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36 unusual facts about 81st United States Congress


Albert S. Herlong, Jr.

Herlong was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1969).

Anton J. Johnson

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Cecil M. Harden

Harden was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959).

Christopher C. McGrath

McGrath was elected as a Democrat to the 8st and 82nd United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1953.

David M. Potts

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress and resumed the practice of law.

E. A. Mitchell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Edmund Rowe

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress and for election in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Edward Devitt

He was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the 81st congress in 1948.

Edward Oscar McCowen

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Ellis E. Patterson

Patterson was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 81st United States Congress in 1948, and resumed the practice of law.

Emory H. Price

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Father Millet Cross

On September 7, 1949, Congress abolished the national monument and transferred the memorial to the state of New York for public use as part of Fort Niagara State Park.

Forest Harness

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, at which point he resumed the practice of law.

Frank Ertel Carlyle

After serving as the solicitor of the 9th judicial district of North Carolina he was elected to the 81st United States Congress.

Fred L. Crawford

Crawford was the ranking minority member on the Committee on Public Lands in the 81st and 82nd Congresses (1950–1952).

George Anthony Dondero

He was chairman of the Committee on Public Works in the 80th and 81st Congresses.

Harry P. O'Neill

O'Neill was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952, when redistricting forced him into an election with fellow incumbent Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.

Herbert Alton Meyer

Meyer was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and had won renomination for a third term.

Hubert B. Scudder

Scudder was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959).

James J. Delaney

He resumed the practice of law in New York City, until being elected to the 81st United States Congress on January 3, 1949, where he served fourteen terms.

James S. Golden

Golden was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1955).

James William Trimble

Trimble was the chairman of the Special Committee on Chamber Improvements (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses).

John A. Whitaker

He was reelected to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served from April 17, 1948, until his death in Russellville, Kentucky, December 15, 1951.

Louis C. Rabaut

He successfully regained his seat from Youngblood in 1948 to be elected to the 81st Congress and the six succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1949 until his death on November 12, 1961.

Myron V. George

George was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first Congress, November 7, 1950, in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Herbert A. Meyer and at the same time was elected to the Eighty-second Congress.

New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police

In 1950, the 81st Congress of the United States of America passed the Public Law #920, entitled "The Civil Defense Act of 1950" authorizing a Federal Civil Defense Program.

Peter F. Mack, Jr.

Mack was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963).

Richard M. Russell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, for election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress.

Richard W. Hoffman

Hoffman was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957).

Robert A. Grant

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-first Congress in 1948, and resumed the practice of law in South Bend.

Robert L. Coffey

He was elected as a Democrat to the 81st Congress in 1948, defeating incumbent Republican Congressman Harve Tibbott, and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in an airplane accident at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rolla C. McMillen

He was reelected to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, and Eighty-first Congresses, and served from June 13, 1944, to January 3, 1951.

Thomas B. Fugate

Thomas Bacon Fugate (April 10, 1899 near Tazewell, Tennessee - September 22, 1980) was a United States Representative from Virginia who served in the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses.

Thomas H. Werdel

Werdel was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953).

Winfield K. Denton

Denton was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953).

Woodrow W. Jones

Jones was elected in 1950 as a Democrat to the 81st Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle.