a committee, with the longest continuous service on it. However, party leadership was typically not associated with seniority. Out of a group of fifty nine standing committee chairmen, at the start of this Congress, Nelson Polsby identified forty four as the most senior member of the majority on the committee. In fifteen other cases, senior majority members were compensated for not being chairman of the committee (ten chaired another committee and five received better committee assignments than in the previous Congress). In no instance was there no obvious compensation for the apparent violation of the seniority custom. Committees This list refers to the standing committees of the House in the 67th Congress, the year of establishment as a standing committee (adoption of the name used in 1921), 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 67th Congress. Other members, who joined the House during the Congress, are not assigned a number. Three representatives-elect died before the Congress started. 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. The notes indicate female members and those from particular backgrounds: [AA] African American (none in this Congress), [AP] Asian Pacific, [F] Female and [H] Hispanic. Major party designations used in this article are D for Democratic members and R for Republican representatives. Other designations include Ind for Independent and Soc for Socialist. See also 67th United States Congress List of United States congressional districts List of United States senators in the 67th 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 67