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The 1946 election resulted in Republicans picking up 55 seats to win majority control. Joseph Martin , Republican of Massachusetts , became Speaker of the House , exchanging places with Sam Rayburn , Democrat of Texas , who became the new Minority Leader .
The 1946 United States elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress. In the first election after World War II , incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt ) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.
This chart shows the historical composition of the United States House of Representatives, from the 1st Congress to the present day. ... 1946: 1 188 246 435 81st ...
1 U.S. House of Representatives elections (1946–1950) 2 U.S. Senate elections (1952–1958) 3 Presidential elections (1956–1960) 4 Notes. 5 References.
September 11, 1945 – June 20, 1946: Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack conducted its investigation and issued a report. [2] November 6, 1946: 1946 United States Senate elections, 1946 United States House of Representatives elections: Republicans gained control of both houses.
The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1946 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 5, 1946.
This is a list of the several United States Congresses, since their beginning in 1789, including their beginnings, endings, and the dates of their individual sessions.. Each elected bicameral Congress (of the two chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives) lasts for two years and begins on January 3 of odd-numbered y
The number of voting seats within the House of Representatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the 2020 United States census. [1] The number of voting seats has applied since 1913, excluding a temporary increase to 437 after the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii .