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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.
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.
This provides a summary of the results of elections to the United States House of Representatives from the elections held in 1856 to the present. This time period corresponds to the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Party Systems of the United States. For the purposes of counting partisan divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives ...
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 ...
Republicans took control of Congress in the 1946 elections after the strike wave of 1945–46. Truman suffered another major defeat by the conservative coalition when the 80th Congress passed the Taft–Hartley Act into law over his veto. It reversed some of the pro-labor union legislation that was central to the New Deal.
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1946 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina 1946 North Carolina's 8th congressional district special election 1946 North Carolina's 10th congressional district special election