82nd United States Congress

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The 82nd 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 President Harry S. Truman's second term in office.

United States Capitol (1956)

Members of the Japanese delegation signing the Treaty of San Francisco.

Alben W. Barkley (D)

Kenneth McKellar (D)

81st United States Congress

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The 81st 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, 1949, to January 3, 1951, during the fifth and sixth years of Harry S. Truman's presidency.

United States Capitol (1956)

Civil libertarians and radical political activists considered the McCarran Act to be a dangerous and unconstitutional infringement of political liberty, as exemplified in this 1961 poster.

Mobster Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee.

Alben W. Barkley