The 1906 United States elections elected the members of the 60th United States Congress. It occurred in the middle of Republican President

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's second (only full) term, during the

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. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress. Democrats won several seats in the House, but Republicans retained a solid majority in the chamber. In the Senate, Republicans won moderate gains and maintained their commanding majority in the chamber. This marked the most recent time in which a sitting two-term Republican president retained both chambers of Congress after his second midterm.

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1906 elections in the United States

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