This committee of the

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was created November 4, 1807. On January 2, 1947, its functions were transferred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Chairmen of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, 1811-1947

Michael Leib Michael Leib (January 8, 1760December 22, 1822) was an American physician and politician from Philadelphia. He served as a surgeon in the Philadelphia Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He served as a Democratic-Republican member of t ...

(R-PA) 1811-1815 *

Abner Lacock Abner Lacock (July 9, 1770April 12, 1837) was an American surveyor, civil engineer, and politician from Rochester, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate. ...

(R-PA) 1815-1819 * Jonathan Roberts (R-PA) 1819-1821 * James Lanman (R-CT) 1821-1822 *

Nathaniel Macon Nathaniel Macon (December 17, 1757June 29, 1837) was an American politician who represented North Carolina in both houses of Congress. He was the fifth speaker of the House, serving from 1801 to 1807. He was a member of the United States House of ...

(R-NC) 1822-1823 *

Horatio Seymour Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential elec ...

(R-VT) 1823-1826 *

Elias Kane Elias Kent Kane (June 7, 1794December 12, 1835) was the first Illinois Secretary of State and a U.S. Senator from Illinois. Early life He was born in New York City, to merchant Capt. Elias Kent Kane and Deborah VanSchelluyne of Dutchess County, ...

(D-IL) 1826-1830 *

James Iredell James Iredell (October 5, 1751 – October 20, 1799) was one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799. His son, James Iredell ...

(D-NC) 1830-1831 * Nehemiah Knight (NR/W-RI) 1831-1835 *

Samuel McKean Samuel McKean (April 7, 1787December 14, 1841) was an American merchant and politician from Burlington, Pennsylvania, who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate for Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1839 and of the U.S. House of Representati ...

(D-PA) 1835-1839 * Nehemiah Knight (W-RI) 1839-1841 * Albert S. White (W-IN) 1841-1842 * Benjamin Tappan (D-OH) 1842-1845 *

Jesse Speight Jesse Speight (September 22, 1795May 1, 1847) was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century. Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina H ...

(D-MS) 1845-1846 *

Alpheus Felch Alpheus Felch (September 28, 1804June 13, 1896) was the fifth governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan. Early life Felch was born in Limerick (in modern-day Maine, then a part of Massachusetts). He was left an orphan at the age of th ...

(D-MI) 1847-1848 *

Isaac P. Walker Isaac Pigeon Walker (November 2, 1815March 29, 1872) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Walker was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Illinois in 1825. He practiced law in Springfield, Illinois, and ...

(D-WI) 1848-1849 * Augustus Dodge (D-IA) 1849-1853 * Josiah Evans (D-SC) 1853-1858 * William Wright (D-NJ) 1858-1859 * Andrew Johnson (D-TN) 1859-1861 * James Dixon (R-CT) 1861-1865 * B. Gratz Brown (R-MO) 1865-1866 * George H. Williams (R-OR) 1866-1867 *

Aaron Cragin Aaron Harrison Cragin (February 3, 1821May 10, 1898) was an American politician and a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Early life Born in Weston, Vermont, Cragin completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admit ...

(R-NH) 1867-1870 * Orris S. Ferry (R-CT) 1870-1871 *

Reuben Fenton Reuben Eaton Fenton (July 4, 1819August 25, 1885) was an American merchant and politician from New York. In the mid- 19th Century, he served as a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and as Governor of New York. Early life Fenton was bor ...

(R-NY) 1871-1872 * Matthew Carpenter (R-WI) 1872-1875 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1875-1879 * Benjamin Hill (D-GA) 1879-1881 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1881-1893 *

Edward Douglass White Edward Douglass White Jr. (November 3, 1844 – May 19, 1921) was an American politician and jurist from Louisiana. White was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years, first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910, then as the ninth chief ...

(D-LA) 1893-1894 *

Johnson N. Camden Johnson Newlon Camden (March 6, 1828 – April 25, 1908) was a prominent oilman, industrialist, banker, railroad tycoon, and politician who was estimated to have $25 million at the time of his unexpected death. Although both of his attempts to b ...

(D-WV) 1894-1895 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1895-1903 * John Kean (R-NJ) 1903-1911 * Frank O. Briggs (R-NJ) 1911-1913 *

John Sharp Williams John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the United States Democratic Party, Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Re ...

(D-MS) 1913-1916 * Luke Lea (D-TN) 1916-1917 * William H. Thompson (D-KS) 1917-1919 * William M. Calder (R-NY) 1919-1923 *

Henry W. Keyes Henry Wilder Keyes (; May 23, 1863June 19, 1938) was an American Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. He served as the 56th governor of New Hampshire from 1917 to 1919 and as a United States Senator. Early life Keyes was born in ...

(R-NH) 1923-1927 *

Charles S. Deneen Charles Samuel Deneen (May 4, 1863 – February 5, 1940) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Illinois, from 1905 to 1913. He was the first Illinois governor to serve two consecutive terms totalli ...

(R-IL) 1927-1931 * John G. Townsend, Jr. (R-DE) 1931-1933 *

James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, ...

(D-SC) 1933-1941 *

Scott W. Lucas Scott Wike Lucas (February 19, 1892 – February 22, 1968) was an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives (1935–1939) and the U.S. Senate (1939–1 ...

(D-IL) 1941-1947

Sources

Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees
U.S. Senate Historical Office, January 2005. Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate 1807 establishments in the United States 1947 disestablishments in Washington, D.C.