83rd United States Congress

83rd United States Congress
82nd ← → 84th
(1956)
January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 3 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Republican
Senate President	Alben W. Barkley (D) until January 20, 1953 Richard Nixon (R) from January 20, 1953
House majority	Republican
House Speaker	Joseph William Martin, Jr. (R)
Sessions
1st: January 3, 1953 – August 3, 1953 2nd: January 6, 1954 – December 2, 1954

The Eighty-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, DC from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1955, during the final weeks of the second administration of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and the first two years of the first administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950.

Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major events

Main articles: 1953 in the United States, 1954 in the United States, and 1955 in the United States

• January 20, 1953: Dwight Eisenhower is sworn in as President of the United States in his first inauguration
• March 1, 1954: U.S. Capitol shooting incident
• December 2, 1954: Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S. Senate

Major legislation

President Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

Main article: List of United States federal legislation § 83rd United States Congress

• July 3, 1953: Small Business Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 83–163, ch. 282, 67 Stat. 232
• August 7, 1953: Refugee Relief Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 83–203
• August 7, 1953: Submerged Lands Act, ch. 345, 67 Stat. 462
• August 14, 1953: Public Law 280, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 83–280, 18 U.S.C. § 1162
• May 13, 1954: Saint Lawrence Seaway Act, ch. 201, 68 Stat. 92
• August 12, 1954: Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, ch. 649, title II, §201, 68 Stat. 612
• August 13, 1954: Multiple Mineral Development Act, ch. 730, 68 Stat. 708
• August 16, 1954: Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 83–591, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 3
  • Federal Unemployment Tax Act, §1(d), 68A Stat. 439
  • National Firearms Act, §1(d), 68A Stat. 721
• August 24, 1954: Communist Control Act of 1954, ch. 886, 68 Stat. 775
• August 30, 1954: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 919
• 1954: Agricultural Act of 1954
• 1954: Water Facilities Act of 1954

Key Votes

Senate

Legislation	Party	Yea	Nay
Formosa Policy	Democrats	12	32
January 28, 1955	Republicans	1	42
Rejected		13	74
China Mutual Defense Treaty	Democrats	9	33
February 9, 1955	Republicans	1	27
Rejected		10	60
Raising Congressional Salaries	Democrats	30	13
February 23, 1955	Republicans	32	11
Passed		62	24

House of Representatives

Legislation	Party	Yea	Nay
Raising Congressional Salaries	Democrats	166	59
February 16, 1955	Republicans	117	59
Passed		283	118
Reciprocal Trade Extension	Democrats	80	140
February 18, 1955	Republicans	119	66
Rejected		199	206
Reciprocal Trade Extension	Democrats	186	35
February 18, 1955	Republicans	109	75
Passed		295	110
Taxation	Democrats	16	205
February 25, 1955	Republicans	189	5
Rejected		205	210

Party summary

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)			Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Independent (I)	Republican (R)
End of previous congress	47	0	48	95	1
Begin	47	1	48	96	0
End
Final voting share	49.0%	1.0%	50.0%
Beginning of next congress	48	1	47	96	0

House of Representatives

221 Republicans, 213 Democrats, 1 Independent

Total Membership: 435 Representatives, 2 Delegates, 1 Resident Commissioner

Leadership

Senate

• President: Alben W. Barkley (D), until January 20, 1953
  • Richard M. Nixon (R), from January 20, 1953
• President pro tempore: Styles Bridges (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Robert A. Taft, until July 31, 1953 (died)
  • William F. Knowland, from August 3, 1953
• Majority Whip: Leverett Saltonstall
• Conference Chairman: Eugene Millikin

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader and Conference Chairman: Lyndon B. Johnson
• Minority Whip: Earle C. Clements

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Charles A. Halleck
• Majority Whip: Leslie C. Arends
• Conference Chairman: Clifford R. Hope

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Sam Rayburn
• Minority Whip: John William McCormack
• Caucus Chairman: Wilbur Mills

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. Within each state, senators are listed in order of seniority. 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, facing re-election in 1954; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1956; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1958.

Alabama

• 2. John J. Sparkman (D)
• 3. Joseph Lister Hill (D)

Arizona

• 1. Barry Goldwater (R)
• 3. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

• 2. John Little McClellan (D)
• 3. J. William Fulbright (D)

California

• 1. William F. Knowland (R)
• 3. Thomas H. Kuchel (R)

Colorado

• 2. Edwin Carl Johnson (D)
• 3. Eugene D. Millikin (R)

Connecticut

• 1. William A. Purtell (R)
• 3. Prescott Bush (R)

Delaware

• 1. John J. Williams (R)
• 2. J. Allen Frear, Jr. (D)

Florida

• 1. Spessard Holland (D)
• 3. George Smathers (D)

Georgia

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

Idaho

• 2. Henry Dworshak (R)
• 3. Herman Welker (R)

Illinois

• 2. Paul Douglas (D)
• 3. Everett Dirksen (R)

Indiana

• 1. William E. Jenner (R)
• 3. Homer E. Capehart (R)

Iowa

• 2. Guy M. Gillette (D)
• 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)

Kansas

• 2. Andrew F. Schoeppel (R)
• 3. Frank Carlson (R)

Kentucky

• 2. John Sherman Cooper (R)
• 3. Earle C. Clements (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Allen Joseph Ellender (D)
• 3. Russell B. Long (D)

Maine

• 1. Frederick G. Payne (R)
• 2. Margaret Chase Smith (R)

Maryland

• 1. James Glenn Beall (R)
• 3. John M. Butler (R)

Massachusetts

• 1. John F. Kennedy (D)
• 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

Michigan

• 1. Charles E. Potter (R)
• 2. Homer Ferguson (R)

Minnesota

• 1. Edward J. Thye (R)
• 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)

Mississippi

• 1. John C. Stennis (D)
• 2. James O. Eastland (D)

Missouri

• 1. Stuart Symington (D)
• 3. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D)

Montana

• 1. Mike Mansfield (D)
• 2. James E. Murray (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Hugh A. Butler (R), until July 1, 1954
  • Samuel Williams Reynolds (R), July 3, 1954 – November 7, 1954
  • Roman Hruska (R), from November 8, 1954
• 2. Dwight Griswold (R), until April 12, 1954
  • Eva K. Bowring (R), April 16, 1954 – November 7, 1954
  • Hazel Abel (R), November 8, 1954 – December 31, 1954
  • Carl Curtis (R), from January 1, 1955

Nevada

• 1. George W. Malone (R)
• 3. Patrick Anthony McCarran (D), until September 28, 1954
  • Ernest S. Brown (R), October 1, 1954 – December 1, 1954
  • Alan Bible (D), from December 2, 1954

New Hampshire

• 2. Styles Bridges (R)
• 3. Charles W. Tobey (R), until July 24, 1953
  • Robert W. Upton (R), August 14, 1953 – November 7, 1954
  • Norris Cotton (R), from November 8, 1954

New Jersey

• 1. H. Alexander Smith (R)
• 2. Robert C. Hendrickson (R)

New Mexico

• 1. Dennis Chavez (D)
• 2. Clinton P. Anderson (D)

New York

• 1. Irving Ives (R)
• 3. Herbert H. Lehman (D)

North Carolina

• 2. Willis Smith (D), until June 26, 1953
  • Alton Asa Lennon (D), July 10, 1953 – November 28, 1954
  • W. Kerr Scott (D), from November 29, 1954
• 3. Clyde Roark Hoey (D), until May 12, 1954
  • Sam Ervin (D), from June 5, 1954

North Dakota

• 1. William Langer (R)
• 3. Milton Young (R)

Ohio

• 1. John W. Bricker (R)
• 3. Robert A. Taft (R), until July 31, 1953
  • Thomas A. Burke (D), November 10, 1953 – December 2, 1954
  • George H. Bender (R), from December 16, 1954

Oklahoma

• 2. Robert S. Kerr (D)
• 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

Oregon

• 2. Guy Cordon (R)
• 3. Wayne L. Morse (Independent)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Edward Martin (R)
• 3. James H. Duff (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. John O. Pastore (D)
• 2. Theodore Francis Green (D)

South Carolina

• 2. Burnet R. Maybank (D), until September 1, 1954
  • Charles E. Daniel (D), September 6, 1954 – December 23, 1954
  • Strom Thurmond (D), from December 24, 1954
• 3. Olin D. Johnston (D)

South Dakota

• 2. Karl E. Mundt (R)
• 3. Francis H. Case (R)

Tennessee

• 1. Albert A. Gore Sr. (D)
• 2. C. Estes Kefauver (D)

Texas

• 1. Price Daniel (D)
• 2. Lyndon Johnson (D)

Utah

• 1. Arthur V. Watkins (R)
• 3. Wallace F. Bennett (R)

Vermont

• 1. Ralph E. Flanders (R)
• 3. George Aiken (R)

Virginia

• 1. Harry Flood Byrd (D)
• 2. Absalom Willis Robertson (D)

Washington

• 1. Henry M. Jackson (D)
• 3. Warren G. Magnuson (D)

West Virginia

• 1. Harley M. Kilgore (D)
• 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Joseph McCarthy (R)
• 3. Alexander Wiley (R)

Wyoming

• 1. Frank A. Barrett (R)
• 2. Lester C. Hunt (D), until June 19, 1954
  • Edward D. Crippa (R), June 24, 1954 – November 28, 1954
  • Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D), from November 29, 1954

House of Representatives

Alabama

• 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. Laurie C. Battle (D)

Arizona

• 1. John Jacob Rhodes (R)
• 2. Harold A. Patten (D)

Arkansas

• 1. Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)
• 2. Wilbur D. Mills (D)
• 3. James William Trimble (D)
• 4. Oren Harris (D)
• 5. Brooks Hays (D)
• 6. William F. Norrell (D)

California

• 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. Robert Condon (D)
• 7. John J. Allen, Jr. (R)
• 8. George P. Miller (D)
• 9. Jesse A. Younger (R)
• 10. Charles S. Gubser (R)
• 11. Justin L. Johnson (R)
• 12. Allan O. Hunter (R)
• 13. Ernest K. Bramblett (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. Chet Holifield (D)
• 20. John Carl Hinshaw (R)
• 21. Edgar W. Hiestand (R)
• 22. Joseph F. Holt (R)
• 23. Clyde Doyle (D)
• 24. C. Norris Poulson (R), until June 11, 1953
  • Glenard P. Lipscomb (R), from November 10, 1953
• 25. Patrick J. Hillings (R)
• 26. Samuel W. Yorty (D)
• 27. Harry R. Sheppard (D)
• 28. James B. Utt (R)
• 29. John J. Phillips (R)
• 30. Bob Wilson (R)

Colorado

• 1. Byron G. Rogers (D)
• 2. William S. Hill (R)
• 3. J. Edgar Chenoweth (R)
• 4. Wayne N. Aspinall (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Thomas J. Dodd (D)
• 2. Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. (R)
• 3. Albert W. Cretella (R)
• 4. Albert P. Morano (R)
• 5. James T. Patterson (R)
• At-large. Antoni N. Sadlak (R)

Delaware

• At-large. Herbert B. Warburton (R)

Florida

• 1. Courtney W. Campbell (D)
• 2. Charles Edward Bennett (D)
• 3. Bob Sikes (D)
• 4. Bill Lantaff (D)
• 5. Syd Herlong (D)
• 6. Dwight L. Rogers (D), until December 1, 1954
• 7. James A. Haley (D)
• 8. Donald Ray Matthews (D)

Georgia

• 1. Prince H. Preston, Jr. (D)
• 2. J. L. Pilcher (D), from February 4, 1953
• 3. Tic Forrester (D)
• 4. A. Sidney Camp (D), until July 24, 1954
  • John J. Flynt, Jr. (D), from November 2, 1954
• 5. James C. Davis (D)
• 6. Carl Vinson (D)
• 7. Henderson L. Lanham (D)
• 8. William M. Wheeler (D)
• 9. Phillip M. Landrum (D)
• 10. Paul Brown (D)

Idaho

• 1. Gracie Pfost (D)
• 2. Hamer H. Budge (R)

Illinois

• 1. William L. Dawson (D)
• 2. Barratt O'Hara (D)
• 3. Fred E. Busbey (R)
• 4. William E. McVey (R)
• 5. John C. Kluczynski (D)
• 6. Thomas Joseph O'Brien (D)
• 7. James B. Bowler (D), from July 7, 1953
• 8. Thomas S. Gordon (D)
• 9. Sidney R. Yates (D)
• 10. Richard W. Hoffman (R)
• 11. Timothy P. Sheehan (R)
• 12. Edgar A. Jonas (R)
• 13. Marguerite S. Church (R)
• 14. Chauncey W. Reed (R)
• 15. Noah M. Mason (R)
• 16. Leo E. Allen (R)
• 17. Leslie C. Arends (R)
• 18. Harold H. Velde (R)
• 19. Robert B. Chiperfield (R)
• 20. Sid Simpson (R)
• 21. Peter F. Mack, Jr. (D)
• 22. William L. Springer (R)
• 23. Charles W. Vursell (R)
• 24. Melvin Price (D)
• 25. C. W. Bishop (R)

Indiana

• 1. Ray J. Madden (D)
• 2. Charles A. Halleck (R)
• 3. Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr. (R)
• 4. E. Ross Adair (R)
• 5. John V. Beamer (R)
• 6. Cecil M. Harden (R)
• 7. William G. Bray (R)
• 8. D. Bailey Merrill (R)
• 9. Earl Wilson (R)
• 10. Ralph Harvey (R)
• 11. Charles B. Brownson (R)

Iowa

• 1. Thomas E. Martin (R)
• 2. Henry O. Talle (R)
• 3. Harold R. Gross (R)
• 4. Karl M. LeCompte (R)
• 5. Paul H. Cunningham (R)
• 6. James I. Dolliver (R)
• 7. Ben F. Jensen (R)
• 8. Charles B. Hoeven (R)

Kansas

• 1. Howard Shultz Miller (D)
• 2. Errett P. Scrivner (R)
• 3. Myron V. George (R)
• 4. Edward Herbert Rees (R)
• 5. Clifford R. Hope (R)
• 6. Wint Smith (R)

Kentucky

• 1. Noble J. Gregory (D)
• 2. Garrett L. Withers (D), until April 30, 1953
  • William H. Natcher (D), from August 1, 1953
• 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. James S. Golden (R)

Louisiana

• 1. F. Edward Hébert (D)
• 2. Hale Boggs (D)
• 3. Edwin E. Willis (D)
• 4. Overton Brooks (D)
• 5. Otto E. Passman (D)
• 6. James H. Morrison (D)
• 7. Theo A. Thompson (D)
• 8. George S. Long (D)

Maine

• 1. Robert Hale (R)
• 2. Charles P. Nelson (R)
• 3. Clifford G. McIntire (R)

Maryland

• 1. Edward T. Miller (R)
• 2. James P. Devereux (R)
• 3. Edward Garmatz (D)
• 4. George Hyde Fallon (D)
• 5. Frank Small, Jr. (R)
• 6. DeWitt S. Hyde (R)
• 7. Samuel Friedel (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. John W. Heselton (R)
• 2. Edward Boland (D)
• 3. Philip Philbin (D)
• 4. Harold Donohue (D)
• 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
• 6. William H. Bates (R)
• 7. Thomas J. Lane (D)
• 8. Angier L. Goodwin (R)
• 9. Donald W. Nicholson (R)
• 10. Laurence Curtis (R)
• 11. Tip O'Neill (D)
• 12. John W. McCormack (D)
• 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
• 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R)

Michigan

• 1. Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)
• 2. George Meader (R)
• 3. Paul W. Shafer (R), until August 17, 1954
• 4. Clare E. Hoffman (R)
• 5. Gerald Ford (R)
• 6. Kit F. Clardy (R)
• 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
• 8. Alvin M. Bentley (R)
• 9. Ruth Thompson (R)
• 10. Elford Cederberg (R)
• 11. Victor A. Knox (R)
• 12. John B. Bennett (R)
• 13. George D. O'Brien (D)
• 14. Louis C. Rabaut (D)
• 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (D)
• 16. John Lesinski, Jr. (D)
• 17. Charles G. Oakman (R)
• 18. George A. Dondero (R)

Minnesota

• 1. August H. Andresen (R)
• 2.Joseph P. O'Hara (R)
• 3.Roy Wier (DFL)
• 4.Eugene McCarthy (DFL)
• 5.Walter Judd (R)
• 6.Fred Marshall (DFL)
• 7.H. Carl Andersen (R)
• 8.John Blatnik (DFL)
• 9.Harold Hagen (R)

Mississippi

• 1. Thomas G. Abernethy (D)
• 2. Jamie L. Whitten (D)
• 3. Frank E. Smith (D)
• 4. John B. Williams (D)
• 5. W. Arthur Winstead (D)
• 6. William M. Colmer (D)

Missouri

• 1. Frank M. Karsten (D)
• 2. Thomas B. Curtis (R)
• 3. Leonor Sullivan (D)
• 4. Jeffrey Paul Hillelson (R)
• 5. Richard Bolling (D)
• 6. William C. Cole (R)
• 7. Dewey Short (R)
• 8. A.S.J. Carnahan (D)
• 9. Clarence Cannon (D)
• 10. Paul C. Jones (D)
• 11. Morgan M. Moulder (D)

Montana

• 1. Lee Metcalf (D)
• 2. Wesley A. D'Ewart (R)

Nebraska

• 1. Carl T. Curtis (R), until December 31, 1954
• 2. Roman L. Hruska (R), until November 8, 1954
• 3. Robert Dinsmore Harrison (R)
• 4. Arthur L. Miller (R)

Nevada

• At-large. Clarence Clifton Young (R)

New Hampshire

• 1. Charles Earl Merrow (R)
• 2. Norris H. Cotton (R), until November 7, 1954

New Jersey

• 1. Charles A. Wolverton (R)
• 2. T. Millet Hand (R)
• 3. James C. Auchincloss (R)
• 4. Charles R. Howell (D)
• 5. Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (R)
• 6. Clifford P. Case (R), until August 16, 1953
  • Harrison Williams, Jr. (D), from November 3, 1953
• 7. William B. Widnall (R)
• 8. Gordon Canfield (R)
• 9. Frank C. Osmers, Jr. (R)
• 10. Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (D)
• 11. Hugh J. Addonizio (D)
• 12. Robert W. Kean (R)
• 13. Alfred D. Sieminski (D)
• 14. Edward J. Hart (D)

New Mexico

• At-large. John J. Dempsey (D)
• At-large. Antonio M. Fernández (D)

New York

• 1. Stuyvesant Wainwright (R)
• 2. Steven B. Derounian (R)
• 3. Frank J. Becker (R)
• 4. Henry J. Latham (R)
• 5. Albert H. Bosch (R)
• 6. Lester Holtzman (D)
• 7. James J. Delaney (D)
• 8. Louis B. Heller (D), until July 21, 1954
• 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 R. Coudert, Jr. (R)
• 18. James G. Donovan (D)
• 19. Arthur G. Klein (D)
• 20. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (D)
• 21. Jacob K. Javits (R), until December 31, 1954
• 22. Sidney A. Fine (D)
• 23. Isidore Dollinger (D)
• 24. Charles A. Buckley (D)
• 25. Paul A. Fino (R)
• 26. Ralph A. Gamble (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)
• 38. Kenneth B. 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

• 1. Herbert C. Bonner (D)
• 2. Lawrence H. Fountain (D)
• 3. Graham A. Barden (D)
• 4. Harold D. Cooley (D)
• 5. Richard T. Chatham (D)
• 6. Carl T. Durham (D)
• 7. F. Ertel Carlyle (D)
• 8. Charles B. Deane (D)
• 9. Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)
• 10. Charles R. Jonas (R)
• 11. Woodrow W. Jones (D)
• 12. George A. Shuford (D)

North Dakota

• At-large. Otto Krueger (R)
• At-large. Usher L. Burdick (Nonpartisan Republican)

Ohio

• 1. Gordon H. Scherer (R)
• 2. William E. Hess (R)
• 3. Paul F. Schenck (R)
• 4. William M. McCulloch (R)
• 5. Cliff Clevenger (R)
• 6. James G. Polk (D)
• 7. Clarence J. Brown (R)
• 8. Jackson E. Betts (R)
• 9. Frazier Reams (I)
• 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
• 11. Oliver P. Bolton (R)
• 12. John M. Vorys (R)
• 13. Alvin F. Weichel (R)
• 14. William H. Ayres (R)
• 15. Robert T. Secrest (D), until September 26, 1954
• 16. Frank T. Bow (R)
• 17. J. Harry McGregor (R)
• 18. Wayne L. Hays (D)
• 19. Michael J. Kirwan (D)
• 20. Michael A. Feighan (D)
• 21. Robert Crosser (D)
• 22. Frances P. Bolton (R)
• 23. George H. Bender (R), until December 15, 1954

Oklahoma

• 1. Page Belcher (R)
• 2. Ed Edmondson (D)
• 3. Carl Albert (D)
• 4. Tom Steed (D)
• 5. John Jarman (D)
• 6. Victor Wickersham (D)

Oregon

• 1. A. Walter Norblad (R)
• 2. Sam Coon (R)
• 3. Homer D. Angell (R)
• 4. Harris Ellsworth (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. William A. Barrett (D)
• 2. William T. Granahan (D)
• 3. James A. Byrne (D)
• 4. Earl Chudoff (D)
• 5. William J. Green, Jr. (D)
• 6. Hugh Scott (R)
• 7. Benjamin F. James (R)
• 8. Karl C. King (R)
• 9. Paul B. Dague (R)
• 10. Joseph L. Carrigg (R)
• 11. Edward J. Bonin (R)
• 12. Ivor D. Fenton (R)
• 13. Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. (R)
• 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)
• 22. John P. Saylor (R)
• 23. Leon H. Gavin (R)
• 24. Carroll D. Kearns (R)
• 25. Louis E. Graham (R)
• 26. Thomas E. Morgan (D)
• 27. James G. Fulton (R)
• 28. Herman P. Eberharter (D)
• 29. Robert J. Corbett (R)
• 30. Vera Buchanan (D)

Rhode Island

• 1. Aime Forand (D)
• 2. John E. Fogarty (D)

South Carolina

• 1. L. Mendel Rivers (D)
• 2. John J. Riley (D)
• 3. W.J. Bryan Dorn (D)
• 4. Joseph R. Bryson (D), until March 10, 1953
  • Robert T. Ashmore (D), from June 2, 1953
• 5. James P. Richards (D)
• 6. John L. McMillan (D)

South Dakota

• 1. Harold O. Lovre (R)
• 2. E. Y. Berry (R)

Tennessee

• 1. B. Carroll Reece (R)
• 2. Howard Baker, Sr. (R)
• 3. James B. Frazier Jr. (D)
• 4. Joe L. Evins (D)
• 5. J. Percy Priest (D)
• 6. James Patrick Sutton (D)
• 7. Tom J. Murray (D)
• 8. Jere Cooper (D)
• 9. Clifford Davis (D)

Texas

• 1. Martin Dies, Jr. (D)
• 1. Wright Patman (D)
• 2. Jack Brooks (D)
• 3. Brady P. Gentry (D)
• 4. Sam Rayburn (D)
• 5. Joseph Franklin Wilson (D)
• 6. Olin E. Teague (D)
• 7. John V. Dowdy (D)
• 8. Albert Thomas (D)
• 9. Clark W. Thompson (D)
• 10. W. Homer Thornberry (D)
• 11. William R. Poage (D)
• 12. Wingate H. Lucas (D)
• 13. Frank N. Ikard (D)
• 14. John E. Lyle, Jr. (D)
• 15. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D)
• 16. Kenneth M. Regan (D)
• 17. Omar Burleson (D)
• 18. Walter E. Rogers (D)
• 19. George H. Mahon (D)
• 20. Paul J. Kilday (D)
• 21. O. Clark Fisher (D)

Utah

• 1. Douglas R. Stringfellow (R)
• 2. William A. Dawson (R)

Vermont

• At-large. Winston L. Prouty (R)

Virginia

• 1. Edward J. Robeson, Jr. (D)
• 2. Porter Hardy, Jr. (D)
• 3. J. Vaughan Gary (D)
• 4. Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)
• 5. Thomas Bahnson Stanley (D), until February 3, 1953
  • William M. Tuck (D), from April 14, 1953
• 6. Richard Harding Poff (R)
• 7. Burr Harrison (D)
• 8. Howard W. Smith (D)
• 9. William Creed Wampler (R)
• 10. Joel T. Broyhill (R)

Washington

• At-large. Donald Hammer Magnuson (D)
• 1. Thomas Minor Pelly (R)
• 2. Alfred Westland (R)
• 3. Russell V. Mack (R)
• 4. Hal Holmes (R)
• 5. Walt Horan (R)
• 6. Thor C. Tollefson (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Robert H. Mollohan (D)
• 2. Harley O. Staggers (D)
• 3. Cleveland M. Bailey (D)
• 4. Will E. Neal (R)
• 5. Elizabeth Kee (D)
• 6. Robert Byrd (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Lawrence H. Smith (R)
• 2. Glenn R. Davis (R)
• 3. Gardner R. Withrow (R)
• 4. Clement J. Zablocki (D)
• 5. Charles J. Kersten (R)
• 6. William K. Van Pelt (R)
• 7. Melvin R. Laird (R)
• 8. John W. Byrnes (R)
• 9. Merlin Hull (R), until May 17, 1953
  • Lester Johnson (D), from October 13, 1953
• 10. Alvin E. O'Konski (R)

Wyoming

• At-large. William Henry Harrison (R)

Non-voting members

• Alaska Territory. Bob Bartlett (D)
• Hawaii Territory. Joseph Rider Farrington (R), until June 19, 1954
  • Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington (R), from July 31, 1954
• Puerto Rico. Antonio Fernós Isern (PPD)

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

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.

Senate

See also: List of special elections to the United States Senate

|- | North Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Willis Smith (D) | Died June 26, 1953.
Successor appointed July 10, 1953. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Alton Lennon (D) | July 10, 1953

|- | New Hampshire
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Charles W. Tobey (R) | Died July 24, 1953.
Successor appointed August 14, 1953. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Robert W. Upton (R) | August 14, 1953

|- | Ohio
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Robert A. Taft (R) | Died July 31, 1953.
Successor appointed November 10, 1953. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Thomas A. Burke (D) | November 10, 1953

|- | Nebraska
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Dwight Griswold (R) | Died April 12, 1954.
Successor appointed April 16, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Eva Bowring (R) | April 16, 1954

|- | North Carolina
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Clyde R. Hoey (D) | Died May 12, 1954.
Successor appointed May 12, 1954 and then elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Sam Ervin (D) | June 5, 1954

|- | Wyoming
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Lester C. Hunt (D) | Died June 19, 1954.
Successor appointed June 24, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Edward D. Crippa (R) | June 24, 1954

|- | Nebraska
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Hugh A. Butler (R) | Died July 1, 1954.
Successor appointed July 3, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Samuel W. Reynolds (R) | July 3, 1954

|- | South Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Burnet R. Maybank (D) | Died September 1, 1954.
Successor appointed September 6, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Charles E. Daniel (D) | September 6, 1954

|- | Nevada
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Pat McCarran (D) | Died September 28, 1954.
Successor appointed October 1, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Ernest S. Brown (R) | October 1, 1954

|- | Nebraska
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Samuel W. Reynolds (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Roman Hruska (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | Nebraska
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Eva Bowring (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Hazel Abel (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | New Hampshire
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Robert W. Upton (R) | Lost special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Norris Cotton (R) | November 8, 1954

|- | North Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Alton Lennon (D) | Lost special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | W. Kerr Scott (D) | November 29, 1954

|- | Wyoming
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Edward D. Crippa (R) | Did not run in the special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D) | November 29, 1954

|- | Nevada
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Ernest S. Brown (R) | Lost special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Alan Bible (D) | December 2, 1954

|- | Ohio
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Thomas A. Burke (D) | Lost special election to fill seat.
Successor elected November 2, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | George H. Bender (R) | December 16, 1954

|- | South Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Charles E. Daniel (D) | Resigned December 23, 1954.
Successor appointed December 24, 1954. | nowrap style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Strom Thurmond (D) | December 24, 1954

|- | Nebraska
(2) | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Hazel Abel (R) | Resigned December 31, 1954.
Successor was appointed January 1, 1955. | nowrap style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Carl Curtis (R) | January 1, 1955

|}

House of Representatives

See also: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep |- | Georgia 2nd | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep. Edward E. Cox died during previous congress | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | J. L. Pilcher (D) | February 4, 1953 |- | Illinois 7th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep. Adolph J. Sabath died during previous congress | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | James Bowler (D) | July 7, 1953 |- | Virginia 5th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Thomas B. Stanley (D) | style="font-size:80%" | resigned February 3, 1953, to run for Governor of Virginia | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | William M. Tuck (D) | April 14, 1953 |- | South Carolina 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Joseph R. Bryson (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died March 10, 1953 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Robert T. Ashmore (D) | June 2, 1953 |- | Kentucky 2nd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Garrett L. Withers (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 30, 1953 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | William H. Natcher (D) | August 1, 1953 |- | Wisconsin 9th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Merlin Hull (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 17, 1953 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Lester Johnson (D) | October 13, 1953 |- | California 24th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Norris Poulson (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 11, 1953, after being elected Mayor of Los Angeles | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Glenard P. Lipscomb (R) | November 10, 1953 |- | New Jersey 6th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Clifford P. Case (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 16, 1953 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | Harrison A. Williams (D) | November 3, 1953 |- | Hawaii Territory At-large | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Joseph R. Farrington (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 19, 1954 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap | Elizabeth P. Farrington (R) | August 4, 1954 |- | New York 8th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Louis B. Heller (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 21, 1954, after being appointed judge of the Court of Special Sessions of New York City | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Georgia 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| A. Sidney Camp (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died July 24, 1954 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap | John J. Flynt, Jr. (D) | November 2, 1954 |- | Michigan 3rd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Paul W. Shafer (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died August 17, 1954 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Ohio 15th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Robert T. Secrest (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 26, 1954 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | New Hampshire 2nd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Norris Cotton (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 7, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Nebraska 2nd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Roman Hruska (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 8, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Florida 6th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" nowrap| Dwight L. Rogers (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 1, 1954 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Ohio 15th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| George H. Bender (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 15, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Nebraska 1st | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Carl Curtis (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 31, 1954, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | New York 21st | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" nowrap| Jacob K. Javits (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 31, 1954, after being elected New York Attorney General | Vacant | Not filled this term |}

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

• Agriculture and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Censure Charges against Senator McCarthy (Select)
• Compensation of Members of Congress (Select)
• District of Columbia
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• Government Operations
• Interior and Insular Affairs
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce
• Judiciary
• Labor and Public Welfare
• Mail Cover on Senators (Special)
• Post Office and Civil Service
• Public Works
• Small Business (Select)
• Subcommittee on Internal Security
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Agriculture
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Benefits for Dependents of Armed Services Veterans (Select)
• Defense Production
• District of Columbia
• Education and Labor
• Foreign Affairs
• House Administration
• Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R. (Select)
• Interior and Insular Affairs
• Government Operations
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Post Office and Civil Service
• Public Works
• Rules
• Small Business (Select)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Un-American Activities
• Veterans' Affairs
• Ways and Means
• Whole

Joint committees

• Atomic Energy
• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• Economic
• Immigration and Nationality Policy
• Legislative Budget
• The Library
• Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
• Printing
• Railroad Retirement Legislation
• Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures
• Taxation

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn (January 3, 1953 – September 30, 1954); J. George Stewart (September 30, 1954 – January 3, 1955)
• Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
• Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren (until April 30, 1954), Joseph Campbell (starting December 14, 1954)
• Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans (until 1953), Lawrence Quincy Mumford (starting 1954)
• Public Printer of the United States: John J. Deviny (until 1953), Raymond Blattenberger (starting 1953)

Senate

• Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
• Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
• Secretary: J. Mark Trice
• Sergeant at Arms: Forest A. Harness

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp
• Clerk: Lyle O. Snader
• Doorkeeper: Tom Kennamer
• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
• Postmaster: Beecher Hess
• Reading Clerks: N/A (R) and N/A (D)
• Sergeant at Arms: William F. Russell, died July 7, 1953
  • Lyle O. Snader, July 8, 1953 – September 15, 1953
  • William R. Bonnell, from September 15, 1953

See also

• United States elections, 1952 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1952
  • United States Senate elections, 1952
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1952
• United States elections, 1954 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1954
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1954

External links

• House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 83rd Congress (PDF).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 83rd Congress, 1st Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 83rd Congress, 2nd Session.
• Pocket Congressional Directory for the 83rd Congress.