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The 1946 Midterm elections, the first federal elections inmediately following the end of the Second world war, and famous for the landslide Defeate of the Democratic Party, and the bringing back to power of the Republican Party that had Lost Congress in the 1932 Elections, and the house just before.
Because of Economic Discontent with the Truman Administration, the Midterms saw the Republicans Sweep most of the Nation with a 53.5% - 45.0% Landslide, Reducing the Democrats to their New Deal Streongholds in the south, Deep apalachia and inner cities
Lastly, this congress, later dubbed the "Do nothing Congress" by Harry S. Truman in his 1948 Reelection, included many notable representatives, such as:
Newark's Fred A. Hartley Jr (R-NJ) (chief sponcer of the Taft-Hartley Act that passed this congress), Future Presidents John F. Kennedy(D-MA) & Richard Nixon(R-CA), future Senators Jacob Javits(R-NY) and George Smathers (D-FL), and Future Senate Majority leaders Mike Mansfield(D-MT) and Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX)
This was also the firts term of the longest serving Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Antonio Fernós-Isern, All in all, these facts and the few bits of legislation that ended up passing this congress and effect on Truman's reelection make this one of the most significant congresses in U.S. History.
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