72nd United States Congress explained

Imagedate:	1906
Number:	72nd
Start:	March 4, 1931
End:	March 4, 1933
Vp:	Charles Curtis (R)
Pro Tem:	George H. Moses (R)
Speaker:	John N. Garner (D)
Senators:	96
Reps:	435
Delegates:	5
S-Majority:	Republican
H-Majority:	Republican, then Democratic
Sessionnumber1:	1st
Sessionstart1:	December 7, 1931
Sessionend1:	July 16, 1932
Sessionnumber2:	2nd
Sessionstart2:	December 2, 1932
Sessionend2:	March 3, 1933
Previous:	71st
Next:	73rd

The 72nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.^{[1] [2]} It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1931, to March 4, 1933, during the last two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority. The House started with a very slim Republican majority, but by the time it first met in December 1931, the Democrats had gained a majority through special elections.

Major events

See also: 1931 in the United States, 1932 in the United States and 1933 in the United States.

• Ongoing: Great Depression
• January 12, 1932: Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the United States Senate. (Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia had been appointed to fill a vacancy in 1922; the 87-year-old Felton served one day as a senator.) Caraway had won a special election to fill the remaining months of the term of her late husband, Senator Thaddeus Caraway. She won re-election to a full term in 1932 and again in 1938 and served in the Senate until January 1945.^[3]
• July 28, 1932: Bonus Army was dispersed.
• November 8, 1932: 1932 United States elections:
  • 1932 United States presidential election: Incumbent Republicans Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis lost to Democrats Franklin Roosevelt as President, and John Nance Garner as Vice President.
  • 1932 United States Senate elections: Democrats gained 12 seats for a 59–36 majority.
  • 1932 United States House of Representatives elections: Democrats gained 97 seats for a 313–117 majority.

Major legislation

• January 22, 1932: Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, Sess. 1, ch. 8,
• February 27, 1932: Glass-Steagall Act of 1932, Sess. 1, ch. 58,
• March 23, 1932: Norris-LaGuardia Act, Sess. 1, ch. 90,
• June 6, 1932: Revenue Act of 1932, Sess. 1, ch. 209,
• June 22, 1932: Federal Kidnapping Act, Sess. 1, ch. 271,
• June 30, 1932: Economy Act of 1932, Sess. 1, ch. 314,
• July 21, 1932: Emergency Relief and Construction Act, Sess. 1, ch. 520,
• July 22, 1932: Federal Home Loan Bank Act, Sess. 1, ch. 522,
• January 17, 1933: Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, Sess. 2, ch. 11,
• March 3, 1933: Buy American Act, Sess. 2, ch. 212, title III,

Constitutional amendments

• March 2, 1932: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution moving the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3, and also establishing what is to be done when there is no president-elect, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification
  • January 23, 1933: The Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 36) to become part of the Constitution.
• February 20, 1933: Approved an amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, and submitted it to state ratifying conventions for ratification
  • Amendment was later ratified on December 5, 1933, becoming the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

House of Representatives

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)			Total
	Democratic	Farmer–Labor	Republican		Vacant
End of previous Congress	166	1		265	432	3
Begin	216	1	217	434	1
March 16, 1931	215		433	2
April 9, 1931				216	432	3
May 12, 1931	216		216	433	2
May 26, 1931	215		216	432	3
May 29, 1931	214		431	4
July 4, 1931			215	430	5
July 13, 1931	213		429	6
July 18, 1931			rowspan=3	214	428	7
July 28, 1931	212		427	8
September 9, 1931	213		428	7
September 29, 1931	214		214	429	6
October 13, 1931				215	430	5
October 18, 1931			214	429	6
October 22, 1931			214	213	428	7
November 3, 1931	rowspan=2		217	215	433	2
November 6, 1931	214		432	3
November 24, 1931				218	433	2
December 1, 1931 Beginning of first session		219	1	214	434	1
January 5, 1932	rowspan=2	220			435	0
January 29, 1932	213	434		1
February 4, 1932				218	432	3
March 2, 1932				219	433	2
March 15, 1932		rowspan=2		220	434	1
April 1, 1932	212	433		2
April 5, 1932	rowspan=4				221	211
April 21, 1932	210	432		3
April 26, 1932	211	433		2
May 31, 1932	210	432		3
June 14, 1932				220	431	4
July 23, 1932				219	430	5
August 14, 1932				220	431	4
October 5, 1932				219	430	5
October 7, 1932				218	429	6
November 6, 1932				217	428	7
November 8, 1932	rowspan=3	220		212	433	2
November 29, 1932	211	432		3
December 3, 1932	210	431		4
December 13, 1932		rowspan=3		219	430	5
January 7, 1933	209	429		6
January 8, 1933	208	428		7
January 28, 1933		rowspan=2		220	429	6
February 16, 1933	206	427		8
Final voting share		51.4%	0.2%	48.4%
style=font-size:80%	Non-voting members	0	0	2	5	0
Beginning of next Congress		311	5	117	433	2

Leadership

Senate

• President

Charles Curtis (R)

• President pro tempore

George H. Moses (R)

Majority (Republican)

• Majority Leader

James E. Watson

• Majority Whip

Simeon D. Fess

• Republican Conference Secretary: Frederick Hale
• National Senatorial Committee Chair: Daniel O. Hastings

Minority (Democratic)

• Minority Leader

Joseph T. Robinson

• Minority Whip

Morris Sheppard

• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Hugo Black

House of Representatives

• Speaker: John N. Garner (D)

Note: Republican Nicholas Longworth, the Speaker of the House in the previous Congress, was Speaker-presumptive with his party's mere three-seat majority. However, Longworth died on April 9, 1931, and by the time the 72nd Congress convened in December 1931, Democrats had gained four seats from Republicans through special elections following deaths, thus becoming the majority party in the House. Democrat John Garner was subsequently elected as Speaker.^[4]

Majority (Democratic)

• Majority Leader: Henry T. Rainey
• Majority Whip: John McDuffie
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: William W. Arnold
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Byrns Sr.

Minority (Republican)

• Minority Leader: Bertrand H. Snell
• Minority Whip: Carl G. Bachmann
• Republican Conference Chairman: Willis C. Hawley
• Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: William R. Wood

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.

Senate

Senators were elected 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 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1934; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1936; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1932.

2. John H. Bankhead II (D)

3. Hugo Black (D)

1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)

3. Carl Hayden (D)

2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)

3. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D), until November 6, 1931

Hattie Caraway (D), from November 13, 1931

1. Hiram W. Johnson (R)

3. Samuel M. Shortridge (R)

2. Edward P. Costigan (D)

3. Charles W. Waterman (R), until August 27, 1932

Walter Walker (D), September 16, 1932 – December 6, 1932

Karl C. Schuyler (R), from December 7, 1932

1. Frederic C. Walcott (R)

3. Hiram Bingham III (R)

1. John G. Townsend Jr. (R)

2. Daniel O. Hastings (R)

1. Park Trammell (D)

3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)

2. William J. Harris (D), until April 18, 1932

John S. Cohen (D), April 25, 1932 – January 11, 1933

Richard Russell Jr. (D), from January 12, 1933

3. Walter F. George (D)

2. William E. Borah (R)

3. John Thomas (R)

2. James Hamilton Lewis (D)

3. Otis F. Glenn (R)

1. Arthur R. Robinson (R)

3. James E. Watson (R)

2. Lester J. Dickinson (R)

3. Smith W. Brookhart (R)

2. Arthur Capper (R)

3. George McGill (D)

2. Marvel M. Logan (D)

3. Alben W. Barkley (D)

2. Huey Long (D), from January 25, 1932

3. Edwin S. Broussard (D)

1. Frederick Hale (R)

2. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)

1. Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)

3. Millard Tydings (D)

1. David I. Walsh (D)

2. Marcus A. Coolidge (D)

1. Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)

2. James J. Couzens (R)

1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)

2. Thomas D. Schall (R)

1. Hubert D. Stephens (D)

2. Pat Harrison (D)

1. Roscoe C. Patterson (R)

3. Harry B. Hawes (D), until February 3, 1933

Bennett Champ Clark (D), from February 3, 1933

1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)

2. Thomas J. Walsh (D), until March 2, 1933

1. Robert B. Howell (R)

2. George W. Norris (R)

1. Key Pittman (D)

3. Tasker Oddie (R)

2. Henry W. Keyes (R)

3. George H. Moses (R)

1. Hamilton Fish Kean (R)

2. Dwight Morrow (R), until October 5, 1931

William Warren Barbour (R), from December 1, 1931

1. Bronson M. Cutting (R)

2. Sam G. Bratton (D)

1. Royal S. Copeland (D)

3. Robert F. Wagner (D)

2. Josiah William Bailey (D)

3. Cameron A. Morrison (D), until December 4, 1932

Robert R. Reynolds (D), from December 5, 1932

1. Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)

3. Gerald Nye (R)

1. Simeon D. Fess (R)

3. Robert J. Bulkley (D)

2. Thomas P. Gore (D)

3. Elmer Thomas (D)

2. Charles L. McNary (R)

3. Frederick Steiwer (R)

1. David A. Reed (R)

3. James J. Davis (R)

1. Felix Hebert (R)

2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)

2. James F. Byrnes (D)

3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

2. William J. Bulow (D)

3. Peter Norbeck (R)

1. Kenneth McKellar (D)

2. Cordell Hull (D)

1. Tom T. Connally (D)

2. Morris Sheppard (D)

1. William H. King (D)

3. Reed Smoot (R)

1. Porter H. Dale (R)

3. Frank C. Partridge (R), until March 31, 1931

Warren Austin (R), from April 1, 1931

1. Claude A. Swanson (D)

2. Carter Glass (D)

1. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)

3. Wesley L. Jones (R), until November 19, 1932

Elijah S. Grammer (R), from November 22, 1932

1. Henry D. Hatfield (R)

2. Matthew M. Neely (D)

1. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R)

3. John J. Blaine (R)

1. John B. Kendrick (D)

2. Robert D. Carey (R)

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

. John McDuffie (D)

. J. Lister Hill (D)

. Henry B. Steagall (D)

. Lamar Jeffers (D)

. LaFayette L. Patterson (D)

. William B. Oliver (D)

. Miles C. Allgood (D)

. Edward B. Almon (D)

. George Huddleston (D)

. William B. Bankhead (D)

. Lewis W. Douglas (D)

. William J. Driver (D)

. John E. Miller (D)

. Claude A. Fuller (D)

. Effiegene L. Wingo (D)

. Heartsill Ragon (D)

. David D. Glover (D)

. Tilman B. Parks (D)

. Clarence F. Lea (D)

. Harry L. Englebright (R)

. Charles F. Curry Jr. (R)

. Florence P. Kahn (R)

. Richard J. Welch (R)

. Albert E. Carter (R)

. Henry E. Barbour (R)

. Arthur M. Free (R)

. William E. Evans (R)

. Joe Crail (R)

. Philip D. Swing (R)

. William R. Eaton (R)

. Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)

. Guy U. Hardy (R)

. Edward T. Taylor (D)

. Augustine Lonergan (D)

. Richard P. Freeman (R)

. John Q. Tilson (R), until December 3, 1932

. William L. Tierney (D)

. Edward W. Goss (R)

. Robert G. Houston (R)

. Herbert J. Drane (D)

. Robert A. Green (D)

. Tom A. Yon (D)

. Ruth Bryan Owen (D)

. Charles G. Edwards (D), until July 13, 1931

Homer C. Parker (D), from September 9, 1931

. Edward E. Cox (D)

. Charles R. Crisp (D), until October 7, 1932

Bryant T. Castellow (D), from November 8, 1932

. William C. Wright (D)

. Robert Ramspeck (D)

. Samuel Rutherford (D), until February 4, 1932

Carlton Mobley (D), from March 2, 1932

. Malcolm C. Tarver (D)

. Charles H. Brand (D)

. John S. Wood (D)

. Carl Vinson (D)

. William C. Lankford (D)

. William W. Larsen (D)

. Burton L. French (R)

. Addison T. Smith (R)

. Oscar S. De Priest (R)

. Morton D. Hull (R)

. Edward A. Kelly (D)

. Harry P. Beam (D)

. Adolph J. Sabath (D)

. James T. Igoe (D)

. Leonard W. Schuetz (D)

. Peter C. Granata (R), until April 5, 1932

Stanley H. Kunz (D), from April 5, 1932

. Frederick A. Britten (R)

. Carl R. Chindblom (R)

. Frank R. Reid (R)

. John T. Buckbee (R)

. William R. Johnson (R)

. John C. Allen (R)

. Burnett M. Chiperfield (R)

. William E. Hull (R)

. Homer W. Hall (R)

. William P. Holaday (R)

. Charles Adkins (R)

. Henry T. Rainey (D)

. J. Earl Major (D)

. Charles A. Karch (D), until November 6, 1932

. William W. Arnold (D)

. Claude V. Parsons (D)

. Kent E. Keller (D)

. William H. Dieterich (D)

. Richard Yates Jr. (R)

. John W. Boehne Jr. (D)

. Arthur H. Greenwood (D)

. Eugene B. Crowe (D)

. Harry C. Canfield (D)

. Courtland C. Gillen (D)

. William H. Larrabee (D)

. Louis Ludlow (D)

. Albert H. Vestal (R), until April 1, 1932

. Fred S. Purnell (R)

. William R. Wood (R)

. Glenn Griswold (D)

. David Hogg (R)

. Samuel B. Pettengill (D)

. William F. Kopp (R)

. Bernhard M. Jacobsen (D)

. Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)

. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)

. Cyrenus Cole (R)

. C. William Ramseyer (R)

. Cassius C. Dowell (R)

. Lloyd Thurston (R)

. Charles E. Swanson (R)

. Fred C. Gilchrist (R)

. Ed H. Campbell (R)

. William P. Lambertson (R)

. Ulysses S. Guyer (R)

. Harold C. McGugin (R)

. Homer Hoch (R)

. James G. Strong (R)

. Charles I. Sparks (R)

. Clifford R. Hope (R)

. William A. Ayres (D)

. William V. Gregory (D)

. Glover H. Cary (D)

. John W. Moore (D)

. Cap R. Carden (D)

. Maurice H. Thatcher (R)

. Brent Spence (D)

. Virgil Chapman (D)

. Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D)

. Fred M. Vinson (D)

. Andrew J. May (D)

. Charles Finley (R)

. Joachim O. Fernández (D)

. Paul H. Maloney (D)

. Numa F. Montet (D)

. John N. Sandlin (D)

. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)

. Bolivar E. Kemp (D)

. René L. De Rouen (D)

. James Benjamin Aswell (D), until March 16, 1931

John H. Overton (D), from May 12, 1931

. Carroll L. Beedy (R)

. Donald B. Partridge (R)

. John E. Nelson (R)

. Donald F. Snow (R)

. T. Alan Goldsborough (D)

. William P. Cole Jr. (D)

. Vincent L. Palmisano (D)

. J. Charles Linthicum (D), until October 5, 1932

Ambrose J. Kennedy (D), from November 8, 1932

. Stephen W. Gambrill (D)

. David J. Lewis (D)

. Allen T. Treadway (R)

. William J. Granfield (D)

. Frank H. Foss (R)

. Pehr G. Holmes (R)

. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)

. A. Piatt Andrew Jr. (R)

. William P. Connery Jr. (D)

. Frederick W. Dallinger (R), until October 1, 1932

. Charles L. Underhill (R)

. John J. Douglass (D)

. George H. Tinkham (R)

. John W. McCormack (D)

. Robert Luce (R)

. Richard B. Wigglesworth (R)

. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

. Charles L. Gifford (R)

. Robert H. Clancy (R)

. Earl C. Michener (R)

. Joseph L. Hooper (R)

. John C. Ketcham (R)

. Carl Mapes (R)

. Seymour H. Person (R)

. Jesse P. Wolcott (R)

. Bird J. Vincent (R), until July 18, 1931

Michael J. Hart (D), from November 3, 1931

. James C. McLaughlin (R), until November 29, 1932

. Roy O. Woodruff (R)

. Frank P. Bohn (R)

. W. Frank James (R)

. Clarence J. McLeod (R)

. Victor Christgau (R)

. Frank Clague (R)

. August H. Andresen (R)

. Melvin Maas (R)

. William I. Nolan (R)

. Harold Knutson (R)

. Paul J. Kvale (FL)

. William Pittenger (R)

. Conrad Selvig (R)

. Godfrey G. Goodwin (R), until February 16, 1933

. John E. Rankin (D)

. Wall Doxey (D)

. William M. Whittington (D)

. T. Jefferson Busby (D)

. Ross A. Collins (D)

. Robert S. Hall (D)

. Percy E. Quin (D), until February 4, 1932

Lawrence R. Ellzey (D), from March 15, 1932

. James W. Collier (D)

. Milton A. Romjue (D)

. Ralph F. Lozier (D)

. Jacob L. Milligan (D)

. David W. Hopkins (R)

. Joseph B. Shannon (D)

. Clement C. Dickinson (D)

. Samuel C. Major (D), until July 28, 1931

Robert D. Johnson (D), from September 29, 1931

. William L. Nelson (D)

. Clarence Cannon (D)

. Henry F. Niedringhaus (R)

. John J. Cochran (D)

. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)

. Clyde Williams (D)

. James F. Fulbright (D)

. Joe J. Manlove (R)

. William E. Barton (D)

. John M. Evans (D)

. Scott Leavitt (R)

. John H. Morehead (D)

. Howard M. Baldrige (R)

. Edgar Howard (D)

. John N. Norton (D)

. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)

. Robert G. Simmons (R)

. Samuel S. Arentz (R)

. Fletcher Hale (R), until October 22, 1931

William N. Rogers (D), from January 5, 1932

. Edward H. Wason (R)

. Charles A. Wolverton (R)

. Isaac Bacharach (R)

. William H. Sutphin (D)

. Charles A. Eaton (R)

. Ernest R. Ackerman (R), until October 18, 1931

Percy H. Stewart (D), from December 1, 1931

. Randolph Perkins (R)

. George N. Seger (R)

. Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R)

. Peter A. Cavicchia (R)

. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)

. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)

. Mary T. Norton (D)

. Dennis Chávez (D)

. Robert L. Bacon (R)

. William F. Brunner (D)

. George W. Lindsay (D)

. Thomas H. Cullen (D)

. Loring M. Black Jr. (D)

. Andrew L. Somers (D)

. Matthew V. O'Malley (D), until May 26, 1931

John J. Delaney (D), from November 3, 1931

. Patrick J. Carley (D)

. Stephen A. Rudd (D)

. Emanuel Celler (D)

. Anning S. Prall (D)

. Samuel Dickstein (D)

. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)

. William I. Sirovich (D)

. John J. Boylan (D)

. John J. O'Connor (D)

. Ruth Baker Pratt (R)

. Martin J. Kennedy (D)

. Sol Bloom (D)

. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R)

. Joseph A. Gavagan (D)

. Anthony J. Griffin (D)

. Frank Oliver (D)

. James M. Fitzpatrick (D)

. Charles D. Millard (R)

. Hamilton Fish III (R)

. Harcourt J. Pratt (R)

. Parker Corning (D)

. James S. Parker (R)

. Frank Crowther (R)

. Bertrand H. Snell (R)

. Francis D. Culkin (R)

. Frederick M. Davenport (R)

. John D. Clarke (R)

. Clarence E. Hancock (R)

. John Taber (R)

. Gale H. Stalker (R)

. James L. Whitley (R)

. Archie D. Sanders (R)

. Walter G. Andrews (R)

. Edmund F. Cooke (R)

. James M. Mead (D)

. Daniel A. Reed (R)

. Lindsay C. Warren (D)

. John H. Kerr (D)

. Charles L. Abernethy (D)

. Edward W. Pou (D)

. Franklin W. Hancock Jr. (D)

. J. Bayard Clark (D)

. J. Walter Lambeth (D)

. Robert L. Doughton (D)

. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)

. Zebulon Weaver (D)

. Olger B. Burtness (R)

. Thomas Hall (R)

. James H. Sinclair (R)

. Nicholas Longworth (R), until April 9, 1931

John B. Hollister (R), from November 3, 1931

. William E. Hess (R)

. Byron B. Harlan (D)

. John L. Cable (R)

. Frank C. Kniffin (D)

. James G. Polk (D)

. Charles Brand (R)

. Grant E. Mouser Jr. (R)

. Wilbur M. White (R)

. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)

. Mell G. Underwood (D)

. Arthur P. Lamneck (D)

. William L. Fiesinger (D)

. Francis Seiberling (R)

. C. Ellis Moore (R)

. Charles B. McClintock (R)

. Charles F. West (D)

. B. Frank Murphy (R)

. John G. Cooper (R)

. Charles A. Mooney (D), until May 29, 1931

Martin L. Sweeney (D), from November 3, 1931

. Robert Crosser (D)

. Chester C. Bolton (R)

. Wesley E. Disney (D)

. William W. Hastings (D)

. Wilburn Cartwright (D)

. Tom D. McKeown (D)

. Fletcher B. Swank (D)

. Jed J. Johnson (D)

. James V. McClintic (D)

. Milton C. Garber (R)

. Willis C. Hawley (R)

. Robert R. Butler (R), until January 7, 1933

. Charles H. Martin (D)

. James M. Beck (R)

. George S. Graham (R), until July 4, 1931

Edward L. Stokes (R), from November 3, 1931

. Harry C. Ransley (R)

. Benjamin M. Golder (R)

. James J. Connolly (R)

. George A. Welsh (R), until May 31, 1932

Robert L. Davis (R), from November 8, 1932

. George P. Darrow (R)

. James Wolfenden (R)

. Henry Winfield Watson (R)

. J. Roland Kinzer (R)

. Patrick J. Boland (D)

. C. Murray Turpin (R)

. George F. Brumm (R)

. Norton L. Lichtenwalner (D)

. Louis T. McFadden (R)

. Robert F. Rich (R)

. Frederick W. Magrady (R)

. Edward M. Beers (R), until April 21, 1932 (died)

Joseph F. Biddle (R), from November 8, 1932

. Isaac H. Doutrich (R)

. James R. Leech (R), until January 29, 1932

Howard W. Stull (R), from April 26, 1932

. J. Banks Kurtz (R)

. Harry L. Haines (D)

. J. Mitchell Chase (R)

. Samuel A. Kendall (R), until January 8, 1933

. Henry W. Temple (R)

. J. Howard Swick (R)

. Nathan L. Strong (R)

. Thomas C. Cochran (R)

. Milton W. Shreve (R)

. William R. Coyle (R)

. Adam M. Wyant (R)

. Edmund F. Erk (R)

. M. Clyde Kelly (R)

. Patrick J. Sullivan (R)

. Harry A. Estep (R)

. Guy E. Campbell (R)

. Clark Burdick (R)

. Richard S. Aldrich (R)

. Francis B. Condon (D)

. Thomas S. McMillan (D)

. Butler B. Hare (D)

. Fred H. Dominick (D)

. John J. McSwain (D)

. William F. Stevenson (D)

. Allard H. Gasque (D)

. Hampton P. Fulmer (D)

. Charles A. Christopherson (R)

. Royal C. Johnson (R)

. William Williamson (R)

. Oscar Lovette (R)

. J. Will Taylor (R)

. Samuel D. McReynolds (D)

. John Ridley Mitchell (D)

. Ewin L. Davis (D)

. Joseph W. Byrns (D)

. Edward E. Eslick (D), until June 14, 1932

Willa M. B. Eslick (D), from August 14, 1932

. Gordon Browning (D)

. Jere Cooper (D)

. Edward H. Crump (D)

. Wright Patman (D)

. Martin Dies Jr. (D)

. Morgan G. Sanders (D)

. Sam Rayburn (D)

. Hatton W. Sumners (D)

. Luther Alexander Johnson (D)

. Clay Stone Briggs (D)

. Daniel E. Garrett (D), until December 13, 1932

Joe H. Eagle (D), from January 28, 1933

. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)

. James P. Buchanan (D)

. Oliver H. Cross (D)

. Fritz G. Lanham (D)

. Guinn Williams (D)

. Harry M. Wurzbach (R), until November 6, 1931

Richard M. Kleberg (D), from November 24, 1931

. John Nance Garner (D)

. R. Ewing Thomason (D)

. Thomas L. Blanton (D)

. John Marvin Jones (D)

. Don B. Colton (R)

. Frederick C. Loofbourow (R)

. John E. Weeks (R)

. Ernest Willard Gibson (R)

. S. Otis Bland (D)

. Menalcus Lankford (R)

. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)

. Patrick H. Drewry (D)

. Thomas G. Burch (D)

. Clifton A. Woodrum (D)

. John W. Fishburne (D)

. Howard W. Smith (D)

. John W. Flannagan Jr. (D)

. Henry St. George Tucker III (D), until July 23, 1932

Joel W. Flood (D), from November 8, 1932

. Ralph Horr (R)

. Lindley H. Hadley (R)

. Albert Johnson (R)

. John W. Summers (R)

. Samuel B. Hill (D)

. Carl G. Bachmann (R)

. Frank L. Bowman (R)

. Lynn Hornor (D)

. Robert L. Hogg (R)

. Hugh Ike Shott (R)

. Joe L. Smith (D)

. Thomas Ryum Amlie (R), from October 13, 1931

. Charles A. Kading (R)

. John M. Nelson (R)

. John C. Schafer (R)

. William H. Stafford (R)

. Michael K. Reilly (D)

. Gardner R. Withrow (R)

. Gerald J. Boileau (R)

. George J. Schneider (R)

. James A. Frear (R)

. Hubert H. Peavey (R)

. Vincent Carter (R)

Non-voting members

. James Wickersham (R)

. Victor S. K. Houston (R)

. Pedro Guevara (Nac.)

. Camilo Osías (Nac.)

. Félix Córdova Dávila, until April 11, 1932

José Lorenzo Pesquera (Resident Commissioner) (I), from April 15, 1932

Changes in membership

Senate

• Replacements: 11
  • Democratic: 1-seat net loss
  • Republican: no net change
• Deaths: 6
• Resignations: 1
• Interim appointments: 5
• Total seats with changes: 8

|-| Vermont
(1)| | Frank C. Partridge (R)| Interim appointee lost nomination to finish the term.
Successor elected March 31, 1931.| | Warren Austin (R)| April 1, 1931

|-| New Jersey
(2)| | Dwight Morrow (R)| Died October 5, 1931.
Successor was appointed and later elected.| | William W. Barbour (R)| December 1, 1931

|-| Arkansas
(3)| | Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)| Died November 6, 1931.
Successor was appointed to finish the term.| | Hattie Caraway (D)| November 13, 1931

|-| Georgia
(2)| | William J. Harris (D)| Died April 18, 1932.
Successor was appointed to finish the term.| | John S. Cohen (D)| April 25, 1932

|-| Colorado
(3)| | Charles W. Waterman (R)| Died August 27, 1932.
Successor was appointed to finish the term.| | Walter Walker (D)| September 26, 1932

|-| Washington
(3)| | Wesley L. Jones (R)| Died November 19, 1932 having just lost re-election.
Successor was appointed to finish the term.| | Elijah S. Grammer (R)| November 22, 1932

|-| Colorado
(3)| | Walter Walker (D)| Interim appointee lost election to finish term.
Successor elected November 8, 1932.| | Karl C. Schuyler (R)| December 7, 1932

|-| North Carolina
(3)| | Cameron A. Morrison (D)| Interim appointee lost election to finish term.
Successor elected November 8, 1932.| | Robert R Reynolds (D)| December 5, 1932

|-| Georgia
(2)| | John S. Cohen (D)| Interim appointee lost election to finish term.
Successor elected January 12, 1933.| | Richard Russell Jr. (D)| January 12, 1933

|-| Missouri
(3)| | Harry B. Hawes (D)| Incumbent retired and then resigned early February 3, 1933.
Successor appointed having already been elected.| | Bennett Champ Clark (D)| February 3, 1933

|-| Montana
(2)| | Thomas J. Walsh (D)| Died March 2, 1933
Seat remained vacant until next Congress| colspan=2 | Vacant

|}

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 23
  • Democratic: 6 seat net gain
  • Republican: 6 seat net loss
• Deaths: 24
• Resignations: 7
• Contested election: 1
• Total seats with changes: 32

|-| | Vacant| Representative Henry A. Cooper (R) died in previous congress.| | Thomas R. Amlie (R)| October 13, 1931

|-| | | James B. Aswell (D)| Died March 16, 1931| | John H. Overton (D)| May 12, 1931

|-| | | Nicholas Longworth (R)| Died April 9, 1931| | John B. Hollister (R)| November 3, 1931

|-| | | Matthew V. O'Malley (D)| Died May 26, 1931. Because Congress was not in session at the time of his death, O'Malley never took his oath of office or exercised any of the duties of a Congressman. He was, nevertheless, serving in office from the beginning of his term on March 4, 1931.| | John J. Delaney (D)| November 3, 1931

|-| | | Charles A. Mooney (D)| Died May 29, 1931| | Martin L. Sweeney (D)| November 3, 1931

|-| | | George S. Graham (R)| Died July 4, 1931| | Edward L. Stokes (R)| November 3, 1931

|-| | | Charles G. Edwards (D)| Died July 13, 1931| | Homer C. Parker (D)| September 9, 1931

|-| | | Bird J. Vincent (R)| Died July 18, 1931| | Michael J. Hart (D)| November 3, 1931

|-| | | Samuel C. Major (D)| Died July 28, 1931| | Robert D. Johnson (D)| September 29, 1931

|-| | | Ernest R. Ackerman (R)| Died October 18, 1931| | Percy H. Stewart (D)| December 1, 1931

|-| | | Fletcher Hale (R)| Died October 22, 1931| | William N. Rogers (D)| January 5, 1932

|-| | | Harry M. Wurzbach (R)| Died November 6, 1931| | Richard M. Kleberg (D)| November 24, 1931

|-| | | James R. Leech (R)| Resigned January 29, 1932, to become a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals| | Howard W. Stull (R)| April 26, 1932

|-| | | Percy Quin (D)| Died February 4, 1932| | Lawrence R. Ellzey (D)| March 15, 1932

|-| | | Samuel Rutherford (D)| Died February 4, 1932| | Carlton Mobley (D)| March 2, 1932

|-| | | Albert H. Vestal (R)| Died April 1, 1932| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | Peter C. Granata (R)| Lost contested election April 5, 1932| | Stanley H. Kunz (D)| April 5, 1932

|-| | Félix Córdova Dávila| resigned April 11, 1932, to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico| José Lorenzo Pesquera| April 15, 1932

|-| | | Frederick W. Dallinger (R)| Resigned October 1, 1932| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | Edward M. Beers (R)| Died April 21, 1932| | Joseph F. Biddle (R)| November 8, 1932

|-| | | George A. Welsh (R)| Resigned May 31, 1932, to become judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania| | Robert L. Davis (R)| November 8, 1932

|-| | | Edward E. Eslick (D)| Died June 14, 1932| | Willa McCord Blake Eslick (D)| August 14, 1932

|-| | | Henry St. George Tucker III (D)| Died July 23, 1932| | Joel W. Flood (D)| November 8, 1932

|-| | | J. Charles Linthicum (D)| Died October 5, 1932| | Ambrose J. Kennedy (D)| November 8, 1932

|-| | | Charles R. Crisp (D)| Resigned October 7, 1932, to become a member of the US Tariff Commission| | Bryant T. Castellow (D)| November 8, 1932

|-| | | Charles A. Karch (D)| Resigned November 6, 1932| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | James C. McLaughlin (R)| Died November 29, 1932| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | John Q. Tilson (R)| Resigned December 3, 1932| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | Daniel E. Garrett (D)| Died December 13, 1932| | Joe H. Eagle (D)| January 28, 1933

|-| | | Robert R. Butler (R)| Died January 7, 1933| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | Samuel A. Kendall (R)| Died January 8, 1933| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|-| | | Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)| Died February 16, 1933| colspan=2 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress.

|}

Committees

Senate

• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Charles L. McNary; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Air Mail and Ocean Mail Contracts (Special)
• Alaska Railroad (Special Select)
• Appropriations (Chairman: Wesley L. Jones; Ranking Member: William J. Harris)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John G. Townsend Jr.; Ranking Member: John B. Kendrick)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Peter Norbeck; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Civil Service (Chairman: Porter H. Dale; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Claims (Chairman: Robert B. Howell; Ranking Member: Park Trammell)
• Commerce (Chairman: Hiram W. Johnson; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Depreciation of Foreign Currencies (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Arthur Capper; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: Jesse H. Metcalf; Ranking Member: Royal S. Copeland)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank L. Greene; Ranking Member: Coleman L. Blease)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: Frederick M. Sackett then Guy D. Goff; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Finance (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: William E. Borah; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Immigration (Chairman: Arthur R. Gould; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Lynn J. Frazier; Ranking Member: Henry F. Ashurst)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Thomas D. Schall; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: James Couzens; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: John Thomas; Ranking Member: Morris Sheppard)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George W. Norris; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman then Henry F. Ashurst)
• Library (Chairman: Simeon D. Fess; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette Jr.; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: David A. Reed; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Roscoe C. Patterson; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
• Mississippi Flood Control Project (Select)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick Hale; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Patents (Chairman: Charles W. Waterman; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Pensions (Chairman: Arthur R. Robinson; Ranking Member: Burton K. Wheeler)
• Post Office Leases (Select)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Lawrence C. Phipps; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Printing (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Samuel M. Shortridge; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Henry W. Keyes; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Gerald P. Nye; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Select)
• Rules (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman then Pat Harrison)
• Territories and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Hiram Bingham; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Charles L. Underhill; Ranking Member: Lindsay C. Warren)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Gilbert N. Haugen; Ranking Member: James B. Aswell)
• Appropriations (Chairman: William R. Wood; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Louis T. McFadden; Ranking Member: Otis Wingo then John E. Rankin)
• Census (Chairman: E. Hart Fenn; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
• Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick R. Lehlbach; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
• Claims (Chairman: Edward M. Irwin; Ranking Member: John C. Box)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Randolph Perkins; Ranking Member: Edgar Howard)
• Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Edward H. Wason; Ranking Member: Robert A. Green)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Frederick N. Zihlman; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
• Education (Chairman: Daniel A. Reed; Ranking Member: Loring M. Black)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Charles L. Gifford; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
• Elections No.#1 (Chairman: Carroll L. Beedy; Ranking Member: Edward E. Eslick)
• Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Bird J. Vincent; Ranking Member: John J. Douglass)
• Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Willis G. Sears; Ranking Member: John H. Kerr)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Guy E. Campbell; Ranking Member: Mell G. Underwood)
• Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: William Williamson; Ranking Member: Allard H. Gasque)
• Flood Control (Chairman: Frank R. Reid; Ranking Member: Riley J. Wilson)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Stephen G. Porter; Ranking Member: J. Charles Linthicum)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Albert Johnson; Ranking Member: John C. Box)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Scott Leavitt; Ranking Member: John M. Evans)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: Edgar R. Kiess; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: James S. Parker; Ranking Member: Sam Rayburn)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: John M. Nelson; Ranking Member: Mell G. Underwood)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Addison T. Smith; Ranking Member: C. B. Hudspeth)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George S. Graham; Ranking Member: Hatton W. Sumners)
• Labor (Chairman: William F. Kopp; Ranking Member: William P. Connery Jr.)
• Library (Chairman: Robert Luce; Ranking Member: Lindsay C. Warren)
• Memorials (Chairman: Burton L. French; Ranking Member: N/A)
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Wallace H. White Jr.; Ranking Member: Ewin L. Davis)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: W. Frank James; Ranking Member: Percy E. Quin)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: William H. Sproul; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Greenwood)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick A. Britten; Ranking Member: Carl Vinson)
• Patents (Chairman: Albert H. Vestal; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Pensions (Chairman: Harold Knutson; Ranking Member: Allard H. Gasque)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Archie D. Sanders; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Bell)
• Printing (Chairman: Edward M. Beers; Ranking Member: William F. Stevenson)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard N. Elliott; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Don B. Colton; Ranking Member: John M. Evans)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Roy G. Fitzgerald; Ranking Member: Loring M. Black)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: S. Wallace Dempsey; Ranking Member: Joseph J. Mansfield)
• Roads (Chairman: Cassius C. Dowell; Ranking Member: Edward B. Almon)
• Rules (Chairman: Bertrand H. Snell; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Charles F. Curry; Ranking Member: William C. Lankford)
• War Claims (Chairman: James G. Strong; Ranking Member: Miles C. Allgood)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Willis C. Hawley; Ranking Member: John N. Garner)
• World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman: Royal C. Johnson; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• The Library (Chairman: Sen. Simeon D. Fess)
• Printing (Chairman: Sen. George H. Moses then Duncan U. Fletcher; Vice Chairman: Rep. Edgar R. Kiess)
• Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Willis C. Hawley)
• Veterans' Affairs

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol

David Lynn

• Attending Physician of the United States Congress

George Calver

• Comptroller General of the United States

John R. McCarl

• Librarian of Congress

• Public Printer of the United States

George H. Carter

Senate

• Chaplain

ZeBarney T. Phillips (Episcopalian)

• Secretary

Edwin P. Thayer

• Librarian

James D. Preston

• Sergeant at Arms

David S. Barry

• Democratic Party Secretary: Edwin A. Halsey
• Republican Party Secretary: Carl A. Loeffler

House of Representatives

• Chaplain

James S. Montgomery (Methodist)

• Clerk

South Trimble

• Doorkeeper

Joseph J. Sinnott

• Parliamentarian

Lewis Deschler

• Postmaster

Finis E. Scott

• Reading Clerks

Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)

• Sergeant at Arms

Joseph G. Rodgers, until December 7, 1931

• • Kenneth Romney, from December 7, 1931

See also

• 1930 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1930 United States Senate elections
  • 1930 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1932 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • 1932 United States presidential election
  • 1932 United States Senate elections
  • 1932 United States House of Representatives elections

References

• Book: Martis, Kenneth C.. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. 1989. Macmillan Publishing Company. New York.
• Book: Martis, Kenneth C.. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. 1982. Macmillan Publishing Company. New York.

External links

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists
• Book: House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 72nd Congress . June 6, 2016 . September 21, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180921023959/http://library.clerk.house.gov/reference-files/House_Calendar_72nd_Congress.pdf#page=1 . dead .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 72nd Congress, 1st Session .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 72nd Congress, 1st Session (Revision) .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 72nd Congress, 2nd Session .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 72nd Congress, 2nd Session (Revision) .

Notes and References

1. Herring. E. Pendleton. 1933. Second Session of the Seventy-second Congress, December 5, 1932, to March 4, 1933. American Political Science Review. en. 27. 3. 404–422. 10.2307/1947439. 0003-0554.
2. Herring. E. Pendleton. 1932. First Session of the Seventy-second Congress, December 7, 1931, to July 16, 1932. American Political Science Review. en. 26. 5. 846–874. 10.2307/1947141. 0003-0554.
3. Web site: Women in the Senate. senate.gov. Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Washington, D.C.. February 28, 2019.
4. Web site: Glass . Andrew . The 72nd Congress convenes, Dec. 7, 1931 . December 7, 2009 . politico.com . Politico . Arlington, Virginia . February 28, 2019.