a committee, with the longest continuous service on it. However, party leadership was typically not associated with seniority. Out of a group of fifty five standing committee chairmen, at the start of this Congress, Nelson Polsby identified forty five as the most senior member of the majority on the committee. In seven other cases, senior majority members were compensated for not being chairman of the committee (five chaired another committee and two received better committee assignments than in the previous Congress). In three instances there was no obvious compensation for the apparent violation of the seniority custom. Committees This list refers to the standing committees of the House in the 65th Congress, the year of establishment as a standing committee (adoption of the name used in 1917), the number of members assigned to the committee and the corresponding committee in the current congress. Because of consolidation of committees and changes of jurisdiction, it is not always possible to identify a clear successor panel. List of representatives by seniority A numerical rank is assigned to each of the 435 members initially elected to the 65th Congress. Other members, who joined the House during the Congress, are not assigned a number. Three Representatives-elect died before the Congress started and one resigned after the legal start of the term without qualifying. The list below includes those Representatives-elect (with names in italics), with the seniority they would have held if they had been able to be sworn in. Major party designations used in this article are D for Democratic members and R for Republican representatives. Other designations include Ind for Independent, Prog for Progressive, Proh for Prohibition and Soc for Socialist. See also 65th United States Congress List of United States congressional districts List of United States senators in the 65th Congress by seniority References Cannon's Precedents (U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access) Congress at the Crossroads, by George B. Galloway (Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1946) United States Congressional Elections 1788–1997, by Michael J. Dubin (McFarland and Company 1998) External links 65