List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee

This list of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee details the names of those members of the United States House of Representatives who served on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) from its formation as the "Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities" in 1938 until the dissolution of the "House Internal Security Committee" in 1975.

[1] Effective with the 79th Congress of 1945, the former special committee of the House of Representatives was made permanent, expanded to nine members, and renamed.

Permanent secretaries of the committee would be Robert E. Stripling (1945–1948), John W. Carrington (1949–1952), Thomas W. Beale Sr. (1953–1956), Richard Arens (1957–1960), Frank S. Tavenner Jr. (1961–1962), Francis J. McNamara (1963–1968).

Chief professional staff members of the Committee on Internal Security included Donald G. Sanders (1969–1973),[3] Robert M. Horner (??

The House Committee on Internal Security was formally terminated on January 14, 1975, the day of the opening of the 94th Congress.

Alabama Democrat Joe Starnes with Chairman Martin Dies and Chief Investigator J. B. Matthews , Aug. 1938.
Conservative Texas Democrat Martin Dies Jr. was chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities for its entire seven-year duration.
Future U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was a HUAC member from 1947 until election to the U.S. Senate in November 1950
Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter , a member of HUAC from 1951, would serve as chairman of the committee from January 1955 until his death in 1963.
Chair of the renamed House Committee on Internal Security for its entire 7-year duration was Democrat Richard H. Ichord Jr. of Missouri.