85th United States Congress

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The Eighty-fifth 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, DC from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1959, during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.

1 Dates of sessions
2 Major events
3 Major legislation
4 Party summary
- 4.1 Senate
- 4.2 House of Representatives
5 Leaders
- 5.1 Senate
- 5.2 House
6 Members
- 6.1 Senate
- 6.2 House of Representatives
7 Employees
- 7.1 Senate
- 7.2 House of Representatives
8 References

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

[edit] Dates of sessions

January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959

First session: January 3, 1957 – August 30, 1957
Second session: January 7, 1958 – August 24, 1958

Previous: 84th Congress • Next: 86th Congress

[edit] Major events

Main articles: 1957#Events and 1958#Events

January 3, 1959 – Alaska was admitted as a state into the Union.

[edit] Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation#85th United States Congress

1957-08-14 — Airways Modernization Act, Pub.L. 85-133, 71 Stat. 349
1957-09-02 — Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act, Pub.L. 85-256, 71 Stat. 576
1957-09-09 — Civil Rights Act of 1957, Pub.L. 85-315, 71 Stat. 634
1958 — National Aeronautics and Space Act, Pub.L. 85-568, July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 426
1958 — Transportation Act of 1958, Pub.L. 85-625
1958 — Federal Aviation Act, Pub.L. 85-726, August 23, 1958, 72 Stat. 731
1958-08-28 — Military Construction Appropriation Act (Advanced Research Projects Agency), Pub.L. 85-852, 72 Stat. 1096
1958 — National Defense Education Act, Pub.L. 85-864, September 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1580
1958 — Department of Defense Reorganization Act, Pub.L. 85-899

[edit] Party summary

[edit] Senate

Democratic (D): 49
Republican (R): 47

TOTAL: 96

[edit] House of Representatives

Democratic (D): 234 (majority)
Republican (R): 201

TOTAL: 435

[edit] Leaders

[edit] Senate

President of the Senate: Richard M. Nixon (R-California)
President pro tempore: Carl Hayden (D-Arizona
Senate Majority Leader: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas)
Senate Minority Leader: William F. Knowland (R-California)
Senate Majority Whip: Michael J. Mansfield (D-Montana)

[edit] House

Speaker of the House: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
House Majority Leader: John W. McCormack (D-Massachusetts)
House Majority Whip: Carl Albert (D-Oklahoma)
House Minority Leader: Joseph William Martin, Jr. (R-Massachusetts 12th)
House Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends (R-Illinois)
House Democratic Caucus Chairman: Melvin Price (D-Illinois)
House Republican Conference Chairman: Charles Hoeven (R-Iowa)

[edit] Members

[edit] 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 in order of seniority, except for replacements, who appear below the senator they replace.

See also: Category:United States Senators

See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state

B. Everett Jordan (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy

3. Sam Ervin (Dem.)

[edit] North Dakota

1. William Langer (Rep.)
3. Milton Young (Rep.)

[edit] Ohio

1. John W. Bricker (Rep.)
3. Frank J. Lausche (Dem.)

[edit] Oklahoma

2. Robert S. Kerr (Dem.)
3. A. S. Mike Monroney (Dem.)

[edit] Oregon

3. Wayne L. Morse (Dem.)
2. Richard L. Neuberger (Dem.)

[edit] Pennsylvania

1. Edward Martin (Rep.)
3. Joseph S. Clark (Dem.)

[edit] Rhode Island

2. Theodore Francis Green (Dem.)
1. John O. Pastore (Dem.)

[edit] South Carolina

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

[edit] South Dakota

2. Karl E. Mundt (Rep.)
3. Francis H. Case (Rep.)

[edit] Tennessee

2. C. Estes Kefauver (Dem.)
1. Albert A. Gore Sr. (Dem.)

[edit] Texas

2. Lyndon Johnson (Dem.)
1. Price Daniel (Dem.), resigned January 14, 1957

William A. Blakley (Dem.), appointed to fill vacancy

Ralph Yarborough (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

[edit] Utah

1. Arthur V. Watkins (Rep.)
3. Wallace F. Bennett (Rep.)

[edit] Vermont

3. George Aiken (Rep.)
1. Ralph E. Flanders (Rep.)

[edit] Virginia

1. Harry Flood Byrd (Dem.)
2. A. Willis Robertson (Dem.)

[edit] Washington

3. Warren G. Magnuson (Dem.)
1. Henry M. Jackson (Dem.)

[edit] West Virginia

2. Matthew M. Neely (Dem.), died January 18, 1958

John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (Rep.), appointed to fill vacancy

Jennings Randolph (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

1. W. Chapman Revercomb (Rep.)

[edit] Wisconsin

3. Alexander Wiley (Rep.)
1. Joseph McCarthy (Rep.), died May 2, 1957

William Proxmire (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

[edit] Wyoming

1. Frank A. Barrett (Rep.)
2. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Dem.)

[edit] House of Representatives

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives

See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state

[edit] Alabama

[edit] Arizona

1. John Jacob Rhodes (Rep.)
2. Stewart Lee Udall (Dem.)

[edit] Arkansas

[edit] California

[edit] Colorado

[edit] Connecticut

[edit] Delaware

At-large. Harry G. Haskell, Jr. (Rep.)

[edit] Florida

[edit] Georgia

1. Prince H. Preston, Jr. (Dem.)
2. J. L. Pilcher (Dem.)
3. Tic Forrester (Dem.)
4. John J. Flynt, Jr. (Dem.)
5. James C. Davis (Dem.)
6. Carl Vinson (Dem.)
7. Henderson L. Lanham (Dem.), died November 10, 1957

7. Harlan Erwin Mitchell (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

[edit] Idaho

1. Gracie Pfost (Dem.)
2. Hamer H. Budge (Rep.)

[edit] Illinois

1. William L. Dawson (Dem.)
2. Barratt O'Hara (Dem.)
3. Emmet F. Byrne (Rep.)
4. William E. McVey (Rep.)
5. John C. Kluczynski (Dem.)
6. Thomas Joseph O'Brien (Dem.)
7. James B. Bowler (Dem.)
8. Thomas S. Gordon (Dem.)
9. Sidney R. Yates (Dem.)
10. Harold R. Collier (Rep.)
11. Timothy P. Sheehan (Rep.)
12. Charles A. Boyle (Dem.)
13. Marguerite S. Church (Rep.)
14. Russell W. Keeney (Rep.)
15. Noah M. Mason (Rep.)
16. Leo E. Allen (Rep.)
17. Leslie C. Arends (Rep.)
18. Robert H. Michel (Rep.)
19. Robert B. Chiperfield (Rep.)
20. Sid Simpson (Rep.), died October 26, 1958
21. Peter F. Mack, Jr. (Dem.)
22. William L. Springer (Rep.)
23. Charles W. Vursell (Rep.)
24. Melvin Price (Dem.)
25. Kenneth J. Gray (Dem.)

[edit] Indiana

[edit] Iowa

[edit] Kansas

[edit] Kentucky

[edit] Louisiana

[edit] Maine

[edit] Maryland

[edit] Massachusetts

[edit] Michigan

[edit] Minnesota

1. August H. Andresen (Rep.), died on January 14, 1958

1. Al Quie (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

[edit] Mississippi

[edit] Missouri

[edit] Montana

1. Lee Metcalf (Dem.)
2. LeRoy H. Anderson (Dem.)

[edit] Nebraska

[edit] Nevada

At-large — Walter S. Baring, Jr. (Dem.)

[edit] New Hampshire

1. Charles Earl Merrow (Rep.)
2. Perkins Bass (Rep.)

[edit] New Jersey

[edit] New Mexico

At-large. John J. Dempsey (Dem.), died March 11, 1958
At-large. Joseph Montoya (Dem.)

[edit] New York

[edit] North Carolina

[edit] North Dakota

At-large. Otto Krueger (Rep.)
At-large. Usher L. Burdick (Nonpartisan Republican)

[edit] Ohio

[edit] Oklahoma

[edit] Oregon

[edit] Pennsylvania

1. William A. Barrett (Dem.)
2. Kathryn E. Granahan (Dem.)
3. James A. Byrne (Dem.)
4. Earl Chudoff (Dem.)
5. William J. Green, Jr. (Dem.)
6. Hugh Scott (Rep.)
7. Benjamin F. James (Rep.)
8. Willard S. Curtin (Rep.)
9. Paul B. Dague (Rep.)
10. Joseph L. Carrigg (Rep.)
11. Daniel J. Flood (Dem.)
12. Ivor D. Fenton (Rep.)
13. Samuel K. McConnell, Jr. (Rep.), resigned September 1, 1957

Vacant September 2, 1957 - November 4, 1957

John A. Lafore, Jr. (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy, installed November 5, 1957

14. George M. Rhodes (Dem.)
15. Francis E. Walter (Dem.)
16. Walter M. Mumma (Rep.)
17. Alvin Bush (Rep.)
18. Richard M. Simpson (Rep.)
19. S. Walter Stauffer (Rep.)
20. James E. Van Zandt (Rep.)
21. Augustine B. Kelley (Dem.), died November 20, 1957

John H. Dent (Dem.), installed January 21, 1958

22. John P. Saylor (Rep.)
23. Leon H. Gavin (Rep.)
24. Carroll D. Kearns (Rep.)
25. Frank M. Clark (Dem.)
26. Thomas E. Morgan (Dem.)
27. James G. Fulton (Rep.)
28. Herman P. Eberharter (Dem.), died September 9, 1958

Vacant September 10, 1958 - end

29. Robert J. Corbett (Rep.)
30. Elmer J. Holland (Dem.)

[edit] Rhode Island

1. Aime Forand (Dem.)
2. John E. Fogarty (Dem.)

[edit] South Carolina

[edit] South Dakota

1. George McGovern (Dem.)
2. E. Y. Berry (Rep.)

[edit] Tennessee

1. B. Carroll Reece (Rep.)
2. Howard Baker, Sr. (Rep.)
3. James B. Frazier Jr. (Dem.)
4. Joe L. Evins (Dem.)
5. J. Carlton Loser (Dem.)
6. Ross Bass (Dem.)
7. Tom J. Murray (Dem.)
8. Jere Cooper (Dem.), died December 18, 1957

Fats Everett (Dem.)

9. Clifford Davis (Dem.)

[edit] Texas

[edit] Utah

1. Henry Aldous Dixon (Rep.)
2. William A. Dawson (Rep.)

[edit] Vermont

At-large. Winston L. Prouty (Rep.)

[edit] Virginia

[edit] Washington

[edit] West Virginia

[edit] Wisconsin

[edit] Wyoming

At-large. Edwin Keith Thomson (Rep.)

[edit] Non-voting members

Alaska Territory. Bob Bartlett (Dem.)
Hawaii Territory. John Anthony Burns (Dem.)
Puerto Rico. Antonio Fernós Isern, (PPD)

[edit] Employees

[edit] Senate

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[edit] House of Representatives

Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts
Doorkeeper: William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
Postmaster: H. H. Morris
Sergeant at Arms: Zeake W. Johnson, Jr., elected January 3, 1957
Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp - Presbyterian

[edit] References

Gould, Lewis L. (2005). The Most Exclusive Club. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group. 0-465-02778-4.
Remini, Robert V. (2006). The House. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 0-06-088434-7.
U.S. Congress (2005). Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
U.S. House of Representatives (2006). Congressional History. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
U.S. Senate (2006). Statistics and Lists. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.