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86th United States Congress
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86th United States Congress
The
Eighty-sixth 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, 1959 to January 3, 1961, during the last two years of the
presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
was based on the
Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950
. Both chambers had a
Democratic
majority. When Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states in 1959, the membership of the House temporarily increased to 437 (seating one member from each of those newly admitted states and leaving the apportionment of the other 435 seats unchanged); it would remain at 437 until
reapportionment
resulting from the
1960 census
.
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