59th United States Congress

59th United States Congress
58th ← → 60th
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907
Members	90 senators 386 representatives 6 non-voting delegates
Senate Majority	Republican
Senate President	Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
House Majority	Republican
House Speaker	Joseph G. Cannon (R)
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1905 – March 18, 1905 1st: December 4, 1905 – June 30, 1906 2nd: December 3, 1906 – March 3, 1907

The 59th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1905, to March 4, 1907, during the fifth and sixth years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twelfth Census of the United States in 1900. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major events[]

• March 4, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt began his second (only full) term.

Major legislation[]

• June 8, 1906: Antiquities Act
• June 29, 1906: Hepburn Act
• June 30, 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wiley Act), ch. 3915, 34 Stat. 768
• June 30, 1906: Meat Inspection Act (Beveridge Act)
• 1906: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching chartered.^[1]
• March 2, 1907: Expatriation Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 1228

Party summary[]

Senate[]

House of Representatives[]

President of the Senate
Charles W. Fairbanks

Leaders[]

Senate[]

• President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
• President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
• Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison
• Democratic Caucus Chair: Arthur Pue Gorman, until June 4, 1906
  • Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, afterwards
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack

House of Representatives[]

• Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership[]

• Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
• Majority Whip: James E. Watson
• Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn

Minority (Democratic) leadership[]

• Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams
• Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Robert Lee Henry
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs

Members[]

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.

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Senate[]

At this time, Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1906; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1908; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1910.

Alabama[] ▌2. John T. Morgan (D) ▌3. Edmund W. Pettus (D) Arkansas[] ▌2. James H. Berry (D) ▌3. James P. Clarke (D) California[] ▌1. Frank P. Flint (R) ▌3. George C. Perkins (R) Colorado[] ▌2. Thomas M. Patterson (D) ▌3. Henry M. Teller (D) Connecticut[] ▌1. Morgan G. Bulkeley (R) ▌3. Orville H. Platt (R), until April 21, 1905 ▌Frank B. Brandegee (R), from May 10, 1905 Delaware[] ▌1. Henry A. du Pont, (R), from June 13, 1906 ▌2. J. Frank Allee (R) Florida[] ▌2. James P. Taliaferro (D) ▌3. Stephen Mallory (D) Georgia[] ▌2. Augustus O. Bacon (D) ▌3. Alexander S. Clay (D) Idaho[] ▌2. Fred Dubois (D) ▌3. Weldon B. Heyburn (R) Illinois[] ▌2. Shelby M. Cullom (R) ▌3. Albert J. Hopkins (R) Indiana[] ▌1. Albert J. Beveridge (R) ▌3. James A. Hemenway (R) Iowa[] ▌2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) ▌3. William B. Allison (R) Kansas[] ▌2. Joseph R. Burton (R), until June 4, 1906 ▌Alfred W. Benson (R), June 11, 1906 - January 23, 1907 ▌Charles Curtis (R), from January 29, 1907 ▌3. Chester I. Long (R) Kentucky[] ▌2. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D) ▌3. James B. McCreary (D) Louisiana[] ▌2. Murphy J. Foster (D) ▌3. Samuel D. McEnery (D) Maine[] ▌1. Eugene Hale (R) ▌2. William P. Frye (R) Maryland[] ▌1. Isidor Rayner (D) ▌3. Arthur P. Gorman (D), until June 4, 1906 ▌William P. Whyte (D), from June 8, 1906 Massachusetts[] ▌1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) ▌2. Winthrop M. Crane (R) Michigan[] ▌1. Julius C. Burrows (R) ▌2. Russell A. Alger (R), until January 24, 1907 ▌William A. Smith (R), from February 6, 1907 Minnesota[] ▌1. Moses E. Clapp (R) ▌2. Knute Nelson (R) Mississippi[] ▌1. Hernando D. Money (D) ▌2. Anselm J. McLaurin (D) Missouri[] ▌1. William Warner (R), from March 18, 1905 ▌3. William J. Stone (D)

Montana[] ▌1. Thomas H. Carter (R) ▌2. William A. Clark (D) Nebraska[] ▌1. Elmer J. Burkett (R) ▌2. Joseph H. Millard (R) Nevada[] ▌1. George S. Nixon (R) ▌3. Francis G. Newlands (D) New Hampshire[] ▌2. Henry E. Burnham (R) ▌3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R) New Jersey[] ▌1. John Kean (R) ▌2. John F. Dryden (R) New York[] ▌1. Chauncey M. Depew (R) ▌3. Thomas C. Platt (R) North Carolina[] ▌2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D) ▌3. Lee S. Overman (D) North Dakota[] ▌1. Porter J. McCumber (R) ▌3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R) Ohio[] ▌1. Charles W. F. Dick (R) ▌3. Joseph B. Foraker (R) Oregon[] ▌2. John H. Mitchell (R), until December 8, 1905 ▌John M. Gearin (D), December 13, 1905 - January 23, 1907 ▌Frederick W. Mulkey (R), from January 23, 1907 ▌3. Charles W. Fulton (R) Pennsylvania[] ▌1. Philander C. Knox (R) ▌3. Boies Penrose (R) Rhode Island[] ▌1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R) ▌2. George P. Wetmore (R) South Carolina[] ▌2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D) ▌3. Asbury C. Latimer (D) South Dakota[] ▌2. Robert J. Gamble (R) ▌3. Alfred B. Kittredge (R) Tennessee[] ▌1. William B. Bate (D), until March 9, 1905 James B. Frazier (D), from March 21, 1905 ▌2. Edward W. Carmack (D) Texas[] ▌1. Charles A. Culberson (D) ▌2. Joseph W. Bailey (D) Utah[] ▌1. George Sutherland (R) ▌3. Reed Smoot (R) Vermont[] ▌1. Redfield Proctor (R) ▌3. William P. Dillingham (R) Virginia[] ▌1. John W. Daniel (D) ▌2. Thomas S. Martin (D) Washington[] ▌1. Samuel H. Piles (R) ▌3. Levi Ankeny (R) West Virginia[] ▌1. Nathan B. Scott (R) ▌2. Stephen B. Elkins (R) Wisconsin[] ▌1. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)[2] ▌3. John C. Spooner (R) Wyoming[] ▌1. Clarence D. Clark (R) ▌2. Francis E. Warren (R)

Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 59th Congress in March 1905.   2 Democrats   1 Democrat and 1 Republican   2 Republicans   Territories

House of Representatives[]

Alabama[] ▌1. George W. Taylor (D) ▌2. Ariosto A. Wiley (D) ▌3. Henry D. Clayton (D) ▌4. Sydney J. Bowie (D) ▌5. J. Thomas Heflin (D) ▌6. John H. Bankhead (D) ▌7. John L. Burnett (D) ▌8. William N. Richardson (D) ▌9. Oscar W. Underwood (D) Arkansas[] ▌1. Robert B. Macon (D) ▌2. Stephen Brundidge Jr. (D) ▌3. John C. Floyd (D) ▌4. John S. Little (D), until January 14, 1907 ▌5. Charles C. Reid (D) ▌6. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) ▌7. Robert M. Wallace (D) California[] ▌1. James N. Gillett (R), until November 4, 1906 ▌William F. Englebright (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌2. Duncan E. McKinlay (R) ▌3. Joseph R. Knowland (R) ▌4. Julius Kahn (R) ▌5. Everis A. Hayes (R) ▌6. James C. Needham (R) ▌7. James McLachlan (R) ▌8. Sylvester C. Smith (R) Colorado[] ▌At-large. Franklin E. Brooks (R) ▌1. Robert W. Bonynge (R) ▌2. Herschel M. Hogg (R) Connecticut[] ▌At-large. George L. Lilley (R) ▌1. E. Stevens Henry (R) ▌2. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) ▌3. Frank B. Brandegee (R), until May 10, 1905 ▌Edwin W. Higgins (R), from October 2, 1905 ▌4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R) Delaware[] ▌At-large. Hiram R. Burton (R) Florida[] ▌1. Stephen M. Sparkman (D) ▌2. Frank Clark (D) ▌3. William B. Lamar (D) Georgia[] ▌1. Rufus E. Lester (D), until June 16, 1906 ▌James W. Overstreet (D), from October 3, 1906 ▌2. James M. Griggs (D) ▌3. Elijah B. Lewis (D) ▌4. William C. Adamson (D) ▌5. Leonidas F. Livingston (D) ▌6. Charles L. Bartlett (D) ▌7. Gordon Lee (D) ▌8. William M. Howard (D) ▌9. Thomas M. Bell (D) ▌10. Thomas W. Hardwick (D) ▌11. William G. Brantley (D) Idaho[] ▌At-large. Burton L. French (R) Illinois[] ▌1. Martin B. Madden (R) ▌2. James R. Mann (R) ▌3. William W. Wilson (R) ▌4. Charles S. Wharton (R) ▌5. Anthony Michalek (R) ▌6. William Lorimer (R) ▌7. Philip Knopf (R) ▌8. Charles McGavin (R) ▌9. Henry S. Boutell (R) ▌10. George E. Foss (R) ▌11. Howard M. Snapp (R) ▌12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R) ▌13. Robert R. Hitt (R), until September 20, 1906 ▌Frank O. Lowden (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌14. Benjamin F. Marsh (R), until June 2, 1905 ▌James McKinney (R), from November 7, 1905 ▌15. George W. Prince (R) ▌16. Joseph V. Graff (R) ▌17. John A. Sterling (R) ▌18. Joseph G. Cannon (R) ▌19. William B. McKinley (R) ▌20. Henry T. Rainey (D) ▌21. Zeno J. Rives (R) ▌22. William A. Rodenberg (R) ▌23. Frank S. Dickson (R) ▌24. Pleasant T. Chapman (R) ▌25. George W. Smith (R) Indiana[] ▌1. John H. Foster (R), from May 16, 1905 ▌2. John C. Chaney (R) ▌3. William T. Zenor (D) ▌4. Lincoln Dixon (D) ▌5. Elias S. Holliday (R) ▌6. James E. Watson (R) ▌7. Jesse Overstreet (R) ▌8. George W. Cromer (R) ▌9. Charles B. Landis (R) ▌10. Edgar D. Crumpacker (R) ▌11. Frederick Landis (R) ▌12. Newton W. Gilbert (R), until November 6, 1906 ▌Clarence C. Gilhams (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌13. Abraham L. Brick (R) Iowa[] ▌1. Thomas Hedge (R) ▌2. Albert F. Dawson (R) ▌3. Benjamin P. Birdsall (R) ▌4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R) ▌5. Robert G. Cousins (R) ▌6. John F. Lacey (R) ▌7. John A. T. Hull (R) ▌8. William P. Hepburn (R) ▌9. Walter I. Smith (R) ▌10. James P. Conner (R) ▌11. Elbert H. Hubbard (R) Kansas[] ▌At-large. Charles Frederick Scott (R) ▌1. Charles Curtis (R), until January 28, 1907 ▌2. Justin De Witt Bowersock (R) ▌3. Philip P. Campbell (R) ▌4. James Monroe Miller (R) ▌5. William A. Calderhead (R) ▌6. William A. Reeder (R) ▌7. Victor Murdock (R) Kentucky[] ▌1. Ollie M. James (D) ▌2. Augustus Stanley (D) ▌3. James M. Richardson (D) ▌4. David Highbaugh Smith (D) ▌5. J. Swagar Sherley (D) ▌6. Joseph L. Rhinock (D) ▌7. South Trimble (D) ▌8. George G. Gilbert (D) ▌9. Joseph B. Bennett (R) ▌10. Francis A. Hopkins (D) ▌11. Don C. Edwards (R) Louisiana[] ▌1. Adolph Meyer (D) ▌2. Robert Charles Davey (D) ▌3. Robert Foligny Broussard (D) ▌4. John Thomas Watkins (D) ▌5. Joseph Eugene Ransdell (D) ▌6. Samuel Matthews Robertson (D) ▌7. Arsène Paulin Pujó (D) Maine[] ▌1. Amos L. Allen (R) ▌2. Charles E. Littlefield (R) ▌3. Edwin C. Burleigh (R) ▌4. Llewellyn Powers (R) Maryland[] ▌1. Thomas A. Smith (D) ▌2. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D) ▌3. Frank C. Wachter (R) ▌4. John Gill Jr. (D) ▌5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd I (R) ▌6. George A. Pearre (R) Massachusetts[] ▌1. George P. Lawrence (R) ▌2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) ▌3. Rockwood Hoar (R), until November 1, 1906 ▌Charles G. Washburn (R), from December 18, 1906 ▌4. Charles Q. Tirrell (R) ▌5. Butler Ames (R) ▌6. Augustus P. Gardner (R) ▌7. Ernest W. Roberts (R) ▌8. Samuel W. McCall (R) ▌9. John A. Keliher (D) ▌10. William S. McNary (D) ▌11. John Andrew Sullivan (D) ▌12. John W. Weeks (R) ▌13. William S. Greene (R) ▌14. William C. Lovering (R) Michigan[] ▌1. Edwin C. Denby (R) ▌2. Charles E. Townsend (R) ▌3. Washington Gardner (R) ▌4. Edward L. Hamilton (R) ▌5. William Alden Smith (R), until February 9, 1907 ▌6. Samuel W. Smith (R) ���7. Henry McMorran (R) ▌8. Joseph W. Fordney (R) ▌9. Roswell P. Bishop (R) ▌10. George A. Loud (R) ▌11. Archibald B. Darragh (R) ▌12. H. Olin Young (R) Minnesota[] ▌1. James Albertus Tawney (R) ▌2. James McCleary (R) ▌3. Charles Russell Davis (R) ▌4. Frederick Stevens (R) ▌5. Loren Fletcher (R) ▌6. Clarence Buckman (R) ▌7. Andrew Volstead (R) ▌8. James Bede (R) ▌9. Halvor Steenerson (R) Mississippi[] ▌1. Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D) ▌2. Thomas Spight (D) ▌3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D) ▌4. Wilson S. Hill (D) ▌5. Adam M. Byrd (D) ▌6. Eaton J. Bowers (D) ▌7. Frank A. McLain (D) ▌8. John Sharp Williams (D) Missouri[] ▌1. James Tilghman Lloyd (D) ▌2. William W. Rucker (D) ▌3. Frank B. Klepper (R) ▌4. Frank B. Fulkerson (R) ▌5. Edgar C. Ellis (R) ▌6. David A. De Armond (D) ▌7. John Welborn (R) ▌8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) ▌9. James Beauchamp Clark (D) ▌10. Richard Bartholdt (R) ▌11. John T. Hunt (D) ▌12. Ernest E. Wood (D), until June 23, 1906 ▌Harry M. Coudrey (R), from June 23, 1906 ▌13. Marion E. Rhodes (R) ▌14. William T. Tyndall (R) ▌15. Cassius M. Shartel (R) ▌16. Arthur P. Murphy (R) Montana[] ▌At-large. Joseph M. Dixon (R) Nebraska[] ▌1. Elmer Burkett (R), until March 4, 1905 ▌Ernest M. Pollard (R), from July 18, 1905 ▌2. John L. Kennedy (R) ▌3. John J McCarthy (R) ▌4. Edmund H. Hinshaw (R) ▌5. George W. Norris (R) ▌6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Nevada[] ▌At-large. Clarence D. Van Duzer (D) New Hampshire[] ▌1. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R) ▌2. Frank Dunklee Currier (R) New Jersey[] ▌1. Henry C. Loudenslager (R) ▌2. John James Gardner (R) ▌3. Benjamin F. Howell (R) ▌4. Ira W. Wood (R) ▌5. Charles N. Fowler (R) ▌6. Henry C. Allen (R) ▌7. Richard W. Parker (R) ▌8. William H. Wiley (R) ▌9. Marshall Van Winkle (R) ▌10. Allan L. McDermott (D) New York[] ▌1. William W. Cocks (R) ▌2. George H. Lindsay (D) ▌3. Charles T. Dunwell (R) ▌4. Charles B. Law (R) ▌5. George E. Waldo (R) ▌6. William M. Calder (R) ▌7. John J. Fitzgerald (D) ▌8. Timothy D. Sullivan (D), until July 27, 1906 ▌Daniel J. Riordan (D), from November 6, 1906 ▌9. Henry M. Goldfogle (D) ▌10. William Sulzer (D) ▌11. William Randolph Hearst (D) ▌12. W. Bourke Cockran (D) ▌13. Herbert Parsons (R) ▌14. Charles A. Towne (D) ▌15. J. Van Vechten Olcott (R) ▌16. Jacob Ruppert Jr. (D) ▌17. William S. Bennet (R) ▌18. Joseph A. Goulden (D) ▌19. John E. Andrus (R) ▌20. Thomas W. Bradley (R) ▌21. John H. Ketcham (R), until November 4, 1906 ▌22. William H. Draper (R) ▌23. George N. Southwick (R) ▌24. Frank J. LeFevre (R) ▌25. Lucius N. Littauer (R) ▌26. William H. Flack (R), until February 2, 1907 ▌27. James S. Sherman (R) ▌28. Charles L. Knapp (R) ▌29. Michael E. Driscoll (R) ▌30. John W. Dwight (R) ▌31. Sereno E. Payne (R) ▌32. James B. Perkins (R) ▌33. J. Sloat Fassett (R) ▌34. James Wolcott Wadsworth (R) ▌35. William H. Ryan (D) ▌36. De Alva S. Alexander (R) ▌37. Edward B. Vreeland (R) North Carolina[] ▌1. John Humphrey Small (D) ▌2. Claude Kitchin (D) ▌3. Charles Randolph Thomas (D) ▌4. Edward W. Pou (D) ▌5. William Walton Kitchin (D) ▌6. Gilbert B. Patterson (D) ▌7. Robert N. Page (D) ▌8. E. Spencer Blackburn (R) ▌9. Edwin Y. Webb (D) ▌10. James M. Gudger Jr. (D) North Dakota[] ▌At-large. Thomas Frank Marshall (R) ▌At-large. Asle Gronna (R) Ohio[] ▌1. Nicholas Longworth (R) ▌2. Herman P. Goebel (R) ▌3. Robert M. Nevin (R) ▌4. Harvey C. Garber (D) ▌5. William Wildman Campbell (R) ▌6. Thomas E. Scroggy (R) ▌7. J. Warren Keifer (R) ▌8. Ralph D. Cole (R) ▌9. James H. Southard (R) ▌10. Henry T. Bannon (R) ▌11. Charles H. Grosvenor (R) ▌12. Edward L. Taylor Jr. (R) ▌13. Grant E. Mouser (R) ▌14. Amos R. Webber (R) ▌15. Beman G. Dawes (R) ▌16. Capell L. Weems (R) ▌17. Martin L. Smyser (R) ▌18. James Kennedy (R) ▌19. W. Aubrey Thomas (R) ▌20. Jacob A. Beidler (R) ▌21. Theodore Elijah Burton (R) Oregon[] ▌1. Binger Hermann (R) ▌2. John N. Williamson (R) Pennsylvania[] ▌1. Henry H. Bingham (R) ▌2. Robert Adams Jr. (R), until June 1, 1906 ▌John E. Reyburn (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌3. George A. Castor (R), until February 19, 1906 ▌J. Hampton Moore (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌4. Reuben O. Moon (R) ▌5. Edward de Veaux Morrell (R) ▌6. George D. McCreary (R) ▌7. Thomas S. Butler (R) ▌8. Irving P. Wanger (R) ▌9. Henry B. Cassel (R) ▌10. Thomas H. Dale (R) ▌11. Henry W. Palmer (R) ▌12. George R. Patterson (R), until March 21, 1906 ▌Charles N. Brumm (R), from November 6, 1906 ▌13. Marcus C.L. Kline (D) ▌14. Mial E. Lilley (R) ▌15. Elias Deemer (R) ▌16. Edmund W. Samuel (R) ▌17. Thaddeus M. Mahon (R) ▌18. Marlin E. Olmsted (R) ▌19. John M. Reynolds (R) ▌20. Daniel F. Lafean (R) ▌21. Solomon R. Dresser (R) ▌22. George F. Huff (R) ▌23. Allen F. Cooper (R) ▌24. Ernest F. Acheson (R) ▌25. Arthur L. Bates (R) ▌26. Gustav A. Schneebeli (R) ▌27. William O. Smith (R) ▌28. Joseph C. Sibley (R) ▌29. William H. Graham (R) ▌30. John Dalzell (R) ▌31. James F. Burke (R) ▌32. Andrew J. Barchfeld (R) Rhode Island[] ▌1. Daniel L. D. Granger (D) ▌2. Adin B. Capron (R) South Carolina[] ▌1. George S. Legare (D) ▌2. James O'Hanlan Patterson (D) ▌3. Wyatt Aiken (D) ▌4. Joseph T. Johnson (D) ▌5. David E. Finley (D) ▌6. J. Edwin Ellerbe (D) ▌7. Asbury F. Lever (D) South Dakota[] ▌At-large. Charles Henry Burke (R) ▌At-large. Eben Wever Martin (R) Tennessee[] ▌1. Walter P. Brownlow (R) ▌2. Nathan W. Hale (R) ▌3. John Austin Moon (D) ▌4. Mounce G. Butler (D) ▌5. William C. Houston (D) ▌6. John Wesley Gaines (D) ▌7. Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D) ▌8. Thetus Willrette Sims (D) ▌9. Finis J. Garrett (D) ▌10. Malcolm R. Patterson (D), until November 5, 1906 Texas[] ▌1. Morris Sheppard (D) ▌2. Moses L. Broocks (D) ▌3. Gordon James Russell (D) ▌4. Choice Boswell Randell (D) ▌5. James Andrew Beall (D) ▌6. Scott Field (D) ▌7. Alexander W. Gregg (D) ▌8. John M. Pinckney (D), until April 24, 1905 ▌John M. Moore (D), from June 6, 1905 ▌9. George Farmer Burgess (D) ▌10. Albert Sidney Burleson (D) ▌11. Robert L. Henry (D) ▌12. Oscar W. Gillespie (D) ▌13. John Hall Stephens (D) ▌14. James L. Slayden (D) ▌15. John Nance Garner (D) ▌16. William R. Smith (D) Utah[] ▌At-large. Joseph Howell (R) Vermont[] ▌1. David J. Foster (R) ▌2. Kittredge Haskins (R) Virginia[] ▌1. William Atkinson Jones (D) ▌2. Harry Lee Maynard (D) ▌3. John Fletcher Lamb (D) ▌4. Robert G. Southall (D) ▌5. Claude Augustus Swanson (D), until January 30, 1906 ▌Edward W. Saunders (D), from November 6, 1906 ▌6. Carter Glass (D) ▌7. James Hay (D) ▌8. John Franklin Rixey (D), until February 8, 1907 ▌9. Campbell Slemp (R) ▌10. Henry De Flood (D) Washington[] ▌At-large. Wesley Livsey Jones (R) ▌At-large. Francis W. Cushman (R) ▌At-large. William E. Humphrey (R) West Virginia[] ▌1. Blackburn B. Dovener (R) ▌2. Alston G. Dayton (R), until March 16, 1905 ▌Thomas B. Davis (D), from June 6, 1905 ▌3. Joseph Holt Gaines (R) ▌4. Harry C. Woodyard (R) ▌5. James Anthony Hughes (R) Wisconsin[] ▌1. Henry Allen Cooper (R) ▌2. Henry C. Adams (R), until July 9, 1906 ▌John M. Nelson (R), from September 4, 1906 ▌3. Joseph W. Babcock (R) ▌4. Theobald Johnston Otjen (R) ▌5. William H. Stafford (R) ▌6. Charles H. Weisse (D) ▌7. John Jacob Esch (R) ▌8. James Henry Davidson (R) ▌9. Edward Sloman Minor (R) ▌10. Webster Everett Brown (R) ▌11. John J. Jenkins (R) Wyoming[] ▌At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R) Non-voting members[] ▌Alaska Territory. Frank Hinman Waskey (D), from August 14, 1906 ▌Arizona Territory. Marcus Aurelius Smith (D) ▌Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole (R) ▌New Mexico Territory. William Henry Andrews (R) ▌Oklahoma Territory. Bird Segle McGuire (R) ▌Puerto Rico. Tulio Larrínaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist)

House seats by party holding plurality in state   80+% – 100% Democratic   80+% – 100% Republican   60+% – 80% Democratic   60+% – 80% Republican   Up to 60% Democratic   Up to 60% Republican

Changes in membership[]

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate[]

• Replacements: 8
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
• Deaths: 5
• Resignations: 1
• Vacancies: 2
• Total seats with changes: 9

House of Representatives[]

• Replacements: 17
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
• Deaths: 12
• Resignations: 11
• Contested elections: 1
• New seats: 1
• Total seats with changes: 26

Committees[]

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (5 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.

Senate[]

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin)
• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor; Ranking Member: Chester I. Long)
• Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Kean; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
• Canadian Relations (Chairman: Winthrop Murray Crane; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Census (Chairman: Chester I. Long; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: Fred T. Dubois)
• Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Samuel H. Piles; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Coast Defenses (Chairman: Philander C. Knox; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
• Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Samuel D. McEnery; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich)
• Cuban Relations (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: James H. Berry; Ranking Member: Alfred B. Kittredge)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden; Ranking Member: Murphy J. Foster Jr.)
• Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: James A. Hemenway; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• (Select) (Chairman: Edmund W. Pettus)
• (Chairman: Morgan G. Bulkeley; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments
• Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• (Select) (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• (Chairman: Frank P. Flint; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
• Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Indian Depredations (Chairman: Elmer J. Burkett; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
• Industrial Expositions (Chairman: William Warner; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• (Select) (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• (Select)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Levi Ankeny; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Bailey)
• Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: William A. Clark)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson)
• (Select) (Chairman: George S. Nixon; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
• Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Russell A. Alger; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: James P. Taliaferro)
• Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
• (Select)
• Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: John Coit Spooner)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
• Railroads (Chairman: J. Frank Allee; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
• (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Alexander S. Clay; Ranking Member: Russell A. Alger)
• Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: William A. Clark)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Patterson)
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Clark)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• (Select) (Chairman: George Sutherland)
• (Select) (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member: George P. Wetmore)

House of Representatives[]

• Accounts (Chairman: H. Burd Cassel; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett)
• Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Tawney; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
• Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker; Ranking Member: James Hay)
• Claims (Chairman: James M. Miller; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: John W. Gaines)
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
• Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick; Ranking Member: Edwin Y. Webb)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
• Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: Ollie M. James)
• Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Marlin E. Olmsted; Ranking Member: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott)
• Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Michael E. Driscoll; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles E. Littlefield; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood)
• Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster; Ranking Member: Arsene P. Pujo)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. Minor; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Carter Glass)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: George P. Lawrence; Ranking Member: George F. Burgess)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes; Ranking Member: John H. Small)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: William M. Howard)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell; Ranking Member: Jacob Ruppert Jr.)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John H. Stephens)
• Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Augustus P. Gardner; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: Robert C. Davey)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: George H. Lindsay)
• Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer)
• Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond)
• Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: William Randolph Hearst)
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: George W. Prince; Ranking Member: Robert F. Broussard)
• Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary; Ranking Member: William M. Howard)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley; Ranking Member: Charles H. Weisse)
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: Thomas Spight)
• Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
• Militia (Chairman: Edward De V. Morrell; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Stanley)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
• (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: James L. Slayden)
• Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
• (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: William Richardson)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
• Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis; Ranking Member: James M. Griggs)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead)
• Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Reuben O. Moon; Ranking Member: Robert B. Macon)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
• Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
• Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
• War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
• Whole

Joint committees[]

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• (Chairman: Rep. Arthur L. Bates; Vice Chairman: Sen. )
• The Library
• Printing

Caucuses[]

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees[]

Legislative branch agency directors[]

• Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Francis W. Palmer, until 1905
  • Charles A. Stillings, from 1905

Senate[]

• Secretary: Charles G. Bennett
• Librarian:
• Sergeant at Arms:
• Chaplain: The Rev. Edward E. Hale, Unitarian

House of Representatives[]

• Clerk: Alexander McDowell
• Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson
• Doorkeeper:
• Postmaster:
• Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Asher C. Hinds
• Reading Clerks: (D) and (R)
• Chaplain: The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist

See also[]

• United States elections, 1904 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1904 United States presidential election
  • United States Senate elections, 1904
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1904
• United States elections, 1906 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1906
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1906

References[]

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