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The 85th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives . It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1959, during the fifth and sixth years of Dwight Eisenhower 's presidency . The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1950 United States census .
Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
To date, this is the earliest Congress with a member still living, Merwin Coad .
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January 5, 1957: President Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a special message to Congress
January 20, 1957: Inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower for a second term
August 21, 1957: President Eisenhower announced a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing
August 28, 1957: Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957
September 24, 1957: Little Rock Crisis : President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine .
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth
October 21, 1957: The U.S. military sustained its first combat fatality in Vietnam
November 7, 1957: Gaither Report called for more American missiles and fallout shelters
November 25, 1957: President Eisenhower suffers from a stroke
January 31, 1958: U.S. launched its first satellite, Explorer 1
July 15, 1958: U.S intervenes in the Lebanon Crisis , the first major application of the Eisenhower Doctorine .
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August 14, 1957: Airways Modernization Act , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 71 Stat. 349
September 2, 1957: Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 71 Stat. 576
September 9, 1957: Civil Rights Act of 1957 , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 71 Stat. 634
July 29, 1958: National Aeronautics and Space Act , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 72 Stat. 426
1958: Transportation Act of 1958 , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim
August 23, 1958: Federal Aviation Act of 1958 , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 72 Stat. 731
August 28, 1958: EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958 , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 72 Stat. 1084
August 28, 1958: Military Construction Appropriation Act (Advanced Research Projects Agency ), Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 72 Stat. 1096
September 2, 1958: National Defense Education Act , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim , 72 Stat. 1580
1958: Department of Defense Reorganization Act , Pub. L. Template:Trim /Template:Trim Template:Trim –Template:Trim
1958: Pasatore-Walter Immigration Act States admitted January 3, 1959: Alaska was admitted as the 49th state. Party summary Senate Template:US Congress party summary
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Senate Majority (Democratic) leadership Minority (Republican) leadership House of Representatives Majority (Democratic) leadership Minority (Republican) leadership Caucuses Members Senate Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers , which indicate the cycle of their election. Senators in each state are listed by class. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1958; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1960; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1962.
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House of Representatives
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Template:Party stripe Al Quie (R), from February 18, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Joseph P. O'Hara (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Roy Wier (DFL)Template:Efn Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Eugene McCarthy (DFL)Template:Efn Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Walter Judd (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Fred Marshall (DFL)Template:Efn Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Herman Carl Andersen (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .John Blatnik (DFL)Template:Efn Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr .Coya Knutson (DFL)Template:Efn Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas Abernethy (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jamie L. Whitten (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank Ellis Smith (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John Bell Williams (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . W. Arthur Winstead (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William M. Colmer (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank M. Karsten (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas B. Curtis (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Leonor Sullivan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . George H. Christopher (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Richard Walker Bolling (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles Harrison Brown (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . A. S. J. Carnahan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clarence Cannon (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Paul C. Jones (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Morgan M. Moulder (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lee Metcalf (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . LeRoy H. Anderson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Phillip Hart Weaver (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Glenn Cunningham (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert Dinsmore Harrison (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Arthur L. Miller (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)
Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Chester Earl Merrow (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Perkins Bass (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles A. Wolverton (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Milton W. Glenn (R), from November 5, 1957Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James C. Auchincloss (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank Thompson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Florence P. Dwyer (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William B. Widnall (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Gordon Canfield (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Peter W. Rodino (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert Kean (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alfred Dennis Sieminski (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Vincent J. Dellay (R) to (D), sometime in 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John J. Dempsey (D), until March 11, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joseph Montoya (D), from April 9, 1957Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Stuyvesant Wainwright (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Steven Derounian (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank J. Becker (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Henry J. Latham (R), until December 31, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Albert H. Bosch (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lester Holtzman (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James J. Delaney (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Victor Anfuso (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Eugene J. Keogh (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edna F. Kelly (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Emanuel Celler (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Francis E. Dorn (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Abraham J. Multer (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John J. Rooney (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John H. Ray (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alfred E. Santangelo (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Leonard Farbstein (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ludwig Teller (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Herbert Zelenko (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James C. Healey (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Isidore Dollinger (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles A. Buckley (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Paul A. Fino (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edwin B. Dooley (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ralph W. Gwinn (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Katharine St. George (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . J. Ernest Wharton (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Leo W. O'Brien (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Dean P. Taylor (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Bernard W. Kearney (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clarence E. Kilburn (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William R. Williams (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . R. Walter Riehlman (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John Taber (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . W. Sterling Cole (R), until December 1, 1957
Template:Party stripe Howard W. Robison (R), from January 14, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Kenneth Keating (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Harold C. Ostertag (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William E. Miller (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edmund P. Radwan (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John R. Pillion (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Daniel A. Reed (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Herbert Covington Bonner (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lawrence H. Fountain (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Graham A. Barden (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Harold D. Cooley (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ralph James Scott (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Carl T. Durham (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alton Lennon (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alvin Paul Kitchin (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles R. Jonas (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Basil Lee Whitener (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . George A. Shuford (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Otto Krueger (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Gordon H. Scherer (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William E. Hess (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Paul F. Schenck (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Moore McCulloch (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Cliff Clevenger (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James G. Polk (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clarence J. Brown (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jackson Edward Betts (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas L. Ashley (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas A. Jenkins (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . David S. Dennison (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John M. Vorys (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Albert David Baumhart Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Hanes Ayres (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John E. Henderson (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank T. Bow (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . J. Harry McGregor (R), until October 7, 1958; vacant thereafterTemplate:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Wayne Hays (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Michael J. Kirwan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Michael A. Feighan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles Vanik (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frances P. Bolton (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Page Belcher (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ed Edmondson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Carl Albert (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Tom Steed (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John Jarman (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Toby Morris (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . A. Walter Norblad (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Al Ullman (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edith Green (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Charles O. Porter (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William A. Barrett (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Kathryn E. Granahan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James A. Byrne (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Earl Chudoff (D), until January 5, 1958
Template:Party stripe Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D), from May 20, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William J. Green Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Hugh Scott (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Benjamin F. James (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Willard S. Curtin (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Paul B. Dague (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joseph L. Carrigg (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Dan Flood (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ivor D. Fenton (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R), until September 1, 1957
Template:Party stripe John A. Lafore Jr. (R), from November 5, 1957Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . George M. Rhodes (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Francis E. Walter (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Walter M. Mumma (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alvin Bush (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Richard M. Simpson (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . S. Walter Stauffer (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James E. Van Zandt (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Augustine B. Kelley (D), until November 20, 1957
Template:Party stripe John Herman Dent (D), from January 21, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John P. Saylor (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Leon H. Gavin (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Carroll D. Kearns (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank M. Clark (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas E. Morgan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James G. Fulton (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Herman P. Eberharter (D), until September 9, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert J. Corbett (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Elmer J. Holland (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Aime Forand (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John E. Fogarty (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . L. Mendel Rivers (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John J. Riley (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert T. Ashmore (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert W. Hemphill (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John L. McMillan (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . George McGovern (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . B. Carroll Reece (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Howard Baker Sr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . James B. Frazier Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joe L. Evins (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joseph Carlton Loser (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Ross Bass (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Tom J. Murray (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jere Cooper (D), until December 18, 1957
Template:Party stripe Fats Everett (D), from February 1, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clifford Davis (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Wright Patman (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jack Brooks (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lindley Beckworth (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Sam Rayburn (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Bruce Alger (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Olin E. Teague (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John Dowdy (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Albert Thomas (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clark W. Thompson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Homer Thornberry (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William R. Poage (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jim Wright (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Frank N. Ikard (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John Andrew Young (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joe M. Kilgore (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . J. T. Rutherford (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Omar Burleson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Walter E. Rogers (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . George H. Mahon (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Paul J. Kilday (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . O. C. Fisher (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Martin Dies Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Henry Aldous Dixon (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William A. Dawson (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Winston L. Prouty (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edward J. Robeson Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Porter Hardy Jr. (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . J. Vaughan Gary (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William M. Tuck (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Richard Harding Poff (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Burr Harrison (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Howard W. Smith (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . W. Pat Jennings (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Joel Broyhill (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thomas Pelly (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Jack Westland (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Russell V. Mack (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Hal Holmes (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Walt Horan (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Thor C. Tollefson (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Donald H. Magnuson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Arch A. Moore Jr. (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Harley Orrin Staggers (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Cleveland M. Bailey (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Will E. Neal (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Elizabeth Kee (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Robert Byrd (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lawrence H. Smith (R), until January 22, 1958Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Donald Edgar Tewes (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Gardner R. Withrow (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Clement J. Zablocki (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Henry S. Reuss (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . William Van Pelt (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Melvin Laird (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John W. Byrnes (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Lester Johnson (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Alvin O'Konski (R)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Edwin Keith Thomson (R)Non-voting members Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Bob Bartlett (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . John A. Burns (D)Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr . Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD)
File:85 us house membership.png House seats by party holding plurality in state <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% Democratic
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% Republican
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Democratic
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Republican
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Democratic
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Republican
Changes in membership Senate Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Template:Ordinal US Congress change
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| New York Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Jacob Javits (R)
| January 9, 1957
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| Texas Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Price Daniel (D)
| Resigned January 14, 1957, after being elected Governor of Texas .Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | William A. Blakley (D)
| January 15, 1957
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| Texas Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | William A. Blakley (D)
| Interim appointee retired when successor elected.Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Ralph Yarborough (D)
| April 29, 1957
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| Wisconsin Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Joseph McCarthy (R)
| Died May 2, 1957.Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | William Proxmire (D)
| August 28, 1957
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| West Virginia Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Matthew M. Neely (D)
| Died January 18, 1958.Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | John D. Hoblitzell Jr. (R)
| January 25, 1958
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| North Carolina Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | W. Kerr Scott (D)
| Died April 16, 1958.Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | B. Everett Jordan (D)
| April 19, 1958
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| West Virginia Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | John D. Hoblitzell Jr. (R)
| Interim appointee lost special election.Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Jennings Randolph (D)
| November 5, 1958
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| California Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | William F. Knowland (R)
| Resigned early January 2, 1959.
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|}
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| Template:Ushr
| Vacant
| Rep. Antonio M. Fernández died during previous congress.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Joseph Montoya (D)
| April 9, 1957
|-
| Template:Ushr
| Vacant
| Rep. T. Millet Hand died during previous congress.
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Milton W. Glenn (R)
| November 5, 1957
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| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | James Bowler (D)
| Died July 18, 1957.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Roland V. Libonati (D)
| December 31, 1957
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)
| Resigned September 1, 1957, after becoming Executive Director of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | John A. Lafore Jr. (R)
| November 5, 1957
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| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Henderson L. Lanham (D)
| Died November 10, 1957.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Harlan E. Mitchell (D)
| January 8, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Augustine B. Kelley (D)
| Died November 20, 1957.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | John H. Dent (D)
| January 21, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | W. Sterling Cole (R)
| Resigned December 1, 1957, after becoming Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency .
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Howard W. Robison (R)
| January 14, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Jere Cooper (D)
| Died December 18, 1957.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Fats Everett (D)
| February 1, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Earl Chudoff (D)
| Resigned January 5, 1958, after being elected judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas No. 1.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Robert N.C. Nix Sr. (D)
| May 20, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Vincent J. Dellay (R)
| Changed political affiliation some time in 1958.
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Vincent J. Dellay (D)
| ????, 1958
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Russell W. Keeney (R)
| Died January 11, 1958.
| Vacant
| Not filled this term.
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | August H. Andresen (R)
| Died January 14, 1958.
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Al Quie (R)
| February 18, 1958
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Lawrence H. Smith (R)
| Died January 22, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | John J. Dempsey (D)
| Died March 11, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | George S. Long (D)
| Died March 22, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | William E. McVey (R)
| Died August 10, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
|-
| Template:Ushr
| style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading " | Herman P. Eberharter (D)
| Died September 9, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | J. Harry McGregor (R)
| Died October 7, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Sid Simpson (R)
| Died October 26, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
| Resigned November 13, 1958.
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
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| Template:Ushr
| style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading " | Henry J. Latham (R)
| Resigned December 31, 1958, after becoming a judge of the New York Supreme Court .
| colspan=2 | Not filled this term.
|}
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