September 24, 1957: Little Rock Crisis: President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine.
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth
October 21, 1957: The U.S. military sustained its first combat fatality in Vietnam
November 7, 1957: Gaither Report called for more American missiles and fallout shelters
November 25, 1957: President Eisenhower suffers from a stroke
January 31, 1958: U.S. launched its first satellite, Explorer 1
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. Senators in each state are listed by class. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1958; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1960; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1962.
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
^ ab When seated or oath administered, not necessarily when service began.
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Official Congressional Directory for the 85th Congress, 1st Session. 1957.
Official Congressional Directory for the 85th Congress, 2nd Session. 1958.
Pocket Congressional Directory for the 85th Congress. U. S. Govt. Print. Off.; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. 1957.
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85th, united, states, congress, meeting, legislative, branch, united, states, federal, government, composed, united, states, senate, united, states, house, representatives, washington, from, january, 1957, january, 1959, during, fifth, sixth, years, dwight, ei. The 85th 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 1957 to January 3 1959 during the fifth and sixth years of Dwight Eisenhower s presidency The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1950 United States census 85th United States Congress84th 86thUnited States Capitol 1956 January 3 1957 January 3 1959Members96 senators435 representativesSenate majorityDemocraticSenate PresidentRichard Nixon R House majorityDemocraticHouse SpeakerSam Rayburn D Sessions1st January 3 1957 August 30 19572nd January 7 1958 August 24 1958 Both chambers had a Democratic majority To date this is the earliest Congress with a member still living Merwin Coad Contents 1 Major events 2 Major legislation 3 States admitted 4 Party summary 4 1 Senate 4 2 House of Representatives 5 Leadership 5 1 Senate 5 1 1 Majority Democratic leadership 5 1 2 Minority Republican leadership 5 2 House of Representatives 5 2 1 Majority Democratic leadership 5 2 2 Minority Republican leadership 6 Caucuses 7 Members 7 1 Senate 7 1 1 Alabama 7 1 2 Arizona 7 1 3 Arkansas 7 1 4 California 7 1 5 Colorado 7 1 6 Connecticut 7 1 7 Delaware 7 1 8 Florida 7 1 9 Georgia 7 1 10 Idaho 7 1 11 Illinois 7 1 12 Indiana 7 1 13 Iowa 7 1 14 Kansas 7 1 15 Kentucky 7 1 16 Louisiana 7 1 17 Maine 7 1 18 Maryland 7 1 19 Massachusetts 7 1 20 Michigan 7 1 21 Minnesota 7 1 22 Mississippi 7 1 23 Missouri 7 1 24 Montana 7 1 25 Nebraska 7 1 26 Nevada 7 1 27 New Hampshire 7 1 28 New Jersey 7 1 29 New Mexico 7 1 30 New York 7 1 31 North Carolina 7 1 32 North Dakota 7 1 33 Ohio 7 1 34 Oklahoma 7 1 35 Oregon 7 1 36 Pennsylvania 7 1 37 Rhode Island 7 1 38 South Carolina 7 1 39 South Dakota 7 1 40 Tennessee 7 1 41 Texas 7 1 42 Utah 7 1 43 Vermont 7 1 44 Virginia 7 1 45 Washington 7 1 46 West Virginia 7 1 47 Wisconsin 7 1 48 Wyoming 7 2 House of Representatives 7 2 1 Alabama 7 2 2 Arizona 7 2 3 Arkansas 7 2 4 California 7 2 5 Colorado 7 2 6 Connecticut 7 2 7 Delaware 7 2 8 Florida 7 2 9 Georgia 7 2 10 Idaho 7 2 11 Illinois 7 2 12 Indiana 7 2 13 Iowa 7 2 14 Kansas 7 2 15 Kentucky 7 2 16 Louisiana 7 2 17 Maine 7 2 18 Maryland 7 2 19 Massachusetts 7 2 20 Michigan 7 2 21 Minnesota 7 2 22 Mississippi 7 2 23 Missouri 7 2 24 Montana 7 2 25 Nebraska 7 2 26 Nevada 7 2 27 New Hampshire 7 2 28 New Jersey 7 2 29 New Mexico 7 2 30 New York 7 2 31 North Carolina 7 2 32 North Dakota 7 2 33 Ohio 7 2 34 Oklahoma 7 2 35 Oregon 7 2 36 Pennsylvania 7 2 37 Rhode Island 7 2 38 South Carolina 7 2 39 South Dakota 7 2 40 Tennessee 7 2 41 Texas 7 2 42 Utah 7 2 43 Vermont 7 2 44 Virginia 7 2 45 Washington 7 2 46 West Virginia 7 2 47 Wisconsin 7 2 48 Wyoming 7 2 49 Non voting members 8 Changes in membership 8 1 Senate 8 2 House of Representatives 9 Committees 9 1 Senate 9 2 House of Representatives 9 3 Joint committees 10 Employees 10 1 Legislative branch agency directors 10 2 Senate 10 3 House of Representatives 11 See also 12 Notes 13 ReferencesMajor events editSee also 1957 in the United States 1958 in the United States and 1959 in the United States January 5 1957 President Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a special message to Congress January 20 1957 Inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower for a second term August 21 1957 President Eisenhower announced a 2 year suspension of nuclear testing August 28 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest filibuster with his 24 hour 18 minute speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 September 24 1957 Little Rock Crisis President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine October 4 1957 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth October 21 1957 The U S military sustained its first combat fatality in Vietnam November 7 1957 Gaither Report called for more American missiles and fallout shelters November 25 1957 President Eisenhower suffers from a stroke January 31 1958 U S launched its first satellite Explorer 1 July 15 1958 U S intervenes in the Lebanon Crisis the first major application of the Eisenhower Doctorine October 1 1958 NASA started operationsMajor legislation editMain article List of United States federal legislation 85th United States Congress August 14 1957 Airways Modernization Act Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 133 71 Stat 349 September 2 1957 Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 256 71 Stat 576 September 9 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 315 71 Stat 634 July 29 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 568 72 Stat 426 1958 Transportation Act of 1958 Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 625 August 23 1958 Federal Aviation Act of 1958 Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 726 72 Stat 731 August 28 1958 EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958 Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 846 72 Stat 1084 August 28 1958 Military Construction Appropriation Act Advanced Research Projects Agency Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 852 72 Stat 1096 September 2 1958 National Defense Education Act Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 864 72 Stat 1580 1958 Department of Defense Reorganization Act Pub L Tooltip Public Law United States 85 899 1958 Pasatore Walter Immigration ActStates admitted editJanuary 3 1959 Alaska was admitted as the 49th state Party summary editSenate edit Party shading shows control Total Vacant Democratic D Republican R End of previous congress47 49 96 0 Begin49 47 96 0 End5045951 Final voting share52 6 47 4 Beginning of next congress64 34 98 0 House of Representatives edit Party shading shows control Total Vacant Democratic D Republican R End of previous congress228 200 428 7 Begin233 200 433 2 End23219342510 Final voting share54 6 45 4 Beginning of next congress282 153 435 0Leadership editSenate President nbsp Richard Nixon R Senate President pro tempore nbsp Carl Hayden D House Speaker nbsp Sam Rayburn D Senate edit President Richard Nixon R President pro tempore Carl Hayden D Majority Democratic leadership edit Majority Leader and Conference Chairman Lyndon B Johnson Majority Whip Mike Mansfield Democratic Caucus Secretary Thomas C Hennings Jr Minority Republican leadership edit Minority Leader William Knowland Minority Whip Everett Dirksen Republican Conference Chairman Leverett Saltonstall Republican Conference Secretary Milton Young National Senatorial Committee Chair Everett Dirksen Policy Committee Chairman Styles Bridges House of Representatives edit Speaker Sam Rayburn D Majority Democratic leadership edit Majority Leader John W McCormack Majority Whip Carl Albert Democratic Caucus Chairman Melvin Price Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman Michael J Kirwan Minority Republican leadership edit Minority Leader Joseph W Martin Jr Minority Whip Leslie C Arends Republican Conference Chairman Charles B Hoeven Policy Committee Chairman Joseph W Martin Jr Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M SimpsonCaucuses editHouse Democratic Caucus Senate Democratic CaucusMembers editSenate edit 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 Senators in each state are listed by class In this Congress Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress facing re election in 1958 Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress facing re election in 1960 and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress facing re election in 1962 Alabama edit 3 J Lister Hill D 2 John Sparkman D Arizona edit 3 Carl Hayden D 1 Barry Goldwater R Arkansas edit 2 John L McClellan D 3 J William Fulbright D California edit 1 William Knowland R until January 2 1959 3 Thomas Kuchel R Colorado edit 2 Gordon Allott R 3 John A Carroll D Connecticut edit 1 William A Purtell R 3 Prescott Bush R Delaware edit 1 John J Williams R 2 J Allen Frear Jr D Florida edit 1 Spessard Holland D 3 George Smathers D Georgia edit 2 Richard Russell Jr D 3 Herman Talmadge D Idaho edit 2 Henry Dworshak R 3 Frank Church D Illinois edit 2 Paul Douglas D 3 Everett M Dirksen R Indiana edit 1 William E Jenner R 3 Homer E Capehart R Iowa edit 2 Thomas E Martin R 3 Bourke B Hickenlooper R Kansas edit 2 Andrew Frank Schoeppel R 3 Frank Carlson R Kentucky edit 2 John Sherman Cooper R 3 Thruston Ballard Morton R Louisiana edit 2 Allen J Ellender D 3 Russell B Long D Maine edit 1 Frederick G Payne R 2 Margaret Chase Smith R Maryland edit 1 James Glenn Beall R 3 John Marshall Butler R Massachusetts edit 1 John F Kennedy D 2 Leverett Saltonstall R Michigan edit 1 Charles E Potter R 2 Patrick V McNamara D Minnesota edit 1 Edward John Thye R 2 Hubert Humphrey DFL Mississippi edit 1 John C Stennis D 2 James Eastland D Missouri edit 1 Stuart Symington D 3 Thomas C Hennings Jr D Montana edit 1 Mike Mansfield D 2 James E Murray D Nebraska edit 1 Roman Hruska R 2 Carl Curtis R Nevada edit 1 George W Malone R 3 Alan Bible D New Hampshire edit 2 Styles Bridges R 3 Norris Cotton R New Jersey edit 1 Howard Alexander Smith R 2 Clifford P Case R New Mexico edit 1 Dennis Chavez D 2 Clinton Anderson D New York edit 1 Irving Ives R 3 Jacob Javits R from January 9 1957 North Carolina edit 2 W Kerr Scott D until April 16 1958 B Everett Jordan D from April 19 1958 dd 3 Sam Ervin D North Dakota edit 1 William Langer R NPL 3 Milton Young R Ohio edit 1 John W Bricker R 3 Frank Lausche D Oklahoma edit 2 Robert S Kerr D 3 A S Mike Monroney D Oregon edit 2 Richard L Neuberger D 3 Wayne Morse D Pennsylvania edit 1 Edward Martin R 3 Joseph S Clark Jr D Rhode Island edit 1 John Pastore D 2 Theodore F Green D South Carolina edit 2 Strom Thurmond D 3 Olin D Johnston D South Dakota edit 2 Karl E Mundt R 3 Francis Case R Tennessee edit 1 Albert Gore Sr D 2 Estes Kefauver D Texas edit 1 Price Daniel D until January 14 1957 William A Blakley D January 15 1957 April 28 1957 Ralph Yarborough D from April 29 1957 dd 2 Lyndon B Johnson D Utah edit 1 Arthur Vivian Watkins R 3 Wallace F Bennett R Vermont edit 1 Ralph Flanders R 3 George Aiken R Virginia edit 1 Harry F Byrd D 2 A Willis Robertson D Washington edit 1 Henry M Jackson D 3 Warren G Magnuson D West Virginia edit 1 Chapman Revercomb R 2 Matthew M Neely D until January 18 1958 John D Hoblitzell Jr R January 25 1958 November 4 1958 Jennings Randolph D from November 4 1958 dd Wisconsin edit 1 Joseph McCarthy R until May 2 1957 William Proxmire D from August 28 1957 dd 3 Alexander Wiley R Wyoming edit 1 Frank A Barrett R 2 Joseph C O Mahoney D nbsp Senators party membership by state at the opening of the 85th Congress in January 1957 2 Democrats 1 Democrat and 1 Republican 2 Republicans Senate majority leadership nbsp Democratic leaderLyndon B Johnson nbsp Democratic whipMike Mansfield Senate minority leadership nbsp Republican leaderWilliam Knowland nbsp Republican whipEverett Dirksen House of Representatives edit Alabama edit 1 Frank W Boykin D 2 George M Grant D 3 George W Andrews D 4 Kenneth A Roberts D 5 Albert Rains D 6 Armistead I Selden Jr D 7 Carl Elliott D 8 Robert E Jones Jr D 9 George Huddleston Jr D Arizona edit 1 John Jacob Rhodes R 2 Stewart Udall D Arkansas edit 1 Ezekiel C Gathings D 2 Wilbur Mills D 3 James William Trimble D 4 Oren Harris D 5 Brooks Hays D 6 William F Norrell D California edit 1 Hubert B Scudder R 2 Clair Engle D 3 John E Moss D 4 William S Mailliard R 5 John F Shelley D 6 John F Baldwin Jr R 7 John J Allen Jr R 8 George P Miller D 9 J Arthur Younger R 10 Charles Gubser R 11 John J McFall D 12 B F Sisk D 13 Charles M Teague R 14 Harlan Hagen D 15 Gordon L McDonough R 16 Donald L Jackson R 17 Cecil R King D 18 Craig Hosmer R 19 Chester E Holifield D 20 H Allen Smith R 21 Edgar W Hiestand R 22 Joseph F Holt R 23 Clyde Doyle D 24 Glenard P Lipscomb R 25 Patrick J Hillings R 26 James Roosevelt D 27 Harry R Sheppard D 28 James B Utt R 29 Dalip Singh Saund D 30 Bob Wilson R Colorado edit 1 Byron G Rogers D 2 William S Hill R 3 John Chenoweth R 4 Wayne N Aspinall D Connecticut edit 1 Edwin H May Jr R 2 Horace Seely Brown Jr R 3 Albert W Cretella R 4 Albert P Morano R 5 James T Patterson R At large Antoni Sadlak R Delaware edit At large Harry G Haskell Jr R Florida edit 1 William C Cramer R 2 Charles E Bennett D 3 Robert L F Sikes D 4 Dante Fascell D 5 Syd Herlong D 6 Paul Rogers D 7 James A Haley D 8 Donald Ray Matthews D Georgia edit 1 Prince Hulon Preston Jr D 2 J L Pilcher D 3 Tic Forrester D 4 John Flynt D 5 James C Davis D 6 Carl Vinson D 7 Henderson Lovelace Lanham D until November 10 1957 Harlan Erwin Mitchell D from January 8 1958 dd 8 Iris Faircloth Blitch D 9 Phillip M Landrum D 10 Paul Brown D Idaho edit 1 Gracie Pfost D 2 Hamer H Budge R Illinois edit 1 William L Dawson D 2 Barratt O Hara D 3 Emmet Byrne R 4 William E McVey R until August 10 1958 5 John C Kluczynski D 6 Thomas J O Brien D 7 James Bowler D until July 18 1957 Roland V Libonati D from December 31 1957 dd 8 Thomas S Gordon D 9 Sidney R Yates D 10 Harold R Collier R 11 Timothy P Sheehan R 12 Charles A Boyle D 13 Marguerite S Church R 14 Russell W Keeney R until January 11 1958 15 Noah M Mason R 16 Leo E Allen R 17 Leslie C Arends R 18 Robert H Michel R 19 Robert B Chiperfield R 20 Sid Simpson R until October 26 1958 21 Peter F Mack Jr D 22 William L Springer R 23 Charles W Vursell R 24 Melvin Price D 25 Kenneth J Gray D Indiana edit 1 Ray Madden D 2 Charles A Halleck R 3 F Jay Nimtz R 4 E Ross Adair R 5 John V Beamer R 6 Cecil M Harden R 7 William G Bray R 8 Winfield K Denton D 9 Earl Wilson R 10 Ralph Harvey R 11 Charles B Brownson R Iowa edit 1 Fred Schwengel R 2 Henry O Talle R 3 H R Gross R 4 Karl M LeCompte R 5 Paul Cunningham R 6 Merwin Coad D 7 Ben F Jensen R 8 Charles B Hoeven R Kansas edit 1 William H Avery R 2 Errett P Scrivner R 3 Myron V George R 4 Edward Herbert Rees R 5 James Floyd Breeding D 6 Wint Smith R Kentucky edit 1 Noble J Gregory D 2 William Natcher D 3 John M Robsion Jr R 4 Frank Chelf D 5 Brent Spence D 6 John C Watts D 7 Carl D Perkins D 8 Eugene Siler R Louisiana edit 1 F Edward Hebert D 2 Hale Boggs D 3 Edwin E Willis D 4 Overton Brooks D 5 Otto Passman D 6 James H Morrison D 7 T Ashton Thompson D 8 George S Long D until March 22 1958 Maine edit 1 Robert Hale R 2 Frank M Coffin D 3 Clifford McIntire R Maryland edit 1 Edward Tylor Miller R 2 James Devereux R 3 Edward Garmatz D 4 George Hyde Fallon D 5 Richard Lankford D 6 DeWitt Hyde R 7 Samuel Friedel D Massachusetts edit 1 John W Heselton R 2 Edward Boland D 3 Philip J Philbin D 4 Harold Donohue D 5 Edith Nourse Rogers R 6 William H Bates R 7 Thomas J Lane D 8 Torbert Macdonald D 9 Donald W Nicholson R 10 Laurence Curtis R 11 Tip O Neill D 12 John W McCormack D 13 Richard B Wigglesworth R until November 13 1958 14 Joseph W Martin Jr R Michigan edit 1 Thaddeus M Machrowicz D 2 George Meader R 3 August E Johansen R 4 Clare E Hoffman R 5 Gerald Ford R 6 Charles E Chamberlain R 7 Robert J McIntosh R 8 Alvin Morell Bentley R 9 Robert P Griffin R 10 Elford Albin Cederberg R 11 Victor A Knox R 12 John B Bennett R 13 Charles Diggs D 14 Louis C Rabaut D 15 John D Dingell Jr D 16 John Lesinski Jr D 17 Martha Griffiths D 18 William Broomfield R Minnesota edit 1 August H Andresen R until January 14 1958 Al Quie R from February 18 1958 dd 2 Joseph P O Hara R 3 Roy Wier DFL 4 Eugene McCarthy DFL 5 Walter Judd R 6 Fred Marshall DFL 7 Herman Carl Andersen R 8 John Blatnik DFL 9 Coya Knutson DFL Mississippi edit 1 Thomas Abernethy D 2 Jamie L Whitten D 3 Frank Ellis Smith D 4 John Bell Williams D 5 W Arthur Winstead D 6 William M Colmer D Missouri edit 1 Frank M Karsten D 2 Thomas B Curtis R 3 Leonor Sullivan D 4 George H Christopher D 5 Richard Walker Bolling D 6 William Raleigh Hull Jr D 7 Charles Harrison Brown D 8 A S J Carnahan D 9 Clarence Cannon D 10 Paul C Jones D 11 Morgan M Moulder D Montana edit 1 Lee Metcalf D 2 LeRoy H Anderson D Nebraska edit 1 Phillip Hart Weaver R 2 Glenn Cunningham R 3 Robert Dinsmore Harrison R 4 Arthur L Miller R Nevada edit At large Walter S Baring Jr D New Hampshire edit 1 Chester Earl Merrow R 2 Perkins Bass R New Jersey edit 1 Charles A Wolverton R 2 Milton W Glenn R from November 5 1957 3 James C Auchincloss R 4 Frank Thompson D 5 Peter Frelinghuysen Jr R 6 Florence P Dwyer R 7 William B Widnall R 8 Gordon Canfield R 9 Frank C Osmers Jr R 10 Peter W Rodino D 11 Hugh Joseph Addonizio D 12 Robert Kean R 13 Alfred Dennis Sieminski D 14 Vincent J Dellay R to D sometime in 1958 New Mexico edit At large John J Dempsey D until March 11 1958 At large Joseph Montoya D from April 9 1957 New York edit 1 Stuyvesant Wainwright R 2 Steven Derounian R 3 Frank J Becker R 4 Henry J Latham R until December 31 1958 5 Albert H Bosch R 6 Lester Holtzman D 7 James J Delaney D 8 Victor Anfuso D 9 Eugene J Keogh D 10 Edna F Kelly D 11 Emanuel Celler D 12 Francis E Dorn R 13 Abraham J Multer D 14 John J Rooney D 15 John H Ray R 16 Adam Clayton Powell Jr D 17 Frederic Rene Coudert Jr R 18 Alfred E Santangelo D 19 Leonard Farbstein D 20 Ludwig Teller D 21 Herbert Zelenko D 22 James C Healey D 23 Isidore Dollinger D 24 Charles A Buckley D 25 Paul A Fino R 26 Edwin B Dooley R 27 Ralph W Gwinn R 28 Katharine St George R 29 J Ernest Wharton R 30 Leo W O Brien D 31 Dean P Taylor R 32 Bernard W Kearney R 33 Clarence E Kilburn R 34 William R Williams R 35 R Walter Riehlman R 36 John Taber R 37 W Sterling Cole R until December 1 1957 Howard W Robison R from January 14 1958 dd 38 Kenneth Keating R 39 Harold C Ostertag R 40 William E Miller R 41 Edmund P Radwan R 42 John R Pillion R 43 Daniel A Reed R North Carolina edit 1 Herbert Covington Bonner D 2 Lawrence H Fountain D 3 Graham A Barden D 4 Harold D Cooley D 5 Ralph James Scott D 6 Carl T Durham D 7 Alton Lennon D 8 Alvin Paul Kitchin D 9 Hugh Quincy Alexander D 10 Charles R Jonas R 11 Basil Lee Whitener D 12 George A Shuford D North Dakota edit At large Otto Krueger R At large Usher L Burdick R NPL Ohio edit 1 Gordon H Scherer R 2 William E Hess R 3 Paul F Schenck R 4 William Moore McCulloch R 5 Cliff Clevenger R 6 James G Polk D 7 Clarence J Brown R 8 Jackson Edward Betts R 9 Thomas L Ashley D 10 Thomas A Jenkins R 11 David S Dennison R 12 John M Vorys R 13 Albert David Baumhart Jr R 14 William Hanes Ayres R 15 John E Henderson R 16 Frank T Bow R 17 J Harry McGregor R until October 7 1958 vacant thereafter 18 Wayne Hays D 19 Michael J Kirwan D 20 Michael A Feighan D 21 Charles Vanik D 22 Frances P Bolton R 23 William Edwin Minshall Jr R Oklahoma edit 1 Page Belcher R 2 Ed Edmondson D 3 Carl Albert D 4 Tom Steed D 5 John Jarman D 6 Toby Morris D Oregon edit 1 A Walter Norblad R 2 Al Ullman D 3 Edith Green D 4 Charles O Porter D Pennsylvania edit 1 William A Barrett D 2 Kathryn E Granahan D 3 James A Byrne D 4 Earl Chudoff D until January 5 1958 Robert N C Nix Sr D from May 20 1958 dd 5 William J Green Jr D 6 Hugh Scott R 7 Benjamin F James R 8 Willard S Curtin R 9 Paul B Dague R 10 Joseph L Carrigg R 11 Dan Flood D 12 Ivor D Fenton R 13 Samuel K McConnell Jr R until September 1 1957 John A Lafore Jr R from November 5 1957 dd 14 George M Rhodes D 15 Francis E Walter D 16 Walter M Mumma R 17 Alvin Bush R 18 Richard M Simpson R 19 S Walter Stauffer R 20 James E Van Zandt R 21 Augustine B Kelley D until November 20 1957 John Herman Dent D from January 21 1958 dd 22 John P Saylor R 23 Leon H Gavin R 24 Carroll D Kearns R 25 Frank M Clark D 26 Thomas E Morgan D 27 James G Fulton R 28 Herman P Eberharter D until September 9 1958 29 Robert J Corbett R 30 Elmer J Holland D Rhode Island edit 1 Aime Forand D 2 John E Fogarty D South Carolina edit 1 L Mendel Rivers D 2 John J Riley D 3 William Jennings Bryan Dorn D 4 Robert T Ashmore D 5 Robert W Hemphill D 6 John L McMillan D South Dakota edit 1 George McGovern D 2 Ellis Yarnal Berry R Tennessee edit 1 B Carroll Reece R 2 Howard Baker Sr R 3 James B Frazier Jr D 4 Joe L Evins D 5 Joseph Carlton Loser D 6 Ross Bass D 7 Tom J Murray D 8 Jere Cooper D until December 18 1957 Fats Everett D from February 1 1958 dd 9 Clifford Davis D Texas edit 1 Wright Patman D 2 Jack Brooks D 3 Lindley Beckworth D 4 Sam Rayburn D 5 Bruce Alger R 6 Olin E Teague D 7 John Dowdy D 8 Albert Thomas D 9 Clark W Thompson D 10 Homer Thornberry D 11 William R Poage D 12 Jim Wright D 13 Frank N Ikard D 14 John Andrew Young D 15 Joe M Kilgore D 16 J T Rutherford D 17 Omar Burleson D 18 Walter E Rogers D 19 George H Mahon D 20 Paul J Kilday D 21 O C Fisher D At large Martin Dies Jr D Utah edit 1 Henry Aldous Dixon R 2 William A Dawson R Vermont edit At large Winston L Prouty R Virginia edit 1 Edward J Robeson Jr D 2 Porter Hardy Jr D 3 J Vaughan Gary D 4 Watkins Moorman Abbitt D 5 William M Tuck D 6 Richard Harding Poff R 7 Burr Harrison D 8 Howard W Smith D 9 W Pat Jennings D 10 Joel Broyhill R Washington edit 1 Thomas Pelly R 2 Jack Westland R 3 Russell V Mack R 4 Hal Holmes R 5 Walt Horan R 6 Thor C Tollefson R At large Donald H Magnuson D West Virginia edit 1 Arch A Moore Jr R 2 Harley Orrin Staggers D 3 Cleveland M Bailey D 4 Will E Neal R 5 Elizabeth Kee D 6 Robert Byrd D Wisconsin edit 1 Lawrence H Smith R until January 22 1958 2 Donald Edgar Tewes R 3 Gardner R Withrow R 4 Clement J Zablocki D 5 Henry S Reuss D 6 William Van Pelt R 7 Melvin Laird R 8 John W Byrnes R 9 Lester Johnson D 10 Alvin O Konski R Wyoming edit At large Edwin Keith Thomson R Non voting members edit Alaska Territory Bob Bartlett D Hawaii Territory John A Burns D Puerto Rico Antonio Fernos Isern PPD nbsp House seats by party holding plurality in state 80 Democratic 80 Republican 60 to 80 Democratic 60 to 80 Republican Up to 60 Democratic Up to 60 RepublicanChanges in membership editSenate edit See also List of special elections to the United States Senate Senate changes State class Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor s formal installation a New York 3 Vacant Retired Successor elected in 1956 but took seat late to prevent Governor from appointing a rival to be his successor as N Y Attorney General Jacob Javits R January 9 1957 Texas 1 Price Daniel D Resigned January 14 1957 after being elected Governor of Texas Successor appointed January 15 1957 William A Blakley D January 15 1957 Texas 1 William A Blakley D Interim appointee retired when successor elected Successor elected April 28 1957 Ralph Yarborough D April 29 1957 Wisconsin 1 Joseph McCarthy R Died May 2 1957 Successor elected August 27 1957 William Proxmire D August 28 1957 West Virginia 2 Matthew M Neely D Died January 18 1958 Successor appointed January 25 1958 John D Hoblitzell Jr R January 25 1958 North Carolina 2 W Kerr Scott D Died April 16 1958 Successor appointed April 19 1958 and then elected November 4 1958 B Everett Jordan D April 19 1958 West Virginia 2 John D Hoblitzell Jr R Interim appointee lost special election Successor elected November 4 1958 Jennings Randolph D November 5 1958 California 1 William F Knowland R Resigned early January 2 1959 Vacant Not filled this term House of Representatives edit See also List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives House changes District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date of successor s formal installation a New Mexico at large Vacant Rep Antonio M Fernandez died during previous congress Joseph Montoya D April 9 1957 New Jersey 2 Vacant Rep T Millet Hand died during previous congress Milton W Glenn R November 5 1957 Illinois 7 James Bowler D Died July 18 1957 Roland V Libonati D December 31 1957 Pennsylvania 13 Samuel K McConnell Jr R Resigned September 1 1957 after becoming Executive Director of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations John A Lafore Jr R November 5 1957 Georgia 7 Henderson L Lanham D Died November 10 1957 Harlan E Mitchell D January 8 1958 Pennsylvania 21 Augustine B Kelley D Died November 20 1957 John H Dent D January 21 1958 New York 37 W Sterling Cole R Resigned December 1 1957 after becoming Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Howard W Robison R January 14 1958 Tennessee 8 Jere Cooper D Died December 18 1957 Fats Everett D February 1 1958 Pennsylvania 4 Earl Chudoff D Resigned January 5 1958 after being elected judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas No 1 Robert N C Nix Sr D May 20 1958 New Jersey 14 Vincent J Dellay R Changed political affiliation some time in 1958 Vincent J Dellay D 1958 Illinois 14 Russell W Keeney R Died January 11 1958 Vacant Not filled this term Minnesota 1 August H Andresen R Died January 14 1958 Al Quie R February 18 1958 Wisconsin 1 Lawrence H Smith R Died January 22 1958 Not filled this term New Mexico at large John J Dempsey D Died March 11 1958 Not filled this term Louisiana 8 George S Long D Died March 22 1958 Not filled this term Illinois 4 William E McVey R Died August 10 1958 Not filled this term Pennsylvania 28 Herman P Eberharter D Died September 9 1958 Not filled this term Ohio 17 J Harry McGregor R Died October 7 1958 Not filled this term Illinois 20 Sid Simpson R Died October 26 1958 Not filled this term Massachusetts 13 Richard B Wigglesworth R Resigned November 13 1958 Not filled this term New York 4 Henry J Latham R Resigned December 31 1958 after becoming a judge of the New York Supreme Court Not filled this term Committees editLists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate House Standing with Subcommittees Select and Special and Joint and after that House Senate committee assignments On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory the committee s members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee Senate edit Agriculture and Forestry Chairman Allen J Ellender Ranking Member George D Aiken Appropriations Chairman Carl Hayden Ranking Member Styles Bridges Armed Services Chairman Richard B Russell Ranking Member Leverett Saltonstall Banking and Currency Chairman J William Fulbright Ranking Member Homer Capehart District of Columbia Chairman Matthew M Neely Ranking Member J Glenn Beall Finance Chairman Harry F Byrd Ranking Member Edward Martin Foreign Relations Chairman Theodore F Green Ranking Member Alexander Wiley Foreign Aid Program Special Chairman data missing Ranking Member data missing Government Operations Chairman John Little McClellan Ranking Member Joseph McCarthy then Karl E Mundt Interior and Insular Affairs Chairman James E Murray Ranking Member George W Malone Interstate and Foreign Commerce Chairman Warren G Magnuson Ranking Member John W Bricker Judiciary Chairman James O Eastland Ranking Member Alexander Wiley Labor and Public Welfare Chairman J Lister Hill Ranking Member H Alexander Smith Labor Management Relations Select Political Activities Lobbying and Campaign Contributions Special Post Office and Civil Service Chairman Olin D Johnston Ranking Member Frank Carlson Preserve Historical Records of the Senate Special Public Works Chairman Dennis Chavez Ranking Member Edward Martin Rules and Administration Chairman Thomas C Hennings Jr Ranking Member Carl T Curtis Senate Reception Room Special Small Business Select Chairman John J Sparkman Space and Aeronautics Special Subcommittee on Internal Security Whole House of Representatives edit Agriculture Chairman Harold D Cooley Ranking Member August H Andresen then William S Hill Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon Ranking Member John Taber Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson Ranking Member Leslie C Arends Banking and Currency Chairman Brent Spence Ranking Member Henry O Talle Benefits for Dependents of Armed Services Veterans Select Defense Production District of Columbia Chairman John L McMillan Ranking Member Sid Simpson then Joseph P O Hara Education and Labor Chairman Graham A Barden Ranking Member Samuel K McConnell then Ralph W Gwinn Foreign Affairs Chairman Thomas S Gordon Ranking Member Robert B Chiperfield Government Operations Chairman William L Dawson Ranking Member Clare E Hoffman House Administration Chairman Omar Burleson Ranking Member Karl M LeCompte Interior and Insular Affairs Chairman Clair Engle Ranking Member A L Miller Interstate and Foreign Commerce Chairman Oren Harris Ranking Member Charles A Wolverton Judiciary Chairman Emanuel Celler Ranking Member Kenneth B Keating Merchant Marine and Fisheries Chairman Oren Harris Ranking Member Thor C Tollefson Post Office and Civil Service Chairman Tom J Murray Ranking Member Edward H Rees Public Works Chairman Charles A Buckley Ranking Member J Harry McGregor then James C Auchincloss Rules Chairman Howard W Smith Ranking Member Leo E Allen Small Business Select Chairman Wright Patman Un American Activities Chairman Francis E Walter Ranking Member Bernard W Kearney Veterans Affairs Chairman Olin D Johnston Ranking Member Edith Nourse Rogers Ways and Means Chairman Jere Cooper Ranking Member Daniel A Reed Whole Joint committees edit Atomic Energy Chairman Rep Carl T Durham Vice Chairman Sen Clinton P Anderson Conditions of Indian Tribes Special Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian Defense Production Chairman Sen A Willis Robertson Vice Chairman Rep Paul Brown Disposition of Executive Papers Economic Chairman Rep Wright Patman Vice Chairman Sen John J Sparkman Immigration and Nationality Policy Chairman Vacant Vice Chairman Vacant Legislative Budget The Library Chairman Rep Omar Burleson Vice Chairman Sen Theodore F Green Navajo Hopi Indian Administration Printing Chairman Sen Carl Hayden Vice Chairman Rep Omar Burleson Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures Chairman Sen Harry F Byrd Vice Chairman Rep Clarence Cannon Taxation Chairman Rep Jere Cooper Vice Chairman Sen Harry F Byrd Washington DC Metropolitan ProblemsEmployees editLegislative branch agency directors edit Architect of the Capitol J George Stewart Attending Physician of the United States Congress George Calver Comptroller General of the United States Joseph Campbell Librarian of Congress Lawrence Quincy Mumford Public Printer of the United States Raymond Blattenberger Senate edit Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris Methodist Parliamentarian Charles Watkins Secretary Felton McLellan Johnston Librarian Richard D Hupman Secretary for the Majority Robert G Baker Secretary for the Minority J Mark Trice Sergeant at Arms Joseph C Duke House of Representatives edit Clerk Ralph R Roberts Doorkeeper William Mosley Fishbait Miller Parliamentarian Lewis Deschler Postmaster H H Morris Reading Clerks George J Maurer D and Alney E Chaffee R until 1957 then Joe Bartlett R starting 1957 Sergeant at Arms Zeake W Johnson Jr Chaplain Bernard Braskamp Presbyterian See also edit1956 United States elections elections leading to this Congress 1956 United States presidential election 1956 United States Senate elections 1956 United States House of Representatives elections 1958 United States elections elections during this Congress leading to the next Congress 1958 United States Senate elections 1958 United States House of Representatives electionsNotes edit a b When seated or oath administered not necessarily when service began References editGould Lewis L 2005 The Most Exclusive Club Cambridge MA Perseus Books Group ISBN 0 465 02778 4 Remini Robert V 2006 The House New York HarperCollins Publishers Inc ISBN 0 06 088434 7 Biographical Directory of the U S Congress U S Congress 2005 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