80th United States Congress

The 80th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1949, during the third and fourth years of 33rd President Harry S. Truman's administration (1945–1953). This congressional term featured the most recent special Senate sessions. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1940 United States census.

The Republicans won the majority in both chambers, marking the first time since the 71st Congress of 1929–1931 that they held full control of Congress, and the first time since the 72nd Congress of 1931–1933 that they held control of either of the two chambers. This also ended a 14-year Democratic overall federal government trifecta period, dating back to the 73rd Congress (1933–1935) when Truman's predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. This ties with the previous 14-year Republican trifecta from 1897 to 1911 as the longest trifectas of Congress, and is the last time (as of the year 2024) that a trifecta was achieved that lasted longer than a decade.

Although the 80th Congress passed a total of 906 public bills, President Truman nicknamed it during his campaign speeches and remarks as the "Do Nothing Congress" and, during the 1948 elections, campaigned as much against it as against his formal opponent, Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican presidential nominee. The 80th Congress did, however, pass several significant bills with bipartisan support, most famously the Truman Doctrine (on Greece-Turkey anti-communists' aid in the developing Cold War with former ally the Soviet Union), the Marshall Plan (aid for devastated Europe after World War II), and the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947 on labor relations (over Truman's veto), but it opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal domestic programs bills.

Major events

January 3, 1947: Proceedings of the United States Congress were televised for the first time.
March 12, 1947: In a Joint Session of Congress, President Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine.
July 18, 1947: The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean (occupied since 1943-1945 of the Second World War), entered into a trusteeship with the new international organization United Nations and administered by the United States for the next few decades.
November 24, 1947: The House of Representatives approved citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10.
July 20, 1948: President Truman issued the second peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, which endured until the early 1970s.
July 26, 1948:
Turnip Day Session begins, special session called by Truman on July 15, 1948, before November elections;
President Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces since the Reconstruction era of the 1860s/1870s.
August 25, 1948: House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee held the first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between alleged Communist sympathizers from the 1930s of Time magazine journalist Whittaker Chambers and former friend State Department official Alger Hiss.
November 2, 1948: United States general elections, 1948:
Presidential election: Democrat incumbent President Harry Truman, in an upset victory, defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey (Governor of New York), and third and fourth minority parties candidates: Governor of South Carolina (and longtime future U.S. Senator) Strom Thurmond, and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace;
Democrats regained majority control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives for the next two years in the coming 81st Congress.

Major legislation

May 22, 1947: Assistance to Greece and Turkey Act (Truman Doctrine), Sess. 1, ch. 81, ,
June 23, 1947: Taft–Hartley Act, Sess. 1, ch. 120, ,
July 18, 1947: Presidential Succession Act of 1947, Sess. 1, ch. 264, ,
July 26, 1947: National Security Act of 1947, Sess. 1, ch. 343, ,
August 7, 1947: Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands, Sess. 1, ch. 513, ,
January 27, 1948: United States Information and Educational Exchange Act, Sess. 2, ch. 36, ,
April 3, 1948: Foreign Assistance Act (Marshall Plan), , Sess. 2, ch. 169,
April 3, 1948: Greek-Turkish Assistance Act of 1948 (Marshall Plan), Sess. 2, ch. 169, , Title III,
May 26, 1948: Civil Air Patrol Act, Sess. 2, ch. 349, ,
June 12, 1948: Women's Armed Services Integration Act, Sess. 2, ch. 449, ,
June 17, 1948: Reed-Bulwinkle Act, Sess. 2, ch. 491, ,
June 25, 1948: Codify and enact into law Title 3 of the United States Code"The President", Sess. 2, ch. 644, ,
June 28, 1948: Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act of 1948, ,
June 30, 1948: Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Sess. 2, ch. 758, ,
July 3, 1948: War Claims Act of 1948, Sess. 2, ch. 826, ,
July 3, 1948: Agricultural Act of 1948, Sess. 2, ch. 827, ,

Constitutional amendments

March 21, 1947: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution setting a term limit for election and overall time of service to the office of President of the United States, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification
Amendment was later ratified on February 27, 1951, becoming the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Party summary

thumb|300px|[[Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives|House Chaplain Bernard Braskamp delivering the opening prayer for the 80th Congress, 1947]]

Senate

House of Representatives

From the beginning to the end of this Congress, there was no net change in party power. The Democrats lost one seat, which remained vacant until the next Congress.

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Leadership

Senate

President: Vacant
President pro tempore: Arthur Vandenberg (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

Majority leader: Wallace H. White Jr.
Majority whip: Kenneth S. Wherry
Republican Conference Chairman: Eugene Millikin
Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young
National Senatorial Committee Chair: Owen Brewster
Policy Committee Chairman: Robert A. Taft

Minority (Democratic) leadership

Minority leader: Alben W. Barkley
Minority whip: Scott W. Lucas
Democratic Caucus Secretary: Brien McMahon
Policy Committee Chairman: Alben W. Barkley

House of Representatives

Speaker: Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

Majority Leader: Charles A. Halleck
Republican Whip: Leslie C. Arends
Republican Conference Chairman: Roy O. Woodruff
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Leonard W. Hall

Minority (Democratic) leadership

Minority Leader: Sam Rayburn
Democratic Whip: John W. McCormack
Democratic Caucus Chairman: Aime Forand
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan

Caucuses

House Democratic Caucus
Senate Democratic Caucus

Members

Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide 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, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1948; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1950; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1952.

Alabama

: 2. John J. Sparkman (D)

: 3. J. Lister Hill (D)

Arizona

: 1. Ernest McFarland (D)

: 3. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

: 2. John L. McClellan (D)

: 3. J. William Fulbright (D)

California

: 1. William Knowland (R)

: 3. Sheridan Downey (D)

Colorado

: 2. Edwin C. Johnson (D)

: 3. Eugene Millikin (R)

Connecticut

: 1. Raymond E. Baldwin (R)

: 3. Brien McMahon (D)

Delaware

: 1. John J. Williams (R)

: 2. C. Douglass Buck (R)

Florida

: 1. Spessard Holland (D)

: 3. Claude Pepper (D)

Georgia

: 2. Walter F. George (D)

: 3. Richard Russell Jr. (D)

Idaho

: 2. Henry Dworshak (R)

: 3. Glen H. Taylor (D)

Illinois

: 2. Charles W. Brooks (R)

: 3. Scott W. Lucas (D)

Indiana

: 1. William E. Jenner (R)

: 3. Homer E. Capehart (R)

Iowa

: 2. George A. Wilson (R)

: 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)

Kansas

: 2. Arthur Capper (R)

: 3. Clyde M. Reed (R)

Kentucky

: 2. John Sherman Cooper (R)

: 3. Alben Barkley (D)

Louisiana

: 2. Allen J. Ellender (D)

: 3. John H. Overton (D), until May 14, 1948

:: William C. Feazel (D), May 18, 1948 – December 30, 1948

:: Russell B. Long (D), from December 31, 1948

Maine

: 1. Ralph Owen Brewster (R)

: 2. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)

Maryland

: 1. Herbert O'Conor (D)

: 3. Millard Tydings (D)

Massachusetts

: 1. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)

: 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

Michigan

: 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)

: 2. Homer S. Ferguson (R)

Minnesota

: 1. Edward John Thye (R)

: 2. Joseph H. Ball (R)

Mississippi

: 1. Theodore G. Bilbo (D), until August 21, 1947

:: John C. Stennis (D), from November 17, 1947

: 2. James Eastland (D)

Missouri

: 1. James P. Kem (R)

: 3. Forrest C. Donnell (R)

Montana

: 1. Zales Ecton (R)

: 2. James E. Murray (D)

Nebraska

: 1. Hugh A. Butler (R)

: 2. Kenneth S. Wherry (R)

Nevada

: 1. George W. Malone (R)

: 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D)

New Hampshire

: 2. Styles Bridges (R)

: 3. Charles W. Tobey (R)

New Jersey

: 1. Howard Alexander Smith (R)

: 2. Albert W. Hawkes (R)

New Mexico

: 1. Dennis Chávez (D)

: 2. Carl Hatch (D)

New York

: 1. Irving Ives (R)

: 3. Robert F. Wagner (D)

North Carolina

: 2. William B. Umstead (D), until December 30, 1948

:: J. Melville Broughton (D), from December 31, 1948

: 3. Clyde R. Hoey (D)

North Dakota

: 1. William Langer (R-NPL)

: 3. Milton Young (R)

Ohio

: 1. John W. Bricker (R)

: 3. Robert A. Taft (R)

Oklahoma

: 2. Edward H. Moore (R)

: 3. Elmer Thomas (D)

Oregon

: 2. Guy Cordon (R)

: 3. Wayne Morse (R)

Pennsylvania

: 1. Edward Martin (R)

: 3. Francis J. Myers (D)

Rhode Island

: 1. J. Howard McGrath (D)

: 2. Theodore F. Green (D)

South Carolina

: 2. Burnet R. Maybank (D)

: 3. Olin D. Johnston (D)

South Dakota

: 2. Harlan J. Bushfield (R), until September 27, 1948

:: Vera C. Bushfield (R), October 6, 1948 – December 26, 1948

:: Karl E. Mundt (R), from December 31, 1948

: 3. John Chandler Gurney (R)

Tennessee

: 1. Kenneth McKellar (D)

: 2. Tom Stewart (D)

Texas

: 1. Tom T. Connally (D)

: 2. W. Lee O'Daniel (D)

Utah

: 1. Arthur Vivian Watkins (R)

: 3. Elbert D. Thomas (D)

Vermont

: 1. Ralph Flanders (R)

: 3. George Aiken (R)

Virginia

: 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)

: 2. A. Willis Robertson (D)

Washington

: 1. Harry P. Cain (R)

: 3. Warren G. Magnuson (D)

West Virginia

: 1. Harley M. Kilgore (D)

: 2. Chapman Revercomb (R)

Wisconsin

: 1. Joseph McCarthy (R)

: 3. Alexander Wiley (R)

Wyoming

: 1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)

: 2. Edward V. Robertson (R)

[[File:80th United States Congress Senators.svg|thumb|375px|Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 80th Congress in January 1947

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thumb|400px|right|Percentage of members from each party by state at the opening of the 80th Congress, ranging from dark blue (most Democratic) to dark red (most Republican).

House of Representatives

The names of representatives elected statewide 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.

The congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

Alabama

: . Frank W. Boykin (D)

: . George M. Grant (D)

: . George W. Andrews (D)

: . Sam Hobbs (D)

: . Albert Rains (D)

: . Pete Jarman (D)

: . Carter Manasco (D)

: . Robert E. Jones Jr. (D), from January 28, 1947

: . Laurie C. Battle (D)

Arizona

: . John R. Murdock (D)

: . Richard F. Harless (D)

Arkansas

: . Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)

: . Wilbur Mills (D)

: . James William Trimble (D)

: . William Fadjo Cravens (D)

: . Brooks Hays (D)

: . William F. Norrell (D)

: . Oren Harris (D)

California

: . Clarence F. Lea (D)

: . Clair Engle (D)

: . J. Leroy Johnson (R)

: . Franck R. Havenner (D)

: . Richard J. Welch (R)

: . George P. Miller (D)

: . John J. Allen Jr. (R)

: . Jack Z. Anderson (R)

: . Bertrand W. Gearhart (R)

: . Alfred J. Elliott (D)

: . Ernest K. Bramblett (R)

: . Richard Nixon (R)

: . Norris Poulson (R)

: . Helen Gahagan Douglas (D)

: . Gordon L. McDonough (R)

: . Donald L. Jackson (R)

: . Cecil R. King (D)

: . Willis W. Bradley (R)

: . Chester E. Holifield (D)

: . John Carl Hinshaw (R)

: . Harry R. Sheppard (D)

: . John R. Phillips (R)

: . Charles K. Fletcher (R)

Colorado

: . John A. Carroll (D)

: . William S. Hill (R)

: . John Chenoweth (R)

: . Robert F. Rockwell (R)

Connecticut

: . William J. Miller (R)

: . Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R)

: . Ellsworth Foote (R)

: . John Davis Lodge (R)

: . James T. Patterson (R)

: . Antoni Sadlak (R)

Delaware

: . J. Caleb Boggs (R)

Florida

: . J. Hardin Peterson (D)

: . Emory H. Price (D)

: . Robert L. F. Sikes (D)

: . George Smathers (D)

: . Joe Hendricks (D)

: . Dwight L. Rogers (D)

Georgia

: . Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (D)

: . Edward E. Cox (D)

: . Stephen Pace (D)

: . Albert Sidney Camp (D)

: . James C. Davis (D)

: . Carl Vinson (D)

: . Henderson Lovelace Lanham (D)

: . William McDonald Wheeler (D)

: . John S. Wood (D)

: . Paul Brown (D)

Idaho

: . Abe Goff (R)

: . John C. Sanborn (R)

Illinois

: . William L. Dawson (D)

: . Richard B. Vail (R)

: . Fred E. Busbey (R)

: . Martin Gorski (D)

: . Adolph J. Sabath (D)

: . Thomas J. O'Brien (D)

: . Thomas L. Owens (R), until June 7, 1948, vacant thereafter

: . Thomas S. Gordon (D)

: . Robert Twyman (R)

: . Ralph E. Church (R)

: . Chauncey W. Reed (R)

: . Noah M. Mason (R)

: . Leo E. Allen (R)

: . Anton J. Johnson (R)

: . Robert B. Chiperfield (R)

: . Everett M. Dirksen (R)

: . Leslie C. Arends (R)

: . Edward H. Jenison (R)

: . Rolla C. McMillen (R)

: . Sid Simpson (R)

: . George Evan Howell (R), until October 5, 1947, vacant thereafter

: . Melvin Price (D)

: . Charles W. Vursell (R)

: . Roy Clippinger (R)

: . C. W. Bishop (R)

: . William Stratton (R)

Indiana

: . Ray Madden (D)

: . Charles A. Halleck (R)

: . Robert A. Grant (R)

: . George W. Gillie (R)

: . Forest Harness (R)

: . Noble J. Johnson (R), until July 1, 1948, vacant for remainder of term

: . Gerald W. Landis (R)

: . E. A. Mitchell (R)

: . Earl Wilson (R)

: . Raymond S. Springer (R), until August 28, 1947

:: Ralph Harvey (R), from November 4, 1947

: . Louis Ludlow (D)

Iowa

: . Thomas E. Martin (R)

: . Henry O. Talle (R)

: . John W. Gwynne (R)

: . Karl M. LeCompte (R)

: . Paul H. Cunningham (R)

: . James I. Dolliver (R)

: . Ben F. Jensen (R)

: . Charles B. Hoeven (R)

Kansas

: . Albert M. Cole (R)

: . Errett P. Scrivner (R)

: . Herbert Alton Meyer (R)

: . Edward Herbert Rees (R)

: . Clifford R. Hope (R)

: . Wint Smith (R)

Kentucky

: . Noble J. Gregory (D)

: . Earle C. Clements (D), until January 6, 1948

:: John A. Whitaker (D), from April 17, 1948

: . Thruston Ballard Morton (R)

: . Frank Chelf (D)

: . Brent Spence (D)

: . Virgil Chapman (D)

: . Wendell H. Meade (R)

: . Joe B. Bates (D)

: . John M. Robsion (R), until February 17, 1948

:: William Lewis (R), from April 24, 1948

Louisiana

: . F. Edward Hébert (D)

: . Hale Boggs (D)

: . James R. Domengeaux (D)

: . Overton Brooks (D)

: . Otto Passman (D)

: . James H. Morrison (D)

: . Henry D. Larcade Jr. (D)

: . A. Leonard Allen (D)

Maine

: . Robert Hale (R)

: . Margaret Chase Smith (R)

: . Frank Fellows (R)

Maryland

: . Edward Tylor Miller (R)

: . Hugh Meade (D)

: . Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (D), until May 16, 1947

:: . Edward Garmatz (D), from July 15, 1947

: . George Hyde Fallon (D)

: . Lansdale G. Sasscer (D)

: . James Glenn Beall (R)

Massachusetts

: . John W. Heselton (R)

: . Charles Clason (R)

: . Philip J. Philbin (D)

: . Harold Donohue (D)

: . Edith Nourse Rogers (R)

: . George J. Bates (R)

: . Thomas J. Lane (D)

: . Angier Goodwin (R)

: . Charles L. Gifford (R), until August 23, 1947

:: . Donald W. Nicholson (R), from November 18, 1947

: . Christian Herter (R)

: . John F. Kennedy (D)

: . John W. McCormack (D)

: . Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)

: . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

Michigan

: . George G. Sadowski (D)

: . Earl C. Michener (R)

: . Paul W. Shafer (R)

: . Clare E. Hoffman (R)

: . Bartel J. Jonkman (R)

: . William W. Blackney (R)

: . Jesse P. Wolcott (R)

: . Fred L. Crawford (R)

: . Albert J. Engel (R)

: . Roy O. Woodruff (R)

: . Fred Bradley (R), until May 24, 1947

:: Charles E. Potter (R), from August 26, 1947

: . John B. Bennett (R)

: . Howard A. Coffin (R)

: . Harold F. Youngblood (R)

: . John Dingell Sr. (D)

: . John Lesinski Sr. (D)

: . George Anthony Dondero (R)

Minnesota

: . August H. Andresen (R)

: . Joseph P. O'Hara (R)

: . George MacKinnon (R)

: . Edward Devitt (R)

: . Walter Judd (R)

: . Harold Knutson (R)

: . Herman Carl Andersen (R)

: . John Blatnik (DFL), until August 13, 1946

: . Harold Hagen (R)

Mississippi

: . John E. Rankin (D)

: . Jamie L. Whitten (D)

: . William M. Whittington (D)

: . Thomas Abernethy (D)

: . W. Arthur Winstead (D)

: . William M. Colmer (D)

: . John Bell Williams (D)

Missouri

: . Samuel W. Arnold (R)

: . Max Schwabe (R)

: . William Clay Cole (R)

: . C. Jasper Bell (D)

: . Albert L. Reeves Jr. (R)

: . Marion T. Bennett (R)

: . Dewey Short (R)

: . Parke M. Banta (R)

: . Clarence Cannon (D)

: . Orville Zimmerman (D), until April 7, 1948

:: Paul C. Jones (D), from November 2, 1948

: . Claude I. Bakewell (R)

: . Walter C. Ploeser (R)

: . Frank M. Karsten (D)

Montana

: . Mike Mansfield (D)

: . Wesley A. D'Ewart (R)

Nebraska

: . Carl Curtis (R)

: . Howard Buffett (R)

: . Karl Stefan (R)

: . Arthur L. Miller (R)

Nevada

: . Charles H. Russell (R)

New Hampshire

: . Chester Earl Merrow (R)

: . Norris Cotton (R)

New Jersey

: . Charles A. Wolverton (R)

: . T. Millet Hand (R)

: . James C. Auchincloss (R)

: . Frank A. Mathews Jr. (R)

: . Charles A. Eaton (R)

: . Clifford P. Case (R)

: . J. Parnell Thomas (R)

: . Gordon Canfield (R)

: . Harry L. Towe (R)

: . Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)

: . Frank Sundstrom (R)

: . Robert Kean (R)

: . Mary T. Norton (D)

: . Edward J. Hart (D)

New Mexico

: . Georgia Lee Lusk (D)

: . Antonio M. Fernández (D)

New York

: . W. Kingsland Macy (R)

: . Leonard W. Hall (R)

: . Henry J. Latham (R)

: . Gregory McMahon (R)

: . Robert Tripp Ross (R)

: . Robert Nodar Jr. (R)

: . John J. Delaney (D), until November 18, 1948

:: Vacant thereafter

: . Joseph L. Pfeifer (D)

: . Eugene J. Keogh (D)

: . Andrew L. Somers (D)

: . James J. Heffernan (D)

: . John J. Rooney (D)

: . Donald L. O'Toole (D)

: . Leo F. Rayfiel (D), until September 13, 1947

:: Abraham J. Multer (D), from November 4, 1947

: . Emanuel Celler (D)

: . Ellsworth B. Buck (R)

: . Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R)

: . Vito Marcantonio (AL)

: . Arthur George Klein (D)

: . Sol Bloom (D)

: . Jacob Javits (R)

: . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)

: . Walter A. Lynch (D)

: . Benjamin J. Rabin (D), until December 31, 1947

:: Leo Isacson (AL), from February 17, 1948

: . Charles A. Buckley (D)

: . David M. Potts (R)

: . Ralph W. Gwinn (R)

: . Ralph A. Gamble (R)

: . Katharine St. George (R)

: . Jay Le Fevre (R)

: . Bernard W. Kearney (R)

: . William T. Byrne (D)

: . Dean P. Taylor (R)

: . Clarence E. Kilburn (R)

: . Hadwen C. Fuller (R)

: . R. Walter Riehlman (R)

: . Edwin Arthur Hall (R)

: . John Taber (R)

: . W. Sterling Cole (R)

: . Kenneth Keating (R)

: . James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)

: . Walter G. Andrews (R)

: . Edward J. Elsaesser (R)

: . John Cornelius Butler (R)

: . Daniel A. Reed (R)

North Carolina

: . Herbert Covington Bonner (D)

: . John H. Kerr (D)

: . Graham A. Barden (D)

: . Harold D. Cooley (D)

: . John Hamlin Folger (D)

: . Carl T. Durham (D)

: . J. Bayard Clark (D)

: . Charles B. Deane (D)

: . Robert L. Doughton (D)

: . Hamilton C. Jones (D)

: . Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)

: . Monroe Minor Redden (D)

North Dakota

: . William Lemke (R-NPL)

: . Charles R. Robertson (R)

Ohio

: . Charles H. Elston (R)

: . William E. Hess (R)

: . Raymond H. Burke (R)

: . Robert Franklin Jones (R), until September 2, 1947

:: William Moore McCulloch (R), from November 4, 1947

: . Cliff Clevenger (R)

: . Edward Oscar McCowen (R)

: . Clarence J. Brown (R)

: . Frederick Cleveland Smith (R)

: . Homer A. Ramey (R)

: . Thomas A. Jenkins (R)

: . Walter E. Brehm (R)

: . John M. Vorys (R)

: . Alvin F. Weichel (R)

: . Walter B. Huber (D)

: . Percy W. Griffiths (R)

: . Henderson H. Carson (R)

: . J. Harry McGregor (R)

: . Earl R. Lewis (R)

: . Michael J. Kirwan (D)

: . Michael A. Feighan (D)

: . Robert Crosser (D)

: . Frances P. Bolton (R)

: . George H. Bender (R)

Oklahoma

: . George B. Schwabe (R)

: . William G. Stigler (D)

: . Carl Albert (D)

: . Glen D. Johnson (D)

: . A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

: . Toby Morris (D)

: . Preston E. Peden (D)

: . Ross Rizley (R)

Oregon

: . A. Walter Norblad (R)

: . Lowell Stockman (R)

: . Homer D. Angell (R)

: . Harris Ellsworth (R)

Pennsylvania

: . James A. Gallagher (R)

: . Robert N. McGarvey (R)

: . Hardie Scott (R)

: . Franklin J. Maloney (R)

: . George W. Sarbacher Jr. (R)

: . Hugh Scott (R)

: . E. Wallace Chadwick (R)

: . Charles L. Gerlach (R), until May 5, 1947

:: Franklin H. Lichtenwalter (R), from September 9, 1947

: . Paul B. Dague (R)

: . James P. Scoblick (R)

: . Mitchell Jenkins (R)

: . Ivor D. Fenton (R)

: . Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (R)

: . Wilson D. Gillette (R)

: . Robert F. Rich (R)

: . Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)

: . Richard M. Simpson (R)

: . John C. Kunkel (R)

: . Leon H. Gavin (R)

: . Francis E. Walter (D)

: . Chester H. Gross (R)

: . James E. Van Zandt (R)

: . William J. Crow (R)

: . Thomas E. Morgan (D)

: . Louis E. Graham (R)

: . Harve Tibbott (R)

: . Augustine B. Kelley (D)

: . Carroll D. Kearns (R)

: . John McDowell (R)

: . Robert J. Corbett (R)

: . James G. Fulton (R)

: . Herman P. Eberharter (D)

: . Frank Buchanan (D)

Rhode Island

: . Aime Forand (D)

: . John E. Fogarty (D)

South Carolina

: . L. Mendel Rivers (D)

: . John J. Riley (D)

: . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)

: . Joseph R. Bryson (D)

: . James P. Richards (D)

: . John L. McMillan (D)

South Dakota

: . Karl E. Mundt (R), until December 30, 1948, vacant thereafter

: . Francis H. Case (R)

Tennessee

: . Dayton E. Phillips (R)

: . John Jennings Jr. (R)

: . Estes Kefauver (D)

: . Albert Gore Sr. (D)

: . Joe L. Evins (D)

: . Percy Priest (D)

: . W. Wirt Courtney (D)

: . Tom J. Murray (D)

: . Jere Cooper (D)

: . Clifford Davis (D)

Texas

: . Wright Patman (D)

: . Jesse M. Combs (D)

: . Lindley Beckworth (D)

: . Sam Rayburn (D)

: . Joseph Franklin Wilson (D)

: . Olin E. Teague (D)

: . Tom Pickett (D)

: . Albert Thomas (D)

: . Joseph J. Mansfield (D), until July 12, 1947

:: Clark W. Thompson (D), from August 23, 1947

: . Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

: . William R. Poage (D)

: . Wingate H. Lucas (D)

: . Ed Gossett (D)

: . John E. Lyle Jr. (D)

: . Milton H. West (D), until October 28, 1948

:: Lloyd Bentsen (D), from December 4, 1948

: . R. Ewing Thomason (D), until July 31, 1947

:: Kenneth M. Regan (D), from August 23, 1947

: . Omar Burleson (D)

: . Eugene Worley (D)

: . George H. Mahon (D)

: . Paul J. Kilday (D)

: . O. C. Fisher (D)

Utah

: . Walter K. Granger (D)

: . William A. Dawson (R)

Vermont

: . Charles A. Plumley (R)

Virginia

: . S. Otis Bland (D)

: . Porter Hardy Jr. (D)

: . J. Vaughan Gary (D)

: . Patrick H. Drewry (D), until December 21, 1947

:: Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D), from February 17, 1948

: . Thomas B. Stanley (D)

: . J. Lindsay Almond (D), until April 17, 1948

:: Clarence G. Burton (D), from November 2, 1948

: . Burr Harrison (D)

: . Howard W. Smith (D)

: . John W. Flannagan Jr. (D)

Washington

: . Homer Jones (R)

: . Henry M. Jackson (D)

: . Fred B. Norman (R), until April 18, 1947

:: Russell V. Mack (R), from June 7, 1947

: . Hal Holmes (R)

: . Walt Horan (R)

: . Thor C. Tollefson (R)

West Virginia

: . Francis J. Love (R)

: . Melvin C. Snyder (R)

: . Edward G. Rohrbough (R)

: . Hubert S. Ellis (R)

: . John Kee (D)

: . E. H. Hedrick (D)

Wisconsin

: . Lawrence H. Smith (R)

: . Glenn Robert Davis (R), from April 22, 1947

: . William H. Stevenson (R)

: . John C. Brophy (R)

: . Charles J. Kersten (R)

: . Frank Bateman Keefe (R)

: . Reid F. Murray (R)

: . John W. Byrnes (R)

: . Merlin Hull (R)

: . Alvin O'Konski (R)

Wyoming

: . Frank A. Barrett (R)

Non-voting members

: . Bob Bartlett (D)

: . Joseph Rider Farrington (R)

: . Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD/D)

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress

Senate

There were three deaths, two resignations, and one lost mid-term election.

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| Mississippi (1)

| | Theodore G. Bilbo (D)

| Died August 21, 1947. Successor was elected November 17, 1947.

| | John C. Stennis (D)

| November 17, 1947

| Louisiana (3)

| | John H. Overton (D)

| Died May 14, 1948. Successor was appointed to continue the term.

| | William C. Feazel (D)

| May 18, 1948

| South Dakota (2)

| | Harlan J. Bushfield (R)

| Died September 27, 1948. Successor was appointed to finish the term.

| | Vera C. Bushfield (R)

| October 6, 1948

| South Dakota (2)

| | Vera C. Bushfield (R)

| Interim appointee resigned December 26, 1948. Successor was appointed to finish the term.

| | Karl E. Mundt (R)

| December 31, 1948

| Louisiana (3)

| | William C. Feazel (D)

| Interim appointee retired when successor elected. Successor was elected December 31, 1948.

| | Russell B. Long (D)

| December 31, 1948

| North Carolina (2)

| | William B. Umstead (D)

| Interim appointee lost election to finish the term. Successor was elected December 31, 1948.

| | J. Melville Broughton (D)

| December 31, 1948

House of Representatives

There were nine deaths and seven resignations.

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| Vacant

| style="font-size:80%" | John Sparkman resigned in previous Congress after being elected to the US Senate having been re-elected as well.

| | Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)

| Seated January 28, 1947

| Vacant

| style="font-size:80%" | Representative Robert Kirkland Henry died during previous Congress having been previously re-elected.

| | Glenn Robert Davis (R)

| Seated April 22, 1947

| | Fred B. Norman (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died April 18, 1947

| | Russell V. Mack (R)

| Seated June 7, 1947

| | Charles L. Gerlach (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 5, 1947

| | Franklin H. Lichtenwalter (R)

| Seated September 9, 1947

| | Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 16, 1947, after being elected Mayor of Baltimore

| | Edward Garmatz (D)

| Seated July 15, 1947

| | Frederick Van Ness Bradley (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 24, 1947

| | Charles E. Potter (R)

| Seated August 26, 1947

| | Joseph J. Mansfield (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died July 12, 1947

| | Clark W. Thompson (D)

| Seated August 23, 1947

| | R. Ewing Thomason (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 31, 1947, after being appointed as a judge of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas

| | Kenneth M. Regan (D)

| Seated August 23, 1947

| | Charles L. Gifford (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died August 23, 1947

| | Donald W. Nicholson (R)

| Seated November 18, 1947

| | Raymond S. Springer (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died August 28, 1947

| | Ralph Harvey (R)

| Seated November 4, 1947

| | Robert Franklin Jones (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 2, 1947, to become a member of the Federal Communications Commission

| | William Moore McCulloch (R)

| Seated November 4, 1947

| | Leo F. Rayfiel (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 13, 1947, having been appointed a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

| | Abraham J. Multer (D)

| Seated November 4, 1947

| | George Evan Howell (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 5, 1947, after being appointed judge of the US Court of Claims

| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress

| | Patrick H. Drewry (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died December 21, 1947

| | Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)

| Seated February 17, 1948

| | Benjamin J. Rabin (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 31, 1947

| | Leo Isacson (AL)

| Seated February 17, 1948

| | Earle Clements (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 6, 1948, to become Governor of Kentucky

| | John A. Whitaker (D)

| Seated April 17, 1948

| | John M. Robsion (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died February 17, 1948

| | William Lewis (R)

| Seated April 24, 1948

| | Orville Zimmerman (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died April 7, 1948

| | Paul C. Jones (D)

| Seated November 2, 1948

| | J. Lindsay Almond (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 17, 1948, having been elected attorney General of Virginia

| | Clarence G. Burton (D)

| Seated November 2, 1948

| | Thomas L. Owens (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died June 7, 1948

| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress

| | Noble J. Johnson (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 1, 1948, after being appointed as judge of US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals

| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress

| | Milton H. West (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died October 28, 1948

| | Lloyd Bentsen (D)

| Seated December 4, 1948

| | John J. Delaney (D)

| style="font-size:80%" | Died November 18, 1948

| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress

| | Karl E. Mundt (R)

| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 30, 1948, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate having already been elected.

| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress

Committees

Senate

Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Arthur Capper; Ranking Member: Elmer Thomas)
Appropriations (Chairman: Styles Bridges; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
Armed Services (Chairman: Chan Gurney; Ranking Member: Millard E. Tydings)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles W. Tobey; Ranking Member: Robert F. Wagner)
Civil Service (Chairman: William Langer; Ranking Member: Dennis Chavez)
District of Columbia (Chairman: C. Douglass Buck; Ranking Member: N/A)
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: George D. Aiken; Ranking Member: John L. McClellan)
Finance (Chairman: Eugene D. Millikin; Ranking Member: Walter F. George)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: Arthur H. Vandenberg; Ranking Member: Tom Connally)
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Wallace H. White Jr.; Ranking Member: Edwin C. Johnson)
Investigate the National Defense Program (Special) (Chairman: Owen Brewster)
Judiciary (Chairman: Alexander Wiley; Ranking Member: Pat McCarran)
Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman: Robert A. Taft; Ranking Member: Elbert D. Thomas)
Petroleum Resources (Special)
Public Lands (Chairman: Hugh A. Butler; Ranking Member: Carl A. Hatch)
Public Works (Chairman: W. Chapman Revercomb; Ranking Member: John H. Overton)
Remodeling the Senate Chamber (Special)
Rules and Administration (Chairman: C. Wayland Brooks; Ranking Member: Carl Hayden)
Small Business Enterprises (Special) (Chairman: Kenneth S. Wherry)
Whole

House of Representatives

Agriculture (Chairman: Clifford R. Hope; Ranking Member: John W. Flannagan Jr.)
Appropriations (Chairman: John Taber; Ranking Member: Clarence Cannon)
Armed Services (Chairman: Walter G. Andrews; Ranking Member: Carl Vinson)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Jesse P. Wolcott; Ranking Member: Brent Spence)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Everett M. Dirksen; Ranking Member: John L. McMillan)
Education and Labor (Chairman: Fred A. Hartley Jr.; Ranking Member: John Lesinski)
Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: Clare E. Hoffman; Ranking Member: Carter Manasco)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Charles Aubrey Eaton; Ranking Member: Sol Bloom)
Foreign Aid (Select) (Chairman: Charles Aubrey Eaton)
House Administration (Chairman: Karl M. LeCompte; Ranking Member: Mary Teresa Norton)
Investigate Commodity Transactions (Select) (Chairman: August H. Andresen)
Investigate Federal Communications Commission (Select) (Chairman: Forest A. Harness)
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Charles A. Wolverton; Ranking Member: Clarence F. Lea)
Judiciary (Chairman: Earl C. Michener; Ranking Member: Emanuel Celler)
Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Alvin F. Weichel; Ranking Member: S. Otis Bland)
Newsprint and Paper Supply (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Edward H. Rees; Ranking Member: Tom J. Murray)
Public Lands (Chairman: Richard J. Welch; Ranking Member: Andrew L. Somers)
Public Works (Chairman: George Anthony Dondero; Ranking Member: Joseph J. Mansfield then William M. Whittington)
Rules (Chairman: Leo E. Allen; Ranking Member: Adolph J. Sabath)
Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Walter C. Ploeser)
Standards of Official Conduct
Un-American Activities (Chairman: J. Parnell Thomas; Ranking Member: John S. Wood)
Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: Edith Nourse Rogers; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
Ways and Means (Chairman: Harold Knutson; Ranking Member: Robert L. Doughton)
Whole

Joint committees

Atomic Energy (Chairman: Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper; Vice Chairman: Rep. W. Sterling Cole)
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Economic (Chairman: Sen. Robert A. Taft; Vice Chairman: Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott)
Disposition of Executive Papers
Foreign Economic Cooperation
Housing
Labor Management Relations
Legislative Budget
The Library (Chairman: Sen. C. Wayland Brooks)
To Study Pacific Islands
Printing (Chairman: Sen. William E. Jenner; Vice Chairman: Rep. Karl M. LeCompte)
Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen. Harry F. Byrd; Vice Chairman: Rep. Robert L. Doughton)
Selective Service Deferments
Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Harold Knutson; Vice Chairman: Sen. Eugene D. Millikin)

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren
Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans
Public Printer of the United States: Augustus E. Giegengack, until 1948
John J. Deviny, from 1948

Senate

Chaplain: Peter Marshall (Presbyterian)
Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
Secretary: Carl A. Loeffler
Librarian: George W. Straubinger
Secretary for the Majority: J. Mark Trice
Secretary for the Minority: Felton McLellan Johnston
Sergeant at Arms: Edward F. McGinnis

House of Representatives

Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist)
Clerk: John Andrews
Doorkeeper: M. L. Meletio
Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
Postmaster: Frank W. Collier, until October 15, 1948; vacant thereafter
Reading Clerks: George J. Maurer (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
Sergeant at Arms: William F. Russell