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34 unusual facts about 84th United States Congress


August E. Johansen

In 1954, after Shafer's death just two weeks after being nominated unopposed in the Republican Party primary election for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, Johansen was elected to replace Shafer in the 84th United States Congress.

Brady P. Gentry

Gentry was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1957).

C. W. Bishop

In 1954, he was failed to win reelection to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Charles A. Buckley

He was chairman of the House Committee on Pensions in the 78th Congress and 79th Congress and chairman of the Committee on Public Works in the 82nd Congress and from the 84th Congress through the 88th Congress.

Charles Diggs

He went on to win the general election to the 84th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the next twelve Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his resignation June 3, 1980.

Charles M. Teague

Teague was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1955, until his death January 1, 1974, in Santa Paula, California.

Courtney W. Campbell

He was unsuccessful for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

D. Bailey Merrill

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress and for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Donald Hayworth

In 1954, Hayworth defeated the incumbent Clardy for election to the 84th Congress, serving from January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1957.

George A. Shuford

Shuford was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1959).

Herbert Zelenko

Zelenko was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1963).

J. L. Pilcher

He was reelected to the Eighty-fourth and the four succeeding Congresses and served from February 4, 1953, to January 3, 1965.

James Bowler

He was reelected to the Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses and served from July 7, 1953, until his death.

James P. Richards

During the Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

James S. Golden

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

John E. Lyle, Jr.

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

John F. Baldwin, Jr.

Baldwin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1966.

John R. Walsh

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress, after which he resumed the practice of law in Anderson.

Kenneth J. Gray

Gray was elected as a Democrat to the 84th and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his resignation December 31, 1974.

LeRoy H. Anderson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Martha Griffiths

In 1954, Griffiths was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 17th congressional district to the 84th Congress and was subsequently re-elected to the nine following Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955 to December 31, 1974 in the U.S. House.

Paul W. Shafer

He died on August 17, 1954 in Washington, D.C., two weeks after being re-nominated in the Republican primary election to the 84th Congress.

Reva Beck Bosone

She was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Richard B. Vail

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Robert Condon

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Robert T. Ashmore

He was reelected to the Eighty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (June 2, 1953 – January 3, 1969).

T. James Tumulty

Tumulty was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress, serving in office from January 3, 1955-January 3, 1957, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Vincent J. Dellay

Dellay was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954.

Walter K. Granger

In 1954 he was again an unsuccessful candidate, in the election to the 84th United States Congress.

William C. Wampler

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the 84th Congress; he went to work for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from January 1955 to March 1956.

William Edwin Minshall, Jr.

Minshall was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation December 31, 1974.

William R. Williams

He was elected as a Republican to the 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1959.

Winfield K. Denton

Denton was elected to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on December 30, 1966 (January 3, 1955-December 30, 1966).

Wingate H. Lucas

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.