The Eighty-second 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, D.C. from January 3, 1951 to January 3, 1953, during the last two years of the second administration of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Sixteenth Census of the United States in 1940. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
March 29, 1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
April 11, 1951: U.S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
September 5, 1951: Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
October 24, 1951: U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
November 10, 1951: Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
December 31, 1951: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
March 29, 1952: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.
June 19, 1952: The Special Forces are created.
July 25, 1952: Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States, an unincorporated organized territory, with the ratification of its constitution.
November 4, 1952: United States presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the National Security Agency is founded.
October 10, 1951: Mutual Security Act, ch. 479, 65 Stat. 373
June 27, 1952: Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act), Pub.L. 82–414
July 14, 1952: McGuire Act, Pub.L. 82–542, 15 U.S.C. § 42(a)
July 16, 1952: Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act, Pub.L. 82–550
July 16, 1952: Federal Coal Mine Safety Act Amendments of 1952, Pub.L. 82–552
July 16, 1952: Wire Fraud Act of 1952, Pub.L. 82–555
March 20, 1952: Treaty of San Francisco ratified
Democratic: 235 (majority)
Republican: 199
Independent: 1
TOTAL: 435
President of the Senate: Alben W. Barkley (D)
President pro tempore: Kenneth McKellar (D)
Majority leader: Ernest McFarland
Majority whip: Lyndon Johnson
Caucus Secretary: Brien McMahon
Minority leader: Kenneth S. Wherry, until January 8, 1952
Styles Bridges, from January 8, 1952
Minority whip: Leverett Saltonstall
Conference Chairman: Eugene Millikin
Republican Conference Secretary: Milton Young
National Senatorial Committee Chair: Owen Brewster
Policy Committee Chairman: Robert A. Taft
Speaker: Sam Rayburn (D)
Majority leader: John W. McCormack
Majority whip: J. Percy Priest
Democratic Caucus Chairman: Jere Cooper
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Michael J. Kirwan
Minority leader: Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
Minority whip: Leslie C. Arends
Republican Conference Chairman: Clifford R. Hope
House Democratic Caucus
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 of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Agriculture and Forestry
Appropriations
Banking and Currency
District of Columbia
Expenditures in Executive Departments
Finance
Foreign Relations
Interior and Insular Affairs
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Government Operations
Judiciary
Labor and Public Welfare
Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce (Select)
Post Office and Civil Service
Public Works
Remodeling the Senate Chamber (Special)
Small Business (Select)
Subcommittee on Internal Security
Whole
Agriculture
Appropriations
Banking and Currency
District of Columbia
Education and Labor
Expenditures in the Executive Departments
Foreign Affairs
Government Operations
House Administration
Interior and Insular Affairs
Katyn Forest Massacre Investigation (Select)
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Post Office and Civil Service
Public Works
Rules
Small Business (Select)
Standards of Official Conduct
Un-American Activities
Veterans' Affairs
Ways and Means
Whole
Atomic Energy
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Defense Production
Disposition of Executive Papers
Economic
Immigration and Nationality Policy
Legislative Budget
The Library
Navajo-Hopi Indian Administration
Printing
Railroad Retirement Legislation
Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures
Taxation
Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver
Comptroller General of the United States: Lindsay C. Warren
Librarian of Congress: Luther H. Evans
Public Printer of the United States: John J. Deviny
Chaplain: Frederick Brown Harris (Methodist)
Parliamentarian: Charles Watkins
Secretary: Leslie Biffle
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph C. Duke
Chaplain: Bernard Braskamp (Presbyterian)
Clerk: Ralph R. Roberts
Doorkeeper: William Mosley "Fishbait" Miller
Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
Postmaster: Finis E. Scott
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph H. Callahan
