The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections was a committee of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
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History
It was established by a Senate resolution on March 10, 1871, and terminated January 2, 1947, when its functions were transferred to the
Committee on Rules and Administration. Among the matters referred to the committee were contested elections for Senate seats, questions regarding credentials of senators, financing of senatorial elections, and expenses of contestants in contested election cases. The committee also considered most legislation proposing the direct election of senators and some legislation concerning voting rights issues such as poll taxes and woman suffrage. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 abolished the Committee on Privileges and Elections and transferred its jurisdiction to the Committee on Rules and Administration, which had a subcommittee on privileges and elections until 1977.
Chairmen
* 1871–1872:
William M. Stewart
William Morris Stewart (August 9, 1827April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Personal
Stewart was born in Wayne Count ...
(R-NV)
* 1872–1877:
Oliver P. Morton
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (August 4, 1823 – November 1, 1877), commonly known as Oliver P. Morton, was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana. He served as the 14th governor (the first native-born) of Indiana during the Amer ...
(R-IN)
* 1877–1879:
Bainbridge Wadleigh
Bainbridge Wadleigh (January 4, 1831January 24, 1891) was a United States senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bradford, he attended the common schools and Kimball Union Academy (Meriden, New Hampshire). He studied law, was admitted to the bar i ...
(R-NH)
* 1879–1881:
Eli Saulsbury
Eli May Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Del ...
(D-DE)
* 1881–1891:
George Hoar (R-MA)
* 1891–1894:
Zebulon Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was the 37th and 43rd governor of North Carolina, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
A prolific writer and noted public speak ...
(D-NC)
* 1894–1895:
George Gray (D-DE)
* 1895–1897:
John H. Mitchell (R-OR)
* 1897 :
George F. Hoar (R-MA)
* 1898–1901:
William E. Chandler
William Eaton Chandler (December 28, 1835November 30, 1917), also known as Bill Chandler, was a lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. In the 1880s, he was a member of the Republican " ...
(R-NH)
* 1901–1911:
Julius Burrows
Julius Caesar Burrows (January 9, 1837November 16, 1915) was a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
Early life and education
Burrows was born in North East, Pennsylvania and moved then with his parents to Ashtab ...
(R-MI)
* 1911–1913:
William P. Dillingham
William Paul Dillingham (December 12, 1843July 12, 1923) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Vermont. A Republican and the son of Congressman and Governor Paul Dillingham, William P. Dillingham served as governor from 1888 ...
(R-VT)
* 1913–1917:
John W. Kern
John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 – August 17, 1917) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana. While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader (and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Lead ...
(D-IN)
* 1917–1919:
Atlee Pomerene
Atlee Pomerene (December 6, 1863November 12, 1937) was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1911 until 1923.
Biography
Pomerene was born on December 6, 1863, in Berlin, Holmes C ...
(D-OH)
* 1919–1923:
William P. Dillingham
William Paul Dillingham (December 12, 1843July 12, 1923) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Vermont. A Republican and the son of Congressman and Governor Paul Dillingham, William P. Dillingham served as governor from 1888 ...
(R-VT)
* 1923–1925:
Selden P. Spencer
Selden Palmer Spencer (September 16, 1862May 16, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican, he was a United States Senator from Missouri.
Early life
Selden Spencer was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, to Samuel Selden and Eliza Debo ...
(R-MO)
* 1925–1927:
Richard P. Ernst (R-KY)
* 1927–1933:
Samuel Shortridge
Samuel Morgan Shortridge (August 3, 1861January 15, 1952) was a Republican Senator from California.
Early years
He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa and moved to California as a child with his family, which settled in San Jose in 1875. He pra ...
(R-CA)
* 1933–1941:
Walter F. George
Walter Franklin George (January 29, 1878 – August 4, 1957) was an American politician from the state of Georgia. He was a longtime Democratic United States Senator from 1922 to 1957 and was President pro tempore of the United States Sena ...
(D-GA)
* 1941–1947:
Theodore Francis Green
Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy ari ...
(D-RI)
See also
References
External links
* {{cite web , title= Compilation of Senate Election Cases from 1789 to 1913 , first1=George S. , last1= Taft , author-link1=George S. Taft , first2=George P. , last2=Furber , first3=George M. , last3=Buck , first4=Charles A. , last4=Webb , first5=Herbert R. , last5=Pierce , department =
U.S. Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections , year=1913 , publisher=
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Privileges and Elections Senate
1871 establishments in the United States
1947 disestablishments in the United States