Majority Leader: Robert A. Taft

Republican Conference Secretary: Harold H. Burton

Party Whips: Simeon D. Fess

Republican Policy Committee Chairman: Robert A. Taft

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Governmental Affairs: John Glenn

Interstate and Foreign Commerce: John W. Bricker

Labor and Public Welfare: Robert A. Taft

William H. Harrison (four issues

Robert A. Taft (one issue)

Busts:

Presidents Collection: James A. Garfield by Charles H. Niehaus; William McKinley by Emma Cadwalader-Guild (both in S-216, President's Room)

Portraits: Ulysses S. Grant by William Cogswell (S-210); James A. Garfield by Cornelia A. Fassett (H-216); Robert A. Taft by Deane Keller (one of five outstanding senators memorialized in the Senate Reception Room, S-213); J. Warren Keifer by Charles A. Gray and Nicholas Longworth by Robert Doblhoff (both in the Speaker's Lobby).

Frescos: William Allen by Constantino Brumidi (S-118, south wall)

Architecturally Significant Buildings, Designers, Construction Materials, Furniture and Objects: Robert A. Taft Memorial, statue by Wheeler Williams, bell tower by Douglas W. Orr (Capitol Grounds); Honduran mahogany hardwood finishes in the Russell Senate Office Building were manufactured by Meader Furniture Company of Cincinnati.

Robert A. Taft served in the Senate during the 76th-83rd congresses, and his son Robert Taft, Jr. served in the Senate during the 92d-94th congresses.

Two Ohio senators, Thomas Worthington and Alexander Campbell, were less than thirty-one years old when they entered the Senate and are among the youngest members sworn into office in Senate history.