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72nd United States Congress

United States Capitol (1906)

1 Dates of sessions
2 Party summary
3 Leadership
4 Major events
5 Major legislation
6 Members
- 6.1 Senate
- 6.2 House of Representatives
  - 6.2.1 Delegates
  - 6.2.2 Resident Commissioners
7 Changes in membership
8 Officers
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links

President of the Senate
Vice President
Charles Curtis

The Seventy-second 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. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1931 to March 3, 1933, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President Herbert C. Hoover.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fourteenth Census of the United States in 1920. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

Dates of sessions

March 4, 1931 - March 3, 1933

First session: December 7, 1931 - July 16, 1932
Second session: December 5, 1932 - March 3, 1933 — a lame duck session

Previous: 71st Congress • Next: 73rd Congress

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.

Senate

TOTAL members: 96

House of Representatives

TOTAL members: 435

Leadership

Senate

Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate):
- Charles Curtis, Republican of Kansas
President pro tempore of the Senate:
- George H. Moses, Republican of New Hampshire, elected December 7, 1931

Majority Leader of the Senate
- James E. Watson, Republican of Indiana
Minority Leader of the Senate
- Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic of Arkansas
Majority Whip of the Senate
- Simeon D. Fess, Republican of Ohio
Minority Whip of the Senate
- Morris Sheppard, Democratic of Texas

House of Representatives

Speaker of the House
- John N. Garner, Democratic of Texas, elected December 7, 1931

Majority Leader of the House
- Henry T. Rainey, Democratic of Illinois
Minority Leader of the House
- Bertrand H. Snell, Republican of NewYork

Major events

Main article: Events of 1931; Events of 1932; Events of 1933

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 served in the Senate until January 1945.^[2]
November 8, 1932 – Election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner.

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation#72nd United States Congress

January 22, 1932 – Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, ch. 8, 47 Stat. 5, 15 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.
March 23, 1932 – Norris-LaGuardia Act, ch. 90, 47 Stat. 70, 29 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.
June 6, 1932 – Revenue Act of 1932, ch. 209, 47 Stat. 169
July 22, 1932 – Federal Home Loan Bank Act, ch. 522, 47 Stat. 725, 12 U.S.C. § 1421 et seq.
March 3, 1933 – Buy American Act, ch. 212, title III, 47 Stat. 1520, 41 U.S.C. § 10a et seq.

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

See also: 72nd United States Congress - political parties

See also: 72nd United States Congress - State Delegations

See also: United States Senate elections, 1930

See also: United States House election, 1930

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.

See also: Category:United States Senators

See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state

Alabama

3: Hugo L. Black (D)
2: John H. Bankhead, II (D)

Arizona

1: Henry F. Ashurst (D)
3: Carl T. Hayden (D)

Arkansas

2: Joseph T. Robinson (D)
3: Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)

Hattie W. Caraway (D)

California

1: Hiram W. Johnson (R)
3: Samuel M. Shortridge (R)

Colorado

3: Charles W. Waterman (R)

Walter Walker (D)

Karl C. Schuyler (R)
2: Edward P. Costigan (D)

Connecticut

3: Hiram Bingham, III (R)
1: Frederic C. Walcott (R)

Delaware

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

Florida

3: Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
1: Park Trammell (D)

Georgia

2: William J. Harris (D)

John S. Cohen (D)

Richard B. Russell, Jr. (D)
3: Walter F. George (D)

Idaho

2: William E. Borah (R)
3: John W. Thomas (R)

Illinois

3: Otis F. Glenn (R)
2: J. Hamilton Lewis (D)

Indiana

3: James E. Watson (R)
1: Arthur R. Robinson (R)

Iowa

3: Smith W. Brookhart (R)
2: Lester J. Dickinson (R)

Kansas

2: Arthur Capper (R)
3: George McGill (D)

Kentucky

3: Alben W. Barkley (D)
2: Marvel M. Logan (D)

Louisiana

3: Edwin S. Broussard (D)
2: Huey P. Long (D)

Maine

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

Maryland

3: Millard E. Tydings (D)
1: Phillips Lee Goldsborough (R)

Massachusetts

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

Michigan

2: James J. Couzens (R)
1: Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)

Minnesota

1: Henrik Shipstead (FL)
2: Thomas D. Schall (R)

Mississippi

2: B. Patton Harrison (D)
1: Hubert D. Stephens (D)

Missouri

3: Harry B. Hawes (D)

Joel Bennett Clark (D)
1: Roscoe C. Patterson (R)

Montana

2: Thomas J. Walsh (D)
1: Burton K. Wheeler (D)

Nebraska

2: George W. Norris (R)
1: Robert B. Howell (R)

Nevada

1: Key Pittman (D)
3: Tasker L. Oddie (R)

New Hampshire

3: George H. Moses (R)
2: Henry W. Keyes (R)

New Jersey

1: Hamilton F. Kean (R)
2: Dwight W. Morrow (R)

W. Warren Barbour (R)

New Mexico

2: Sam G. Bratton (D)
1: Bronson M. Cutting (R)

New York

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

North Carolina

3: Cameron A. Morrison (D)

Robert R. Reynolds (D)
2: Josiah W. Bailey (D)

North Dakota

1: Lynn J. Frazier (R)
3: Gerald P. Nye (R)

Ohio

1: Simeon D. Fess (R)
3: Robert J. Bulkley (D)

Oklahoma

3: J. W. Elmer Thomas (D)
2: Thomas P. Gore (D)

Oregon

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

Pennsylvania

1: David A. Reed (R)
3: James J. Davis (R)

Rhode Island

2: Jesse H. Metcalf (R)
1: Felix Hebert (R)

South Carolina

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

South Dakota

3: Peter Norbeck (R)
2: William J. Bulow (D)

Tennessee

1: Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
2: Cordell Hull (D)

Texas

2: Morris Sheppard (D)
1: Thomas T. Connally (D)

Utah

3: Reed Smoot (R)
1: William H. King (D)

Vermont

1: Porter H. Dale (R)
3: Frank C. Partridge (R)

Warren R. Austin (R)

Virginia

1: Claude A. Swanson (D)
2: Carter Glass (D)

Washington

3: Wesley L. Jones (R)

Elijah S. Grammer (R)
1: Clarence C. Dill (D)

West Virginia

1: Henry D. Hatfield (R)
2: Matthew M. Neely (D)

Wisconsin

1: Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R)
3: John J. Blaine (R)

Wyoming

1: John B. Kendrick (D)
2: Robert D. Carey (R)

President pro tempore
George H. Moses

Majority Leader
James E. Watson

Minority Leader
Joseph T. Robinson

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 "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives

See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state

Alabama