87th United States Congress

The 87th 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, 1961, to January 3, 1963, during the final weeks of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency and the first two years of John Kennedy's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1950 United States census, along with two seats temporarily added in 1959 (one member each from recently admitted states of Alaska and Hawaii).

Both chambers had a Democratic majority (albeit reduced in the House). With President Kennedy being sworn in on January 20, 1961, this gave the Democrats an overall federal government trifecta for the first time since the 82nd Congress in 1952.

Major events

 * January 3, 1961: President Eisenhower severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
 * January 20, 1961: Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
 * April 17, 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba began; it fails by April 19.
 * May 4, 1961: Freedom Riders began interstate bus rides to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.
 * May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
 * May 25, 1961: President Kennedy announced his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade
 * November 20: 1961: Funeral of Speaker Sam Rayburn, who died on November 16
 * February 3, 1962: Embargo against Cuba was announced
 * February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
 * March 26, 1962: Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could order state legislatures to reapportion seats (Baker v. Carr)
 * October 1, 1962: James Meredith registered as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
 * October 14, 1962 - October 28, 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

Major legislation



 * August 30, 1961 : Oil Pollution Act of 1961, ,
 * September 4, 1961: The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, ,
 * September 13, 1961: Interstate Wire Act of 1961, ,
 * September 21, 1961: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, ,
 * September 22, 1961: Peace Corps Act of 1961, ,
 * September 26, 1961: Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961, ,
 * October 15, 1961: Community Health Services and Facilities Act, ,
 * March 15, 1962: Manpower Development and Training Act, ,
 * June 28, 1962: Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, ,
 * August 31, 1962: Communications Satellite Act, ,
 * October 11, 1962: Trade Expansion Act, ,

Constitutional amendments

 * March 29, 1961: Twenty-third Amendment ratified, extending the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.
 * August 27, 1962: Twenty-fourth Amendment approved by Congress and sent to the states for consideration. It would prohibit both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was later ratified on January 23, 1964.

Senate

 * President: Richard Nixon (R), until January 20, 1961
 * Lyndon B. Johnson (D), from January 20, 1961
 * President pro tempore: Carl Hayden (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

 * Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield
 * Majority Whip: Hubert Humphrey
 * Democratic Caucus Secretary: George Smathers

Minority (Republican) leadership

 * Minority Leader: Everett Dirksen
 * Minority Whip: Thomas Kuchel
 * Republican Conference Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall
 * Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young
 * National Senatorial Committee Chair: Barry Goldwater
 * Policy Committee Chairman: Styles Bridges (until November 26, 1961)
 * Bourke B. Hickenlooper (from January 3, 1962)

House of Representatives

 * Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D), until November 16, 1961
 * John W. McCormack (D), from January 10, 1962

Majority (Democratic) leadership

 * Majority Leader: John W. McCormack until January 10, 1962
 * Carl Albert, from January 10, 1962
 * Majority Whip: Carl Albert, until January 10, 1962
 * Hale Boggs, from January 10, 1962
 * Democratic Caucus Chairman: Francis E. Walter
 * Democratic Caucus Secretary: Leonor Sullivan
 * Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan

Minority (Republican) leadership

 * Minority Leader: Charles A. Halleck
 * Minority Whip: Leslie C. Arends
 * Republican Conference Chairman: Charles B. Hoeven
 * Policy Committee Chairman: John W. Byrnes
 * Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Bob Wilson

Caucuses

 * House Democratic Caucus
 * Senate Democratic Caucus

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 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1962; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1964; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1966.

Currently, this is the last Congressional session in which the Democratic Party commanded all Senate seats from the Deep South, a unity broken when a Republican defeated the appointed successor to Lyndon Johnson's seat in a 1961 Senate special election.

Alabama

 * 2. John J. Sparkman (D)
 * 3. J. Lister Hill (D)

Alaska

 * 2. Bob Bartlett (D)
 * 3. Ernest Gruening (D)

Arizona

 * 1. Barry Goldwater (R)
 * 3. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

 * 2. John L. McClellan (D)
 * 3. J. William Fulbright (D)

California

 * 1. Clair Engle (D)
 * 3. Thomas Kuchel (R)

Colorado

 * 2. Gordon Allott (R)
 * 3. John A. Carroll (D)

Connecticut

 * 1. Thomas J. Dodd (D)
 * 3. Prescott Bush (R)

Delaware

 * 1. John J. Williams (R)
 * 2. J. Caleb Boggs (R)

Florida

 * 1. Spessard Holland (D)
 * 3. George Smathers (D)

Georgia

 * 2. Richard Russell Jr. (D)
 * 3. Herman Talmadge (D)

Hawaii

 * 1. Hiram Fong (R)
 * 2. Oren E. Long (D)

Idaho

 * 2. Henry Dworshak (R), until July 23, 1962
 * Leonard B. Jordan (R), from August 6, 1962
 * 3. Frank Church (D)

Illinois

 * 2. Paul Douglas (D)
 * 3. Everett M. Dirksen (R)

Indiana

 * 1. Vance Hartke (D)
 * 3. Homer E. Capehart (R)

Iowa

 * 2. Jack Miller (R)
 * 3. Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R)

Kansas

 * 2. Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R), until January 21, 1962
 * James B. Pearson (R), from January 31, 1962
 * 3. Frank Carlson (R)

Kentucky

 * 2. John Sherman Cooper (R)
 * 3. Thruston Ballard Morton (R)

Louisiana

 * 2. Allen J. Ellender (D)
 * 3. Russell B. Long (D)

Maine

 * 1. Edmund Muskie (D)
 * 2. Margaret Chase Smith (R)

Maryland

 * 1. James Glenn Beall (R)
 * 3. John Marshall Butler (R)

Massachusetts

 * 1. Benjamin A. Smith II (D), until November 6, 1962
 * Ted Kennedy (D), from November 7, 1962
 * 2. Leverett Saltonstall (R)

Michigan

 * 1. Philip Hart (D)
 * 2. Patrick V. McNamara (D)

Minnesota

 * 1. Eugene McCarthy (DFL)
 * 2. Hubert Humphrey (DFL)

Mississippi

 * 1. John C. Stennis (D)
 * 2. James Eastland (D)

Missouri

 * 1. Stuart Symington (D)
 * 3. Edward V. Long (D)

Montana

 * 1. Mike Mansfield (D)
 * 2. Lee Metcalf (D)

Nebraska

 * 1. Roman Hruska (R)
 * 2. Carl Curtis (R)

Nevada

 * 1. Howard Cannon (D)
 * 3. Alan Bible (D)

New Hampshire

 * 2. Styles Bridges (R), until November 26, 1961
 * Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R), from January 10, 1962 - November 6, 1962
 * Thomas J. McIntyre (D), from November 7, 1962
 * 3. Norris Cotton (R)

New Jersey

 * 2. Clifford P. Case (R)
 * 1. Harrison A. Williams (D)

New Mexico

 * 1. Dennis Chávez (D), until November 18, 1962
 * Edwin L. Mechem (R), from November 30, 1962
 * 2. Clinton P. Anderson (D)

New York

 * 1. Kenneth Keating (R)
 * 3. Jacob Javits (R)

North Carolina

 * 2. B. Everett Jordan (D)
 * 3. Sam Ervin (D)

North Dakota

 * 1. Quentin Burdick (D-NPL)
 * 3. Milton Young (R)

Ohio

 * 1. Stephen M. Young (D)
 * 3. Frank Lausche (D)

Oklahoma

 * 2. Robert S. Kerr (D), until January 1, 1963, vacant thereafter
 * 3. A. S. Mike Monroney (D)

Oregon

 * 2. Maurine Neuberger (D)
 * 3. Wayne Morse (D)

Pennsylvania

 * 1. Hugh Scott (R)
 * 3. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D)

Rhode Island

 * 1. John Pastore (D)
 * 2. Claiborne Pell (D)

South Carolina

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

South Dakota

 * 2. Karl E. Mundt (R)
 * 3. Francis Case (R), until June 23, 1962
 * Joseph H. Bottum (R), from July 9, 1962

Tennessee

 * 1. Albert Gore Sr. (D)
 * 2. Estes Kefauver (D)

Texas

 * 1. Ralph Yarborough (D)
 * 2. Lyndon B. Johnson (D), until January 3, 1961
 * William A. Blakley (D), until June 14, 1961
 * John Tower (R), from June 15, 1961

Utah

 * 1. Frank Moss (D)
 * 3. Wallace F. Bennett (R)

Vermont

 * 1. Winston L. Prouty (R)
 * 3. George Aiken (R)

Virginia

 * 1. Harry F. Byrd (D)
 * 2. A. Willis Robertson (D)

Washington

 * 1. Henry M. Jackson (D)
 * 3. Warren G. Magnuson (D)

West Virginia

 * 1. Robert Byrd (D)
 * 2. Jennings Randolph (D)

Wisconsin

 * 1. William Proxmire (D)
 * 3. Alexander Wiley (R)

Wyoming

 * 1. Gale W. McGee (D)
 * 2. John J. Hickey (D), until November 6, 1962
 * Milward Simpson (R), from November 6, 1962



House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

 * Alabama's 1st congressional district. Frank W. Boykin (D)
 * Alabama's 2nd congressional district. George M. Grant (D)
 * Alabama's 3rd congressional district. George W. Andrews (D)
 * Alabama's 4th congressional district. Kenneth A. Roberts (D)
 * Alabama's 5th congressional district. Albert Rains (D)
 * Alabama's 6th congressional district. Armistead I. Selden Jr. (D)
 * Alabama's 7th congressional district. Carl Elliott (D)
 * Alabama's 8th congressional district. Robert E. Jones Jr. (D)
 * Alabama's 9th congressional district. George Huddleston Jr. (D)

Alaska

 * At-large. Ralph Julian Rivers (D)

Arizona

 * Arizona's 1st congressional district. John Jacob Rhodes (R)
 * Arizona's 2nd congressional district. Stewart Udall (D), until January 18, 1961
 * Mo Udall (D), from May 2, 1961

Arkansas

 * Arkansas's 1st congressional district. Ezekiel C. Gathings (D)
 * Arkansas's 2nd congressional district. Wilbur Mills (D)
 * Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. James William Trimble (D)
 * Arkansas's 4th congressional district. Oren Harris (D)
 * Arkansas's 5th congressional district. Dale Alford (D)
 * Arkansas's 6th congressional district. William F. Norrell (D), until February 15, 1961
 * Catherine Dorris Norrell (D), from April 18, 1961

California

 * California's 1st congressional district. Clement Woodnutt Miller (D), until October 7, 1962
 * California's 2nd congressional district. Harold T. Johnson (D)
 * California's 3rd congressional district. John E. Moss (D)
 * California's 4th congressional district. William S. Mailliard (R)
 * California's 5th congressional district. John F. Shelley (D)
 * California's 6th congressional district. John F. Baldwin Jr. (R)
 * California's 7th congressional district. Jeffery Cohelan (D)
 * California's 8th congressional district. George P. Miller (D)
 * California's 9th congressional district. J. Arthur Younger (R)
 * California's 10th congressional district. Charles Gubser (R)
 * California's 11th congressional district. John J. McFall (D)
 * California's 12th congressional district. B. F. Sisk (D)
 * California's 13th congressional district. Charles M. Teague (R)
 * California's 14th congressional district. Harlan Hagen (D)
 * California's 15th congressional district. Gordon L. McDonough (R)
 * California's 16th congressional district. Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (R)
 * California's 17th congressional district. Cecil R. King (D)
 * California's 18th congressional district. Craig Hosmer (R)
 * California's 19th congressional district. Chet Holifield (D)
 * California's 20th congressional district. H. Allen Smith (R)
 * California's 21st congressional district. Edgar W. Hiestand (R)
 * California's 22nd congressional district. James C. Corman (D)
 * California's 23rd congressional district. Clyde Doyle (D)
 * California's 24th congressional district. Glenard P. Lipscomb (R)
 * California's 25th congressional district. John H. Rousselot (R)
 * California's 26th congressional district. James Roosevelt (D)
 * California's 27th congressional district. Harry R. Sheppard (D)
 * California's 28th congressional district. James B. Utt (R)
 * California's 29th congressional district. Dalip Singh Saund (D)
 * California's 30th congressional district. Bob Wilson (R)

Colorado

 * Colorado's 1st congressional district. Byron G. Rogers (D)
 * Colorado's 2nd congressional district. Peter H. Dominick (R)
 * Colorado's 3rd congressional district. John Chenoweth (R)
 * Colorado's 4th congressional district. Wayne N. Aspinall (D)

Connecticut

 * Connecticut's 1st congressional district. Emilio Q. Daddario (D)
 * Connecticut's 2nd congressional district. Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (R)
 * Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. Robert Giaimo (D)
 * Connecticut's 4th congressional district. Abner W. Sibal (R)
 * Connecticut's 5th congressional district. John S. Monagan (D)
 * At-large. Frank Kowalski (D)

Delaware

 * At-large. Harris McDowell (D)

Florida

 * Florida's 1st congressional district. William C. Cramer (R)
 * Florida's 2nd congressional district. Charles E. Bennett (D)
 * Florida's 3rd congressional district. Robert L. F. Sikes (D)
 * Florida's 4th congressional district. Dante Fascell (D)
 * Florida's 5th congressional district. Syd Herlong (D)
 * Florida's 6th congressional district. Paul Rogers (D)
 * Florida's 7th congressional district. James A. Haley (D)
 * Florida's 8th congressional district. Donald Ray Matthews (D)

Georgia

 * Georgia's 1st congressional district. George Elliott Hagan (D)
 * Georgia's 2nd congressional district. J. L. Pilcher (D)
 * Georgia's 3rd congressional district. Tic Forrester (D)
 * Georgia's 4th congressional district. John Flynt (D)
 * Georgia's 5th congressional district. James C. Davis (D)
 * Georgia's 6th congressional district. Carl Vinson (D)
 * Georgia's 7th congressional district. John William Davis (D)
 * Georgia's 8th congressional district. Iris Faircloth Blitch (D)
 * Georgia's 9th congressional district. Phillip M. Landrum (D)
 * Georgia's 10th congressional district. Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (D)

Hawaii

 * At-large. Daniel Inouye (D)

Idaho

 * Idaho's 1st congressional district. Gracie Pfost (D)
 * Idaho's 2nd congressional district. Ralph R. Harding (D)

Illinois

 * Illinois's 1st congressional district. William L. Dawson (D)
 * Illinois's 2nd congressional district. Barratt O'Hara (D)
 * Illinois's 3rd congressional district. William T. Murphy (D)
 * Illinois's 4th congressional district. Ed Derwinski (R)
 * Illinois's 5th congressional district. John C. Kluczynski (D)
 * Illinois's 6th congressional district. Thomas J. O'Brien (D)
 * Illinois's 7th congressional district. Roland V. Libonati (D)
 * Illinois's 8th congressional district. Dan Rostenkowski (D)
 * Illinois's 9th congressional district. Sidney R. Yates (D)
 * Illinois's 10th congressional district. Harold R. Collier (R)
 * Illinois's 11th congressional district. Roman Pucinski (D)
 * Illinois's 12th congressional district. Edward Rowan Finnegan (D)
 * Illinois's 13th congressional district. Marguerite S. Church (R)
 * Illinois's 14th congressional district. Elmer J. Hoffman (R)
 * Illinois's 15th congressional district. Noah M. Mason (R)
 * Illinois's 16th congressional district. John B. Anderson (R)
 * Illinois's 17th congressional district. Leslie C. Arends (R)
 * Illinois's 18th congressional district. Robert H. Michel (R)
 * Illinois's 19th congressional district. Robert B. Chiperfield (R)
 * Illinois's 20th congressional district. Paul Findley (R)
 * Illinois's 21st congressional district. Peter F. Mack Jr. (D)
 * Illinois's 22nd congressional district. William L. Springer (R)
 * Illinois's 23rd congressional district. George E. Shipley (D)
 * Illinois's 24th congressional district. Melvin Price (D)
 * Illinois's 25th congressional district. Kenneth J. Gray (D)

Indiana

 * Indiana's 1st congressional district. Ray Madden (D)
 * Indiana's 2nd congressional district. Charles A. Halleck (R)
 * Indiana's 3rd congressional district. John Brademas (D)
 * Indiana's 4th congressional district. E. Ross Adair (R)
 * Indiana's 5th congressional district. J. Edward Roush (D)
 * Indiana's 6th congressional district. Richard L. Roudebush (R)
 * Indiana's 7th congressional district. William G. Bray (R)
 * Indiana's 8th congressional district. Winfield K. Denton (D)
 * Indiana's 9th congressional district. Earl Wilson (R)
 * Indiana's 10th congressional district. Ralph Harvey (R)
 * Indiana's 11th congressional district. Donald C. Bruce (R)

Iowa

 * Iowa's 1st congressional district. Fred Schwengel (R)
 * Iowa's 2nd congressional district. James E. Bromwell (R)
 * Iowa's 3rd congressional district. H. R. Gross (R)
 * Iowa's 4th congressional district. John Henry Kyl (R)
 * Iowa's 5th congressional district. Neal Edward Smith (D)
 * Iowa's 6th congressional district. Merwin Coad (D)
 * Iowa's 7th congressional district. Ben F. Jensen (R)
 * Iowa's 8th congressional district. Charles B. Hoeven (R)

Kansas

 * Kansas's 1st congressional district. William H. Avery (R)
 * Kansas's 2nd congressional district. Robert Ellsworth (R)
 * Kansas's 3rd congressional district. Walter Lewis McVey Jr. (R)
 * Kansas's 4th congressional district. Garner E. Shriver (R)
 * Kansas's 5th congressional district. James Floyd Breeding (D)
 * Kansas's 6th congressional district. Bob Dole (R)

Kentucky

 * Kentucky's 1st congressional district. Frank Stubblefield (D)
 * Kentucky's 2nd congressional district. William Natcher (D)
 * Kentucky's 3rd congressional district. Frank W. Burke (D)
 * Kentucky's 4th congressional district. Frank Chelf (D)
 * Kentucky's 5th congressional district. Brent Spence (D)
 * Kentucky's 6th congressional district. John C. Watts (D)
 * Kentucky's 7th congressional district. Carl D. Perkins (D)
 * Kentucky's 8th congressional district. Eugene Siler (R)

Louisiana

 * Louisiana's 1st congressional district. F. Edward Hébert (D)
 * Louisiana's 2nd congressional district. Hale Boggs (D)
 * Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Edwin E. Willis (D)
 * Louisiana's 4th congressional district. Overton Brooks (D), until September 16, 1961
 * Joe Waggonner (D), from December 19, 1961
 * Louisiana's 5th congressional district. Otto Passman (D)
 * Louisiana's 6th congressional district. James H. Morrison (D)
 * Louisiana's 7th congressional district. T. Ashton Thompson (D)
 * Louisiana's 8th congressional district. Harold B. McSween (D)

Maine

 * Maine's 1st congressional district. Peter A. Garland (R)
 * Maine's 2nd congressional district. Stanley R. Tupper (R)
 * Maine's 3rd congressional district. Clifford McIntire (R)

Maryland

 * Maryland's 1st congressional district. Thomas F. Johnson (D)
 * Maryland's 2nd congressional district. Daniel Brewster (D)
 * Maryland's 3rd congressional district. Edward Garmatz (D)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district. George Hyde Fallon (D)
 * Maryland's 5th congressional district. Richard Lankford (D)
 * Maryland's 6th congressional district. Charles Mathias (R)
 * Maryland's 7th congressional district. Samuel Friedel (D)

Massachusetts

 * Massachusetts's 1st congressional district. Silvio O. Conte (R)
 * Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district. Edward Boland (D)
 * Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district. Philip J. Philbin (D)
 * Massachusetts's 4th congressional district. Harold Donohue (D)
 * Massachusetts's 5th congressional district. F. Bradford Morse (R)
 * Massachusetts's 6th congressional district. William H. Bates (R)
 * Massachusetts's 7th congressional district. Thomas J. Lane (D)
 * Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. Torbert Macdonald (D)
 * Massachusetts's 9th congressional district. Hastings Keith (R)
 * Massachusetts's 10th congressional district. Laurence Curtis (R)
 * Massachusetts's 11th congressional district. Tip O'Neill (D)
 * Massachusetts's 12th congressional district. John W. McCormack (D)
 * Massachusetts's 13th congressional district. James A. Burke (D)
 * Massachusetts's 14th congressional district. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

Michigan

 * Michigan's 1st congressional district. Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D), until September 18, 1961
 * Lucien Nedzi (D), from November 7, 1961
 * Michigan's 2nd congressional district. George Meader (R)
 * Michigan's 3rd congressional district. August E. Johansen (R)
 * Michigan's 4th congressional district. Clare E. Hoffman (R)
 * Michigan's 5th congressional district. Gerald Ford (R)
 * Michigan's 6th congressional district. Charles E. Chamberlain (R)
 * Michigan's 7th congressional district. James G. O'Hara (D)
 * Michigan's 8th congressional district. R. James Harvey (R)
 * Michigan's 9th congressional district. Robert P. Griffin (R)
 * Michigan's 10th congressional district. Elford Albin Cederberg (R)
 * Michigan's 11th congressional district. Victor A. Knox (R)
 * Michigan's 12th congressional district. John B. Bennett (R)
 * Michigan's 13th congressional district. Charles Diggs (D)
 * Michigan's 14th congressional district. Louis C. Rabaut (D), until November 12, 1961
 * Harold M. Ryan (D), from February 13, 1962
 * Michigan's 15th congressional district. John D. Dingell Jr. (D)
 * Michigan's 16th congressional district. John Lesinski Jr. (D)
 * Michigan's 17th congressional district. Martha Griffiths (D)
 * Michigan's 18th congressional district. William Broomfield (R)

Minnesota

 * Minnesota's 1st congressional district. Al Quie (R)
 * Minnesota's 2nd congressional district. Ancher Nelsen (R)
 * Minnesota's 3rd congressional district. Clark MacGregor (R)
 * Minnesota's 4th congressional district. Joseph Karth (DFL)
 * Minnesota's 5th congressional district. Walter Judd (R)
 * Minnesota's 6th congressional district. Fred Marshall (DFL)
 * Minnesota's 7th congressional district. Herman Carl Andersen (R)
 * Minnesota's 8th congressional district. John Blatnik (DFL)
 * Minnesota's 9th congressional district. Odin Langen (R)

Mississippi

 * Mississippi's 1st congressional district. Thomas Abernethy (D)
 * Mississippi's 2nd congressional district. Jamie L. Whitten (D)
 * Mississippi's 3rd congressional district. Frank Ellis Smith (D), until November 14, 1962
 * Mississippi's 4th congressional district. John Bell Williams (D)
 * Mississippi's 5th congressional district. W. Arthur Winstead (D)
 * Mississippi's 6th congressional district. William M. Colmer (D)

Missouri

 * Missouri's 1st congressional district. Frank M. Karsten (D)
 * Missouri's 2nd congressional district. Thomas B. Curtis (R)
 * Missouri's 3rd congressional district. Leonor Sullivan (D)
 * Missouri's 4th congressional district. William J. Randall (D)
 * Missouri's 5th congressional district. Richard Walker Bolling (D)
 * Missouri's 6th congressional district. William Raleigh Hull Jr. (D)
 * Missouri's 7th congressional district. Durward Gorham Hall (R)
 * Missouri's 8th congressional district. Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (D)
 * Missouri's 9th congressional district. Clarence Cannon (D)
 * Missouri's 10th congressional district. Paul C. Jones (D)
 * Missouri's 11th congressional district. Morgan M. Moulder (D)

Montana

 * Montana's 1st congressional district. Arnold Olsen (D)
 * Montana's 2nd congressional district. James F. Battin (R)

Nebraska

 * Nebraska's 1st congressional district. Phillip Hart Weaver (R)
 * Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. Glenn Cunningham (R)
 * Nebraska's 3rd congressional district. Ralph F. Beermann (R)
 * Nebraska's 4th congressional district. David Martin (R)

Nevada

 * At-large. Walter S. Baring Jr. (D)

New Hampshire

 * New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. Chester Earl Merrow (R)
 * New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. Perkins Bass (R)

New Jersey

 * New Jersey's 1st congressional district. William T. Cahill (R)
 * New Jersey's 2nd congressional district. Milton W. Glenn (R)
 * New Jersey's 3rd congressional district. James C. Auchincloss (R)
 * New Jersey's 4th congressional district. Frank Thompson (D)
 * New Jersey's 5th congressional district. Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (R)
 * New Jersey's 6th congressional district. Florence P. Dwyer (R)
 * New Jersey's 7th congressional district. William B. Widnall (R)
 * New Jersey's 8th congressional district. Charles Samuel Joelson (D)
 * New Jersey's 9th congressional district. Frank C. Osmers Jr. (R)
 * New Jersey's 10th congressional district. Peter W. Rodino (D)
 * New Jersey's 11th congressional district. Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D), until June 30, 1962
 * New Jersey's 12th congressional district. George M. Wallhauser (R)
 * New Jersey's 13th congressional district. Cornelius Gallagher (D)
 * New Jersey's 14th congressional district. Dominick V. Daniels (D)

New Mexico

 * At-large. Thomas G. Morris (D)
 * At-large. Joseph Montoya (D)

New York

 * New York's 1st congressional district. Otis G. Pike (D)
 * New York's 2nd congressional district. Steven Derounian (R)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district. Frank J. Becker (R)
 * New York's 4th congressional district. Seymour Halpern (R)
 * New York's 5th congressional district. Joseph P. Addabbo (D)
 * New York's 6th congressional district. Lester Holtzman (D), until December 31, 1961
 * Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D), from February 20, 1962
 * New York's 7th congressional district. James J. Delaney (D)
 * New York's 8th congressional district. Victor Anfuso (D)
 * New York's 9th congressional district. Eugene J. Keogh (D)
 * New York's 10th congressional district. Edna F. Kelly (D)
 * New York's 11th congressional district. Emanuel Celler (D)
 * New York's 12th congressional district. Hugh Carey (D)
 * New York's 13th congressional district. Abraham J. Multer (D)
 * New York's 14th congressional district. John J. Rooney (D)
 * New York's 15th congressional district. John H. Ray (R)
 * New York's 16th congressional district. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D)
 * New York's 17th congressional district. John Lindsay (R)
 * New York's 18th congressional district. Alfred E. Santangelo (D)
 * New York's 19th congressional district. Leonard Farbstein (D)
 * New York's 20th congressional district. William Fitts Ryan (D)
 * New York's 21st congressional district. Herbert Zelenko (D)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district. James C. Healey (D)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district. Jacob H. Gilbert (D)
 * New York's 24th congressional district. Charles A. Buckley (D)
 * New York's 25th congressional district. Paul A. Fino (R)
 * New York's 26th congressional district. Edwin B. Dooley (R)
 * New York's 27th congressional district. Robert R. Barry (R)
 * New York's 28th congressional district. Katharine St. George (R)
 * New York's 29th congressional district. J. Ernest Wharton (R)
 * New York's 30th congressional district. Leo W. O'Brien (D)
 * New York's 31st congressional district. Carleton J. King (R)
 * New York's 32nd congressional district. Samuel S. Stratton (D)
 * New York's 33rd congressional district. Clarence E. Kilburn (R)
 * New York's 34th congressional district. Alexander Pirnie (R)
 * New York's 35th congressional district. R. Walter Riehlman (R)
 * New York's 36th congressional district. John Taber (R)
 * New York's 37th congressional district. Howard W. Robison (R)
 * New York's 38th congressional district. Jessica M. Weis (R)
 * New York's 39th congressional district. Harold C. Ostertag (R)
 * New York's 40th congressional district. William E. Miller (R)
 * New York's 41st congressional district. Thaddeus J. Dulski (D)
 * New York's 42nd congressional district. John R. Pillion (R)
 * New York's 43rd congressional district. Charles Goodell (R)

North Carolina

 * North Carolina's 1st congressional district. Herbert Covington Bonner (D)
 * North Carolina's 2nd congressional district. Lawrence H. Fountain (D)
 * North Carolina's 3rd congressional district. David N. Henderson (D)
 * North Carolina's 4th congressional district. Harold D. Cooley (D)
 * North Carolina's 5th congressional district. Ralph James Scott (D)
 * North Carolina's 6th congressional district. Horace R. Kornegay (D)
 * North Carolina's 7th congressional district. Alton Lennon (D)
 * North Carolina's 8th congressional district. Alvin Paul Kitchin (D)
 * North Carolina's 9th congressional district. Hugh Quincy Alexander (D)
 * North Carolina's 10th congressional district. Charles R. Jonas (R)
 * North Carolina's 11th congressional district. Basil Lee Whitener (D)
 * North Carolina's 12th congressional district. Roy A. Taylor (D)

North Dakota

 * At-large. Don L. Short (R)
 * At-large. Hjalmar Carl Nygaard (R)

Ohio

 * Ohio's 1st congressional district. Gordon H. Scherer (R)
 * Ohio's 2nd congressional district. Donald D. Clancy (R)
 * Ohio's 3rd congressional district. Paul F. Schenck (R)
 * Ohio's 4th congressional district. William Moore McCulloch (R)
 * Ohio's 5th congressional district. Del Latta (R)
 * Ohio's 6th congressional district. Bill Harsha (R)
 * Ohio's 7th congressional district. Clarence J. Brown (R)
 * Ohio's 8th congressional district. Jackson Edward Betts (R)
 * Ohio's 9th congressional district. Thomas L. Ashley (D)
 * Ohio's 10th congressional district. Walter H. Moeller (D)
 * Ohio's 11th congressional district. Robert E. Cook (D)
 * Ohio's 12th congressional district. Samuel L. Devine (R)
 * Ohio's 13th congressional district. Charles Adams Mosher (R)
 * Ohio's 14th congressional district. William Hanes Ayres (R)
 * Ohio's 15th congressional district. Tom Van Horn Moorehead (R)
 * Ohio's 16th congressional district. Frank T. Bow (R)
 * Ohio's 17th congressional district. John M. Ashbrook (R)
 * Ohio's 18th congressional district. Wayne Hays (D)
 * Ohio's 19th congressional district. Michael J. Kirwan (D)
 * Ohio's 20th congressional district. Michael A. Feighan (D)
 * Ohio's 21st congressional district. Charles Vanik (D)
 * Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Frances P. Bolton (R)
 * Ohio's 23rd congressional district. William Edwin Minshall Jr. (R)

Oklahoma

 * Oklahoma's 1st congressional district. Page Belcher (R)
 * Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district. Ed Edmondson (D)
 * Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district. Carl Albert (D)
 * Oklahoma's 4th congressional district. Tom Steed (D)
 * Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. John Jarman (D)
 * Oklahoma's 6th congressional district. Victor Wickersham (D)

Oregon

 * Oregon's 1st congressional district. A. Walter Norblad (R)
 * Oregon's 2nd congressional district. Al Ullman (D)
 * Oregon's 3rd congressional district. Edith Green (D)
 * Oregon's 4th congressional district. Edwin Durno (R)

Pennsylvania

 * Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district. William A. Barrett (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district. Kathryn E. Granahan (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district. James A. Byrne (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. Robert N. C. Nix Sr. (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district. William J. Green Jr. (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district. Herman Toll (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district. William H. Milliken Jr. (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district. Willard S. Curtin (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district. Paul B. Dague (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. William Scranton (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district. Dan Flood (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district. Ivor D. Fenton (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. Richard Schweiker (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district. George M. Rhodes (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district. Francis E. Walter (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district. Walter M. Mumma (R), until February 25, 1961
 * John C. Kunkel (R), from May 16, 1961
 * Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district. Herman T. Schneebeli (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district. J. Irving Whalley (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district. George Atlee Goodling (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district. James E. Van Zandt (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district. John Herman Dent (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district. John P. Saylor (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district. Leon H. Gavin (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district. Carroll D. Kearns (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district. Frank M. Clark (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district. Thomas E. Morgan (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 27th congressional district. James G. Fulton (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 28th congressional district. William S. Moorhead (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 29th congressional district. Robert J. Corbett (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 30th congressional district. Elmer J. Holland (D)

Rhode Island

 * Rhode Island's 1st congressional district. Fernand St Germain (D)
 * Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district. John E. Fogarty (D)

South Carolina

 * South Carolina's 1st congressional district. L. Mendel Rivers (D)
 * South Carolina's 2nd congressional district. John J. Riley (D), until January 1, 1962
 * Corinne Boyd Riley (D), from April 10, 1962
 * South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. William Jennings Bryan Dorn (D)
 * South Carolina's 4th congressional district. Robert T. Ashmore (D)
 * South Carolina's 5th congressional district. Robert W. Hemphill (D)
 * South Carolina's 6th congressional district. John L. McMillan (D)

South Dakota

 * South Dakota's 1st congressional district. Ben Reifel (R)
 * South Dakota's 2nd congressional district. Ellis Yarnal Berry (R)

Tennessee

 * Tennessee's 1st congressional district. B. Carroll Reece (R), until March 19, 1961
 * Louise Goff Reece (R), from May 16, 1961
 * Tennessee's 2nd congressional district. Howard Baker Sr. (R)
 * Tennessee's 3rd congressional district. James B. Frazier Jr. (D)
 * Tennessee's 4th congressional district. Joe L. Evins (D)
 * Tennessee's 5th congressional district. Joseph Carlton Loser (D)
 * Tennessee's 6th congressional district. Ross Bass (D)
 * Tennessee's 7th congressional district. Tom J. Murray (D)
 * Tennessee's 8th congressional district. Fats Everett (D)
 * Tennessee's 9th congressional district. Clifford Davis (D)

Texas

 * Texas's 1st congressional district. Wright Patman (D)
 * Texas's 2nd congressional district. Jack Brooks (D)
 * Texas's 3rd congressional district. Lindley Beckworth (D)
 * Texas's 4th congressional district. Sam Rayburn (D), until November 16, 1961
 * Ray Roberts (D), from January 30, 1962
 * Texas's 5th congressional district. Bruce Alger (R)
 * Texas's 6th congressional district. Olin E. Teague (D)
 * Texas's 7th congressional district. John Dowdy (D)
 * Texas's 8th congressional district. Albert Thomas (D)
 * Texas's 9th congressional district. Clark W. Thompson (D)
 * Texas's 10th congressional district. Homer Thornberry (D)
 * Texas's 11th congressional district. William R. Poage (D)
 * Texas's 12th congressional district. Jim Wright (D)
 * Texas's 13th congressional district. Frank N. Ikard (D), until December 15, 1961
 * Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D), from January 27, 1962
 * Texas's 14th congressional district. John Andrew Young (D)
 * Texas's 15th congressional district. Joe M. Kilgore (D)
 * Texas's 16th congressional district. J. T. Rutherford (D)
 * Texas's 17th congressional district. Omar Burleson (D)
 * Texas's 18th congressional district. Walter E. Rogers (D)
 * Texas's 19th congressional district. George H. Mahon (D)
 * Texas's 20th congressional district. Paul J. Kilday (D), until September 24, 1961
 * Henry B. González (D), from November 4, 1961
 * Texas's 21st congressional district. O. C. Fisher (D)
 * Texas's 22nd congressional district. Robert R. Casey (D)

Utah

 * Utah's 1st congressional district. M. Blaine Peterson (D)
 * Utah's 2nd congressional district. David S. King (D)

Vermont

 * At-large. Robert Stafford (R)

Virginia

 * Virginia's 1st congressional district. Thomas N. Downing (D)
 * Virginia's 2nd congressional district. Porter Hardy Jr. (D)
 * Virginia's 3rd congressional district. J. Vaughan Gary (D)
 * Virginia's 4th congressional district. Watkins Moorman Abbitt (D)
 * Virginia's 5th congressional district. William M. Tuck (D)
 * Virginia's 6th congressional district. Richard Harding Poff (R)
 * Virginia's 7th congressional district. Burr Harrison (D)
 * Virginia's 8th congressional district. Howard W. Smith (D)
 * Virginia's 9th congressional district. W. Pat Jennings (D)
 * Virginia's 10th congressional district. Joel Broyhill (R)

Washington

 * Washington's 1st congressional district. Thomas Pelly (R)
 * Washington's 2nd congressional district. Jack Westland (R)
 * Washington's 3rd congressional district. Julia Butler Hansen (D)
 * Washington's 4th congressional district. Catherine Dean May (R)
 * Washington's 5th congressional district. Walt Horan (R)
 * Washington's 6th congressional district. Thor C. Tollefson (R)
 * Washington's 7th congressional district. Donald H. Magnuson (D)

West Virginia

 * West Virginia's 1st congressional district. Arch A. Moore Jr. (R)
 * West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. Harley Orrin Staggers (D)
 * West Virginia's 3rd congressional district. Cleveland M. Bailey (D)
 * West Virginia's 4th congressional district. Ken Hechler (D)
 * West Virginia's 5th congressional district. Elizabeth Kee (D)
 * West Virginia's 6th congressional district. John M. Slack Jr. (D)

Wisconsin

 * Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. Henry C. Schadeberg (R)
 * Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district. Robert Kastenmeier (D)
 * Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district. Vernon Wallace Thomson (R)
 * Wisconsin's 4th congressional district. Clement J. Zablocki (D)
 * Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. Henry S. Reuss (D)
 * Wisconsin's 6th congressional district. William Van Pelt (R)
 * Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. Melvin Laird (R)
 * Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. John W. Byrnes (R)
 * Wisconsin's 9th congressional district. Lester Johnson (D)
 * Wisconsin's 10th congressional district. Alvin O'Konski (R)

Wyoming

 * At-large. William Henry Harrison III (R)

Non-voting members

 * Puerto Rico's at-large congressional district. Antonio Fernós-Isern (Resident Commissioner) (PPD)

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Senate
(2) Successor elected June 14, 1961.
 * Texas
 * Texas
 * | William A. Blakley (D)
 * Lost special election.
 * | John Tower (R)
 * June 15, 1961

(2) Successor appointed December 7, 1961.
 * New Hampshire
 * New Hampshire
 * | Styles Bridges (R)
 * Died November 26, 1961.
 * | Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R)
 * December 7, 1961

(2) Successor appointed January 31, 1962, and then elected November 6, 1962.
 * Kansas
 * Kansas
 * | Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R)
 * Died January 21, 1962.
 * | James B. Pearson (R)
 * January 31, 1962

(3) Successor appointed July 9, 1962 to finish the term.
 * South Dakota
 * South Dakota
 * | Francis H. Case (R)
 * Died June 23, 1962.
 * | Joseph H. Bottum (R)
 * July 9, 1962

(2) Successor appointed August 6, 1962, and then elected November 6, 1962.
 * Idaho
 * Idaho
 * | Henry Dworshak (R)
 * Died July 23, 1962.
 * | Leonard B. Jordan (R)
 * August 6, 1962

(2) Successor elected November 6, 1962.
 * Wyoming
 * Wyoming
 * | John J. Hickey (D)
 * Lost special election.
 * | Milward Simpson (R)
 * November 6, 1962

(1)
 * Massachusetts
 * Massachusetts
 * | Benjamin A. Smith II (D)
 * Successor elected November 6, 1962.
 * | Ted Kennedy (D)
 * November 7, 1962

(2) Successor elected November 6, 1962.
 * New Hampshire
 * New Hampshire
 * | Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R)
 * Lost special election.
 * | Thomas J. McIntyre (D)
 * November 7, 1962

(1) Successor appointed November 30, 1962 to continue the term.
 * New Mexico
 * New Mexico
 * | Dennis Chávez (D)
 * Died November 18, 1962.
 * | Edwin L. Mechem (R)
 * November 30, 1962

(2)
 * Oklahoma
 * Oklahoma
 * | Robert S. Kerr (D)
 * Died January 1, 1963.
 * Vacant
 * Not filled this term


 * }

House of Representatives

 * Arizona's 2nd congressional district
 * nowrap| Stewart Udall (D)
 * Resigned January 18, 1961 to become United States Secretary of the Interior.
 * | Mo Udall (D)
 * May 2, 1961
 * May 2, 1961


 * Arkansas's 6th congressional district
 * nowrap| William F. Norrell (D)
 * Died February 15, 1961.
 * | Catherine Dorris Norrell (D)
 * April 18, 1961
 * April 18, 1961


 * Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district
 * nowrap| Walter M. Mumma (R)
 * Died February 25, 1961.
 * | John C. Kunkel (R)
 * May 16, 1961
 * May 16, 1961


 * Tennessee's 1st congressional district
 * nowrap| B. Carroll Reece (R)
 * Died March 19, 1961.
 * | Louise Goff Reece (R)
 * May 16, 1961
 * May 16, 1961


 * Louisiana's 4th congressional district
 * nowrap| Overton Brooks (D)
 * Died September 16, 1961.
 * | Joe Waggonner (D)
 * December 19, 1961
 * December 19, 1961


 * Michigan's 1st congressional district
 * nowrap| Thaddeus M. Machrowicz (D)
 * Resigned September 18, 1961 to become judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
 * | Lucien Nedzi (D)
 * November 7, 1961
 * November 7, 1961


 * Texas's 20th congressional district
 * nowrap| Paul J. Kilday (D)
 * Resigned September 24, 1961 to become judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
 * | Henry B. González (D)
 * November 4, 1961
 * November 4, 1961


 * Michigan's 14th congressional district
 * nowrap| Louis C. Rabaut (D)
 * Died November 12, 1961.
 * | Harold M. Ryan (D)
 * February 13, 1962
 * February 13, 1962


 * Texas's 4th congressional district
 * nowrap| Sam Rayburn (D)
 * Died November 16, 1961.
 * | Ray Roberts (D)
 * January 30, 1962
 * January 30, 1962


 * Texas's 13th congressional district
 * nowrap| Frank N. Ikard (D)
 * Resigned December 15, 1961.
 * | Graham B. Purcell Jr. (D)
 * January 27, 1962
 * January 27, 1962


 * New York's 6th congressional district
 * nowrap| Lester Holtzman (D)
 * Resigned December 31, 1961 to become judge of the New York Supreme Court.
 * | Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (D)
 * February 20, 1962
 * February 20, 1962


 * South Carolina's 2nd congressional district
 * nowrap| John J. Riley (D)
 * Died January 1, 1962.
 * | Corinne Boyd Riley (D)
 * April 10, 1962
 * April 10, 1962


 * New Jersey's 11th congressional district
 * nowrap| Hugh Joseph Addonizio (D)
 * Resigned June 30, 1962 to become Mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
 * rowspan=3 | Vacant
 * rowspan=3 | Not filled this term
 * rowspan=3 | Not filled this term


 * California's 1st congressional district
 * nowrap| Clement Woodnutt Miller (D)
 * Died October 7, 1962.
 * Died October 7, 1962.


 * Mississippi's 3rd congressional district
 * nowrap| Frank Ellis Smith (D)
 * Resigned November 14, 1962.
 * Resigned November 14, 1962.


 * }

Senate

 * Aging: (Chairman: Pat McNamara; Ranking Member: )
 * Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Chairman: Robert S. Kerr; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges, then Margaret Chase Smith)
 * Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Allen J. Ellender; Ranking Member: George Aiken)
 * Appropriations (Chairman: Carl Hayden; Ranking Member: Styles Bridges, then Leverett Saltonstall)
 * Armed Services (Chairman: Richard B. Russell; Ranking Member: Leverett Saltonstall)
 * Banking and Currency (Chairman: A. Willis Robertson; Ranking Member: Homer E. Capehart)
 * District of Columbia (Chairman: Alan Bible; Ranking Member: J. Glenn Beall)
 * Finance (Chairman: Harry F. Byrd; Ranking Member: John J. Williams)
 * Foreign Relations (Chairman: J. William Fulbright; Ranking Member: Alexander Wiley)
 * Government Operations (Chairman: John L. McClellan; Ranking Member: Karl Mundt)
 * Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Clinton P. Anderson; Ranking Member: Henry Dworshak, then Thomas Kuchel)
 * Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Warren G. Magnuson; Ranking Member: Andrew Frank Schoeppel, then Norris Cotton)
 * Judiciary (Chairman: James O. Eastland; Ranking Member: Alexander Wiley)
 * Labor and Public Welfare (Chairman: J. Lister Hill; Ranking Member: Barry Goldwater)
 * National Fuels Study (Special)
 * National Water Resources (Select)
 * Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Olin D. Johnston; Ranking Member: Frank Carlson)
 * Public Works (Chairman: Dennis Chavez; Ranking Member: Francis Case, then John Sherman Cooper)
 * Rules and Administration (Chairman: Mike Mansfield; Ranking Member: Carl Curtis)
 * Small Business (Select) (Chairman: John J. Sparkman; Ranking Member: )
 * Subcommittee on Internal Security
 * Whole

House of Representatives

 * Agriculture (Chairman: Harold D. Cooley; Ranking Member: Charles B. Hoeven)
 * Appropriations (Chairman: Clarence Cannon; Ranking Member: John Taber)
 * Armed Services (Chairman: Carl Vinson; Ranking Member: Leslie C. Arends)
 * Banking and Currency (Chairman: Brent Spence; Ranking Member: Clarence E. Kilburn)
 * District of Columbia (Chairman: John L. McMillan; Ranking Member: James C. Auchincloss)
 * Education and Labor (Chairman: Adam Clayton Powell; Ranking Member: Carroll D. Kearns)
 * Export Control (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
 * Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas E. Morgan; Ranking Member: Robert B. Chiperfield)
 * Government Operations (Chairman: William L. Dawson; Ranking Member: Clare Hoffman)
 * House Administration (Chairman: Omar Burleson; Ranking Member: Paul F. Schenck)
 * Interior and Insular Affairs (Chairman: Wayne N. Aspinall; Ranking Member: John P. Saylor)
 * Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: Oren Harris; Ranking Member: John B. Bennett)
 * Judiciary (Chairman: Emanuel Celler; Ranking Member: William Moore McCulloch)
 * Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Herbert C. Bonner; Ranking Member: Thor C. Tollefson)
 * Post Office and Civil Service (Chairman: Tom J. Murray; Ranking Member: Robert J. Corbett)
 * Public Works (Chairman: Charles A. Buckley; Ranking Member: James C. Auchincloss)
 * Rules (Chairman: Howard W. Smith; Ranking Member: Clarence J. Brown)
 * Science and Astronautics (Chairman: Overton Brooks then George P. Miller; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Martin Jr.)
 * Small Business (Select) (Chairman: Wright Patman; Ranking Member: )
 * Standards of Official Conduct
 * Un-American Activities (Chairman: Francis E. Walter; Ranking Member: Gordon H. Scherer)
 * Veterans' Affairs (Chairman: Olin E. Teague; Vice Chairman: William Hanes Ayres)
 * Ways and Means (Chairman: Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chairman: Noah M. Mason)
 * Whole

Joint committees

 * Atomic Energy (Chairman: Rep. Chet Holifield; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
 * Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
 * Construction of a Building for a Museum of History and Technology for the Smithsonian
 * Defense Production (Chairman: Sen. A. Willis Robertson; Vice Chairman: Rep. )
 * Economic (Chairman: Rep. Wright Patman; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
 * Immigration and Nationality Policy (Chairman: Vacant; Vice Chairman: Vacant)
 * Legislative Budget
 * The Library (Chairman: Rep. Omar Burleson; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
 * Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
 * Printing (Chairman: Rep. Carl Hayden; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
 * Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Chairman: Sen. Harry F. Byrd; Vice Chairman: Rep. )
 * Taxation (Chairman: Rep. Wilbur D. Mills; Vice Chairman: Sen. )

Legislative branch agency directors

 * Architect of the Capitol: J. George Stewart
 * Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
 * Comptroller General of the United States: Joseph Campbell
 * Librarian of Congress: Lawrence Quincy Mumford
 * Public Printer of the United States: Raymond Blattenberger, until 1961
 * James L. Harrison, from 1961

Senate

 * Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
 * Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
 * Secretary: Felton McLellan Johnston
 * Librarian: Richard D. Hupman
 * Secretary for the Majority: Robert G. Baker
 * Secretary for the Minority: J. Mark Trice
 * Sergeant at Arms: Joseph C. Duke

House of Representatives

 * Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian)
 * Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts
 * Doorkeeper: William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
 * Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
 * Postmaster: H. H. Morris
 * Reading Clerk: George J. Maurer (D) and Joe Bartlett (R)
 * Sergeant at Arms: Zeake W. Johnson Jr.