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was created November 4, 1807. On January 2, 1947, its functions were transferred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.


Chairmen of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, 1811-1947

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Michael Leib Michael Leib (January 8, 1760December 22, 1822) was an American physician and politician from Philadelphia. He served as a surgeon in the Philadelphia Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He served as a Democratic-Republican member of t ...
(R-PA) 1811-1815 *
Abner Lacock Abner Lacock (July 9, 1770April 12, 1837) was an American surveyor, civil engineer, and politician from Rochester, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate. B ...
(R-PA) 1815-1819 * Jonathan Roberts (R-PA) 1819-1821 *
James Lanman James Lanman (June 14, 1767August 7, 1841) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate from 1819 to 1825. He was a cousin of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Early life James Lanman ...
(R-CT) 1821-1822 * Nathaniel Macon (R-NC) 1822-1823 *
Horatio Seymour Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810February 12, 1886) was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential elec ...
(R-VT) 1823-1826 * Elias Kane (D-IL) 1826-1830 *
James Iredell James Iredell (October 5, 1751 – October 20, 1799) was one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799. His son, James Iredel ...
(D-NC) 1830-1831 *
Nehemiah Knight Nehemiah Knight (March 23, 1746June 13, 1808) was a United States representative from Rhode Island. He was born in Knightsville (a village later named after him) within the town of Cranston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantat ...
(NR/W-RI) 1831-1835 *
Samuel McKean Samuel McKean (April 7, 1787December 14, 1841) was an American merchant and politician from Burlington, Pennsylvania, who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate for Pennsylvania from 1833 to 1839 and of the U.S. House of Representative ...
(D-PA) 1835-1839 *
Nehemiah Knight Nehemiah Knight (March 23, 1746June 13, 1808) was a United States representative from Rhode Island. He was born in Knightsville (a village later named after him) within the town of Cranston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantat ...
(W-RI) 1839-1841 * Albert S. White (W-IN) 1841-1842 *
Benjamin Tappan Benjamin Tappan (May 25, 1773 – April 20, 1857) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio and a United States senator from Ohio. Education and career Born on May 25, 1773, in Northampton, ...
(D-OH) 1842-1845 *
Jesse Speight Jesse Speight (September 22, 1795May 1, 1847) was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century. Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina H ...
(D-MS) 1845-1846 * Alpheus Felch (D-MI) 1847-1848 *
Isaac P. Walker Isaac Pigeon Walker (November 2, 1815March 29, 1872) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Walker was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Illinois in 1825. He practiced law in Springfield, Illinois, and ...
(D-WI) 1848-1849 *
Augustus Dodge Augustus Caesar Dodge (January 2, 1812November 20, 1883) was a Democratic delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa Territory, a U.S. minister to Spain, and one of the first set of United States Senators to represent Iowa after it ...
(D-IA) 1849-1853 * Josiah Evans (D-SC) 1853-1858 * William Wright (D-NJ) 1858-1859 *
Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson was a Dem ...
(D-TN) 1859-1861 *
James Dixon James Dixon (August 5, 1814 – March 27, 1873) was a United States representative and United States Senator, Senator from Connecticut. Biography Dixon, son of William & Mary (Field) Dixon, was born August 5, 1814 in Enfield, Connecticut, ...
(R-CT) 1861-1865 *
B. Gratz Brown Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826December 13, 1885) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of ...
(R-MO) 1865-1866 * George H. Williams (R-OR) 1866-1867 *
Aaron Cragin Aaron Harrison Cragin (February 3, 1821May 10, 1898) was an American politician and a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Early life Born in Weston, Vermont, Cragin completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admit ...
(R-NH) 1867-1870 *
Orris S. Ferry Orris Sanford Ferry (August 15, 1823 – November 21, 1875) was a Republican American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was also a brigadier general ...
(R-CT) 1870-1871 *
Reuben Fenton Reuben Eaton Fenton (July 4, 1819August 25, 1885) was an American merchant and politician from New York (state), New York. In the mid-19th Century, he served as a United States House of Representatives , U.S. Representative, a United States Sen ...
(R-NY) 1871-1872 * Matthew Carpenter (R-WI) 1872-1875 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1875-1879 * Benjamin Hill (D-GA) 1879-1881 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1881-1893 * Edward Douglass White (D-LA) 1893-1894 * Johnson N. Camden (D-WV) 1894-1895 * John P. Jones (R-NV) 1895-1903 * John Kean (R-NJ) 1903-1911 *
Frank O. Briggs Frank Obadiah Briggs (August 12, 1851May 8, 1913) was the Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1899 to 1902. He was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913. Biography He was born on August 12, 1851 in Concord, New Hampshire to ...
(R-NJ) 1911-1913 *
John Sharp Williams John Sharp Williams (July 30, 1854September 27, 1932) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908 ...
(D-MS) 1913-1916 * Luke Lea (D-TN) 1916-1917 * William H. Thompson (D-KS) 1917-1919 *
William M. Calder William Musgrave Calder I (March 3, 1869March 3, 1945) was an American politician and architect who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress from New York. Early life and education He was born in Brooklyn on March 3, 1869 ...
(R-NY) 1919-1923 *
Henry W. Keyes Henry Wilder Keyes (; May 23, 1863June 19, 1938) was an American Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. He served as the 56th governor of New Hampshire from 1917 to 1919 and as a United States Senator. Early life Keyes was born in ...
(R-NH) 1923-1927 *
Charles S. Deneen Charles Samuel Deneen (May 4, 1863 – February 5, 1940) was an American lawyer and History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican politician who served as the List of Governors of Illinois, 23rd Governor of Illinois, from 1905 to 1 ...
(R-IL) 1927-1931 * John G. Townsend, Jr. (R-DE) 1931-1933 *
James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, mos ...
(D-SC) 1933-1941 * Scott W. Lucas (D-IL) 1941-1947


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Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees
U.S. Senate Historical Office, January 2005. Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate 1807 establishments in the United States 1947 disestablishments in Washington, D.C.