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What (who) is House Un-American Activities Committee - definition


House Un-American Activities Committee         
  • Conservative Texas Democrat [[Martin Dies Jr.]] served as chair of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, predecessor to the permanent committee, for its entire seven-year duration.
  • Democrat [[Francis E. Walter]] of Pennsylvania was chair of HUAC from 1955 until his death in 1963.
  • [[Alger Hiss]] (1950)
  • Democrat [[Richard Howard Ichord Jr.]] of Missouri was chair of the renamed House Internal Security Committee from 1969 until its termination in January 1975.
  • [[Lee Slater Overman]] headed the first congressional investigation of American communism back in 1919.
  • [[Whittaker Chambers]] (1948)
COMMITTEE OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BEST KNOWN FOR INVESTIGATING THOSE ACCUSED OF ADHERING TO COMMUNISM DURING THE RED SCARE
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The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having either fascist or communist ties. It became a standing (permanent) committee in 1945, and from 1969 onwards it was known as the House Committee on Internal Security.
List of members of the House Un-American Activities Committee         
  • Conservative Texas Democrat Martin Dies, Jr. was chair of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities for its entire seven-year duration.
  • 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.
  • Future U.S. President [[Richard M. Nixon]] was a HUAC member from 1947 until election to the U.S. Senate in November 1950
WIKIMEDIA LIST ARTICLE
List of HUAC members; HUAC members; Members of HUAC; List of members of HUAC; Un-American Activities Committee members; Members of Un-American Activities Committee; List of members of the House Committee on Internal Security; List of members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities; List of members of HCUA; HCUA members
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.
House Committee (House of Lords)         
FORMER SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE UK HOUSE OF LORDS
House Committee (Parliament of the United Kingdom)
The House Committee was a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that set policy and provided guidance for long-term planning for the House, supervised its finances, and supervised the scheme for members' expenses.
Examples of use of House Un-American Activities Committee
1. The year was 1'48, and the House Un–American Activities Committee was in full cry.
2. In 1'38, the House Un–American Activities Committee was established by Congress.
3. The wording recalls the remit of the old House Un–American Activities Committee in Washington.
4. Joseph McCarthy, chairman of the House Un–American Activities Committee, when few in the ‘50s–era media would dare.
5. During the 1'50s communist scare, Lawrence was called before the House Un–American Activities Committee, where he admitted he had once been a Communist Party member.