73rd United States Congress
The
Seventy-third Congress of the United States was the 73rd meeting of the
United States Congress, which took place from 1933 to 1935. All
Representatives of this Congress were elected in the
House election of 1932, and 34
Senators were elected in the
Senate election of 1932.
The Congress took place during
The Great Depression, and coincided with the first half of the first term of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Two regular sessions of Congress were held, and one additional special session was called by President Roosevelt. All three took place in
Washington, D.C.*Special Session:
March 4,
1933 â€"
March 6,
1933*First Session:
March 9,
1933 â€"
June 15,
1933*Second Session:
January 3,
1934 â€"
June 18,
1934*The
twentieth amendment to the
Constitution became effective in January 1934. This amendment changed both the date for convening Congress and the date for beginning each term. Thus the first session of the 73rd Congress convened in March 1933, but the second session convened in January 1934.
*The
twenty-first amendment to the
Constitution was ratified in December 1933. This amendment repealed the
eighteenth amendment which mandated national
prohibition in the United States, which had been in effect since the
Volstead Act of 1919. The amendment is unsual due to the fact that it was not passed by Congress, but was forced upon the Federal Government by a
convention of states. Even though it was not passed by Congress, it still was the most publicized legislation of the day, and had significant effects on the 73rd Congress, particularly in
the south, where prohibition was overwhelmingly embraced, and the amendment was seen as a "
coup d'etat of immorality," as one southern Congressman remarked.
Special Session
The special session of Congress, which took place before the regular seating, was called by President Roosevelt specifically to pass two acts:
*The
Emergency Banking Act was passed on
March 9,
1933 within four hours of its introduction. It was prompted by the "
bank holiday" and was the first step in Roosevelt's "
first hundred days" of the
New Deal. The Act was drafted in large part by officials appointed by the
Hoover administration. The bill provided for the
Treasury Department to initiate reserve requirements and a federal bailout to large failing institutions. It also removed the United States from the
Gold Standard. All
banks had to undergo a federal inspection to deem if they were stable enough to re-open. Within a week 1/3rd of the banks re-opened in the United States and faith was, in large part, restored in the banking system. The act had few opponents, only taking fire from the farthest left elements of Congress who wanted to
nationalize banks all-together.
*The
Economy Act of 1933 was passed on
March 10,
1933. Roosevelt, in sending this act to Congress, warned that if it did not pass, the country faced a billion dollar
deficit. The act balanced the federal budget by cutting the salaries of government employees and cutting pensions to veterans by as much as 15 percent. It intended to reassure the deficit hawks that the new president was fiscally conservative. Although the act was heavily protested by left-leaning members of congress, it passed by an overwhelming margin.
First Session
*The
Emergency Conservation Work Act was passed on
March 31,
1933. It established the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a means to combat
unemployment and
poverty.
*The
Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed on
May 12,
1933. It was part of a plan developed by Roosevelt's
Secretary of Agriculture,
Henry A. Wallace, and was designed to protect American
farmers from the uncertainties of the depression through subsidies and production controls. The act laid the frame for long-term government control in the planning of the agricultural sector. In 1936 the act was ruled unconstitution by the
United States Supreme Court because it taxed one group to pay for another.
*The
Tennessee Valley Authority Act passed on
May 18,
1933. It created the Tennessee Valley Authority to relieve the
Tennessee Valley by a series of public works projects.
*The
Federal Emergency Relief Act passed on
May 22,
1933. It established the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which develop public works projects to give work to the unemployed.
*The
Securities Act of 1933 was passed on
June 5,
1933. It established the
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) as a way for the government to prevent a repeat of the
Stock Market Crash of 1929.
*The
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was passed on
June 12 1933 and was a follow up to the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932. Both acts sought to make banking safer and less prone to speculation. The 1933 act, however, established the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
*The
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was passed on
June 16, 1933. It was an anti-
deflation scheme promoted by the
Chamber of Commerce that reversed
anti-trust laws and permit trade associations to cooperate in stabilizing prices within their industries while making businesses ensure that the incomes of workers would rise along with their prices. It guaranteed to workers of the right of collective bargaining and helped spur major union organizing drives in major industries. In case consumer buying power lagged behind, thereby defeating the administration's initiatives, the NIRA created the
Public Works Administration (PWA), a major program of public works spending designed to alleviate unemployment, and moreover to transfer funds to certain beneficiaries. The NIRA established the most important, but ultimately least successful provision: a new federal agency known as the
National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to stabilize prices and wages through cooperative "code authorities" involving government, business, and labor. The NIRA was seen hailed as a miracle, responding to the needs of labor, business, unemployment, and the deflation crisis. Unfortunately, the "
sick chicken case" lead to the Supreme Court invalidating NIRA in 1935, although it was in effect long enough for it to accomlish a good deal of what it set out to do.
Second Session
*The
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 was a growth off of the
Securities Act of 1933 and regulated participation in financial markets.
"Merchants of Death" hearings
Committee:
U.S. Senate Committee on MunitionsChairman: Senator
Gerald P. Nye (R-North Dakota)
Duration:
September 4,
1934-February
1936The Senate Munitions Committee came into existence souly for the purpose of this hearing. Although
World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53,000 Americans, hence the nickname "
Merchants of Death".
The Democratic Party, controlling the Senate for the first time since the first world war, used the hype of these reports to organise the hearing in hopes of
nationalizing America's munitions industry. The Democrats chose a Republican renowned for his ardent
isolationist policies, Senator Nye of North Dakota, to head the hearing. Nye was typical of
western agrarian progressives, and adamantly opposed America's involvement in any foreign war. Nye declared at the opening of the hearing "when the Senate investigation is over, we shall see that war and preparation for war is not a matter of national honor and national defense, but a matter of profit for the few."
Over the next eighteen months, the "Nye Committee" (as
newspapers called it) held ninety-three hearings, questioning more than two hundred witnesses, including
J.P. Morgan, Jr. and
Pierre du Pont. Committee members found little hard evidence of an active conspiracy among arms makers, yet the panel's reports did little to weaken the popular prejudice against "greedy munitions interests."
The hearings overlapped the 73rd and
74th Congresses. They only came to an end after Chairman Nye provoked the Democratic caucus into cutting off funding. Nye, in the last hearing the Committee held in early 1936, attacked former Democratic President
Woodrow Wilson, suggesting that Wilson had withheld essential information from Congress as it considered a
declaration of war. Democratic leaders, including
Appropriations Committee Chairman
Carter Glass of
Virginia, unleashed a furious response against Nye for "dirtdaubing the
sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson." Standing before cheering colleagues in a packed Senate chamber, Glass slammed his fist onto his desk in protest until blood dripped from his knuckles, effectively prompting the Democratic caucus to withhold all funding for further hearings.
Although the "Nye Committee" failed to achieve its goal of nationalizing the arms industry, it inspired three congressional neutrality acts in the mid-
1930s that signaled profound American opposition to overseas involvement.
Senate
At seating*59
Democrats*36
Republicans*1
Farmer-LaborTotal 96
At adjournment*60
Democrats*35
Republicans*1
Farmer-LaborTotal 96
Changes#Senator
Robert B. Howell (R-Nebraska) died and was replaced by a Democrat.
House of Representatives
At seating*313
Democrats*117
Republicans*5
Farmer-Labor PartyTotal 435
At adjournment*312
Democrats*112
Republicans*5
Farmer-Labor Party*2
Progressives*4 VacanciesTotal 435
Changes#Representative
Henry W. Watson (R-Pennsylvania) died and was replaced by a Democrat.#Representative
George F. Brumm (R-Pennsylvania) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.#Representative
Thomas C. Coffin (D-Idaho) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.#Representative
James M. Beck (R-Pennsylvania) resigned and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session.#Representatives
Gardner R. Withrow and
Gerald J. Boileau (R-Wisconsin) changed to the Progressive Party.#Speaker
Henry T. Rainey (D-Illinois) died and his seat remained vacant until the end of the session. Likewise, a new Speaker was not elected until the next session.
Senate
Majority leadership
Minority leadership
House of Representatives
Majority Leadership
Minority Leadership
Senate
*
Hugo Black (D)
*
John H. Bankhead II (D)
*
Henry F. Ashurst (D)
*
Carl Hayden (D)
*
Joseph Robinson (D)
*
Hattie Carraway (D)
*
Hiram Johnson (R)
*
William G. McAdoo (D)
*
Edward P. Costigan (D)
*
Alva B. Adams (D)
*
Frederic C. Walcott (R)
*
Augustine Lonergan (D)
*
Daniel O. Hastings (R)
*
John G. Townsend, Jr. (R)
*
Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
*
Park Trammell (D)
*
Walter F. George (D)
*
Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D)
*
William E. Borah (R)
*
James P. Pope (D)
*
James H. Lewis (D)
*
William H. Dieterich (D)
*
Arthur R. Robinson (R)
*
Frederick Van Nuys (D)
*
L. J. Dickinson (R)
*
Louis Murphy (D)
*
Arthur Capper (R)
*
George McGill (D)
*
Alben W. Barkley (D)
*
Marvel M. Logan (D)
*
Huey P. Long (D)
*
John H. Overton (D)
*
Frederick Hale (R)
*
Wallace H. White, Jr. (R)
*
Millard E. Tydings (D)
*
Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)
*
David I. Walsh (D)
*
Marcus A. Coolidge (D)
*
James Couzens (R)
*
Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)
*
Henrik Shipstead (FL)
*
Thomas D. Schall (R)
*
Pat Harrison (D)
*
Hubert D. Stephens (D)
*
Roscoe C. Patterson (R)
*
Joel Bennett Clark (D)
*
Burton K. Wheeler (D)
*
John E. Erickson (D), appointed to fill an unexpired term.
James E. Murray (D) elected to comlete term.
*
George W. Norris (R)
*
Robert B. Howell (R), died.
William H. Thompson (D) appointed replacement,
Richard C. Hunter (D) duly elected to fill the unexpired term.
*
Key Pittman (D)
*
Patrick A. McCarran (D)
*
Henry W. Keyes (R)
*
Fred Brown (D)
*
Hamilton F. Kean (R)
*
Dwight W. Morrow (R)
*
Sam G. Bratton (D), resigned. Replaced by
Carl Hatch (D)
*
Bronson M. Cutting (R)
*
Royal S. Copeland (D)
*
Robert F. Wagner (D)
*
Josiah William Bailey (D)
*
Robert R. Reynolds (D)
*
Lynn Frazier (R)
*
Gerald P. Nye (R)
*
Simeon D. Fess (R)
*
Robert J. Buckley (D)
*
J.W. Elmer Thomas (D)
*
Thomas P. Gore (D)
*
Charles L. McNary (R)
*
Fredrick Steiwer (R)
*
David A. Reed (R)
*
James J. Davis (R)
*
Jesse H. Metcalf (R)
*
Felix Hebert (R)
*
Ellison D. Smith (D)
*
James F. Byrnes (D)
*
Peter Norbeck (R)
*
William J. Bulow (D)
*
Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
*
Nathan Lynn Bachman (D)
*
Morris Sheppard (D)
*
Thomas T. Connally (D)
*
William H. King (D)
*
Elbert D. Thomas (D)
*
Porter H. Dale (R), died. Replaced by
Ernest W. Gibson (R)
*
Warren R. Austin (R)
*
Carter Glass (D)
*
Harry F. Byrd (D)
*
Clarence C. Dill (D)
*
Homer T. Bone (D)
*
Henry D. Hatfield (R)
*
Matthew M. Neely (D)
*
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R)
*
F. Ryan Duffy (D)
*
John B. Kendrick (D), died. Replaced by
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D)
*
Robert D. Carey (R)
House of Representatives
*1.
John McDuffie (D)
*2.
J. Lister Hill (D)
*3.
Henry B. Steagall (D)
*4.
Lamar Jeffers (D)
*5.
Miles C. Allgood (D)
*6.
William B. Oliver (D)
*7.
William B. Bankhead (D)
*8.
Edward B. Almon (D), died. Replaced by
Archibald Hill Carmichael (D)
*9.
George Huddleston (D)
*At Large -
Isabella Selmes Greenway (D)
*1.
William J. Driver (D)
*2.
John E. Miller (D)
*3.
Claude A. Fuller (D)
*4.
William B. Cravens (D)
*5.
Heartsill Ragon (D), resigned. Replaced by
David D. Terry (D)
*6.
David Delano Glover (D)
*7.
Tilman B. Parks (D)
*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.
Ralph R. Eltse (R)
*8.
John J. McGrath (D)
*9.
Denver S. Church (D)
*10.
Henry E. Stubbs (D)
*11.
William E. Evens (D)
*12.
John H. Hoeppel (D)
*13.
Charles Kramer (D)
*14.
Thomas F. Ford (D)
*15.
William Traeger (R)
*16.
John F. Dockweiler (D)
*17.
Charles J. Colden (D)
*18.
John H. Burke (D)
*19.
Sam L. Collins (R)
*20.
George Burnham (R)
*1.
Lawrence Lewis (D)
*2.
Fred N. Cummings (D)
*3.
John A. Martin (D)
*4.
Edward T. Taylor (D)
*At-Large -
Charles M. Bakewell (R)
*1.
Herman P. Kopplemann (D)
*2.
William L. Higgins (D)
*3.
Francis T. Maloney (D)
*4.
Schuyler Merritt (R)
*5.
Edward W. Goss (R)
*At Large -
Wilbur L. Adams (D)
*At-Large -
William J. Sears (D)
*1.
J. Hardin Peterson (D)
*2.
Robert A. Green (D)
*3.
Millard F. Caldwell (D)
*4.
J. Mark Wilcox (D)
*1.
Homer C. Parker (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.
Malcom C. Tarver (D)
*8.
Braswell Deen (D)
*9.
John S. Wood (D)
*10.
Charled H. Brand (D), died. Replaced by
Paul Brown (D)
*1.
Compton I. White (D)
*2.
Thomas C. Coffin (D), died June 8, 1934. Seat left vacant.
*At-Large -
Martin A. Brennan (D)
*At-Large -
Walter Nesbit (D)
*1.
Oscar De Priest (R)
*2.
P. H. Moynihan (R)
*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.
Frederick A. Britten (R)
*10.
James Simpson, Jr. (R)
*11.
Frank R. Reid (R)
*12.
John T. Buckbee (R)
*13.
Leo E. Allen (R)
*14.
Chester Thompson (D)
*15.
J. Leroy Adair (D)
*16.
Everett M. Dirksen (R)
*17.
Frank Gillespie (D)
*18.
James A. Meeks (D)
*19.
Donald C. Dobbins (D)
*20.
Henry T. Rainey (D), died. Seat remained vacant until next session.
*21.
J. Earl Major (D)
*22.
Edwin M. Schaefer (D)
*23.
William W. Arnold (D)
*24.
Claude V. Parsons (D)
*25.
Kent E. Keller (D)
*1.
William T. Schulte (D)
*2.
George Richard Durgan (D)
*3.
Samuel B. Pettengill (D)
*4.
James I. Farley (D)
*5.
Glenn Griswold (D)
*6.
Virginia 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)
*1.
Edward Clayton Eicher (D)
*2.
Bernhard Martin Jacobsen (D)
*3.
Albert Clinton Willford (D)
*4.
Frederick Elliot Biermann (D)
*5.
Lloyd Thurston (R)
*6.
Cassius C. Dowell (R)
*7.
Otha D. Wearin (D)
*8.
Fred C. Gilchrist (R)
*9.
Guy M. Gillette (D)
*1.
William P. Lambertson (R)
*2.
U. S. Guyer (R)
*3.
Harold Clement McGugin (R)
*4.
Randolph Carpenter (D)
*5.
William A. Ayres (D)
*6.
Kathryn Ellen O'Laughlin McCarthy (D)
*7.
Clifford R. Hope (R)
*At-Large -
John Y. Brown (D)
*At-Large -
Cap R. Carden (D)
*At-Large -
Glover H. Cary (D)
*At-Large -
Virgil Chapman (D)
*At-Large -
W. Voris Gregory (D)
*At-Large -
Finley Hamilton (D)
*At-Large -
Andrew J. May (I)
*At-Large -
Brent Spence (D)
*At-Large -
Fred M. Vinson (D)
*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.
Bolivar E. Kemp (D), died. Replaced by
Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. (D)
*7.
René L. DeRouen (D)
*8.
Cleveland Dear (D)
*1.
Carroll L. Beedy (R)
*2.
Edward C. Moran, Jr. (D)
*3.
Ralph O. Brewster (D)
*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)
*1.
Allen T. Treadway (R)
*2.
William J. Granfield (D)
*3.
Frank H. Foss (R)
*4.
Pehr G. Holmes (R)
*5.
Edith Nourse Rogers (R)
*6.
A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (R)
*7.
William P. Connery, Jr. (D)
*8.
Arthur D. Healey (D)
*9.
Robert Luce (R)
*10.
George H. Tinkham (R)
*11.
John J. Douglass (D)
*12.
John W. McCormack (D)
*13.
Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)
*14.
Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R)
*15.
Charles L. Grifford (R)
*1.
George G. Sadowski (D)
*2.
John C. Lehr (D)
*3.
Joseph L. Hooper (R)
*4.
George Foulkes (D)
*5.
Carl E. Mapes (D)
*6.
Claude E. Cady (D)
*7.
Jesse P. Wolcott (R)
*8.
Michael J. Hart (D)
*9.
Harry W. Musselwhite (D)
*10.
Roy O. Woodruff (D)
*11.
Prentiss M. Brown (D)
*12.
W. Frank James (D)
*13.
Clarence J. McLeod (D)
*14.
Carl M. Weideman (D)
*15.
John D. Dingell, Sr. (D)
*16.
John Lesinski (D)
*17.
George A. Dondero (R)
*At-Large -
Henry Arens (FL)
*At-Large -
Ray P. Chase (R)
*At-Large -
Theodore Christianson (R)
*At-Large -
Einar Hoidale (D)
*At-Large -
Magnus Johnson (FL)
*At-Large -
Harold Knutson (R)
*At-Large -
Paul John Kvale (FL)
*At-Large -
Ernest Lundeen (FL)
*At-Large -
Francis Shoemaker (FL)
*1.
John E. Rankin (D)
*2.
Wall Doxey (D)
*3.
William M. Whittington (D)
*4.
T. Jeff Busby (D)
*5.
Ross A. Collins (D)
*6.
William M. Colmer (D)
*7.
Lawrence Russell Ellzey (D)
*At-Large -
Clarence Cannon (D)
*At-Large -
James Robert Claiborne (D)
*At-Large -
John J. Cochran (D)
*At-Large -
Clement C. Dickinson (D)
*At-Large -
Richard M. Duncan (D)
*At-Large -
Frank H. Lee (D)
*At-Large -
Ralph F. Lozier (D)
*At-Large -
Jacob L. Milligan (D)
*At-Large -
Milton A. Romjue (D)
*At-Large -
James Edward Ruffin (D)
*At-Large -
Joseph B. Shannon (D)
*At-Large -
Clyde Williams (D)
*At-Large -
Reuben T. Wood (D)
*1.
Joseph P. Monaghan (D)
*2.
Roy E. Ayers (D)
*1.
John H. Morehead (D)
*2.
Edward R. Burke (D)
*3.
Edgar Howard (D)
*4.
Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
*5.
Terry Carpenter (D)
*At-Large -
James G. Scrugham (D)
*1.
William Nathaniel Rogers (D)
*2.
Charles W. Tobey (R)
*1.
Charles A. Wolverton (R)
*2.
Issac Bacharach (R)
*3.
William H. Sutphin (R)
*4.
D. Lane Powers (D)
*5.
Charles A. Eaton (R)
*6.
Donald H. McLean (R)
*7.
Randolph Perkins (R)
*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.
Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)
*At-Large -
Dennis Chavez (D)
*At-Large -
John Fitzgibbons (D)
*At-Large -
Elmer E. Studley (D)
*1.
Robert L. Bacon (R)
*2.
William F. Brunner (D)
*3.
George W. Lindsay (D)
*4.
Thomas H. Cullen (D)
*5.
Loring M. Black, Jr. (D)
*6.
Andrew L. Somers (D)
*7.
John J. Delaney (D)
*8.
Patrick J. Carley (D)
*9.
Stephen A. Rudd (D)
*10.
Emanuel Celler (D)
*11.
Anning S. Prall (D)
*12.
Samuel Dickstein (D)
*13.
Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
*14.
William I. Sirovich (D)
*15.
John J. Boylan (D)
*16.
John J. O'Conner (D)
*17.
Theodore A. Peyser (D)
*18.
Martin J. Kennedy (D)
*19.
Sol Bloom (D)
*20.
James J. Lanzetta (D)
*21.
Joseph A. Gavagan (D)
*22.
Anthony J. Griffin (D)
*23.
Frank Oliver (D)
*24.
James M. Fitzpatrick (D)
*25.
Charles D. Millard (R)
*26.
Hamilton Fish (R)
*27.
Philip A. Goodwin (R)
*28.
Parker Coming (D)
*29.
James S. Parker (R), died. Replaced by
William D. Thomas (R)
*30.
Frank Crowther (R)
*31.
Bertrand H. Snell (R)
*32.
Francis D. Culkin (R)
*33.
Fred J. Sisson (D)
*34.
John D. Clarke (R), died. Replaced by
Marian W. Clarke (R)
*35.
Clarence E. Hancock (R)
*36.
John Taber (R)
*37.
Gale H. Stalker (R)
*38.
James L. Whitley (R)
*39.
James W. Wadworth, Jr. (R)
*40.
Walter G. Andrews (R)
*41.
Alfred F. Beiter (D)
*42.
James M. Mead (D)
*43.
Daniel A. Reed (R)
*1.
Lindsay C. Warren (D)
*2.
John H. Kerr (D)
*3.
Charles L. Abernathy (D)
*4.
Edward W. Pou (D), died. Replaced by
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)
*At-Large -
William Lemke (Nonpartisan Republican)
*At-Large -
James H. Sinclair (R)
*At-Large -
Charles V. Truax (D)
*At-Large -
Stephen M. Young (D)
*1.
John B. Hollister (R)
*2.
William E. Hess (R)
*3.
Byron B. Harlan (D)
*4.
Frank Le Blond Kloeb (D)
*5.
Frank Charles Kniffin (D)
*6.
James G. Polk (D)
*7.
Leroy Tate Marshall (R)
*8.
Thomas Brooks Fletcher (D)
*9.
Warren J. Duffey (D)
*10.
Thomas A. Jenkins (R)
*11.
Mell G. Underwood (D)
*12.
Arthur Philip Lamneck (D)
*13.
William Louis Fiesinger (R)
*14.
Dow W. Harter (D)
*15.
Robert T. Secrest (D)
*16.
William R. Thom (D)
*17.
Charles Franklin West (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 -
Will Rogers, Jr. (D)
*1.
Wesley E. Disney (D)
*2.
William W. Hastings (D)
*3.
Wilburn Cartwright (D)
*4.
Tom D. McKeown (D)
*5.
Fletcher B. Swank (D)
*6.
Jed Johnson (D)
*7.
James V. McClintic (D)
*8.
Ernest W. Marland (D)
*1.
James W. Mott (R)
*2.
Walter M. Pierce (D)
*3.
Charles H. Martin (D)
*1.
Harry C. Ransley (R)
*2.
James M. Beck (R), resigned. Seat remained vacant until next session.
*3.
Alfred Marpole Waldron (R)
*4.
George Washington Edmonds (R)
*5.
James J. Connolly (R)
*6.
Edward Lowber Stokes (R)
*7.
George P. Darrow (R)
*8.
James Wolfenden (R)
*9.
Henry W. Watson (R), died. Replaced by
Oliver Walter Frey (D)
*10.
J. Roland Kinzer (R)
*11.
Patrick J. Boland (D)
*12.
C. Murray Turpin (R)
*13.
George F. Brumm (R), died. Replaced by
*14.
William Emanuel Richardson (D)
*15.
Louis T. McFadden (R)
*16.
Robert F. Rich (R)
*17.
J. William Ditter (R)
*18.
Benjamin Kurtz Focht (R)
*19.
Isaac Hoffer Doutrich (R)
*20.
Thomas Cunningham Cochran (R)
*21.
Francis E. Walter (D)
*22.
Harry L. Haines (D)
*23.
J. Banks Kurtz (R)
*24.
J. Buell Snyder (D)
*25.
Charles I. Faddis (D)
*26.
J. Howard Swick (R)
*27.
Nathan L. Strong (R)
*28.
William M. Berlin (D)
*29.
Charles N. Crosby (D)
*30.
J. Twing Brooks (D)
*31.
M. Clyde Kelly (R)
*32.
Michael Joseph Muldowney (R)
*33.
Henry Ellenbogen (D)
*34.
Matthew A. Dunn (D)
*1.
Francis B. Condon (D)
*2.
John M. O'Connell (D)
*1.
Thomas S. McMillan (D)
*2.
Hampton P. Fulmer (D)
*3.
John Clarence Taylor (D)
*4.
John J. McSwain (D)
*5.
James P. Richards (D)
*6.
Allard H. Gasque (D)
*1.
Fred H. Hildebrandt (D)
*2.
Theodore B. Werner (D)
*1.
B. Carroll Reece (R)
*2.
J. Will Taylor (R)
*3.
Sam D. McReynolds (D)
*4.
John Ridley Mitchell (D)
*5.
Joseph W. Byrns (D)
*6.
Clarence W. Turner (D)
*7.
Gordon Browning (D)
*8.
Jere Cooper (D)
*9.
Edward H. Crump (D)
*At-Large -
Joseph Weldon Bailey, Jr. (D)
*At-Large -
Sterling Price Strong (D)
*At-Large -
George Butler Terrell (D)
*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.
Clay Stone Briggs (D), died. Replaced by
Clark W. Thompson (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.
John Nance Garner (D), resigned. Replaced by
Milton H. West (D)
*16.
R. Ewing Thomason (D)
*17.
Thomas L. Blanton (D)
*18.
Marvin Jones (D)
*1.
Abe Murdock (D)
*2.
J. W. Robinson (D)
*At-Large -
Ernest W. Gibson (R), resigned. Replaced by
Charles A. Plumley (R)
*At-Large -
S. Otis Bland (D)
*At-Large -
Thomas G. Burch (D)
*At-Large -
Colgate W. Darden, Jr. (D)
*At-Large -
Patrick H. Drewry (D)
*At-Large -
John W. Flannagan, Jr. (D)
*At-Large -
Andrew J. Montague (D)
*At-Large -
A. Willis Robertson (D)
*At-Large -
Howard W. Smith (D)
*At-Large -
Clifton A. Woodrum (D)
*1.
Marion Anthony Zioncheck (D)
*2.
Monrad C. Wallgren (D)
*3.
Martin F. Smith (D)
*4.
Knute Hill (D)
*5.
Samuel Billingsley Hill (D)
*6.
Wesley Lloyd (D)
*1.
Robert L. Ramsay (D)
*2.
Jennings Randolph (D)
*3.
Lynn Hornor (D), died. Replaced by
Andrew Edmiston, Jr. (D)
*4.
George W. Johnson (D)
*5.
John Kee (D)
*6.
Joe L. Smith (D)
*1.
George Washington Blanchard (R)
*2.
Charles W. Henney (D)
*3.
Gardner R. Withrow (Progressive)
*4.
Randolph Joseph Cannon (D)
*5.
Thomas David Patrick O'Malley (D)
*6.
Michael K. Reilly (D)
*7.
Gerald J. Boileau (Progressive)
*8.
James Frederic Hughes (R)
*9.
James A. Frear (R)
*10.
Hubert H. Peavey (R)
*At Large -
Vincent Carter (R)
*
Anthony J. Dimond (D), Delegate
*
Lincoln L. McCandless (D), Delegate
*
Pedro Guevara (Nationalist), Resident Commissioner
*
Camilo Osias (Nationalist), Resident Commissioner
*
Santiago Iglesias (Coalitionist), Resident Commissioner
Senate
| Senator | State | Reason for Vacancy | Successor | Date of Successor's Installation |
|---|
| Robert H. Howell | Nebraska | Died March 11, 1933 | William H. Thompson | May 24, 1933 |
| Sam G. Bratton | New Mexico | Resigned June 24, 1933 | Carl Hatch | November 6, 1934 |
| Porter H. Dale | Vermont | Died October 6, 1933 | Ernest W. Gibson | October 19, 1933 |
| John B. Kendrick | Wyoming | Died November 3, 1933 | Joseph C. O'Mahoney | January 1, 1934 |
| William H. Thompson | Nebraska | Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934 | Richard C. Hunter | November 7, 1934 |
| John E. Erikson | Montana | Duly elected successor qualified on November 6, 1934 | James E. Murray | November 7, 1934 |
House of Representatives
| Representative | District | Reason for Vacancy | Successor | Date of Successor's Installation |
|---|
| John Nance Garner | Texas 15th | Resigned March 4, 1933 having become Vice President | Milton H. West | April 22, 1933 |
| Lewis W. Douglas | | Resigned March 4, 1933 to accept a Presidential appointment | Isabella Selmes Greenway | October 3, 1933 |
| Clay Stone Briggs | Texas 7th | Died April 29, 1933 | Clark W. Thompson | June 24, 1933 |
| Heartsill Ragon | Arkansas 5th | Resigned May 12, 1933 | David D. Terry | December 19, 1933 |
| Charles H. Brand | Georgia 10th | Died May 17, 1933 | Paul Brown | July 5, 1933 |
| Bolivar E. Kemp | Louisiana 6th | Died June 19, 1933 | Jared Y. Sanders, Jr. | May 1, 1934 |
| Edward B. Almon | Alabama 8th | Died June 22, 1933 | Archibald Hill Carmichael | November 14, 1933 |
| Henry W. Watson | Pennsylvania 9th | Died August 27, 1933 | Oliver Walter Frey | November 7, 1933 |
| Lynn Hornor | West Virginia 3rd | Died September 23, 1933 | Andrew Edmiston, Jr. | November 28, 1933 |
| Ernest W. Gibson | Vermont At Large | Elevated to the Senate October 19, 1933 | Charles A. Plumley | January 16, 1934 |
| James S. Parker | New York 34th | Died November 5, 1933 | Marion W. Clarke | December 28, 1933 |
| John D. Clarke | New York 29th | Died December 19, 1933 | William D. Thomas | January 30, 1934 |
| Edward W. Pou | North Carolina 4th | Died April 1, 1934 | Harold D. Cooley | July 7, 1934 |
| George F. Brumm | Pennsylvania 13th | Died May 29, 1934 | James H. Gildea | January 4, 1935 |
| Thomas C. Coffin | Idaho 2nd | Died June 8, 1934 | D. Worth Clark | January 4, 1935 |
| Henry T. Rainey | Illinois 20th | Died August 19, 1934 | Scott W. Lucas | January 4, 1935 |
| James M. Beck | Pennsylvania 2nd | Resigned September 30, 1934 | William H. Wilson | January 4, 1935 |
Architect of the Capitol:
David LynnSenate
*
Secretary of the Senate:
Edwin A. Halsey*
Chaplain:
ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (
Episcopalian)
*
Sergeant at Arms:
Chesley W. JurneyHouse of Representatives
*
Clerk:
South Trimble*
Chaplain:
James Shera Montgomery (
Methodist)
*
Sergeant at Arms:
Kenneth Romney*
Doorkeeper:
Joseph J. SinnottSee also: Rules of the House: "Other officers and officials"
