81st United States Congress

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The 81st 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, 1949, to January 3, 1951, during the fifth and sixth years of Harry S. Truman's presidency.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1940 United States census.

The Democrats won back the majority in both chambers, and with the election of President Harry S. Truman to his own full term in office, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta.

Major events

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January 20, 1949: President Harry S. Truman began his second (only full) term. Alben W. Barkley began his term as Vice President, which had been vacant since 1945.
August 16, 1949: Office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff created
January 21, 1950: Accused communist spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury
January 31, 1950: President Truman ordered the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949
June 1st, 1950: Senator Margaret Smith made the Declaration of Conscience speech as the first refutation of McCarthyism in the Senate.
June 27, 1950: Korean War: President Truman ordered American military forces to aid in the defense of South Korea

Major legislation

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Civil libertarians and radical political activists considered the McCarran Act to be a dangerous and unconstitutional infringement of political liberty, as exemplified in this 1961 poster.

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June 20, 1949: Central Intelligence Agency Act, ch. 227, 63 Stat. 208, 50 U.S.C. Template:Trim/Template:Trim § Template:Trim
October 25, 1949: Hospital Survey and Construction Amendments of 1949, ch. 722, Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 63 Stat. 898
October 26, 1949: Fair Labor Standards Amendment, ch. 736, Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 63 Stat. 910, 29 U.S.C.Template:Sp Template:Str ≠ len ch. 8
October 31, 1949: Agricultural Act of 1949, ch. 792, 63 Stat. 1051
May 5, 1950: Uniform Code of Military Justice, ch. 169, 64 Stat. 109
May 10, 1950: National Science Foundation Act, ch. 171, Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 64 Stat. 149, 42 U.S.C.Template:Sp Template:Str ≠ len ch. 16
August 15, 1950: Omnibus Medical Research Act, Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 64 Stat. 443 (including Public Health Services Act Amendments, which established the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness)
September 8, 1950: Defense Production Act of 1950, Pub. L. Template:Trim/Template:Trim Template:Trim–Template:Trim, 64 Stat. 798
September 12, 1950: Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, ch. 946, 64 Stat. 832
September 23, 1950: McCarran Internal Security Act (including Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950), ch. 1024, 64 Stat. 987, 50 U.S.C. Template:Trim/Template:Trim § Template:Trim
September 30, 1950: Performance Rating Act, ch. 1123, 64 Stat. 1098
December 29, 1950: Celler–Kefauver Act (Anti-Merger Act), ch. 1184, 64 Stat. 1125
January 12, 1951: Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, ch. 1228, 64 Stat. 1245 (codified in 50 U.S.C. App., here [1])

Treaties

July 21, 1949: North Atlantic Treaty ratified, establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Hearings

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Mobster Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee.

May 11, 1950: Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime began

Party summary

Senate

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House of Representatives

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House seats by party holding plurality in state
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<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

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Leadership

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Senate

President: Vacant until January 20, 1949
- Alben W. Barkley (D), from January 20, 1949
President pro tempore: Kenneth McKellar (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

House of Representatives

Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

Minority (Republican) leadership

Minority Leader: Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends
Republican Conference Chairman: Roy O. Woodruff
Policy Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Martin Jr.
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Leonard W. Hall

Caucuses

Members

Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Senators are ordered first by state, and then by seniority. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1950; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1952; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1954.

Template:Party stripe Harry Darby (R), December 2, 1949 - November 28, 1950

Template:Party stripe Frank Carlson (R), from November 29, 1950

Kentucky

Template:Party stripe2. Virgil Chapman (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Alben W. Barkley (D), until January 19, 1949

Template:Party stripe Garrett Withers (D), January 20, 1949 - November 26, 1950

Template:Party stripe Earle Clements (D), from November 27, 1950

Louisiana

Template:Party stripe2. Allen J. Ellender (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Russell B. Long (D)

Maine

Template:Party stripe1. Owen Brewster (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Margaret Chase Smith (R)

Maryland

Template:Party stripe1. Herbert O'Conor (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Millard Tydings (D)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe1. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

Michigan

Template:Party stripe1. Arthur Vandenberg (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Homer S. Ferguson (R)

Minnesota

Template:Party stripe1. Edward J. Thye (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)Template:Efn

Mississippi

Template:Party stripe1. John C. Stennis (D)

Template:Party stripe2. James Eastland (D)

Missouri

Template:Party stripe1. James P. Kem (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Forrest C. Donnell (R)

Montana

Template:Party stripe1. Zales Ecton (R)

Template:Party stripe2. James E. Murray (D)

Nebraska

Template:Party stripe1. Hugh A. Butler (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Kenneth S. Wherry (R)

Nevada

Template:Party stripe1. George W. Malone (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Pat McCarran (D)

New Hampshire

Template:Party stripe2. Styles Bridges (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Charles W. Tobey (R)

New Jersey

Template:Party stripe1. H. Alexander Smith (R)

Template:Party stripe2. Robert C. Hendrickson (R)

New Mexico

Template:Party stripe1. Dennis Chávez (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Clinton Anderson (D)

New York

Template:Party stripe1. Irving Ives (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Robert F. Wagner (D), until June 28, 1949

Template:Party stripe John Foster Dulles (R), July 7, 1949 - November 8, 1949

Template:Party stripe Herbert H. Lehman (D), from November 9, 1949

North Carolina

Template:Party stripe2. J. Melville Broughton (D), until March 6, 1949

Template:Party stripe Frank Porter Graham (D), March 29, 1949 - November 26, 1950

Template:Party stripe Willis Smith (D), from November 27, 1950

Template:Party stripe3. Clyde R. Hoey (D)

North Dakota

Template:Party stripe1. William Langer (R-NPL)

Template:Party stripe3. Milton Young (R)

Ohio

Template:Party stripe1. John W. Bricker (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Robert A. Taft (R)

Oklahoma

Template:Party stripe2. Robert S. Kerr (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Elmer Thomas (D)

Oregon

Template:Party stripe2. Guy Cordon (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Wayne Morse (R)

Pennsylvania

Template:Party stripe1. Edward Martin (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Francis J. Myers (D)

Rhode Island

Template:Party stripe1. J. Howard McGrath (D), until August 23, 1949

Template:Party stripe Edward L. Leahy (D), August 24, 1949 - December 18, 1950

Template:Party stripe John Pastore (D), from December 19, 1950

Template:Party stripe2. Theodore F. Green (D)

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe2. Burnet R. Maybank (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Olin D. Johnston (D)

South Dakota

Template:Party stripe2. Karl Mundt (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Chan Gurney (R)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe1. Kenneth McKellar (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Estes Kefauver (D)

Texas

Template:Party stripe1. Tom Connally (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Lyndon B. Johnson (D)

Utah

Template:Party stripe1. Arthur V. Watkins (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Elbert D. Thomas (D)

Vermont

Template:Party stripe1. Ralph Flanders (R)

Template:Party stripe3. George Aiken (R)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. Harry F. Byrd (D)

Template:Party stripe2. A. Willis Robertson (D)

Washington

Template:Party stripe1. Harry P. Cain (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Warren Magnuson (D)

West Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. Harley M. Kilgore (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

Wisconsin

Template:Party stripe1. Joseph McCarthy (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Alexander Wiley (R)

Wyoming

Template:Party stripe1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Lester C. Hunt (D)

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2 Democrats

1 Democrat and 1 Republican

2 Republicans

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House of Representatives

Alabama

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank W. Boykin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George M. Grant (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Andrews (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sam Hobbs (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert Rains (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward deGraffenried (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl Elliott (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Laurie C. Battle (D)

Arizona

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Murdock (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harold Patten (D)

Arkansas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wilbur Mills (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James William Trimble (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Boyd Anderson Tackett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Brooks Hays (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William F. Norrell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Oren Harris (D)

California

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hubert B. Scudder (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clair Engle (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Leroy Johnson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Franck R. Havenner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard J. Welch (R), until September 10, 1949

Template:Party stripe John F. Shelley (D), from November 8, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George P. Miller (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. Allen Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jack Z. Anderson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cecil F. White (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas H. Werdel (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ernest K. Bramblett (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Nixon (R), until November 30, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Norris Poulson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Helen Gahagan Douglas (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gordon L. McDonough (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Donald L. Jackson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cecil R. King (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clyde Doyle (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Chester E. Holifield (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Carl Hinshaw (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harry R. Sheppard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Phillips (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clinton D. McKinnon (D)

Colorado

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John A. Carroll (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William S. Hill (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Marsalis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wayne N. Aspinall (D)

Connecticut

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abraham Ribicoff (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Chase G. Woodhouse (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John A. McGuire (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Davis Lodge (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James T. Patterson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Antoni Sadlak (R)

Delaware

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Caleb Boggs (R)

Florida

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Hardin Peterson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles E. Bennett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert L. F. Sikes (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Smathers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Syd Herlong (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dwight L. Rogers (D)

Georgia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward E. Cox (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Stephen Pace (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert Sidney Camp (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James C. Davis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl Vinson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henderson Lovelace Lanham (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William McDonald Wheeler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John S. Wood (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Paul Brown (D)

Idaho

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Compton I. White (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Sanborn (R)

Illinois

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William L. Dawson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Barratt O'Hara (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Neil J. Linehan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James V. Buckley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Martin Gorski (D), until December 4, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. O'Brien (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Adolph J. Sabath (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas S. Gordon (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sidney R. Yates (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard W. Hoffman (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Chester A. Chesney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edgar A. Jonas (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ralph E. Church (R), until March 21, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Chauncey W. Reed (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Noah M. Mason (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leo E. Allen (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leslie C. Arends (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harold H. Velde (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert B. Chiperfield (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sid Simpson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter F. Mack Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Rolla C. McMillen (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward H. Jenison (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles W. Vursell (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Melvin Price (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. C. W. Bishop (R)

Indiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ray Madden (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles A. Halleck (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thurman C. Crook (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward H. Kruse (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Walsh (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cecil M. Harden (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Ellsworth Noland (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Winfield K. Denton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Earl Wilson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ralph Harvey (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew Jacobs (D)

Iowa

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas E. Martin (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry O. Talle (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. H. R. Gross (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Karl M. LeCompte (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Paul H. Cunningham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James I. Dolliver (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ben F. Jensen (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles B. Hoeven (R)

Kansas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert M. Cole (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Errett P. Scrivner (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Herbert Alton Meyer (R), until October 2, 1950

Template:Party stripe Myron V. George (R), from November 7, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Herbert Rees (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clifford R. Hope (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wint Smith (R)

Kentucky

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Noble J. Gregory (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John A. Whitaker (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thruston Ballard Morton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Chelf (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Brent Spence (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas R. Underwood (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl D. Perkins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joe B. Bates (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James S. Golden (R)

Louisiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. F. Edward Hébert (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hale Boggs (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edwin E. Willis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Overton Brooks (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Otto Passman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Morrison (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry D. Larcade Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. A. Leonard Allen (D)

Maine

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Hale (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles P. Nelson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Fellows (R)

Maryland

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Tylor Miller (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William P. Bolton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Garmatz (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Hyde Fallon (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lansdale G. Sasscer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Glenn Beall (R)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Heselton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Foster Furcolo (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philip J. Philbin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harold Donohue (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George J. Bates (R), until November 1, 1949

Template:Party stripe William H. Bates (R), from February 14, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. Lane (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Angier Goodwin (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Donald W. Nicholson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Christian Herter (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John F. Kennedy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. McCormack (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

Michigan

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George G. Sadowski (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Earl C. Michener (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Paul W. Shafer (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clare E. Hoffman (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gerald Ford (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Blackney (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jesse P. Wolcott (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Fred L. Crawford (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert J. Engel (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Roy O. Woodruff (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles E. Potter (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Bennett (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George D. O'Brien (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Louis C. Rabaut (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John D. Dingell Sr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Lesinski Sr. (D), until May 27, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George A. Dondero (R)

Minnesota

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. August H. Andresen (R)

Template: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. Harold Hagen (R)

Mississippi

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Rankin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jamie L. Whitten (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William M. Whittington (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Abernethy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. W. Arthur Winstead (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William M. Colmer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Bell Williams (D)

Missouri

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clare Magee (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Morgan M. Moulder (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Phil J. Welch (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leonard Irving (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Walker Bolling (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George H. Christopher (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dewey Short (R)

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. John B. Sullivan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Raymond W. Karst (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank M. Karsten (D)

Montana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Mike Mansfield (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wesley A. D'Ewart (R)

Nebraska

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl Curtis (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eugene D. O'Sullivan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Karl Stefan (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Arthur L. Miller (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James C. Auchincloss (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles R. Howell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles A. Eaton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clifford P. Case (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Parnell Thomas (R), until January 2, 1950

Template:Party stripe William B. Widnall (R), from February 6, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gordon Canfield (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harry L. Towe (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. Mary T. Norton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward J. Hart (D)

New Mexico

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Miles (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Antonio M. Fernández (D)

New York

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. W. Kingsland Macy (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leonard W. Hall (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry J. Latham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. L. Gary Clemente (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. T. Vincent Quinn (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James J. Delaney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Louis B. Heller (D), from February 15, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph L. Pfeifer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eugene J. Keogh (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew L. Somers (D), until April 6, 1949

Template:Party stripe Edna F. Kelly (D), from November 8, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James J. Heffernan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. Rooney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Donald L. O'Toole (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abraham J. Multer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Emanuel Celler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James J. Murphy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frederic René Coudert Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Vito Marcantonio (AL)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Arthur George Klein (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sol Bloom (D), until March 7, 1949

Template:Party stripe Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (Lib.), from May 17, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob Javits (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter A. Lynch (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isidore Dollinger (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles A. Buckley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Christopher C. McGrath (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ralph W. Gwinn (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ralph A. Gamble (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Katharine St. George (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jay Le Fevre (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Bernard W. Kearney (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William T. Byrne (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dean P. Taylor (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clarence E. Kilburn (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Davies II (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. R. Walter Riehlman (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edwin Arthur Hall (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Taber (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. W. Sterling Cole (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Kenneth Keating (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William L. Pfeiffer (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Anthony F. Tauriello (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Chester C. Gorski (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel A. Reed (R)

North Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Herbert Covington Bonner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Kerr (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Graham A. Barden (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harold D. Cooley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Thurmond Chatham (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl T. Durham (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Ertel Carlyle (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles B. Deane (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert L. Doughton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hamilton C. Jones (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D), until August 31, 1950

Template:Party stripe Woodrow W. Jones (D), from November 7, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Monroe Minor Redden (D)

North Dakota

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Lemke (R), until May 30, 1950

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Usher L. Burdick (R-NPL)

Ohio

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles H. Elston (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Earl T. Wagner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward G. Breen (D)

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. Frederick Cleveland Smith (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas H. Burke (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter E. Brehm (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John M. Vorys (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alvin F. Weichel (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter B. Huber (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert T. Secrest (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John McSweeney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Harry McGregor (R)

Template: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. Robert Crosser (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frances P. Bolton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Stephen M. Young (D)

Oklahoma

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dixie Gilmer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William G. Stigler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carl Albert (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tom Steed (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Toby Morris (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Victor Wickersham (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George H. Wilson (D)

Oregon

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. A. Walter Norblad (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lowell Stockman (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Homer D. Angell (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harris Ellsworth (R)

Pennsylvania

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William A. Barrett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William T. Granahan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hardie Scott (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Earl Chudoff (D)

Template: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. Franklin H. Lichtenwalter (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Paul B. Dague (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harry P. O'Neill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dan Flood (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ivor D. Fenton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George M. Rhodes (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wilson D. Gillette (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert F. Rich (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard M. Simpson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Kunkel (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leon H. Gavin (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis E. Walter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James F. Lind (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James E. Van Zandt (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Anthony Cavalcante (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas E. Morgan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Louis E. Graham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert L. Coffey (D), until April 20, 1949

Template:Party stripe John P. Saylor (R), from September 13, 1949

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Augustine B. Kelley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carroll D. Kearns (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harry J. Davenport (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert J. Corbett (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James G. Fulton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Herman P. Eberharter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Buchanan (D)

Rhode Island

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aime Forand (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Fogarty (D)

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. L. Mendel Rivers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hugo S. Sims Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Butler Hare (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph R. Bryson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James P. Richards (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John L. McMillan (D)

South Dakota

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harold Lovre (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis Case (R)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dayton E. Phillips (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Jennings Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James B. Frazier Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert Gore Sr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joe L. Evins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Percy Priest (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Patrick Sutton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tom J. Murray (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jere Cooper (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clifford Davis (D)

Texas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wright Patman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jesse M. Combs (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lindley Beckworth (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sam Rayburn (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Franklin Wilson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Olin E. Teague (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tom Pickett (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. Wingate H. Lucas (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ed Gossett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Lyle Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lloyd Bentsen (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Kenneth M. Regan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Omar Burleson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eugene Worley (D), until April 3, 1950

Template:Party stripe Ben H. Guill (R), from May 6, 1950

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. Porter Hardy Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Vaughan Gary (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Watkins Abbitt (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Stanley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clarence G. Burton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Burr Harrison (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Howard W. Smith (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Fugate (D)

Washington

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hugh Mitchell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry M. Jackson (D)

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)

West Virginia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert L. Ramsay (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harley Orrin Staggers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cleveland M. Bailey (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Maurice G. Burnside (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Kee (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. E. H. Hedrick (D)

Wisconsin

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lawrence H. Smith (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Glenn Robert Davis (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gardner R. Withrow (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clement J. Zablocki (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew J. Biemiller (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Bateman Keefe (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Reid F. Murray (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Byrnes (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Merlin Hull (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alvin O'Konski (R)

Wyoming

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank A. Barrett (R), until December 31, 1950

Non-voting members

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Bob Bartlett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Rider Farrington (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Antonio Fernós-Isern (PPD/D)

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Changes in membership

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

Senate

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|- | Kentucky
(3) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Alben W. Barkley (D) | Incumbent resigned January 19, 1949, to become U.S. Vice President.
Successor appointed January 20, 1949, to finish the term. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Garrett Withers (D) | January 20, 1949

|- | North Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | J. Melville Broughton (D) | Incumbent died March 6, 1949.
Successor appointed March 29, 1949, to continue the term. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Frank Porter Graham (D) | March 29, 1949

|- | New York
(3) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Robert F. Wagner (D) | Incumbent resigned June 28, 1949, due to ill health.
Successor appointed July 7, 1949, to continue the term. | nowrap style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John Foster Dulles (R) | July 7, 1949

|- | Rhode Island
(1) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | J. Howard McGrath (D) | Incumbent resigned August 23, 1949, to become U.S. Attorney General.
Successor appointed to continue the term. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Edward L. Leahy (D) | August 24, 1949

|- | Idaho
(2) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Bert H. Miller (D) | Incumbent died October 8, 1949.
Successor appointed to continue the term.
Successor later elected November 7, 1950. | nowrap style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Henry Dworshak (R) | October 14, 1949

|- | New York
(3) | nowrap style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | John Foster Dulles (R) | Interim appointee lost November 8, 1949, election to finish the term.
Successor elected November 8, 1949. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Herbert H. Lehman (D) | November 9, 1949

|- | Connecticut
(1) | nowrap style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Raymond E. Baldwin (R) | Incumbent resigned December 16, 1949.
Successor appointed to continue the term.
Successor later elected November 7, 1950. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | William Benton (D) | December 17, 1949

|- | Kentucky
(3) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Garrett Withers (D) | Interim appointee resigned November 26, 1950, to trigger special election.
Successor elected November 7, 1950. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Earle Clements (D) | November 27, 1950

|- | North Carolina
(2) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Frank Porter Graham (D) | Interim appointee lost November 7, 1950, election to finish the term.
Successor elected November 7, 1950. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Willis Smith (D) | November 27, 1950

|- | California
(3) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Sheridan Downey (D) | Incumbent resigned November 30, 1950, due to ill health.
Successor appointed to finish term, having already been elected to the next term. | nowrap style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Richard Nixon (R) | December 1, 1950

|- | Rhode Island
(1) | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Edward L. Leahy (D) | Interim appointee retired December 18, 1950, when successor elected.
Successor elected December 19, 1950. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John Pastore (D) | December 19, 1950

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House of Representatives

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Committees

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Senate

Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Elmer Thomas; Ranking Member: George D. Aiken)
Appropriations (Chairman: Kenneth McKellar; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges)
Armed Services (Chairman: Millard E. Tydings; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Burnet R. Maybank; Ranking Member: Charles W. Tobey)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Matthew M. Neely; Ranking Member: John J. Williams)
Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: John L. McClellan; Ranking Member: Joseph R. McCarthy)
Finance (Chairman: Walter F. George; Ranking Member: Eugene D. Millikin)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: Tom Connally; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Vandenberg)
Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Ranking Member: Hugh Butler)
Subcommittee on Internal Security
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Edwin C. Johnson; Ranking Member: Charles W. Tobey)
Judiciary (Chairman: Pat McCarran; Ranking Member: Alexander Wiley)
Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman: Elbert D. Thomas; Ranking Member: Robert A. Taft)
Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Select)
Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Frank Carlson; Ranking Member: Olin D. Johnston)
Public Works (Chairman: Dennis Chavez; Ranking Member: William Langer)
Remodeling the Senate Chamber (Special)
Rules and Administration (Chairman: Carl Hayden; Ranking Member: Kenneth S. Wherry)
Small Business (Select)
Small Business Enterprises (Special)
Whole

House of Representatives

Agriculture (Chairman: Harold D. Cooley; Ranking Member: Clifford R. Hope)
Appropriations (Chairman: Clarence Cannon; Ranking Member: John Taber)
Armed Services (Chairman: Carl Vinson; Ranking Member: Dewey Jackson Short)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Brent Spence; Ranking Member: Jesse P. Wolcott)
District of Columbia (Chairman: John L. McMillan; Ranking Member: George J. Bates)
Education and Labor (Chairman: John Lesinski; Ranking Member: Samuel K. McConnell Jr.)
Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: William L. Dawson; Ranking Member: Clare E. Hoffman)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: John Kee; Ranking Member: Charles Aubrey Eaton)
House Administration (Chairman: Mary Teresa Norton; Ranking Member: Karl M. LeCompte)
Investigate Educational, Training, and Loan Guaranty Programs under the G.I. Bill (Select) (Chairman: Olin E. Teague)
Investigate the Use of Chemicals in Food and Cosmetics (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Robert Crosser; Ranking Member: Charles A. Wolverton)
Judiciary (Chairman: Emanuel Celler; Ranking: Earl C. Michener)
Lobbying Activities (Select) (Chairman: Frank Buchanan)
Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: S. Otis Bland; Ranking Member: Alvin F. Weichel)
Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Tom J. Murray; Ranking Member: Edward H. Rees)
Public Lands (Chairman: J. Hardin Peterson; Ranking Member: Richard J. Welch then Fred L. Crawford)
Public Works (Chairman: William M. Whittington; Ranking Member: George Anthony Dondero)
Rules (Chairman: Adolph J. Sabath; Ranking Member: Leo E. Allen)
Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Wright Patman)
Standards of Official Conduct
Un-American Activities (Chairman: John S. Wood; Ranking Member: J. Parnell Thomas)
Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: John E. Rankin; Ranking Member: Edith Nourse Rogers)
Ways and Means (Chairman: Robert L. Doughton; Ranking Member: Daniel A. Reed)
Whole

Joint committees

Atomic Energy (Chairman: Sen. Brien McMahon; Vice Chairman: Rep. Carl T. Durham)
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Defense Production
Disposition of Executive Papers
Foreign Economic Cooperation (Chairman: Sen. Pat McCarran)
Economic (Chairman: Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Vice Chairman: Rep. Edward J. Hart)
Labor Management Relations (Chairman: Sen. James E. Murray; Vice Chairman: Rep. John Lesinski)
Legislative Budget
The Library (Chairman: Sen. Theodore F. Green)
Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
Arrange the Inauguration for President-elect (Chairman: Sen. Carl Hayden)
Printing (Chairman: Sen. Carl Hayden; Vice Chairman: Rep. Mary Teresa Norton)
Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures
Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Robert L. Doughton; Vice Chairman: Sen. Walter F. George)

Employees

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: Lindsay C. Warren
Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans
Public Printer of the United States: John J. Deviny

Senate

Chaplain: Peter Marshall (Presbyterian), until January 26, 1949
- Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist), from February 3, 1949
Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
Secretary: Leslie Biffle
Librarian: George W. Straubinger
Secretary for the Majority: Felton McLellan Johnston
Secretary for the Minority: J. Mark Trice
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph C. Duke

House of Representatives

Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery (Methodist), until January 3, 1950
- Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian), from January 3, 1950
Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts
Doorkeeper: William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
Reading Clerks: George J. Maurer (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph H. Callahan

Notes

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References

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House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 81st Congress. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1951.
Official Congressional Directory for the 81st Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1949.
Official Congressional Directory for the 81st Congress, 2nd Session. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 1950.

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