The U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was a

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of the

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from 1883 until 1946. It was preceded by the United States Congress Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and succeeded by the

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Committee Chairpersons

:1883–1887:

William Mahone William Mahone (December 1, 1826October 8, 1895) was a Confederate States Army general, civil engineer, railroad executive, prominent Virginia Readjuster Party, Readjuster and ardent supporter of former slaves. He later represented Virginia in th ...

(RA/R-VA) :1887–1893:

Leland Stanford Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of Calif ...

(R-CA) :1893–1895: George Vest (D-MO) :1895–1899: Matthew S. Quay (R-PA) :1899–1905: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN) :1905–1911: Nathan Scott (R-WV) :1911–1913:

George Sutherland George Alexander Sutherland (March 25, 1862July 18, 1942) was a British-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 repre ...

(R-UT) :1913–1918: Claude A. Swanson (D-VA) :1918–1919: James A. Reed (D-MO) :1919–1926: Bert M. Fernald (R-ME) :1926–1927: Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI) :1927–1933: Henry W. Keyes (R-NH) :1933–1942:

Tom Connally Thomas Terry Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Represe ...

(D-TX) :1942–1945: Francis Maloney (D-CT) :1945–1946: Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) {{DEFAULTSORT:United States Senate Committee On Public Buildings And Grounds Public Buildings and Grounds 1883 establishments in Washington, D.C. 1946 disestablishments in Washington, D.C. Buildings of the United States government