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President
Truman
Harry S. Truman D · since Apr 12, 1945
Senate
51 R · 45 D
96 senators · 80th Congress
House
246 R · 186 D
434 representatives
Supreme Court
9 D
9 justices by appointing party
Union
48 states
21 amendments in force
Prices
$1 ≈ $14.59
in today's dollars
Public debt
$258B
as of Jun 30, 1947
1947-12-14/executiveThe administration
President Harry S. Truman D
since Apr 12, 1945
Vice President vacant
Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark D
since Jun 27, 1945
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson D
since Jun 30, 1945
Secretary of the Treasury John Wesley Snyder D
since Jun 25, 1946
Director of the Office of Management and Budget James E. Webb D
since Jul 13, 1946
Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman D
since Oct 7, 1946
White House Chief of Staff John R. Steelman R
since Dec 12, 1946
Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin R
since Jan 14, 1947
Secretary of State George Marshall
since Jan 21, 1947
Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter I
since May 1, 1947
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal D
since Sep 17, 1947
1947-12-14/congress80th Congress
Senate · 51 R · 45 D
Joseph Lister Hill (Democrat, AL)John Jackson Sparkman (Democrat, AL)John Little McClellan (Democrat, AR)James William Fulbright (Democrat, AR)Carl Trumbull Hayden (Democrat, AZ)Ernest William McFarland (Democrat, AZ)Sheridan Downey (Democrat, CA)Edwin Carl Johnson (Democrat, CO)Brien McMahon (Democrat, CT)Claude Denson Pepper (Democrat, FL)Spessard Lindsey Holland (Democrat, FL)Richard Brevard Russell Jr. (Democrat, GA)Walter Franklin George (Democrat, GA)Glen Hearst Taylor (Democrat, ID)Scott Wike Lucas (Democrat, IL)Alben William Barkley (Democrat, KY)Allen Joseph Ellender (Democrat, LA)John Holmes Overton (Democrat, LA)Millard Evelyn Tydings (Democrat, MD)Herbert Romulus O’Conor (Democrat, MD)James Oliver Eastland (Democrat, MS)John Cornelius Stennis (Democrat, MS)James Edward Murray (Democrat, MT)Clyde Roark Hoey (Democrat, NC)William Bradley Umstead (Democrat, NC)Carl Atwood Hatch (Democrat, NM)Dennis Chavez (Democrat, NM)Patrick Anthony McCarran (Democrat, NV)Robert Ferdinand Wagner (Democrat, NY)John William Elmer Thomas (Democrat, OK)Francis John Myers (Democrat, PA)Theodore Francis Green (Democrat, RI)James Howard McGrath (Democrat, RI)Burnet Rhett Maybank (Democrat, SC)Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (Democrat, SC)Arthur Thomas Stewart (Democrat, TN)Kenneth Douglas McKellar (Democrat, TN)Wilbert Lee O’Daniel (Democrat, TX)Thomas Terry Connally (Democrat, TX)Elbert Duncan Thomas (Democrat, UT)Absalom Willis Robertson (Democrat, VA)Harry Flood Byrd (Democrat, VA)Warren Grant Magnuson (Democrat, WA)Harley Martin Kilgore (Democrat, WV)Joseph Christopher O’Mahoney (Democrat, WY)William Fife Knowland (Republican, CA)Eugene Donald Millikin (Republican, CO)Raymond Earl Baldwin (Republican, CT)Clayton Douglass Buck (Republican, DE)John James Williams (Republican, DE)George Allison Wilson (Republican, IA)Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper (Republican, IA)Henry Clarence Dworshak (Republican, ID)Charles Wayland Brooks (Republican, IL)Homer Earl Capehart (Republican, IN)William Ezra Jenner (Republican, IN)Arthur Capper (Republican, KS)Clyde Martin Reed (Republican, KS)John Sherman Cooper (Republican, KY)Leverett Saltonstall (Republican, MA)Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican, MA)Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (Republican, ME)Ralph Owen Brewster (Republican, ME)Homer Samuel Ferguson (Republican, MI)Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (Republican, MI)Joseph Hurst Ball (Republican, MN)Edward John Thye (Republican, MN)Forrest C. Donnell (Republican, MO)James Preston Kem (Republican, MO)Zales Nelson Ecton (Republican, MT)Milton Ruben Young (Republican, ND)William Langer (Republican, ND)Kenneth Spicer Wherry (Republican, NE)Hugh Alfred Butler (Republican, NE)Henry Styles Bridges (Republican, NH)Charles William Tobey (Republican, NH)Albert Wahl Hawkes (Republican, NJ)Howard Alexander Smith (Republican, NJ)George Wilson Malone (Republican, NV)Irving McNeil Ives (Republican, NY)Robert Alphonso Taft (Republican, OH)John William Bricker (Republican, OH)Edward Hall Moore (Republican, OK)Guy Cordon (Republican, OR)Wayne Lyman Morse (Republican, OR)Edward Martin (Republican, PA)Harlan John Bushfield (Republican, SD)John Chandler Gurney (Republican, SD)Arthur Vivian Watkins (Republican, UT)George David Aiken (Republican, VT)Ralph Edward Flanders (Republican, VT)Harry Pulliam Cain (Republican, WA)Alexander Wiley (Republican, WI)Joseph Raymond McCarthy (Republican, WI)William Chapman Revercomb (Republican, WV)Edward Vivian Robertson (Republican, WY)
House · 246 R · 186 D · 2 AL
Edward Lewis Bartlett (Democrat, AK-AL)Peterson Bryant Jarman (Democrat, AL-6)Carter Manasco (Democrat, AL-7)Samuel Francis Hobbs (Democrat, AL-4)Laurie Calvin Battle (Democrat, AL-9)Frank William Boykin (Democrat, AL-1)George McInvale Grant (Democrat, AL-2)Albert McKinley Rains (Democrat, AL-5)George William Andrews (Democrat, AL-3)Robert Emmett Jones Jr. (Democrat, AL-8)William Fadjo Cravens (Democrat, AR-4)Lawrence Brooks Hays (Democrat, AR-5)William Frank Norrell (Democrat, AR-6)Oren Harris (Democrat, AR-7)James William Trimble (Democrat, AR-3)Ezekiel Candler Gathings (Democrat, AR-1)Wilbur Daigh Mills (Democrat, AR-2)Richard Fielding Harless (Democrat, AZ-AL)Alfred James Elliott (Democrat, CA-10)Clarence Frederick Lea (Democrat, CA-1)Helen Gahagan Douglas (Democrat, CA-14)Franck Roberts Havenner (Democrat, CA-4)Clair Engle (Democrat, CA-2)Harry Richard Sheppard (Democrat, CA-21)Cecil Rhodes King (Democrat, CA-17)George Paul Miller (Democrat, CA-6)Chester Earl Holifield (Democrat, CA-19)John Albert Carroll (Democrat, CO-1)Joseph Edward Hendricks (Democrat, FL-5)Emory Hilliard Price (Democrat, FL-2)James Hardin Peterson (Democrat, FL-1)Dwight Laing Rogers (Democrat, FL-6)George Armistead Smathers (Democrat, FL-4)Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (Democrat, FL-3)Stephen Pace (Democrat, GA-3)Edward Eugene Cox (Democrat, GA-2)John Stephens Wood (Democrat, GA-9)Albert Sidney Camp (Democrat, GA-4)William McDonald Wheeler (Democrat, GA-8)Henderson Lovelace Lanham (Democrat, GA-7)Paul Brown (Democrat, GA-10)Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (Democrat, GA-1)James Curran Davis (Democrat, GA-5)Carl Vinson (Democrat, GA-6)Martin Gorski (Democrat, IL-4)Adolph Joachim Sabath (Democrat, IL-5)Thomas Sylvy Gordon (Democrat, IL-8)Thomas Joseph O’Brien (Democrat, IL-6)William Levi Dawson (Democrat, IL-1)Charles Melvin Price (Democrat, IL-22)Louis Leon Ludlow (Democrat, IN-11)Ray John Madden (Democrat, IN-1)Earle C Clements (Democrat, KY-2)Virgil Munday Chapman (Democrat, KY-6)Joseph Bengal Bates (Democrat, KY-8)Noble Jones Gregory (Democrat, KY-1)Brent Spence (Democrat, KY-5)Frank Leslie Chelf (Democrat, KY-4)James Domengeaux (Democrat, LA-3)Asa Leonard Allen (Democrat, LA-8)Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. (Democrat, LA-7)Overton Brooks (Democrat, LA-4)James Hobson Morrison (Democrat, LA-6)Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (Democrat, LA-2)Felix Edward Hébert (Democrat, LA-1)Otto Ernest Passman (Democrat, LA-5)Thomas Joseph Lane (Democrat, MA-7)John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat, MA-11)John William McCormack (Democrat, MA-12)Philip Joseph Philbin (Democrat, MA-3)Harold Daniel Donohue (Democrat, MA-4)Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. (Democrat, MD-3)Hugh Allen Meade (Democrat, MD-2)Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer (Democrat, MD-5)George Hyde Fallon (Democrat, MD-4)John Lesinski (Democrat, MI-16)George Gregory Sadowski (Democrat, MI-1)John David Dingell (Democrat, MI-15)John Anton Blatnik (Democrat, MN-8)Charles Jasper Bell (Democrat, MO-4)Orville Zimmerman (Democrat, MO-10)Clarence Andrew Cannon (Democrat, MO-9)Frank Melvin Karsten (Democrat, MO-13)William Madison Whittington (Democrat, MS-3)John Elliott Rankin (Democrat, MS-1)William Arthur Winstead (Democrat, MS-5)John Bell Williams (Democrat, MS-7)Thomas Gerstle Abernethy (Democrat, MS-4)William Meyers Colmer (Democrat, MS-6)Jamie Lloyd Whitten (Democrat, MS-2)Michael Joseph Mansfield (Democrat, MT-1)Jerome Bayard Clark (Democrat, NC-7)John Hamlin Folger (Democrat, NC-5)Alfred Lee Bulwinkle (Democrat, NC-11)Robert Lee Doughton (Democrat, NC-9)Hamilton Chamberlain Jones (Democrat, NC-10)John Hosea Kerr (Democrat, NC-2)Monroe Minor Redden (Democrat, NC-12)Charles Bennett Deane (Democrat, NC-8)Graham Arthur Barden (Democrat, NC-3)Carl Thomas Durham (Democrat, NC-6)Herbert Covington Bonner (Democrat, NC-1)Harold Dunbar Cooley (Democrat, NC-4)Mary Teresa Norton (Democrat, NJ-13)Edward Joseph Hart (Democrat, NJ-14)Georgia Lee Lusk (Democrat, NM-AL)John Joseph Delaney (Democrat, NY-7)Leo Frederick Rayfiel (Democrat, NY-14)Sol Bloom (Democrat, NY-20)Walter Aloysius Lynch (Democrat, NY-23)Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer (Democrat, NY-8)Andrew Lawrence Somers (Democrat, NY-10)William Thomas Byrne (Democrat, NY-32)James Joseph Heffernan (Democrat, NY-11)Donald Lawrence O’Toole (Democrat, NY-13)Arthur George Klein (Democrat, NY-19)Charles Anthony Buckley (Democrat, NY-25)Eugene James Keogh (Democrat, NY-9)Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Democrat, NY-22)Emanuel Celler (Democrat, NY-15)John James Rooney (Democrat, NY-12)Walter B. Huber (Democrat, OH-14)Robert Crosser (Democrat, OH-21)Michael Aloysius Feighan (Democrat, OH-20)Michael Joseph Kirwan (Democrat, OH-19)Glen Dale Johnson (Democrat, OK-4)Preston Elmer Peden (Democrat, OK-7)William Grady Stigler (Democrat, OK-2)Toby Morris (Democrat, OK-6)Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney (Democrat, OK-5)Carl Bert Albert (Democrat, OK-3)Frank Buchanan (Democrat, PA-33)Herman Peter Eberharter (Democrat, PA-32)Augustine Bernard Kelley (Democrat, PA-27)Francis Eugene Walter (Democrat, PA-20)Thomas Ellsworth Morgan (Democrat, PA-24)Aime Joseph Forand (Democrat, RI-1)John Edward Fogarty (Democrat, RI-2)Joseph Raleigh Bryson (Democrat, SC-4)James Prioleau Richards (Democrat, SC-5)John Jacob Riley (Democrat, SC-2)Lucius Mendel Rivers (Democrat, SC-1)John Lanneau McMillan (Democrat, SC-6)William Jennings Bryan Dorn (Democrat, SC-3)William Wirt Courtney (Democrat, TN-7)James Percy Priest (Democrat, TN-6)Jere Cooper (Democrat, TN-9)Carey Estes Kefauver (Democrat, TN-3)Clifford Davis (Democrat, TN-10)Albert Arnold Gore (Democrat, TN-4)Thomas Jefferson Murray (Democrat, TN-8)Joseph Landon Evins (Democrat, TN-5)Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (Democrat, TX-9)Robert Ewing Thomason (Democrat, TX-16)Milton Horace West (Democrat, TX-15)Francis Eugene Worley (Democrat, TX-18)Jesse Martin Combs (Democrat, TX-2)Ed Lee Gossett (Democrat, TX-13)Thomas Augustus Pickett (Democrat, TX-7)Wingate Hezekiah Lucas (Democrat, TX-12)John Emmett Lyle Jr. (Democrat, TX-14)Joseph Franklin Wilson (Democrat, TX-5)Paul Joseph Kilday (Democrat, TX-20)Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (Democrat, TX-4)Lyndon Baines Johnson (Democrat, TX-10)Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. (Democrat, TX-3)Albert Thomas (Democrat, TX-8)Ovie Clark Fisher (Democrat, TX-21)John William Wright Patman (Democrat, TX-1)Omar Truman Burleson (Democrat, TX-17)George Herman Mahon (Democrat, TX-19)William Robert Poage (Democrat, TX-11)Olin Earl Teague (Democrat, TX-6)Walter Keil Granger (Democrat, UT-1)James Lindsay Almond Jr. (Democrat, VA-6)Patrick Henry Drewry (Democrat, VA-4)John William Flannagan Jr. (Democrat, VA-9)Schuyler Otis Bland (Democrat, VA-1)Thomas Bahnson Stanley (Democrat, VA-5)Burr Powell Harrison (Democrat, VA-7)Julian Vaughan Gary (Democrat, VA-3)Howard Worth Smith (Democrat, VA-8)Porter Hardy Jr. (Democrat, VA-2)Henry Martin Jackson (Democrat, WA-2)Erland Harold Hedrick (Democrat, WV-6)John Kee (Democrat, WV-5)Leo Isacson (American Labor, NY-24)Vito Anthony Marcantonio (American Labor, NY-18)Willis Winter Bradley (Republican, CA-18)Charles Kimball Fletcher (Republican, CA-23)Bertrand Wesley Gearhart (Republican, CA-9)Richard Joseph Welch (Republican, CA-5)John Zuinglius Anderson (Republican, CA-8)Ernest King Bramblett (Republican, CA-11)C. Norris Poulson (Republican, CA-13)John Carl Williams Hinshaw (Republican, CA-20)Justin Leroy Johnson (Republican, CA-3)John Phillips (Republican, CA-22)John Joseph Allen Jr. (Republican, CA-7)Donald Lester Jackson (Republican, CA-16)Gordon Leo McDonough (Republican, CA-15)Richard Milhous Nixon (Republican, CA-12)Robert Fay Rockwell (Republican, CO-4)William Silas Hill (Republican, CO-2)John Edgar Chenoweth (Republican, CO-3)Ellsworth Bishop Foote (Republican, CT-3)William Jennings Miller (Republican, CT-1)John Davis Lodge (Republican, CT-4)James Thomas Patterson (Republican, CT-5)Antoni Nicholas Sadlak (Republican, CT-AL)Horace Seely-Brown Jr. (Republican, CT-2)James Caleb Boggs (Republican, DE-AL)Joseph Rider Farrington (Republican, HI-AL)John Williams Gwynne (Republican, IA-3)James Isaac Dolliver (Republican, IA-6)Thomas Ellsworth Martin (Republican, IA-1)Paul Harvey Cunningham (Republican, IA-5)Karl Miles Le Compte (Republican, IA-4)Henry Oscar Talle (Republican, IA-2)Charles Bernard Hoeven (Republican, IA-8)Benton Franklin Jensen (Republican, IA-7)Abe McGregor Goff (Republican, ID-1)John Carfield Sanborn (Republican, ID-2)Roy Clippinger (Republican, IL-24)George Evan Howell (Republican, IL-21)Anton Joseph Johnson (Republican, IL-14)Thomas Leonard Owens (Republican, IL-7)William Grant Stratton (Republican, IL-AL)Robert Joseph Twyman (Republican, IL-9)Ralph Edwin Church (Republican, IL-10)Rolla Coral McMillen (Republican, IL-19)Edward Halsey Jenison (Republican, IL-18)Richard Bernard Vail (Republican, IL-2)Cecil William Bishop (Republican, IL-25)Fred Ernst Busbey (Republican, IL-3)Chauncey William Reed (Republican, IL-11)Sidney Elmer Simpson (Republican, IL-20)Charles Wesley Vursell (Republican, IL-23)Leo Elwood Allen (Republican, IL-13)Robert Bruce Chiperfield (Republican, IL-15)Noah Morgan Mason (Republican, IL-12)Everett McKinley Dirksen (Republican, IL-16)Leslie Cornelius Arends (Republican, IL-17)George W. Gillie (Republican, IN-4)Robert Allen Grant (Republican, IN-3)Forest Arthur Harness (Republican, IN-5)Noble Jacob Johnson (Republican, IN-6)Gerald Wayne Landis (Republican, IN-7)Edward Archibald Mitchell (Republican, IN-8)Raymond Smiley Springer (Republican, IN-10)Earl Wilson (Republican, IN-9)Charles Abraham Halleck (Republican, IN-2)Herbert Alton Meyer (Republican, KS-3)Albert McDonald Cole (Republican, KS-1)Clifford Ragsdale Hope (Republican, KS-5)Errett Power Scrivner (Republican, KS-2)Edward Herbert Rees (Republican, KS-4)Wint Smith (Republican, KS-6)John Marshall Robsion (Republican, KY-9)Wendell Howes Meade (Republican, KY-7)Thruston Ballard Morton (Republican, KY-3)Charles Russell Clason (Republican, MA-2)Charles Laceille Gifford (Republican, MA-9)George Joseph Bates (Republican, MA-6)Christian Archibald Herter (Republican, MA-10)Angier Louis Goodwin (Republican, MA-8)John Walter Heselton (Republican, MA-1)Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (Republican, MA-13)Edith Nourse Rogers (Republican, MA-5)Joseph William Martin Jr. (Republican, MA-14)Edward Tylor Miller (Republican, MD-1)James Glenn Beall (Republican, MD-6)Frank Fellows (Republican, ME-3)Robert Hale (Republican, ME-1)Margaret Chase Smith (Republican, ME-2)Howard Aldridge Coffin (Republican, MI-13)Bartel John Jonkman (Republican, MI-5)Harold Francis Youngblood (Republican, MI-14)Albert Joseph Engel (Republican, MI-9)Earl Cory Michener (Republican, MI-2)William Wallace Blackney (Republican, MI-6)Fred Lewis Crawford (Republican, MI-8)Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican, MI-10)Paul Werntz Shafer (Republican, MI-3)George Anthony Dondero (Republican, MI-17)Jesse Paine Wolcott (Republican, MI-7)Clare Eugene Hoffman (Republican, MI-4)John Bonifas Bennett (Republican, MI-12)Charles Edward Potter (Republican, MI-11)Edward James Devitt (Republican, MN-4)Harold Knutson (Republican, MN-6)George Edward MacKinnon (Republican, MN-3)Harold Christian Hagen (Republican, MN-9)August Herman Andresen (Republican, MN-1)Joseph Patrick O’Hara (Republican, MN-2)Herman Carl Andersen (Republican, MN-7)Walter Henry Judd (Republican, MN-5)Samuel Washington Arnold (Republican, MO-1)Parke Monroe Banta (Republican, MO-8)Marion Tinsley Bennett (Republican, MO-6)Walter Christian Ploeser (Republican, MO-12)Albert Lee Reeves Jr. (Republican, MO-5)Max Schwabe (Republican, MO-2)Claude Ignatius Bakewell (Republican, MO-11)William Clay Cole (Republican, MO-3)Dewey Jackson Short (Republican, MO-7)Wesley Abner D’Ewart (Republican, MT-2)Charles Raymond Robertson (Republican, ND-AL)Howard Homan Buffett (Republican, NE-2)Karl Stefan (Republican, NE-3)Arthur Lewis Miller (Republican, NE-4)Carl Thomas Curtis (Republican, NE-1)Chester Earl Merrow (Republican, NH-1)Norris H. Cotton (Republican, NH-2)Fred Allan Hartley Jr. (Republican, NJ-10)Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. (Republican, NJ-4)Frank Leander Sundstrom (Republican, NJ-11)John Parnell Thomas (Republican, NJ-7)Charles Aubrey Eaton (Republican, NJ-5)Harry Lancaster Towe (Republican, NJ-9)Thomas Millet Hand (Republican, NJ-2)Robert Winthrop Kean (Republican, NJ-12)Charles Anderson Wolverton (Republican, NJ-1)Gordon Canfield (Republican, NJ-8)James Coats Auchincloss (Republican, NJ-3)Clifford Philip Case (Republican, NJ-6)Charles Hinton Russell (Republican, NV-AL)Walter Gresham Andrews (Republican, NY-42)Ellsworth Brewer Buck (Republican, NY-16)Edward Julius Elsaesser (Republican, NY-43)Hadwen Carlton Fuller (Republican, NY-35)Gregory McMahon (Republican, NY-4)Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. (Republican, NY-6)David Matthew Potts (Republican, NY-26)Jay Le Fevre (Republican, NY-30)William Kingsland Macy (Republican, NY-1)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (Republican, NY-41)John Cornelius Butler (Republican, NY-44)Edwin Arthur Hall (Republican, NY-37)Leonard Wood Hall (Republican, NY-2)Robert Tripp Ross (Republican, NY-5)Ralph Abernethy Gamble (Republican, NY-28)William Sterling Cole (Republican, NY-39)Frederic René Coudert Jr. (Republican, NY-17)Ralph Waldo Gwinn (Republican, NY-27)Bernard William Kearney (Republican, NY-31)Henry Jepson Latham (Republican, NY-3)Kenneth Barnard Keating (Republican, NY-40)Daniel Alden Reed (Republican, NY-45)Dean Park Taylor (Republican, NY-33)John Taber (Republican, NY-38)Clarence Evans Kilburn (Republican, NY-34)Roy Walter Riehlman (Republican, NY-36)Katharine Price Collier St. George (Republican, NY-29)Jacob Koppel Javits (Republican, NY-21)Raymond Hugh Burke (Republican, OH-3)Henderson Haverfield Carson (Republican, OH-16)Percy Wilfred Griffiths (Republican, OH-15)Robert Franklin Jones (Republican, OH-4)Earl Ramage Lewis (Republican, OH-18)Edward Oscar McCowen (Republican, OH-6)Homer Alonzo Ramey (Republican, OH-9)Frederick Cleveland Smith (Republican, OH-8)Walter Ellsworth Brehm (Republican, OH-11)Charles Henry Elston (Republican, OH-1)Alvin F. Weichel (Republican, OH-13)George Harrison Bender (Republican, OH-AL)Cliff Clevenger (Republican, OH-5)Thomas Albert Jenkins (Republican, OH-10)J. Harry McGregor (Republican, OH-17)John Martin Vorys (Republican, OH-12)William Emil Hess (Republican, OH-2)Clarence J. Brown (Republican, OH-7)Frances Payne Bolton (Republican, OH-22)Ross Rizley (Republican, OK-8)George Blaine Schwabe (Republican, OK-1)Lowell Stockman (Republican, OR-2)Homer Daniel Angell (Republican, OR-3)Mathew Harris Ellsworth (Republican, OR-4)Albin Walter Norblad Jr. (Republican, OR-1)E. Wallace Chadwick (Republican, PA-7)William Josiah Crow (Republican, PA-23)James A. Gallagher (Republican, PA-1)Charles Lewis Gerlach (Republican, PA-8)Chester Heilman Gross (Republican, PA-21)Mitchell Jenkins (Republican, PA-11)Franklin John Maloney (Republican, PA-4)John Ralph McDowell (Republican, PA-29)Robert Neill McGarvey (Republican, PA-2)Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (Republican, PA-13)George William Sarbacher Jr. (Republican, PA-5)James Paul Scoblick (Republican, PA-10)Harve Tibbott (Republican, PA-26)Robert Fleming Rich (Republican, PA-15)Wilson Darwin Gillette (Republican, PA-14)Hardie Scott (Republican, PA-3)Louis Edward Graham (Republican, PA-25)Samuel Kerns McConnell Jr. (Republican, PA-16)Richard Murray Simpson (Republican, PA-17)Ivor David Fenton (Republican, PA-12)Carroll Dudley Kearns (Republican, PA-28)James Edward Van Zandt (Republican, PA-22)Leon Harry Gavin (Republican, PA-19)Paul Bartram Dague (Republican, PA-9)John Crain Kunkel (Republican, PA-18)Robert James Corbett (Republican, PA-30)James Grove Fulton (Republican, PA-31)Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (Republican, PA-6)Karl Earl Mundt (Republican, SD-1)Francis Higbee Case (Republican, SD-2)John Jennings Jr. (Republican, TN-2)Dayton Edward Phillips (Republican, TN-1)William Adams Dawson (Republican, UT-2)Charles Albert Plumley (Republican, VT-AL)Homer Raymond Jones (Republican, WA-1)Fred Barthold Norman (Republican, WA-3)Otis Halbert Holmes (Republican, WA-4)Walter Franklin Horan (Republican, WA-5)Thor Carl Tollefson (Republican, WA-6)John Charles Brophy (Republican, WI-4)William Henry Stevenson (Republican, WI-3)Frank Bateman Keefe (Republican, WI-6)Reid Fred Murray (Republican, WI-7)Merlin Hull (Republican, WI-9)Charles Joseph Kersten (Republican, WI-5)Lawrence Henry Smith (Republican, WI-1)John William Byrnes (Republican, WI-8)Alvin Edward O’Konski (Republican, WI-10)Glenn Robert Davis (Republican, WI-2)Hubert Summers Ellis (Republican, WV-4)Francis Johnson Love (Republican, WV-1)Edward Gay Rohrbough (Republican, WV-3)Melvin Claude Snyder (Republican, WV-2)Frank Aloysius Barrett (Republican, WY-AL)
1947-12-14/supreme-courtThe bench
Hugo Lafayette Black D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Aug 18, 1937
Stanley Forman Reed D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 27, 1938
Felix Frankfurter D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 20, 1939
William Orville Douglas D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Apr 15, 1939
Frank Murphy D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jan 18, 1940
Robert Houghwout Jackson D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Jul 11, 1941
Wiley Blount Rutledge D
Associate Justice · appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt · since Feb 11, 1943
Harold Hitz Burton D
Associate Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Sep 22, 1945
Frederick Moore Vinson D
Chief Justice · appointed by Harry S Truman · since Jun 21, 1946
1947-12-14/weekWithin a week · Dec 7, 1947 – Dec 21, 1947
Ruling Patton v. Mississippi
Dec 8, 1947 · 332 U.S. 463
Ruling Silesian-American Corp. v. Clark
Dec 8, 1947 · 332 U.S. 469
Ruling Clark v. Uebersee Finanz-Korporation
Dec 8, 1947 · 332 U.S. 480
Ruling Williams v. Fanning
Dec 8, 1947 · 332 U.S. 490
Ruling Aero Mayflower Transit Co. v. Board of Railroad Commissioners of Montana
Dec 8, 1947 · 332 U.S. 495
Ruling Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission of Indiana
Dec 15, 1947 · 332 U.S. 507

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