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75th United States Congress

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The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1930 United States census.

Both chambers had a Democratic supermajority, with the party increasing their majority in both the House and Senate, and with the reelection of President Roosevelt, maintained an overall federal government trifecta.

This is the most recent Congress to feature a 3/4th majority in the House or Senate by either party.

Major events

  • January 20, 1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt begins his second term.
  • February 5, 1937: Roosevelt's court-packing plan proposed
  • March 26, 1937: William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to a federal judgeship.
  • April 12, 1937: National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled the National Labor Relations Act constitutional.
  • July 22, 1937: Senate rejects the court-packing plan
  • October 5, 1937: Roosevelt delivers the Quarantine Speech

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