71st United States Congress
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox United States Congress The 71st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislature of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1931, during the first two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.
Both the House and Senate remained under Republican control, with increased majorities in each chamber. And with Herbert Hoover being sworn in as president on March 4, 1929, the Republicans maintained an overall federal government trifecta.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The 71st Congress also featured the most special elections of any Congress with 27 in all. Template:TOClimit
Major events
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- March 4, 1929: Herbert C. Hoover became President of the United States
- October 24, 1929 – October 29, 1929: Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (3 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
- October 25, 1929: Former U.S. Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall is convicted of bribery for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal, becoming the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for actions in office.
Major legislation
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- June 15, 1929: Agriculture Marketing Act, ch. 24, Template:USStat
- June 18, 1929: Reapportionment Act of 1929, ch. 28, Template:USStat
- May 14, 1930: Federal Bureau of Prisons Act, ch. 274, Template:USStat
- June 17, 1930: Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, ch. 497, Template:USStat, (including: Title III, Plant Patent Act, Template:USStat)
- July 3, 1930: Veterans Administration Act, ch. 863, Template:USStat
- March 3, 1931: Davis–Bacon Act, ch. 411, Template:USStat
- March 3, 1931: An Act To make The Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem of the United States of America, ch. 436, Template:USStat
Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
Senate
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House of Representatives
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Leadership
Senate
Charles Curtis
George H. Moses
- President: Charles Curtis (R)
- President pro tempore: George H. Moses (R)
- Majority leader: James E. Watson (R)
- Minority leader: Joseph T. Robinson (D)
- Majority whip: Simeon D. Fess (R)
- Minority whip: Morris Sheppard (D)
- Republican Conference Secretary: Frederick Hale
- Democratic Caucus Secretary: Hugo Black
House of Representatives
- Speaker: Nicholas Longworth (R)
- Majority leader: John Q. Tilson (R)
- Minority leader: John N. Garner (D)
- Majority Whip: Albert Henry Vestal (R)
- Minority Whip: John McDuffie (D)
- Republican Conference Chair: Willis C. Hawley
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: David Hayes Kincheloe
- Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Byrns Sr.
- Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: William R. Wood
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and representatives are listed by district.
Senate
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Senators were elected 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 began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1930; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1932. Template:Col-begin Template:Col-break
- Template:Party stripe2. Arthur Capper (R)
- Template:Party stripe3. Henry Justin Allen (R), April 1, 1929 – November 30, 1930
- Template:Party stripeGeorge McGill (D), from December 1, 1930
- Template:Party stripe2. Frederic M. Sackett (R), until January 9, 1930
- Template:Party stripeJohn M. Robsion (R), January 11, 1930 – November 30, 1930
- Template:Party stripeBen M. Williamson (D), from December 1, 1930
- Template:Party stripe3. Alben W. Barkley (D)
- Template:Party stripe1. Hamilton Fish Kean (R)
- Template:Party stripe2. Walter Evans Edge (R), until November 21, 1929
- Template:Party stripeDavid Baird Jr. (R), November 30, 1929 – December 2, 1930
- Template:Party stripeDwight Morrow (R), from December 3, 1930
- Template:Party stripe2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
- Template:Party stripe3. Lee S. Overman (D), until December 12, 1930
- Template:Party stripeCameron A. Morrison (D), from December 13, 1930
- Template:Party stripe1. Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)
- Template:Party stripe3. Gerald Nye (R)
- Template:Party stripe1. Simeon D. Fess (R)
- Template:Party stripe3. Theodore E. Burton (R), until October 28, 1929
- Template:Party stripeRoscoe C. McCulloch (R), November 5, 1929 – November 30, 1930
- Template:Party stripeRobert J. Bulkley (D), from December 1, 1930
- Template:Party stripe1. David A. Reed (R)
- Template:03. Vacant<ref>William S. Vare (R-PA) had been elected to the Senate for the term starting March 4, 1927, but the Senate had refused to qualify him due to charges of corruption and fraud concerning his election. The Senate finally unseated him on December 9, 1929. See http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000071</ref> until December 9, 1929
- Template:Party stripeJoseph R. Grundy (R), December 11, 1929 – December 1, 1930
- Template:Party stripeJames J. Davis (R), from December 2, 1930
- Template:Party stripe1. Kenneth McKellar (D)
- Template:Party stripe2. Lawrence Tyson (D), until August 24, 1929
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Emerson Brock (D), from September 2, 1929
- Template:Party stripe1. Frank L. Greene (R), until December 17, 1930
- Template:Party stripeFrank C. Partridge (R), from December 23, 1930
- Template:Party stripe3. Porter H. Dale (R)
- Template:Party stripe1. John B. Kendrick (D)
- Template:Party stripe2. Francis E. Warren (R), until November 24, 1929
- Template:Party stripePatrick Joseph Sullivan (R), December 5, 1929 – November 20, 1930
- Template:Party stripeRobert D. Carey (R), from December 1, 1930
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James E. Watson
Joseph T. Robinson
House of Representatives
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- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John McDuffie (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Lister Hill (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry B. Steagall (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lamar Jeffers (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. LaFayette L. Patterson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William B. Oliver (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Miles C. Allgood (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward B. Almon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Huddleston (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William B. Bankhead (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William J. Driver (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Pearl Peden Oldfield (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Claude A. Fuller (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Otis Wingo (D), until October 21, 1930
- Template:Party stripeEffiegene L. Wingo (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Heartsill Ragon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David D. Glover (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tilman B. Parks (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clarence F. Lea (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry L. Englebright (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles F. Curry (R), until October 10, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Florence P. Kahn (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard J. Welch (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert E. Carter (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry E. Barbour (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Arthur M. Free (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William E. Evans (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joe Crail (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philip D. Swing (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William R. Eaton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles B. Timberlake (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Guy U. Hardy (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward T. Taylor (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. E. Hart Fenn (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard P. Freeman (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Q. Tilson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Schuyler Merritt (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James P. Glynn (R), until March 6, 1930
- Template:Party stripeEdward W. Goss (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Herbert J. Drane (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert A. Green (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tom A. Yon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ruth Bryan Owen (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles G. Edwards (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward E. Cox (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles R. Crisp (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Wright (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Leslie J. Steele (D), until July 24, 1929
- Template:Party stripeRobert Ramspeck (D), from October 2, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Rutherford (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles H. Brand (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Carl Vinson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Lankford (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Larsen (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Burton L. French (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Addison T. Smith (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Oscar S. De Priest (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Morton D. Hull (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elliott W. Sproul (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas A. Doyle (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James T. Igoe (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. M. Alfred Michaelson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Stanley H. Kunz (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick A. Britten (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Carl R. Chindblom (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank R. Reid (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John T. Buckbee (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William R. Johnson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Allen (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Burnett M. Chiperfield (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William E. Hull (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Homer W. Hall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William P. Holaday (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Adkins (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry T. Rainey (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank M. Ramey (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward M. Irwin (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Arnold (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas S. Williams (R), until November 11, 1929
- Template:Party stripeClaude V. Parsons (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward E. Denison (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ruth Hanna McCormick (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard Yates Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry E. Rowbottom (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Arthur H. Greenwood (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James W. Dunbar (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry C. Canfield (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Noble J. Johnson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard N. Elliott (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Louis Ludlow (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert H. Vestal (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fred S. Purnell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William R. Wood (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert R. Hall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Hogg (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew J. Hickey (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William F. Kopp (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. F. Dickinson Letts (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cyrenus Cole (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. C. William Ramseyer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cassius C. Dowell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lloyd Thurston (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles E. Swanson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lester J. Dickinson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ed H. Campbell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William P. Lambertson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ulysses S. Guyer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William H. Sproul (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Homer Hoch (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James G. Strong (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles I. Sparks (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clifford R. Hope (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William A. Ayres (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William V. Gregory (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Hayes Kincheloe (D), until October 5, 1930
- Template:Party stripeJohn L. Dorsey Jr. (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles W. Roark (R), until April 5, 1929
- Template:Party stripeJohn W. Moore (D), from June 1, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John D. Craddock (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Maurice H. Thatcher (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Lincoln Newhall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert E. L. Blackburn (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis L. Walker (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elva R. Kendall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Katherine G. Langley (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Robsion (R), until January 10, 1930
- Template:Party stripeCharles Finley (R), from February 15, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James O'Connor (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Zach Spearing (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Whitmell P. Martin (D), until April 6, 1929
- Template:Party stripeNuma F. Montet (D), from August 6, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John N. Sandlin (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bolivar E. Kemp (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. René L. De Rouen (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Benjamin Aswell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Carroll L. Beedy (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John E. Nelson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Donald F. Snow (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. T. Alan Goldsborough (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Linwood L. Clark (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Vincent L. Palmisano (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Charles Linthicum (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Stephen W. Gambrill (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick N. Zihlman (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Allen T. Treadway (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Kirk Kaynor (R), until December 20, 1929
- Template:Party stripeWilliam J. Granfield (D), from February 11, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank H. Foss (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George R. Stobbs (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. A. Piatt Andrew Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William P. Connery Jr. (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles L. Underhill (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. Douglass (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George H. Tinkham (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. McCormack (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Luce (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles L. Gifford (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert H. Clancy (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Earl C. Michener (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph L. Hooper (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Ketcham (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Carl Mapes (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Grant M. Hudson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Louis C. Cramton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bird J. Vincent (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James C. McLaughlin (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Roy O. Woodruff (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank P. Bohn (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. W. Frank James (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clarence J. McLeod (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Victor Christgau (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank Clague (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. August H. Andresen (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Melvin Maas (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Walter H. Newton (R), until June 30, 1929
- Template:Party stripeWilliam I. Nolan (R), from July 17, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harold Knutson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ole J. Kvale (FL), until September 11, 1929
- Template:Party stripePaul J. Kvale (FL), from October 16, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Pittenger (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Conrad Selvig (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John E. Rankin (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Wall Doxey (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William M. Whittington (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. T. Jefferson Busby (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ross A. Collins (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert S. Hall (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Percy E. Quin (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James W. Collier (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Milton A. Romjue (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ralph F. Lozier (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jacob L. Milligan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David W. Hopkins (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edgar C. Ellis (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas J. Halsey (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Palmer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William L. Nelson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clarence Cannon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry F. Niedringhaus (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. Cochran (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles E. Kiefner (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dewey Short (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joe J. Manlove (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Rowland L. Johnston (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Evans (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Scott Leavitt (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Morehead (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Willis G. Sears (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edgar Howard (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Henry Sloan (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fred G. Johnson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert G. Simmons (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fletcher Hale (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Hills Wason (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Wolverton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac Bacharach (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harold G. Hoffman (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Eaton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ernest R. Ackerman (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Randolph Perkins (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George N. Seger (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Franklin W. Fort (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Mary T. Norton (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert L. Bacon (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William F. Brunner (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Lindsay (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas H. Cullen (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Loring M. Black Jr. (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew L. Somers (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John F. Quayle (D), until November 27, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick J. Carley (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David J. O'Connell (D), until December 29, 1930
- Template:Party stripeStephen A. Rudd (D), from February 17, 1931
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Emanuel Celler (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Anning S. Prall (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Dickstein (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William I. Sirovich (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. Boylan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. O'Connor (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ruth Baker Pratt (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John F. Carew (D), until December 28, 1929
- Template:Party stripeMartin J. Kennedy (D), from April 11, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Sol Bloom (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph A. Gavagan (D), from November 5, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Anthony J. Griffin (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank Oliver (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Mayhew Wainwright (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hamilton Fish III (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harcourt J. Pratt (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Parker Corning (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James S. Parker (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank Crowther (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bertrand H. Snell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis D. Culkin (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick M. Davenport (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John D. Clarke (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clarence E. Hancock (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Taber (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gale H. Stalker (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James L. Whitley (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Archie D. Sanders (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edmund F. Cooke (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. Mead (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel A. Reed (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lindsay C. Warren (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Kerr (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles L. Abernethy (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward W. Pou (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles M. Stedman (D), until September 23, 1930
- Template:Party stripeFranklin W. Hancock Jr. (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Bayard Clark (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Hammer (D), until September 26, 1930
- Template:Party stripeHinton James (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert L. Doughton (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Jonas (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George M. Pritchard (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Olger B. Burtness (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Hall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James H. Sinclair (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nicholas Longworth (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William E. Hess (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Roy G. Fitzgerald (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John L. Cable (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles J. Thompson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles C. Kearns (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Brand (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Grant E. Mouser Jr. (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Chalmers (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Mell G. Underwood (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Speaks (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph E. Baird (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Seiberling (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. C. Ellis Moore (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles B. McClintock (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William M. Morgan (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. B. Frank Murphy (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John G. Cooper (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Mooney (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Crosser (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Chester C. Bolton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles O'Connor (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Hastings (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Wilburn Cartwright (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tom D. McKeown (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ulysses S. Stone (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jed J. Johnson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James V. McClintic (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Milton C. Garber (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Willis C. Hawley (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert R. Butler (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Franklin F. Korell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. Beck (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George S. Graham (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry C. Ransley (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin M. Golder (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James J. Connolly (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George A. Welsh (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George P. Darrow (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Wolfenden (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry W. Watson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Griest (R), until December 5, 1929
- Template:Party stripeJ. Roland Kinzer (R), from January 28, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Laurence H. Watres (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. Casey (D), until May 5, 1929
- Template:Party stripeC. Murray Turpin (R), from June 4, 1929
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George F. Brumm (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles J. Esterly (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Louis T. McFadden (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edgar R. Kiess (R), until July 20, 1930
- Template:Party stripeRobert F. Rich (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick W. Magrady (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward M. Beers (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac H. Doutrich (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James R. Leech (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Banks Kurtz (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Franklin Menges (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Mitchell Chase (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel A. Kendall (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry W. Temple (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Howard Swick (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathan L. Strong (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas C. Cochran (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Milton W. Shreve (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William R. Coyle (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Adam M. Wyant (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Stephen G. Porter (R), until June 27, 1930
- Template:Party stripeEdmund F. Erk (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. M. Clyde Kelly (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick J. Sullivan (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry A. Estep (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Guy E. Campbell (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clark Burdick (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard S. Aldrich (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeremiah E. O'Connell (D), until May 9, 1930
- Template:Party stripeFrancis B. Condon (D), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas S. McMillan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Butler B. Hare (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fred H. Dominick (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. McSwain (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William F. Stevenson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Allard H. Gasque (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Christopherson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Royal C. Johnson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Williamson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. B. Carroll Reece (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. J. Will Taylor (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel D. McReynolds (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cordell Hull (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ewin L. Davis (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph W. Byrns (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward E. Eslick (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gordon Browning (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jere Cooper (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hubert Fisher (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Wright Patman (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Box (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Morgan G. Sanders (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Sam Rayburn (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Luther Alexander Johnson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clay Stone Briggs (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel E. Garrett (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James P. Buchanan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Oliver H. Cross (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fritz G. Lanham (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Guinn Williams (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustus McCloskey (D), until February 10, 1930
- Template:Party stripeHarry M. Wurzbach (R), from February 10, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Nance Garner (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Claude B. Hudspeth (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Q. Lee (D), until April 18, 1930
- Template:Party stripeThomas L. Blanton (D), from May 20, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Marvin Jones (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Don B. Colton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elmer O. Leatherwood (R), until December 24, 1929
- Template:Party stripeFrederick C. Loofbourow (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elbert S. Brigham (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ernest Willard Gibson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. S. Otis Bland (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Menalcus Lankford (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick H. Drewry (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Whitehead (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jacob A. Garber (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. R. Walton Moore (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph C. Shaffer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry St. George Tucker III (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John F. Miller (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lindley H. Hadley (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert Johnson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Summers (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel B. Hill (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Carl G. Bachmann (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frank L. Bowman (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Wolverton (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Anthony Hughes (R), until March 2, 1930
- Template:Party stripeRobert L. Hogg (R), from November 4, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hugh Ike Shott (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joe L. Smith (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Allen Cooper (R), until March 1, 1931
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Kading (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Nelson (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Schafer (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William H. Stafford (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Florian Lampert (R), until July 18, 1930
- Template:Party stripeMichael K. Reilly (D), from December 1, 1930
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Merlin Hull (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward E. Browne (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George J. Schneider (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James A. Frear (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hubert H. Peavey (R)
Non-voting members
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel Sutherland (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Victor S. K. Houston (R)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Pedro Guevara (Nac.)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Camilo Osías (Nac.)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Félix Córdova Dávila
| House seats by party holding plurality in state | |
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John Tilson
John Garner
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- Replacements: 15
- Democratic: 3-seat net gain
- Republican: 1-seat net loss
- Deaths: 5
- Resignations: 3
- Interim appointments: 6
- Total seats with changes: 9
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| Kansas
(3)
| Vacant
| Charles Curtis (R) had resigned at end of previous congress to become Vice President of the United States.
Successor appointed April 1, 1929, to continue the term.
Successor later lost nomination to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Henry J. Allen (R)
| April 1, 1929
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| Pennsylvania
(3)
| Vacant
| Sen.-elect William S. Vare (R) was apparently elected but vote was never certified by the Governor due to election irregularities. The Senate refused to qualify him and he was formally unseated December 9, 1929.
Successor appointed December 11, 1929.
Successor later lost nomination to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Joseph R. Grundy (R)
| December 11, 1929
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| Tennessee
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | Lawrence Tyson (D)
| Died August 24, 1929.
Successor appointed September 2, 1929, to continue the term.
Successor was also later elected November 4, 1930, to finish the term.Template:Sfn
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | William E. Brock (D)
| September 2, 1929
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| Ohio
(3)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Theodore E. Burton (R)
| Died October 28, 1929.
Successor appointed November 5, 1929, to continue the term.
Successor later lost election to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
| November 5, 1929
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| New Jersey
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Walter E. Edge (R)
| Resigned November 21, 1929, to become U.S. Ambassador to France.
Successor appointed November 30, 1929, to continue the term.
Successor later did not run to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | David Baird Jr. (R)
| November 30, 1929
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| Wyoming
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Francis E. Warren (R)
| Died November 24, 1929.
Successor appointed December 5, 1929.
Successor later did not run to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Patrick J. Sullivan (R)
| December 5, 1929
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| Kentucky
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Frederic M. Sackett (R)
| Resigned January 9, 1930, to become U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
Successor appointed January 11, 1930, to continue the term.
Successor later lost election to finish the term, see below.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | John M. Robsion (R)
| January 11, 1930
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| Wyoming
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Patrick Joseph Sullivan (R)
| Interim appointee did not run to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Robert D. Carey (R)
| December 1, 1930
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| Kansas
(3)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Henry J. Allen (R)
| Interim appointee lost election to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | George McGill (D)
| December 1, 1930
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| Kentucky
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | John M. Robsion (R)
| Interim appointee lost election to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | Ben M. Williamson (D)
| December 1, 1930
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| Ohio
(3)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
| Interim appointee lost election to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | Robert J. Bulkley (D)
| December 1, 1930
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| Pennsylvania
(3)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Joseph R. Grundy (R)
| Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | James J. Davis (R)
| December 2, 1930
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| New Jersey
(2)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | David Baird Jr. (R)
| Interim appointee did not run to finish the term.
Successor elected November 4, 1930.
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Dwight Morrow (R)
| December 3, 1930
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| North Carolina
(3)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | Lee S. Overman (D)
| Died December 12, 1930.
Successor appointed December 13, 1930, to continue the term.
Successor later lost election to finish the term, see (72nd United States Congress).
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Democratic | Cameron A. Morrison (D)
| December 13, 1930
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| Vermont
(1)
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Frank L. Greene (R)
| Died December 17, 1930.
Successor appointed December 23, 1930, to continue the term.
Successor later lost nomination to finish the term, see (72nd United States Congress).
| nowrap Template:Party shading/Republican | Frank C. Partridge (R)
| December 23, 1930
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House of Representatives
- Replacements: 27
- Democratic: 4 seat net gain
- Republican: 3 seat net loss
- Deaths: 25
- Resignations: 6
- Contested election: 1
- Total seats with changes: 32
Committees
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Senate
- Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Charles L. McNary; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
- Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts (Special)
- Alaska Railroad (Special Select)
- Appropriations (Chairman: Francis E. Warren then Wesley L. Jones; Ranking Member: William J. Harris)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Charles S. Deneen; Ranking Member: Thaddeus H. Caraway)
- Banking and Currency (Chairman: Peter Norbeck; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
- Civil Service (Chairman: Porter H. Dale; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
- Claims (Chairman: Robert B. Howell; Ranking Member: Park Trammell)
- Commerce (Chairman: Hiram W. Johnson; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
- Depreciation of Foreign Currencies (Select)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Arthur Capper; Ranking Member: William H. King)
- Education and Labor (Chairman: Jesse H. Metcalf; Ranking Member: Royal S. Copeland)
- Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank L. Greene; Ranking Member: Coleman L. Blease)
- Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: Frederick M. Sackett then Guy D. Goff; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
- Finance (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: William E. Borah; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
- Immigration (Chairman: Arthur R. Gould; Ranking Member: William H. King)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Lynn J. Frazier; Ranking Member: Henry F. Ashurst)
- Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Thomas D. Schall; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
- Interstate Commerce (Chairman: James Couzens; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
- Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: John Thomas; Ranking Member: Morris Sheppard)
- Judiciary (Chairman: George W. Norris; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman then Henry F. Ashurst)
- Library (Chairman: Simeon D. Fess; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette Jr.; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: David A. Reed; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
- Mines and Mining (Chairman: Roscoe C. Patterson; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
- Mississippi Flood Control Project (Select)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick Hale; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
- Patents (Chairman: Charles W. Waterman; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
- Pensions (Chairman: Arthur R. Robinson; Ranking Member: Burton K. Wheeler)
- Post Office Leases (Select)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Lawrence C. Phipps; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
- Printing (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
- Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Samuel M. Shortridge; Ranking Member: William H. King)
- Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Henry W. Keyes; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
- Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Gerald P. Nye; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Select)
- Rules (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman then Pat Harrison)
- Territories and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Hiram Bingham; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: Charles L. Underhill; Ranking Member: Lindsay C. Warren)
- Agriculture (Chairman: Gilbert N. Haugen; Ranking Member: James B. Aswell)
- Appropriations (Chairman: William R. Wood; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
- Banking and Currency (Chairman: Louis T. McFadden; Ranking Member: Otis Wingo then John E. Rankin)
- Census (Chairman: E. Hart Fenn; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
- Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick R. Lehlbach; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
- Claims (Chairman: Edward M. Irwin; Ranking Member: John C. Box)
- Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Randolph Perkins; Ranking Member: Edgar Howard)
- Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Edward H. Wason; Ranking Member: Robert A. Green)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Frederick N. Zihlman; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
- Education (Chairman: Daniel A. Reed; Ranking Member: Loring M. Black)
- Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Charles L. Gifford; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
- Elections No.#1 (Chairman: Carroll L. Beedy; Ranking Member: Edward E. Eslick)
- Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Bird J. Vincent; Ranking Member: John J. Douglass)
- Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Willis G. Sears; Ranking Member: John H. Kerr)
- Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Guy E. Campbell; Ranking Member: Mell G. Underwood)
- Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: William Williamson; Ranking Member: Allard H. Gasque)
- Flood Control (Chairman: Frank R. Reid; Ranking Member: Riley J. Wilson)
- Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Stephen G. Porter; Ranking Member: J. Charles Linthicum)
- Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Albert Johnson; Ranking Member: John C. Box)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Scott Leavitt; Ranking Member: John M. Evans)
- Insular Affairs (Chairman: Edgar R. Kiess; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: James S. Parker; Ranking Member: Sam Rayburn)
- Invalid Pensions (Chairman: John M. Nelson; Ranking Member: Mell G. Underwood)
- Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Addison T. Smith; Ranking Member: C. B. Hudspeth)
- Judiciary (Chairman: George S. Graham; Ranking Member: Hatton W. Sumners)
- Labor (Chairman: William F. Kopp; Ranking Member: William P. Connery Jr.)
- Library (Chairman: Robert Luce; Ranking Member: Lindsay C. Warren)
- Memorials (Chairman: Burton L. French; Ranking Member: N/A)
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Wallace H. White Jr.; Ranking Member: Ewin L. Davis)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: W. Frank James; Ranking Member: Percy E. Quin)
- Mines and Mining (Chairman: William H. Sproul; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Greenwood)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick A. Britten; Ranking Member: Carl Vinson)
- Patents (Chairman: Albert H. Vestal; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
- Pensions (Chairman: Harold Knutson; Ranking Member: Allard H. Gasque)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Archie D. Sanders; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Bell)
- Printing (Chairman: Edward M. Beers; Ranking Member: William F. Stevenson)
- Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard N. Elliott; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
- Public Lands (Chairman: Don B. Colton; Ranking Member: John M. Evans)
- Revision of Laws (Chairman: Roy G. Fitzgerald; Ranking Member: Loring M. Black)
- Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: S. Wallace Dempsey; Ranking Member: Joseph J. Mansfield)
- Roads (Chairman: Cassius C. Dowell; Ranking Member: Edward B. Almon)
- Rules (Chairman: Bertrand H. Snell; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories (Chairman: Charles F. Curry; Ranking Member: William C. Lankford)
- War Claims (Chairman: James G. Strong; Ranking Member: Miles C. Allgood)
- Ways and Means (Chairman: Willis C. Hawley; Ranking Member: John N. Garner)
- World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman: Royal C. Johnson; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
- Whole
Joint committees
- Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
- Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
- The Library (Chairman: Sen. Simeon D. Fess)
- Printing (Chairman: Sen. George H. Moses then Duncan U. Fletcher; Vice Chairman: Rep. Edgar R. Kiess)
- Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Willis C. Hawley)
- Veterans' Affairs
Caucuses
- Democratic (House)
- Democratic (Senate)
Officers
Legislative branch agency directors
- Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
- Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
- Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl
- Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
- Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter
Senate
- Secretary: Edwin P. Thayer
- Sergeant at Arms: David S. Barry
- Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
- Chaplain: ZeBarney T. Phillips (Episcopalian)
- Democratic Party Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey, from 1929
- Republican Party Secretary: Carl A. Loeffler, from 1929
House of Representatives
- Clerk: William T. Page
- Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers
- Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
- Postmaster: Frank W. Collier
- Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
- Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
- Chaplain: James S. Montgomery (Methodist)
See also
- 1928 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1930 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
Notes
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