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United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ...

Committee on Coast and Insular Survey was created in 1899 and terminated in 1921.

Chairmen

Addison G. Foster Addison Gardner Foster (January 28, 1837January 16, 1917) was an American businessman and politician who was prominent in Minnesota and Washington (state), Washington. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he was most notable for his se ...

(R-WA) 1899-1903 *

Levi Ankeny Levi Ankeny (August 1, 1844March 29, 1921) was a Republican United States Senator from the state of Washington. He was born in Buchanan County, Missouri near St. Joseph, but crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850 with his parents and settled in Po ...

(R-WA) 1903-1905 *

Samuel Piles Samuel Henry Piles (December 28, 1858March 11, 1940) was an American politician, attorney, and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Washington. Early life Piles was born near Smithland, Kentucky, the son of Samuel Henry Piles (d ...

(R-WA) 1905-1911 *

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 ...

(R-MI) 1911-1913 * Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D-DE) 1913-1918 * Edward J. Gay (D-LA) 1918-1919 *

Walter Edge Walter Evans Edge (November 20, 1873October 29, 1956) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who served as the 36th governor of New Jersey, from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947, during both World War I and World War II. Edge ...

(R-NJ) 1919-1921 Coast and Insular Survey 1899 establishments in the United States 1921 disestablishments in Washington, D.C. {{US-gov-stub