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1969–1971 U.S. Congress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
| 91st United States Congress | |
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90th ← → 92nd | |
United States Capitol (c. 1970) | |
January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971 | |
| Members | 100 senators 435 representatives |
| Senate majority | Democratic |
| Senate President | Hubert Humphrey (D)[lower-alpha 1] (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 – December 23, 1969 2nd: January 19, 1970 – January 2, 1971 | |
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1960 United States census.
Both chambers had a Democratic majority - albeit with losing their supermajority status in the Senate. With Richard Nixon being sworn in as president on January 20, 1969, this ended the Democrats' overall federal government trifecta that they had held since the 87th Congress.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic (D) |
Republican (R) | Other (O) | |||
| 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[lower-alpha 2] | 100 | 0 |
| Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Members of the House are listed by district.
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 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1970; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1972; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1974.
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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 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
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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.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress
| State (class) |
Vacated by | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's formal installation[lower-alpha 4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois (3) |
Everett Dirksen (R) | Died September 7, 1969 | Ralph Tyler Smith (R) | September 17, 1969 |
| Illinois (3) |
Ralph Tyler Smith (R) | 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 |
| District | Vacated by | Reason for change | Successor | Date of successor's formal installation[lower-alpha 4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 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 | ||
| California 38th | John V. Tunney (D) | Resigned January 2, 1971, after being appointed to the U.S. Senate |
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.
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