Wikipedia / 66th United States Congress
Wikipedia / 66th United States Congress
The 66th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1919, to March 4, 1921, during the last two years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.
The Republicans won majorities in both the House and the Senate, thus taking control of both chambers.
This is the last congress to have no female members of Congress in the House of Representatives, and thus the last time there was an all-male congress (several subsequent congresses, up to the 96th Congress, would have periods with no women in the Senate but several in the House).
Major events
A brief special session was called by President Wilson in March 1919, because of a filibuster that had successfully blocked appropriations bills needed to fund day-to-day government operations.
April 30, 1919: First wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.
June 2, 1919: The home of Attorney General Palmer was bombed in the second wave of anarchist bombings.
June 15, 1919: Pancho Villa attacked Ciudad Juárez. When the bullets begin to fly to the U.S. side of the border, 2 units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment crossed the border and repulse Villa's forces.
July 19–23, 1919: Race riot in Washington, D.C.
August 31, 1919: The Communist Party of the United States was established
September 9, 1919: Boston Police Strike
September 22, 1919: Steel strike of 1919
October 2, 1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
November 1, 1919: Coal Strike of 1919
November 7, 1919: First of the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare
January 2, 1920: Second of the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare
January 16, 1920: Prohibition, went into effect in the United States
March 1, 1920: United States Railroad Administration returned control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies
May 7–8, 1920: Louis Freeland Post appeared before the House Committee on Rules, effectively ending Attorney General Palmer's presidential aspirations.
November 2, 1920: Warren G. Harding defeated James M. Cox in the 1920 United States presidential election
Major legislation
June 30, 1919: Navy Appropriations Act of 1919
June 30, 1919: Hastings Amendment
July 11, 1919: Anti-Lobbying Act of 1919
July 11, 1919: Army Appropriations Act of 1919
July 19, 1919: Sundry Civil Expenses Appropriations Act
October 18, 1919: National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act), ch. 85,
October 22, 1919: Underground Water Act of 1919
October 29, 1919: National Motor Vehicle Theft Act (Dyer Act)
November 4, 1919: Deficiency Act of 1919
November 6, 1919: Indian Soldier Act of 1919
December 24, 1919: Edge Act of 1919
February 25, 1920: Oil Leasing Act of 1920
February 25, 1920: Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (Smoot-Sinnot Act), ch. 85,
February 25, 1920: Pipeline Rights-of-Way Act
February 25, 1920: Sale of Water For Miscellaneous Purposes Act
February 28, 1920: Esch-Cummins Act, ,
March 9, 1920: Suits in Admiralty Act of 1920
March 15, 1920: Military Surplus Act of 1920 (Kahn-Wadsworth Act)
March 30, 1920: Death on the High Seas Act of 1920
April 13, 1920: Phelan Act of 1920
May 1, 1920: Fuller Act of 1920
May 10, 1920: Deportation Act of 1920
May 18, 1920: Kinkaid Act of 1920
May 20, 1920: Sale of Surplus Improved Public Lands Act
May 22, 1920: Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920
May 29, 1920: Independent Treasury Act of 1920
June 2, 1920: Industry Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1920 (Smith-Bankhead Act)
June 2, 1920: Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1920 (Smith-Fess Act)
June 2, 1920: National Park Criminal Jurisdiction Act
June 4, 1920: National Defense Act of 1920 (Kahn Act)
June 5, 1920: Sills Act of 1920
June 5, 1920: Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act)
June 5, 1920: Women's Bureau Act of 1920
June 5, 1920: Ship Mortgage Act of 1920
June 5, 1920: River and Harbors Act of 1920
June 5, 1920: Federal Water Power Act of 1920 (Esch Act)
January 4, 1921: War Finance Corporation Act of 1921
March 3, 1921: Patent Act of 1921 (Nolan Act)
March 3, 1921: Federal Water Power Act Amendment (Jones-Esch Act)
Constitutional amendments
January 16, 1919: Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal, was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 36) to become part of the Constitution
Amendment later repealed on December 5, 1933, by the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution
June 4, 1919: Approved the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification
August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 36) to become part of the Constitution
Treaties
March 19, 1920: Senate refused to ratify Treaty of Versailles
Party summary
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate leadership
Presiding
Majority (Republican) leadership
Minority (Democratic) leadership
House leadership
Presiding
Majority (Republican) leadership
Minority (Democratic) leadership
Minority Whip: vacant
Members
Senate
In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1920; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1922; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1924.
List of United States senators from AlabamaAlabama
2. John H. Bankhead (D), until March 1, 1920
B. B. Comer (D), from March 5, 1920 - November 2, 1920
J. Thomas Heflin (D), from November 3, 1920
3. Oscar Underwood (D)
List of United States senators from ArizonaArizona
1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
3. Marcus A. Smith (D)
List of United States senators from ArkansasArkansas
2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)
3. William F. Kirby (D)
List of United States senators from CaliforniaCalifornia
1. Hiram W. Johnson (R)
3. James D. Phelan (D)
List of United States senators from ColoradoColorado
2. Lawrence C. Phipps (R)
3. Charles S. Thomas (D)
List of United States senators from ConnecticutConnecticut
1. George P. McLean (R)
3. Frank B. Brandegee (R)
List of United States senators from DelawareDelaware
1. Josiah O. Wolcott (D)
2. L. Heisler Ball (R)
List of United States senators from FloridaFlorida
1. Park Trammell (D)
3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)
List of United States senators from GeorgiaGeorgia
2. William J. Harris (D)
3. Hoke Smith (D)
List of United States senators from IdahoIdaho
2. William E. Borah (R)
3. John F. Nugent (D), until January 14, 1921
Frank R. Gooding (R), from January 15, 1921
List of United States senators from IllinoisIllinois
2. J. Medill McCormick (R)
3. Lawrence Y. Sherman (R)
List of United States senators from IndianaIndiana
1. Harry S. New (R)
3. James E. Watson (R)
List of United States senators from IowaIowa
2. William S. Kenyon (R)
3. Albert B. Cummins (R)
List of United States senators from KansasKansas
2. Arthur Capper (R)
3. Charles Curtis (R)
List of United States senators from KentuckyKentucky
2. Augustus Stanley (D)
3. John C. W. Beckham (D)
List of United States senators from LouisianaLouisiana
2. Joseph E. Ransdell (D)
3. Edward J. Gay (D)
List of United States senators from MaineMaine
1. Frederick Hale (R)
2. Bert M. Fernald (R)
List of United States senators from MarylandMaryland
1. Joseph I. France (R)
3. John W. Smith (D)
List of United States senators from MassachusettsMassachusetts
1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
2. David I. Walsh (D)
List of United States senators from MichiganMichigan
1. Charles E. Townsend (R)
2. Truman H. Newberry (R)
List of United States senators from MinnesotaMinnesota
1. Frank B. Kellogg (R)
2. Knute Nelson (R)
List of United States senators from MississippiMississippi
1. John Sharp Williams (D)
2. Pat Harrison (D)
List of United States senators from MissouriMissouri
1. James A. Reed (D)
3. Selden P. Spencer (R)
List of United States senators from MontanaMontana
1. Henry L. Myers (D)
2. Thomas J. Walsh (D)
List of United States senators from NebraskaNebraska
1. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D)
2. George W. Norris (R)
List of United States senators from NevadaNevada
1. Key Pittman (D)
3. Charles B. Henderson (D)
List of United States senators from New HampshireNew Hampshire
2. Henry W. Keyes (R)
3. George H. Moses (R)
List of United States senators from New JerseyNew Jersey
1. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R)
2. Walter E. Edge (R)
List of United States senators from New MexicoNew Mexico
1. Andrieus A. Jones (D)
2. Albert B. Fall (R)
List of United States senators from New YorkNew York
1. William M. Calder (R)
3. James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)
List of United States senators from North CarolinaNorth Carolina
2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
3. Lee S. Overman (D)
List of United States senators from North DakotaNorth Dakota
1. Porter J. McCumber (R)
3. Asle Gronna (R)
List of United States senators from OhioOhio
1. Atlee Pomerene (D)
3. Warren G. Harding (R), until January 13, 1921
Frank B. Willis (R), from January 14, 1921
List of United States senators from OklahomaOklahoma
2. Robert L. Owen (D)
3. Thomas P. Gore (D)
List of United States senators from OregonOregon
2. Charles L. McNary (R)
3. George E. Chamberlain (D)
List of United States senators from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
1. Philander C. Knox (R)
3. Boies Penrose (R)
List of United States senators from Rhode IslandRhode Island
1. Peter G. Gerry (D)
2. LeBaron B. Colt (R)
List of United States senators from South CarolinaSouth Carolina
2. Nathaniel B. Dial (D)
3. Ellison D. Smith (D)
List of United States senators from South DakotaSouth Dakota
2. Thomas Sterling (R)
3. Edwin S. Johnson (D)
List of United States senators from TennesseeTennessee
1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
2. John K. Shields (D)
List of United States senators from TexasTexas
1. Charles A. Culberson (D)
2. Morris Sheppard (D)
List of United States senators from UtahUtah
1. William H. King (D)
3. Reed Smoot (R)
List of United States senators from VermontVermont
1. Carroll S. Page (R)
3. William P. Dillingham (R),
List of United States senators from VirginiaVirginia
1. Claude A. Swanson (D)
2. Thomas S. Martin (D), until November 12, 1919
Carter Glass (D), from February 2, 1920
List of United States senators from WashingtonWashington
1. Miles Poindexter (R)
3. Wesley L. Jones (R)
List of United States senators from West VirginiaWest Virginia
1. Howard Sutherland (R)
2. Davis Elkins (R)
List of United States senators from WisconsinWisconsin
1. Robert M. La Follette (R)
3. Irvine Lenroot (R)
List of United States senators from WyomingWyoming
1. John B. Kendrick (D)
2. Francis E. Warren (R)
House of Representatives
The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
List of United States representatives from AlabamaAlabama
. John McDuffie (D)
. S. Hubert Dent Jr. (D)
. Henry B. Steagall (D)
. Fred L. Blackmon (D), until February 8, 1921
. J. Thomas Heflin (D), until November 1, 1920
William B. Bowling (D), from December 14, 1920
. William B. Oliver (D)
. John L. Burnett (D), until May 13, 1919
Lilius Bratton Rainey (D), from September 30, 1919
. Edward B. Almon (D)
. George Huddleston (D)
. William B. Bankhead (D)
List of United States representatives from ArizonaArizona
. Carl Hayden (D)
List of United States representatives from ArkansasArkansas
. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)
. William A. Oldfield (D)
. John N. Tillman (D)
. Otis Wingo (D)
. Henderson M. Jacoway (D)
. Samuel M. Taylor (D)
. William S. Goodwin (D)
List of United States representatives from CaliforniaCalifornia
. Clarence F. Lea (D)
. John E. Raker (D)
. Charles F. Curry (R)
. Julius Kahn (R)
. John I. Nolan (R)
. John A. Elston (R)
. Henry E. Barbour (R)
. Hugh S. Hersman (D)
. Charles H. Randall (Proh.)
. Henry Z. Osborne (R)
. William Kettner (D)
List of United States representatives from ColoradoColorado
. William N. Vaile (R)
. Guy U. Hardy (R)
. Edward T. Taylor (D)
List of United States representatives from ConnecticutConnecticut
. Augustine Lonergan (D)
. Richard P. Freeman (R)
. John Q. Tilson (R)
. Schuyler Merritt (R)
. James P. Glynn (R)
List of United States representatives from DelawareDelaware
. Caleb R. Layton (R)
List of United States representatives from FloridaFlorida
. Herbert J. Drane (D)
. Frank Clark (D)
. John H. Smithwick (D)
. William J. Sears (D)
List of United States representatives from GeorgiaGeorgia
. James W. Overstreet (D)
. Frank Park (D)
. Charles R. Crisp (D)
. William C. Wright (D)
. William D. Upshaw (D)
. James W. Wise (D)
. Gordon Lee (D)
. Charles H. Brand (D)
. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)
. Carl Vinson (D)
. William C. Lankford (D)
. William W. Larsen (D)
List of United States representatives from IdahoIdaho
. Burton L. French (R)
. Addison T. Smith (R)
List of United States representatives from IllinoisIllinois
. Martin B. Madden (R)
. James R. Mann (R)
. William W. Wilson (R)
. John W. Rainey (D)
. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
. James McAndrews (D)
. Niels Juul (R)
. Thomas Gallagher (D)
. Frederick A. Britten (R)
. Carl R. Chindblom (R)
. Ira C. Copley (R)
. Charles Eugene Fuller (R)
. John C. McKenzie (R)
. William J. Graham (R)
. Edward John King (R)
. Clifford Ireland (R)
. Frank L. Smith (R)
. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
. William B. McKinley (R)
. Henry T. Rainey (D)
. Loren E. Wheeler (R)
. William A. Rodenberg (R)
. Edwin B. Brooks (R)
. Thomas S. Williams (R)
. Edward E. Denison (R)
. Richard Yates Jr. (R)
. William E. Mason (R)
List of United States representatives from IndianaIndiana
. Oscar R. Luhring (R)
. Oscar E. Bland (R)
. James W. Dunbar (R)
. John S. Benham (R)
. Everett Sanders (R)
. Richard N. Elliott (R)
. Merrill Moores (R)
. Albert H. Vestal (R)
. Fred S. Purnell (R)
. William R. Wood (R)
. Milton Kraus (R)
. Louis W. Fairfield (R)
. Andrew J. Hickey (R)
List of United States representatives from IowaIowa
. Charles A. Kennedy (R)
. Harry E. Hull (R)
. Burton E. Sweet (R)
. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
. James W. Good (R)
. C. William Ramseyer (R)
. Cassius C. Dowell (R)
. Horace M. Towner (R)
. William R. Green (R)
. Lester J. Dickinson (R)
. William D. Boies (R)
List of United States representatives from KansasKansas
. Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (R)
. Edward C. Little (R)
. Philip P. Campbell (R)
. Homer Hoch (R)
. James G. Strong (R)
. Hays B. White (R)
. Jasper N. Tincher (R)
. William A. Ayres (D)
List of United States representatives from KentuckyKentucky
. Alben Barkley (D)
. David Hayes Kincheloe (D)
. Robert Y. Thomas Jr. (D)
. Ben Johnson (D)
. Charles F. Ogden (R)
. Arthur B. Rouse (D)
. J. Campbell Cantrill (D)
. King Swope (R), from August 1, 1919
. William Jason Fields (D)
. John W. Langley (R)
. John M. Robsion (R)
List of United States representatives from LouisianaLouisiana
. Albert Estopinal (D), until April 28, 1919
James O'Connor (D), from June 5, 1919
. Henry Garland Dupré (D)
. Whitmell P. Martin (D)
. John Thomas Watkins (D)
. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)
. Jared Y. Sanders Sr. (D)
. Ladislas Lazaro (D)
. James Benjamin Aswell (D)
List of United States representatives from MaineMaine
. Louis B. Goodall (R)
. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)
. John A. Peters (R)
. Ira G. Hersey (R)
List of United States representatives from MarylandMaryland
. William N. Andrews (R)
. Carville Benson (D)
. Charles P. Coady (D)
. J. Charles Linthicum (D)
. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R)
. Frederick N. Zihlman (R)
List of United States representatives from MassachusettsMassachusetts
. Allen T. Treadway (R)
. Frederick H. Gillett (R)
. Calvin D. Paige (R)
. Samuel E. Winslow (R)
. John J. Rogers (R)
. Willfred W. Lufkin (R)
. Michael F. Phelan (D)
. Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
. Alvan T. Fuller (R), until January 5, 1921
. John F. Fitzgerald (D), until October 23, 1919
Peter F. Tague (D), from October 23, 1919
. George H. Tinkham (R)
. James A. Gallivan (D)
. Robert Luce (R)
. Richard Olney II (D)
. William S. Greene (R)
. Joseph Walsh (R)
List of United States representatives from MichiganMichigan
. Frank E. Doremus (D)
. Earl C. Michener (R)
. John M. C. Smith (R)
. Edward L. Hamilton (R)
. Carl Mapes (R)
. Patrick H. Kelley (R)
. Louis C. Cramton (R)
. Joseph W. Fordney (R)
. James C. McLaughlin (R)
. Gilbert A. Currie (R)
. Frank D. Scott (R)
. W. Frank James (R)
. Charles Archibald Nichols (R), until April 25, 1920
Clarence J. McLeod (R), from November 2, 1920
List of United States representatives from MinnesotaMinnesota
. Sydney Anderson (R)
. Franklin Ellsworth (R)
. Charles Russell Davis (R)
. Carl Van Dyke (D), until May 20, 1919
Oscar E. Keller (IR), from July 1, 1919
. Walter H. Newton (R)
. Harold Knutson (R)
. Andrew Volstead (R)
. William Leighton Carss (FL)
. Halvor Steenerson (R)
. Thomas D. Schall (R)
List of United States representatives from MississippiMississippi
. Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D)
. Hubert D. Stephens (D)
. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
. Thomas U. Sisson (D)
. William Webb Venable (D)
. Paul B. Johnson Sr. (D)
. Percy E. Quin (D)
. James W. Collier (D)
List of United States representatives from MissouriMissouri
. Milton A. Romjue (D)
. William W. Rucker (D)
. Joshua W. Alexander (D), until December 15, 1919
Jacob L. Milligan (D), from February 14, 1920
. Charles F. Booher (D), until January 21, 1921
. William Thomas Bland (D)
. Clement C. Dickinson (D)
. Samuel C. Major (D)
. William L. Nelson (D)
. James Beauchamp Clark (D), until March 2, 1921
. Cleveland A. Newton (R)
. William Leo Igoe (D)
. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
. Marion E. Rhodes (R)
. Edward D. Hays (R)
. Isaac V. McPherson (R)
. Thomas L. Rubey (D)
List of United States representatives from MontanaMontana
. John M. Evans (D)
. Carl W. Riddick (R)
List of United States representatives from NebraskaNebraska
. C. Frank Reavis (R)
. Albert W. Jefferis (R)
. Robert E. Evans (R)
. Melvin O. McLaughlin (R)
. William E. Andrews (R)
. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)
List of United States representatives from NevadaNevada
. Charles R. Evans (D)
List of United States representatives from New HampshireNew Hampshire
. Edward Hills Wason (R)
List of United States representatives from New JerseyNew Jersey
. William J. Browning (R), until March 24, 1920
Francis F. Patterson Jr. (R), from November 2, 1920
. Isaac Bacharach (R)
. Thomas J. Scully (D)
. Elijah C. Hutchinson (R)
. Ernest R. Ackerman (R)
. John R. Ramsey (R)
. Amos H. Radcliffe (R)
. Cornelius A. McGlennon (D)
. Daniel F. Minahan (D)
. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
. John J. Eagan (D)
. James A. Hamill (D)
List of United States representatives from New MexicoNew Mexico
. Benigno C. Hernández (R)
List of United States representatives from New YorkNew York
. Frederick C. Hicks (R)
. C. Pope Caldwell (D)
. John MacCrate (R), until December 30, 1920
. Thomas H. Cullen (D)
. John B. Johnston (D)
. Frederick W. Rowe (R)
. James P. Maher (D)
. William E. Cleary (D)
. David J. O'Connell (D)
. Reuben L. Haskell (R), until December 31, 1919
Lester D. Volk (R), from November 2, 1920
. Daniel J. Riordan (D)
. Henry M. Goldfogle (D)
. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R), until December 31, 1919
Nathan D. Perlman (R), from November 2, 1920
. Peter J. Dooling (D)
. Thomas Francis Smith (D)
. Herbert C. Pell Jr. (D)
. John F. Carew (D)
. Joseph Rowan (D)
. Isaac Siegel (R)
. Jerome F. Donovan (D)
. Anthony J. Griffin (D)
. Richard F. McKiniry (D)
. James V. Ganly (D)
. James W. Husted (R)
. Edmund Platt (R), until June 7, 1920
Hamilton Fish III (R), from November 2, 1920
. Charles B. Ward (R)
. Rollin B. Sanford (R)
. James S. Parker (R)
. Frank Crowther (R)
. Bertrand H. Snell (R)
. Luther W. Mott (R)
. Homer P. Snyder (R)
. William H. Hill (R)
. Walter W. Magee (R)
. Norman J. Gould (R)
. Alanson B. Houghton (R)
. Thomas B. Dunn (R)
. Archie D. Sanders (R)
. S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
. Clarence MacGregor (R)
. James M. Mead (D)
. Daniel A. Reed (R)
List of United States representatives from North CarolinaNorth Carolina
. John Humphrey Small (D)
. Claude Kitchin (D)
. Samuel M. Brinson (D)
. Edward W. Pou (D)
. Charles M. Stedman (D)
. Hannibal L. Godwin (D)
. Leonidas D. Robinson (D)
. Robert L. Doughton (D)
. Edwin Y. Webb (D), until November 10, 1919
Clyde R. Hoey (D), from December 16, 1919
. Zebulon Weaver (D)
List of United States representatives from North DakotaNorth Dakota
. John Miller Baer (R)
. George M. Young (R)
. James H. Sinclair (R)
List of United States representatives from OhioOhio
. Nicholas Longworth (R)
. Ambrose E. B. Stephens (R)
. Warren Gard (D)
. Benjamin F. Welty (D)
. Charles J. Thompson (R)
. Charles C. Kearns (R)
. Simeon D. Fess (R)
. R. Clinton Cole (R)
. Isaac R. Sherwood (D)
. Israel M. Foster (R)
. Edwin D. Ricketts (R)
. Clement L. Brumbaugh (D)
. James T. Begg (R)
. Martin L. Davey (D)
. C. Ellis Moore (R)
. Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
. William A. Ashbrook (D)
. B. Frank Murphy (R)
. John G. Cooper (R)
. Charles A. Mooney (D)
. John J. Babka (D)
. Henry I. Emerson (R)
List of United States representatives from OklahomaOklahoma
. Everette B. Howard (D)
. William W. Hastings (D)
. Charles D. Carter (D)
. Tom D. McKeown (D)
. Joseph Bryan Thompson (D), until September 18, 1919
John W. Harreld (R), from November 8, 1919
. Scott Ferris (D)
. James V. McClintic (D)
. Dick Thompson Morgan (R), until July 4, 1920
Charles Swindall (R), from November 2, 1920
List of United States representatives from OregonOregon
. Willis C. Hawley (R)
. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)
. Clifton N. McArthur (R)
List of United States representatives from PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
. William S. Vare (R)
. George S. Graham (R)
. J. Hampton Moore (R), until January 4, 1920
Harry C. Ransley (R), from November 2, 1920
. George W. Edmonds (R)
. Peter E. Costello (R)
. George P. Darrow (R)
. Thomas S. Butler (R)
. Henry Winfield Watson (R)
. William W. Griest (R)
. Patrick McLane (D), until February 25, 1921
John R. Farr (R), from February 25, 1921
. John J. Casey (D)
. John Reber (R)
. Arthur G. Dewalt (D)
. Louis T. McFadden (R)
. Edgar R. Kiess (R)
. John V. Lesher (D)
. Benjamin K. Focht (R)
. Aaron S. Kreider (R)
. John M. Rose (R)
. Edward S. Brooks (R)
. Evan J. Jones (R)
. John Haden Wilson (D)
. Samuel A. Kendall (R)
. Henry W. Temple (R)
. Milton W. Shreve (R)
. Henry J. Steele (D)
. Nathan L. Strong (R)
. Willis J. Hulings (R)
. Stephen G. Porter (R)
. M. Clyde Kelly (R)
. John M. Morin (R)
. Guy E. Campbell (D)
. Thomas S. Crago (R)
. William J. Burke (R)
. Anderson H. Walters (R)
. Mahlon M. Garland (R), until November 19, 1920
List of United States representatives from Rhode IslandRhode Island
. Clark Burdick (R)
. Walter Russell Stiness (R)
. Ambrose Kennedy (R)
List of United States representatives from South CarolinaSouth Carolina
. Richard S. Whaley (D)
. James F. Byrnes (D)
. Fred H. Dominick (D)
. Samuel J. Nicholls (D)
. William F. Stevenson (D)
. J. Willard Ragsdale (D), until July 23, 1919
Philip H. Stoll (D), from October 7, 1919
. Asbury F. Lever (D), until August 1, 1919
Edward C. Mann (D), from October 7, 1919
List of United States representatives from South DakotaSouth Dakota
. Royal C. Johnson (R)
. Harry L. Gandy (D)
List of United States representatives from TennesseeTennessee
. Sam R. Sells (R)
. J. Will Taylor (R)
. John A. Moon (D)
. Cordell Hull (D)
. Ewin L. Davis (D)
. Joseph W. Byrns (D)
. Lemuel P. Padgett (D)
. Thetus W. Sims (D)
. Finis J. Garrett (D)
. Hubert Fisher (D)
List of United States representatives from TexasTexas
. Eugene Black (D)
. John C. Box (D)
. James Young (D)
. Sam Rayburn (D)
. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
. Rufus Hardy (D)
. Clay Stone Briggs (D)
. Joe H. Eagle (D)
. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
. James P. Buchanan (D)
. Tom T. Connally (D)
. Fritz G. Lanham (D), from April 19, 1919
. Lucian W. Parrish (D)
. Carlos Bee (D)
. John Nance Garner (D)
. Claude B. Hudspeth (D)
. Thomas L. Blanton (D)
. John Marvin Jones (D)
List of United States representatives from UtahUtah
. Milton H. Welling (D)
. James Henry Mays (D)
List of United States representatives from VermontVermont
. Frank L. Greene (R)
. Porter H. Dale (R)
List of United States representatives from VirginiaVirginia
. S. Otis Bland (D)
. Edward Everett Holland (D)
. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
. Walter Allen Watson (D), until December 24, 1919
Patrick H. Drewry (D), from April 27, 1920
. Edward W. Saunders (D), until February 29, 1920
Rorer A. James (D), from June 1, 1920
. James P. Woods (D)
. Thomas W. Harrison (D)
. R. Walton Moore (D), from April 27, 1919
. C. Bascom Slemp (R)
. Henry D. Flood (D)
List of United States representatives from WashingtonWashington
. John F. Miller (R)
. Lindley H. Hadley (R)
. Albert Johnson (R)
. John W. Summers (R)
. J. Stanley Webster (R)
List of United States representatives from West VirginiaWest Virginia
. Matthew M. Neely (D)
. George M. Bowers (R)
. Stuart F. Reed (R)
. Harry C. Woodyard (R)
. Wells Goodykoontz (R)
. Leonard S. Echols (R)
List of United States representatives from WisconsinWisconsin
. Clifford E. Randall (R)
. Edward Voigt (R)
. James G. Monahan (R)
. John C. Kleczka (R)
. Victor L. Berger (Soc.), until November 10, 1919
. Florian Lampert (R)
. John J. Esch (R)
. Edward E. Browne (R)
. David G. Classon (R)
. James A. Frear (R)
. Adolphus P. Nelson (R)
List of United States representatives from WyomingWyoming
. Franklin W. Mondell (R)
Non-voting members
. Charles A. Sulzer (D), until April 28, 1919
George B. Grigsby (D), from June 3, 1920 - March 1, 1921
James Wickersham (R), from March 1, 1921
. Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (R)
. Félix Córdova Dávila (Resident Commissioner), Unionist
. Jaime C. de Veyra (Resident Commissioner)
. Teodoro R. Yangco (Resident Commissioner), (I) until March 3, 1920
Isauro Gabaldon (Resident Commissioner), (Nac.) from March 4, 1920
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
Replacements: 5
Democratic: 1 seat net loss
Republican: 1 seat net gain
Deaths: 2
Resignations: 2
Vacancy: 0
Total seats with changes: 4
House of Representatives
Replacements: 23
Democratic: 4 seat net loss
Republican: 4 seat net gain
Deaths: 13
Resignations: 10
Contested elections: 3
Total seats with changes: 32
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: Furnifold M. Simmons; Ranking Member: Boies Penrose)
Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Asle Gronna; Ranking Member: Thomas P. Gore)
Appropriations (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: William M. Calder; Ranking Member: Andrieus A. Jones)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: George P. McLean; Ranking Member: Robert L. Owen)
Budget (Special)
Canadian Relations (Chairman: Frederick Hale; Ranking Member: John B. Kendrick)
Census (Chairman: Howard Sutherland; Ranking Member: Morris Sheppard)
Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: Thomas Sterling; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
Claims (Chairman: Selden P. Spencer; Ranking Member: Joseph T. Robinson)
Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Walter Evans Edge; Ranking Member: Edward J. Gay)
Coast Defenses (Chairman: Joseph S. Frelinghuysen; Ranking Member: John W. Smith)
Commerce (Chairman: Wesley L. Jones; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
Conservation of National Resources (Chairman: Ellison D. Smith; Ranking Member: LeBaron B. Colt)
Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Atlee Pomerene; Ranking Member: Robert M. La Follette)
Cuban Relations (Chairman: Hiram W. Johnson; Ranking Member: Oscar W. Underwood)
Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments (Chairman: Thomas J. Walsh; Ranking Member: Joseph I. France)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Lawrence Y. Sherman; Ranking Member: John W. Smith)
Education and Labor (Chairman: William S. Kenyon; Ranking Member: Hoke Smith)
Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Lee S. Overman; Ranking Member: Francis E. Warren)
Enrolled Bills (Chairman: L. Heisler Ball; Ranking Member: Nathaniel B. Dial)
Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: John Walter Smith; Ranking Member: Frank B. Brandegee)
Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Chairman: Arthur Capper; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Chairman: Davis Elkins; Ranking Member: Josiah O. Wolcott)
Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: John H. Bankhead; Ranking Member: Reed Smoot)
Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Chairman: Thomas P. Gore; Ranking Member: William E. Borah)
Expenditures in the Department of Labor (Chairman: Medill McCormick; Ranking Member: J.C.W. Beckham)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Claude A. Swanson; Ranking Member: William P. Dillingham)
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Henry W. Keyes; Ranking Member: William H. King)
Expenditures in the Department of State (Chairman: Lawrence C. Phipps; Ranking Member: Henry L. Myers)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Hoke Smith; Ranking Member: Warren G. Harding)
Finance (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
Fisheries (Chairman: Truman H. Newberry; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Chairman: Robert L. Owen; Ranking Member: George W. Norris)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Gilbert M. Hitchcock)
Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Gilbert M. Hitchcock; Ranking Member: George P. McLean)
Geological Survey (Chairman: Marcus A. Smith; Ranking Member: George W. Norris)
Immigration (Chairman: LeBaron B. Colt; Ranking Member: Thomas P. Gore)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: Charles Curtis; Ranking Member: Henry F. Ashurst)
Indian Depredations (Chairman: Henry L. Myers; Ranking Member: Miles Poindexter)
Industrial Expositions (Chairman: Key Pittman; Ranking Member: Asle Gronna)
Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: William E. Borah; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Albert B. Cummins; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Chairman: Henry F. Ashurst; Ranking Member: Wesley L. Jones)
Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Charles L. McNary; Ranking Member: James D. Phelan)
Judiciary (Chairman: Knute Nelson; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
Library (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
Manufactures (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
Military Affairs (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth Jr.; Ranking Member: George E. Chamberlain)
Mines and Mining (Chairman: Miles Poindexter; Ranking Member: Charles B. Henderson)
Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Joseph E. Ransdell; Ranking Member: Albert B. Cummins)
National Banks (Chairman: Frank B. Kellogg; Ranking Member: Peter G. Gerry)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Carroll S. Page; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Chairman: Albert B. Fall; Ranking Member: Morris Sheppard)
Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Charles S. Thomas; Ranking Member: Frank B. Brandegee)
Patents (Chairman: George W. Norris; Ranking Member: William F. Kirby)
Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
Philippines (Chairman: Warren G. Harding; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Charles E. Townsend; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead)
Printing (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Marcus A. Smith)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: Charles A. Culberson; Ranking Member: Knute Nelson)
Privileges and Elections (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Atlee Pomerene)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Bert M. Fernald; Ranking Member: James A. Reed)
Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: Joseph I. France; Ranking Member: Joseph E. Ransdell)
Public Lands (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: Henry L. Myers)
Railroads (Chairman: Irvine L. Lenroot; Ranking Member: Peter G. Gerry)
Reconstruction and Production (Select)
Revision of the Laws (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Morris Sheppard; Ranking Member: Henry Cabot Lodge)
Rules (Chairman: Philander C. Knox; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
Standards, Weights and Measures (Chairman: William S. Kenyon; Ranking Member: Warren G. Harding)
Tariff Regulation (Select)
Territories (Chairman: Harry S. New; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: Duncan U. Fletcher; Ranking Member: Porter J. McCumber)
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Duncan U. Fletcher; Ranking Member: William P. Dillingham)
Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: Henry F. Ashurst; Ranking Member: Wesley L. Jones)
Woman Suffrage (Chairman: James Eli Watson; Ranking Member: Andrieus A. Jones)
House of Representatives
Accounts (Chairman: Clifford Ireland; Ranking Member: Frank Park)
Agriculture (Chairman: Gilbert N. Haugen; Ranking Member: Gordon Lee)
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Addison T. Smith; Ranking Member: William D. Upshaw)
Appropriations (Chairman: James W. Good; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Edmund Platt; Ranking Member: Michael F. Phelan)
Budget (Select) (Chairman: James W. Good; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
Census (Chairman: Charles A. Nichols; Ranking Member: James B. Aswell)
Claims (Chairman: George W. Edmonds; Ranking Member: Henry B. Steagall)
Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Albert H. Vestal; Ranking Member: William A. Ashbrook)
Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Merrill Moores)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Carl E. Mapes; Ranking Member: Ben Johnson)
Education (Chairman: Simeon D. Fess; Ranking Member: William J. Sears)
Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Florian Lampert; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
Elections No.#1 (Chairman: Frederick W. Dallinger; Ranking Member: Joe H. Eagle)
Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Louis B. Goodall; Ranking Member: James W. Overstreet)
Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Cassius C. Dowell; Ranking Member: Joseph Rowan)
Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John R. Ramsey; Ranking Member: Ladislas Lazaro)
Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: John M. Baer; Ranking Member: Robert L. Doughton)
Expenditures in the Commerce Department (Chairman: Thomas Sutler Williams; Ranking Member: Michael F. Phelan)
Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Aaron S. Kreider; Ranking Member: William F. Stevenson)
Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: Wallace H. White Jr.; Ranking Member: James P. Buchanan)
Expenditures in the Labor Department (Chairman: Anderson H. Walters; Ranking Member: John J. Casey)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Leonard S. Echols; Ranking Member: Rufus Hardy)
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Frederick N. Zihlman; Ranking Member: Benjamin G. Humphreys)
Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Richard N. Elliott; Ranking Member: Clement Brumbaugh)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Porter H. Dale; Ranking Member: Charles D. Carter)
Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: William J. Graham; Ranking Member: Jerome F. Donovan)
Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Ira G. Hersey; Ranking Member: Ezekiel S. Candler Jr.)
Flood Control (Chairman: William A. Rodenberg; Ranking Member: Benjamin G. Humphreys)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Stephen G. Porter; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood)
Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Albert Johnson; Ranking Member: Adolph J. Sabath)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: Philip P. Campbell; Ranking Member: Charles D. Carter)
Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Oscar E. Bland; Ranking Member: Isaac R. Sherwood)
Insular Affairs (Chairman: Horace M. Towner; Ranking Member: Finis J. Garrett)
Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: John J. Esch; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Charles E. Fuller; Ranking Member: Isaac R. Sherwood)
Investigate Contracts and Expenditures Made by the War Department during the War (Select) (Chairman: N/A; Ranking Member: N/A)
Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Moses P. Kinkaid; Ranking Member: Edward T. Taylor)
Judiciary (Chairman: Andrew J. Volstead; Ranking Member: Robert Y. Thomas Jr.)
Labor (Chairman: John M. C. Smith; Ranking Member: James P. Maher)
Library (Chairman: Norman J. Gould; Ranking Member: Ben Johnson)
Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: William S. Greene; Ranking Member: Rufus Hardy)
Mileage (Chairman: John A. Elston; Ranking Member: James P. Maher)
Military Affairs (Chairman: Julius Kahn; Ranking Member: S. Hubert Dent Jr.)
Mines and Mining (Chairman: Mahlon M. Garland; Ranking Member: Otis Wingo)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: Lemuel P. Padgett)
Patents (Chairman: John I. Nolan; Ranking Member: Guy E. Campbell)
Pensions (Chairman: Sam R. Sells; Ranking Member: James M. Mead)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Halvor Steenerson; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
Printing (Chairman: Edgar R. Kiess; Ranking Member: James V. McClintic)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: John W. Langley; Ranking Member: Frank Clark)
Public Lands (Chairman: Nicholas J. Sinnott; Ranking Member: Scott Ferris)
Railways and Canals (Chairman: Loren E. Wheeler; Ranking Member: Benjamin F. Welty)
Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick R. Lehlbach; Ranking Member: Hannibal L. Godwin)
Revision of Laws (Chairman: Edward C. Little; Ranking Member: John T. Watkins)
Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Charles A. Kennedy; Ranking Member: John H. Small)
Roads (Chairman: Thomas B. Dunn; Ranking Member: Edward W. Saunders)
Rules (Chairman: Philip P. Campbell; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
Territories (Chairman: Charles F. Curry; Ranking Member: John T. Watkins)
United States Shipping Board Operations (Select) (Chairman: Joseph Walsh; Ranking Member: N/A)
War Claims (Chairman: Benjamin K. Focht; Ranking Member: Frank Clark)
Water Power (Special) (Chairman: John J. Esch; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
Ways and Means (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Claude Kitchin)
Woman Suffrage (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: John E. Raker)
Joint committees
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
The Library (Chairman: Sen. Frank B. Brandegee)
Printing (Chairman: Sen. Reed Smoot)
Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government
Caucuses
Democratic (House)
Democratic (Senate)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#United States CongressLegislative branch agency directors
Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford
Senate
Chaplain: F.J. Prettyman (Methodist), until January 21, 1921.
John J. Muir (Baptist), from January 21, 1921.
Secretary: James M. Baker, until May 19, 1919.
George A. Sanderson, from May 19, 1919.
Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins, until May 19, 1919.
David S. Barry, from May 19, 1919.
House of Representatives
Clerk: South Trimble, until May 19, 1919
William T. Page, from May 19, 1919
Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Clarence A. Cannon
Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
Sergeant at Arms: Robert B. Gordon, until May 19, 1919
Joseph G. Rodgers, from May 19, 1919
See also
1918 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
1920 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
References