1954 United States House of Representatives elections
District Incumbent Party First elected Result Candidates
Tennessee 1 B. Carroll Reece Republican 1950 Incumbent re-elected √ B. Carroll Reece ( Republican ) 62.5% Arthur W. Bright ( Democratic ) 37.5%
Tennessee 2 Howard Baker Sr Republican 1950 Incumbent re-elected √ Howard Baker Sr. ( Republican ) 58.0% C. Howard Bozeman ( Democratic ) 42.0%
Tennessee 3 James B. Frazier Jr Democratic 1948 Incumbent re-elected √ James B. Frazier Jr. ( Democratic ) 59.2% O. M. Mickey Spence ( Republican ) 40.8%
Tennessee 4 Joe L. Evins Democratic 1946 Incumbent re-elected √ Joe L. Evins ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 5 Percy Priest Democratic 1940 Incumbent re-elected √ Percy Priest ( Democratic ) 90.8% Robert M. Donihi ( Republican ) 9.2%
Tennessee 6 James Patrick Sutton Democratic 1948 Incumbent retired to run for U.S . Senator . New member elected . Democratic hold √ Ross Bass ( Democratic ) 99.4% Lon Brewer ( Republican ) 0.6%
Tennessee 7 Tom J. Murray Democratic 1942 Incumbent re-elected √ Tom J. Murray ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 8 Jere Cooper Democratic 1928 Incumbent re-elected √ Jere Cooper ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 9 Clifford Davis Democratic 1940 Incumbent re-elected √ Clifford Davis ( Democratic ) 83.5% W. A. Danielson ( Independent ) 16.5%
Tennessee
Main article : 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee See also : List of United States Representatives from Tennessee
The 1954 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1954 which occurred in the middle of President Dwight Eisenhower's first term. Eisenhower's Republican Party lost eighteen seats in the House, giving the Democratic Party a majority that it would retain in every House election until 1994. Perhaps the major reason for the Republican defeat was the backlash against the Army-McCarthy Hearings, in which prominent Republican Senator Joe McCarthy accused countless political and intellectual figures of having Communist ties, usually with no evidence. Another issue was the Dixon-Yates contract to supply power to the Atomic Energy Commission. Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the House, exchanging places with new Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts; they went back to what they had been before the 1952 U.S. House elections.