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==Party summaries==
==Party summary==


===Senate===
===Senate===

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86th United States Congress
85th โ†
โ†’ 87th

January 3, 1959 (1959-01-03) โ€“ January 3, 1961 (1961-01-03)
Members96 (then increasing to 100) senators
435 (then temporarily increasing to 437) representatives
Senate majorityDemocratic
Senate PresidentRichard Nixon (R)
House majorityDemocratic
House SpeakerSam Rayburn (D)
Sessions
1st: January 7, 1959 โ€“ September 15, 1959
2nd: January 6, 1960 โ€“ September 1, 1960

The Eighty-sixth 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, 1959, to January 3, 1961, during the last two years of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. When Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states in 1959, the membership of the House temporarily increased to 437 (seating one member from each of those newly admitted states and leaving the apportionment of the other 435 seats unchanged); it would remain at 437 until reapportionment resulting from the 1960 census.

Major events

Major legislation

Constitutional amendments

The official Joint Resolution of Congress proposing what became the 23rd Amendment as contained in the National Archives

Treaties

Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan

States admitted

  • August 21, 1959: Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state.

Party summary

Senate

Party
(shading shows control)
Total Vacant
Democratic
(D)
Republican
(R)
End of previous congress 50 45 95 1
Begin 64 34 98 0
End 66 100
Final voting share 66.0% 34.0%
Beginning of next congress 65 35 100 0

House of Representatives

Party
(shading shows control)
Total Vacant
Democratic
(D)
Republican
(R)
End of previous congress 232 193 425 10
Begin 282 153 435 0
End 281 151 4325
Final voting share 65.0% 35.0%
Beginning of next congress 263 174 437 0

TOTAL members: 437. The increase over the usual 435 members was due to the admission of Alaska and Hawaii, whose seats were temporary until reapportionment following the 1960 Census.

Leadership

Congressional Leaders
Richard Nixon
Senate President
Richard Nixon (R)
Carl Hayden
Senate President pro tempore
Carl Hayden
Sam Rayburn
House Speaker
Sam Rayburn

Senate

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

House of Representatives

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

Caucuses

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 1960; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1962; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1964.

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Changes in membership

Senate

Template:Ordinal US Congress Senate

|- | Hawaii
(1) | rowspan=2 | New seats | rowspan=2 | Hawaii achieved statehood August 21, 1959. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Hiram Fong (R) | rowspan=2 | August 21, 1959

|- | Hawaii
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Oren E. Long (D)

|- | North Dakota
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | William Langer (R) | Died November 8, 1959. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Clarence N. Brunsdale (R) | November 19, 1959

|- | Oregon
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Richard L. Neuberger (D) | Died March 9, 1960 | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Hall S. Lusk (D) | March 16, 1960

|- | North Dakota
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Clarence N. Brunsdale (R) | Successor elected June 28, 1960.
Successor qualified August 8, 1960. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Quentin N. Burdick (D) | August 8, 1960

|- | Missouri
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D) | Died September 13, 1960 | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Edward V. Long (D) | September 23, 1960

|- | Oregon
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Hall S. Lusk (D) | Successor elected November 8, 1960 | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Maurine Brown Neuberger (D) | November 9, 1960

|- | Massachusetts
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | John F. Kennedy (D) | Resigned December 22, 1960, after being elected President of the United States | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Benjamin A. Smith II (D) | December 27, 1960 |}

House of Representatives

Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep |- | Missouri 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| George H. Christopher (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 23, 1959 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | William J. Randall (D) | March 3, 1959 |- | New York 43rd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Daniel A. Reed (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died February 19, 1959 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Charles Goodell (R) | May 26, 1959 |- | Ohio 6th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| James G. Polk (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 28, 1959 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Ward Miller (R) | November 8, 1960 |- | Hawaii Territory At-large | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| John A. Burns (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Hawaii achieved statehood. | colspan=2 | Seat eliminated August 21, 1959 |- | Hawaii At-large | New seat | style="font-size:80%" | Hawaii achieved statehood August 21, 1959 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Daniel Inouye (D) | August 21, 1959 |- | Illinois 12th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Charles A. Boyle (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 4, 1959 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Iowa 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Steven V. Carter (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 4, 1959 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | John H. Kyl (R) | December 15, 1959 |- | Pennsylvania 17th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Alvin Bush (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 5, 1959 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Herman T. Schneebeli (R) | April 26, 1960 |- | New York 23rd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Isidore Dollinger (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 31, 1959 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Jacob H. Gilbert (D) | March 8, 1960 |- | Pennsylvania 18th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Richard M. Simpson (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 7, 1960 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Douglas H. Elliott (R) | April 26, 1960 |- | North Carolina 12th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| David M. Hall (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 29, 1960 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Roy A. Taylor (D) | June 25, 1960 |- | Washington 3rd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Russell V. Mack (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died March 28, 1960 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Julia Butler Hansen (D) | November 8, 1960 |- | Pennsylvania 18th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Douglas H. Elliott (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 19, 1960 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | J. Irving Whalley (R) | November 8, 1960 |- | North Dakota At-large | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Quentin N. Burdick (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 8, 1960, after becoming U.S. Senator | rowspan=4 |Vacant | rowspan=4 |Not filled this term |- | Massachusetts 5th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Edith Nourse Rogers (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died September 10, 1960 |- | Wyoming At-large | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Edwin K. Thomson (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 9, 1960 |- | New York 5th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Albert H. Bosch (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 31, 1960, after being elected judge of Court of Queens County |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (2 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, 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

House of Representatives

Joint committees

Employees and legislative agency directors

Legislative branch agency directors

Senate

House of Representatives

See also

Notes

References

Specific citations
  1. ^ "Nation Honor Lincoln On Sesquicentennial" (PDF). Yonkers Herald-Statesman. Northern Illinois University Libraries. Associated Press. February 11, 1959. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 1, 2013. Retrieved April 25, 2013. Congress gets into the act tomorrow, when a joint session will be held. Carl Sandburg, famed Lincoln biographer, will give and address, and actor Fredric March will read the Gettysburg Address.
General references