List of Members of the United States House of Representatives in the 64th Congress by seniority

This is a complete list of members of the United States House of Representatives during the 64th United States Congress listed by seniority. For the most part, representatives are ranked by the beginning of their terms in office.

As an historical article, the districts and party affiliations listed reflect those during the 64th Congress (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1917). Seats and party affiliations on similar lists for other Congresses will be different for certain members.

This article describes the criteria for seniority in the House of Representatives and sets out the list of members by seniority. It is prepared on the basis of the interpretation of seniority applied to the House of Representatives in the current congress. In the absence of information to the contrary, it is presumed that the twenty-first-century practice is identical to the seniority customs used during the 64th Congress.^[1]

Seniority

House seniority

Seniority in the House, for Congressmen with unbroken service, depends on the date on which the members first term began. That date is either the start of the Congress (4 March in odd numbered years, for the era up to and including the 73rd Congress starting in 1933) or the date of a special election during the Congress. Since many members start serving on the same day as others, ranking between them is based on alphabetical order by the last name of the congressman.

Representatives who return to the House, after having previously served, are credited with service equal to one less than the total number of terms they served. When a representative has served a prior term of less than two terms (i.e., prior term minus one equals less than one), he is ranked above all others whose service begins on the same day.

Committee seniority

Until 1910, House committee members and chairmen were selected by the Speaker, who also ranked the members of the committee. Seniority on the committee was just one of the factors that was taken into account in ranking the members. In the 61st Congress, Speaker Cannon (R-IL) had used his power to change committee assignments to demote and punish insurgent Republicans. In March 1910 the Speaker was stripped of his powers over the composition of standing committees.

As a result of the events of 1910, at the start of the 64th Congress in 1915, the committee assignments were made by each party and then formally approved by the whole House. Each party controlled the committee ranking of its members, but usually this followed the order of seniority of members in terms of service on the committee. It became customary for members of a committee, in the previous congress, to be re-appointed at the start of the next.

A seniority rule was normally used to decide committee chairmen, similar to that which the Senate had usually followed since 1846. The chairman was likely to be the majority member of a committee, with the longest continuous service on it. However, party leadership was typically not associated with seniority.^[2]

Out of the group of fifty six standing committee chairmen, at the start of this Congress, Nelson Polsby identified fifty as the most senior member of the majority on the committee. In the other six cases, all senior majority members were compensated for not being chairman of the committee (three chaired another committee and three received better committee assignments than in the previous Congress). Thus in no instance was the seniority custom violated, without obvious compensation for the Congressman passed over.^[3]

Committees

This list refers to the standing committees of the House in the 64th Congress, the year of establishment as a standing committee (adoption of the name used in 1915), the number of members assigned to the committee and the corresponding committee in the current congress. Because of consolidation of committees and changes of jurisdiction, it is not always possible to identify a clear successor panel.^[4]

No.	1915 Committee	Established	Members	2011 Committee
1	Accounts	1805	11	House Administration
2	Agriculture	1820	21	Agriculture
3	Alcoholic Liquor Traffic	1893	11	Judiciary
4	Appropriations	1865	21	Appropriations
5	Banking and Currency	1865	21	Financial Services
6	Census	1901	16	Oversight and Government Reform
7	Claims	1794	16	Judiciary
8	Coinage, Weights and Measures	1864 (1867)	18	Financial Services
9	Disposition of Executive Papers	1911	2	House Administration
10	District of Columbia	1808	21	Oversight and Government Reform
11	Education	1867 (1883)	15	Education and the Workforce
12	Election of President, Vice President and Representatives	1893	13	House Administration
13	Elections No. 1	1789 (1895)	9	House Administration
14	Elections No. 2	1895	9	House Administration
15	Elections No. 3	1895	9	House Administration
16	Enrolled Bills	1876	7	House Administration
17	Expenditures in the Agriculture Department	1889	7	Oversight and Government Reform
18	Expenditures in the Commerce Department	1903 (1913)	7	Oversight and Government Reform
19	Expenditures in the Interior Department	1860	7	Oversight and Government Reform
20	Expenditures in the Justice Department	1874	7	Oversight and Government Reform
21	Expenditures in the Labor Department	1913	7	Oversight and Government Reform
22	Expenditures in the Navy Department	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
23	Expenditures in the Post Office Department	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
24	Expenditures in the State Department	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
25	Expenditures in the Treasury Department	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
26	Expenditures in the War Department	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
27	Expenditures on Public Buildings	1816	7	Oversight and Government Reform
28	Foreign Affairs	1822	21	Foreign Affairs
29	Immigration and Naturalization	1893	15	Judiciary
30	Indian Affairs	1821	19	Natural Resources
31	Industrial Arts and Expositions	1903	16	Foreign Affairs
32	Insular Affairs	1899	21	Natural Resources
33	Interstate and Foreign Commerce	1795 (1892)	21	Energy and Commerce
34	Invalid Pensions	1831	16	Veterans' Affairs
35	Irrigation of Arid Lands	1893	13	Natural Resources
36	Judiciary	1813	21	Judiciary
37	Labor	1883	13	Education and the Workforce
38	Merchant Marine and Fisheries	1887	21	...
39	Mileage	1837	5	House Administration
40	Military Affairs	1822	21	Armed Services
41	Mines and Mining	1865	14	Natural Resources
42	Naval Affairs	1822	21	Armed Services
43	Patents	1837	14	Judiciary
44	Pensions	1880	15	Veterans' Affairs
45	Post Office and Post Roads	1808	21	Oversight and Government Reform
46	Public Buildings and Grounds	1837	17	Transportation and Infrastructure
47	Public Lands	1805	21	Natural Resources
48	Railways and Canals	1831 (1869)	14	Transportation and Infrastructure
49	Reform in the Civil Service	1893	13	Oversight and Government Reform
50	Revision of Laws	1868	13	Judiciary
51	Rivers and Harbors	1883	21	Transportation and Infrastructure
52	Roads	1913	21	Transportation and Infrastructure
53	Rules	1880	11	Rules
54	Territories	1825	16	Natural Resources
55	War Claims	1825 (1873)	15	Judiciary
56	Ways and Means	1802	22	Ways and Means
Joint Committees (House standing committee members only)
Jt 1	Library Joint	1806	5	House Administration
Jt 2	Printing Joint	1846	3	House Administration

List of Representatives by seniority

A numerical rank is assigned to each of the 435 members initially elected to the 64th Congress. The seniority date given is the start of the current period of continuous service and past non-continuous terms are recorded in the notes. Other members, who joined the House during the Congress, are not assigned a number. Three Representatives-elect died before the Congress started. The list below includes those Representatives-elect (with names in italics), with the seniority they would have held if they had survived to be sworn in.

Major party designations used in this article are D for Democratic members and R for Republican representatives. Other designations include Ind for Independent, Prog for Progressive, Proh for Prohibition and Soc for Socialist.

U.S. House Seniority
Rank	Representative	Party	District	Seniority date	Notes
Twenty non-consecutive terms
1	Joseph G. Cannon	R	IL-18	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1873-91 and 1893–1913 while in the House.
Sixteen non-consecutive terms
2	Sereno E. Payne	R	NY-36	000000001889-12-02-0000December 2, 1889	Previously served 1883-87 while in the House. Died as Representative-elect December 10, 1914.
Thirteen consecutive terms
3	William A. Jones	D	VA-1	000000001891-03-04-0000March 4, 1891	Dean of the House. Chairman: Insular Affairs.
Twelve consecutive terms
4	Henry A. Cooper	R	WI-1	000000001893-03-04-0000March 4, 1893
5	Frederick H. Gillett	R	MA-2	000000001893-03-04-0000March 4, 1893
Eleven consecutive terms
6	Stephen M. Sparkman	D	FL-1	000000001895-03-04-0000March 4, 1895	Chairman: Rivers and Harbors. Last term while in the House.
Eleven non-consecutive terms
7	James B. (Champ) Clark	D	MO-9	000000001897-03-04-0000March 4, 1897	Speaker of the House. Previously served 1893-95 while in the House.
Ten consecutive terms
8	William C. Adamson	D	GA-4	000000001897-03-04-0000March 4, 1897	Chairman: Interstate and Foreign Commerce
9	Thomas S. Butler	R	PA-7		Independent Republican, 1897–99
10	Edward L. Hamilton	R	MI-4
11	James Hay	D	VA-7		Chairman: Military Affairs. Resigned on October 1, 1916 while in the House.
12	Robert L. Henry	D	TX-11		Chairman: Rules. Last term while serving in the House.
13	James R. Mann	R	IL-2		Minority Leader
14	John A. Moon	D	TN-3		Chairman: Post Office and Post Roads
15	Thetus W. Sims	D	TN-8
16	James L. Slayden	D	TX-14
17	John H. Stephens	D	TX-13		Chairman: Indian Affairs. Last term while serving in the House.
18	James T. Lloyd	D	MO-1	000000001897-06-01-0000June 1, 1897	Chairman: Accounts. Last term while serving in the House.
19	William S. Greene	R	MA-15	000000001898-05-31-0000May 31, 1898	Republican Conference Chairman
Ten non-consecutive terms
20	George E. Foss	R	IL-10	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1895–1913 while in the House.
21	Ebenezer J. Hill	R	CT-4	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1895–1913 while in the House.
22	Frank W. Mondell	R	WY-al	000000001899-03-04-0000March 4, 1899	Previously served 1895-97 while in the House.
23	Cyrus A. Sulloway	R	NH-1	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1895–1913 while in the House.
24	Richard W. Parker	D	NJ-9	000000001914-12-01-0000December 1, 1914	Previously served 1895–1911 while in the House.
Nine consecutive terms
25	John L. Burnett	D	AL-7	000000001899-03-04-0000March 4, 1899	Chairman: Immigration and Naturalization
26	John J. Esch	R	WI-7
27	David E. Finley	D	SC-5		Died on January 26, 1917 while still serving in the House.
28	John J. Fitzgerald	D	NY-7		Chairman: Appropriations
29	Joseph W. Fordney	R	MI-8
30	Gilbert N. Haugen	R	IA-4
31	Ernest W. Roberts	R	MA-9		Last term while still serving in the House.
32	William W. Rucker	D	MO-2		Chairman: Election of President, Vice President and Representatives
33	John H. Small	D	NC-1
34	Dorsey W. Shackleford	D	MO-8	000000001899-08-29-0000August 29, 1899	Chairman: Roads
Eight consecutive terms
35	George F. Burgess	D	TX-9	000000001901-03-04-0000March 4, 1901	Last term while still serving in the House.
36	Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.	D	MS-1
37	Henry D. Flood	D	VA-10		Chairman: Foreign Affairs
38	Joseph T. Johnson	D	SC-4		Resigned to become a US District Judge: April 19, 1915
39	Claude Kitchin	D	NC-2		Chairman: Ways and Means. Majority Leader.
40	Lemuel P. Padgett	D	TN-7		Chairman: Naval Affairs
41	Edward W. Pou	D	NC-4		Chairman: Claims
42	Asbury F. Lever	D	SC-7	000000001901-11-05-0000November 5, 1901	Chairman: Agriculture
43	Augustus P. Gardner	R	MA-6	000000001902-11-04-0000November 4, 1902
44	Carter Glass	D	VA-6	000000001902-11-04-0000November 4, 1902	Chairman: Banking and Currency
Eight non-consecutive terms
45	Julius Kahn	R	CA-4	000000001905-03-04-0000March 4, 1905	Previously served 1899–1903 while in the House.
46	J. Frederick Talbott	D	MD-2	000000001909-03-04-0000March 4, 1909	Previously served 1879-85 and 1893–95 while in the House.
Seven consecutive terms
47	Wyatt Aiken	D	SC-3	000000001903-03-04-0000March 4, 1903	Last term while serving in the House.
48	Philip P. Campbell	R	KS-3
49	Charles R. Davis	R	MN-3
50	John N. Garner	D	TX-15
51	Alexander W. Gregg	D	TX-7		Chairman: War Claims
52	Joseph Howell	R	UT-1		Last term while serving in the House.
53	William E. Humphrey	R	WA-1		Last term while serving in the House.
54	Benjamin G. Humphreys	D	MS-3		Chairman: Flood Control
55	Moses P. Kinkaid	R	NE-6
56	Robert N. Page	D	NC-7		Last term while serving in the House.
57	Henry T. Rainey	D	IL-20
58	J. Swagar Sherley	D	KY-5
59	William R. Smith	D	TX-16		Chairman: Irrigation of Arid Lands. Last term while serving in the House.
60	Halvor Steenerson	R	MN-9
61	Andrew J. Volstead	R	MN-7
62	Edwin Y. Webb	D	NC-9		Chairman: Judiciary
63	J. Thomas Heflin	D	AL-5	000000001904-05-19-0000May 19, 1904
Seven non-consecutive terms
64	William A. Rodenberg	R	IL-22	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1899-1901 and 1903–13 while in the House.
65	Daniel J. Riordan	D	NY-11	000000001906-11-06-0000November 6, 1906	Previously served 1899–1901 while in the House.
Six consecutive terms
66	Andrew J. Barchfeld	R	PA-32	000000001905-03-04-0000March 4, 1905	Last term while serving in the House.
67	Thomas M. Bell	D	GA-9
68	Frank Clark	D	FL-2		Chairman: Public Buildings and Grounds
69	Lincoln Dixon	D	IN-4
70	Finis J. Garrett	D	TN-9
71	Everis A. Hayes	R	CA-8
72	William C. Houston	D	TN-5		Chairman: Territories
73	Gordon Lee	D	GA-7
74	Martin B. Madden	R	IL-1
75	John T. Watkins	D	LA-4		Chairman: Revision of Laws
76	John M. Nelson	R	WI-3	000000001906-09-04-0000September 4, 1906
77	J. Hampton Moore	R	PA-3	000000001906-11-06-0000November 6, 1906
78	Edward W. Saunders	D	VA-5	000000001906-11-06-0000November 6, 1906	Democratic Caucus Chairman
Six non-consecutive terms
79	Charles E. Fuller	R	IL-12	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1903-13 while in the House.
80	Joseph A. Goulden	D	NY-23	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Previously served 1903-11. Died May 3, 1915 while still serving in the House.
81	Courtney W. Hamlin	D	MO-7	000000001907-03-04-0000March 4, 1907	Previously served 1903-05 while in the House. Chairman: Expenditures in the State Department
82	Daniel F. Lafean	R	PA-al	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1903-13 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
83	Nicholas Longworth	R	OH-1		Previously served 1903-13 while in the House.
84	George A. Loud	R	MI-10		Previously served 1903-13 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
85	Isaac R. Sherwood	D	OH-9	000000001907-03-04-0000March 4, 1907	Previously served (R) 1873-75 while in the House. Chairman: Invalid Pensions.
86	William H. Stafford	R	WI-5	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Previously served 1903-11 while in the House.
87	John A. Sterling	R	IL-17	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1903-13 while in the House.
88	William W. Wilson	R	IL-3	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1903-13 while in the House.
89	Charles F. Booher	D	MO-4	000000001907-03-04-0000March 4, 1907	Previously served February 19-March 3, 1889 while in the House.
Five consecutive terms
90	John A. M. Adair	D	IN-8	000000001907-03-04-0000March 4, 1907	Last term while serving in the House.
91	Joshua W. Alexander	D	MO-3		Chairman: Merchant Marine and Fisheries
92	William A. Ashbrook	D	OH-17		Chairman: Coinage, Weights and Measures
93	William J. Cary	R	WI-4
94	William E. Cox	D	IN-3
95	Charles G. Edwards	D	GA-1		Last term while in the House until 69th Congress.
96	George W. Fairchild	R	NY-34
97	Martin D. Foster	D	IL-23		Chairman: Mines and Mining
98	Hannibal L. Godwin	D	NC-6		Chairman: Reform in the Civil Service
99	James A. Hamill	D	NJ-12		Chairman: Elections No. 2
100	Rufus Hardy	D	TX-6		Chairman: Expenditures in the Navy Department
101	Willis C. Hawley	R	OR-1
102	Harvey Helm	D	KY-8		Chairman: Census
103	Cordell Hull	D	TN-4
104	Ben Johnson	D	KY-4		Chairman: District of Columbia
105	Charles A. Kennedy	R	IA-1
106	John W. Langley	R	KY-10
107	Charles A. Lindbergh	R	MN-6		Last term while serving in the House.
108	James C. McLaughlin	R	MI-9
109	George W. Rauch	D	IN-11		Last term while serving in the House.
110	Adolph J. Sabath	D	IL-5		Chairman: Alcohol Liquor Traffic
111	James T. McDermott	D	IL-4	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1907-July 21, 1914 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
112	Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.	R	KS-1	000000001907-05-23-0000May 23, 1907
113	Charles C. Carlin	D	VA-8	000000001907-11-05-0000November 5, 1907
114	Charles D. Carter	D	OK-3	000000001907-11-16-0000November 16, 1907
115	Scott Ferris	D	OK-6	000000001907-11-16-0000November 16, 1907	Chairman: Public Lands
116	C. Bascom Slemp	R	VA-9	000000001907-12-17-0000December 17, 1907
117	Henry A. Barnhart	D	IN-13	000000001908-11-03-0000November 3, 1908
118	Albert Estopinal	D	LA-1
119	Frank E. Guernsey	R	ME-4		Last term while serving in the House.
Five non-consecutive terms
120	William B. McKinley	R	IL-19	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1905-13 while in the House.
Four consecutive terms
121	Richard W. Austin	R	TN-2	000000001909-03-04-0000March 4, 1909
122	William P. Borland	D	MO-5
123	Joseph W. Byrns	D	TN-6
124	J. Campbell Cantrill	D	KY-7		Chairman: Industrial Arts and Expositions
125	Cyrus Cline	D	IN-12		Last term while serving in the House.
126	James W. Collier	D	MS-8
127	Michael F. Conry	D	NY-15		Died on March 2, 1917 while still serving in the House.
128	William A. Cullop	D	IN-2		Last term while serving in the House.
129	S. Hubert Dent, Jr.	D	AL-2
130	Martin Dies	D	TX-2		Chairman: Railways and Canals
131	Daniel A. Driscoll	D	NY-42		Last term while serving in the House.
132	Thomas Gallagher	D	IL-8
133	James W. Good	R	IA-5
134	William W. Griest	R	PA-9
135	Dudley M. Hughes	D	GA-12		Chairman: Education. Last term.
136	Irvine L. Lenroot	R	WI-11
137	Clarence B. Miller	R	MN-8
138	Dick T. Morgan	R	OK-8
139	Martin A. Morrison	D	IN-9		Chairman: Patents. Last term while serving in the House.
140	Ralph W. Moss	D	IN-5		Last term while serving in the House.
141	William A. Oldfield	D	AR-2
142	Thomas U. Sisson	D	MS-4
143	Edward T. Taylor	D	CO-4
144	Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.	D	KY-3
145	Frank P. Woods	R	IA-10
146	Clement C. Dickinson	D	MO-6	000000001910-02-01-0000February 1, 1910
147	H. Garland Dupré	D	LA-2	000000001910-11-08-0000November 8, 1910
Four non-consecutive terms
148	Benjamin K. Focht	R	PA-17	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1907-13 while in the House.
149	James McAndrews	D	IL-6	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Previously served 1901-05 while in the House.
150	Joseph J. Russell	D	MO-14	000000001911-03-04-0000March 4, 1911	Previously served 1907-09 while in the House.
151	James S. Davenport	D	OK-1	000000001911-03-04-0000March 4, 1911	Previously served November 16, 1907-09 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
Three consecutive terms
152	Alfred G. Allen	D	OH-2	000000001911-03-04-0000March 4, 1911	Last term while serving in the House.
153	Sydney Anderson	R	MN-1
154	Fred L. Blackmon	D	AL-4
155	William G. Brown, Jr.	D	WV-2		Died on March 9, 1916 while still serving in the House.
156	Frank Buchanan	D	IL-7		Last term while serving in the House.
157	Michael E. Burke	D	WI-2		Last term while serving in the House.
158	James F. Byrnes	D	SC-2
159	Oscar Callaway	D	TX-12		Last term while serving in the House.
160	Ira C. Copley	Prog	IL-11		Republican 1911-15
161	Henry G. Danforth	R	NY-39		Last term while serving in the House.
162	Frank E. Doremus	D	MI-1
163	Robert L. Doughton	D	NC-8		Chairman: Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
164	John R. Farr	R	PA-10
165	William J. Fields	D	KY-9
166	William S. Goodwin	D	AR-7
167	Finly H. Gray	D	IN-6		Last term while serving in the House until 73rd Congress
168	Pat Harrison	D	MS-6
169	Henry T. Helgesen	R	ND-1
170	Walter L. Hensley	D	MO-13
171	Asher C. Hinds	R	ME-1		Last term while serving in the House.
172	Edward E. Holland	D	VA-2
173	William S. Howard	D	GA-5
174	Henderson M. Jacoway	D	AR-5
175	William Kent	Ind	CA-1		Last term while serving in the House.
176	Thomas F. Konop	D	WI-9		Chairman: Expenditures on Public Buildings. Last term while serving in the House.
177	William L. La Follette	R	WA-4
178	David J. Lewis	D	MD-6		Chairman: Labor. Last term while serving in the House until 72nd Congress
179	J. Charles Linthicum	D	MD-4
180	Charles O. Lobeck	D	NE-2		Chairman: Expenditures in the Treasury Department
181	James P. Maher	D	NY-5		Chairman: Expenditures in the Labor Department
182	Daniel J. McGillicuddy	D	ME-2		Last term while serving in the House.
183	John C. McKenzie	R	IL-13
184	Luther W. Mott	R	NY-32
185	George F. O'Shaunessy	D	RI-1
186	Thomas G. Patten	D	NY-18		Last term while serving in the House.
187	Stephen G. Porter	R	PA-29
188	Caleb Powers	R	KY-11
189	John E. Raker	D	CA-2
190	Edwin E. Roberts	R	NV-al
191	Arthur B. Rouse	D	KY-6
192	Thomas L. Rubey	D	MO-16
193	Thomas J. Scully	D	NJ-3
194	Sam R. Sells	R	TN-1
195	Charles H. Sloan	R	NE-4
196	Charles B. Smith	D	NY-41		Chairman: Expenditures in the Commerce Department
197	John M. C. Smith	R	MI-3
198	Charles M. Stedman	D	NC-5
199	Hubert D. Stephens	D	MS-2		Chairman: Elections
200	William Stephens	Prog	CA-10		R 1911-15. Resigned on July 22, 1916 while still serving in the House.
201	Claude U. Stone	D	IL-16		Last term while serving in the House.
202	Robert M. Switzer	R	OH-10
203	Horace M. Towner	R	IA-8
204	Samuel J. Tribble	D	GA-8		Died on December 8, 1916 while still serving in the House.
205	Samuel A. Witherspoon	D	MS-5		Died on November 24, 1915 while still serving in the House.
206	James Young	D	TX-3
207	William R. Green	R	IA-9	000000001911-06-05-0000June 5, 1911
208	Leonidas C. Dyer	R	MO-12	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1911-June 19, 1914 while in the House.
209	William J. Browning	R	NJ-1	000000001911-11-07-0000November 7, 1911
210	Kenneth McKellar	D	TN-10		Last term while serving in the House.
211	Dan V. Stephens	D	NE-3
212	Joseph Taggart	D	KS-2		Last term while serving in the House.
213	Carl T. Hayden	D	AZ-al	000000001912-02-19-0000February 19, 1912
214	William S. Vare	R	PA-1	000000001912-05-24-0000May 24, 1912
215	Frank L. Greene	R	VT-1	000000001912-07-30-0000July 30, 1912
216	Edwin A. Merritt	R	NY-31	000000001912-11-05-0000November 5, 1912	Died as Representative-elect December 4, 1914
217	Lewis L. Morgan	D	LA-6	000000001912-11-05-0000November 5, 1912	Chairman: Elections No. 3. Last term while serving in the House.
218	Samuel M. Taylor	D	AR-6	000000001913-01-15-0000January 15, 1913
219	Archibald C. Hart	D	NJ-6	000000001913-07-22-0000July 22, 1913	Previously served November 5, 1912-1913 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
Three non-consecutive terms
220	Samuel H. Miller	R	PA-28	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1881-85 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
221	John Q. Tilson	R	CT-3	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1909-13 while in the House.
222	William E. Williams	D	IL-al	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Previously served 1899-1901 while in the House. Last term while serving in the House.
223	Charles R. Crisp	D	GA-3	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Previously served December 19, 1896–97 while in the House.
Two consecutive terms
224	John W. Abercrombie	D	AL-al	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Last term while serving in the House.
225	James B. Aswell	D	LA-8
226	Warren W. Bailey	D	PA-19		Chairman: Expenditures in the Justice Department. Last term while serving in the House.
227	Alben W. Barkley	D	KY-1
228	Samuel W. Beakes	D	MI-2		Last term while in the House until 65th Congress
229	Frederick A. Britten	R	IL-9
230	Edward E. Browne	R	WI-8
231	Henry Bruckner	D	NY-22
232	Clement L. Brumbaugh	D	OH-12
233	Thaddeus H. Caraway	D	AR-1
234	John F. Carew	D	NY-17
235	John J. Casey	D	PA-11		Last term while serving in the House until 66th Congress
236	Walter M. Chandler	Prog	NY-19
237	Denver S. Church	D	CA-7
238	John R. Connelly	D	KS-6
239	Louis C. Cramton	R	MI-7
240	Robert Crosser	D	OH-21
241	Charles F. Curry	R	CA-3
242	Harry H. Dale	D	NY-4
243	Perl D. Decker	D	MO-15
244	Charles H. Dillon	R	SD-1
245	Peter J. Dooling	D	NY-16
246	Dudley Doolittle	D	KS-4
247	Thomas B. Dunn	R	NY-38
248	John J. Eagan	D	NJ-11
249	Joe H. Eagle	D	TX-8
250	George W. Edmonds	R	PA-4
251	John M. Evans	D	MT-al
252	Simeon D. Fess	R	OH-7
253	James A. Frear	R	WI-10
254	Warren Gard	D	OH-3
255	William Gordon	D	OH-20
256	George S. Graham	R	PA-2
257	Daniel J. Griffin	D	NY-8
258	Charles M. Hamilton	R	NY-43		Minority Whip.
259	Guy T. Helvering	D	KS-5
260	William L. Igoe	D	MO-11
261	Albert Johnson	R	WA-3
262	Edward Keating	D	CO-3
263	Abraham L. Keister	R	PA-22		Last term while serving in the House.
264	Patrick H. Kelley	R	MI-6
265	Ambrose Kennedy	R	RI-3
266	William Kettner	D	CA-11
267	John A. Key	D	OH-8		Chairman: Pensions
268	Edgar R. Kiess	R	PA-15
269	Aaron S. Kreider	R	PA-18
270	Ladislas Lazaro	D	LA-7
271	John V. Lesher	D	PA-16
272	Charles Lieb	D	IN-1		Last term while serving in the House.
273	Carl E. Mapes	R	MI-5
274	Andrew J. Montague	D	VA-3
275	John M. Morin	R	PA-31
276	Hunter H. Moss, Jr.	R	WV-4		Died on July 15, 1916 while still serving in the House
277	William H. Murray	D	OK-4		Last term while serving in the House.
278	John I. Nolan	R	CA-5
279	Patrick D. Norton	R	ND-3
280	Woodson R. Oglesby	D	NY-24		Last term while serving in the House.
281	James S. Parker	R	NY-29
282	Michael F. Phelan	D	MA-7
283	Edmund Platt	R	NY-26
284	Percy E. Quin	D	MS-7
285	J. Willard Ragsdale	D	SC-6
286	Sam Rayburn	D	TX-4
287	Michael K. Reilly	D	WI-6		Last term while serving in the House. until 71st Congress
288	John J. Rogers	R	MA-5
289	Nicholas J. Sinnott	R	OR-2
290	Addison T. Smith	R	ID-al
291	George R. Smith	R	MN-5	Last term while serving in the House.
292	Tom Stout	D	MT-al	Chairman: Expenditures in the Interior Department. Last term while serving in the House.
293	Hatton W. Sumners	D	TX-5
294	Howard Sutherland	R	WV-al	Last term while serving in the House.
295	Clyde H. Tavenner	D	Il-14	Chairman: Expenditures in the Post Office Department. Last term while serving in the House.
296	Joseph B. Thompson	D	OK-5
297	Allen T. Treadway	R	MA-1
298	John R. Walker	D	GA-11
299	Walter A. Watson	D	VA-4
300	Emmett Wilson	D	FL-3	Last term while serving in the House.
301	Otis T. Wingo	D	AR-4
302	Samuel E. Winslow	R	MA-4
303	George M. Young	R	ND-2
304	James P. Buchanan	D	TX-10		000000001913-04-15-0000April 15, 1913
305	Richard S. Whaley	D	SC-1		000000001913-04-29-0000April 29, 1913
306	John A. Peters	R	ME-3		000000001913-09-09-0000September 9, 1913
307	Matthew M. Neely	D	WV-1		000000001913-10-14-0000October 14, 1913
308	Charles P. Coady	D	MD-3		000000001913-11-04-0000November 4, 1913
309	George W. Loft	D	NY-13	Last term while serving in the House.
310	Calvin D. Paige	R	MA-3
311	Frank Park	D	GA-2
312	Dow H. Drukker	R	NJ-7		000000001914-04-07-0000April 7, 1914
313	James A. Gallivan	D	MA-12		000000001914-04-07-0000April 7, 1914
314	Jesse D. Price	D	MD-1		000000001914-11-03-0000November 3, 1914
315	Carl Vinson	D	GA-10		000000001914-11-03-0000November 3, 1914
Two non-consecutive terms
316	Thomas S. Crago	R	PA-al	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915	Previously served 1911-13 while in the House.
317	David Hollingsworth	R	OH-18		Previously served 1909-11 while in the House.
318	Adam B. Littlepage	D	WV-3		Previously served 1911-13 while in the House.
319	Ashton C. Shallenberger	D	NE-5		Previously served 1901-03 while in the House.
One term
320	Edward B. Almon	D	AL-8	000000001915-03-04-0000March 4, 1915
321	William A. Ayres	D	KS-8
322	Isaac Bacharach	R	NJ-2
323	C. William Beales	R	PA-20		Only term while serving in the House.
324	Eugene Black	D	TX-1
325	James J. Britt	R	NC-10		Only term while serving in the House until 65th Congress
326	William M. Brown	R	PA-24		Died as Representative-elect on January 31, 1915
327	C. Pope Caldwell	D	NY-2
328	John H. Capstick	R	NJ-5
329	William H. Carter	R	MA-13
330	William B. Charles	R	NY-30		Only term while serving in the House.
331	Burnett M. Chiperfield	R	IL-al		Only term while serving in the House. until 71st Congress
332	William H. Coleman	R	PA-30		Only term while serving in the House.
333	Edward Cooper	R	WV-5
334	John G. Cooper	R	OH-19
335	Peter E. Costello	R	PA-5
336	Porter H. Dale	R	VT-2
337	Frederick W. Dallinger	R	MA-8
338	George P. Darrow	R	PA-6
339	James H. Davis	D	TX-al		Only term while serving in the House.
340	S. Wallace Dempsey	R	NY-40
341	Edward E. Denison	R	IL-25
342	Arthur G. Dewalt	D	PA-13
343	Clarence C. Dill	D	WA-5
344	Cassius C. Dowell	R	IA-7
345	Franklin Ellsworth	R	MN-2
346	John A. Elston	Prog	CA-6
347	Henry I. Emerson	R	OH22
348	Michael F. Farley	D	NY-14		Only term while serving in the House.
349	Joseph V. Flynn	D	NY-3
350	Richard P. Freeman	R	CT-2
351	Harry L. Gandy	D	SD-3
352	Mahlon M. Garland	R	PA-al
353	James P. Glynn	R	CT-5
354	Edward W. Gray	R	NJ-8
355	Oscar L. Gray	D	AL-1
356	Lindley H. Hadley	R	WA-2
357	Reuben L. Haskell	R	NY-10
358	William W. Hastings	D	OK-2
359	Robert D. Heaton	R	PA-12
360	Benigno C. Hernández	R	NM-al		Only term while serving in the House until 66th Congress.
361	Frederick C. Hicks	R	NY-1
362	Benjamin C. Hilliard	D	CO-1
363	George E. Hood	D	NC-3
364	Robert F. Hopwood	R	PA-23		Only term while serving in the House.
365	George Huddleston	D	AL-9
366	G. Murray Hulbert	D	NY-21
367	Harry E. Hull	R	IA-2
368	James W. Husted	R	NY-25
369	Elijah C. Hutchinson	R	NJ-4
370	W. Frank James	R	MI-12
371	Royal C. Johnson	R	SD-2
372	Charles C. Kearns	R	OH-6
373	David H. Kincheloe	D	KY-2
374	Edward J. King	R	IL-15
375	Frederick R. Lehlbach	R	NJ-10
376	Michael Liebel, Jr.	D	PA-25		Only term while serving in the House.
377	Meyer London	Soc	NY-12
378	Walter W. Magee	R	NY-35
379	Whitmell P. Martin	Prog	LA-3
380	Nelson E. Matthews	R	OH-5		Only term while serving in the House.
381	James H. Mays	D	UT-2
382	Clifton N. McArthur	R	OR-3
383	James V. McClintic	D	OK-7
384	Robert M. McCracken	R	ID-al	Only term while serving in the House.
385	Roscoe C. McCulloch	R	OH-16
386	Louis T. McFadden	R	PA-14
387	A. Jeff McLemore	D	TX-al
388	Jacob E. Meeker	R	MO-10
389	Thomas W. Miller	R	DE-al	Only term while serving in the House.
390	William C. Mooney	R	OH-15	Only term while serving in the House.
391	Merrill Moores	R	IN-7
392	Sydney E. Mudd II	R	MD-5
393	Charles A. Nichols	R	MI-13
394	Solomon T. North	R	PA-27	Only term while serving in the House.
395	P. Davis Oakey	R	CT-1	Only term while serving in the House.
396	William B. Oliver	D	AL-6
397	Richard Olney II	D	MA-14
398	Arthur W. Overmyer	D	OH-13
399	Harry H. Pratt	R	NY-37
400	C. William Ramseyer	R	IA-6
401	Charles H. Randall	Proh	CA-9
402	C. Frank Reavis	R	NE-1
403	Edwin D. Ricketts	R	OH-11	Only term while serving in the House until 66th Congress.
404	Frederick W. Rowe	R	NY-6
405	Charles H. Rowland	R	PA-21
406	J. Edward Russell	R	OH-4	Only term while serving in the House.
407	Rollin B. Sanford	R	NY-28
408	Thomas D. Schall	R	MN-10
409	Frank D. Scott	R	MI-11
410	John R. K. Scott	R	PA-al
411	William J. Sears	D	FL-4
412	Jouett Shouse	D	KS-7
413	Isaac Siegel	R	NY-20
414	Homer P. Snyder	R	NY-33
415	Henry B. Steagall	D	AL-3
416	Henry J. Steele	D	PA-26
417	Thomas J. Steele	D	IA-11	Only term while serving in the House.
418	Walter R. Stiness	R	RI-2
419	Burton E. Sweet	R	IA-3
420	Oscar W. Swift	R	NY-9
421	Peter F. Tague	D	MA-10
422	John N. Tillman	D	AR-3
423	Charles B. Timberlake	R	CO-2
424	George H. Tinkham	R	MA-11
425	Carl Van Dyke	D	MN-4
426	Joseph Walsh	R	MA-16
427	Charles B. Ward	R	NY-27
428	Edward H. Wason	R	NH-2
429	Henry W. Watson	R	PA-8
430	Loren E. Wheeler	R	IL-21
431	Seward H. Williams	R	OH-14	Only term while serving in the House.
432	Thomas S. Williams	R	IL-24
433	Riley J. Wilson	D	LA-5
434	James W. Wise	D	GA-6
435	William R. Wood	R	IN-10
Members joining the House, after the start of the Congress
	Samuel J. Nicholls	D	SC-4	000000001915-09-14-0000September 14, 1915	Special election
	William S. Bennet	R	NY-23	000000001915-11-02-0000November 2, 1915	Previously served 1905-11 while in the House. Special election. Last term.
	Henry W. Temple	R	PA-24		Previously served as Prog 1913-15 while in the House. Special election.
	Norman J. Gould	R	NY-36		Special election
	Bertrand H. Snell	R	NY-31		Special election
	William W. Venable	D	MS-5	000000001916-01-04-0000January 4, 1916	Special election
	George M. Bowers	R	WV-2	000000001916-05-09-0000May 9, 1916	Special election
	Harry C. Woodyard	R	WV-4	000000001916-11-07-0000November 7, 1916	Previously served 1903-11 while in the House. Special election.
	Henry S. Benedict	R	CA-10		Special election. Only term while serving in the House.
	Thomas W. Harrison	D	VA-7		Special election
	Tinsley W. Rucker, Jr.	D	GA-8	000000001917-01-11-0000January 11, 1917	Special election. Only term while serving in the House.
	Paul G. McCorkle	D	SC-5	000000001917-02-21-0000February 21, 1917	Special election. Only term while serving in the House.
Non voting members
a	Jonah K. Kalaniana'ole	R	HI-al	000000001903-03-04-0000March 4, 1903	Territorial Delegate
b	James Wickersham	R	AK-al	000000001909-03-04-0000March 4, 1909	Territorial Delegate. Last term until 65th Congress.
c	Manuel L. Quezón	N	PI-al	000000001909-11-23-0000November 23, 1909	Resident Commissioner. Nationalist Party (PI). Resigned on October 15, 1916.
d	Luis Muñoz Rivera	U	PR-al	000000001911-03-04-0000March 4, 1911	Resident Commissioner. Unionist Party (PR). Died on November 15, 1916.
e	Manuel Earnshaw	Ind	PI-al	000000001913-03-04-0000March 4, 1913	Resident Commissioner. Last term.

References

↑ 112th Congress official House seniority list
↑ Congress at the Crossroads, pp. 186-189 and see Cannon's Precedents, Volume VIII (8), Chapter CCXXXIV (234) for the rules and precedents applied by the House after 1910
↑ Nelson W. Polsby, "The Growth of the Seniority System in the U.S. House of Representatives" American Political Science Review 63.3 (1970):787-807
↑ Based on Rule X Organisation of Committees, in the House Rules and Manual for the 111th Congress. For membership, see section 2183 of Cannon's Precedents Volume VIII (8), Chapter CCXXXIV (234). For establishment of standing committees see

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