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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 Claims was among the first standing committees established in the Senate. It dealt generally with issues related to private bills and petitions. After reforms in the 1880s that created judicial and administrative remedies for petitioners, it declined in importance, and was abolished in 1947. The United States House of Representatives also had a Committee on Claims until 1946, when its duties were absorbed by the

United States House Committee on the Judiciary The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, a ...

Chairmen of the Committee on Claims, 1816–1947

* Jonathan Roberts (R-PA) 1816–1818 *

Robert Henry Goldsborough Robert Henry Goldsborough (January 4, 1779October 5, 1836) was an American politician from Talbot County, Maryland. Early life Goldsborough was born at "Myrtle Grove" near Easton, Maryland. He was educated by private tutors and graduated fr ...

(F-MD) 1818–1819 * Jonathan Roberts (R-PA) 1819–1820 *

James J. Wilson James Jefferson Wilson (1775July 28, 1824) was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1815 to 1821. Biography Wilson was born in Essex County, New Jersey, where he attended the common schools. He was editor and publisher of the ''True American'' of ...

(R-NJ) 1820–1821 *

Benjamin Ruggles Benjamin Ruggles (February 21, 1783September 2, 1857) was a United States National Republican Party, National Republican and Whig Party (United States), Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate, U.S. Senate. Biography Born ...

(R/NR-OH) 1821–1833 * Samuel Bell (W-NH) 1833–1835 *

Arnold Naudain Arnold Snow Naudain (January 6, 1790 – January 4, 1872) was an American physician and politician from Odessa, Delaware, Odessa in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and a member of the Whig Party (United States) ...

(W-DE) 1835–1836 *

Henry Hubbard Henry Hubbard (May 3, 1784June 5, 1857) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1829 to 1835, a Senator from New Hampshire during 1835 to 1841, and the 18th governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844. Early life Henry H ...

(D-NH) 1836–1841 * William A. Graham (W-NC) 1841–1843 * Ephraim Foster (W-TN) 1843–1845 * Isaac S. Pennybacker (D-VA) 1845–1847 * James Mason (D-VA) 1847–1849 * Moses Norris, Jr. (D-NH) 1849–1851 *

Richard Brodhead Richard Brodhead (January 5, 1811September 16, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Easton, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House (1843 to 1849) and Senate (1851 to 1857). He was the father of U.S. Repres ...

(D-PA) 1851–1857 * Alfred Iverson, Sr. (D-GA) 1857–1861 * Daniel Clark (R-NH) 1861–1866 *

Timothy Howe Timothy Otis Howe (February 24, 1816March 25, 1883) was a member of the United States Senate for three terms, representing the state of Wisconsin from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1879. He also served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Che ...

(R-WI) 1866–1873 *

George Wright George Wright may refer to: Politics, law and government * George Wright (MP) (died 1557), MP for Bedford and Wallingford * George Wright (governor) (1779–1842), Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island * George Wright ...

(R-IA) 1873–1877 * Samuel J. R. McMillan (R-MN) 1877–1879 *

Francis Cockrell Francis Marion Cockrell (October 1, 1834December 13, 1915) was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States senator from Missouri for five terms. He was a prominent member o ...

(D-MO) 1879–1881 * Angus Cameron (R-WI) 1881–1885 *

Austin F. Pike Austin Franklin Pike (October 16, 1819October 8, 1886) was a United States representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Hebron, New Hampshire, he pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Merrimack Count ...

(R-NH) 1885–1886 * John C. Spooner (R-WI) 1886–1891 *

John H. Mitchell John Hipple Mitchell, also known as John Mitchell Hipple, John H. Mitchell, or J. H. Mitchell (June 22, 1835December 8, 1905) was an American lawyer, politician, and convicted criminal. He served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon ...

(R-OR) 1891–1893 *

Samuel Pasco Samuel Pasco (June 28, 1834March 13, 1917) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Florida. Biography Pasco was born in London, England, to a family of Cornish ancestry. His family moved to Prince Edward Island in 1841 befo ...

(D-FL) 1893–1895 * Henry M. Teller (R-CO) 1895–1899 * Francis E. Warren (R-WY) 1899–1905 * Charles W. Fulton (R-OR) 1905–1909 *

Henry E. Burnham Henry Eben Burnham (November 8, 1844February 8, 1917) was a United States senator from New Hampshire. Born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, he attended the public schools and Kimball Union Academy and married Hannah Elizabeth Patterson. Burnham gra ...

(R-NH) 1909–1911 * Coe I. Crawford (R-SD) 1911–1913 *

Nathan P. Bryan Nathan Philemon Bryan (April 23, 1872 – August 8, 1935) was a United States senator from Florida and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Education and career Born on April 23, 1872, in Fo ...

(D-FL) 1913–1917 * Joseph T. Robinson (D-AR) 1917–1919 * Selden P. Spencer (R-MO) 1919–1922 *

Arthur Capper Arthur Capper (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from Kansas. He was the 20th governor of Kansas (the first born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a United States senator from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio ...

(R-KS) 1922–1925 * Rice W. Means (R-CO) 1925–1927 *

Robert B. Howell Robert Beecher Howell (January 21, 1864 March 11, 1933) was an American politician. He was born in Adrian, Michigan. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1885. Afterwards, he went to the Detroit School of ...

(R-NE) 1927–1933 * Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) 1933–1940 *none 1940–1942 *

Prentiss M. Brown Prentiss Marsh Brown (June 18, 1889December 19, 1973) was a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from the state of Michigan. Biography Brown was born in St. Ignace, Michigan and attended the public schools there. He attended the Uni ...

(D-MI) 1942–1943 * Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) 1943–1944 *

Allen J. Ellender Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 – July 27, 1972) was an American politician and lawyer who was a U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat who was originally allied ...

(D-LA) 1944–1947

Chairmen of the Committee on Claims, 1816–1947

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