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PREDECESSOR COMMITTEES
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ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND ITS
PREDECESSOR COMMITTEES
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Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania, Chairman
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND
ITS PREDECESSOR COMMITTEES
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Prepared by the Staff of the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania, Chairman
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman
DON YOUNG, Alaska PETER A. DeFAZIO, Oregon
JOHN J. DUNCAN, Jr., Tennessee, ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of
Vice Chair Columbia
FRANK A. LoBIONDO, New Jersey EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas
SAM GRAVES, Missouri ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland
ERIC A. ``RICK'' CRAWFORD, Arkansas RICK LARSEN, Washington
LOU BARLETTA, Pennsylvania MICHAEL E. CAPUANO, Massachusetts
BOB GIBBS, Ohio GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, California
DANIEL WEBSTER, Florida DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois
JEFF DENHAM, California STEVE COHEN, Tennessee
THOMAS MASSIE, Kentucky ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey
MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina JOHN GARAMENDI, California
SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania HENRY C. ``HANK'' JOHNSON, Jr.,
RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois Georgia
MARK SANFORD, South Carolina ANDRE CARSON, Indiana
ROB WOODALL, Georgia RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota
TODD ROKITA, Indiana DINA TITUS, Nevada
JOHN KATKO, New York SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York
BRIAN BABIN, Texas ELIZABETH H. ESTY, Connecticut,
GARRET GRAVES, Louisiana Vice Ranking Member
BARBARA COMSTOCK, Virginia LOIS FRANKEL, Florida
DAVID ROUZER, North Carolina CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois
MIKE BOST, Illinois JARED HUFFMAN, California
RANDY K. WEBER, Sr., Texas JULIA BROWNLEY, California
DOUG LaMALFA, California FREDERICA S. WILSON, Florida
BRUCE WESTERMAN, Arkansas DONALD M. PAYNE, Jr., New Jersey
LLOYD SMUCKER, Pennsylvania ALAN S. LOWENTHAL, California
PAUL MITCHELL, Michigan BRENDA L. LAWRENCE, Michigan
JOHN J. FASO, New York MARK DeSAULNIER, California
A. DREW FERGUSON IV, Georgia STACEY E. PLASKETT, Virgin Islands
BRIAN J. MAST, Florida
JASON LEWIS, Minnesota
MIKE GALLAGHER, Wisconsin
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Page
Introduction................................................. 1
Committee Rosters
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.................. 7
Committee on Rivers and Harbors............................ 33
Committee on Roads and Canals.............................. 49
Committee on Railways and Canals......................... 59
Committee on Pacific Railroads............................. 67
Committee on Roads......................................... 77
Committee on the Mississippi Levees........................ 87
Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi
River...................................................... 88
Committee on Flood Control................................. 95
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries................. 105
Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries....... 117
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries............... 119
Committee on Public Works.................................. 149
Committee on Public Works and Transportation............. 162
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure........... 172
Chair Biographies............................................ 185
Committee Chairs............................................. 303
Introduction
This booklet details the Members of the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure and its predecessor
Committees, and their organization. The U.S. House of
Representatives, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
exercises legislative authority over a broad spectrum of the
national activities that influence the development of America
and the lives of its people.
The Committee can trace its roots back to the early
beginnings of the Republic, and its influence has stimulated
national growth and prosperity; from the first U.S. public
works project in the First Congress in 1789--a lighthouse on
Cape Henry in Hampton Roads, Virginia--to the present day.
Prior to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (Pub.
L. 97-601) the jurisdictional aspects of the Committee can be
traced to the following predecessor Committees: The Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds; the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors; the Committee on Roads and Canals; and the Committee
on Levees.
committee on public buildings and grounds
The Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was
established in 1837 with jurisdiction over ``subjects relating
to the public edifices and grounds within the city of
Washington.'' The jurisdiction was expanded slightly in 1869 to
include the care of the Restaurant within the Capitol. In 1871,
the jurisdiction was further expanded to include ``all the
public buildings constructed by the United States.'' Again, in
1880, the Committee's jurisdiction was clarified further to
include ``public works and occupied or improved grounds of the
United States, other than appropriations thereof.''
committee on rivers and harbors
The Committee on Rivers and Harbors was established in 1883
with jurisdiction to study measures ``making appropriations for
rivers and harbors.'' In 1920, the Committee was expanded to
include bills ``authorizing the improvement of river and
harbors, '' which had been up until that time held with the
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The jurisdiction
was further expanded in 1911 to include the functions of the
Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
(originally, Committee on Levees). In 1916 certain jurisdiction
interests of the Committee were moved to the Committee on Flood
Control.
committee on roads and canals
The Committee on Roads and Canals was established in 1831,
and it was determined that its establishment would ``lead to
the impression that the House was disposed to systematize
internal improvement, and with it the present high duties on
imports, &c.'' During the 25th Congress (1837-39) the House
rejected a proposal to change the name to the Committee on
Public Improvement, but in 1869 it approved a motion to change
the name to the Committee on Railways and Canals.
The Committee reported legislation concerning the survey,
construction, and improvement of canals within the United
States as well as a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The
Committee's jurisdiction also included improvements in river
navigation, construction of bridges over rivers, maintenance of
breakwaters and harbors associated with water routes, and the
subscription of the United States to capital stock in canal
companies. It reported proposals for the construction of roads,
such as the Cumberland Road and a Columbus and Sandusky
Turnpike, and methods of financing them, primarily through
land-grants. As early as the 20th Congress (1827-28) the
committee reported legislation to aid the construction of
railroads including the granting of charters to railroad
companies.
committee on pacific railroads
On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill
authorizing the construction of a transcontinental railroad
between the Missouri River and California. Construction was to
be aided by land grants and Government loans. During the 1850's
the Army Topological Engineers had explored various routes for
such a railroad and from as early as 1855 select House
committees had been responsible for legislation regarding the
construction of a transcontinental railroad. On March 2, 1865,
the standing Committee on Pacific Railroads was established and
assigned jurisdiction over subjects relating ``to the railroads
and telegraph lines between the Mississippi River and the
Pacific coast.'' By 1911, the Committee had become largely
inactive, and it was terminated.
committee on roads
The Committee on Roads was established in 1913 with
jurisdiction over ``matters relating to the construction or
maintenance of roads, other than the appropriations therefor.''
The Committee on Roads was responsible for legislation
providing for Federal aid to the States for the construction of
rural post roads, and the Federal highways. In 1921, the
Committee reported the Federal Highway Act.
committee on levees
The Committee on Levees was established in 1875 to inquire
into building and repairing levees on the Mississippi River. On
November 7, 1877, the Committee's name was changed to the
Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River.
The jurisdiction included building and repairing levees as well
as making other improvements on the Mississippi River. In 1911,
the jurisdiction of the Committee was merged into the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors.
committee on flood control
The Committee on Flood Control was established in 1916 and
merged the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, and the Committee
on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River. The
Committee's jurisdiction focused on flood control and
prevention.
committee on merchant marine and fisheries
The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries was
established on December 21, 1887. The Committee's jurisdiction
encompassed the merchant marine, including all matters relating
to transportation by water, the Coast Guard, life-saving
service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, the Panama Canal, and fisheries.
In 1919, the Committee was given jurisdiction over wireless
telegraphy (radio), and in 1932 its name was changed to the
Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries. After a
dispute with the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
the jurisdiction over radio services was transferred to that
committee in 1935 and the term ``radio'' was dropped from the
name of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee.
In 1995, during restructuring of the Committees, the
jurisdiction of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
was split between the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure and the Committee on Natural Resources.
committee on public works
With the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (Pub. L.
97-601) the Committee on Public Works was established and
merged the jurisdictional authorities of the Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds; the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors; the Committee on Roads; and the Committee on Levees.
In 1975, the Committee's name was changed to become the
Committee on Public Works and Transportation.
In 1995, the name was again changed to become the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure. The Committee also gained
additional jurisdictional authorities from the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries (est. 1887) when that Committee
was dissolved.
When listing the Members of the Committee, where there is a
defined Majority/Minority split, the Members are listed in
columns based upon party designation (generally around the 46th
Congress). Members whose party designation differs from their
caucus are additionally designated. Changes to the initial
roster are denoted after the line. Third Parties are listed
under the Minority side after a space.
Abbreviations for the parties are as follows:
PARTIES
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Full Name Full Name
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(A-CF) Adams-Clay Federalist (A-JX)................. Anti-Jacksonian
(A-Ma) Anti-Masonic (Amcn)................. American Party
(Cons) Conservative (D).................... Democratic
(DFl) Democratic Farmer Labor (FS) Free Soil
Party
(Fed)................................ Federalist (FLb).................. Farmer-Labor
(Gb) Greenback (I).................... Independent
(ID) Independent Democrat (JQAD)................. John Quincy Adams
Democrat
(Jack) Jacksonian Republican (Jx.F)................. Jackson Federalist
(Jx.R) Jackson Republican (Opp).................. Opposition Party
(Pop) Populist (Prog) Progressive
(R) Republican (Read) Readjuster Democrat
(UU)................................. Unconditional Unionist (Unio) Unionist
(W) Whig
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COMMITTEE ROSTERS
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Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
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The standing Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was
established in 1837, replacing the Select Committee on Public
Buildings which had been created in 1819. This new five-member
committee was empowered ``to consider all subjects relating to
the public edifices and grounds within the city of Washington
which may be referred to them, and report their opinion
thereon, together with such propositions relating thereto as
may seem to them expedient.'' \1\ In 1871, Representative Henry
L. Dawes of Massachusetts presented a resolution which
increased membership on the committee to nine and gave it
jurisdiction over ``all the public buildings constructed by the
United States.'' \2\
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\1\ Congressional Globe, 25th Cong., 1st sess., Sept. 15, 1837, p.
34.
\2\ Congressional Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st sess., Mar. 10, 1871, p.
53.
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Further changes were made in 1880, when the committee was
expanded to 16 members and its jurisdiction expanded to cover
``the public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the
United States, other than appropriations therefore.'' \3\ The
jurisdiction of the committee did not change after 1880, but
the number of members was increased several times.
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\3\ Congressional Globe, 46th Cong., 2nd sess., Jan. 6, 1880, p.
205.
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The committee reported legislation for the construction
throughout the country of public buildings, including customs
houses, post offices, and Federal court houses; the erection of
monuments and memorials; the purchase of property for public
use; improvements to public property; and compensation for
workers erecting public buildings. During the early years of
the committee, much of the legislation reported had to do with
constructing and improving public buildings in Washington, DC,
and commissioning artists to create art work for those
buildings.\4\
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\4\ Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)
from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
25th Congress
First Session, September 15, 1837--October 16, 1837
George W.B. Towns, Georgia (D) Chair
Archibald Yell, Arkansas (D)
Dixon H. Lewis, Alabama (D)
Horace Everett, Vermont (W)
Charles McClure, Pennsylvania (D)
Second Session, December 7, 1837--July 9, 1838
Levi Lincoln, Massachusetts (W) Chair
Hugh S. Legare, South Carolina (D) \1\
Zadock Pratt, New York (D)
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (W)
Jabez Y. Jackson, Alabama (D)
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Charles McClure, Pennsylvania (D) \2\
Third Session, December 6, 1838--March 3, 1839
Levi Lincoln, Massachusetts (W) Chair
Zadock Pratt, New York (D)
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (W)
Charles McClure, Pennsylvania (D)
Jabez Y. Jackson, Alabama (D)
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\1\ GHugh S. Legare, South Carolina, left the Committee, December 29,
1837.
\2\ GCharles McClure, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
29, 1837.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
26th Congress
First Session, December 27, 1839--July 21, 1840
Levi Lincoln, Massachusetts (W) Chair
David Petrikin, Pennsylvania (D)
Stephen B. Leonard, New York (D)
George M. Keim, Pennsylvania (D)
John Hastings, Ohio (D)
Second Session, December 10, 1840--March 3, 1841
David Petrikin, Pennsylvania (D) Chair \1\
Stephen B. Leonard, New York (D) Chair \2\
George M. Keim, Pennsylvania (D)
John Hastings, Ohio (D)
Thomas B. Osborn, Connecticut (W)
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John H. Prentiss, New York (D) \3\
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\1\ GDavid Petrikin, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, December 15,
1840.
\2\ GStephen B. Leonard, New York, appointed as Chairman upon
departure of Mr. Petrikin.
\3\ GJohn H. Prentiss, New York, elected to the Committee, December
15, 1840.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
27th Congress
First Session, June 7, 1841--September 13, 1841
William W. Boardman, Connecticut (W) Chair
Augustus Young, Vermont (W)
Robert B. Cranston, Rhode Island (W)
Samuel S. Browne, New York (D)
Fernando Wood, New York (D)
Second Session, December 13, 1841--August 31, 1842
William W. Boardman, Connecticut, Chair
Aaron Ward, New York (D)
Augustus Young, Vermont (W)
Robert B. Cranston, Rhode Island (W)
Samuel S. Browne, New York (D)
Third Session, December 12, 1842--March 3, 1843
William W. Boardman, Connecticut (W) Chair
Aaron Ward, New York (D)
Robert B. Cranston, Rhode Island (W)
Samuel S. Browne, New York (D)
Thomas D. Sumter, South Carolina (D)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
28th Congress
First Session, December 11, 1843--June 17, 1844
Zadock Pratt, New York, (D) Chair
Moses G. Leonard, New York (D)
Charles Hudson, Massachusetts (W)
William Wright, New Jersey (W)
Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts (W)
Second Session, December 5, 1844--March 3, 1845
Zadock Pratt, New York, (D) Chair
Henry D. Foster, Pennsylvania (D)
Amos Abbott, Massachusetts (W)
George W. Jones, Tennessee (D)
Levi D. Carpenter, New York (D)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
29th Congress
First Session, December 4, 1845--August 10, 1846
Orlando B. Ficklin, Illinois (D)
Chair
Moses McClean, Pennsylvania (D)
Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts (W)
James J. Faran, Ohio (D)
William W. Woodworth, New York (D)
Second Session, December 10, 1846--March 3, 1845
James J. Faran, Ohio (D) Chair
Moses McClean, Pennsylvania (D)
Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts (W)
Luther Severance, Maine (W)
William W. Woodworth, New York (D)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
30th Congress
First Session, December 9, 1847--August 14, 1848
John W. Houston, Delaware (W)
Chair
William B. Preston, Virginia (W)
James J. Faran, Ohio (D)
Robert M. McLane, Maryland (D)
Gideon Reynolds, New York (W)
Second Session, December 7, 1848--March 3, 1849
John W. Houston, Delaware (W)
Chair
William B. Preston, Virginia (W)
James J. Faran, Ohio (D)
Robert M. McLane, Maryland (D)
Gideon Reynolds, New York (W)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
31st Congress
First Session, December 27, 1849--September 30, 1850
Franklin W. Bowdon, Alabama (D)
Chair
Henry A. Edmundson, Virginia (D)
John W. Houston, Delaware (W)
Timothy R. Young, Illinois (D)
Gideon Reynolds, New York (W)
Second Session, December 5, 1850--March 3, 1851
Richard H. Stanton, Kentucky (D)
Chair
Henry A. Edmundson, Virginia (D)
John W. Houston, Delaware (W)
William J. Brown, Indiana (D)
Henry D. Moore, Pennsylvania (W)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
32nd Congress
First Session, December 9, 1851--August 31, 1852
Second Session December 7, 1852--March 3, 1853
Richard H. Stanton, Kentucky (D)
Chair
Henry A. Edmundson, Virginia (D)
Richard J. Bowie, Maryland (W)
James Duane Doty, Wisconsin (I&D)
John H. Boyd, New York (W)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
33rd Congress
First Session, December 12, 1853--August 7, 1854
Second Session December 5, 1854--March 3, 1855
F. Burton Craige, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Nathan Becher, Connecticut (D)
John, K. Taylor, Ohio (W)
Laurence M. Keitt, South Carolina (D)
Ebenezer Chamberlain, Indiana (D)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
34th Congress
First Session, February 13, 1856--August 18, 1856; Second Session,
August 21, 1856--August 30, 1856; Third Session, December 4, 1856--
March 3, 1857
Edward Ball, Ohio (Opp) Chair
Lemuel Todd, Pennsylvania (Opp)
Richard C. Puryear, North Carolina (Amcn)
Laurence M. Keitt, South Carolina (D)
Anthony E. Roberts, Pennsylvania (Opp)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
35th Congress
First Session, December 14, 1857--June 14, 1858
Second Session, December 9, 1858--March 3, 1859
Laurence M. Keitt, South Carolina
(D) Chair
Samuel O. Peyton, Kentucky (D)
Edwin B. Morgan, New York (R)
Laurence W. Hall, Ohio (D)
Samuel A. Purviance, Pennsylvania (R)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
36th Congress
February 9, 1860--March 3, 1861
Charles R. Train, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Charles L. Beale, New York (R)
Lawrence M. Keitt, South Carolina (D) \3\
Edward McPherson, Pennsylvania (R) \1\
Samuel O. Peyton, Kentucky (D)
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Jacob K. McKenty, Pennsylvania (R) \2\
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\1\ GEdward McPherson, Pennsylvania (R), left the Committee, December
3, 1860.
\2\ GJacob K. McKenty, Pennsylvania (R), elected to the Committee,
December 3, 1860.
\3\ GLawrence M. Keitt, South Carolina (D), resigned from the House,
when South Carolina seceded, December, 10, 1860.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
37th Congress
July 8, 1861--March 3, 1863
Charles R. Train, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Owen Lovejoy, Illinois (R) \1\
Issac C. Delaplaine, New York (D)
Robert McKnight, Pennsylvania (R)
James R. Morris, Ohio (D)
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Jacob B, Blair, Virginia (Unio.) \2\
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\1\ GOwen Lovejoy, Illinois (R), left the Committee, August 1, 1861.
\2\ GJacob B, Blair, Virginia (Unio.), elected to the Committee,
December 5, 1861.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
38th Congress
December 14, 1863--March 3, 1865
John H. Rice, Maine (R) Chair
Jacob B. Blair, West Virginia (UU)
Samul J. Randall, Pennsylvania (D)
John F. Starr, New Jersey (R)
William Radford, New York (D)
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
39th Congress
December 11, 1865--March 3, 1867
John H. Rice, Maine (R)Chair
Francis C. Le Blond, Ohio (D) John F. Starr, New Jersey
George R. Latham, West Virginia (UU) James F. Wilson, Iowa
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
40th Congress
November 25, 1867--March 3, 1869
John Covode, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
John A. Nicholson, Delaware (D) \1\ Burt Van Horn, New Jersey
Amasa Cobb, Wisconsin
William Moore, New Jersey
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Thomas L. Jones, Kentucky \2\
\1\ GJohn A. Nicholson, Delaware, left the Committee, December 9,
1867.
\2\ GThomas L. Jones, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, December 10,
1867.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
41st Congress
March 15, 1869--March 3, 1871
Benjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin (R)
Chair \1\
John Beatty, Ohio \2\
William J. Smith, Tennessee
Adolphus H. Tanner, New York
J. Lawrence Getz, Pennsylvania (D)
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Joseph L. Morphis, Mississippi \3\
John Covode, Pennsylvania \4\ \6\
Robert Ridgway, Virginia (Cons)
\5\
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\1\ GBenjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin, died, January 1, 1870.
\2\ GJohn Beatty, Ohio, appointed Chairman, January 1, 1870.
\3\ GJoseph L. Morphis, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, March
7, 1870.
\4\ GJohn Covode, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, March 7,
1870.
\5\ GRobert Ridgway, Virginia, elected to the Committee, March 7,
1870.
\6\ GJohn Covode, Pennsylvania, died, January 11, 1871.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
42nd Congress
April 13, 1871--March 3, 1873
George A. Halsey, New Jersey (R)
Chair
J. Lawrence Getz Pennsylvania (D) James N. Tyner, Indiana
Erastus Wells, Missouri James H. Platt, Jr., Virginia
Eli Perry, New York Jackson Orr, Iowa
Chalres B. Farwell, Illinois
Walter L. Sessions, New York
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
43rd Congress
December 5, 1873--March 3, 1875
James H. Platt, Jr., Virginia (R)
Chair
Erastus Wells, Missouri (D) Walter L. Sessions, New York
Eli Perry, New York John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania
Charles W. Milliken, Kentucky William P. Sprague, Ohio
Samuel Hersey, Maine \1\
Henry L. Pierce, Massachusetts
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Maryland
Horace B. Strait, Minnesota
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\1\ GSamuel Hersey, Maine, died, February 3, 1875.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
44th Congress
December 20, 1875--March 3, 1877
William S. Holman, Indiana (D)
Chair
William B, Williams, Michigan (R) Erastus Wells, Missouri
Laurin D. Woodworth, Ohio Carter H. Harrison, Illinois
Harris M. Plaisted, Maine Phillip Cook, Georgia
Alanson M. Kimball, Wisconsin Abram S. Hewitt, New York \1\
William Walsh, Maryland
H. Casey Young, Tennessee
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Smith Ely, Jr., New York \2\ \3\
Josiah G. Abbott, Massachusetts
\4\
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\1\ GAbram S. Hewitt, New York, left the Committee, January 5, 1876.
\2\ GSmith Ely, Jr., New York, elected to the Committee, January 5,
1876.
\3\ GSmith Ely, Jr., New York, left the Committee, December 11, 1876.
\4\ GJosiah G. Abbott, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 13, 1876.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
45th Congress
October 29, 1877--March 3, 1879
Phillip Cook, Georgia (D) Chair
Joseph C. Stone, Iowa (R) H. Casey Young, Tennessee
Herman L. Humphrey, Wisconsin Benjamin J. Franklin, Missouri
John S. Jones, Ohio Archibald M. Bliss, New York
William Lathrop, Illinois Francis D. Collins, Pennsylvania
Robert F. Ligon, Alabama
James A. McKenzie, Kentucky
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
46th Congress
April 11, 1879--March 3, 1881
Phillip Cook, Georgia (D) Chair
Rush Clark, Iowa (R) \1\ H. Casey Young, Tennessee
Joseph Jorgensen, Virginia James A. McKenzie, Kentucky
John H. Starin, New York William Kimmel, Maryland
William S. Shallenberger, Pennsylvaniaibson Atherton, Ohio
-------- William H. Kitchen, North Carolina
Thomas L. Young, Ohio \2\ Thompson H. Murch, Main
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\1\ GRush Clark, Iowa, died, April 29, 1879.
\2\ GThomas L. Young, Ohio, elected to the Committee, June 30, 1879.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
47th Congress
December 21, 1881--March 3, 1883
William S. Shallenberger,
Pennsylvania (R) Chair
Phillip Cook, Georgia (D) John H. Lewis, Illinois
Abram S. Hewitt, New York \1\ Marsena E. Cutts, Iowa
James W. Singleton, Illinois Mark L. De Motte, Indiana
Hilary A. Herbert, Alabama Joseph A. Scranton, Pennsylvania
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Lewis Beach, New York \2\
Nicolas Ford, Missouri (Gb)
J. Hyatt Smith, New York (I)
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\1\ GAbram S. Hewitt, New York, left the Committee, January 5, 1883
\2\ GLewis Beach, New York, elected to the Committee, January 17,
1882.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
48th Congress
December 24, 1883--March 3, 1885
Strother M. Stockslager, Indiana
(D) Chair
Samuel M. Brainerd, Pennsylvania (R) H. Casey Young, Tennessee
Hart B. Holton, Maryland Samuel Dibble, South Carolina
John Kean, New Jersey \1\ Seaborn Reese, Georgia
Edward Breitung, Michigan James H. Hopkins, Pennsylvania
Seth L. Milliken, Maine William H. M. Pusey, Iowa
------ Edward Wemple, New York
Harry Libbey, Virginia \2\ Nicholas E. Worthington, Illinois
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\1\ GJohn Kean, New Jersey, left the Committee, July 5, 1884.
\2\ GHarry Libbey, Virginia, elected to the Committee, July 5, 1884.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
49th Congress
January 7, 1886--March 3, 1887
Samuel Dibble, South Carolina (D)
Chair
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Seaborn Reese, Georgia
William W. Brown, Pennsylvania Charles P. Snyder, West Virginia
Francs W. Rockwell, Massachusetts Barclay Henley, California
William H. Wade, Missouri Beriah Wilkins, Ohio
William D. Owen, Indiana Nicholas E. Worthington, Illinois
William H. Cole, Maryland \1\
Thomas D. Johnston, North Carolina
------
Nathaniel D. Wallace, Louisiana
\2\
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\1\ GWilliam H. Cole, Maryland, died, July 8, 1886.
\2\ GNathaniel D. Wallace, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, July
15, 1886.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Samuel Dibble, South Carolina (D)
Chair
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Thomas D. Johnston, North Carolina
William H. Wade, Missouri William H. Sowden, Pennsylvania
Herman Lehlbach, New Jersey John R. Neal, Tennessee
Robert P. Kennedy, Ohio Cherubusco Newton, Louisiana
Philip S. Post, Illinois John A. McShane, Nebraska
John H. Bankhead, Alabama
Charles E. Hogg, West Virginia
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
51st Congress
December 21, 1889--March 3, 1891
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Chair
Samuel Dibble, South Carolina (D) Herman Lehlbach, New Jersey
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Philip S. Post, Illinois
Jo Abbott, Texas Isaac W. Van Schaick, Wisconsin
Thomas J. Clunie, California Smedley Darlington, Pennsylvania
Clarke Lewis, Mississippi Daniel Kerr, Iowa
John A. Quackenbush, New York
Oscar S. Gifford, South Dakota
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
52nd Congress
December 23, 1891--March 3, 1893
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D)
Chair
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Jo Abbott, Texas
George W. Shonk, Pennsylvania Clarke Lewis, Mississippi
William H. Enoch, Ohio John C. Tarsney, Missouri
Willis Sweet, Idaho John G. Warwick, Ohio \1\
William M. McKaig, Maryland
Walter C. Newberry, Illinois
J. DeWitt Warner, New York
Archibald H. A. Williams, North
Carolina
------
John L. Bretz, Indiana \2\
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\1\ GJohn G. Warwick, Ohio, died, August 14, 1892.
\2\ GJohn L. Bretz, Indiana, elected to the Committee, December 9,
1892.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D)
Chair
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Jo Abbott, Texas
Willis Sweet, Idaho William M. McKaig, Maryland
Elijah A. Morse, Massachusetts Timothy J. Campbell, New York
Myron B. Wright, Pennsylvania \1\ John L. Bretz, Indiana
John M. Wever, New York Cornelius A. Cadmus, New Jersey
David H. Mercer, Nebraska Benjamin F. Grady, North Carolina
-------- Albert S. Berry, Kentucky
Josiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania \2\ Robert C. Davey, Louisiana
----------
\1\ GMyron B. Wright, Pennsylvania, died, November 13, 1894.
\2\ GJosiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
6, 1894.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
Seth L. Milliken, Maine (R) Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Elijah A. Morse, Massachusetts
Jo Abbott, Texas David H. Mercer, Nebraska
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida Josiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania
John S. Little, Arkansas Samul G. Hilborn, California
Andrew R. Gillet, New York
Harry Skinner, North Carolina (Pop) George E. White, Illinois
Samuel C. Hyde, Washington
Charles L. Henry, Indiana
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
David H. Mercer, Nebraska (R)
Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Josiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania
John S. Little, Arkansas Samul G. Hilborn, California
Robert G. Broussard, Louisiana Andrew R. Gillet, New York
William G. Brantley, Georgia George E. White, Illinois
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri
Harry Skinner, North Carolina (Pop) Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
George W. Weymouth, Massachusetts
Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Charles Dorr, West Virginia
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
56th Congress
December 18, 1899--March 3, 1901
David H. Mercer, Nebraska (R)
Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Charles W Gillet, New York
John S. Little, Arkansas Richard Bartholdt, Missouri
William G. Brantley, Georgia Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
James Norton, South Carolina George W. Weymouth, Massachusetts
John W. Smith, North Carolina \1\ Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Alexander Stewart, Wisconsin
-------- Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania
June W. Gayle, Kentucky \2\ William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
----------
\1\ GJohn W. Smith, North Carolina, left Congress on January 12, 1900,
to become Governor of Maryland.
\2\ GJune W. Gayle, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, January 19,
1900.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
David H. Mercer, Nebraska (R)
Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Charles W. Gillet, New York
John S. Little, Arkansas Richard Bartholdt, Missouri
William G. Brantley, Georgia Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
John L. Sheppard, Texas \1\ G Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania
Robert W. Miers, Indiana James P. Conner, Iowa
-------- Eden W. Martin, South Dakota
Morris Sheppard, Texas \2\ Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
----------
\1\ GJohn L. Sheppard, Texas, died, October 11, 1902.
\2\ GMorris Sheppard, Texas, elected to the Committee, December 3,
1902.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
58th Congress
December 5, 1903--March 3, 1905
Charles W. Gillet, New York (R)
Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Richard Bartholdt, Missouri
William G. Brantley, Georgia Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Robert W. Miers, Indiana James P. Conner, Iowa
Morris Sheppard, Texas Eden W. Martin, South Dakota
Robert B. Scarborough, South CarolinaEdward S. Minor, Wisconsin
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
George W. Norris, Nebraska
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
John H. Bankhead, Alabama (D) Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
William G. Brantley, Georgia Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina James P. Conner, Iowa
Morris Sheppard, Texas Eden W. Martin, South Dakota
Joseph T. Johnson, South Carolina Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
Eaton J. Bowers, Mississippi William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
George W. Norris, Nebraska
Frederick Landis, Nebraska
John E. Andrus, New York
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
60th Congress
December 19, 1907--March 3, 1909
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
William G. Brantley, Georgia (D) Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Morris Sheppard, Texas James P. Conner, Iowa
Joseph T. Johnson, South Carolina William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
Frank A. McLain, Mississippi George W. Norris, Nebraska
John L. Burnett, Alabama John E. Andrus, New York
Ben F. Caldwell, Illinois Daniel F. Lafean, Pennsylvania
Frank M. Nye, Minnesota
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
61st Congress
August 5, 1909--March 3, 1911
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
William G. Brantley, Georgia (D) \1\ Edwin C. Burleigh, Maine
Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Benjamin F. Howell, New Jersey
Morris Sheppard, Texas John E. Andrus, New York
Joseph T. Johnson, South Carolina Daniel F. Lafean, Pennsylvania
John L. Burnett, Alabama Eden W. Martin, South Dakota
Frank Clark, Florida Frederick Lundin, Illinois
James C. Cantrill, Kentucky John G. Grant, North Carolina
-------- Richard W. Austin, Tennessee
Seaborn C. Roddenbery, Georgia \2\ Charles E. Creager, Oklahoma
----------
\1\ GWilliam G. Brantley, Georgia, left the Committee, March 1, 1910.
\2\ GSeaborn C. Roddenbery, Georgia, elected to the Committee, March
1, 1910.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
62nd Congress
April 11, 1911--March 3, 1913
Morris Sheppard, Texas (D) Chair
\1\
John E. Andrus, New York (R) Joh L. Burnett, Alabama
Richard W. Austin, Tennessee Frank Clark, Florida \2\
John M. Nelson, Wisconsin James C. Cantrill, Kentucky
Burton L. French, Idaho Seaborn A. Roddenbery, Georgia
Horace M. Towner, Iowa Carter Glass, Virginia
Ira C. Copley, Illinois William A. Ashbrook, Ohio
Jessee L. Hartman, Pennsylvania Henry A. Barnhart, Indiana
James M. Gudger, Jr., North
Carolina
Edwin S Underhill, New York
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\1\ GMorris Sheppard, Texas, left the Committee, February 3, 1913.
\2\ GFrank Clark, Florida, appointed as Chairman, February 3, 1913.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
63rd Congress
June 3, 1913--March 3, 1915
Frank Clark, Florida (D) Chair
Richard W. Austin, Tennessee (R) John L. Burnett, Alabama
John W. Langley, Kentucky James C. Cantrill, Kentucky
John M.C. Smith, Michigan Seaborn A. Roddenbery, Georgia \1\
Thomas B. Dunn, New York William A. Ashbrook, Ohio
Silas R. Barton, Nebraska James M. Gudger, Jr., North
Aaron S. Kreider, Pennsylvania Carolina
Charles W. Bell, California J. Washington Logue, Pennsylvania
Hatton W. Sumners, Texas
Augustine Lonergan, Connecticut
George McClellan, New York
John J. Eagan, New Jersey
Edward Gilmore, Massachusetts
--------
Frank Park, Georgia \2\
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\1\ GSeaborn A. Roddenbery, Georgia, died, September 25, 1913.
\2\ GFrank Park, Georgia, elected to the Committee, December 12, 1913.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
64th Congress
December 14, 1915--March 3, 1917
Frank Clark, Florida (D) Chair
Richard W. Austin, Tennessee (R) John L. Burnett, Alabama
John W. Langley, Kentucky James C. Cantrill, Kentucky
John M.C. Smith, Michigan William A. Ashbrook, Ohio
Thomas B. Dunn, New York Hatton W. Sumners, Texas
Aaron S. Kreider, Pennsylvania Frank Park, Georgia
William C. Mooney, Ohio William W. Rucker, Missouri
Henry A. Barnhart, Indiana
Whitmell P. Martin, Louisiana (Prog) Michael F. Phelan, Massachusetts
John A. Elston, California Henry Bruckner, New York
George E. Hood, North Carolina
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
65th Congress
April 2, 1917--March 3, 1919
Frank Clark, Florida (D) Chair
Richard W. Austin, Tennessee (R) John L. Burnett, Alabama
John W. Langley, Kentucky James C. Cantrill, Kentucky
John M.C. Smith, Michigan William A. Ashbrook, Ohio
Thomas B. Dunn, New York Frank Park, Georgia
Aaron S. Kreider, Pennsylvania William W. Rucker, Missouri
David A. Hollingsworth, Ohio Henry A. Barnhart, Indiana
Isaac Bacharach, New Jersey Michael F. Phelan, Massachusetts
William H. Carter, Massachusetts Henry Bruckner, New York \1\
-------- George E. Hood, North Carolina
Richard N. Elliott, Indiana \3\ Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
--------
Anthony J. Griffin, New York \2\
----------
\1\ GHenry Bruckner, New York, left the Committee, December 31, 1917.
\2\ GAnthony J. Griffin, New York, elected to the Committee, March 28,
1918.
\3\ GRichard N. Elliott, Indiana, elected to the Committee, December
15, 1917.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
66th Congress
May 19, 1919--March 3, 1921
John W. Langley, Kentucky (R)
Chair
Frank Clark, Florida (D) John M.C. Smith, Michigan
James C. Cantrill, Kentucky Thomas B. Dunn, New York
Frank Park, Georgia Aaron S. Kreider, Pennsylvania
William W. Rucker, Missouri Richard N. Elliott, Indiana
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas William E. Andrews, Nebraska
Anthony J. Griffin, New York Charles J. Thompson, Ohio
John W. Rainey, Illinois \1\ Edwin B. Brooks, Illinois
John F. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts \2\J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
------ Daniel A. Reed, New York
Peter F. Tague, Massachusetts \3\ Carl R. Chindblom, Illinois
Edward Mann, South Carolina \4\
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\1\ GJohn W. Rainey, Illinois, left the Committee, October 8, 1919.
\2\ GJohn F. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts, left the Committee, October
23, 1919.
\3\ GPeter F. Tague, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, December
4, 1919.
\4\ GEdward Mann, South Carolina, elected to the Committee, December
4, 1919.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
67th Congress
April 11, 1921--March 3, 1923
John W. Langley, Kentucky (R)
Chair
Frank Clark, Florida (D) Thomas B. Dunn, New York
James C. Cantrill, Kentucky Aaron S. Kreider, Pennsylvania
Frank Park, Georgia Richard N. Elliott, Indiana
William W. Rucker, Missouri William E. Andrews, Nebraska
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas Edwin B. Brooks, Illinois
George K. Favrot, Louisiana J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
Homer L. Lyon, North Carolina Daniel A. Reed, New York
Carl R. Chindblom, Illinois
William F. Kopp, Iowa
Harris J. Bixler, Pennsylvania
Miner G. Norton, Ohio
Joseph C. Pringey, Oklahoma
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
68th Congress
December 17, 1923--March 3, 1925
John W. Langley, Kentucky (R)
Chair
Frank Clark, Florida (D) \1\ Richard N. Elliott, Indiana
Frank Park, Georgia J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas Daniel A. Reed, New York
George K. Favrot, Louisiana William F. Kopp, Iowa
Edward B. Almon, Alabama Harris J. Bixler, Pennsylvania
J. Scott Wolff, Missouri Edwin E. Miller, Illinois
Frank Oliver, New York George M. Wertz, Pennsylvania
John H. Kerr, North Carolina Milton C. Garber, Oklahoma
T. Jeff Busby, Mississippi Gale H. Stalker, New York
Charles Brand, Ohio
Ole J. Kvale, Minnesota (FLbr)
----------
\1\ GFrank Clark, Florida, left the Committee, March 2, 1925.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
69th Congress
December 16, 1925--March 3, 1927
Richard N. Elliott, Indiana (R)
Chair
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
Edward B. Almon, Alabama Daniel A. Reed, New York
Frank Oliver, New York William F. Kopp, Iowa
John H. Kerr, North Carolina Gale H. Stalker, New York
T. Jeff Busby, Mississippi Charles Brand, Ohio
Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia Anderson H. Walters, Pennsylvania
Edward E. Cox, Georgia Clarence J. McLeod, Michigan
Edward E. Eslick, Tennessee Harry I. Thayer, Massachusetts \1\
Edward M. Irwin, Illinois
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York (AmLb)harles J. Esterly, Pennsylvania
John M. Wolverton, West Virginia
--------
Frederick W. Dallinger,
Massachusetts \2\
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\1\ GHarry I. Thayer, Massachusetts, died, March 10, 1926.
\2\ GFrederick W. Dallinger, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 15, 1926.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
70th Congress
December 12, 1927--March 3, 1929
Richard N. Elliott, Indiana (R)
Chair
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
Edward B. Almon, Alabama Daniel A. Reed, New York
John H. Kerr, North Carolina William F. Kopp, Iowa
T. Jeff Busby, Mississippi Gale H. Stalker, New York
Clifton A. Woodrum, Virginia Charles Brand, Ohio
Edward E. Eslick, Tennessee Clarence J. McLeod, Michigan
Charles G. Edwards, Georgia Edward M. Irwin, Illinois
William W. Cohen, New York Frederick W. Dallinger,
Massachusetts
Henry L. Bowles, Massachusetts
Frederick W. Magrady, Pennsylvania
J. Howard Swick, Pennsylvania
Joe Crail, California
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
71st Congress
December 12, 1929--March 3, 1931
Richard N. Elliott, Indiana (R)
Chair
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) J. Will Taylor, Tennessee
Edward B. Almon, Alabama Daniel A. Reed, New York
John H. Kerr, North Carolina William F. Kopp, Iowa
Edward E. Eslick, Tennessee Gale H. Stalker, New York
Pearl Peden Oldfield, Arkansas Charles Brand, Ohio
William F. Brunner, New York Clarence J. McLeod, Michigan
Wall Doxey, Mississippi Edward M. Irwin, Illinois
Frederick W. Dallinger,
Massachusetts
Frederick W. Magrady, Pennsylvania
J. Howard Swick, Pennsylvania
Albert H. Vestal, Indiana
Grant E. Mouser, Jr., Ohio
Fred A. Hartley, Jr., New Jersey
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
72nd Congress
December 15, 1931--March 3, 1933
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
J. Will Taylor, Tennessee (R) Edward B. Almon, Alabama
Daniel A. Reed, New York John H. Kerr, North Carolina
Gale H. Stalker, New York William J. Driver, Arkansas \6\
Charles Brand, Ohio Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Clarence J. McLeod, Michigan Patrick J. Carley, New York
Frederick W. Dallinger, Massachusetts \4\ Cooper, Tennessee \3\
J. Howard Swick, Pennsylvania Lynn S. Hornor, West Virginia
Albert H. Vestal, Indiana \1\ Bernhard M. Jacobsen, Iowa
Grant E. Mouser, Jr., Ohio Dennis Chavez, New Mexico
Fred A. Hartley, Jr., New Jersey Howard W. Smith, Virginia
-------- Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
John C. Allen, Illinois \2\ --------
Robert L. Davis, Pennsylvania \5\ Willa M. B. Eslick, Tennessee \7\
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\1\ GAlbert H. Vestal, Indiana, died, April 1, 1932.
\2\ GJohn C. Allen, Illinois, elected to the Committee, April 8, 1932.
\3\ GJere Cooper, Tennessee, left the Committee, July 15, 1932.
\4\ GFrederick W. Dallinger, Massachusetts, left the Committee,
October 1, 1932.
\5\ GRobert L. Davis, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
6, 1932.
\6\ GWilliam J. Driver, Arkansas, left the Committee, December 15,
1932.
\7\ GWilla M. B. Eslick, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, December
13, 1932.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
73rd Congress
March 14, 1933--January 3, 1935
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
J. Will Taylor, Tennessee (R) Edward B. Almon, Alabama \2\
Gale H. Stalker, New York John H. Kerr, North Carolina
Louis T. McFadden, Pennsylvania \1\ Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Gardner R. Withrow, Wisconsin Ben W. Cravens, Arkansas
Alfred M. Waldron, Pennsylvania Otha D. Wearin, Iowa
William I. Traeger, California Claude E. Cady, Michigan
Wilbur L. Adams, Delaware
Kathryn O. McCarthy, Kansas
Stephen M. Young, Ohio
Robert L. Ramsay, West Virginia
J. Mark Wilcox, Nebraska
Leo Kocialkowski, Illinois
J. Buell Snyder, Pennsylvania
--------
Paul Brown, Georgia \3\
----------
\2\ GLouis T. McFadden, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, April 3,
1933.
\2\ GEdward B. Almon, Alabama, died, June 22, 1933.
\3\ GPaul Brown, Georgia, elected to the Committee, January 20, 1934.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
74th Congress
January 11, 1935--January 3, 1937
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
J. Will Taylor, Tennessee (R) John H. Kerr, North Carolina
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
William D. Thomas, New York \3\ Ben W. Cravens, Arkansas
George Burnham, California Otha D. Wearin, Iowa
William W. Blackney, Michigan J. Mark Wilcox, Nebraska \1\
Karl Stefan, Nebraska Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., Louisiana
John M. Houston, Kansas
Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin (Prog) Aaron Lane Ford, Mississippi
Michael J. Stack, Pennsylvania
C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Phil Ferguson, Oklahoma
John H. Tolan, California
Charles A. Buckley, New York
--------
Frank W. Boykin, Alabama \2\
----------
\1\ GJ. Mark Wilcox, Nebraska, left the Committee, February 25, 1935.
\2\ GFrank W. Boykin, Alabama, elected to the Committee, January 15,
1936.
\3\ GWilliam D. Thomas, New York, died, May 17, 1936.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
75th Congress
January 14, 1937--January 3, 1939
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
J. Will Taylor, Tennessee (R) John H. Kerr, North Carolina
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Karl Stefan, Nebraska Ben W. Cravens, Arkansas
Clyde H. Smith, Maine C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Albert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania Charles A. Buckley, New York
Fred J. Douglas, New York Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio
Thomas R. Amlie, Wisconsin (Prog) Newt V. Mills, Louisiana
Franck R. Havenner, California Frank W. Fries, Illinois
Harry R. Sheppard, California \1\
Luther Patrick, Alabama
Herman P. Eberharter, Pennsylvania
--------
Alfred J. Elliott, California \2\
----------
\1\ GHarry R. Sheppard, California, left the Committee, March 10,
1937.
\2\ GAlfred J. Elliott, California, elected to the Committee, June 10,
1937.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
76th Congress
January 23, 1939--January 3, 1941
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts (R) Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Clyde H. Smith, Maine \10\ C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Albert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania Charles A. Buckley, New York
John C. Schafer, Wisconsin Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
John Z. Anderson, California \6\ Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio
Thomas R. Bell, Connecticut Newt V. Mills, Louisiana
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan \4\ Frank W. Fries, Illinois
-------- Herman P. Eberharter, Pennsylvania
Edwin Arthur Hall, New York \7\ \8\
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio \9\ Alfred J. Elliott, California \12\
Clarence E. Kilburn, New York \11\ Butler B. Hare, South Carolina \3\
A.S. (Mike) Monroney, Oklahoma \1\
Thomas V. Smith, Illinois
Lansdale G. Sasscer, Maryland
--------
A. Sydney Camp, Georgia \2\ \13\
Clara G. McMillan, South Carolina
\5\
Zadoc L. Weatherford, Alabama \14\
----------
\1\ GA.S. (Mike) Monroney, Oklahoma, left the Committee, April 13,
1939.
\2\ GA. Sydney Camp, Georgia, elected to the Committee, August 5,
1939.
\3\ GButler B. Hare, South Carolina, left the Committee, November 3,
1939.
\4\ GFrederick V. Bradley, Michigan, left the Committee, November 3,
1939.
\5\ GClara G. McMillan, South Carolina, elected to the Committee,
January 8, 1940.
\6\ GJohn Z. Anderson, California, left the Committee, January 12,
1940.
\7\ GEdwin Arthur Hall, New York, elected to the Committee, January
12, 1940.
\8\ GHerman P. Eberharter, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, February
2, 1940.
\9\ GJ. Harry McGregor, Ohio, elected to the Committee, March 7, 1940.
\10\ GClyde H. Smith, Maine, died, April 8, 1940.
\11\ GClarence E. Kilburn, New York, elected to the Committee, April
23, 1940.
\12\ GAlfred J. Elliott, California, left the Committee, May 9, 1940.
\13\ GA. Sydney Camp, Georgia, left the Committee, November 19, 1940.
\14\ GZadoc L. Weatherford, Alabama, elected to the Committee,
November 19, 1940.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
77th Congress
January 22, 1941--January 3, 1943
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts (R) C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Albert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania \6\harles A. Buckley, New York
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Clarence E. Kilburn, New York Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania Newt V. Mills, Louisiana
Earl Wilson, Indiana F. Edward Hebert, Louisiana
Cecil W. (Runt) Bishop, Illinois Walter W. Bankhead, Alabama \1\
-------- James A. Wright, Pennsylvania
William S. Hill, Colorado \7\ John A. Meyer, Maryland
L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
\2\
Le Roy D. Downs, Connecticut
John S. Gibson, Georgia
--------
Winder R. Harris, Virginia \3\
Alfred J. Elliott, California \4\
Carter Manasco, Alabama \5\
----------
\1\ GWalter W. Bankhead, Alabama, left the Committee, February 1,
1941.
\2\ GL. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina, left the Committee, March 25,
1941.
\3\ GWinder R. Harris, Virginia, elected to the Committee, April 18,
1941.
\4\ GAlfred J. Elliott, California, elected to the Committee, April
30, 1941.
\5\ GCarter Manasco, Alabama, elected to the Committee, July 9, 1941.
\6\ GAlbert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania, died, on August 10, 1941.
\7\ GWilliam S. Hill, Colorado, elected to the Committee, October 17,
1941.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
78th Congress
January 22, 1943--January 3, 1945
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts (R) C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Charles A. Buckley, New York
Clarence E. Kilburn, New York Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania John S. Gibson, Georgia
Earl Wilson, Indiana Alfred J. Elliott, California
James Gallagher, Pennsylvania Carter Manasco, Alabama
Samuel W. Arnold, Missouri Joe L. Smith, West Virginia
Calvin D. Johnson, Illinois Louis J. Capozzoli, New York
John D. McWilliams, Connecticut \2\ Thomas G. Abernethy, Mississippi
-------- William A. Rowan, Illinois \1\
Dean M. Gillespie, Colorado \4\ George E. Outland, California \3\
----------
\1\ GWilliam A. Rowan, Illinois, left the Committee, March 16, 1944.
\2\ GJohn D. McWilliams, Connecticut, left the Committee, March 16,
1944.
\3\ GGeorge E. Outland, California, left the Committee, March 22,
1944.
\4\ GDean M. Gillespie, Colorado, elected to the Committee, April 17,
1944.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
79th Congress
January 16, 1945--January 3, 1947
Fritz G. Lanham, Texas (D) Chair
Pehr G. Holmes, Massachusetts (R) C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Charles A. Buckley, New York
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Earl Wilson, Indiana John S. Gibson, Georgia
Samuel W. Arnold, Missouri Alfred J. Elliott, California
Hubert S. Ellis, West Virginia Carter Manasco, Alabama
Rolla C. McMillen, Illinois James H. Morrison, Louisiana
Charles R. Robertson, North Dakota Herbert J. McGlinchey,
Ralph W. Gwinn, New York Pennsylvania
Walter B. Huber, Ohio
Charles R. Savage, Washington
Joe W. Ervin, North Carolina \1\
--------
Cleveland M. Bailey, West Virginia
\2\
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\1\ GJoe W. Ervin, North Carolina, died, December 25, 1945.
\2\ GCleveland M. Bailey, West Virginia, elected to the Committee,
January 28, 1946.
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Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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Established in December 1883, the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors was given jurisdiction over subjects relating to the
improvements of rivers and harbors and had the responsibility
of reporting the river and harbor bill, which previously had
been handled by the Committee on Commerce. The Committee's
jurisdiction changed over time. When the Committee on Levees
and Improvements of the Mississippi River was terminated in
1911 its responsibilities were transferred to the Committee on
Rivers and Harbors. In 1916 the subject of flood control was
removed from the committee's authority and assigned to the new
Committee on Flood Control. After 1920 the committee could no
longer report appropriation bills for rivers and harbors and
its legislative authority was limited to reporting only bills
that authorized improvements to rivers and harbors.
These shifts in authority still left many subjects within
the jurisdiction of the committee. These included improvement
of watersheds and dams thereon, construction of locks on
navigable streams, construction and maintenance of equipment
for river improvements, erosion of banks on navigable streams,
pollution of navigable waters, intrastate inland waterways, and
navigation of international boundary streams. The committee was
terminated early in the 80th Congress on January 3, 1947. Its
successor was the Committee on Public Works.\1\
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\1\ Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)
from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. RIVERS AND HARBORS COMMITTEE,
sometime between 1905 and 1945.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
48th Congress
December 24, 1883--March 3, 1885
Albert S. Willis, Kentucky (D)
Chair
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (D) Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana
Thomas M. Bayne, Pennsylvania James T. Jones, Alabama
James S. Robinson, Ohio \3\ Eustace Gibson, West Virginia
Jonathan Chace, Rhode Island \1\ Joseph Rankin, Wisconsin
Eden F. Stone, Massachusetts Clifton R. Breckenridge, Arkansas
Harry G. Burleigh, New York Jeremiah H. Murphy, Iowa
-------- Charles A. Sumner, California
John R. Thomas, Illinois \2\ Julius Houseman, Michigan
Bishop W. Perkins, Kansas \4\
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\1\ GJonathan Chace, Rhode Island, left the Committee, February 4,
1884.
\2\ GJohn R. Thomas, Illinois, elected to the Committee, February 4,
1884.
\3\ GJames S. Robinson, Ohio, left the Committee, January 12, 1885.
\4\ GBishop W. Perkins, Kansas, elected to the Committee, January 12,
1885.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
49th Congress
January 7, 1886--March 3, 1887
Albert S. Willis, Kentucky (D)
Chair
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (R) Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana
Thomas M. Bayne, Pennsylvania James T. Jones, Alabama
Eden F. Stone, Massachusetts Jeremiah H. Murphy, Iowa
Harry G. Burleigh, New York Eustace Gibson, West Virginia
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio Charles Stewart, Texas
Henry H. Markham, California Ezra C. Carleton, Michigan
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
John M. Glover, Missouri
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (D) James T. Jones, Alabama
Thomas M. Bayne, Pennsylvania Charles Stewart, Texas
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
Newton W. Nutting, New York George D. Wise, Virginia
Isaac Stephenson, Wisconsin Charles P. Snyder, West Virginia
William Cogswell, Massachusetts Charles H. Gibson, Maryland
Spencer O. Fisher, Michigan
Thomas L. Thompson, California
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
51st Congress
December 21, 1880--March 3, 1891
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (R)
Chair
Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana (D) Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio
Charles Stewart, Texas Binger Hermann, Oregon
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi George E. Bowden, Virginia
Charles H. Gibson, Maryland Charles B. Clark, Wisconsin
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia Samuel M. Stephenson, Michigan
Richard H. Clarke, Alabama John H. Moffitt, New York
Charles C. Townsend, Pennsylvania
Frederick G. Niedringhaus,
Missouri
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
52nd Congress
December 23, 1891--March 3, 1893
Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (R) Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
Binger Hermann, Oregon Charles Stewart, Texas
Samuel M. Stephenson, Michigan Rufus E. Lester, Georgia
Wiliam A. Stone, Pennsylvania Richard H. Clarke, Alabama
John A. Quackenbush, New York William E. Haynes, Ohio
Thomas A. E. Weadock, Michigan
William A. Jones, Virginia
Charles H. Page, Rhode Island
Samuel Byrns, Missouri
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
Newton C. Blanchard, Louisiana (D)
Chair \1\
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois (R) Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
Binger Hermann, Oregon \2\
Samuel M. Stephenson, Michigan Charles Stewart, Texas
Warren B. Hooker, New York Rufus E. Lester, Georgia
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio Richard H. Clarke, Alabama
John E. Reyburn, Pennsylvania William A. Jones, Virginia
Charles H. Page, Rhode Island
John D. Alderson, West Virginia
John W. Causey, Delaware
Anthony Caminetti, California
Philip D. McCulloch, Arkansas
Luman E. Barnes, Wisconsin
--------
Arthur H. Taylor, Indiana \3\
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\1\ GNewton C. Blanchard, Louisiana, left the Committee, March 12,
1894.
\2\ GThomas C. Catchings, Mississippi, appointed as Chairman, March
12, 1894.
\3\ GArthur H. Taylor, Indiana, elected to the Committee, March 20,
1894.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
Warren B. Hooker, New York (R)
Chair
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi (D) Binger Hermann, Oregon
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia Samuel M. Stephenson, Michigan
Richard H. Clarke, Alabama John E. Reyburn, Pennsylvania
Philip D. McCulloch, Arkansas Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin
Albert S. Berry, Kentucky Theodore E. Burton, Ohio
Willia E. Barrett, Massachusetts
Walter Reeves, Illinois
Charles A. Towne, Minnesota
Blackburn B. Dovener, West
Virginia
Charles N. Clark, Missouri
James A. Walker, Virginia
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
Warren B. Hooker, New York (R)
Chair \2\
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi (D) Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia Theodore E. Burton, Ohio \3\
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Willia E. Barrett, Massachusetts
Philip D. McCulloch, Arkansas Walter Reeves, Illinois
Albert S. Berry, Kentucky Blackburn B. Dovener, West
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida Virginia
Thomas H. Ball, Texas Roswell P. Bishop, Michigan
Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
William Ward, New York \1\
--------
De Alva S. Alexander, New York \4\
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\1\ GWilliam Ward, New York, elected to the Committee, February 18,
1898.
\2\ GWarren B. Hooker, New York, left the Committee, November 10,
1898.
\3\ GTheodore E. Burton, Ohio, assumed Chairmanship, November 10,
1898.
\4\ GDe Alva S. Alexander, New York, elected to the Committee,
December 21, 1898.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
56th Congress
December 18, 1899--March 3, 1901
Theodore E. Burton, Ohio (R) Chair
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi (D) Walter Reeves, Illinois
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia Blackburn B. Dovener, West
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Virginia
Philip D. McCulloch, Arkansas Roswell P. Bishop, Michigan
Albert S. Berry, Kentucky Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
Thomas H. Ball, Texas De Alva S. Alexander, New York
Thomas H. Tongue, Oregon
George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
Theodore E. Burton, Ohio (R) Chair
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia (D) Walter Reeves, Illinois
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Blackburn B. Dovener, West
Philip D. McCulloch, Arkansas Virginia
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida Roswell P. Bishop, Michigan
Thomas H. Ball, Texas Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
De Alva S. Alexander, New York
Thomas H. Tongue, Oregon \1\
George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
James McLachlan, California
----------
\1\ GThomas H. Tongue, Oregon, died, January 11, 1903.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
58th Congress
December 5, 1903--March 3, 1905
Theodore E. Burton, Ohio (R) Chair
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia (D) Blackburn B. Dovener, West
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Virginia
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida Roswell P. Bishop, Michigan
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
George F. Burgess, Texas De Alva S. Alexander, New York
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
James McLachlan, California
William Lorimer, Illinois
Wesley L. Jones, Washington
J. Adam Bede, Minnesota
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
Theodore E. Burton, Ohio (R) Chair
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia (D) \1\ Blackburn B. Dovener, West
John H. Bankhead, Alabama Virginia
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida Roswell P. Bishop, Michigan
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
George F. Burgess, Texas De Alva S. Alexander, New York
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
-------- James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
John A. Moon, Texas \2\ James McLachlan, California
William Lorimer, Illinois
Wesley L. Jones, Washington
J. Adam Bede, Minnesota
Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri
----------
\1\ GRufus E. Lester, Georgia, died, June 16, 1906.
\1\ GJohn A. Moon, Texas, elected to the Committee, December 17, 1906.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
60th Congress
December 19, 1907--March 3, 1909
Theodore E. Burton, Ohio (R) Chair
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida (D) Ernest F. Acheson, Pennsylvania
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana De Alva S. Alexander, New York
George F. Burgess, Texas George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
John A. Moon, Texas James McLachlan, California
George W. Taylor, Alabama William Lorimer, Illinois
J. Edwin Ellerbe, South Carolina Wesley L. Jones, Washington
J. Adam Bede, Minnesota
Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri
Benjamin P. Birdsall, Iowa
H. Olin Young, Michigan
Harry C. Woodyard, West Virginia
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
61st Congress
August 5, 1909--March 3, 1911
De Alva S. Alexander, New York (R)
Chair
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida (D) George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
George F. Burgess, Texas James McLachlan, California
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi H. Olin Young, Michigan
John A. Moon, Texas Harry C. Woodyard, West Virginia
George W. Taylor, Alabama William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
J. Edwin Ellerbe, South Carolina William E. Humphreys, Washington
Charles G. Edwards, Georgia Martin B. Madden, Illinois
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa
James H. Cassidy, Ohio
John K. Tener, Pennsylvania \1\
--------
Andrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania
\2\
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\1\ GJohn K. Tener, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, January 16,
1911.
\2\ GAndrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
January 27, 1911.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
62nd Congress
April 11, 1911--March 3, 1913
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida (D)
Chair
George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts (R)Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin George F. Burgess, Texas
H. Olin Young, Michigan Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois George W. Taylor, Alabama
William E. Humphrey, Washington J. Edwin Ellerbe, South Carolina
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa Charles G. Edwards, Georgia
Andrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania John H. Small, North Carolina
Charles F. Booher, Missouri
Thomas Gallagher, Illinois
John W. Boehne, Indiana
Daniel A. Driscoll, New York
Michael Donohoe, Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Scully, New Jersey
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
63rd Congress
June 13, 1913--March 3, 1915
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida (D)
Chair
William E. Humphrey, Washington (R) George F. Burgess, Texas
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
Andrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania George W. Taylor, Alabama
James A. Hughes, West Virginia Charles G. Edwards, Georgia
Robert M. Switzer, Ohio John H. Small, North Carolina
Caleb Powers, Kentucky Charles F. Booher, Missouri
Allen T. Treadway, Massachusetts Thomas Gallagher, Illinois
Daniel A. Driscoll, New York
Michael Donohoe, Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Scully, New Jersey
William F. Murry, Massachusetts
\1\
Charles Lieb, Indiana
William Kettner, California
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\1\ GWilliam F. Murry, Massachusetts, resigned from Congress,
September 28, 1914.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
64th Congress
December 14, 1915--March 3, 1917
Stephen M. Sparkman, Florida (D)
Chair
William E. Humphrey, Washington (R) George F. Burgess, Texas
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
Andrew J. Barchfeld, Pennsylvania \1\
Robert M. Switzer, Ohio John H. Small, North Carolina
Allen T. Treadway, Massachusetts Charles F. Booher, Missouri
James A. Fear, Wisconsin Thomas Gallagher, Illinois
Dow H. Drukker, New Jersey Daniel A. Driscoll, New York
Peter E. Costello, Pennsylvania Thomas J. Scully, New Jersey
Charles Lieb, Indiana
William Kettner, California
Samuel M. Taylor, Arkansas
G. Murray Hulbert, New York
--------
H. Garland Dupre, Louisiana \2\
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\1\ GBenjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi, left the Committee, February
8, 1916.
\2\ GH. Garland Dupre, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, February
9, 1916.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
65th Congress
April 2, 1917--March 3, 1919
John H. Small, North Carolina (D)
Chair
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa (R) Charles F. Booher, Missouri
Robert M. Switzer, Ohio Thomas Gallagher, Illinois
Allen T. Treadway, Massachusetts \1\ Thomas J. Scully, New Jersey
James A. Fear, Wisconsin William Kettner, California \4\
Dow H. Drukker, New Jersey Samuel M. Taylor, Arkansas
Peter E. Costello, Pennsylvania G. Murray Hulbert, New York \3\
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York H. Garland Dupre, Louisiana
Henry I. Emerson, Ohio Martin Dies, Texas
Henry Z. Osborne, California Oscar L. Gray, Alabama
-------- George J. Denton, Indiana
Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut \2\ Gubert F. Fisher, Tennessee
--------
Clarence F. Lea, California \5\
Wiliam E. Cleary, New York \6\
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\1\ GAllen T. Treadway, Massachusetts, left the Committee, December
15, 1917.
\2\ GRichard P. Freeman, Connecticut, elected to the Committee,
December 15, 1917.
\3\ GG. Murray Hulbert, New York, resigned from Congress, January 1,
1918.
\4\ GWilliam Kettner, California, left the Committee, January 9, 1918.
\5\ GClarence F. Lea, California, elected to the Committee, January
28, 1919.
\6\ GWiliam E. Cleary, New York, elected to the Committee, March 18,
1918.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
66th Congress
May 19, 1919--March 3, 1919
Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa (R) Chair
John H. Small, North Carolina (D) Peter E. Costello, Pennsylvania
Charles F. Booher, Missouri \2\ S. Wallace Dempsey, New York \1\
Thomas Gallagher, Illinois Henry I. Emerson, Ohio
Thomas J. Scully, New Jersey Henry Z. Osborne, California
Samuel M. Taylor, Arkansas Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
H. Garland Dupre, Louisiana Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
Clarence F. Lea, California Niels Juul, Illinois
Wiliam E. Cleary, New York Amos H. Radcliff, New Jersey
Andrew J. Hickey, Indiana
Caleb R. Layton, Delaware
Israel M. Foster, Ohio
Carl C. Michener, Michigan
----------
\1\ GS. Wallace Dempsey, New York, left the Committee, December 10,
1920.
\2\ GCharles F. Booher, Missouri, died, January 21, 1921.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
67th Congress
April 11, 1921--March 3, 1923
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York (R)
Chair
Samuel M. Taylor, Arkansas (D) \1\ Henry Z. Osborne, California \3\
H. Garland Dupre, Louisiana Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
James W. Overstreet, Georgia Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas Amos H. Radcliff, New Jersey
John McDuffie, Alabama Caleb R. Layton, Delaware
John J. Kindred, New York Cleveland A. Newton, Missouri
------ Robert A. Blackeney, Maryland
Tilman B. Parks, Arkansas \2\ James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania
Oscar J. Larson, Minnesota
M. Alfred Michaelson, Illinois
William W. Chalmers, Ohio
Charles G. Bond, New York
Wynne F. Clouse, Tennessee
Vincent M. Brennan, Michigan
------
Walter F. Lineberger, California
\4\
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\1\ GSamuel M. Taylor, Arkansas, died, September 13, 1921.
\2\ GTilman B. Parks, Arkansas, elected to the Committee, October 20,
1921.
\3\ GHenry Z. Osborne, California, left the Committee, March 13, 1922.
\4\ GWalter F. Lineberger, California, elected to the Committee, March
16, 1922.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
68th Congress
December 17, 1923--March 3, 1925
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York (R)
Chair
H. Garland Dupre, Louisiana (D) \1\ Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
John McDuffie, Alabama Cleveland A. Newton, Missouri
John J. Kindred, New York James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania
Homer L. Lyon, North Carolina M. Alfred Michaelson, Illinois
Joseph T. Deal, Virginia Walter F. Lineberger, California
Daniel F. Minahan, New Jersey William M. Morgan, Ohio
William F. Wilson, Indiana William E. Hull, Illinois
William H. Boyce, Delaware George N. Seger, New Jersey
-------- Hubert H. Peavey, Wisconsin
James O'Connor, Louisiana \2\ Thaddeus C. Sweet, New York
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\1\ GH. Garland Dupre, Louisiana, died, February 21, 1924.
\2\ GJames O'Connor, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, March 4,
1924.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
69th Congress
December 16, 1925--March 3, 1927
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York (R)
Chair
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D) Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
John McDuffie, Alabama Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
John J. Kindred, New York Cleveland A. Newton, Missouri
Homer L. Lyon, North Carolina James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania
Joseph T. Deal, Virginia M. Alfred Michaelson, Illinois
James O'Connor, Louisiana Walter F. Lineberger, California
Stanley H. Kunz, Illinois \1\
Charles A. Mooney, Ohio William M. Morgan, Ohio
William E. Hull, Illinois
George N. Seger, New Jersey
William W. Chalmers, Ohio
Maurice E. Crumpacker, Oregon
John B. Sosnoski, Michigan
------
Albert E. Carter, California \2\
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\1\ GWalter F. Lineberger, California, left the Committee, January 5,
1926.
\2\ GAlbert E. Carter, California, elected to the Committee, January
5, 1926.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
70th Congress
December 12, 1927--March 3, 1929
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York (R)
Chair
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D) Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
John McDuffie, Alabama Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
John J. Kindred, New York James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania
Homer L. Lyon, North Carolina M. Alfred Michaelson, Illinois
Joseph T. Deal, Virginia William M. Morgan, Ohio \1\
James O'Connor, Louisiana William E. Hull, Illinois
Stanley H. Kunz, Illinois George N. Seger, New Jersey
Charles A. Mooney, Ohio William W. Chalmers, Ohio
Albert E. Carter, California
Grant M. Hudson, Michigan
Robert G. Houston, Delaware
Henry F. Niedringhaus, Missouri
--------
Richard B. Wigglesworth,
Massachusetts \2\
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\1\ GWilliam M. Morgan, Ohio, left the Committee, December 19, 1928.
\2\ GRichard B. Wigglesworth, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 19, 1928.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
71st Congress
December 12, 1929--March 3, 1931
S. Wallace Dempsey, New York (R)
Chair
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D) Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut
John McDuffie, Alabama Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania
James O'Connor, Louisiana James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania
Stanley H. Kunz, Illinois M. Alfred Michaelson, Illinois
Charles A. Mooney, Ohio William E. Hull, Illinois
John J. Boylan, New York \1\ George N. Seger, New Jersey
Charles G. Edwards, Georgia William W. Chalmers, Ohio
-------- Albert E. Carter, California
Joseph A. Gavagan, New York \2\ Grant M. Hudson, Michigan
Robert G. Houston, Delaware
Henry F. Niedringhaus, Missouri
Francis D. Culkin, New York
Chester C. Bolton, Ohio
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\1\ GJohn J. Boylan, New York, left the Committee, January 13, 1930.
\2\ GJoseph A. Gavagan, New York, elected to the Committee, January
20, 1930.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
72nd Congress
December 15, 1931--March 3, 1933
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut (R) John McDuffie, Alabama
Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania William C. Lankford, Georgia
William E. Hull, Illinois Thomas A. Yon, Florida
George N. Seger, New Jersey Rene L. De Rouen, Louisiana
Albert E. Carter, California William P. Cole, Jr., Maryland
Robert G. Houston, Delaware Charles H. Martin, Oregon
Henry F. Niedringhaus, Missouri William L. Fiesinger, Ohio
Francis D. Culkin, New York John W. Boehne, Jr., Indiana
Chester C. Bolton, Ohio Joseph B. Shannon, Missouri
Martin Dies, Jr., Texas
Brent Spence, Kentucky
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
73rd Congress
March 14, 1933--January 3, 1935
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
Nathan L. Strong, Pennsylvania (R) John McDuffie, Alabama
James J. Connolly, Pennsylvania Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
George N. Seger, New Jersey Rene L. De Rouen, Louisiana
Albert E. Carter, California Charles H. Martin, Oregon
Francis D. Culkin, New York William L. Fiesinger, Ohio
Chester C. Bolton, Ohio Martin Dies, Jr., Texas
Patrick H. Moynihan, Illinois Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
George A. Dondero, Michigan Claude V. Parsons, Illinois
Edward H. Crump, Tennessee
Homer C. Parker, Georgia
James F. Hughes, Wisconsin
William M. Colmer, Mississippi
James R. Claiborne, Missouri
Charles J. Colden, California
Alfred F. Beiter, New York
Martin F. Smith, Washington
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
74th Congress
January 11, 1935--January 3, 1937
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
George N. Seger, New Jersey (R) John McDuffie, Alabama \1\
Albert E. Carter, California Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
Francis D. Culkin, New York Rene L. De Rouen, Louisiana
Chester C. Bolton, Ohio William L. Fiesinger, Ohio
George A. Dondero, Michigan Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
John G. Stewart, Delaware Claude V. Parsons, Illinois
William A. Ekwall, Oregon William M. Colmer, Mississippi
Charles J. Colden, California
Alfred F. Beiter, New York
Martin F. Smith, Washington
William T. Schulte, Indiana
Hugh Peterson, Georgia
Jack Nichols, Oklahoma
C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Charles R. Eckert, Pennsylvania
Graham A. Barden, North Carolina
Raymond S. McKeough, Illinois
--------
J. Burrwood Daly, Pennsylvania \2\
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\1\ GJohn McDuffie, Alabama, resigned from Congress, March 2, 1935.
\2\ GJ. Burrwood Daly, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, March
29, 1935.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
75th Congress
January 13, 1937--January 3, 1939
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
George N. Seger, New Jersey (R) Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
Albert E. Carter, California Rene L. De Rouen, Louisiana
Francis D. Culkin, New York Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
George A. Dondero, Michigan Claude V. Parsons, Illinois
George J. Bates, Massachusetts William M. Colmer, Mississippi
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Charles J. Colden, California \3\
Alfred F. Beiter, New York
Franck R. Havenner, California (Prog)Martin F. Smith, Washington
William T. Schulte, Indiana
Hugh Peterson, Georgia
C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Charles R. Eckert, Pennsylvania
John McSweeney, Ohio \1\
Elmer H. Wene, New Jersey
Harold G. Mosier, Ohio
Nan W. Honeyman, Oregon
--------
Phil Ferguson, Oklahoma \2\
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\1\ GJohn McSweeney, Ohio, left the Committee, November 30, 1937.
\2\ GPhil Ferguson, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee, January 28,
1938.
\3\ GCharles J. Colden, California, died, April 15, 1938.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
76th Congress
January 18, 1939--January 3, 1941
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
George N. Seger, New Jersey (R) \3\ Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
Albert E. Carter, California Rene L. De Rouen, Louisiana
Francis D. Culkin, New York Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
George A. Dondero, Michigan Claude V. Parsons, Illinois
William A. Pittenger, Minnesota Martin F. Smith, Washington
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania William T. Schulte, Indiana
Homer D. Angell, Oregon Hugh Peterson, Georgia
George S. Williams, Delaware C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
George H. Bender, Ohio Graham A. Barden, North Carolina
Harry W. Giswold, Wisconsin \1\ John E. Rankin, Mississippi
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
------ Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa
Joshua L. Johns, Wisconsin \2\ H. Jerry Voorhis, California
Frank C. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey \4\ Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
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\1\ GHarry W. Giswold, Wisconsin, died, July 4, 1939.
\2\ GJoshua L. Johns, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, July 12,
1939.
\3\ GGeorge N. Seger, New Jersey, died, August 26, 1940.
\4\ GFrank C. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey, elected to the Committee,
October 14, 1940.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
77th Congress
January 22, 1941--January 3, 1943
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
Albert E. Carter, California (R) Joseph A. Gavagan, New York
Francis D. Culkin, New York Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
George A. Dondero, Michigan Martin F. Smith, Washington
William A. Pittenger, Minnesota William T. Schulte, Indiana
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania Hugh Peterson, Georgia
Homer D. Angell, Oregon C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
George H. Bender, Ohio Graham A. Barden, North Carolina
Joshua L. Johns, Wisconsin John E. Rankin, Mississippi
Frank C. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Leonard W. Hall, New York H. Jerry Voorhis, California
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Michael J. Kirwan, Ohio
Anton F. Maciejewski, Illinois \1\
Clyde T. Ellis, Arkansas
Alfred F. Beiter, New York
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
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\1\ GAnton F. Maciejewski, Illinois, resigned from Congress, December
8, 1942.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
78th Congress
January 22, 1943--January 3, 1945
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
Albert E. Carter, California (R) Joseph A. Gavagan, New York \3\
Francis D. Culkin, New York \1\ Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida \8\
George A. Dondero, Michigan Hugh Peterson, Georgia
William A. Pittenger, Minnesota C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania Graham A. Barden, North Carolina
Homer D. Angell, Oregon John E. Rankin, Mississippi
George H. Bender, Ohio Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Fred Norman, Washington Henry M. Jackson, Washington
Joseph Mruk, New York Cecil R. King, California \7\
Howard H. Buffett, Nebraska O. Clark Fisher, Texas
Sidney E. Simpson, Illinois Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey William A. Rowan, Illinois \5\
Joseph Rider Farrington, Hawaii Territoryas F. Burchill, New York \6\
-------- Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
James Gallagher, Pennsylvania \2\ Territory
--------
James H. Torrens, New York \4\
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\1\ GFrancis D. Culkin, New York, died, December 8, 1942.
\2\ GJames Gallagher, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
September 30, 1943
\3\ GJoseph A. Gavagan, New York, resigned from Congress, December 30,
1943.
\4\ GJames H. Torrens, New York, elected to the Committee, April 19,
1944.
\5\ GWilliam A. Rowan, Illinois, left the Committee, March 16, 1944.
\6\ GThomas F. Burchill, New York, left the Committee April 20, 1944.
\7\ GCecil R. King, California, Left the Committee April 26, 1944.
\8\ GRobert A. (Lex) Green, Florida, resigned from Congress, November
25, 1944.
COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
79th Congress
January 16, 1945--January 3, 1947
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D)
Chair
George A. Dondero, Michigan (R) Hugh Peterson, Georgia
William A. Pittenger, Minnesota C. Jasper Bell, Missouri
Robert L. Rodgers, Pennsylvania Graham A. Barden, North Carolina
Homer D. Angell, Oregon John E. Rankin, Mississippi
George H. Bender, Ohio Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Sidney E. Simpson, Illinois Henry M. Jackson, Washington
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey O. Clark Fisher, Texas
John C. Butler, New York Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana
William C. Cole, Missouri J. Harden Peterson, Florida
Alvin E. O'Konski, Wisconsin Clyde G. Doyle, California
Gordon K McDonough, California James P. Geelan, Connecticut
Joseph Rider Farrington, Hawaii Territoryert J. McGlinchey,
Pennsylvania
William W. Link, Illinois
James J. Delaney, New York
Edward L. Bartlett, Alaska
Territory
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Committee on Roads and Canals
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The committee originated as a select Committee on Roads and
Canals during the 14th Congress (1815) and was appointed at
each succeeding Congress until December 1831 when Charles
Mercer of Virginia made a motion to establish a standing
Committee on the subject. Although an objection was raised that
the select committee had managed the subject adequately, and
that the establishment of a standing Committee on roads and
canals would ``lead to the impression that the House was
disposed to systematize internal improvement, and with it the
present high duties on imports, &c., '' the motion to create
the standing committee passed by a vote of 96 to 90. During the
25th Congress (1837-39) the House rejected a proposal to change
the name to the Committee on Public Improvement, but in 1869 it
approved a motion to change the name to the Committee on
Railways and Canals.
The committee reported legislation concerning the survey,
construction, and improvement of canals within the United
States as well as a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The
committee's jurisdiction also included improvements in river
navigation, construction of bridges over rivers, maintenance of
breakwaters and harbors associated with water routes, and the
subscription of the United States to capital stock in canal
companies. It reported proposals for the construction of roads,
such as the Cumberland Road and a Columbus and Sandusky
Turnpike, and methods of financing them, primarily through
land-grants. As early as the 20th Congress (1827-28) the
committee reported legislation to aid the construction of
railroads including the granting of charters to railroad
companies.
The Committee on Roads was created in 1913 with
jurisdiction over matters relating ``to the construction or
maintenance of roads, other than appropriations therefore.''
The statement outlining the committee's jurisdiction contained
the proviso that measures for specific roads could not be
included in bills for general legislation, nor could any bill
relating to a specific road ``embrace a provision in relation
to any other specific road.'' During the first decade of its
existence, the committee reported bills authorizing aid to the
States in the construction of rural post roads, and with the
1921 Federal Highway Act in the construction and maintenance of
highways, forest roads, trails, and rural post roads. Under the
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the committee was
disbanded and its jurisdiction included in those of the new
Committee on Public Works.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
22nd Congress
December 6, 1831--March 2, 1833
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (A-Jx) Chair
John Blair, Tennessee (Jack)
Robert P. Letcher, Kentucky (A-Jx)
Samuel F. Vinton, Ohio (A-Jx)
Robert Craig, Virginia (Jack)
Humphrey H. Leavitt, Ohio (Jack)
Freeborn G. Jewett, New York (Jack)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
23rd Congress
December 5, 1833--March 3, 1835
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (A-JX) Chair
John Blair, Tennessee (Jack)
Samuel F. Vinton, Ohio (A-Jx)
Andrew Stewart, Pennsylvania (A-Ma)
Abraham Rencher, North Carolina (A-Jx)
William Cost Johnson, Maryland (A-Jx)
Edward Lucas, Virginia (Jack)
Patrick H. Pope, Kentucky (Jack)
Charles Slade, Illinois (Jack) \1\
--------
John Reynolds, Illinois (Jack) \2\
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\1\ GCharles Slade, Illinois, left the Committee at the end of the
First Session, June 30, 1834.
\2\ GJohn Reynolds, Illinois, elected to the Committee, December 4,
1834.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
24th Congress
First Session, December 10, 1835--July 4, 1836
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (A-JX) Chair
Samuel F. Vinton, Ohio (A-Jx)
Abraham Rencher, North Carolina (A-Jx)
Edward Lucas, , Virginia (Jack)
John Reynolds, Illinois (Jack)
Edward A. Hannegan, Indiana (Jack)
John N. Steele, Maryland (A-Jx)
William Jackson, Massachusetts (A-Ma)
John Calhoon, Kentucky (A-Jx)
Second Session, December 8, 1836--March 3, 1837
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (A-JX) Chair
Samuel F. Vinton, Ohio (A-Jx)
Edward Lucas, Virginia (Jack)
John Reynolds, Illinois (Jack)
John N. Steele, Maryland (A-Jx)
John Calhoon, Kentucky (A-Jx)
George Evans, Maine (A-Ma)
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Pennsylvania (A-Ma)
Gideon Hard, New York (A-Jx)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
25th Congress
First Session, September 11, 1837--October 16, 1837
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (W) Chair
George Evans, Maine (A-Ma)
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Pennsylvania (A-Ma)
Adam W. Snyder, Illinois (D)
John White, Kentucky (W)
Millard Fillmore, New York (W)
William Cost Johnson, Maryland (W)
Bennet Bicknell, New York (D)
Albert S. White, Indiana (W)
Second Session, December 7, 1837--July 9, 1839
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (W) Chair
George Evans, Maine (A-Ma)
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Pennsylvania (A-Ma)
Adam W. Snyder, Illinois (D)
Millard Fillmore, New York (W)
William Cost Johnson, Maryland (W)
Albert S. White, Indiana (W)
William J. Graves, Kentucky (W)
Abraham P. Grant, New York (D)
Third Session, December 6, 1839--March 3, 1839
Charles F. Mercer, Virginia (W) Chair
George Evans, Maine (A-Ma)
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Pennsylvania (A-Ma)
Adam W. Snyder, Illinois (D)
Millard Fillmore, New York (W)
William Cost Johnson, Maryland (W)
Albert S. White, Indiana (W)
William J. Graves, Kentucky (W)
Abraham P. Grant, New York (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
26th Congress
First Session, December 27, 1839--July 21, 1840
Charles Ogle, Pennsylvania (A-Ma) Chair
William J. Graves, Kentucky (W)
James Carroll, Maryland (D)
John Hill, Virginia (W)
Thomas Smith, Indiana (D)
David A. Starkweather, Ohio (D)
Kenneth Raner, North Carolina (W)
Walter T. Coquit, Georgia (W)
Julius W. Blackwell, Tennessee (D)
Second Session, December 10, 1840--March 3, 1841
Charles Ogle, Pennsylvania (A-Ma) Chair
James Carroll, Maryland (D)
John Hill, Virginia (W)
Thomas Smith, Indiana (D)
Kenneth Rayner, North Carolina (W)
Julius W. Blackwell, Tennessee (D)
Joseph PR. Underwood, Kentucky (W)
Albert Smith, Maine (D)
George W. Crabb, Alabama (W)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
27th Congress
First Session, June 7, 1841--September 13, 1841
Joseph Lawrence, Pennsylvania (W) Chair
Joseph L. White, Indiana (W)
William W. Boardman, Connecticut (W)
John B. Thompson, Kentucky (W)
John Young, New York (W)
Lewis Steenrod, Virginia (D)
William W. Irwin, Pennsylvania (W)
Henry W. Beeson, Pennsylvania (D)
Second Session, December 13, 1841--August 31, 1842
Joseph Lawrence, Pennsylvania (W) Chair \1\
Harry S. Lane, Indiana (W) \2\
John B. Thompson, Kentucky (W)
William W. Irwin, Pennsylvania (W)
James C. Sprigg, Kentucky (W)
Lewis Steerood, Virginia (D)
Fernando Wood, New York (D)
John R. J. Daniel, North Carolina (D)
Lewis Riggs, New York (D)
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\1\ GJoseph Lawrence, Pennsylvania, died, April 17, 1842.
\2\ GHarry S. Lane, Indiana, assumed Chairmanship, April 17, 1842.
Third Session, December 12, 1842--March 3, 1843
Thomas M. T. McKennan, Pennsylvania (W) Chair
Harry S. Lane, Indiana (W)
John B. Thompson, Kentucky (W)
William W. Irwin, Pennsylvania (W)
James C. Sprigg, Kentucky (W)
John Mattock, Vermont (W)
Lewis Steenrod, Virginia (D)
John R. J. Daniel, North Carolina (D)
Lewis Riggs, New York (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
28th Congress
First Session, December 11, 1843--June 17, 1844
Robert D. Owen, Indiana (D) Chair
Lewis Steenrod, Virginia (D)
John White, Kentucky (W)
William B. Maclay, New York (D)
John R. Reding, New Hampshire (D)
Orland B. Ficklin, Illinois (D)
David W. Dickinson, Tennessee (W)
Charles H. Carroll, New York (W)
Henry Frick, Pennsylvania (W)
Second Session, December 5, 1844--March 3, 1845
Robert D. Owen, Indiana (D) Chair
Lewis Steenrod, Virginia (D)
Charles H. Carroll, New York (W)
John R. Reding, New Hampshire (D)
Orland B. Ficklin, Illinois (D)
Wiloughby Newton, Virginia (W)
Moses G. Leonard, Nebraska (D)
Robert W. Roberts, Mississippi (D)
John Wetherd, Maryland (W)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
29th Congress
First Session, December 4, 1845--August 10, 1846
Robert Smith, Illinois (D) Chair
Henry D. Foster, Pennsylvania (D)
Linn Boyd, Kentucky (D)
Meredith P. Gentry, Tennessee (W)
John S. Pendleton, Virginia (W)
Elias B. Holmes, Nebraska (W)
John Strohm, Pennsylvania (W)
Hezekiah Williams, Maine (D)
William S. Miller, New York (Amcn)
Second Session, December 10, 1846--March 3, 1847
Robert Smith, Illinois (D) Chair
Barclay Martin, Tennessee (D)
George Fries, Ohio (D)
Meredith P. Gentry, Tennessee (W)
John S. Pendleton, Virginia (W)
Elias B. Holmes, Nebraska (W)
Hezekiah Williams, Maine (D)
William S. Miller, New York (Amcn)
Wiliam McDaniel, Missouri (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
30th Congress
December 9, 1847--March 3, 1849
Robert C. Schenck, Ohio (W)
Elias B. Homles, New York (W)
Robert Smith, Illinois (I&D)
Alexander Irvin, Pennsylvania (W)
Asa W. H. Clapp, Maine (D)
Cornelius Warren, New York (W)
Samuel O. Peyton, Kentucky (D)
Wiliam A. Newell, New Jersey (W)
Job Mann, Pennsylvania (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
31st Congress
First Session, December 27, 1849--September 30, 1850
John L. Robinson, Indiana (D)
Job Mann, Pennsylvania (D)
James G. King, New Jersey (W)
John C. Mason, Kentucky (D)
Harvey Putnam, New York (W)
Richard Parker, Virginia (D)
Amos E. Wood, Ohio (D)
Herman D. Gould, New York (W)
John W. Howe, Pennsylvania (FS)
Second Session, December 5, 1850--March 3, 1851
John L. Robinson, Indiana (D)
Job Mann, Pennsylvania (D)
James G. King, New Jersey (W)
John C. Mason, Kentucky (D)
Harvey Putnam, New York (W)
Richard Parker, Virginia (D)
George W. Morrison, New Hampshire (D)
Herman D. Gould, New York (W)
John W. Howe, Pennsylvania (FS)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
32nd Congress
December 9, 1851--March 3, 1853
John L. Robinson, Indiana (D) Chair
William F. Colcock, South Carolina (D)
John W. Howe, Pennsylvania (W)
John C. Mason, Kentucky (D)
Benjamin Stanton, Ohio (W)
Emanuel B. Hart, New York (D)
Charles J. Sutherland, New York (D)
James Johnson, Georgia (Union)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
33rd Congress
December 12, 1583--March 3, 1855
Cyrus L. Dunham, Indiana (D) Chair
George Read Riddle, Delaware (D)
Lewis D. Campbell, Ohio (W)
James T. Pratt, Connecticut (D)
William A. Walker, New York (D)
Henry M. Shaw, Pennsylvania (W)
Henry M. Haw, North Carolina (D)
Leander M. Cox, Kentucky (W)
William Barksdale, Mississippi (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
34th Congress
First Session, February 13, 1856--August 18, 1856
James Knox, Illinois (Opp) Chair
Jonas A. Hughston, New York (Opp)
Thomas Ruffin, North Carolina (D)
Harvey D. Scott, Indiana (Opp)
George W. Peck, Michigan (D)
Oscar F. Moore, Ohio (Opp)
William Barksdale, Mississippi (D)
Samuel C. Bradshaw, Pennsylvania (Opp)
Albert Rust, Arkansas (D)
Second Session, August 21, 1856--August 30, 1856
James Knox, Illinois (Opp) Chair
Jonas A. Hughston, New York (Opp)
Thomas Ruffin, North Carolina (D)
Harvey D. Scott, Indiana (Opp)
George W. Peck, Michigan (D)
Oscar F. Moore, Ohio (Opp)
William Barksdale, Mississippi (D)
Samuel C. Bradshaw, Pennsylvania (Opp)
Albert Rust, Arkansas (D)
Third Session, December 4, 1856--March 3, 1857
James Knox, Illinois (Opp) Chair
Thomas Ruffin, North Carolina (D)
Harvey D. Scott, Indiana (Opp)
George W. Peck, Michigan (D)
Oscar F. Moore, Ohio (Opp)
William Barksdale, Mississippi (D)
Samuel C. Bradshaw, Pennsylvania (Opp)
Albert Rust, Arkansas (D)
George T. Hodges, Vermont (R)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
35th Congress
First Session, December 14, 1857--June 14, 1858
George W. Jones, Tennessee (D) Chair
Albert G. Talbott, Kentucky (D)
William S. Damrell, Mississippi (R)
Martin J. Crawford, Georgia (D)
Samuel G. Andrews, New York (R)
Edward A. Warren, Arkansas (D)
Isaac N. Morrs, Illinois (D)
John Thompson, New York (R)
Paul Leidy, Pennsylvania (D)
Second Session, December 9, 1858--March 3, 1859
George W. Jones, Tennessee (D) Chair
Albert G. Talbott, Kentucky (D)
Samuel G. Andrews, New York (R )
John C. Mason, Kentucky (D)
John Thompson, New York (R)
Edward A. Warren, Arkansas (D)
David S. Walbridge, Michigan (R)
Isaac N. Morris, Illinois (D)
Daniel W. Gooch, Massachusetts (R)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
36th Congress
February 9, 1860--March 3, 1861
Robert Mallory, Kentucky (Opp) Chair
Isaac N. Morris, Illinois (D) \1\
William McKee Dunn, Indiana (R)
Otho R. Singleton, Mississippi (D) \5\
Silas M. Burroughs, New York (R) \3\
John A. Gurley, Ohio (R)
William Montgomery, Pennsylvania (D)
Albert Rust, Arkansas (D)
Orris S. Ferry, Connecticut (R)
--------
James M. Quarles, Tennessee (Opp) \2\
Chapin Hall, Pennsylvania (R) \4\
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\1\ GIsaac N. Morris, Illinois, left the Committee, March 2, 1860.
\2\ GJames M. Quarles, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, March 2,
1860.
\3\ GSilas M. Burroughs, New York, died, June 3, 1860.
\4\ GChapin Hall, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, June 11,
180.
\5\ GOtho R. Singleton, Mississippi, resigned from Congress, when
Mississippi seceded, January 21, 1861.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
37th Congress
July 8, 1861--March 3, 1863
Robert Mallory, Kentucky (Unio) Chair
John A. Gurley, Ohio (R)
Burt Van Horn, New York (R)
Isaac N. Arnold, Illinois (R)
Robert H. Nugen, Ohio (D)
Stephen Baker, New York (R)
Philip Johnson, Pennsylvania (D)
Fernando C. Beaman, Michigan (R)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
38th Congress
December 14, 1863--March 3, 1865
Isaac N. Arnold, Illinois (R) Chair
De Witt C. Littlejohn, New York (R)
William A. Hall, Missouri (Union)
Fernando C. Beaman, Michigan (R)
William B. Washburn, Massachusetts (R)
Elijah Ward, New York (D)
Ephraim R. Eckley, Ohio (R)
William B. Allison, Iowa (R)
Myer Strouse, Pennsylvania (D)
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
39th Congress
December 11, 1865--March 3, 1867
Fernando C. Beaman, Michigan (R)
Burt Van Horn, New York (R)
John H. Hubbard, Connecticut (R)
Lovell H. Rousseau, Kentucky (UU) \1\
John Wentworth, Illinois ()
Thomas T. Davis, New York (R)
George F. Miller, Pennsylvania (R)
Joseph H. Defrees, Indiana (R)
William E. Finck, Ohio (D)
--------
Lovell H. Rousseau, Kentucky (UU) \2\ \3\
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\1\ GLovell H. Rousseau, Kentucky, resigned the House, July 21, 1866.
\2\ GLovell H. Rousseau, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, December
18, 1866.
\3\ GLovell H. Rousseau, Kentucky, was censured by the House on July
24, 1866, for assaulting Rep. Grinnell in the Capitol Building. Rep.
Rousseau resigned on July 21, on anticipation of the censure. He was
subsequently reelected to Congress filling his own vacancy on December
3, 1866, and appointed back to the Committee on December 10, 1866.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND CANALS
40th Congress
November 25, 1867--March 3, 1869
Burton C. Cook, Illinois (R) Chair
Michael C. Kerr, Indiana (D) Thomas Cornell, New York
William H. Barnum, Connecticut John T. Wilson, Ohio
Henry L. Cake, Pennsylvania
Cardman A. Newcomb, Missouri
Genville M. Dodge, Iowa
Dennis, McCarthy, New York
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS \1\
41st Congress
March 15, 1869--April 9, 1869
Ebon C. Ingersoll, Illinois (R)
Chair
Erastus Wells, Missouri (D) Oakes Ames, Massachusetts
Boyd Winchester, Kentucky William Moore, New Jersey
-------- Clinton L. Cobb, North Carolina
William C. Sherrod, Alabama \2\ John A. Smith, Ohio
William F. Prosser, Tennessee
James C. McGrew, West Virginia
--------
George E. Harris, Mississippi \3\
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\1\ GName of the Committee was changed on April 9, 1869.
\2\ GWilliam C. Sherrod, Alabama, elected to the Committee, December
16, 1869.
\3\ GGeorge E. Harris, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, April 7,
1870.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
42nd Congress
December 4, 1871--March 3, 1873
John B. Packer, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
Benjamin T. Biggs, Delaware (D) Oakes Ames, Massachusetts
Boyd Winchester, Kentucky George A Halsey, New Jersey
Charles N. Lamison, Ohio Joseph L Morphis, Mississippi
Charles St. John, New York
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
43rd Congress
December 5, 1873--March 3, 1875
George W. McCrary, Iowa (R) Chair
William E. Arthur, Kentucky (D) George F. Hoar, Massachusetts
Simeon K. Wolfe, Indiana Stephen A. Hurlbut, Illinois
William H. Stone, Missouri Lyman K. Bass, New York
Isaac R. Sherwood, Ohio
Barbour Lewis, Tennessee
Alexander W. Taylor, Pennsylvania
J. Ambler Smith, Virginia
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
44th Congress
December 20, 1875--March 3, 1877
Thomas L. Jones, Kentucky (D)
Chair
John M. Davy, New York (R) William H. Stone, Missouri
Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois John S. Savage, Ohio
Rufus S. Frost, Massachusetts \1\ Edwin R. Meade, New York \2\
Solomon L. Hoge, South Carolina Gustave Schleicher, Texas
-------- Levi A. Mackey, Pennsylvania
Edwin Flye, Maine \4\ Franklin Landers, Indiana
--------
Jesse J. Finley, Florida \3\
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\1\ GRufus S. Frost, Massachusetts, lost a contested election case,
July 28, 1876.
\2\ GEdwin R. Meade, New York, left the Committee, December 13, 1876.
\3\ GJesse J. Finley, Florida, elected to the Committee, December 13,
1876.
\4\ GEdwin Flye, Maine, elected to the Committee, December 13, 1876.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
45th Congress
October 29, 1877--March 3, 1879
Gustave Schleicher, Texas (D)
Chair \1\
James L. Evans, Indiana (R) George C. Cabell, Virginia \2\
John I. Mitchell, Pennsylvania Thomas T. Crittenden, Missouri
John H. Camp, New York Charles M. Shelly, Alabama
George C. Hazelton, Wisconsin James A. McKenzie, Kentucky
Nicholas Muller, New York
Alvah A. Clark, New Jersey
--------
Walter L. Steele, North Carolina
\3\
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\1\ GGustave Schleicher, Texas, died, January 10, 1879.
\2\ GGeorge C. Cabell, Virginia, appointed to Chair, January 10, 1879.
\3\ GWalter L. Steele, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
January 14, 1879.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
46th Congress
April 11, 1879--March 3, 1881
George C. Cabell, Virginia (D)
Chair
Horatio G. Fisher, Pennsylvania (R) Charles M. Shelley, Alabama (D)
John L. Blake, New Jersey (R) William Kimmel, Maryland (D)
Leondas C. Houk, Tennessee (R) William F. Slemons, Arkansas (D)
Nicholas Ford, Missouri (NGb) Morgan R Wise, Pennsylvania (D)
Oscar Turner, Kentucky (ID)
Daniel O'Reilly, New York (I&D)
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
47th Congress
December 21, 1881--March 3, 1883
Amos Townsend, Ohio (R) Chair
John E. Kenna, West Virginia (D) Jeremiah W. Dwight, New York
Morgan A. Wise, Pennsylvania Thomas J. Henderson, Illinois
James R. Chalmers, Mississippi \1\ Jacob N, Campbell, Pennsylvania
Fetter S. Hoblitzell, Maryland Emanuel Schultz, Ohio
Henry W Lord, Michigan
J. Hart Brewer, New Jersey
--------
Robert R. Hitt, Illinois \2\
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\1\ GJames R. Chalmers, Mississippi, lost a contested election case,
April 29, 1882.
\2\ GRobert R. Hitt, Illinois, elected to the Committee, December 11,
1882,
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
48th Congress
December 24, 1883--March 3, 1885
Robert H. M. Davidson, Florida (D)
Chair
William W. Culbertson, Kentucky (R) Fetter S, Hoblitzell, Maryland
Darwin R. James, New York Jeremiah H Murphy, Iowa
Louis E. Atkinson, Pennsylvania David R. Paige, Ohio
Herschel H. Hatch, Andrew J. Caldwell, Tennessee
Oscar Turner, Kentucky (I&D)
Edward Wemple, New York
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
49th Congress
January 7, 1886--March 3, 1887
Robert H. M. Davidson, Florida (D)
Chair
Louis E. Atkinson, Pennsylvania (R) Jeremiah H. Murphy, Iowa
Ralph Plumb, Illinois Alfred B. Irion, Louisiana
John B. Weber, New York William W. Ellsberry, Ohio
Isaac W. Van Schaick, Wisconsin John S. Henderson, North Carolina
William A. Pirce, Rhode Island William J. Stone, Kentucky
William H. Cole, Maryland \1\
James N. Pidcock, New Jersey
--------
Nathanel D. Wallace, Louisiana \2\
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\1\ GWilliam H. Cole, Maryland, died, July 8, 1886.
\2\ GNathaniel D. Wallace, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, July
15, 1886.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Robert H. M. Davidson, Florida (D)
Chair
Ralph Plumb, Illinois (R) Thomas C. McRae, Arkansas
David Eilber, New York William J. Stone, Kentucky
Henry C. McCormick, Pennsylvania James N. Pidcock, New Jersey
William E. Gaines, Virginia Walter I. Hayes, Iowa
Charles A. Russell, Connecticut Lloyd S. Bryce, New York
James E. Cobb, Alabama
Henry H. Carlton, Georgia
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
51st Congress
December 21, 1889--March 3, 1891
Henry C. McCormick, Pennsylvania
(R) Chair
James E. Cobb, Alabama (D) Sereno E. Payne, New York
William H. Cate, Arkansas Byron M. Cutcheon, Michigan
Charles A. O. McClellan, Indiana Charles S. Randall, Massaschusetts
Posey G. Lester, Virginia Joseph H. Sweney, Iowa
Rufus E. Lester, Georgia William C. Wallace, New York
Gibert L. Laws, Nebraska
Lewis P. Featherstone, Arkansas (ULbr) \1\
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\1\ GLewis P. Featherstone, Arkansas, elected to the Committee, Mary
10, 1890.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
52nd Congress
December 23, 1891--March 3, 1893
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
(D) Chair
Charles S Randall, Mississippi (R) Posey G. Lester, Virginia
Christopher A. Bergen, New Jersey William H. Cate, Arkansas
John A. T. Hull, Iowa Henry W. Bentley, New York
Eugene F. Loud, California Frank E. Beltzhoover, Pennsylvania
John W. Causey, Delaware
John K. Davis, Kansas (Pop) Seth W. Cobb, Missouri
Kittel Halvorson, Minnesota
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
(D) Chair \1\
John A. T. Hull, Iowa (R) \6\ Frank E. Beltzhoover, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Chickering, New York \3\
James T. McCleary, Minnesota Seth W. Cobb, Missouri \2\
Irving P. Wagner, Pennsylvania Walter Gresham, Texas
David D. Aitken, Michigan William Ryan, New York
-------- William H. Bower, North Carolina
Jacob H. Bromwell, Ohio \7\ --------
Warren B. English, California \4\
Thomas J. Hudson, Kansas (Pop) James F. Izlar, South Carolina \5\
Maron Cannon, California
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\1\ GThomas C. Catchings, Mississippi, left the Committee, March 20,
1894.
\2\ GSeth W. Cobb, Missouri, assumed Chairmanship, March 20, 1894.
\3\ GFrank E. Beltzhoover, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, March 20,
1894.
\4\ GWarren B. English, California, elected to the Committee, May 7,
1894.
\5\ GJames F. Izlar, South Carolina, elected to the Committee, May 7,
1894.
\6\ GJohn A. T. Hull, Iowa, left the Committee, May 7, 1894.
\7\ GJacob H. Bromwell, Ohio, elected to the Committee, December 6,
1894.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
Charles A. Chickering, New York
(R) Chair
John L. McLaurin, South Carolina (D) Samuel A. Cook, Wisconsin
James A. Lockhart, North Carolina John Leisenring, Pennsylvania
Lawrence E. McGann, Illinois \1\ Vespasian, Warner, Illinois
William R. McKenney, Virginia Wallace T. Foote, Jr., New York
Peter J. Otey, Virginia John F. Lacey, Iowa
William A. Calderhead, Kansas
--------
Hugh R. Belknap, Illinois \2\
Robert T. Thorp, Virginia \3\
John I. Rinacker, Illinois \4\
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\1\ GLawrence E. McGann, Illinois, lost a contested election case,
December 27, 1895.
\2\ GHugh R. Belknap, Illinois, elected to the Committee, January 30,
1896.
\3\ GRobert T. Thorp, Virginia, elected to the Committee, June 6,
1896.
\4\ GJohn I. Rinacker, Illinois, elected to the Committee, June 6,
1896.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
Charles A. Chickering, New York
(R) Chair
Peter J. Otey, Virginia (D) Hugh R. Belknap, Illinois
Thomas J. Strait, South Carolina Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland
George W. Taylor, Alabama James H. Davidson, Wisconsin
Reese C. De Graffenreid, Texas Morgan B. Williams, Pennsylvania
William B. Shuttuc, Ohio
William D. Vincent, Kansas (Pop) Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania
Seth W. Brown, Ohio
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
56th Congress
December 18, 1899--March 3, 1901
Charles A. Chickering, New York
(R) Chair \1\
Reese C. De Graffenreid, Texas (D) James H. Davidson, Wisconsin \2\
James W. Denny, Maryland William B. Shuttuc, Ohio
John L. Burnett, Alabama Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania
John D. Bellamy, North Carolina Seth W. Brown, Ohio
-------- Rousseau O. Crump
Richard A. Wise, Virginia \3\ Ernest W. Roberts, Massaschusetts
Henry C. Smith, Michigan
John W. Atwater, North Carolina (Pop)--------
Josiah L. Kerr, Maryland \4\
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\1\ GCharles A. Chickering, New York, died, February 13, 1900.
\2\ GJames H. Davidson, Wisconsin, assumed Chairmanship, February 13,
1900.
\3\ GRichard A. Wise, Virginia, elected to the Committee, May 1, 1900.
\4\ GJosiah L. Kerr, Maryland, elected to the Committee, December 5,
1900.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin (R)
Chair
Reese C. De Graffenreid, Texas (D) \1\illiam B. Shattuc, Ohio
John L. Burnett, Alabama Joseph B. Showalter, Pennsylvania
John W. Cassingham, Ohio Ernest W. Roberts, Massaschusetts
Asbury F. Lever, South Carolina William W. Skiles, Ohio
William F. Mahoney, Illinois Elias Deemer, Pennsylvania
-------- Charles L. Knapp, New York
Edward Swann, New York \2\ Harvey S. Irwin, Kentucky
----------
\1\ GReese C. De Graffenreid, Texas, died, August 29, 1902.
\2\ GEdward Swann, New York, elected to the Committee, December 6,
1902.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
58th Congress
December 5, 1903--March 3, 1905
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin, (R)
Chair
John L. Burnett, Alabama (D) Ernest W. Roberts, Massaschusetts
William F. Mahoney, Illinois \3\ Ernest W. Skiles, Ohio \1\
De Witt C. Badger, Ohio Elias Deemer, Pennsylvania
Joseph H. Shull, Pennsylvania Charles L. Knapp, New York
John N. Garner, Texas George F. Huff, Pennsylvania
Harry C. Woodyard, West Virginia
Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania
--------
Andrew J. Volstead, Minnesota \2\
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\1\ GErnest W. Skiles, Ohio, died, January 9, 1904.
\2\ GAndrew J. Volstead, Minnesota, elected to the Committee, April 1,
1904.
\3\ GWilliam F. Mahoney, Illinois, died, December 27, 1904.
COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
James H. Davidson, Wisconsin (R)
Chair
John L. Burnett, Alabama (D) Ernest W. Roberts, Massaschusetts
Thomas A. Smith, Maryland Elias Deemer, Pennsylvania
Thomas B. Davis, West Virginia Charles L. Knapp, New York
James O'H. Patterson, South Carolina George F. Huff, Pennsylvania
Jacob Ruppert, Jr., New York Harry C. Woodyard, West Virginia
Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania
Henry T. Bannon, Ohio
Hram R. Burton, Delaware
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Committee on Pacific Railroads
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On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill
authorizing the construction of a transcontinental railroad
between the Missouri River and California. Construction was to
be aided by land grants and Government loans. During the 1850's
the Army Topological Engineers had explored various routes for
such a railroad and from as early as 1855 select House
committees had been responsible for legislation regarding the
construction of a transcontinental railroad. On March 2, 1865,
the standing Committee on Pacific Railroads was established and
assigned jurisdiction over subjects relating ``to the railroads
and telegraph lines between the Mississippi River and the
Pacific coast.'' \1\ By 1911, the committee had become largely
inactive, and it was terminated.\2\
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\1\ Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States,
38th Cong., 2d sess., p. 387.
\2\ Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)
from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
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COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
39th Congress
December 11, 1865--March 3, 1867
Hiram Price Iowa, (R) Chair
Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania
Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota
Oakes Ames, Massachusetts
Benjamin F. Loan, Missouri
Sidney, Clarke, Kansas
John Bidwell, California
James H.D. Henderson, Oregon
James Brooks, New York (D) \1\
--------
William Radford, New York \2\ \3\
Edwin N. Hubbell, New York \4\
John A., Nicholson, Delaware \5\
\1\ James Brooks, New York, lost a contested election case April 7,
1866.
\2\ William Radford, New York, elected to the Committee, April 9,
1866.
\3\ William Radford, New York, declined to serve on the Committee,
April 9, 1866.
\4\ Edwin N. Hubbell, New York, elected to the Committee, April 10,
1866.
\5\ John A., Nicholson, Delaware, elected to the Committee, April 10,
1866.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
40th Congress
November 25, 1867--March 3, 1869
Hiram Price Iowa, (R) Chair
William Higby, California
Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota
Sidney, Clarke, Kansas
Rufus Mallory, Oregon
Ames Oakes, Massachusetts
John Covode, Pennsylvania
John V.L. Pruyn, New York (D)
Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio \1\
--------
Lawrence S. Trimble, Kentucky \2\
\1\ Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio, left the Committee, June 27, 1868.
\2\ Lawrence S. Trimble, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, December
10, 1868.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
41st Congress
March 15, 1869--March 3, 1871
William A. Wheeler, New York (R)
Chair
Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio (D) \6\ John A. Logan, Illinois
Daniel W. Voorhees, Indiana Daniel J. Morrell, Pennsylvania
Samuel B Axtell, California Robert T. Van Horn, Missouri
Eugene M. Wilson, Minnesota Benjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin \3\
-------- James Buffinton, Massachusetts
William H. Barnum, Connecticut \2\ John Lynch, Maine
Lawrence S. Trimble, Kentucky \7\ Frank W, Palmer, Iowa
Logan H. Roots, Arkansas
--------
Alfred E. Buck, Alabama \1\
David Atwood, Wisconsin \4\
John Covode, Pennsylvania \5\
J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana \8\
\1\ Alfred E. Buck, Alabama, elected to the Committee, December 16,
1869.
\2\ William H. Barnum, Connecticut, elected to the Committee, December
16, 1869.
\3\ Benjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin, died, January 1, 1870.
\4\ David Atwood, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, March 7, 1870.
\5\ John Covode, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee March 7, 1870.
\6\ Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio, left the Committee, April 20, 1870.
\7\ Lawrence S. Trimble, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, April 20,
1870, replacing Mr. Van Trump.
\8\ J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, December 14,
1870, replacing Mr. Hopkins.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
42nd Congress
December 4, 1871--March 3, 1873
William A. Wheeler, New York (R)
Chair
Erastus Wells, Missouri (D) James Buffinton, Massachusetts
Smith Ely Jr., New York John Lynch, Maine \1\
James C. Harper, North Carolina J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana
Henry D. McHenry, Kentucky John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania
John L. Beveridge, Illinois \3\
Sherman O. Houghton, California
John T. Averill, Minnesota
--------
Stephen W. Kellogg,, Connecticut
\2\
----------
\1\ John Lynch, Maine, left the Committee, December 6, 1871.
\2\ Stephen W. Kellogg,, Connecticut, elected to the Committee,
December 12, 1871
\3\ John L. Beveridge, Illinois, left the Committee, January 4, 1873.
Elected Lt. Govenor of Illinois.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
43rd Congress
December 5, 1873--March 3, 1875
Philetus Sawyer, Wisconsin (R)
Chair
Erastus Wells, Missouri (D) J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana
Wiliam H. Barnum, Connecticut John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania
Elisha D. Staniford, Jentucky Sherman O. Houghton, California
Thomas J. Creamer, New York Alvah Croker, Massachusetts \1\
Lawrence T. Neal, Ohio Franklin Corwin, Illinois
James W. McDill, Iowa
----------
\1\ Alvah Croker, Massachusetts, died, December 26, 1874.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
44th Congress
December 20, 1875--March 3, 1877
Lucis Q. C. Lamar, Mississippi (D)
Chair
James A. Garfield, Ohio (R) John D. C. Atkins, Tennessee
John A. Kasson, Iowa John K. Luttrell, California
Thomas C. Platt, New York Gilbert C. B. Walker, Virginia
Charles O'Neill, Pennsylvnania William P. Lynde, Wisconsin
Henry W. Blair, New Hampshire James W. Throckmorton, Texas
Philip F. Thomas, Maryland
John F. Philips, Missouri
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
45th Congress
October 29, 1877--March 3, 1879
Clarkson N. Potter, New York (D)
Chair \1\
Charles O'Neill, Pennsylvania (R) James W. Throckmorton, Texas \2\
Henry W. Blair, New Hampshire William R. Morrison, Illinois
Lucien B. Caswell, Wisconsin John F. House, Tennessee
William W. Rice, Massachusetts John K. Luttrell, California
Nathan Cole, Missouri George M. Landers, Connecticut
James R. Chalmers, Mississippi
Joseph B. Elam, Louisiana
--------
Abram S. Hewitt, New York \3\
----------
\1\ Clarkson N. Potter, New York, left the Committee, December 11,
1877.
\2\ James W. Throckmorton, Texas, appointed as Chairman, December 11,
1877.
\3\ Abram S. Hewitt, New York, elected to the Committee, December 11,
1877.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
46th Congress
April 11, 1879--March 3, 1881
Robert McLane, Maryland (D) Chair
Alfred C. Harmer, Pennsylvania (R) James R. Chalmers, Mississippi
James B. Belford, Colorado Archibals M. Bliss,, New York
John S. Newberry, Michigan John B. Clark, Jr., Missourit
John M. Bailey, New York Henry L. Dickey, Ohio
NBenjamin Butterworth, Ohio E. John Ellis, Louisiana
Nemjamin F. Martin, West Virginia
Olin Wellborn, Texas
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
47th Congress
December 21, 1881--March 3, 1883
George C. Hazelton, Wisconsin (R)
Chair
James A. McKenzie, Kentucky (D) Alfred C. Harmer, Pennsylvania
Archibald M. Bliss, New York Benjamin Butterworth, Ohio
John F. House, Tennessee James S. Robinson, Ohio
Poindexter Dunn, Arkansas John Hammond, New York
Michael N. Nolan, New York John Paul, Virginia (Read)
Chester B. Darrall, Louisiana
Charles B. Farwell, Illinois
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
48th Congress
December 24, 1883--March 3, 1885
George W. Cassidy, Nevada (D)
Chair
James Wilson, Iowa (R) James W. Throckmorton, Texas
Stephen C. Millard, New York George C. Cabell, Virginia
Ransom W. Dunham, Illinois Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Kentucky
Lewis Hanback, Kansas Issac M. Jordan, Ohio
Charles F. Crisp, Georgia
George A. Post, Pennsylvania
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
49th Congress
January 7, 1886--March 3, 1887
James W. Throckmorton, Texas (D)
Chair
Lewis Hanback, Kansas (R) Charles F. Crisp, Georgia
Adoniram J. Holmes, Iowa George C. Cabell, Virginia
James B. Everhart, Pennsylvania Poindexter Dunn, Arkansas
Edward D. Hayden, Massachusetts Archibald M. Bliss, New York
John B. Weber, New York George D. Tillman, South Carolina
Joseph H. Outhwaite, Ohio
James D. Richardson, Tennessee
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Joseph H. Outhwaite, Ohio (D)
Chair
John B. Weber, New York (R) William H. Crain, Texas
Adoniram Hles, Jr., Iowa James D. Richardson, Tennessee
John Dalzell, Pennsylvania George T. Barnes, Georgia
Alvin P. Hovey, Indiana \3\ Patrick A. Collins, Massachusetts
William E. Mason, Illinois Asher G. Caruth, Kentucky
Charles Tracey, New York \1\ \2\
Miles T. Granger, Connecticut
\1\ Charles Tracey, New York, left the Committee, August 30 1888.
\2\ Charles Tracey, New York, elected to the Committee, September 11,
1888.
\3\ Alvin P. Hovey, Indiana, left the Committee, January 17, 1889.
Became Governor of Indiana.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
51st Congress
December 21, 1889--March 3, 1891
John Dalzell, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
William H. Crain, Texas (D) William E. Mason, Illinois
Marion Biggs, California Frederick Miles, Illinois
George W. Cooper, Indiana Henry L. Morey, Ohio
Joseph H. O'Neill, Massachusetts John Raines, New York
James B. Reilly, Pennsylvania Orren C. Moore, New Hampshire
Rodney Wallace, Massachusetts
James P. Flick, Iowa
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
52nd Congress
December 23, 1891--March 3, 1893
James B. Reilly, Pennsylvania (D)
Chair
John Raines, New York (R) Samuel W. T. Lanham, Texas
James P. Click, Iowa Edward Lane, Illinois
John Lind, Minnesota Jason B. Brown, Indiana
Vincent A. Taylor, Ohio William T. Ellis, Kentucky
James W. Covert, New York
Frederick S. Coolidge,
Massachusetts
Henry C. Snodgrass, Tennessee
John T. Caine, Utah Terr.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
James B. Reilly, Pennsylvania (D)
Chair
Henry W. Blair, New Hampshire (R) Henry C. Snodgrass, Tennessee
George W. Smith, Illinois Charles J. Boatner, Louisiana
H. Henry Powers, Vermont Asher G. Caruth, Kentucky
William P. Hepburn, Iowa John C. Kyle, Mississippi
Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin Daniel N. Lockwood, New York
Thomas A. E. Weadock, Michigan
William A. Harris, Kansas (Pop) Chalres K. Bell, Texas
Joseph C. Hendrix, New York
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
H. Henry Powers, Vermont (R) Chair
Charle J. Boatner, Louisiana (D) \1\ William P. Hepburn, Iowa
John C. Kyle, Mississippi Ashley B. Wright, Massachusetts
Charled K. Bell, Texas David K. Watson, Ohio
George P. Harrison, Alabama Frank S. Black, New York \3\
Josiah Patterson, Tennessee William C. Arnold, Pennsylvania
William Sulzer, New York Grove L. Johnson, California
Joel D. Hubbard, Missouri
George W. Faris, Indiana
--------
John I. Rinaker, Illinois \2\
\1\ Charles J. Boatner, Louisiana, seat was declared vacant, March 26,
1896.
\2\ John I. Rinaker, Illinois, elected to the Committee, June 6, 1896,
replacing Mr. Boatner.
\3\ Frank S. Black, New York, left the Committee, January 7, 1897, to
become Governor of New York.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
H. Henry Powers, Vermont (R) Chair
James G. Maguire, California (D) Willam P. Hepburn, Iowa
Edward W. Carmack, Tennessee Ashley B. Wright, Massachusetts
William H. Fleming, Georgia \1\
James L. Slayden, Texas William C. Arnold, Pennsylvania
William V. Sullivan, Mississippi \4\ George W. Faris, Indiana
James Cooney, Missouri William S. Kirkpatrick,
Pennsylvania \2\
Denis M. Hurley, New York \6\
Frank G. Clarke, New Hampshire
William B. Shattuc, Ohio
--------
James H. Codding, Pennsylvania \3\
Robert T. Thorp, Virginia \5\
\1\ Ashkey B. Wright, Massachusetts, died, August 14, 1897.
\2\ William S. Kirkpatrick, Pennsylvania, left the Committee December
18, 1897.
\3\ James H. Codding, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
18, 1897.
\4\ William V. Sullivan, Mississippi, left the Committee May 31, 1898.
Appointed to Senate.
\5\ Robert T. Thorp, Virginia, elected to the Committee, July 1, 1898.
\6\ Denis M. Hurley, New York, died, February 26, 1899.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
56th Congress
December 18 1899--March 3, 1901
H. Henry Powers, Vermont (R) Chair
James L. Slayden, Texas (D) William P. Hepburn, Iowa
Julian M. Quarles, Virginia George W. Faris, Indiana
John L. Sheppard, Texas William B. Shattuc, Ohio
David E. Finley, South Carolina William Alden Smith, Michigan
Edward T. Noonan, Illinois Samuel A. Davenport, Pennsylvania
Seth W. Brown, Ohio
George Edmund Foss, Illinois
Joseph E. Thropp, Pennsylvania
Michael E. Dricoll, New York
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
William Alden Smith, Michigan (R)
Chair
James L. Slayden, Texas (D) William P. Hepburn, Iowa
John L. Sheppard, Texas \1\ William B. Shattuc, Ohio
David E. Finley, South Carolina George Edmund Foss, Illinois
Thomas J. Creamer, New York Michael E. Driscoll, New York
John J. Feely, Illinois Henry W. Palmer, Pennsylvania
-------- William H. Jackson, Maryland
Carter Glass, Virginia \2\ Frederic Storm, New York
Charles B. Landis, Indiana
Thomas F. Marshall, North Dakota
\1\ John L. Sheppard, Texas, died, October 11, 1902.
\2\ Carter Glass, Virginia, elected to the Committee, December 6,
1902.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
58th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
William Alden Smith, Michigan (R)
Chair
William J. Wynn, California (D) Michael E. Driscoll, New York
James L. Slayden, Texas William H. Jackson, Maryland
David E. Finley, South Carolina Stephen Morgan, Ohio
Robert Baker, New York Theobald Otjen, Wisconsin
Henry T. Rainey, Illinois Henry W. Palmer, Pennsylvania
John Lind, Minnesota Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebraska
Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland
Milton J. Daniels, California
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
Thomas S. Butler, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
James L. Slayden, Texas (D) Michae E. Driscoll, New York
David E. Finley, Texas Theobald Othen, Wisconsin
Henry T. Rainey, Illinois Henry W. Palmer, Pensylvania
William C. Houston, Tennessee Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebraska
John S. Little, Arkansas \2\ Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland
William B. Lamar, Florida William B. McKinley, Illinois
Albert F. Dawson, Iowa
John M. Nelson, Wisconsin \1\
\1\ John M. Nelson, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, December 17,
1906
\2\ John S. Little, Arkansas, left the Committee, January 14, 1907,
elected Governor of Arkansas.
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
60th Congress
December 19, 1907--March 3, 1909
Thomas S. Butler, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
James L. Slayden, Texas (D) Michael E. Dricoll, New York
Henry T. Rainey, Illinois Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebraska
William B. Lamar, Florida Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland
Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Nebraska Albert F. Dawson, Iowa
George A. Bartlett, Nevada John M. Nelson, Wisconsin
Elmer L. Fulton, Oklahoma Beman G. Dawes, Ohio
Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri
Sylvester C. Smith, California
COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
61st Congress
August 5, 1909--March 3, 1911
Thomas S. Butler, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
James L. Slayden, Texas (D) Michael E. Dricoll, New York
George A. Bartlett, Nevada Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebraska
William D. Jamieson, Iowa Sydney E. Mudd, Maryland
Robert Y. Thomas, Jr., Kentucky John M. Nelson, Wisconsin
Martin A. Morrison, Indiana James Kennedy, Ohio
John A. Martin, Colorado Alfred B. Garner, Pennsylvania
Frank P. Woods, Iowa
Miles Poindexter, Washington
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Committee on Roads
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The Committee on Roads was created in 1913 with
jurisdiction over matters relating ``to the construction or
maintenance of roads, other than appropriations therefore.''
The statement outlining the committee's jurisdiction contained
the proviso that measures for specific roads could not be
included in bills for general legislation, nor could any bill
relating to a specific road ``embrace a provision in relation
to any other specific road.'' During the first decade of its
existence, the committee reported bills authorizing aid to the
States in the construction of rural post roads, and with the
1921 Federal Highway Act in the construction and maintenance of
highways, forest roads, trails, and rural post roads. Under the
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the committee was
disbanded and its jurisdiction included in those of the new
Committee on Public Works.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
63rd Congress
June 3, 1913--March 3, 1915
Dorsey W. Shackleford, Missouri
(D) Chair
C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia (R) Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
Solomon F. Prouty, Iowa Henry A. Barnhardt, Indiana
Thomas B. Dunn, New York James S Davenport, Oklahoma
Howard Sutherland, West Virginia James F. Byrnes, South Carolina
Milton W. Shreve, Pennsylvania Hubert D. Stephens, Mississippi
Edward E. Browne, Wisconsin John J. Whitacre, Ohio
Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina
Roy O. Woodruff, Michigan (Prog) John R. Connelly, Kansas
Edward Keating, Colorado
Clyde H. Tavenner, Illinois
Peter G. Ten Eyck, New York
James B. Aswell, Louisiana
Frank L. Dershem, Pennsylvania
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
64th Congress
December 14, 1915--March 3, 1917
Dorsey W. Shackleford, Missouri
(D) Chair
Thomas B. Dunn, New York (R) Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
Edward E. Browne, Wisconsin Henry A. Barnhardt, Indiana
William R. Wood, Indiana James S Davenport, Oklahoma
Thomas S. Williams, Illinois James F. Byrnes, South Carolina
Frank D. Scott, Michigan Hubert D. Stephens, Mississippi
Joseph Walsh, Massachusetts \1\ Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina
Charles H. Rowland, Pennsylvania Edward Keating, Colorado
-------- Clyde H. Tavenner, Illinois
Harry C. Woodyard, West Virginia \2\ James B. Aswell, Louisiana
Charles Bennett Smith, New York
Frank Park, Georgia
Edward B. Almon, Alabama
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\1\ GJoseph Walsh, Massachusetts, left the Committee, December 9,
1916.
\2\ GLarry C. Woodyard, West Virginia, elected to the Committee,
December 9, 1916.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
65th Congress
April 2, 1917--March 3, 1919
Dorsey W. Shackleford, Missouri
(D) Chair
Thomas B. Dunn, New York (R) Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
Edward E. Browne, Wisconsin Henry A. Barnhardt, Indiana
Sam R. Sells, Tenessee Hubert D. Stephens, Mississippi
Thomas S. Williams, Illinois Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina
Charles H. Rowland, Pennsylvania Edward Keating, Colorado
Edward E. Robbins, Pennsylvania \2\ James B. Aswell, Louisiana
Milton Kraus, Indiana Edward B. Almon, Alabama
Gilbert A. Currie, Michigan Marvin Jones, Texas
John R. Ramsey, New Jersey William W. Larsen, Georgia
Jared Y. Saunders, Louisiana \1\
Thomas D. McKewon, Oklahoma
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\1\ GJared Y. Saunders, Louisiana, left the Committee, January 10,
1918.
\2\ GEdward E. Robbins, Pennsylvania, died, January 25, 1919.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
66th Congress
May 19, 1919--March 3, 1921
Thomas B. Dunn, New York (R) Chair
Edward W. Saunders, Virginia (D) \1\ Sam R. Sells, Tenessee
Hubert D. Stephens, Mississippi Thomas S. Williams, Illinois
Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina John R. Ramsey, New Jersey
James B. Aswell, Louisiana Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa
Edward B. Almon, Alabama John M. Rose, Pennsylvania
Marvin Jones, Texas Edwin D. Ricketts, Ohio
William W. Larsen, Georgia John S. Benham, Indiana
Thomas D. McKeown, Oklahoma John M. Robison, Kentucky
-------- John E. Evans, Nebraska
R. Walton Moore, Virginia \2\ John W. Summers, Washington
William N. Andrews, Maryland
James G. Monahan, Wisconsin
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\1\ GEdward W. Saunders, Virginia, resigned from Congress, February
29, 1920.
\2\ GR. Walton Moore, Virginia, elected to the Committee, March 25,
1920.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
67th Congress
April 11, 1921--March 3, 1923
Thomas B. Dunn, New York (R) Chair
Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina (D)assius C. Dowell, Iowa
Edward B. Almon, Alabama John M. Rose, Pennsylvania
William W. Larsen, Georgia John S. Benham, Indiana
R. Walton Moore, Virginia \1\ John M. Robison, Kentucky
William J. Sears, Florida John W. Summers, Washington
Claude B. Hudspeth, Texas John E. Nelson, Maine
John N. Sandlin, Louisiana Joseph McLaughlin, Pennsylvania
-------- Roy O. Woodruff, Michigan
Hallett S. Ward, North Carolina \2\ B. Carroll Reece, Tenessee
John L. Cable, Ohio
Allen F. Moore, Illinois
John Kissel, New York
William O. Atkeson, Missouri
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\1\ GR. Walton Moore, Virginia, left the Committee, January 5, 1922.
\2\ GHallett S. Ward, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
January 17, 1922.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
68th Congress
December 17, 1923--March 3, 1925
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa (R) Chair
Robert L. Doughton, North Carolina (D)ohn M. Robison, Kentucky
Edward B. Almon, Alabama John E. Nelson, Maine
William J. Sears, Florida John L. Cable, Ohio
Claude B. Hudspeth, Texas Allen F. Moore, Illinois
Hallett S. Ward, North Carolina Clarence MacGregor, New York
Frank Gardner, Indiana Thomas W. Philips, Jr.,
Clarence Cannon, Missouri Pennsylvania
George C. Peery, Virginia Charles Brand, Ohio
J. W. Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma Milton C. Garber, Oklahoma
Edward M. Beers, Pennsylvania
Joe J. Manlove, Missouri
Arthur B. Williams, Michigan
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
69th Congress
December 16, 1925--March 3, 1927
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa (R) Chair
Edward B. Almon, Alabama (D) John M. Robison, Kentucky
William J. Sears, Florida Clarence MacGregor, New York
Claude B. Hudspeth, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
Frank Gardner, Indiana Joe J. Manlove, Missouri
Clarence Cannon, Missouri Don B. Colton, Utah
George C. Peery, Virginia William H. Sproul, Kansas
J. W. Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma William P. Holaday, Illinois
Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana Henry L. Bowels, Massachusetts
Joseph L. Hooper, Michigan
Charles J. Esterly, Pennsylvania
Edmund N. Carpenter, Pennsylvania
John M. Nelson, Wisconsin
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
70th Congress
December 12, 1927--March 3, 1929
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa (R) Chair
Edward B. Almon, Alabama (D) John M. Robison, Kentucky
William J. Sears, Florida \1\ Clarence MacGregor, New York \2\
Claude B. Hudspeth, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
Frank Gardner, Indiana Joe J. Manlove, Missouri
Clarence Cannon, Missouri Don B. Colton, Utah
Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana William H. Sproul, Kansas
Charles G. Edwards, Georgia Henry L. Bowels, Massachusetts
Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina John M. Nelson, Wisconsin
Robert H. Clancy, Michigan
Conrad G. Selvig, Minnesota
Thomas C. Cochran, Pennsylvania
Joe Crail, California
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\1\ GWilliam J. Sears, Florida, left the Committee, December 19, 1928.
\2\ GClarence MacGregor, New York, resigned from Congress, December
31, 1928.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
71st Congress
December 12, 1929--March 3, 1931
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa (R) Chair
Edward B. Almon, Alabama (D) John M. Robison, Kentucky \1\
Claude B. Hudspeth, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana Joe J. Manlove, Missouri
Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina Don B. Colton, Utah
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma William H. Sproul, Kansas
Oliver H. Cross, Texas John M. Nelson, Wisconsin
Claude A. Fuller, Arkansas Robert H. Clancy, Michigan
Conrad G. Selvig, Minnesota
C. Murry Turpin, Pennsylvania
Rowland L. Johnston, Missouri
Frank M. Ramey, Illinois
Joseph C. Shaffer, Virginia
Albert Gallatin Simms, New Mexico
--------
J. Roland Kinzer, Pennsylvania \2\
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\1\ GJohn M. Robison, Kentucky, resigned from Congress, January 11,
1930.
\2\ GJ. Roland Kinzer, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
February 21, 1930.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
72nd Congress
December 15, 1931--March 3, 1933
Edward B. Almon, Alabama (D) Chair
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa (R) Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana
Charles Brand, Ohio Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Joe J. Manlove, Missouri Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma
Don B. Colton, Utah Oliver H. Cross, Texas
John M. Nelson, Wisconsin Claude A. Fuller, Arkansas
Robert H. Clancy, Michigan William M. Whittington,
Conrad G. Selvig, Minnesota Mississippi
C. Murry Turpin, Pennsylvania Wright Patman, Texas
J. Roland Kinzer, Pennsylvania Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Claude V. Parsons, Illinois
Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Charles H. Martin, Oregon
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
73rd Congress
March 14, 1933--January 3, 1935
Edward B. Almon, Alabama (D) Chair
\4\
C. Murry Turpin, Pennsylvania (R) Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana \3\
M. Clyde Kelly, Pennsylvania Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Gardner R. Withrow, Wisconsin Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma \5\
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan Claude A. Fuller, Arkansas \6\
James W. Mott, Oregon William M. Whittington,
Samuel L. Collins, California Mississippi
Wright Patman, Texas
Charles H. Martin, Oregon
Thomas O'Malley, Wisconsin
Terry M. Carpenter, Nebraska
Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Finley Hamilton, Kentucky
Frank H. Lee, Missouri
J. W. Robinson, Utah
Martin A. Brennan, Illinois \1\
--------
James Frank Gillespie, Illinois
\2\
Paul Brown, Georgia \7\
Archibald H. Carmichael, Alabama
\8\
David D. Terry, Arkansas \9\
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\1\ GMartin A. Brennan, Illinois, left the Committee, March 27, 1933.
\2\ GJames Frank Gillespie, Illinois, elected to the Committee, March
30, 1933.
\3\ GBolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana, died, June 19, 1933.
\4\ GEdward B. Almon, Alabama, died, June 22, 1933.
\5\ GWilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma, appointed as Chair, June 22, 1933.
\6\ GClaude A. Fuller, Arkansas, left the Committee, January 19, 1934.
\7\ GPaul Brown, Georgia, elected to the Committee, January 20, 1934.
\8\ GArchibald H. Carmichael, Alabama, elected to the Committee,
January 20, 1934.
\9\ GDavid D. Terry, Arkansas, elected to the Committee, January 20,
1934.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
74th Congress
January 11, 1935--January 3, 1937
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma (D)
Chair
C. Murry Turpin, Pennsylvania (R) Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan William M. Whittington,
James W. Mott, Oregon Mississippi
John W. Gwynne, Iowa Wright Patman, Texas
Bert Lord, New York Thomas O'Malley, Wisconsin
Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Bernard J. Gehrmann, Wisconsin (Prog)J. W. Robinson, Utah
Archibald H. Carmichael, Alabama
Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Scott W. Lucas, Illinois \1\
Hugh Peterson, Georgia
John L. McClelland, Arkansas
Nat Patton, Texas
Orville Zimmerman, Missouri
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\1\ GScott W. Lucas, Illinois, left the Committee, July 17, 1935.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
75th Congress
January 13, 1937--January 3, 1939
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma (D)
Chair
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan (R) Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
James W. Mott, Oregon William M. Whittington,
John W. Gwynne, Iowa Mississippi
Bert Lord, New York Thomas O'Malley, Wisconsin
Karl Stefan, Nebraska Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa J. W. Robinson, Utah
Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
Bernard J. Gehrmann, Wisconsin (Prog)Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Hugh Peterson, Georgia
John L. McClelland, Arkansas
Nat Patton, Texas
John J. Sparkman, Alabama \3\
Lewis L. Boyer, Illinois
William S. Jacobsen, Iowa \1\
--------
Beverly M. Vincent, Kentucky \2\
Alfred J. Elliott, California \4\
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\1\ GWilliam S. Jacobsen, Iowa, left the Committee, January 6, 1938.
\2\ GBeverly M. Vincent, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, January
7, 1938.
\3\ GJohn J. Sparkman, Alabama, left the Committee, January 29, 1938.
\4\ GAlfred J. Elliott, California, elected to the Committee, January
29, 1938.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
76th Congress
January 18, 1939--January 3, 1941
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma (D)
Chair
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan (R) Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
James W. Mott, Oregon \5\
Cassius C. Dowell, Iowa \3\ William M. Whittington,
Robert F. Jones, Ohio Mississippi
Frank O. Horton, Wyoming \1\ Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington \7\
Leland M. Ford, California J. W. Robinson, Utah
H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
-------- Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Edwin Arthur Hall, New York \2\ Hugh Peterson, Georgia
Usher L. Burdick, North Dakota \4\ Nat Patton, Texas
Alfred J. Elliott, California
Bernard J. Gehrmann, Wisconsin (Prog)Joe B. Bates, Kentucky
George M. Grant, Alabama
Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
--------
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
\6\
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\1\ GFrank O. Horton, Wyoming, left the Committee, January 12, 1940.
\2\ GEdwin Arthur Hall, New York, elected to the Committee, January
12, 1940.
\3\ GCassius C. Dowell, Iowa, died, February 4, 1940.
\4\ GUsher L. Burdick, North Dakota, elected to the Committee, March
7, 1940.
\5\ GLindsay C. Warren, North Carolina, resigned from Congress,
October 31, 1940.
\6\ GHerbert C. Bonner, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
November 19, 1940.
\7\ GMonrad C. Wallgren, Washington, left the House, December 19,
1940.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
77th Congress
January 22, 1941--January 3, 1943
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma (D)
Chair
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan (R) William M. Whittington,
James W. Mott, Oregon Mississippi
H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota J. W. Robinson, Utah
Usher L. Burdick, North Dakota Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
Frank L. Fellows, Maine Robert T. Secrest, Ohio \1\
Paul Cunningham, Iowa Hugh Peterson, Georgia
Philip A. Bennett, Missouri \2\ Nat Patton, Texas
Alfred J. Elliott, California
Bernard J. Gehrmann, Wisconsin (Prog)Joe B. Bates, Kentucky
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Cylde T. Ellis, Arkansas
Lucien J. Maciora, Connecticut
Philip A. Traynor, Delaware
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
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\1\ GRobert T. Secrest, Ohio, resigned from Congress, August 3, 1942.
\2\ GPhilip A Bennett, Missouri, died, December 7, 1942.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
78th Congress
January 22, 1943--January 3, 1945
J. W. Robinson, Utah (D) Chair
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan (R) William M. Whittington,
James W. Mott, Oregon Mississippi
Usher L. Burdick, North Dakota Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
Paul Cunningham, Iowa Hugh Peterson, Georgia
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Nat Patton, Texas
James V. Heidinger, Illinois \3\ Alfred J. Elliott, California
J. Glenn Beall, Maryland Joe B. Bates, Kentucky \1\
Angier L. Goodwin, Massachusetts Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Leon H. Gavin, Pennsylvania O. Clark Fisher, Texas
Dean P. Taylor, New York Daniel K. Hoch, Pennsylvania \6\
-------- George E. Outland, California \2\
Hadwen C. Fuller, New York \4\ Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
--------
Clair Engel, California \5\
George W. Andrews, Alabama \7\
William C. Stigler, Oklahoma \8\
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\1\ GJoe B. Bates, Kentucky, left the Committee, July 6, 1943.
\2\ GGeorge E. Outland, California, left the Committee, October 25,
1943.
\3\ GJames V. Heidinger, Illinois, left the Committee, January 27,
1944.
\4\ GHadwen C. Fuller, New York, elected to the Committee, January 27,
1944.
\5\ GClair Engel, California, elected to the Committee, February 9,
1944.
\6\ GDaniel K. Hoch, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, February 17,
1944.
\7\ GGeorge W. Andrews, Alabama, elected to the Committee, March 29,
1944.
\8\ GWilliam C. Stigler, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee, April 18,
1944.
COMMITTEE ON ROADS
79th Congress
January 16, 1945--January 3, 1947
J. W. Robinson, Utah (D) Chair
Jesse P. Wolcott, Michigan (R) William M. Whittington,
James W. Mott, Oregon \1\ Mississippi
Paul Cunningham, Iowa Jennings Randolph, West Virginia
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Hugh Peterson, Georgia
J. Glenn Beall, Maryland Alfred J. Elliott, California
Leon H. Gavin, Pennsylvania Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Dean P. Taylor, New York O. Clark Fisher, Texas
Hadwen C. Fuller, New York Clair Engel, California
Albert M. Cole, Kansas William C. Stigler, Oklahoma
-------- James H. Morrison, Louisiana
Roy Clippinger, Illinois \2\ William W. Link, Illinois
George H. Fallon, Maryland
Edward L. Bartlett, Alaska
Terrirtory
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\1\ GJames W. Mott, Oregon, died, November 12, 1945.
\2\ GRoy Clippinger, Illinois, elected to the Committee, November 30,
1945.
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Committee on the Mississippi Levees
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The committee was established during the 44th Congress on
December 10, 1875, at the prompting of Representative Randall
Gibson of Louisiana, to inquire into building and repairing
levees on the Mississippi River.
On November 7, 1877, in the 45th Congress, the committee's
name was changed to the Committee on Levees and Improvements of
the Mississippi River. This was done by changing the name of
its predecessor, the Committee on the Mississippi Levees. The
purposes of the committee included building and repairing
levees as well as making other improvements on the Mississippi
River. The committee was terminated in the 62nd Congress on
April 5, 1911. Its successor was the Committee on Rivers and
Harbors.\1\
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\1\ Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)
from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
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COMMITTEE ON THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES
44th Congress
December 20, 1875--March 3, 1877
E. John Ellis, Louisiana, (D)
Chair
Mark H. Dunnell, Minnesota (R) Robert A. Hatcher, Missouri
Richard H. Whiting, Illinois William W. Wilshire, Arkansas
Frank Morey, Louisiana \1\ Hernando D. Money, Mississippi
John W. Wallace, Pennsylvania Charles B. Roberts, Maryland
H. Casey Young, Tennessee
James Sheakley, Pennsylvania
--------
William B. Spencer, Louisiana \2\
\1\ Frank Morey, Louisiana, lost a contested election case, June 8,
1876.
\2\ William B. Spencer, Louisiana (D) elected to the Committee.
COMMITTEE ON THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES
45th Congress
October 29, 1877--March 3, 1879
Edward W. Robertson, Louisiana,
(D) Chair
Russell Errett, Pennsylvania (R) Robert A. Hatcher, Missouri
Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin Hernando D. Money, Mississippi
George D. Robinson, Massachusetts H. Casey Young, Tennessee
Horatio Bisbee, Jr., Florida Robert M. Knapp, Illinois
George M. Landers, Connecticut
Benjamin F. Martin, West Virginia
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
46th Congress
April 11, 1879--March 3, 1881
Edward W. Robertson, Louisiana,
(D) Chair
Tomas M. Bayne, Pennsylvania (R) James R. Chalmers, Mississippi
Thomas A. Boyd, Illinois Joseph E. Johnston, Virginia
Lucien B. Caswell, Wisconsin Oscar Turner, Kentucky (ID)
Cyrus D. Prescott, New York William R. Myers, Indiana
-------- John H. Evins, South Carolina
Benjamin W. Harris, Massachusetts \2\Poindexter Dunn, Arkansas
--------
Randall L. Gibson, Louisiana \1\
\1\ Randall L. Gibson, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, May 1,
1879.
\2\ Benjamin W. Harris, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, May
1, 1879.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
47th Congress
December 21, 1881--March 3, 1883
John R. Thomas, Illinois, (R)
Chair
J. Floyd King, Louisiana (D) Cyrus C. Carpenter, Iowa
Phillip B. Thompson Jr., Kentucky Cyrus D. Prescott, New York
Thomas M. Gunter, Arkansas Chester B. Darrall, Louisiana
Martin L. Clardy, Missouri John B. Rice, Ohio
Washington C. Whitthorne, Tennessee William R. Moore, Tennessee
George W. Jones, Texas (Nat.)
Joseph H. Burrows, Missouri
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
48th Congress
December 24, 1883--March 3, 1885
J. Floyd King, Louisiana (D) Chair
John R. Thomas, Illinois (R) \1\ Poindexer Dunn, Arkansas
Bengamin F. Howey, New Jersey John J. O'Neill, Missouri
William Whiting, Massachusetts George A. Post, Pennsylvania
-------- Felix Campbell, New York
Jonathan Chace, Rhode Island \2\ \3\ Burr W. Jones, Wisconsin
Barclay Henley, California
John S. Wise, Virginia (Read) --------
James W, Reid, North Carolina \4\
\1\ John R. Thomas, Illinois, left the Committee, February 4, 1884.
\2\ Jonathan Chace, Rhode Island, elected to the Committee, February
4, 1884.
\3\ Jonathan Chace, Rhode Island, left the Committee, January 26,
1885.
\4\ James W. Reid, North Carolina (D), elected to the Committee, March
5, 1885.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
49th Congress
January 7, 1886--March 3, 1887
J. Floyd King, Louisiana (D) Chair
William Whiting, Massachusetts (R) Joseph Rankin, Wisconsin \1\
Edmund N. Morrill, Kansas Henry S. Van Eaton, Mississippi
Charles E. Brown, Ohio John J. Kleiner, Indiana
Frank C. Bunnell, Pennsylvania Abraham Dowdney, New York \2\
William W. Grout, Vermont Thomas C. McRae, Arkansas
Presley T. Glass, Tennessee
William Dawson, Missouri
--------
Thomas R. Hudd, Wisconsin \3\
\1\ Joseph Rankin, Wisconsin, died, January 24, 1886.
\2\ Abraham Dowdney, New York, died, April 10, 1886.
\3\ Thomas R. Hudd, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, March 16,
1886.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Thomas C. Catchings, Mississippi
(D) Chair
William Whiting, Massachusetts (R) Presley T. Glass, Tennessee
Edmund N. Morrill, Kansas Timothy E. Tarsney, Michigan
William W. Grout, Vermont Frank Lawler, Illinois
Edward Scull, Pennsylvania Alexander B. Montgomery, Kentucky
James P. Walker, Missouri
Samuel M. Robertson, Louisiana
Norman Hall, Pennsylvania
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
51st Congress
December 21, 1880--March 3, 1891
Julius C. Burrows, Michigan (R)
Chair
Frank Lawler, Illinois (D) Edward Scull, Pennsylvania
Thomas R. Stockdale, Mississippi Hamliton D. Coleman, Louisiana
J. Monroe Jackson, West Virginia John H. Wilson, Kentucky
Richard H. Norton, Missouri Leonidas C. Houk, Tennessee
Charles J. Boatner, Louisiana John M. Brower, North Carolina
-------- Federick G. Niedringhaus, Missouri
George H. Brickner, Wisconsin \1\ Charles D. Beckworth, New Jersey
\1\ George H. Brickner, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, March 4,
1890.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
52nd Congress
December 23, 1891--March 3, 1893
Samuel M. Robertson, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Julius C. Burrows, Michigan (R) Thomas R. Stockdale, Mississippi
Edward Scull, Pennsylvania Rice A Pierce, Tennessee
John H. Wilson, Kentucky Richard H. Norton, Missouri
Philip S. Post, Illinois William L. Terry, Arkansas
Robert W. Everett, Georgia
Michael D. Harter, Ohio
Stephen R. Mallory, Florida
David H. Patton, Indiana
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
John M. Allen, Mississippi (D)
Chair
George W. Ray, New York (R) Thomas R. Stockdale, Mississippi
Nils P. Haugen, Wisconsin James C. McDearmon, Tennessee
Benjamin F. Marsh, Illinois Tom L. Johnson, Ohio
Charles F. Joy, Missouri Lewis Sperry, Connecticut
Josiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania \2\ Joshua F. C. Talbot, Maryland
Frederick A. Woodard, North
Carolina
--------
John J. O'Neill, Missouri \1\
Henry W. Ogden, Louisiana \3\
\1\ John J. O'Neill, Missouri, elected to the Committee, May 7, 1894.
\2\ Josiah D. Hicks, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, December 6,
1894.
\3\ Henry W. Ogden, Louisiana (D), elected to the Committee, December
6, 1894.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
George W. Ray, New York (R) Chair
John M. Allen, Mississippi (D) Robert Adams, Jr., Pennsylvania
James C. McDearmon, Tennessee Warren O. Arnold, Rhode Island
Frederick A. Woodard, North Carolina Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin
Peter J. Otey, Virginia Alfred Milnes, Michigan
Charles N. Clark, Missouri
W. Godfrey Hunter, Kentucky
Lemuel W. Royse, Indiana
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
John M. Allen, Mississippi (D) Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin
Willis Brewer, Alabama George M. Curtis, Iowa
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana Lmuel W. Royse, Indiana
William M. Howard, Georgia Robert Adams Jr., Pennsylvania
Denis M. Hurley, New York
Nelson B. McCormick, Kansas (Pop) Theodore E. Burton, Ohio
R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
56th Congress
December 18, 1899--March 3, 1901
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
John M. Allen, Mississippi (D) Henry Allen Cooper, Wisconsin
Willis Brewer, Alabama R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana Charles F. Joy, Missouri
William M. Howard, Georgia George W. Prince, Illinois
Athelston Gaston, Pennsylvania John J. Jenkins, Wisconsin
Robert B. Hawley, Texas
Thomas Hedge, Iowa
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana (D) R. Page W. Morris, Minnesota
William M. Howard, Georgia Charles F. Joy, Missouri
Patrick Henry, Mississippi George W. Prince, Illinois
J. Ross Mickey, Illinois Thomas Hedge, Iowa
James B. White, Kentucky John N. W. Rumple, Iowa \1\
Justin D. Bowersock, Kansas
Loren Fletcher, Minnesota
\1\ John N. W. Rumple, Iowa, died, January 31, 1903.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
58th Congress
December 5, 1903--March 3, 1905
Richard Bartholdt, Missouri (R)
Chair
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana (D) George W. Prince, Illinois
Harry L. Maynard, Virginia Thomas Hedge, Iowa
Robert M. Wallace, Arkansas William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
James J. Butler, Missouri George F. Huff, Pennsylvania
Robert B. Macon, Arkansas Clarence B. Buckman, Minnesota
Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania
William Connell, Pennsylvania \1\
\1\ William Connell, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, February
27, 1904.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
George W. Prince, Illinois (R)
Chair
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana (D) Thomas Hedge, Iowa
Robert B. Macon, Arkansas William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee George F. Huff, Pennsylvania
John C. Floyd, Arkansas Clarence B. Buckman, Minnesota
Ernest E. Wood, Missouri \1\ Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania
William T. Tyndall, Missouri
--------
Harry M. Coudrey, Missouri \2\
\1\ Ernest E. Wood, Missouri, lost a contested election case, June 23,
1906.
\2\ Harry M. Coudrey, Missouri, elected to the Committee, December 17,
1906.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
60th Congress
December 19, 1907--March 3, 1909
George W. Prince, Illinois (R)
Chair
Robert F. Broussard, Louisiana (D) William A. Rodenberg, Illinois
Robert B. Macon, Arkansas Allen F. Cooper, Pennsylvania
John C. Floyd, Arkansas William A. Reeder, Kansas
James W. Murphy, Wisconsin Harry M. Coudrey, Missouri
Madison R. Smith, Missouri Charles A. Kennedy, Iowa
--------
Napolean B. Thistlewood, Illinois
\1\
\1\ Napolean B. Thistlewood, Illinois, elected to the Committee,
February 26, 1908.
COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
61st Congress
August 5, 1909--March 3, 1911
Philip P. Campbell, Kansas (R)
Chair
Robert B. Macon, Arkansas (D) Harry M. Coudrey, Missouri
Charles F. Booher, Missouri William A. Reeder, Kansas
Thomas U. Sisson, Mississippi Napolean B. Thistlewood, Illinois
Samuel L. Gilmore, Louisiana \1\ \1\
William A. Dickson, Mississippi James McKinney, Illinois
-------- Charles A. Lindbergh, Minnesota
Robert M. Lively, Texas \2\ Charles A. Crow, Missouri
Charles E. Pickett, Iowa
\1\ Samuel L. Gilmore, Louisiana, died, July 18, 1910.
\1\ Robert M. Lively, Texas, elected to the Committee, December 7,
1910.
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Committee on Flood Control
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The committee was authorized February 3, 1916, early in the
64th Congress, and was given jurisdiction over subjects
relating to flood control. In the previous two Congresses such
flood control matters had been entirely under the jurisdiction
of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and some flood control
issues had been in the jurisdiction of the Committee on Levees
and Improvements of the Mississippi River before that committee
was abolished in 1911. The Committee on Flood Control was
terminated early in the 80th Congress on January 3, 1947. Its
successor was the Committee on Public Works.\1\
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from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
House of Representatives, Committee on Flood Control,
Sixty-fourth Congress, 1916.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
64th Congress
February 9, 1916--March 3, 1917
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
(D) Chair
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois (R) Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee
Charles F. Curry, California Martin D. Foster, Illinois
Charles C. Kearns, Ohio Cyrus Clline, Indiana
James W. Husted, New York Joseph J. Russell, Missouri
William R. Wood, Indiana Robert Crosser, Ohio
Carl Vinson, Georgia
Whitmell P. Martin, Louisiana (Prog) A. Jeff McLemore, Texas
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
65th Congress
April 2, 1917--March 3, 1919
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
(D) Chair
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois (R) Finis J. Garrett, Tennessee
Charles F. Curry, California Martin D. Foster, Illinois
Charles C. Kearns, Ohio Jospeh J. Russell, Missouri
James W. Husted, New York Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana
Jacob E. Meeker, MIssouri \1\ Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
William J. Graham, Illinois
Frederick Essen, Missouri \2\
Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota (Prog)
----------
\1\ Jacob E. Meeker, Missouri, died, October 16, 1918.
\2\ Frederick Essen, Missouri, elected to the Committee, December 12,
1918.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
66th Congress
May 19, 1919--March 3, 1921
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois (R)
Chair
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi (D)arles F. Curry, California
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana William J. Graham, Illinois
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota
Guy E. Campbell, Pennsylvania Stuart F. Reed, West Virginina
William T. Bland, Missouri Oscar R. Luhring, Indiana
John McDuffie, Alabama Frank Crowther, New York
B. Frank Murphy, Ohio
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
67th Congress
April 11, 1921--March 3, 1923
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois (R)
Chair
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi (D)harles F. Curry, California
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota
Herbert J. Drane, Florida \1\ Stuart F. Reed, West Virginia
Clay Stone Briggs, Texas Oscar R. Luhring, Indiana
William J. Driver, Arkansas B. Frank Murphy, Ohio \4\
-------- Edgar C. Ellis, Missouri
Lamar Jeffers, Alabama \2\ Roy G. Fitzgerald, Ohio
Andrew N. Petersen, New York
Cyrenus Cole, Iowa \3\ \5\
--------
John E. Nelson, Maine \6\
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\1\ Herbert J. Drane, Florida, left the Committee, April 19, 1921.
\2\ Lamar Jeffers, Alabama, elected to the Committee, June 28, 1921.
\3\ Cyrenus Cole, Iowa, elected to the Committee, December 17, 1921.
\4\ B. Frank Murphy, Ohio, left the Committee, March 10, 1922.
\5\ Cyrenus Cole, Iowa, left the Committee, March 13, 1922.
\6\ John E. Nelson, Maine, elected to the Committee, May 4, 1922.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
68th Congress
December 17, 1923--March 3, 1925
Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota (R)
Chair
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D) Charles F. Curry, California
William J. Driver, Arkansas Stuart F. Reed, West Virginia
Lamar Jeffers, Alabama \2\ Roy G. Fitzgerald, Ohio
Carl Hayden, Arizona \3\ Richard N. Elliott, Indiana
William Y. Humphreys, Mississippi Frank R. Reid, Illinois
James F. Fulbright, Missouri Charles L. Underhill,
-------- Massachusetts \1\
Fred M. Vinson, Kentucky \4\ --------
Luther A. Johnson, Texas \5\ William F. Kopp, Iowa \7\
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\1\ Charles L. Underhill, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 20, 1923.
\2\ Lamar Jeffers, Alabama, left the Committee, January 31, 1924.
\3\ Carl Hayden, Arizona, left the Committee, January 31, 1924.
\4\ Fred M. Vinson, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, February 22,
1924.
\5\ Luther A. Johnson, elected to the Committee, February 22, 1924.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
69th Congress
December 16, 1925--March 3, 1927
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) Chair
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D) Charles F. Curry, California
William J. Driver, Arkansas William T. Fitzgerald, Ohio
Luther A. Johnson, Texas William F. Kopp, Iowa
William L. Nelson, Missouri Philip D. Swing, California
William M. Whittington, Mississippi Anderson H. Walters, Pennsylvania
Edward E. Cox, Georgia Willis G. Sears, Nebraska
Charles E. Kiefner, Missouri
James A. Frear, Wisconsin \1\
----------
\1\ James A. Frear, Wisconsin, left the Committee, February 25, 1927.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
70th Congress
December 12, 1927--March 3, 1929
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) Chair
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D) Charles F. Curry, California
William J. Driver, Arkansas William T. Fitzgerald, Ohio
Luther A. Johnson, Texas William F. Kopp, Iowa
William L. Nelson, Missouri Philip D. Swing, California
William M. Whittington, Mississippi Willis G. Sears, Nebraska
Edward E. Cox, Georgia James A. Frear, Wisconsin
J. Earl Major, Illinois James H. Sinclair, North Dakota
William V. Gregory, Kentucky Gale H. Stalker, New York
Frederick M. Davenport, New York
\1\
Ulysses S. Guyer, Kansas
Conrad G. Selvig, Minnesota
Thomas C. Cochran, Pennsylvania
----------
\1\ Frederick M. Davenport, New York, left the Committee, May 28, 1928.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
71st Congress
December 12, 1929--March 3, 1931
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) Chair
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D) Charles F. Curry, California \2\
William J. Driver, Arkansas William T. Fitzgerald, Ohio
William M. Whittington, Mississippi William F. Kopp, Iowa
Edward E. Cox, Georgia Philip D. Swing, California
William V. Gregory, Kentucky Willis G. Sears, Nebraska
Jed Johnson, Oklahoma James H. Sinclair, North Dakota
Jere Cooper, Tennessee Gale H. Stalker, New York
Ulysses S. Guyer, Kansas
James W. Dunbar, Indiana
Dewey Short, Missouri
Ulysses S. Stone, Oklahoma
Robert E. Lee Blackburn, Kentucky
Charles O'Connor, Oklahoma \1\
--------
Robert F. Rich, Pennylsvania \3\
----------
\1\ Charles O'Connor, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee, December 13,
1929.
\2\ Charles F. Curry, California, died, October 10, 1930.
\3\ Robert F. Rich, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
15, 1930.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
72nd Congress
December 15, 1931--March 3, 1933
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) William J. Driver, Arkansas \2\
William F. Kopp, Iowa William M. Whittington,
Philip D. Swing, California Mississippi
James H. Sinclair, North Dakota Jere Cooper, Tennessee \1\
Ulysses S. Guyer, Kansas John W. Moore, Kentucky
Robert F. Rich, Pennsylvania Fletcher B. Swank, Oklahoma
Seymour H. Person, Michigan James F. Fulbright, Missouri
John E. Weeks, Vermont Glenn Griswold, Indiana
Wilbur M. White, Ohio John H. Overton, Louisiana
Byron B. Harlan, Ohio
----------
\1\ Jere Cooper, Tennesee, left the Commmittee, July 15, 1932.
\2\ William J. Driver, Arkansas, left the Committee, December 15, 1932.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
73rd Congress
March 14, 1933--January 3, 1935
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) William M. Whittington,
Robert F. Rich, Pennsylvania Mississippi
Harry L. Englebright, California Fletcher B. Swank, Oklahoma
James L. Whitley, New York Glenn Griswold, Indiana
Ray P. Chase, Minnesota Edward H. Crump, Tennessee
Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire Homer C. Parker, Georgia
Joe H. Eagle, Texas \1\
Ernest Ludeen, Minnesota (FLbr) W. Ben Cravens, Arkansas
Edward R. Burke, Nebraska
James R. Claiborne, Missouri
Cleveland Dear, Louisiana
Otha D. Wearin, Iowa
Edwin M. Schaefer, Illinois
Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
--------
Robert T. Secrest, Ohio \2\
----------
\1\ Joe H. Eagle, Texas, left the Committee, March 27, 1933.
\2\ Robert T. Secrest, Ohio, elected to the Committee, April 13, 1933.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
74th Congress
January 11, 1935--January 3, 1937
Riley J. Wilson, Louisiana (D)
Chair
Frank R. Reid, Illinois (R) William M. Whittington,
Harry L. Englebright, California Mississippi
Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire Glenn Griswold, Indiana
Henry M. Kimball, Michigan \1\ Otha D. Wearin, Iowa
Frank Carlson, Kansas Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
-------- Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Verner W. Main, Michigan \2\ Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Leo Kocialkowski, Illinois
Bernard J. Ghermann, Wisconsin (Prog)Milton H. West, Texas
James L. Quinn, Pennsylvania
Phil Furguson, Oklahoma
John S. Zimmerman, Missouri
John L. McClellan, Arkansas
----------
\1\ Henry M. Kimball, Michigan, died, October 19, 1935.
\2\ Verner W. Main, Michigan, elected to the Committee, January 8,
1936.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
75th Congress
January 13, 1937--January 3, 1939
William M. Whittington,
Mississippi (D) Chair
Harry L. Englebright, California (R) Glenn Griswold, Indiana
Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire Otha D. Wearin, Iowa
Frank Carlson, Kansas Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Benjamin Jarrett, Pennsylvania Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Charles R. Clason, Massachusetts Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Leo Kocialkowski, Illinois
Bernard J. Ghermann, Wisconsin (Prog)Milton H. West, Texas
James L. Quinn, Pennsylvania \1\
Phil Furguson, Oklahoma
John S. Zimmerman, Missouri
John L. McClellan, Arkansas
A. Leonard Allen, Louisiana
Peter J. Demuth, Pennsylvania
Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa
H. Jerry Voorhis, California
--------
Kent E. Keller, Illinois \2\
----------
\1\ James L. Quinn, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, January 28, 1938.
\2\ Kent E. Keller, Illinois, elected to the Committee, March 22, 1938.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
76th Congress
January 18, 1939--January 3, 1941
William M. Whittington,
Mississippi (D) Chair
Harry L. Englebright, California (R) Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Charles R. Clason, Massachusetts Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Earl R. Lewis, Ohio \3\ Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Harve Tibbott, Pennsylvania Leo Kocialkowski, Illinois
Carl T. Curtis, Nebraska A. Leonard Allen, Louisiana
Thomas R. Ball, Connecticut Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa
H. Carl Andersen, Minnesota H. Jerry Voorhis, California
Kent E. Keller, Illinois
William R. Poage, Texas
Harold K. Claypool, Ohio
Wade H. Kitchens, Arkansas
John R. Murdock, Arizona \1\
Joseph A. McArdle, Pennsylvania
--------
Alfred J. Elliott, California \2\
----------
\1\ John R. Murdock, Arizona, left the House, February 28, 1940.
Elected to the Senate.
\2\ Alfred J. Elliott, California, elected to the Committee, May 8,
1940.
\3\ Earl R. Lewis, Ohio, left the Committee, June 14, 1940.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
77th Congress
January 22, 1941--January 3, 1943
William M. Whittington,
Mississippi (D) Chair
Harry L. Englebright, California (R) Robert T. Secrest, Ohio \5\
Charles R. Clason, Massachusetts Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Harve Tibbott, Pennsylvania Leo Kocialkowski, Illinois
Carl T. Curtis, Nebraska A. Leonard Allen, Louisiana
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio H. Jerry Voorhis, California
Earl Wilson, Indiana Harold K. Claypool, Ohio
William G. Stratton, Illinois Joseph A. McArdle, Pennsylvania
\2\
Alfred J. Elliott, California
Lindley Beckworth, Texas
William F. Norrell, Arkansas
William J. Fitzgerald, Connecticut
\1\
Henry M. Jackson, Washington
Walter K. Granger, Utah
--------
Samuel A. Weiss, Pennsylvania \3\
Thomas J. Lane, Massachusetts \4\
----------
\1\ William J. Fitzgerald, Connecticut, left the Congress, December 5,
1951, to enter the U.S. Navy.
\2\ Joseph A. McArdle, Pennsylvania, left the Congress, January 5,
1942.
\3\ Samuel A. Weiss, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, January
15, 1942.
\4\ Thomas J. Lane, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, January
15, 1942.
\5\ Robert T. Secrest, Ohio, left the Congress, August 3, 1942, to
enter the U.S. Navy.
COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
78th Congress
January 22, 1943--January 3, 1945
William M. Whittington,
Mississippi (D) Chair
Charles R. Clason, Massachusetts (R) Robert A. (Lex) Green, Florida
Earl Wilson, Indiana A. Leonard Allen, Louisiana
Max Schwabe, Missouri Alfred J. Elliott, California
Percy W. Griffiths, Ohio Henry M. Jackson, Washington
J. Glenn Beall, Maryland J. W. Robinson, Utah
Edward O. McCowen, Ohio James F. O'Connor, Montana
Charles R. Robertson, North Dakota Thomas E. Scanlon, Pennsylvania
T. Millett Hand, New Jersey Carter Manasco, Alabama
Sherman Adams, New Hampshire O. Clark Fisher, Texas
Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana
William G. Stigler, Okalahoma
Mike Mansfield, Montana \1\
Thomas E. Morgan, Pennsylvania \4\
Albert S. J. Carnahan, Missouri
\3\
--------
Clifford Davis, Tennessee \2\
Eliza Jane Pratt, North Carolina
\5\
Frank Buchannan, Pennsylvania \6\
----------
\1\ Mike Mansfield, Montana, left the Committee, October 2, 1945.
\2\ Clifford Davis, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, November 14,
1945.
\3\ Albert S. J. Carnahan, Missouri, left the Committee, March 14,
1946.
\4\ Thomas E. Morgan, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, May 7, 1946.
\5\ Eliza Jane Pratt, North Carolina, elected to the Committee, June 5,
1946.
\6\ Frank Buchannan, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, June 26,
1946.
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Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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The Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries was
established on December 21, 1887. The House Rules defined its
jurisdiction as those matters concerning the merchant marine.
This included all matters relating to transportation by water,
the Coast Guard, life-saving service, lighthouses, lightships,
ocean derelicts, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Panama
Canal, and fisheries. Legislation referred to the committee
also included matters involving seamen (their assignments,
wages, treatment, and health) and officers (their titles,
conduct, and licensing); the naming, measuring, licensing, and
registering of vessels; navigation and related laws; pleasure
yachts; collisions at sea, as well as international
arrangements to prevent them; coasting districts; maritime
schools; and, taxes, fines, and penalties on vessels. The
committee has also regulated shipping in the Philippines and
Hawaii. As did most committees of the House, the Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee created subcommittees to handle
portions of its jurisdiction.
In 1919 the committee was given jurisdiction over wireless
telegraphy (radio), and in 1932 its name was changed to the
Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries. After a
dispute with the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
the jurisdiction over radio services was transferred to that
committee in 1935 and the term ``radio'' was dropped from the
name of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Under the
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 the jurisdiction of the
committee was enlarged and more fully defined. Its formal
statement of jurisdiction read as follows:
a) Merchant marine generally. b) Coast and Geodetic
Survey. c) Coast Guard, including lifesaving service,
lighthouses, lightships, and ocean derelicts. d)
Fisheries and wildlife, including research,
restoration, refuges, and conservation. e) Measures
relating to the regulation of common carriers by water
(except matters subject to the jurisdiction of the
Interstate Commerce Commission) and to the inspection
of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals,
lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such
vessels. f) Merchant marine officers and seamen. g)
Navigation and the laws relating thereto, including
pilotage. h) Panama Canal and the maintenance and
operation of the Panama Canal, including the
administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal
Zone; and interoceanic canals generally. i) Registering
and licensing of vessels and small boats. j) Rules and
international arrangements to prevent collisions at
sea. k) United States Coast Guard and Merchant Marine
Academies
In 1995, during restructuring of the Committees, the
jurisdiction of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
was split between the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure and the Committee on Natural Resources.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
50th Congress
January 5, 1888--March 3, 1889
Poindexter Dunn, Arkansas (D)
Chair
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine (R) Benton McMillin, Tennessee
Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois Leopold Morse, Massachusetts
Charles N. Felton, California William M. Springer, Illinois
John M. Farquhar, New York William H. Hatch, Missouri
Charles B. Clark, Wisconsin William C.P. Breckenridge,
Kentucky
Amos J. Cummings, New York
John L. MacDonald, Minnesota
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
51st Congress
December 21, 1889--March 3, 1891
John M. Farquhar, New York (R)
Chair
Amos J. Cummings, New York (D) Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois
Joseph Wheeler, Alabama Nelson Dingley, Jr., Maine
George D. Wise, Virginia Henry H. Bingham, Pennsylvania
George W. Fithian, Illinois Nathaniel P. Banks, Massachusetts
Andrew Price, Louisiana Charles B. Clark, Wisconsin
-------- Frank W. Sheeler, Michigan
William M. Springer, Illinois \1\ Hamilton G. Ewart, North Carolina
----------
\1\ GWilliam M. Springer, Illinois, elected to the Committee, May 10,
1890.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
52nd Congress
December 22, 1891--March 3, 1893
Samuel Fowler, New Jersey (D)
Chair
Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois (R) \1\ George W. Fithian, Illinois
Louis E. Atkinson, Pennsylvania Littleton W. Moore, Texas
John H. Wilson, Kentucky Asher G. Caruth, Kentucky
George D. Perkins, Iowa John A. Buchanan, Virginia
Robert E. De Forest, Connecticut
Thomas F. Magner, New York
Herman Stump, Maryland
Harrison H. Wheeler, Michigan
------
Edward J. Dunphy, New York \2\
----------
\1\ GAlbert J. Hopkins, Illinois, left the Committee, March 30, 1892.
\2\ GEdward J. Dunphy, New York, elected to the Committee, March 30,
1892.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
53rd Congress
August 21, 1893--March 3, 1895
George W. Fithian, Illinois (D)
Chair
George D. Perkins, Iowa (R) Thomas F. Magner, New York
Charles A. Boutelle, Maine \1\ Albert S. Berry, Kentucky
Frederick H. Gillett, Massachusetts Gaston A. Robbins, Alabama
William J. White, Ohio James P. Pigott, Connecticut
Thomas W. Phillips, Pennsylvania Charles M. Cooper, Florida
-------- Johnston Corhish, New Jersey
Lafayette Pence, Colorado (Pop) \2\ Robert F. Bratton, Maryland \3\
--------
Charles Tracey, New York \4\
----------
\1\ GCharles A. Boutelle, Maine, left the Committee, August 23, 1893.
\2\ GLafayette Pence, Colorado, elected to the Committee, October 23,
1893.
\3\ GRobert F. Bratton, Maryland, died, May 10, 1894.
\4\ GCharles Tracey, New York, elected to the Committee, December 6,
1894.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
54th Congress
December 21, 1895--March 3, 1897
Sereno E. Payne, New York (R)
Chair
Albert S. Berry, Kentucky (D) George D. Perkins, Iowa
Gaston A. Robbins, Alabama \1\ Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois
Charles M. Cooper, Florida Luther M. Strong, Ohio
John F. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Matthew Griswold, Pennsylvania
Miles Crowley, Texas Richard C. McCormick, New York
-------- John Simpkins, Massachusetts
Tazewell, Ellett, Virginia \2\ Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
----------
\1\ GGaston A. Robbins, Alabama, lost a contested election case, March
13, 1896.
\2\ GTazewell, Ellett, Virginia, elected to the Committee, April 28,
1896.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
55th Congress
July 22, 1897--March 3, 1899
Sereno E. Payne, New York (R)
Chair
John F. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts (D)George D. Perkins, Iowa
W. Jasper Talbert, South Carolina Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois
Henry D. Clayton, Alabama John Simpkins, Massachusetts \1\
Samuel T. Baird, Louisiana Philip B. Low, New York
Levin I. Handy, Delaware James R. Young, Pennsylvania
Archibald Lybrand, Ohio
William S. Booze, Maryland
--------
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
\2\
----------
\1\ GJohn Simpkins, Massachusetts, died, March 27, 1898.
\2\ GWilliam S. Greene, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, July
1, 1898.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
56th Congress
December 18, 1899--March 3, 1901
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio (R)
Chair
John F. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts (D)Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois
Marion De Vries, California \2\ James R. Young, Pennsylvania
Thomas Spight, Mississippi Archibald Lybrand, Ohio
William D. Daly, New Jersey \1\ William S. Greene, Massachusetts
Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
William C. Chanler, New York Frederick C. Stevens, Minnesota
John H. Small, North Carolina Wesley L. Jones, Washington
-------- Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan
Robert W. Davis, Florida \3\ Frank C. Wachter, Maryland
Allan L. McDermott, New Jersey \4\
----------
\1\ GWilliam D. Daly New Jersey, died, July 31, 1900.
\2\ GMarion De Vries, California, resigned from Congress, August 20,
1900.
\3\ GRobert W. Davis, Florida, elected to the Committee, December 4,
1900.
\4\ GAllan L. McDermott, New Jersey, elected to the Committee,
December 4, 1900.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
57th Congress
December 10, 1901--March 3, 1903
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio (R)
Chair
Thomas Spight, Mississippi (D) Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois
John H. Small, North Carolina James R. Young, Pennsylvania
Robert W. Davis, Florida William S. Greene, Massachusetts
Allan L. McDermott, New Jersey Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
Oliver H. P. Belmont, New York Frederick C. Stevens, Minnesota
John S. Snook, Ohio Wesley L. Jones, Washington
Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan
Frank C. Wachter, Maryland
Edward B. Vreeland, New York
Charles E. Littlefield, Maine
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
58th Congress
December 5, 1903--March 3, 1905
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio (R)
Chair
Thomas Spight, Mississippi (D) Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
John H. Small, North Carolina William S. Greene, Massachusetts
Robert W. Davis, Florida Frederick C. Stevens, Minnesota
Allan L. McDermott, New Jersey Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan
Alfred Lucking, Michigan Frank C. Wachter, Maryland
Joseph A. Goulden, New York Charles E. Littlefield, Maine
William E. Humphrey, Washington
William H. Flack, New York
Benjamin P. Birdsall, Iowa
William E. Wilson, Illinois
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
59th Congress
December 11, 1905--March 3, 1907
Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio (R)
Chair
Thomas Spight, Mississippi (D) Edward S. Minor, Wisconsin
Allan L. McDermott, New Jersey William S. Greene, Massachusetts
Joseph A. Goulden, New York Joseph W. Fordney, Michigan
Harry L. Maynard, Virginia Frank C. Wachter, Maryland
J. Swager Sherley, Kentucky Charles E. Littlefield, Maine
Gilbert B. Patterson, North Carolina William E. Humphrey, Washington
William H. Flack, New York \1\
Benjamin P. Birdsall, Iowa
William E. Wilson, Illinois
James E. Watson, Indiana
Edmund H. Hinshaw, Nebraska
--------
Lucius N. Littauer, New York \2\
----------
\1\ GWilliam H. Flack, New York, left the Committee, January 14, 1907.
\2\ GLucius N. Littauer, New York, elected to the Committee, January
14, 1907.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
60th Congress
December 19, 1907--March 3, 1909
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Thomas Spight, Mississippi (D) Charles E. Littlefield, Maine \3\
Joseph A. Goulden, New York William E. Humphrey, Washington
Harry L. Maynard, Virginia William E. Wilson, Illinois
John T. Watkins, Louisiana \1\ Edmund H. Hinshaw, NW
Frank Clark, Florida E. Stevens Henry, Connecticut
William E. Cox, Indiana William M. Calder, New York
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri Grant E. Mouser, Ohio
-------- George W. Fairchild, New York
John H. Rothermel, Pennsylvania \2\ William W. Foulkrod, Pennsylvania
George C. Sturgiss, West Virginia
Albert Douglas, Ohio
--------
John P. Swasey, Maine \4\
----------
\1\ GJohn T. Watkins, Louisiana, left the Committee, March 18, 1908.
\2\ GJohn H. Rothermel, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, March
20, 1908.
\3\ GCharles E. Littlefield, Maine, resigned from Congress, September
30, 1908.
\4\ GJohn P. Swasey, Maine, elected to the Committee, December 14,
1908.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
61st Congress
August 5, 1909--March 3, 1911
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Thomas Spight, Mississippi (D) William E. Humphrey, Washington
Joseph A. Goulden, New York William E. Wilson, Illinois
Harry L. Maynard, Virginia E. Stevens Henry, Connecticut
Frank Clark, Florida George W. Fairchild, New York
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri William W. Foulkrod, Pennsylvania
Rufus Hardy, Missouri \1\
Richmond P. Hobson, Alabama George C. Sturgiss, West Virginia
John P. Swasey, Maine
Andrew J. Barchfield, Pennsylvania
Duncan E. McKinlay, California
James S. Simmons, New York
John Kronmiller, Maryland
--------
John M. Morehead, North
Carolina\2\
----------
\1\ GWilliam W. Foulkrod, Pennsylvania, died, November 13, 1910.
\2\ GJohn M. Morehead, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
December 7, 1910.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
62nd Congress
April 11, 1911--March 3, 1913
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri (D)
Chair
William S. Greene, Massachusetts (R) Rufus Hardy, Missouri
William E. Humphrey, Washington Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas \2\
E. Stevens Henry, Connecticut William B. Wilson, Pennsylvania
Asher C. Hinds, Maine Charles D. Carter, Oklahoma
Stephen G. Porter, Pennsylvania Henry A. Barnhart, Indiana
William D. Stephens, California Jams W. Collier, Mississippi
Thomas Parran, Maryland Steven B. Ayres, New York
Claudius U. Stone, Illinois
James Young, Texas \1\
James D. Post, Ohio
John M. Faison, North Carolina
John A., Thayer, Massachusetts
Michael E. Burke, Wisconsin
----------
\1\ GJames Young, Texas, left the Committee, December 11, 1912.
\2\ GJoseph T. Robinson, Arkansas, resigned from Congress, December
19, 1912.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
63rd Congress
June 3, 1913--March 3, 1915
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri (D)
Chair
William S. Greene, Massachusetts (R) Rufus Hardy, Missouri
Asher C. Hinds, Maine Michael E. Burke, Wisconsin
Charles F.Curry, California John M. Faison, North Carolina
James Manahan, Minnesota Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania Finly H. Gray, Indiana \1\
James S. Parker, New York Thomas C. Thacher, Massachusetts
Stanley E. Bowdle, Ohio
James W. Bryan, Washington (Prog) Peter J. Dooling, New York
Richard S. Whaley, South Carolina
Frank O. Smith, Maryland
Henry Bruckner, New York
Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana
Andrew R. Brodbeck, Pennsylvania
--------
George W. Loft, New York \2\
----------
\1\ GFinly H. Gray, Indiana, left the Committee, December 12, 1913.
\2\ GGeorge W. Loft, New York, elected to the Committee, December 12,
1913.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
64th Congress
December 4, 1915--March 3, 1917
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri (D)
Chair
William S. Greene, Massachusetts (R) Rufus Hardy, Missouri
Asher C. Hinds, Maine Michael E. Burke, Wisconsin
Charles F. Curry, California \1\ Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania Peter J. Dooling, New York
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois Henry Bruckner, New York
George Alvin Loud, Michigan \2\ Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana
Lindley H. Haldey, Washington William S. Goodwin, Arkansas
Frederick W. Rowe, New York James F. Byrnes, South Carolina
-------- Jesse D. Price, Maryland
George M. Bowers, West Virginia \3\ Carl C. Van Dyke, Minnesota
Henry S. Benedict, California \4\ Oscar L. Gray, Alabama
David H. Kincheloe, Kentucky
----------
\1\ GCharles F. Curry, California, left the Committee, December 9,
1916.
\2\ GGeorge Alvin Loud, Michigan, left the Committee, December 9,
1916.
\3\ GGeorge M. Bowers, West Virginia, elected to the Committee,
December 9, 1916.
\4\ GHenry S. Benedict, California, elected to the Committee, December
9, 1916.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
65th Congress
April 2, 1917--March 3, 1919
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri (D)
Chair
William S. Greene, Massachusetts (R) Rufus Hardy, Missouri
George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania Edward W. Saunders, Virginia
William A. Rodenberg, Illinois \2\ Peter J. Dooling, New York
Lindley H. Haldey, Washington Henry Bruckner, New York \6\
Frederick W. Rowe, New York Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana
George M. Bowers, West Virginia William S. Goodwin, Arkansas
Frank D. Scott, Michigan Jesse D. Price, Maryland
Richard P. Freeman, Connecticut \3\ Carl C. Van Dyke, Minnesota \1\
Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine David H. Kincheloe, Kentucky
---------- Clarence F. Lea, California \8\
Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey \4\William B. Bankhead, Alabama
Sherman E. Burroughs, New Hampshire \5\------
Earl H. Beshlin, Pennsylvania \7\
Benjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi
\9\
William C. Wright, California \10\
----------
\1\ GCarl C. Van Dyke, Minnesota, left the Committee, April 9, 1917.
\2\ GWilliam A. Rodenberg, Illinois, left the Committee, December 15,
1917.
\3\ GRichard P. Freeman, Connecticut, left the Committee, December 15,
1917.
\4\ GFrederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey, elected to the Committee,
December 15, 1917.
\5\ GSherman E. Burroughs, New Hampshire, elected to the Committee,
December 15, 1917.
\6\ GHenry Bruckner, New York, resigned from Congress, December 31,
1917.
\7\ GEarl H. Beshlin, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, January
11, 1918.
\8\ GClarence F. Lea, California, left the Committee, January 28,
1918.
\9\ GBenjamin G. Humphreys, Mississippi, elected to the Committee,
January 28, 1918.
\10\ GWilliam C. Wright, California, elected to the Committee, January
28, 1918.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
66th Congress
May 19, 1919--March 3, 1921
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Joshua W. Alexander, Missouri (D) \1\George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania
Rufus Hardy, Missouri Frederick W. Rowe, New York
Edward W. Saunders, Virginia \3\ Frank D. Scott, Michigan
Peter J. Dooling, New York Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine
Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
David H. Kincheloe, Kentucky Sherman E. Burroughs, New
William B. Bankhead, Alabama Hampshire
William C. Wright, California Charles F. Curry, California
-------- Edwin D. Ricketts, Ohio
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee \2\ Carl R. Chindblom, Illinois
Thomas H. Cullen, New York \4\ Frank Crowther, New York
Clifford E. Randall, Wisconsin
William N. Andrews, Maryland
----------
\1\ GJoshua W. Alexander, Missouri, left the Committee, December 15,
1919.
\2\ GEwin L. Davis, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, January 6,
1920.
\3\ GEdward W. Saunders, Virginia, resigned from Congress, February
29, 1920.
\4\ GThomas H. Cullen, New York, elected to the Committee, March 8,
1920.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
67th Congress
April 11, 1921--March 3, 1923
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
(R) Chair
Rufus Hardy, Missouri (D) George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania
Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana Frank D. Scott, Michigan
William B. Bankhead, Alabama Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
Thomas H. Cullen, New York Edwin D. Ricketts, Ohio
Herbert J. Drane, Florida \1\ Carl R. Chindblom, Illinois
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia Albert W. Jefferis, Nebraska \5\
-------- Nathan D. Perlman, New York
Clay Stone Briggs, Texas \2\ Benjamin L. Rosenbloom, West
Virginia
Harry C. Cahn, Ohio
Arthur M. Free, California
William H. Kirkpatrick,
Pennsylvania
Ogden L. Mills, New York \3\
--------
Michael J. Hogan, New York \4\
John Paul, Virginia \6\
----------
\1\ GHerbert J. Drane, Florida, left the Committee, April 19, 1921.
\2\ GClay Stone Briggs, Texas, elected to the Committee, April 25,
1921.
\3\ GOgden L. Mills, New York, left the Committee, March 13, 1922.
\4\ GMichael J. Hogan, New York, elected to the Committee, March 16,
1922.
\5\ GAlbert W. Jefferis, Nebraska, left the Committee December 11,
1922.
\6\ GJohn Paul, Virginia, elected to the Committee, December 22, 1922.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
68th Congress
December 17, 1923--March 3, 1925
William S. Greene, Massachusetts
(R) Chair \1\
Rufus Hardy, Missouri (D) George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania
Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana \2\
William B. Bankhead, Alabama Frank D. Scott, Michigan
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine
Thomas H. Cullen, New York Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
Herbert J. Drane, Florida Benjamin L. Rosenbloom, West
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia Virginia
Arthur M. Free, California
Sidney C. Roach, Missouri
Charles Brand, Ohio
Frank R. Reid, Illinois
George M. Wertz, Pennsylvania
Robert L. Bacon, New York
--------
Robert M. Leach, Massachusetts \3\
\4\
Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts
\5\
----------
\1\ GWilliam S. Greene, Massachusetts, died, September 22, 1924.
\2\ GGeorge W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania, appointed as Chairman, December
1, 1924.
\3\ GRobert M. Leach, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 5, 1924.
\4\ GRobert M. Leach, Massachusetts, left the Committee, December 19,
1924.
\5\ GCharles L. Gifford, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
December 19, 1924.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
69th Congress
December 16, 1925--March 3, 1927
Frank D. Scott, Michigan (R) Chair
Ladislas Lazaro, Louisiana (D) Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia Arthur M. Free, California
Clay Stone Briggs, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
William W. Larsen, Georgia Frank R. Reid, Illinois
Thomas D. McKeown, Oklahoma Robert L. Bacon, New York
George W. Lindsay, New York Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts
Jeremiah E. O'Connell, Rhode Island Fletcher Hale, New Hampshire
Dan A. Sutherland, Alaska Territory Harry E. Rowbottom, Indiana
Edmund N. Carpenter, Pennsylvania
William R. Johnson, Illinois
Frederick M. Davenport, Wisconsin
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
70th Congress
December 12, 1927--March 3, 1929
Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine (R)
Chair
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee (D) Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia Arthur M. Free, California
Clay Stone Briggs, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
William W. Larsen, Georgia Frank R. Reid, Illinois
Thomas D. McKeown, Oklahoma Robert L. Bacon, New York
George W. Lindsay, New York Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts
Charles L. Abernathy, North Carolina Harry E. Rowbottom, Indiana
Oscar L. Auf der Heide, New Jersey Frederick M. Davenport, Wisconsin
Dan A. Sutherland, Alaska Territory \1\
Frederick W. Magrady, Pennsylvania
Frank L. Bowman, West Virginia
Robert H. Clancy, Michigan
Louis Monsast, Rhode Island
Charles A. Kading, Wisconsin
--------
Francis D. Culkin, New York \2\
----------
\1\ GFrederick M. Davenport, Wisconsin, let the Committee, May 28,
1928.
\2\ GFrancis D. Culkin, New York, elected to the Committee, December
19, 1928.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
71st Congress
December 7, 1929--March 3, 1931
Wallace H. White, Jr., Maine (R)
Chair
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee (D) Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia Arthur M. Free, California
Clay Stone Briggs, Texas Charles Brand, Ohio
George W. Lindsay, New York Frank R. Reid, Illinois
Charles L. Abernathy, North Carolina Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts
Oscar L. Auf der Heide, New Jersey Harry E. Rowbottom, Indiana
Jeremiah E. O'Connell, Rhode Island \1\ederick W. Magrady, Pennsylvania
Frank L. Bowman, West Virginia
Robert H. Clancy, Michigan
Charles A. Kading, Wisconsin
James Wolfenden, Pennsylvania
Charles H. Sloan, Nebraska
Richard J. Welch, California
----------
\1\ GJeremiah E. O'Connell, Rhode Island, resigned from Congress, May
9, 1930.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES \1\
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE, RADIO, AND FISHERIES
72nd Congress
December 15, 1931--March 3, 1933
Ewin L. Davis, Tennessee (D) Chair
Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey (R)Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia
Arthur M. Free, California Clay Stone Briggs, Texas
Frank R. Reid, Illinois George W. Lindsay, New York
Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts Oscar L. Auf der Heide, New Jersey
Frederick W. Magrady, Pennsylvania Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana
Frank L. Bowman, West Virginia William M. Whittington,
Robert H. Clancy, Michigan Mississippi
Charles A. Kading, Wisconsin William I. Sirovich, New York
James Wolfenden, Pennsylvania Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Victor S.K. Houston, Hawaii TerritoryFletcher B. Swank, Oklahoma
James Wickersham, Alaska Territory Robert D. Johnson, Missouri
----------
\1\ GName of the Committee was changed on January 4, 1932.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE, RADIO, AND FISHERIES
73rd Congress
March 14, 1933--January 3, 1935
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey (R)Clay Stone Briggs, Texas \3\
Frank R. Reid, Illinois George W. Lindsay, New York
Charles L. Gifford, Massachusetts Oscar L. Auf der Heide, New Jersey
Richard J. Welch, California Bolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana \5\
Francis D. Culkin, New York William I. Sirovich, New York
George W. Edmonds, Pennsylvania Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Ambrose J. Kennedy, Maryland
Charles N. Crosbby, Pennsylvania
Albert C. Willford, Iowa
Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Lawrence E. Imhoff, Ohio \1\
John Y. Brown, Kentucky
Edward C. Moran, Jr., Maine
William B. Umstead, North Carolina
\6\
Lincoln L. McCandless, Hawaii
Territory
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
--------
Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania
\2\
Joe H. Eagle, Texas \4\
Archibald H. Carmichael, Alabama
\7\
David D. Terry, Arkansas \8\
----------
\1\ GLawrence E. Imhoff, Ohio, left the Committee, April 13, 1933.
\2\ GFrancis E. Walter, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, April
13, 1933.
\3\ GClay Stone Briggs, Texas, died, April 29, 1933.
\4\ GJoe H. Eagle, Texas, elected to the Committee, May 8, 1933.
\5\ GBolivar E. Kemp, Louisiana, died, June 19, 1933.
\6\ GWilliam B. Umstead, North Carolina, left the Committee, January
20, 1934.
\7\ GArchibald H. Carmichael, Alabama, elected to the Committee,
January 20, 1934.
\8\ GDavid D. Terry, Arkansas, elected to the Committee, January 20,
1934.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE, RADIO, AND FISHERIES \1\
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
74th Congress
January 11, 1935--January 3, 1937
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Frederick R. Lehlbach, New Jersey (R)William I. Sirovich, New York
Richard J. Welch, California Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Francis D. Culkin, New York Ambrose J. Kennedy, Maryland
Ralph O. Brewster, Maine Charles N. Crosbby, Pennsylvania
Clare E. Hoffman, Michigan Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Archibald H. Carmichael, Alabama
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
John McDuffie, Alabama \2\
Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Louis C. Rabaut, Michigan \6\
Simon M. Hamlin, Maine
Michael L. Igoe, Illinois \4\
Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
James A. O'Leary, New York
--------
Otha D. Wearin, Iowa \3\
Frank W. Boykin, Alabama \5\
Charles J. Colden, California \7\
----------
\1\ GName of the Committee was changed, February 26, 1935.
\2\ GJohn McDuffie, Alabama, resigned from Congress, March 2, 1935.
\3\ GOtha D. Wearin, Iowa, elected to the Committee, March 4, 1935.
\4\ GMichael L. Igoe, Illinois, resigned from Congress, June 2, 1935.
\5\ GFrank W. Boykin, Alabama, elected to the Committee, January 15,
1936.
\6\ GLouis C. Rabaut, Michigan, left the Committee, January 22, 1936.
\7\ GCharles J. Colden, California, elected to the Committee, May 1,
1936.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
75th Congress
January 13, 1937--January 3, 1939
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Richard J. Welch, California (R) William I. Sirovich, New York
Francis D. Culkin, New York Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
George N. Seger, New Jersey Ambrose J. Kennedy, Maryland
Benjamin Jarrett, Pennsylvania Charles N. Crosby, Pennsylvania
James C. Oliver, Maine Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
James A. O'Leary, New York
Frank W Boykin. AL
Charles C. Colden, California \1\
J .Hardin Peterson, Florida
Jack Nichols, Oklahoma
Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa
----------
\1\ GCharles C. Colden, California, died, April 15, 1938.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
76th Congress
January 18, 1939--January 3, 1941
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Richard J. Welch, California (R) William I. Sirovich, New York \3\
Francis D. Culkin, New York Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
George N. Seger, New Jersey \6\ Ambrose J. Kennedy, Maryland
James C. Oliver, Maine Monrad C. Wallgren, Washington \9\
Joseph J. O'Brien, New York Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
Harry Sandager, RI Lindsay C. Warren, North Carolina
Frank B. Keefe, Wisconsin \1\ \7\
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Eugene B. Crowe, Indiana
-------- Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan \2\ James A. O'Leary, New York
Lycurgus L. Marshall, Ohio \5\ Frank W Boykin, Alabama
J .Hardin Peterson, Florida
Jack Nichols, Oklahoma
Vincent F. Harrington, Iowa
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
--------
Michael J. Kennedy, New York \4\
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
\8\
----------
\1\ GFrank B. Keefe, Wisconsin, left the Committee, November 3, 1939.
\2\ GFrederick V. Bradley, Michigan, elected to the Committee,
November 3, 1939.
\3\ GWilliam I. Sirovich, New York, died, December 17, 1939.
\4\ GMichael J. Kennedy, New York, elected to the Committee, February
7, 1940.
\5\ GLycurgus L. Marshall, Ohio, elected to the Committee, October 14,
1940.
\6\ GGeorge N. Seger, New Jersey, died, August 26, 1940.
\7\ GLindsay C. Warren, North Carolina, resigned from Congress,
October 31, 1940.
\8\ GHerbert C. Bonner, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
November 19, 1940.
\9\ GMonrad C. Wallgren, Washington, left the House, December 19,
1940.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
77th Congress
January 22, 1941--January 3, 1943
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Richard J. Welch, California (R) Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Francis D. Culkin, New York Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
James C. Oliver, Maine Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
Joseph J. O'Brien, New York James A. O'Leary, New York
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan Frank W Boykin. AL
James E. Van Zandt, Pennsylvania J .Hardin Peterson, Florida
Gordon Canfield, New Jersey Michael J. Kennedy, New York
Samuel W. King, Hawaii Territory Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
James Domengeaux, Louisiana
Henry M. Jackson, Washington
John B. Sullivan, Missouri \1\
John A. Myer, Maryland
L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
\3\
Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska
Territory
--------
Winder R. Harris, Virginia \2\
----------
\1\ GJohn B. Sullivan, Missouri, left the Committee, March 26, 1941.
\2\ GWinder R. Harris, Virginia, elected to the Committee, April 18,
1941.
\3\ GL. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina, left the Committee, November
16, 1942.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
78th Congress
January 12, 1943--January 3, 1945
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Richard J. Welch, California (R) Robert Ramspeck, Georgia
Francis D. Culkin, New York \2\ Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
James C. Oliver, Maine Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
Joseph J. O'Brien, New York James A. O'Leary, New York \8\
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan Frank W Boykin. AL
James E. Van Zandt, Pennsylvania \3\ J .Hardin Peterson, Florida
Gordon Canfield, New Jersey Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Lawrence H. Smith, Wisconsin James Domengeaux, Louisiana \10\
Daniel Ellison, Maryland Henry M. Jackson, Washington
Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio Winder R. Harris, Virginia \1\
Joseph R. Farrington, Hawaii Territoryouis J. Capozzoli, New York
-------- Cecil R. King, California \11\
Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Pennsylvania \4\ \6\hony J. Dimond, Alaska
Christian A. Herter, Massachusetts \5\erritory
Ralph E. Church, Illinois \7\ --------
Ellsworth B. Buck, New York \12\ Eugene J. Keogh, New York \9\
Ralph H. Daughton, Virginia \13\
----------
\1\ GWinder R. Harris, Virginia, resigned from Congress, January 21,
1943.
\2\ GFrancis D. Culkin, New York, died, August 4, 1943.
\3\ GJames E. Van Zandt, Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress,
September 24, 1943.
\4\ GHugh D. Scott, Jr., Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
September 30, 1943.
\5\ GChristian A. Herter, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
September 30, 1943.
\6\ GHugh D. Scott, Jr., Pennsylvania, left the Committee, January 27,
1944.
\7\ GRalph E. Church, Illinois, elected to the Committee, January 27,
1944.
\8\ GJames A. O'Leary, New York, died, March 16, 1944.
\9\ GEugene J. Keogh, New York, elected to the Committee, March 21,
1944.
\10\ GJames Domengeaux, Louisiana, resigned from Congress, April 15,
1944.
\11\ GCecil R. King, California, left the Committee, April 26, 1944.
\12\ GEllsworth B. Buck, New York, elected to the Committee, June 19,
1944.
\13\ GRalph H. Daughton, Virginia, elected to the Committee, December
15, 1944.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
79th Congress
January 3, 1945--January 3, 1947
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair
Richard J. Welch, California (R) Robert Ramspeck, Georgia \1\
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas
Gordon Canfield, New Jersey \2\ Edward J. Hart, New Jersey
Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio Frank W Boykin. AL
Christian A. Herter, Massachusetts J .Hardin Peterson, Florida
Ralph E. Church, Illinois Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Ellsworth B. Buck, New York Henry M. Jackson, Washington
Robert Hale, Maine Eugene J. Keogh, New York \9\
Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., Pennsylvaniaames Domengeaux, Louisiana
Joseph R. Farrington, Hawaii Territoryllis E. Patterson, California
-------- Edward L. Bartlett, Alaska
T. Millet Hand, New Jersey \3\ Territory
--------
Hugh Peterson, Georgia \4\
----------
\1\ GRobert Ramspeck, Georgia, resigned from Congress, December 31,
1945.
\2\ GGordon Canfield, New Jersey, left the Committee, September 17,
1945.
\3\ GT. Millet Hand, New Jersey , elected to the Committee, September
24, 1945.
\4\ GHugh Peterson, Georgia, elected to the Committee, January 28,
1946.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
80th Congress
January 14, 1947--January 3, 1949
Frederick V. Bradley, Michigan (R)
Chair \2\
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D) Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio \3\
Edward J. Hart, New Jersey T. Millet Hand, New Jersey
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina Henry J. Latham, New York
James Domengeaux, Louisiana \1\ David M. Potts, New York
Henry M. Jackson, Washington \6\ Willis W. Bradley, California
Eugene J. Keogh, New York \13\ Franklin J. Maloney, Pennsylvania
Cecil R. King, California \4\
Emory H. Price, Florida Thor C. Tollefson, Washington
Franck R. Havenner, California \7\ Raymond H. Burke, Ohio
Leo F. Rayfiel, New York \8\ John J. Allen, Jr., California
Prince H. Preston, Jr., Georgia Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.,
-------- Connecticut
Donald L. O'Toole, New York \9\ John C. Brophy, Wisconsin
Hugh A. Meade, Maryland \10\ Robert J. Nodar, Jr., New York
Clark W. Thompson, Texas \11\ Edward T. Miller, Maryland
Frank W. Boykin, Alabama \14\ --------
Mitchell Jenkins, Pennsylvania \5\
Charles E. Potter, Michigan \12\
----------
\1\ GJames Domengeaux, Louisiana, temporarily resigned from Congress
to serve in the Armed Forces, reelected to fill his own vacancy and
retained his seniority on the Committee.
\2\ GFrederick V. Bradley, Michigan, died, May 24, 1947.
\3\ GAlvin F. Weichel, Ohio, assumed Chair, June 4, 1947.
\4\ GFranklin J. Maloney, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, July 15,
1947.
\5\ GMitchell Jenkins, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, July
15, 1947.
\6\ GHenry M. Jackson, Washington, left the Committee, July 24, 1947.
\7\ GFranck R. Havenner, California, left the Committee, July 26,
1947.
\8\ GLeo F. Rayfiel, New York, resigned from Congress, September 13,
1947.
\9\ GDonald L. O'Toole, New York, elected to the Committee, December
4, 1947.
\10\ GHugh A. Meade, Maryland, elected to the Committee, December 4,
1947.
\11\ GClark W. Thompson, Texas, elected to the Committee, December 4,
1947.
\12\ GCharles E. Potter, Michigan, elected to the Committee, December
18, 1947.
\13\ GEugene J. Keogh, New York , left the Committee, January 20,
1948.
\14\ GFrank W. Boykin, Alabama, elected to the Committee, June 10,
1948.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
81st Congress
January 18, 1949--January 3, 1950
Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia (D)
Chair \1\
Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio (R) Edward J. Hart, New Jersey \2\
T. Millet Hand, New Jersey Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
Henry J. Latham, New York Donald L. O'Toole, New York
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington Clark W. Thompson, Texas
John J. Allen, Jr., California Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
Edward T. Miller, Maryland Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
Charles E. Potter, Michigan Victor E. Wickersham, Oklahoma
Franklin H. Lichtenwaiter, Pennsylvanialliam A. Barrett, Pennsylvania
Edgar A. Jonas, Illinois James B. Hare, South Carolina \4\
Charles P. Nelson, Maine Charles E. Bennett, Florida
Philp J. Welch, Missouri
Edward G. Breen, Ohio
James J. Murphy, New York
Thomas B. Fugate, Virginia
E.L. (Bob) Barlett, Alaska
Territory
--------
John F. Shelley, California \3\
Edward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia
\5\
----------
\1\ GSchuyler Otis Bland, Virginia, died, February 16, 1950.
\2\ GEdward J. Hart, New Jersey, assumed Chair, February 23, 1950.
\3\ GJohn F. Shelley, California, elected to the Committee, March 13,
1950.
\4\ GJames B. Hare, South Carolina, left the Committee, September 21,
1950.
\5\ GEdward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia, elected to the Committee,
September 21, 1950.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
82nd Congress
January 12, 1951--January 3, 1953
Edward J. Hart, New Jersey (D)
Chair
Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio (R) Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
T. Millet Hand, New Jersey Donald L. O'Toole, New York
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
John J. Allen, Jr., California Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
Edward T. Miller, Maryland \10\ William A. Barrett, Pennsylvania
Charles P. Nelson, Maine \3\ \1\
John C. Butler, New York Charles E. Bennett, Florida
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Connecticut Philp J. Welch, Missouri
Charles J. Kersten, Wisconsin Edward G. Breen, Ohio \4\
Albert C. Vaughn, Pennsylvania \2\ James J. Murphy, New York
Timothy P. Sheehan Illinois John F. Shelley, California
Walter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania Edward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia
-------- John W. McCormack, Massachusetts
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin \6\ Vera D. Buchanan, Pennsylvania \5\
Clifford G. McIntire, Maine \7\ \11\ Frank N. Ikard, Texas
Karl C. King, Pennsylvania \8\ E.L. (Bob) Barlett, Alaska
Territory
--------
Earl Chudoff, Pennsylvania \9\
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\1\ GWilliam A. Barrett, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, June 13,
1951.
\2\ GAlbert C. Vaughn, Pennsylvania, died, September 1, 1951.
\3\ GCharles P. Nelson, Maine, left the Committee, October 17, 1951
\4\ GEdward G. Breen, Ohio, resigned from Congress, October 1, 1951.
\5\ GVera D. Buchanan, Pennsylvania, let the Committee, January 29,
1952.
\6\ GWilliam K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee,
February 20, 1952.
\7\ GClifford G. McIntire, Maine, elected to the Committee, February
20, 1952.
\8\ GKarl C. King, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, February
20, 1952.
\9\ GEarl Chudoff, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, March 11,
1952.
\10\ GEdward T. Miller, Maryland, left the Committee, April 30, 1952.
\11\ GClifford G. McIntire, Maine, left the Committee, June 16, 1952.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
83rd Congress
January 19, 1953--January 3, 1955
Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio (R) Chair
Edward J. Hart, New Jersey (D) Thor C. Tollefson, Washington
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina John J. Allen, Jr., California
Frank W. Boykin, Alabama Horace Seely-Brown, Jr.,
Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland Connecticut
John F. Shelley, California Walter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania
Edward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin
Eugene J. Keogh, New York \2\ A. Walter Norblad, Jr., Oregon
James J. Delaney, New York Frank C. Osmers, Jr., New Jersey
Martin Dies, Jr., Texas Stuyvesant Wainwright, II, New
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri York
T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana Kit Clardy, Michigan
Donald H. Magnuson, Washington John H. Ray, New York
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., MassachusettsWilliam S. Mailliard, California
Courtney W. Campbell, Florida \1\ Francis E. Dorn, New York
E.L. (Bob) Barlett, Alaska Territory
----------
\1\ GCourtney W. Campbell, Florida, elected to the Committee, February
12, 1953.
\2\ GEugene J. Keogh, New York, left the Committee, July 27, 1954.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
84th Congress
January 13, 1955--January 3, 1957
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington (R) Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
John J. Allen, Jr., California Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Connecticut Edward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
John H. Ray, New York T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana
William S. Milliard, California George P. Miller, California
Francis E. Dorn, New York John C. Cluczynski, Illinois
Alvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania \1\ James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington John J. Bell, Texas
Elford A. Cederberg, Michigan T. James Tumulty, New Jersey
Albert D. Baumhart, Jr., Ohio Irwin D. Davidson, New York \7\
Jackson B. Chase, Nebraska Herbert Zelenko, New York
-------- Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Walter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania \2\ \3\Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
A. Walter Norblad, Jr., Oregon \6\ Thaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan
\4\
E.L. (Bob) Barlett, Alaska
Territory
--------
John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan \5\
----------
\1\ GAlvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, January 27,
1955.
\2\ GWalter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, February
2, 1955.
\3\ GWalter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, February 10,
1955.
\4\ GThaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan, left the Committee, January 12,
1956.
\5\ GJohn D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan, elected to the Committee January
19, 1956.
\6\ GA. Walter Norblad, Jr., Oregon, elected to the Committee, April
11, 1956.
\7\ GIrwin D. Davidson, New York, resigned from Congress, December 31,
1956.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
85th Congress
January 10, 1957--January 3, 1959
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington (R) Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
John J. Allen, Jr., California Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Connecticut Edward J. Robeson, Jr., Virginia
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
John H. Ray, New York T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana
William S. Mailliard, California George P. Miller, California
Francis E. Dorn, New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Herbert Zelenko, New York
Elford A. Cederberg, Michigan Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Albert D. Baumhart, Jr., Ohio Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Harold R. Gross, Iowa John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Vincent J. Dellay, New Jersey \1\ L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
Willard S. Curtin, Pennsylvania Tobert H. Macdonald, Massachusetts
Robert J. McIntosh, Michigan Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
-------- Alfred E. Santegelo, New York \3\
Milton W. Glenn, New Jersey \2\ John A. Young, Texas \5\
E.L. (Bob) Barlett, Alaska
Territory
--------
Vincent J. Dellay, New Jersey \4\
Robert N. C. Nix, Pennsylvania \6\
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\1\ GVincent J. Dellay, New Jersey, resigned the Republican party,
left the Committee, January 20, 1958.
\2\ GMilton W. Glenn, New Jersey, elected to the Committee, January
20, 1958.
\3\ GAlfred E. Santegelo, New York, let the Committee, January 16,
1958.
\4\ GVincent J. Dellay, New Jersey, elected to the Committee, January
27, 1958.
\5\ GJohn A. Young, Texas, left the Committee, July 21, 1958.
\6\ GRobert N. C. Nix, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, July
21, 1958.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
86th Congress
January 19, 1957--January 3, 1961
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington (R) Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
John H. Ray, New York Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
William S. Mailliard, California T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana
Francis E. Dorn, New York George P. Miller, California
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Herbert Zelenko, New York
Albert D. Baumhart, Jr., Ohio Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Harold R. Gross, Iowa Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Willard S. Curtin, Pennsylvania John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Milton W. Glenn, New Jersey L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
Elmer J. Hoffman, Illinois Tobert H. Macdonald, Massachusetts
Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
Robert N. C. Nix, Pennsylvania
Victor L. Anfuso, New York
James C. Oliver, Maine
Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
Gerald T. Flynn, Wisconsin
Robert R. Casey, Texas
Tomas F. Johnson, Maryland
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
87th Congress
February 6, 1961--January 3, 1963
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington (R) Frank W. Boykin, Alabama
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
John H. Ray, New York Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
William S. Mailliard, California T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington George P. Miller, California \1\
Harold R. Gross, Iowa Herbert Zelenko, New York
Milton W Glenn, New Jersey Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Gordon L. McDonough, California Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Robert F. Ellsworth, Kansas John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
F. Bradford Morse, Massachusetts L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
George A. Goodling, Pennsylvania Tobert H. Macdonald, Massachusetts
Stanley R. Tupper, Maine Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
Victor L. Anfuso, New York
Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
Robert R. Casey, Texas
Thomas F. Johnson, Maryland
James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Vanik, Ohio
--------
Harlan F. Hagen, California \2\
----------
\1\ GGeorge P. Miller, California, left the Committee, September 21,
1961.
\2\ GHarlan F. Hagen, California, elected to the Committee, September
25, 1961.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
88th Congress
January 17, 1963--January 3, 1965
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Thor C. Tollefson, Washington (R) Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland
William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
William S. Mailliard, California T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Milton W Glenn, New Jersey Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Robert F. Ellsworth, Kansas John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
George A. Goodling, Pennsylvania L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
Stanley R. Tupper, Maine Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
James R. Grover, Jr., New York Robert R. Casey, Texas
Rogers C. B. Morton, Maryland James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
Hastings Keith, Massachusetts \2\ Charles A. Vanik, Ohio
Harlan F. Hagen, California
Edith S. Green, Oregon
Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
John M. Murphy, New York
Jacob H. Gilbert, New York \1\
----------
\1\ GJacob H. Gilbert, New York, elected to the Committee, January 3,
1963.
\2\ GHastings Keith, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, February
7, 1963.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
89th Congress
January 18, 1965--January 3, 1967
Herbert C. Bonner, North Carolina
(D) Chair \5\
William S. Mailliard, California (R) Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland \6\
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
Robert F. Ellsworth, Kansas \1\ T. Aston Thompson, Louisiana \3\
Stanley R. Tupper, Maine Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
James R. Grover, Jr., New York John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Rogers C. B. Morton, Maryland L. Mendel Rivers, South Carolina
Hastings Keith, Massachusetts Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
W. J. (Jack) Edwards, Alabama Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
G. Robert Watkins, Pennsylvania Robert R. Casey, Texas \7\
-------- James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
Ed Reinecke, California \2\ Harlan F. Hagen, California
Edith S. Green, Oregon
Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
John M. Murphy, New York
Jacob H. Gilbert, New York
J. Russell Tuten, Georgia
William L. St. Onge, Connecticut
John G. Dow, New York
Raymond F. Clevenger, Michigan
--------
Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota \4\
William D. Hathaway, Maine \8\
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
\9\
Lera Thomas, Texas \10\
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\1\ GRobert F. Ellsworth, Kansas, left the Committee, March 18, 1965.
\2\ GEd Reinecke, California, elected to the Committee, March 18,
1965.
\3\ GT. Aston Thompson, Louisiana, died, July 1, 1965.
\4\ GJoseph E. Karth, Minnesota, elected to the Committee, August 5,
1965.
\5\ GHerbert C. Bonner, North Carolina, died, November 7, 1965.
\6\ GEdward A. Garmatz, Maryland, assumed Chair, January 10, 1966.
\7\ GRobert R. Casey, Texas, left the Committee, March 8, 1966.
\8\ GWilliam D. Hathaway, Maine, elected to the Committee, March 8,
1966.
\9\ GWalter B. Jones, North Carolina, elected to the Committee, March
8, 1966.
\10\ GLera Thomas, Texas, elected to the Committee, March 30, 1966.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
90th Congress
January 23, 1967--January 3, 1969
Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland (D)
Chair
William S. Mailliard, California (R) Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
James R. Grover, Jr., New York John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Rogers C. B. Morton, Maryland Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
Hastings Keith, Massachusetts Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
W. J. (Jack) Edwards, Alabama James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
G. Robert Watkins, Pennsylvania Edith S. Green, Oregon \1\
Ed Reinecke, California Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Henry C. Schadeberg, Wisconsin Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
William V. Roth, Jr., Delaware John M. Murphy, New York
John R. Dellenback, Oregon vWilliam L. St. Onge, Connecticut
Howard W. Pollock, Alaska John G. Dow, New York
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota
Daniel E. Button, New York William D. Hathaway, Maine
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Richard T. Hanna, California
Henry Helstoski, New Jersey
--------
Robert L. Leggett, California \2\
----------
\1\ GEdith S. Green, Oregon, left the Committee, October 17, 1967.
\2\ GRobert L. Leggett, California, elected to the Committee, April 3,
1968.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
91st Congress
January 29, 1969--January 3, 1971
Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland (D)
Chair
William S. Mailliard, California (R) Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
James R. Grover, Jr., New York John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Hastings Keith, Massachusetts Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
W. J. (Jack) Edwards, Alabama Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
G. Robert Watkins, Pennsylvania \4\ James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
Henry C. Schadeberg, Wisconsin Paul G. Rogers, Florida
William V. Roth, Jr., Delaware Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
John R. Dellenback, Oregon John M. Murphy, New York
Howard W. Pollock, Alaska William L. St. Onge, Connecticut
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan \2\
Daniel E. Button, New York Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota
George A. Goodling, Pennsylvania William D. Hathaway, Maine
William G. Bray, Indiana Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California Richard T. Hanna, California \6\
Louis Frey, Jr., Florida Robert L. Leggett, California
Jack H. McDonald, Michigan \1\ Michael A. Feighan, Ohio
-------- Frank Annunzio, Illinois
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky \5\ Speedy O. Long, Louisiana
Mario Biaggi, New York
--------
Charles H. Griffin, Mississippi
\3\
Glenn M. Anderson, California \7\
----------
\1\ GJack H. McDonald, Michigan, elected to the Committee July 24,
1969.
\2\ GWilliam L. St. Onge, Connecticut, died, May 1, 1970.
\3\ GCharles H. Griffin, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, May
14, 1970.
\4\ GG. Robert Watkins, Pennsylvania, died, August 7, 1970.
\5\ GM. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky, elected to the Committee,
September 23, 1970.
\6\ GRichard T. Hanna, California, left the Committee, December 10,
1970.
\7\ GGlenn M. Anderson, California, elected to the Committee, December
10, 1970.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
92nd Congress
February 4, 1971--January 3, 1973
Edward A. Garmatz, Maryland (D)
Chair
Thomas M. Pelly, Washington (R) Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
William S. Mailliard, California Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
James R. Grover, Jr., New York John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Hastings Keith, Massachusetts Alton A. Lennon, North Carolina
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
George A. Goodling, Pennsylvania James A. Byrne, Pennsylvania
William G. Bray, Indiana Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
Jack H. McDonald, Michigan John M. Murphy, New York
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota \2\
Robert H. Steele, Connecticut Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey Robert L. Leggett, California
Pierre S. du Pont, IV, Delaware Speedy O. Long, Louisiana \4\
William O. Mills, Maryland \1\ Mario Biaggi, New York
Charles H. Griffin, Mississippi
Glenn M. Anderson, California
E. (Kika) de la Garza, Texas
Peter N. Kyros, Maine
Robert O Tiernan, Rhode Island
James V. Stanton, Ohio
--------
Ralph H. Metcalfe, Illinois \3\
John B. Breaux, Louisiana \5\
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\1\ GWilliam O. Mills, Maryland, elected to the Committee, June 3,
1971.
\2\ GJoseph E. Karth, Minnesota, left the Committee, October 6, 1971.
\3\ GRalph H. Metcalfe, Illinois, elected to the Committee, January
27, 1972.
\4\ GSpeedy O. Long, Louisiana, left the Committee, October 12, 1972.
\5\ GJohn B. Breaux, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, October 12,
1972.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
93rd Congress
January 24, 1973--January 3, 1975
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
(D) Chair
James R. Grover, Jr., New York (R) Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania \8\
William S. Mailliard, California \6\ Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
George A. Goodling, Pennsylvania Paul G. Rogers, Florida
William G. Bray, Indiana \2\ Frank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California \9\
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky John M. Murphy, New York
Robert H. Steele, Connecticut Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey Robert L. Leggett, California
Pierre S. du Pont, IV, Delaware Mario Biaggi, New York
William O. Mills, Maryland \4\ Glenn M. Anderson, California
William S. Cohen, Maine E. (Kika) de la Garza, Texas
Trent Lott, Mississippi Peter N. Kyros, Maine
David C. Treen, Louisiana Ralph H. Metcalfe, Illinois
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Edward L. Young, South Carolina \1\ Fred B. Rooney, Pennsylvania
------ Robert C. Eckhart, Texas
Donald E. Young, Alaska \3\ Paul S. Sarbanes, Maryland
Robert E. Bauman, Maryland \5\ Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
Robert L. Lagomarsino, California \7\Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
David R. Bowen, Mississippi
----------
\1\ GEdward L. Young, South Carolina, elected to the Committee,
February 20, 1973.
\2\ GWilliam G. Bray, Indiana, left the Committee, February 5, 1973.
\3\ GDonald E. Young, Alaska, elected to the Committee, March 14,
1973.
\4\ GWilliam O. Mills, Maryland, died, May 24, 1973.
\5\ GRobert E. Bauman, Maryland, elected to the Committee, September
6, 1973.
\6\ GWilliam S. Mailliard, California, resigned from Congress, March
5, 1974.
\7\ GRobert L. Lagomarsino, California, elected to the Committee, May
1, 1974.
\8\ GFrank M. Clark, Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress, December
31, 1974.
\9\ GFrank A. Stubblefield, Kentucky, resigned from Congress, December
31, 1974.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
94th Congress
January 20, 1975--January 3, 1977
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, Missouri
(D) Chair
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan (R) Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Charles A. Mosher, Ohio John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California Thomas N. Downing, Virginia
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey John M. Murphy, New York
Pierre S. du Pont, IV, Delaware Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
David C. Treen, Louisiana Robert L. Leggett, California
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington Mario Biaggi, New York
Donald E. Young, Alaska Glenn M. Anderson, California
Robert E. Bauman, Maryland E. (Kika) de la Garza, Texas
Norman F. Lent, New York Ralph H. Metcalfe, Illinois
Matthew J. Rinaldo, New Jersey John B. Breaux, Louisiana
David F. Emery, Maine Fred B. Rooney, Pennsylvania
Paul S. Sarbanes, Maryland
Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
David R. Bowen, Mississippi
Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania
Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands
Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Don L. Bonker, Washington
Les AuCoin, Oregon
Norman E. D'Amours, New Hampshire
Norman E. Patterson, California
Jerry C. Zeferetti, New York
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
95th Congress
January 19, 1977--January 3, 1979
John M. Murphy, New York (D) Chair
Philip E. Ruppe, Michigan (R) Thomas L. Ashley, Ohio
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Paul G. Rogers, Florida
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
David C. Treen, Louisiana Robert L. Leggett, California
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington Mario Biaggi, New York
Donald E. Young, Alaska Glenn M. Anderson, California
Robert E. Bauman, Maryland E. (Kika) de la Garza, Texas
Norman F. Lent, New York Ralph H. Metcalfe, Illinois \1\
David F. Emery, Maine John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Robert K. Dornan, California Fred B. Rooney, Pennsylvania
Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Delaware Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
Paul S. Trible, Jr., Virginia Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
David R. Bowen, Mississippi
Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania
Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands
Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Don L. Bonker, Washington
Les AuCoin, Oregon
Norman E. D'Amours, New Hampshire
Norman E. Patterson, California
Jerry C. Zeferetti, New York
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
David E. Bonior, Michigan
Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii
----------
\1\ GRalph H. Metcalfe, Illinois, died, October 10, 1978.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
96th Congress
January 24, 1979--January 3, 1981
John M. Murphy, New York (D) Chair
\3\
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California (R)homas L. Ashley, Ohio \4\
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky John D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
David C. Treen, Louisiana \1\ Mario Biaggi, New York
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington Glenn M. Anderson, California
Donald E. Young, Alaska E. (Kika) de la Garza, Texas
Robert E. Bauman, Maryland John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Norman F. Lent, New York Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
David F. Emery, Maine David R. Bowen, Mississippi
Robert K. Dornan, California Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Delaware Don L. Bonker, Washington
Paul S. Trible, Jr., Virginia Les AuCoin, Oregon
Robert W. Davis, Michigan Norman E. D'Amours, New Hampshire
William Carney, New York James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Melvin H. Evans, Virgin Islands William J. Hughes, New Jersey
-------- Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
Robert L. Livingston, Louisiana \2\ David E. Bonior, Michigan
Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii
Michael O. (Ozzie) Myers,
Pennsylvania \5\
Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr., Texas
Michel E. Lowry, Washington
Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Edward J. Stack, Florida
Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
----------
\1\ GDavid C. Treen, Louisiana, resigned from the Congress, March 10,
1980.
\2\ GRobert L. Livingston, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, March
10, 1980.
\3\ GJohn M. Murphy, New York, Democratic Party Caucus removed as
Chair, June 18, 1980.
\4\ GThomas L. Ashley, Ohio, appointed Acting Chair, June 18, 1980.
\5\ GMichael O. (Ozzie) Myers, Pennsylvania, expelled from the House,
October 2, 1980.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
97th Congress
January 28, 1981--January 3, 1983
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky (R) Mario Biaggi, New York
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., California Glenn M. Anderson, California
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
Donald E. Young, Alaska David R. Bowen, Mississippi
Norman F. Lent, New York Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
David F. Emery, Maine Don L. Bonker, Washington
Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Delaware Norman E. D'Amours, New Hampshire
Robert W. Davis, Michigan James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
William Carney, New York William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Charles F. Doughtery, Pennsylvania Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
Norman D. Shumway, California Michel E. Lowry, Washington \1\
Jack Fields, Texas Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Claudine Schnieder, Rhode Island Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida \3\ W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
-------- Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
Jean Ashbrook, Ohio \4\ William N. Patman, Texas
Fofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa
Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
Royden Dyson, Maryland
--------
Joseph F. Smith, Pennsylvania \2\
----------
\1\ GMichel E. Lowry, Washington, left the Committee, December 10,
1981.
\2\ GJoseph F. Smith, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, December
10, 1981.
\3\ GE. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida, left the Committee, August 3, 1982.
\4\ GJean Ashbrook, Ohio, elected to the Committee, July 29, 1982.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
98th Congress
January 6, 1983--January 3, 1985
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey (R) \5\Mario Biaggi, New York
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Glenn M. Anderson, California
Joel M. Pritchard, Washington John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Donald E. Young, Alaska Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
Norman F. Lent, New York Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Robert W. Davis, Michigan Don L. Bonker, Washington
William Carney, New York Norman E. D'Amours, New Hampshire
Norman D. Shumway, California James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Jack Fields, Texas William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Claudine Schnieder, Rhode Island Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
Harold S. Sawyer, Michigan Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
John R. McKernan, Maine \1\ \2\ \3\
Webb Franklin, Mississippi W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
-------- Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
Thomas F. Hartnett, South Carolina \6\ofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa
Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
Royden Dyson, Maryland
William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
vDouglas H. Bosco, California
Robin Tallon, South Carolina
Robert Lindsay, Thomas, Georgia
Barbara Boxer, California
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
--------
Charles E. Bennett, Florida \4\
----------
\1\ GBrian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts, left the Committee February 2,
1983.
\2\ GBrian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee for
the first session, February 2, 1983, filling his own vacancy.
\3\ GBrian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts, left the Committee, November
18, 1983.
\4\ GCharles E. Bennett, Florida, elected to the Committee, February
29, 1984.
\5\ GEdwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey, died, March 29, 1984.
\6\ GThomas F. Hartnett, South Carolina, elected to the Committee,
June 14, 1984.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
99th Congress
January 7, 1985--January 3, 1987
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Norman F. Lent, New York (R) Mario Biaggi, New York
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Glenn M. Anderson, California
Donald E. Young, Alaska John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Robert W. Davis, Michigan Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
William Carney, New York Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Norman D. Shumway, California Don L. Bonker, Washington
Jack Fields, Texas James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Claudine Schnieder, Rhode Island William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
John R. McKernan, Maine vMichel E. Lowry, Washington
Webb Franklin, Mississippi Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Thomas F. Hartnett, South Carolina W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
Eugene A. Chappie, California Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
H. James Saxton, New Jersey Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
H. L. (Sonny) Callahan, Washington Royden Dyson, Maryland
John R. Miller, Washington William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Douglas H. Bosco, California
Robin Tallon, South Carolina
Robert Lindsay, Thomas, Georgia
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Charles E. Bennett, Florida
Thomas J. Manton, New York
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
100th Congress
January 8, 1987--January 3, 1989
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Robert W. Davis, Michigan (R) Mario Biaggi, New York \5\
Donald E. Young, Alaska Glenn M. Anderson, California
Norman F. Lent, New York Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
Norman D. Shumway, California Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Jack Fields, Texas Don L. Bonker, Washington
Claudine Schnieder, Rhode Island William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Michel E. Lowry, Washington
H. James Saxton, New Jersey Earl D. Hutto, Florida
John R. Miller, Washington W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
Howard Coble, North Carolina Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
Mac Sweeney, Texas Royden Dyson, Maryland
Joseph J. DioGuardi, New York \2\ William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Patricia F. Saiki, Hawaii Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Wally Herger, California Douglas H. Bosco, California
Jim Bunning, Kentucky Robin Tallon, South Carolina
------ Robert Lindsay, Thomas, Georgia
Ernest L. Konnyu, California \3\ \1\
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Charles E. Bennett, Florida
Thomas J. Manton, New York
Owen B. Pickett, Virginia
Joseph E. Brennan, Maine
George J. Hochbrueckner, New York
--------
Bob Clement, Tennessee \4\
Stephen J. Solarz, New York \6\
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\1\ GRobert Lindsay, Thomas, Georgia, left the Committee, October 21,
1987.
\2\ GJoseph J. DioGuardi, New York, left the Committee, November 4,
1987.
\3\ GErnest L. Konnyu, California, elected to the Committee, November
4, 1987.
\4\ GBob Clement, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, March 2, 1988.
\5\ GMario Biaggi, New York, resigned from the Congress, August 5,
1988.
\6\ GStephen J. Solarz, New York, elected to the Committee, October 6,
1988.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
101st Congress
January 3, 1989--January 3, 1991
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair
Robert W. Davis, Michigan (R) Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
Donald E. Young, Alaska Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Norman F. Lent, New York William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Norman D. Shumway, California Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Jack Fields, Texas W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
Claudine Schnieder, Rhode Island Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
H. James Saxton, New Jersey Royden Dyson, Maryland
John R. Miller, Washington William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Howard Coble, North Carolina Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Douglas H. Bosco, California
Patricia F. Saiki, Hawaii Robin Tallon, South Carolina
Wally Herger, California Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Jim Bunning, Kentucky Charles E. Bennett, Florida
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Thomas J. Manton, New York
Porter J. Goss Owen B. Pickett, Virginia
-------- Joseph E. Brennan, Maine
Arthur Ravenel, Jr., South Carolina \2\orge J. Hochbrueckner, New York
Bob Clement, Tennessee
Stephen J. Solarz, New York
Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey
Greg H. Laughlin, Texas
Nita M. Lowey, New York
Jolene Unsoeld, Washington
--------
Gene Taylor, Mississippi \1\
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\1\ GGene Taylor, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, November 8,
1989.
\2\ GArthur Ravenel, Jr., South Carolina, elected to the Committee,
November 9, 1989.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
102nd Congress
January 24, 1991--January 3, 1993
Walter B. Jones, North Carolina
(D) Chair \5\
Robert W. Davis, Michigan (R) Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts \6\
Donald E. Young, Alaska Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Kentucky
Norman F. Lent, New York William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Jack Fields, Texas Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia W. J. (Billy) Tauzin, Louisiana
H. James Saxton, New Jersey Thomas M. Foglietta, Texas
John R. Miller, Washington Dennis M. Hertel, Michigan
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Howard Coble, North Carolina Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Thomas R. Carper, Delaware
Wally Herger, California Robin Tallon, South Carolina
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Porter J. Goss, Florida Charles E. Bennett, Florida
Arthur Ravenel, Jr., South Carolina Thomas J. Manton, New York
H. L. (Sonny) Callahan, Alabama Owen B. Pickett, Virginia
Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland George J. Hochbrueckner, New York
John T. Doolittle, California Bob Clement, Tennessee \3\
Randy (Duke) Cunningham, California Stephen J. Solarz, New York
Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey
Greg H. Laughlin, Texas
Nita M. Lowey, New York
Jolene Unsoeld, Washington
Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Glenn M. Anderson, California
John F. Reed, Rhode Island
William J. Jefferson, Louisiana
Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii \1\
Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, American
Samoa
--------
H. Martin Lancaster, North
Carolina \2\
Lucien E. Blackwell, Pennsylvania
\4\
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\1\ GNeil Abercrombie, Hawaii, left the Committee, October 9, 1991.
\2\ GH. Martin Lancaster, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
October 30, 1991.
\3\ GBob Clement, Tennessee, left the Committee, February 5, 1992.
\4\ GLucien E. Blackwell, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
February 5, 1992.
\5\ GWalter B. Jones, North Carolina, died, September 15, 1992.
\6\ GGerry E. Studds, Massachusetts, appointed Acting Chair, September
15, 1992.
COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES
103rd Congress
January 5, 1993--January 3, 1995
Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts (D)
Chair
Jack Fields, Texas (R) William J. Hughes, New Jersey
Donald E. Young, Alaska Earl D. Hutto, Florida
Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia William O. Lipinski, Illinois
H. James Saxton, New Jersey Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Howard Coble, North Carolina Thomas J. Manton, New York
Curt Weldon, Pennsylvania Owen B. Pickett, Virginia
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma George J. Hochbrueckner, New York
Arthur Ravenel, Jr., South Carolina Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey
Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland Greg H. Laughlin, Texas
Randy (Duke) Cunningham, California Jolene Unsoeld, Washington
Jack Kingston, Georgia Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Tillie K. Fowler, Florida John F. Reed, Rhode Island
Michael N. Castle, Delaware H. Martin Lancaster, North
Peter T. King, New York Carolina
Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida Thomas H. Andrews, Maine \1\
Richard W. Pombo, California Elizabeth Furse, Oregon
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland \4\ Lynn Scehnk, California
Charles H. Taylor, North Carolina \4\Gene Green, Texas
Peter G. Torkildsen, Massachusetts \4\lcee L. Hastings, Florida
Dan Hamburg, California
Blanche M. Lambert, Arkansas
Anna G. Eshoo, California
Thomas Barlow, III, Kentucky
Bart Stupak, Michigan
Bennie G. Thompson, Mississippi
\2\
Maria Cantwell, Washington
Peter Deutsch, Florida
Gary L. Ackerman, New York \3\
----------
\1\ GThomas H. Andrews, Maine, elected to the Committee, January 21,
1993.
\2\ GBennie G. Thompson, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, April
29, 1993.
\3\ GGary L. Ackerman, New York, elected to the Committee, January 27,
1993.
\4\ GHelen Delich Bentley, Maryland; Charles H. Taylor, North
Carolina; and Peter G. Torkildsen, Massachusetts, elected to the
Committee May 27, 1993.
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Committee on Public Works
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Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 the
Committees on Public Buildings and Grounds, Rivers and Harbors,
Roads and Canals, and Flood Control were combined to form the
Committee on Public Works. Its jurisdiction from the beginning
of the 80th Congress (1947-48) through the 90th Congress (1967-
68) remained the same:
(a) Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.
(b) Measures relating to the Capitol Building and the Senate
and House Office Buildings. (c) Measures relating to the
construction or maintenance of roads and post roads, other than
appropriations therefore; but it shall not be in order for any
bill providing general legislation in relation to roads to
contain any provision for any specific road, nor for any bill
in relation to a specific road to embrace a provision in
relation to any other specific road. (d) Measures relating to
the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of
the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library
of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institute. (e) Measures
relating to the purchase of sites and construction of post
offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government
buildings within the District of Columbia. (f) Oil and other
pollution of navigable waters. (g) Public buildings and
occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally.
(h) Public reservations and parks within the District of
Columbia, including Rock Creek Park and the Zoological Park.
(i) Public works for the benefit of navigation, including
bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
(j) Water power.\1\
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\1\ U.S. Congress, House, Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and
Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States. Ninetieth
Congress, H. Doc. 529, 89th Cong., 2d sess., 1967, pp. 350-351.
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The four original committees retained their separate
identities but were reduced to subcommittees. In addition, the
committee created subcommittees for Beach Erosion, 80th
Congress (1947-48) and for Watershed Development, 86th-90th
Congresses (1959-68). Special Subcommittees included those: to
Investigate Questionable Trade Practices, 80th Congress; to
Study Civil Works, 82nd Congress (1951-52); on the Federal-Aid
Highway Program, 86th-90th Congresses; and on Economic
Development Programs, 89th-90th Congresses (1965-68). Ad Hoc
Committees were established on Montana Flood Damage, 88th
Congress (1963-64); on Appalachian Regional Development, 88th-
90th Congresses; and on the 1967 Alaska Exposition, 89th
Congress.\2\
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\2\ Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)
from Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United
States, 1789-1988.
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
80th Congress
January 14, 1947--January 3, 1949
George A. Dondero, Michigan (R)
Chair
Joseph J. Mansfield, Texas (D) \4\ Homer D. Angell, Oregon
Will M. Whittington, Mississippi \5\ George H. Bender, Ohio
Charles A. Buckley, New York J. Harry McGregor, Ohlo
Fred W. Boykin, Alabama \10\ Paul Cunningham, Iowa
Alfred J. Elliott, California Earl Wilson, Indiana \11\
Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisana James C. Auchincloss, Now Jersey
William G. Stigler, Oklahoma J. Glenn Ball, Maryland
George H. Fallon, Maryland Samuel W. Arnold, Missouri \7\
Clifford Davis, Tennessee Gordon L. McDonough, California
James W. Trimble, Arkansas Roy Clippinger, Illinois
John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL) Edward G. Rohrbough, West Virginia
-------- Fred Norman, Washington \2\
Tom Pickett, Iowa \8\ W. Kingsland Macy, New York
Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama \9\ Frederick A. Muhlenberg,
Pennsylvania
Howard A. Coffin, Michigan \1\
--------
Robert N. McGarvey, Pennsylvania
\3\
Russell V. Mack, Washington \6\
----------
\1\ GHoward A. Coffin, Michigan, elected to the Committee, January 23,
1947.
\2\ GFred Norman, Washington, died, April 18, 1947.
\3\ GRobert N. McGarvey, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, May
1, 1947.
\4\ GJoseph J. Mansfield, Texas, died, July 12, 1947.
\5\ GWill M. Whittington, Mississippi, suceeded as ranking Member,
July 12, 1947.
\6\ GRussell V. Mack, Washington, elected to the Committee, July 23,
1947.
\7\ GSamuel W. Arnold, Missouri, left the Committee, July 23, 1947.
\8\ GTom Pickett, Iowa, elected to the Committee, July 23, 1947.
\9\ GRobert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama, elected to the Committee, June 10,
1928.
\10\ GFred W. Boykin, Alabama, left the Committee, June 10, 1948.
\11\ GEarl Wilson, Indiana, left the Committee, June 19, 1948.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
81st Congress
January 18, 1949--January 3, 1951
Will M. Whittington, Mississippi
(D) Chair
George A. Dondero, Michigan (R) Charles A. Buckley, New York
Homer D. Angell, Oregon Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio George H. Fallon, Maryland
Paul Cunningham, Iowa Clifford Davis, Tennessee
James O. Auchincloss, New Jersey James W. Trimble, Arkansas
J. Glenn Beall, Maryland John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Gordon L. McDonough, California Tom Pickett, Texas
W. Kingsland Macy, New York Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
Russell V. Mack, Washington Henderson L. Lanham, Georgia
Charles W, Vursell, Illinois Robert T. Secrest, Ohio
Gerald R. Ford, Jr., Michigan Harry J. Davenport, Pennsylvania
T. Vincent Quinn, New York
Morgan M. Moulder, Missouri
John H. Marsalis, Colorado
Chester A. Chesney, Illinois
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
82nd Congress
January 12, 1951--January 3, 1953
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
George A. Donderio, Michigan (R) Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana
Homer D. Angell, Oregon George H. Fallon, Maryland
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio Clifford Davis, Tennsess
James C. Auchincloss, New Jerse James W. Trimble, Arkansas
J. Glenn Beall, Maryland John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Russell V. Mack, Washington Tom Pickett, Texas \9\
Charles W. Vursell, Illinois Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
Hubert B. Scudder, California Henderson L. Lanham, Georgia \6\
Myron V. George, Kansas Robert T. Secrest, Ohio \5\
William G. Bray, Indiana T. Vincent Quinn, New York \11\
Howard H. Barker, Tennessee Morgan M. Moulder, Missouri \2\
John T. Wood, Idaho Earl Chudoff, Pennsylvania \1\
John J. Dempsey, New Mexico
Frank E. Smith, Mississippi
--------
John C. Watts, Kentucky \3\
Clare MaGee, Missouri \4\
Thaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan
\7\
John C. Kluczynski, Michigan \8\
Tomas J. Steed, Oklahoma \10\
Vera D. Buchanan, Pennsylvania
\12\
----------
\1\ GEarl Chudoff, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, January 17, 1951.
\2\ GMorgan M. Moulder, Missouri, left the Committee, April 2, 1951.
\3\ GJohn C. Watts, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, May 2, 1951.
\4\ GClare MaGee, Missouri, elected to the Committee, June 13, 1951.
\5\ GRobert T. Secrest, Ohio, left the Committee, July 2, 1951.
\6\ GHenderson L. Lanham, Georgia, left the Committeem July 18, 1951.
\7\ GThaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan, elected to the Committee, July
18, 1951.
\8\ GJohn C. Kluczynski, Michigan, elected to the Committee, July 15,
1951
\9\ GTom Pickett, Texas, left the Committee, August 9, 1951.
\10\ GTomas J. Steed, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee, August 10,
1951.
\11\ GT. Vincent Quinn, New York, resigned from Congress, December 30,
1951.
\12\ GVera D. Buchanan, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
January 29, 1952.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
83rd Congress
January 19, 1953--January 3, 1955
George A. Dondero, Michigan (R)
Chair
Charles A. Buckley, New York Homer D. Angell, Oregon
George H. Fallon, Maryland J. Harry McGregor, Ohio
Clifford Davis, Tennesse Iames O. Auchincloss, New Jersey
James W. Trimble, Arkansas Russell V. Mack, Washington
John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL) Hubert B. Scudder, California
Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama Myron V. George, Kansas
John E. Dempsey, New Mexico Charles B. Brownson, Indiana
Frank E. Smith, Mississippi Alvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania
John C. Watts, Kentucky Charles O. Oakman, Michigan
Thaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan Frank Small, Jr., Maryland
John C. Kluczynski, Illinois Herbert B. Warburton, Delaware
Tom Steed, Oklahoma William E. Neal, West Virginia
Vera D. Buchanan, Pennsylvania Frank J. Becker, New York
S. Walter Stauffer, Pennsylvania
Gordon H. Sohbrer, Ohio
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
84th Congress
January 13, 1955--January 3, 1957
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
George A. Dondero, Michigan (R) George H. Fallon, Maryland
J. Harry McGreggor, Ohio Clifford Davis, Tennessee
James C. Auchinclo, New Jersey John A. Blatnik Minnesota (DFL)
Russell V. Mack, Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
ubert B. Scudder, California John L. Dempsey, New Mexico
Myron V. George, Kansas Frank E. Smith, Mississippi
Frank L. Becker, New York Thaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan
Gordon H. Scherer, Ohio \3\
Gardner R. Withrow, Wisconsin John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
William C. Cramer, Florida Tom Steed, Oklahoma
John F. Baldwin, Jr., , California T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana
Frederick D. Schwegel, Iowa Brady P. Gentry, Texas
Bruce R. Alger, Texas Maurice G. Burnside, West Virginia
Alvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania \2\ Iris F. Blitch, Georgia
Donald W. Nicholson, Massachusetts \2\ames C. Wight, Jr., Texas
William R. Hull, Jr., Missouri
Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania \1\
Paul O. Rogers, Florida \1\
--------
John D. Dingell, Michigan \4\
----------
\1\ GFrank M. Clark, Pennsylvania; and Paul O. Rogers, Florida,
elected to the Committee, January 31, 1955.
\2\ GAlvin R. Bush, Pennsylvania; and Donald W. Nicholson,
Massachusetts, elected to the Committee, February 15, 1955.
\3\ GThaddeus M. Machrowicz, Michigan, left the Committee, January 12,
1956.
\4\ GJohn D. Dingell, Jr., Michigan, elected to the Committee, January
19, 1956.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
85th Congress
January 10, 1957--January 3, 1959
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
J. Harry McGregor, Ohio (R) \7\ George H. Fallon, Maryland
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey Clifford Davis, Tennessee
Russell V. Mack, Washington John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Hubert B. Scudder, California Robert E. Jones, Alabama
Myron V. George, Kansas John J. Dempsey, New Mexico \3\
Frank J. Becker, New York \1\ Frank E. Smith, Mississippi
Gordon H. Scherer, Ohio John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
Gardner R. Withrow, Wisconsin T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana
William C. Cramer, Florida Iris Faircloth Blitch, Georgia
John F. Baldwin, Jr., California James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Fred Schwengel, Iowa William R. Hull, Jr., Missouri
S. Walter Stauffer, Pennsylvania Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Emmet F. Byrne, Illinois Frank M. Clark Pennsylvania
Edwin B. Dooley, New York Paul G. Rogers, Florida
William S. Broomfield, Michigan Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
-------- Joe M. Kilgore, Texas \5\
Howard W. Robison, New York \2\ John J. McFall, California
Charles H. (Charlie) Brown,
Missouri
--------
Gracie B. Pfost, Idaho \4\
John Young, Texas \6\
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\1\ GFrank J. Becker, New York, left the Committee, February 3, 1958.
\2\ GHoward W. Robison, New York, elected to the Committee, February
3, 1958.
\3\ GJohn J. Dempsey, New Mexico, died, March 11, 1958.
\4\ GGracie B. Pfost, Idaho, elected to the Committee, July 18, 1958.
\5\ GJoe M. Kilgore, Texas, left the Committee, July 21, 1958.
\6\ GJohn Young, Texas, elected to the Committee, July 21, 1958.
\7\ GJ. Harry McGregor, Ohio, died, October 7, 1958.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
86th Congress
January 19, 1959--January 3, 1961
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey (R) George H. Fallon, Maryland
Russell V. Mack, Washington \1\ Clifford Davis, Tennessee
Gordon H. Scherer, Ohio John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Gardener R. Withrow, Wisconsin Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
Wiliam C. Cramer, Florida John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
John F. Baldwin, Jr., California T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana
Frederick D. Schwengel, Iowa Iris F. Blitch, Georgia
Edwin B. Dooley, New York James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
William S. Broomfield, Michigan William R. Hull, Jr., MIssouir
Howard W, Robinson, New York Kenneth J Gray, Illinois
Dean P. Taylor, New York Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Walter M. Mumma, Pennsylvania Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
-------- John J. McFall, California
Herman T. Schneebell, Pennsylvania \2\harles (Charlie) H. Brown,
Missouri
Gracie B. Pfost, Idaho
John A. Young, Texas
Denver D. Hargis, Kansas
Frank W. Burke, Kentucky
Harold T. Johnson, California
Robert E. Cook, Ohio
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\1\ GRussell V. Mack, Washington, died, March 28, 1960.
\2\ GHerman T. Schneebell, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
June 30, 1960.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
87th Congress
February 6, 1961--January 3, 1963
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey (R) George H. Fallon, Maryland
Gordon H. Scherer, Ohio Clifford Davis, Tennessee
William C. Cramer, Florida John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
John F. Baldwin, Jr., California Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
Frederick D. Schwengel, Iowa \1\ Frank E. Smith, Mississippi \3\
Edwin B. Dooley, New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
Howard W. Robinson, New York T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana
Perkins Bass, New Hampshire Iris F. Blitch, Georgia
Walter L. McVey, Kansas James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Carleton J. King, New York Wiliam R. Hull, Jr., Missouri
William H. Harsha, Jr., Ohio Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Jamess Harvey, Michigan Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
John C. Kunkel, Pennsylvania Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
-------- John J. McFall, California
Louise G. Reece, Tennessee \2\ Gracie B. Pfost, Idaho
John A. Young, Texas
Frank W. Burke, Kentucky
Harold T. Johnson, California
Robert E. Cook, Ohio \4\
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\1\ GFred Schwengel, Iowa, resigned from Congress, May 23, 1961.
\2\ GLouise G. Reece, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, May 23,
1961.
\3\ GFrank E. Smith, Mississippi, left the Committee, November 14,
1962.
\4\ GRobert E. Cook, Ohio, resigned from Congress, December 13, 1962.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
88th Congress
January 17, 1963--January 3, 1965
Charles A. Buckley, New York (D)
Chair
James C. Auchincloss, New Jersey George H. Fallon, Maryland
William C. Cramer, Florida Clifford Davis, Tennessee
John F. Baldwin, Jr., California John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Howard W. Robinson, New York Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
William H. Harsha, Jr., Ohio John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
Jamess Harvey, Michigan T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana
John C. Kunkel, Pennsylvania James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Robert T. McLoskey, Illinois Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
James R. Grover, Jr., New York Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
James H. Quillen, Tennessee Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
Carl W. Rich, Ohio John J. McFall, California \2\
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire John A. Young, Texas \3\
Don H. Clausen, California \1\ Harold T. Johnson, California
W.J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
David N. Henderson, North Carolina
Arnold Olsen, Montana
Harold M. Ryan, Michigan
J. Russell Tuten, Georgia
John M. Murphy, New York
--------
Ralph J. Rivers, Alaska \4\
Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas \5\
----------
\1\ GDon H. Clausen, California, elected to the Committee, January 29,
1963.
\2\ GJohn J. McFall, California, left the Committee, December 10,
1963.
\3\ GJohn A. Young, Texas, left the Committee, December 10, 1963.
\4\ GRalph J. Rivers, Alaska, elected to the Committee, February 25,
1964.
\5\ GHerbert Ray Roberts, Texas, elected to the Committee, February
25, 1964.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
89th Congress
January 18, 1965--January 3, 1967
George H. Fallon, Maryland (D)
Chair
William C. Cramer, Florida (R) John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
John F. Baldwin, Jr., California \3\ Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
William H. Harsha, Jr., Ohio John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
John C. Kunkel, Pennsylvania \13\ T. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana \1\
James R. Grover, Jr., New York James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Don H. Clausen, California Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Charles A. Halleck, Indiana Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
Charlotte T, Reid, Illinois Harold T. Johnson, California
Robert C. McEwen, New York W.J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
James D. Martin, Alabama \9\ David N. Henderson, North Carolina
------ Arnold Olsen, Montana
Joe Skubitz, Kansas \4\ J. Russell Tuten, Georgia \8\
John J. Duncan, Tennessee \10\ Ralph J. Rivers, Alaska \12\
Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
Robert A. Everett, Tennessee
Richard D. McCarthy, New York
James Kee, West Virginia
John R. Schmidhauser, Iowa
Robert E. Sweeney, Ohio \5\
James J. Howard, New Jersey
Kenneth W. Dyal, California
------
Edwin W. Edwards, Luoisiana \2\
John C. Mackie, Michigan \6\
Robert T. Secrest, Ohio \7\ \11\
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\1\ GT. Ashton Thompson, Louisiana, died, July 1, 1965.
\2\ GEdwin W. Edwards, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, October
21, 1965.
\3\ GJohn F. Baldwin, Jr., California, died, March 9, 1966.
\4\ GJoe Skubitz, Kansas, elected to the Committee, May 24, 1966.
\5\ GRobert E. Sweeney, Ohio, left the Committee, October 18 1966.
\6\ GJohn C. Mackie, Michigan, elected to the Committee, October 18,
1966.
\7\ GRobert T. Secrest, Ohio, elected to the Committee, October 18,
1966.
\8\ GJ. Russell Tuten, Georgia, left the Committee, October 18, 1966.
\9\ GJames D. Martin, Alabama, left the Committee, October 21, 1966.
\10\ GJohn J. Duncan, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, October 21,
1966.
\11\ GRobert T. Secrest, Ohio, resigned from Congress, December 30,
1966.
\12\ GRalph J. Rivers, Alaska, resigned from Congress, December 30,
1966.
\13\ GJohn C. Kunkel, Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress, December
30, 1966.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
90th Congress
January 23, 1967--January 3, 1969
George F. Fallon, Maryland (D)
Chair
William C. Cramer, Florida (R) John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
William H. Harsha, Jr., Ohio Robert E. Jones, Jr., Alabama
James R. Grover, New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Don H. Clausen. California Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Robert C. McEwen, New York Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
Joe Skubitz, Kansas \1\ Ed, pmd A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
John J. Duncan, Tennessee Harold T. Johnson, California
Frederick D. Schwengel, Iowa W. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
Henry A. Schadeberg, Wisconsin David N. Henderson, North Carolina
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Arnold Olsen, Montana
Robert V. Denney, Nebraska Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
Roger H. Zion, Indiana Robert A. Everett, Tennessee
Jack H. McDonald. Michigan Richard D. McCarthy, New York
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas James Kee, West Virginia
-------- James J. Howard, New Jersey
Clarence A. Miller, Ohio \2\ Edwin W. Edwards, Louisiana
Jerome R. Waldie, California \3\
----------
\1\ GJoe Skubitz, Kansas, left the Committee, August 1, 1967.
\2\ GClarence A. Miller, Ohio, elected to the Committee, November 15,
1967.
\3\ GJerome R. Waldie, California, left the Committee, October 10,
1968.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
91st Congress
January 29, 1969--January 3, 1971
George H. Fallon, Maryland (D)
Chair
William C. Cramer, Florida (R) John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
William H. Harsha, Ohio Robert E. Jones, Alabama
James R. Grover, New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Don H. Clausen, California Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Robert C. McEwen, New York Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
John J. Duncan, Tennessee Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
Frederick D. Schwengel, Iowa Harolid T. Johnson, California
Henry C. Schadeberg, Wisconsin W. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky David N. Henderson, North Carolina
Robert V. Denney, Nebraska Arnold Olsen, Montana
Roger H. Zion, Indiana Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
Jack H. McDonald, Michigan Richard D. McCarthy, New York
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas James Kee, West Virginia
Clarence E. Miller, Ohio James J. Howard, New Jersey
Glenn M. Anderson, California
Patrick T. Caffery, Louisiana
David R. Obey, Wisconsin \1\ \2\
--------
Robert A. Roe, New Jersey \3\
----------
\1\ GDavid R. Obey, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, April 15,
1969.
\2\ GDavid R. Obey, Wisconsin, left the Committee, November 12, 1969.
\3\ GRobert A. Roe, New Jersey, elected to the Committee, February 16,
1970.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
92nd Congress
February 4, 1971--January 3, 1973
John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Chair
William H. Harsha, Ohio (R) Robert E. Jones, Alabama (D)
James R. Grover, Jr., New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Don H. Clausen, California Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Fred Schwengel, Iowa Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Edmond A. Edmondson, Oklahoma
Roger H. Zion, Indiana Harold T. Johnson. California
Jack H. McDonald, Michigan W. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas David N. Henderson, North Carolina
Clarence E. Miller, Ohio Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
Wilmer D. Mizell, North Carolina James Kee, West Virginia
John H. Terry, New York James J. Howard, New Jersey
Charles Thone, Nebraska Glenn M. Anderson, California
LaMar Baker, Tennessee Patrick T. Caffery, Louisiana
Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
George W. Collins, Illinois \3\
Teno Roncalio, Wyoming
Nicholas J. Begich, Alaska \4\
Mike McCormack, Washington
Charles B. Rangel, New York \1\
James V. Stanton, Ohio
Bella Abzug, New York
--------
John B. Breaux, Louisiana \2\
----------
\1\ GCharles B. Rangel, New York, left the Committee, October 12,
1972.
\2\ GJohn B. Breaux, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, October 12,
1972.
\3\ GGeorge W. Collins, Illinois, died, December 8, 1972.
\4\ GNicholas J. Begich, Alaska, died, December 29, 1972.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
93rd Congress \1\
January 24, 1973--January 3, 1975
John A. Blatnik, Minnesota (DFL)
Chair \5\
Wiliiam H. Harsha, Ohio (R) Robert E. Jones, Alabama (D)
James R. Grover, New York John C. Kluczynski, Illinois
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Don H. Clausen, California Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois \6\
Gene Snyder, Kentucky Frank M. Clark, Pennsylvania \7\
Roger H. Zion, Indiana Harold T. Johnson, California
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas W. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina
Wilmer D. Mizell, North Carolina \8\
Lamar Baker, Tennessee David N. Henderson, North Carolina
E. G. Shuster, Pennsylvania Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
William F. Walsh, New York James J. Howard, New Jersey
Thad Cochran, Mississippi Glenn M. Anderson, California
L. A. (Skip) Bafalis, Florida Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
James D. Abdnor, South Dakota Teno Roncalio, Wyoming
Robert P. Hanrahan, Illinois Mike McCormack, Washington
Gene Taylor, Missouri James V. Stanton, Ohio
Bella S. Abzug, New York
John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke,
California
Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
Dale Milford, Texas
Richard F. Vander Veen, Michigan
\2\
--------
Bob Traxler, Michigan \3\
Cardiss Collins, Illinois \4\
----------
\1\ GThe ratio on the Committee was changed on April 23, 1974, (24
Maj./16 Min.) allowing for the appointment of M. Veen. A second change
in the ratio was made on July 18, 1974, (26 Maj./16 Min.), however the
vacancy remained for the remainder of the Congress.
\2\ GRichard F. Vander Veen, Michigan, elected to the Committee, March
13, 1974.
\3\ GBob Traxler, Michigan, elected to the Committee, May 29, 1974.
\4\ GCardiss Collins, Illinois, elected to the Committee, July 29,
1974.
\5\ GJohn A. Blatnik, Minnesota, resigned from Congress, December 18,
1974.
\6\ GKenneth J. Gray, Illinois, resigned from Congress, December 31,
1974.
\7\ GFrank M. Clark, Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress, December
31, 1974.
\8\ GW. J. Bryan Dorn, South Carolina, resigned from Congress,
December 31, 1974.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
94th Congress
January 20, 1975--January 3, 1977
Robert E. Jones, Alabama (D)
Chairman
William H. Harsha, Ohio (R) John C. Kluczynski, Illinois \1\
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
Don H. Clausen, California Harold T. Johnson, California
Gene Snyder, Kentucky David N. Henderson, North Carolina
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
E.G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania James J. Howard, New Jersey
William F. Walsh, New York Glenn M. Anderson, California
Thad Cochran, Mississippi Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
James D. Abdnor, South Dakota Tenor Roncalio, Wyoming
Gene Taylor, Missouri Mike McCormack, Washington
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., California James V. Stanton, Ohio
Tom Hagedorn, Minnesota Bella S. Abzug, New York
Gary A. Myers, Pennsylvania John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Gerry E. Studds, Massachusetts \4\
Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
Dale Milford, Texas
Norman Y. Mineta, California
Kenneth L. Holland, South Carolina
Allan T. Howe, Utah
Elliott H. Levitas, Georgia
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Jerome A. Ambro, Jr., New York
Henry J. Nowak, New York
Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
Marilyn Lloyd, Tennessee
John G. Fary, Illinois \2\
--------
Theodore M. Risenhoover, Oklahoma
\3\
W. G. (Bill) Hefner, North
Carolina \5\
----------
\1\ GJohn C. Kluczynski, Illinois, died, January 26, 1975.
\2\ GJohn G. Fary, Illinois, elected to the Committee, September 9,
1975.
\3\ GTheodore M. Risenhoover, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee,
December 17, 1975.
\4\ GGerry E. Studds, Massachusetts, left the Committee, February 18,
1976.
\5\ GW. G. (Bill) Hefner, North Carolina, elected to the Committee,
April 8, 1976.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
95th Congress
January 19, 1977--January 3, 1979
Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson,
California (D) Charman
William H. Harsha, Ohio Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James J. Howard, New Jersey
Don H. Clausen, California Glenn M. Anderson, California
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas Teno Roncalio, Wyoming \6\
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania Mike McCormack, Washington
William F. Walsh, New York \4\ John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Thad Cochran, Mississippi \5\ Ronald B. (Bo) Ginn, Georgia
James D. Abdnor, South Dakota Dale Milford, Texas
Gene Taylor, Missouri Norman Y. Mineta, California
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., California Elliott H. Levitas, Georgia
Tom Hagedorn, Minnesota James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Gary A. Myers, Pennsylvania Jerome A. Ambro, New York
-------- Henry J. Nowak, New York
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota \1\ Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
Robert L. Livingston, Louisiana \2\ Marilyn Lloyd, Tennessee
John E. Cunningham, Washington \3\ John G. Fary, Illinois
Ted Risenhoover, Oklahoma
W. G. (Bill) Hefner, North
Carolina
David L. Cornwell, Indiana
Robert A. Young, Missouri
David E. Bonior, Michigan
Allen E. Ertel, Pennsylvania
Billy Lee Evans, Georgia
Ronnie G. Flippo, Alabama
Nick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Robert (Bob) Stump, Arizona
Douglas Applegate, Ohio
----------
\1\ GArlan Stangeland, Minnesota, elected to the Committee, March 3,
1977.
\2\ GRobert L. Livingston, Louisiana, elected to the Committee,
September 28, 1977.
\3\ GJohn E. Cunningham, Washington, elected to the Committee, October
14, 1978.
\4\ GWilliam F. Walsh, New York, left the Committee, October 14, 1978.
\5\ GThad Cochran, Mississippi, resigned from Congress, Decemberr 26,
1978.
\6\ GTeno Roncalio, Wyoming, resigned from Congress, December 30,
1978.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
96th Congress
January 24, 1979--January 3, 1981
Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson,
California (D) Chair
William H. Harsha, Ohio (R) Herbert Ray Roberts, Texas
James C. Cleveland, New Hampshire James J. Howard, New Jersey
Don H. Clausen, California Glenn M. Anderson, California
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas Mike McCormack, Washington
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania John B. Breaux, Louisiana
James Abdnor, South Dakota Norman Y. Mineta, California
Gene Taylor, Missouri Elliott H. Levitas, Georgia
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., California James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Tom Hagedorn, Minnesota Jerome A. Ambro, Jr., New York
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota Henry J. Nowak, New York
Robert L. Livingston, Louisiana Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
Newt Gingrich, Georgia Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard, Tennessee
William F. Clinger, Jr., Pennsylvania\1\
Gerald B. H. Solomon, New York John G. Fary, Illinois
Jerry Lewis, California W. G. (Bill) Hefner, North
Bill Royer, California \2\ Carolina \6\
Robert A. Young, Missouri
David E. Bonior, Michigan
Allen E. Ertel, Pennsylvania
Billy Lee Evans, Georgia
Ronnie G. Flippo, Alabama
Nick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Geraldine A. Ferraro, New York
Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
Earl Hutto, Florida \3\
Eugene V. Atkinson, Pennsylvania
Donald Joseph Albosta, Michigan
Marvin J. Leath, Texas
William H. Boner, Tennessee
Billy Tauzin, Louisiana \4\
--------
John G. Hutchinson, West Virginia
\5\
----------
\1\ GMarilyn Lloyd Bouquard, Tennessee, changed her name from Marilyn
Lloyd at the end of the 95th Congress.
\2\ GBill Royer, California, elected to the Committee, April 9, 1979.
\3\ GEarl Hutto, Florida, left the Committee, March 19, 1980.
\4\ GBilly Tauzin, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, June 18, 1980.
\5\ GJohn G. Hutchinson, West Virginia, elected to the Committee, June
18, 1980.
\6\ GW. G. (Bill) Hefner, North Carolina, left the Committee, July 2,
1980.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
97th Congress
January 28, 1981--January 3, 1983
James J. Howard, New Jersey (D)
Chair
Don H. Clausen, California (R) Glenn M. Anderson, California
M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas John B. Breaux, Louisiana
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania Norman Y. Mineta, California
Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., California Elliott H. Levitas, Georgia
Tom Hagedorn, Minnesota James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota Henry J. Nowak, New York
Newt Gingrich, Georgia Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaMarilyn Lloyd Bouquard, Tennessee
Gerald B. H. Solomon, New York John G. Fary, Illinois
Harold C. Hollenbeck, New Jersey Robert A. Young, Missouri
H. Joel Deckard, Indiana Allen E. Ertel, Pennsylvania
Wayne Grisham, California Billy Lee Evans, Georgia
Jim Jeffries, Kansas Ronnie G. Flippo, Alabama
Jack Fields, Texas Nick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Guy V. Molinari, New York Douglas Applegate, Ohio
E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida Geraldine A. Ferraro, New York
Bob McEwen, Ohio Eugene V. Atkinson, Pennsylvania
Frank R. Wolf, Virginia \3\
-------- Donald Joseph Albosta, Michigan
Eugene V. Atkinson, Pennsylvania \4\ William Hill Boner, Tennessee
Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
Gus Savage, Illinois
Fofo I.F. Sunia, American Samoa
\1\
Charles (Buddy) Roemer, Louisiana
Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
Ray Kogovsek, Colorado \2\
--------
Barbara B. Kennelly, Connecticut
\6\
Wayne Dowdy, Mississippi \5\
----------
\1\ GNot Counted Against Democrat/Republican Ratio.
\2\ GRay Kogovsek, Colorado, elected to the Committee, February 25,
1981.
\3\ GEugene V. Atkinson, Pennsylvania, resigned the Democratic party,
left the Committee, October 14, 1981.
\4\ GEugene V. Atkinson, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, as a
Republican, October 14, 1981.
\5\ GWayne Dowdy, Mississippi, elected to the Committee, December 16,
1981.
\6\ GBarbara B. Kennelly, Connecticut, elected to the Committee,
February 24, 1982, to rank above Mr. Dowdy.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
98th Congress
January 6, 1983--January 3, 1985
James J. Howard, New Jersey (D)
Chair
M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky (R) Glenn M. Anderson, California
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
E.G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota Norman Y. Mineta, California
Newt Gingrich, Georgia Elliott H. Levitas, Georgia
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaJames L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Guy V. Molinari, New York Henry J. Nowak, New York
E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
Bob McEwen, Ohio Robert A. Young, Missouri
Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Nick Joe Rahall, II West Virginia
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Hal Daub, Nebraska Geraldine A. Ferraro, New York
Lynn M. Martin, Illinois \3\ Brian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts
Vin Weber, Minnesota \2\
Robert F. (Bob) Smith, Oregon Donald Joseph Albosta, Michigan
Don Sundquist, Tennessee Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
Nancy L. Johnson, Connecticut Gus Savage, Illinois
Ronald C. Packard, California Fofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa
\1\
Katie Hall, Indiana
Douglas H. Bosco, California
James F. McNulty, Jr., Arizona
Jim Moody, Wisconsin
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Joseph P. Kolter, Pennsylvania
I.T. (Tim) Valentine, Jr., North
Carolina
Edolphus Towns, New York
William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Michael A. Andrews, Texas
Tom J. Vandergriff, Texas
J. Roy Rowland, Georgia
James McClure Clarke, North
Carolina
Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia
----------
\1\ GNot Counted Against Democrat/Republican Ratio.
\2\ GBrian J. Donnelly, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
February 2, 1983.
\3\ GLynn M. Martin, Illinois, elected to the Committee, March 1,
1983.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
99th Congress
January 7, 1985--January 3, 1987
James J. Howard, New Jersey (D)
Chair
M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Kentucky (R) Glenn M. Anderson, California
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
E. G (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania John B. Breaux, Louisiana
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota Norman Y. Mineta, California
Newt Gingrich, Georgia James L. Oberstar, Minnesota
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaHenry J. Nowak, New York
Guy V. Molinari, New York Robert W. Edgar, Pennsylvania
E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida Robert A. Young, Missouri
Bob McEwen, Ohio Nick Joe Rahall, II West Virginia
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Don Sundquist, Tennessee Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
Nancy L. Johnson, Connecticut Gus Savage, Illinois
Ron Packard, California Fofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa
Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York \1\
Tomas D. DeLay, Texas Douglas H. Bosco, California
Sonny Callahan, Alabama Jim Moody, Wisconsin
Dean A. Gallo, New Jersey Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Joseph P. Kolter, Pennsylvania
Jim Lightfoot, Iowa I.T. (Tim) Valentine, Jr., North
-------- Carolina
David S. Monson, Utah \4\ Edolphus Towns, New York
John G. Rowland, Connecticut \6\ William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Michael A. Andrews, Texas \9\
J. Roy Rowland, Georgia
Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia
Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois
Chester G. Atkins, Massachusetts
\10\
Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana
James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio
Carl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky
\2\ \7\ \8\
--------
Cathy (Gillis) Long, Louisiana \3\
Jim Chapman, Texas \5\
Mario Biaggi, New York \11\
----------
\1\ GNot Counted Against Democrat/Republican Ratio.
\2\ GCarl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, for
the first session, February 6, 1985.
\3\ GCathy (Gillis) Long, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, to rank
after Mr. Traficant, May 2, 1985.
\4\ GDavid S. Monson, Utah, elected to the Committee, June 19, 1985.
\5\ GJim Chapman, Texas, elected to the Committee, to rank after Mr.
Long, September 12, 1985.
\6\ GJohn G. Rowland, Connecticut, elected to the Committee, October
8, 1985.
\7\ GCarl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky, term expired, December 30,
1985.
\8\ GCarl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, for
the second session, January 29, 1986, retaining his seniority.
\9\ GMichael A. Andrews, Texas, left the Committee, July 29, 1986.
\10\ GChester G. Atkins, Massachusetts, left the Committee, July 29,
1986.
\11\ GMario Biaggi, New York, elected to the Committee, October 10,
1986.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
100th Congress
January 6, 1987--January 3, 1989
James J. Howard, New Jersey (D)
Chair \8\
Glenn M. Anderson, California (D)
Chair \9\
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas (R)Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania Norman Y. Mineta, California
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
Newt Gingrich, Georgia Henry J. Nowak, New York
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaNick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Guy V. Molinari, New York Douglas Applegate, Ohio
E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida \10\ Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
Bob McEwen, Ohio Gus Savage, Illinois
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Fofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa
Don Sundquist, Tennessee \1\ \12\
Nancy L. Johnson, Connecticut Douglas H. Bosco, California
Ron Packard, California Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Sherwood L. Boehlert, Niew York Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania
Thomas D. DeLay, Texas \3\ I.T. (Tim) Valentine, Jr., North
H. L. (Sonny) Callahan, Alabama \3\ Carolina
Dean A. Gallo, New Jersey Edolphus Towns, New York
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Jim Ross Lightfoot, Iowa J. Roy Rowland, Georgia
John G. Rowland, Connecticut \3\ Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia
J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois \2\ Kenneth J. Gray, Illinois \14\
-------- Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma \4\ James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio
Cass Ballenger, North Carolina \4\ Jim Chapman, Texas
Fred Upton, Michigan \4\ H. Martin Lancaster, North
Bill Emerson, Missouri \13\ Carolina \6\
Louise M. Slaughter, New York
John Lewis, Georgia
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland
Bill Grant, Florida
David E. Skaggs, Colorado
James (Jimmy) A. Hayes, Louisiana
Carl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky
\5\
--------
Bob Clement, Tennessee \7\
Lewis F. Payne, Jr., Virginia \11\
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois \15\
----------
\1\ GNot Counted Against Democrat/Republican Ratio.
\2\ GJ. Dennis Hastert, Illinois, elected to the Committee, January
21, 1987.
\3\ GTom DeLay, Texas; Sonny Callahan, Alabama; and John G. Rowland,
Connecticut, left the Committee, January 21, 1987.
\4\ GJames M. Inhofe, Oklahoma; Cass Ballenger, North Carolina; and
Fred Upton, Michigan, elected to the Committee, January 21, 1987.
\5\ GCarl C. Perkins, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, January 22,
1987.
\6\ GH. Martin Lancaster, North Carolina, left the Committee, March 2,
1988.
\7\ GBob Clement, Tennessee, elected to the Committee, March 2, 1988.
\8\ GJames J. Howard, New Jersey, died, March 25, 1988.
\9\ GGlenn M. Anderson, California, appointed Acting Chairman, March
25, 1988; elected Chairman, April 20, 1988.
\10\ GE. Clay Shaw, Jr., Florida, left the Committee, July 7, 1988.
\11\ GLewis F. Payne, Jr., Virginia, elected to the Committee, July
13, 1988.
\12\ GFofo I. F. Sunia, American Samoa, resigned as a Delegate to
Congress, September 6, 1988.
\13\ GBill Emerson, Missouri, elected to the Committee, September 23,
1988.
\14\ GKenneth J. Gray, Illinois, left the Committee, October 3, 1988.
\15\ GJerry F. Costello, Illinois, elected to the Committee, October
6, 1988.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
101st Congress
January 3, 1989--January 3, 1991
Glenn M. Anderson, California (D)
Chair
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas (R)Robert A. Roe, New Jersey
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania Norman Y. Mineta, California
Arlan Stangeland, Minnesota James L. Oberstar, Minnesota
Newton L. Gingrich, Georgia \4\ Henry J. Nowak, New York
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaNick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Guy V. Molinari, New York \13\ Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Bob McEwen, Ohio Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Gus Savage, Illinois
Ron Packard, California Douglas H. Bosco, California
Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Jim Ross Lightfoot, Iowa Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania
J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois I. T. (Tim) Valentine, Jr., North
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Carolina
Cass Ballenger, North Carolina Edolphus Towns, New York \11\
Frederick S. Upton, Michigan William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Bill Emerson, Missouri Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana
Larry E. Craig, Idaho James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio
James Duncan, Jr., Tennessee Louise M. Slaughter, New York \8\
Melton D. Hancock, Missouri John Lewis, Georgia
Christopher C. Cox, California Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
-------- Benjamin L . Cardin, Maryland \9\
Bill Grant, Florida \5\ \15\ Bill Grant, Florida \2\
Susan Molinari, New York \16\ David E. Skaggs, Colorado
Jimmy Hayes, Louisiana
Bob Clement, Tennessee
Lewis F. Payne, Jr., Virginia
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey
Ben Jones, Georgia
Mike Parker, Mississippi
Greg Laughlin, Texas
--------
Carl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky
\3\ \6\ \14\
Glen Browder, Alabama \7\ \11\
Pete Geren, Texas \10\
George E. Sangmeister, Illinois
\12\
Gary L. Ackerman, New York \14\
----------
\1\ GNot counted against Democrat/Republican ratio.
\2\ GBill Grant, Florida, election to Committee as Democrat vacated,
February 22, 1989.
\3\ GCarl C. Perkins, Kentucky, elected to the Committee, March 1,
1989.
\4\ GNewt Gingrich, Georgia, left the Committee, April 18, 1989.
\5\ GBill Grant, Florida, elected to the Committe as a Republican,
April 18, 1989.
\6\ GCarl C. (Chris) Perkins, Kentucky, left the Committee, April 27,
1989.
\7\ GGlen Browder, Alabama, elected to the Committee, April 27, 1989.
\8\ GLouise M. Slaughter, New York, left the Committee, July 25, 1989.
\9\ GBenjamin L. Cardin, Maryland, left the Committee October 16,
1989.
\10\ GPete Geren, Texas, elected to the Committee, October 16, 1989.
\11\ GEdolphus Towns, New York; and Glen Browder, Alabama, left the
Committee, November 8, 1989.
\12\ GGeorge E. Sangmeister, Illinois, elected to the Committee,
November 8, 1989.
\13\ GGuy V. Molinari, New York, resigned from Congress, December 31,
1989.
\14\ GGary L. Ackerman, New York; and Carl C. (Chris) Perkins,
Kentucky, elected to the Committee, February 27, 1990.
\15\ GBill Grant, Florida, order of ranking changed to be after Mr.
Emerson, March 7, 1990.
\16\ GSusan Molinari, New York, elected to the Committee, March 28,
1990.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
102nd Congress
January 24, 1991--January 3, 1993
Robert A. Roe, New Jersey (D)
Chair
John Paul Hammerschmidt, Arkansas (R)Glenn M. Anderson, California \2\
E. G. (Bud) Shuster, Pennsylvania Norman Y. Mineta, California
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaJames L. Oberstar, Minnesota
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Henry J. Nowak, New York
Ron Packard, California Nick Joe Rahall, II, West Virginia
Sherwood Boehlert, New York Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Helen Delich Bentley, Maryland Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Gus Savage, Illinois
Jim Ross Lightfoot, Iowa \3\ Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Cass Ballenger, North Carolina Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania
Frederick S. Upton, Michigan \6\ I.T. (Tim) Valentine, Jr., North
Bill Emerson, Missouri Carolina
John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Melton D. Hancock, Missouri Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana \5\
Christopher C. Cox, California James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio
Susan Molinari, New York John Lewis, Georgia
David L. Hobson, Ohio Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Frank Riggs, California Jimmy Hayes, Louisiana
Charles H. Taylor, North Carolina Bob Clement, Tennessee
Dick Nichols, Kansas Lewis F. Payne, Jr., Virginia
William Zeliff, New Hampshire Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
-------- Frank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey
Tomas W. Ewing, Illinois \4\ Ben Jones, Georgia
Paul E. Gillmor, Ohio \7\ Mike Parker, Mississippi
Greg Laughlin, Texas
Peat Geren, Texas
George E. Sangmiester, Illinois
Glenn Poshard, Illinois
Dick Swett, New Hampshire
Bill K. Brewster, Oklahoma
Bud Cramer, Alabama
Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut
Joan Kelly Horn, Missouri
Barbara-Rose Collins, Michigan
Pete Peterson, Florida
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of
Columbia
--------
Lucien F. Blackwell, Pennsylvania
\8\
----------
\1\ GNot counted against Democrat/Republican ratio.
\2\ GElected Chairman Emeritus for the 102nd Congress, January 31,
1991.
\3\ GJim Ross Lightfoot, Iowa, left the Committee, February 28, 1991.
\4\ GTomas W. Ewing, Ilinois, elected to the Committee, July 11, 1991.
\5\ GPeter J. Visclosky, Indiana, left the Committee, October 9, 1991.
\6\ GFrederick S. Upton, Michigan, left the Committee October 17,
1991.
\7\ GPaul E. Gillmor, Ohio, elected to the Committee, October 17,
1991.
\8\ GLucien F. Blackwell, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee,
November 26, 1991.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION
103rd Congress
January 5, 1993--January 3, 1995
Norman Y. Mineta, California (D)
Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania (R) James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (DFL)
William F. Clinger, Jr., PennsylvaniaNick J. Rahall II, West Virginia
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Douglas Applegate, Ohio
Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York Ron de Lugo, Virgin Islands \1\
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma \4\ Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania
Bill Emerson, Missouri Tim Valentine, North Carolina
John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee William O. Lipinski, Illinois
Susan Molinari, New York Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia
William H. Zeliff, Jr., New HampshireJames A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio
Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland James A. Hayes, Louisiana
Jennifer Dunn, Washington Bob Clement, Tennessee
Y. Tim Hutchinson, Arkansas Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Bill Baker, California Mike Parker, Mississippi
Michael A. ``Mac'' Collins, Georgia Greg Laughlin, Texas
Jay Kim, California Pete Geren, Texas
David A. Levy, New York George E. Sangmeister, Illinois
Stephen Horn, California Glenn Poshard, Illinois
Bob Franks, New Jersey Dick Swett, New Hampshire
Peter I. Blute, Massachusetts Bud Cramer, Alabama
Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon, CaliforniaBarbara-Rose Collins, Michigan
John L. Mica, Florida Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of
Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Columbia
Jack Quinn, New York Lucien E. Blackwell, Pennsylvania
-------- Jerrold Nadler, New York
Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan \3\ Sam Coppersmith, Arizona
Leslie L. Byrne, Virginia
Maria Cantwell, Washington
Pat Danner, Missouri
Karen Shepherd, Utah
Robert Menendez, New Jersey
James E. Clyburn, South Carolina
Corrine Brown, Florida
Nathan Deal, Georgia
James A. Barcia, Michigan
Dan Hamburg, California
Bob Filner, California
Walter R. Tucker, III, California
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
--------
Peter W. Barca, Wisconsin \2\
----------
\1\ GNot counted against Democrat/Republican ratio.
\2\ GPeter W. Barca, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, June 23,
1993.
\3\ GVernon J. Ehlers, Michigan, elected to the Committee, February 2,
1994.
\4\ GJames M. Inhofe, Oklahoma, left the Committee, November 15, 1994.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
104th Congress
January 4, 1995--January 3, 1997
Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
Norman Y. Mineta, California (D) \6\ Don Young, Alaska
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota \5\ William F. Clinger, Jr.,
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Pennsylvania
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
William O. Lipinski, Illinois Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia
James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio Bill Emerson, Missouri \14\
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Howard Coble, North Carolina
James A. Hayes, Louisiana \9\ John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Bob Clement, Tennessee Susan Molinari, New York
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois William H. Zeliff, Jr., New
Pete Geren, Texas \7\ Hampshire
Mike Parker, Mississippi \8\ Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois
Greg Laughlin, Texas \3\ Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland
Glenn Poshard, Illinois Y. Tim Hutichiinson, Arkansas
Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jr., Alabama Bill Baker, California
Barbara-Rose Collins, Michigan Jay Kim, California
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbian Horn, California
Jerrold Nadler, New York Bob Franks, New Jersey
Pat Danner, Missouri Peter Blute, Massachusetts
Robert Menendez, New Jersey John L. Mica, Florida
James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Jack Quinn, New York
Corrine Brown, Florida Tillie K. Fowler, Florida
Nathan Deal, Georgia \1\ Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
James A. Barcia, Michigan Spiencer Bachus, Alabama
Bob Filner, California Jerry Weller, Illinois
Walter R. Tucker, III, California \10\ach Wamp, Tennessee
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Tom Latham, Iowa
Bill K. Brewster, Oklahoma Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
-------- Andrea H. Seastrand, California
Karen McCarthy, Missouri \2\ Randy Tate, Washington
Frank Mascara, Pennsylvania \4\ Sue W. Kelly, New York
Thomas C. Sawyer, Ohio \11\ Ray LaHood, Illinois
Gene Taylor, Mississippi \11\ William J. Martini, New Jersey
Juanita Millender-McDonald, California \12\--
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland \13\ Dan Frisa, New York \15\
Todd Tiahrt, Kansas \15\
Richard H. Baker, Louisiana \16\
----------
\1\ GNathan Deal, Georgia; election to Committee as Democrat vacated,
May 10, 1995.
\2\ GKaren McCarthy, Missouri, elected to the Committee, June 13,
1995.
\3\ GGreg Laughlin, Texas, election to Committee as Democrat vacated,
July 10, 1995.
\4\ GFrank Mascara, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, July 12,
1995.
\5\ GJames L. Oberstar, Minnesota, elected to the Committee, as
Committee Ranking Minority Member, September 27, 1995.
\6\ GNorman Y. Mineta, California, resigned from Congress, October 10,
1995.
\7\ GPete Geren, Texas, elected to the Committee, November 20, 1995.
\8\ GMike Parker, Mississippi, election to Committee as Democrat
vacated, November 15, 1995.
\9\ GJames A. Hayes, Louisiana, election to Committee as Democrat
vacated, December 12, 1995.
\10\ GWalter R. Tucker, III, California, resigned from Congress,
December 15, 1995.
\11\ GThomas C. Sawyer, Ohio; and Gene Taylor, Mississippi, elected to
the Committee, February 28, 1996.
\12\ GJuanita Millender-McDonald, California, elected to the
Committee, April 22, 1996.
\13\ GElijah E. Cummings, Maryland, elected to the Committee, April
25, 1996.
\14\ GBill Emerson, Missouri, died, June 22, 1996.
\15\ GDan Frisa, New York; and Todd Tiahrt, Kansas, elected to the
Committee, June 25, 1996.
\16\ GRichard H. Baker, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, June 26,
1996.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
105th Congress
January 7, 1997--January 3, 1999
Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania, Chair
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota Don Young, Alaska
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
William O. Lipinski, Illinois Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia
Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia Howard Coble, North Carolina
James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Susan Molinari, New York \5\
Bob Clement, Tennessee Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland
Glenn Poshard, Illinois Jay Kim, California
Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jr., Alabama \7\phen Horn, California
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbiaanks, New Jersey
Jerrold Nadler, New York John L. Mica, Florida
Pat Danner, Missouri Jack Quinn, New York
Robert Menendez, New Jersey Tillie K. Fowler, Florida
James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Corrine Brown, Florida Spencer Bachus, Alabama
James A. Barcia, Michigan Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Bob Filner, California Sue W. Kelly, New York
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Ray Lahood, Illinois
Frank Mascara, Pennsylvania Richard H. Baker, Louisiana
Gene Taylor, Mississippi Frank Riggs, California
Juanita Millender-McDonald, Californiaharles F. Bass, New Hampshire
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Robert W. Ney, Ohio
Earl. Blumenauer, Oregon \2\ Jack Metcalf, Washington
Max Sandlin, Texas Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri
Ellen O. Tauscher, California Edward A. Pease, Indiana
Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Roy Blunt, Missouri
Jay W. Johnson, Wisconsin Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas
James P. McGovern, Massachusetts Merrill Cook, Utah
-------- John Cooksey, Louisiana
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania \3\ John R. Thune, South Dakota
Nick Lampson, Texas \3\ Charles W. ``Chip'' Pickering,
John Elias Baldacci, Maine \8\ Jr., Mississippi
Marion Berry, Arkansas \8\ Kay Granger, Texas
--------
Jon D. Fox, Pennsylvania \1\
Thomas M. Davis, Virginia \1\
Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey \1\
J. C. Watts, Jr., Oklahoma \1\
Jerry Moran, Kansas \4\
Vito Fossella, New York \6\
----------
\1\ GJon D. Fox, Pennsylvania; Thomas M. Davis, Virginia; Frank A.
LoBiondo, New Jersey; and J. C. Watts, Jr., Oklahoma, elected to the
Committee, January 26, 1997.
\2\ GEarl. Blumenauer, Oregon elected to the Committee, March 6, 1997.
\3\ GTim Holden, Pennsylvania, and Nick Lampson, Texas, elected to the
Committee, April 17, 1997.
\4\ GJerry Moran, Kansas, elected to the Committee, August 1, 1997.
\5\ GSusan Molinari, New York, resigned from Congress, August 2, 1997.
\6\ GVito Fossella, New York, elected to the Committee, November 12,
1997.
\7\ GRobert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jr., Alabama, left the Committee,
November 13, 1997.
\8\ GJohn Elias Baldacci, Maine and Marion Berry, Arkansas, elected to
the Committee, March 27, 1998.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
106th Congress
January 6, 1999--January 3, 2001
Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D) Don Young, Alaska
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
William O. Lipinski, Illinois Herbert H. Bateman, Virginia \5\
Robert E. Wise, Jr., West Virginia Howard Coble, North Carolina
James A. Traficant, Jr., Ohio John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Thomas W. Ewing, Illinois
Bob Clement, Tennessee Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois Stephen Horn, California
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbiaanks, New Jersey
Jerrold Nadler, New York John L. Mica, Florida
Pat Danner, Missouri Jack Quinn, New York
Robert Menendez, New Jersey Tillie K. Fowler, Florida
Corrine Brown, Florida Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
James A. Barcia, Michigan Spencer Bachus, Alabama
Bob Filner, California Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Sue W. Kelly, New York
Frank Mascara, Pennsylvania Ray LaHood, Illinois
Gene Taylor, Mississippi Richard H. Baker, Louisiana
Juanita Millender-McDonald, Californiaharles F. Bass, New Hampshire
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Robert W. Ney, Ohio
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Jack Metcalf, Washington
Max Sandlin, Texas Edward A. Pease, Indiana
Ellen O. Tauscher, California Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas
Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Merrill Cook, Utah
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa John Cooksey, Louisiana
James P. McGovern, Massachusetts John R. Thune, South Dakota
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Nick Lampson, Texas J.C. Watts, Oklahoma \3\
John Elias Baldacci, Maine Jerry Moran, Kansas
Marion Berry, Arkansas John T. Doolittle, California
Ronnie Shows, Mississippi Lee Terry, Nebraska
Brian Baird, Washington Don Sherwood, Pennsylvania
Shelley Berkley, Nevada Gary G. Miller, California
John E. Sweeney, New York
Jim DeMint, South Carolina
--------
Doug Bereuter, Nebraska \1\
Steven Kuykendall, California \1\
Michael Simpson, Idaho \1\
Johnny Isakson, Georgia \2\
David Vitter, Louisiana \4\
Matthew G. Martinez, California
\6\
----------
\1\ GDoug Bereuter, Nebraska; Steven Kuykendall, California; and
Michael Simpson, Idaho, elected to the Committee, February 2, 1999.
\2\ GJohnny Isakson, Georgia, elected to the Committee, March 2, 1999.
\3\ GJ.C. Watts, Oklahoma, left the Committee, June 25, 1999.
\4\ GDavid Vitter, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, June 25, 1999.
\5\ GHerbert H. Bateman, Virginia, died, September 11, 2000.
\6\ GMatthew G. Martinez, California, elected to the Committee,
October 3, 2000.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
107th Congress
January 6, 2001--January 3, 2003
Don Young, Alaska (R) Chair
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D) Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania \1\
Robert A. Borski, Pennsylvania Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
William O. Lipinski, Illinois Howard Coble, North Carolina
Petfr A. DeFazio, Oregon John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Bob Clement, Tennessee Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryiand
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois Stephen Horn, California
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia. Mica, Florida
Jerrold Nadler, New York Jack Quinn, New York
Robert Menendez, New Jersey Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Corrine Brown, Florida Spencer Bachus, Alabama
James A. Barcia, Michigan Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Bob Filner, California Sue W. Kelly, New York
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Richard H. Baker, Louisiana
Frank Mascara, Pennsylvania Charles F. Bass, New Hampshire \3\
Gene Taylor, Mississippi Robert W. Ney, Ohio \2\ \7\
Juniata Millender-McDonald, Californiasa Hutchinson, Arkansas \8\
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland John Cooksey, Louisiana \10\
Earl, Blumenauer, Oregon John R. Thune, South Dakota
Max Sandlin, Texas Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Ellen O. Tauscher, California Jerry Moran, Kansas
Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Don Sherwood, Pennsylvania \5\
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Richard Pombo, California \4\ \6\
James P. McGovern, Massachusetts \12\Jim DeMint, South Carolina
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Doug Bereuter, Nebraska
Nick Lampson, Texas Michael K. Simpson, Idaho
John Elias Baldacci, Maine Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Marion Berry, Arkansas Robin Hayes, North Carolina \4\
Brain Baird, Washington Rob Simmons, Connecricut
Shelley Berkley, Nevada Mike Rogers, Michigan
Brad Carson, Oklahoma Shelley Moore Capito, West
Jim Matheson, Utah Virginia
Michael M. Honda, California Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois
Rick Larsen, Washington Henry E. Brown, Jr., South
-------- Carolina
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts \13\imothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Brian D. Kerns, Indiana
Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana
Tood Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Mike Ferguson, New Jersey
Sam Graves, Missouri
C. L. ``Butch'' Otter, Idaho
Mark R. Kennedy, Minesota
--------
John Abney Culberson, Texas \7\
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania \7\
John Boozman, Arkansas \9\
John Sullivan, Oklahoma \11\
----------
\1\ GBud Shuster, Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress, February 2,
2001.
\2\ GRobert W. Ney, Ohio, left the Committee, February 7, 2001.
\3\ GCharles F. Bass, New Hampshire, left the Committee, February 8,
2001.
\4\ GRichard Pombo, California and Robin Hayes, North Carolina,
elected to the Committee, February 8, 2001.
\5\ GDon Sherwood, Pennsylvania, left the Committee, March 7, 2001.
\6\ GRichard Pombo, California, [position on Committee changed] March
8, 2001.
\7\ GRobert W. Ney, Ohio; John Abney Culberson, Texas; and Bill
Shuster, Pennsylvania, elected to the Committee, June 7, 2001.
\8\ GAsa Hutchinson, Arkansas, resigned from Congress, August 6, 2001.
\9\ GJohn Boozman, Arkansas, elected to the Committee, December 5,
2001.
\10\ GJohn Cooksey, Louisiana, left the Committee, April 17, 2002.
\11\ GJohn Sullivan, Oklahoma, elected to the Committee, April 18,
2002.
\12\ GJames P. McGovern, Massachusetts, left the Committee, May 7,
2002.
\13\ GMichael E. Capuano, Massachusetts, elected to the Committee,
July 8, 2002.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
108th Congress
January 8, 2003--January 3, 2005
Don Young, Alaska (R) Chair
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D) Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
William O. Lipinski, Illinois Howard Coble, North Carouna
Peter A. DeFazio, Oroon John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia. Mica, Florida
Jerrold Nadler, New York Peter Hoekstra, Michigan
Robert Menendez, New Jersey Jack Quinn, New York
Corrine Brown, Florida Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Bob Filner, California Spencer Bachus, Alabama
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Gene Taylor, Misssippi Sue W. Kelly, New York
Juanita Millender-McDonald, Californiaichard H. Baker, Louisiana
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Robert W. Ney, Ohio
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Ellen O. Tauscher, California Jerry Moran, Kansas
Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Gary G. Miller, California
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Jim DeMint, South Carolina
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Doug Bereuter, Nebraska \2\
Nick Lampson, Texas Johnny Isakson, Georgia
Brian Baird, Washington Robin Hayes, North Carolina
Shelley Berkley, Nevada Rob Simmons, Connecticut
Brad Carson, Oklahoma Shelley Moore Capito, West
Jim Matheson, Utah Virginia
Michael M. Honda, California Henry E. Brown, South Carolina
Rick Larsen, Washington Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Dennis Rehberg, Montana
Anthony D. Weiner, New York Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Julia Carson, Indiana Sam Graves, Missouri
Joseph M. Hoeffel, Pennsylvania Mark Kennedy, Minnesota
Mike Thompson, California Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
Timothy H. Bishop, New York John Boozman, Arkansas
Michael H. Michaud, Maine John Sullivan, Oklahoma \1\
Lincoln Davis, Tennessee Chris Chocola, Indiana
Bob Beauprez, Colorado
Michael Burgess, Texas
Max Burns, Georgia
Stevan Pearce, New Mexico
Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Jon C. Porter, Nevada
--------
Rodney Alexander, Louisiana \3\
----------
\1\ GJohn Sullivan, Oklahoma, left the Committee, January 28, 2004,
\2\ GDoug Bereuter, Nebraska, resigned from the House, August 31,
2004.
\3\ GRodney Alexander, Louisiana, elected to the Committee, September
9, 2004.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
109th Congress
January 6, 2005--January 3, 2007
Don Young, Alaska (R) Chair
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D) Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia Sherwood L. Boehlert, New York
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Howard Coble, North Carolina
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of ColumbiaT. Gilchrest, Maryland
Jerrold Nadler, New York John L. Mica, Florida
Robert Menendez, New Jersey \3\ Peter Hoekstra, Michigan
Corrine Brown, Florida Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Bob Filner, California Spencer Bachus, Alabama
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Gene Taylor, Mississippi Sue W. Kelly, New York
Juanita Millender-McDonald, Californiaichard H. Baker, Louisiana
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Robert W. Ney, Ohio \5\
Earl Blumenauer, Oregon Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Ellen O. Tauscher, California Jerry Moran, Kansas
Bill Pascrell, Jr., New Jersey Gary G. Miller, California
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Robin Hayes, North Carolina
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Rob Simmons, Connecticut
Brian Baird, Washington Henry E. Brown, Jr., South
Shelley Berkley, Nevada Carolina
Jim Matheson, Utah Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Michael M. Honda, California Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Rick Larsen, Washington Sam Graves, Missouri
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Mark R. Kennedy, Minnesota
Anthony D. Weiner, New York Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
Julia Carson, Indiana John Boozman, Arkansas
Timothy H. Bishop, New York Stevan Pearce, New Mexico \1\
Michael H. Michaud, Maine Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Lincoln Davis, Tennessee Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Ben Chandler, Kentucky Jon C. Porter, Nevada
Brian Higgins, New York Tom Osborne, Nebraska
Russ Carnahan, Missouri Kenny Marchant, Texas
Allyson Y. Schwartz, Pennsylvania Michael E. Sodrel, Indiana
John T. Salazar, Colorado Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania
-------- Ted Poe, Texas
John Barrow, Georgia \4\ David G. Reichert, Washington
Connie Mack, Florida
John R. ``Randy' Kuhl, Jr., New
York
Luis G. Fortuno, Puerto Rico
Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
Charles W. Boustany, Jr.,
Louisiana
--------
Jean Schmidt, Ohio \2\
Shelley Sekula Gibbs, Texas \6\
----------
\1\ GStevan Pearce, New Mexico, left the Committee, February 9, 2005.
\2\ GJean Schmidt, Ohio, elected to the Committee, September 15, 2005.
\3\ GRobert Menendez, New Jersey, resigned from Congress, January 16,
2006.
\4\ GJohn Barrow, Georgia, elected to the Committee, February 15,
2006.
\5\ GRobert W. Ney, Ohio, resigned from Congress, November 3, 2006.
\6\ GShelley Sekula Gibbs, elected to the Committee, Texas, November
15, 2006.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
110th Congress
January 4, 2007--January 3, 2009
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D)
Chair
John L. Mica, Florida (R) Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia
Don Young, Alaska Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Howard Coble, North Carolina Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of
John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee Columbia
Wayne T. Gilchrest, Maryland Jerrold Nadler, New York
Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan Corrine Brown, Florida
Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio Bob Filner, California
Richard H. Baker, Louisiana \7\ Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Jerry Moran, Kansas Juanita Millender-McDonald,
Gary G. Miller, California California \4\
Robin Hayes, North Carolina Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland
Henry E. Brown, Jr., South Carolina Ellen O. Tauscher, California
Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa
Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania Tim Holden, Pennsylvania
Sam Graves, Missouri Brian Baird, Washington
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania Rick Larsen, Washington
John Boozman, Arkansas Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia \3\lia Carson, Indiana \6\
Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania Timothy H. Bishop, New York
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida Michael H. Michaud, Maine
Kenny Marchant, Texas \2\ Brian Higgins, New York
Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania Russ Carnahan, Missouri
Ted Poe, Texas John T. Salazar, Colorado
David G. Reichert, Washington Grace F. Napolitano, California
Connie Mack, Florida Daniel Lipinski, Illinois
John R. ``Randy'' Kuhl, Jr., New YorkDoris O. Matsui, California \1\
Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia \10\
Charles W. Boustany, Jr., Louisiana Nick Lampson, Texas
Jean Schmidt, Ohio Zachary T. Space, Ohio
Candice S. Miller, Michigan Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
Thelma D. Drake, Virginia Bruce L. Braley, Iowa
Mary Fallin, Oklahoma Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
Vern Buchanan, Florida Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota
-------- Heath Shuler, North Carolina
Robert E. Latta, Ohio \8\ Michael A. Arcuri, New York
Harry E. Mitchell, Arizona
Christopher P. Carney,
Pennsylvania
John J. Hall, New York
Steve Kagen, Wisconsin
Steve Cohen, Tennessee
Jerry McNerney, California
--------
Laura A. Richardson, California
\5\
Albio Sires, New Jersey \9\
Donna F. Edwards, Maryland \11\
----------
\1\ GDoris O. Matsui, California, elected to the Committee, January
12, 2007.
\2\ GKenny Marchant, Texas, left the Committee, March 9, 2007.
\3\ GShelley Moore Capito, West Virginia, elected to the Committee,
March 12, 2007.
\4\ GJuanita Millender-McDonald, California, died, April 22, 2007.
\5\ GLaura A. Richardson, California, elected to the Committee,
September 20, 2007.
\6\ GJulia Carson, Indiana, died, December 15, 2007.
\7\ GRichard H. Baker, Louisiana, resigned from Congress, February 2,
2008.
\8\ GRobert E. Latta, Ohio, elected to the Committee, February 26,
2008.
\9\ GAlbio Sires, New Jersey, elected to the Committee, March 11,
2008.
\10\ GDoris O. Matsui, California, left the Committee, June 10, 2008.
\11\ GDonna F. Edwards, Maryland, elected to the Committee, July 15,
2008.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
111th Congress
January 6, 2009--December 22, 2010
James L. Oberstar, Minnesota (D)
Chair
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of
Columbia
Jerrold Nadler, New York
Corrine Brown, Florida
Bob Filner, California
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
Gene Taylor, Mississippi
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland
Ellen O. Tauscher, California \2\
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania
Brian Baird, Washington
Rick Larsen, Washington
Miichael E. Capuano, Massachusetts
Timothy H. Bishop, New York
Michael H. Michaud, Maine
Russ Carnahan, Missouri
Grace F. Napolitano, California
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois
Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii
Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania
Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota
Heath Shuler, North Carolina
Michael A. Arcuri, New York
Harry E. Mitchell, Arizona
Christopher P. Carney,
Pennsylvania
John J. Hall, New York
Steve Kagen, Wisconsin
Steve Cohen, Tennessee
Laura Richardson, California
Albio Sires, New Jersey
Donna F. Edwards, Maryland
Solomon P. Ortiz, Texas
Phil Hare, Illinois
John A. Boccieri, Ohio
Mark H. Schauer, Michigan
Betsy Markey, Colorado
Parker Griffin, Alabama \4\
Michael E. McMahon, New York
Thomas S. P. Perriello, Virginia
Dina Titus, Nevada
Harry Teague, New Mexico
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John Garamendi, California \3\
Henry C. ``Hank'' Johnson, Georgia
John L. Mica, Florida (R) \6\
Don Young, Alaska
Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Howard Coble, North Carolina
John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Vernon J. Ehlers, Michigan
Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Gary G. Miller, California
Henry E. Brown, Jr., South Carolina
Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Todd Russell Platts, Pennsylvania
Sam Graves, Missouri
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
John Boozman, Arkansas
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Jim Gerlach, Pennsylvania
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania
Connie Mack, Florida
Lynn A. Westmoreland, Georgia
Jean Schmidt, Ohio
Candice S. Miller, Michigan
Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
Vern Buchanan, Florida
Robert E. Latta, Ohio \5\
Steve Scalise, Louisiana \1\
Brett Guthrie, Kentucky
Anh ``Joseph'' Cao, Louisiana
Aaron Schock, Illinois
Pete Olson, Texas
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Tom Graves, Georgia \7\
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\1\ GSteve Scalise, Louisiana, left the Committee, January 16, 2009.
\2\ GEllen O. Tauscher, California, left the Committee, June 26, 2009.
\3\ GJohn Garamendi, California, elected to the Committee, November
19, 2009.
\4\ GParker Griffin, Alabama, resigned as a Member of the Democratic
Caucus, December 23, 2009.
\5\ GRobert E. Latta, Ohio, left the Committee, March 25, 2010.
\6\ GHenry C. ``Hank'' Johnson, Georgia, elected to the Committee, May
6, 2010.
\7\ GTom Graves, Georgia, elected to the Committee, June 16, 2010.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
112th Congress
January 5, 2011--January 3, 2013
John L. Mica, Florida (R) Chair
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia (D)Don Young, Alaska
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Jerry F Costello, Illinois Howard Coble, North Carolina
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Jerrold Nadler, New York Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Corrine Brown, Florida Gary G. Miller, California
Bob Filner, California \6\ Timothy V. Johnson, Illinois
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Sam Graves, Missouri
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania
Leonard L. Boswell, Iowa Shelley Moore Capito, West
Tim Holden, Pennsylvania Virginia
Rick Larsen, Washington Jean Schmidt, Ohio
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Candice S. Miller, Michigan
Timothy H. Bishop, New York Duncan Hunter, California
Michael H. Michaud, Maine Tom Reed, New York \1\
Russ Carnahan, Missouri Andy Harris, Maryland
Grace F Napolitano, California Eric A. ``Rick'' Crawford,
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois Arkansas
Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington
Jason Altmire, Pennsylvania Frank C. Guinta, New Hampshire \5\
Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota Randy Hultgren, Illinois
Heath Shuler, North Carolina Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Steve Cohen, Tennessee Chip Cravaack, Minnesota
Laura A. Richardson, California Blake Farenthold, Texas
Albio Sires, New Jersey Larry Bucshon, Indiana
Donna F. Edwards, Maryland Billy Long, Missouri
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania
Richard L. Hanna, New York
Stephen Lee Fincher, Tennessee \2\
Jeffrey M. Landry, Louisiana
Steve Southerland, II, Florida
Jeff Denham, California
James Lankford, Oklahoma
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Reid J. Ribble, Wisconsin \3\
Charles J. ``Chuck'' Fleischmann,
Tennessee \4\
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\1\ GTom Reed, New York, took leave of absence from the Committee,
April 5, 2011.
\2\ GStephen Lee Fincher, Tennessee, left the Committee, May 11, 2011.
\3\ GReid H. Ribble, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, May 11,
2011.
\4\ GCharles J. ``Chuck'' Fleishmann, Tennessee, elected to the
Committee, June 14, 2011.
\5\ GFrank C. Guinta, New Hampshire, left the Committee, August 1,
2012.
\6\ GBob Filner, California, resigned from Congress, December 2, 2012.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
113th Congress
January 3, 2013--January 2, 2015
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
Nick J. Rahall, II, West Virginia (D)Don Young, Alaska
Peter A. DeFazjo, Oregon Thomas E. Petri, Wisconsin
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia Coble, North Carolina
Jerrold Nadler, New York John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee
Corrine Brown, Florida John L. Mica, Florida
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Gary G. Miller, California
Rick Larsen, Washington Sam Graves, Missouri
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Shelley Moore Capito, West
Timothy H. Bishop, New York Virginia
Michael H. Michand, Maine Candice S. Miller, Michigan
Grace F. Napolitano, California Duncan Hunter, California
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois Andy Harris, Maryland \1\
Timothy J. Walz, Minnesota Eric A. ``Rick'' Crawford,
Steve Cohen, Tennessee Arkansas
Albio Sires, New Jersey Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Donna F. Edwards, Maryland Blake Farenthold, Texas
John Garamendi, California Larry Bucshon, Indiana
Andre AE1 Carson, Indiana Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Janice Hahn, California Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania
Richard M. Nolan, Minnesota Richard L. Hanna, New York
Ann Kirkpatrick, Arizona Daniel Webster, Florida
Dina Titus, Nevada Steve Southerland, II, Florida
Sean Patrick Maloney, New York Jeff Denham, California
Elizabeth H. Esty, Connecticut Reid J. Ribble, Wisconsin
Lois Frankel, Florida Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Cheri Bustos, Illinois Steve Daines, Montana
Tom Rice, South Carolina
Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma
Roger Williams, Texas
Trey Radel, Florida \3\
Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Scott Perry, Pennsylvania
Rodney Davis, Illinois
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Mark Sanford, South Carolina \2\
David W. Jolly, Florida \4\
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\1\ GAndy Harris, Maryland, left the Committee, February 25, 2013.
\2\ GMark Sanford, South Carolina, elected to the Committee, June 12,
2013.
\3\ GTrey Radel, Florida, resigned from Congress, January 27, 2014.
\4\ GDavid W. Jolly, Florida, elected to the Committee, March 25,
2014.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
114th Congress
January 5, 2015--January 3, 2017
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon (D) Don Young, Alaska
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee,
Jerrold Nadler, New York Vice Chair
Corrine Brown, Florida John L. Mica, Florida
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Sam Graves, Missouri
Rick Larsen, Washington Candice S. Miller, Michigan
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Duncan Hunter, California
Grace F. Napolitano, California Eric A. ``Rick'' Crawford,
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois Arkansas
Steve Cohen, Tennessee Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Albio Sires, New Jersey Blake Farenthold, Texas
Donna F. Edwards, Maryland Bob Gibbs, Ohio
John Garamendi, California Richard L. Hanna, New York
Andre Carson, Indiana Daniel Webster, Florida
Janice Hahn, California \3\ Jeff Denham, California
Richard M. Nolan, Minnesota Reid J. Ribble, Wisconsin
Ann Kirkpatrick, Arizona Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Dina Titus, Nevada Tom Rice, South Carolina \1\
Sean Patrick Maloney, New York Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Elizabeth H. Esty, Connecticut Scott Perry, Pennsylvania
Lois Frankel, Florida Rodney Davis, Illinois
Cheri Bustos, Illinois Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Jared Huffman, California Rob Woodall, Georgia
Julia Brownley, California Todd Rokita, Indiana
John Katko, New York
Brian Babin, Texas
Cresent Hardy, Nevada
Ryan A. Costello, Pennsylvania
Garret Graves, Louisiana
Mimi Walters, California
Barbara Comstock, Virginia
Carlos Curbelo, Florida
David Rouzer, North Carolina
Lee M. Zeldin, New York
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Mike Bost, Illinois \2\
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\1\ GTom Rice, South Carolina, left the Committee, November 5, 2015.
\2\ GMike Bost, Illinois, elected to the Committee, February 4, 2016.
\3\ GJanice Hahn, California, resigned from Congress, December 4,
2016.
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
115th Congress
January 3, 2017--January 2, 2019
Bill Shuster, Pennsylvania (R)
Chair
Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon (D) Don Young, Alaska
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District Of Columbia. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee,
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Frank A. LoBiondo, New Jersey
Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Sam Graves, Missouri
Rick Larsen, Washington Duncan Hunter, California \4\
Michael E. Capuano, Massachusetts Eric A. ``Rick'' Crawford,
Grace F. Napolitano, California Arkansas
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois Lou Barletta, Pennsylvania
Steve Cohen, Tennessee Blake Farenthold, Texas \3\
Albio Sires, New Jersey Bob Gibbs, Ohio
John Garamendi, California Daniel Webster, Florida
Henry C. ``Hank'' Johnson, Jr., Georgiaff Denham, California
Andre Carson, Indiana Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Richard M. Nolan, Minnesota Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Dina Titus, Nevada Scott Perry, Pennsylvania
Sean Patrick Maloney, New York Rodney Davis, Illinois
Elizabeth H. Esty, Connecticut Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Lois Frankel, Florida Rob Woodall, Georgia
Cheri Bustos, Illinois Todd Rokita, Indiana
Jared Huffman, California John Katko, New York
Julia Brownley, California Brian Babin, Texas
Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Garret Graves, Louisiana
Donald M. Payne, Jr., New Jersey Barbara Comstock, Virginia
Alan S. Lowenthal, California David Rouzer, North Carolina
Brenda L. Lawrence, Michigan Mike Bost, Illinois
Mark De Saulnier, California Randy K. Weber, Sr., Texas
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Stacey E. Plaskett, Virgin Islands \1\ruce Westerman, Arkansas
Lloyd Smucker, Pennsylvania
Paul Mitchell, Michigan
John J. Faso, New York
A. Drew Ferguson IV, Georgia
Brian J. Mast, Florida
Jason Lewis, Minnesota
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Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin \2\
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\1\ GStacey E. Plaskett, Virgin Islands, elected to the Committee,
January 21, 2018.
\2\ GMike Gallagher, Wisconsin, elected to the Committee, May 16,
2018.
\3\ GBlake Farenthold, Texas, resigned from Congress, April 6, 2018.
\4\ GDuncan Hunter, California, left the Committee, August 24, 2018.
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Chair Biographies
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Brief Bios of the Chairs of the Committee \1\
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\1\ Information from the Biographical Information of the United
States Congress, 1774-Present.
ALEXANDER, De Alva Stanwood, a Representative from New
York; born in Richmond, Sagadahoc County, Maine, July 17, 1846;
attended the common schools; moved with his mother to Ohio in
1859; at the age of fifteen enlisted in the Union Army as a
private in the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served from 1862 until the close of the
Civil War, when he entered the Edward Little Institute, Auburn,
Maine, to prepare for college; was graduated from Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1870 and served many years as a
member and president of its board of overseers; moved to Fort
Wayne, Ind., in 1870; one of the editors and proprietors of the
Daily Gazette 1871-1874; delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Philadelphia in 1872; moved to Indianapolis,
Ind., in 1874 and became a staff correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette; secretary of the Indiana Republican State
committee 1874-1878; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1877 and commenced practice in Indianapolis, Ind.; appointed
Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department in 1881 and served
until 1885; commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand
Army of the Republic, for one term; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in
1885; appointed United States attorney for the northern
district of New York in May 1889 and served until his
resignation in December 1893; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1897-March 3, 1911); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors
(Sixty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed the practice of
law; died, in Buffalo, N.Y., January 30, 1925; interment in
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Forest Lawn Cemetery.
ALEXANDER, Joshua Willis, a Representative from Missouri;
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1852; attended public and
private schools; graduated from Christian University (now
Culver-Stockton College), Canton, Mo., 1872; lawyer, private
practice; public administrator of Daviess County, Mo., 1877-
1881; secretary and then president of the board of education of
Gallatin, Mo., 1882-1901; member of the Missouri state house of
representatives, 1883-1887, speaker, 1887; mayor of Gallatin,
Mo., 1891-1892; hospital executive; judge of the seventh
judicial circuit of Missouri, 1901-1907; elected as a Democrat
to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses until his
resignation on December 15, 1919 (March 4, 1907-December 15,
1919); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses); chair, United
States Commission to the International Conference on Safety of
Life at Sea, 1913-1914; Secretary of Commerce in the Cabinet of
President Wilson, 1919-1921; delegate at large to the Missouri
state constitutional convention in 1922; died, on February 27,
1936, in Gallatin, Mo.; interment in Brown Cemetery, Mo.
ALLEN, John Mills, a Representative from Mississippi; born
in Tishomingo County, Miss., July 8, 1846; attended the common
schools; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in the
Confederate Army and served throughout the war; attended the
law school of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and was
graduated from the law department of the University of
Mississippi in 1870; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Tupelo, Lee County, Miss.; district
attorney for the first judicial district of Mississippi 1875-
1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1901); chairman,
Committee of Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Fifty-
second Congress), Committee on Levees and Improvements of the
Mississippi River (Fifty-third Congress); declined to be a
candidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress;
appointed in March 1901 a United States commissioner to the St.
Louis Exposition of 1904; resumed the practice of law in
Tupelo, Miss., and died, there October 30, 1917; interment in
Glenwood Cemetery.
ALMON, Edward Berton, a Representative from Alabama; born
near Moulton, Lawrence County, Ala., April 18, 1860; attended
the rural schools; was graduated from the State Normal College,
Florence, Ala., and from the law department of the University
of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, in 1883; was admitted to the bar in
1885 and commenced practice in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala.;
served in the State senate 1892-1894; judge of the circuit
court of the eleventh judicial circuit of Alabama 1898-1906;
member of the State house of representatives 1910-1915, serving
as speaker in 1911; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth
and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1915, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1933;
chairman, Committee on Roads (Seventy-second and Seventy-third
Congresses); interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Ala.
ANDERSON, Glenn Malcolm, a Representative from California;
born in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 21,
1913; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.,
1936; United States Army, 1943-1945; real estate developer;
Mayor of Hawthorne, Calif., 1940-1942; member of the California
state assembly, 1942-1943, 1945-1948; lieutenant governor of
California, 1959-1967; chairman and member, Calif. state lands
commission, 1959-1967; member, board of trustees of California
state colleges, 1961-1967; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-
first and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-
January 3, 1993); chair, Committee on Public Works and
Transportation (One Hundredth through One Hundred First
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination to the One
Hundred Third Congress in 1992; died, on December 13, 1994, in
Los Angeles, Calif.; interment in Green Hills Cemetery, Rancho
Palos Verdes, Calif.
ARNOLD, Isaac Newton, a Representative from Illinois; born
in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.Y., November 30, 1815; attended
the district and select schools and Hartwick Seminary; taught
school in Otsego County 1832-1835; studied, law; was admitted
to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Cooperstown,
Otsego County, N.Y.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1836 and
continued the practice of law; was elected as city clerk of
Chicago in 1837, but had served only a short time when he
resigned to devote his entire efforts to his law practice;
delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1842; member of
the State house of representatives in 1842 and 1843;
presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844; delegate
to the Free-Soil National Convention at Buffalo in 1848; again
a member of the State house of representatives in 1855 and was
an unsuccessful candidate for speaker; unsuccessful candidate
for the Republican nomination to Congress in 1858; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses
(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on Roads and
Canals (Thirty-eighth Congress); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1864; during the Civil War acted as aide to
Colonel Hunter at the Battle of Bull Run; served as Sixth
Auditor of the United States Treasury, Washington, D.C., from
April 29, 1865, to September 29, 1866, when he resigned;
resumed the practice of law and also engaged in literary
pursuits; died, in Chicago, Ill., April 24, 1884; interment in
Graceland Cemetery.
BALL, Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in Fairfax
County, near Falls Church, Va., November 6, 1811; attended the
village school; moved to Ohio and located near Zanesville;
engaged in agricultural pursuits; deputy sheriff of Muskingum
County in 1837 and 1838 and sheriff 1839-1843; member of the
State house of representatives 1845-1849; became editor of the
Zanesville Courier in 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-
third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate
to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857);
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-
fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced
practice in Zanesville; delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1860; Sergeant at Arms of the House of
Representatives in the Thirty-seventh Congress 1861-1863;
resumed the practice of law; again a member of the State house
of representatives 1868-1870; accidentally killed by a railroad
train near Zanesville, Ohio, on November 22, 1872; interment in
Greenwood Cemetery.
BANKHEAD, John Hollis, (father of John Hollis Bankhead II
and William Brockman Bankhead, and grandfather of Walter Will
Bankhead), a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in
Moscow, Marion (now Lamar) County, Ala., September 13, 1842;
attended the common schools; planter; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War as captain in the Alabama Infantry;
member, State house of representatives 1865-1867 and again in
1880 and 1881; member, State senate 1876-1877; warden of the
State penitentiary at Wetumpka 1881-1885; moved to Fayette,
Ala., in 1885 and resumed planting; in 1912 moved to Jasper,
Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1907); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1906; appointed a member of the Inland
Waterways Commission in 1907; appointed and subsequently
elected to the United States Senate in 1907 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of John T. Morgan; reelected in 1912 and
1918 and served from June 18, 1907, until his death in
Washington, D.C., March 1, 1920; chairman, Committee on
Standards, Weights, and Measures (Sixty-second Congress),
Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-third through
Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Interior (Sixty-sixth Congress); interment in Oak
Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala.
BARTHOLDT, Richard, a Representative from Missouri; born in
Schleiz, Germany, November 2, 1855; attended the public schools
and Schleiz College (Gymnasium); immigrated to the United
States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y.; learned the
printing trade and became a newspaper writer and publisher;
moved to Missouri and settled in St. Louis in 1877; was
connected with several papers as reporter, legislative
correspondent, and editor, and at the time of his election to
Congress was editor in chief of the St. Louis Tribune; member
of the St. Louis Board of Education from 1888 to 1892, serving
as president from 1890 to 1892; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1893-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Immigration and
Naturalization (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Levees and
Improvements of the Mississippi River (Fifty-fifth through
Fifty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); in 1911
was appointed by President Taft as a special envoy to the
German Emperor to present a statue of Baron Steuben as a gift
from Congress and the American people; was not a candidate for
renomination in 1914; engaged in literary pursuits; served as
chairman of the Republican State convention at St. Joseph, Mo.,
in 1896; elected president of the Interparliamentary Union at
the conference held in St. Louis in 1904, and for many years
was president of the arbitration group in Congress, which he
founded in 1903; died, in St. Louis, Mo., March 19, 1932; his
body was cremated and the ashes interred in Concordia Cemetery.
BEAMAN, Fernando Cortez, a Representative from Michigan;
born in Chester, Vt., June 28, 1814; moved with his parents to
a farm in Franklin County, N.Y., in 1819; attended the district
schools and Malone Academy, Malone, N.Y.; taught school; moved
to Rochester, N.Y., in 1836; studied, law; moved to Manchester,
Mich., in 1838; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in 1839; moved to Tecumseh in 1841 and practiced law there and
in Clinton; moved to Adrian in 1843, having been appointed
prosecuting attorney for Lenawee County, and served until 1850;
city attorney of Adrian; member of the convention that
organized the Republican Party ``under the oaks'' at Jackson,
Mich., in 1854; delegate to the first Republican National
Convention, at Philadelphia in 1856; mayor of Adrian in 1856;
judge of the probate court of Lenawee County 1856-1860; elected
as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1871); chairman,
Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-ninth Congress); declined
to be a candidate for renomination in 1870; returned to Adrian
and resumed the practice of law; appointed judge of probate of
Lenawee County in 1871, elected to the same position in 1872,
and reelected in 1876; appointed United States Senator to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Zachariah Chandler in 1879,
but declined the appointment owing to ill health; declined
appointments to the State supreme court and as United States
Commissioner of Indian Affairs; died, in Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich., September 27, 1882; interment in Oakwood
Cemetery.
BEATTY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near
Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, December 16, 1828; attended the
common schools; entered the banking business in 1852, and
subsequently, with his brother, conducted a bank in Cardington,
Morrow County, Ohio; at the beginning of the Civil War
volunteered as a private in the Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer
Infantry; was appointed lieutenant colonel in 1861; promoted to
colonel in 1862 and took a prominent part in the campaigns in
the Southwest; commanded a regiment at Perryville and a brigade
at Stone River; commissioned brigadier general in 1863 and
commanded a brigade at Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Marion
Ridge; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Cornelius S. Hamilton;
reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and
served from February 5, 1868, to March 3, 1873; chairman,
Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-first Congress), Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds, (Forty-first Congress); moved
to Columbus, Ohio, in 1873 and organized the Citizens Savings
Bank, serving as its president until 1903, when he retired from
active business pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for the
Republican nomination as Governor in 1882; member of the State
board of charities in 1886 and 1887; died, in Columbus, Ohio,
December 21, 1914; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky,
Ohio.
BLANCHARD, Newton Crain, a Representative and a Senator
from Louisiana; born in Rapides Parish, La., January 29, 1849;
completed academic studies; studied, law in Alexandria, La., in
1868 and graduated from the law department of the University of
Louisiana in 1870; admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in Shreveport, La., in 1871; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1879; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1881, until his resignation, effective March 12,
1894; chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Fiftieth,
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); appointed and
subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward D.
White and served from March 12, 1894, to March 3, 1897; was not
a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Improvement
of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Fifty-third
Congress); elected associate justice of the supreme court of
Louisiana and served from 1897 to 1903, when he resigned;
Governor of Louisiana 1904-1908; resumed the practice of law in
Shreveport, La.; member of the State constitutional convention
in 1913 and served as president; died, in Shreveport, La., June
22, 1922; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
BLAND, Schuyler Otis, a Representative from Virginia; born
near Gloucester, Gloucester County, Va., May 4, 1872; attended
the Gloucester Academy, Gloucester, Va.; attended the College
of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; teacher; lawyer,
private practice; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United
States Representative William A. Jones; reelected to the Sixty-
sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (July 2, 1918-
February 16, 1950); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses and
Eighty-first Congress); died, on February 16, 1950, in
Bethesda, Md.; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News,
Va.
BLATNIK, John Anton, a Representative from Minnesota; born
in Chisholm, St. Louis County, Minn., August 17, 1911; attended
the public schools and was graduated from Chisholm High School
in June 1929; taught a one-room rural school in St. Louis
County in 1930 and 1931; State Teachers College, Winona, Minn.,
B.E., June 1935; also attended the University of Chicago during
summer of 1938 and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
in 1941 and 1942; engaged in CCC work in Superior National
Forest in Minnesota 1935-1937; taught chemistry in high school
at Chisholm, Minn., 1937-1939; assistant county superintendent
of schools of St. Louis County, Minn., 1939-1941; member of the
State senate 1941-1946; served with the United States Army Air
Corps and the Office of Strategic Services from August 1942
until his discharge as a captain on January 1946 with eighteen
months' service overseas; awarded the Bronze Star Medal with
Oak Leaf Cluster and the Air Medal; elected as a Democrat to
the Eightieth Congress; reelected to the thirteen succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his
resignation December 31, 1974; chairman, Committee on Public
Works (Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;
became a part-time consultant for shippers; environmental and
economic development consultant; was a resident of Forest
Heights, Md., until his death there on December 17, 1991.
BOARDMAN, William Whiting, (son of Elijah Boardman), a
Representative from Connecticut; born in New Milford, Conn.,
October 10, 1794; attended Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.;
was graduated from Yale College in 1812; studied, law in
Cambridge and Litchfield Law Schools and commenced the practice
of his profession in New Haven in 1819; clerk of the State
senate in 1820; judge of probate; member of the State house of
representatives 1836-1839, serving as speaker in 1836 and 1839;
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Storrs;
reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from
December 7, 1840, to March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth
Congress; member of the State house of representatives in 1845,
1849, and 1851, serving as speaker in 1845; resumed the
practice of law; died, in New Haven, Conn., August 27, 1871;
interment in Grove Street Cemetery.
BONNER, Herbert Covington, a Representative from North
Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., May 16,
1891; graduated from Graham School, Warrenton, N.C.; United
States Army during World War I; salesman; farmer; secretary to
United States Representative Lindsay C. Warren, 1924-1940;
elected simultaneously as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and
Seventy-seventh Congresses to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of United States Representative Lindsay C. Warren;
reelected to the Seventy-eighth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses (November 5, 1940-November 7, 1965); chair,
Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and
Representatives in Congress (Seventy-ninth Congress); chair,
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Eighty-fourth
through Eighty-ninth Congresses); died on November 7, 1965, in
Washington, D.C.; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington,
N.C.
BOWDON, Franklin Welsh, (uncle of Sydney Johnston Bowie), a
Representative from Alabama; born in Chester District, S.C.,
February 17, 1817; attended the common schools and was
graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1836;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Talladega, Ala.; member of the State house of representatives
in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix G.
McConnell; reelected to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first
Congresses and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1851;
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-
first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850;
moved to Henderson, Rusk County, Tex., in 1852, where he
resumed the practice of his profession; died, in Henderson,
Tex., June 8, 1857; interment in the City Cemetery.
BRADLEY, Frederick Van Ness, a Representative from
Michigan; born in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1898; moved to
Rogers City, Mich., in 1910; attended the public schools,
Rogers City (Mich.) High School, and Montclair (N.J.) Academy;
served in the Student Army Training Corps at Plattsburg, N.Y.,
in 1918; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.,
in 1921; salesman with the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Co.,
Buffalo, N.Y., 1921-1923, and purchasing agent 1928-1938; also
purchasing agent, Bradley Transportation Co., Rogers City,
Mich., 1924-1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth
and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January
3, 1939, until his death May 24, 1947, at New London, Conn.,
while there as a member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast
Guard Academy; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Eightieth Congress); interment in Rogers City
Memorial Park, Rogers City, Mich.
BUCKLEY, Charles Anthony, a Representative from New York;
born in New York City, June 23, 1890; attended the public
schools; contractor and builder in New York City since 1914;
member of the board of aldermen of New York City 1918-1923;
State tax appraiser 1923-1929; chamberlain of New York City
1929-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to
the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3,
1965); chairman, Committee on Pensions (Seventy-eighth and
Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-
second Congress and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1964 to
the Eighty-ninth Congress; died, in New York City, January 22,
1967; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
BURROWS, Julius Caesar, a Representative and a Senator from
Michigan; born in North East, Erie County, Pa., January 9,
1837; moved with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio;
attended district school, Kingsville Academy, and Grand River
Institute, Austinburg, Ohio; studied, law; admitted to the bar
at Jefferson, Ohio, in 1859; moved to Richland, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., in 1860; principal of the Richland Seminary;
commenced the practice of law in Kalamazoo in 1861; raised an
infantry company in 1862; served as its captain until the fall
of 1863; elected circuit court commissioner in 1864;
prosecuting attorney for Kalamazoo County 1866-1870; declined
appointment as supervisor of internal revenue for Michigan and
Wisconsin in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third
Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-third
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874;
elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March
4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Territories
(Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1882; elected a Republican to the Forty-ninth and to the
five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1885, until
his resignation on January 23, 1895, having been elected
Senator; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of
Mississippi River (Fifty-first Congress); elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Francis B. Stockbridge; reelected in
1899 and 1905 and served from January 24, 1895, to March 3,
1911; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; chairman,
Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States (Fifty-
fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Privileges
and Elections (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Congresses);
member of the National Monetary Commission and its vice
chairman 1908-1912; retired from active business pursuits and
political life; died, in Kalamazoo, Mich., November 16, 1915;
interment in Mountain Home Cemetery.
BURTON, Theodore Elijah, a Representative and a Senator
from Ohio; born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, December
20, 1851; attended the public schools, Grand River Institute,
Austinburg, Ohio, and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa; graduated
from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1872; studied, law; was admitted
to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4,
1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1890; declined to be a candidate for the Republican nomination
to Congress in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth and to the
seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895,
until his resignation, effective March 3, 1909, having been
elected United States Senator; chairman, Committee on Rivers
and Harbors (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses); chosen a
member of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union in
1904; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as chairman of
the Inland Waterways Commission 1907-1908 and of the National
Waterways Commission 1908-1912; member of the National Monetary
Commission 1908-1912; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915;
was not a candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Sixty-
first and Sixty-second Congresses); engaged in banking in New
York City; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to
the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921,
until his resignation on December 15, 1928; did not seek
renomination, having become a candidate for Senator; appointed
by President Warren Harding as a member of the World War Debt
Funding Commission in 1922; chairman of the United States
delegation to the conference for the control of international
traffic in arms at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1925; elected on
November 6, 1928, as a Republican to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank B. Willis and
served from December 15, 1928, until his death in Washington,
D.C., October 28, 1929; funeral services were held in the
Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Lake View
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
BUTLER, Thomas Stalker, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Uwchland Township, Chester County, Pa., November 4,
1855; attended the common schools, West Chester State Normal
School, and Wyer's Academy, West Chester, Pa.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in West
Chester, Pa.; served as trustee of the West Chester State
Normal School 1885-1889 and again in 1927 and 1928; appointed
judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania in
1888; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1889; delegate
to the Republican National Convention in 1892; elected as an
Independent Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and as a
Republican to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 26,
1928; chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth
through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Naval Affiars
(Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses); interment in
Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pa.
CABELL, George Craighead, a Representative from Virginia;
born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., January 25, 1836;
attended the Danville Academy, and the law school of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; was admitted
to the bar and commenced practice in Danville in 1858; edited
the Republican and later the Democratic Appeal in Danville;
elected Commonwealth attorney for Danville in September 1858,
and served until April 23, 1861, when he volunteered as a
private in the Confederate Army; commissioned major in June
1861 and was assigned to the Eighteenth Regiment, Virginia
Infantry; promoted to the rank of colonel and served until the
close of the Civil War; resumed the practice of his profession;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the five
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman,
Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to
the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Danville,
Va.; died, in Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1906; interment in Green
Hill Cemetery, Danville, Va.
CAMPBELL, Philip Pitt, a Representative from Kansas; born
in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 25, 1862; moved with
his parents to Neosho County, Kans., in 1867; attended the
common schools, and was graduated from Baker University,
Baldwin, Kans., in 1888; studied, law; was admitted to the bar
in 1889 and commenced practice in Pittsburg, Kans.; elected as
a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee
on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Sixty-
first Congress), Committee on Rules (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-
seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; parliamentarian of the
Republican National Convention in 1924; resumed the practice of
law in Washington, D.C., with residence in Arlington, Va.;
died, in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1941; interment in Abbey
Mausoleum (near Arlington National Cemetery), Arlington, Va.
CARTWRIGHT, Wilburn, a Representative from Oklahoma; born
on a farm near Georgetown, Meigs County, Tenn., January 12,
1892; moved with his parents to the Chickasaw Nation, Indian
Territory, in 1903; attended the public schools at Wapanucka
and Ada, Okla., and State Teachers College at Durant, Okla.;
taught in the schools of Coal, Atoka, Bryan, and Pittsburg
Counties, Okla., 1914-1926; member of the State house of
representatives, 1914-1918; studied, law; was admitted to the
bar in 1917 and commenced practice in McAlester, Okla.; served
as a private in the Student Army Training Corps in 1917 and
1918; member of the State senate 1918-1922; was graduated from
the law department of the University of Oklahoma at Norman in
1920; took postgraduate work at the University of Chicago,
Chicago, Ill.; vocational adviser for disabled veterans at
McAlester, Okla., in 1921 and 1922; unsuccessful candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1922 and 1924;
superintendent of schools at Krebs, Okla., 1922-1926; elected
as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1927-January 3, 1943); chairman, Committee
on Roads (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; served as a
major in the United States Army, Allied Military Government,
with service in Africa and Europe from 1943 until injured;
returned to the United States as an instructor at Fort Custer,
Mich., in 1945; employed with the Veterans' Administration at
Muskogee, Okla., in 1945 and 1946; elected secretary of state
of Oklahoma for four-year term in 1946; elected State auditor
for four-year term in 1950; elected State corporation
commissioner for six-year term in 1954 and reelected in 1960
and 1966; was a resident of Oklahoma City, Okla. until his
death there on March 14, 1979; interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery,
Norman, Okla.
CASSIDY, George Williams, a Representative from Nevada;
born near Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., April 25, 1836; attended
the public schools and was educated by private tutors; studied
law but never practiced; moved to Eureka, Nev., in 1870;
engaged in newspaper work; member of the State senate 1872-1879
and served as president during the session of 1879; elected as
a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses
(March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Pacific
Railroads (Forty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; appointed
national bank examiner for Nevada, Utah, California, and
Colorado by President Cleveland and served from 1886 to 1890;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first
Congress and in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1892; nominated as a
candidate for election to the Fifty-third Congress but died
before the election; died in Reno, Nev., June 24, 1892;
interment in Hillside Cemetery.
CATCHINGS, Thomas Clendinen, a Representative from
Mississippi; born near Brownsville, Hinds County, Miss.,
January 11, 1847; was tutored at home; attended the University
of Mississippi at Oxford in 1859 and Oakland College in 1861;
entered the Confederate Army in 1861 and served as a private in
Company A, Eighteenth Mississippi Infantry, and subsequently in
Company C, Eleventh (Perrin's) Mississippi Cavalry; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in
Vicksburg; elected to the State senate in 1875 but resigned in
1877; elected attorney general of Mississippi in 1877;
reelected in 1881 and served until February 16, 1885; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1901); chairman, Committee
on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Fiftieth
Congress), Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses), Committee on Rivers and Harbors
(Fifty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law; also
served as division counsel for the Southern Railway Co.; member
of the Mississippi Code Commission by appointment of Governor
Vardaman; died, in Vicksburg, Miss., December 24, 1927;
interment in the City Cemetery.
CHICKERING, Charles Addison, a Representative from New
York; born in Harrisburg, Lewis County, N.Y., November 26,
1843; attended the common schools and Lowville Academy and was
for some time a teacher in that institution; engaged in
business as a hardware merchant; served as school commissioner
of Lewis County 1865-1875; member of the New York assembly
1879-1881 and as clerk of the assembly 1884-1890; served as
chairman of the Lewis County Republican committee; member of
the Republican State committee, serving as secretary, and as a
member of its executive committee; elected as a Republican to
the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and
served from March 4, 1893, until his accidental death from
injuries received in a fall from a window of the Grand Union
Hotel in New York City while on a business trip February 13,
1900; chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-fourth
through Fifty-sixth Congresses); interment in Riverside
Cemetery, Copenhagen, Lewis County, N.Y.
CLARK, Frank, a Representative from Florida; born in
Eufaula, Barbour County, Ala., March 28, 1860; attended the
common schools of Alabama and Georgia; studied, law; was
admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Newnan,
Coweta County, Ga.; moved to Florida in 1884 and settled in
Polk County; city attorney of Bartow, Fla., in 1885 and 1886;
member of the State house of representatives 1889-1891 and in
1899; assistant United States attorney in 1893; United States
attorney for the southern district of Florida 1894-1897; moved
to Jacksonville in 1895 and continued the practice of law;
chairman of the Democratic State committee in 1900; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1920; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-ninth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1925); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-third through Sixty-
fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1924; resumed the practice of law in Miami, Fla.; appointed by
President Coolidge as a Democratic member of the United States
Tariff Commission, serving from April 12, 1928, to September
16, 1930; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.;
served as attorney for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury
Department, from November 16, 1933, until his death in
Washington, D.C., April 14, 1936; interment in Wildwood
Cemetery, Bartow, Fla.
COBB, Seth Wallace, a Representative from Missouri; born
near Petersburg, Va., December 5, 1838; attended the common
schools; joined a volunteer company from his native county in
1861 and served throughout the Civil War in the Army of
Northern Virginia; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1867 and was
employed as a clerk in a grain commission house for three
years; in 1870 became engaged in the same business on his own
account; president of the Merchants' Exchange in 1886;
president of the corporation which built the Merchants' Bridge
across the Mississippi River at St. Louis; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth
Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); chair, Committee on
Railways and Canals (Fifty-third Congress); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1896; resumed the grain commission business
in St. Louis; vice president of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St. Louis in 1904; died, in St. Louis, Mo., May
22, 1909; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
COOK, Burton Chauncey, a Representative from Illinois; born
in Pittsford, Monroe County, N.Y., May 11, 1819; attended the
Collegiate Institute, Rochester, N.Y.; studied, law; in 1835
moved to Ottawa, Ill., where he commenced the practice of law
in 1840; elected by the legislature in 1846 State's attorney
for the ninth judicial district for two years; reelected by the
people in 1848 for four years; member of the State senate 1852-
1860; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860
and 1864; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in
Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the
impending war; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and
to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1865, to August 26, 1871, when he resigned; chairman, Committee
on Roads and Canals (Fortieth Congress), Committee on District
of Columbia (Forty-first Congress); resumed the practice of his
profession in Evanston, Cook County, Ill., and died, there
August 18, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
COOK, Philip, a Representative from Georgia; born in Twiggs
County, Ga., July 30, 1817; was graduated from Oglethorpe
University, Georgia, and from the law department of the
University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1840; practiced in
Forsyth, Ga., in 1841 and 1842; moved successively to Sumter,
Lanier, and Oglethorpe Counties, and continued the practice of
law until 1869; served in the State senate in 1859, 1860, 1863,
and 1864; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private;
was successively commissioned as first lieutenant, lieutenant
colonel, colonel, and, in August 1863, brigadier general, and
served throughout the Civil War; member of the State convention
in 1865; moved to Americus, Sumter County, Ga., in 1885;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in
Americus, Ga.; State capitol commissioner 1883-1889; elected
secretary of state of Georgia in 1890 and served until his
death in Atlanta, Ga., May 24, 1894; interment in Rose Hill
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.
COVODE, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near
West Fairfield, Westmoreland County, Pa., March 17, 1808;
attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits,
manufacturing, and transportation; largely interested in the
coal trade; elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the
Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth,
Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1855-
March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures
(Thirty-seventh Congress); delegate to the Union National
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; elected as a Republican to
the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fortieth Congress);
contested with Henry D. Foster the election to the Forty-first
Congress, neither being sworn pending the contest, as no
credentials were issued by the Governor; on February 9, 1870,
the House declared him duly elected, whereupon he qualified and
served until his death; was not a candidate for reelection in
1870; died, in Harrisburg, Pa., January 11, 1871; interment in
Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, West Fairfield, Pa.
CRAIGE, Francis Burton, a Representative from North
Carolina; born near Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., March 13,
1811; attended a private school in Salisbury, and was graduated
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829;
editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian 1829-1831;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced
practice in Salisbury; one of the last borough representatives
in the State house of representatives 1832-1834; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-third Congress);
delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 and
introduced the ordinance of secession in the form in which it
was adopted; delegate to the Provisional Congress of the
Confederate States which met in Richmond, Va., in July 1861;
died, in Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C., while attending the
courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old
English Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.
DALZELL, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
New York City April 19, 1845; moved with his parents to
Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1847; attended the common schools and the
Western University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa.; was
graduated from Yale College with the class of 1865; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and to
the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1913);
chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-first
Congress), Committee on Rules (Sixty-first Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1912; delegate to
the Republican National Conventions in 1904 and 1908; Regent of
the Smithsonian Institution 1906-1913; retired in Washington,
D.C.; died while on a visit to Altadena, Los Angeles County,
Calif., October 2, 1927; interment in Allegheny Cemetery,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
DAVIDSON, James Henry, a Representative from Wisconsin;
born in Colchester, Delaware County, N.Y., June 18, 1858;
attended the public schools and Walton (N.Y.) Academy; taught
school in Delaware and Sullivan Counties, N.Y.; was graduated
from the Albany Law School in 1884 and was admitted to the bar
the same year; moved to Green Lake County, Wis., and commenced
practice in Princeton in 1887; also taught school; elected
district attorney of Green Lake County in 1888; chairman of the
Republican congressional committee for the sixth district of
Wisconsin in 1890; moved to Oshkosh, Wis., January 1, 1892, and
continued the practice of law; appointed city attorney in May
1895 for two years; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth
and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1913); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-sixth
through Sixty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress and for election
in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of
his profession; elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served
from March 4, 1917, until his death in Washington, D.C., August
6, 1918; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wis.
DAVIDSON, Robert Hamilton McWhorta, a Representative from
Florida; born near Quincy, Gadsden County, Fla., September 23,
1832; attended the common schools and the Quincy Academy in
Quincy, Fla.; studied, law at the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and
commenced practice in Quincy, Fla.; member of the State house
of representatives 1856-1859; served in the State senate 1860-
1862; retired from the State senate in 1862 and served during
the Civil War in the Confederate Army as captain of Infantry
and later with rank of lieutenant colonel; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1865; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1877-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals
(Forty-eighth through Fiftieth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-second
Congress; member of the State railroad commission in 1897 and
1898; engaged in the practice of his profession until his death
in Quincy, Fla., January 18, 1908; interment in Western
Cemetery.
DAVIS, Ewin Lamar, a Representative from Tennessee; born in
Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1876; attended the public
schools, Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tenn., Woolwine School,
Tullahoma, Tenn., and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.,
1895-1897; was graduated from Columbian (now George Washington)
University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1899; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Tullahoma,
Tenn.; delegate to all Democratic State conventions 1900-1910;
judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee 1910-1918;
chairman of the district exemption board for the middle
district of Tennessee in 1917 and 1918; director of the Traders
National Bank of Tullahoma 1903-1940; trustee of Tennessee
College for Women 1906-1939; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1919-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Seventy-second Congress); was an unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1932; member of the Federal Trade
Commission from May 23, 1933, until his death, serving as
chairman in 1935, 1940, and 1945; member of the American
National Committee, Third World Power Conference, in 1936;
died, in Washington, D.C., on October 23, 1949; interment in
Oakwood Cemetery, Tullahoma, Tenn.
DEMPSEY, Stephen Wallace, a Representative from New York;
born in Hartland, Niagara County, N.Y., May 8, 1862; attended
the district school of his native town, and was graduated from
the De Veaux School, Niagara Falls, N.Y., in 1880; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in
Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y.; assistant United States
attorney 1889-1907; special assistant to the Attorney General
of the United States 1907-1912, and was in charge of the
prosecution of the Standard Oil Co. and certain railroads;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the seven
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1931); chairman,
Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-seventh through Seventy-
first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1930; reengaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
until his death on March 1, 1949; interment in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
DIBBLE, Samuel, a Representative from South Carolina; born
in Charleston, S.C., September 16, 1837; pursued an academic
course in Bethel, Conn., and Charleston, S.C.; attended the
College of Charleston for two years, and was graduated from
Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1856; engaged in
teaching 1856-1858; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1859 and commenced practice in Orangeburg, S.C.; served in the
Confederate Army throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice
of law in Orangeburg, S.C.; also edited the Orangeburg News;
member of the State house of representatives in 1877 and 1878;
trustee of the University of South Carolina at Columbia in
1878; member of the Board of School Commissioners of Orangeburg
County; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880;
presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the
Forty-seventh Congress to fill a vacancy thought to exist by
reason of the death (pending a contest) of Michael P. O'Connor,
and served from June 9, 1881, to May 31, 1882, when the seat
was awarded to Edmund W.M. Mackey under the original election;
elected to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1890;
engaged in banking and other business interests in Orangeburg,
Orangeburg County, S.C.; died, near Baltimore, Md., September
16, 1913; interment in Sunny Side Cemetery, Orangeburg, S.C.
DONDERO, George Anthony, a Representative from Michigan;
born in Greenfield Township, Wayne County, Mich., on December
16, 1883; attended the public schools; served as village clerk
of Royal Oak in 1905 and 1906, as town treasurer in 1907 and
1908, and as village assessor in 1909; was graduated from the
Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Mich., in 1910; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Royal Oak,
Mich.; village attorney 1911-1921; assistant prosecuting
attorney for Oakland County, Mich., in 1918 and 1919; mayor of
Royal Oak in 1921 and 1922; member of the board of education
1910-1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and to
the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3,
1957); chairman, Committee on Public Works (Eightieth and
Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination
in 1956; resumed the practice of law; died, in Royal Oak,
Mich., January 29, 1968; interment in Oakview Cemetery.
DOWELL, Cassius Clay, a Representative from Iowa; born on a
farm near Summerset, Warren County, Iowa, February 29, 1864;
attended the public schools, Baptist College at Des Moines,
Iowa, and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa; graduated from the
liberal arts department of Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa,
in 1886 and from its law department in 1887; admitted to the
bar in 1888 and commenced practice in Des Moines; member of the
Iowa state house of representatives, 1894-1898; served in the
Iowa state senate, 1902-1912; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1915-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 3
(Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Roads
(Sixty-eighth through Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth Congress in
1934; resumed the practice of law in Des Moines; elected to the
Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from
January 3, 1937, until his death in Washington, D.C., February
4, 1940 (January 3, 1937-February 4, 1940); interment in
Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa; reinterred on June 17,
1941, in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa.
DUNHAM, Cyrus Livingston, a Representative from Indiana;
born in Dryden, Tompkins County, N.Y., January 16, 1817;
attended the common schools; taught school; studied, law and
was admitted to the bar; moved to Salem, Washington County,
Ind., in 1841 and commenced practice; elected prosecuting
attorney of Washington County in 1845; member of the State
house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee
on Roads and Canals (Thirty-third Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress;
appointed by Governor Willard secretary of state and served in
1859 and 1860; served in the Union Army as colonel of the
Fiftieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1863;
resumed the practice of law in New Albany, Floyd County, Ind.;
elected a member of the State house of representatives in 1864
and 1865; moved to Jeffersonville, Ind., in 1871; judge of
Clark County Criminal Court 1871-1874; resumed the practice of
law; died, in Jeffersonville, Clark County, Ind., November 21,
1877; interment in Walnut Ridge Cemetery.
DUNN, Poindexter, a Representative from Arkansas; born near
Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November 3, 1834; moved with his
father to Limestone County, Ala., in 1837; attended the country
schools, and was graduated from Jackson College, Columbia,
Tenn., in 1854; studied, law; moved to St. Francis County,
Ark., in 1856; elected to the State house of representatives in
1858; engaged in cotton growing until 1861; served as a captain
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was admitted to
the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of law in Forrest
City, Ark.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1889);
chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fiftieth
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; moved
to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1888 and continued the practice of
law; appointed a special commissioner for the prevention of
frauds on the customs revenue, New York City, in 1893; moved to
Baton Rouge, La., in 1895 and engaged in the construction of
railroads; settled in Texarkana, Bowie County, Tex., in 1905,
and died, there on October 12, 1914; interment in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
DUNN, Thomas Byrne, a Representative from New York; born in
Providence, R.I., March 16, 1853; moved with his parents to
Rochester, N.Y., in 1858; attended the public schools and the
De Graff Military Institute of Rochester; engaged in the
manufacture of perfumes and extracts; president of the chamber
of commerce in 1905 and 1906; member of the State senate in
1907; chief commissioner for New York to the Jamestown
Tercentennial Exposition, Jamestown, Va., in 1907; State
treasurer in 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3,
1923); chairman, Committee on Roads (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-
seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1922
to the Sixty-eighth Congress; retired to private life; died, in
Rochester, N.Y., July 2, 1924; interment in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
EDMONDS, George Washington, a Representative from
Pennsylvania; born in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa.,
February 22, 1864; attended the public schools and Central High
School; was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
in 1887 and practiced pharmacy for several years; engaged in
the coal business; member of the common council of Philadelphia
1896-1902; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to
the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1925);
chairman, Committee on Claims (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924;
engaged in the wholesale coal and lumber business; elected
manager of the Port of Philadelphia Ocean Traffic Bureau in
September 1927 and served until 1933; again elected to the
Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-
fourth Congress; resumed the wholesale coal business in
Philadelphia, Pa.; died, in Philadelphia on September 28, 1939;
interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
ELLIOTT, Richard Nash, a Representative from Indiana; born
near Connersville, Fayette County, Ind., April 25, 1873;
attended the common schools; taught school three years;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1896; lawyer, private
practice; county attorney of Fayette County, Ind., 1897-1906;
member of the Indiana state house of representatives, 1905-
1909; city attorney of Connersville, 1905-1909; delegate to the
Republican National Convention, 1916; chair of the Republican
State convention in 1930; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-
fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
United States Representative Daniel W. Comstock; reelected to
the Sixty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (June 29,
1917-March 3, 1931); chair, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of State (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses),
Committee on Elections No. 3 (Sixty-eighth Congress), Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-
first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the
Seventy-second Congress in 1930; assistant comptroller general
of the United States, 1931-1943; died, on March 21, 1948, in
Washington, D.C.; interment in Dale Cemetery, Connersville,
Ind.
ELLIS, Ezekiel John, a Representative from Louisiana; born
in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, La., October 15, 1840;
attended private schools in Covington and Clinton, La., and
Centenary College, Jackson, La., 1855-1858; was graduated from
the law department of the Louisiana State University at
Pineville (now at Baton Rouge), La., in 1861; during the Civil
War joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned a first
lieutenant; was promoted to captain in the Sixteenth Regiment,
Louisiana Infantry, and served two years, when he was captured
and held as a prisoner of war on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie
until the end of the war; was admitted to the bar of Louisiana
in 1866 and commenced practice in Covington, La.; member of the
State senate 1866-1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-
fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-
March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on the Mississippi Levees
(Forty-fourth Congress); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1884; resumed the practice of his profession in
Washington, D.C., where he died, April 25, 1889; interment in
the Ellis family cemetery at ``Ingleside, '' near Amite,
Tangipahoa Parish, La.
FALLON, George Hyde, a Representative from Maryland; born
in Baltimore, Md., July 24, 1902; attended the public schools,
Calvert Business College, and Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.; engaged in the advertising sign business;
chairman of the Democratic State central committee of
Baltimore, Md., in 1938; member of the Baltimore city council
1939-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress
and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-
January 3, 1971); chairman, Committee on Public Works (Eighty-
ninth through Ninety-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; resided
in Baltimore, Md., where he died, March 21, 1980; interment in
Greenmount Cemetery.
FARAN, James John, a Representative from Ohio; born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 29, 1808; attended the common
schools, and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
in 1831; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and
commenced practice in Cincinnati; elected as a Democrat a
member of the State house of representatives 1835-1839 and
served as speaker in 1838 and 1839; served in the State senate
1839-1843, and was its presiding officer 1841-1843; associate
editor and proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer 1844-1881;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth
Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-ninth Congress); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1848; appointed by Governor
Medill one of the commissioners to supervise the erection of
the State capitol in 1854; mayor of Cincinnati 1855-1857;
appointed by President Buchanan postmaster of Cincinnati June
4, 1855, and served until October 21, 1859; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1860; engaged in
newspaper work until shortly before his death; died, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 12, 1892; interment in Spring Grove
Cemetery.
FARQUHAR, John McCreath a Representative from New York;
born near Ayr, Scotland, April 17, 1832; attended Ayr Academy;
immigrated to the United States when a boy and settled in
Buffalo, N.Y.; was a printer, editor, and publisher for thirty-
three years; president of the International Typographical Union
1860-1862; enlisted in the Union Army August 9, 1862, as a
private in Company B, Eighty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, and promoted to major; served as judge advocate and
as inspector in the Fourth Army Corps; was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor for action at the battlefield of
Stone River, Tenn.; returned to Buffalo, N.Y., and resumed
business activities; elected as a Republican to the Forty-
ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-
March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination to the Fifty-second Congress; member of the United
States Industrial Commission 1898-1902; retired from public
life and active business pursuits; died, in Buffalo, N.Y., on
April 24, 1918; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
FICKLIN, Orlando Bell, a Representative from Illinois; born
in Scott County, Ky., December 16, 1808; attended the common
schools; was graduated from Transylvania Law School, Lexington,
Ky., in 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced
practice in Mount Carmel, Ill.; served in the Black Hawk War as
quartermaster in 1832; colonel of the militia of Wabash County
in 1833; State's attorney for the Wabash circuit in 1835;
member of the State house of representatives in 1835, 1838, and
1842; moved to Charleston, Ill., in 1837; elected as a Democrat
to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses
(March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-ninth Congress); elected to the
Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); chairman,
Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-second Congress);
resumed the practice of law in Charleston; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1856, at Charleston, S.C., in
1860, and at Chicago in 1864; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1869 and 1870; again served in the
State house of representatives in 1878; died, in Charleston,
Ill., May 5, 1886; interment in Mound Cemetery.
FITHIAN, George Washington, a Representative from Illinois;
born near Willow Hill, Jasper County, Ill., July 4, 1854;
attended the common schools; learned the printer's trade in
Mount Carmel, Ill.; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1875 and commenced practice in Newton, Jasper County, Ill.;
prosecuting attorney of Jasper County 1876-1884; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third
Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-third Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-
fourth Congress; railroad and warehouse commissioner of
Illinois 1895-1897; resumed the practice of law and engaged in
agricultural pursuits and stock raising in Newton, Ill.; was
also the owner of an extensive cotton plantation near Falcon,
Miss.; died, in Memphis, Tenn., January 21, 1921; interment in
Riverside Cemetery, Newton, Ill.
FOWLER, Samuel, (grandson of Samuel Fowler [1779-1844]), a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Port Jervis, Orange
County, N.Y., March 22, 1851; attended the Newton (N.J.)
Academy, Princeton College, and Columbia College Law School in
New York City; was admitted to the bar of New York in 1873 and
of New Jersey in 1876 and practiced law in Newark and Newton,
N.J.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second
Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-second Congress); was
not a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-third Congress;
resumed the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg, N.J.;
died, in Newark, N.J., March 17, 1919; interment in North
Church Cemetery, Hardyston Township, near Hamburg, N.J.
GARMATZ, Edward Alexander, a Representative from Maryland;
born in Baltimore, Md., February 7, 1903; attended the public
schools and Polytechnic Institute; engaged in the electrical
business 1920-1942; associated with the Maryland State Racing
Commission 1941-1944; served as police magistrate 1944-1947;
elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress, by special
election, July 15, 1947, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Thomas D'Alesandro; reelected to the twelve
succeeding Congresses and served from July 15, 1947, to January
3, 1973; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Eighty-ninth through Ninety-second Congresses); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress;
employed by the International Organization of Masters, Mates,
and Pilots Union; was a resident of Baltimore, Md., until his
death there on July 22, 1986.
GREENE, William Stedman, a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Tremont, Tazewell County, Ill., April
28, 1841; moved with his parents to Fall River, Mass., in 1844;
attended the public schools; engaged in the real estate and
insurance business; member of the common council 1876-1879, and
served as president of that body 1877-1879; mayor of Fall River
in 1880; reelected mayor in 1881, but resigned the same year;
appointed postmaster of Fall River on March 22, 1881, and
served until March 30, 1885; again served as mayor 1886 and
1895-1897; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1898;
general superintendent of State prisons 1888-1893; appointed
postmaster of Fall River and served from March 9, to July 1,
1898, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-
fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John
Simpkins; reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the twelve
succeeding Congresses and served from May 31, 1898, until his
death at Fall River, Mass., September 22, 1924; chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fifty-
eighth Congress), Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth
Congresses); interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
GILLET, Charles William, a Representative from New York;
born in Addison, Steuben County, N.Y., November 26, 1840;
attended the public schools and the Delaware Literary
Institute, Franklin, N.Y.; was graduated from Union College,
Schenectady, N.Y., in 1861; enlisted as a private in the
Eighty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in August
1861; promoted to adjutant of the regiment in November 1861;
was wounded and honorably discharged for physical disability in
1863; engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds in
Addison; appointed postmaster of Addison on June 15, 1878, and
served until July 26, 1886; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1893-March 3, 1905); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Agriculture (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh
Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-
eighth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination
in 1904; died, in New York City December 31, 1908; interment in
the Rural Cemetery, Addison, N.Y.
GROSVENOR, Charles Henry, (uncle of Charles Grosvenor
Bond), a Representative from Ohio; born in Pomfret, Windham
County, Conn., September 20, 1833; moved with his parents to
Ohio in 1838; attended school in Athens County; taught school;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced;
during the Civil War served in the Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry and was promoted through the ranks to
colonel; brevetted colonel and brigadier general of Volunteers;
held diverse township and village offices; member of the State
house of representatives 1874-1878 and served as speaker two
years; member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans' Home in Xenia from April 1880 until 1888, and
president of the board for five years; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1896 and 1900; elected as a
Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first
Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1890; elected to the Fifty-third
and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1907); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of
the Treasury (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Mines and
Mining (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the
practice of law in Athens, Ohio; appointed chairman of the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission and served
from 1910 until his death in Athens, Ohio, October 30, 1917;
interment in Union Street Cemetery.
HALSEY, George Armstrong, a Representative from New Jersey;
born in Springfield, Union County, N.J., December 7, 1827;
attended the local schools and Springfield Academy; engaged in
the manufacture of leather at Newark in 1844 and later in the
wholesale clothing business; resumed the leather business in
1866; member of the State house of assembly of New Jersey in
1861 and 1862; United States assessor of internal revenue 1862-
1866; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March
4, 1867-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1868 to the Forty-first Congress; elected to the Forty-
second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-second
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872;
resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; president of an
insurance company; died, in Newark, N.J., April 1, 1894;
interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
HART, Edward Joseph, a Representative from New Jersey; born
in Jersey City, N.J., March 25, 1893; attended the public and
parochial schools; was graduated from St. Peter's College,
Jersey City, N.J., in 1913 and from the law department of
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1924; secretary to
the Excise Commission, Washington, D.C., 1913-1917; chief field
deputy, Internal Revenue Bureau, 1916-1921; admitted to the
District of Columbia bar in 1924 and to the New Jersey bar in
1925; practiced law in Jersey City since 1927; assistant
corporation counsel of Jersey City 1930-1934; chairman of the
Democratic State committee of New Jersey 1944-1949; elected as
a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1955); chairman,
Committee on War Claims (Seventy-eighth Congress), Committee on
Un-American Activities (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Eighty-first and Eighty-second
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1954;
member of State Board of Public Utility Commissioners 1955-
1960; died in West Allenhurst, Ocean Township, Monmouth County,
N.J., April 20, 1961; interment in St. Catharine's Cemetery,
Sea Girt, N.J.
HAZELTON, George Cochrane, (brother of Gerry Whiting
Hazelton and nephew of Clark Beaton Cochrane), a Representative
from Wisconsin; born in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H.,
January 3, 1832; attended the district schools; prepared for
college at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire and Dummer
Academy in Massachusetts; was graduated from Union College,
Schenectady, N.Y., in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the
bar at Malone, N.Y., in 1858; settled in Boscobel, Wis., in
1863 and practiced his profession; prosecuting attorney of
Grant County 1864-1868; member of the State senate 1867-1869;
was reelected in 1869 and served as president pro tempore of
the senate 1869-1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-
fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,
1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads
(Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1882; settled in Washington, D.C., and
practiced law; attorney for the District of Columbia during the
Harrison administration; died in Chester, N.H., while on a
visit, September 4, 1922; interment in Vale Cemetery,
Schenectady, N.Y.
HENDERSON, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from
Illinois; born in Brownsville, Haywood County, Tenn., November
29, 1824; moved with his parents to Illinois at the age of
eleven; pursued academic studies; clerk of the Board of
Commissioners of Stark County, Ill., 1847-1849; clerk of the
court of Stark County 1849-1853; studied, law; was admitted to
the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Toulon, Ill.; member
of the State house of representatives in 1855 and 1856; served
in the State senate 1857-1860; entered the Union Army in 1862
as colonel of the One Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry; commanded Third Brigade, Third Division,
Twenty-third Army Corps, from August 12, 1864, to the close of
the war; was brevetted brigadier general in January 1865;
resumed the practice of law; moved to Princeton, Ill., in 1867
and continued the practice of law; appointed collector of
internal revenue for the fifth district of Illinois in 1871;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1895); chairman,
Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-seventh Congress),
Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Fifty-first Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1894; appointed
member of the board of managers for the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in 1896; appointed civilian member
on the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications in 1900 and served
until his death in Washington, D.C., February 6, 1911;
interment in Oakland Cemetery, Princeton, Ill.
HOLMAN, William Steele, a Representative from Indiana; born
near Aurora, Dearborn County, Ind., September 6, 1822; attended
the common schools and Franklin College, Franklin, Ind.; taught
in the public schools; studied, law; was admitted to the bar
and practiced; judge of the probate court 1843-1846;
prosecuting attorney 1847-1849; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1850; member of the State house of
representatives in 1851 and 1852; judge of the court of common
pleas 1852-1856; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth,
Thirty-seventh, and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1859-
March 3, 1865); not a candidate for reelection to the Thirty-
ninth Congress; elected to the Fortieth and to the four
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1877); chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-fourth Congress); was
not a candidate for election to the Forty-fifth Congress;
elected to the Forty-seventh and to the six succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee
on Public Lands (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on
Appropriations (Fifty-second Congress), Committee on Indian
Affairs (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress; again elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897, until his
death in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1897; interment in
Veraestau Cemetery, Aurora, Ind.
HOOKER, Warren Brewster, a Representative from New York;
born in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., November 24,
1856; attended the public schools and Forestville Free Academy,
Forestville, N.Y.; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1879 and commenced practice in Forestville; special surrogate
of Chautauqua County 1878-1881; moved to Tacoma, Wash., and
practiced there 1882-1884; returned to Fredonia, Pomfret
Township, N.Y., and resumed his profession 1884-1898;
supervisor of the town of Pomfret in 1889 and 1890; elected as
a Republican to the Fifty-second and to the four succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation
on November 10, 1898, before the close of the Fifty-fifth
Congress, having been appointed a justice of the supreme court
of New York on that date; chairman, Committee on Rivers and
Harbors (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); elected to
that office in 1899 for the term ending 1913; member of the
appellate division 1902-1909; resumed the practice of law in
Fredonia, Chautauqua County, N.Y., in 1914; appointed official
referee of the State supreme court in 1919; died, in Fredonia,
N.Y., March 5, 1920; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
HOPKINS, Benjamin Franklin, a Representative from
Wisconsin; born in Hebron, N.Y., April 22, 1829; attended the
common schools and became a telegraph operator; moved to
Madison, Wis., in 1849; private secretary to Governor Bashfourd
in 1856 and 1857; served in the State senate in 1862 and 1863;
member of the State assembly in 1866; elected as a Republican
to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and served from
March 4, 1867, until his death in Madison, Dane County, Wis.,
January 1, 1870; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds (Forty-first Congress); interment in Forest Hill
Cemetery.
HOUSTON, John Wallace, (uncle of Robert Griffith Houston),
a Representative from Delaware; born in Concord, Sussex County,
Del., May 4, 1814; attended the country schools and Newark
Academy, and was graduated from Yale College in 1834; studied,
law in Dover, Del.; was admitted to the bar in 1837; moved to
Georgetown, Del., in 1839 and commenced the practice of law;
secretary of state of Delaware 1841-1844; elected as a Whig to
the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March
4, 1845-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds (Thirtieth Congress); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1850; appointed associate judge of the superior
court of Delaware May 4, 1855; member of the peace conference
of 1861, held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means
to prevent the impending war; retired from the bench in 1893;
died, in Georgetown, Del., April 26, 1896; interment in the
Presbyterian Cemetery, Lewes, Del.
HOWARD, James John, a Representative from New Jersey; born
in Irvington, Essex County, N.J., July 24, 1927; graduated from
St. Rose School, Belmar, N.J., in 1941, Asbury Park (N.J.) High
School in 1947, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, N.Y., in
1952; M.Ed., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1958;
served in the United States Navy in the South Pacific from
December 30, 1944, to July 19, 1946; teacher and acting
principal in Wall Township school system, 1952-1964; elected as
a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1965, until his death in
Washington, D.C., on March 25, 1988; chairman, Committee on
Public Works and Transportation (Ninety-seventh through One
Hundredth Congresses); was a resident of Spring Lake Heights,
N.J.; interment in St. Catharine's Cemetery, Sea Girt, N.J
HUMPHREYS, Benjamin Grubb, (father of William Yerger
Humphreys), a Representative from Mississippi; born in
Claiborne County, Miss., August 17, 1865; attended the public
schools at Lexington, Miss., and the University of Mississippi
at Oxford; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied, law; was
admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in
Greenwood, Miss.; superintendent of education for Leflore
County 1892-1896; district attorney for the fourth district of
Mississippi 1895-1903; raised a company in April 1898 for
service in the Spanish-American War and was its first
lieutenant, serving under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in Florida
during the entire war; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-
eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from
March 4, 1903, until his death; chairman, Committee on
Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Flood Control
(Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1920; died, in Greenville,
Miss., October 16, 1923; interment in Greenville Cemetery.
INGERSOLL, Ebon Clark, a Representative from Illinois; born
in Dresden, Yates County, N.Y., on December 12, 1831; moved to
Wisconsin Territory in 1843 and subsequently to Illinois;
pursued classical studies in Peoria, Ill., and in Paducah, Ky.;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced
practice in Peoria, Ill.; member of the State house of
representatives in 1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-
eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Owen
Lovejoy; reelected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-
first Congresses and served from May 20, 1864, to March 3,
1871; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-ninth
and Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Roads and Canals (Forty-
first Congress), Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-first
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the
Forty-second Congress; settled in Washington, D.C., and engaged
in the practice of law until his death there on May 31, 1879;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
JOHNSON, Harold Terry, a Representative from California;
born in Broderick, Yolo County, Calif., December 2, 1907;
attended the public schools of Roseville, Calif., and the
University of Nevada; supervisor of Pacific Fruit Express Co.;
district chairman of Brotherhood of Railway Clerks; served as
school trustee, city councilman, and mayor of Roseville, 1941-
1949; president of American River Development League 1945-1949;
member of the California State senate from 1949 until elected
to Congress; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956,
1960, and 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and
to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3,
1981); chairman, Committee on Public Works and Transportation
(Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh
Congress; was a resident of Roseville, Calif., until his death
there on March 16, 1988.
JONES, George Washington, a Representative from Tennessee;
born in King and Queen County, Va., March 15, 1806; moved to
Tennessee with his parents, who settled in Fayetteville;
received a common-school and academical education; apprenticed
to the saddler's trade; justice of the peace 1832-1835; member
of the State house of representatives 1835-1839; served in the
State senate 1839-1841; clerk of Lincoln County Court 1840-
1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the
seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1859);
chairman, Committee on Rules (Thirty-first and Thirty-second
Congresses), Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-fifth
Congress); delegate to the peace convention of 1861 held in
Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the
impending war, but did not attend; elected from Tennessee a
Member of the House of Representatives in the First Confederate
Congress and served from February 18, 1862, to February 18,
1864; was not a candidate for reelection; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1870; died, in Fayetteville,
Lincoln County, Tenn., November 14, 1884; interment in Rose
Hill Cemetery.
JONES, Robert Emmett, Jr., a Representative from Alabama;
born in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Ala., June 12, 1912;
attended the public schools and was graduated from the law
department of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, January 7,
1937; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced
practice in Scottsboro, Ala.; elected judge of Jackson County
Court in July 1940; reelected in absentia in May 1945 and
served until October 1946; served in the United States Navy as
a gunnery officer in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters
from December 1943 until February 1946; elected as a Democrat
to the Eightieth Congress, by special election, January 28,
1947, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J.
Sparkman; reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and
served from January 28, 1947, to January 3, 1977; chairman,
Committee on Public Works and Transportation (Ninety-fourth
Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the
Ninety-fifth Congress; died, June 4, 1997.
JONES, Thomas Laurens, a Representative from Kentucky; born
in White Oak, Rutherford County, N.C., January 22, 1819;
attended private schools; was graduated from Princeton College
and from the law department of Harvard University; was admitted
to the bar in Columbia, S.C., in 1846 and commenced practice in
New York City in 1847; moved to Newport, Ky., in 1849 and
continued the practice of law; member of the State house of
representatives from Campbell County 1853-1855; elected as a
Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4,
1867-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in
1870; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March
3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-
fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination; resumed
the practice of law; died, in Newport, Ky., June 20, 1887;
interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
JONES, Walter Beaman, Sr., (father of Walter Beaman Jones,
Jr.), a Representative from North Carolina; born in
Fayetteville, Hoke County, N.C., August 19, 1913; attended
Elise Academy, Hemp, N.C.; B.S., North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, N.C., 1934; businessman; mayor of
Farmville, N.C., 1949-1953; member of the North Carolina state
general assembly, 1955-1959; member of the North Carolina state
senate, 1965; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth
Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of United States Representative Herbert C. Bonner, and
reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (February 5,
1966-September 15, 1992); chairman, Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries (Ninety-seventh through One Hundred Second
Congresses); died on September 15, 1992, in Norfolk, Va.
KEITT, Laurence Massillon, a Representative from South
Carolina; born in Orangeburg District, S.C., October 4, 1824;
pursued classical studies and was graduated from South Carolina
College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in
1843; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and
commenced practice in Orangeburg; member of the state house of
representatives, 1848-1853; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-third and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1853-July
16, 1856); censured by the U.S. House of Representatives on
July 15, 1856, for his role in the assault made upon Senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on May 22, 1856; resigned on
July 16, 1856; elected in a special election to the Thirty-
fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his own
resignation, and reelected to the two succeeding Congresses
(August 6, 1856-December 1860); chairman, Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-fifth Congress); delegate to the
secession convention of South Carolina; member of the
provisional congress of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Ala., in
February 1861 and in Richmond, Va., in July 1861; raised the
Twentieth South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers and was
commissioned its colonel on January 11, 1862; subsequently
promoted to the rank of brigadier general; wounded in the
Battle of Cold Harbor, near Richmond, Va., and died, as a
result of his wounds the following day, June 4, 1864; interment
in the family cemetery, near St. Matthews, S.C.
KENNEDY, Charles Augustus, a Representative from Iowa; born
in Montrose, Lee County, Iowa, March 24, 1869; completed
preparatory studies; interested in horticultural pursuits and
later engaged in business as a nurseryman; mayor of Montrose
1890-1895; member of the State house of representatives 1903-
1905; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1921); chairman,
Committee on Mileage (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses),
Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-sixth Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1920; engaged in banking until
his retirement; died, in Montrose, Iowa, January 10, 1951;
interment in Montrose Cemetery.
KING, John Floyd, (son of Thomas Butler King and nephew of
Henry King), a Representative from Louisiana; born on St.
Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, April 20, 1842;
attended the Russell School, New Haven, Conn., Bartlett's
College Hill School, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Military Institute
of Georgia, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;
enlisted in the Confederate Army and served in the Army of
Virginia throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of
colonel of Artillery; moved to Louisiana and engaged in
planting; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and
commenced practice in Vidalia, La.; appointed brigadier general
of State troops; elected inspector of levees and president of
the board of school directors of his district and also a
trustee of the University of the South; elected as a Democrat
to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses
(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Levees
and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1886; engaged in mining operations, with
residence in Washington, D.C.; Assistant Register of the United
States Treasury from May 19, 1914, until his death in
Washington, D.C., May 8, 1915; interment in Arlington National
Cemetery.
KNOX, James, a Representative from Illinois; born in
Canajoharie, N.Y., July 4, 1807; attended Hamilton College,
Clinton, N.Y., and was graduated from Yale College in 1830;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced
practice in Utica, N.Y.; moved to Illinois in 1836 and settled
in Knoxville, Knox County; continued the practice of law; also
engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1847; elected as a Whig to the
Thirty-third Congress and reelected as an Opposition Party
candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3,
1857); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-fourth
Congress); continued the practice of law until his death in
Knoxville, Ill., October 8, 1876; interment in City Cemetery.
LAMAR, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, (uncle of William Bailey
Lamar and cousin of Absalom Harris Chappell), a Representative
and a Senator from Mississippi; born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September 17, 1825; attended schools in Baldwin
and Newton Counties; graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga.,
in 1845; studied law in Macon; admitted to the bar in 1847;
moved to Oxford, Miss., in 1849, where he practiced law and
served one year as professor of mathematics in the University
of Mississippi at Oxford; moved to Covington, Ga., in 1852 and
practiced law; member, Georgia State house of representatives
1853; returned to Mississippi in 1855; elected as a Democrat to
the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from
March 4, 1857, until his retirement in December 1860 to become
a member of the secession convention of Mississippi; drafted
the Mississippi ordinance of secession; during the Civil War
served in the Confederate Army as lieutenant colonel until
1862; entered the diplomatic service of the Confederacy in 1862
and was sent on a special mission to Russia, France, and
England; member of the State constitutional conventions in
1865, 1868, 1875, 1877, and 1881; professor of metaphysics,
social science, and law at the University of Mississippi;
elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March
4, 1873-March 3, 1877); did not seek renomination in 1876,
having been elected Senator; chairman, Committee on Pacific
Railroads (Forty-fourth Congress); elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1876; reelected in 1883 and served from
March 4, 1877, until March 6, 1885, when he resigned to accept
a Cabinet post; chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular
Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Railroads (Forty-
sixth Congress); Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of
President Grover Cleveland 1885-1888; appointed by President
Cleveland to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court and was confirmed January 16, 1888; served until his
death in Vineville, Ga., January 23, 1893; interment in
Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in St. Peter's
Cemetery, Oxford, Miss., in 1894
LANE, Henry Smith, a Representative and a Senator from
Indiana; born near Sharpsburg, Bath County, Ky., February 24,
1811; received a classical education from private tutors;
studied, law; admitted to the bar in Mount Sterling, Ky., in
1832 and commenced practice at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1834;
member, State senate 1837; member, State house of
representatives 1838-1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-
sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Tilghman A. Howard; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Congress
and served from August 3, 1840, to March 3, 1843; chair,
Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-seventh Congress); served
in the Mexican War at the head of a company he had raised; rose
to lieutenant colonel of the First Indiana Regiment; abandoned
the profession of law and engaged in the banking business at
Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1854; elected Governor of Indiana in
1860; was inaugurated January 14, 1861, and served just two
days, when, by previous arrangement, he was elected to the
Senate; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
served from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1867; chairman,
Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-seventh through Thirty-
ninth Congresses), Committee on Pensions (Thirty-ninth
Congress); served as special Indian commissioner 1869-1871;
commissioner for improvement of the Mississippi River in 1872;
died, in Crawfordsville, Ind., June 18, 1881; interment in Oak
Hill Cemetery.
LANGLEY, John Wesley, (husband of Katherine Gudger
Langley), a Representative from Kentucky; born in Floyd County,
Ky., January 14, 1868; attended the common schools; taught
school for three years; attended the law department of the
National, Georgetown, and Columbian (now George Washington)
Universities in Washington, D.C., for an aggregate period of
eight years; examiner in the Pension Office and a member of the
Board of Pension Appeals; law clerk in the General Land Office;
disbursing and appointment clerk of the Census Office 1899-
1907; served in the State house of representatives 1886-1890;
elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until
January 11, 1926, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth
Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Pikeville, Ky.,
where he died, on January 17, 1932; interment in the Langley
Cemetery at Middle Creek, Ky.
LANHAM, Fritz Garland, (son of Samuel Willis Tucker
Lanham), a Representative from Texas; born in Weatherford,
Tex., January 3, 1880; attended the public schools of
Washington, D.C., and was graduated from Weatherford College,
Weatherford, Tex., in 1897; attended Vanderbilt University in
1897 and 1898, and was graduated from the University of Texas
at Austin in 1900, subsequently taking a law course in the same
institution; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced
practice in Weatherford, Tex.; moved to Fort Worth, Tex., in
1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of James C. Wilson;
reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the twelve succeeding
Congresses and served from April 19, 1919, to January 3, 1947;
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-
second through Seventy-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1946; engaged as an adviser on legislation
in Washington, D.C., until 1961; moved to Austin, Tex., where
he died, July 31, 1965; interment in City Greenwood Cemetery,
Weatherford, Tex.
LAWRENCE, Joseph, (father of George Van Eman Lawrence), a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Hunterstown, Adams
County, Pa., in 1786; attended the common schools; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the state house of
representatives 1818-1824 and served as speaker 1820-1822;
elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress;
again a member of the state house of representatives 1834-1836;
state treasurer in 1837; unsuccessful candidate for election in
1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1841, until
his death in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1842; chairman,
Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-seventh Congress);
interment in the Congressional Cemetery.
LEONARD, Stephen Banks, a Representative from New York;
born in New York City April 15, 1793; attended the public
schools; moved with his parents to Owego, N.Y., and learned the
printer's trade; engaged in newspaper work in Albany, N.Y.;
moved to New York City and subsequently returned to Owego;
publisher and editor of the Owego Gazette 1814-1835; trustee of
the village of Owego; supervisor and commissioner of excise;
trustee of Owego Academy for many years; established the first
stage route from Owego to Bath in 1816; postmaster of Owego
1816-1820; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth
Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); elected as a Democrat
to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841);
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-
Sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in
1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; engaged in mercantile and
agricultural pursuits; supervisor of Owego 1854-1856; deputy
United States marshal 1857-1861; died, in Owego, Tioga County,
N.Y., May 8, 1876; interment in the Presbyterian Church Burying
Ground.
LINCOLN, Levi, (son of Levi Lincoln [1749-1820] and brother
of Enoch Lincoln), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in
Worcester, Mass., October 25, 1782; attended Leicester Academy,
Leicester, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard University in
1802; studied, law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the
practice of his profession at Worcester in 1805; served in the
state senate in 1812 and 1813; member of the state house of
representatives 1814-1822 and served as speaker in 1822;
delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820;
elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1823; appointed
associate justice of the state supreme court in 1824; governor
of Massachusetts 1825-1834; declined reelection; elected as an
Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of John Davis; reelected as
an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh
Congresses and served from February 17, 1834, to March 16,
1841, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses);
collector of the port of Boston, by appointment of President
Harrison, 1841-1843; served in the state senate in 1844 and
1845 and was president of that body in the latter year; first
mayor of Worcester in 1848; presidential elector on the
Republican ticket in 1864; died, in Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass., May 29, 1868; interment in the Rural Cemetery.
MALLORY, Robert, a Representative from Kentucky; born at
Madison Court House, Madison County, Va., November 15, 1815;
attended private schools and was graduated from the University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1827; engaged in agricultural
pursuits in La Grange, Ky.; studied, law; was admitted to the
bar in 1837 and commenced practice in New Castle, Ky.; elected
as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress
and reelected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-
eighth Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1865); chairman,
Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to
the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the Union National
Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; one of the vice presidents
of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876; resumed
agricultural pursuits; died, near La Grange, Ky., August 11,
1885; interment in the family cemetery at Spring Hill, Oldham
County, Ky.
MANSFIELD, Joseph Jefferson, a Representative from Texas;
born in Wayne, Wayne County, Va. (now West Virginia), February
9, 1861; attended the public schools; moved to Alleyton, Tex.,
in 1881; employed as a farm and nursery laborer and later as a
baggage-master and freight clerk with the Southern Pacific
Railway; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and
commenced practice at Eagle Lake, Tex.; also established the
first newspaper in that city; organized two companies of the
National Guard of Texas in 1886; received commissions
successively as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and
captain, and was appointed adjutant of the Fourth Texas
Regiment with the rank of captain; prosecuting attorney of
Eagle Lake, Tex., in 1888; mayor in 1889; prosecuting attorney
of Colorado County 1892-1896; ex officio county superintendent
of schools 1896-1910; judge of Colorado County 1896-1916;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the fifteen
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until his
death in Bethesda, Md., July 12, 1947; chairman, Committee on
Rivers and Harbors (Seventy-second through Seventy ninth
Congresses); interment in Masonic Cemetery, Eagle Lake, Tex.
MERCER, Charles Fenton, (cousin of Robert Selden Garnett),
a Representative from Virginia; born in Fredericksburg, Va.,
June 16, 1778; was graduated from Princeton College in 1797;
took a postgraduate course in the same college and received his
degree in 1800; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1802
and commenced practice in Aldie, Loudoun County, Va.; member of
the State house of delegates 1810-1817; during the War of 1812
was appointed lieutenant colonel of a Virginia regiment and
then major in command at Norfolk, Va.; inspector general in
1814; aide-de-camp to Governor Barbour and brigadier general in
command of the Second Virginia Brigade; projector and first
president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co. 1828-1833;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1829;
elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth through the
Seventeenth Congresses; reelected to the Eighteenth Congress as
a Crawford Republican; reelected to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses as an Adams; reelected as an Anti-
Jacksonian to the Twenty-First through the Twenty-fourth
Congresses; reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through
Twenty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, to
December 26, 1839, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on
Roads and Canals (Twenty-second through Twenty-fifth
Congresses); was one of the originators of the plan for
establishing the Free State of Liberia; vice president of the
Virginia Colonization Society in 1836; vice president of the
National Society of Agriculture in 1842; died, in Howard, near
Alexandria, Va., May 4, 1858; interment in Union Cemetery,
Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va.
MERCER, David Henry, a Representative from Nebraska; born
in Benton County, Iowa, July 9, 1857; moved with his parents to
Adams County, Ill., in 1858; at the close of the Civil War
moved with his parents to Brownville, Nebr., where he attended
the public schools and was graduated from the University of
Nebraska at Lincoln in 1880; was graduated from the law
department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1882; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Brownville,
Nebr.; served one term as city clerk and police judge; moved to
Omaha in 1885, and for several years was chairman of the
Republican city and county committees; secretary of the
Republican State central committee in 1896; elected secretary
of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1896;
chairman of the Republican State Central committee of Nebraska
in 1897 and 1898; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,
1903); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-
eighth Congress; settled in Washington, D.C., and resumed the
practice of law; died, in Omaha, Nebr., January 10, 1919;
interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
MICA, John L., (brother of Daniel Andrew Mica), a
Representative from Florida; born in Binghamton, Broome County,
N.Y., January 27, 1943; graduated from Miami-Edison High
School, Miami, Fla.; A.A., Miami-Dade Community College, Miami,
Fla., 1965; B.A., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.,
1967; businessman; member of the Florida state house of
representatives, 1977-1981; staff, United States Senator Paula
F. Hawkins of Florida, 1981-1985; elected as a Republican to
the One Hundred Third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1993-January 3, 2017); chair, Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Twelfth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One
Hundred Fifteenth Congress in 2016.
MILLIKEN, Seth Llewellyn, a Representative from Maine; born
in Montville, Waldo County, Maine, December 12, 1831; attended
the common schools and Waterville College; was graduated from
Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1856; member of the State
house of representatives in 1857 and 1858; moved to Belfast,
Maine; clerk of the supreme judicial court 1859-1871; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar in 1871, but did not practice;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and
1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the
seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883,
until his death in Washington, D.C., April 18, 1897; chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-first and
Fifty-fourth Congresses); interment in Grove Cemetery, Belfast,
Waldo County, Maine.
MINETA, Norman Y., a Representative from California; born
in San Jose, Santa Clara County, Calif., November 12, 1931;
attended public schools in San Jose, Heart Mountain, Wyo., and
Evanston, Ill.; graduated, San Jose High School, San Jose,
Calif., 1949; B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1953;
insurance business; served in the United States Army, 1953-
1956; member of San Jose (Calif.) human relations commission,
1962-1964; member of the board of directors, San Jose (Calif.)
housing authority, 1966-1967; San Jose, Calif., city
councilman, 1967-1971; vice mayor of San Jose, Calif., 1968-
1971; mayor, San Jose, Calif., 1971-1974; delegate to the
California State Democratic conventions, 1971-1974; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention, 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984;
elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress and to the
ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-October 10, 1995);
resigned October 10, 1995; chairman, Committee on Public Works
and Transportation (One Hundred Third Congress); Secretary of
Commerce in the Cabinet of President William J. Clinton, 2000-
2001; Secretary of Transportation in the Cabinet of President
George W. Bush, 2001-2006.
McCORMICK, Henry Clay, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pa., June 30,
1844; attended the common schools and Dickinson Seminary,
Williamsport, Pa.; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1866 and practiced in Williamsport, Pa.; elected as a
Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4,
1887-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals
(Fifty-first Congress); delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1892; elected president of the Williamsport &
North Branch Railroad January 1, 1892; attorney general of
Pennsylvania 1895-1899; resumed the practice of law; died, in
Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., May 26, 1902; interment in
Wildwood Cemetery.
McCRARY, George Washington, a Representative from Iowa;
born near Evansville, Vanderburg County, Ind., August 29, 1835;
moved to the Territory of Iowa in 1836 with his parents, who
settled in Van Buren County; attended the public schools;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced
practice in Keokuk, Iowa; member of the State house of
representatives in 1857; served in the State senate in 1861-
1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877);
chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty-second Congress),
Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-third Congress); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1876; Secretary of War in
the Cabinet of President Hayes from March 12, 1877, to December
11, 1879, when he resigned; served as United States judge of
the eighth judicial circuit 1880-1884; moved to Kansas City,
Mo.; became general counsel for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Co. in 1884; died, in St. Joseph, Mo., June 23, 1890;
interment in Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa.
McKENNAN, Thomas McKean Thompson, a Representative from
Pennsylvania; born in New Castle, New Castle County, Del.,
March 31, 1794; moved to Washington, Pa.; attended the public
schools; was graduated from Washington (now Washington and
Jefferson) College, Washington, Pa., in 1810; studied, law; was
admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in
Washington, Pa.; deputy attorney general in 1815 and 1816;
elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and
to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3,
1839); elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Lawrence and served
from May 30, 1842, to March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on
Roads and Canals (Twenty-seventh Congress); president of the
Pennsylvania Electoral College in 1848; appointed Secretary of
the Interior in the Cabinet of President Fillmore and served
from August 15 to September 12, 1850; resigned and became
president of the Hempfield Railroad, now the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad; died, in Reading, Pa., July 9, 1852; interment in the
Washington Cemetery, Washington, Pa.
McLANE, Robert Milligan, (son of Louis McLane), a
Representative from Maryland; born in Wilmington, Del., June
23, 1815; attended private schools in Wilmington, St. Mary's
College in Baltimore, and the College Bourbon in Paris;
appointed a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West
Point by President Jackson in 1833; was graduated in July 1837
and commissioned second lieutenant of Artillery; served with
his regiment during the Seminole War in 1837 and 1838;
transferred to the Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1838,
and served until he resigned in 1843; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Baltimore, Md.;
member of the State house of delegates in 1845; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4,
1847-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-
first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1850;
appointed commissioner to China in 1853, with the powers of a
Minister Plenipotentiary, and at the same time accredited to
Japan, Siam, Korea, and Cochin China; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1856 and 1876; appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Republic of Mexico March 7, 1859, and served until December 22,
1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876;
member of the State senate of Maryland in 1877; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March
4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Pacific
Railroads (Forty-sixth Congress); elected Governor of Maryland
in 1883 and resigned in 1885; appointed by President Cleveland
as United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France March 23,
1885, and served four years; died in Paris, France, April 16,
1898; interment in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
OBERSTAR, James Louis, a Representative from Minnesota;
born in Chisholm, St. Louis County, Minn., September 10, 1934;
graduated from Chisholm High School, Chisholm, Minn., 1952;
B.A., College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., 1956; M.A.,
College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 1957; staff for United
States Representative John Anton Blatnik of Minnesota, 1963-
1974; administrator of the Committee on Public Works, United
States House of Representatives, 1971-1974; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the seventeen succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 2011); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Twelfth Congress in
2010; chair, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
(One Hundred Tenth and One Hundred Eleventh Congresses); died,
on May 3, 2014, in Potomac, Md.
OGLE, Charles, (son of Alexander Ogle and uncle of Andrew
Jackson Ogle), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in
Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., in 1798; completed preparatory
studies; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and
commenced practice in Somerset; elected as an Anti-Masonic
candidate to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses;
reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served
from March 4, 1837, until his death in Somerset, Pa., May 10,
1841; chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-sixth
Congress); interment in Union Cemetery.
OUTHWAITE, Joseph Hodson, a Representative from Ohio; born
in Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1841; attended the public
schools of Zanesville, Ohio; taught in the high school of that
city 1862-1864; principal of a grammar school in Columbus,
Ohio, 1864-1867; studied law while teaching; was admitted to
the bar in 1866 and practiced from 1867 to 1871 at Osceola,
Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, Ohio, 1874-1878;
trustee of the county children's home 1879-1883; trustee of the
sinking fund of the city of Columbus in 1883; reappointed in
1884 for a term of five years; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1885-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads
(Fiftieth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-
second and Fifty-third Congresses); appointed a member of the
commission to codify the laws of the United States; civilian
member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification 1895-1899;
member of the board of trustees of Ohio State University at
Columbus from December 1896 to January 1898; dean of the law
school of Ohio State University from 1904 until his death in
Columbus, Ohio, December 9, 1907; interment in Greenlawn
Cemetery.
OWEN, Robert Dale, a Representative from Indiana; born in
Glasgow, Scotland, November 7, 1801; studied, under private
teachers and attended the Emanuel von Fellenberg School at
Hofwyl, near Berne, Switzerland, 1820-1823; immigrated to the
United States in 1825 with his parents, who settled in Posey
County, Ind.; aided his father in the establishment of the
social community of New Harmony, Ind., and on the failure of
that project he returned to Europe for further study; returned
to the United States in 1827 and became a citizen; was the
founder and editor of the Free Enquirer, published in New York,
1828-1832; returned to New Harmony in 1832; member of the State
house of representatives 1835-1838; unsuccessful candidate for
election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress and in 1840 to
the Twenty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March
3, 1847); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Twenty-
eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846
to the Thirtieth Congress; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1850; member of the State house of
representatives in 1851; appointed by President Franklin Pierce
as Charge de' Affaires to the Two Sicilies May 24, 1853, and
Minister Resident June 29, 1854, serving until September 20,
1858; devoted the remainder of his life to writing on social
problems; died, at his summer home ``Cosy Cove, '' at
Crosbyside, on Lake George, N.Y., June 24, 1877; interment in
the Village Cemetery at Lake George, Warren County, N.Y.
PACKER, John Black, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., March 21, 1824;
received private instructions and later attended Sunbury (Pa.)
Academy; member of the corps of engineers employed by the State
in the survey and construction of public improvements 1839-
1842; studied, law; was admitted to the bar on August 6, 1844,
and commenced the practice of his profession in Sunbury; also
engaged in banking; deputy attorney general 1845-1847; served
in the State house of representatives in 1850 and 1851; one of
the organizers of the Susquehanna Railroad Co., in 1851;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); chairman,
Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-second Congress),
Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-third Congress);
declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed
the practice of law in Sunbury, Pa.; also resumed his banking
activities; died, in Sunbury, Pa., July 7, 1891; interment in
Pomfret Manor Cemetery.
PAYNE, Sereno Elisha, a Representative from New York; born
in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., June 26, 1843; attended the
Auburn (N.Y.) Academy and was graduated from the University of
Rochester, N.Y., in 1864; studied, law; was admitted to the bar
in 1866 and practiced in Auburn, N.Y.; city clerk of Auburn in
1867 and 1868; supervisor in 1871 and 1872; district attorney
of Cayuga County 1873-1879; president of the board of education
of Auburn 1879-1882; appointed a member of the American-British
Joint High Commission in January 1899; elected as a Republican
to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-
March 3, 1887); elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Representative Newton W. Nutting and reelected to the twelve
succeeding Congresses (December 2, 1889-December 10, 1914);
chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Ways and Means
(Fifty-fifth through Sixty-first Congresses); majority leader
(Fifty-sixth through Sixty-first Congresses); had been
reelected to the Sixty-fourth Congress; died, on December 10,
1914, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Fort Hill Cemetery,
Auburn, N.Y.
PETRIKIN, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born
in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa., December 1, 1788; completed
preparatory studies; studied, medicine and was admitted to
practice; moved to Danville (then in Columbia County), Pa., and
engaged in the practice of medicine; during the War of 1812
served as a surgeon with the Second Regiment of the
Pennsylvania Riflemen; after the war returned to Danville, Pa.,
and continued the practice of medicine; also erected and
operated a woolen mill; elected prothonotary of Columbia County
March 15, 1821; member of the State house of representatives;
served as postmaster of Danville from February 1, 1834, to
March 21, 1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841);
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-
sixth Congress); died, in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa.,
March 1, 1847; interment in Petrikin Cemetery, Danville, Pa.,
which was later converted into a memorial park.
PLATT, James Henry, Jr., a Representative from Virginia;
born in St. John's, Canada, July 13, 1837; moved to Burlington,
Vt.; attended the common schools; completed preparatory studies
and was graduated from the medical department of the University
of Vermont at Burlington in 1859; during the Civil War entered
the Union Army as first sergeant of the Third Regiment, Vermont
Volunteer Infantry; served as captain and lieutenant colonel;
declined assignment to duty as chief quartermaster of the Sixth
Corps; settled in Petersburg, Va., April 6, 1865; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1867; member of the city
council in 1867 and 1868; moved to Norfolk, Va.; upon the
readmission of the State of Virginia to representation was
elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses and served from January 26, 1870, to
March 3, 1875; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds (Forty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; moved to New
York in 1876 and engaged in the manufacture of oil products;
moved to Colorado in 1887 and settled in Denver; engaged in the
insurance business, paper manufacturing, and in mining; was
drowned in Green Lake, near Georgetown, Colo., August 13, 1894;
interment in Fairmont Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
POTTER, Clarkson Nott, a Representative from New York; born
in Schenectady, N.Y., April 25, 1825; completed preparatory
studies; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.,1842;
graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil
engineer, 1843; served as a surveyor in Wisconsin in 1843;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced
practice in New York City in 1847; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1869-March 3, 1875); declined to be a candidate for
renomination to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; elected to
the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879);
chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-fifth
Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination to the
Forty-sixth Congress in 1878; president of the Democratic New
York state conventions in 1875 and 1877; delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1872 and 1876; unsuccessful
candidate for lieutenant governor in 1879; trustee of Union
College 1863-1882; president of the American Bar Association in
1881 and 1882; died on January 23, 1882, in New York City,
N.Y.; interment in Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, N.Y.
POWERS, Horace Henry, a Representative from Vermont; born
in Morristown, Lamoille County, Vt., May 29, 1835; attended
Peoples Academy; was graduated from the University of Vermont
at Burlington in 1855; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1858 and practiced in Hyde Park, Vt., 1859-1862; member of the
State house of representatives in 1858; prosecuting attorney of
Lamoille County in 1861 and 1862; member of the council of
censors in 1869; member of the State constitutional convention
in 1870; served in the State senate in 1872 and 1873; again a
member of the State house of representatives in 1874 and served
as speaker; judge of the supreme court of Vermont from December
1874 to December 1890; trustee of the University of Vermont
from 1883 until his death; delegate to the Republican National
Convention in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3,
1901); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-fourth
through Fifty-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law in
Morrisville, Vt.; died in Morrisville, Vt., December 8, 1913;
interment in Pleasant View Cemetery.
PRATT, Zadock, a Representative from New York; born in
Stephentown, N.Y., October 30, 1790; moved with his parents to
Windham (later Jewett), Greene County, in 1802; received a
limited schooling; engaged in tanning leather in Greene County,
where he established a town called Prattsville; member of the
State militia 1819-1823; justice of the peace in 1824;
supervisor of the town of Windham in 1827; member of the State
senate in 1830; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth
Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); elected to the Twenty-
eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman,
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-eighth
Congress); resumed his former business activities; also engaged
in banking and agricultural pursuits near Prattsville, Greene
County, N.Y.; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in
1852; retired from active business pursuits in 1860; died, in
Bergen, N.J., on April 6, 1871; interment in the City Cemetery,
Prattsville, N.Y.
PRICE, Hiram, a Representative from Iowa; born in
Washington County, Pa., January 10, 1814; attended the common
schools; was engaged in agricultural pursuits on his father's
farm for several years; employed as a bookkeeper for a large
commission house near Pittsburgh, Pa., and equipped himself for
mercantile life; moved to Davenport, Iowa, in 1844 and engaged
in the mercantile business; served as collector, treasurer, and
recorder of Scott County, Iowa; was president of the State Bank
of Iowa 1859-1866 and became president of the First National
Bank of Davenport in 1873; during the early days of the Civil
War was appointed by Governor Kirkwood as paymaster general of
the Iowa troops, to whom he advanced large sums of money;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); chairman,
Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-eighth Congress),
Committee on Pacific Railroads (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1868; president of the Davenport & St. Paul Railroad Co.;
elected to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses in 1880
(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); declined to accept a
renomination in 1880; appointed chief clerk for the Indian
Office on April 13, 1881; appointed United States Commissioner
of Indian Affairs during the administration of President
Garfield and served from May 6, 1881, to March 27, 1885; lived
in Washington, D.C., until his death in that city on May 30,
1901; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport, Iowa.
PRINCE, George Washington, a Representative from Illinois;
born in Tazewell County, Ill., March 4, 1854; attended the
public schools; was graduated from Knox College, Galesburg,
Ill., in 1878; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1880
and commenced practice in Galesburg, Knox County, Ill.; city
attorney of Galesburg 1881-1883; chairman of the Republican
county central committee of Knox County in 1884; member of the
State house of representatives in 1888; reelected in 1890;
unsuccessful candidate for attorney general of Illinois on the
Republican ticket in 1892; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Philip Sidney Post; reelected to the Fifty-fifth and to the
seven succeeding Congresses and served from December 2, 1895,
to March 3, 1913; chairman, Committee on Ventilation and
Acoustics (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Levees and
Improvements of the Mississippi River (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth
Congresses), Committee on Claims (Sixty-first Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-
third Congress; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1913 and
continued the practice of law; retired from active business
pursuits in 1917 and resided in Los Angeles, Calif., until his
death in that city on September 26, 1939; interment in
Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
RAY, George Washington, a Representative from New York;
born in Otselic, Chenango County, N.Y., February 3, 1844;
attended the common schools and Norwich Academy; private in
Company B, Ninetieth New York Volunteers, and brigade clerk,
First Brigade, First Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, during
the Civil War; discharged at the close of the war; studied, law
and was admitted to the bar in November 1867; chairman of the
Republican county committee of Chenango County; member of the
Republican State committee in 1880; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); member
of the board of education of Norwich Academy and Union Free
School; elected to the Fifty-second and to the five succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, to September 11,
1902; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements of the
Mississippi River (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Invalid
Pensions (Fifty-fifth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary
(Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses); resigned from
Congress to accept the United States judgeship for the northern
district of New York, in which capacity he served until his
death in Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., January 10, 1925;
interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
REID, Frank R., a Representative from Illinois; born in
Aurora, Kane County, Ill., April 18, 1879; attended the public
schools, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago College of
Law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in
Aurora, Ill.; prosecuting attorney of Kane County 1904-1908;
State's attorney 1904-1908; assistant United States attorney at
Chicago 1908-1910; member of the State house of representatives
in 1911 and 1912; chairman of the Kane County Republican
central committee 1914-1916; secretary of the League of
Illinois Municipalities in 1916 and 1917; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee
on Flood Conrol (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; engaged in the
general practice of law at Chicago and Aurora, Ill.; died, in
Aurora, Ill., on January 25, 1945; interment in Spring Lake
Cemetery.
REILLY, James Bernard, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Pinedale, West Brunswick Township, Schuylkill County,
Pa., August 12, 1845; attended the public schools and was
graduated from the Bunker Hill School, Pottsville, Pa., in
1862; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and
commenced practice in Pottsville; district attorney of
Schuylkill County 1871-1875; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3,
1879); resumed the practice of law in Pottsville, Pa.; delegate
to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; unsuccessful
candidate for law judge of Schuylkill County in 1881 and again
in 1882; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1884
to the Forty-ninth Congress; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3,
1895); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; United States
marshal for the eastern district of Pennsylvania 1896-1900;
again resumed the practice of law in Pottsville, Pa.;
unsuccessful candidate for justice of the superior court in
1913; died in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., May 14, 1924;
interment in St. Patrick's No. 3 Cemetery.
RICE, John Hovey, a Representative from Maine; born in
Mount Vernon, Maine, February 5, 1816; attended the common
schools; clerk in the office of the register of deeds, Augusta,
Maine, 1831-1841; engaged in the mercantile business; deputy
sheriff; aide-de-camp to General Bachelor in the ``Aroostook
War, '' the northeastern boundary dispute with Great Britain,
in 1838; moved to Piscataquis County, Maine, in 1843; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Piscataquis County in 1848; prosecuting attorney for
Piscataquis County 1852-1860; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1856; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses
(March 4, 1861-March 3, 1867); chairman, Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination;
United States collector of customs at the port of Bangor,
Maine, 1867-1871; moved to Washington, D.C., where he practiced
law for twelve years; thence to New York City in 1884 and
practiced until 1899; moved to Chicago, Ill., in May 1899 and
remained there until his death on March 14, 1911; interment in
Oak Woods Cemetery.
ROBERTSON, Edward White, (father of Samuel Matthews
Robertson), a Representative from Louisiana; born near
Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., on June 13, 1823; moved with
his parents to Iberville Parish, La., in 1825; attended the
country schools and the preparatory department of Centenary
College, Jackson, La.; attended Augusta College, Kentucky, in
1842; entered Nashville (Tenn.) University and commenced the
study of law in 1845; served in the War with Mexico in 1846 as
orderly sergeant in the Second Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers;
member of the State house of representatives 1847-1849; was
graduated from the law department of the University of
Louisiana in 1850; was admitted to the bar the same year and
practiced in Iberville and East Baton Rouge Parishes; again
elected to the State house of representatives in 1853; State
auditor of public accounts 1857-1862; entered the Confederate
service in March 1862 as captain of a company which he had
raised for the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Louisiana Infantry;
resumed the practice of law in Baton Rouge; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh
Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee
on the Mississippi Levees (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on
Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-sixth
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to
the Forty-eighth Congress; elected to the Fiftieth Congress and
served from March 4, 1887, until his death in Baton Rouge, La.,
on August 2, 1887, before the Congress assembled; interment in
Magnolia Cemetery.
ROBERTSON, Samuel Matthews, (son of Edward White
Robertson), a Representative from Louisiana; born in
Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, La., January 1, 1852; attended
Magruder's Collegiate Institute, Baton Rouge, La., and was
graduated from the Louisiana State University in 1874; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in
Baton Rouge, La.; elected a member of the State house of
representatives in 1879; member of the faculty of the Louisiana
State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College in
1880; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Edward White
Robertson; reelected to the Fifty-first and to the eight
succeeding Congresses and served from December 5, 1887, to
March 3, 1907; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements
of the Mississippi River (Fifty-second Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of law
in Baton Rouge; superintendent of the Louisiana School for the
Deaf and Dumb 1908-1911; died, in Baton Rouge, La., December
24, 1911; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.
ROBINSON, James William, a Representative from Utah; born
in Coalville, Summit County, Utah, January 19, 1878; attended
public schools; graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo,
Utah, and from the law school of the University of Chicago in
1912; principal of Uinta Academy, Vernal, Utah, and of the
Wasatch High School, Heber, Utah; admitted as member of the bar
of the State of Utah in 1912; engaged in practice of law in
Provo, Utah County, Utah, 1912-1933; county attorney of Utah
County 1918-1921; Democratic candidate for attorney general of
Utah in 1924; member of the board of regents of the University
of Utah 1925-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third
and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3,
1947); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Seventy-sixth and
Seventy-seventh Congresses), Committee on Roads (Seventy-eighth
and Seventy-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; served as
director of grazing in the Office of Land Management, Interior
Department, Washington, D.C., from January 3, 1947, to January
31, 1949; returned to Salt Lake City, Utah; died, in Escondido,
Calif., December 2, 1964; interment in Provo City Cemetery,
Provo, Utah.
ROBINSON, John Larne, a Representative from Indiana; born
near Maysville, Mason County, Ky., May 3, 1813; attended the
public schools; moved to Rush County, Ind.; engaged in the
mercantile business in Milroy, Ind.; county clerk of Rush
County, Ind., 1841-1845; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4,
1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals
(Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses); appointed by
President Pierce as United States marshal for the southern
district of Indiana in 1853; reappointed by President Buchanan
in 1858 and served until his death; appointed brigade inspector
of the fourth military district of Indiana in 1854; trustee of
Indiana University at Bloomington 1856-1859; died, at
Rushville, Ind., March 21, 1860; interment in East Hill
Cemetery.
RODENBERG, William August, a Representative from Illinois;
born near Chester, Randolph County, Ill., October 30, 1865;
attended the public schools; was graduated from Central
Wesleyan College, Warrenton, Mo., in 1884; taught for seven
years; attended the St. Louis Law School; was admitted to the
bar in 1893 and commenced practice in East St. Louis, St. Clair
County, Ill.; delegate to the Republican National Conventions
in 1896, 1908, 1916, and 1920; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-
seventh Congress; appointed a member of the United States Civil
Service Commission by President McKinley March 25, 1901, and
served until April 1, 1902, when he resigned; resumed the
practice of law in East St. Louis, also financially interested
in various business enterprises; elected to the Fifty-eighth
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3,
1913); chairman, Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions
(Sixty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection
in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; elected to the Sixty-
fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-
March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-
sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); engaged in the practice of
law in Washington, D.C.; died, in Alpena, Mich., while on a
visit, September 10, 1937; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery,
Washington, D.C.
ROE, Robert A., a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Wayne, Passaic County, N.J., February 28, 1924; attended Oregon
State University, Corvallis, Or.; attended Washington State
University, Pullman, Wash.; served in the United States Army
during World War II; chairman, board of directors, Morris Canal
& Banking Co.; committeeman, Wayne Township, 1955-1956; mayor
of Wayne Township, N.J., 1956-1961; Passaic County, N.J.,
Freeholder, 1959-1963; director, board of Chosen Freeholders,
1962-1963; commissioner, New Jersey Conservation and Economic
Development Department, state cabinet, 1963-1969; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-first Congress by special election, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States
Representative Charles S. Joelson, and reelected to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (November 4, 1969-January 3, 1993);
chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (One
Hundredth and One Hundred First Congresses); chairman,
Committee on Public Works and Transportation (One Hundred
Second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor of New Jersey in 1977; was not a
candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in
1992; died, on July 15, 2014, in Green Pond, N.J.
SAWYER, Philetus, a Representative and a Senator from
Wisconsin; born in Whiting, Rutland County, Vt., September 22,
1816; moved with his parents to Crown Point, N.Y., in 1817;
attended the common schools; moved to Fond du Lac County, Wis.,
in 1847 and engaged in the lumber business; member, Wisconsin
assembly 1857, 1861; mayor of Oshkosh 1863-1864; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-ninth and to the four succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1875); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1874; chairman, Committee on
Public Expenditures (Forty-second Congress), Committee on
Pacific Railroads (Forty-third Congress); elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1881; reelected in
1887 and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1893; was not a
candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Railroads
(Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Post
Office and Post Roads (Fiftieth through Fifty-second
Congresses); resumed his former business pursuits; died in
Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wis., March 29, 1900; interment in
the family vault at Riverside, Oshkosh, Wis.
SCHALL, Thomas David, a Representative and a Senator from
Minnesota; born in Reed City, Osceola County, Mich., June 4,
1878; moved with his mother to Campbell, Minn., in 1884;
attended the common schools, but ran away to join the circus;
attended Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., 1898-1899;
graduated from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in
1902 and from St. Paul College of Law in 1904; admitted to the
bar in 1904 and commenced practice at Minneapolis; in 1907 lost
his sight as the result of an electric shock but continued the
practice of his profession; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1915-March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for renomination,
having become a candidate for the United States Senate;
chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty-seventh
Congress), Committee on Flood Control (Sixty-eighth Congress);
elected in 1924 as a Republican to the United States Senate;
reelected in 1930 and served from March 4, 1925, until his
death; chairman, Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Seventy-
first and Seventy-second Congresses); died, in Washington,
D.C., December 22, 1935, as the result of being struck by an
automobile; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
SCHENCK, Robert Cumming, a Representative from Ohio; born
in Franklin, Ohio, October 4, 1809; attended the rural schools
and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1827;
became a professor in that university 1827-1829; studied, law;
was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in
Dayton, Ohio; member of the State house of representatives
1839-1843; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851);
chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirtieth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination; Minister to Brazil and
also accredited to Uruguay, Argentine Confederation, and
Paraguay, 1851-1853; entered the Union Army May 17, 1861, and
served as brigadier general of Volunteers; promoted to major
general September 18, 1862, to date from August 30, 1862;
resigned his commission in the Army on December 3, 1863, to
take his seat in Congress; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served
from March 4, 1863, to January 5, 1871, when he resigned to
accept a position in the diplomatic service; chairman,
Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Ways and Means (Fortieth and Forty-
first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1870 to the Forty-second Congress; Minister to Great Britain
from December 1870 until March 1876, when he resigned; delegate
to the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in 1866; member of the
Alabama Claims Commission in 1871; resumed the practice of law
in Washington, D.C., where he died, March 23, 1890; interment
in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
SCHLEICHER, Gustave, a Representative from Texas; was born
in Darmstadt, Germany, on November 19, 1823; attended the
University of Giessen; became a civil engineer and was employed
in the construction of several European railroads; immigrated
to the United States in 1847 and settled in San Antonio, Tex.,
in 1850; member of the State house of representatives in 1853
and 1854; served in the State senate 1859-1861; elected as a
Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses and
served from March 4, 1875, until his death; chairman, Committee
on Railways and Canals (Forty-fifth Congress); had been
reelected in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; died, in
Washington, D.C., January 10, 1879; interment in the United
States National Cemetery, San Antonio, Tex.
SCOTT, Frank Douglas, a Representative from Michigan; born
in Alpena, Alpena County, Mich., on August 25, 1878; attended
the public schools; was graduated from the law department of
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1901; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Alpena; city
attorney of Alpena in 1903 and 1904; city prosecutor 1906-1910;
member of the State senate 1911-1914 and served as president
pro tempore in 1913 and 1914; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1915-March 3, 1927); chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Sixty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1926; resumed the practice of his profession in
Washington, D.C.; died, in Palm Beach, Fla., February 12, 1951;
interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Alpena, Mich.
SHACKLEFORD, Dorsey William, a Representative from
Missouri; born near Sweet Springs, Saline County, Mo., August
27, 1853; attended the public schools and William Jewell
College, Liberty, Mo.; taught school 1877-1879; studied, law;
was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in
Boonville, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Cooper County, Mo.,
1882-1886 and 1890-1892; judge of the fourteenth judicial
circuit of Missouri from June 1, 1892, until his resignation on
September 9, 1899, having been elected to Congress; elected as
a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Richard P. Bland; reelected to the
Fifty-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses, and
served from August 29, 1899, to March 3, 1919; chairman,
Committee on Roads (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth
Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; moved to Jefferson City, Mo.,
in 1919 and continued the practice of law; died, in Jefferson
City, Mo., on July 15, 1936; interment in Walnut Grove
Cemetery, Boonville, Mo.
SHALLENBERGER, William Shadrack, a Representative from
Pennsylvania; born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa.,
November 24, 1839; attended the public schools and Mount
Pleasant Academy; was graduated from Lewisburg University (now
Bucknell University), Lewisburg, Pa., in 1862; engaged in
mercantile pursuits; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union
Army in 1862 in the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment,
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and soon afterward was
appointed adjutant of the regiment; mustered out of the service
in October 1864 and again engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Rochester, Pa.; chairman of the Beaver County Republican
committee in 1872 and 1874; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March
4, 1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds (Forty-seventh Congress); appointed by President
McKinley as Second Assistant Postmaster General and served from
1897 to 1907; died, in Washington, D.C., April 15, 1914;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
SHEPPARD, Morris, (son of John Levi Sheppard, grandfather
of Connie Mack III, and great-grandfather of Connie Mack IV), a
Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Wheatville,
Morris County, Tex., May 28, 1875; attended the common schools
of various Texas towns; graduated from the University of Texas
at Austin in 1895, from the law department of the same
university in 1897, and from the law department of Yale
University in 1898; admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in Pittsburg, Camp County, Tex., in 1898; moved to Texarkana in
1899 and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his father, John L. Sheppard; reelected
to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and
served from November 15, 1902, to February 3, 1913, when he
resigned; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Sixty-second Congress); elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate on January 29, 1913, to fill the vacancy in the
term ending March 3, 1913, caused by the resignation of Joseph
W. Bailey, and on the same day was also elected for the term
commencing March 4, 1913; reelected in 1918, 1924, 1930 and
1936; took the oath of office on February 3, 1913, and served
until his death; Democratic whip 1929-1933; chairman, Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-third
and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on the Census (Sixty-
fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary
Claims (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs
(Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); died, in
Washington, D.C., April 9, 1941; interment in Hillcrest
Cemetery, Texarkana, Tex.
SHUSTER, E. G. (Bud), (father of William Shuster), a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Glassport, Allegheny
County, Pa., January 23, 1932; B.S., University of Pittsburgh,
Pa., 1954; M.B.A., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1960;
Ph.D., American University, Washington, D.C., 1967; United
States Army, 1954-1956; delegate, Republican National
Conventions, 1976, 1980, 1984, and 1988; elected as a
Republican to the Ninety-third and to the fourteen succeeding
Congresses, served until his resignation on February 3, 2001
(January 3, 1973-February 3, 2001); chairman, Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Fourth through
One Hundred Sixth Congresses)
SHUSTER, William (Bill), (son of E. G. ``Bud'' Shuster), a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in McKeesport, Allegheny
County, Pa., January 10, 1961; graduated from Everett High
School, Everett. Pa.; B.A., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.,
1983; M.B.A., American University, Washington, D.C.; business
owner; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Seventh
Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of United States Representative E. G. ``Bud''
Shuster of Pennsylvania and reelected to the eight succeeding
Congresses (May 15, 2001-present); chair, Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Thirteenth
through One Hundred Fifteenth Congresses).
SMALL, John Humphrey, a Representative from North Carolina;
born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., August 29, 1858;
attended private schools and Trinity College (later Duke
University), Durham, N.C.; taught school 1876-1880; studied,
law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in
Washington, N.C.; elected reading clerk of the State senate in
1881; superintendent of public instruction of Beaufort County,
N.C., in 1881; solicitor of the inferior court of Beaufort
County 1882-1885; editor of the Washington Gazette 1883-1886;
attorney of the Board of Commissioners of Beaufort County 1888-
1896; member of the city council 1887-1890; mayor of
Washington, N.C., in 1889 and 1890; delegate to all Democratic
State conventions from 1889 to 1920; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1899-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors
(Sixty-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1920; resumed the practice of his profession in
Washington, D.C., until 1931; returned to Washington, N.C.,
where he died, on July 13, 1946; interment in Oakdale Cemetery.
SMITH, Robert, (nephew of Jeremiah Smith and Samuel Smith
of New Hampshire), a Representative from Illinois; born in
Peterborough, Hillsboro County, N.H., June 12, 1802; attended
the public schools and New Ipswich Academy; taught school;
engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1822 and in the manufacturing
of textile goods in Northfield, N.H., in 1823; studied, law;
was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Illinois and
settled in Alton in 1832 and again engaged in mercantile
pursuits; elected captain in the state militia in 1832;
extensive land owner and engaged in the real estate business;
member of the state house of representatives 1836-1840; elected
enrolling and engrossing clerk of the state house of
representatives in 1840 and 1842; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses and reelected as an
Independent Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1843-
March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals
(Twenty-ninth Congress); elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-
fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); chairman,
Committee on Mileage (Thirty-fifth Congress); served as
paymaster during the Civil War; died, in Alton, Ill., December
21, 1867; interment in Alton City Cemetery.
SMITH, William Alden, a Representative and a Senator from
Michigan; born in Dowagiac, Cass County, Mich., May 12, 1859;
attended the common schools; moved with his parents to Grand
Rapids in 1872; appointed a page in the Michigan house of
representatives in 1875; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Grand Rapids in 1883; general counsel of
the Chicago-West Michigan Railway and the Detroit-Lansing
Northern Railroad; assistant secretary of the Michigan State
senate in 1883; State game warden 1887-1891; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the six succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his
resignation, effective February 9, 1907, having been elected
Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
of State (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee on Pacific Railroads
(Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses); elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate on January 15, 1907, for
the term beginning March 4, 1907; subsequently elected on
February 6, 1907, to fill the vacancy in the term ending March
3, 1907, caused by the death of Russell A. Alger; reelected in
1913, and served from February 9, 1907, to March 3, 1919; was
not a candidate for renomination in 1918; chairman, Committee
on Canadian Relations (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on
Territories (Sixty-second Congress), Committee to Examine
Branches of the Civil Service (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth
Congresses); constructed a railroad in Michigan in 1898 and
became owner of the Lowell-Hastings Railroad in 1900; owner and
publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald in 1906; chairman of the
board of directors of a transit company operating a line of
steamboats from Chicago to various Lake Michigan ports; died in
Grand Rapids, Mich., on October 11, 1932; interment in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
SPARKMAN, Stephen Milancthon, a Representative from
Florida; born on a farm in Hernando County, Fla., July 29,
1849; attended the common schools; taught school 1867-1870;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced
practice in Tampa, Fla.; State's attorney for the sixth
judicial circuit 1878-1887; declined the position of circuit
judge for the sixth judicial circuit in 1888 and also the
appointment of associate justice of the supreme court of the
State in 1891; member of the county Democratic executive
committee 1890-1894 and served as chairman in 1890 and 1891;
member of the State Democratic executive committee 1892-1896,
serving as chairman; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth
and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3,
1917); chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-second
through Sixty-fourth Congresses); did not seek renomination in
1916; resumed the practice of law in Tampa, Fla.; president of
the board of port commissioners until 1920; died, in
Washington, D.C., September 26, 1929; interment in Woodlawn
Cemetery, Tampa, Fla.
STANTON, Richard Henry, a Representative from Kentucky;
born in Alexandria, Va., September 9, 1812; completed
preparatory studies; attended Alexandria Academy; studied, law;
was admitted to the bar and began practice in Maysville, Ky.,
in 1835; editor of the Maysville Monitor 1835-1842; postmaster
of Maysville; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first,
Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1849-March
3, 1855); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses), Committee on
Elections (Thirty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; State's
attorney 1858-1861; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1868; district judge 1868-1874; resumed the
practice of law until his retirement in 1885; died, in
Maysville, Ky., March 20, 1891; interment in Maysville
Cemetery.
STOCKSLAGER, Strother Madison, a Representative from
Indiana; born in Mauckport, Harrison County, Ind., May 7, 1842;
attended the common schools, Corydon High School, and Indiana
University at Bloomington; taught school; served in the Union
Army during the Civil War as second lieutenant and captain in
the Thirteenth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, which he had assisted
to organize; was mustered out as captain and returned to
Mauckport; deputy county auditor of Harrison County 1866-1868;
deputy county clerk of Harrison County 1868-1870; appointed by
President Andrew Johnson as assessor of internal revenue in
1867, but was not confirmed by the United States Senate;
studied, law; was admitted to the bar in Corydon, Ind., in 1871
and practiced in Indiana and Kentucky; member of the State
senate 1874-1878; editor of the Corydon Democrat 1879-1882;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth
Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-eighth Congress); was an
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884 to the Forty-
ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Corydon;
appointed assistant commissioner of the General Land Office on
October 1, 1885, and commissioner on March 27, 1888; resigned
March 4, 1889, but remained in charge until June 20, 1889;
continued the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; was an
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1894 to the
Fifty-fourth Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1896; served as legal expert in the Department of
Labor in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.,
until his death there on June 1, 1930; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
STUDDS, Gerry Eastman, a Representative from Massachusetts;
born in Mineola, Nassau County, N.Y., May 12, 1937; attended
the public schools in Cohasset and Derby Academy in Hingham,
Mass.; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1959; M.A.T.,
Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1961; teacher, St. Paul's
School, Concord, N.H.; foreign service officer, United States
Department of State, 1961-1962; member, President John
Kennedy's White House staff, 1962-1963; legislative assistant
to Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., 1964; State Coordinator
of United States Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential primary
campaign, 1968; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1968;
elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1997);
censured by the U.S. House of Representatives on July 20, 1983,
for personal misconduct with a House Page; chairman, Committee
on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (One Hundred Third Congress);
was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth
Congress in 1996; died on October 14, 2006, in Boston, Mass.
SULLIVAN, Leonor Kretzer, (wife of John Berchmans
Sullivan), a Representative from Missouri; born Leonor Alice
Kretzer, August 21, 1902, in St. Louis, Mo.; attended public
and private schools; attended Washington University, St. Louis,
Mo.; teacher and director, St. Louis Comptometer School; served
as administrative aide to her husband, John B. Sullivan, 1942-
1951, and as secretary to United States Representative Irving
of Missouri until May 1952, when she resigned to campaign for
congressional nomination; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-
third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-
January 3, 1977); chair, Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses); was not
a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in
1976; died on September 1, 1988, in St. Louis, Mo.; interment
in Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Mo.
THOMAS, John Robert, a Representative from Illinois; born
in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Ill., October 11, 1846;
attended the common schools and Hunter Collegiate Institute,
Princeton, Ind.; served in the Union Army during the Civil War,
and rose from the rank of private to that of captain of Company
D, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer
Infantry; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and
practiced; city attorney of Metropolis, Ill., 1869 and 1870;
served as State's attorney 1871-1874; elected as a Republican
to the Forty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1879-March 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on Levees and
Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-seventh Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the
practice of law in Muskogee, Okla.; United States judge in the
Indian Territory from June 30, 1897, to June 30, 1901;
nominated for judge of the supreme court by the first
Republican State convention of Oklahoma, but declined the
nomination; member of the Oklahoma State Code Commission 1908-
1910; resumed the practice of law in Muskogee, Okla.; died, in
McAlester, Okla., January 19, 1914; interment in Green Hill
Cemetery, Muskogee, Okla.; reinterment in Arlington National
Cemetery.
THROCKMORTON, James Webb, a Representative from Texas; born
in Sparta, White County, Tenn., on February 1, 1825; attended
the common schools; moved with his father to Collin County,
Tex., in 1841; studied medicine in Princeton, Ky., and
practiced in Collin County; served as surgeon during the
Mexican War; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in McKinney, Collin County, Tex.; member of the State
house of representatives 1851-1856; served in the State senate
1856-1861; member of the secession convention of Texas in 1861;
during the Civil War served as captain and major in the
Confederate Army from the spring of 1861 until November 1863;
brigadier general of State troops in 1864 and commander on the
northwest border of the State; again a member of the State
senate in 1865; delegate to the reconstruction convention under
President Johnson's proclamation and chosen the presiding
officer of that body in 1866; elected Governor of Texas and was
inaugurated August 8, 1866; removed by order of General
Sheridan August 9, 1867; resumed the practice of law in Collin
County, Tex.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and
Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman,
Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-fifth Congress); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of
his profession; elected to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee
on Pacific Railroads (Forty-ninth Congress); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1886; unsuccessful candidate for
election as United States Senator in 1881; resumed the practice
of law; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892;
died in McKinney, Collin County, Tex., April 21, 1894;
interment in Pecan Grove Cemetery.
TOWNS, George Washington Bonaparte, a Representative from
Georgia; born in Wilkes County, Ga., May 4, 1801; received a
limited education; studied, law; was admitted to the bar in
1824 and began practice in Montgomery, Ala.; returned to
Georgia in 1826 and continued the practice of law at Talbotton;
member of the State house of representatives in 1829 and 1830;
served in the State senate 1832-1834; elected as a Jacksonian
to the Twenty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1835, to
September 1, 1836, when he resigned; reelected as a Democrat to
the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839);
chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-
fifth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1838 to
the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-
ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Washington Poe and served from January 5, 1846, to March 3,
1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846 to the
Thirtieth Congress; Governor of Georgia 1847-1851; resumed the
practice of law; died, in Macon, Ga., July 15, 1854; interment
in Rose Hill Cemetery.
TOWNSEND, Amos, a Representative from Ohio; born in
Brownsville, Fayette County, Pa., in 1821; attended the common
schools of Pittsburgh, Pa.; clerked in a store in Pittsburgh;
moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1839 and engaged in mercantile
pursuits; served as United States marshal during the Kansas
troubles; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1858 and engaged in the
wholesale grocery business; member of the city council 1866-
1876, serving as president for seven years; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1873; elected as a Republican to
the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Railways
and Canals (Forty-seventh Congress); declined renomination;
member of a wholesale foodpacking firm; died, while on a visit
to St. Augustine, Fla., March 17, 1895; interment in Lake View
Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
TRAIN, Charles Russell, a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Framingham, Mass., October 18, 1817;
attended the common schools, Framingham Academy, and was
graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1837;
studied, law at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Framingham, Mass., in 1841; member of the
State house of representatives in 1847 and 1848; district
attorney 1848-1854; declined the appointment of Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1852;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1853;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856 and
1864; member of the Governor's council in 1857 and 1858;
elected as Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-sixth and Thirty-
seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1862; one of the managers appointed by the House of
Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings
against West H. Humphreys, United States judge for the several
districts of Tennessee; during the Civil War served in the
Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General McClellan;
moved to Boston, Mass.; again served in the State house of
representatives 1868-1871; attorney general of Massachusetts
1871-1878; resumed the practice of law; died, while on a visit
in Conway, Carroll County, N.H., July 28, 1885; interment in
Edgell Grove Cemetery, Framingham, Mass.
WEICHEL, Alvin F., a Representative from Ohio; born in
Sandusky, Ohio, September 11, 1891; attended the public schools
of Sandusky, Ohio; during the First World War enlisted on
December 14, 1917, and assigned to Company P, Ordnance Training
Camp, and later to Headquarters Supply Company at Camp Hancock,
Ga., and was discharged a sergeant January 31, 1919; appointed
second lieutenant, Ordnance Section, Officers' Reserve Corps,
December 10, 1918, and commission terminated December 8, 1928;
was graduated from Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich., from
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and from the Michigan
College of Law in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1924; served
as commissioner of insolvents for the State of Ohio;
prosecuting attorney of Erie County, Ohio, 1931-1937; served as
special counsel for the attorney general of Ohio; lecturer,
School Police Administration, Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the
five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1955);
chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Eightieth
and Eighty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1954; resumed the practice of law; died in
Sandusky, Ohio, November 27, 1956; interment in Calvary
Cemetery.
WHEELER, William Almon, a Representative from New York and
a Vice President of the United States; born in Malone, Franklin
County, N.Y., June 30, 1819; completed preparatory studies;
attended the Franklin Academy at Malone and the University of
Vermont at Burlington; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1845
and practiced in Malone, N.Y.; district attorney for Franklin
County, N.Y., 1846-1849; member, State assembly 1850-1851;
member, State senate 1858-1860; elected as a Republican to the
Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); chair,
Committee on Expenditures in the War Department (Thirty-seventh
Congress); delegate to the State constitutional conventions in
1867 and 1868; elected to the Forty-first and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1877); chair,
Committee on Commerce (Forty-third Congress); was not a
candidate for reelection to the Forty-fifth Congress, having
been nominated in 1876 as the Republican candidate for Vice
President; elected Vice President of the United States on the
Republican ticket with Rutherford Hayes in 1876; inaugurated in
March 1877 and served until March 1881; retired from public
life and active business pursuits because of ill health; died
in Malone, N.Y., June 4, 1887; interment in Morningside
Cemetery.
WHITE, Wallace Humphrey, Jr., (grandson of William Pierce
Frye), a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in
Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, August 6, 1877; attended
the public schools of Lewiston; graduated from Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Maine, in 1899; assistant clerk to the Committee on
Commerce, United States Senate, and secretary to his
grandfather, the President pro tempore 1899-1903; studied, law;
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lewiston, Maine;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1931); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1930, having become a candidate
for Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on
Woman Suffrage (Sixty-seventh through Sixty-ninth Congresses),
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventieth and
Seventy-first Congresses); served as a presidential appointee
on a variety of commissions; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and 1942 and
served from March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1949; was not a
candidate for renomination in 1948; minority leader 1944-1947;
majority leader 1947-1949; chairman, Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce (Eightieth Congress); retired from
political and business activities; died, in Auburn, Maine,
March 31, 1952; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
WHITTINGTON, William Madison, a Representative from
Mississippi; born in Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss.,
May 4, 1878; attended the public schools of Franklin County;
was graduated from Mississippi College at Clinton in 1898 and
from the law department of the University of Mississippi at
Oxford in 1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced
practice in Roxie, Franklin County, Miss., January 1, 1901; in
January 1904 moved to Greenwood, Miss., where he continued the
practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits;
member of the city council, Greenwood, Miss., from January 1,
1907, to January 1, 1911; member of the State senate from
January 1, 1916, to January 1, 1920; reelected in 1923 for a
four-year term and served from January 1 to August 16, 1924,
when he resigned to accept the Democratic nomination for
Representative in Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1920, 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1948; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1951); chairman, Committee
on Flood Control (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-first Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1950; resumed the
practice of law; was a resident of Greenwood, Miss., until his
death August 20, 1962; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
WILSON, Riley Joseph, a Representative from Louisiana; born
near Goldonna, Winn Parish, La., November 12, 1871; attended
the public schools and Beeson College, Arcadia, La.; was
graduated from Iuka (Miss.) Normal Institute in 1894; principal
of Harrisonburg High School 1895-1897; studied, law; was
admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in
Harrisonburg, La.; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1898; edited the Catahoula News 1898-1904; member
of the State house of representatives 1900-1904; district
attorney of the eighth judicial district from December 1, 1904,
until his resignation on May 1, 1910, to accept a judicial
appointment; judge of the eighth judicial district from May 1,
1910, until his resignation on December 1, 1914, having been
elected to Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth
and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-January 3,
1937); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Sixty-fifth
Congress), Committee on Flood Control (Seventy-second through
Seventy-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1936; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in
1928; retired from public and political activities; died, in
Ruston, La., February 23, 1946; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.
YOUNG, Donald Edwin, a Representative from Alaska; born in
Meridian, Sutter County, Calif., June 9, 1933; A.A., Yuba
Junior College, Marysville, Calif., 1952; B.A., California
State University, Chico, Calif., 1958; United States Army,
1955-1957; teacher; Mayor of Fort Yukon, Alaska, 1960-1968;
riverboat captain, 1968-1972; member of the Fort Yukon, Alaska,
city council, 1960-1968; member of the Alaska state house of
representatives, 1966-1970; member of the Alaska state senate,
1970-1973; delegate, Alaska state Republican conventions, 1964,
1966, 1968, and 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-
third Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of United States Representative Nick Begich, and
reelected to the twenty-two succeeding Congresses (March 6,
1973-present); chair, Committee on Resources (One Hundred
Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses); chair, Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure (One Hundred Seventh
through One Hundred Ninth Congresses).
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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
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25th
1st Sess.......................... George W.B. Towns..... GA.................... D.................... September 15, 1837... October 16, 1837
2nd Sess.......................... Levi Lincoln.......... MA.................... W.................... December 7, 1837..... July 9, 1838
3rd Sess.......................... Levi Lincoln.......... MA.................... W.................... December 6, 1838..... March 3, 1839
26th
1st Sess.......................... Levi Lincoln.......... MA.................... W.................... December 27, 1839.... July 21, 1840
2nd Sess.......................... David Petrikin........ PA.................... D.................... December 10, 1840.... December 15, 1840
Stephen B. Leonard.... NY.................... D.................... December 15, 1840.... March 3, 1841
27th............................... William W. Boardman... CT.................... W.................... June 7, 1841......... March 3, 1843
28th............................... Zadock Pratt.......... NY.................... D.................... December 11, 1843.... March 3, 1845
29th
1st Sess.......................... Orlando B. Ficklin.... IL.................... D.................... December 4, 1845..... August 10, 1846
2nd Sess.......................... James J. Faran........ OH.................... D.................... December 10, 1846.... March 3, 1845
30th............................... John W. Houston....... DE.................... W.................... December 9, 1847..... March 3, 1849
31st
1st Sess.......................... Franklin W. Bowdon.... AL.................... D.................... December 27, 1849.... September 30, 1850
2nd Sess.......................... Richard H. Stanton.... KY.................... D.................... December 5, 1850..... March 3, 1851
32nd............................... Richard H. Stanton.... KY.................... D.................... December 9, 1851..... March 3, 1853
33rd............................... F. Burton Craige...... NC.................... D.................... December 12, 1853.... March 3, 1855
34th............................... Edward Ball........... OH.................... Opp.................. February 13, 1856.... March 3, 1857
35th............................... Laurence M. Keitt..... SC.................... D.................... December 14, 1857.... March 3, 1859
36th............................... Charles R. Train...... MA.................... R.................... February 9, 1860..... March 3, 1861
37th............................... Charles R. Train...... MA.................... R.................... July 8, 1861......... March 3, 1863
38th............................... John H. Rice.......... ME.................... R.................... December 14, 1863.... March 3, 1865
39th............................... John H. Rice.......... ME.................... R.................... December 11, 1865.... March 3, 1967
40th............................... John Covode........... PA.................... R.................... November 25, 1867.... March 3, 1869
41st............................... Benjamin F. Hopkins... WI.................... R.................... March 15, 1869....... January 1, 1870
John Beatty........... OH.................... R.................... January 1, 1870...... March 3, 1871
42nd............................... George A. Halsey...... NJ.................... R.................... April 13, 1871....... March 3, 1873
43rd............................... James H. Platt, Jr.... VA.................... R.................... December 5, 1873..... March 3, 1875
44th............................... William S. Holman..... IN.................... D.................... December 20, 1875.... March 3, 1877
45th............................... Phillip Cook.......... GA.................... D.................... October 29, 1877..... March 3, 1879
46th............................... Phillip Cook.......... GA.................... D.................... April 11, 1879....... March 3, 1881
47th............................... William S. PA.................... R.................... December 21, 1881.... March 3, 1883
Shallenberger.
48th............................... Strother M. IN.................... D.................... December 24, 1883.... March 3, 1885
Stockslager.
49th............................... Samuel Dibble......... DC.................... D.................... January 7, 1886...... March 3, 1887
50th............................... Samuel Dibble......... SC.................... D.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... Seth L. Milliken...... ME.................... R.................... December 21, 1889.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... John H. Bankhead...... AL.................... D.................... December 23, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... John H. Bankhead...... AL.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 3, 1895
54th............................... Seth L. Milliken...... ME.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... David H. Mercer....... NE.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ March 3, 1899
56th............................... David H. Mercer....... NE.................... R.................... December 18, 1899.... March 3, 1901
57th............................... David H. Mercer....... NE.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... Charles W. Gillet..... NY.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
60th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... December 19, 1907.... March 3, 1909
61st............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... August 5, 1909....... March 3, 1911
62nd............................... Morris Sheppard....... TX.................... D.................... April 11, 1911....... March 3, 1913
63rd............................... Frank Clark........... FL.................... D.................... June 3, 1913......... March 3, 1915
64th............................... Frank Clark........... FL.................... D.................... December 14, 1915.... March 3, 1917
65th............................... Frank Clark........... FL.................... D.................... April 2, 1917........ March 3, 1919
66th............................... John W. Langley....... KY.................... R.................... May 19, 1919......... March 3, 1921
67th............................... John W. Langley....... KY.................... R.................... April 11, 1921....... March 3, 1923
68th............................... John W. Langley....... KY.................... R.................... December 17, 1923.... March 3, 1925
69th............................... Richard N. Elliott.... IN.................... R.................... December 16, 1925.... March 3, 1927
70th............................... Richard N. Elliott.... IN.................... R.................... December 12, 1927.... March 3, 1929
71st............................... Richard N. Elliott.... IN.................... R.................... December 12, 1929.... March 3, 1931
72nd............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
73rd............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... March 14, 1933....... January 3, 1935
74th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
75th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 14, 1937..... January 3, 1939
76th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 23, 1939..... January 3, 1941
77th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 22, 1941..... January 3, 1943
78th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 22, 1943..... January 3, 1945
79th............................... Fritz G. Lanham....... TX.................... D.................... January 16, 1945..... January 3, 1947
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COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS
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48th............................... Albert S. Willis...... KY.................... D.................... December 24, 1883.... March 3, 1885
49th............................... Albert S. Willis...... KY.................... D.................... January 7, 1886...... March 3, 1887
50th............................... Newton C. Blanchard... LA.................... D.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... Thomas J. Henderson... IL.................... R.................... December 21, 1880.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... Newton C. Blanchard... LA.................... D.................... December 23, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... Newton C. Blanchard... LA.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 12, 1894
Thomas C. Catchings... MS.................... D.................... March 12, 1894....... March 3, 1895
54th............................... Warren B. Hooker...... NY.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... Warren B. Hooker...... NY.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ November 10, 1898
Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... November 10, 1898.... March 3, 1899
56th............................... Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... December 18, 1899.... March 3, 1901
57th............................... Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
60th............................... Theodore E. Burton.... OH.................... R.................... December 19, 1907.... March 3, 1909
61st............................... De Alva S. Alexander.. NY.................... R.................... August 5, 1909....... March 3, 1911
62nd............................... Stephen M. Sparkman... FL.................... D.................... April 11, 1911....... March 3, 1913
63rd............................... Stephen M. Sparkman... FL.................... D.................... June 13, 1913........ March 3, 1915
64th............................... Stephen M. Sparkman... FL.................... D.................... December 14, 1915.... March 3, 1917
65th............................... John H. Small......... NC.................... D.................... April 2, 1917........ March 3, 1919
66th............................... Charles A. Kennedy.... IA.................... R.................... May 19, 1919......... March 3, 1919
67th............................... S. Wallace Dempsey.... NY.................... R.................... April 11, 1921....... March 3, 1923
68th............................... S. Wallace Dempsey.... NY.................... R.................... December 17, 1923.... March 3, 1925
69th............................... S. Wallace Dempsey.... NY.................... R.................... December 16, 1925.... March 3, 1927
70th............................... S. Wallace Dempsey.... NY.................... R.................... December 12, 1927.... March 3, 1929
71st............................... S. Wallace Dempsey.... NY.................... R.................... December 12, 1929.... March 3, 1931
72nd............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
73rd............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... March 14, 1933....... January 3, 1935
74th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
75th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 13, 1937..... January 3, 1939
76th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 18, 1939..... January 3, 1941
77th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 22, 1941..... January 3, 1943
78th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 22, 1943..... January 3, 1945
79th............................... Joseph J. Mansfield... TX.................... D.................... January 16, 1945..... January 3, 1947
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22nd............................... Charles F. Mercer..... VA.................... A-Jx................. December 6, 1831..... March 2, 1833
23rd............................... Charles F. Mercer..... VA.................... A-Jx................. December 5, 1833..... March 3, 1835
24th............................... Charles F. Mercer..... VA.................... A-Jx................. December 10, 1835.... March 3, 1837
25th............................... Charles F. Mercer..... VA.................... W.................... September 11, 1837... March 3, 1839
26th............................... Charles Ogle.......... PA.................... A-Ma................. December 27, 1839.... March 3, 1841
27th............................... Joseph Lawrence....... PA.................... W.................... June 7, 1841......... April 17 1842
Harry S. Lane......... IN.................... W.................... April 17, 1842....... August 31, 1842
3rd Sess. Thomas M. T. McKennan. PA.................... W.................... December 12, 1842.... March 3, 1843
28th............................... Robert D. Owen........ IN.................... D.................... December 11, 1843.... March 3, 1845
29th............................... Robert Smith.......... IL.................... D.................... December 4, 1845..... March 3, 1847
30th............................... Robert C. Schenck..... OH.................... W.................... December 9, 1847..... March 3, 1849
31st............................... John L. Robinson...... IN.................... D.................... December 27, 1849.... March 3, 1851
32nd............................... John L. Robinson...... IN.................... D.................... December 9, 1851..... March 3, 1853
33rd............................... Cyrus L. Dunham....... IN.................... D.................... December 12, 1853.... March 3, 1855
34th............................... James Knox............ IL.................... Opp.................. February 13, 1856.... March 3, 1857
35th............................... George W. Jones....... TN.................... D.................... December 14, 1857.... March 3, 1859
36th............................... Robert Mallory........ KY.................... Opp.................. February 9, 1860..... March 3, 1861
37th............................... Robert Mallory........ KY.................... Union................ July 8, 1861......... March 3, 1863
38th............................... Isaac N. Arnold....... IL.................... R.................... December 14, 1863.... March 3, 1865
39th............................... Fernando C. Beaman.... MI.................... R.................... December 11, 1865.... March 3, 1867
40th............................... Burton C. Cook........ IL.................... R.................... November 25, 1867.... March 3, 1869
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COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS AND CANALS
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41st............................... Ebon C. Ingersoll..... IL.................... R.................... March 15, 1869....... April 9, 1869
42nd............................... John B. Packer........ PA.................... R.................... December 4, 1871..... March 3, 1873
43rd............................... George W. McCrary..... IA.................... R.................... December 5, 1873..... March 3, 1875
44th............................... Thomas L. Jones....... KY.................... D.................... December 20, 1875.... March 3, 1877
45th............................... Gustave Schleicher.... TX.................... D.................... January 10, 1879..... .....................
George C. Cabell...... VA.................... D.................... January 10, 1879..... March 3, 1879
46th............................... George C. Cabell...... VA.................... D.................... April 11, 1879....... March 3, 1881
47th............................... Amos Townsend......... OH.................... R.................... December 21, 1881.... March 3, 1883
48th............................... Robert H. M. Davidson. FL.................... D.................... December 24, 1883.... March 3, 1885
49th............................... Robert H. M. Davidson. FL.................... D.................... January 7, 1886...... March 3, 1887
50th............................... Robert H. M. Davidson. FL.................... D.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... Henry C. McCormick.... PA.................... R.................... December 21, 1889.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... Thomas C. Catchings... MS.................... D.................... December 23, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... Thomas C. Catchings... MS.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 20, 1894
Seth W. Cobb.......... MO.................... D.................... March 20, 1894....... March 3, 1895
54th............................... Charles A. Chickering. NY.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... Charles A. Chickering. NY.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ March 3, 1899
56th............................... Charles A. Chickering. NY.................... R.................... December 18, 1899.... February 13, 1900
James H. Davidson..... WI.................... R.................... February 13, 1900.... March 3, 1901
57th............................... James H. Davidson..... WI.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... James H. Davidson..... WI.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... James H. Davidson..... WI.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
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COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS
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39th............................... Hiram Price........... IA.................... R.................... December 11, 1865.... March 3, 1867
40th............................... Hiram Price........... IA.................... R.................... November 25, 1867.... March 3, 1869
41st............................... William A. Wheeler.... NY.................... R.................... March 15, 1869....... March 3, 1871
42nd............................... William A. Wheeler.... NY.................... R.................... December 4, 1871..... March 3, 1873
43rd............................... Philetus Sawyer....... IS.................... R.................... December 5, 1873..... March 3, 1875
44th............................... Lucis Q. C. Lamar..... MS.................... D.................... December 20, 1875.... March 3, 1877
45th............................... Clarkson N. Potter.... NY.................... D.................... October 29, 1877..... December 11, 1877
James W. Throckmorton. TX.................... D.................... December 11, 1877.... March 3, 1879
46th............................... Robert McLane......... MD.................... D.................... April 11, 1879....... March 3, 1881
47th............................... George C. Hazelton.... WI.................... R.................... December 21, 1881.... March 3, 1883
48th............................... George W. Cassidy..... NV.................... D.................... December 24, 1883.... March 3, 1885
49th............................... James W. Throckmorton. TX.................... D.................... January 7, 1886...... March 3, 1887
50th............................... Joseph H. Outhwaite... OH.................... D.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... John Dalzell.......... PA.................... R.................... December 21, 1889.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... James B. Reilly....... PA.................... D.................... December 23, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... James B. Reilly....... PA.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 3, 1895
54th............................... H. Henry Powers....... VT.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... H. Henry Powers....... VT.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ March 3, 1899
56th............................... H. Henry Powers....... VT.................... R.................... December 18 1899..... March 3, 1901
57th............................... William Alden Smith... MI.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... William Alden Smith... MI.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... Thomas S. Butler...... PA.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
60th............................... Thomas S. Butler...... PA.................... R.................... December 19, 1907.... March 3, 1909
61st............................... Thomas S. Butler...... PA.................... R.................... August 5, 1909....... March 3, 1911
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63rd............................... Dorsey W. Shackleford. MO.................... D.................... June 3, 1913......... March 3, 1915
64th............................... Dorsey W. Shackleford. MO.................... D.................... December 14, 1915.... March 3, 1917
65th............................... Dorsey W. Shackleford. MO.................... D.................... April 2, 1917........ March 3, 1919
66th............................... Thomas B. Dunn........ NY.................... R.................... May 19, 1919......... March 3, 1821
67th............................... Thomas B. Dunn........ NY.................... R.................... April 11, 1921....... March 3, 1923
68th............................... Cassius C. Dowell..... IA.................... R.................... December 17, 1923.... March 3, 1925
69th............................... Cassius C. Dowell..... IA.................... R.................... December 16, 1925.... March 3, 1927
70th............................... Cassius C. Dowell..... IA.................... R.................... December 12, 1927.... March 3, 1929
71st............................... Cassius C. Dowell..... IA.................... R.................... December 12, 1929.... March 3, 1931
72nd............................... Edward B. Almon....... AL.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
73rd............................... Edward B. Almon....... AL.................... D.................... March 14, 1933....... June 22, 1933
Wilburn Cartwright.... OK.................... D.................... June 22, 1933........ January 3, 1935
74th............................... Wilburn Cartwright.... OK.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
75th............................... Wilburn Cartwright.... OK.................... D.................... January 13, 1937..... January 3, 1939
76th............................... Wilburn Cartwright.... OK.................... D.................... January 18, 1939..... January 3, 1941
77th............................... Wilburn Cartwright.... OK.................... D.................... January 22, 1941..... January 3, 1943
78th............................... J. W. Robinson........ UT.................... D.................... January 22, 1943..... January 3, 1945
79th............................... J. W. Robinson........ UT.................... D.................... January 16, 1945..... January 3, 1947
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44th............................... E. John Ellis......... LA.................... D.................... December 20, 1875.... March 3, 1877
45th............................... Edward W. Robertson... LA.................... D.................... October 29, 1877..... March 3, 1879
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COMMITTEE ON LEVEES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
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46th............................... Edward W. Robertson... LA.................... D.................... April 11, 1879....... March 3, 1881
47th............................... John R. Thomas........ IL.................... R.................... December 21, 1881.... March 3, 1883
48th............................... J. Floyd King......... LA.................... D.................... December 24, 1883.... March 3, 1885
49th............................... J. Floyd King......... LA.................... D.................... January 7, 1886...... .....................
50th............................... Thomas C. Catchings... MD.................... S.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... Julius C. Burrows..... MI.................... R.................... December 21, 1890.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... Samuel M. Robertson... LA.................... D.................... December 23, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... John M. Allen......... MS.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 3, 1895
54th............................... George W. Ray......... NY.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ March 3, 1899
56th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... December 18, 1899.... March 3, 1901
57th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... Richard Bartholdt..... MO.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... George W. Prince...... IL.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
60th............................... George W. Prince...... IL.................... R.................... December 19, 1907.... March 3, 1909
61st............................... Philip P. Campbell.... KS.................... R.................... August 5, 1909....... March 3, 1911
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COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL
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64th............................... Benjamin G. Humphreys. MS.................... D.................... February 9, 1916..... March 3, 1917
65th............................... Benjamin G. Humphreys. MS.................... D.................... April 2, 1917........ March 3, 1919
66th............................... William A. Rodenberg.. IL.................... R.................... May 19, 1919......... March 3, 1921
67th............................... William A. Rodenberg.. IL.................... R.................... April 11, 1921....... March 3, 1923
68th............................... Thomas D. Schall...... MN.................... R.................... December 17, 1923.... March 3, 1925
69th............................... Frank R. Reid......... IL.................... R.................... December 16, 1925.... March 3, 1927
70th............................... Frank R. Reid......... IL.................... R.................... December 12, 1927.... March 3, 1929
71st............................... Frank R. Reid......... IL.................... R.................... December 12, 1929.... March 3, 1931
72nd............................... Riley J. Wilson....... LA.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
73rd............................... Riley J. Wilson....... LA.................... D.................... March 14, 1933....... January 3, 1935
74th............................... Riley J. Wilson....... LA.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
75th............................... William M. Whittington MS.................... D.................... January 13, 1937..... January 3, 1939
76th............................... William M. Whittington MS.................... D.................... January 18, 1939..... January 3, 1941
77th............................... William M. Whittington MS.................... D.................... January 22, 1941..... January 3, 1943
78th............................... William M. Whittington MD.................... D.................... January 22, 1943..... January 3, 1945
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50th............................... Poindexter Dunn....... AR.................... D.................... January 5, 1888...... March 3, 1889
51st............................... John M. Farquhar...... NY.................... R.................... December 21, 1889.... March 3, 1891
52nd............................... Samuel Fowler......... NJ.................... D.................... December 22, 1891.... March 3, 1893
53rd............................... George W. Fithian..... IL.................... D.................... August 21, 1893...... March 3, 1895
54th............................... Sereno E. Payne....... NY.................... R.................... December 21, 1895.... March 3, 1897
55th............................... Sereno E. Payne....... NY.................... R.................... July 22, 1897........ March 3, 1899
56th............................... Charles H. Grosvenor.. OH.................... R.................... December 18, 1899.... March 3, 1901
57th............................... Charles H. Grosvenor.. OH.................... R.................... December 10, 1901.... March 3, 1903
58th............................... Charles H. Grosvenor.. OH.................... R.................... December 5, 1903..... March 3, 1905
59th............................... Charles H. Grosvenor.. OH.................... R.................... December 11, 1905.... March 3, 1907
60th............................... William S. Greene..... MA.................... R.................... December 19, 1907.... March 3, 1909
61st............................... William S. Greene..... MA.................... R.................... August 5, 1909....... March 3, 1911
62nd............................... Joshua W. Alexander... MO.................... D.................... April 11, 1911....... March 3, 1913
63rd............................... Joshua W. Alexander... MO.................... D.................... June 3, 1913......... March 3, 1915
64th............................... Joshua W. Alexander... MO.................... D.................... December 4, 1915..... March 3, 1917
65th............................... Joshua W. Alexander... MO.................... D.................... April 2, 1917........ March 3, 1919
66th............................... William S. Greene..... MA.................... R.................... May 19, 1919......... March 3, 1921
67th............................... William S. Greene..... MA.................... R.................... April 11, 1921....... March 3, 1923
68th............................... William S. Greene..... MA.................... R.................... December 17, 1923.... September 22, 1924
George W. Edmonds..... PA.................... R.................... December 1, 1924..... March 3, 1925
69th............................... Frank D. Scott........ MI.................... R.................... December 16, 1925.... March 3, 1927
70th............................... Wallace H. White, Jr.. ME.................... R.................... December 12, 1927.... March 3, 1929
71st............................... Wallace H. White, Jr.. ME.................... R.................... December 7, 1929..... March 3, 1931
72nd............................... Ewin L. Davis......... TN.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
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72nd............................... Ewin L. Davis......... TN.................... D.................... December 15, 1931.... March 3, 1933
73rd............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... March 14, 1933....... January 3, 1935
74th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
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74th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 11, 1935..... January 3, 1937
75th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 13, 1937..... January 3, 1939
76th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 18, 1939..... January 3, 1941
77th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 22, 1941..... January 3, 1943
78th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 12, 1943..... January 3, 1945
79th............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 3, 1945...... January 3, 1947
80th............................... Frederick V. Bradley.. MI.................... R.................... January 14, 1947..... May 24, 1947
Alvin F. Weichel...... OH.................... R.................... June 4, 1947......... January 3, 1949
81st............................... Schuyler Otis Bland... VA.................... D.................... January 18, 1949..... February 16, 1950
Edward J. Hart........ NJ.................... D.................... February 23, 1950.... January 3, 1950
82nd............................... Edward J. Hart........ NJ.................... D.................... January 12, 1951..... January 3, 1953
83rd............................... Alvin F. Weichel...... OH.................... R.................... January 19, 1953..... January 3, 1955
84th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... January 13, 1955..... January 3, 1957
85th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... January 10, 1957..... January 3, 1959
86th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... January 19, 1959..... January 3, 1961
87th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... February 6, 1961..... January 3, 1963
88th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... January 17, 1963..... January 3, 1965
89th............................... Herbert C. Bonner..... NC.................... D.................... January 18, 1965..... November 7, 1965
Edward A. Garmatz..... MD.................... D.................... January 10, 1966..... January 3, 1967
90th............................... Edward A. Garmatz..... MD.................... D.................... January 23, 1967..... January 3, 1969
91st............................... Edward A. Garmatz..... MD.................... D.................... January 29, 1969..... January 3, 1971
92nd............................... Edward A. Garmatz..... MD.................... D.................... February 4, 1971..... January 3, 1973
93rd............................... Leonor Kretzer MO.................... D.................... January 24, 1973..... January 3, 1975
Sullivan.
94th............................... Leonor Kretzer MO.................... D.................... January 20, 1975..... January 3, 1977
Sullivan.
95th............................... John M. Murphy........ NY.................... D.................... January 19, 1977..... January 3, 1979
96th............................... John M. Murphy........ NY.................... D.................... January 24, 1979..... January 3, 1981
97th............................... Walter B. Jones....... ND.................... D.................... January 28, 1981..... January 3, 1983
98th............................... Walter B. Jones....... ND.................... D.................... January 6, 1983...... January 3, 1985
99th............................... Walter B. Jones....... ND.................... D.................... January 7, 1985...... January 3, 1987
100th.............................. Walter B. Jones....... ND.................... D.................... January 8, 1987...... January 3, 1989
101st.............................. Walter B. Jones....... ND.................... D.................... January 3, 1989...... January 3, 1991
102nd.............................. Walter B. Jones....... NC.................... D.................... January 24, 1991..... September 15, 1992
Gerry E. Studds....... MA.................... D.................... September 15, 1992... January 3, 1993
103rd.............................. Gerry E. Studds....... MA.................... D.................... January 5, 1993...... January 3, 1995
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80th............................... George A. Dondero..... MI.................... R.................... January 14, 1947..... January 3, 1949
81st............................... Will M. Whittington... MS.................... D.................... January 18, 1949..... January 3, 1951
82nd............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... January 12, 1951..... January 3, 1953
83rd............................... George A. Dondero..... MI.................... R.................... January 19, 1953..... January 3, 1955
84th............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... January 13, 1955..... January 3, 1957
85th............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... January 10, 1957..... January 3, 1959
86th............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... January 7, 1959...... January 3, 1961
87th............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... February 6, 1961..... January 3, 1963
88th............................... Charles A. Buckley.... NY.................... D.................... January 17, 1963..... January 3, 1965
89th............................... George H. Fallon...... MD.................... D.................... January 18, 1965..... January 3, 1967
90th............................... George F. Fallon...... MD.................... D.................... January 23, 1967..... January 3, 1969
91st............................... George H. Fallon...... MD.................... D.................... January 29, 1969..... January 3, 1971
92nd............................... John A. Blatnik....... MN.................... DFL.................. February 4, 1971..... January 3, 1973
93rd............................... John A. Blatnik....... MN.................... DFL.................. January 24, 1973..... January 3, 1975
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94th............................... Robert E. Jones....... AL.................... D.................... January 20, 1975..... January 3, 1977
95th............................... Harold T. (Bizz) CA.................... D.................... January 19, 1977..... January 3, 1979
Johnson.
96th............................... Harold T. (Bizz) CA.................... D.................... January 24, 1979..... January 3, 1981
Johnson.
97th............................... James J. Howard....... NJ.................... D.................... January 28, 1981..... January 3, 1983
98th............................... James J. Howard....... NJ.................... D.................... January 6, 1983...... January 3, 1985
99th............................... James J. Howard....... NJ.................... D.................... January 7, 1985...... January 3, 1987
100th.............................. James J. Howard....... NJ.................... D.................... January 6, 1987...... March 25, 1988
Glenn M. Anderson..... CA.................... D.................... April 20, 1988...... January 3, 1989
101st.............................. Glenn M. Anderson..... CA.................... D.................... January 3, 1989...... January 3, 1991
102nd.............................. Robert A. Roe......... NJ.................... D.................... January 24, 1991..... January 3, 1993
103rd.............................. Norman Y. Mineta...... CA.................... D.................... January 5, 1993...... January 3, 1995
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104th.............................. Bud Shuster........... PA.................... R.................... January 4, 1995...... January 3, 1997
105th.............................. Bud Shuster........... PA.................... R.................... January 7, 1997...... January 3, 1999
106th.............................. Bud Shuster........... PA.................... R.................... January 6, 1999...... January 3, 2001
107th.............................. Don Young............. AK.................... R.................... January 6, 2001...... January 3, 2003
108th.............................. Don Young............. AK.................... R.................... January 8, 2003...... January 3, 2005
109th.............................. Don Young............. AK.................... E.................... January 6, 2005...... January 3, 2007
110th.............................. James L. Oberstar..... MN.................... D.................... January 4, 2007...... January 3, 2009
111th.............................. James L. Oberstar..... MN.................... D.................... Januray 6, 2009...... January 3, 2011
112th.............................. John L. Mica.......... FL.................... R.................... January 5, 2011...... January 3, 2013
113th.............................. Bill Shuster.......... PA.................... R.................... January 3, 2013...... January 2, 2015
114th.............................. Bill Shuster.......... PA.................... R.................... January 5, 2015...... January 3, 2017
115th.............................. Bill Shuster.......... PA.................... R.................... January 3, 2017...... January 2, 2019
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