74th United States Congress

74th United States Congress
73rd ← → 75th
United States Capitol (1956)
January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 5 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Democratic
Senate President	John N. Garner (D)
House majority	Democratic
House Speaker	Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D) William B. Bankhead (D)
Sessions
1st: January 3, 1935 – August 26, 1935 2nd: January 3, 1936 – June 20, 1936

The Seventy-fourth 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, 1935, to January 3, 1937, during the third and fourth years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic supermajority.

Major events

Main articles: 1935 in the United States, 1936 in the United States, and 1937 in the United States

• April 14, 1935: Dust Bowl: The great dust storm hit eastern New Mexico, Colorado, and western Oklahoma
• May 6, 1935: Executive Order 7034 created the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• May 27, 1935: Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States: the U.S. Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional
• June 12, 1935 – June 13, 1935: Senator Huey Long gave the second longest filibuster speech in Senate history up to that time, 15 hours and 30 minutes to retain a provision, opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt, requiring Senate confirmation for the National Recovery Administration's senior employees.
• July 1, 1935: Charles Watkins was appointed as the first officially recognized Parliamentarian.
• September 10, 1935: Senator Huey Long of Louisiana died, as the result of being shot by an assassin on September 8.
• March 1, 1936: Construction of Hoover Dam was completed.
• November 3, 1936: General elections
  • U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was reelected with 60.8% of the vote over Alf Landon (R).
  • United States Senate elections, 1936: Democrats gained 5 net seats during the election, and in combination with Democratic and Farmer-Labor interim appointments and the defection of George W. Norris from the Republican Party to become independent, the Republicans were reduced to 16 seats, the most lopsided Senate since Reconstruction.
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1936: Democrats gained twelve more net seats from the Republicans, bringing them above a three-fourths majority. This was the largest majority since Reconstruction. The last time a party won so decisively was in 1866.
• November 25, 1936: Abraham Lincoln Brigade sailed from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War

President Roosevelt signs Social Security Act, at approximately 3:30 pm EST on August 14, 1935. Standing with Roosevelt are Rep. Robert Doughton (D-NC); unknown person in shadow; Sen. Robert Wagner (D-NY); Rep. John Dingell (D-MI); unknown man in bowtie; the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins; Sen. Pat Harrison (D-MS); and Rep. David Lewis (D-MD).

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation § 74th United States Congress

• April 27, 1935: Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, Sess. 1, ch. 85, 49 Stat. 163
• July 5, 1935: National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), Sess. 1, ch. 372, 49 Stat. 449
• August 9, 1935: Motor Carrier Act, Sess. 1, ch. 498, 49 Stat. 546 (renamed part II of the Interstate Commerce Act)
• August 14, 1935: Social Security Act, including Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Pension Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–271, Sess. 1, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620
• August 23, 1935: Banking Act of 1935 49 Stat. 694
• August 26, 1935: Public Utility Act (including: Title I: Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, Title II: Federal Power Act), Sess. 1, ch. 687, 49 Stat. 803
• August 30, 1935: Revenue Act of 1935, Sess. 1, ch. 829, 49 Stat. 1014
• August 31, 1935: Neutrality Act of 1935, Sess. 1, ch. 837, 49 Stat. 1081
• February 29, 1936: Neutrality Act of 1936, Sess. 2, ch. 106, 49 Stat. 1153
• May 20, 1936: Rural Electrification Act, Sess. 2, ch. 432, 49 Stat. 1363
• June 15, 1936: Commodities Exchange Act, Sess. 2, ch. 545, 49 Stat. 1491
• June 19, 1936: Robinson Patman Act, Sess. 2, ch. 592, 49 Stat. 1526
• June 22, 1936: Flood Control Act of 1936, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 74–738, Sess. 2, ch. 688
• June 29, 1936: Merchant Marine Act, Sess. 2, ch. 250, 49 Stat. 1985
• June 30, 1936: Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, Sess. 2, ch. 881, 49 Stat. 2036`

Party summary

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)					Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Farmer- Labor (FL)	Progressive (P)	Republican (R)	Other
End of previous congress	60	1	0	35	0	96	0
Begin	68	1	1	25	0	95	1
End	72			22		96	0
Final voting share	75.0%	1.0%	1.0%	22.9%	0.0%
Beginning of next congress	75	2	1	16	1	95	1

House

	Party (shading shows control)					Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Farmer- Labor (FL)	Progressive (P)	Republican (R)	Other
End of previous congress	311	5	0	114	0	430	5
Begin	322	3	7	103	0	435	0
End	308			100		418	17
Final voting share	73.7%	0.7%	1.7%	23.9%	0.0%
Beginning of next congress	334	5	7	88	1	435	0

Leaders

Section contents: Senate: Majority (D), Minority (R) • House: Majority (D), Minority (R)

Senate

• President of the Senate: John N. Garner (D)
• President pro tempore: Key Pittman (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority leader: Joseph T. Robinson
• Assistant majority leader (Majority whip): J. Hamilton Lewis
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Hugo Black

Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority leader: Charles L. McNary
• Assistant Minority leader (Minority whip): None
• Republican Conference Secretary: Frederick Hale

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph W. Byrns (D), died June 4, 1936
  • William B. Bankhead (D), elected June 4, 1936

Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority leader:
  • William B. Bankhead, until June 4, 1936
  • John J. O'Connor
• Majority whip: Patrick J. Boland
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Edward T. Taylor
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Patrick H. Drewry

Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority leader: Bertrand H. Snell
• Minority whip: Harry L. Englebright
• Republican Conference Chair: Frederick R. Lehlbach

Members

Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1936; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1938; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1940.

Alabama

• 2. John H. Bankhead II (D)
• 3. Hugo Black (D)

Arizona

• 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
• 3. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

• 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)
• 3. Hattie Caraway (D)

California

• 1. Hiram Johnson (R)
• 3. William Mcadoo (D)

Colorado

• 2. Edward P. Costigan (D)
• 3. Alva B. Adams (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Francis Maloney (D)
• 3. Augustine Lonergan (D)

Delaware

• 1. John G. Townsend, Jr. (R)
• 2. Daniel O. Hastings (R)

Florida

• 1. Park Trammell (D), until May 8, 1936
  • Scott Loftin (D), from May 26, 1936, until November 3, 1936
  • Charles O. Andrews (D), from November 4, 1936
• 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D), until June 17, 1936
  • William Luther Hill (D), from July 1, 1936, until November 3, 1936
  • Claude Pepper (D), from November 4, 1936

Georgia

• 2. Walter F. George (D)
• 3. Richard Russell (D)

Idaho

• 2. William Edgar Borah (R)
• 3. James P. Pope (D)

Illinois

• 2. J. Hamilton Lewis (D)
• 3. William H. Dieterich (D)

Indiana

• 1. Sherman Minton (D)
• 3. Frederick Van Nuys (D)

Iowa

• 2. Lester J. Dickinson (R)
• 3. Richard L. Murphy (D), until July 16, 1936
  • Guy M. Gillette (D), from November 3, 1936

Kansas

• 2. Arthur Capper (R)
• 3. George McGill (D)

Kentucky

• 2. M. M. Logan (D)
• 3. Alben W. Barkley (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Huey Long (D), until September 10, 1935
  • Rose McConnell Long (D), from January 31, 1936
• 3. John H. Overton (D)

Maine

• 1. Frederick Hale (R)
• 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R)

Maryland

• 1. George L. P. Radcliffe (D)
• 3. Millard Tydings (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. David I. Walsh (D)
• 2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D)

Michigan

• 1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)
• 2. James J. Couzens (R), until October 22, 1936
  • Prentiss M. Brown (D), from November 19, 1936

Minnesota

• 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)
• 2. Thomas D. Schall (R), until December 22, 1935
  • Elmer Austin Benson (FL), from December 27, 1935, until November 3, 1936
  • Guy V. Howard (R), from November 3, 1936

Mississippi

• 1. Theodore G. Bilbo (D)
• 2. Pat Harrison (D)

Missouri

• 1. Harry S. Truman (D)
• 3. Bennett Champ Clark (D)

Montana

• 1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)
• 2. James Edward Murray (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Edward R. Burke (D)
• 2. George William Norris (R)

Nevada

• 1. Key Pittman (D)
• 3. Pat McCarran (D)

New Hampshire

• 2. Henry W. Keyes (R)
• 3. Fred H. Brown (D)

New Jersey

• 1. A. Harry Moore (D)
• 2. William Warren Barbour (R)

New Mexico

• 1. Bronson M. Cutting (R), until May 6, 1935
  • Dennis Chavez (D), from May 11, 1935
• 2. Carl Hatch (D)

New York

• 1. Royal S. Copeland (D)
• 3. Robert F. Wagner (D)

North Carolina

• 2. Josiah William Bailey (D)
• 3. Robert Rice Reynolds (D)

North Dakota

• 1. Lynn Frazier (R)
• 3. Gerald Nye (R)

Ohio

• 1. A. Victor Donahey (D)
• 3. Robert J. Bulkley (D)

Oklahoma

• 2. Thomas Gore (D)
• 3. Elmer Thomas (D)

Oregon

• 2. Charles L. McNary (R)
• 3. Frederick Steiwer (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Joseph F. Guffey (D)
• 3. James J. Davis (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Peter G. Gerry (D)
• 2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)

South Carolina

• 2. James F. Byrnes (D)
• 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

South Dakota

• 2. William J. Bulow (D)
• 3. Peter Norbeck (R), until December 20, 1936
  • Herbert E. Hitchcock (D), from December 29, 1936

Tennessee

• 1. Kenneth McKellar (D)
• 2. Nathan L. Bachman (D)

Texas

• 1. Tom Connally (D)
• 2. Morris Sheppard (D)

Utah

• 1. William H. King (D)
• 3. Elbert D. Thomas (D)

Vermont

• 1. Warren Austin (R)
• 3. Ernest Willard Gibson (R)

Virginia

• 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)
• 2. Carter Glass (D)

Washington

• 1. Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D)
• 3. Homer Bone (D)

West Virginia

• 1. Rush D. Holt (D), from June 21, 1935
• 2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (Prog.)
• 3. F. Ryan Duffy (D)

Wyoming

• 1. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)
• 2. Robert D. Carey (R)

Percentage of members from each party by state at the opening of the 74th Congress, ranging from dark blue (most Democratic) to dark red (most Republican).

House of Representatives

The names of members are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

• 1. John McDuffie (D), until March 2, 1935
  • Frank W. Boykin (D), from July 30, 1935
• 2. J. Lister Hill (D)
• 3. Henry B. Steagall (D)
• 4. Sam Hobbs (D)
• 5. Joe Starnes (D)
• 6. William B. Oliver (D)
• 7. William B. Bankhead (D)
• 8. Archibald Hill Carmichael (D)
• 9. George Huddleston (D)

Arizona

• At-large. Isabella Selmes Greenway (D)

Arkansas

• 1. William J. Driver (D)
• 2. John E. Miller (D)
• 3. Claude A. Fuller (D)
• 4. William B. Cravens (D)
• 5. David D. Terry (D)
• 6. John L. McClellan (D)
• 7. Tilman B. Parks (D)

California

• 1. Clarence F. Lea (D)
• 2. Harry L. Englebright (R)
• 3. Frank H. Buck (D)
• 4. Florence P. Kahn (R)
• 5. Richard J. Welch (R)
• 6. Albert E. Carter (R)
• 7. John H. Tolan (D)
• 8. John J. McGrath (D)
• 9. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R)
• 10. Henry E. Stubbs (D)
• 11. John S. McGroarty (D)
• 12. John H. Hoeppel (D)
• 13. Charles Kramer (D)
• 14. Thomas F. Ford (D)
• 15. John M. Costello (D)
• 16. John F. Dockweiler (D)
• 17. Charles J. Colden (D)
• 18. Byron N. Scott (D)
• 19. Sam L. Collins (R)
• 20. George Burnham (R)

Colorado

• 1. Lawrence Lewis (D)
• 2. Fred N. Cummings (D)
• 3. John A. Martin (D)
• 4. Edward T. Taylor (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Herman P. Kopplemann (D)
• 2. William L. Higgins (R)
• 3. James A. Shanley (D)
• 4. Schuyler Merritt (R)
• 5. J. Joseph Smith (D)
• At-large. William M. Citron (D)

Delaware

• At-large. J. George Stewart (R)

Florida

• 1. J. Hardin Peterson (D)
• 2. Robert A. Green (D)
• 3. Millard F. Caldwell (D)
• 4. J. Mark Wilcox (D)
• At-large. William J. Sears (D)

Georgia

• 1. Hugh Peterson (D)
• 2. Edward E. Cox (D)
• 3. Bryant T. Castellow (D)
• 4. Emmett M. Owen (D)
• 5. Robert Ramspeck (D)
• 6. Carl Vinson (D)
• 7. Malcolm C. Tarver (D)
• 8. Braswell Deen (D)
• 9. B. Frank Whelchel (D)
• 10. Paul Brown (D)

Idaho

• 1. Compton I. White (D)
• 2. D. Worth Clark (D)

Illinois

• 1. Arthur W. Mitchell (D)
• 2. Raymond S. McKeough (D)
• 3. Edward A. Kelly (D)
• 4. Harry P. Beam (D)
• 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
• 6. Thomas J. O’Brien (D)
• 7. Leonard W. Schuetz (D)
• 8. Leo Kocialkowski (D)
• 9. James McAndrews (D)
• 10. Ralph E. Church (R)
• 11. Chauncey W. Reed (R)
• 12. John T. Buckbee (R), until April 23, 1936
• 13. Leo E. Allen (R)
• 14. Chester C. Thompson (D)
• 15. J. Leroy Adair (D)
• 16. Everett M. Dirksen (R)
• 17. Leslie C. Arends (R)
• 18. James A. Meeks (D)
• 19. Donald C. Dobbins (D)
• 20. Scott W. Lucas (D)
• 21. Harry H. Mason (D)
• 22. Edwin M. Schaefer (D)
• 23. William W. Arnold (D), until September 16, 1935
• 24. Claude V. Parsons (D)
• 25. Kent E. Keller (D)
• At-large. Martin A. Brennan (D)
• At-large. Michael L. Igoe (D), until June 2, 1935

Indiana

• 1. William T. Schulte (D)
• 2. Charles A. Halleck (R), from January 29, 1935
• 3. Samuel B. Pettengill (D)
• 4. James I. Farley (D)
• 5. Glenn Griswold (D)
• 6. Virginia E. Jenckes (D)
• 7. Arthur H. Greenwood (D)
• 8. John W. Boehne, Jr. (D)
• 9. Eugene B. Crowe (D)
• 10. Finly H. Gray (D)
• 11. William H. Larrabee (D)
• 12. Louis Ludlow (D)

Iowa

• 1. Edward C. Eicher (D)
• 2. Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D), until June 30, 1936
• 3. John W. Gwynne (R)
• 4. Fred Biermann (D)
• 5. Lloyd Thurston (R)
• 6. Hubert Utterback (D)
• 7. Otha D. Wearin (D)
• 8. Fred C. Gilchrist (R)
• 9. Guy M. Gillette (D), until November 3, 1936

Kansas

• 1. William P. Lambertson (R)
• 2. U. S. Guyer (R)
• 3. Edward White Patterson (D)
• 4. Randolph Carpenter (D)
• 5. John Mills Houston (D)
• 6. Frank Carlson (R)
• 7. Clifford R. Hope (R)

Kentucky

• 1. W. Voris Gregory (D), until October 10, 1936
• 2. Glover H. Cary (D), until December 5, 1936
• 3. Emmet O'Neal (D)
• 4. Cap R. Carden (D), until June 13, 1935
  • Edward W. Creal (D), from November 5, 1935
• 5. Brent Spence (D)
• 6. Virgil Chapman (D)
• 7. Andrew J. May (D)
• 8. Fred M. Vinson (D)
• 9. John M. Robsion (R)

Louisiana

• 1. Joachim O. Fernandez (D)
• 2. Paul H. Maloney (D)
• 3. Numa F. Montet (D)
• 4. John N. Sandlin (D)
• 5. Riley J. Wilson (D)
• 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D)
• 7. René L. DeRouen (D)
• 8. Cleveland Dear (D)

Maine

• 1. Simon M. Hamlin (D)
• 2. Edward C. Moran, Jr. (D)
• 3. Ralph Owen Brewster (R)

Maryland

• 1. T. Alan Goldsborough (D)
• 2. William P. Cole, Jr. (D)
• 3. Vincent L. Palmisano (D)
• 4. Ambrose J. Kennedy (D)
• 5. Stephen W. Gambrill (D)
• 6. David J. Lewis (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. Allen T. Treadway (R)
• 2. William J. Granfield (D)
• 3. Joseph E. Casey (D)
• 4. Pehr G. Holmes (R)
• 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
• 6. A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (R), until June 3, 1936
• 7. William P. Connery, Jr. (D)
• 8. Arthur D. Healey (D)
• 9. Richard M. Russell (D)
• 10. George H. Tinkham (R)
• 11. John P. Higgins (D)
• 12. John W. McCormack (D)
• 13. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
• 14. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R)
• 15. Charles L. Gifford (R)

Michigan

• 1. George G. Sadowski (D)
• 2. Earl C. Michener (R)
• 3. Henry M. Kimball (R), until October 19, 1935
  • Verner Main (R), from December 17, 1935
• 4. Clare E. Hoffman (R)
• 5. Carl E. Mapes (R)
• 6. William W. Blackney (R)
• 7. Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
• 8. Fred L. Crawford (R)
• 9. Albert J. Engel (R)
• 10. Roy O. Woodruff (R)
• 11. Prentiss M. Brown (D), until November 18, 1936
• 12. Frank Hook (D)
• 13. Clarence J. McLeod (R)
• 14. Louis C. Rabaut (D)
• 15. John D. Dingell, Sr. (D)
• 16. John Lesinski, Sr. (D)
• 17. George A. Dondero (R)

Minnesota

• 1. August H. Andresen (R)
• 2.Elmer Ryan (D)
• 3.Ernest Lundeen (FL)
• 4.Melvin Maas (R)
• 5.Theodore Christianson (R)
• 6.Harold Knutson (R)
• 7.Paul John Kvale (FL)
• 8.William Pittenger (R)
• 9.Rich T. Buckler (FL)

Mississippi

• 1. John E. Rankin (D)
• 2. Wall Doxey (D)
• 3. William M. Whittington (D)
• 4. Aaron L. Ford (D)
• 5. Aubert C. Dunn (D)
• 6. William M. Colmer (D)
• 7. Dan R. McGehee (D)

Missouri

• 1. Milton A. Romjue (D)
• 2. William L. Nelson (D)
• 3. Richard M. Duncan (D)
• 4. C. Jasper Bell (D)
• 5. Joseph B. Shannon (D)
• 6. Reuben T. Wood (D)
• 7. Dewey Short (R)
• 8. Clyde Williams (D)
• 9. Clarence Cannon (D)
• 10. Orville Zimmerman (D)
• 11. Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D)
• 12. James Robert Claiborne (D)
• 13. John J. Cochran (D)

Montana

• 1. Joseph P. Monaghan (D)
• 2. Roy E. Ayers (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Henry Carl Luckey (D)
• 2. Charles F. McLaughlin (D)
• 3. Karl Stefan (R)
• 4. Charles Gustav Binderup (D)
• 5. Harry B. Coffee (D)

Nevada

• At-large. James G. Scrugham (D)

New Hampshire

• 1. William Nathaniel Rogers (D)
• 2. Charles W. Tobey (R)

New Jersey

• 1. Charles A. Wolverton (R)
• 2. Isaac Bacharach (R)
• 3. William H. Sutphin (D)
• 4. D. Lane Powers (R)
• 5. Charles A. Eaton (R)
• 6. Donald H. McLean (R)
• 7. Randolph Perkins (R), until May 25, 1936
• 8. George N. Seger (R)
• 9. Edward A. Kenney (D)
• 10. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R)
• 11. Peter A. Cavicchia (R)
• 12. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
• 13. Mary T. Norton (D)
• 14. Edward J. Hart (D)

New Mexico

• At-large. John J. Dempsey (D)

New York

• 1. Robert L. Bacon (R)
• 2. William F. Brunner (D), until September 27, 1935
  • William B. Barry (D), from November 5, 1935
• 3. Joseph L. Pfeifer (D)
• 4. Thomas H. Cullen (D)
• 5. Marcellus H. Evans (D)
• 6. Andrew L. Somers (D)
• 7. John J. Delaney (D)
• 8. Richard J. Tonry (D)
• 9. Stephen A. Rudd (D), until March 31, 1936
• 10. Emanuel Celler (D)
• 11. James A. O'Leary (D)
• 12. Samuel Dickstein (D)
• 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
• 14. William I. Sirovich (D)
• 15. John J. Boylan (D)
• 16. John J. O'Connor (D)
• 17. Theodore A. Peyser (D)
• 18. Martin J. Kennedy (D)
• 19. Sol Bloom (D)
• 20. Vito Marcantonio (R)
• 21. Joseph A. Gavagan (D)
• 22. Anthony J. Griffin (D), until January 13, 1935
  • Edward W. Curley (D), from November 5, 1935
• 23. Charles A. Buckley (D)
• 24. James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
• 25. Charles D. Millard (R)
• 26. Hamilton Fish Jr. (R)
• 27. Philip A. Goodwin (R)
• 28. Parker Corning (D)
• 29. William D. Thomas (R), until May 17, 1936
• 30. Frank Crowther (R)
• 31. Bertrand H. Snell (R)
• 32. Francis D. Culkin (R)
• 33. Fred J. Sisson (D)
• 34. Bert Lord (R)
• 35. Clarence E. Hancock (R)
• 36. John Taber (R)
• 37. W. Sterling Cole (R)
• 38. James P.B. Duffy (D)
• 39. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R)
• 40. Walter G. Andrews (R)
• 41. Alfred F. Beiter (D)
• 42. James M. Mead (D)
• 43. Daniel A. Reed (R)
• At-large. Matthew J. Merritt (D)
• At-large. Caroline O'Day (D)

North Carolina

• 1. Lindsay C. Warren (D)
• 2. John H. Kerr (D)
• 3. Graham A. Barden (D)
• 4. Harold D. Cooley (D)
• 5. Frank Hancock, Jr. (D)
• 6. William B. Umstead (D)
• 7. J. Bayard Clark (D)
• 8. J. Walter Lambeth (D)
• 9. Robert L. Doughton (D)
• 10. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)
• 11. Zebulon Weaver (D)

North Dakota

• At-large. William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican)
• At-large. Usher L. Burdick (Nonpartisan Republican)

Ohio

• 1. John B. Hollister (R)
• 2. William E. Hess (R)
• 3. Byron B. Harlan (D)
• 4. Frank Le Blond Kloeb (D)
• 5. Frank C. Kniffin (D)
• 6. James G. Polk (D)
• 7. Leroy T. Marshall (R)
• 8. Thomas B. Fletcher (D)
• 9. Warren J. Duffey (D), until July 7, 1936
• 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
• 11. Mell G. Underwood (D), until April 10, 1936
  • Peter F. Hammond (D), from November 3, 1936
• 12. Arthur P. Lamneck (D)
• 13. William L. Fiesinger (D)
• 14. Dow W. Harter (D)
• 15. Robert T. Secrest (D)
• 16. William R. Thom (D)
• 17. William A. Ashbrook (D)
• 18. Lawrence E. Imhoff (D)
• 19. John G. Cooper (R)
• 20. Martin L. Sweeney (D)
• 21. Robert Crosser (D)
• 22. Chester C. Bolton (R)
• At-large. Charles V. Truax (D), until August 9, 1935
  • Daniel S. Earhart (D), from November 3, 1936
• At-large. Stephen M. Young (D)

Oklahoma

• 1. Wesley E. Disney (D)
• 2. John Conover Nichols (D)
• 3. Wilburn Cartwright (D)
• 4. Percy Lee Gassaway (D)
• 5. Josh Lee (D)
• 6. Jed Johnson (D)
• 7. Sam C. Massingale (D)
• 8. Phil Ferguson (D)
• At-large. Will Rogers (D)

Oregon

• 1. James W. Mott (R)
• 2. Walter M. Pierce (D)
• 3. William A. Ekwall (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Harry C. Ransley (R)
• 2. William H. Wilson (R)
• 3. Clare G. Fenerty (R)
• 4. J. Burrwood Daly (D)
• 5. Frank J.G. Dorsey (D)
• 6. Michael J. Stack (D)
• 7. George P. Darrow (R)
• 8. James Wolfenden (R)
• 9. Oliver Walter Frey (D)
• 10. J. Roland Kinzer (R)
• 11. Patrick J. Boland (D)
• 12. C. Murray Turpin (R)
• 13. James H. Gildea (D)
• 14. William Emanuel Richardson (D)
• 15. Charles E. Dietrich (D)
• 16. Robert F. Rich (R)
• 17. J. William Ditter (R)
• 18. Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R)
• 19. Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R)
• 20. Denis J. Driscoll (D)
• 21. Francis E. Walter (D)
• 22. Harry L. Haines (D)
• 23. Don Gingery (D)
• 24. J. Buell Snyder (D)
• 25. Charles I. Faddis (D)
• 26. Charles R. Eckert (D)
• 27. Joseph Gray (D)
• 28. William M. Berlin (D)
• 29. Charles N. Crosby (D)
• 30. J. Twing Brooks (D)
• 31. James L. Quinn (D)
• 32. Theodore L. Moritz (D)
• 33. Henry Ellenbogen (D)
• 34. Matthew A. Dunn (D)

Rhode Island

• 1. Francis B. Condon (D), until January 10, 1935
  • Charles Risk (R), from August 6, 1935
• 2. John M. O'Connell (D)

South Carolina

• 1. Thomas S. McMillan (D)
• 2. Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
• 3. John C. Taylor (D)
• 4. John J. McSwain (D), until August 6, 1936
  • Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr. (D), from November 3, 1936
• 5. James P. Richards (D)
• 6. Allard H. Gasque (D)

South Dakota

• 1. Fred H. Hildebrandt (D)
• 2. Theodore B. Werner (D)

Tennessee

• 1. B. Carroll Reece (R)
• 2. J. Will Taylor (R)
• 3. Sam D. McReynolds (D)
• 4. John Ridley Mitchell (D)
• 5. Jo Byrns (D), until June 4, 1936
• 6. Clarence W. Turner (D)
• 7. Herron C. Pearson (D)
• 8. Jere Cooper (D)
• 9. Walter Chandler (D)

Texas

• 1. Wright Patman (D)
• 2. Martin Dies, Jr. (D)
• 3. Morgan G. Sanders (D)
• 4. Sam Rayburn (D)
• 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
• 6. Luther A. Johnson (D)
• 7. Nat Patton (D)
• 8. Joe H. Eagle (D)
• 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
• 10. James P. Buchanan (D)
• 11. Oliver H. Cross (D)
• 12. Fritz G. Lanham (D)
• 13. William D. McFarlane (D)
• 14. Richard M. Kleberg (D)
• 15. Milton H. West (D)
• 16. R. Ewing Thomason (D)
• 17. Thomas L. Blanton (D)
• 18. Marvin Jones (D)
• 19. George H. Mahon (D)
• 20. Maury Maverick (D)
• 21. Charles L. South (D)

Utah

• 1. Abe Murdock (D)
• 2. J. W. Robinson (D)

Vermont

• At-large. Charles A. Plumley (R)

Virginia

• 1. S. Otis Bland (D)
• 2. Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (D)
• 3. Andrew J. Montague (D)
• 4. Patrick H. Drewry (D)
• 5. Thomas G. Burch (D)
• 6. Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
• 7. A. Willis Robertson (D)
• 8. Howard W. Smith (D)
• 9. John W. Flannagan, Jr. (D)

Washington

• 1. Marion Anthony Zioncheck (D), until August 7, 1936
• 2. Monrad C. Wallgren (D)
• 3. Martin F. Smith (D)
• 4. Knute Hill (D)
• 5. Samuel Billingsley Hill (D), until June 25, 1936
• 6. Wesley Lloyd (D), until January 10, 1936

West Virginia

• 1. Robert L. Ramsay (D)
• 2. Jennings Randolph (D)
• 3. Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D)
• 4. George William Johnson (D)
• 5. John Kee (D)
• 6. Joe L. Smith (D)

Wisconsin

• 1. Thomas Ryum Amlie (Prog)
• 2. Harry Sauthoff (Prog)
• 3. Gardner R. Withrow (Prog)
• 4. Randolph Joseph Cannon (D)
• 5. Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D)
• 6. Michael K. Reilly (D)
• 7. Gerald J. Boileau (Prog)
• 8. George J. Schneider (Prog)
• 9. Merlin Hull (Prog)
• 10. Bernard J. Gehrmann (Prog)

Wyoming

• At-large. Paul Ranous Greever (D)

Non-voting members

• Alaska Territory. Anthony J. Dimond (D)
• Hawaii Territory. Samuel Wilder King (R)
• Philippines. Francisco A. Delgado (Nac.), until February 14, 1936
  • Quintin Paredes (Nac.), from February 14, 1936
• Philippines. Pedro Guevara (Nac.), until February 14, 1936
• Puerto Rico. Santiago Iglesias Pantín (Coalitionist)

Changes of Membership

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

Senate

See also: List of special elections to the United States Senate

Template:Ordinal US Congress Senate |- | West Virginia
(1) | Vacant | Holt qualified late due to age. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Rush D. Holt, Sr. (D) | June 21, 1935

|- | New Mexico
(1) | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Bronson M. Cutting (R) | Died May 6, 1935.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election, and was subsequently elected. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Dennis Chavez (D) | May 11, 1935

|- | Louisiana
(2) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Huey Long (D) | Died September 10, 1935.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Rose McConnell Long (D) | January 31, 1936

|- | Minnesota
(2) | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Thomas D. Schall (R) | Died December 22, 1935.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background:#66FF99" | Elmer Austin Benson (FL) | December 27, 1935

|- | Florida
(1) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Park Trammell (D) | Died May 8, 1936.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Scott Loftin (D) | May 26, 1936

|- | Florida
(3) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Duncan U. Fletcher (D) | Died June 17, 1936.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William Luther Hill (D) | July 1, 1936

|- | Iowa
(3) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Richard L. Murphy (D) | Died July 16, 1936.
Successor was elected. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Guy Gillette (D) | November 3, 1936

|- | Michigan
(2) | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | James J. Couzens (R) | Died October 22, 1936.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Prentiss M. Brown (D) | November 19, 1936

|- | Minnesota
(2) | style="background:#66FF99" | Elmer Austin Benson (FL) | Successor was elected November 3, 1936. | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Guy V. Howard (R) | November 3, 1936

|- | Florida
(1) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Scott Loftin (D) | Successor was elected November 3, 1936. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Charles O. Andrews (D) | November 4, 1936

|- | Florida
(3) | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William Luther Hill (D) | Successor was elected November 3, 1936. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Claude Pepper (D) | November 4, 1936

|- | South Dakota
(3) | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Peter Norbeck (R) | Died December 20, 1936.
Successor was appointed to serve until the next election. | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Herbert E. Hitchcock (D) | December 29, 1936 |}

House of Representatives

See also: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

|- | Indiana 2nd | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep.-elect Frederick Landis died before being sworn in | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Charles A. Halleck (R) | January 29, 1935 |- | Rhode Island 1st | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Francis Condon (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 10, 1935, after being appointed associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Charles Risk (R) | August 6, 1935 |- | New York 22nd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Anthony J. Griffin (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 13, 1935 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Edward W. Curley (D) | November 5, 1935 |- | Alabama 1st | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | John McDuffie (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 2, 1935, after being appointed judge in US district court | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Frank W. Boykin (D) | July 30, 1935 |- | Illinois At-large | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Michael L. Igoe (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 2, 1935, after being appointed a US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Kentucky 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Cap R. Carden (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 13, 1935 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Edward W. Creal (D) | November 5, 1935 |- | Ohio At-large | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Charles V. Truax (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died August 9, 1935 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Daniel S. Earhart (D) | November 3, 1936 |- | Illinois 23rd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William W. Arnold (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 16, 1935, after being appointed a member of the US Board of Tax Appeals | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | New York 2nd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William F. Brunner (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 27, 1935, after being elected Sheriff of Queens County, New York | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William B. Barry (D) | November 5, 1935 |- | Michigan 3rd | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Henry M. Kimball (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 19, 1935 | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Verner Main (R) | December 17, 1935 |- | Washington 6th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Wesley Lloyd (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 10, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Resident Commissioner to the US House of Representatives from the Philippine Islands | Francisco A. Delgado (NAC) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 14, 1936, after a successor qualified in accordance to a new form of government | Quintin Paredes (NAC) | February 14, 1936 |- | Resident Commissioner to the US House of Representatives from the Philippine Islands | Pedro Guevara (NAC) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 14, 1936, after the 2nd seat was abolished | colspan=2 | None |- | New York 9th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Stephen A. Rudd (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died March 31, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Ohio 11th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Mell G. Underwood (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 10, 1936, after being appointed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Peter F. Hammond (D) | November 3, 1936 |- | Illinois 12th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | John T. Buckbee (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 23, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | New York 29th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | William D. Thomas (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 17, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | New Jersey 7th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | Randolph Perkins (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 25, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Massachusetts 6th | style="background-color:#FFB6B6" | A. Piatt Andrew (R) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 3, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Tennessee 5th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Jo Byrns (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 4, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Washington 5th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Samuel B. Hill (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 25, 1936, after being appointed a member of the US Board of Tax Appeals | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Iowa 2nd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 30, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Ohio 9th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Warren J. Duffey (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died July 7, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | South Carolina 4th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | John J. McSwain (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died August 6, 1936 | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Gabriel H. Mahon, Jr. (D) | November 3, 1936 |- | Washington 1st | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Marion Zioncheck (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died August 7, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Kentucky 1st | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | William V. Gregory (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 10, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Iowa 9th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Guy Gillette (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 3, 1936, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Michigan 11th | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Prentiss M. Brown (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 18, 1936, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |- | Kentucky 2nd | style="background-color:#B0CEFF" | Glover H. Cary (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 5, 1936 | colspan=2 | Vacant until the next Congress |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (4 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.

Senate

• Agriculture and Forestry
• Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts (Special)
• Appropriations
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Banking and Currency
• Bankruptcy and Receiveship (Select)
• Campaign Expenditures Investigation (Special)
• Civil Service
• Claims
• Commerce
• District of Columbia
• Education and Labor
  • Investigation Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor
• Enrolled Bills
• Executive Agencies of the Government (Select)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments
• Finance
• Foreign Relations
• Immigration
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Interoceanic Canals
• Interstate Commerce
• Judiciary
• Land and Water Policies of the United States (Special)
• Library
• Lobbying Activities (Select)
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Mississippi Flood Control Project (Select)
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Pensions
• Philippines Economic Condition (Special)
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Expenditures (Special)
• Printing
• Privileges and Elections
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands and Surveys
• Rules
• Silver (Special)
• Territories and Insular Affairs
• Virgin Islands (Select)
• Whole
• Wildlife Resources (Special)
• Wool Production (Special)

House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• American Retail Federation (Special)
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Census
• Civil Service
• Claims
• Coinage, Weights and Measures
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia
• Education
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
• Elections
• Enrolled Bills
• Expenditures in the Executive Departments
• Flood Control
• Foreign Affairs
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Insular Affairs
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce
• Invalid Pensions
• Irrigation and Reclamation
• Labor
• Memorials
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Revision of Laws
• Rivers and Harbors
• Roads
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• War Claims
• Ways and Means
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• The Library
• Taxation

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
• Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
• Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl (until June 30, 1936), vacant thereafter
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Augustus E. Giegengack

Senate

• Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins

House

• Clerk: South Trimble
• Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
• Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
• Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (until 1936) (D) and N/A (R)
• Sergeant at Arms: Kenneth Romney
• Chaplain: James Shera Montgomery - Methodist

See also

• United States elections, 1934 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1934
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1934
• United States elections, 1936 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1936
  • United States Senate elections, 1936 and 1937
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1936

References

• Party divisions, via senate.gov
• House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 74th Congress (PDF).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 74th Congress, 1st Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 74th Congress, 1st Session (Revision).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 74th Congress, 2nd Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 74th Congress, 2nd Session (Revision).