91st United States Congress
91st United States Congress | |
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90th โ โ 92nd | |
January 3, 1969 โ January 3, 1971 | |
Members | 100 senators 435 representatives |
Senate majority | Democratic |
Senate President | Hubert Humphrey (D)[a] (until January 20, 1969) Spiro Agnew (R) (from January 20, 1969) |
House majority | Democratic |
House Speaker | John W. McCormack (D) |
Sessions | |
1st: January 3, 1969 โ December 23, 1969 2nd: January 19, 1970 โ January 2, 1971 |
The 91st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1971, during the final weeks of the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and the first two years of the first presidency of Richard Nixon.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1960 United States census.
Both chambers had a
Major events
- January 20, 1969: 37th President of the United States.
Major legislation
- December 30, 1969: Pub. L.91โ172
- December 30, 1969: Pub. L.91โ173
- January 1, 1970: Pub. L.91โ190
- April 1, 1970: Pub. L.91โ222
- April 3, 1970: Pub. L.91โ224
- May 21, 1970: Pub. L.91โ258, title I
- August 12, 1970: Pub. L.91โ375
- August 15, 1970:
- September 22, 1970: Pub. L.91โ405
- October 15, 1970: Pub. L.91โ452 (including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act("RICO")
- October 15, 1970: Pub. L.91โ453
- October 26, 1970: Pub. L.91โ508
- October 26, 1970: Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970
- October 27, 1970: Pub. L.91โ513
- October 30, 1970: Pub. L.91โ518
- December 24, 1970: Pub. L.91โ572
- December 24, 1970: Pub. L.91โ577
- December 29, 1970: Pub. L.91โ596
- December 31, 1970: Pub. L.91โ604
- December 31, 1970: Pub. L.91โ609, including title VII, National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970
- January 12, 1971: Pub. L.91โ672
- January 13, 1971: Pub. L.91โ695
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.
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Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | |||
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Democratic (D) |
Republican (R) | Other (O) |
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End of previous congress | 62 | 38 | 0 | 100 | 0 |
Begin | 57 | 43 | 0 | 100 | 0 |
End | 59 | 41 | |||
Final voting share | 59.0% | 41.0% | 0.0% | ||
Beginning of next congress | 54 | 44 | 2[b] | 100 | 0 |
House of Representatives
Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | ||
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Democratic (D) |
Republican (R) | |||
End of previous congress | 247 | 186 | 433 | 2 |
Begin | 243 | 192 | 435 | 0 |
End | 242 | 189 | 431 | 4 |
Final voting share | 56.1% | 43.9% | ||
Beginning of next congress | 254 | 180 | 434 | 1 |
Leadership
Senate
- President: Hubert Humphrey(D), until January 20, 1969
- Spiro Agnew (R), from January 20, 1969
- President pro tempore: Richard Russell Jr. (D)
- Permanent Acting President pro tempore: Lee Metcalf (D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
- Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield
- Majority Whip: Ted Kennedy
- Caucus Secretary: Robert Byrd
Minority (Republican) leadership
- Minority Leader: Everett Dirksen, until September 7, 1969
- Hugh Scott, from September 24, 1969
- Minority Whip: Hugh Scott, until September 24, 1969
- Robert P. Griffin, from September 24, 1969
- Republican Conference Chairman: Margaret Chase Smith
- Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young
- National Senatorial Committee Chair: John Tower
- Policy Committee Chairman: Gordon Allott
House of Representatives
- Speaker: John W. McCormack (D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
- Majority Leader: Carl Albert
- Majority Whip: Hale Boggs
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: Dan Rostenkowski
- Democratic Caucus Secretary: Leonor Sullivan
- Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael A. Feighan
Minority (Republican) leadership
- Minority Leader: Gerald Ford
- Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends
- Republican Conference Chairman: John B. Anderson
- Republican Conference Secretary: Richard H. Poff
- Policy Committee Chairman: John Jacob Rhodes
- Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Bob Wilson
Caucuses
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Members of the House are listed by district.
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
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
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Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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House of Representatives
Some members of the House of Representatives were elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, and others were elected from districts, as listed here as the districts existed at this time.
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress
Senate
- Replacements: 3
- Democratic: 2 seat net gain
- Republican: 2 seat net loss
- Deaths: 1
- Resignations: 2
- Total seats with changes: 3
State (class) |
Vacated by | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's formal installation[c] |
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Illinois (3) |
Everett Dirksen (R) | Died September 7, 1969 | Ralph Tyler Smith (R)
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September 17, 1969 |
Illinois (3) |
Ralph Tyler Smith (R)
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Successor elected November 3, 1970 | Adlai Stevenson III (D) | November 17, 1970 |
Delaware (1) |
John J. Williams (R) | Resigned December 30, 1970 | William Roth (R) | January 1, 1971 |
California (1) |
George Murphy (R) | Resigned January 2, 1971 | John V. Tunney (D) | January 2, 1971 |
House of Representatives
- Replacements: 14
- Democratic: 2 seat net gain
- Republican: 2 seat net loss
- Deaths: 10
- Resignations: 8
- Total seats with changes: 18
District | Vacated by | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's formal installation[c] |
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California 27th | Edwin Reinecke (R) | Resigned January 21, 1969, after becoming Lieutenant Governor of California | Barry Goldwater Jr. (R) | April 29, 1969 |
Wisconsin 7th | Melvin Laird (R) | Resigned January 21, 1969, after being appointed United States Secretary of Defense | Dave Obey (D) | April 1, 1969 |
Tennessee 8th | Fats Everett (D) | Died January 26, 1969 | Ed Jones (D) | March 25, 1969 |
Montana 2nd | James F. Battin (R) | Resigned February 27, 1969, after being appointed judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana | John Melcher (D) | June 24, 1969 |
Illinois 13th | Donald Rumsfeld (R) | Resigned May 25, 1969, after being appointed Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity | Phil Crane (R) | November 25, 1969 |
Massachusetts 6th | William H. Bates (R) | Died June 22, 1969 | Michael J. Harrington (D) | September 30, 1969 |
Illinois 6th | Daniel J. Ronan (D) | Died August 13, 1969 | George W. Collins (D) | November 3, 1970 |
New Jersey 8th | Charles Samuel Joelson (D)
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Resigned September 4, 1969, after becoming judge of Superior Court of New Jersey | Robert A. Roe (D) | November 4, 1969 |
New Jersey 6th | William T. Cahill (R) | Resigned January 19, 1970, after becoming Governor of New Jersey | Edwin B. Forsythe (R) | November 3, 1970 |
California 24th | Glenard P. Lipscomb (R) | Died February 1, 1970 | John H. Rousselot (R) | June 30, 1970 |
California 35th | James B. Utt (R) | Died March 1, 1970 | John G. Schmitz (R) | June 30, 1970 |
Connecticut 2nd | William St. Onge (D) | Died May 1, 1970 | Robert H. Steele (R) | November 3, 1970 |
Ohio 19th | Michael J. Kirwan (D) | Died July 27, 1970 | Charles J. Carney (D) | November 3, 1970 |
Pennsylvania 9th | George Watkins (R) | Died August 7, 1970 | John H. Ware III (R) | November 3, 1970 |
Illinois 1st | William L. Dawson (D) | Died November 9, 1970 | Vacant | Not filled this term |
South Carolina 1st | L. Mendel Rivers (D) | Died December 28, 1970 | ||
Delaware at-large | William Roth (R) | Resigned December 31, 1970, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate
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California 38th | John V. Tunney (D) | Resigned January 2, 1971, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate
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Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. 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
- Clinton P. Anderson; Ranking Member: Margaret Chase Smith)
- George D. Aiken)
- Milton R. Young)
- Armed Services (Chair: John C. Stennis; Ranking Member: Margaret Chase Smith)
- John J. Sparkman; Ranking Member: Wallace F. Bennett)
- Warren G. Magnuson; Ranking Member: Norris Cotton)
- Joseph D. Tydings; Ranking Member: Winston L. Prouty)
- Equal Educational Opportunity (Select) (Chair: [data missing]; Ranking Member: [data missing])
- Finance (Chair: Russell B. Long; Ranking Member: John J. Williams)
- George D. Aiken)
- Karl E. Mundt)
- Interior and Insular Affairs (Chair: Henry M. Jackson; Ranking Member: Gordon Allott)
- Everett M. Dirksen, then Roman Hruska)
- Jacob K. Javits)
- George S. McGovern)
- Post Office and Civil Service (Chair: Gale W. McGee; Ranking Member: Hiram Fong)
- Public Works (Chair: Jennings Randolph; Ranking Member: John Sherman Cooper)
- Carl T. Curtis)
- Small Business (Select) (Chair: Alan Bible)
- Standards and Conduct (Select) (Chair: John C. Stennis; Vice Chairman: Wallace F. Bennett)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Agriculture (Chair: William R. Poage; Ranking Member: Page Belcher)
- Appropriations (Chair: George H. Mahon; Ranking Member: Frank T. Bow)
- Armed Services (Chair: L. Mendel Rivers; Ranking Member: William H. Bates)
- Banking and Currency (Chair: Wright Patman; Ranking Member: William B. Widnall)
- District of Columbia (Chair: John L. McMillan; Ranking Member: Ancher Nelsen)
- William H. Ayres)
- Foreign Affairs (Chair: Thomas E. Morgan; Ranking Member: E. Ross Adair)
- Government Operations (Chair: William L. Dawson; Ranking Member: Florence P. Dwyer)
- Samuel N. Friedel; Ranking Member: Glenard P. Lipscomb)
- Martha W. Griffiths)
- House Restaurant (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
- Interior and Insular Affairs (Chair: Wayne N. Aspinall; Ranking Member: John P. Saylor)
- Richard H. Ichord; Ranking Member: John M. Ashbrook)
- Harley O. Staggers; Ranking Member: William L. Springer)
- William M. McCulloch)
- Edward A. Garmatz; Ranking Member: William S. Mailliard)
- Bernice F. Sisk)
- Post Office and Civil Service (Chair: Thaddeus J. Dulski; Ranking Member: Robert J. Corbett)
- Public Works (Chair: George Hyde Fallon; Ranking Member: William C. Cramer)
- Rules (Chair: William M. Colmer; Ranking Member: H. Allen Smith)
- Science and Astronautics (Chair: George P. Miller; Ranking Member: James G. Fulton)
- Small Business (Select) (Chair: Joe L. Evins)
- Charles Melvin Price; Ranking Member: Leslie C. Arends)
- Veterans' Affairs (Chair: Olin E. Teague; Ranking Member: Charles M. Teague)
- Wilbur D. Mills; Ranking Member: John W. Byrnes)
- Whole
Joint committees
- John O. Pastore)
- Congressional Operations
- John J. Sparkman; Vice Chair: Rep. Wright Patman)
- Disposition of Executive Papers
- Economic (Chair: Rep. Wright Patman; Vice Chair: Sen. William Proxmire)
- Immigration and Nationality Policy
- Wilbur D. Mills)
- Samuel N. Friedel; Vice Chair: Sen. B. Everett Jordan)
- Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
- Samuel N. Friedel)
- Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chair: Rep. George H. Mahon)
- Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chair: Sen. Russell B. Long)
Employees
Legislative branch agency directors
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Senate
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House of Representatives |
See also
- List of new members of the 91st United States Congress
- 1968 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1970 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
Notes
- ^ U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey's term as President of the Senate ended at noon January 20, 1969, when Spiro Agnew's term began.
- Conservative Party of New York, Independent
- ^ a b When seated or oath administered, not necessarily when service began.
References
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
External links
- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
- U.S. House of Representatives: Congressional History
- U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists
- House of Representatives Session Calendar for the 91st Congress (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 91st Congress.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 91st Congress, 1st Session.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 91st Congress, 2nd Session.