65th United States Congress

65th United States Congress

64th ← → 66th United States Capitol (1906) Duration: March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1919 Senate President: Thomas R. Marshall (D) Senate Pres. pro tem: Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D) House Speaker: Champ Clark (D) Members: 96 Senators 435 Representatives 5 Non-voting members Senate Majority: Democratic House Majority: Democratic (coalition) Sessions Special: March 5, 1917 – March 16, 1917 1st: April 2, 1917 – October 6, 1917 2nd: December 3, 1917 – November 21, 1918 3rd: December 2, 1918 – March 3, 1919

The Sixty-fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1917 to March 4, 1919, during the fourth and fifth years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910. The Senate had a Democratic majority, and the House had a Republican plurality but the Democrats remained in control with the support of the Progressives and Socialist Representative Meyer London.

Major events

1918 flu pandemic

• March 4, 1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.
• March 8, 1917: The United States Senate adopted the cloture rule to limit filibusters.
• March 31, 1917: The United States took possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to Denmark.
• April 2, 1917: World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
• April 10, 1917: An ammunition factory explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania kills 133.
• May 21, 1917: Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
• May 26, 1917: A tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation and killing 101 people.
• July 1, 1917: A labor dispute ignited a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which left 250 dead.
• July 12, 1917: The Phelps Dodge Corporation deported over 1,000 suspected Industrial Workers of the World members from Bisbee, Arizona.
• July 28, 1917: The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.
• August, 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the World War I draft, took place in central Oklahoma.
• November 24, 1917: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department were killed by a bomb, the most fatal single event in U.S. police history until the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• December 26, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson used the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.
• January 8, 1918: Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points speech.
• March 4, 1918: A soldier at Camp Fuston, Kansas fell sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
• May 15, 1918: The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) began the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).
• October 8, 1918: World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
• December 4, 1918: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sailed for the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
• January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, died.
• January 15, 1919: The Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, went into effect in the United States.
• February 25, 1919: Oregon placed a 1 cent per U.S. gallon (.26¢/L) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

Major legislation

After war was declared, war bond posters demonized Germany

• April 6, 1917: Declaration of war against Germany, Sess. 1 ch. 1, 40 Stat. 1
• April 24, 1917: First Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 4, 40 Stat. 35
• May 12, 1917: Enemy Vessel Confiscation Joint Resolution, Pub.L. 65–2, 40 Stat. 75
• May 12, 1917: First Army Appropriations Act of 1917, 40 Stat. 69
• May 18, 1917: Selective Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 15, 40 Stat. 76
• May 29, 1917: Esch Car Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 23, 40 Stat. 101
• June 15, 1917: Emergency Shipping Fund Act of 1917, c. 29, 40 Stat. 182
• June 15, 1917: Second Army Appropriations Act of 1917, 40 Stat. 188
• June 15, 1917: Espionage Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 30, 40 Stat. 217 (incl. title XI: Search Warrant Act of 1917)
• August 8, 1917: River and Harbor Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 49, 40 Stat. 250
• August 10, 1917: Priority of Shipments Act of 1917 (Obstruction of Interstate Commerce Act of 1917), Sess. 1, ch. 51, 40 Stat. 272
• August 10, 1917: Food and Fuel Control Act (Lever Act), Sess. 1, ch. 53, 40 Stat. 27
• October 1, 1917: Second Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 56, 40 Stat. 288
• October 1, 1917: Aircraft Board Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 61, 40 Stat. 296
• October 3, 1917: War Revenue Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 63, 40 Stat. 300
• October 5, 1917: Repatriation Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 68, 40 Stat. 340
• October 6, 1917: Explosives Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 83, 40 Stat. 385
• October 6, 1917: War Risk Insurance Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 105, 40 Stat. 398
• October 6, 1917: International Emergency Economic Powers Act (Trading with the Enemy Act), Sess. 1, ch. 106, 40 Stat. 411
• December 7, 1917: Declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, Sess. 2, ch. 1, 40 Stat. 429
• February 24, 1918: Revenue Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 18, 40 Stat. 1057
• March 8, 1918: Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, Sess. 2, ch. 20, 40 Stat. 440
• March 19, 1918: Standard Time Act of 1918 (Calder Act), Sess. 2, ch. 24, 40 Stat. 450
• March 21, 1918: Federal Control Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 25, 40 Stat. 451
• April 4, 1918: Third Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 2, ch. 44, 40 Stat. 502
• April 5, 1918: War Finance Corporation Act, Sess. 2, ch. 45, 40 Stat. 506
• April 10, 1918: Webb-Pomerene Act, Sess. 2, ch. 50, 40 Stat. 516
• April 18, 1918: American Forces Abroad Indemnity Act, Sess. 2, ch. 57, 40 Stat. 532
• April 20, 1918: Destruction of War Materials Act, Sess. 2, ch. 59, 40 Stat. 533
• April 23, 1918: Pittman Act, Sess. 2, ch. 63, 40 Stat. 535
• May 9, 1918: Alien Naturalization Act, Sess. 2, ch. 69, 40 Stat. 542
• May 16, 1918: Housing Act, Sess. 2, ch. 74, 40 Stat. 550
• May 16, 1918: Sedition Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 75, 40 Stat. 553
• May 20, 1918: Departmental Reorganization Act (Overman Act), Sess. 2, ch. 78, 40 Stat. 556
• May 22, 1918: Passport Control Act (Entry and Departure Controls Act), Sess. 2, ch. 81, 40 Stat. 559
• May 31, 1918: Saulsbury Resolution, Sess. 2, ch. 90, 40 Stat. 593
• June 27, 1918: Veterans Rehabilitation Act (Smith-Sears Act), Sess. 2, ch. 107, 40 Stat. 617
• July 3, 1918: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 128, 40 Stat. 755
• July 9, 1918: Fourth Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 2, ch. 142, 40 Stat. 844
• July 9, 1918: Army Appropriations Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 143, 40 Stat. 845 (incl. ch. 15: Public Health and Research Act of 1918 (Chamberlain-Kahn Act))
• July 18, 1918: River and Harbor Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 155, 40 Stat. 904
• July 18, 1918: Charter Rate and Requisition Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 157, 40 Stat. 913
• October 16, 1918: Immigration Act of 1918 (Dillingham-Hardwick Act), Sess. 2, ch. 186, 40 Stat. 1012
• October 16, 1918: Corrupt Practices Act of 1918 (Gerry Act), Sess. 2, ch. 187, 40 Stat. 1013
• November 7, 1918: National Bank Consolidation Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 209, 40 Stat. 1043
• November 21, 1918: Food Production Stimulation Act (War-Time Prohibition Act), Sess. 2, ch. 212, 40 Stat. 1045
• February 24, 1919: Child Labor Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 18, 40 Stat. 1138
• February 26, 1919: Grand Canyon Park Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 44, 40 Stat. 1178
• February 26, 1919: Acadia National Park Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 45, 40 Stat. 1178
• March 2, 1919: War Risk Insurance Act of 1919 (War Minerals Relief Act of 1919, Dent Act), Sess. 3, ch. 94, 40 Stat. 1272
• March 2, 1919: River and Harbors Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 95, 40 Stat. 1275
• March 3, 1919: Hospitalization Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 98, 40 Stat. 1302
• March 3, 1919: Fifth Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 3, ch. 100, 40 Stat. 1309
• March 4, 1919: Wheat Price Guarantee Act, Sess. 3, ch. 125, 40 Stat. 1348

Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: Thomas R. Marshall (D)
• President pro tempore: Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D)
• Majority Whip: J. Hamilton Lewis (D)
• Minority Whip: Charles Curtis (R)

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Champ Clark (D)

Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader: Claude Kitchin
• Majority Whip: vacant

Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: James R. Mann
• Minority Whip: Charles M. Hamilton

Members

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Senate

Because of the 17th Amendment, starting in 1914 U.S. Senators were directly elected instead of by the state legislatures. However, this did not affect the terms of U.S. Senators whose terms had started before that Amendment took effect.

Alabama 2. John H. Bankhead (D) 3. Oscar W. Underwood (D) Arizona 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D) 3. Marcus A. Smith (D) Arkansas 2. Joseph T. Robinson (D) 3. Lee S. Overman (D) California 1. Hiram Johnson (R), from March 16, 1917 3. James D. Phelan (D) Colorado 2. John F. Shafroth (D) 3. Charles S. Thomas (D) Connecticut 1. George P. McLean (R) 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R) Delaware 1. Josiah O. Wolcott (D) 2. Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D) Florida 1. Park Trammell (D) 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D) Georgia 2. Thomas W. Hardwick (D) 3. Hoke Smith (D) Idaho 2. William E. Borah (R) 3. James H. Brady (R), until January 13, 1918 John F. Nugent (D), from January 22, 1918 Illinois 2. James Hamilton Lewis (D) 3. Lawrence Y. Sherman (R) Indiana 1. Harry S. New (R), 3. James E. Watson (R) Iowa 2. William S. Kenyon (R) 3. Albert B. Cummins (R) Kansas 2. William H. Thompson (D) 3. Charles Curtis (R) Kentucky 2. Ollie M. James (D), until August 28, 1918 George B. Martin (D), from September 7, 1918 3. J. C. W. Beckham (D) Louisiana 2. Joseph E. Ransdell (D) 3. Robert F. Broussard (D), until April 12, 1918 Walter Guion (D), April 22, 1918 – November 5, 1918 Edward J. Gay (D), from November 6, 1918 Maine 1. Frederick Hale (R) 2. Bert M. Fernald (R) Maryland 1. Joseph I. France (R) 3. John Walter Smith (D) Massachusetts 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) 2. John W. Weeks (R) Michigan 1. Charles E. Townsend (R) 2. William Alden Smith (R) Minnesota 1. Frank B. Kellogg (R) 2. Knute Nelson (R) Mississippi 1. John Sharp Williams (D) 2. James K. Vardaman (D) Missouri 1. James A. Reed (D) 3. William J. Stone (D), until April 14, 1918 Xenophon P. Wilfley (D), April 30, 1918 – November 5, 1918 Selden P. Spencer (R), from November 6, 1918 Montana 1. Henry L. Myers (D) 2. Thomas J. Walsh (D) Nebraska 1. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D) 2. George W. Norris (R)

Nevada 1. Key Pittman (D) 3. Francis G. Newlands (D), until December 24, 1917 Charles B. Henderson (D), from January 12, 1918 New Hampshire 2. Henry F. Hollis (D) 3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R), until August 17, 1918 Irving W. Drew (R), September 2, 1918 – November 5, 1918 George H. Moses (R), from November 6, 1918 New Jersey 1. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R) 2. William Hughes (D), until January 30, 1918 David Baird (R), from February 23, 1918 New Mexico 1. Andrieus A. Jones (D) 2. Albert B. Fall (R) New York 1. William M. Calder (R) 3. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R) North Carolina 2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D) 3. Lee S. Overman (D) North Dakota 1. Porter J. McCumber (R) 3. Asle J. Gronna (R) Ohio 1. Atlee Pomerene (D) 3. Warren G. Harding (R) Oklahoma 2. Robert L. Owen (D) 3. Thomas P. Gore (D) Oregon 2. Harry Lane (D), until May 23, 1917 Charles L. McNary (R), May 29, 1917 – November 5, 1918 Frederick W. Mulkey (R), November 6, 1918 – December 17, 1918 Charles L. McNary (R), from December 18, 1918 3. George E. Chamberlain (D) Pennsylvania 1. Philander C. Knox (R) 3. Boies Penrose (R) Rhode Island 1. Peter G. Gerry (D) 2. LeBaron B. Colt (R) South Carolina 2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D), until July 3, 1918 Christie Benet (D), July 6, 1918 – November 5, 1918 William P. Pollock (D), from November 6, 1918 3. Ellison D. Smith (D) South Dakota 2. Thomas Sterling (R) 3. Edwin S. Johnson (D) Tennessee 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D) 2. John K. Shields (D) Texas 1. Charles A. Culberson (D) 2. Morris Sheppard (D) Utah 1. William H. King (D) 3. Reed Smoot (R) Vermont 1. Carroll S. Page (R) 3. William P. Dillingham (R) Virginia 1. Claude A. Swanson (D) 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) Washington 1. Miles Poindexter (R) 3. Wesley L. Jones (R) West Virginia 1. Howard Sutherland (R) 2. Nathan Goff (R) Wisconsin 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R) 3. Paul O. Husting (D), until October 21, 1917 Irvine Lenroot (R), from April 18, 1918 Wyoming 1. John B. Kendrick (D) 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

Senate President Thomas R. Marshall Senate President pro tempore Willard Saulsbury, Jr.

House of Representatives

Alabama 1. Oscar Lee Gray (D) 2. S. Hubert Dent, Jr. (D) 3. Henry B. Steagall (D) 4. Fred L. Blackmon (D) 5. J. Thomas Heflin (D) 6. William B. Oliver (D) 7. John L. Burnett (D) 8. Edward B. Almon (D) 9. George Huddleston (D) 10. William B. Bankhead (D) Arizona At-large. Carl Hayden (D) Arkansas 1. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D) 2. William A. Oldfield (D) 3. John N. Tillman (D) 4. Otis Wingo (D) 5. Henderson M. Jacoway (D) 6. Samuel M. Taylor (D) 7. William S. Goodwin (D) California 1. Clarence F. Lea (D) 2. John E. Raker (D) 3. Charles F. Curry (R) 4. Julius Kahn (R) 5. John I. Nolan (R) 6. John A. Elston (Prog.) 7. Denver S. Church (D) 8. Everis A. Hayes (R) 9. Charles H. Randall (Proh.) 10. Henry Z. Osborne (R) 11. William Kettner (D) Colorado 1. Benjamin Clark Hilliard (D) 2. Charles Bateman Timberlake (R) 3. Edward Keating (D) 4. Edward Thomas Taylor (D) Connecticut 1. Augustine Lonergan (D) 2. Richard P. Freeman (R) 3. John Q. Tilson (R) 4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R), until September 27, 1917 Schuyler Merritt (R), from November 6, 1917 5. James P. Glynn (R) Delaware At-large. Albert F. Polk (D) Florida 1. Herbert J. Drane (D) 2. Frank Clark (D) 3. Walter Kehoe (D) 4. William J. Sears (D) Georgia 1. James W. Overstreet (D) 2. Frank Park (D) 3. Charles R. Crisp (D) 4. William C. Adamson (D), until December 18, 1917 William C. Wright (D), from January 16, 1918 5. William S. Howard (D) 6. James W. Wise (D) 7. Gordon Lee (congressman) (D) 8. Charles H. Brand (D) 9. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D) 10. Carl Vinson (D) 11. John R. Walker (D) 12. William W. Larsen (D) Idaho At-large. Addison T. Smith (R) At-large. Burton L. French (R) Illinois 1. Martin B. Madden (R) 2. James R. Mann (R) 3. William W. Wilson (R) 4. Charles Martin (D), until October 28, 1917 John W. Rainey (D), from April 2, 1918 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) 6. James McAndrews (D) 7. Niels Juul (R) 8. Thomas Gallagher (D) 9. Frederick A. Britten (R) 10. George E. Foss (R) 11. Ira C. Copley (R) 12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R) 13. John C. McKenzie (R) 14. William J. Graham (R) 15. Edward John King (R) 16. Clifford Ireland (R) 17. John A. Sterling (R), until October 17, 1918 18. Joseph G. Cannon (R) 19. William B. McKinley (R) 20. Henry T. Rainey (D) 21. Loren E. Wheeler (R) 22. William A. Rodenberg (R) 23. Martin D. Foster (D) 24. Thomas S. Williams (R) 25. Edward E. Denison (R) At-large. Medill McCormick (R) At-large. William E. Mason (R) Indiana 1. George K. Denton (D) 2. Oscar E. Bland (R) 3. William E. Cox (D) 4. Lincoln Dixon (D) 5. Everett Sanders (R) 6. Daniel Webster Comstock (R), until May 19, 1917 Richard N. Elliott (R), from June 29, 1917 7. Merrill Moores (R) 8. Albert H. Vestal (R) 9. Fred S. Purnell (R) 10. William R. Wood (R) 11. Milton Kraus (R) 12. Louis W. Fairfield (R) 13. Henry A. Barnhart (D) Iowa 1. Charles A. Kennedy (R) 2. Harry E. Hull (R) 3. Burton E. Sweet (R) 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R) 5. James W. Good (R) 6. C. William Ramseyer (R) 7. Cassius C. Dowell (R) 8. Horace M. Towner (R) 9. William R. Green (R) 10. Frank P. Woods (R) 11. George Cromwell Scott (R) Kansas 1. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (R) 2. Edward C. Little (R) 3. Philip P. Campbell (R) 4. Dudley Doolittle (D) 5. Guy T. Helvering (D) 6. John R. Connelly (D) 7. Jouett Shouse (D) 8. William A. Ayres (D) Kentucky 1. Alben Barkley (D) 2. David Hayes Kincheloe (D) 3. Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. (D) 4. Ben Johnson (D) 5. J. Swagar Sherley (D) 6. Arthur B. Rouse (D) 7. J. Campbell Cantrill (D) 8. Harvey Helm (D), until March 3, 1919 9. William Jason Fields (D) 10. John W. Langley (R) 11. Caleb Powers (R) Louisiana 1. Albert Estopinal (D) 2. Henry Garland Dupré (D) 3. Whitmell P. Martin (Prog.) 4. John Thomas Watkins (D) 5. Riley Joseph Wilson (D) 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (D) 7. Ladislas Lazaro (D) 8. James Benjamin Aswell (D) Maine 1. Louis B. Goodall (R) 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R) 3. John A. Peters (R) 4. Ira G. Hersey (R) Maryland 1. Jesse D. Price (D) 2. Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (D), until October 5, 1918 Carville Benson (D), from November 5, 1918 3. Charles P. Coady (D) 4. J. Charles Linthicum (D) 5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R) 6. Frederick N. Zihlman (R) Massachusetts 1. Allen T. Treadway (R) 2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) 3. Calvin D. Paige (R) 4. Samuel E. Winslow (R) 5. John J. Rogers (R) 6. Augustus P. Gardner (R), until May 15, 1917 Willfred W. Lufkin (R), from November 6, 1917 7. Michael F. Phelan (D) 8. Frederick W. Dallinger (R) 9. Alvan T. Fuller (R) 10. Peter F. Tague (D) 11. George H. Tinkham (R) 12. James A. Gallivan (D) 13. William H. Carter (R) 14. Richard Olney II (D) 15. William S. Greene (R) 16. Joseph Walsh (R) Michigan 1. Frank E. Doremus (D) 2. Mark R. Bacon (R), until December 13, 1917 Samuel Beakes (D), from December 13, 1917 3. John M. C. Smith (R) 4. Edward L. Hamilton (R) 5. Carl Mapes (R) 6. Patrick H. Kelley (R) 7. Louis C. Cramton (R) 8. Joseph W. Fordney (R) 9. James C. McLaughlin (R) 10. Gilbert A. Currie (R) 11. Frank D. Scott (R) 12. W. Frank James (R) 13. Charles Archibald Nichols (R) Minnesota 1. Sydney Anderson (R) 2. Franklin Ellsworth (R) 3. Charles Russell Davis (R) 4. Carl Van Dyke (D) 5. Ernest Lundeen (R) 6. Harold Knutson (R) 7. Andrew Volstead (R) 8. Clarence B. Miller (R) 9. Halvor Steenerson (R) 10. Thomas D. Schall (R) Mississippi 1. Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (D) 2. Hubert D. Stephens (D) 3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D) 4. Thomas U. Sisson (D) 5. William Webb Venable (D) 6. Pat Harrison (D) 7. Percy E. Quin (D) 8. James W. Collier (D) Missouri 1. Milton A. Romjue (D) 2. William W. Rucker (D) 3. Joshua Willis Alexander (D) 4. Charles F. Booher (D) 5. William Patterson Borland (D), until February 20, 1919 6. Clement C. Dickinson (D) 7. Courtney W. Hamlin (D) 8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) 9. Champ Clark (D) 10. Jacob Edwin Meeker (R), until October 16, 1918 Frederick Essen (R), from November 5, 1918 11. William Leo Igoe (D) 12. Leonidas C. Dyer (R) 13. Walter Lewis Hensley (D) 14. Joseph J. Russell (D) 15. Perl D. Decker (D) 16. Thomas L. Rubey (D) Montana At-large. John M. Evans (D) At-large. Jeannette Rankin (R) Nebraska 1. C. Frank Reavis (R) 2. Charles O. Lobeck (D) 3. Dan V. Stephens (D) 4. Charles Henry Sloan (R) 5. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) 6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R) Nevada At-large. Edwin E. Roberts (R) New Hampshire 1. Cyrus A. Sulloway (R), until March 11, 1917 Sherman Everett Burroughs (R), from May 29, 1917 2. Edward Hills Wason (R)

New Jersey 1. William J. Browning (R) 2. Isaac Bacharach (R) 3. Thomas J. Scully (D) 4. Elijah C. Hutchinson (R) 5. John H. Capstick (R), until March 17, 1918 William F. Birch (R), from November 5, 1918 6. John R. Ramsey (R) 7. Dow H. Drukker (R) 8. Edward W. Gray (R) 9. Richard W. Parker (R) 10. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R) 11. John J. Eagan (D) 12. James A. Hamill (D) New Mexico At-large. William Bell Walton (D) New York 1. Frederick C. Hicks (R) 2. C. Pope Caldwell (D) 3. Joseph V. Flynn (D) 4. Harry H. Dale (D), until January 6, 1919 5. James P. Maher (D) 6. Frederick W. Rowe (R) 7. John J. Fitzgerald (D), until December 31, 1917 John J. Delaney (D), from March 5, 1918 8. Daniel J. Griffin (D), until December 31, 1917 William E. Cleary (D), from March 5, 1918 9. Oscar W. Swift (R) 10. Reuben L. Haskell (R) 11. Daniel J. Riordan (D) 12. Meyer London (Soc.) 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D) 14. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R) 15. Thomas Francis Smith (D), from April 12, 1917 16. Peter J. Dooling (D) 17. John F. Carew (D) 18. George B. Francis (R) 19. Walter M. Chandler (R) 20. Isaac Siegel (R) 21. George Murray Hulbert (D), until January 1, 1918 Jerome F. Donovan (D), from March 5, 1918 22. Henry Bruckner (D), until December 31, 1917 Anthony Griffin (D), from March 5, 1918 23. Daniel C. Oliver (D) 24. Benjamin L. Fairchild (R) 25. James W. Husted (R) 26. Edmund Platt (R) 27. Charles B. Ward (R) 28. Rollin B. Sanford (R) 29. James S. Parker (R) 30. George R. Lunn (D) 31. Bertrand H. Snell (R) 32. Luther W. Mott (R) 33. Homer P. Snyder (R) 34. George W. Fairchild (R) 35. Walter W. Magee (R) 36. Norman J. Gould (R) 37. Harry H. Pratt (R) 38. Thomas B. Dunn (R) 39. Archie D. Sanders (R) 40. S. Wallace Dempsey (R) 41. Charles B. Smith (D) 42. William F. Waldow (R) 43. Charles M. Hamilton (R) North Carolina 1. John Humphrey Small (D) 2. Claude Kitchin (D) 3. George E. Hood (D) 4. Edward W. Pou (D) 5. Charles M. Stedman (D) 6. Hannibal L. Godwin (D) 7. Leonidas D. Robinson (D) 8. Robert L. Doughton (D) 9. Edwin Y. Webb (D) 10. Zebulon Weaver (D), until March 1, 1919 James Jefferson Britt (R), from March 1, 1919 North Dakota 1. Henry Thomas Helgesen (R), until April 10, 1917 John Miller Baer (R), from July 20, 1917 2. George M. Young (R) 3. Patrick Daniel Norton (R) Ohio 1. Nicholas Longworth (R) 2. Victor Heintz (R) 3. Warren Gard (D) 4. Benjamin F. Welty (D) 5. John S. Snook (D) 6. Charles C. Kearns (R) 7. Simeon D. Fess (R) 8. John A. Key (D) 9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D) 10. Robert M. Switzer (R) 11. Horatio C. Claypool (D) 12. Clement L. Brumbaugh (D) 13. Arthur W. Overmyer (D) 14. Ellsworth R. Bathrick (D), until December 23, 1917 Martin L. Davey (D), from November 5, 1918 15. George White (D) 16. Roscoe C. McCulloch (R) 17. William A. Ashbrook (D) 18. David Hollingsworth (R) 19. John G. Cooper (R) 20. William Gordon (D) 21. Robert Crosser (D) 22. Henry I. Emerson (R) Oklahoma 1. Thomas Alberter Chandler (R) 2. William W. Hastings (D) 3. Charles D. Carter (D) 4. Tom D. McKeown (D) 5. Joseph Bryan Thompson (D) 6. Scott Ferris (D) 7. James V. McClintic (D) 8. Dick Thompson Morgan (R) Oregon 1. Willis C. Hawley (R) 2. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R) 3. Clifton N. McArthur (R) Pennsylvania 1. William S. Vare (R) 2. George S. Graham (R) 3. J. Hampton Moore (R) 4. George W. Edmonds (R) 5. Peter E. Costello (R) 6. George P. Darrow (R) 7. Thomas S. Butler (R) 8. Henry Winfield Watson (R) 9. William W. Griest (R) 10. John R. Farr (R) 11. Thomas W. Templeton (R) 12. Robert D. Heaton (R) 13. Arthur G. Dewalt (D) 14. Louis T. McFadden (R) 15. Edgar R. Kiess (R) 16. John V. Lesher (D) 17. Benjamin K. Focht (R) 18. Aaron S. Kreider (R) 19. John M. Rose (R) 20. Andrew R. Brodbeck (D) 21. Charles H. Rowland (R) 22. Edward E. Robbins (R), until January 25, 1919 23. Bruce F. Sterling (D) 24. Henry W. Temple (R) 25. Henry A. Clark (R) 26. Henry J. Steele (D) 27. Nathan L. Strong (R) 28. Orrin D. Bleakley (R), until April 3, 1917 Earl Hanley Beshlin (D), from November 6, 1917 29. Stephen G. Porter (R) 30. M. Clyde Kelly (Prog.) 31. John M. Morin (R) 32. Guy E. Campbell (D) At-large. Thomas S. Crago (R) At-large. John R.K. Scott (R), until January 5, 1919 At-large. Joseph McLaughlin (R) At-large. Mahlon M. Garland (R) Rhode Island 1. George Francis O'Shaunessy (D) 2. Walter Russell Stiness (R) 3. Ambrose Kennedy (R) South Carolina 1. Richard S. Whaley (D) 2. James F. Byrnes (D) 3. Fred H. Dominick (D) 4. Samuel J. Nicholls (D) 5. William F. Stevenson (D) 6. J. Willard Ragsdale (D) 7. Asbury F. Lever (D) South Dakota 1. Charles H. Dillon (R) 2. Royal C. Johnson (R) 3. Harry L. Gandy (D) Tennessee 1. Sam R. Sells (R) 2. Richard W. Austin (R) 3. John Austin Moon (D) 4. Cordell Hull (D) 5. William C. Houston (D) 6. Joseph W. Byrns (D) 7. Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D) 8. Thetus Willrette Sims (D) 9. Finis J. Garrett (D) 10. Hubert Fisher (D) Texas 1. Eugene Black (D) 2. Martin Dies (D) 3. James Young (D) 4. Sam Rayburn (D) 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D) 6. Rufus Hardy (D) 7. Alexander W. Gregg (D) 8. Joe H. Eagle (D) 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D) 10. James P. Buchanan (D) 11. Tom T. Connally (D) 12. James Clifton Wilson (D), until March 3, 1919 13. John Marvin Jones (D) 14. James L. Slayden (D) 15. John Nance Garner (D) 16. Thomas L. Blanton (D) At-large. Daniel E. Garrett (D) At-large. A. Jeff McLemore (D) Utah 1. Milton H. Welling (D) 2. James Henry Mays (D) Vermont 1. Frank L. Greene (R) 2. Porter H. Dale (R) Virginia 1. William Atkinson Jones (D), until April 17, 1918 S. Otis Bland (D), from July 2, 1918 2. Edward Everett Holland (D) 3. Andrew Jackson Montague (D) 4. Walter Allen Watson (D) 5. Edward W. Saunders (D) 6. Carter Glass (D), until December 16, 1918 James P. Woods (D), from February 25, 1919 7. Thomas W. Harrison (D) 8. Charles Creighton Carlin (D) 9. C. Bascom Slemp (R) 10. Henry De Flood (D) Washington 1. John F. Miller (R) 2. Lindley H. Hadley (R) 3. Albert Johnson (R) 4. William Leroy La Follette (R) 5. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D) West Virginia 1. Matthew M. Neely (D) 2. George M. Bowers (R) 3. Stuart F. Reed (R) 4. Harry C. Woodyard (R) 5. Edward Cooper (R) 6. Adam B. Littlepage (D) Wisconsin 1. Henry A. Cooper (R) 2. Edward Voigt (R) 3. John M. Nelson (R) 4. William J. Cary (R) 5. William H. Stafford (R) 6. James H. Davidson (R), until August 6, 1918 Florian Lampert (R), from November 5, 1918 7. John Jacob Esch (R) 8. Edward E. Browne (R) 9. David G. Classon (R) 10. James A. Frear (R) 11. Irvine L. Lenroot (R), until April 17, 1918 Adolphus P. Nelson (R), from November 5, 1918 Wyoming At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R) Non-voting members Alaska Territory. Charles A. Sulzer (D), until January 7, 1919 James Wickersham (R), from January 7, 1919 Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (R) Philippines. Jaime C. De Veyra (Resident Commissioner) Philippines. Teodoro R. Yangco (Resident Commissioner) Puerto Rico. Félix Córdova Dávila (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist), from August 7, 1917

House Speaker Champ Clark House seats by party holding plurality in state   80.1-100% Democratic   80.1-100% Republican   60.1-80% Democratic   60.1-80% 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: 17
  • Democratic: 3 seat net loss
  • Republican: 3 seat net gain
• deaths: 10
• resignations: 1
• vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 17

House of Representatives

• replacements: 23
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
• deaths: 15
• resignations: 12
• contested elections: 3
• Total seats with changes: 31

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
• Agriculture and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Banking and Currency
• Canadian Relations
• Census
• Civil Service and Retrenchment
• Claims
• Coast and Insular Survey
• Coast Defenses
• Commerce
• Conservation of National Resources
• Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
• Cuban Relations
• Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments
• District of Columbia
• Education and Labor
• Engrossed Bills
• Enrolled Bills
• Establish a University in the United States (Select)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
• Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture
• Expenditures in the Department of Commerce
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Department of Justice
• Expenditures in the Department of Labor
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Finance
• Fisheries
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
• Foreign Relations
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
• Geological Survey
• Immigration
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Industrial Expositions
• Interoceanic Canals
• Interstate Commerce
• Irrigation and Reclamation
• Judiciary
• Library
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select)
• National Banks
• Naval Affairs
• Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
• Pacific Railroads
• Patents
• Pensions
• Philippines
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Printing
• Private Land Claims
• Privileges and Elections
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Health and National Quarantine
• Public Lands
• Railroads
• Revision of the Laws
• Revolutionary Claims
• Rules
• Standards, Weights and Measures
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
• Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select)
• Washington Railway and Electrical Company (Select)
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage

House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Census
• Claims
• Coinage, Weights and Measures
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia
• Education
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
• Elections
• Enrolled Bills
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
• Expenditures in the Commerce Department
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Justice Department
• Expenditures in the Labor Department
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the State Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Expenditures on Public Buildings
• Flood Control
• Foreign Affairs
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Industrial Arts and Expositions
• Insular Affairs
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce
• Invalid Pensions
• Irrigation of Arid Lands
• Labor
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Railways and Canals
• Reform in the Civil Service
• Revision of Laws
• Rivers and Harbors
• Roads
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• War Claims
• Water Power (Special)
• Ways and Means
• Woman Suffrage
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• Interstate Commerce
• Postal Salaries
• Reclassification of Salaries

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford

Senate

• Chaplain: F.J. Prettyman (Methodist)
• Secretary: James M. Baker of South Carolina
• Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins of Indiana

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Henry N. Couden (Universalist)
• Clerk: South Trimble
• Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
• Postmaster: William M. Dunbar
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Bennett C. Clark
  • Clarence A. Cannon
• Sergeant at Arms: Robert B. Gordon

See also

• United States elections, 1916 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1916
  • United States Senate elections, 1916
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1916
• United States elections, 1918 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1918
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1918

References

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• Remini, Robert V. (2006). The House. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-06-088434-7. 
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• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 1st Session. 
• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 2nd Session (1st Revision). 
• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 2nd Session (2nd Revision). 
• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 2nd Session (3rd Revision). 
• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 3rd Session. 
• Official Congressional Directory for the 65th Congress, 3rd Session (Revision).