74th Congress

74th United States Congress
73rd ← → 75th
United States Capitol (1956)
January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937
Senate President	John N. Garner (D)
Senate Pres. pro tem	Key Pittman (D)
House Speaker	Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D) William B. Bankhead (D)
Members	96 Senators 435 Representatives 5 Non-voting members
Senate Majority	Democratic
House Majority	Democratic
Sessions
1st: January 3, 1935 – August 26, 1935 2nd: January 3, 1936 – June 20, 1936

The Seventy-fourth 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, DC from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937, during the third and fourth years of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fifteenth Census of the United States in 1930. Both chambers had a Democratic supermajority.

[ Section contents: Senate: Majority (D), Minority (R) • House: Majority (D), Minority (R) ]

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.

The names of members are preceded by their district numbers.

(9 Democrats)

(1 Democrat)

(7 Democrats)

(13-7 Democratic)

(4 Democrats)

(4-2 Democrats)

(1 Republican)

(5 Democrats)

(10 Democrats)

(2 Democrats)

(21-6 Democratic)

(11-1 Democratic)

(6-3 Democratic)

(4-3 Republican)

(8-1 Democratic)

(8 Democrats)

(2-1 Democratic)

(6 Democrats)

(8-7 Republican)

(11-6 Republican)

(5 Republicans, 3 Farmer Labor, 1 Democrat)

(7 Democrats)

(12-1 Republican)

(2 Democrats)

(4-1 Democratic)

(1 Democrat)

(1-1 split)

(10-4 Republican)

(1 Democrat)

(28-16 Democratic)

(11 Democrats)

(2 Republicans)

(18-6 Democratic)

(9 Democrats)

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