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87th United States Congress

1961–1963 U.S. Congress


1961–1963 U.S. Congress

FieldValue
number87th
imageUSCapitol1962.jpg
imagenameUnited States Capitol
imagedate1962
startJanuary 3, 1961
endJanuary 3, 1963
vpRichard Nixon (R)
(until January 20, 1961)
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
(from January 20, 1961)
pro temCarl Hayden (D)
speakerSam Rayburn (D)
John W. McCormack (D)
senators100
reps437
s-majorityDemocratic
h-majorityDemocratic
sessionnumber11st
sessionstart1January 3, 1961
sessionend1September 27, 1961
sessionnumber22nd
sessionstart2January 10, 1962
sessionend2October 13, 1962
previous86th
next88th

(until January 20, 1961) Lyndon B. Johnson (D) (from January 20, 1961) John W. McCormack (D) |s-majority = Democratic |h-majority = Democratic The 87th 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, 1961, to January 3, 1963, during the final weeks of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency and the first two years of John F. Kennedy's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1950 United States census, along with two seats temporarily added in 1959 (one member each from recently admitted states of Alaska and Hawaii).

Both chambers had a Democratic majority (albeit reduced in the House). With President Kennedy being sworn in on January 20, 1961, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 82nd Congress in 1952.

Major events

Main article: 1961 in the United States, 1962 in the United States, 1963 in the United States

  • January 3, 1961: President Eisenhower severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
  • January 20, 1961: Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
  • April 17, 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began; it fails by April 19.
  • May 4, 1961: Freedom Riders began interstate bus rides to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.
  • May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
  • May 25, 1961: President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade
  • November 16, 1961: House Speaker Sam Rayburn dies from pancreatic cancer. His funeral is held on November 20th.
  • February 3, 1962: Embargo against Cuba was announced
  • February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
  • March 26, 1962: Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order state legislatures to reapportion seats (Baker v. Carr)
  • October 1, 1962: James Meredith registered as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
  • October 14, 1962 - October 28, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation

  • August 30, 1961 : Oil Pollution Act of 1961, ,
  • September 4, 1961: The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, ,
  • September 13, 1961: Interstate Wire Act of 1961, ,
  • September 21, 1961: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, ,
  • September 22, 1961: Peace Corps Act of 1961, ,
  • September 26, 1961: Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961, ,
  • October 15, 1961: Community Health Services and Facilities Act, ,
  • March 15, 1962: Manpower Development and Training Act, ,
  • June 28, 1962: Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, ,
  • August 31, 1962: Communications Satellite Act, ,
  • October 11, 1962: Trade Expansion Act, ,

Constitutional amendments

National Archives
  • March 29, 1961: Twenty-third Amendment ratified, extending the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
  • August 27, 1962: Twenty-fourth Amendment approved by Congress and sent to the states for consideration. It would prohibit both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was later ratified on January 23, 1964.

Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Until January 20, 1961

From January 20, 1961

Senate

  • President: Richard Nixon (R), until January 20, 1961
    • Lyndon B. Johnson (D), from January 20, 1961
  • President pro tempore: Carl Hayden (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

  • Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield
  • Majority Whip: Hubert Humphrey
  • Democratic Caucus Secretary: George Smathers

Minority (Republican) leadership

  • Minority Leader: Everett Dirksen
  • Minority Whip: Thomas Kuchel
  • Republican Conference Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall
  • Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young
  • National Senatorial Committee Chair: Barry Goldwater
  • Policy Committee Chairman: Styles Bridges (until November 26, 1961)
    • Bourke B. Hickenlooper (from January 3, 1962)

House of Representatives

Until November 16, 1961 (1st session)

From January 10, 1962 (2nd session)

  • Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D), until November 16, 1961
    • John W. McCormack (D), from January 10, 1962

Majority (Democratic) leadership

  • Majority Leader: John W. McCormack until January 10, 1962
    • Carl Albert, from January 10, 1962
  • Majority Whip: Carl Albert, until January 10, 1962
    • Hale Boggs, from January 10, 1962
  • Democratic Caucus Chairman: Francis E. Walter
  • Democratic Caucus Secretary: Leonor Sullivan
  • Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan

Minority (Republican) leadership

  • Minority Leader: Charles A. Halleck
  • Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends
  • Republican Conference Chairman: Charles B. Hoeven
  • Policy Committee Chairman: John W. Byrnes
  • Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Bob Wilson

Caucuses

  • House Democratic Caucus
  • Senate Democratic Caucus

Members

Senate

Main article: List of United States senators in the 87th Congress

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, In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1962; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1964; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1966.

Currently, this is the last congressional session in which the Democratic Party commanded all Senate seats from the Deep South, a unity broken when a Republican defeated the appointed successor to Lyndon Johnson's seat in a 1961 Senate special election.

[[List of United States senators from Alabama|Alabama]]

: 2. John J. Sparkman (D) : 3. J. Lister Hill (D)

[[List of United States senators from Alaska|Alaska]]

: 2. Bob Bartlett (D) : 3. Ernest Gruening (D)

[[List of United States senators from Arizona|Arizona]]

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

[[List of United States senators from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: 2. John L. McClellan (D) : 3. J. William Fulbright (D)

[[List of United States senators from California|California]]

: 1. Clair Engle (D) : 3. Thomas Kuchel (R)

[[List of United States senators from Colorado|Colorado]]

: 2. Gordon Allott (R) : 3. John A. Carroll (D)

[[List of United States senators from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: 1. Thomas J. Dodd (D) : 3. Prescott Bush (R)

[[List of United States senators from Delaware|Delaware]]

: 1. John J. Williams (R) : 2. J. Caleb Boggs (R)

[[List of United States senators from Florida|Florida]]

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

[[List of United States senators from Georgia|Georgia]]

: 2. Richard Russell Jr. (D) : 3. Herman Talmadge (D)

[[List of United States senators from Hawaii|Hawaii]]

: 1. Hiram Fong (R) : 2. Oren E. Long (D)

[[List of United States senators from Idaho|Idaho]]

: 2. Henry Dworshak (R), until July 23, 1962 :: Leonard B. Jordan (R), from August 6, 1962 : 3. Frank Church (D)

[[List of United States senators from Illinois|Illinois]]

: 2. Paul Douglas (D) : 3. Everett M. Dirksen (R)

[[List of United States senators from Indiana|Indiana]]

: 1. Vance Hartke (D) : 3. Homer E. Capehart (R)

[[List of United States senators from Iowa|Iowa]]

: 2. Jack Miller (R) : 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)

[[List of United States senators from Kansas|Kansas]]

: 2. Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R), until January 21, 1962 :: James B. Pearson (R), from January 31, 1962 : 3. Frank Carlson (R)

[[List of United States senators from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: 2. John Sherman Cooper (R) : 3. Thruston Ballard Morton (R)

[[List of United States senators from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: 2. Allen J. Ellender (D) : 3. Russell B. Long (D)

[[List of United States senators from Maine|Maine]]

: 1. Edmund Muskie (D) : 2. Margaret Chase Smith (R)

[[List of United States senators from Maryland|Maryland]]

: 1. James Glenn Beall (R) : 3. John Marshall Butler (R)

[[List of United States senators from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: 1. Benjamin A. Smith II (D), until November 6, 1962 :: Ted Kennedy (D), from November 7, 1962 : 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

[[List of United States senators from Michigan|Michigan]]

: 1. Philip Hart (D) : 2. Patrick V. McNamara (D)

[[List of United States senators from Minnesota|Minnesota]]

: 1. Eugene McCarthy (DFL) : 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)

[[List of United States senators from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: 1. John C. Stennis (D) : 2. James Eastland (D)

[[List of United States senators from Missouri|Missouri]]

: 1. Stuart Symington (D) : 3. Edward V. Long (D)

[[List of United States senators from Montana|Montana]]

: 1. Mike Mansfield (D) : 2. Lee Metcalf (D)

[[List of United States senators from Nebraska|Nebraska]]

: 1. Roman Hruska (R) : 2. Carl Curtis (R)

[[List of United States senators from Nevada|Nevada]]

: 1. Howard Cannon (D) : 3. Alan Bible (D)

[[List of United States senators from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: 2. Styles Bridges (R), until November 26, 1961 :: Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R), from January 10, 1962 - November 6, 1962 :: Thomas J. McIntyre (D), from November 7, 1962 : 3. Norris Cotton (R)

[[List of United States senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: 2. Clifford P. Case (R) : 1. Harrison A. Williams (D)

[[List of United States senators from New Mexico|New Mexico]]

: 1. Dennis Chávez (D), until November 18, 1962 :: Edwin L. Mechem (R), from November 30, 1962 : 2. Clinton P. Anderson (D)

[[List of United States senators from New York|New York]]

: 1. Kenneth Keating (R) : 3. Jacob Javits (R)

[[List of United States senators from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: 2. B. Everett Jordan (D) : 3. Sam Ervin (D)

[[List of United States senators from North Dakota|North Dakota]]

: 1. Quentin Burdick (D-NPL) : 3. Milton Young (R)

[[List of United States senators from Ohio|Ohio]]

: 1. Stephen M. Young (D) : 3. Frank Lausche (D)

[[List of United States senators from Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]

: 2. Robert S. Kerr (D), until January 1, 1963, vacant thereafter : 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

[[List of United States senators from Oregon|Oregon]]

: 2. Maurine Neuberger (D) : 3. Wayne Morse (D)

[[List of United States senators from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: 1. Hugh Scott (R) : 3. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D)

[[List of United States senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: 1. John Pastore (D) : 2. Claiborne Pell (D)

[[List of United States senators from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: 2. Strom Thurmond (D) : 3. Olin D. Johnston (D)

[[List of United States senators from South Dakota|South Dakota]]

: 2. Karl E. Mundt (R) : 3. Francis Case (R), until June 23, 1962 :: Joseph H. Bottum (R), from July 9, 1962

[[List of United States senators from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: 1. Albert Gore Sr. (D) : 2. Estes Kefauver (D)

[[List of United States senators from Texas|Texas]]

: 1. Ralph Yarborough (D) : 2. Lyndon B. Johnson (D), until January 3, 1961 :: William A. Blakley (D), until June 14, 1961 :: John Tower (R), from June 15, 1961

[[List of United States senators from Utah|Utah]]

: 1. Frank Moss (D) : 3. Wallace F. Bennett (R)

[[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]]

: 1. Winston L. Prouty (R) : 3. George Aiken (R)

[[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]]

: 1. Harry F. Byrd (D) : 2. A. Willis Robertson (D)

[[List of United States senators from Washington|Washington]]

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

[[List of United States senators from West Virginia|West Virginia]]

: 1. Robert Byrd (D) : 2. Jennings Randolph (D)

[[List of United States senators from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: 1. William Proxmire (D) : 3. Alexander Wiley (R)

[[List of United States senators from Wyoming|Wyoming]]

: 1. Gale W. McGee (D) : 2. John J. Hickey (D), until November 6, 1962 :: Milward Simpson (R), from November 6, 1962

Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 87th Congress in January 1961

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House of Representatives

Main article: List of United States representatives in the 87th Congress

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

[[List of United States representatives from Alabama|Alabama]]

: . Frank W. Boykin (D) : . George M. Grant (D) : . George W. Andrews (D) : . Kenneth A. Roberts (D) : . Albert Rains (D) : . Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D) : . Carl Elliott (D) : . Robert E. Jones Jr. (D) : . George Huddleston Jr. (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Alaska|Alaska]]

: . Ralph Julian Rivers (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Arizona|Arizona]]

: . John Jacob Rhodes (R) : . Stewart Udall (D), until January 18, 1961 :: Mo Udall (D), from May 2, 1961

[[List of United States representatives from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: . Ezekiel C. Gathings (D) : . Wilbur Mills (D) : . James William Trimble (D) : . Oren Harris (D) : . Dale Alford (D) : . William F. Norrell (D), until February 15, 1961 :: Catherine Dorris Norrell (D), from April 18, 1961

[[List of United States representatives from California|California]]

: . Clement Woodnutt Miller (D), until October 7, 1962 : . Harold T. Johnson (D) : . John E. Moss (D) : . William S. Mailliard (R) : . John F. Shelley (D) : . John F. Baldwin Jr. (R) : . Jeffery Cohelan (D) : . George P. Miller (D) : . J. Arthur Younger (R) : . Charles Gubser (R) : . John J. McFall (D) : . B. F. Sisk (D) : . Charles M. Teague (R) : . Harlan Hagen (D) : . Gordon L. McDonough (R) : . Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (R) : . Cecil R. King (D) : . Craig Hosmer (R) : . Chet Holifield (D) : . H. Allen Smith (R) : . Edgar W. Hiestand (R) : . James C. Corman (D) : . Clyde Doyle (D) : . Glenard P. Lipscomb (R) : . John H. Rousselot (R) : . James Roosevelt (D) : . Harry R. Sheppard (D) : . James B. Utt (R) : . Dalip Singh Saund (D) : . Bob Wilson (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Colorado|Colorado]]

: . Byron G. Rogers (D) : . Peter H. Dominick (R) : . John Chenoweth (R) : . Wayne N. Aspinall (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: . Emilio Q. Daddario (D) : . Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R) : . Robert Giaimo (D) : . Abner W. Sibal (R) : . John S. Monagan (D) : . Frank Kowalski (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Delaware|Delaware]]

: . Harris McDowell (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Florida|Florida]]

: . William C. Cramer (R) : . Charles E. Bennett (D) : . Robert L. F. Sikes (D) : . Dante Fascell (D) : . Syd Herlong (D) : . Paul Rogers (D) : . James A. Haley (D) : . Donald Ray Matthews (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Georgia|Georgia]]

: . George Elliott Hagan (D) : . J. L. Pilcher (D) : . Tic Forrester (D) : . John Flynt (D) : . James C. Davis (D) : . Carl Vinson (D) : . John William Davis (D) : . Iris Faircloth Blitch (D) : . Phillip M. Landrum (D) : . Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Hawaii|Hawaii]]

: . Daniel Inouye (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Idaho|Idaho]]

: . Gracie Pfost (D) : . Ralph R. Harding (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Illinois|Illinois]]

: . William L. Dawson (D) : . Barratt O'Hara (D) : . William T. Murphy (D) : . Ed Derwinski (R) : . John C. Kluczynski (D) : . Thomas J. O'Brien (D) : . Roland V. Libonati (D) : . Dan Rostenkowski (D) : . Sidney R. Yates (D) : . Harold R. Collier (R) : . Roman Pucinski (D) : . Edward Rowan Finnegan (D) : . Marguerite S. Church (R) : . Elmer J. Hoffman (R) : . Noah M. Mason (R) : . John B. Anderson (R) : . Leslie C. Arends (R) : . Robert H. Michel (R) : . Robert B. Chiperfield (R) : . Paul Findley (R) : . Peter F. Mack Jr. (D) : . William L. Springer (R) : . George E. Shipley (D) : . Melvin Price (D) : . Kenneth J. Gray (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Indiana|Indiana]]

: . Ray Madden (D) : . Charles A. Halleck (R) : . John Brademas (D) : . E. Ross Adair (R) : . J. Edward Roush (D) : . Richard L. Roudebush (R) : . William G. Bray (R) : . Winfield K. Denton (D) : . Earl Wilson (R) : . Ralph Harvey (R) : . Donald C. Bruce (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Iowa|Iowa]]

: . Fred Schwengel (R) : . James E. Bromwell (R) : . H. R. Gross (R) : . John Henry Kyl (R) : . Neal Edward Smith (D) : . Merwin Coad (D) : . Ben F. Jensen (R) : . Charles B. Hoeven (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Kansas|Kansas]]

: . William H. Avery (R) : . Robert Ellsworth (R) : . Walter Lewis McVey Jr. (R) : . Garner E. Shriver (R) : . James Floyd Breeding (D) : . Bob Dole (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: . Frank Stubblefield (D) : . William Natcher (D) : . Frank W. Burke (D) : . Frank Chelf (D) : . Brent Spence (D) : . John C. Watts (D) : . Carl D. Perkins (D) : . Eugene Siler (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: . F. Edward Hébert (D) : . Hale Boggs (D) : . Edwin E. Willis (D) : . Overton Brooks (D), until September 16, 1961 :: Joe Waggonner (D), from December 19, 1961 : . Otto Passman (D) : . James H. Morrison (D) : . T. Ashton Thompson (D) : . Harold B. McSween (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Maine|Maine]]

: . Peter A. Garland (R) : . Stanley R. Tupper (R) : . Clifford McIntire (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Maryland|Maryland]]

: . Thomas F. Johnson (D) : . Daniel Brewster (D) : . Edward Garmatz (D) : . George Hyde Fallon (D) : . Richard Lankford (D) : . Charles Mathias (R) : . Samuel Friedel (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: . Silvio O. Conte (R) : . Edward Boland (D) : . Philip J. Philbin (D) : . Harold Donohue (D) : . F. Bradford Morse (R) : . William H. Bates (R) : . Thomas J. Lane (D) : . Torbert Macdonald (D) : . Hastings Keith (R) : . Laurence Curtis (R) : . Tip O'Neill (D) : . John W. McCormack (D) : . James A. Burke (D) : . Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Michigan|Michigan]]

: . Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D), until September 18, 1961 :: Lucien Nedzi (D), from November 7, 1961 : . George Meader (R) : . August E. Johansen (R) : . Clare E. Hoffman (R) : . Gerald Ford (R) : . Charles E. Chamberlain (R) : . James G. O'Hara (D) : . R. James Harvey (R) : . Robert P. Griffin (R) : . Elford Albin Cederberg (R) : . Victor A. Knox (R) : . John B. Bennett (R) : . Charles Diggs (D) : . Louis C. Rabaut (D), until November 12, 1961 :: Harold M. Ryan (D), from February 13, 1962 : . John D. Dingell Jr. (D) : . John Lesinski Jr. (D) : . Martha Griffiths (D) : . William Broomfield (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Minnesota|Minnesota]]

: . Al Quie (R) : . Ancher Nelsen (R) : . Clark MacGregor (R) : . Joseph Karth (DFL) : . Walter Judd (R) : . Fred Marshall (DFL) : . Herman Carl Andersen (R) : . John Blatnik (DFL) : . Odin Langen (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: . Thomas Abernethy (D) : . Jamie L. Whitten (D) : . Frank Ellis Smith (D), until November 14, 1962 : . John Bell Williams (D) : . W. Arthur Winstead (D) : . William M. Colmer (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Missouri|Missouri]]

: . Frank M. Karsten (D) : . Thomas B. Curtis (R) : . Leonor Sullivan (D) : . William J. Randall (D) : . Richard Walker Bolling (D) : . William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D) : . Durward Gorham Hall (R) : . Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D) : . Clarence Cannon (D) : . Paul C. Jones (D) : . Morgan M. Moulder (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Montana|Montana]]

: . Arnold Olsen (D) : . James F. Battin (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Nebraska|Nebraska]]

: . Phillip Hart Weaver (R) : . Glenn Cunningham (R) : . Ralph F. Beermann (R) : . David Martin (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Nevada|Nevada]]

: . Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: . Chester Earl Merrow (R) : . Perkins Bass (R)

[[List of United States representatives from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: . William T. Cahill (R) : . Milton W. Glenn (R) : . James C. Auchincloss (R) : . Frank Thompson (D) : . Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R) : . Florence P. Dwyer (R) : . William B. Widnall (R) : . Charles Samuel Joelson (D) : . Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R) : . Peter W. Rodino (D) : . Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D), until June 30, 1962 : . George M. Wallhauser (R) : . Cornelius Gallagher (D) : . Dominick V. Daniels (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Mexico|New Mexico]]

: . Thomas G. Morris (D) : . Joseph Montoya (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New York|New York]]

: . Otis G. Pike (D) : . Steven Derounian (R) : . Frank J. Becker (R) : . Seymour Halpern (R) : . Joseph P. Addabbo (D) : . Lester Holtzman (D), until December 31, 1961 :: Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D), from February 20, 1962 : . James J. Delaney (D) : . Victor Anfuso (D) : . Eugene J. Keogh (D) : . Edna F. Kelly (D) : . Emanuel Celler (D) : . Hugh Carey (D) : . Abraham J. Multer (D) : . John J. Rooney (D) : . John H. Ray (R) : . Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D) : . John Lindsay (R) : . Alfred E. Santangelo (D) : . Leonard Farbstein (D) : . William Fitts Ryan (D) : . Herbert Zelenko (D) : . James C. Healey (D) : . Jacob H. Gilbert (D) : . Charles A. Buckley (D) : . Paul A. Fino (R) : . Edwin B. Dooley (R) : . Robert R. Barry (R) : . Katharine St. George (R) : . J. Ernest Wharton (R) : . Leo W. O'Brien (D) : . Carleton J. King (R) : . Samuel S. Stratton (D) : . Clarence E. Kilburn (R) : . Alexander Pirnie (R) : . R. Walter Riehlman (R) : . John Taber (R) : . Howard W. Robison (R) : . Jessica M. Weis (R) : . Harold C. Ostertag (R) : . William E. Miller (R) : . Thaddeus J. Dulski (D) : . John R. Pillion (R) : . Charles Goodell (R)

[[List of United States representatives from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: . Herbert Covington Bonner (D) : . Lawrence H. Fountain (D) : . David N. Henderson (D) : . Harold D. Cooley (D) : . Ralph James Scott (D) : . Horace R. Kornegay (D) : . Alton Lennon (D) : . Alvin Paul Kitchin (D) : . Hugh Quincy Alexander (D) : . Charles R. Jonas (R) : . Basil Lee Whitener (D) : . Roy A. Taylor (D)

[[List of United States representatives from North Dakota|North Dakota]]

: . Don L. Short (R) : . Hjalmar Carl Nygaard (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Ohio|Ohio]]

: . Gordon H. Scherer (R) : . Donald D. Clancy (R) : . Paul F. Schenck (R) : . William Moore McCulloch (R) : . Del Latta (R) : . Bill Harsha (R) : . Clarence J. Brown (R) : . Jackson Edward Betts (R) : . Thomas L. Ashley (D) : . Walter H. Moeller (D) : . Robert E. Cook (D) : . Samuel L. Devine (R) : . Charles Adams Mosher (R) : . William Hanes Ayres (R) : . Tom Van Horn Moorehead (R) : . Frank T. Bow (R) : . John M. Ashbrook (R) : . Wayne Hays (D) : . Michael J. Kirwan (D) : . Michael A. Feighan (D) : . Charles Vanik (D) : . Frances P. Bolton (R) : . William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Oklahoma|Oklahoma]]

: . Page Belcher (R) : . Ed Edmondson (D) : . Carl Albert (D) : . Tom Steed (D) : . John Jarman (D) : . Victor Wickersham (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Oregon|Oregon]]

: . A. Walter Norblad (R) : . Al Ullman (D) : . Edith Green (D) : . Edwin Durno (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: . William A. Barrett (D) : . Kathryn E. Granahan (D) : . James A. Byrne (D) : . Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D) : . William J. Green Jr. (D) : . Herman Toll (D) : . William H. Milliken Jr. (R) : . Willard S. Curtin (R) : . Paul B. Dague (R) : . William Scranton (R) : . Dan Flood (D) : . Ivor D. Fenton (R) : . Richard Schweiker (R) : . George M. Rhodes (D) : . Francis E. Walter (D) : . Walter M. Mumma (R), until February 25, 1961 :: John C. Kunkel (R), from May 16, 1961 : . Herman T. Schneebeli (R) : . J. Irving Whalley (R) : . George Atlee Goodling (R) : . James E. Van Zandt (R) : . John Herman Dent (D) : . John P. Saylor (R) : . Leon H. Gavin (R) : . Carroll D. Kearns (R) : . Frank M. Clark (D) : . Thomas E. Morgan (D) : . James G. Fulton (R) : . William S. Moorhead (D) : . Robert J. Corbett (R) : . Elmer J. Holland (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: . Fernand St Germain (D) : . John E. Fogarty (D)

[[List of United States representatives from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: . L. Mendel Rivers (D) : . John J. Riley (D), until January 1, 1962 :: Corinne Boyd Riley (D), from April 10, 1962 : . William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D) : . Robert T. Ashmore (D) : . Robert W. Hemphill (D) : . John L. McMillan (D)

[[List of United States representatives from South Dakota|South Dakota]]

: . Ben Reifel (R) : . Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: . B. Carroll Reece (R), until March 19, 1961 :: Louise Goff Reece (R), from May 16, 1961 : . Howard Baker Sr. (R) : . James B. Frazier Jr. (D) : . Joe L. Evins (D) : . Joseph Carlton Loser (D) : . Ross Bass (D) : . Tom J. Murray (D) : . Fats Everett (D) : . Clifford Davis (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Texas|Texas]]

: . Wright Patman (D) : . Jack Brooks (D) : . Lindley Beckworth (D) : . Sam Rayburn (D), until November 16, 1961 :: Ray Roberts (D), from January 30, 1962 : . Bruce Alger (R) : . Olin E. Teague (D) : . John Dowdy (D) : . Albert Thomas (D) : . Clark W. Thompson (D) : . Homer Thornberry (D) : . William R. Poage (D) : . Jim Wright (D) : . Frank N. Ikard (D), until December 15, 1961 :: Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D), from January 27, 1962 : . John Andrew Young (D) : . Joe M. Kilgore (D) : . J. T. Rutherford (D) : . Omar Burleson (D) : . Walter E. Rogers (D) : . George H. Mahon (D) : . Paul J. Kilday (D), until September 24, 1961 :: Henry B. González (D), from November 4, 1961 : . O. C. Fisher (D) : . Robert R. Casey (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Utah|Utah]]

: . M. Blaine Peterson (D) : . David S. King (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Vermont|Vermont]]

: . Robert Stafford (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Virginia|Virginia]]

: . Thomas N. Downing (D) : . Porter Hardy Jr. (D) : . J. Vaughan Gary (D) : . Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D) : . William M. Tuck (D) : . Richard Harding Poff (R) : . Burr Harrison (D) : . Howard W. Smith (D) : . W. Pat Jennings (D) : . Joel Broyhill (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Washington|Washington]]

: . Thomas Pelly (R) : . Jack Westland (R) : . Julia Butler Hansen (D) : . Catherine Dean May (R) : . Walt Horan (R) : . Thor C. Tollefson (R) : . Donald H. Magnuson (D)

[[List of United States representatives from West Virginia|West Virginia]]

: . Arch A. Moore Jr. (R) : . Harley Orrin Staggers (D) : . Cleveland M. Bailey (D) : . Ken Hechler (D) : . Elizabeth Kee (D) : . John M. Slack Jr. (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: . Henry C. Schadeberg (R) : . Robert Kastenmeier (D) : . Vernon Wallace Thomson (R) : . Clement J. Zablocki (D) : . Henry S. Reuss (D) : . William Van Pelt (R) : . Melvin Laird (R) : . John W. Byrnes (R) : . Lester Johnson (D) : . Alvin O'Konski (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Wyoming|Wyoming]]

: . William Henry Harrison III (R)

Non-voting members

: . Antonio Fernós-Isern (Resident Commissioner) (PPD)

House seats by party holding plurality in state

Changes in membership

Senate

SORT by the date the seat became vacant

|- | Texas (2) | | William A. Blakley (D) | Lost special election. Successor elected June 14, 1961. | | John Tower (R) | June 15, 1961

|- | New Hampshire (2) | | Styles Bridges (R) | Died November 26, 1961. Successor appointed December 7, 1961. | | Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R) | December 7, 1961

|- | Kansas (2) | | Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R) | Died January 21, 1962. Successor appointed January 31, 1962, and then elected November 6, 1962. | | James B. Pearson (R) | January 31, 1962

|- | South Dakota (3) | | Francis H. Case (R) | Died June 23, 1962. Successor appointed July 9, 1962 to finish the term. | | Joseph H. Bottum (R) | July 9, 1962

|- | Idaho (2) | | Henry Dworshak (R) | Died July 23, 1962. Successor appointed August 6, 1962, and then elected November 6, 1962. | | Leonard B. Jordan (R) | August 6, 1962

|- | Wyoming (2) | | John J. Hickey (D) | Lost special election. Successor elected November 6, 1962. | | Milward Simpson (R) | November 6, 1962

|- | Massachusetts (1) | | Benjamin A. Smith II (D) | Successor elected November 6, 1962. | | Ted Kennedy (D) | November 7, 1962

|- | New Hampshire (2) | | Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R) | Lost special election. Successor elected November 6, 1962. | | Thomas J. McIntyre (D) | November 7, 1962

|- | New Mexico (1) | | Dennis Chávez (D) | Died November 18, 1962. Successor appointed November 30, 1962 to continue the term. | | Edwin L. Mechem (R) | November 30, 1962

|- | Oklahoma (2) | | Robert S. Kerr (D) | Died January 1, 1963. | Vacant | Not filled this term

|}

House of Representatives

Sorted Chronologically by date of vacancy

|- | | nowrap| Stewart Udall (D) | Resigned January 18, 1961 to become United States Secretary of the Interior. | | Mo Udall (D) | May 2, 1961

|- | | nowrap| William F. Norrell (D) | Died February 15, 1961. | | Catherine Dorris Norrell (D) | April 18, 1961

|- | | nowrap| Walter M. Mumma (R) | Died February 25, 1961. | | John C. Kunkel (R) | May 16, 1961

|- | | nowrap| B. Carroll Reece (R) | Died March 19, 1961. | | Louise Goff Reece (R) | May 16, 1961

|- | | nowrap| Overton Brooks (D) | Died September 16, 1961. | | Joe Waggonner (D) | December 19, 1961

|- | | nowrap| Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D) | Resigned September 18, 1961 to become judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. | | Lucien Nedzi (D) | November 7, 1961

|- | | nowrap| Paul J. Kilday (D) | Resigned September 24, 1961 to become judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. | | Henry B. González (D) | November 4, 1961

|- | | nowrap| Louis C. Rabaut (D) | Died November 12, 1961. | | Harold M. Ryan (D) | February 13, 1962

|- | | nowrap| Sam Rayburn (D) | Died November 16, 1961. | | Ray Roberts (D) | January 30, 1962

|- | | nowrap| Frank N. Ikard (D) | Resigned December 15, 1961. | | Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D) | January 27, 1962

|- | | nowrap| Lester Holtzman (D) | Resigned December 31, 1961 to become judge of the New York Supreme Court. | | Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D) | February 20, 1962

|- | | nowrap| John J. Riley (D) | Died January 1, 1962. | | Corinne Boyd Riley (D) | April 10, 1962

|- | | nowrap| Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D) | Resigned June 30, 1962 to become Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

|- | | nowrap| Clement Woodnutt Miller (D) | Died October 7, 1962.

|- | | nowrap| Frank Ellis Smith (D) | Resigned November 14, 1962.

|}

Committees

Senate

  • Aging: (Chairman: Pat McNamara; Ranking Member: )
  • Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Chairman: Robert S. Kerr; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges, then Margaret Chase Smith)
  • Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Allen J. Ellender; Ranking Member: George Aiken)
  • Appropriations (Chairman: Carl Hayden; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges, then Leverett Saltonstall)
  • Armed Services (Chairman: Richard B. Russell; Ranking Member: Leverett Saltonstall)
  • Banking and Currency (Chairman: A. Willis Robertson; Ranking Member: Homer E. Capehart)
  • District of Columbia (Chairman: Alan Bible; Ranking Member: J. Glenn Beall)
  • Finance (Chairman: Harry F. Byrd; Ranking Member: John J. Williams)
  • Foreign Relations (Chairman: J. William Fulbright; Ranking Member: Alexander Wiley)
  • Government Operations (Chairman: John L. McClellan; Ranking Member: Karl Mundt)
  • Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Clinton P. Anderson; Ranking Member: Henry Dworshak, then Thomas Kuchel)
  • Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Warren G. Magnuson; Ranking Member: Andrew Frank Schoeppel, then Norris Cotton)
  • Judiciary (Chairman: James O. Eastland; Ranking Member: Alexander Wiley)
  • Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman: J. Lister Hill; Ranking Member: Barry Goldwater)
  • National Fuels Study (Special)
  • National Water Resources (Select)
  • Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Olin D. Johnston; Ranking Member: Frank Carlson)
  • Public Works (Chairman: Dennis Chavez; Ranking Member: Francis Case, then John Sherman Cooper)
  • Rules and Administration (Chairman: Mike Mansfield; Ranking Member: Carl Curtis)
  • Small Business (Select) (Chairman: John J. Sparkman; Ranking Member: )
  • Subcommittee on Internal Security
  • Whole

House of Representatives

  • Agriculture (Chairman: Harold D. Cooley; Ranking Member: Charles B. Hoeven)
  • Appropriations (Chairman: Clarence Cannon; Ranking Member: John Taber)
  • Armed Services (Chairman: Carl Vinson; Ranking Member: Leslie C. Arends)
  • Banking and Currency (Chairman: Brent Spence; Ranking Member: Clarence E. Kilburn)
  • District of Columbia (Chairman: John L. McMillan; Ranking Member: James C. Auchincloss)
  • Education and Labor (Chairman: Adam Clayton Powell; Ranking Member: Carroll D. Kearns)
  • Export Control (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
  • Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas E. Morgan; Ranking Member: Robert B. Chiperfield)
  • Government Operations (Chairman: William L. Dawson; Ranking Member: Clare Hoffman)
  • House Administration (Chairman: Omar Burleson; Ranking Member: Paul F. Schenck)
  • Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Wayne N. Aspinall; Ranking Member: John P. Saylor)
  • Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Oren Harris; Ranking Member: John B. Bennett)
  • Judiciary (Chairman: Emanuel Celler; Ranking Member: William Moore McCulloch)
  • Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Herbert C. Bonner; Ranking Member: Thor C. Tollefson)
  • Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Tom J. Murray; Ranking Member: Robert J. Corbett)
  • Public Works (Chairman: Charles A. Buckley; Ranking Member: James C. Auchincloss)
  • Rules (Chairman: Howard W. Smith; Ranking Member: Clarence J. Brown)
  • Science and Astronautics (Chairman: Overton Brooks then George P. Miller; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Martin Jr.)
  • Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Wright Patman; Ranking Member: )
  • Standards of Official Conduct
  • Un-American Activities (Chairman: Francis E. Walter; Ranking Member: Gordon H. Scherer)
  • Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: Olin E. Teague; Vice Chairman: William Hanes Ayres)
  • Ways and Means (Chairman: Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chairman: Noah M. Mason)
  • Whole

Joint committees

  • Atomic Energy (Chairman: Rep. Chet Holifield; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
  • Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
  • Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian
  • Defense Production (Chairman: Sen. A. Willis Robertson; Vice Chairman: Rep. )
  • Economic (Chairman: Rep. Wright Patman; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
  • Immigration and Nationality Policy (Chairman: Vacant; Vice Chairman: Vacant)
  • Legislative Budget
  • The Library (Chairman: Rep. Omar Burleson; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
  • Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
  • Printing (Chairman: Rep. Carl Hayden; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
  • Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen. Harry F. Byrd; Vice Chairman: Rep. )
  • Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chairman: Sen. )

Employees

[[List of federal agencies in the United States#United States Congress|Legislative branch agency]] directors

  • Architect of the Capitol: J. George Stewart
  • Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
  • Comptroller General of the United States: Joseph Campbell
  • Librarian of Congress: Lawrence Quincy Mumford
  • Public Printer of the United States: Raymond Blattenberger, until 1961
    • James L. Harrison, from 1961

Senate

  • Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
  • Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
  • Secretary: Felton McLellan Johnston
  • Librarian: Richard D. Hupman
  • Secretary for the Majority: Robert G. Baker
  • Secretary for the Minority: J. Mark Trice
  • Sergeant at Arms: Joseph C. Duke

House of Representatives

  • Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian)
  • Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts
  • Doorkeeper: William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
  • Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
  • Postmaster: H. H. Morris
  • Reading Clerk: George J. Maurer (D) and Joe Bartlett (R)
  • Sergeant at Arms: Zeake W. Johnson Jr.

Notes

References

References

  1. (January 3, 1961). "Proceedings and debates of the 87th Congress, first session". U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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