73rd United States Congress

73rd United States Congress
72nd ← → 74th
United States Capitol (1956)
March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 5 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Democratic
Senate President	John N. Garner (D)
House majority	Democratic
House Speaker	Henry T. Rainey (D), until Aug. 19, 1934
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1933 – March 6, 1933 1st: March 9, 1933 – June 15, 1933 2nd: January 3, 1934 – June 18, 1934

The Seventy-third 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 March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935, during the first two years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Because of the newly ratified 20th Amendment, the duration of this Congress, along with the term of office of those elected to it, was shortened by the interval between January 3 and March 4, 1935 (61 days). The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Major events

Main articles: 1933 in the United States, 1934 in the United States, and 1935 in the United States

• March 4, 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States
• January 3, 1934: The second session of 73rd Congress convened as mandated by the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, that had been ratified one year earlier
• August 19, 1934: House Speaker Henry Thomas Rainey died of a heart attack. The House had already completed its work for this Congress and had already adjourned. No Speaker was elected until the next Congress.

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation § 73rd United States Congress

First Session

The first session of Congress, known as the "Hundred Days", took place before the regular seating and was called by President Roosevelt specifically to pass two acts:

• March 9, 1933: The Emergency Banking Act (ch. 1, 48 Stat. 1) was enacted within four hours of its introduction. It was prompted by the "bank holiday" and was the first step in Roosevelt's "first hundred days" of the New Deal. The Act was drafted in large part by officials appointed by the Hoover administration. The bill provided for the Treasury Department to initiate reserve requirements and a federal bailout to large failing institutions. It also removed the United States from the Gold Standard. All banks had to undergo a federal inspection to deem if they were stable enough to re-open. Within a week 1/3 of the banks re-opened in the United States and faith was, in large part, restored in the banking system. The act had few opponents, only taking fire from the farthest left elements of Congress who wanted to nationalize banks altogether.
• March 10, 1933: The Economy Act of 1933. Roosevelt, in sending this act to Congress, warned that if it did not pass, the country faced a billion dollar deficit. The act balanced the federal budget by cutting the salaries of government employees and cutting pensions to veterans by as much as 15 percent. It intended to reassure the deficit hawks that the new president was fiscally conservative. Although the act was heavily protested by left-leaning members of congress, it passed by an overwhelming margin.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act

The session also passed several other major pieces of legislation:

• March 31, 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps Reforestation Relief Act (ch. 17, 48 Stat. 22) established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to combat unemployment and poverty.
• May 12, 1933: The Agricultural Adjustment Act (ch. 25, 48 Stat. 31) was part of a plan developed by Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace, and was designed to protect American farmers from the uncertainties of the depression through subsidies and production controls. The act laid the frame for long-term government control in the planning of the agricultural sector. In 1936 the act was ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court because it taxed one group to pay for another.
• May 12, 1933: The Federal Emergency Relief Act (ch. 30, 48 Stat. 55) established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which develop public works projects to give work to the unemployed.
• May 18, 1933: The Tennessee Valley Authority Act (ch. 32, 48 Stat. 58) created the Tennessee Valley Authority to relieve the Tennessee Valley by a series of public works projects.
• June 5, 1933: The Securities Act of 1933 (ch. 38, 48 Stat. 74) established the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as a way for the government to prevent a repeat of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
• June 12, 1933: The Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 (ch. 89, 48 Stat. 162) was a follow up to the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932. Both acts sought to make banking safer and less prone to speculation. The 1933 act, however, established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
• June 16, 1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act ("NIRA", ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195) was an anti-deflation scheme promoted by the Chamber of Commerce that reversed anti-trust laws and permit trade associations to cooperate in stabilizing prices within their industries while making businesses ensure that the incomes of workers would rise along with their prices. It guaranteed to workers of the right of collective bargaining and helped spur major union organizing drives in major industries. In case consumer buying power lagged behind, thereby defeating the administration's initiatives, the NIRA created the Public Works Administration (PWA), a major program of public works spending designed to alleviate unemployment, and moreover to transfer funds to certain beneficiaries. The NIRA established the most important, but ultimately least successful provision: a new federal agency known as the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to stabilize prices and wages through cooperative "code authorities" involving government, business, and labor. The NIRA was seen hailed as a miracle, responding to the needs of labor, business, unemployment, and the deflation crisis. The "sick chicken case" led to the Supreme Court invalidating NIRA in 1935.

Second Session

• March 24, 1934: The Tydings–McDuffie Act (Pub. L. 73–127, 48 Stat. 456) provided for self-government for the Commonwealth of the Philippines and a pathway to independence.
• June 6, 1934: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (ch. 404, 48 Stat. 881) grew out of the Securities Act of 1933 and regulated participation in financial markets.
• June 6, 1934: The National Firearms Act of 1934 (ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236) regulated machine guns, short-barreled rifles and shotguns.
• June 19, 1934: Communications Act of 1934 (ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, Pub. L. 73–416)

Constitutional amendments

• December 5, 1933: Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, repealing the eighteenth amendment and thus ending prohibition in the United States, was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 36) to become part of the Constitution

Hearings

"Merchants of Death"

• Committee: United States Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
• Chairman: Senator Gerald P. Nye (R)
• Duration: September 4, 1934 – February 24, 1936

The Senate Munitions Committee came into existence solely for the purpose of this hearing. Although World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53,000 Americans, hence the companies' nickname "Merchants of Death."

The Democratic Party, controlling the Senate for the first time since the first world war, used the hype of these reports to organize the hearing in hopes of nationalizing America's munitions industry. The Democrats chose a Republican renowned for his ardent isolationist policies, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, to head the hearing. Nye was typical of western agrarian progressives, and adamantly opposed America's involvement in any foreign war. Nye declared at the opening of the hearing "when the Senate investigation is over, we shall see that war and preparation for war is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few."

Over the next eighteen months, the "Nye Committee" (as newspapers called it) held ninety-three hearings, questioning more than two hundred witnesses, including J.P. Morgan, Jr. and Pierre du Pont. Committee members found little hard evidence of an active conspiracy among arms makers, yet the panel's reports did little to weaken the popular prejudice against "greedy munitions interests."

The hearings overlapped the 73rd and 74th Congresses. They only came to an end after Chairman Nye provoked the Democratic caucus into cutting off funding. Nye, in the last hearing the Committee held in early 1936, attacked former Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, suggesting that Wilson had withheld essential information from Congress as it considered a declaration of war. Democratic leaders, including Appropriations Committee Chairman Carter Glass of Virginia, unleashed a furious response against Nye for "dirtdaubing the sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson." Standing before cheering colleagues in a packed Senate chamber, Glass slammed his fist onto his desk in protest until blood dripped from his knuckles, effectively prompting the Democratic caucus to withhold all funding for further hearings.

Although the "Nye Committee" failed to achieve its goal of nationalizing the arms industry, it inspired three congressional neutrality acts in the mid-1930s that signaled profound American opposition to overseas involvement.

Party summary

For details, see Changes in membership, below.

Senate

There were 48 states with two Senators per state, this gave the Senate 96 seats. Membership changed with four deaths, one resignation, and two appointees who were replaced by electees.

	Party (shading indicates majority caucus)				Total
	style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Farmer–Labor Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Progressive Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |		style="background-color:Template:Vacant/meta/color"|
	Democratic	Farmer–Labor	Progressive	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Congress	46	1	0	48	95	1
Begin (March 4, 1933)	58	1	0	36	96	1
March 11, 1933	59			35	95	1
May 24, 1933	60				96	0
June 24, 1933	59				95	1
October 6, 1933				34	94	2
October 10, 1933	60				95	1
October 19, 1933				35	96	0
November 3, 1933	59				95	1
December 18, 1933	60				96	0
Final voting share	62.5%	1.0%	0.0%	36.5%
Beginning of next Congress	70	1	1	23	95	1

House of Representatives

Membership changed with twelve deaths and three resignations.

	Party (shading indicates majority caucus)				Total
	style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Farmer–Labor Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Progressive Party (United States)/meta/color" |	style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (United States)/meta/color" |
	Democratic	Farmer–Labor	Progressive	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Congress	220	1	0	206	428	8
Begin (March 4, 1933)	311	5	0	117	433	2
April 22, 1933	312				434	1
April 29, 1933	311				433	2
May 12, 1933	310				432	3
May 17, 1933	309				431	4
June 19, 1933	308				430	5
June 22, 1933	307				429	6
June 24, 1933	308				430	5
July 5, 1933	309				431	4
August 27, 1933				116	430	5
September 23, 1933	308				429	6
October 3, 1933	309				430	5
October 19, 1933				115	429	6
November 5, 1933				114	428	7
November 7, 1933	310				429	6
November 14, 1933	311				430	5
November 28, 1933	312				431	4
December 19, 1933	313			113
December 28, 1933				114	432	3
January 16, 1934				115	433	2
January 30, 1934				116	434	1
April 1, 1934	312				433	2
May 1, 1934	313				434	1
May 29, 1934				115	433	2
June 8, 1934	312				432	3
July 7, 1934	313				433	2
August 19, 1934	312				432	3
August 22, 1934	309				431	4
September 30, 1934				113	427	8
Final voting share	72.4%	1.2%	0.0%	26.4%
Beginning of next Congress	322	3	7	102	435	1

Leadership

Section contents: Senate: Majority (D), Minority (R) • House: Majority (D), Minority (R)

Senate

• President: John Nance Garner (D)
• President pro tempore: Key Pittman (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader and Democratic Conference Chairman: Joseph T. Robinson
• Assistant Majority Leader (Majority Whip): J. Hamilton Lewis
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Hugo Black

Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: Charles L. McNary
• Assistant Minority Leader (Minority Whip): Felix Hebert
• Republican Conference Chairman: Charles L. McNary
• Republican Conference Secretary: Frederick Hale

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Henry T. Rainey (D), until August 19, 1934 (Vacant thereafter)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader: Joseph W. Byrns
• Majority Whip: Arthur H. Greenwood
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Clarence F. Lea

Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: Bertrand H. Snell
• Minority Whip: Harry L. Englebright
• Republican Conference Chair: Robert Luce

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 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1936; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1938.

Alabama

• 2. John H. Bankhead II (D)
• 3. Hugo Black (D)

Arizona

• 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
• 3. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

• 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)
• 3. Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D)

California

• 1. Hiram Johnson (R)
• 3. William G. McAdoo (D)

Colorado

• 2. Edward P. Costigan (D)
• 3. Alva B. Adams (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Frederic C. Walcott (R)
• 3. Augustine Lonergan (D)

Delaware

• 1. John G. Townsend, Jr. (R)
• 2. Daniel O. Hastings (R)

Florida

• 1. Park Trammell (D)
• 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)

Georgia

• 2. Walter F. George (D)
• 3. Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D)

Idaho

• 2. William E. Borah (R)
• 3. James P. Pope (D)

Illinois

• 2. J. Hamilton Lewis (D)
• 3. William H. Dieterich (D)

Indiana

• 1. Arthur Raymond Robinson (R)
• 3. Frederick Van Nuys (D)

Iowa

• 2. L. J. Dickinson (R)
• 3. Richard L. Murphy (D)

Kansas

• 2. Arthur Capper (R)
• 3. George McGill (D)

Kentucky

• 2. Marvel M. Logan (D)
• 3. Alben W. Barkley (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Huey P. Long (D)
• 3. John H. Overton (D)

Maine

• 1. Frederick Hale (R)
• 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R)

Maryland

• 1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)
• 3. Millard E. Tydings (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. David I. Walsh (D)
• 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D)

Michigan

• 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)
• 2. James Couzens (R)

Minnesota

• 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)
• 2. Thomas D. Schall (R)

Mississippi

• 1. Hubert D. Stephens (D)
• 2. Pat Harrison (D)

Missouri

• 1. Roscoe C. Patterson (R)
• 3. Joel Bennett Clark (D)

Montana

• 1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)
• 2. John E. Erickson (D), March 13, 1933 – November 7, 1934
  • James E. Murray (D), from November 7, 1934

Nebraska

• 1. Robert B. Howell (R), until March 11, 1933
  • William H. Thompson (D), May 24, 1933 – November 7, 1934
  • Richard C. Hunter (D), from November 7, 1934
• 2. George W. Norris (R)

Nevada

• 1. Key Pittman (D)
• 3. Patrick A. McCarran (D)

New Hampshire

• 2. Henry W. Keyes (R)
• 3. Fred Brown (D)

New Jersey

• 1. Hamilton F. Kean (R)
• 2. William Warren Barbour (R)

New Mexico

• 1. Bronson M. Cutting (R)
• 2. Sam G. Bratton (D), until June 24, 1933
  • Carl Hatch (D), from October 10, 1933

New York

• 1. Royal S. Copeland (D)
• 3. Robert F. Wagner (D)

North Carolina

• 2. Josiah William Bailey (D)
• 3. Robert R. Reynolds (D)

North Dakota

• 1. Lynn Frazier (R)
• 3. Gerald P. Nye (R)

Ohio

• 1. Simeon D. Fess (R)
• 3. Robert J. Bulkley (D)

Oklahoma

• 2. Thomas P. Gore (D)
• 3. J. W. Elmer Thomas (D)

Oregon

• 2. Charles L. McNary (R)
• 3. Frederick Steiwer (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. David A. Reed (R)
• 3. James J. Davis (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Felix Hebert (R)
• 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)

South Carolina

• 2. James F. Byrnes (D)
• 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

South Dakota

• 2. William J. Bulow (D)
• 3. Peter Norbeck (R)

Tennessee

• 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
• 2. Nathan Lynn Bachman (D)

Texas

• 1. Thomas T. Connally (D)
• 2. Morris Sheppard (D)

Utah

• 1. William H. King (D)
• 3. Elbert D. Thomas (D)

Vermont

• 1. Warren R. Austin (R)
• 3. Porter H. Dale (R), until October 6, 1933
  • Ernest W. Gibson (R), from November 21, 1933

Virginia

• 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)
• 2. Carter Glass (D)

Washington

• 1. Clarence C. Dill (D)
• 3. Homer T. Bone (D)

West Virginia

• 1. Henry D. Hatfield (R)
• 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R)
• 3. F. Ryan Duffy (D)

Wyoming

• 1. John B. Kendrick (D), until November 3, 1933
  • Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), from December 18, 1933
• 2. Robert D. Carey (R)

House of Representatives

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

Alabama

• 1. John McDuffie (D)
• 2. J. Lister Hill (D)
• 3. Henry B. Steagall (D)
• 4. Lamar Jeffers (D)
• 5. Miles C. Allgood (D)
• 6. William B. Oliver (D)
• 7. William B. Bankhead (D)
• 8. Edward B. Almon (D), until June 22, 1933
  • Archibald Hill Carmichael (D), from November 14, 1933
• 9. George Huddleston (D)

Arizona

• At-large. Isabella Selmes Greenway (D), from October 3, 1933

Arkansas

• 1. William J. Driver (D)
• 2. John E. Miller (D)
• 3. Claude A. Fuller (D)
• 4. William B. Cravens (D)
• 5. Heartsill Ragon (D), until June 16, 1933
  • David D. Terry (D), from December 19, 1933
• 6. David Delano Glover (D)
• 7. Tilman B. Parks (D)

California

• 1. Clarence F. Lea (D)
• 2. Harry L. Englebright (R)
• 3. Frank H. Buck (D)
• 4. Florence P. Kahn (R)
• 5. Richard J. Welch (R)
• 6. Albert E. Carter (R)
• 7. Ralph R. Eltse (R)
• 8. John J. McGrath (D)
• 9. Denver S. Church (D)
• 10. Henry E. Stubbs (D)
• 11. William E. Evans (R)
• 12. John H. Hoeppel (D)
• 13. Charles Kramer (D)
• 14. Thomas F. Ford (D)
• 15. William I. Traeger (R)
• 16. John F. Dockweiler (D)
• 17. Charles J. Colden (D)
• 18. John H. Burke (D)
• 19. Sam L. Collins (R)
• 20. George Burnham (R)

Colorado

• 1. Lawrence Lewis (D)
• 2. Fred N. Cummings (D)
• 3. John A. Martin (D)
• 4. Edward T. Taylor (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Herman P. Kopplemann (D)
• 2. William L. Higgins (R)
• 3. Francis T. Maloney (D)
• 4. Schuyler Merritt (R)
• 5. Edward W. Goss (R)
• At-large. Charles M. Bakewell (R)

Delaware

• At-large. Wilbur L. Adams (D)

Florida

• 1. J. Hardin Peterson (D)
• 2. Robert A. Green (D)
• 3. Millard F. Caldwell (D)
• 4. J. Mark Wilcox (D)
• At-large. William J. Sears (D)

Georgia

• 1. Homer C. Parker (D)
• 2. Edward E. Cox (D)
• 3. Bryant T. Castellow (D)
• 4. Emmett M. Owen (D)
• 5. Robert Ramspeck (D)
• 6. Carl Vinson (D)
• 7. Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
• 8. Braswell Deen (D)
• 9. John S. Wood (D)
• 10. Charles H. Brand (D), until May 17, 1933
  • Paul Brown (D), from July 5, 1933

Idaho

• 1. Compton I. White (D)
• 2. Thomas C. Coffin (D), until June 8, 1934

Illinois

• 1. Oscar De Priest (R)
• 2. P. H. Moynihan (R)
• 3. Edward A. Kelly (D)
• 4. Harry P. Beam (D)
• 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
• 6. Thomas J. O’Brien (D)
• 7. Leonard W. Schuetz (D)
• 8. Leo Kocialkowski (D)
• 9. Frederick A. Britten (R)
• 10. James Simpson, Jr. (R)
• 11. Frank R. Reid (R)
• 12. John T. Buckbee (R)
• 13. Leo E. Allen (R)
• 14. Chester C. Thompson (D)
• 15. J. Leroy Adair (D)
• 16. Everett M. Dirksen (R)
• 17. Frank Gillespie (D)
• 18. James A. Meeks (D)
• 19. Donald C. Dobbins (D)
• 20. Henry T. Rainey (D), until August 19, 1934
• 21. J. Earl Major (D), until October 6, 1933
• 22. Edwin M. Schaefer (D)
• 23. William W. Arnold (D)
• 24. Claude V. Parsons (D)
• 25. Kent E. Keller (D)
• At-large. Martin A. Brennan (D)
• At-large. Walter Nesbit (D)

Indiana

• 1. William T. Schulte (D)
• 2. George R. Durgan (D)
• 3. Samuel B. Pettengill (D)
• 4. James I. Farley (D)
• 5. Glenn Griswold (D)
• 6. Virginia E. Jenckes (D)
• 7. Arthur H. Greenwood (D)
• 8. John W. Boehne, Jr. (D)
• 9. Eugene B. Crowe (D)
• 10. Finly H. Gray (D)
• 11. William H. Larrabee (D)
• 12. Louis Ludlow (D)

Iowa

• 1. Edward C. Eicher (D)
• 2. Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D)
• 3. Albert C. Willford (D)
• 4. Fred Biermann (D)
• 5. Lloyd Thurston (R)
• 6. Cassius C. Dowell (R)
• 7. Otha D. Wearin (D)
• 8. Fred C. Gilchrist (R)
• 9. Guy M. Gillette (D)

Kansas

• 1. William P. Lambertson (R)
• 2. U. S. Guyer (R)
• 3. Harold Clement McGugin (R)
• 4. Randolph Carpenter (D)
• 5. William A. Ayres (D), until August 22, 1934
• 6. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy (D)
• 7. Clifford R. Hope (R)

Kentucky

• At-large. John Y. Brown, Sr. (D)
• At-large. Cap R. Carden (D)
• At-large. Glover H. Cary (D)
• At-large. Virgil Chapman (D)
• At-large. W. Voris Gregory (D)
• At-large. Finley Hamilton (D)
• At-large. Andrew J. May (D)
• At-large. Brent Spence (D)
• At-large. Fred M. Vinson (D)

Louisiana

• 1. Joachim O. Fernandez (D)
• 2. Paul H. Maloney (D)
• 3. Numa F. Montet (D)
• 4. John N. Sandlin (D)
• 5. Riley J. Wilson (D)
• 6. Bolivar E. Kemp (D), until June 19, 1933
  • Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D), from May 1, 1934
• 7. René L. DeRouen (D)
• 8. Cleveland Dear (D)

Maine

• 1. Carroll L. Beedy (R)
• 2. Edward C. Moran, Jr. (D)
• 3. John G. Utterback (D)

Maryland

• 1. T. Alan Goldsborough (D)
• 2. William P. Cole, Jr. (D)
• 3. Vincent L. Palmisano (D)
• 4. Ambrose J. Kennedy (D)
• 5. Stephen W. Gambrill (D)
• 6. David J. Lewis (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. Allen T. Treadway (R)
• 2. William J. Granfield (D)
• 3. Frank H. Foss (R)
• 4. Pehr G. Holmes (R)
• 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
• 6. A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (R)
• 7. William P. Connery, Jr. (D)
• 8. Arthur D. Healey (D)
• 9. Robert Luce (R)
• 10. George H. Tinkham (R)
• 11. John J. Douglass (D)
• 12. John W. McCormack (D)
• 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
• 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R)
• 15. Charles L. Gifford (R)

Michigan

• 1. George G. Sadowski (D)
• 2. John C. Lehr (D)
• 3. Joseph L. Hooper (R), until February 22, 1934
• 4. George Ernest Foulkes (D)
• 5. Carl E. Mapes (R)
• 6. Claude E. Cady (D)
• 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
• 8. Michael J. Hart (D)
• 9. Harry W. Musselwhite (D)
• 10. Roy O. Woodruff (R)
• 11. Prentiss M. Brown (D)
• 12. W. Frank James (R)
• 13. Clarence J. McLeod (R)
• 14. Carl M. Weideman (D)
• 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (D)
• 16. John Lesinski, Sr. (D)
• 17. George A. Dondero (R)

Minnesota

• At-large. Henry M. Arens (FL)
• At-large. Ray P. Chase (R)
• At-large. Theodore Christianson (R)
• At-large. Einar Hoidale (D)
• At-large. Magnus Johnson (FL)
• At-large. Harold Knutson (R)
• At-large. Paul John Kvale (FL)
• At-large. Ernest Lundeen (FL)
• At-large. Francis Shoemaker (FL)

Mississippi

• 1. John E. Rankin (D)
• 2. Wall Doxey (D)
• 3. William M. Whittington (D)
• 4. T. Jeff Busby (D)
• 5. Ross A. Collins (D)
• 6. William M. Colmer (D)
• 7. Lawrence Russell Ellzey (D)

Missouri

• At-large. Clarence Cannon (D)
• At-large. James Robert Claiborne (D)
• At-large. John J. Cochran (D)
• At-large. Clement C. Dickinson (D)
• At-large. Richard M. Duncan (D)
• At-large. Frank H. Lee (D)
• At-large. Ralph F. Lozier (D)
• At-large. Jacob L. Milligan (D)
• At-large. Milton A. Romjue (D)
• At-large. James Edward Ruffin (D)
• At-large. Joseph B. Shannon (D)
• At-large. Clyde Williams (D)
• At-large. Reuben T. Wood (D)

Montana

• 1. Joseph P. Monaghan (D)
• 2. Roy E. Ayers (D)

Nebraska

• 1. John H. Morehead (D)
• 2. Edward R. Burke (D)
• 3. Edgar Howard (D)
• 4. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
• 5. Terry Carpenter (D)

Nevada

• At-large. James G. Scrugham (D)

New Hampshire

• 1. William Nathaniel Rogers (D)
• 2. Charles W. Tobey (R)

New Jersey

• 1. Charles A. Wolverton (R)
• 2. Isaac Bacharach (R)
• 3. William H. Sutphin (D)
• 4. D. Lane Powers (R)
• 5. Charles A. Eaton (R)
• 6. Donald H. McLean (R)
• 7. Randolph Perkins (R)
• 8. George N. Seger (R)
• 9. Edward A. Kenney (D)
• 10. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R)
• 11. Peter A. Cavicchia (R)
• 12. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
• 13. Mary T. Norton (D)
• 14. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)

New Mexico

• At-large. Dennis Chavez (D)

New York

• 1. Robert L. Bacon (R)
• 2. William F. Brunner (D)
• 3. George W. Lindsay (D)
• 4. Thomas H. Cullen (D)
• 5. Loring M. Black, Jr. (D)
• 6. Andrew L. Somers (D)
• 7. John J. Delaney (D)
• 8. Patrick J. Carley (D)
• 9. Stephen A. Rudd (D)
• 10. Emanuel Celler (D)
• 11. Anning S. Prall (D)
• 12. Samuel Dickstein (D)
• 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
• 14. William I. Sirovich (D)
• 15. John J. Boylan (D)
• 16. John J. O'Connor (D)
• 17. Theodore A. Peyser (D)
• 18. Martin J. Kennedy (D)
• 19. Sol Bloom (D)
• 20. James J. Lanzetta (D)
• 21. Joseph A. Gavagan (D)
• 22. Anthony J. Griffin (D)
• 23. Frank Oliver (D), until June 18, 1934
• 24. James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
• 25. Charles D. Millard (R)
• 26. Hamilton Fish III (R)
• 27. Philip A. Goodwin (R)
• 28. Parker Corning (D)
• 29. James S. Parker (R), until December 19, 1933
  • William D. Thomas (R), from January 30, 1934
• 30. Frank Crowther (R)
• 31. Bertrand H. Snell (R)
• 32. Francis D. Culkin (R)
• 33. Fred J. Sisson (D)
• 34. John D. Clarke (R), until November 5, 1933
  • Marian W. Clarke (R), from December 28, 1933
• 35. Clarence E. Hancock (R)
• 36. John Taber (R)
• 37. Gale H. Stalker (R)
• 38. James L. Whitley (R)
• 39. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R)
• 40. Walter G. Andrews (R)
• 41. Alfred F. Beiter (D)
• 42. James M. Mead (D)
• 43. Daniel A. Reed (R)
• At-large. John Fitzgibbons (D)
• At-large. Elmer E. Studley (D)

North Carolina

• 1. Lindsay C. Warren (D)
• 2. John H. Kerr (D)
• 3. Charles Laban Abernethy (D)
• 4. Edward W. Pou (D), until April 1, 1934
  • Harold D. Cooley (D), from July 7, 1934
• 5. Frank Hancock, Jr. (D)
• 6. William B. Umstead (D)
• 7. J. Bayard Clark (D)
• 8. J. Walter Lambeth (D)
• 9. Robert L. Doughton (D)
• 10. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
• 11. Zebulon Weaver (D)

North Dakota

• At-large. William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican)
• At-large. James H. Sinclair (R)

Ohio

• 1. John B. Hollister (R)
• 2. William E. Hess (R)
• 3. Byron B. Harlan (D)
• 4. Frank Le Blond Kloeb (D)
• 5. Frank C. Kniffin (D)
• 6. James G. Polk (D)
• 7. Leroy T. Marshall (R)
• 8. Thomas B. Fletcher (D)
• 9. Warren J. Duffey (D)
• 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
• 11. Mell G. Underwood (D)
• 12. Arthur P. Lamneck (D)
• 13. William L. Fiesinger (D)
• 14. Dow W. Harter (D)
• 15. Robert T. Secrest (D)
• 16. William R. Thom (D)
• 17. Charles F. West (D)
• 18. Lawrence E. Imhoff (D)
• 19. John G. Cooper (R)
• 20. Martin L. Sweeney (D)
• 21. Robert Crosser (D)
• 22. Chester C. Bolton (R)
• At-large. Charles V. Truax (D)
• At-large. Stephen M. Young (D)

Oklahoma

• 1. Wesley E. Disney (D)
• 2. William W. Hastings (D)
• 3. Wilburn Cartwright (D)
• 4. Tom D. McKeown (D)
• 5. Fletcher B. Swank (D)
• 6. Jed Johnson (D)
• 7. James V. McClintic (D)
• 8. Ernest W. Marland (D)
• At-large. Will Rogers (D)

Oregon

• 1. James W. Mott (R)
• 2. Walter M. Pierce (D)
• 3. Charles H. Martin (D)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Harry C. Ransley (R)
• 2. James M. Beck (R), until September 30, 1934
• 3. Alfred Marpole Waldron (R)
• 4. George Washington Edmonds (R)
• 5. James J. Connolly (R)
• 6. Edward Lowber Stokes (R)
• 7. George P. Darrow (R)
• 8. James Wolfenden (R)
• 9. Henry Winfield Watson (R), until August 27, 1933
  • Oliver Walter Frey (D), from November 7, 1933
• 10. J. Roland Kinzer (R)
• 11. Patrick J. Boland (D)
• 12. C. Murray Turpin (R)
• 13. George F. Brumm (R), until May 29, 1934
• 14. William Emanuel Richardson (D)
• 15. Louis T. McFadden (R)
• 16. Robert F. Rich (R)
• 17. J. William Ditter (R)
• 18. Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R)
• 19. Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R)
• 20. Thomas Cunningham Cochran (R)
• 21. Francis E. Walter (D)
• 22. Harry L. Haines (D)
• 23. J. Banks Kurtz (R)
• 24. J. Buell Snyder (D)
• 25. Charles I. Faddis (D)
• 26. J. Howard Swick (R)
• 27. Nathan L. Strong (R)
• 28. William M. Berlin (D)
• 29. Charles N. Crosby (D)
• 30. J. Twing Brooks (D)
• 31. M. Clyde Kelly (R)
• 32. Michael Joseph Muldowney (R)
• 33. Henry Ellenbogen (D)
• 34. Matthew A. Dunn (D)

Rhode Island

• 1. Francis B. Condon (D)
• 2. John M. O'Connell (D)

South Carolina

• 1. Thomas S. McMillan (D)
• 2. Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
• 3. John C. Taylor (D)
• 4. John J. McSwain (D)
• 5. James P. Richards (D)
• 6. Allard H. Gasque (D)

South Dakota

• 1. Fred H. Hildebrandt (D)
• 2. Theodore B. Werner (D)

Tennessee

• 1. B. Carroll Reece (R)
• 2. J. Will Taylor (R)
• 3. Sam D. McReynolds (D)
• 4. John Ridley Mitchell (D)
• 5. Joseph W. Byrns (D)
• 6. Clarence W. Turner (D)
• 7. Gordon Browning (D)
• 8. Jere Cooper (D)
• 9. Edward H. Crump (D)

Texas

• 1. Wright Patman (D)
• 2. Martin Dies, Jr. (D)
• 3. Morgan G. Sanders (D)
• 4. Sam Rayburn (D)
• 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
• 6. Luther A. Johnson (D)
• 7. Clay Stone Briggs (D), until April 29, 1933
  • Clark W. Thompson (D), from June 24, 1933
• 8. Joe H. Eagle (D)
• 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
• 10. James P. Buchanan (D)
• 11. Oliver H. Cross (D)
• 12. Fritz G. Lanham (D)
• 13. William D. McFarlane (D)
• 14. Richard M. Kleberg (D)
• 15. Milton H. West (D), from April 22, 1933
• 16. R. Ewing Thomason (D)
• 17. Thomas L. Blanton (D)
• 18. Marvin Jones (D)
• At-large. Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. (D)
• At-large. Sterling Price Strong (D)
• At-large. George Butler Terrell (D)

Utah

• 1. Abe Murdock (D)
• 2. J. W. Robinson (D)

Vermont

• At-large. Ernest W. Gibson (R), until October 19, 1933
  • Charles A. Plumley (R), from January 16, 1934

Virginia

• At-large. S. Otis Bland (D)
• At-large. Thomas G. Burch (D)
• At-large. Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (D)
• At-large. Patrick H. Drewry (D)
• At-large. John W. Flannagan, Jr. (D)
• At-large. Andrew J. Montague (D)
• At-large. A. Willis Robertson (D)
• At-large. Howard W. Smith (D)
• At-large. Clifton A. Woodrum (D)

Washington

• 1. Marion Anthony Zioncheck (D)
• 2. Monrad C. Wallgren (D)
• 3. Martin F. Smith (D)
• 4. Knute Hill (D)
• 5. Samuel Billingsley Hill (D)
• 6. Wesley Lloyd (D)

West Virginia

• 1. Robert L. Ramsay (D)
• 2. Jennings Randolph (D)
• 3. Lynn Hornor (D), until September 23, 1933
  • Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D), from November 28, 1933
• 4. George William Johnson (D)
• 5. John Kee (D)
• 6. Joe L. Smith (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. George Washington Blanchard (R)
• 2. Charles W. Henney (D)
• 3. Gardner R. Withrow (R)
• 4. Raymond Joseph Cannon (D)
• 5. Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D)
• 6. Michael K. Reilly (D)
• 7. Gerald J. Boileau (R)
• 8. James Frederic Hughes (D)
• 9. James A. Frear (R)
• 10. Hubert H. Peavey (R)

Wyoming

• At-large. Vincent Carter (R)

Non-voting members

• Alaska Territory•. Anthony J. Dimond (D)
• Hawaii Territory•. Lincoln L. McCandless (D)
• Philippines: Pedro Guevara (Nac.)
• Philippines: Camilo Osías (Nac.)
• Puerto Rico: Santiago Iglesias (Coalitionist)

House seats by party holding plurality in state
80+% to 100% Democratic	80+% to 100% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic	60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic	Up to 60% Republican

Changes in membership

Senate

State	Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
Montana	Vacant	Thomas J. Walsh (D) died in office. Successor appointed March 13, 1933, to continue the term.	John Erickson (D)	March 13, 1933
Nebraska	Robert Howell (R)	Died March 11, 1933. Successor appointed May 24, 1933, to continue the term.	William H. Thompson (D)	May 24, 1933
New Mexico	Sam Bratton (D)	Resigned June 24, 1933, when appointed Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Successor appointed October 10, 1933, and then elected November 6, 1934.	Carl Hatch (D)	November 6, 1933
Vermont	Porter Dale (R)	Died October 6, 1933. Successor appointed November 21, 1933, and then elected January 17, 1934.	Ernest Gibson (R)	October 19, 1933
Wyoming	John Kendrick (D)	Died November 3, 1933. Successor appointed December 18, 1933, to finish the term.	Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)	January 1, 1934
Nebraska	William Thompson (D)	Successor elected November 6, 1934.	Richard Hunter (D)	November 7, 1934
Montana	John Erickson (D)	Successor elected November 6, 1934.	James E. Murray (D)	November 7, 1934

House of Representatives

District	Vacator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of successor's installation
Texas 15th	Vacant	John Garner had resigned at the end of the previous Congress	Milton H. West	April 22, 1933
Arizona At-large	Vacant	Lewis W. Douglas (D) had resigned at the end of the previous Congress	Isabella Greenway (D)	October 3, 1933
Texas 7th	Clay Stone Briggs (D)	Died April 29, 1933	Clark W. Thompson (D)	June 24, 1933
Arkansas 5th	Heartsill Ragon (D)	Resigned May 12, 1933, upon appointment as a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas	David D. Terry (D)	December 19, 1933
Georgia 10th	Charles H. Brand (D)	Died May 17, 1933	Paul Brown (D)	July 5, 1933
Louisiana 6th	Bolivar E. Kemp (D)	Died June 19, 1933	Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D)	May 1, 1934
Alabama 8th	Edward B. Almon (D)	Died June 22, 1933	Archibald Hill Carmichael (D)	November 14, 1933
Pennsylvania 9th	Henry Winfield Watson (R)	Died August 27, 1933	Oliver Walter Frey (D)	November 7, 1933
West Virginia 3rd	Lynn Hornor (D)	Died September 23, 1933	Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D)	November 28, 1933
Illinois 21st	J. Earl Major (D)	appointed as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois October 6, 1933	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Vermont At-large	Ernest W. Gibson (R)	Appointed U.S. Senator October 19, 1933	Charles A. Plumley (R)	January 16, 1934
New York 34th	John D. Clarke (R)	Died November 5, 1933	Marian W. Clarke (R)	December 28, 1933
New York 29th	James S. Parker (R)	Died December 19, 1933	William D. Thomas (R)	January 30, 1934
Michigan 3rd	Joseph L. Hooper (R)	Died February 22, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
North Carolina 4th	Edward W. Pou (D)	Died April 1, 1934	Harold D. Cooley (D)	July 7, 1934
Pennsylvania 13th	George F. Brumm (R)	Died May 29, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Idaho 2nd	Thomas C. Coffin (D)	Died June 8, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
New York 23rd	Frank Oliver (D)	Resigned June 18, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Illinois 20th	Henry T. Rainey (D)	Died August 19, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Kansas 5th	William A. Ayres (D)	Resigned August 22, 1934, after being appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Pennsylvania 2nd	James M. Beck (R)	Resigned September 30, 1934	Seat remained vacant until next Congress

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 (4 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

• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Ellison D. Smith)
• Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts (Special)
• Alaska Railroad (Special Select)
• Appropriations (Chairman: Carter Glass)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: James F. Byrnes)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Bankruptcy and Receiveship (Select)
• Campaign Expenditures (Select)
• Civil Service (Chairman: William J. Bulow)
• Claims (Chairman: Josiah W. Bailey)
• Commerce (Chairman: Hubert D. Stephens)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: William H. King)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: David I. Walsh)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Hattie W. Caraway)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: J. Hamilton Lewis)
• Finance (Chairman: Pat Harrison)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Key Pittman)
• Immigration (Chairman: Marcus A. Coolidge)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Burton K. Wheeler)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Thomas P. Gore)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Clarence C. Dill)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Alva B. Adams)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Henry F. Ashurst)
• Library (Chairman: Alben W. Barkley)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Robert J. Bulkley)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Morris Sheppard)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: M.M. Logan)
• Mississippi Flood Control Project (Select)
• Munitions Industry (Select)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Park Trammell)
• Patents (Chairman: William G. McAdoo)
• Pensions (Chairman: George McGill)
• Philippines Economic Condition (Special)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Kenneth McKellar)
• Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Expenditures (Special)
• Printing (Chairman: Carl Hayden)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Walter F. George)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Tom Connally)
• Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Robert F. Wagner)
• Rules (Chairman: Royal S. Copeland)
• Territories and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Millard E. Tydings)
• Whole
• Wildlife Resources (Special) (Chairman: Frederic C. Walcott)

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Lindsay C. Warren)
• Agriculture (Chairman: J. Marvin Jones)
• Appropriations (Chairman: James P. Buchanan)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Henry B. Steagall)
• Census (Chairman: Ralph F. Lozier)
• Civil Service (Chairman: Lamar Jeffers)
• Claims (Chairman: Loring M. Black, Jr.)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Andrew L. Somers)
• Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Ambrose J. Kennedy)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Mary T. Norton)
• Education (Chairman: John J. Douglass)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Patrick J. Carley)
• Elections (Chairman: Homer C. Parker)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Claude V. Parsons)
• Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: John J. Cochran)
• Flood Control (Chairman: Riley J. Wilson)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Sam D. McReynolds)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Samuel Dickstein)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Edgar Howard)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: John McDuffie)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Sam Rayburn)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Mell G. Underwood)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Dennis Chavez)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Hatton W. Sumners)
• Labor (Chairman: William P. Connery, Jr.)
• Memorials (Chairman: John H. Morehead)
• Merchant Marine, Radio and Fisheries (Chairman: S. Otis Bland)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John J. McSwain)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Joe L. Smith)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Carl Vinson)
• Patents (Chairman: William I. Sirovich)
• Pensions (Chairman: Allard H. Gasque)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: James M. Mead)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Rene L. DeRouen)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Byron B. Harlan)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Joseph J. Mansfield)
• Roads (Chairman: Wilburn Cartwright)
• Rules (Chairman: William B. Bankhead)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Robert A. Green)
• War Claims (Chairman: Miles C. Allgood)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Robert L. Doughton)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• Investigate Dirigible Disasters
• The Library (Chairman: Alben W. Barkley)
• Taxation (Chairman: Pat Harrison)

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
• Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
• Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter (until 1934), Augustus E. Giegengack (starting 1934)

Senate

• Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey
• Chaplain: ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (Episcopalian)
• Sergeant at Arms: Chesley W. Jurney
• Democratic Party Secretary: N/A
• Republican Party Secretary: Carl A. Loeffler

House of Representatives

• Clerk: South Trimble
• Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist)
• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
• Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and N/A (R)
• Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
• Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
• See also: Rules of the House: "Other officers and officials"

See also

• United States elections, 1932 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1932 United States presidential election
  • United States Senate elections, 1932
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1932
• United States elections, 1934 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1934
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1934

References

• House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 73rd Congress (PDF).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 73rd Congress, 1st Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 73rd Congress, 1st Session - Supplemental.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 73rd Congress, 2nd Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 73rd Congress, 2nd Session (Revision).