The 64th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
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and the
United States House of Representatives
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. It met in
Washington, DC
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from March 4, 1915, to March 4, 1917, during the third and fourth years of
Woodrow Wilson
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's
presidency
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. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
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was based on the
Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910.
The
Democrats maintained a majority in both chambers (albeit reduced in the House), and along with
President
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Wilson also maintained an overall federal government
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Trifecta
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.
Major events
*June 9, 1915: (Prelude to
World War I
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):
U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
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resigned over a disagreement regarding the nation's handling of the
RMS Lusitania
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sinking.
*July 24, 1915: The steamer
SS Eastland
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capsized in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
*July 28, 1915: The United States occupation of
Haiti
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began.
*August 5–August 23, 1915: Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans left 275 dead.
*March 8–March 9, 1916:
Mexican Revolution:
Pancho Villa
Francisco "Pancho" Villa (, Orozco rebelled in March 1912, both for Madero's continuing failure to enact land reform and because he felt insufficiently rewarded for his role in bringing the new president to power. At the request of Madero's c ...
led about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against
Columbus, New Mexico
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, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
*March 15, 1916: President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
*May 5, 1916:
United States Marines
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invaded the
Dominican Republic
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.
*July 30, 1916: German agents caused the
Black Tom explosion
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in
Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least 7 people.
*November 7, 1916:
U.S. presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Republican
Charles E. Hughes.
*January 11, 1917: (Prelude to
World War I
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): German saboteurs set off the
Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I.
*February 3, 1917: (Prelude to
World War I
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):The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany
Major legislation
* May 15, 1916:
Kern Amendment
* May 29, 1916:
Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916
* May 31, 1916:
Tillman Act
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The Act was signed int ...
* June 3, 1916:
National Defense Act of 1916
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* June 9, 1916:
Chamberlain–Ferris Act
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* July 11, 1916:
Federal Aid Road Act of 1916
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(Bankhead–Shackleford Act, also known as Federal "Good Roads" Act)
* July 11, 1916:
Terminal Inspection Act of 1916
* July 17, 1916:
Federal Farm Loan Act (Hollis–Lever Act)
* July 27, 1916:
River and Harbors Act of 1916 In United States federal legislation the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1916 provided Federal money for the maintenance and improvements of specified rivers and harbors across the United States.
This act in particular aided the Cape Fear River in North ...
* July 28, 1916:
Space Basis Act
* July 28, 1916:
Railway Mail Service Pay Act
* August 9, 1916:
Uniform Bill of Lading Act of 1916 The Uniform Bills of Lading Act was adopted in 1909 and passed by the US Uniform Law Commission. The act addressed the judicial and legislative treatment of issues such as the extent of the carrier's liability to the consignee
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* August 11, 1916:
Irrigation District Act of 1916 (Smith Act)
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* August 11, 1916:
Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916
* August 11, 1916:
Grain Standards Act of 1916
* August 11, 1916:
Cotton Futures Act of 1916
* August 11, 1916:
Brush Disposal Act of 1916
* August 11, 1916:
Warehouse Act of 1916
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* August 25, 1916:
National Park Service Act (Kent–Smoot Act)
* August 29, 1916:
2nd Uniform Bill of Lading Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Jones Act (Philippines)
* August 29, 1916:
Federal Possession and Control Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Army Appropriations Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Naval Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Naval Reserve Force Act
* August 31, 1916:
Federal Standard Container Act
* August 31, 1916:
* September 1, 1916:
Keating–Owen Act
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* September 3, 1916:
Adamson Act
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History
The terms that were embodied in the act were negotiated by ...
* September 7, 1916:
Merchant Marine Act of 1916 (Alexander Act)
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* September 7, 1916:
Workingmen's Compensation Act (Kern–McGillicuddy Act)
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* September 8, 1916:
Anti-Dumping Act of 1916
* September 8, 1916:
Emergency Revenue Act of 1916
* October 20, 1916:
Special Air Preparedness Act
* December 29, 1916:
Stock-Raising Homestead Act
* February 5, 1917:
Immigration Act of 1917
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* February 22, 1917:
Federal Interpleader Act of 1917
* February 23, 1917:
Smith–Hughes Act
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* February 26, 1917:
Mount McKinley National Park Act of 1917
* March 1, 1917:
Flood Control Act of 1917 (Ransdell–Humphreys Act)
* March 2, 1917:
Jones–Shafroth Act
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* March 3, 1917:
Reed Amendment
* March 3, 1917:
Sheppard Bone-Dry Act
* March 3, 1917:
Special Preparedness Fund Act of 1917
* March 4, 1917:
Timber Export Act
Treaties
*January 17, 1917:
Treaty of the Danish West Indies signed by President Wilson, ceding the
Danish West Indies
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to the United States after their purchase from
Denmark
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, and renaming them the
US Virgin Islands
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.
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
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President
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:
Thomas R. Marshall (D)
*
Presidents pro tempore:
James P. Clarke (D) and
Willard Saulsbury Jr.
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*
Majority Whip
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:
J. Hamilton Lewis
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(D)
*
Minority Whip
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:
Charles Curtis
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(R)
*
Republican Conference Chairman
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:
Jacob Harold Gallinger
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*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
John W. Kern
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*
Republican Conference Secretary
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:
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
Willard Saulsbury Jr.
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, until December 14, 1916
**
Key Pittman
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, acting
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
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:
Champ Clark
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(D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Claude Kitchin
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*
Majority Whip
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: vacant
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Edward W. Saunders
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*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Frank Ellsworth Doremus
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Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
James R. Mann
*
Minority Whip
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:
Charles M. Hamilton
*
Republican Conference Chairman
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:
William S. Greene
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
Frank P. Woods
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Members
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Alabama
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John H. Bankhead
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: 3.
Oscar W. Underwood
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Arizona
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: 1.
Henry F. Ashurst
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(D)
: 3.
Marcus A. Smith
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Arkansas
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: 2.
Joseph T. Robinson
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: 3.
James P. Clarke (D), until October 1, 1916
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William F. Kirby
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California
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: 1.
John D. Works
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(R)
: 3.
James D. Phelan
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(D)
Colorado
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: 2.
John F. Shafroth
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Early life
Born in Fayette, Missouri, he attended the common sc ...
(D)
: 3.
Charles S. Thomas
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Connecticut
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: 1.
George P. McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut.
Biography
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(R)
: 3.
Frank B. Brandegee (R)
Delaware
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: 1.
Henry A. du Pont
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(R)
: 2.
Willard Saulsbury Jr.
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(D)
Florida
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: 1.
Nathan P. Bryan
Nathan Philemon Bryan (April 23, 1872 – August 8, 1935) was a United States senator from Florida and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education and career
Born on April 23, 1872, in For ...
(D)
: 3.
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
(D)
Georgia
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Georgia may also refer to:
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: 2.
Thomas W. Hardwick
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(D)
: 3.
Hoke Smith
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(D)
Idaho
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: 2.
William E. Borah
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(R)
: 3.
James H. Brady
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(R)
Illinois
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: 2.
James H. Lewis
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(D)
: 3.
Lawrence Y. Sherman
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(R)
Indiana
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: 1.
John W. Kern
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(D)
: 3.
Benjamin F. Shively
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(D), until March 14, 1916
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Thomas Taggart
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(D), March 20, 1916 - November 7, 1916
::
James E. Watson
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(R), from November 8, 1916
Iowa
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: 2.
William S. Kenyon (R)
: 3.
Albert B. Cummins
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to ...
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William H. Thompson (D)
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Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senat ...
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Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virgini ...
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Ollie M. James
Ollie Murray James (July 27, 1871August 28, 1918) was an American politician. A Democrat, he represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Biography
James was born and raised in western Kentuc ...
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John C.W. Beckham
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (August 5, 1869 – January 9, 1940) was an American attorney serving as the 35th Governor of Kentucky and a United States Senator from Kentucky. He was the state's first popularly-elected senator after the pass ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-smal ...
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Joseph E. Ransdell
Joseph Eugene Ransdell (October 7, 1858July 27, 1954) was an attorney and politician from Louisiana. Beginning in 1899, he was elected for seven consecutive terms as United States representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He su ...
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Robert F. Broussard
Robert Foligny Broussard (August 17, 1864 – April 12, 1918) was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish, to Jean Dorville Broussard, ...
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Maine
Maine () is a U.S. state, state in the New England and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and territories of Canad ...
: 1.
Charles Fletcher Johnson
Charles Fletcher Johnson (February 14, 1859 – February 15, 1930) was a United States senator from Maine and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Johnson was nominated by President Woodrow Wi ...
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Edwin C. Burleigh
Edwin Chick Burleigh (November 27, 1843June 16, 1916) was an American politician who served as the 42nd Governor of Maine from 1889 to 1893. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he went on to hold federal office, ...
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Bert M. Fernald
Bert Manfred Fernald (April 3, 1858August 23, 1926) was an American farmer, businessman, and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician who became the List of Governors of Maine, 47th Governor of Maine and a United States senator. ...
(R), from September 11, 1916
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; ...
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Blair Lee (D)
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John Walter Smith (D)
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
(R)
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John W. Weeks
John Wingate Weeks (April 11, 1860July 12, 1926) was an American banker and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican, he served as Mayor of Newton from 1902 to 1903, a United States representative from 1905 to 1913, United States Senator fr ...
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...
: 1.
Charles E. Townsend
Charles Elroy Townsend (August 15, 1856August 3, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as both a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. He served in the United States Congress from 1903 to 1923.
Early life and career ...
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: 2.
William Alden Smith
William Alden Smith (May 12, 1859 – October 11, 1932) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. After the 1912 sinking of the ''Titanic'', Smith chaired the Senate hearings into the disaster. The audience w ...
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Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
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Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hu ...
(R)
: 2.
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
(R)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mis ...
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John Sharp Williams
John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908. ...
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James K. Vardaman
James Kimble Vardaman (July 26, 1861 – June 25, 1930) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi and was the Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908. A Democrat, Vardaman was elected in 1912 to the United States Senate ...
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Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
: 1.
James A. Reed (D)
: 3.
William J. Stone
William Joel Stone (May 7, 1848April 14, 1918) was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S. Senate from 1903 until his death; he also served a ...
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Montana
Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...
: 1.
Henry L. Myers
Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States senator from Montana.
Biography
Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitt ...
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Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859March 2, 1933) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana who represented Montana in the US Senate from 1913 to 1933. He was initially elected by ...
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Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the so ...
: 1.
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (September 18, 1859February 3, 1934) was an American United States House of Representatives, congressman and United States Senate, U.S. Senator from Nebraska, and the founder of the ''Omaha World-Herald'' newspaper.
Lif ...
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: 2.
George W. Norris
George William Norris (July 11, 1861September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until 1913 ...
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
: 1.
Key Pittman
Key Denson Pittman (September 19, 1872 – November 10, 1940) was a United States senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, serving eventually as president pro tempore as well as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Bio ...
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Francis G. Newlands
Francis Griffith Newlands (August 28, 1846December 24, 1917) was a United States representative and Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party.
A supporter of westward expansion, he helped pass the Newlands Reclamation Act of 190 ...
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...
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Henry F. Hollis
Henry French Hollis (August 30, 1869July 7, 1949) was a United States senator from New Hampshire, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Life
He attended public schools and studied under private tutors. He engaged in civil engineering for ...
(D)
: 3.
Jacob H. Gallinger
Jacob Harold Gallinger (March 28, 1837 – August 17, 1918), was a United States senator from New Hampshire who served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1912 and 1913.
Early life and career
Jacob Harold Gallinger was born in Cornwal ...
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...
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James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
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: 2.
William Hughes (D)
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
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Thomas B. Catron
Thomas Benton Catron (October 6, 1840May 15, 1921) was an American politician and lawyer who was influential in the establishment of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and served as one of its first United States Senators.
Catron was a native of Mi ...
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Albert B. Fall
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861November 30, 1944) was a United States senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal; he was the only perso ...
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
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James A. O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman (May 5, 1860 – May 17, 1943) was an American attorney, judge, and politician from New York. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a United States Senator from March 31, 1911 to March 3, 1917.
A native of M ...
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: 3.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...
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Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North ...
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: 3.
Lee S. Overman
Lee Slater Overman (January 3, 1854December 12, 1930) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1903 and 1930. He was the first US Senator to be elected by popular vote in the state, as the legislature had appointed ...
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North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, S ...
: 1.
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
(R)
: 3.
Asle J. Gronna
Asle Jorgenson Gronna (December 10, 1858May 4, 1922) was an American politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate from North Dakota, and one of the six to vote against the United States declaration of war leading to the First W ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
: 1.
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 ...
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Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. A ...
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Oklahoma
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Robert L. Owen
Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railro ...
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Thomas P. Gore
Thomas Pryor Gore (December 10, 1870March 16, 1949) was an American politician who served as one of the first two United States senators from Oklahoma, from 1907 to 1921 and again from 1931 to 1937. He first entered politics as an activist for ...
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Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idah ...
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Harry Lane
Harry Lane (August 28, 1855 – May 23, 1917) was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A physician by training, Lane served as the head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum before being forced out by political enemies. After a decade pra ...
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George E. Chamberlain
George Earle Chamberlain Sr. (January 1, 1854 – July 9, 1928) was an American attorney, politician, and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and member of the Democratic Party, Chamberlain's political achievements included appo ...
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...
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George T. Oliver
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George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
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Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but i ...
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Henry F. Lippitt
Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856December 28, 1933) was a member of the prominent Lippitt family, which made its fortune in the textile business, and served as United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography
Born in Providence o ...
(R)
: 2.
LeBaron B. Colt
LeBaron Bradford Colt (June 25, 1846 – August 18, 1924) was a United States senator from Rhode Island and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the ...
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South Carolina
)'' Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = "Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = G ...
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Benjamin R. Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white ...
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Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
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South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
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Thomas Sterling
Thomas Sterling (February 21, 1851August 26, 1930) was an American lawyer, politician, and academic who served as a member of the United States Senate and the first dean of the University of South Dakota College of Law.
A Republican, he se ...
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Edwin S. Johnson
Edwin Stockton Johnson (February 26, 1857July 19, 1933) was a United States senator from South Dakota.
Biography
Born in Owen County, Indiana near Spencer, he moved with his parents to Osceola, Iowa, in 1857 and attended the public schools. He ...
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Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...
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Luke Lea (D)
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John K. Shields
John Knight Shields (August 15, 1858September 30, 1934) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925. He also served as an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Biography
Shields was born at his family's est ...
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Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
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Charles A. Culberson
Charles Allen Culberson (June 10, 1855March 19, 1925) was an American political figure and Democrat who served as the 21st Governor of Texas from 1895 to 1899, and as a United States senator from Texas from 1899 to 1923.
Early life and educati ...
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: 2.
Morris Sheppard (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
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George Sutherland
George Alexander Sutherland (March 25, 1862July 18, 1942) was an English-born American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party, he also rep ...
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Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot (January 10, 1862February 9, 1941) was an American politician, businessman, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). First elected by the Utah State Legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1902, he served ...
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
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Carroll S. Page
Carroll Smalley Page (January 10, 1843December 3, 1925) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 43rd governor of Vermont and a United States senator.
A native of Westfield, Vermont, Page was the son of a successful farmer ...
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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 ...
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography an ...
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Claude A. Swanson
Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933), befo ...
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Thomas S. Martin
Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847November 12, 1919) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County, Virginia, who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as t ...
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Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
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Miles Poindexter
Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive, he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911, and two terms as a United States senat ...
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Wesley L. Jones
Wesley Livsey Jones (October 9, 1863November 19, 1932) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate representing the state of Washington.
Born near Bethany, Illinois days aft ...
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
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William E. Chilton
William Edwin Chilton (March 17, 1858November 7, 1939) was a United States senator from West Virginia. Born in St. Albans, West Virginia, Colesmouth, Virginia (now St. Albans, West Virginia), he attended public and private schools and graduated ...
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: 2.
Nathan Goff
Nathan Goff Jr. (February 9, 1843 – April 23, 1920) was a United States representative from West Virginia, a Union Army officer, the 28th United States Secretary of the Navy during President Rutherford B. Hayes administration, a United States ...
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: 1.
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855June 18, 1925), was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the 20th Governor of Wisconsin. A Republican for most of his ...
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Paul O. Husting
Paul Oscar Adolph Husting (April 25, 1866October 21, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Mayville, Wisconsin. He was the first popularly-elected United States senator from Wisconsin, serving from 1915 until his death in 1 ...
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Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the sou ...
: 1.
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
(R)
: 2.
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
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House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = " Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...
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John Abercrombie (D)
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Oscar Lee Gray
Oscar Lee Gray (July 2, 1865 – January 2, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Marion, Mississippi, Gray attended school in Choctaw County, Alabama. He studied law, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1885, and was ...
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S. Hubert Dent Jr.
Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. (August 16, 1869 – October 6, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Eufaula, Alabama, Dent attended the common schools, and was graduated from Southern University (later known as Birmingham Souther ...
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Henry B. Steagall
Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was a United States representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency and in 1933, he co-sponsored the Glass–Steagall Act with Carter Glass, an ac ...
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Fred L. Blackmon
Fred Leonard Blackmon (September 15, 1873 – February 8, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born at Lime Branch, Georgia, Blackmon moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1883.
He attended the public schools in DeArm ...
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J. Thomas Heflin
James Thomas Heflin (April 9, 1869 – April 22, 1951), nicknamed "Cotton Tom", was an American politician who served as a United States representative and United States senator from Alabama.
Early life
Born in Louina, Alabama, he attended ...
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William B. Oliver
William Bacon Oliver (May 23, 1867 – May 27, 1948) was a Congressman from Alabama.
He was born in Eutaw, Alabama, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1887 and from the law department in 1889. After additional courses at the Univers ...
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John L. Burnett
John Lawson Burnett (January 20, 1854 – May 13, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Life
Born in Cedar Bluff, Alabama, Burnett attended the common schools of the county, Wesleyan Institute, Cave Spring, Georgia, and the local high ...
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Edward B. Almon
Edward Berton Almon (April 18, 1860 – June 22, 1933) was an American, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives who represented northwest Alabama's 8th congressional district.
Early life
Almon was born near Moulto ...
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George Huddleston
George Huddleston (November 11, 1869 – February 29, 1960) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, father of George Huddleston, Jr.
Life and career
Huddleston was born on a farm near Lebanon, Tennessee, the son of Nancy Emeline (Sherrill ...
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Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States. It is the list of U.S. states and territories by area, 6th largest and the list of U.S. states and territories by population, 14 ...
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Carl Hayden
Carl Trumbull Hayden (October 2, 1877 – January 25, 1972) was an American politician. Representing Arizona in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1969, he was the first U.S. Senator to serve seven terms. Serving as the state's first Represe ...
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Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the ...
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Thaddeus H. Caraway
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (October 17, 1871 – November 6, 1931) was a Democratic Party politician from the US state of Arkansas who represented the state first in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to 1921 and then in the US Senate fr ...
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William A. Oldfield
William Allan Oldfield (February 4, 1874 – November 19, 1928) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1909 until his death.
Early life
Born in Franklin, Arkansas, Oldfield was the son of b ...
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John N. Tillman
John Newton Tillman (December 13, 1859 – March 9, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. In the Arkansas State Senate he proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891, a Jim Crow law to segregate African American passengers. The bill became ...
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Otis Wingo
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Henderson M. Jacoway
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Early life and education
Born in Dardanelle, Arkansas to Wi ...
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Samuel M. Taylor
Samuel Mitchell Taylor (May 25, 1852 – September 13, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, father of Chester W. Taylor.
Born near Fulton, Mississippi, Taylor attended the public schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar i ...
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William S. Goodwin
William Shields Goodwin (May 2, 1866 – August 9, 1937) was a United States Representative from Arkansas.
Born in Warren, Arkansas, Goodwin attended the public schools, the Farmers' Academy near Duluth, Georgia, Cooledge's Preparatory School ...
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William Kent
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John E. Raker
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Life
He was born near Knoxvi ...
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Charles F. Curry
Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 – October 10, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from California and the father of Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.
Curry was born in Naperville, Illinois and attended the common schools and the Episcopal A ...
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Julius Kahn Julius Kahn may refer to:
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John I. Nolan
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John A. Elston
John Arthur Elston (February 10, 1874 – December 15, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from California.
Born in Woodland, California, Elston attended public schools.
He graduated from Hesperian College, Woodland, 1892.
He graduated from the Unive ...
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Denver S. Church
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Everis A. Hayes
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Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
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Charles H. Randall
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Henry S. Benedict
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Early life and education
Benedict was born in Boonville, Missour ...
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William Kettner
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Benjamin Clark Hilliard
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Charles Bateman Timberlake
Charles Bateman Timberlake (September 25, 1854 – May 31, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Timberlake attended the common schools and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana from 1871 to 1874.
He taught scho ...
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Edward Keating
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Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mounta ...
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Edward Thomas Taylor
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Connecticut
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P. Davis Oakey
Peter Davis Oakey (February 25, 1861 – November 18, 1920), usually called P. Davis Oakey, was a businessman and government official from Connecticut. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he was most notable for his service in the Uni ...
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Richard P. Freeman
Richard Patrick Freeman (April 24, 1869 – July 8, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Biography
Born in New London, Connecticut, Freeman attended the public schools.
He was graduated from Bulkeley High School at New London ...
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John Q. Tilson
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Ebenezer J. Hill
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James P. Glynn
James Peter Glynn (November 12, 1867 – March 6, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Born in Winsted, Connecticut, the son of Irish immigrants,
Glynn attended the public schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1 ...
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Delaware
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Thomas W. Miller
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Florida
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Stephen M. Sparkman
Stephen Milancthon Sparkman (July 29, 1849 – September 26, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Stephen M. Sparkman was born on a farm in Hernando County, Florida, on July 29, 1849. He attended the common schools.
He taug ...
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Emmett Wilson
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William J. Sears
William Joseph Sears (December 4, 1874 – March 30, 1944) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Florida. A Democrat, he was an avowed white supremacist.
Early life and education
Born in Smithville, Georgia, Sears moved with his paren ...
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Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
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Charles G. Edwards
Charles Gordon Edwards (July 2, 1878 – July 13, 1931) was an American political figure from the state of Georgia.
Early years and education
Edwards was born in Daisy, Georgia in 1878 and attended the Gordon Institute in Barnesville, Geo ...
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Frank Park
Frank Park (March 3, 1864November 20, 1925) was an American politician, educator, lawyer and jurist from the state of Georgia.
Early years and education
Park was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1864 to James Fletcher Park and Emma Augusta Pa ...
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Charles R. Crisp
Charles Robert Crisp (October 19, 1870 – February 7, 1937) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia, son of Charles Frederick Crisp.
Life
Born in Ellaville, Georgia, Crisp attended the public schools of Americus, Georgia.
He served as c ...
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William C. Adamson
William Charles Adamson (August 13, 1854 – January 3, 1929) was a United States representative from Georgia, an Associate Justice of the United States Customs Court and a member of the Board of General Appraisers.
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Gordon Lee Gordon Lee may refer to:
*Gordon Lee (comic store owner) (1958–2013), American comic book store owner charged with distributing obscene materials
*Gordon Lee (congressman) (1859–1927), U.S. congressman from Georgia
*Gordon Lee (footballer) (193 ...
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Samuel Joelah Tribble
Samuel Joelah Tribble (November 15, 1869 – December 8, 1916) was an American politician and lawyer.
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Tinsley W. Rucker Jr.
Tinsley White Rucker Jr. (March 24, 1848 – November 18, 1926) was an American politician, soldier and lawyer.
Life
Rucker was born near Farm Hill, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia in Elbert County, Georgia, Elbert County and attended P ...
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Thomas Montgomery Bell
Thomas Montgomery Bell (March 17, 1861 – March 18, 1941) was an American politician who served as House majority whip from 1913 to 1915.
Bell was born in Nacoochee Valley, near Cleveland, Georgia. He graduated from Moore's Business Univer ...
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Carl Vinson
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Dudley M. Hughes
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Hughes was born in Jeffersonville, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia in Athens.
In 1882, Hughes was elected ...
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Idaho
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Addison T. Smith
Addison Taylor Smith (September 5, 1862 – July 5, 1956) was a congressman from Idaho. Smith served as a Republican in the U.S. House for ten terms, from 1913 to 1933.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Smith began his political career in 1891 in Washin ...
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Robert M. McCracken
Robert McDowell McCracken (March 15, 1874 – May 16, 1934) was a United States Representative from Idaho. McCracken served one term as a Republican in the House, from 1915 to 1917.
Born in Vincennes, Indiana, McCracken was elected in 1914 a ...
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Illinois
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Burnett M. Chiperfield
Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield (June 14, 1870 – June 24, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, father of Robert Bruce Chiperfield.
Early life and military service
Born in Dover, Illinois, Chiperfield attended the public schools of Ill ...
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William E. Williams
William Elza Williams (May 5, 1857 – September 13, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Detroit, Illinois, Williams attended the public schools and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
He studied law.
He was admitted ...
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Martin B. Madden
Martin Barnaby Madden (March 21, 1855 – April 27, 1928) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He belonged to the Republican Party. As of 2020, he is the last non-African American to serve as a representative for Illinois's 1st congressi ...
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James R. Mann (R)
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William W. Wilson William W. Wilson may refer to:
* William Warfield Wilson (1868–1942), U.S. Representative from Illinois
* William Wallace Wilson, Alberta politician
* William Wilber Wilfred Wilson
William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (October 6, 1885 in Birtle, Ma ...
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James T. McDermott James or Jim McDermott may refer to:
* James T. McDermott (politician) (1872–1938), American politician
* James T. McDermott (judge) (1926–1992), American judge
* Jimmy McDermott (1932–2006), English professional footballer
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Adolph J. Sabath
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James McAndrews
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Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, McAndrews attended the common schools. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in business, serving as build ...
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Frank Buchanan (D)
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Thomas Gallagher (D)
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Frederick A. Britten
Frederick Albert Britten (November 18, 1871 – May 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early life
Frederick Albert Britten was born on November 18, 1871, in Chicago, Illinois. Britten attended Heald's Business College, San Franci ...
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George E. Foss
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Life and career
Foss was born on July 2, 1863, in Berkshire, Vermont. He was a brother of Eugene Noble Fos ...
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Ira C. Copley
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Charles Eugene Fuller
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Born near Belvidere, Illinois, Fuller attended the common schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice ...
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John C. McKenzie
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Born on a farm near Elizabeth, Woodbine Township, Illinois to a Scottish immigrant father,
McKenzie attended the common schools, and ...
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Clyde H. Tavenner
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Early life
Tavenner was born in Cordo ...
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Edward John King
Edward John King (July 1, 1867 – February 17, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, King moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Galesburg, Knox County, in 1880. He attended the ...
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Claude U. Stone
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Biography
Born on a farm in Menard County, near Greenview, Illinois, Stone attended the rural school and Western Normal College, Bushnell, ...
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John A. Sterling
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Early life and education
Born to Charles Sterling (1821-1905) and Anna Kessler (1827-1908) near Le Roy in ...
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Joseph G. Cannon
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William B. McKinley
William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856December 7, 1926) was a U.S. Representative (1905–1913, 1915–1921) and United States Senator (1921–1926) from the State of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he was born near Petersburg, Il ...
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Henry T. Rainey
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Loren E. Wheeler
Loren Edgar Wheeler (October 7, 1862 – January 8, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born in Havana, Illinois, Wheeler attended the public schools and Graylock Institute, South Williamstown, Massachusetts. He moved to Springfield, ...
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William A. Rodenberg (R)
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Martin D. Foster
Martin David Foster (September 3, 1861 – October 20, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near West Salem, Illinois, Foster attended the public schools and Eureka College (Illinois). He was graduated from the Eclectic Medical ...
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Thomas S. Williams (R)
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Edward E. Denison
Edward Everett Denison (August 28, 1873 – June 17, 1953) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early life
Born in Marion, Illinois, Denison attended the public schools. He was graduated from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, in 1895, ...
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Indiana
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Charles Lieb
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Biography
Born in Flehingen, Germany, Lieb immigrated to the United States in 1868 and ...
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William A. Cullop
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Biography
Born near Oaktown, Indiana, Cullop attended the ...
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William E. Cox
William Elijah Cox (September 6, 1861 – March 11, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1919.
Early life and career
Born on a farm near Birdseye, Indiana, Cox att ...
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Lincoln Dixon
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Biography
Born in Vernon, Indiana, Dixon attended Vernon Academy, and ...
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Ralph Wilbur Moss
Ralph Wilbur Moss (April 21, 1862 – April 26, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born in Center Point, Indiana, Moss was educated in the common schools of the township and attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, f ...
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Finly H. Gray
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Biography
Born near Orange, Indiana, Gray att ...
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Merrill Moores
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Biography
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Moores attended the public s ...
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John A.M. Adair
John Alfred McDowell Adair (December 22, 1864 – October 5, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Portland, Indiana, Adair attended the publi ...
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Martin A. Morrison (D)
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William Robert Wood (R)
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George W. Rauch
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Early life and career
Born on a farm near Warren in Salamon ...
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Cyrus Cline
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Career overview
Born near Mansfield, Ohio, Cline moved to Steuben County, India ...
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Henry A. Barnhart
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Biography
Born near Twelve Mile, Indiana, Barnhart attended the common scho ...
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Iowa
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Charles A. Kennedy
Charles Augustus Kennedy (March 24, 1869 – January 10, 1951) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
Biography
Born in Montrose, Iowa, Kennedy completed preparatory stud ...
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Harry E. Hull
Harry Edward Hull (March 12, 1864 – January 16, 1938) was an American businessman and politician who served five terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district from 1915 to 1925. He also served as Commissioner ...
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Burton E. Sweet
Burton Erwin Sweet (December 10, 1867 – January 3, 1957) was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, then a wide but short chain of counties in north-central and northeastern Iowa, in the shape of a ...
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Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert Nelson Haugen (April 21, 1859 – July 18, 1933) was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member ...
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James W. Good
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C. William Ramseyer
Christian William Ramseyer (March 13, 1875 – November 1, 1943) was a nine-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district.
Biography
He was born on March 13, 1875 near Collinsville, Ohio. Ramseyer moved to Davis Coun ...
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Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius Clay Dowell (February 29, 1864 – February 4, 1940) was a Republican United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to 1935, and again from 1937 until his death in 1940, with the interregnum ca ...
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Horace M. Towner
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William R. Green
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Frank P. Woods
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Thomas J. Steele
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Kansas
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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.
Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (August 22, 1870 – August 4, 1931) was an American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony.
He is the son of newspaper publisher Daniel Read Anthony. He was born in Le ...
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Joseph Taggart
Joseph Taggart (June 15, 1867 – December 3, 1938) was a lawyer and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 2nd Congressional District of Kansas from November 7, 1911, to March 3, 1917.
He was born near ...
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Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
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Dudley Doolittle
Dudley Doolittle (June 21, 1881 – November 14, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Doolittle attended the public schools and the University of Kansas at Lawrence, being graduated from its law depart ...
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Guy T. Helvering
Guy Tresillian Helvering (January 10, 1878 – July 4, 1946) was a United States representative from Kansas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
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John R. Connelly
John Robert Connelly (February 27, 1870 – September 9, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Mount Sterling, Illinois, Connelly moved to Thayer County, Nebraska, with his parents in 1883. He attended the common schools and ...
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Jouett Shouse
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Born in Midway, Kentucky, his family mo ...
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William A. Ayres
William Augustus Ayres (April 19, 1867 – February 17, 1952) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and a Federal Trade Commissioner.
Early life and career
William A. Ayres was born in Elizabethtown, Illinoi ...
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Kentucky
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Alben Barkley
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David Hayes Kincheloe
David Hayes Kincheloe (April 9, 1877 – April 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Kentucky and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and early life
Born on April 9, 1877, near Sacramento, Kentucky, Kincheloe atten ...
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Robert Y. Thomas Jr.
Robert Young Thomas Jr. (July 13, 1855 – September 3, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born near Russellville, Kentucky, Thomas attended the common schools, and was graduated from Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, in 1878. ...
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Ben Johnson Ben, Benjamin or Benny Johnson may refer to:
In sports Association football
* Ben Johnson (footballer, born 2000), English footballer
* Ben Johnson (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
Other codes of football
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J. Swagar Sherley
Joseph Swagar Sherley (November 28, 1871 – February 13, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Sherley attended public schools, graduating from the Louisville High School in 1889 and from the la ...
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Arthur B. Rouse
Arthur Blythe Rouse (June 20, 1874 – January 25, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Early life
Born in Burlington, Kentucky, Rouse attended the public schools, graduating from Boone County High School. He was graduated from Hanov ...
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J. Campbell Cantrill
James Campbell Cantrill (July 9, 1870 – September 2, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Background
Born in Georgetown, Kentucky to Jennie Moore and James Edward Campbell, Cantrill attended the common schools, Georgetown (Kentuc ...
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Harvey Helm
Harvey Helm (December 2, 1865 – March 3, 1919) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Stanford Male Academy and was graduated from the Central University of Kentucky in 1887. He stud ...
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William Jason Fields
William Jason Fields (December 29, 1874October 21, 1954) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Known as "Honest Bill from Olive Hill, Kentucky, Olive Hill", he represented Kentucky's 9th congressional district, Kentucky's ...
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John W. Langley
John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 – January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.
Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three year ...
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Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers (February 1, 1869 – July 25, 1932) was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
Early life
He was born near Williamsburg, Kentucky. He attended ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-smal ...
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Albert Estopinal
Albert Estopinal (January 30, 1845 – April 28, 1919) was an American Civil War veteran who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1908 to 1919.
Biography
Albert Estopinal was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, o ...
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Henry Garland Dupré (D)
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Whitmell P. Martin
Whitmell Pugh Martin (August 12, 1867 – April 6, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana. Although he later served most of his congressional career as a Democrat, Martin was first elected as a "Bull Moose" Progressive in 1914. He ...
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John Thomas Watkins
John Thomas Watkins (January 15, 1854 – April 25, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.
Early life and education
John Thomas Watkins was the ...
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Riley Joseph Wilson
Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 – February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United Sta ...
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Lewis Lovering Morgan
Lewis Lovering Morgan (March 2, 1876 – June 10, 1950) was an Law of the United States, American lawyer and politician from Covington, Louisiana, Covington, Louisiana.
He served in the United States House of Representatives from November 5 ...
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Ladislas Lazaro
Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from from 1913 to 1927.
Biography
Born near Ville Platte, Evangeline (then part of St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazar ...
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James Benjamin Aswell
James Benjamin Aswell Sr. (December 23, 1869 – March 16, 1931) was a prominent educator and a Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana, who served from 1913 until his death, which occurred twelve days into his tenth term.
Life and care ...
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Maine
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Asher C. Hinds
Asher Crosby Hinds (February 6, 1863 – May 1, 1919) was a United States representative from Maine. He attended the public schools and Coburn Classical Institute.
Hinds graduated from Colby College in 1883, then began newspaper work in Por ...
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Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Daniel J. McGillicuddy (August 27, 1859 – July 30, 1936) was a United States representative from Maine.
Biography
McGillicuddy was born in Lewiston on August 27, 1859, to John and Ellen McGillicuddy, both Irish immigrants. He attended the com ...
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John A. Peters (R)
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Frank E. Guernsey
Frank Edward Guernsey (October 15, 1866 – January 1, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from Maine.
Early life
Guernsey the son of Edward Hersey Guernsey and Hannah (Thompson) Guernsey was born in Dover, Maine on October 15, 1866.
Education
Gu ...
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Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; ...
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Jesse D. Price
Jesse Dashiell Price (August 15, 1863 – May 14, 1939) was a Congressman for the 1st congressional district of Maryland who served two full terms and one partial term from 1914 to 1919.
Price was born in Whitehaven, Maryland, and engaged ...
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J. Frederick C. Talbott
Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (July 29, 1843 – October 5, 1918) was a U.S. Congressman who represented the second Congressional district of Maryland.
Biography
He was born near Lutherville, Maryland on July 29, 1843. He began to study law ...
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Charles P. Coady
Charles Pearce Coady (February 22, 1868 – February 16, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from the third district of Maryland.
Early life
Charles Pearce Coady was born on February 22, 1868, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Mary (née Lyons) and Michae ...
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J. Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum (November 26, 1867–October 5, 1932) was a U.S. Congressman from the 4th Congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932.
Biography
Linthicum was born on 26 November 1867 near Baltimore, Maryland, in ...
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Sydney Emanuel Mudd II
Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (June 20, 1885 – October 11, 1924) was an American attorney and politician from Maryland's 5th congressional district, elected to several terms as a US Representative in Congress, dying in office. He was a Republican. ...
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David J. Lewis (D)
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Allen T. Treadway
Allen Towner Treadway (September 16, 1867 – February 16, 1947) was a Massachusetts Republican politician.
Biography
Treadway was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to William Denton Treadway and Harriet (Heaton) Treadway. Treadway graduate ...
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Frederick H. Gillett
Frederick Huntington Gillett (; October 16, 1851 – July 31, 1935) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts state government and both houses of the U.S. Congress between 1879 and 1931, including six years as Speaker of the Hou ...
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Calvin D. Paige
Calvin DeWitt Paige (May 20, 1848 – April 24, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was president of the Central Cotton Mills Company, the Southbridge Savings Bank and the Edwards C ...
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Samuel E. Winslow
Samuel Ellsworth Winslow (April 11, 1862 – July 11, 1940) was an American politician and Republican Congressman from Massachusetts.
Biography
Winslow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He spent a year at the Williston Seminary in Eastha ...
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John J. Rogers
John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Rogers was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard U ...
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Augustus P. Gardner
Augustus Peabody Gardner (November 5, 1865 – January 14, 1918) was an American military officer and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician from Massachusetts. He represented the North Shore (Massachusetts), North Shore reg ...
(R)
: . Michael F. Phelan (D)
: . Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
: . Ernest W. Roberts (R)
: . Peter F. Tague (D)
: . George H. Tinkham (R)
: . James A. Gallivan (D)
: . William Henry Carter, William H. Carter (R)
: . Richard Olney II (D)
: .
William S. Greene (R)
: . Joseph Walsh (Massachusetts politician), Joseph Walsh (R)
List of United States representatives from Michigan, Michigan
: . Frank E. Doremus (D)
: . Samuel Beakes (D)
: . John M. C. Smith (R)
: . Edward L. Hamilton (R)
: . Carl Mapes (R)
: . Patrick H. Kelley (R)
: . Louis C. Cramton (R)
: . Joseph W. Fordney (R)
: . James C. McLaughlin (R)
: . George A. Loud (R)
: . Frank D. Scott (R)
: . W. Frank James (R)
: . Charles Archibald Nichols (R)
List of United States representatives from Minnesota, Minnesota
: . Sydney Anderson (R)
: . Franklin Ellsworth (R)
: . Charles Russell Davis (R)
: . Carl Van Dyke (D)
: . George Ross Smith (R)
: . Charles August Lindbergh (R)
: . Andrew Volstead (R)
: . Clarence B. Miller (R)
: . Halvor Steenerson (R)
: . Thomas D. Schall (Prog.)
List of United States representatives from Mississippi, Mississippi
: . Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D)
: . Hubert D. Stephens (D)
: . Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
: . Thomas U. Sisson (D)
: . Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (D), until November 24, 1915
:: William Webb Venable (D), from January 4, 1916
: . Pat Harrison (D)
: . Percy E. Quin (D)
: . James W. Collier (D)
List of United States representatives from Missouri, Missouri
: . James Tilghman Lloyd (D)
: . William W. Rucker (D)
: . Joshua Willis Alexander (D)
: . Charles F. Booher (D)
: . William Patterson Borland (D)
: . Clement C. Dickinson (D)
: . Courtney W. Hamlin (D)
: . Dorsey W. Shackleford (D)
: . James Beauchamp Clark (D)
: . Jacob Edwin Meeker (R)
: . William Leo Igoe (D)
: . Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
: . Walter Lewis Hensley (D)
: . Joseph J. Russell (D)
: . Perl D. Decker (D)
: . Thomas L. Rubey (D)
List of United States representatives from Montana, Montana
: . John M. Evans (D)
: . Tom Stout (D)
List of United States representatives from Nebraska, Nebraska
: . C. Frank Reavis (R)
: . Charles O. Lobeck (D)
: . Dan V. Stephens (D)
: . Charles Henry Sloan (R)
: . Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
: . Moses P. Kinkaid (R)
List of United States representatives from Nevada, Nevada
: . Edwin E. Roberts (R)
List of United States representatives from New Hampshire, New Hampshire
: . Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R)
: . Edward Hills Wason (R)
List of United States representatives from New Jersey, New Jersey
: . William J. Browning (R)
: . Isaac Bacharach (R)
: . Thomas J. Scully (D)
: . Elijah C. Hutchinson (R)
: . John H. Capstick (R)
: . Archibald C. Hart (D)
: . Dow H. Drukker (R)
: . Edward W. Gray (R)
: . Richard W. Parker (R)
: . Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
: . John J. Eagan (politician), John J. Eagan (D)
: . James A. Hamill (D)
List of United States representatives from New Mexico, New Mexico
: . Benigno C. Hernández (R)
List of United States representatives from New York, New York
: . Frederick C. Hicks (R) from January 4, 1916
: . C. Pope Caldwell (D)
: . Joseph V. Flynn (D)
: . Harry H. Dale (D)
: . James P. Maher (D)
: . Frederick W. Rowe (R)
: . John J. Fitzgerald (D)
: . Daniel J. Griffin (D)
: . Oscar W. Swift (R)
: . Reuben L. Haskell (R)
: . Daniel J. Riordan (D)
: . Meyer London (Soc.)
: . George W. Loft (D)
: . Michael F. Farley (D)
: . Michael F. Conry (D), until March 2, 1917
: . Peter J. Dooling (D)
: . John F. Carew (D)
: . Thomas G. Patten (D)
: . Walter M. Chandler (Prog.)
: . Isaac Siegel (R)
: . G. Murray Hulbert (D)
: . Henry Bruckner (D)
: . Joseph A. Goulden (D), until May 3, 1915
:: William S. Bennet (R), from November 2, 1915
: . Woodson R. Oglesby (D)
: . James W. Husted (Representative), James W. Husted (R)
: . Edmund Platt (R)
: . Charles B. Ward (R)
: . Rollin B. Sanford (R)
: . James S. Parker (R)
: . William B. Charles (R)
: . Bertrand H. Snell (R), from November 2, 1915
: . Luther W. Mott (R)
: . Homer P. Snyder (R)
: . George W. Fairchild (R)
: . Walter W. Magee (R)
: . Norman J. Gould (R), from November 2, 1915
: . Harry H. Pratt (R)
: . Thomas B. Dunn (R)
: . Henry G. Danforth (R)
: . S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
: . Charles Bennett Smith, Charles B. Smith (D)
: . Daniel A. Driscoll (D)
: .
Charles M. Hamilton (R)
List of United States representatives from North Carolina, North Carolina
: . John Humphrey Small (D)
: .
Claude Kitchin
Claude Kitchin (March 24, 1869 – May 31, 1923) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of North Carolina from 1901 until his death in 1923. A lifelong member of the Democ ...
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: . George E. Hood (D)
: . Edward W. Pou (D)
: . Charles M. Stedman (D)
: . Hannibal L. Godwin (D)
: . Robert N. Page (D)
: . Robert L. Doughton (D)
: . Edwin Y. Webb (D)
: . James Jefferson Britt (R)
List of United States representatives from North Dakota, North Dakota
: . Henry Thomas Helgesen (R)
: . George M. Young (R)
: . Patrick Daniel Norton (R)
List of United States representatives from Ohio, Ohio
: . Nicholas Longworth (R)
: . Alfred G. Allen (D)
: . Warren Gard (D)
: . J. Edward Russell (R)
: . Nelson E. Matthews (R)
: . Charles C. Kearns (R)
: . Simeon D. Fess (R)
: . John A. Key (D)
: . Isaac R. Sherwood (D)
: . Robert M. Switzer (R)
: . Edwin D. Ricketts (R)
: . Clement L. Brumbaugh (D)
: . Arthur W. Overmyer (D)
: . Seward H. Williams (R)
: . William C. Mooney (R)
: . Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
: . William A. Ashbrook (D)
: . David Hollingsworth (R)
: . John G. Cooper (R)
: . William Gordon (1862-1942), William Gordon (D)
: . Robert Crosser (D)
: . Henry I. Emerson (R)
List of United States representatives from Oklahoma, Oklahoma
: . James S. Davenport (D)
: . William W. Hastings (D)
: . Charles D. Carter (D)
: . William H. Murray (D)
: . Joseph Bryan Thompson (D)
: . Scott Ferris (D)
: . James V. McClintic (D)
: . Dick Thompson Morgan (R)
List of United States representatives from Oregon, Oregon
: . Willis C. Hawley (R)
: . Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)
: . Clifton N. McArthur (R)
List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
: . Thomas S. Crago (R)
: . John R.K. Scott (R)
: . Daniel F. Lafean (R)
: . Mahlon M. Garland (R)
: . William S. Vare (R)
: . George S. Graham (R)
: . J. Hampton Moore (R)
: . George W. Edmonds (R)
: . Peter E. Costello (R)
: . George P. Darrow (R)
: . Thomas S. Butler (R)
: . Henry Winfield Watson (R)
: . William W. Griest (R)
: . John R. Farr (R)
: . John J. Casey (D)
: . Robert D. Heaton (R)
: . Arthur G. Dewalt (D)
: . Louis T. McFadden (R)
: . Edgar R. Kiess (R)
: . John V. Lesher (D)
: . Benjamin K. Focht (R)
: . Aaron S. Kreider (R)
: . Warren W. Bailey (D)
: . C. William Beales (R)
: . Charles H. Rowland (R)
: . Abraham L. Keister (R)
: . Robert F. Hopwood (R)
: . Henry W. Temple (R), from November 2, 1915
: . Michael Liebel Jr. (D)
: . Henry J. Steele (D)
: . Solomon T. North (R)
: . Samuel H. Miller (R)
: . Stephen G. Porter (R)
: . William Henry Coleman (R)
: . John M. Morin (R)
: . Andrew J. Barchfeld (R)
List of United States representatives from Rhode Island, Rhode Island
: . George Francis O'Shaunessy (D)
: . Walter Russell Stiness (R)
: . Ambrose Kennedy (R)
List of United States representatives from South Carolina, South Carolina
: . Richard S. Whaley (D)
: . James F. Byrnes (D)
: . Wyatt Aiken (D)
: . Joseph T. Johnson (D), until April 19, 1915
:: Samuel J. Nicholls (D), from September 14, 1915
: . David E. Finley (D), until January 26, 1917
:: Paul G. McCorkle (D), from February 21, 1917
: . J. Willard Ragsdale (D)
: . Asbury F. Lever (D)
List of United States representatives from South Dakota, South Dakota
: . Charles H. Dillon (R)
: . Royal C. Johnson (R)
: . Harry L. Gandy (D)
List of United States representatives from Tennessee, Tennessee
: . Sam R. Sells (R)
: . Richard W. Austin (R)
: . John Austin Moon (D)
: . Cordell Hull (D)
: . William C. Houston (D)
: . Joseph W. Byrns (D)
: . Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D)
: . Thetus Willrette Sims (D)
: . Finis J. Garrett (D)
: . Kenneth McKellar (politician), Kenneth McKellar (D)
List of United States representatives from Texas, Texas
: . James H. Davis (congressman), James H. Davis (D)
: . A. Jeff McLemore (D)
: . Eugene Black (texas politician), Eugene Black (D)
: . Martin Dies Sr., Martin Dies (D)
: . James Young (congressman), James Young (D)
: . Sam Rayburn (D)
: . Hatton W. Sumners (D)
: . Rufus Hardy (representative), Rufus Hardy (D)
: . Alexander W. Gregg (D)
: . Joe H. Eagle (D)
: . George Farmer Burgess (D)
: . James P. Buchanan (D)
: . Robert L. Henry (D)
: . Oscar Callaway (D)
: . John Hall Stephens (D)
: . James L. Slayden (D)
: . John Nance Garner (D)
: . William Robert Smith, William R. Smith (D)
List of United States representatives from Utah, Utah
: . Joseph Howell (R)
: . James Henry Mays (D)
List of United States representatives from Vermont, Vermont
: . Frank L. Greene (R)
: . Porter H. Dale (R)
List of United States representatives from Virginia, Virginia
: . William Atkinson Jones (D)
: . Edward Everett Holland (D)
: . Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
: . Walter Allen Watson (D)
: .
Edward W. Saunders
Edward Watts Saunders (October 20, 1860 – December 16, 1921) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and judge, who served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, U.S. Representative and justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Biography
...
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: . Carter Glass (D)
: . James Hay (politician), James Hay (D), until October 1, 1916
:: Thomas W. Harrison (D), from November 7, 1916
: . Charles Creighton Carlin (D)
: . C. Bascom Slemp (R)
: . Henry De Flood (D)
List of United States representatives from Washington, Washington
: . William E. Humphrey (R)
: . Lindley H. Hadley (R)
: . Albert Johnson (congressman), Albert Johnson (R)
: . William Leroy La Follette (R)
: . Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)
List of United States representatives from West Virginia, West Virginia
: . Howard Sutherland (R)
: . Matthew M. Neely (D)
: . William Gay Brown Jr. (D), until March 9, 1916
:: George M. Bowers (R), from May 9, 1916
: . Adam B. Littlepage (D)
: . Hunter Holmes Moss Jr., Hunter H. Moss Jr. (R), until July 15, 1916
:: Harry C. Woodyard (R), from November 7, 1916
: . Edward Cooper (congressman), Edward Cooper (R)
List of United States representatives from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: . Henry Allen Cooper (R)
: . Michael Edmund Burke (D)
: . John M. Nelson (R)
: . William J. Cary (R)
: . William H. Stafford (R)
: . Michael K. Reilly (D)
: . John Jacob Esch (R)
: . Edward E. Browne (R)
: . Thomas Frank Konop (D)
: . James A. Frear (R)
: . Irvine L. Lenroot (R)
List of United States representatives from Wyoming, Wyoming
: . Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)
Non-voting members
: . James Wickersham, (R)
: . Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, (R)
: . Manuel Earnshaw (Resident Commissioner), (I)
: . Manuel L. Quezon (Resident Commissioner), (Nacionalista Party, Nac.) until October 15, 1916
: . Luis Muñoz Rivera (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist), until November 15, 1916
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
* Replacements: 3
** Democratic Party (United States), Democratic: 1 seat net loss
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: 1 seat net gain
* Deaths: 3
* Resignations: 0
* Vacancy: 0
* Total seats with changes: 4
House of Representatives
* Replacements: 9
** Democratic Party (United States), Democratic: 2 seat loss
** Republican Party (United States), Republican: 3 seat gain
** Progressive Party (United States, 1912), Progressive: 1 seat loss
* Deaths: 8
* Resignations: 12
* Contested elections: 4
* Total seats with changes: 15
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman:
Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
; Ranking Member:
William J. Stone
William Joel Stone (May 7, 1848April 14, 1918) was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S. Senate from 1903 until his death; he also served a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Thomas P. Gore
Thomas Pryor Gore (December 10, 1870March 16, 1949) was an American politician who served as one of the first two United States senators from Oklahoma, from 1907 to 1921 and again from 1931 to 1937. He first entered politics as an activist for ...
; Ranking Member:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Thomas S. Martin
Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847November 12, 1919) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County, Virginia, who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as t ...
; Ranking Member:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
)
* United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Sharp Williams, John S. Williams; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Robert L. Owen
Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railro ...
; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Canadian Relations, Canadian Relations (Chairman:
John K. Shields
John Knight Shields (August 15, 1858September 30, 1934) was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1913 to 1925. He also served as an associate justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Biography
Shields was born at his family's est ...
; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
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George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
William E. Chilton
William Edwin Chilton (March 17, 1858November 7, 1939) was a United States senator from West Virginia. Born in St. Albans, West Virginia, Colesmouth, Virginia (now St. Albans, West Virginia), he attended public and private schools and graduated ...
; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman:
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 ...
; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progr ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Nathan P. Bryan
Nathan Philemon Bryan (April 23, 1872 – August 8, 1935) was a United States senator from Florida and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Education and career
Born on April 23, 1872, in For ...
; Ranking Member:
Edwin C. Burleigh
Edwin Chick Burleigh (November 27, 1843June 16, 1916) was an American politician who served as the 42nd Governor of Maine from 1889 to 1893. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he went on to hold federal office, ...
then
Nathan Goff
Nathan Goff Jr. (February 9, 1843 – April 23, 1920) was a United States representative from West Virginia, a Union Army officer, the 28th United States Secretary of the Navy during President Rutherford B. Hayes administration, a United States ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey, Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Willard Saulsbury Jr., Willard Saulsbury; Ranking Member:
Charles E. Townsend
Charles Elroy Townsend (August 15, 1856August 3, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as both a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. He served in the United States Congress from 1903 to 1923.
Early life and career ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses, Coast Defenses (Chairman:
James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry A. du Pont
Henry Algernon du Pont (July 30, 1838 – December 31, 1926) was an American military officer, businessman, and politician from Delaware. A member of the famed du Pont family, he graduated first in his class from West Point shortly after the ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman:
James P. Clarke; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Conservation of National Resources, Conservation of National Resources (Chairman:
James K. Vardaman
James Kimble Vardaman (July 26, 1861 – June 25, 1930) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi and was the Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908. A Democrat, Vardaman was elected in 1912 to the United States Senate ...
; Ranking Member:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette; Ranking Member:
William J. Stone
William Joel Stone (May 7, 1848April 14, 1918) was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S. Senate from 1903 until his death; he also served a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Cuban Relations, Cuban Relations (Chairman: Joseph L. Bristow then Oscar Underwood; Ranking Member: William Alden Smith, William A. Smith)
* United States Senate Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments (Chairman:
Carroll S. Page
Carroll Smalley Page (January 10, 1843December 3, 1925) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 43rd governor of Vermont and a United States senator.
A native of Westfield, Vermont, Page was the son of a successful farmer ...
; Ranking Member:
James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: John Walter Smith, John W. Smith; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman: Hoke Smith; Ranking Member:
William E. Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often co ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Engrossed Bills, Engrossed Bills (Chairman:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
; Ranking Member:
Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
Henry F. Hollis
Henry French Hollis (August 30, 1869July 7, 1949) was a United States senator from New Hampshire, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Life
He attended public schools and studied under private tutors. He engaged in civil engineering for ...
; Ranking Member:
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senat ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee to Establish a University in the United States, Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee to Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service, Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: William Alden Smith, William A. Smith; Ranking Member: Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879), Luke Lea)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Chairman:
Morris Sheppard; Ranking Member:
Henry F. Lippitt
Henry Frederick Lippitt (October 12, 1856December 28, 1933) was a member of the prominent Lippitt family, which made its fortune in the textile business, and served as United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography
Born in Providence o ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce, Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor (Chairman:
William H. Thompson; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Fall
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861November 30, 1944) was a United States senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal; he was the only perso ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member:
Claude A. Swanson
Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933), befo ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Chairman:
George Sutherland
George Alexander Sutherland (March 25, 1862July 18, 1942) was an English-born American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party, he also rep ...
; Ranking Member:
Key Pittman
Key Denson Pittman (September 19, 1872 – November 10, 1940) was a United States senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, serving eventually as president pro tempore as well as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Bio ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman:
William Hughes)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman:
Blair Lee; Ranking Member: Asle Gronna)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State, Expenditures in the Department of State (Chairman:
J. Hamilton Lewis
James Hamilton Lewis (May 18, 1863 – April 9, 1939) was an American attorney and politician. Sometimes referred to as J. Ham Lewis or Ham Lewis, he represented Washington in the United States House of Representatives, and Illinois in the Unite ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman:
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1937, serving ...
; Ranking Member:
John D. Works
John Downey Works (March 29, 1847June 6, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a U.S. Senator representing California from 1911 to 1917, and an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from October 2, 1888, to January 5, ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman:
Miles Poindexter
Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive, he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911, and two terms as a United States senat ...
; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane
Harry Lane (August 28, 1855 – May 23, 1917) was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A physician by training, Lane served as the head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum before being forced out by political enemies. After a decade pra ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman:
Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and U.S. senator from the state of North ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Fisheries, Fisheries (Chairman: John R. Thornton; Ranking Member:
John D. Works
John Downey Works (March 29, 1847June 6, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a U.S. Senator representing California from 1911 to 1917, and an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from October 2, 1888, to January 5, ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Chairman:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
; Ranking Member:
Benjamin R. Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman:
Harry Lane
Harry Lane (August 28, 1855 – May 23, 1917) was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A physician by training, Lane served as the head of the Oregon State Insane Asylum before being forced out by political enemies. After a decade pra ...
; Ranking Member:
George P. McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut.
Biography
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary ( ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Geological Survey, Geological Survey (Chairman:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
; Ranking Member:
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 Leade ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Immigration, Immigration (Chairman:
Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
William J. Stone
William Joel Stone (May 7, 1848April 14, 1918) was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S. Senate from 1903 until his death; he also served a ...
; Ranking Member:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hu ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Depredations, Indian Depredations (Chairman:
William E. Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often co ...
; Ranking Member:
Claude A. Swanson
Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933), befo ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Industrial Expositions, Industrial Expositions (Chairman:
Henry F. Ashurst
Henry Fountain Ashurst (September 13, 1874 – May 31, 1962) was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two Senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of the Arizona Territorial le ...
; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
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George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Interoceanic Canals (Chairman:
James A. O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman (May 5, 1860 – May 17, 1943) was an American attorney, judge, and politician from New York. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a United States Senator from March 31, 1911 to March 3, 1917.
A native of M ...
; Ranking Member:
Frank B. Brandegee)
* United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman:
Francis G. Newlands
Francis Griffith Newlands (August 28, 1846December 24, 1917) was a United States representative and Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party.
A supporter of westward expansion, he helped pass the Newlands Reclamation Act of 190 ...
; Ranking Member:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hu ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman:
Marcus A. Smith
Marcus Aurelius "Mark" Smith (January 24, 1851 – April 7, 1924) was an American attorney and politician who served eight terms as Arizona Territorial Delegate to Congress and as one of the first two Senators from Arizona. As a Delegate, he ...
; Ranking Member:
Wesley L. Jones
Wesley Livsey Jones (October 9, 1863November 19, 1932) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate representing the state of Washington.
Born near Bethany, Illinois days aft ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Charles A. Culberson
Charles Allen Culberson (June 10, 1855March 19, 1925) was an American political figure and Democrat who served as the 21st Governor of Texas from 1895 to 1899, and as a United States senator from Texas from 1899 to 1923.
Early life and educati ...
; Ranking Member:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman: Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879), Luke Lea; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progr ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
James A. Reed; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
__NOTOC__
George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
George E. Chamberlain
George Earle Chamberlain Sr. (January 1, 1854 – July 9, 1928) was an American attorney, politician, and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and member of the Democratic Party, Chamberlain's political achievements included appo ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry A. du Pont
Henry Algernon du Pont (July 30, 1838 – December 31, 1926) was an American military officer, businessman, and politician from Delaware. A member of the famed du Pont family, he graduated first in his class from West Point shortly after the ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Thomas J. Walsh
Thomas James Walsh (June 12, 1859March 2, 1933) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from Helena, Montana who represented Montana in the US Senate from 1913 to 1933. He was initially elected by ...
; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter
Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive, he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911, and two terms as a United States senat ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman:
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progr ...
; Ranking Member:
John Sharp Williams
John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908. ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on National Banks, National Banks (Chairman: Charles F. Johnson; Ranking Member:
James H. Brady
James Henry Brady (June 12, 1862 – January 13, 1918) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. He served as the state's eighth governor from 1909 to 1911 and a United States Senator for nearly five years, from 1913 until his d ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
Benjamin R. Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman:
John F. Shafroth
John Franklin Shafroth (June 9, 1854February 20, 1922) was an American politician who served as a representative, member of the United States Senate, and Governor of Colorado.
Early life
Born in Fayette, Missouri, he attended the common sc ...
; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter
Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive, he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911, and two terms as a United States senat ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads, Pacific Railroads (Chairman:
Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member:
James A. Reed)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
Ollie M. James
Ollie Murray James (July 27, 1871August 28, 1918) was an American politician. A Democrat, he represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Biography
James was born and raised in western Kentuc ...
; Ranking Member:
Frank B. Brandegee)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Benjamin F. Shively
Benjamin Franklin Shively (March 20, 1857 – March 14, 1916) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Representative (1884 to 1885 and 1887 to 1893) and Senator (1909 to 1916) from Indiana.
Biography Early life, ...
; Ranking Member:
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Philippines, Philippines (Chairman:
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (September 18, 1859February 3, 1934) was an American United States House of Representatives, congressman and United States Senate, U.S. Senator from Nebraska, and the founder of the ''Omaha World-Herald'' newspaper.
Lif ...
; Ranking Member:
George P. McLean
George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut.
Biography
McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary ( ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
John H. Bankhead
John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842March 1, 1920) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama between 1907 and 1920.
Life and career
Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at Moscow, present-day Lamar County, Alabama (near p ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After serving in both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, he represented Pennsylvania in the United ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Duncan U. Fletcher
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history. He also served two terms as Mayor of Jacksonville a ...
; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Private Land Claims, Private Land Claims (Chairman:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
; Ranking Member:
Benjamin R. Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
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 Leade ...
; Ranking Member:
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 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Claude A. Swanson
Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933), befo ...
; Ranking Member:
George Sutherland
George Alexander Sutherland (March 25, 1862July 18, 1942) was an English-born American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1922 and 1938. As a member of the Republican Party, he also rep ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman:
Joseph E. Ransdell
Joseph Eugene Ransdell (October 7, 1858July 27, 1954) was an attorney and politician from Louisiana. Beginning in 1899, he was elected for seven consecutive terms as United States representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district. He su ...
; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
Henry L. Myers
Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States senator from Montana.
Biography
Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitt ...
; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Railroads, Railroads (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
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George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Revision of the Laws, Revision of the Laws (Chairman:
Joseph T. Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1937, serving ...
; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on Revolutionary Claims, Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: William O. Bradley; Ranking Member:
Edwin C. Burleigh
Edwin Chick Burleigh (November 27, 1843June 16, 1916) was an American politician who served as the 42nd Governor of Maine from 1889 to 1893. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he went on to hold federal office, ...
then
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senat ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Lee S. Overman
Lee Slater Overman (January 3, 1854December 12, 1930) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1903 and 1930. He was the first US Senator to be elected by popular vote in the state, as the legislature had appointed ...
; Ranking Member:
Jacob H. Gallinger
Jacob Harold Gallinger (March 28, 1837 – August 17, 1918), was a United States senator from New Hampshire who served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1912 and 1913.
Early life and career
Jacob Harold Gallinger was born in Cornwal ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Standards, Weights and Measures, Standards, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hu ...
; Ranking Member:
John H. Bankhead
John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842March 1, 1920) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama between 1907 and 1920.
Life and career
Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at Moscow, present-day Lamar County, Alabama (near p ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Tariff Regulation, Tariff Regulation (Select)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Telepost, Telepost (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
Key Pittman
Key Denson Pittman (September 19, 1872 – November 10, 1940) was a United States senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party, serving eventually as president pro tempore as well as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Bio ...
; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
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* United States Senate Select Committee on the Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman:
Henry A. du Pont
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; Ranking Member:
Henry F. Hollis
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* United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman:
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
; Ranking Member:
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* United States Senate Select Committee on Trespassers upon Indian Lands, Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: Isaac Stephenson; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter
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* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, Woman Suffrage (Chairman:
Charles S. Thomas
Charles Spalding Thomas (December 6, 1849June 24, 1934) was a United States senator from Colorado. Born in Darien, Georgia, he attended private schools in Georgia and Connecticut, and served briefly in the Confederate Army.
Biography
Thomas gr ...
; Ranking Member:
George Sutherland
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* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman: James T. Lloyd; Ranking Member:
Thomas W. Miller
Thomas Woodnutt Miller (June 26, 1886 – May 5, 1973) was an American politician serving as a Republican U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Le ...
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* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman: Asbury F. Lever; Ranking Member:
Gilbert N. Haugen
Gilbert Nelson Haugen (April 21, 1859 – July 18, 1933) was a seventeen-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in northeastern Iowa. For nearly five years, he was the longest-serving member ...
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* United States House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman:
Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From ...
; Ranking Member:
Addison T. Smith
Addison Taylor Smith (September 5, 1862 – July 5, 1956) was a congressman from Idaho. Smith served as a Republican in the U.S. House for ten terms, from 1913 to 1933.
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Smith began his political career in 1891 in Washin ...
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* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman: John J. Fitzgerald; Ranking Member:
Frederick H. Gillett
Frederick Huntington Gillett (; October 16, 1851 – July 31, 1935) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts state government and both houses of the U.S. Congress between 1879 and 1931, including six years as Speaker of the Hou ...
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* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman: Carter Glass; Ranking Member:
Everis A. Hayes
Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1919.
Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
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* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
Harvey Helm
Harvey Helm (December 2, 1865 – March 3, 1919) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Stanford Male Academy and was graduated from the Central University of Kentucky in 1887. He stud ...
; Ranking Member:
Asher C. Hinds
Asher Crosby Hinds (February 6, 1863 – May 1, 1919) was a United States representative from Maine. He attended the public schools and Coburn Classical Institute.
Hinds graduated from Colby College in 1883, then began newspaper work in Por ...
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* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman: Edward W. Pou; Ranking Member: George W. Edmonds)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Thomas W. Hardwick
Thomas William Hardwick (December 9, 1872January 31, 1944) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia who served as governor of Georgia, a United States Senator from Georgia, a member of the United States House of Representati ...
; Ranking Member: Edwin E. Roberts)
* United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott, J. Frederick Cockey Talbott; Ranking Member: William S. Bennet)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
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* Ben Johnson (Australian foo ...
; Ranking Member: William J. Cary)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman:
Dudley M. Hughes
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Hughes was born in Jeffersonville, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia in Athens.
In 1882, Hughes was elected ...
; Ranking Member:
Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers (February 1, 1869 – July 25, 1932) was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
Early life
He was born near Williamsburg, Kentucky. He attended ...
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* United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: William W. Rucker; Ranking Member: Carl E. Mapes)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James D. Post; Ranking Member:
Merrill Moores
Merrill Moores (April 21, 1856 – October 21, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1915 to 1925.
Biography
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Moores attended the public s ...
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* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman: James A. Hamill; Ranking Member: John Jacob Rogers)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Lewis L. Morgan; Ranking Member:
Cassius C. Dowell
Cassius Clay Dowell (February 29, 1864 – February 4, 1940) was a Republican United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Iowa. He served from 1915 to 1935, and again from 1937 until his death in 1940, with the interregnum ca ...
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* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: William A. Ashbrook; Ranking Member: William R. Wood (Indiana politician), William R. Wood)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Agriculture Department, Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Robert L. Doughton; Ranking Member: Edward J. King)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce Department, Expenditures in the Commerce Department (Chairman: John H. Rothermel; Ranking Member: Thomas Sutler Williams)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: James M. Graham; Ranking Member: Aaron S. Kreider)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department, Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman:
Robert F. Broussard
Robert Foligny Broussard (August 17, 1864 – April 12, 1918) was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish, to Jean Dorville Broussard, ...
; Ranking Member: Stephen G. Porter)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Labor Department, Expenditures in the Labor Department (Chairman: James P. Maher; Ranking Member: John G. Cooper)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Rufus Hardy (representative), Rufus Hardy; Ranking Member: George Edmund Foss)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: Harry H. Pratt)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Courtney W. Hamlin; Ranking Member: George H. Tinkham)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Charles O. Lobeck; Ranking Member: Henry Wilson Temple)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman:
John A.M. Adair
John Alfred McDowell Adair (December 22, 1864 – October 5, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Portland, Indiana, Adair attended the publi ...
; Ranking Member: Luther W. Mott)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings, Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Thomas F. Konop; Ranking Member:
William A. Rodenberg)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Henry D. Flood; Ranking Member: Henry Allen Cooper)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman:
John L. Burnett
John Lawson Burnett (January 20, 1854 – May 13, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Life
Born in Cedar Bluff, Alabama, Burnett attended the common schools of the county, Wesleyan Institute, Cave Spring, Georgia, and the local high ...
; Ranking Member:
Everis A. Hayes
Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1919.
Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
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* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman: John H. Stephens; Ranking Member:
Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
)
* United States House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Edwin S. Underhill; Ranking Member:
Frank P. Woods
Frank Plowman Woods (December 11, 1868 – April 25, 1944) was a five-term Republican United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Iowa's 10th congressional district, in north-central Iowa. He reached a House leadership pos ...
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* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman: William Atkinson Jones, William A. Jones; Ranking Member:
Horace M. Towner
Horace Mann Towner (October 23, 1855 – November 23, 1937) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa's 8th congressional district and appointed the governor of Puerto Rico. In an ...
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* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
William C. Adamson
William Charles Adamson (August 13, 1854 – January 3, 1929) was a United States representative from Georgia, an Associate Justice of the United States Customs Court and a member of the Board of General Appraisers.
Early years and family
Adams ...
; Ranking Member: John J. Esch)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Isaac R. Sherwood; Ranking Member:
John W. Langley
John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 – January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.
Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three year ...
)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: William Robert Smith, William R. Smith; Ranking Member: Moses P. Kinkaid)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr., Henry De Lamar Clayton; Ranking Member: Andrew J. Volstead)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman:
David J. Lewis; Ranking Member: John M.C. Smith)
* United States House Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman: James L. Slayden; Ranking Member:
William B. McKinley
William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856December 7, 1926) was a U.S. Representative (1905–1913, 1915–1921) and United States Senator (1921–1926) from the State of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he was born near Petersburg, Il ...
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* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Joshua W. Alexander; Ranking Member:
William S. Greene)
* United States House Committee on Mileage, Mileage (Chairman: Warren W. Bailey; Ranking Member:
Burnett M. Chiperfield
Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield (June 14, 1870 – June 24, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, father of Robert Bruce Chiperfield.
Early life and military service
Born in Dover, Illinois, Chiperfield attended the public schools of Ill ...
)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: James Hay (politician), James Hay; Ranking Member:
Julius Kahn Julius Kahn may refer to:
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* Julius Kahn (congressman) (1861–1924), United States congressman
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* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Martin D. Foster
Martin David Foster (September 3, 1861 – October 20, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near West Salem, Illinois, Foster attended the public schools and Eureka College (Illinois). He was graduated from the Eclectic Medical ...
; Ranking Member: Mahlon M. Garland)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: Lemuel P. Padgett; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Butler)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
William A. Oldfield
William Allan Oldfield (February 4, 1874 – November 19, 1928) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1909 until his death.
Early life
Born in Franklin, Arkansas, Oldfield was the son of b ...
; Ranking Member:
John I. Nolan
John Ignatius Nolan (January 14, 1874 – November 18, 1922) was an American iron molder and politician who represented a Californian district in the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1922.
Background
He was born in ...
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* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman: John A. Key; Ranking Member: Sam R. Sells)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John A. Moon; Ranking Member: Halvor Steenerson)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Henry A. Barnhart
Henry A. Barnhart (September 11, 1858 – March 26, 1934) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1908 to 1919.
Biography
Born near Twelve Mile, Indiana, Barnhart attended the common scho ...
; Ranking Member: Edgar R. Kiess)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Frank Clark; Ranking Member: Richard W. Austin)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman: Scott Ferris; Ranking Member: Irvine L. Lenroot)
* United States House Committee on Railways and Canals, Railways and Canals (Chairman: Martin Dies Sr., Martin Dies; Ranking Member: William L. La Follette)
* United States House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Hannibal L. Godwin; Ranking Member:
William B. McKinley
William Brown McKinley (September 5, 1856December 7, 1926) was a U.S. Representative (1905–1913, 1915–1921) and United States Senator (1921–1926) from the State of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he was born near Petersburg, Il ...
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* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman: John T. Watkins; Ranking Member:
Merrill Moores
Merrill Moores (April 21, 1856 – October 21, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1915 to 1925.
Biography
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Moores attended the public s ...
)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman:
Stephen M. Sparkman
Stephen Milancthon Sparkman (July 29, 1849 – September 26, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Stephen M. Sparkman was born on a farm in Hernando County, Florida, on July 29, 1849. He attended the common schools.
He taug ...
; Ranking Member: William E. Humphrey)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman: Dorsey W. Shackleford; Ranking Member: Thomas B. Dunn)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: Robert L. Henry; Ranking Member:
Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman: William C. Houston; Ranking Member: Frank E. Guernsey, Frank Guernsey)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman: Alexander W. Gregg; Ranking Member: Benjamin K. Focht)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman: Oscar Underwood; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Fordney)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Armor Plant Costs, Armor Plant Costs (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Federal Aid in Construction of Post Roads, Federal Aid in Construction of Post Roads
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
John Sharp Williams
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* United States Congress Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Sen.
Francis G. Newlands
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A supporter of westward expansion, he helped pass the Newlands Reclamation Act of 190 ...
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* United States Congress Joint Committee to Investigate the General Parcel Post, Investigate the General Parcel Post
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: Sen.
Duncan U. Fletcher
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* United States Congress Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail, Postage on 2nd Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail (Chairman: Sen. Jonathan Bourne Jr.)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Rural Credits, Rural Credits (Chairman: Rep. Carter Glass)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Second Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Rail Mail Service, Second Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Rail Mail Service
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
*Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
*Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
*Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford
Senate
*Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: F. J. Prettyman (Methodist)
*Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: James Marion Baker, James M. Baker
*United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
*Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins
House of Representatives
*Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: Henry N. Couden
*Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: South Trimble
*Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Bennett C. Clark
*Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
*Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and H. Martin Williams (R)
*Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: William M. Dunbar
*Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Robert B. Gordon
See also
* United States elections, 1914 (elections leading to this Congress)
** United States Senate elections, 1914
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1914
* United States elections, 1916 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** 1916 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1916
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1916
Notes
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