The 64th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
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The composition and ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
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. It met in
Washington, DC
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from March 4, 1915, to March 4, 1917, during the third and fourth years of
Woodrow Wilson
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's
presidency
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. The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
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was based on the
Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910.
The
Democrats maintained a majority in both chambers (albeit reduced in the House), and along with
President Wilson also maintained an overall federal government
trifecta
Trifecta
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.
Major events
*June 9, 1915: (Prelude to
World War I
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):
U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan
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resigned over a disagreement regarding the nation's handling of the
RMS Lusitania
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sinking.
*July 24, 1915: The steamer
SS Eastland
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capsized in central Chicago, with the loss of 844 lives.
*July 28, 1915: The United States occupation of
Haiti
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began.
*August 5–August 23, 1915: Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans left 275 dead.
*March 8–March 9, 1916:
Mexican Revolution:
Pancho Villa
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led about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against
Columbus, New Mexico
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, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
*March 15, 1916: President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
*May 5, 1916:
United States Marines
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invaded the
Dominican Republic
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.
*July 30, 1916: German agents caused the
Black Tom explosion in
Jersey City, New Jersey, an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least 7 people.
*November 7, 1916:
U.S. presidential election, 1916
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: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Republican
Charles E. Hughes.
*January 11, 1917: (Prelude to
World War I
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): German saboteurs set off the
Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I.
*February 3, 1917: (Prelude to
World War I
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):The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany
Major legislation
* May 15, 1916:
Kern Amendment
* May 29, 1916:
Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916
* May 31, 1916:
Tillman Act
* June 3, 1916:
National Defense Act of 1916
* June 9, 1916:
Chamberlain–Ferris Act
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* July 11, 1916:
Federal Aid Road Act of 1916
The Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 (also known as the Bankhead–Shackleford Act and Good Roads Act), , , was enacted on July 11, 1916, and was the first federal highway funding legislation in the United States. The rise of the automobile at the star ...
(Bankhead–Shackleford Act, also known as Federal "Good Roads" Act)
* July 11, 1916:
Terminal Inspection Act of 1916
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The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Ser ...
* July 17, 1916:
Federal Farm Loan Act (Hollis–Lever Act)
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* July 27, 1916:
River and Harbors Act of 1916 In United States federal legislation the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1916 provided Federal money for the maintenance and improvements of specified rivers and harbors across the United States.
This act in particular aided the Cape Fear River in North ...
* July 28, 1916:
Space Basis Act
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* July 28, 1916:
Railway Mail Service Pay Act
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* August 9, 1916:
Uniform Bill of Lading Act of 1916 The Uniform Bills of Lading Act was adopted in 1909 and passed by the US Uniform Law Commission. The act addressed the judicial and legislative treatment of issues such as the extent of the carrier's liability to the consignee
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* August 11, 1916:
Irrigation District Act of 1916 (Smith Act)
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* August 11, 1916:
Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916 The Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916 placed aside certain United States Federal park lands as nature reserves free from hunting and poaching, and placed the United States Forest Service in charge of enforcing such provisions. The purpose was to i ...
* August 11, 1916:
Grain Standards Act of 1916
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* August 11, 1916:
Cotton Futures Act of 1916
* August 11, 1916:
Brush Disposal Act of 1916
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* August 11, 1916:
Warehouse Act of 1916
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Advocacy of 1916 Warehouse Act
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* August 25, 1916:
National Park Service Act (Kent–Smoot Act)
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* August 29, 1916:
2nd Uniform Bill of Lading Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Jones Act (Philippines)
* August 29, 1916:
Federal Possession and Control Act of 1916
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* August 29, 1916:
Army Appropriations Act of 1916
* August 29, 1916:
Naval Act of 1916
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* August 29, 1916:
Naval Reserve Force Act
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* August 31, 1916:
Federal Standard Container Act
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* August 31, 1916:
Standard Fruits and Vegetable Baskets and Containers Act of 1916
* September 1, 1916:
Keating–Owen Act
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* September 3, 1916:
Adamson Act
* September 7, 1916:
Merchant Marine Act of 1916 (Alexander Act)
* September 7, 1916:
Workingmen's Compensation Act (Kern–McGillicuddy Act)
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* September 8, 1916:
Anti-Dumping Act of 1916
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* September 8, 1916:
Emergency Revenue Act of 1916 The United States Revenue Act of 1916, (ch. 463, , September 8, 1916) raised the lowest income tax rate from 1% to 2% and raised the top rate to 15% on taxpayers with incomes above $2 million ($ in dollars). Previously, the top rate had been 7% on ...
* October 20, 1916:
Special Air Preparedness Act
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Literature
* ''Specia ...
* December 29, 1916:
Stock-Raising Homestead Act
* February 5, 1917:
Immigration Act of 1917
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* February 22, 1917:
Federal Interpleader Act of 1917
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History
The Act all ...
* February 23, 1917:
Smith–Hughes Act
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* February 26, 1917:
Mount McKinley National Park Act of 1917
* March 1, 1917:
Flood Control Act of 1917 (Ransdell–Humphreys Act)
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* March 2, 1917:
Jones–Shafroth Act
* March 3, 1917:
Reed Amendment
* March 3, 1917:
Sheppard Bone-Dry Act
* March 3, 1917:
Special Preparedness Fund Act of 1917
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* March 4, 1917:
Timber Export Act
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Treaties
*January 17, 1917:
Treaty of the Danish West Indies signed by President Wilson, ceding the
Danish West Indies
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to the United States after their purchase from
Denmark
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, and renaming them the
US Virgin Islands
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.
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President:
Thomas R. Marshall (D)
*
Presidents pro tempore:
James P. Clarke (D) and
Willard Saulsbury Jr. (D)
*
Majority Whip
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:
J. Hamilton Lewis
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(D)
*
Minority Whip:
Charles Curtis (R)
*
Republican Conference Chairman:
Jacob Harold Gallinger
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
John W. Kern
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*
Republican Conference Secretary
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:
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
*
Democratic Caucus Secretary:
Willard Saulsbury Jr., until December 14, 1916
**
Key Pittman, acting
House of Representatives
*
Speaker:
Champ Clark (D)
Majority (Democratic) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Claude Kitchin
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*
Majority Whip
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: vacant
*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Edward W. Saunders
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Frank Ellsworth Doremus
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Minority (Republican) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
James R. Mann
*
Minority Whip:
Charles M. Hamilton
*
Republican Conference Chairman:
William S. Greene
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
Frank P. Woods
Members
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Senate
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17th Amendment, the incoming class of senators from the 1914 election were all elected directly by the residents of their state, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1916; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1918; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1920.
Alabama
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: 2.
John H. Bankhead
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(D)
: 3.
Oscar W. Underwood (D)
Arizona
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: 1.
Henry F. Ashurst
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(D)
: 3.
Marcus A. Smith
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(D)
Arkansas
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: 2.
Joseph T. Robinson (D)
: 3.
James P. Clarke (D), until October 1, 1916
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William F. Kirby (D), from November 8, 1916
California
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: 1.
John D. Works (R)
: 3.
James D. Phelan
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(D)
Colorado
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: 2.
John F. Shafroth
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(D)
: 3.
Charles S. Thomas (D)
Connecticut
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: 1.
George P. McLean (R)
: 3.
Frank B. Brandegee (R)
Delaware
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: 1.
Henry A. du Pont (R)
: 2.
Willard Saulsbury Jr. (D)
Florida
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: 1.
Nathan P. Bryan (D)
: 3.
Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
Georgia
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: 2.
Thomas W. Hardwick
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(D)
: 3.
Hoke Smith (D)
Idaho
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: 2.
William E. Borah
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(R)
: 3.
James H. Brady (R)
Illinois
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: 2.
James H. Lewis
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(D)
: 3.
Lawrence Y. Sherman (R)
Indiana
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: 1.
John W. Kern
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(D)
: 3.
Benjamin F. Shively
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(D), until March 14, 1916
::
Thomas Taggart (D), March 20, 1916 - November 7, 1916
::
James E. Watson (R), from November 8, 1916
Iowa
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: 2.
William S. Kenyon (R)
: 3.
Albert B. Cummins
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(R)
Kansas
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: 2.
William H. Thompson (D)
: 3.
Charles Curtis (R)
Kentucky
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: 2.
Ollie M. James
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(D)
: 3.
John C.W. Beckham
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(D)
Louisiana
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: 2.
Joseph E. Ransdell (D)
: 3.
Robert F. Broussard
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(D)
Maine
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: 1.
Charles Fletcher Johnson (D)
: 2.
Edwin C. Burleigh (R), until June 16, 1916
::
Bert M. Fernald (R), from September 11, 1916
Maryland
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: 1.
Blair Lee (D)
: 3.
John Walter Smith (D)
: 1.
Henry Cabot Lodge
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(R)
: 2.
John W. Weeks (R)
Michigan
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: 1.
Charles E. Townsend
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Early lif ...
(R)
: 2.
William Alden Smith (R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
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Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudso ...
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Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
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Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mis ...
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John Sharp Williams (D)
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James K. Vardaman (D)
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
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James A. Reed (D)
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William J. Stone (D)
Montana
Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...
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Henry L. Myers
Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States senator from Montana.
Biography
Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitt ...
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Thomas J. Walsh (D)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the so ...
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Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D)
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George W. Norris
George William Norris (July 11, 1861September 2, 1944) was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until 1913 ...
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
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Key Pittman (D)
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Francis G. Newlands (D)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...
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Henry F. Hollis (D)
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Jacob H. Gallinger (R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...
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James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
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William Hughes (D)
New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
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Thomas B. Catron
Thomas Benton Catron (October 6, 1840May 15, 1921) was an American politician and lawyer who was influential in the establishment of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and served as one of its first United States Senators.
Catron was a native of Mi ...
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Albert B. Fall (R)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
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James A. O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman (May 5, 1860 – May 17, 1943) was an American attorney, judge, and politician from New York. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a United States Senator from March 31, 1911 to March 3, 1917.
A native of Ma ...
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: 3.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...
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Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and Unite ...
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: 3.
Lee S. Overman (D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, S ...
: 1.
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
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: 3.
Asle J. Gronna
Asle Jorgenson Gronna (December 10, 1858May 4, 1922) was an American politician who served in the House of Representatives and Senate from North Dakota, and one of the six to vote against the United States declaration of war leading to the First W ...
(R)
Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
: 1.
Atlee Pomerene
Atlee Pomerene (December 6, 1863November 12, 1937) was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1911 until 1923.
Biography
Pomerene was born on December 6, 1863, in Berlin, Holmes ...
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Warren G. Harding (R)
Oklahoma
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Robert L. Owen
Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroa ...
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: 3.
Thomas P. Gore (D)
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idah ...
: 2.
Harry Lane (D)
: 3.
George E. Chamberlain (D)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...
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George T. Oliver
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George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
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Boies Penrose (R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but i ...
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Henry F. Lippitt (R)
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LeBaron B. Colt
LeBaron Bradford Colt (June 25, 1846 – August 18, 1924) was a United States senator from Rhode Island and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the ...
(R)
South Carolina
)'' Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = "Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = G ...
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Benjamin R. Tillman (D)
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Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
(D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
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Thomas Sterling
Thomas Sterling (February 21, 1851August 26, 1930) was an American lawyer, politician, and academic who served as a member of the United States Senate and the first dean of the University of South Dakota College of Law.
A Republican, he se ...
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Edwin S. Johnson
Edwin Stockton Johnson (February 26, 1857July 19, 1933) was a United States senator from South Dakota.
Biography
Born in Owen County, Indiana near Spencer, he moved with his parents to Osceola, Iowa, in 1857 and attended the public schools. He ...
(D)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...
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Luke Lea (D)
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John K. Shields (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
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Charles A. Culberson
Charles Allen Culberson (June 10, 1855March 19, 1925) was an American political figure and Democrat who served as the 21st Governor of Texas from 1895 to 1899, and as a United States senator from Texas from 1899 to 1923.
Early life and educati ...
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Morris Sheppard (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
: 1.
George Sutherland (R)
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Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot (January 10, 1862February 9, 1941) was an American politician, businessman, and apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). First elected by the Utah State Legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1902, he served ...
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
: 1.
Carroll S. Page (R)
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William P. Dillingham (R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography an ...
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Claude A. Swanson (D)
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Thomas S. Martin
Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847November 12, 1919) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County, Virginia, who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as t ...
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Washington
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Miles Poindexter (R)
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Wesley L. Jones (R)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
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William E. Chilton (D)
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Nathan Goff (R)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
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Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)
: 3.
Paul O. Husting (D)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the sou ...
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Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
(R)
: 2.
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
(R)
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = " Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
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John Abercrombie (D)
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Oscar Lee Gray (D)
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S. Hubert Dent Jr.
Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. (August 16, 1869 – October 6, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born in Eufaula, Alabama, Dent attended the common schools, and was graduated from Southern University (later known as Birmingham South ...
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Henry B. Steagall (D)
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Fred L. Blackmon
Fred Leonard Blackmon (September 15, 1873 – February 8, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born at Lime Branch, Georgia, Blackmon moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Alabama, in 1883.
He attended the public schools in DeArm ...
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J. Thomas Heflin (D)
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William B. Oliver (D)
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John L. Burnett (D)
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Edward B. Almon (D)
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George Huddleston (D)
Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States. It is the list of U.S. states and territories by area, 6th largest and the list of U.S. states and territories by population, 14 ...
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Carl Hayden (D)
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the ...
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Thaddeus H. Caraway
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (October 17, 1871 – November 6, 1931) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the US state of Arkansas who represented the state first in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to ...
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William A. Oldfield (D)
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John N. Tillman
John Newton Tillman (December 13, 1859 – March 9, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. In the Arkansas State Senate he proposed the Separate Coach Law of 1891, a Jim Crow law to segregate African American passengers. The bill became ...
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Otis Wingo
Otis Theodore Wingo (June 18, 1877 – October 21, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1913 to 1930. He was the husband of his successor in office, Eff ...
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Henderson M. Jacoway
Henderson Madison Jacoway (November 7, 1870 – August 4, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1911 to 1923.
Early life and education
Born in Dardanelle, Arkansas to Wi ...
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Samuel M. Taylor
Samuel Mitchell Taylor (May 25, 1852 – September 13, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, father of Chester W. Taylor.
Born near Fulton, Mississippi, Taylor attended the public schools.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in ...
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William S. Goodwin
William Shields Goodwin (May 2, 1866 – August 9, 1937) was a United States Representative from Arkansas.
Born in Warren, Arkansas, Goodwin attended the public schools, the Farmers' Academy near Duluth, Georgia, Cooledge's Preparatory School ...
(D)
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...
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William Kent (I)
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John E. Raker
John Edward Raker (February 22, 1863 – January 22, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic Party Congressional representative for California, serving eight terms from 1911 to 1926.
Life
He was born near Knoxv ...
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Charles F. Curry
Charles Forrest Curry (March 14, 1858 – October 10, 1930) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from California and the father of Charles F. Curry, Jr., Charles Forrest Curry, Jr.
Curry was born in Naperville, ...
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Julius Kahn Julius Kahn may refer to:
* Julius Kahn (inventor) (1874–1942), engineer of reinforced concrete
* Julius Kahn (congressman) (1861–1924), United States congressman
{{Hndis, Kahn, Julius ...
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John I. Nolan (R)
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John A. Elston
John Arthur Elston (February 10, 1874 – December 15, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from California.
Born in Woodland, California, Elston attended public schools.
He graduated from Hesperian College, Woodland, 1892.
He graduated from the Unive ...
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Denver S. Church
Denver Samuel Church (December 11, 1862 – February 21, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1913 to 1919, then a fourth term from 1933 to 1935.
Biography
Born in Fo ...
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Everis A. Hayes
Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1919.
Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
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Charles H. Randall
Charles Hiram Randall (July 23, 1865 – February 18, 1951), known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council. He was the first council member to face a ...
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Henry S. Benedict
Henry Stanley Benedict (February 20, 1878 – July 10, 1930) was an American lawyer and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Representative from California from 1916 to 1917.
Early life and education
Benedict was born in Boonville, Missour ...
(R), from November 7, 1916
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William Kettner (D)
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
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Benjamin Clark Hilliard
Benjamin Clark Hilliard (January 9, 1868 – August 7, 1951) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. He served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Colorado, and was a two-time chief justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado.
Early ...
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Charles Bateman Timberlake
Charles Bateman Timberlake (September 25, 1854 – May 31, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Timberlake attended the common schools and Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana from 1871 to 1874.
He taught scho ...
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Edward Keating (D)
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Edward Thomas Taylor
Edward Thomas Taylor (June 19, 1858 – September 3, 1941) was an American lawyer and educator who served as a U.S. Representative from Colorado. A member of the Democratic Party, he served 17 terms in the U.S. House, from 1909 to 1941.
Early ...
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Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
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P. Davis Oakey
Peter Davis Oakey (February 25, 1861 – November 18, 1920), usually called P. Davis Oakey, was a businessman and government official from Connecticut. A Republican, he was most notable for his service in the United States House of Representative ...
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Richard P. Freeman (R)
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John Q. Tilson
John Quillin Tilson (April 5, 1866 – August 14, 1958) was an American politician. A Republican, he represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives for almost 22 years and was House Majority leader for 6 years.
Early life
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Ebenezer J. Hill (R)
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James P. Glynn (R)
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacen ...
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Thomas W. Miller
Thomas Woodnutt Miller (June 26, 1886 – May 5, 1973) was an American politician serving as a Republican U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the American Legi ...
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Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ...
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Stephen M. Sparkman (D)
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Frank Clark (D)
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Emmett Wilson (D)
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William J. Sears (D)
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to t ...
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Charles G. Edwards (D)
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Frank Park
Frank Park (March 3, 1864November 20, 1925) was an American politician, educator, lawyer and jurist from the state of Georgia.
Early years and education
Park was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1864 to James Fletcher Park and Emma Augusta Pa ...
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Charles R. Crisp (D)
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William C. Adamson
William Charles Adamson (August 13, 1854 – January 3, 1929) was a United States representative from Georgia, an Associate Justice of the United States Customs Court and a member of the Board of General Appraisers.
Early years and family
Adams ...
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William S. Howard (D)
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James W. Wise (D)
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Gordon Lee (D)
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Samuel Joelah Tribble
Samuel Joelah Tribble (November 15, 1869 – December 8, 1916) was an American politician and lawyer.
Tribble was born near Carnesville, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia in Athens. He was a member of the Demosthenian L ...
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Tinsley W. Rucker Jr.
Tinsley White Rucker Jr. (March 24, 1848 – November 18, 1926) was an American politician, soldier and lawyer.
Life
Rucker was born near Farm Hill, Georgia in Elbert County and attended Princeton College and the Georgia Military Acad ...
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Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)
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Carl Vinson (D)
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John R. Walker (D)
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Dudley M. Hughes (D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and W ...
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Addison T. Smith (R)
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Robert M. McCracken
Robert McDowell McCracken (March 15, 1874 – May 16, 1934) was a United States Representative from Idaho. McCracken served one term as a Republican in the House, from 1915 to 1917.
Born in Vincennes, Indiana, McCracken was elected in 1914 as ...
(R)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Roc ...
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Burnett M. Chiperfield (R)
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William E. Williams
William Elza Williams (May 5, 1857 – September 13, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Detroit, Illinois, Williams attended the public schools and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
He studied law.
He was admitted ...
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Martin B. Madden (R)
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James R. Mann (R)
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William W. Wilson (R)
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James T. McDermott James or Jim McDermott may refer to:
* James T. McDermott (politician) (1872–1938), American politician
* James T. McDermott (judge) (1926–1992), American judge
* Jimmy McDermott (1932–2006), English professional footballer
* Jim McD ...
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Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (April 4, 1866 – November 6, 1952) was an American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland on November 6, 1952. From ...
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James McAndrews (D)
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Frank Buchanan (D)
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Thomas Gallagher (D)
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Frederick A. Britten
Frederick Albert Britten (November 18, 1871 – May 4, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early life
Frederick Albert Britten was born on November 18, 1871, in Chicago, Illinois. Britten attended Heald's Business College, San Franc ...
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George E. Foss (R)
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Ira C. Copley
Ira Clifton Copley (October 25, 1864 – November 1, 1947) was an American publisher, politician, and utility tycoon. Born in rural Knox County, Illinois, Copley's family moved to Aurora when Copley was 2 so he could be treated for scarlet fever ...
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Charles Eugene Fuller (R)
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John C. McKenzie
John Charles McKenzie (February 18, 1860 – September 17, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born on a farm near Elizabeth, Woodbine Township, Illinois to a Scottish immigrant father,
McKenzie attended the common schools, and ...
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Clyde H. Tavenner
Clyde Howard Tavenner (February 4, 1882 – February 6, 1942) was an American politician and publisher who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1913 to 1917. ...
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Edward John King (R)
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Claude U. Stone
Claudius Ulysses Stone (May 11, 1879 – November 13, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Born on a farm in Menard County, near Greenview, Illinois, Stone attended the rural school and Western Normal College, Bushnell, ...
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John A. Sterling (R)
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Joseph G. Cannon (R)
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William B. McKinley (R)
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Henry T. Rainey (D)
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Loren E. Wheeler (R)
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William A. Rodenberg (R)
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Martin D. Foster (D)
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Thomas S. Williams (R)
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Edward E. Denison (R)
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
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Charles Lieb
Charles Lieb (May 20, 1852 – September 1, 1928) was an American politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1913 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Flehingen, Germany, Lieb immigrated to the United States in 1868 and ...
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William A. Cullop
William Allen Cullop (March 28, 1853 – October 9, 1927) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician who served four terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1917.
Biography
Born nea ...
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William E. Cox
William Elijah Cox (September 6, 1861 – March 11, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1919.
Early life and career
Born on a farm near Birdseye, Indiana, Cox att ...
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Lincoln Dixon (D)
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Ralph Wilbur Moss
Ralph Wilbur Moss (April 21, 1862 – April 26, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born in Center Point, Indiana, Moss was educated in the common schools of the township and attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, f ...
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Finly H. Gray
Finly Hutchinson Gray (July 21, 1863 – May 8, 1947) was an American lawyer and politician who served two separate three-term stints as a U.S. Representative from Indiana in the early 20th century.
Biography
Born near Orange, Indiana, Gray at ...
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Merrill Moores (R)
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John A.M. Adair
John Alfred McDowell Adair (December 22, 1864 – October 5, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Portland, Indiana, Adair attended the publi ...
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Martin A. Morrison (D)
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William Robert Wood (R)
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George W. Rauch
George Washington Rauch (February 22, 1876 – November 4, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Early life and career
Born on a farm near Warren in Salamon ...
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Cyrus Cline
Cyrus Cline (July 12, 1856 – October 5, 1923) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1917.
Career overview
Born near Mansfield, Ohio, Cline moved to Steuben County, India ...
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Henry A. Barnhart (D)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
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Charles A. Kennedy
Charles Augustus Kennedy (March 24, 1869 – January 10, 1951) was a seven-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
Biography
Born in Montrose, Iowa, Kennedy completed preparatory stud ...
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Harry E. Hull (R)
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Burton E. Sweet
Burton Erwin Sweet (December 10, 1867 – January 3, 1957) was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 3rd congressional district, then a wide but short chain of counties in north-central and northeastern Iowa, in the shape of a ...
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Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
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James W. Good
James William Good (September 24, 1866 – November 18, 1929) was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Iowa, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Cabinet of President Herbert Hoover as Secretary of War. He w ...
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C. William Ramseyer (R)
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Cassius C. Dowell (R)
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Horace M. Towner (R)
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William R. Green (R)
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Frank P. Woods (R)
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Thomas J. Steele
Thomas Jefferson Steele (March 19, 1853 – March 20, 1920) was a one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa. Steele was the first and only Democrat elected to represent the 11th distric ...
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to ...
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Daniel Read Anthony Jr.
Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (August 22, 1870 – August 4, 1931) was an American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony.
He is the son of newspaper publisher Daniel Read Anthony. He was born in L ...
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Joseph Taggart
Joseph Taggart (June 15, 1867 – December 3, 1938) was a lawyer and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 2nd Congressional District of Kansas from November 7, 1911, to March 3, 1917.
He was born near ...
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Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
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Dudley Doolittle (D)
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Guy T. Helvering
Guy Tresillian Helvering (January 10, 1878 – July 4, 1946) was a United States representative from Kansas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Educa ...
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John R. Connelly
John Robert Connelly (February 27, 1870 – September 9, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born near Mount Sterling, Illinois, Connelly moved to Thayer County, Nebraska, with his parents in 1883. He attended the common schools and ...
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Jouett Shouse (D)
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William A. Ayres
William Augustus Ayres (April 19, 1867 – February 17, 1952) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas and a Federal Trade Commissioner.
Early life and career
William A. Ayres was born in Elizabethtown, Illino ...
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Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virgini ...
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Alben Barkley (D)
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David Hayes Kincheloe
David Hayes Kincheloe (April 9, 1877 – April 16, 1950) was a United States representative from Kentucky and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and early life
Born on April 9, 1877, near Sacramento, Kentucky, Kincheloe atten ...
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Robert Y. Thomas Jr.
Robert Young Thomas Jr. (July 13, 1855 – September 3, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born near Russellville, Kentucky, Thomas attended the common schools, and was graduated from Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, in 1878. ...
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Ben Johnson (D)
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J. Swagar Sherley (D)
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Arthur B. Rouse
Arthur Blythe Rouse (June 20, 1874 – January 25, 1956) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Early life
Born in Burlington, Kentucky, Rouse attended the public schools, graduating from Boone County High School. He was graduated from Hanov ...
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J. Campbell Cantrill (D)
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Harvey Helm
Harvey Helm (December 2, 1865 – March 3, 1919) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Stanford Male Academy and was graduated from the Central University of Kentucky in 1887. He stud ...
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William Jason Fields
William Jason Fields (December 29, 1874October 21, 1954) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Known as "Honest Bill from Olive Hill", he represented Kentucky's Ninth District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 19 ...
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John W. Langley
John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 – January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.
Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three year ...
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Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers (February 1, 1869 – July 25, 1932) was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
Early life
He was born near Williamsburg, Kentucky. He attended ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-smal ...
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Albert Estopinal (D)
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Henry Garland Dupré
Henry may refer to:
People
*Henry (given name)
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Whitmell P. Martin (Prog.)
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John Thomas Watkins (D)
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Riley Joseph Wilson
Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 – February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United Sta ...
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Lewis Lovering Morgan
Lewis Lovering Morgan (March 2, 1876 – June 10, 1950) was an Law of the United States, American lawyer and politician from Covington, Louisiana, Covington, Louisiana.
He served in the United States House of Representatives from November 5 ...
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Ladislas Lazaro
Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from from 1913 to 1927.
Biography
Born near Ville Platte, Evangeline (then part of St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazaro ...
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James Benjamin Aswell (D)
Maine
Maine () is a U.S. state, state in the New England and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and territories of Canad ...
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Asher C. Hinds
Asher Crosby Hinds (February 6, 1863 – May 1, 1919) was a United States representative from Maine. He attended the public schools and Coburn Classical Institute.
Hinds graduated from Colby College in 1883, then began newspaper work in Por ...
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Daniel J. McGillicuddy
Daniel J. McGillicuddy (August 27, 1859 – July 30, 1936) was a United States representative from Maine.
Biography
McGillicuddy was born in Lewiston on August 27, 1859, to John and Ellen McGillicuddy, both Irish immigrants. He attended the com ...
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John A. Peters (R)
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Frank E. Guernsey
Frank Edward Guernsey (October 15, 1866 – January 1, 1927) was a U.S. Representative from Maine.
Early life
Guernsey the son of Edward Hersey Guernsey and Hannah (Thompson) Guernsey was born in Dover, Maine on October 15, 1866.
Education
Gu ...
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Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; ...
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Jesse D. Price
Jesse Dashiell Price (August 15, 1863 – May 14, 1939) was a Congressman for the 1st congressional district of Maryland who served two full terms and one partial term from 1914 to 1919.
Price was born in Whitehaven, Maryland, and engaged ...
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J. Frederick C. Talbott (D)
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Charles P. Coady
Charles Pearce Coady (February 22, 1868 – February 16, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from the third district of Maryland.
Early life
Charles Pearce Coady was born on February 22, 1868, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Mary (née Lyons) and Michae ...
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J. Charles Linthicum
John Charles Linthicum (November 26, 1867–October 5, 1932) was a U.S. Congressman from the 4th Congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932.
Biography
Linthicum was born on 26 November 1867 near Baltimore, Maryland, in ...
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Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R)
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David J. Lewis (D)
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Allen T. Treadway
Allen Towner Treadway (September 16, 1867 – February 16, 1947) was a Massachusetts Republican politician.
Biography
Treadway was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to William Denton Treadway and Harriet (Heaton) Treadway. Treadway graduated ...
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Frederick H. Gillett (R)
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Calvin D. Paige
Calvin DeWitt Paige (May 20, 1848 – April 24, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He was president of the Central Cotton Mills Company, the Southbridge Savings Bank and the Edwards C ...
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Samuel E. Winslow
Samuel Ellsworth Winslow (April 11, 1862 – July 11, 1940) was an American politician and Republican Congressman from Massachusetts.
Biography
Winslow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He spent a year at the Williston Seminary in Eastha ...
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John J. Rogers
John Jacob Rogers (August 18, 1881 – March 28, 1925) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Life and career
Rogers was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard U ...
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Augustus P. Gardner (R)
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Michael F. Phelan
Michael Francis Phelan (October 22, 1875 – October 12, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Phelan attended the public schools.
He graduated from Lynn Classical High School, from Harvard College in ...
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Frederick W. Dallinger
Frederick William Dallinger (October 2, 1871 – September 5, 1955) was a United States representative from Massachusetts and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Education and career
Born on October 2, 1871, in Cambridge, Middlesex C ...
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Ernest W. Roberts
Ernest William Roberts (November 22, 1858 – February 27, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in East Madison, Maine, Roberts attended the public schools in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
He was graduated from Highland Milita ...
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Peter F. Tague (D)
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George H. Tinkham (R)
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James A. Gallivan (D)
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William H. Carter (R)
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Richard Olney II
Richard Olney (January 5, 1871 Milton, Strafford County, New Hampshire – January 15, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Life
He attended the public schools, Leicester A ...
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William S. Greene (R)
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Joseph Walsh (R)
Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...
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Frank E. Doremus
Frank Ellsworth Doremus (August 31, 1865 – September 4, 1947) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Early life
Doremus was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, on August 31, 1865, the son of Sylvester and Sarah Peake Doremus. T ...
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Samuel Beakes (D)
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John M. C. Smith (R)
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Edward L. Hamilton (R)
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Carl Mapes
Carl Edgar Mapes (December 26, 1874 – December 12, 1939) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Mapes was born on a farm near Kalamo, Michigan, to Selah W. and Sarah Ann (Brooks) Mapes. His father was born in New York and came with ...
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Patrick H. Kelley
Patrick Henry Kelley (October 7, 1867 – September 11, 1925) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district from 1915-1923.
Biography
Kelley was born in Silver ...
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Louis C. Cramton (R)
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Joseph W. Fordney (R)
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James C. McLaughlin (R)
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George A. Loud
Colonel George Alvin Loud (June 18, 1852 – November 13, 1925) was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Loud was born in Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, Ohio, and moved with his parents ( Henry M. Loud and Vilitta K ...
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Frank D. Scott
Frank Douglas Scott (August 25, 1878 – February 12, 1951) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Scott was born of Scottish ancestry in Alpena, Michigan, attended the public schools and graduated from the law department of the Univ ...
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W. Frank James (R)
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Charles Archibald Nichols (R)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...
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Sydney Anderson
Sydney Anderson (September 18, 1881 – October 8, 1948) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Zumbrota, Minnesota.
After attending primary schools he served as a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, ...
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Franklin Ellsworth (R)
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Charles Russell Davis
Charles Russell Davis (September 17, 1849 – July 29, 1930) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota.
He was born in Pittsfield, Illinois, but moved with his father to Le Sueur County, Minnesota, in 1854, whe ...
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Carl Van Dyke
Carl Chester Van Dyke (February 18, 1881 – May 20, 1919) was an American soldier, lawyer and politician from Minnesota.
Van Dyke was born in Alexandria and attended the local public schools there. He taught primary school classes in surro ...
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George Ross Smith
George Ross Smith (May 28, 1864 – November 7, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
Early life and education
He was born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota; attended the public schools and Sauk Centre (Minnesota) Academy; ...
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Charles August Lindbergh
Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 ...
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Andrew Volstead (R)
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Clarence B. Miller
Clarence Benjamin Miller (March 13, 1872 – January 10, 1922) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota. He was born in Pine Island, Minnesota and attended the country school, high school, and the Minneapolis Academy; was graduated from the aca ...
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Halvor Steenerson
Halvor Steenerson (June 30, 1852 – November 22, 1926) was an American Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 9th congressional district from 1903 to 1923.
Background
Halv ...
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Thomas D. Schall (Prog.)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Mis ...
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Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D)
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Hubert D. Stephens
Hubert Durrett Stephens (July 2, 1875March 14, 1946) was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Senator from Mississippi from 1923 until 1935.
Stephens was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He graduated from the Universi ...
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Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
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Thomas U. Sisson (D)
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Samuel Andrew Witherspoon
Samuel Andrew Witherspoon (May 4, 1855 – November 24, 1915) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Biography
Born near Columbus, Mississippi, Witherspoon attended the public schools. In 1872 he moved with his mother to Oxford, Mississippi ...
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William Webb Venable
William Webb Venable (September 25, 1880 – August 2, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born in Clinton, Mississippi, Venable moved with his parents to Memphis, Tennessee, returned to Clinton, Mississippi, in 1891.
He attended ...
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Pat Harrison
Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (August 29, 1881June 22, 1941) was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death.
Earl ...
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Percy E. Quin
Percy Edwards Quin (October 30, 1872 – February 4, 1932) was an American politician from Mississippi. He served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1913 to 1932.
Percy was best known for his stocks and bonds i ...
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James W. Collier
James William Collier (September 28, 1872 – September 28, 1933) was a politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Born on the Glenwood Plantation near Vicksburg in 1872, he graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1894 ...
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Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
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James Tilghman Lloyd (D)
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William W. Rucker (D)
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Joshua Willis Alexander
Joshua Willis Alexander (January 22, 1852 – February 27, 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce from December 16, 1919, to March 4, 1921, in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson.TO SUCCEED W.C. REDFIELD.; Joshua W. Alexander ...
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Charles F. Booher (D)
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William Patterson Borland
William Patterson Borland (October 14, 1867 – February 20, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Early life
William Patterson Borland was born on October 14, 1867, in Leavenworth, Kansas. Borland attended public school. He graduated ...
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Clement C. Dickinson (D)
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Courtney W. Hamlin (D)
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Dorsey W. Shackleford
Dorsey William Shackleford (August 27, 1853 – July 15, 1936) was a United States Representative from Missouri.
Early life
Shackleford was born in Sweet Springs, Missouri. He attended public schools and William Jewell College, Liberty, Mi ...
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James Beauchamp Clark
James Beauchamp Clark (March 7, 1850March 2, 1921) was an American politician and attorney who represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919.
Born in Kentucky, he establis ...
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Jacob Edwin Meeker
Jacob Edwin Meeker (October 7, 1878 – October 16, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Background
Born near Attica, Indiana, Meeker attended the public schools. He graduated from Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana, in 1900, a ...
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William Leo Igoe
William Leo Igoe (October 19, 1879 – April 20, 1953) was a United States representative from Missouri.
Igoe was born in St. Louis to Irish immigrants.
He attended the public and parochial schools of St. Louis and graduated from the law schoo ...
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Leonidas C. Dyer
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (June 11, 1871 – December 15, 1957) was an American politician, reformer, civil rights activist, and military officer. A Republican, he served eleven terms in the U.S. Congress as a U.S. Representative from Missouri ...
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Walter Lewis Hensley
Walter Lewis Hensley (September 3, 1871 – July 18, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born near Pevely, Missouri, Hensley attended the public schools and the law department of the University of Missouri.
He was admitted to the bar ...
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Joseph J. Russell
Joseph James Russell (August 23, 1854 – October 22, 1922) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Biography
Born in Mississippi County near Charleston, Missouri, Russell attended the public schools and Charleston Academy. He was admitted ...
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Perl D. Decker
Perl D. Decker (September 10, 1875 – August 22, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born on a farm near Coolville, Ohio, Decker moved with his parents to a farm near Hollis, Kansas, in 1879.
He attended the public schools o ...
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Thomas L. Rubey
Thomas Lewis Rubey (September 27, 1862 – November 2, 1928) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, serving eight terms (two non-consecutive) from 1911 to 1921 and again from 1923 until his death in 1928.
Early career
Born in Lebanon, Misso ...
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Montana
Montana () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West List of regions of the United States#Census Bureau-designated regions and divisions, division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North ...
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John M. Evans (D)
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Tom Stout
Tom Stout (May 20, 1879 – December 26, 1965) was a U.S. Representative from Montana, who represented Montana's at-large congressional district from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1917.
Stout was born in New London, Missouri, in 1879, and attended ...
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Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the so ...
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C. Frank Reavis (R)
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Charles O. Lobeck
Charles Otto Lobeck (April 6, 1852 – January 30, 1920) was a Nebraska politician who served four terms as a United States representative.
Born in Andover, Illinois, he attended German Wallace College (Now Baldwin-Wallace College) in Berea, ...
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Dan V. Stephens
Dan Voorhees Stephens (November 4, 1868 – January 13, 1939) was a Nebraska Democratic politician.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, on November 4, 1868, Dan V. Stephens attended Valparaiso College in Indiana. He settled in Fremont, Nebraska, wh ...
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Charles Henry Sloan
Charles Henry Sloan (May 2, 1863 – June 2, 1946) was an American Republican Party politician.
Biography
Born in Monticello, Iowa on May 2, 1863, he graduated from Iowa State Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) at Ames, Iowa in 18 ...
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Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger (December 23, 1862 – February 22, 1938) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician and the List of governors of Nebraska, 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911.
Early life and ed ...
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Moses P. Kinkaid (R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
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Edwin E. Roberts
Edwin Ewing Roberts (December 12, 1870 – December 11, 1933) was an American attorney and politician from Nevada. He is best known for his service as a United States representative from 1911 to 1919, and mayor of Reno, Nevada from 1923 to 193 ...
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the nor ...
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Cyrus Adams Sulloway
Cyrus Adams Sulloway (June 8, 1839, Grafton, New Hampshire – March 11, 1917) was an attorney and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire.
Biography
Sulloway studied law and was admitted to the bar i ...
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Edward Hills Wason (R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...
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William J. Browning
William John Browning (April 11, 1850 – March 24, 1920) was an American Republican party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district as a U.S. Representative from 1911, until his death in 1920.
Born in Camden, New Jerse ...
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Isaac Bacharach (R)
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Thomas J. Scully (D)
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Elijah C. Hutchinson
Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson (August 7, 1855 in Washington Township, New Jersey – June 25, 1932 in Trenton, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented from 1915 to 1923.
Biography
Hutchinson was born in the Windso ...
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John H. Capstick
John Henry Capstick (September 2, 1856 – March 17, 1918) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1915 until his death in 1918.
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Archibald C. Hart
Archibald Chapman Hart (February 27, 1873 in Lennoxville, Quebec – July 24, 1935 in Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American lawyer, military veteran, and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the Un ...
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Dow H. Drukker (R)
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Edward W. Gray
Edward Winthrop Gray (August 18, 1870 – June 10, 1942) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1915 to 1919.
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Richard W. Parker (R)
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Frederick R. Lehlbach
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (January 31, 1876 – August 4, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican, Lehlbach served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1915 to 1933 and as the repres ...
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John J. Eagan (D)
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James A. Hamill
James Alphonsus Hamill (March 30, 1877 – December 15, 1941) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician. He served as the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1907 to 1913 and 12th district ...
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New Mexico
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Benigno C. Hernández (R)
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Frederick C. Hicks
Frederick Charles Hicks (originally Frederick Hicks Cocks; March 6, 1872 - December 14, 1925) was an American banker and politician who served as a United States representative from New York from 1916 to 1923.
Biography
He was born in Westbury ...
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C. Pope Caldwell
Charles Pope Caldwell (June 18, 1875 - July 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1915 to 1921.
Biography
Born near Bastrop, Texas, Caldwell attended the public schools ...
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Joseph V. Flynn
Joseph Vincent Flynn (September 2, 1883 – February 6, 1940) of Brooklyn, New York was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1915 to 1919. He was a De ...
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Harry H. Dale
Harry Howard Dale (December 3, 1868 – November 17, 1935) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1913 to 1919.
Life
Born in New York City, Dale moved with his parents to Brookl ...
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James P. Maher
James Paul Maher (November 3, 1865 – July 31, 1946) was an American labor union official, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from New York, a position he held for five term ...
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Frederick W. Rowe (R)
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John J. Fitzgerald
John Joseph Fitzgerald (March 10, 1872 – May 13, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a United States Representative from New York from 1899 to 1917.
Life and politics
Born in Brooklyn, he attended the pub ...
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Daniel J. Griffin
Daniel Joseph Griffin (March 26, 1880 – December 11, 1926) was a lawyer and Democratic politician from New York. He was a U.S. Representative from 1913 through 1917.
Biography
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, attended parochial schools the ...
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Oscar W. Swift (R)
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Reuben L. Haskell
Reuben Locke Haskell (October 5, 1878 – October 2, 1971) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Haskell was graduated from Hempstead High School in Hempstead, New York, in 1894.
He took additional co ...
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Daniel J. Riordan
Daniel Joseph Riordan (July 7, 1870 – April 28, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from New York for one term from 1899 to 1901 and for eight additional terms from 1906 to 1923.
He was a Democrat and a member of Tammany Hall.
Biography
Rior ...
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Meyer London
Meyer London (December 29, 1871 – June 6, 1926) was an American politician from New York City. He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congre ...
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George W. Loft
George William Loft (February 6, 1865 – November 6, 1943) was an American businessman, politician, real estate developer, and owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.
Biography
He was born in New York City on February 6, 1865 to English imm ...
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Michael F. Farley
Michael Francis Farley (March 1, 1863 – October 8, 1921) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1915 to 1917.
Early life and career
Farley was born in Birr, County Offal ...
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Michael F. Conry
Michael Francis Conry (April 2, 1870 – March 2, 1917) was an American newspaperman, lawyer, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1909 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Conry a ...
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Peter J. Dooling
Peter Joseph Dooling (February 15, 1857 – October 18, 1931) was an American businessman and politician who served four terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York (state), New York from 1913 to 1921.
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John F. Carew
John Francis Carew (April 16, 1873 – April 10, 1951) was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1913 to 1929. He was a nephew of Thomas Francis Magner.
Biography
Born in Williams ...
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Thomas G. Patten
Thomas Gedney Patten (September 12, 1861 – February 23, 1939) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York (state), New York from 1911 to 1917.
Biog ...
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Walter M. Chandler (Prog.)
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Isaac Siegel
Isaac Siegel (April 12, 1880 – June 29, 1947) was a United States Representative from New York (state), New York.
Biography
He was born in New York City and attended the public schools. Siegel graduated from New York University School of ...
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G. Murray Hulbert
George Murray Hulbert (May 14, 1881 – April 26, 1950) was a United States representative from New York and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Education and career
Born on ...
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Henry Bruckner (D)
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Joseph A. Goulden (D), until May 3, 1915
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William S. Bennet
William Stiles Bennet (November 9, 1870 – December 1, 1962) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York, and father of Augustus Witschief Bennet.
Biography
Born in Port Jervis, New York, Bennet was the son of James and ...
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Woodson R. Oglesby
Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby (February 9, 1867 – April 30, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1913 to 1917. He was a cousin of Richard James Oglesby.
Biography
Born near ...
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James W. Husted (R)
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Edmund Platt (R)
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Charles B. Ward
Charles Bonnell Ward (April 27, 1879 – May 27, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward attended the public schools and was graduated from Pennsylvania Military College (now Widener University) in 1899 ...
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Rollin B. Sanford
Rollin Brewster Sanford (May 18, 1874 – May 16, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Early life
Born in Nicholville, New York, to Henry T. Sanford (1840–1897) and Louisa Ann Brewster ( – 1922), Sanford was raised in Albany an ...
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James S. Parker (R)
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William B. Charles
William Barclay Charles (April 3, 1861 – November 25, 1950) was an American politician from New York.
Life
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Charles attended private schools and high schools in Stirling and Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to the Un ...
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Bertrand H. Snell (R), from November 2, 1915
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Luther W. Mott
Luther Wright Mott (November 30, 1874 – July 10, 1923) was a United States House of Representatives, United States Representative from New York.
Born in Oswego, New York, Oswego, he attended the public schools and graduated from Harvard Univer ...
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Homer P. Snyder (R)
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George W. Fairchild (R)
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Walter W. Magee
Walter Warren Magee (May 23, 1861 – May 25, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was most notable for his service as a member of the United States House of Representatives; elected as a Republican in 1914, he served f ...
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Norman J. Gould
Norman Judd Gould (March 15, 1877 – August 20, 1964) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state), New York.
Biography
Gould was born in Seneca Falls (village), ...
(R), from November 2, 1915
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Harry H. Pratt
Harry Hayt Pratt (November 11, 1864 – November 13, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Corning, New York, Pratt attended Corning Union School and graduated from Corning Free Academy in 1882.
His family owned the '' Corni ...
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Thomas B. Dunn (R)
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Henry G. Danforth
Henry Gold Danforth (June 14, 1854 – April 8, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in the town of Gates, New York (now part of Rochester), Danforth attended private schools in Rochester, New York, and Phillips Exeter Academ ...
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S. Wallace Dempsey
Stephen Wallace Dempsey (May 8, 1862 – March 1, 1949) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Born in Hartland, New York, Dempsey was an assistant United States At ...
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Charles B. Smith (D)
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Daniel A. Driscoll (D)
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Charles M. Hamilton (R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia a ...
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John Humphrey Small (D)
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Claude Kitchin
Claude Kitchin (March 24, 1869 – May 31, 1923) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of North Carolina from 1901 until his death in 1923. A lifelong member of the Democra ...
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George E. Hood (D)
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Edward W. Pou (D)
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Charles M. Stedman
Charles Manly Stedman (January 29, 1841 – September 23, 1930) was a politician and lawyer from North Carolina.
Biography
Born in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Stedman moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina with his parents in 1853 where he at ...
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Hannibal L. Godwin (D)
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Robert N. Page
Robert Newton Page (October 26, 1859 – October 3, 1933) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Cary, North Carolina, Page attended the Cary High School and Bingham Military School in Meb ...
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Robert L. Doughton
Robert Lee "Bob" Doughton (November 7, 1863 – October 1, 1954), of Alleghany County, North Carolina, sometimes known as "Farmer Bob", was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina for 42 consecutive years (1 ...
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Edwin Y. Webb (D)
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James Jefferson Britt
James Jefferson Britt (March 4, 1861 – December 26, 1939) was an American educator and politician who served one term as a United States representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1915 to 1917.
Biography
James Jefferson Britt was bo ...
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North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, S ...
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Henry Thomas Helgesen
Henry Thomas Helgesen (June 26, 1857 – April 10, 1917) was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota.
Born near Decorah, Iowa, Helgesen attended the public schools, the John Breckenridge Normal Institute, and the J.R. Slack Business College at ...
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George M. Young (R)
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Patrick Daniel Norton (R)
Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
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Nicholas Longworth (R)
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Alfred G. Allen
Alfred Gaither Allen (July 23, 1867 – December 9, 1932) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1911 to 1917.
Biography
Born on a farm near Wilmington, Ohio, Allen attended public sch ...
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Warren Gard
Warren Gard (July 2, 1873 – November 1, 1929) was an attorney, prosecutor, jurist and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio for four terms from 1913 to 1921.
Early life and career
Warren Gard was born in Hamilton, ...
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J. Edward Russell
Joshua Edward Russell (August 9, 1867 – June 21, 1953) was an American politician who served one term as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1915 to 1917.
Early life and career
Born near Sidney, Ohio ...
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Nelson E. Matthews
Nelson Edwin Matthews (April 14, 1852 – October 13, 1917) was an American politician who served one term a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1915 until his death in 1917.
Biography
Born in Ottawa, Ohio, Matthews attended the public schools. ...
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Charles C. Kearns
Charles Cyrus Kearns (February 11, 1869 – December 17, 1931) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1915 to 1931.
Biography
Charles C. Kearns was born i ...
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Simeon D. Fess
Simeon Davison Fess (December 11, 1861December 23, 1936) was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio, United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives (1915 to 1923) and U.S. Senate (1923 to 1935).
Early life
Born on ...
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John A. Key (D)
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Isaac R. Sherwood (D)
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Robert M. Switzer (R)
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Edwin D. Ricketts
Edwin Darlington Ricketts (August 3, 1867 – July 3, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for three terms in the early 20th century.
Biography
Born near Maxville, Ohio, Ricketts attended th ...
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Clement L. Brumbaugh
Clement Laird Brumbaugh (February 28, 1863 – September 28, 1921) was an American educator and politician who served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio for four terms from 1913 to 1921.
Early life and edu ...
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Arthur W. Overmyer
Arthur Warren Overmyer (May 31, 1879 – March 8, 1952) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and a judge on the Ohio Court of Appeals.
Biography
Born near Lindsey, Ohio, Overmyer attended the public schools and also Lima Lutheran College. H ...
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Seward H. Williams
Seward Henry Williams (November 7, 1870 – September 2, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1915 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, New York, Williams attended the common ...
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William C. Mooney (R)
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Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
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William A. Ashbrook (D)
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David Hollingsworth
David Adams Hollingsworth (November 21, 1844 – December 3, 1929) was an American lawyer and Civil War veteran who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio in the early 20th century.
Early life and career
Born in Belmont, Ohio, H ...
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John G. Cooper
John Gordon Cooper (April 27, 1872January 7, 1955) was an Anglo-American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Early years
According to his birth certificate, Cooper was born in Smallthorne, Staffordshire, England. Cooper ...
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William Gordon (D)
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Robert Crosser (D)
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Henry I. Emerson
Henry Ivory Emerson (March 15, 1871 – October 28, 1953) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Litchfield, Maine, Emerson moved with his parents to Lewiston, Maine, where he attended the public sc ...
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Oklahoma
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James S. Davenport
James Sanford Davenport (September 21, 1864 – January 3, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma and a member of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. He served on the Congressional committee that created the first roads and highways c ...
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William W. Hastings
William Wirt Hastings (December 31, 1866 – April 8, 1938) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Biography
Born on a farm in Benton County, Arkansas, near the Indian Territory boundary, Hastings was the son of ...
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Charles D. Carter
Charles David Carter (August 16, 1868 in Chickasaw – April 9, 1929) was a Native American politician elected as U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, serving from 1907 to 1927. During this period, he also served as Mining Trustee for Indian Terri ...
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William H. Murray
William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray (November 21, 1869 – October 15, 1956) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chic ...
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Joseph Bryan Thompson (D)
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Scott Ferris
Scott Ferris (November 3, 1877 – June 8, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Early life
Ferris was born in Neosho, Missouri to Scott and Annie M. Ferris. (D)
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James V. McClintic
James Vernon McClintic (September 8, 1878 – April 22, 1948) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Biography
Born near Bremond, Texas, McClintic was the son of George Vance and Emma Clay Proctor Mc Clintic. He mov ...
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Dick Thompson Morgan
Dick Thompson Morgan (December 6, 1853 – July 4, 1920) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Early life and education
Born at Prairie Creek, Indiana, a few miles southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana, Morgan attended the country schools and ...
(R)
Oregon
Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idah ...
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Willis C. Hawley (R)
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Nicholas J. Sinnott
Nicholas John Sinnott (December 6, 1870 – July 20, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States representative from Oregon from 1913 to 1928. He was later appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to be a Judge on th ...
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Clifton N. McArthur
Clifton Nesmith McArthur (June 10, 1879 – December 9, 1923) was a U.S. Representative from Oregon, and grandson of Senator James Willis Nesmith. His father was a member of the Oregon Supreme Court, and Clifton twice served as Speaker of the O ...
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...
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Thomas S. Crago (R)
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John R.K. Scott
John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott (July 6, 1873 – December 9, 1945) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott, father of Hardie Scott, was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and move ...
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Daniel F. Lafean (R)
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Mahlon M. Garland
Mahlon Morris Garland (May 4, 1856 – November 19, 1920) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and career
Garland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Alexandria ...
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William S. Vare
William Scott Vare (December 24, 1867August 7, 1934) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1912 to 1927. He ...
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George S. Graham
George Scott Graham (September 13, 1850 – July 4, 1931) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Graham was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the law department of the University of Pen ...
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J. Hampton Moore
Joseph Hampton Moore (March 8, 1864 – May 2, 1950) was the 108th and 111th
Mayor of Philadelphia and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
J. Hampton Moore was born in Woodbury, New J ...
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George W. Edmonds (R)
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Peter E. Costello (R)
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George P. Darrow (R)
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Thomas S. Butler
Thomas Stalker Butler (November 4, 1855 – May 26, 1928) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1897 until his death, having been elected to the House sixteen times. He was the father ...
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Henry Winfield Watson (R)
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William W. Griest
William Walton Griest (September 22, 1858 – December 5, 1929) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
William W. Griest was born in Christiana, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Millersvi ...
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John R. Farr
John Richard Farr (July 18, 1857 – December 11, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
John R. Farr was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and attended Scranton's School of the Lackawa ...
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John J. Casey
John Joseph Casey (May 26, 1875 – May 5, 1929) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Casey was born in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania. He was an early union organizer and a member of the Pen ...
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Robert D. Heaton
Robert Douglas Heaton (July 1, 1873 – June 11, 1933) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Robert D. Heaton was born in Raven Run, Pennsylvania. He moved to Ashland, Pennsylvania, with his par ...
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Arthur G. Dewalt
Arthur Granville Dewalt (October 11, 1854 – October 26, 1931) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district from 1915 to 1921. ...
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Louis T. McFadden (R)
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Edgar R. Kiess (R)
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John V. Lesher
John Vandling Lesher (July 27, 1866 – May 3, 1932) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Lesher was born on a farm in Blue Hill, Pennsylvania. He attended the rural schools in his native ...
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Benjamin K. Focht
Benjamin Kurtz Focht (March 12, 1863 – March 27, 1937) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Benjamin K. Focht was born in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. He attended Bucknell University in Lew ...
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Aaron S. Kreider
Aaron Shenk Kreider (June 26, 1863 – May 19, 1929) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Birth and Education
Aaron S. Kreider was born on a farm in South Annville Tow ...
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Warren W. Bailey
Warren Worth Bailey (January 8, 1855 – November 9, 1928) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a Georgist publisher. He and other Georgists led in framing the U.S. income tax law of 1916, which exe ...
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C. William Beales
Cyrus William Beales (December 16, 1877 – November 14, 1927) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
C. William Beales was born on a farm near York Spring, Pennsylvania. At the age of thirteen, upon the ...
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Charles H. Rowland
Charles Hedding Rowland (December 20, 1860 – November 24, 1921) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Rowland was born in Hancock, Maryland. He moved to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, ...
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Abraham L. Keister
Abraham Lincoln Keister (September 10, 1852 – May 26, 1917) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Abraham L. Keister was born in Upper Tyrone Township, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Ott ...
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Robert F. Hopwood
Robert Freeman Hopwood (July 24, 1856 – March 1, 1940) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Robert F. Hopwood was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He studied under private teachers. He stud ...
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Henry W. Temple
Henry Wilson Temple (March 31, 1864 – January 11, 1955) was a Progressive and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Temple was born in Belle Center, Ohio. He graduated from Geneva College in Beave ...
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Michael Liebel Jr.
Michael Liebel Jr. (December 12, 1870 – August 8, 1927) was the Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1906 to 1911, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, from 1915 to 1917.
Early life
Liebel was ...
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Henry J. Steele
Henry Joseph Steele (May 10, 1860 – March 19, 1933) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Henry J. Steele was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Stevens College of Business in 1875. He s ...
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Solomon T. North
Solomon Taylor North (May 24, 1853 – October 19, 1917) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Solomon T. North, usually referred to as S. Taylor North or S. T. North, was born in Jefferson County, Penn ...
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Samuel H. Miller (R)
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Stephen G. Porter
Stephen Geyer Porter (May 18, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Porter was born near Salem, Ohio. In 1877, he moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settle ...
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William Henry Coleman (R)
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John M. Morin (R)
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Andrew J. Barchfeld (R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but i ...
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George Francis O'Shaunessy
George Francis O'Shaunessy (May 1, 1868November 28, 1934) was an American politician. He was born in 1868 in Galway, Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1872. After attending Columbia College Law School, he was admitted to the bar of New York ...
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Walter Russell Stiness (R)
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Ambrose Kennedy
Ambrose Patrick Kennedy (December 1, 1875 – March 10, 1967) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.
Born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, Kennedy attended the Blackstone public schools and St. Hyacinthe's College, Province of Quebec, Canad ...
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South Carolina
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Richard S. Whaley
Richard Smith Whaley (July 15, 1874 – November 8, 1951) was a United States representative from South Carolina and Chief Justice of the Court of Claims.
Education and career
Born on July 15, 1874, in Charleston, South Carolina, Whaley atte ...
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James F. Byrnes (D)
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Wyatt Aiken
Wyatt Aiken (December 14, 1863 – February 6, 1923) was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. He served for six terms from 1903 to 1917.
Early life and family
Wyatt Aiken was born near ...
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Joseph T. Johnson
Joseph Travis Johnson (February 28, 1858 – May 8, 1919) was a United States representative from South Carolina and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina.
Education and ca ...
(D), until April 19, 1915
::
Samuel J. Nicholls
Samuel Jones Nicholls (May 7, 1885 – November 23, 1937) was a United States representative from South Carolina. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He attended Bingham Military Institute in Asheville, North Carolina; Wofford College, ...
(D), from September 14, 1915
: .
David E. Finley
David E. Finley (February 28, 1861 – January 26, 1917) was a United States representative from South Carolina. He was born in Trenton, Arkansas. He attended the public schools of Rock Hill, South Carolina, and Ebenezer, South Carolina and was ...
(D), until January 26, 1917
::
Paul G. McCorkle
Paul Grier McCorkle (December 19, 1863 – June 2, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Yorkville (now York), York County, South Carolina, Mccorkle attended the public schools of his native city and Kings Mountain M ...
(D), from February 21, 1917
: .
J. Willard Ragsdale
James Willard Ragsdale (December 14, 1872 – July 23, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, Ragsdale attended the public schools.
He was employed in a railroad office at Wilmington, North Ca ...
(D)
: .
Asbury F. Lever
Asbury Francis "Frank" Lever (January 5, 1875 – April 28, 1940) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.
Early life
Frank Lever was born near Springhill, Lexington County, South Carolina on January 5 ...
(D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
: .
Charles H. Dillon
Charles Hall Dillon (December 18, 1853 – September 15, 1929) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota (1913–19). He later served on the South Dakota Supreme Court. He was born near Jasper, Indiana in 1853.
...
(R)
: .
Royal C. Johnson
Royal Cleaves Johnson (October 3, 1882 – August 2, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from South Dakota and a highly decorated veteran of World War I while he was still a member of Congress. Despite voting against United States declaration of war ...
(R)
: .
Harry L. Gandy
Harry Luther Gandy (August 13, 1881 – August 15, 1957) was an American newspaperman, rancher, and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from South Dakota from 1915 and 1921.
Early life
He was born in Churubusco, Indiana, ...
(D)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...
: .
Sam R. Sells (R)
: .
Richard W. Austin (R)
: .
John Austin Moon
John Austin Moon (April 22, 1855 – June 26, 1921) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee.
Biography
Born on April 22, 1855, near Charlottesville, V ...
(D)
: .
Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871July 23, 1955) was an American politician from Tennessee and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
(D)
: .
William C. Houston
William Cannon Houston (March 17, 1852 – August 30, 1931) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 5th congressional district of Tennessee.
Biography
Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee in Bedf ...
(D)
: .
Joseph W. Byrns
Joseph Wellington "Jo" Byrns Sr. (July 20, 1869 – June 4, 1936) was a U.S. politician. He served as a 14-term Democratic congressman from Tennessee, and as the 41st speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Byrns was ...
(D)
: .
Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D)
: .
Thetus Willrette Sims (D)
: .
Finis J. Garrett
Finis James Garrett (August 26, 1875 – May 25, 1956) was a United States representative from Tennessee and a Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
Education and career
Born on August 26, 1875, near Ore Springs, ...
(D)
: .
Kenneth McKellar (D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...
: .
James H. Davis (D)
: .
A. Jeff McLemore
Atkins Jefferson McLemore (March 13, 1857 – March 4, 1929) was an American newspaper publisher, State Representative and United States Representative from Texas.
Early life
McLemore was born on a farm near Spring Hill, Tennessee, on March 13, ...
(D)
: .
Eugene Black (D)
: .
Martin Dies (D)
: .
James Young (D)
: .
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961) was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time ...
(D)
: .
Hatton W. Sumners (D)
: .
Rufus Hardy (D)
: .
Alexander W. Gregg (D)
: .
Joe H. Eagle (D)
: .
George Farmer Burgess (D)
: .
James P. Buchanan
James Paul "Buck" Buchanan (April 30, 1867 – February 22, 1937) served as U.S. Representative from the 10th district of Texas from 1913 until his death on February 22, 1937.
Biography
Buchanan was born in Midway, Orangeburg County, South Carol ...
(D)
: .
Robert L. Henry
Robert Lee Henry (May 12, 1864 – July 9, 1931) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917.
Early life
Robert Lee Henry was the great-great-great grandson of Patrick Henry and was born i ...
(D)
: .
Oscar Callaway
Francis Oscar Callaway (October 2, 1872 – January 31, 1947) was a three-term U.S. Representative from Texas' twelfth district from 1911 to 1917.
Biography
Born on October 2, 1872, in Harmony Hill (Nip-and-Tuck), Rusk County, Texas, Callaway m ...
(D)
: .
John Hall Stephens (D)
: .
James L. Slayden (D)
: .
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner III (November 22, 1868 – November 7, 1967), known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Texas who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under Frank ...
(D)
: .
William R. Smith (D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
: .
Joseph Howell (R)
: .
James Henry Mays
James Henry Mays (June 29, 1868 – April 19, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
Born in Morristown, Tennessee, Mays attended the district schools.
He moved to Kansas in 1883 with his parents, who settled in Galena, Kansas.
He worked i ...
(D)
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
: .
Frank L. Greene (R)
: .
Porter H. Dale
Porter Hinman Dale (March 1, 1867October 6, 1933) was a member of both the United States House of Representatives and later the United States Senate from Vermont.
Early life and career
The son of Lieutenant Governor George N. Dale and Helen (Hi ...
(R)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography an ...
: .
William Atkinson Jones
William Atkinson Jones (March 21, 1849 – April 17, 1918) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1891 to 1918 from the first district of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Early life
Jones was born in Warsaw, Virginia on March 2 ...
(D)
: .
Edward Everett Holland (D)
: .
Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
: .
Walter Allen Watson (D)
: .
Edward W. Saunders (D)
: .
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Trea ...
(D)
: .
James Hay (D), until October 1, 1916
::
Thomas W. Harrison (D), from November 7, 1916
: .
Charles Creighton Carlin (D)
: .
C. Bascom Slemp (R)
: .
Henry De Flood
Henry De La Warr Flood (September 2, 1865 – December 8, 1921) was a representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, brother of U.S. Representative Joel West Flood and uncle of U.S. Senator Harry ...
(D)
Washington
: .
William E. Humphrey
William Ewart Humphrey (March 31, 1862 – February 14, 1934), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1917. He represented the state of Washington at large from 1903 to 1909 and ...
(R)
: .
Lindley H. Hadley
Lindley Hoag Hadley (June 19, 1861 – November 1, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.
Born near Sylvania, Indiana, Hadley attended the common schools of his native city, Bloomingdale (Indiana) Academy, and Illinois Wesleyan Univer ...
(R)
: .
Albert Johnson (R)
: .
William Leroy La Follette
William Leroy La Follette (November 30, 1860 – December 20, 1934) was a four-term member of the United States House of Representatives representing Washington. He represented the 3rd District from 1911 to 1915, and the 4th District from 1915 ...
(R)
: .
Clarence Cleveland Dill
Clarence Cleveland Dill (September 21, 1884January 14, 1978) was an American politician from the state of Washington. A Democrat, he was elected to two terms each in both houses of Congress.
Early years
Dill was born in Fredericktown, Ohio, a ...
(D)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
: .
Howard Sutherland (R)
: .
Matthew M. Neely
Matthew Mansfield Neely (November 9, 1874January 18, 1958) was an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from West Virginia. He is the only West Virginian to serve in both houses of the United States Congress and as the ...
(D)
: .
William Gay Brown Jr.
William Gay Brown Jr. (April 7, 1856 – March 9, 1916) was a lawyer, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served as a United States representative. Congressman Brown was born in Kingwood, West Virginia in Preston County (then in ...
(D), until March 9, 1916
::
George M. Bowers
George Meade Bowers (September 13, 1863 – December 7, 1925) was an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1916 to 1923.
Biography
Bowers was born in Gerrardstown, West Virginia. He ...
(R), from May 9, 1916
: .
Adam B. Littlepage
Adam Brown Littlepage (April 14, 1859 – June 29, 1921) was a lawyer and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served as a United States Representative. Congressman Littlepage was born near Charleston, West Virginia, in Kanawha Coun ...
(D)
: .
Hunter H. Moss Jr. (R), until July 15, 1916
::
Harry C. Woodyard (R), from November 7, 1916
: .
Edward Cooper (R)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
: .
Henry Allen Cooper (R)
: .
Michael Edmund Burke
Michael Edmund Burke (October 15, 1863 – December 12, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Burke attended local public schools and graduated from the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam in 1884. He studi ...
(D)
: .
John M. Nelson
John Mandt Nelson (October 10, 1870 – January 29, 1955) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Early life
John Mandt Nelson was born on October 10, 1870, in Burke, Wisconsin. Nelson attended the public schools and graduated from the Unive ...
(R)
: .
William J. Cary
William Joseph Cary (March 22, 1865 – January 2, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Background
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cary was educated in the public schools and St. John's Cathedral High School.
He was left an orphan at ...
(R)
: .
William H. Stafford (R)
: .
Michael K. Reilly
Michael Kieran Reilly (July 15, 1869 – October 14, 1944), was a U.S. representative from Wisconsin.
Reilly was born in the town of Empire, Wisconsin in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin on July 15, 1869. He graduated from what is today, the ...
(D)
: .
John Jacob Esch
John Jacob Esch (March 20, 1861 – April 27, 1941) was an American attorney and member of the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1921 serving as a Republican. Born near Norwalk, Wisconsin, he graduated from the University o ...
(R)
: .
Edward E. Browne
Edward Everts Browne (February 16, 1868 – November 23, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Born in Waupaca, Wisconsin, Browne attended the public schools and Waupaca High School.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madi ...
(R)
: .
Thomas Frank Konop
Thomas Frank Konop (August 17, 1879 – October 17, 1964) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Konop was born in Franklin, Wisconsin and was of Czech descent. Konop studied at Two Rivers High School, Oshkosh State Normal School (now the U ...
(D)
: .
James A. Frear
James Archibald Frear (October 24, 1861 – May 28, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Biography
Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Frear attended the public schools, and Lawrence University, Appleton, Wiscon ...
(R)
: .
Irvine L. Lenroot (R)
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the sou ...
: .
Franklin Wheeler Mondell
Frank Wheeler Mondell (November 6, 1860August 6, 1939) was a United States representative of Wyoming.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was educated in the public schools. For many years he was engaged in farming, stock-raising, and rai ...
(R)
Non-voting members
: .
James Wickersham, (R)
: .
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole
Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th cent ...
, (R)
: .
Manuel Earnshaw (Resident Commissioner), (I)
: .
Manuel L. Quezon (Resident Commissioner), (
Nac.) until October 15, 1916
: .
Luis Muñoz Rivera (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist), until November 15, 1916
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
* Replacements: 3
**
Democratic
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
: 1 seat net loss
**
Republican: 1 seat net gain
* Deaths: 3
* Resignations: 0
* Vacancy: 0
* Total seats with changes: 4
House of Representatives
* Replacements: 9
**
Democratic
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
: 2 seat loss
**
Republican: 3 seat gain
**
Progressive
Progressive may refer to:
Politics
* Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform
** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context
* Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ...
: 1 seat loss
* Deaths: 8
* Resignations: 12
* Contested elections: 4
* Total seats with changes: 15
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman:
Boies Penrose; Ranking Member:
William J. Stone)
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Thomas P. Gore; Ranking Member:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
Thomas S. Martin
Thomas Staples Martin (July 29, 1847November 12, 1919) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Albemarle County, Virginia, who founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as t ...
; Ranking Member:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
)
* United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Sharp Williams, John S. Williams; Ranking Member:
William P. Dillingham)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Robert L. Owen
Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroa ...
; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Canadian Relations, Canadian Relations (Chairman:
John K. Shields; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
__NOTOC__
George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
William E. Chilton; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman:
Atlee Pomerene
Atlee Pomerene (December 6, 1863November 12, 1937) was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1911 until 1923.
Biography
Pomerene was born on December 6, 1863, in Berlin, Holmes ...
; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progr ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Nathan P. Bryan; Ranking Member:
Edwin C. Burleigh then
Nathan Goff)
* United States Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey, Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Willard Saulsbury Jr., Willard Saulsbury; Ranking Member:
Charles E. Townsend
Charles Elroy Townsend (August 15, 1856August 3, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as both a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the U.S. state, state of Michigan. He served in the United States Congress from 1903 to 1923.
Early lif ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses, Coast Defenses (Chairman:
James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry A. du Pont)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman:
James P. Clarke; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Conservation of National Resources, Conservation of National Resources (Chairman:
James K. Vardaman; Ranking Member:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette; Ranking Member:
William J. Stone)
* United States Senate Committee on Cuban Relations, Cuban Relations (Chairman: Joseph L. Bristow then Oscar Underwood; Ranking Member: William Alden Smith, William A. Smith)
* United States Senate Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments (Chairman:
Carroll S. Page; Ranking Member:
James E. Martine
James Edgar Martine (August 25, 1850February 26, 1925) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1911 to 1917.
Early life
James Edgar Martine was born in New York City on August 25, 1 ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: John Walter Smith, John W. Smith; Ranking Member:
William P. Dillingham)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman: Hoke Smith; Ranking Member:
William E. Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often co ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Engrossed Bills, Engrossed Bills (Chairman:
Francis E. Warren
Francis Emroy Warren (June 20, 1844November 24, 1929) was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming and being the first Governor of Wyoming. A soldier in the Union A ...
; Ranking Member:
Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and Unite ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
Henry F. Hollis; Ranking Member:
Charles Curtis)
* United States Senate Select Committee to Establish a University in the United States, Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee to Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service, Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: William Alden Smith, William A. Smith; Ranking Member: Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879), Luke Lea)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Chairman:
Morris Sheppard; Ranking Member:
Henry F. Lippitt)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce, Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor (Chairman:
William H. Thompson; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Fall)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member:
Claude A. Swanson)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Chairman:
George Sutherland; Ranking Member:
Key Pittman)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman:
William Hughes)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman:
Blair Lee; Ranking Member: Asle Gronna)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State, Expenditures in the Department of State (Chairman:
J. Hamilton Lewis
James Hamilton Lewis (May 18, 1863 – April 9, 1939) was an American attorney and politician. Sometimes referred to as J. Ham Lewis or Ham Lewis, he represented Washington in the United States House of Representatives, and Illinois in the Unite ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman:
Joseph T. Robinson; Ranking Member:
John D. Works)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman:
Miles Poindexter; Ranking Member:
Harry Lane)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman:
Furnifold M. Simmons
Furnifold McLendel Simmons (January 20, 1854April 30, 1940) was an American politicians who served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889 and Unite ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose)
* United States Senate Committee on Fisheries, Fisheries (Chairman: John R. Thornton; Ranking Member:
John D. Works)
* United States Senate Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Chairman:
Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was an American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesot ...
; Ranking Member:
Benjamin R. Tillman)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman:
Harry Lane; Ranking Member:
George P. McLean)
* United States Senate Committee on Geological Survey, Geological Survey (Chairman:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
; Ranking Member:
John W. Kern
John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 – August 17, 1917) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana. While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader (and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Lead ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Immigration, Immigration (Chairman:
Ellison D. Smith
Ellison DuRant “Cotton Ed” Smith (August 1, 1864 – November 17, 1944) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina widely known for his virtuently racist and segregationist views ...
; Ranking Member:
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 November 9, 1924) was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
William J. Stone; Ranking Member:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudso ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Depredations, Indian Depredations (Chairman:
William E. Borah
William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in Idaho's history. A progressive who served from 1907 until his death in 1940, Borah is often co ...
; Ranking Member:
Claude A. Swanson)
* United States Senate Committee on Industrial Expositions, Industrial Expositions (Chairman:
Henry F. Ashurst
Henry Fountain Ashurst (September 13, 1874 – May 31, 1962) was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two Senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of the Arizona Territorial l ...
; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
__NOTOC__
George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, Interoceanic Canals (Chairman:
James A. O'Gorman
James Aloysius O'Gorman (May 5, 1860 – May 17, 1943) was an American attorney, judge, and politician from New York. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a United States Senator from March 31, 1911 to March 3, 1917.
A native of Ma ...
; Ranking Member:
Frank B. Brandegee)
* United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman:
Francis G. Newlands; Ranking Member:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudso ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman:
Marcus A. Smith
Marcus Aurelius "Mark" Smith (January 24, 1851 – April 7, 1924) was an American attorney and politician who served eight terms as Arizona Territorial Delegate to Congress and as one of the first two Senators from Arizona. As a Delegate, he ...
; Ranking Member:
Wesley L. Jones)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
Charles A. Culberson
Charles Allen Culberson (June 10, 1855March 19, 1925) was an American political figure and Democrat who served as the 21st Governor of Texas from 1895 to 1899, and as a United States senator from Texas from 1899 to 1923.
Early life and educati ...
; Ranking Member:
Clarence D. Clark
Clarence Don Clark (April 16, 1851November 18, 1930) was an American teacher, lawyer, and politician from New York (state), New York. He participated in the constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention for Wyoming's s ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman: Luke Lea (American politician, born 1879), Luke Lea; Ranking Member:
Albert B. Cummins
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)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman:
James A. Reed; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
__NOTOC__
George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
George E. Chamberlain; Ranking Member:
Henry A. du Pont)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Thomas J. Walsh; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman:
Albert B. Cummins
Albert Baird Cummins (February 15, 1850July 30, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 18th governor of Iowa, elected to three consecutive terms and U.S. senator for Iowa, serving for 18 years. Cummins was a leader of the Progr ...
; Ranking Member:
John Sharp Williams)
* United States Senate Committee on National Banks, National Banks (Chairman: Charles F. Johnson; Ranking Member:
James H. Brady)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman:
Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose)
* United States Senate Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman:
John F. Shafroth
John Franklin Shafroth (June 9, 1854February 20, 1922) was an American politician who served as a representative, member of the United States Senate, and Governor of Colorado.
Early life
Born in Fayette, Missouri, he attended the common schoo ...
; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter)
* United States Senate Committee on Pacific Railroads, Pacific Railroads (Chairman:
Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member:
James A. Reed)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
Ollie M. James
Ollie Murray James (July 27, 1871August 28, 1918) was an American politician. A Democrat, he represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Biography
James was born and raised in western Kentuc ...
; Ranking Member:
Frank B. Brandegee)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
Benjamin F. Shively
Benjamin Franklin Shively (March 20, 1857 – March 14, 1916) was an United States of America, American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Representative (1884 to 1885 and 1887 to 1893) and United States Senate, Senator (190 ...
; Ranking Member:
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Philippines, Philippines (Chairman:
Gilbert M. Hitchcock; Ranking Member:
George P. McLean)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
John H. Bankhead
John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842March 1, 1920) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama between 1907 and 1920.
Life and career
Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at Moscow, present-day Lamar County, Alabama (near ...
; Ranking Member:
Boies Penrose)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Duncan U. Fletcher; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Private Land Claims, Private Land Claims (Chairman:
Henry Cabot Lodge
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; Ranking Member:
Benjamin R. Tillman)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman:
John W. Kern
John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 – August 17, 1917) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana. While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate majority leader (and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Lead ...
; Ranking Member:
William P. Dillingham)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Claude A. Swanson; Ranking Member:
George Sutherland)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman:
Joseph E. Ransdell; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
Henry L. Myers
Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States senator from Montana.
Biography
Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitt ...
; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
* United States Senate Committee on Railroads, Railroads (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member:
George T. Oliver
__NOTOC__
George Tener Oliver (January 26, 1848January 22, 1919) was an American lawyer, publisher, and Republican party politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1909 until 1917.
Ea ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Revision of the Laws, Revision of the Laws (Chairman:
Joseph T. Robinson; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on Revolutionary Claims, Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: William O. Bradley; Ranking Member:
Edwin C. Burleigh then
Charles Curtis)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Lee S. Overman; Ranking Member:
Jacob H. Gallinger)
* United States Senate Committee on Standards, Weights and Measures, Standards, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudso ...
; Ranking Member:
John H. Bankhead
John Hollis Bankhead (September 13, 1842March 1, 1920) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama between 1907 and 1920.
Life and career
Bankhead was born on September 13, 1842, at Moscow, present-day Lamar County, Alabama (near ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Tariff Regulation, Tariff Regulation (Select)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Telepost, Telepost (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
Key Pittman; Ranking Member:
Knute Nelson
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)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman:
Henry A. du Pont; Ranking Member:
Henry F. Hollis)
* United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman:
Porter J. McCumber
Porter James McCumber (February 3, 1858May 18, 1933) was a United States senator from North Dakota. He was a supporter of the 1906 "Pure Food and Drug Act", and of the League of Nations.
Early life
Born in Crete, Illinois in 1858, he moved w ...
; Ranking Member:
Morris Sheppard)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Trespassers upon Indian Lands, Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: Isaac Stephenson; Ranking Member:
Miles Poindexter)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, Woman Suffrage (Chairman:
Charles S. Thomas; Ranking Member:
George Sutherland)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman: James T. Lloyd; Ranking Member:
Thomas W. Miller
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)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman:
Asbury F. Lever
Asbury Francis "Frank" Lever (January 5, 1875 – April 28, 1940) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.
Early life
Frank Lever was born near Springhill, Lexington County, South Carolina on January 5 ...
; Ranking Member:
Gilbert N. Haugen)
* United States House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman:
Adolph J. Sabath
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; Ranking Member:
Addison T. Smith)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
John J. Fitzgerald
John Joseph Fitzgerald (March 10, 1872 – May 13, 1952) was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a United States Representative from New York from 1899 to 1917.
Life and politics
Born in Brooklyn, he attended the pub ...
; Ranking Member:
Frederick H. Gillett)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman:
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Trea ...
; Ranking Member:
Everis A. Hayes
Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1919.
Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
Harvey Helm
Harvey Helm (December 2, 1865 – March 3, 1919) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the Stanford Male Academy and was graduated from the Central University of Kentucky in 1887. He stud ...
; Ranking Member:
Asher C. Hinds
Asher Crosby Hinds (February 6, 1863 – May 1, 1919) was a United States representative from Maine. He attended the public schools and Coburn Classical Institute.
Hinds graduated from Colby College in 1883, then began newspaper work in Por ...
)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman:
Edward W. Pou; Ranking Member:
George W. Edmonds)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Thomas W. Hardwick
Thomas William Hardwick (December 9, 1872January 31, 1944) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia who served as governor of Georgia, a United States Senator from Georgia, a member of the United States House of Representati ...
; Ranking Member:
Edwin E. Roberts
Edwin Ewing Roberts (December 12, 1870 – December 11, 1933) was an American attorney and politician from Nevada. He is best known for his service as a United States representative from 1911 to 1919, and mayor of Reno, Nevada from 1923 to 193 ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott, J. Frederick Cockey Talbott; Ranking Member:
William S. Bennet
William Stiles Bennet (November 9, 1870 – December 1, 1962) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York, and father of Augustus Witschief Bennet.
Biography
Born in Port Jervis, New York, Bennet was the son of James and ...
)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman:
Ben Johnson; Ranking Member:
William J. Cary
William Joseph Cary (March 22, 1865 – January 2, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Background
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cary was educated in the public schools and St. John's Cathedral High School.
He was left an orphan at ...
)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman:
Dudley M. Hughes; Ranking Member:
Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers (February 1, 1869 – July 25, 1932) was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
Early life
He was born near Williamsburg, Kentucky. He attended ...
)
* United States House Committee on the Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman:
William W. Rucker; Ranking Member: Carl E. Mapes)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James D. Post; Ranking Member:
Merrill Moores)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#2 (Chairman:
James A. Hamill
James Alphonsus Hamill (March 30, 1877 – December 15, 1941) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician. He served as the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 1907 to 1913 and 12th district ...
; Ranking Member: John Jacob Rogers)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Lewis L. Morgan; Ranking Member:
Cassius C. Dowell)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
William A. Ashbrook; Ranking Member: William R. Wood (Indiana politician), William R. Wood)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Agriculture Department, Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman:
Robert L. Doughton
Robert Lee "Bob" Doughton (November 7, 1863 – October 1, 1954), of Alleghany County, North Carolina, sometimes known as "Farmer Bob", was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina for 42 consecutive years (1 ...
; Ranking Member: Edward J. King)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Commerce Department, Expenditures in the Commerce Department (Chairman: John H. Rothermel; Ranking Member: Thomas Sutler Williams)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: James M. Graham; Ranking Member:
Aaron S. Kreider
Aaron Shenk Kreider (June 26, 1863 – May 19, 1929) was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Birth and Education
Aaron S. Kreider was born on a farm in South Annville Tow ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department, Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman:
Robert F. Broussard
Robert Foligny Broussard (August 17, 1864 – April 12, 1918) was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish, to Jean Dorville Broussard, ...
; Ranking Member:
Stephen G. Porter
Stephen Geyer Porter (May 18, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Porter was born near Salem, Ohio. In 1877, he moved to Pennsylvania with his parents, who settle ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Labor Department, Expenditures in the Labor Department (Chairman:
James P. Maher
James Paul Maher (November 3, 1865 – July 31, 1946) was an American labor union official, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, he is most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative from New York, a position he held for five term ...
; Ranking Member:
John G. Cooper
John Gordon Cooper (April 27, 1872January 7, 1955) was an Anglo-American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Early years
According to his birth certificate, Cooper was born in Smallthorne, Staffordshire, England. Cooper ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman:
Rufus Hardy; Ranking Member: George Edmund Foss)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member:
Harry H. Pratt
Harry Hayt Pratt (November 11, 1864 – November 13, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Corning, New York, Pratt attended Corning Union School and graduated from Corning Free Academy in 1882.
His family owned the '' Corni ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman:
Courtney W. Hamlin; Ranking Member:
George H. Tinkham)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman:
Charles O. Lobeck
Charles Otto Lobeck (April 6, 1852 – January 30, 1920) was a Nebraska politician who served four terms as a United States representative.
Born in Andover, Illinois, he attended German Wallace College (Now Baldwin-Wallace College) in Berea, ...
; Ranking Member: Henry Wilson Temple)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman:
John A.M. Adair
John Alfred McDowell Adair (December 22, 1864 – October 5, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Biography
Born in Portland, Indiana, Adair attended the publi ...
; Ranking Member:
Luther W. Mott
Luther Wright Mott (November 30, 1874 – July 10, 1923) was a United States House of Representatives, United States Representative from New York.
Born in Oswego, New York, Oswego, he attended the public schools and graduated from Harvard Univer ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings, Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Thomas F. Konop; Ranking Member:
William A. Rodenberg)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Henry D. Flood; Ranking Member:
Henry Allen Cooper)
* United States House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman:
John L. Burnett; Ranking Member:
Everis A. Hayes
Everis Anson Hayes (March 10, 1855 – June 3, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1905 to 1919.
Biography
Born in Waterloo, Wisconsin, Hayes attended the public sc ...
)
* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman: John H. Stephens; Ranking Member:
Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
)
* United States House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Edwin S. Underhill; Ranking Member:
Frank P. Woods)
* United States House Committee on Insular Affairs, Insular Affairs (Chairman: William Atkinson Jones, William A. Jones; Ranking Member:
Horace M. Towner)
* United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman:
William C. Adamson
William Charles Adamson (August 13, 1854 – January 3, 1929) was a United States representative from Georgia, an Associate Justice of the United States Customs Court and a member of the Board of General Appraisers.
Early years and family
Adams ...
; Ranking Member: John J. Esch)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman:
Isaac R. Sherwood; Ranking Member:
John W. Langley
John Wesley Langley (January 14, 1868 – January 17, 1932) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.
Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools and then taught school for three year ...
)
* United States House Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman:
William R. Smith; Ranking Member:
Moses P. Kinkaid)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: Henry De Lamar Clayton Jr., Henry De Lamar Clayton; Ranking Member: Andrew J. Volstead)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman:
David J. Lewis; Ranking Member: John M.C. Smith)
* United States House Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
James L. Slayden; Ranking Member:
William B. McKinley)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Joshua W. Alexander; Ranking Member:
William S. Greene)
* United States House Committee on Mileage, Mileage (Chairman:
Warren W. Bailey
Warren Worth Bailey (January 8, 1855 – November 9, 1928) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a Georgist publisher. He and other Georgists led in framing the U.S. income tax law of 1916, which exe ...
; Ranking Member:
Burnett M. Chiperfield)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman:
James Hay; Ranking Member:
Julius Kahn Julius Kahn may refer to:
* Julius Kahn (inventor) (1874–1942), engineer of reinforced concrete
* Julius Kahn (congressman) (1861–1924), United States congressman
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)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
Martin D. Foster; Ranking Member:
Mahlon M. Garland
Mahlon Morris Garland (May 4, 1856 – November 19, 1920) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and career
Garland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to Alexandria ...
)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: Lemuel P. Padgett; Ranking Member:
Thomas S. Butler
Thomas Stalker Butler (November 4, 1855 – May 26, 1928) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1897 until his death, having been elected to the House sixteen times. He was the father ...
)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
William A. Oldfield; Ranking Member:
John I. Nolan)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman:
John A. Key; Ranking Member:
Sam R. Sells)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John A. Moon; Ranking Member:
Halvor Steenerson
Halvor Steenerson (June 30, 1852 – November 22, 1926) was an American Republican politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 9th congressional district from 1903 to 1923.
Background
Halv ...
)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Henry A. Barnhart; Ranking Member:
Edgar R. Kiess)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Frank Clark; Ranking Member:
Richard W. Austin)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
Scott Ferris
Scott Ferris (November 3, 1877 – June 8, 1945) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma.
Early life
Ferris was born in Neosho, Missouri to Scott and Annie M. Ferris. ; Ranking Member:
Irvine L. Lenroot)
* United States House Committee on Railways and Canals, Railways and Canals (Chairman:
Martin Dies; Ranking Member: William L. La Follette)
* United States House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman:
Hannibal L. Godwin; Ranking Member:
William B. McKinley)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman: John T. Watkins; Ranking Member:
Merrill Moores)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman:
Stephen M. Sparkman; Ranking Member:
William E. Humphrey
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)
* United States House Committee on Roads, Roads (Chairman:
Dorsey W. Shackleford
Dorsey William Shackleford (August 27, 1853 – July 15, 1936) was a United States Representative from Missouri.
Early life
Shackleford was born in Sweet Springs, Missouri. He attended public schools and William Jewell College, Liberty, Mi ...
; Ranking Member:
Thomas B. Dunn)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Robert L. Henry
Robert Lee Henry (May 12, 1864 – July 9, 1931) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas from 1897 to 1917.
Early life
Robert Lee Henry was the great-great-great grandson of Patrick Henry and was born i ...
; Ranking Member:
Philip P. Campbell
Philip Pitt Campbell (April 25, 1862 – May 26, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Biography
Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, Campbell moved with his parents to Neosho County, Kansas, in 1867.
He attended the common schoo ...
)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman:
William C. Houston
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Biography
Born in Shelbyville, Tennessee in Bedf ...
; Ranking Member: Frank E. Guernsey, Frank Guernsey)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman:
Alexander W. Gregg; Ranking Member:
Benjamin K. Focht
Benjamin Kurtz Focht (March 12, 1863 – March 27, 1937) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Biography
Benjamin K. Focht was born in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania. He attended Bucknell University in Lew ...
)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman: Oscar Underwood; Ranking Member:
Joseph W. Fordney)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Armor Plant Costs, Armor Plant Costs (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Federal Aid in Construction of Post Roads, Federal Aid in Construction of Post Roads
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman: Sen.
John Sharp Williams)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Sen.
Francis G. Newlands)
* United States Congress Joint Committee to Investigate the General Parcel Post, Investigate the General Parcel Post
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: Sen.
Duncan U. Fletcher)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Postage on Second-Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail, Postage on 2nd Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Transportation of Mail (Chairman: Sen. Jonathan Bourne Jr.)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Rural Credits, Rural Credits (Chairman: Rep.
Carter Glass
Carter Glass (January 4, 1858 – May 28, 1946) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United States Secretary of the Trea ...
)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Second Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Rail Mail Service, Second Class Mail Matter and Compensation for Rail Mail Service
Caucuses
* House Democratic Caucus, Democratic (House)
* Senate Democratic Caucus, Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
*Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
*Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
*Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford
Senate
*Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: F. J. Prettyman (Methodist)
*Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: James Marion Baker, James M. Baker
*United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
*Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins
House of Representatives
*Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: Henry N. Couden
*Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: South Trimble
*Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Bennett C. Clark
*Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
*Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and H. Martin Williams (R)
*Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: William M. Dunbar
*Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Robert B. Gordon
See also
* United States elections, 1914 (elections leading to this Congress)
** United States Senate elections, 1914
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1914
* United States elections, 1916 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** 1916 United States presidential election
** United States Senate elections, 1916
** United States House of Representatives elections, 1916
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