| 64th United States Congress |
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63rd ←
→ 65th
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United States Capitol (1906)
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| March 4, 1915 – March 4, 1917 |
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Senate President |
Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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Senate President pro tem |
James Clarke (D) Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D) |
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House Speaker |
Champ Clark (D) |
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Members |
96 senators 435 members of the House 5 non-voting delegates |
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Senate Majority |
Democratic |
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House Majority |
Democratic |
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1st: December 6, 1915 – September 8, 1916 2nd: December 4, 1916 – March 3, 1917 (lame duck) |
The Sixty-fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1915, to March 4, 1917, during the third and fourth years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
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Major events

President Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in the official relations with Germany. February 3, 1917.
Main articles: 1915 in the United States, 1916 in the United States, and 1917 in the United States
- June 9, 1915: (Prelude to World War I):U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned over a disagreement regarding the nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
- July 24, 1915: The steamer SS Eastland capsized in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
- July 28, 1915: The United States occupation of Haiti 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 led about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, 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 invaded the Dominican Republic.
- July 30, 1916: German agents caused the Black Tom explosion 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): 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):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
- June 3, 1916: National Defense Act of 1916
- June 9, 1916: Chamberlain–Ferris Act
- July 11, 1916: Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 (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
- July 28, 1916: Space Basis Act
- July 28, 1916: Railway Mail Service Pay Act
- August 9, 1916: Uniform Bill of Lading Act of 1916
- August 11, 1916: Irrigation District Act of 1916 (Smith Act)
- 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
- 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: Standard Fruits and Vegetable Baskets and Containers Act of 1916
- September 1, 1916: Keating–Owen Act
- September 3, 1916: Adamson Act
- September 7, 1916: Merchant Marine Act of 1916 (Alexander Act)
- September 7, 1916: Workingmen's Compensation Act (Kern–McGillicuddy Act)
- 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
- February 22, 1917: Federal Interpleader Act of 1917
- February 23, 1917: Smith–Hughes Act
- 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
- 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 to the United States after their purchase from Denmark, and renaming them the US Virgin Islands.
Party summary

Map showing Senate party membership at the start of the 64th Congress. Red states are represented by two Republicans and blue by two Democrats. Purple states are represented by one senator from each party.
Senate
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Party (shading shows control)
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Total
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Vacant
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Democratic (D)
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Republican (R) |
Other
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End of the previous congress
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53 |
42 |
(Progressive)
1 |
96
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0
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Begin
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56 |
40 |
0 |
96 |
0 |
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End |
55 |
41 |
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Final voting share |
7001573000000000000♠57.3% |
7001427000000000000♠42.7% |
5000000000000000000♠0.0% |
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Beginning of the next congress
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54 |
42 |
0 |
96
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0
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House of Representatives
Democratic (D): 230 (majority)
Republican (R): 196
Progressive (Prog): 6
Prohibition (Proh): 1
Socialist (S): 1
Independent (I): 1
TOTAL members: 435
Leadership
Senate
President: Thomas R. Marshall
Presidents pro tempore: James P. Clarke and Willard Saulsbury, Jr.
Majority Whip: J. Hamilton Lewis (D)
Minority Whip: Charles Curtis (R)
Republican Conference Chairman: Jacob Harold Gallinger
Democratic Caucus Chair : John W. Kern
Republican Conference Secretary: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
Democratic Caucus Secretary: Willard Saulsbury Jr., until December 14, 1916
House of Representatives
Majority (Democratic) leadership
Majority Leader: Claude Kitchin
Majority Whip: vacant
Democratic Caucus Chairman: Edward W. Saunders
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Frank Ellsworth Doremus
Minority (Republican) leadership
Minority Leader: James R. Mann
Minority Whip: Charles M. Hamilton
Republican Conference Chair: William S. Greene
Members
- Skip to House of Representatives, below
Senate
At this time, most sitting Senators had been elected by the state legislatures, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Due to the 17th Amendment, the incoming class of senators from the 1914 election were all elected directly by the residents of their state, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1916; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1918; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1920.
Alabama
- 2. John H. Bankhead (D)
- 3. Oscar W. Underwood (D)
Arizona
- 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
- 3. Marcus A. Smith (D)
Arkansas
- 2. Joseph T. Robinson (D)
- 3. James P. Clarke (D), until October 1, 1916
William F. Kirby (D), from November 8, 1916
California
- 1. John D. Works (R)
- 3. James D. Phelan (D)
Colorado
- 2. John F. Shafroth (D)
- 3. Charles S. Thomas (D)
Connecticut
- 1. George P. McLean (R)
- 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R)
Delaware
- 1. Henry A. du Pont (R)
- 2. Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D)
Florida
- 1. Nathan P. Bryan (D)
- 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
Georgia
- 2. Thomas W. Hardwick (D)
- 3. Hoke Smith (D)
Idaho
- 2. William E. Borah (R)
- 3. James H. Brady (R)
Illinois
- 2. James H. Lewis (D)
- 3. Lawrence Y. Sherman (R)
Indiana
- 1. John W. Kern (D)
- 3. Benjamin F. Shively (D), until March 14, 1916
Thomas Taggart (D), March 20, 1916 - November 7, 1916
James E. Watson (R), from November 8, 1916
Iowa
- 2. William S. Kenyon (R)
- 3. Albert B. Cummins (R)
Kansas
- 2. William H. Thompson (D)
- 3. Charles Curtis (R)
Kentucky
- 2. Ollie M. James (D)
- 3. John C.W. Beckham (D)
Louisiana
- 2. Joseph E. Ransdell (D)
- 3. Robert F. Broussard (D)
Maine
- 1. Charles Fletcher Johnson (D)
- 2. Edwin C. Burleigh (R), until June 16, 1916
Bert M. Fernald (R), from September 11, 1916
Maryland
- 1. Blair Lee (D)
- 3. John Walter Smith (D)
Massachusetts
- 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
- 2. John W. Weeks (R)
Michigan
- 1. Charles E. Townsend (R)
- 2. William Alden Smith (R)
Minnesota
- 1. Moses E. Clapp (R)
- 2. Knute Nelson (R)
Mississippi
- 1. John Sharp Williams (D)
- 2. James K. Vardaman (D)
Missouri
- 1. James A. Reed (D)
- 3. William J. Stone (D)
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Montana
- 1. Henry L. Myers (D)
- 2. Thomas J. Walsh (D)
Nebraska
- 1. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D)
- 2. George W. Norris (R)
Nevada
- 1. Key Pittman (D)
- 3. Francis G. Newlands (D)
New Hampshire
- 2. Henry F. Hollis (D)
- 3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R)
New Jersey
- 1. James E. Martine (D)
- 2. William Hughes (D)
New Mexico
- 1. Thomas B. Catron (R)
- 2. Albert B. Fall (R)
New York
- 1. James A. O'Gorman (D)
- 3. James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (R)
North Carolina
- 2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
- 3. Lee S. Overman (D)
North Dakota
- 1. Porter J. McCumber (R)
- 3. Asle J. Gronna (R)
Ohio
- 1. Atlee Pomerene (D)
- 3. Warren G. Harding (R)
Oklahoma
- 2. Robert L. Owen (D)
- 3. Thomas P. Gore (D)
Oregon
- 2. Harry Lane (D)
- 3. George E. Chamberlain (D)
Pennsylvania
- 1. George T. Oliver (R)
- 3. Boies Penrose (R)
Rhode Island
- 1. Henry F. Lippitt (R)
- 2. LeBaron B. Colt (R)
South Carolina
- 2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D)
- 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)
South Dakota
- 2. Thomas Sterling (R)
- 3. Edwin S. Johnson (D)
Tennessee
- 1. Luke Lea (D)
- 2. John K. Shields (D)
Texas
- 1. Charles A. Culberson (D)
- 2. Morris Sheppard (D)
Utah
- 1. George Sutherland (R)
- 3. Reed Smoot (R)
Vermont
- 1. Carroll S. Page (R)
- 3. William P. Dillingham (R)
Virginia
- 1. Claude A. Swanson (D)
- 2. Thomas S. Martin (D)
Washington
- 1. Miles Poindexter (R)
- 3. Wesley L. Jones (R)
West Virginia
- 1. William E. Chilton (D)
- 2. Nathan Goff (R)
Wisconsin
- 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R)
- 3. Paul O. Husting (D)
Wyoming
- 1. Clarence D. Clark (R)
- 2. Francis E. Warren (R)
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House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
1. Oscar Lee Gray (D)
2. S. Hubert Dent, Jr. (D)
3. Henry B. Steagall (D)
4. Fred L. Blackmon (D)
5. J. Thomas Heflin (D)
6. William B. Oliver (D)
7. John L. Burnett (D)
8. Edward B. Almon (D)
9. George Huddleston (D)
At-large. John Abercrombie (D)
Arizona
At-large. Carl Hayden (D)
Arkansas
1. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)
2. William A. Oldfield (D)
3. John N. Tillman (D)
4. Otis Wingo (D)
5. Henderson M. Jacoway (D)
6. Samuel M. Taylor (D)
7. William S. Goodwin (D)
California
1. William Kent (I)
2. John E. Raker (D)
3. Charles F. Curry (R)
4. Julius Kahn (R)
5. John I. Nolan (R)
6. John A. Elston (Prog)
7. Denver S. Church (D)
8. Everis A. Hayes (R)
9. Charles H. Randall (Prohibitionist)
10. William Stephens (Prog), until July 22, 1916
Henry S. Benedict (R), from November 7, 1916
11. William Kettner (D)
Colorado
1. Benjamin Clark Hilliard (D)
2. Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)
3. Edward Keating (D)
4. Edward Thomas Taylor (D)
Connecticut
1. P. Davis Oakey (R)
2. Richard P. Freeman (R)
3. John Q. Tilson (R)
4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R)
5. James P. Glynn (R)
Delaware
At-large. Thomas W. Miller (R)
Florida
1. Stephen M. Sparkman (D)
2. Frank Clark (D)
3. Emmett Wilson (D)
4. William J. Sears (D)
Georgia
1. Charles G. Edwards (D)
2. Frank Park (D)
3. Charles R. Crisp (D)
4. William C. Adamson (D)
5. William S. Howard (D)
6. James W. Wise (D)
7. Gordon Lee (D)
8. Samuel Joelah Tribble (D), until December 8, 1916
Tinsley W. Rucker, Jr. (D), from January 11, 1917
9. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)
10. Carl Vinson (D)
11. John R. Walker (D)
12. Dudley M. Hughes (D)
Idaho
At-large. Addison T. Smith (R)
At-large. Robert M. McCracken (R)
Illinois
1. Martin B. Madden (R)
2. James R. Mann (R)
3. William W. Wilson (R)
4. James T. McDermott (D)
5. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
6. James McAndrews (D)
7. Frank Buchanan (D)
8. Thomas Gallagher (D)
9. Frederick A. Britten (R)
10. George E. Foss (R)
11. Ira C. Copley (Prog)
12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R)
13. John C. McKenzie (R)
14. Clyde H. Tavenner (D)
15. Edward John King (R)
16. Claude U. Stone (D)
17. John A. Sterling (R)
18. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
19. William B. McKinley (R)
20. Henry T. Rainey (D)
21. Loren E. Wheeler (R)
22. William A. Rodenberg (R)
23. Martin D. Foster (D)
24. Thomas S. Williams (R)
25. Edward E. Denison (R)
At-large. Burnett M. Chiperfield (R)
At-large. William E. Williams (D)
Indiana
1. Charles Lieb (D)
2. William A. Cullop (D)
3. William E. Cox (D)
4. Lincoln Dixon (D)
5. Ralph Wilbur Moss (D)
6. Finly H. Gray (D)
7. Merrill Moores (R)
8. John A.M. Adair (D)
9. Martin A. Morrison (D)
10. William Robert Wood (R)
11. George W. Rauch (D)
12. Cyrus Cline (D)
13. Henry A. Barnhart (D)
Iowa
1. Charles A. Kennedy (R)
2. Harry E. Hull (R)
3. Burton E. Sweet (R)
4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
5. James W. Good (R)
6. C. William Ramseyer (R)
7. Cassius C. Dowell (R)
8. Horace M. Towner (R)
9. William R. Green (R)
10. Frank P. Woods (R)
11. Thomas J. Steele (D)
Kansas
1. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (R)
2. Joseph Taggart (D)
3. Philip P. Campbell (R)
4. Dudley Doolittle (D)
5. Guy T. Helvering (D)
6. John R. Connelly (D)
7. Jouett Shouse (D)
8. William A. Ayres (D)
Kentucky
1. Alben Barkley (D)
2. David Hayes Kincheloe (D)
3. Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. (D)
4. Ben Johnson (D)
5. J. Swagar Sherley (D)
6. Arthur B. Rouse (D)
7. J. Campbell Cantrill (D)
8. Harvey Helm (D)
9. William Jason Fields (D)
10. John W. Langley (R)
11. Caleb Powers (R)
Louisiana
1. Albert Estopinal (D)
2. Henry Garland Dupré (D)
3. Whitmell P. Martin (Prog)
4. John Thomas Watkins (D)
5. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)
6. Lewis Lovering Morgan (D)
7. Ladislas Lazaro (D)
8. James Benjamin Aswell (D)
Maine
1. Asher C. Hinds (R)
2. Daniel J. McGillicuddy (D)
3. John A. Peters (R)
4. Frank E. Guernsey (R)
Maryland
1. Jesse D. Price (D)
2. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D)
3. Charles P. Coady (D)
4. J. Charles Linthicum (D)
5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R)
6. David J. Lewis (D)
Massachusetts
1. Allen T. Treadway (R)
2. Frederick H. Gillett (R)
3. Calvin D. Paige (R)
4. Samuel E. Winslow (R)
5. John J. Rogers (R)
6. Augustus P. Gardner (R)
7. Michael F. Phelan (D)
8. Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
9. Ernest W. Roberts (R)
10. Peter F. Tague (D)
11. George H. Tinkham (R)
12. James A. Gallivan (D)
13. William H. Carter (R)
14. Richard Olney II (D)
15. William S. Greene (R)
16. Joseph Walsh (R)
Michigan
1. Frank E. Doremus (D)
2. Samuel Beakes (D)
3. John M. C. Smith (R)
4. Edward L. Hamilton (R)
5. Carl Mapes (R)
6. Patrick H. Kelley (R)
7. Louis C. Cramton (R)
8. Joseph W. Fordney (R)
9. James C. McLaughlin (R)
10. George A. Loud (R)
11. Frank D. Scott (R)
12. W. Frank James (R)
13. Charles Archibald Nichols (R)
Minnesota
1. Sydney Anderson (R)
2. Franklin Ellsworth (R)
3. Charles Russell Davis (R)
4. Carl Van Dyke (D)
5. George Ross Smith (R)
6. Charles August Lindbergh (R)
7. Andrew Volstead (R)
8. Clarence B. Miller (R)
9. Halvor Steenerson (R)
10. Thomas D. Schall (R)
Mississippi
1. Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (D)
2. Hubert D. Stephens (D)
3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
4. Thomas U. Sisson (D)
5. Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (D), until November 24, 1915
William Webb Venable (D), from January 4, 1916
6. Pat Harrison (D)
7. Percy E. Quin (D)
8. James W. Collier (D)
Missouri
1. James Tilghman Lloyd (D)
2. William W. Rucker (D)
3. Joshua Willis Alexander (D)
4. Charles F. Booher (D)
5. William Patterson Borland (D)
6. Clement C. Dickinson (D)
7. Courtney W. Hamlin (D)
8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D)
9. James Beauchamp Clark (D)
10. Jacob Edwin Meeker (R)
11. William Leo Igoe (D)
12. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
13. Walter Lewis Hensley (D)
14. Joseph J. Russell (D)
15. Perl D. Decker (D)
16. Thomas L. Rubey (D)
Montana
At-large. John M. Evans (D)
At-large. Tom Stout (D)
Nebraska
1. C. Frank Reavis (R)
2. Charles O. Lobeck (D)
3. Dan V. Stephens (D)
4. Charles Henry Sloan (R)
5. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)
6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)
Nevada
At-large. Edwin E. Roberts (R)
New Hampshire
1. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R)
2. Edward Hills Wason (R)
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New Jersey
1. William J. Browning (R)
2. Isaac Bacharach (R)
3. Thomas J. Scully (D)
4. Elijah C. Hutchinson (R)
5. John H. Capstick (R)
6. Archibald C. Hart (D)
7. Dow H. Drukker (R)
8. Edward W. Gray (R)
9. Richard W. Parker (R)
10. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
11. John J. Eagan (D)
12. James A. Hamill (D)
New Mexico
At-large. Benigno C. Hernández (R)
New York
1. Frederick C. Hicks (R)
2. C. Pope Caldwell (D)
3. Joseph V. Flynn (D)
4. Harry H. Dale (D)
5. James P. Maher (D)
6. Frederick W. Rowe (R)
7. John J. Fitzgerald (D)
8. Daniel J. Griffin (D)
9. Oscar W. Swift (R)
10. Reuben L. Haskell (R)
11. Daniel J. Riordan (D)
12. Meyer London (Soc.)
13. George W. Loft (D)
14. Michael F. Farley (D)
15. Michael F. Conry (D), until March 2, 1917
16. Peter J. Dooling (D)
17. John F. Carew (D)
18. Thomas G. Patten (D)
19. Walter M. Chandler (Prog)
20. Isaac Siegel (R)
21. G. Murray Hulbert (D)
22. Henry Bruckner (D)
23. Joseph A. Goulden (D), until May 3, 1915
William S. Bennet (R), from November 2, 1915
24. Woodson R. Oglesby (D)
25. James W. Husted (R)
26. Edmund Platt (R)
27. Charles B. Ward (R)
28. Rollin B. Sanford (R)
29. James S. Parker (R)
30. William B. Charles (R)
31. Bertrand H. Snell (R), from November 2, 1915
32. Luther W. Mott (R)
33. Homer P. Snyder (R)
34. George W. Fairchild (R)
35. Walter W. Magee (R)
36. Norman J. Gould (R), from November 2, 1915
37. Harry H. Pratt (R)
38. Thomas B. Dunn (R)
39. Henry G. Danforth (R)
40. S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
41. Charles B. Smith (D)
42. Daniel A. Driscoll (D)
43. Charles M. Hamilton (R)
North Carolina
1. John Humphrey Small (D)
2. Claude Kitchin (D)
3. George E. Hood (D)
4. Edward W. Pou (D)
5. Charles M. Stedman (D)
6. Hannibal L. Godwin (D)
7. Robert N. Page (D)
8. Robert L. Doughton (D)
9. Edwin Y. Webb (D)
10. James Jefferson Britt (R)
North Dakota
1. Henry Thomas Helgesen (R)
2. George M. Young (R)
3. Patrick Daniel Norton (R)
Ohio
1. Nicholas Longworth (R)
2. Alfred G. Allen (D)
3. Warren Gard (D)
4. J. Edward Russell (R)
5. Nelson E. Matthews (R)
6. Charles C. Kearns (R)
7. Simeon D. Fess (R)
8. John A. Key (D)
9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D)
10. Robert M. Switzer (R)
11. Edwin D. Ricketts (R)
12. Clement L. Brumbaugh (D)
13. Arthur W. Overmyer (D)
14. Seward H. Williams (R)
15. William C. Mooney (R)
16. Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
17. William A. Ashbrook (D)
18. David Hollingsworth (R)
19. John G. Cooper (R)
20. William Gordon (D)
21. Robert Crosser (D)
22. Henry I. Emerson (R)
Oklahoma
1. James S. Davenport (D)
2. William W. Hastings (D)
3. Charles D. Carter (D)
4. William H. Murray (D)
5. Joseph Bryan Thompson (D)
6. Scott Ferris (D)
7. James V. McClintic (D)
8. Dick Thompson Morgan (R)
Oregon
1. Willis C. Hawley (R)
2. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)
3. Clifton N. McArthur (R)
Pennsylvania
1. William S. Vare (R)
2. George S. Graham (R)
3. J. Hampton Moore (R)
4. George W. Edmonds (R)
5. Peter E. Costello (R)
6. George P. Darrow (R)
7. Thomas S. Butler (R)
8. Henry Winfield Watson (R)
9. William W. Griest (R)
10. John R. Farr (R)
11. John J. Casey (D)
12. Robert D. Heaton (R)
13. Arthur G. Dewalt (D)
14. Louis T. McFadden (R)
15. Edgar R. Kiess (R)
16. John V. Lesher (D)
17. Benjamin K. Focht (R)
18. Aaron S. Kreider (R)
19. Warren W. Bailey (D)
20. C. William Beales (R)
21. Charles H. Rowland (R)
22. Abraham L. Keister (R)
23. Robert F. Hopwood (R)
24. Henry W. Temple (R), from November 2, 1915
25. Michael Liebel, Jr. (D)
26. Henry J. Steele (D)
27. Solomon T. North (R)
28. Samuel H. Miller (R)
29. Stephen G. Porter (R)
30. William Henry Coleman (R)
31. John M. Morin (R)
32. Andrew J. Barchfeld (R)
At-large. Thomas S. Crago (R)
At-large. John R.K. Scott (R)
At-large. Daniel F. Lafean (R)
At-large. Mahlon M. Garland (R)
Rhode Island
1. George Francis O'Shaunessy (D)
2. Walter Russell Stiness (R)
3. Ambrose Kennedy (R)
South Carolina
1. Richard S. Whaley (D)
2. James F. Byrnes (D)
3. Wyatt Aiken (D)
4. Joseph T. Johnson (D), until April 19, 1915
Samuel J. Nicholls (D), from September 14, 1915
5. David E. Finley (D), until January 26, 1917
Paul G. McCorkle (D), from February 21, 1917
6. J. Willard Ragsdale (D)
7. Asbury F. Lever (D)
South Dakota
1. Charles H. Dillon (R)
2. Royal C. Johnson (R)
3. Harry L. Gandy (D)
Tennessee
1. Sam R. Sells (R)
2. Richard W. Austin (R)
3. John Austin Moon (D)
4. Cordell Hull (D)
5. William C. Houston (D)
6. Joseph W. Byrns (D)
7. Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D)
8. Thetus Willrette Sims (D)
9. Finis J. Garrett (D)
10. Kenneth McKellar (D)
Texas
1. Eugene Black (D)
2. Martin Dies (D)
3. James Young (D)
4. Sam Rayburn (D)
5. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
6. Rufus Hardy (D)
7. Alexander W. Gregg (D)
8. Joe H. Eagle (D)
9. George Farmer Burgess (D)
10. James P. Buchanan (D)
11. Robert L. Henry (D)
12. Oscar Callaway (D)
13. John Hall Stephens (D)
14. James L. Slayden (D)
15. John Nance Garner (D)
16. William R. Smith (D)
At-large. James H. Davis (D)
At-large. A. Jeff McLemore (D)
Utah
1. Joseph Howell (R)
2. James Henry Mays (D)
Vermont
1. Frank L. Greene (R)
2. Porter H. Dale (R)
Virginia
1. William Atkinson Jones (D)
2. Edward Everett Holland (D)
3. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
4. Walter Allen Watson (D)
5. Edward W. Saunders (D)
6. Carter Glass (D)
7. James Hay (D), until October 1, 1916
Thomas W. Harrison (D), from November 7, 1916
8. Charles Creighton Carlin (D)
9. C. Bascom Slemp (R)
10. Henry De Flood (D)
Washington
1. William E. Humphrey (R)
2. Lindley H. Hadley (R)
3. Albert Johnson (R)
4. William Leroy La Follette (R)
5. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)
West Virginia
1. Matthew M. Neely (D)
2. William Gay Brown, Jr. (D), until March 9, 1916
George M. Bowers (R), from May 9, 1916
3. Adam B. Littlepage (D)
4. Hunter H. Moss, Jr. (R), until July 15, 1916
Harry C. Woodyard (R), from November 7, 1916
5. Edward Cooper (R)
At-large. Howard Sutherland (R)
Wisconsin
1. Henry Allen Cooper (R)
2. Michael Edmund Burke (D)
3. John M. Nelson (R)
4. William J. Cary (R)
5. William H. Stafford (R)
6. Michael K. Reilly (D)
7. John Jacob Esch (R)
8. Edward E. Browne (R)
9. Thomas Frank Konop (D)
10. James A. Frear (R)
11. Irvine L. Lenroot (R)
Wyoming
At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)
Non-voting members
Alaska Territory. James Wickersham, (R)
Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, (R)
Philippines. Manuel Earnshaw (Resident Commissioner), (Ind.)
Philippines. Manuel L. Quezon (Resident Commissioner), (Nac.) until October 15, 1916
Puerto Rico. Luis Muñoz Rivera (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist), until November 15, 1916
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| House seats by party holding plurality in state |
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80.1-100% Democratic |
80.1-100% Republican |
60.1-80% Democratic |
60.1-80% Republican |
Up to 60% Democratic |
Up to 60% Republican |
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Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- replacements: 3
Democratic: 1 seat net loss
Republican: 1 seat net gain
- deaths: 3
- resignations: 0
- vacancy: 0
Total seats with changes: 4
State
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Senator
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Reason for Vacancy
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Successor
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Date of Successor's Installation
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Indiana (3)
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Benjamin F. Shively (D)
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Died March 14, 1916. Successor was appointed.
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Thomas Taggart (D)
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March 20, 1916
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Maine (2)
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Edwin C. Burleigh (R)
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Died June 16, 1916. Successor was elected.
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Bert M. Fernald (R)
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September 12, 1916
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Arkansas (3)
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James P. Clarke (D)
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Died October 1, 1916. Successor was elected.
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William F. Kirby (D)
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November 8, 1916
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Indiana (3)
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Thomas Taggart (D)
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Successor was elected.
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James E. Watson (R)
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November 8, 1916
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House of Representatives
- replacements: 9
Democratic: 2 seat loss
Republican: 3 seat gain
Progressive: 1 seat loss
- deaths: 8
- resignations: 12
- contested elections: 4
Total seats with changes: 15
District
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Vacator
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Reason for Vacancy
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Successor
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New York 31st
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Vacant
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Rep. Edwin A. Merritt died during previous congress
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Bertrand Snell (R)
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November 2, 1915
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New York 36th
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Vacant
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Rep. Sereno E. Payne died during previous congress
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Norman J. Gould (R)
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November 2, 1915
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Pennsylvania 24th
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Vacant
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Rep.-elect William M. Brown died during previous congress
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Henry W. Temple (R)
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November 2, 1915
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South Carolina 4th
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Joseph T. Johnson (D)
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Resigned April 19, 1915
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Samuel J. Nicholls (D)
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September 4, 1915
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New York 23rd
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Joseph A. Goulden (D)
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Died May 3, 1915
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William S. Bennet (R)
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November 2, 1915
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Mississippi 5th
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Samuel A. Witherspoon (D)
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Died November 24, 1915
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William W. Venable (D)
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January 4, 1916
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West Virginia 2nd
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William Gay Brown Jr. (D)
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Died March 9, 1916
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George M. Bowers (R)
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May 9, 1916
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West Virginia 4th
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Hunter H. Moss Jr. (R)
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Died July 15, 1916
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Harry C. Woodyard (R)
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November 7, 1916
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California 10th
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William Stephens (Prog.)
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Resigned July 22, 1916, after being elected Lieutenant Governor of California
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Henry S. Benedict (R)
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November 7, 1916
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Virginia 7th
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James Hay (D)
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Resigned October 1, 1916, after being appointed judge of the United States Court of Claims
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Thomas W. Harrison (D)
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November 7, 1916
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Philippines Resident Commissioner
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Manuel L. Quezon
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Resigned October 15, 1916, after being elected to the Senate of the Philippines
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Seat remained vacant until next Congress
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Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner
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Luis Muñoz Rivera
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Died November 15, 1916
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Seat remained vacant until next Congress
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Georgia 8th
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Samuel J. Tribble (D)
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Incumbent died December 8, 1916. Successor elected January 11, 1917.
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Tinsley W. Rucker Jr. (D)
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January 11, 1917
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South Carolina 5th
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David E. Finley (D)
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Resigned January 26, 1917. Successor elected February 21, 1917.
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Paul G. McCorkle (D)
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February 21, 1917
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New York 15th
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Michael F. Conry (D)
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Died March 2, 1917
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Seat remained vacant until next Congress
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Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (5 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
Senate
Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Appropriations
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
- Banking and Currency
- Canadian Relations
- Census
- Civil Service and Retrenchment
- Claims
Clerical Assistance to Senators (Select)
- Coast and Insular Survey
- Coast Defenses
- Commerce
- Conservation of National Resources
- Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
- Cuban Relations
- Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments
- District of Columbia
District of Columbia Excise Board (Select)
- Education and Labor
- Engrossed Bills
- Enrolled Bills
Establish a University in the United States (Select)
- Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
- Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture
- Expenditures in the Department of Commerce
- Expenditures in the Interior Department
- Expenditures in the Department of Justice
- Expenditures in the Department of Labor
- Expenditures in the Navy Department
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- Expenditures in the Department of State
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- Expenditures in the War Department
- Finance
- Fisheries
- Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
- Foreign Relations
- Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
- Geological Survey
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- Immigration
- Immigration and Naturalization
- Indian Affairs
- Industrial Expositions
- Interoceanic Canals
- Interstate Commerce
- Irrigation and Reclamation
- Judiciary
- Library
- Manufactures
- Military Affairs
- Mines and Mining
Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select)
- National Banks
- Naval Affairs
- Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Philippines
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Printing
- Private Land Claims
- Privileges and Elections
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Health and National Quarantine
- Public Lands
- Railroads
- Revision of the Laws
- Revolutionary Claims
- Rules
Ship Purchase Lobby (Special)
- Standards, Weights and Measures
Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Territories
Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
- Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select)
- Whole
- Woman Suffrage
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House of Representatives
- Accounts
- Agriculture
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
- Appropriations
- Banking and Currency
- Census
- Claims
- Coinage, Weights and Measures
- Disposition of Executive Papers
- District of Columbia
- Education
- Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
- Elections
- Enrolled Bills
- Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
- Expenditures in the Commerce Department
- Expenditures in the Interior Department
- Expenditures in the Justice Department
- Expenditures in the Labor Department
- Expenditures in the Navy Department
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- Expenditures in the State Department
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- Expenditures in the War Department
- Expenditures on Public Buildings
- Flood Control
- Foreign Affairs
- Immigration and Naturalization
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- Indian Affairs
- Industrial Arts and Expositions
- Insular Affairs
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce
- Invalid Pensions
- Irrigation of Arid Lands
- Labor
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- Mileage
- Military Affairs
- Mines and Mining
- Naval Affairs
- Patents
- Pensions
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Lands
- Railways and Canals
- Reform in the Civil Service
- Revision of Laws
- Rivers and Harbors
- Roads
- Rules
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories
- War Claims
- Ways and Means
- Whole
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Joint committees
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
- Fiscal Relations between the District of Columbia and the United States
- Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
- Interstate Commerce
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce
- Rural Credits
Caucuses
Democratic (House)
Democratic (Senate)
Employees
Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford
Senate
Chaplain: F. J. Prettyman (Methodist)
Secretary: James M. Baker
Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins
House of Representatives
Chaplain: Henry N. Couden
Clerk: South Trimble
Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Bennett C. Clark
Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and N/A (R)
Postmaster: William M. Dunbar
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)
- United States presidential election, 1916
- United States Senate elections, 1916
- United States House of Representatives elections, 1916
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41 (1869) 42 (1871) 43 (1873) 44 (1875) 45 (1877) 46 (1879) 47 (1881) 48 (1883) 49 (1885) 50 (1887)
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51 (1889) 52 (1891) 53 (1893) 54 (1895) 55 (1897) 56 (1899) 57 (1901) 58 (1903) 59 (1905) 60 (1907)
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61 (1909) 62 (1911) 63 (1913) 64 (1915) 65 (1917) 66 (1919) 67 (1921) 68 (1923) 69 (1925) 70 (1927)
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71 (1929) 72 (1931) 73 (1933) 74 (1935) 75 (1937) 76 (1939) 77 (1941) 78 (1943) 79 (1945) 80 (1947)
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81 (1949) 82 (1951) 83 (1953) 84 (1955) 85 (1957) 86 (1959) 87 (1961) 88 (1963) 89 (1965) 90 (1967)
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91 (1969) 92 (1971) 93 (1973) 94 (1975) 95 (1977) 96 (1979) 97 (1981) 98 (1983) 99 (1985) 100 (1987)
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101 (1989) 102 (1991) 103 (1993) 104 (1995) 105 (1997) 106 (1999) 107 (2001) 108 (2003) 109 (2005) 110 (2007)
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