schools, and engaged in...

 (R). Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who was one of the first women to serve in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to congress from Massachusetts...

 (R). Abram Andrew
Abram Andrew
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.-Biography:Born in La Porte, Indiana, he attended the public schools and the Lawrenceville School...

 (R). William P. Connery, Jr.
William P. Connery, Jr.
William Patrick Connery, Jr., ; was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Lynn on August 24, 1888. He attended St. Mary’s School at Lynn, Collège de Montréal in Canada, and the College of the Holy Cross. He entered the theatrical profession as an actor...

 (D). Frederick W. Dallinger
Frederick W. Dallinger
Frederick William Dallinger was an American Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts....

 (R), until October 1, 1932 (resigned to become judge of the United States Customs Court), vacant thereafter. Charles L. Underhill
Charles L. Underhill
Charles Lee Underhill was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 20, 1867. He moved to Massachusetts in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Somerville. He attended the common schools, was office boy, coal teamster, and a blacksmith...

 (R). John J. Douglass
John J. Douglass
John Joseph Douglass was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He was born in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1873. Douglass graduated from Boston College in 1893 and from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,...

 (D). George H. Tinkham
George H. Tinkham
George Holden Tinkham was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts....

 (R). John W. McCormack
John William McCormack
John William McCormack was an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts.McCormack served as a member of United States House of Representatives from 1928 until he retired from political life in 1971...

 (D). Robert Luce
Robert Luce
Robert Luce was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Auburn, Maine, Luce attended the public schools of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, and Somerville, Massachusetts...

 (R). Richard B. Wigglesworth (R). Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Joseph William Martin, Jr.
Joseph William Martin, Jr. was a Republican Congressman and Speaker of the House from North Attleborough, Massachusetts. He was notably the only Republican to serve as Speaker between 1931 and 1995....

 (R). Charles L. Gifford
Charles L. Gifford
Charles Laceille Gifford was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Cotuit on March 15, 1871. Gifford attended the common schools, and taught in Massachusetts and Connecticut from 1890 to 1900...

 (R)

Michigan 

. Robert H. Clancy
Robert H. Clancy
Robert Henry Clancy was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Clancy was born in Detroit, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907 and he later studied law there for one year...

 (R). Earl C. Michener
Earl C. Michener
Earl Cory Michener was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Michener was born near Attica in Seneca County, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Adrian, Michigan in 1889 and attended the public schools there. During the Spanish-American War, he served in the U.S...

 (R). Joseph L. Hooper
Joseph L. Hooper
Joseph Lawrence Hooper was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Hooper was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Michigan with his parents, who settled in Battle Creek in 1891. He attended the grade and high schools there. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1899, and commenced...

 (R). John C. Ketcham
John C. Ketcham
John Clark Ketcham was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Ketcham was born in Toledo, Ohio, and moved with his parents to Maple Grove, Michigan near Nashville, the same year. He attended the common schools of Barry County and high school at Nashville. He taught in rural and high schools...

 (R). Carl E. Mapes
Carl E. Mapes
Carl Edgar Mapes was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Mapes was born on a farm near Kalamo, Michigan, to Selah W. and Sarah Ann Mapes. His father was born in New York and came with his parents at the age of seven to Kalamo Michigan, where he became a county district schoolteacher and...

 (R). Seymour H. Person
Seymour H. Person
Seymour Howe Person was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Person was born on a farm near Howell, Michigan and attended the district schools and the Howell public schools. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901...

 (R). Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse P. Wolcott
Jesse Paine Wolcott was a politician and soldier from the U.S. state of Michigan.Wolcott was born to William Bradford Wolcott and Lillie Betsy Wolcott in Gardner, Massachusetts and attended the common and high schools there...

 (R). Bird J. Vincent
Bird J. Vincent
Bird J. Vincent was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:Vincent was born in Brandon Township near Clarkston, Michigan.-Education:...

 (R), until July 18, 1931 (died)
    • Michael J. Hart
      Michael J. Hart
      Michael James Hart was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Hart was born in Waterloo, Quebec, Canada. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1880 and settled in James Township, Michigan, where he attended the district schools of Jamestown and Saginaw, and a business college...

       (D), from November 3, 1931. James C. McLaughlin
      James C. McLaughlin
      James Campbell McLaughlin was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.McLaughlin was born in Beardstown, Illinois. His parents, David and Isabella McLaughlin, had come from Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1851 and settled in Beardstown. The family moved to Muskegon, Michigan, in 1864, and David...

       (R), until November 29, 1932, vacant thereafter. Roy O. Woodruff
      Roy O. Woodruff
      Roy Orchard Woodruff was a politician, soldier, printer and dentist from the U.S. state of Michigan....

       (R). Frank P. Bohn
      Frank P. Bohn
      Frank Probasco Bohn was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Bohn was born in Charlottesville, Indiana, where he attended public high school...

       (R). W. Frank James
      W. Frank James
      William Francis James, more often known as W. Frank James, was a soldier and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan....

       (R). Clarence J. McLeod
      Clarence J. McLeod
      Clarence John McLeod was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives....

       (R)

Minnesota 

. Victor Christgau
Victor Christgau
Victor Laurence August Christgau was Representative from Minnesota-Background:Victor Christgau born in Dexter Township, Mower County, near Austin, Minnesota. attended He was graduated from the school of agriculture of the University of Minnesota at St...

 (R). Frank Clague (R). August H. Andresen (R). Melvin Maas
Melvin Maas
Melvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Biography:Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898. He moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1898. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from St. Thomas College at St. Paul in 1919 and also...

 (R). William I. Nolan
William I. Nolan
William Ignatius Nolan was a politician from the U.S. State of Minnesota. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives....

 (R). Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson
Harold Knutson was born in Skien, in Telemark county, Norway. At the age of 6 he and his family moved to the United States initially settling in Chicago, Illinois, but later moving to Sherburne County, Minnesota. He became the editor for the St. Cloud Daily Journal-Press and later president of the...

 (R). Paul J. Kvale
Paul John Kvale
Paul John Kvale was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Early life:Kvale was born in Orfordville, Wisconsin as son of Ole J. Kvale. He attended the Orfordville school and the University of Illinois. In 1917, he moved to Benson, Minnesota with his parents...

 (FL). William Pittenger (R). Conrad Selvig
Conrad Selvig
Conrad George Selvig was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.Conrad George Selvig was born in Rushford, Minnesota. He fought in the Spanish-American War. He graduated from Rushford High School and the University of Minnesota...

 (R). Godfrey G. Goodwin
Godfrey G. Goodwin
Godfrey Gummer Goodwin was a Representative from Minnesota.-Early life:He was born Alfred Gustafson near St. Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota, to a single mother, Cecilia Carlson . They moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, where he took the name Godfrey Gummer Goodwin...

 (R), until February 16, 1933, vacant thereafter

Mississippi 

. John E. Rankin
John E. Rankin
John Elliott Rankin was a Democratic congressman from the U.S. State of Mississippi who supported racial segregation and, on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, voiced racist views on African Americans and Jews and even accused Albert Einstein of being a communist agitator.In...

 (D). Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey
Wall Doxey was an American politician from Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1929 to 1941; after the death of U.S. Senator Pat Harrison, Doxey won a special election to his seat, and served in the United States Senate from 1941 until 1943...

 (D). William M. Whittington (D). T. Jeff Busby
T. Jeff Busby
Thomas Jefferson Busby was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born near Short, Mississippi, Busby attended the common schools of his native city, Oakland College, Yale, Mississippi, and Iuka Normal Institute at Iuka, Mississippi, then taught in the public schools of Tishomingo, Alcorn, and...

 (D). Ross A. Collins
Ross A. Collins
Ross Alexander Collins was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Collinsville, Mississippi, Collins attended the public schools of Meridian, Mississippi, and Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College....

 (D). Robert S. Hall
Robert S. Hall
Robert Samuel Hall was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Williamsburg, Mississippi, Hall attended the common schools of Williamsburg and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He taught school in Hancock County, Mississippi, in 1894. He was graduated from Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, in...

 (D). Percy Quin
Percy Quin
Percy Edwards Quin was an American politician from Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1932.-Family:...

 (D), until February 4, 1932 (died)
    • Lawrence R. Ellzey
      Lawrence R. Ellzey
      Lawrence Russell Ellzey was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.-Education:Born on a farm near Wesson, Mississippi, Ellzey attended the rural schools and was graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton, A.B., 1912....

       (D), from March 15, 1932. James Collier
      James Collier
      James William Collier was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi.Born on the Glenwood Plantation near Vicksburg in 1872, he graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1894 with a degree in law...

       (D)

Missouri 

. Milton A. Romjue
Milton A. Romjue
Milton Andrew Romjue was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.-Personal life and education:Congressman Romjue was born to Andrew Jackson Romjue & Susan E. Romjue on December 5, 1874 near Love Lake, Macon County, Missouri...

 (D). Ralph F. Lozier
Ralph F. Lozier
Ralph Fulton Lozier was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born near Hardin, Missouri, Lozier attended the public schools. He graduated from the Carrollton High School in 1883 and engaged in teaching for several years before studying law.He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice...

 (D). Jacob L. Milligan
Jacob L. Milligan
Jacob Le Roy Milligan was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Richmond, Missouri, Milligan attended the public schools and the law department of the University of Missouri 1910-1914....

 (D). David W. Hopkins
David W. Hopkins
David William Hopkins was a Republican U.S. Representative from Missouri; born in Troy, Doniphan County, Kansas.Hopkins moved with his parents to Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1899...

 (R). Joe Shannon
Joe Shannon
For the Major League Baseball player of the same name, see Joe Shannon .Joseph Bernard Shannon was a Democratic political boss in Kansas City, Missouri that was a rival to the more dominant Pendergast political machine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Shannon was born in St...

 (D). Clement C. Dickinson
Clement C. Dickinson
Clement Cabell Dickinson , also known as Clement C. Dickinson, was a Democratic Representative representing Missouri from February 1, 1910, to March 3, 1921 and fromMarch 4, 1931-January 3, 1935....

 (D). Samuel C. Major
Samuel C. Major
Samuel Collier Major was a U.S. representative from Missouri.Born in Fayette, Missouri, Major attended the public schools and Central College at Fayette. He was graduated from St. James Military Academy, Macon, Missouri, in 1888...

 (D), died July 28, 1931
    • Robert D. Johnson
      Robert Davis Johnson
      Robert Davis Johnson was a U.S. representative from Missouri.Born on a farm near Slater, Missouri, Johnson was educated in the rural graded schools of his native county, and was graduated from the Portland High School in 1901.He attended the Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri.He taught...

       (D), from September 29, 1931. William L. Nelson
      William L. Nelson
      William Lester Nelson was an American farmer and politician from Columbia, Missouri. He represented Missouri as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives for several terms: 1919-1921, 1925–1933 and 1935-1943. He is buried at the Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri.-External...

       (D). Clarence Cannon
      Clarence Cannon
      Clarence Andrew Cannon was a Democratic Congressmember from Missouri. He was a notable parliamentarian and chaired the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.-Biography:...

       (D). Henry F. Niedringhaus
      Henry F. Niedringhaus
      Henry Frederick Niedringhaus was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, nephew of Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus....

       (R). John J. Cochran
      John J. Cochran
      John Joseph Cochran was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Cochran was born in Webster Groves, Missouri and attended the public schools there. He was employed in the editorial department of various St. Louis newspapers for many years, and served as assistant to the election commissioners of St...

       (D). Leonidas C. Dyer
      Leonidas C. Dyer
      Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer was an American politician, reformer, civil rights activist, and military officer who served 11 terms in the U.S. Congress as a Republican Representative from Missouri from 1911 to 1933. In 1898 enrolling in the U.S...

       (R). Clyde Williams (D). James F. Fulbright
      James F. Fulbright
      James Franklin Fulbright was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born near Millersville, Missouri, Fulbright attended the public schools and was graduated from the State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1900....

       (D). Joe J. Manlove
      Joe J. Manlove
      Joe Jonathan Manlove was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born on a farm near Carthage, Missouri, Manlove attended the public schools and was graduated from Presbyterian Academy at Mount Vernon, Missouri.He studied law....

       (R). William E. Barton
      William Edward Barton
      William Edward Barton was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, cousin of Courtney Walker Hamlin.Born in Pickens District , South Carolina, BartonIn 1869 moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Crawford County, near Bourbon.He attended the public schools and the Steelville Normal and...

       (D)

Montana 

. John M. Evans
John M. Evans
John Morgan Evans was a U.S. Democratic politician.He was born in Sedalia, Missouri. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Montana and served from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921...

 (D). Scott Leavitt
Scott Leavitt
Scott Leavitt was a U.S. Representative from Montana. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.-Early life:...

 (R)

Nebraska 

. John H. Morehead
John H. Morehead
John Henry Morehead was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 17th Governor of Nebraska.-Biography:...

 (D). Howard M. Baldrige
Howard M. Baldrige
Howard Malcolm Baldrige or H. Malcolm Baldrige was a Nebraska Republican politician.-Early life and ancestors:He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige and Letitia Blanche Coffey and died on January 19, 1985, in...

 (R). Edgar Howard
Edgar Howard
Edgar Howard was a Nebraska editor and Democratic politician. He was the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska and served six terms in the United States House of Representatives....

 (D). John N. Norton
John N. Norton
John Nathaniel Norton was a Nebraska Democratic politician.Born on a farm near Stromsburg, Nebraska on May 12, 1878, he attended Bryant Normal University in Stromsburg. He graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1901 and University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1903. He served as clerk and...

 (D). Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911. He was first elected to the 57th United States Congress but failed to be reelected in 1902. He was elected governor from 1909–1911 and then was unsuccessful in...

 (D). Robert G. Simmons
Robert G. Simmons
Robert Glenmore Simmons was a Nebraska Republican politician.Simmons was born on December 25, 1891 near Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He attended Hastings College from 1909 to 1911 and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1915. He was admitted to the bar in 1915 and set up practice in Gering, Nebraska...

 (R)

New Hampshire 

. Fletcher Hale
Fletcher Hale
Fletcher Hale was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Portland, Maine and attended the public schools there. He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1905. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Littleton...

 (R), until October 22, 1931 (died)
    • William N. Rogers
      William Nathaniel Rogers
      William Nathaniel Rogers was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Sanbornville, New Hampshire, Rogers attended the public schools, Brewster Free Academy in Wolfeboro, and Dartmouth College in Hanover. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Maine at Orono in 1916...

       (D), from January 5, 1932. Edward H. Wason
      Edward Hills Wason
      Edward Hills Wason was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Wason attended public and private schools and Francestown Academy. He was graduated from the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Hanover in 1886 and from Boston University...

       (R)


New Jersey 

. Charles A. Wolverton
Charles A. Wolverton
Charles Anderson Wolverton was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for nearly 32 years, from 1927 to 1959.After receiving a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1900, Wolverton practiced...

 (R). Isaac Bacharach
Isaac Bacharach
Isaac Bacharach was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 2nd congressional district from 1915 to 1937....

 (R). William H. Sutphin
William H. Sutphin
William Halstead Sutphin was an American military, business and Democratic Party politician who represented from 1931-1943.-Biography:...

 (D). Charles A. Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton
Charles Aubrey Eaton was a Canadian-born clergyman and politician who rose to lead prominent congregations at Natick, Massachusetts, 1893–1895; Bloor Street, Toronto, 1895–1901; Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1901–1909; and at Madison Avenue, New York City, 1909-1919...

 (R). Ernest R. Ackerman
Ernest R. Ackerman
Ernest Robinson Ackerman was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1931.-Early years:...

 (R), until October 18, 1931 (died)
    • Percy H. Stewart
      Percy Hamilton Stewart
      Percy Hamilton Stewart was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931-1933....

       (D), from December 1, 1931. Randolph Perkins
      Randolph Perkins
      Randolph Perkins was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1936....

       (R). George N. Seger
      George N. Seger
      George Nicholas Seger was an American politician. Seger, a Republican, represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives for eighteen years, lasting from 1923 until his death on August 26, 1940...

       (R). Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
      Fred A. Hartley, Jr.
      Fred Allan Hartley, Jr. was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey. Hartley served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives where he represented the New Jersey's 8th and New Jersey's 10th congressional districts...

       (R). Peter A. Cavicchia
      Peter Angelo Cavicchia
      Peter Angelo Cavicchia was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in the United States House of Representatives, where he represented New Jersey's 11th congressional district.-Biography:He immigrated to the United States in 1888 with his parents, who settled in Newark,...

       (R). Frederick R. Lehlbach
      Frederick R. Lehlbach
      Frederick Reimold Lehlbach was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican, Lehlbach served as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1915 to 1933 and as the representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1933 to 1937. Lehlbach was also...

       (R). Oscar L. Auf der Heide
      Oscar L. Auf der Heide
      Oscar Louis Auf der Heide was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1925–1933, and the 14th congressional district from 1933-1935.-Biography:Auf der Heide was born in New York City on...

       (D). Mary T. Norton
      Mary Teresa Norton
      Mary Teresa Norton was an American politician. The sixth woman in the United States Congress, she was the first from an Eastern state , and the first non-Republican ....

       (D)

New Mexico 

. Dennis Chavez
Dennis Chavez
Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962.-Early life:...

 (D)

New York 

. Robert L. Bacon
Robert L. Bacon
Robert Low Bacon was a banker, Lieutenant Colonel, and congressman from New York.-Biography:Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the son of Martha Waldron Cowdin and future Secretary of State Robert Bacon, he received a common school education as a child...

 (R). William F. Brunner
William F. Brunner
William Frank Brunner was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Woodhaven, Queens, he attended the public schools, Far Rockaway High School at Far Rockaway and Packard Commercial School at New York City...

 (D). George W. Lindsay
George W. Lindsay
George Washington Lindsay was a United States Representative from New York and son of George Henry Lindsay, who was also a U.S. Representative. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the public schools, was deputy coroner of Kings County from 1886 to 1892 and engaged in the real estate business...

 (D). Thomas H. Cullen
Thomas H. Cullen
Thomas Henry Cullen was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the local parochial schools, and graduated from St. Francis College in 1880. He became engaged in the marine insurance and shipping business, and was a member of the New York State Assembly from...

 (D). Loring M. Black, Jr.
Loring M. Black, Jr.
Loring Milton Black, Jr. was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

 (D). Andrew L. Somers
Andrew Lawrence Somers
Andrew Lawrence Somers was born in Brooklyn, New York.He attended St. Teresa’s Academy in Brooklyn, Brooklyn College Preparatory School, Manhattan College, and New York University in New York City....

 (D). John J. Delaney
John J. Delaney
John Joseph Delaney was a United States Representative from New York.-Biography:Delaney was born in Brooklyn, he attended St. Ann's Parochial School and St. James' Academy in Brooklyn and Manhattan College. He engaged in the diamond business in 1897, was graduated from the Brooklyn Law School of St...

 (D), from November 3, 1931 (replacing the deceased Representative-elect Matthew Vincent O'Malley (D)). Patrick J. Carley
Patrick J. Carley
Patrick J. Carley of Brooklyn, New York, born in County Roscommon, Ireland was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1927 to 1935. He was a Democrat and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York.- References :...

 (D). David J. O'Connell
David J. O'Connell
David Joseph O'Connell was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City, O'Connell attended public schools as a child. He worked in the publishing business in New York City, eventually becoming a sales manager for Funk & Wagnalls...

 (D), until December 29, 1930 (died)
    • Stephen A. Rudd
      Stephen A. Rudd
      Stephen Andrew Rudd was a U.S. Democratic politician.He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from New York by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David J...

       (D), from February 17, 1931. Emanuel Celler
      Emanuel Celler
      Emanuel Celler was an American politician from New York who served in the United States House of Representatives for almost 50 years, from March 1923 to January 1973. He was a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life:...

       (D). Anning S. Prall
      Anning Smith Prall
      Anning Smith Prall was a representative from New York, born in Port Richmond, Staten Island.Prall was born in In his early years Prall was employed as a clerk in a New York newspaper office. Prall attended New York University, studying business. From 1908 until 1918 he was in charge of a real...

       (D). Samuel Dickstein
      Samuel Dickstein (congressman)
      Samuel Dickstein was a Democratic Congressional Representative from New York and a New York State Supreme Court Justice. He played a key role in establishing the committee that would become the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which he used to attack fascists, including Nazi...

       (D). Christopher D. Sullivan
      Christopher D. Sullivan
      Christopher Daniel Sullivan was a United States Representative from New York from 1917 to 1941. Born in New York City, he attended public schools, St. James Parochial School, and St. Mary's Academy in New York City...

       (D). William I. Sirovich
      William I. Sirovich
      William Irving Sirovich was an American politician from New York.Sirovich was born in 1882 in York County, Pennsylvania to Hungarian immigrants Rev. Jacob and Rose Sirovich . The family moved to New York City in 1888...

       (D). John J. Boylan
      John J. Boylan
      John Joseph Boylan was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Boylan was born in New York City. He attended Manhattan College. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1910 until 1912 and the New York State Senate from 1913 until 1922...

       (D). John J. O'Connor
      John J. O'Connor
      John Joseph O'Connor was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

       (D). Ruth Baker Pratt
      Ruth Baker Pratt
      Ruth Baker Pratt , was an American politician and the first congresswoman to be elected from New York.-Early life:...

       (R). Martin J. Kennedy
      Martin J. Kennedy
      Martin John Kennedy of Manhattan, New York was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1930 to 1945. He was a Democrat....

       (D). Sol Bloom
      Sol Bloom
      Sol Bloom was an entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives.-Early life:...

       (D). Fiorello H. LaGuardia
      Fiorello H. LaGuardia
      Fiorello Henry LaGuardia was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a liberal Republican. Previously he was elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through 1930. Irascible, energetic and charismatic, he craved publicity and is acclaimed as one of the three or...

       (R). Joseph A. Gavagan
      Joseph A. Gavagan
      Joseph Andrew Gavagan was a United States Representative from New York.Born in New York City, he attended the public and parochial schools and graduated from the law department of Fordham University in 1920...

       (D). Anthony J. Griffin
      Anthony Jerome Griffin
      Anthony Jerome Griffin was a United States Representative from New York.Griffin was born in New York City. He attended City College, Cooper Union, and New York University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in New York City...

       (D). Frank A. Oliver
      Frank A. Oliver
      Frank Oliver was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City, Oliver attended the public schools and the Morris High School...

       (D). James M. Fitzpatrick
      James M. Fitzpatrick
      James Martin Fitzpatrick of the Bronx was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1927 to 1945. He was a Democrat. He is buried in Saint Raymond's Cemetery.- External links :...

       (D). Charles D. Millard
      Charles D. Millard
      Charles Dunsmore Millard was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

       (R). Hamilton Fish
      Hamilton Fish
      Hamilton Fish was an American statesman and politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State. Fish has been considered one of the best Secretary of States in the United States history; known for his judiciousness and reform efforts...

       (R). Harcourt J. Pratt
      Harcourt J. Pratt
      Harcourt Joseph Pratt was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Highland, New York, Pratt attended the public schools and Claverack Academy at Claverack, New York.He engaged in the lumber and coal business....

       (R). Parker Corning
      Parker Corning
      Parker Corning was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Albany, he attended the public schools, The Albany Academy, and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire...

       (D). James S. Parker
      James S. Parker
      James Southworth Parker was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Cornell University in 1887. He taught at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire in 1887 and moved to...

       (R). Frank Crowther
      Frank Crowther
      Frank Crowther was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Liverpool, England, he immigrated to the United States in 1872 with his parents, who settled in Canton, Massachusetts...

       (R). Bertrand Snell
      Bertrand Snell
      Bertrand Hollis Snell represented the state of New York in the United States House of Representatives.- Early life :Snell was born in Colton, New York, the son of Hollis Snell, a lumberman, and Flora E. Kimball...

       (R). Francis D. Culkin
      Francis D. Culkin
      Francis Dugan Culkin was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

       (R). Frederick M. Davenport
      Frederick M. Davenport
      Frederick Morgan Davenport was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

       (R). John D. Clarke
      John D. Clarke
      John Davenport Clarke was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

       (R). Clarence E. Hancock
      Clarence E. Hancock
      -Biography:Born February 13, 1885 in Syracuse, New York, Hancock graduated from Wesleyan University in 1906 and New York Law School in 1908.Hancock represented New York in the House of Representatives as a Republican from 1927 to 1947. When Hancock represented the 35th district from 1927 to 1945,...

       (R). John Taber
      John Taber
      John Taber was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

       (R). Gale H. Stalker
      Gale H. Stalker
      Gale Hamilton Stalker was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

       (R). James L. Whitley
      James L. Whitley
      James Lucius Whitley was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Whitley was born in Rochester, New York. He graduated from the law department of Union College in 1898. He served as a sergeant in the Spanish-American War...

       (R). Archie D. Sanders
      Archie D. Sanders
      Archie Dovell Sanders was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Sanders was born in Stafford, New York. He served in the New York State Assembly from 1895 until 1896. He was a delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention and the 1924 Republican...

       (R). Walter G. Andrews
      Walter G. Andrews
      Walter Gresham Andrews was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

       (R). Edmund F. Cooke
      Edmund F. Cooke
      Edmund Francis Cooke was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Cooke was born in Prescott, Arizona, then a small frontier town. In his infancy, the Yavapai Indians were rumored to be preparing an attack on the settlement...

       (R). James M. Mead
      James M. Mead
      James Michael Mead represented New York in the United States Senate from 1938 until 1947.Born in Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, Mead moved to Buffalo with his family at the age of four...

       (D). Daniel A. Reed
      Daniel A. Reed
      -External links:...

       (R)

North Carolina 

. Lindsay C. Warren
Lindsay Carter Warren
Lindsay Carter Warren was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1925 and 1940.-Early life and education:...

 (D). John H. Kerr
John H. Kerr
John Hosea Kerr , grand-nephew of John Kerr and relative of John Kerr, Jr., was a Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing North Carolina from 1923 to 1953...

 (D). Charles L. Abernethy
Charles Laban Abernethy
Charles Laban Abernethy was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1922 and 1935.Born in Rutherford College, North Carolina, Abernethy attended local public schools and Rutherford College before moving to Beaufort, North Carolina in 1893. There, he founded the Beaufort Herald...

 (D). Edward W. Pou
Edward W. Pou
Edward William Pou , was an American politician, serving in the United States Congress.Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, September 9, 1863, he moved to North Carolina with his parents in 1867, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and studied law...

 (D). Franklin W. Hancock, Jr.
Franklin Wills Hancock, Jr.
Franklin Wills Hancock, Jr. was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing North Carolina from 1930 to 1939. He was born and died in Oxford, North Carolina....

 (D). J. Bayard Clark
J. Bayard Clark
Jerome Bayard Clark was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.-Early life:Born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Clark attended Davidson College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied law. Clark was admitted to the bar in 1906 and...

 (D). J. Walter Lambeth
J. Walter Lambeth
John Walter Lambeth was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Thomasville, North Carolina, Lambeth attended local public schools....

 (D). Robert L. Doughton
Robert L. Doughton
Robert Lee "Bob" Doughton , of Alleghany County, North Carolina, sometimes known as "Farmer Bob," was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina for 42 consecutive years...

 (D). Alfred L. Bulwinkle
Alfred L. Bulwinkle
Alfred Lee Bulwinkle was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Bulwinkle moved with his parents to Dallas, North Carolina, in 1891.He attended the common schools....

 (D). Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver
Zebulon Weaver was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1917 and 1929 and between 1931 and 1947.-Early years and education:...

 (D)

North Dakota 

. Olger B. Burtness
Olger B. Burtness
Olger Burton Burtness was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota and a North Dakota District Court Judge.-Background:...

 (R). Thomas Hall
Thomas Hall (North Dakota)
Thomas Hall was a United States Republican politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. He also served as the North Dakota Secretary of State for two different periods, each lasting 12 years....

 (R). James H. Sinclair
James H. Sinclair
James Herbert Sinclair was a U.S. Republican politician.He was born near St. Marys, Ontario, Canada and moved to North Dakota in 1883...

 (R)

Ohio 

. Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth IV was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century...

 (R), until April 9, 1931 (died)
    • John B. Hollister
      John B. Hollister
      John Baker Hollister was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Cincinnati, Hollister attended the local schools and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1911, and next studied at the University of Munich, Germany for a year. He graduated from Harvard...

       (R), from November 3, 1931. William E. Hess
      William E. Hess
      William Emil Hess was a Republican and a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 13, 1898; attended the public schools, the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cincinnati Law School; during the First World War served in the United States Army as a private; was...

       (R). Byron B. Harlan
      Byron B. Harlan
      Byron Berry Harlan was an attorney, prosecutor, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio....

       (D). John L. Cable
      John L. Cable
      John Levi Cable was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a great-grandson of Joseph Cable.Born in Lima, Ohio, Cable attended public school. He received his undergraduate education from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Later he earned an LL.B. in 1906, and from the law department of George...

       (R). Frank C. Kniffin
      Frank C. Kniffin
      Frank Charles Kniffin was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born on a farm near Stryker, Ohio, Kniffin attended the public schools and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Napoleon, Ohio...

       (D). James G. Polk
      James G. Polk
      James Gould Polk was a prominent U.S. politician of the Democratic Party during the middle of the 20th century....

       (D). Charles Brand
      Charles Brand (congressman)
      Charles Brand was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Urbana, Ohio, Brand attended the graded schools of his native city and Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio....

       (R). Grant E. Mouser, Jr.
      Grant E. Mouser, Jr.
      Grant Earl Mouser, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Grant E. Mouser.Born in Marion, Ohio, Mouser attended the public schools and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware in 1913 and 1914....

       (R). Wilbur M. White
      Wilbur M. White
      Wilbur McKee White was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born near Hillsboro, Ohio, White was educated in the millionaire schools and the Hillsboro High School.Marietta College, M.A., 1914....

       (R). Thomas A. Jenkins
      Thomas A. Jenkins
      Thomas Albert Jenkins of Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio was a member of the Ohio state senate and a long-serving U.S. Representative from Ohio's 10th District...

       (R). Mell G. Underwood
      Mell G. Underwood
      Mell Gilbert Underwood was a United States Representative from Ohio and a United States federal judge....

       (D). Arthur P. Lamneck
      Arthur P. Lamneck
      Arthur Philip Lamneck was a four-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Port Washington, Ohio, Lamneck attended the public schools and graduated from the Port Washington High School in 1897. He engaged in the sheet metal business at Columbus, Ohio, from 1907 to 1929. Lamneck served as delegate...

       (D). William L. Fiesinger
      William L. Fiesinger
      William Louis Fiesinger was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Willard, Ohio, Fiesinger was educated in the public schools of Norwalk, Ohio....

       (D). Francis Seiberling
      Francis Seiberling
      Francis Seiberling was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, cousin of John F. Seiberling.Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Seiberling moved with his parents to Wadsworth, Ohio, in 1873....

       (R). C. Ellis Moore
      C. Ellis Moore
      Charles Ellis Moore was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born near Middlebourne, Ohio, Moore attended the common schools and Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio. He taught school in Oxford Township, Ohio...

       (R). Charles B. McClintock
      Charles B. McClintock
      Charles Blaine McClintock was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Paint Township, Ohio, near Beach City, Stark County, McClintock was educated in the public schools....

       (R). Charles F. West
      Charles F. West
      Charles Franklin West was a member of the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...

       (D). B. Frank Murphy
      B. Frank Murphy
      Benjamin Franklin Murphy was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Murphy attended the public schools. He learned the glassworker's trade, and later engaged in the retail shoe business, in banking, and in the real estate business. He served as vice president of the Peoples...

       (R). John G. Cooper
      John G. Cooper
      John Gordon Cooper was an Anglo-American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Early years:...

       (R). Charles A. Mooney
      Charles A. Mooney
      Charles Anthony Mooney was a five-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in St. Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, Mooney attended the public and Jesuit schools. He was graduated from St. Marys High School in 1895, and then engaged in the local life insurance business. He moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in...

       (D), until May 29, 1931 (died)
    • Martin L. Sweeney
      Martin L. Sweeney
      Martin Leonard Sweeney was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and the father of Robert E. Sweeney.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sweeney attended parochial and public schools in the area. Prior to his political career Sweeney worked as a laborer, hoisting engineer and a salesman from 1901-1913...

       (D), from November 3, 1931. Robert Crosser
      Robert Crosser
      Robert Crosser was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Holytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Crosser emigrated to the United States in 1881 with his parents and settled in Cleveland, Ohio....

       (D). Chester C. Bolton
      Chester C. Bolton
      Chester Castle Bolton was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, husband of Frances P. Bolton and father of Oliver P...

       (R)

Oklahoma 

. Wesley E. Disney
Wesley E. Disney
Wesley Ernest Disney was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born in Richland, Kansas, Disney attended the public schools of Kansas and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1906....

 (D). William W. Hastings
William W. Hastings
William Wirt Hastings was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born on a farm in Benton County, Arkansas, near the Indian Territory boundary, Hastings moved with his parents to a farm at Beatties Prairie, Delaware County , Oklahoma, and attended the Cherokee tribal school.He graduated from Cherokee...

 (D). Wilburn Cartwright
Wilburn Cartwright
Wilburn Cartwright was a lawyer, educator, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, and United States Army officer in World War II...

 (D). Tom D. McKeown
Tom D. McKeown
Thomas Deitz Mckeown was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born in Blackstock, South Carolina, Mckeown attended the common schools, studied under a private tutor and attended lectures at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1898.He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and began practice in...

 (D). Fletcher B. Swank
Fletcher B. Swank
Fletcher B. Swank was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born near Bloomfield, Iowa, Swank moved with his parents to Beef Creek, Indian Territory, in 1888....

 (D). Jed Johnson (D). James V. McClintic
James V. McClintic
James Vernon McClintic was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.Born near Bremond, Texas, McClintic moved with his parents to Groesbeck, Texas, in 1880. He attended public schools and AddRan University in Fort Worth.McClintic accepted a position with a wholesale dry-goods company in St. Louis,...

 (D). Milton C. Garber
Milton C. Garber
Milton Cline Garber was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. In 1942, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.-Personal life:...

 (R)

Oregon 

. Willis C. Hawley
Willis C. Hawley
Willis Chatman Hawley was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he would serve as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees before entering politics...

 (R). Robert R. Butler
Robert R. Butler
Robert Reyburn Butler was a U.S. Representative from Oregon, grandson of Roderick Randum Butler. He also served in the Oregon State Senate and as a state circuit court judge in Oregon.-Early life:...

 (R), until January 7, 1933, vacant thereafter. Charles H. Martin
Charles Henry Martin
Charles Henry Martin was an American Army officer and later politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he had a 40-year career in the military including serving in conflicts from the Spanish-American War to World War I before retiring as a major general. A Democrat, he was the U.S...

 (D)

Pennsylvania 

. James M. Beck
James M. Beck
James Montgomery Beck was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania....

 (R). George S. Graham
George Scott Graham
George Scott Graham was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Graham was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1870, and practiced law in Philadelphia...

 (R), until July 4, 1931 (died)
    • Edward L. Stokes
      Edward L. Stokes
      Edward Lowber Stokes was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Edward L. Stokes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He was employed as a clerk for a trust company and later engaged as an...

       (R), from November 3, 1931. Harry C. Ransley
      Harry C. Ransley
      Harry Clay Ransley was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). Benjamin M. Golder
      Benjamin M. Golder
      Benjamin Martin Golder was Republican member of the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania.Benjamin Golder was born in Alliance, New Jersey . He moved with his parents to Philadelphia in 1893...

       (R). James J. Connolly
      James J. Connolly
      James Joseph Connolly was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania.James Connolly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

       (R). George A. Welsh
      George Austin Welsh
      George Austin Welsh was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.George A. Welsh was born near Bay View, Cecil County, Maryland. He took business and academic courses at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was engaged as a legislative...

       (R), until May 31, 1932 (resigned, to become judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
      United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
      The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...

      )
    • Robert L. Davis
      Robert Lee Davis
      Robert Lee Davis was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Robert L. Davis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1910 to 1932. During the First...

       (R), from November 8, 1932. George P. Darrow
      George P. Darrow
      George Potter Darrow was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.George Darrow was born in Waterford, Connecticut. He graduated from Alfred University in Alfred, NY in 1880. He moved to Philadelphia, PA in 1888 and engaged in banking, in the manufacture of...

       (R). James Wolfenden
      James Wolfenden
      James Paine Wolfenden was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James Wolfenden was born in Cardington, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends' Central School and Penn Charter Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

       (R). Henry W. Watson
      Henry Winfield Watson
      Henry Winfield Watson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Henry W. Watson was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was educated in private schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and commenced the practice of his profession in Philadelphia...

       (R). J. Roland Kinzer
      J. Roland Kinzer
      John Roland Kinzer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Roland Kinzer was born on a farm near Terre Hill, Pennsylvania in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in...

       (R). Patrick J. Boland
      Patrick J. Boland
      Patrick Joseph Boland was a United States representative for Pennsylvania 11th District.-Biography:Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he attended St. Thomas College. He worked as a carpenter and general contractor. He was on the Scranton city council from 1905 to 1906, the Board of education from...

       (D). C. Murray Turpin
      Charles Murray Turpin
      Charles Murray Turpin was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.C. Murray Turpin was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston...

       (R). George F. Brumm (R). Norton L. Lichtenwalner
      Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner
      Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Norton L. Lichtenwalner was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Allentown High School Norton Lewis Lichtenwalner (June 1, 1889–May 3, 1960) was a Democratic member of...

       (D). Louis T. McFadden
      Louis Thomas McFadden
      Louis Thomas McFadden was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

       (R). Robert F. Rich
      Robert F. Rich
      Robert Fleming Rich was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life and education:...

       (R). Frederick W. Magrady
      Frederick William Magrady
      Frederick William Magrady was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). Edward M. Beers
      Edward M. Beers
      Edward McMath Beers was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Edward M. Beers was born in Nossville, Pennsylvania. In 1895, he moved with his parents to Mount Union, Pennsylvania when they purchased the then Seibert House. He graduated from Mount Union High...

       (R), until April 21, 1932 (died)
    • Joseph F. Biddle
      Joseph Franklin Biddle
      Joseph Franklin Biddle was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph F. Biddle was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Millersville State Teachers’ College at Millersville, Pennsylvania, in 1894 and from the law department of Dickinson...

       (R), from November 8, 1932. Isaac H. Doutrich
      Isaac Hoffer Doutrich
      Isaac Hoffer Doutrich was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Isaac H. Doutrich was born on a farm near Middletown, Pennsylvania. He moved to Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with his parents in 1880. He attended Keystone State Normal School in Kutztown,...

       (R). James R. Leech
      James Russell Leech
      James Russell Leech was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

       (R), until January 29, 1932 (resigned, to become a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals)
    • Howard W. Stull
      Howard William Stull
      Howard William Stull was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

       (R), from April 26, 1932. J. Banks Kurtz
      Jacob Banks Kurtz
      Jacob Banks Kurtz was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Banks Kurtz was born in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from Dickinson School of Law in 1893...

       (R). Harry L. Haines
      Harry L. Haines
      Harry Luther Haines was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (D). J. Mitchell Chase
      James Mitchell Chase
      James Mitchell Chase was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

       (R). Samuel A. Kendall
      Samuel Austin Kendall
      Samuel Austin Kendall was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Samuel A. Kendall was born in Greenville Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and was a student for some time at Valparaiso, Indiana, and at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio...

       (R), died January 8, 1933, vacant thereafter of term. Henry W. Temple
      Henry Wilson Temple
      Henry Wilson Temple was a Progressive and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). J. Howard Swick
      J. Howard Swick
      Jesse Howard Swick was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.J. Howard Swick was born near New Brighton, Pennsylvania. He attended Geneva College in nearby Beaver Falls, where he taught from 1895 to 1900. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of...

       (R). Nathan L. Strong
      Nathan Leroy Strong
      For the Welsh rugby player see Nathan Strong Nathan Leroy Strong was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). Thomas C. Cochran
      Thomas Cunningham Cochran
      Thomas Cunningham Cochran was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

       (R). Milton W. Shreve
      Milton William Shreve
      Milton William Shreve was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Milton W. Shreve was born in Chapmanville, Pennsylvania. He attended the Edinboro State Normal School and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Bucknell University in...

       (R). William R. Coyle (R). Adam M. Wyant
      Adam Martin Wyant
      Adam Martin Wyant was an American politician who served as Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He served six terms, a total of 12 years, in the House. However Wyant is also best remembered for being the first professional football player to be elected to the...

       (R). Edmund F. Erk
      Edmund Frederick Erk
      Edmund Frederick Erk was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Edmund F. Erk was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania . He was engaged extensively in newspaper work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as secretary to Congressman Stephen G...

       (R). M. Clyde Kelly
      Melville Clyde Kelly
      Melville Clyde Kelly was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:M. Clyde Kelly was born in Bloomfield, Ohio. He attended Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio...

       (R). Patrick J. Sullivan
      Patrick J. Sullivan (Pennsylvania)
      Patrick Joseph Sullivan was Republican member of the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania.-Biography:Patrick Joseph Sullivan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was employed in the Homestead Axle Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania, from 1890 to 1900, and in the steel mills at Pittsburgh from...

       (R). Harry A. Estep
      Harry Allison Estep
      Harry Allison Estep was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Harry A. Estep was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools in Marion, Indiana, and Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh...

       (R). Guy E. Campbell
      Guy Edgar Campbell
      Guy Edgar Campbell was a Democrat and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.- Early life :...

       (R)

Rhode Island 

. Clark Burdick
Clark Burdick
Clark Burdick was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Burdick attended the public schools.He was a student at the Harvard Law School 1893-1895....

 (R). Richard S. Aldrich
Richard S. Aldrich
Richard Steere Aldrich was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, son of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich.Aldrich was born in Washington, D.C. where his father was serving in Congress. Aldrich was a descendant of John Steere, one of the earliest settlers in Providence...

 (R). Francis Condon
Francis Condon
Francis Bernard Condon was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Condon attended the public schools. He graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1916. He was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in Pawtucket, Rhode...

 (D)

South Carolina 

. Thomas S. McMillan
Thomas S. McMillan
Thomas Sanders McMillan was a lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina.Born in the town of Ulmer in Allendale County, McMillan received his early childhood education at the schools in Ulmer. He graduated from the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute in 1907 and taught school for...

 (D). Butler B. Hare
Butler B. Hare
Butler B. Hare was an American politician elected at the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state of South Carolina....

 (D). Frederick H. Dominick
Frederick H. Dominick
Frederick Haskell Dominick, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. He served for eight terms from 1917 to 1933.-Biography:...

 (D). John J. McSwain
John J. McSwain
John Jackson McSwain was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.Born on a farm near Cross Hill, South Carolina, McSwain attended the public schools....

 (D). William F. Stevenson (D). Allard H. Gasque
Allard H. Gasque
Allard Henry Gasque was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, husband of Elizabeth Hawley Gasque.Born on Friendfield plantation, near Hyman, Marion County, South Carolina, Gasque attended the public schools....

 (D). Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton P. Fulmer
Hampton Pitts Fulmer was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 - October 19, 1944. After his death, his wife Willa L. Fulmer took over his seat.Fulmer was born near Springfield, South Carolina...

 (D)

South Dakota 

. Charles A. Christopherson
Charles A. Christopherson
Charles Andrew Christopherson was a lawyer and politician in South Dakota. He was elected to the state legislature in 1912...

 (R). Royal C. Johnson
Royal C. Johnson
Royal Cleaves Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota and a highly decorated veteran of World War I. He was born in Cherokee, Iowa in 1882....

 (R). William Williamson
William Williamson (South Dakota)
William Williamson was a U. S. Representative from South Dakota. He was the last Representative from the third district.-Biography:...

 (R)

Tennessee 

. Oscar Lovette
Oscar Lovette
Oscar Lovette was a United States Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Lovette was born in Greeneville, Tennessee and graduated from Parrottsville High School, and, in 1893, from Tusculum College. In 1894 he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, serving from 1895 to 1897...

 (R). J. Will Taylor
J. Will Taylor
James Willis Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.Born near Lead Mine Bend in Union County, Tennessee, Taylor attended the public schools, Holbrook Normal College, Fountain City, Tennessee, and the American Temperance University, Harriman, Tennessee.He taught school for several years.He...

 (R). Sam D. McReynolds
Sam D. McReynolds
Samuel Davis McReynolds was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on a farm near Pikeville, Tennessee in Bledsoe County on April 16, 1872. He attended the rural schools, People's College at...

 (D). John R. Mitchell
John Ridley Mitchell
John Ridley Mitchell was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.Born in Livingston, Tennessee, Mitchell attended the public schools.He was graduated from Peabody College of Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1896....

 (D). Ewin L. Davis
Ewin L. Davis
Ewin Lamar Davis was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 5th congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:...

 (D). Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D). Edward E. Eslick
Edward Everett Eslick
Edward Everett Eslick was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee....

 (D), until June 14, 1932 (died)
    • Willa M. B. Eslick
      Willa McCord Blake Eslick
      Willa McCord Blake Eslick was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, wife of Edward Everett Eslick and the first woman to represent Tennessee in the United States Congress....

       (D), from August 14, 1932. Gordon Browning
      Gordon Browning
      Gordon Weaver Browning was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States Congress and was later Governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1949 to 1953.-Biography:...

       (D). Jere Cooper
      Jere Cooper
      Jere Cooper was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Cooper was born on a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee...

       (D). Edward H. Crump
      E. H. Crump
      Edward Hull "Boss" Crump was an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee. He was mayor from 1910 through 1915, and again briefly in 1940; in the intervening years he effectively appointed the mayors.-Career:...

       (D)

Texas 

. Wright Patman
Wright Patman
John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency .-Early life:...

 (D). Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies, Jr.
Martin Dies, Jr. was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. His father, Martin Dies, was also a member of the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...

 (D). Morgan G. Sanders
Morgan G. Sanders
Morgan Gurley Sanders was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born near Ben Wheeler, Texas, Sanders attended the public schools.He graduated from and taught school for three years.He owned and published a weekly newspaper....

 (D). Sam Rayburn
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn , often called "Mr. Sam," or "Mr. Democrat," was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for seventeen years, the longest tenure in U.S. history.- Background :Rayburn was born in Roane County, Tennessee, and...

 (D). Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton W. Sumners
Hatton William Sumners was a Congressman from Texas from 1913—1947 and served as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.-Early life and career:...

 (D). Luther Alexander Johnson (D). Clay Stone Briggs
Clay Stone Briggs
Clay Stone Briggs was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 through his death in 1933.-Early life:...

 (D). Daniel E. Garrett
Daniel E. Garrett
Daniel Edward Garrett was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas, elected at-large and later from the 8th District of Texas.-Early life and career in politics:...

 (D), until December 13, 1932 (died)
    • Joe H. Eagle
      Joe H. Eagle
      Joe Henry Eagle was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, Eagle was graduated from the local high school in 1883 and obtained a teacher's certificate in 1884....

       (D), from January 28, 1933. Joseph J. Mansfield
      Joseph J. Mansfield
      Joseph Jefferson Mansfield was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Texas from 1917-1947.Mansfield was born on February 9, 1861. He was born in Wayne, West Virginia. However when he was born this was still part of state of Virginia...

       (D). James P. Buchanan
      James P. Buchanan
      James Paul Buchanan served as U.S. Representative from the 10th district of Texas from 1913 until his death on 22 February 1937. He was the chair of the Appropriations committee from 1933 on.-Legacy:...

       (D). Oliver H. Cross
      Oliver H. Cross
      Oliver Harlan Cross was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born in Eutaw, Alabama, Cross attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891....

       (D). Fritz G. Lanham
      Fritz G. Lanham
      Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. A Democrat, Lanham was the son of Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham, a governor of Texas and himself a member of Congress. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a...

       (D). Guinn Williams
      Guinn Williams (Texas politician)
      Guinn Williams was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born near Beuela, Mississippi, Williams moved with his parents to Texas and settled in Decatur, Wise County, in 1876.He attended the public schools....

       (D). Harry M. Wurzbach
      Harry M. Wurzbach
      Harry McLeary Wurzbach was the first Republican since Reconstruction to represent Texas for more than two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Robert B. Hawley had previously served as a Republican for a Galveston based congressional district from 1897-1901...

       (R), until November 6, 1931 (died)
    • Richard M. Kleberg
      Richard M. Kleberg
      Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr. , a Democrat, was a seven-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th congressional district over the period 1931–1945 and an heir to the King Ranch in South Texas. He was first elected in 1931 in a special election called due to the...

       (D), from November 24, 1931. John N. Garner
      John Nance Garner
      John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

       (D). R. Ewing Thomason
      R. Ewing Thomason
      Robert Ewing Thomason was a Texas politician, a member and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, the mayor of El Paso, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, and a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.Partner in a El Paso...

       (D). Thomas L. Blanton
      Thomas L. Blanton
      Thomas Lindsay Blanton was a United States Representative from Texas. He was a member of the Democratic Party....

       (D). J. Marvin Jones
      John Marvin Jones
      Judge John Marvin Jones was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas and Chief Judge of the federal Court of Claims.-Biography:...

       (D)

Utah  

. Don B. Colton
Don B. Colton
Don Byron Colton was a U.S. Representative from Utah.Born near Mona, Juab County, Utah Territory, Colton moved with his parents to Uintah County, Utah Territory in 1879....

 (R). Frederick C. Loofbourow
Frederick C. Loofbourow
Frederick Charles Loofbourow was a U.S. Representative from Utah.Born in Atlantic, Iowa, Loofbourow was educated in the common schools of Iowa.He moved with his parents to Utah in 1889....

 (R)

Vermont 

. John E. Weeks
John E. Weeks
John Eliakim Weeks was an American politician from Vermont. He served as the 61st Governor of Vermont from 1927 to 1931. He served as a Vermont state court judge from 1884 to 1886, and 1902 to 1904...

 (R). Ernest Willard Gibson
Ernest Willard Gibson
Ernest Willard Gibson was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont.Gibson graduated from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont in 1894 where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and from the University of Michigan Law School. He was elected to the Vermont House of...

 (R)

Virginia 

. S. Otis Bland (D). Menalcus Lankford
Menalcus Lankford
Menalcus Lankford was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born on the Bowers plantation near Franklin, Virginia, Lankford attended public and private schools and the Norfolk High School....

 (R). Andrew J. Montague
Andrew Jackson Montague
Andrew Jackson Montague was a U.S. politician from Virginia. He served as the 44th Governor of Virginia, from 1902 to 1906, and a Congressman from 1912 until his death in 1937...

 (D). Patrick Henry Drewry
Patrick H. Drewry
Patrick Henry Drewry was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Drewry attended the public schools, Petersburg High School, and McCabe's University School....

 (D). Thomas G. Burch
Thomas G. Burch
Thomas Granville Burch was an American farmer, tobacco manufacturer, and politician from Martinsville, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1931 until 1946. In 1946 he served as a U.S...

 (D). Clifton A. Woodrum
Clifton A. Woodrum
Clifton Alexander Woodrum was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Woodrum attended the public schools of his native city and the University College of Medicine , Richmond, Virginia.He became a registered pharmacist and engaged in his profession in Roanoke.He studied law at...

 (D). John W. Fishburne
John W. Fishburne
John Wood Fishburne Virginia Congressman and cousin to Congressmen Fontaine Maury Maverick and James Luther Slayden of Texas. All three of these men are related to the oceanographer, Matthew Fontaine Maury of Virginia....

 (D). Howard W. Smith
Howard W. Smith
Howard Worth Smith , Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia, was a leader of the conservative coalition who supported both racial segregation and women's rights.-Early life and education:...

 (D). John W. Flannagan, Jr.
John W. Flannagan, Jr.
John William Flannagan, Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 - 1949.-Reference:...

 (D). Henry St. George Tucker, III
Henry St. George Tucker III
Henry St. George Tucker, III was a representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, professor of law, and president of the American Bar Association. He was born to Laura and John Randolph Tucker in Winchester, Virginia, and received a B.L...

 (D), until July 23, 1932 (died)
    • Joel W. Flood
      Joel West Flood
      Joel West Flood , , a Representative from Virginia; born near Appomattox, Appomattox County, Virginia, August 2, 1894; attended the public schools, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., the University of Virginia, and Oxford University; studied law; was admitted to the bar in...

       (D), from November 8, 1932

Washington 

. Ralph Horr
Ralph Horr
Ralph Ashley Horr , an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican....

 (R). Lindley H. Hadley
Lindley H. Hadley
Lindley Hoag Hadley was a U.S. Representative from Washington.Born near Sylvania, Indiana, Hadley attended the common schools of his native city, Bloomingdale Academy, and Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois.He taught school in Rockville, Indiana from 1884 to 1889.He studied...

 (R). Albert Johnson
Albert Johnson (congressman)
Albert Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Washington state.Born in Springfield, Illinois, Johnson attended the schools at Atchison and Hiawatha, Kansas. He worked as a reporter on the St. Joseph Herald and the St...

 (R). John W. Summers
John W. Summers
John William Summers was a U.S. Representative from Washington.Born near Valeene, Indiana, Summers attended the public schools....

 (R). Samuel B. Hill
Samuel B. Hill
Samuel Billingsley Hill was a U.S. Representative from Washington.Born in Franklin, Arkansas, Hill attended the common schools, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and was graduated from its law department in 1898...

 (D)

West Virginia 

. Carl G. Bachmann
Carl G. Bachmann
Carl G. Bachmann was a United States Congressman from Wheeling, West Virginia.Bachmann was born in Wheeling as the son of Charles F. and Sophia Bachmann. In 1908 he graduated from Linsly Institute. He went to college first at Washington and Jefferson College for two years, and later graduated West...

 (R). Frank L. Bowman
Frank L. Bowman
Frank Llewellyn Bowman was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1925-1933.-Biography:...

 (R). Lynn Hornor
Lynn Hornor
Lynn Sedwick Hornor was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1931-1933....

 (D). Robert L. Hogg
Robert Lynn Hogg
Robert Lynn Hogg was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1930 to 1933. He was the son of Congressman Charles E. Hogg....

 (R). Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Ike Shott was a newspaper editor, pioneer broadcaster, and Republican politician in the U.S. State of West Virginia.-Career:...

 (R). Joe L. Smith
Joe L. Smith
Joseph Luther Smith, commonly known as Joe L. Smith , was an American politician, and a member of the Democratic Party from West Virginia....

 (D)

Wisconsin 

. Henry A. Cooper (R), until March 1, 1931 (died)
    • Thomas R. Amlie
      Thomas Ryum Amlie
      Thomas Ryum Amlie was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933 and again from 1935 to 1939. He was a member of the Wisconsin Progressive Party.-External links:* at Find-A-Grave----...

       (R), from October 13, 1931. Charles A. Kading
      Charles A. Kading
      Charles August Kading was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin who represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district from 1927–1933....

       (R). John M. Nelson
      John M. Nelson
      John Mandt Nelson was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Burke, Wisconsin, Nelson attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1892....

       (R). John C. Schafer
      John C. Schafer
      John C. Schafer was a Republican politician who represented Wisconsin's 4th congressional district in Congress from 1923 to 1933 and again from 1939 to 1941....

       (R). William H. Stafford
      William H. Stafford
      William Henry Stafford was a U.S. Republican politician.He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin and served from March 4, 1903 to March 3, 1911. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910...

       (R). Michael Reilly
      Michael Reilly
      Michael Kieran Reilly , was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1913–1917 and again from 1930–1939, serving Wisconsin's 6th District. He initially served two terms before losing a re-election bid to Republican James H. Davidson, and then returned to Congress...

       (D). Gardner R. Withrow
      Gardner R. Withrow
      Gardner Robert Withrow was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931–1939 and again from 1949–1961, when he did not seek reelection. Withrow was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and worked for the railroad and was involved in the labor union. He was a member of the Wisconsin...

       (R). Gerald J. Boileau
      Gerald J. Boileau
      Gerald John Boileau was first a Republican, then a Wisconsin Progressive Party member of the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1939. After service in World War I, Boileau attended Marquette University Law School and was subsequently admitted to the bar...

       (R). George J. Schneider
      George J. Schneider
      George John Schneider was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Schneider moved to Appleton with his parents, attended the public schools of Appleton, Wisconsin....

       (R). James A. Frear
      James A. Frear
      James Archibald Frear was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Frear attended the public schools, and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1878....

       (R). Hubert H. Peavey
      Hubert H. Peavey
      Hubert Haskell Peavey was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Adams, Minnesota, Peavey moved with his parents to Redwood Falls, Minnesota, in 1886....

       (R)

Non-voting members

. James Wickersham
James Wickersham
James Wickersham was a district judge for Alaska, appointed by U.S. President William McKinley to the Third Judicial District in 1900. He resigned his post in 1908 and was subsequently elected as Alaska's delegate to Congress, serving until 1917 and then being re-elected in 1930...

 (R). Victor S. K. Houston
Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston
Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston, popularly known as Victor S. K. Houston , was an American politician and naval officer who served in the United States Congress representing the Territory of Hawaii....

 (R). Pedro Guevara
Pedro Guevara
Pedro Guevara , was a Philippine soldier, lawyer and legislator who became Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands during the American colonial administration.-Biography:...

. Camilo Osías
Camilo Osías
Camilo Osías was a Filipino politician, twice for a short time President of the Senate of the Philippines....

. Félix Córdova Dávila
Félix Córdova Dávila
Félix Lope María Córdova Dávila was a political leader and judge from Puerto Rico who served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner in Congress.-Early years:...

, until April 11, 1932 (resigned to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is the highest court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority within Puerto Rico to interpret and decide questions of Commonwealth law. As the highest body of the judicial branch of the Puerto Rican government, it is analogous to one of the...

)
    • José Lorenzo Pesquera
      José Lorenzo Pesquera
      José Lorenzo Pesquera was a Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.Born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Pesquera was graduated from Provincial Institute of Puerto Rico in 1897....

       (I), from April 15, 1932


Senate

  • replacements: 8
    • Democratic
      Democratic Party (United States)
      The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

      : 1 seat net gain
    • Republican
      Republican Party (United States)
      The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

      : 1 seat net loss
  • deaths: 6
  • resignations: 3
  • interim appointments: 4
  • Total seats with changes: 11

House of Representatives

  • replacements: 23
    • Democratic
      Democratic Party (United States)
      The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

      : 4 seat net gain
    • Republican
      Republican Party (United States)
      The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

      : 4 seat net loss
  • deaths: 26
  • resignations: 7
  • contested election: 1
  • Total seats with changes: 34

Senate

  • Secretary
    Secretary of the United States Senate
    The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...

    : Edwin P. Thayer of Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

    , served from December 7, 1925
  • Sergeant at Arms
    Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
    The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is the law enforcer for the United States Senate. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant is to hold the gavel used at every session...

    : David S. Barry
    David S. Barry
    David Sheldon Barry, Sr. was a journalist who became the 17th Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, serving from 1919 to 1933....

     of Rhode Island
    Rhode Island
    The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

  • Chaplain
    Chaplain of the United States Senate
    The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families. The Chaplain is appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Senate...

    : ZeBarney T. Phillips, Episcopalian
  • Democratic Party
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

     Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey
  • Republican Party
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

     Secretary: Carl A. Loeffler

House of Representatives

  • Clerk
    Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
    The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House....

    : South Trimble
    South Trimble
    South Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.-Biography:...

     of Kentucky
    Kentucky
    The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Sergeant at Arms
    Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities. The Sergeant at Arms is elected at the beginning of each Congress by the membership of the chamber...

    : Kenneth Romney of Montana
    Montana
    Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Doorkeeper
    Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
    An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...

    : Joseph J. Sinnott of Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Postmaster
    Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives
    The Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives was an employee of the United States Congress from 1834 to 1993.Before the creation of the office of Postmaster, mail duties were handled by workers in the office of the Doorkeeper, who were paid additional compensation...

    : Finis E. Scott of Tennessee
    Tennessee
    Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

    , elected December 7, 1931
  • Parliamentarian
    Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
    The Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives manages, supervises, and administers its Office of the Parliamentarian, which is responsible for advising presiding officers, Members, and staff on procedural questions under the U.S...

    : Lewis Deschler
    Lewis Deschler
    Lewis Deschler was the first, and longest serving, Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives. He started his term on February 1, 1927 during the 70th United States Congress following the retirement of Lehr Fess...

  • Chaplain
    Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
    The election of William Linn as Chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Continental Congresses of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. The early Chaplains alternated duties with their Senate counterparts on a weekly basis, covering the...

    : James S. Montgomery, Methodist
    Methodism
    Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...


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