72nd United States Congress
1931–1933 U.S. Congress
The 72nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives .[1] [2] It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1931, to March 4, 1933, during the last two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency . The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census . The Senate had a Republican majority. The House started with a very slim Republican majority, but by the time it first met in December 1931, the Democrats had gained a majority through special elections.
Major events
Ongoing: Great Depression
January 12, 1932: Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. (Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia had been appointed to fill a vacancy in 1922; the 87-year-old Felton served one day as a senator.) Caraway had won a special election to fill the remaining months of the term of her late husband, Senator Thaddeus Caraway . She won re-election to a full term in 1932 and again in 1938 and served in the Senate until January 1945.[3]
July 28, 1932: Bonus Army was dispersed.
November 8, 1932: 1932 United States elections :
Major legislation
January 22, 1932: Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, Sess. 1, ch. 8, 47 Stat. 5
February 27, 1932: Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 , Sess. 1, ch. 58, 47 Stat. 56
March 23, 1932: Norris-LaGuardia Act , Sess. 1, ch. 90, 47 Stat. 70
June 6, 1932: Revenue Act of 1932 , Sess. 1, ch. 209, 47 Stat. 169
June 22, 1932: Federal Kidnapping Act , Sess. 1, ch. 271, 47 Stat. 326
June 30, 1932: Economy Act of 1932 , Sess. 1, ch. 314, 47 Stat. 399
July 21, 1932: Emergency Relief and Construction Act , Sess. 1, ch. 520, 47 Stat. 709
July 22, 1932: Federal Home Loan Bank Act , Sess. 1, ch. 522, 47 Stat. 725
January 17, 1933: Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act , Sess. 2, ch. 11, 47 Stat. 761
March 3, 1933: Buy American Act , Sess. 2, ch. 212, title III, 47 Stat. 1520
Constitutional amendments
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
House of Representatives
Affiliation
Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)
Total
Democratic
Farmer–Labor
Republican
Vacant
End of previous Congress
166
1
265
432
3
Begin
216
1
217
434
1
March 16, 1931
215
433
2
April 9, 1931
216
432
3
May 12, 1931
216
216
433
2
May 26, 1931
215
216
432
3
May 29, 1931
214
431
4
July 4, 1931
215
430
5
July 13, 1931
213
429
6
July 18, 1931
214
428
7
July 28, 1931
212
427
8
September 9, 1931
213
428
7
September 29, 1931
214
214
429
6
October 13, 1931
215
430
5
October 18, 1931
214
429
6
October 22, 1931
214
213
428
7
November 3, 1931
217
215
433
2
November 6, 1931
214
432
3
November 24, 1931
218
433
2
December 1, 1931 Beginning of first session
219
1
214
434
1
January 5, 1932
220
435
0
January 29, 1932
213
434
1
February 4, 1932
218
432
3
March 2, 1932
219
433
2
March 15, 1932
220
434
1
April 1, 1932
212
433
2
April 5, 1932
221
211
April 21, 1932
210
432
3
April 26, 1932
211
433
2
May 31, 1932
210
432
3
June 14, 1932
220
431
4
July 23, 1932
219
430
5
August 14, 1932
220
431
4
October 5, 1932
219
430
5
October 7, 1932
218
429
6
November 6, 1932
217
428
7
November 8, 1932
220
212
433
2
November 29, 1932
211
432
3
December 3, 1932
210
431
4
December 13, 1932
219
430
5
January 7, 1933
209
429
6
January 8, 1933
208
428
7
January 28, 1933
220
429
6
February 16, 1933
206
427
8
Final voting share
51.4%
0.2%
48.4%
Non-voting members
0
0
2
5
0
Beginning of next Congress
311
5
117
433
2
Leadership
President of the SenateCharles Curtis (R)
Senate
Majority (Republican)
Minority (Democratic)
House of Representatives
House Speaker John Garner (D)
Note : Republican Nicholas Longworth , the Speaker of the House in the previous Congress , was Speaker-presumptive with his party's mere three-seat majority. However, Longworth died on April 9, 1931, and by the time the 72nd Congress convened in December 1931, Democrats had gained four seats from Republicans through special elections following deaths, thus becoming the majority party in the House. Democrat John Garner was subsequently elected as Speaker.[4]
Majority (Democratic)
Minority (Republican)
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.
Senate
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 the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1936; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1932.
▌ 2. John H. Bankhead II (D)
▌ 3. Hugo Black (D)
▌ 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
▌ 3. Carl Hayden (D)
▌ 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)
▌ 3. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D), until November 6, 1931
▌ Hattie Caraway (D), from November 13, 1931
▌ 1. Hiram W. Johnson (R)
▌ 3. Samuel M. Shortridge (R)
▌ 2. Edward P. Costigan (D)
▌ 3. Charles W. Waterman (R), until August 27, 1932
▌ Walter Walker (D), September 16, 1932 – December 6, 1932
▌ Karl C. Schuyler (R), from December 7, 1932
▌ 1. Frederic C. Walcott (R)
▌ 3. Hiram Bingham III (R)
▌ 1. John G. Townsend Jr. (R)
▌ 2. Daniel O. Hastings (R)
▌ 1. Park Trammell (D)
▌ 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
▌ 2. William J. Harris (D), until April 18, 1932
▌ John S. Cohen (D), April 25, 1932 – January 11, 1933
▌ Richard Russell Jr. (D), from January 12, 1933
▌ 3. Walter F. George (D)
▌ 2. William E. Borah (R)
▌ 3. John Thomas (R)
▌ 2. James Hamilton Lewis (D)
▌ 3. Otis F. Glenn (R)
▌ 1. Arthur R. Robinson (R)
▌ 3. James E. Watson (R)
▌ 2. Lester J. Dickinson (R)
▌ 3. Smith W. Brookhart (R)
▌ 2. Arthur Capper (R)
▌ 3. George McGill (D)
▌ 2. Marvel M. Logan (D)
▌ 3. Alben W. Barkley (D)
▌ 2. Huey Long (D), from January 25, 1932[a]
▌ 3. Edwin S. Broussard (D)
▌ 1. Frederick Hale (R)
▌ 2. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)
▌ 1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)
▌ 3. Millard Tydings (D)
▌ 1. David I. Walsh (D)
▌ 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D)
▌ 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)
▌ 2. James J. Couzens (R)
▌ 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)
▌ 2. Thomas D. Schall (R)
▌ 1. Hubert D. Stephens (D)
▌ 2. Pat Harrison (D)
▌ 1. Roscoe C. Patterson (R)
▌ 3. Harry B. Hawes (D), until February 3, 1933
▌ Bennett Champ Clark (D), from February 3, 1933
▌ 1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)
▌ 2. Thomas J. Walsh (D), until March 2, 1933
▌ 1. Robert B. Howell (R)
▌ 2. George W. Norris (R)
▌ 1. Key Pittman (D)
▌ 3. Tasker Oddie (R)
▌ 2. Henry W. Keyes (R)
▌ 3. George H. Moses (R)
▌ 1. Hamilton Fish Kean (R)
▌ 2. Dwight Morrow (R), until October 5, 1931
▌ William Warren Barbour (R), from December 1, 1931
▌ 1. Bronson M. Cutting (R)
▌ 2. Sam G. Bratton (D)
▌ 1. Royal S. Copeland (D)
▌ 3. Robert F. Wagner (D)
▌ 2. Josiah William Bailey (D)
▌ 3. Cameron A. Morrison (D), until December 4, 1932
▌ Robert R. Reynolds (D), from December 5, 1932
▌ 1. Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)
▌ 3. Gerald Nye (R)
▌ 1. Simeon D. Fess (R)
▌ 3. Robert J. Bulkley (D)
▌ 2. Thomas P. Gore (D)
▌ 3. Elmer Thomas (D)
▌ 2. Charles L. McNary (R)
▌ 3. Frederick Steiwer (R)
▌ 1. David A. Reed (R)
▌ 3. James J. Davis (R)
▌ 1. Felix Hebert (R)
▌ 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)
▌ 2. James F. Byrnes (D)
▌ 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)
▌ 2. William J. Bulow (D)
▌ 3. Peter Norbeck (R)
▌ 1. Kenneth McKellar (D)
▌ 2. Cordell Hull (D)
▌ 1. Tom T. Connally (D)
▌ 2. Morris Sheppard (D)
▌ 1. William H. King (D)
▌ 3. Reed Smoot (R)
▌ 1. Porter H. Dale (R)
▌ 3. Frank C. Partridge (R), until March 31, 1931
▌ Warren Austin (R), from April 1, 1931
▌ 1. Claude A. Swanson (D)
▌ 2. Carter Glass (D)
▌ 1. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)
▌ 3. Wesley L. Jones (R), until November 19, 1932
▌ Elijah S. Grammer (R), from November 22, 1932
▌ 1. Henry D. Hatfield (R)
▌ 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)
▌ 1. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R)
▌ 3. John J. Blaine (R)
▌ 1. John B. Kendrick (D)
▌ 2. Robert D. Carey (R)
Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 72nd Congress in March 1931. The green stripes denote Farmer-Labor Senator Henrik Shipstead . 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 . John McDuffie (D)
▌ 2 . J. Lister Hill (D)
▌ 3 . Henry B. Steagall (D)
▌ 4 . Lamar Jeffers (D)
▌ 5 . LaFayette L. Patterson (D)
▌ 6 . William B. Oliver (D)
▌ 7 . Miles C. Allgood (D)
▌ 8 . Edward B. Almon (D)
▌ 9 . George Huddleston (D)
▌ 10 . William B. Bankhead (D)
▌ At-large . Lewis W. Douglas (D)
▌ 1 . William J. Driver (D)
▌ 2 . John E. Miller (D)
▌ 3 . Claude A. Fuller (D)
▌ 4 . Effiegene L. Wingo (D)
▌ 5 . Heartsill Ragon (D)
▌ 6 . David D. Glover (D)
▌ 7 . Tilman B. Parks (D)
▌ 1 . Clarence F. Lea (D)
▌ 2 . Harry L. Englebright (R)
▌ 3 . Charles F. Curry Jr. (R)
▌ 4 . Florence P. Kahn (R)
▌ 5 . Richard J. Welch (R)
▌ 6 . Albert E. Carter (R)
▌ 7 . Henry E. Barbour (R)
▌ 8 . Arthur M. Free (R)
▌ 9 . William E. Evans (R)
▌ 10 . Joe Crail (R)
▌ 11 . Philip D. Swing (R)
▌ 1 . William R. Eaton (R)
▌ 2 . Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)
▌ 3 . Guy U. Hardy (R)
▌ 4 . Edward T. Taylor (D)
▌ 1 . Augustine Lonergan (D)
▌ 2 . Richard P. Freeman (R)
▌ 3 . John Q. Tilson (R), until December 3, 1932
▌ 4 . William L. Tierney (D)
▌ 5 . Edward W. Goss (R)
▌ At-large . Robert G. Houston (R)
▌ 1 . Herbert J. Drane (D)
▌ 2 . Robert A. Green (D)
▌ 3 . Tom A. Yon (D)
▌ 4 . Ruth Bryan Owen (D)
▌ 1 . Charles G. Edwards (D), until July 13, 1931
▌ Homer C. Parker (D), from September 9, 1931
▌ 2 . Edward E. Cox (D)
▌ 3 . Charles R. Crisp (D), until October 7, 1932
▌ Bryant T. Castellow (D), from November 8, 1932
▌ 4 . William C. Wright (D)
▌ 5 . Robert Ramspeck (D)
▌ 6 . Samuel Rutherford (D), until February 4, 1932
▌ Carlton Mobley (D), from March 2, 1932
▌ 7 . Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
▌ 8 . Charles H. Brand (D)
▌ 9 . John S. Wood (D)
▌ 10 . Carl Vinson (D)
▌ 11 . William C. Lankford (D)
▌ 12 . William W. Larsen (D)
▌ 1 . Burton L. French (R)
▌ 2 . Addison T. Smith (R)
▌ 1 . Oscar S. De Priest (R)
▌ 2 . Morton D. Hull (R)
▌ 3 . Edward A. Kelly (D)
▌ 4 . Harry P. Beam (D)
▌ 5 . Adolph J. Sabath (D)
▌ 6 . James T. Igoe (D)
▌ 7 . Leonard W. Schuetz (D)
▌ 8 . Peter C. Granata (R), until April 5, 1932
▌ Stanley H. Kunz (D), from April 5, 1932
▌ 9 . Frederick A. Britten (R)
▌ 10 . Carl R. Chindblom (R)
▌ 11 . Frank R. Reid (R)
▌ 12 . John T. Buckbee (R)
▌ 13 . William R. Johnson (R)
▌ 14 . John C. Allen (R)
▌ 15 . Burnett M. Chiperfield (R)
▌ 16 . William E. Hull (R)
▌ 17 . Homer W. Hall (R)
▌ 18 . William P. Holaday (R)
▌ 19 . Charles Adkins (R)
▌ 20 . Henry T. Rainey (D)
▌ 21 . J. Earl Major (D)
▌ 22 . Charles A. Karch (D), until November 6, 1932
▌ 23 . William W. Arnold (D)
▌ 24 . Claude V. Parsons (D)
▌ 25 . Kent E. Keller (D)
▌ At-large . William H. Dieterich (D)
▌ At-large . Richard Yates Jr. (R)
▌ 1 . John W. Boehne Jr. (D)
▌ 2 . Arthur H. Greenwood (D)
▌ 3 . Eugene B. Crowe (D)
▌ 4 . Harry C. Canfield (D)
▌ 5 . Courtland C. Gillen (D)
▌ 6 . William H. Larrabee (D)
▌ 7 . Louis Ludlow (D)
▌ 8 . Albert H. Vestal (R), until April 1, 1932
▌ 9 . Fred S. Purnell (R)
▌ 10 . William R. Wood (R)
▌ 11 . Glenn Griswold (D)
▌ 12 . David Hogg (R)
▌ 13 . Samuel B. Pettengill (D)
▌ 1 . William F. Kopp (R)
▌ 2 . Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D)
▌ 3 . Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)
▌ 4 . Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
▌ 5 . Cyrenus Cole (R)
▌ 6 . C. William Ramseyer (R)
▌ 7 . Cassius C. Dowell (R)
▌ 8 . Lloyd Thurston (R)
▌ 9 . Charles E. Swanson (R)
▌ 10 . Fred C. Gilchrist (R)
▌ 11 . Ed H. Campbell (R)
▌ 1 . William P. Lambertson (R)
▌ 2 . Ulysses S. Guyer (R)
▌ 3 . Harold C. McGugin (R)
▌ 4 . Homer Hoch (R)
▌ 5 . James G. Strong (R)
▌ 6 . Charles I. Sparks (R)
▌ 7 . Clifford R. Hope (R)
▌ 8 . William A. Ayres (D)
▌ 1 . William V. Gregory (D)
▌ 2 . Glover H. Cary (D)
▌ 3 . John W. Moore (D)
▌ 4 . Cap R. Carden (D)
▌ 5 . Maurice H. Thatcher (R)
▌ 6 . Brent Spence (D)
▌ 7 . Virgil Chapman (D)
▌ 8 . Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D)
▌ 9 . Fred M. Vinson (D)
▌ 10 . Andrew J. May (D)
▌ 11 . Charles Finley (R)
▌ 1 . Joachim O. Fernández (D)
▌ 2 . Paul H. Maloney (D)
▌ 3 . Numa F. Montet (D)
▌ 4 . John N. Sandlin (D)
▌ 5 . Riley Joseph Wilson (D)
▌ 6 . Bolivar E. Kemp (D)
▌ 7 . René L. De Rouen (D)
▌ 8 . James Benjamin Aswell (D), until March 16, 1931
▌ John H. Overton (D), from May 12, 1931
▌ 1 . Carroll L. Beedy (R)
▌ 2 . Donald B. Partridge (R)
▌ 3 . John E. Nelson (R)
▌ 4 . Donald F. Snow (R)
▌ 1 . T. Alan Goldsborough (D)
▌ 2 . William P. Cole Jr. (D)
▌ 3 . Vincent L. Palmisano (D)
▌ 4 . J. Charles Linthicum (D), until October 5, 1932
▌ Ambrose J. Kennedy (D), from November 8, 1932
▌ 5 . Stephen W. Gambrill (D)
▌ 6 . David J. Lewis (D)
▌ 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 . Frederick W. Dallinger (R), until October 1, 1932
▌ 9 . Charles L. Underhill (R)
▌ 10 . John J. Douglass (D)
▌ 11 . George H. Tinkham (R)
▌ 12 . John W. McCormack (D)
▌ 13 . Robert Luce (R)
▌ 14 . Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
▌ 15 . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)
▌ 16 . Charles L. Gifford (R)
▌ 1 . Robert H. Clancy (R)
▌ 2 . Earl C. Michener (R)
▌ 3 . Joseph L. Hooper (R)
▌ 4 . John C. Ketcham (R)
▌ 5 . Carl Mapes (R)
▌ 6 . Seymour H. Person (R)
▌ 7 . Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
▌ 8 . Bird J. Vincent (R), until July 18, 1931
▌ Michael J. Hart (D), from November 3, 1931
▌ 9 . James C. McLaughlin (R), until November 29, 1932
▌ 10 . Roy O. Woodruff (R)
▌ 11 . Frank P. Bohn (R)
▌ 12 . W. Frank James (R)
▌ 13 . Clarence J. McLeod (R)
▌ 1 . Victor Christgau (R)
▌ 2 . Frank Clague (R)
▌ 3 . August H. Andresen (R)
▌ 4 . Melvin Maas (R)
▌ 5 . William I. Nolan (R)
▌ 6 . Harold Knutson (R)
▌ 7 . Paul J. Kvale (FL)
▌ 8 . William Pittenger (R)
▌ 9 . Conrad Selvig (R)
▌ 10 . Godfrey G. Goodwin (R), until February 16, 1933
▌ 1 . John E. Rankin (D)
▌ 2 . Wall Doxey (D)
▌ 3 . William M. Whittington (D)
▌ 4 . T. Jefferson Busby (D)
▌ 5 . Ross A. Collins (D)
▌ 6 . Robert S. Hall (D)
▌ 7 . Percy E. Quin (D), until February 4, 1932
▌ Lawrence R. Ellzey (D), from March 15, 1932
▌ 8 . James W. Collier (D)
▌ 1 . Milton A. Romjue (D)
▌ 2 . Ralph F. Lozier (D)
▌ 3 . Jacob L. Milligan (D)
▌ 4 . David W. Hopkins (R)
▌ 5 . Joseph B. Shannon (D)
▌ 6 . Clement C. Dickinson (D)
▌ 7 . Samuel C. Major (D), until July 28, 1931
▌ Robert D. Johnson (D), from September 29, 1931
▌ 8 . William L. Nelson (D)
▌ 9 . Clarence Cannon (D)
▌ 10 . Henry F. Niedringhaus (R)
▌ 11 . John J. Cochran (D)
▌ 12 . Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
▌ 13 . Clyde Williams (D)
▌ 14 . James F. Fulbright (D)
▌ 15 . Joe J. Manlove (R)
▌ 16 . William E. Barton (D)
▌ 1 . John M. Evans (D)
▌ 2 . Scott Leavitt (R)
▌ 1 . John H. Morehead (D)
▌ 2 . Howard M. Baldrige (R)
▌ 3 . Edgar Howard (D)
▌ 4 . John N. Norton (D)
▌ 5 . Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
▌ 6 . Robert G. Simmons (R)
▌ At-large . Samuel S. Arentz (R)
▌ 1 . Fletcher Hale (R), until October 22, 1931
▌ William N. Rogers (D), from January 5, 1932
▌ 2 . Edward H. Wason (R)
▌ 1 . Charles A. Wolverton (R)
▌ 2 . Isaac Bacharach (R)
▌ 3 . William H. Sutphin (D)
▌ 4 . Charles A. Eaton (R)
▌ 5 . Ernest R. Ackerman (R), until October 18, 1931
▌ Percy H. Stewart (D), from December 1, 1931
▌ 6 . Randolph Perkins (R)
▌ 7 . George N. Seger (R)
▌ 8 . Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)
▌ 9 . Peter A. Cavicchia (R)
▌ 10 . Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
▌ 11 . Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)
▌ 12 . Mary T. Norton (D)
▌ At-large . Dennis Chávez (D)
▌ 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 . Matthew V. O'Malley (D), until May 26, 1931
▌ John J. Delaney (D), from November 3, 1931
▌ 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 . Ruth Baker Pratt (R)
▌ 18 . Martin J. Kennedy (D)
▌ 19 . Sol Bloom (D)
▌ 20 . Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R)
▌ 21 . Joseph A. Gavagan (D)
▌ 22 . Anthony J. Griffin (D)
▌ 23 . Frank Oliver (D)
▌ 24 . James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
▌ 25 . Charles D. Millard (R)
▌ 26 . Hamilton Fish III (R)
▌ 27 . Harcourt J. Pratt (R)
▌ 28 . Parker Corning (D)
▌ 29 . James S. Parker (R)
▌ 30 . Frank Crowther (R)
▌ 31 . Bertrand H. Snell (R)
▌ 32 . Francis D. Culkin (R)
▌ 33 . Frederick M. Davenport (R)
▌ 34 . John D. Clarke (R)
▌ 35 . Clarence E. Hancock (R)
▌ 36 . John Taber (R)
▌ 37 . Gale H. Stalker (R)
▌ 38 . James L. Whitley (R)
▌ 39 . Archie D. Sanders (R)
▌ 40 . Walter G. Andrews (R)
▌ 41 . Edmund F. Cooke (R)
▌ 42 . James M. Mead (D)
▌ 43 . Daniel A. Reed (R)
▌ 1 . Lindsay C. Warren (D)
▌ 2 . John H. Kerr (D)
▌ 3 . Charles L. Abernethy (D)
▌ 4 . Edward W. Pou (D)
▌ 5 . Franklin W. Hancock Jr. (D)
▌ 6 . J. Bayard Clark (D)
▌ 7 . J. Walter Lambeth (D)
▌ 8 . Robert L. Doughton (D)
▌ 9 . Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
▌ 10 . Zebulon Weaver (D)
▌ 1 . Olger B. Burtness (R)
▌ 2 . Thomas Hall (R)
▌ 3 . James H. Sinclair (R)
▌ 1 . Nicholas Longworth (R), until April 9, 1931
▌ John B. Hollister (R), from November 3, 1931
▌ 2 . William E. Hess (R)
▌ 3 . Byron B. Harlan (D)
▌ 4 . John L. Cable (R)
▌ 5 . Frank C. Kniffin (D)
▌ 6 . James G. Polk (D)
▌ 7 . Charles Brand (R)
▌ 8 . Grant E. Mouser Jr. (R)
▌ 9 . Wilbur M. White (R)
▌ 10 . Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
▌ 11 . Mell G. Underwood (D)
▌ 12 . Arthur P. Lamneck (D)
▌ 13 . William L. Fiesinger (D)
▌ 14 . Francis Seiberling (R)
▌ 15 . C. Ellis Moore (R)
▌ 16 . Charles B. McClintock (R)
▌ 17 . Charles F. West (D)
▌ 18 . B. Frank Murphy (R)
▌ 19 . John G. Cooper (R)
▌ 20 . Charles A. Mooney (D), until May 29, 1931
▌ Martin L. Sweeney (D), from November 3, 1931
▌ 21 . Robert Crosser (D)
▌ 22 . Chester C. Bolton (R)
▌ 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 J. Johnson (D)
▌ 7 . James V. McClintic (D)
▌ 8 . Milton C. Garber (R)
▌ 1 . Willis C. Hawley (R)
▌ 2 . Robert R. Butler (R), until January 7, 1933
▌ 3 . Charles H. Martin (D)
▌ 1 . James M. Beck (R)
▌ 2 . George S. Graham (R), until July 4, 1931
▌ Edward L. Stokes (R), from November 3, 1931
▌ 3 . Harry C. Ransley (R)
▌ 4 . Benjamin M. Golder (R)
▌ 5 . James J. Connolly (R)
▌ 6 . George A. Welsh (R), until May 31, 1932
▌ Robert L. Davis (R), from November 8, 1932
▌ 7 . George P. Darrow (R)
▌ 8 . James Wolfenden (R)
▌ 9 . Henry Winfield Watson (R)
▌ 10 . J. Roland Kinzer (R)
▌ 11 . Patrick J. Boland (D)
▌ 12 . C. Murray Turpin (R)
▌ 13 . George F. Brumm (R)
▌ 14 . Norton L. Lichtenwalner (D)
▌ 15 . Louis T. McFadden (R)
▌ 16 . Robert F. Rich (R)
▌ 17 . Frederick W. Magrady (R)
▌ 18 . Edward M. Beers (R), until April 21, 1932 (died)
▌ Joseph F. Biddle (R), from November 8, 1932
▌ 19 . Isaac H. Doutrich (R)
▌ 20 . James R. Leech (R), until January 29, 1932
▌ Howard W. Stull (R), from April 26, 1932
▌ 21 . J. Banks Kurtz (R)
▌ 22 . Harry L. Haines (D)
▌ 23 . J. Mitchell Chase (R)
▌ 24 . Samuel A. Kendall (R), until January 8, 1933
▌ 25 . Henry W. Temple (R)
▌ 26 . J. Howard Swick (R)
▌ 27 . Nathan L. Strong (R)
▌ 28 . Thomas C. Cochran (R)
▌ 29 . Milton W. Shreve (R)
▌ 30 . William R. Coyle (R)
▌ 31 . Adam M. Wyant (R)
▌ 32 . Edmund F. Erk (R)
▌ 33 . M. Clyde Kelly (R)
▌ 34 . Patrick J. Sullivan (R)
▌ 35 . Harry A. Estep (R)
▌ 36 . Guy E. Campbell (R)
▌ 1 . Clark Burdick (R)
▌ 2 . Richard S. Aldrich (R)
▌ 3 . Francis B. Condon (D)
▌ 1 . Thomas S. McMillan (D)
▌ 2 . Butler B. Hare (D)
▌ 3 . Fred H. Dominick (D)
▌ 4 . John J. McSwain (D)
▌ 5 . William F. Stevenson (D)
▌ 6 . Allard H. Gasque (D)
▌ 7 . Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
▌ 1 . Charles A. Christopherson (R)
▌ 2 . Royal C. Johnson (R)
▌ 3 . William Williamson (R)
▌ 1 . Oscar Lovette (R)
▌ 2 . J. Will Taylor (R)
▌ 3 . Samuel D. McReynolds (D)
▌ 4 . John Ridley Mitchell (D)
▌ 5 . Ewin L. Davis (D)
▌ 6 . Joseph W. Byrns (D)
▌ 7 . Edward E. Eslick (D), until June 14, 1932
▌ Willa M. B. Eslick (D), from August 14, 1932
▌ 8 . Gordon Browning (D)
▌ 9 . Jere Cooper (D)
▌ 10 . Edward H. Crump (D)
▌ 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 Alexander Johnson (D)
▌ 7 . Clay Stone Briggs (D)
▌ 8 . Daniel E. Garrett (D), until December 13, 1932
▌ Joe H. Eagle (D), from January 28, 1933
▌ 9 . Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
▌ 10 . James P. Buchanan (D)
▌ 11 . Oliver H. Cross (D)
▌ 12 . Fritz G. Lanham (D)
▌ 13 . Guinn Williams (D)
▌ 14 . Harry M. Wurzbach (R), until November 6, 1931
▌ Richard M. Kleberg (D), from November 24, 1931
▌ 15 . John Nance Garner (D)
▌ 16 . R. Ewing Thomason (D)
▌ 17 . Thomas L. Blanton (D)
▌ 18 . John Marvin Jones (D)
▌ 1 . Don B. Colton (R)
▌ 2 . Frederick C. Loofbourow (R)
▌ 1 . John E. Weeks (R)
▌ 2 . Ernest Willard Gibson (R)
▌ 1 . S. Otis Bland (D)
▌ 2 . Menalcus Lankford (R)
▌ 3 . Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
▌ 4 . Patrick H. Drewry (D)
▌ 5 . Thomas G. Burch (D)
▌ 6 . Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
▌ 7 . John W. Fishburne (D)
▌ 8 . Howard W. Smith (D)
▌ 9 . John W. Flannagan Jr. (D)
▌ 10 . Henry St. George Tucker III (D), until July 23, 1932
▌ Joel W. Flood (D), from November 8, 1932
▌ 1 . Ralph Horr (R)
▌ 2 . Lindley H. Hadley (R)
▌ 3 . Albert Johnson (R)
▌ 4 . John W. Summers (R)
▌ 5 . Samuel B. Hill (D)
▌ 1 . Carl G. Bachmann (R)
▌ 2 . Frank L. Bowman (R)
▌ 3 . Lynn Hornor (D)
▌ 4 . Robert L. Hogg (R)
▌ 5 . Hugh Ike Shott (R)
▌ 6 . Joe L. Smith (D)
▌ 1 . Thomas Ryum Amlie (R), from October 13, 1931
▌ 2 . Charles A. Kading (R)
▌ 3 . John M. Nelson (R)
▌ 4 . John C. Schafer (R)
▌ 5 . William H. Stafford (R)
▌ 6 . Michael K. Reilly (D)
▌ 7 . Gardner R. Withrow (R)
▌ 8 . Gerald J. Boileau (R)
▌ 9 . George J. Schneider (R)
▌ 10 . James A. Frear (R)
▌ 11 . Hubert H. Peavey (R)
▌ At-large . Vincent Carter (R)
Non-voting members
▌ Alaska Territory . James Wickersham (R)
▌ Hawaii Territory . Victor S. K. Houston (R)
▌ Philippines . Pedro Guevara (Nac. )
▌ Philippines . Camilo Osías (Nac. )
▌ Puerto Rico . Félix Córdova Dávila , until April 11, 1932
▌ José Lorenzo Pesquera (Resident Commissioner) (I), from April 15, 1932
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
House Majority Leader Henry Rainey (D, left) and House Minority Leader Bertrand Snell (R, right), December 8, 1931
Changes in membership
Senate
Replacements: 11
Deaths: 6
Resignations: 1
Interim appointments: 5
Total seats with changes: 8
Senate changes
State (class)
Vacated by
Reason for change
Successor
Date of successor's formal installation[b]
Vermont (1)
Frank C. Partridge (R)
Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term. Successor elected March 31, 1931.
Warren Austin (R)
April 1, 1931
New Jersey (2)
Dwight Morrow (R)
Died October 5, 1931. Successor was appointed and later elected.
William W. Barbour (R)
December 1, 1931
Arkansas (3)
Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)
Died November 6, 1931. Successor was appointed to finish the term.
Hattie Caraway (D)
November 13, 1931
Georgia (2)
William J. Harris (D)
Died April 18, 1932. Successor was appointed to finish the term.
John S. Cohen (D)
April 25, 1932
Colorado (3)
Charles W. Waterman (R)
Died August 27, 1932. Successor was appointed to finish the term.
Walter Walker (D)
September 26, 1932
Washington (3)
Wesley L. Jones (R)
Died November 19, 1932 having just lost re-election. Successor was appointed to finish the term.
Elijah S. Grammer (R)
November 22, 1932
Colorado (3)
Walter Walker (D)
Interim appointee lost election to finish term. Successor elected November 8, 1932.
Karl C. Schuyler (R)
December 7, 1932
North Carolina (3)
Cameron A. Morrison (D)
Interim appointee lost election to finish term. Successor elected November 8, 1932.
Robert R Reynolds (D)
December 5, 1932
Georgia (2)
John S. Cohen (D)
Interim appointee lost election to finish term. Successor elected January 12, 1933.
Richard Russell Jr. (D)
January 12, 1933
Missouri (3)
Harry B. Hawes (D)
Incumbent retired and then resigned early February 3, 1933. Successor appointed having already been elected.
Bennett Champ Clark (D)
February 3, 1933
Montana (2)
Thomas J. Walsh (D)
Died March 2, 1933 Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Vacant
House of Representatives
Replacements: 23
Deaths: 24
Resignations: 7
Contested election: 1
Total seats with changes: 32
House changes
District
Vacated by
Reason for change
Successor
Date of successor's formal installation[b]
Wisconsin 1st
Vacant
Representative Henry A. Cooper (R) died in previous congress.
Thomas R. Amlie (R)
October 13, 1931
Louisiana 8th
James B. Aswell (D)
Died March 16, 1931
John H. Overton (D)
May 12, 1931
Ohio 1st
Nicholas Longworth (R)
Died April 9, 1931
John B. Hollister (R)
November 3, 1931
New York 7th
Matthew V. O'Malley (D)
Died May 26, 1931. Because Congress was not in session at the time of his death, O'Malley never took his oath of office or exercised any of the duties of a Congressman. He was, nevertheless, serving in office from the beginning of his term on March 4, 1931.
John J. Delaney (D)
November 3, 1931
Ohio 20th
Charles A. Mooney (D)
Died May 29, 1931
Martin L. Sweeney (D)
November 3, 1931
Pennsylvania 2nd
George S. Graham (R)
Died July 4, 1931
Edward L. Stokes (R)
November 3, 1931
Georgia 1st
Charles G. Edwards (D)
Died July 13, 1931
Homer C. Parker (D)
September 9, 1931
Michigan 8th
Bird J. Vincent (R)
Died July 18, 1931
Michael J. Hart (D)
November 3, 1931
Missouri 7th
Samuel C. Major (D)
Died July 28, 1931
Robert D. Johnson (D)
September 29, 1931
New Jersey 5th
Ernest R. Ackerman (R)
Died October 18, 1931
Percy H. Stewart (D)
December 1, 1931
New Hampshire 1st
Fletcher Hale (R)
Died October 22, 1931
William N. Rogers (D)
January 5, 1932
Texas 14th
Harry M. Wurzbach (R)
Died November 6, 1931
Richard M. Kleberg (D)
November 24, 1931
Pennsylvania 20th
James R. Leech (R)
Resigned January 29, 1932, to become a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Howard W. Stull (R)
April 26, 1932
Mississippi 7th
Percy Quin (D)
Died February 4, 1932
Lawrence R. Ellzey (D)
March 15, 1932
Georgia 6th
Samuel Rutherford (D)
Died February 4, 1932
Carlton Mobley (D)
March 2, 1932
Indiana 8th
Albert H. Vestal (R)
Died April 1, 1932
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Illinois 8th
Peter C. Granata (R)
Lost contested election April 5, 1932
Stanley H. Kunz (D)
April 5, 1932
Puerto Rico at-large
Félix Córdova Dávila
resigned April 11, 1932, to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
José Lorenzo Pesquera
April 15, 1932
Massachusetts 8th
Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
Resigned October 1, 1932
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Pennsylvania 18th
Edward M. Beers (R)
Died April 21, 1932
Joseph F. Biddle (R)
November 8, 1932
Pennsylvania 6th
George A. Welsh (R)
Resigned May 31, 1932, to become judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Robert L. Davis (R)
November 8, 1932
Tennessee 7th
Edward E. Eslick (D)
Died June 14, 1932
Willa McCord Blake Eslick (D)
August 14, 1932
Virginia 10th
Henry St. George Tucker III (D)
Died July 23, 1932
Joel W. Flood (D)
November 8, 1932
Maryland 4th
J. Charles Linthicum (D)
Died October 5, 1932
Ambrose J. Kennedy (D)
November 8, 1932
Georgia 3rd
Charles R. Crisp (D)
Resigned October 7, 1932, to become a member of the US Tariff Commission
Bryant T. Castellow (D)
November 8, 1932
Illinois 22nd
Charles A. Karch (D)
Resigned November 6, 1932
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Michigan 9th
James C. McLaughlin (R)
Died November 29, 1932
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Connecticut 3rd
John Q. Tilson (R)
Resigned December 3, 1932
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Texas 8th
Daniel E. Garrett (D)
Died December 13, 1932
Joe H. Eagle (D)
January 28, 1933
Oregon 2nd
Robert R. Butler (R)
Died January 7, 1933
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Pennsylvania 24th
Samuel A. Kendall (R)
Died January 8, 1933
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Minnesota 10th
Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)
Died February 16, 1933
Seat remained vacant until next Congress.
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
Senate
House of Representatives
Joint committees
Caucuses
Employees
Senate
House of Representatives
See also
Notes
^ Huey Long (D-Louisiana) was elected in November 1930 to a Senate term beginning March 4, 1931; however, he chose not to assume office until January 25, 1932, when his term as governor of Louisiana ended.[5]
^ a b When seated or oath administered, not necessarily when service began.
References
^ Herring, E. Pendleton (1933). "Second Session of the Seventy-second Congress, December 5, 1932, to March 4, 1933" . American Political Science Review . 27 (3): 404–422. doi :10.2307/1947439 . ISSN 0003-0554 .
^ Herring, E. Pendleton (1932). "First Session of the Seventy-second Congress, December 7, 1931, to July 16, 1932" . American Political Science Review . 26 (5): 846–874. doi :10.2307/1947141 . ISSN 0003-0554 .
^ "Women in the Senate" . senate.gov . Washington, D.C.: Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
^ Glass, Andrew (December 7, 2009). "The 72nd Congress convenes, Dec. 7, 1931" . politico.com . Arlington, Virginia: Politico. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
^ "Dictionary of Louisiana Biography: Dictionary L" . lahistory.org . Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana Historical Association. Archived from the original on December 1, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
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