77th United States Congress

77th United States Congress
76th ← → 78th
United States Capitol (1956)
January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 4 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Democratic
Senate President	John N. Garner (D)[a] (until January 20, 1941) Henry A. Wallace (D) (from January 20, 1941)
House majority	Democratic
House Speaker	Sam Rayburn (D)
Sessions
1st: January 3, 1941 – January 2, 1942 2nd: January 5, 1942 – December 16, 1942

The 77th 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, 1941, to January 3, 1943, during the ninth and tenth years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1930 United States census.

Both chambers maintained a Democratic majority - with the Senate being a supermajority. With the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a then record third term, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government trifecta.

This was the first Congress to have more than one Senate president (John Garner and Henry Wallace) due to the passage of the 20th Amendment in 1933.

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