70TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

'70th United States Congress'

United States Capitol (1906)
Session: March 4, 1927 –
March 3, 1929
President of the Senate: Charles G. Dawes
President pro tempore of the Senate: George H. Moses
Speaker of the House: Nicholas Longworth
Members: 435 Representatives
96 Senators
House Majority: Republican
Senate Majority: Republican

The 'Seventieth United States Congress' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1927 to March 3 1929, during the last two years of the second administration of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fourteenth Census of the United States in 1920. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Contents
Dates of sessions
Major events
Major Legislation
Leadership
Senate
House of Representatives
Members
Senate
House of Representatives
Delegates
Resident Commissioners
Officers
Senate
House of Representatives
Other
References

Dates of sessions


March 4 1927 - March 3 1929

★ First session: December 5 1927 - May 29 1928

★ Second session: December 3 1928 - March 3 1929 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 69th Congress

Next congress: 71st Congress

Major events


:''Main article: Events of 1927; Events of 1928; Events of 1929''

Major Legislation



May 29, 1928 - Revenue Act of 1928, ch. 852, 45 Stat. 791,

Leadership


Senate


President of the Senate - Charles G. Dawes

President ''pro tempore'' - George H. Moses
House of Representatives


Speaker of the House - Nicholas Longworth

Members


Senate

Map showing Senate party membership at the start of the 70th Congress. Red states are represented by two Republicans and blue by two Democrats. Purple states are represented by one senator from each party. Minnesota was represented by a Republican and a Farmer-Laborite.

:'Alabama'

★ 3. Hugo Black ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. J. Thomas Heflin ''(Dem.)''
:'Arizona'

★ 1. Henry F. Ashurst ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Carl Hayden ''(Dem.)''
:'Arkansas'

★ 3. Thaddeus Caraway ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Joseph Robinson ''(Dem.)''
:'California'

★ 1. Hiram Johnson ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Samuel M. Shortridge ''(Rep.)''
:'Colorado'

★ 2. Lawrence C. Phipps ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Charles W. Waterman ''(Rep.)''
:'Connecticut'

★ 3. Hiram Bingham III ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. George P. McLean ''(Rep.)''
:'Delaware'

★ 1. Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. T. Coleman Du Pont ''(Rep.)''

★ 2.Daniel O. Hastings ''(Rep.)''
:'Florida'

★ 3. Duncan U. Fletcher ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Park Trammell ''(Dem.)''
:'Georgia'

★ 3. Walter F. George ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. William Harris ''(Dem.)''
:'Idaho'

★ 2. William E. Borah ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Frank Gooding ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. John W. Thomas ''(Rep.)'' (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Gooding)
:'Illinois'

★ 2. Charles S. Deneen ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Otis F. Glenn ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Frank L. Smith ''(Rep.)'' (the Senate refused to seat Smith, citing election irregularities)
:'Indiana'

★ 1. Arthur R. Robinson ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. James Watson ''(Rep.)''
:'Iowa'

★ 3. Smith W. Brookhart ''(Rep.)''

★ 2. Daniel F. Steck ''(Dem.)''
:'Kansas'

★ 2. Arthur Capper ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Charles Curtis ''(Rep.)''
:'Kentucky'

★ 3. Alben W. Barkley ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Frederic M. Sackett ''(Rep.)''
:'Louisiana'

★ 3. Edwin Broussard ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Joseph Ransdell ''(Dem.)''
:'Maine'

★ 2. Arthur Gould ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Frederick Hale ''(Rep.)''
:'Maryland'

★ 1. William C. Bruce ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Millard E. Tydings ''(Dem.)''
:'Massachusetts'

★ 2. Frederick Gillett ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. David I. Walsh ''(Dem.)''
:'Michigan'

★ 2. James Couzens ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Woodbridge Ferris ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Arthur Vandenberg ''(Rep.)'' (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Woodbridge Ferris)
:'Minnesota'

★ 2. Thomas D. Schall ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)
:'Mississippi'

★ 2. Byron P. Harrison ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Hubert Stephens ''(Dem.)''
:'Missouri'

★ 3. Harry B. Hawes ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. James A. Reed ''(Dem.)''
:'Montana'

★ 2. Thomas J. Walsh ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Burton K. Wheeler ''(Dem.)''
:'Nebraska'

★ 1. Robert B. Howell ''(Rep.)''

★ 2. George W. Norris ''(Rep.)''
:'Nevada'

★ 3. Tasker Oddie ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Key Pittman ''(Dem.)''
:'New Hampshire'

★ 2. Henry W. Keyes ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. George H. Moses ''(Rep.)''
:'New Jersey'

★ 2. Walter Edge ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Edward I. Edwards ''(Dem.)''
:'New Mexico'

★ 2. Sam G. Bratton ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Bronson Cutting ''(Rep.)'' (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrieus A. Jones)

★ 1. Andrieus A. Jones ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Octaviano Larrazolo ''(Rep.)'' (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrieus A. Jones)
:'New York'

★ 1. Royal S. Copeland ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Robert F. Wagner ''(Dem.)''
:'North Carolina'

★ 3. Lee S. Overman ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Furnifold Simmons ''(Dem.)''
:'North Dakota'

★ 1. Lynn J. Frazier ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Gerald P. Nye ''(Rep.)''
:'Ohio'

★ 3. Theodore Burton ''(Rep.)'' (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Willis)

★ 1. Simeon Fess ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Cyrus Locher ''(Dem.)'' (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Willis)

★ 3. Frank Willis ''(Rep.)''
:'Oklahoma'

★ 2. William B. Pine ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Elmer Thomas ''(Dem.)''
:'Oregon'

★ 2. Charles McNary ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Frederick Steiwer ''(Rep.)''
:'Pennsylvania'

★ 1. David A. Reed ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. William S. Vare ''(Rep.)''
:'Rhode Island'

★ 1. Peter Gerry ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Jesse H. Metcalf ''(Rep.)''
:'South Carolina'

★ 2. Coleman Blease ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Ellison Smith ''(Dem.)''
:'South Dakota'

★ 2. William H. McMaster ''(Rep.)''

★ 3. Peter Norbeck ''(Rep.)''
:'Tennessee'

★ 1. Kenneth McKellar ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Lawrence Tyson ''(Dem.)''
:'Texas'

★ 1. Earle B. Mayfield ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Morris Sheppard ''(Dem.)''
:'Utah'

★ 1. William H. King ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Reed Smoot ''(Rep.)''
:'Vermont'

★ 3. Porter Dale ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Frank Greene ''(Rep.)''
:'Virginia'

★ 2. Carter Glass ''(Dem.)''

★ 1. Claude Swanson ''(Dem.)''
:'Washington'

★ 1. Clarence Dill ''(Dem.)''

★ 3. Wesley Jones ''(Rep.)''
:'West Virginia'

★ 2. Guy Goff ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Matthew Neely ''(Dem.)''
:'Wisconsin'

★ 3. John J. Blaine ''(Rep.)''

★ 1. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
:'Wyoming'

★ 1. John Kendrick ''(Dem.)''

★ 2. Francis E. Warren ''(Rep.)''
House of Representatives

:'Alabama'

Miles Clayton Allgood ''(Dem.)''

Edward Berton Almon ''(Dem.)''

William Brockman Bankhead ''(Dem.)''

Joseph Lister Hill ''(Dem.)''

George Burgess Huddleston ''(Dem.)''

Lamar Francis Jeffers ''(Dem.)''

John William McDuffie ''(Dem.)''

William Bacon Oliver ''(Dem.)''

Lafayette Lee Patterson ''(Dem.)''

Henry Bascom Steagall ''(Dem.)''
:'Arizona'

Lewis Williams Douglas ''(Dem.)''
:'Arkansas'

William Joshua Driver ''(Dem.)''

Pearl Peden Oldfield ''(Dem.)''

William Allan Oldfield ''(Dem.)''

Tilman Bacon Parks ''(Dem.)''

Heartsill Edwards Ragon ''(Dem.)''

James Byron Reed ''(Dem.)''

John Newton Tillman ''(Dem.)''

Otis Theodore Wingo ''(Dem.)''
:'California'

Henry Ellsworth Barbour ''(Rep.)''

Albert Edward Carter ''(Rep.)''

Joe Eugene Crail ''(Rep.)''

Charles Forrest Curry ''(Rep.)''

Harry Lane Englebright ''(Rep.)''

William Elmer Evans ''(Rep.)''

Arthur Monroe Free ''(Rep.)''

Florence Prag Kahn ''(Rep.)''

Clarence Frederick Lea ''(Dem.)''

Philip David Swing ''(Rep.)''

Richard Joseph Welch ''(Rep.)''
:'Colorado'

Guy Urban Hardy ''(Rep.)''

Edward Thomas Taylor ''(Dem.)''

William Newell Vaile ''(Rep.)''

Charles Bateman Timberlake ''(Rep.)''

Sebastian Harrison White ''(Dem.)''
:'Connecticut'

Edward Hart Fenn ''(Rep.)''

Richard Patrick Freeman ''(Rep.)''

James Peter Glynn ''(Rep.)''

Schuyler Michael Merritt ''(Rep.)''

John Quillin Tilson ''(Rep.)''
:'Delaware'

Robert G. Houston ''(Rep.)''
:'Florida'

Herbert Jackson Drane ''(Dem.)''

Robert Alexis Green ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Alva Yon ''(Dem.)''
:'Georgia'

Thomas Montgomery Bell ''(Dem.)''

Charles Hillyer Brand ''(Dem.)''

Edward Eugene Cox ''(Dem.)''

Charles Robert Crisp ''(Dem.)''

Charles Gordon Edwards ''(Dem.)''

William Chester Lankford ''(Dem.)''

William Washington Larsen ''(Dem.)''

Samuel Lewis Rutherford ''(Dem.)''

Leslie Jasper Steele ''(Dem.)''

Malcolm Connor Tarver ''(Dem.)''

Carl W. Vinson ''(Dem.)''

William Carter Wright ''(Dem.)''
:'Idaho'

Burton Lee French ''(Rep.)''

Addison Taylor Smith ''(Rep.)''
:'Illinois'

Charles Robinson Adkins ''(Rep.)''

John Clayton Allen ''(Rep.)''

William Wright Arnold ''(Dem.)''

Frederick Albert Britten ''(Rep.)''

John Theodore Buckbee ''(Rep.)''

Carl Richard Chindblom ''(Rep.)''

Edward Everett Denison ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Aloysius Doyle ''(Dem.)''

Homer William Hall ''(Rep.)''

William Perry Holaday ''(Rep.)''

Morton D. Hull ''(Rep.)''

William Edgar Hull ''(Rep.)''

James Thomas Igoe ''(Dem.)''

Edward Michael Irwin ''(Rep.)''

William Richard Johnson ''(Rep.)''

Edward John King ''(Rep.)''

Stanley Henry Kunz ''(Dem.)''

Martin B. Madden ''(Rep.)''

James Earl Major ''(Dem.)''

Magne Alfred Michaelson ''(Rep.)''

Henry Thomas Rainey ''(Dem.)''

Henry Riggs Rathbone ''(Rep.)''

Frank R. Reid ''(Rep.)''

Adolph Joachim Sabath ''(Dem.)''

Elliott W. Sproul ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Sutler Williams ''(Rep.)''

Richard Yates ''(Rep.)''
:'Indiana'

Harry Clifford Canfield ''(Dem.)''

Richard Nash Elliott ''(Rep.)''

Frank Cline Gardner ''(Dem.)''

Arthur Herbert Greenwood ''(Dem.)''

Albert Richardson Hall ''(Rep.)''

Andrew James Hickey ''(Rep.)''

David Giles Hogg ''(Rep.)''

Noble Jacob Johnson ''(Rep.)''

Fred Sampson Purnell ''(Rep.)''

Harry Emerson Rowbottom ''(Rep.)''

Ralph Eugene Updike ''(Rep.)''

Albert Henry Vestal ''(Rep.)''

William Robert Wood ''(Rep.)''
:'Iowa'

William Dayton Boies ''(Rep.)''

Cyrenus Wolfe Cole ''(Rep.)''

Lester Jesse Dickinson ''(Rep.)''

Cassius Clay Dowell ''(Rep.)''

William Raymond Green ''(Rep.)''

Gilbert Nelson Haugen ''(Rep.)''

William Frederick Kopp ''(Rep.)''

Fred Dickinson Letts ''(Rep.)''

Christian William Ramseyer ''(Rep.)''

Thomas John Robinson ''(Rep.)''

Lloyd James Thurston ''(Rep.)''

Earl W. Vincent ''(Rep.)''
:'Kansas'

Daniel Read Anthony ''(Rep.)''

William Augustus Ayres ''(Dem.)''

Ulysses Samuel Guyer ''(Rep.)''

Homer Billingsley Hoch ''(Rep.)''

Clifford Ragsdale Hope ''(Rep.)''

William Henry Sproul ''(Rep.)''

James George Strong ''(Rep.)''

Hays Baxter White ''(Rep.)''
:'Kentucky'

Virgil Munday Chapman ''(Dem.)''

Ralph Waldo Gilbert ''(Dem.)''

William Voris Gregory ''(Dem.)''

David Hayes Kincheloe ''(Dem.)''

Katherine Gudger Langley ''(Rep.)''

John William Moore ''(Dem.)''

Henry Dehaven Moorman ''(Dem.)''

John Marshall Robsion ''(Rep.)''

Maurice Hudson Thatcher ''(Rep.)''

Frederick Moore Vinson ''(Dem.)''

Orie Solomon Ware ''(Dem.)''
:'Louisiana'

James Benjamin Aswell ''(Dem.)''

René Louis De Rouen ''(Dem.)''

Bolivar E. Kemp ''(Dem.)''

Ladislas Lazaro ''(Dem.)''

Whitmell P. Martin ''(Progressive)''

James Joseph O'Connor ''(Dem.)''

John Nicholas Sandlin ''(Dem.)''

James Zacharie Spearing ''(Dem.)''

Riley Joseph Wilson ''(Dem.)''
:'Maine'

Carroll Lynwood Beedy ''(Rep.)''

Ira Greenlief Hersey ''(Rep.)''

John E. Nelson ''(Rep.)''

Wallace Humphrey White ''(Rep.)''
:'Maryland'

William Purington Cole ''(Dem.)''

Stephen Warfield Gambrill ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Alan Goldsborough ''(Dem.)''

John Charles Linthicum ''(Dem.)''

Vincent Luke Palmisano ''(Dem.)''

Frederick Nicholas Zihlman ''(Rep.)''
:'Massachusetts'

Abram Piatt Andrew ''(Rep.)''

Henry Leland Bowles ''(Rep.)''

William Patrick Connery ''(Dem.)''

Frederick William Dallinger ''(Rep.)''

John Joseph Douglass ''(Dem.)''

Frank Herbert Foss ''(Rep.)''

Louis Adams Frothingham ''(Rep.)''

James Ambrose Gallivan ''(Dem.)''

Charles Laceille Gifford ''(Rep.)''

Robert Fulton Luce ''(Rep.)''

Joseph William Martin ''(Rep.)''

John William McCormack ''(Dem.)''

Edith Nourse Rogers ''(Rep.)''

George Russell Stobbs ''(Rep.)''

George Holden Tinkham ''(Rep.)''

Allen Towner Treadway ''(Rep.)''

Charles Lee Underhill ''(Rep.)''

Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth ''(Rep.)''
:'Michigan'

Frank Probasco Bohn ''(Rep.)''

Robert Henry Clancy ''(Rep.)''

Louis Convers Cramton ''(Rep.)''

Joseph Lawrence Hooper ''(Rep.)''

Grant Martin Hudson ''(Rep.)''

William Francis James ''(Rep.)''

John Clark Ketcham ''(Rep.)''

James Campbell McLaughlin ''(Rep.)''

Clarence John McLeod ''(Rep.)''

Carl Edgar Mapes ''(Rep.)''

Earl Cory Michener ''(Rep.)''

Bird J. Vincent ''(Rep.)''

Roy O. Woodruff ''(Rep.)''
:'Minnesota'

August H. Andresen ''(Rep.)''

William Leighton Carss ''(FL)''

Frank Clague ''(Rep.)''

Allen J. Furlow ''(Rep.)''

Godfrey G. Goodwin ''(Rep.)''

Harold Knutson ''(Rep.)''

Ole J. Kvale (FL)''

Melvin Maas ''(Rep.)''

Walter Newton ''(Rep.)''

Conrad Selvig ''(Rep.)''
:'Mississippi'

Thomas Jefferson Busby ''(Dem.)''

James William Collier ''(Dem.)''

Ross Alexander Collins ''(Dem.)''

Bill Green Lowrey ''(Dem.)''

Percy Edwards Quin ''(Dem.)''

John Elliott Rankin ''(Dem.)''

William Madison Whittington ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Webber Wilson ''(Dem.)''
:'Missouri'

Clarence Andrew Cannon ''(Dem.)''

John Joseph Cochran ''(Dem.)''

George Hamilton Combs ''(Dem.)''

Clement Cabell Dickinson ''(Dem.)''

Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer ''(Rep.)''

Charles Lee Faust ''(Rep.)''

James Franklin Fulbright ''(Dem.)''

David William Hopkins ''(Rep.)''

Ralph Fulton Lozier ''(Dem.)''

Samuel Collier Major ''(Dem.)''

Joe Jonathan Manlove ''(Rep.)''

Jacob Le Milligan ''(Dem.)''

William Lester Nelson ''(Dem.)''

Henry Frederick Niedringhaus ''(Rep.)''

Milton Andrew Romjue ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Lewis Rubey ''(Dem.)''

Clyde Bowditch Williams ''(Dem.)''
:'Montana'

John Morgan Evans ''(Dem.)''

Scott O. Leavitt ''(Rep.)''
:'Nebraska'

Edgar Griffith Howard ''(Dem.)''

John Henry Morehead ''(Dem.)''

John Nathaniel Norton ''(Dem.)''

Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger ''(Dem.)''

Robert Glenmore Simmons ''(Rep.)''

Willis Gratz Sears ''(Rep.)''
:'Nevada'

Samuel Shaw Arentz ''(Rep.)''
:'New Hampshire'

Fletcher Hoag Hale ''(Rep.)''

Edward Hills Wason ''(Rep.)''
:'New Jersey'

Ernest Robinson Ackerman ''(Rep.)''

Oscar Louis Auf Der Heide ''(Dem.)''

Isaac Augustus Bacharach ''(Rep.)''

Charles Aubrey Eaton ''(Rep.)''

Franklin William Fort ''(Rep.)''

Harold Giles Hoffman ''(Rep.)''

Frederick Reimold Lehlbach ''(Rep.)''

Paul John Moore ''(Dem.)''

Mary Teresa Norton ''(Dem.)''

Randolph Campbell Perkins ''(Rep.)''

William Joseph Sears ''(Dem.)''

George Nicholas Seger ''(Rep.)''

Charles Anderson Wolverton ''(Rep.)''
:'New Mexico'

John Mary Morrow ''(Dem.)''
:'New York'

Robert Low Bacon ''(Rep.)''

Loring Milton Black ''(Dem.)''

Sol Lindsay Bloom ''(Dem.)''

John Joseph Boylan ''(Dem.)''

John Francis Carew ''(Dem.)''

Patrick J. Carley ''(Dem.)''

Emanuel Joseph Celler ''(Dem.)''

John Davenport Clarke ''(Rep.)''

William Wolfe Cohen ''(Dem.)''

Parker Gordon Corning ''(Dem.)''

Frank Robert Crowther ''(Rep.)''

Francis Dugan Culkin ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Henry Cullen ''(Dem.)''

Frederick Morgan Davenport ''(Rep.)''

Stephen Wallace Dempsey ''(Rep.)''

Samuel Jesse Dickstein ''(Dem.)''

Hamilton Hart Fish ''(Rep.)''

James Martin Fitzpatrick ''(Dem.)''

Anthony Jerome Griffin ''(Dem.)''

Clarence Eugene Hancock ''(Rep.)''

Meyer Michael Jacobstein ''(Dem.)''

John Joseph Kindred ''(Dem.)''

Fiorello Henry La Guardia ''(Rep.)''

George Washington Lindsay ''(Dem.)''

Clarence Joseph Macgregor ''(Rep.)''

Walter Warren Magee ''(Rep.)''

James Michael Mead ''(Dem.)''

David Joseph O'Connell ''(Dem.)''

John J. O'Connor ''(Dem.)''

Frank Allan Oliver ''(Dem.)''

James Southworth Parker ''(Rep.)''

Anning Smith Prall ''(Dem.)''

Harcourt Joseph Pratt ''(Rep.)''

John Francis Quayle ''(Dem.)''

Daniel Alden Reed ''(Rep.)''

Archie Dovell Sanders ''(Rep.)''

William Irving Sirovich ''(Dem.)''

Bertrand Hollis Snell ''(Rep.)''

Andrew Lawrence Somers ''(Dem.)''

Gale Hamilton Stalker ''(Rep.)''

Christopher Daniel Sullivan ''(Dem.)''

Thaddeus C. Sweet ''(Rep.)''

John David Taber ''(Rep.)''

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright ''(Rep.)''

Royal Hurlburt Weller ''(Dem.)''
:'North Carolina'

Charles Laban Abernethy ''(Dem.)''

Alfred Lee Bulwinkle ''(Dem.)''

Robert Lee Doughton ''(Dem.)''

William Cicero Hammer ''(Dem.)''

John Hosea Kerr ''(Dem.)''

Homer Le Lyon ''(Dem.)''

Edward William Pou ''(Dem.)''

Charles Manly Stedman ''(Dem.)''

Lindsay Carter Warren ''(Dem.)''

Zebulon Winfield Weaver ''(Dem.)''
:'North Dakota'

Olger Burton Burtness ''(Rep.)''

Thomas William Hall ''(Rep.)''

James Herbert Sinclair ''(Rep.)''
:'Ohio'

James Thomas Begg ''(Rep.)''

Charles Joseph Brand ''(Rep.)''

William Wallace Chalmers ''(Rep.)''

John Gordon Cooper ''(Rep.)''

Robert Crosser ''(Dem.)''

Martin Luther Davey ''(Dem.)''

Roy G. Fitzgerald ''(Rep.)''

William Thomas Fitzgerald ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Brooks Fletcher ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Albert Jenkins ''(Rep.)''

Charles Cyrus Kearns ''(Rep.)''

Nicholas Charles Longworth ''(Rep.)''

John Jackson McSweeney ''(Dem.)''

Charles Anthony Mooney ''(Dem.)''

Charles Ellis Moore ''(Rep.)''

William Mitchell Morgan ''(Rep.)''

Benjamin Franklin Murphy ''(Rep.)''

John Charles Speaks ''(Rep.)''

Ambrose Everett Stephens ''(Rep.)''

Charles Tatgenhorst, Jr. ''(Rep.)''

Charles James Thompson ''(Rep.)''

Mell Gilbert Underwood ''(Dem.)''
:'Oklahoma'

Wilburn Edward Cartwright ''(Dem.)''

Milton Cline Garber ''(Rep.)''

William Wirt Hastings ''(Dem.)''

Everette Burgess Howard ''(Dem.)''

Jed Joseph Johnson ''(Dem.)''

James Vernon McClintic ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Deitz McKeown ''(Dem.)''

Fletcher B. Swank ''(Dem.)''
:'Oregon'

Robert Reyburn Butler ''(Rep.)''

Maurice Edgar Crumpacker ''(Rep.)''

Willis Chatman Hawley ''(Rep.)''

Franklin Frederick Korell ''(Rep.)''

Nicholas John Sinnott ''(Rep.)''
:'Pennsylvania'

James Montgomery Beck ''(Rep.)'' (elected after the resignation of James M. Hazlett)

Edward McMath Beers ''(Rep.)''

Robert Grey Bushong ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Stalker Butler ''(Rep.)''

Guy Edgar Campbell ''(Dem.)''

John Joseph Casey ''(Dem.)''

James Mitchell Chase ''(Rep.)''

Thomas Cunningham Cochran ''(Rep.)''

James Joseph Connolly ''(Rep.)''

George Potter Darrow ''(Rep.)''

Isaac Hoffer Doutrich ''(Rep.)''

Harry Allison Estep ''(Rep.)''

Benjamin Martin Golder ''(Rep.)''

George Scott Graham ''(Rep.)''

William Walton Griest ''(Rep.)''

James Miller Hazlett ''(Rep.)'' (resigned October 20, 1927, before taking his seat)

Melville Clyde Kelly ''(Progressive)''

Samuel Austin Kendall ''(Rep.)''

Everett Austin Kent ''(Dem.)''

Edgar Raymond Kiess ''(Rep.)''

Jacob Banks Kurtz ''(Rep.)''

James Russell Leech ''(Rep.)''

Frederick William Magrady ''(Rep.)''

Louis Thomas McFadden ''(Rep.)''

Franklin Menges ''(Rep.)''

John Mary Morin ''(Rep.)''

Cyrus Maffet Palmer ''(Rep.)''

Stephen Geyer Porter ''(Rep.)''

Harry Clay Ransley ''(Rep.)''

Milton William Shreve ''(Rep.)''

Nathan Leroy Strong ''(Rep.)''

Jesse Howard Swick ''(Rep.)''

Henry Wilson Temple ''(Rep.)''

Laurence Hawley Watres ''(Rep.)''

Henry Winfield Watson ''(Rep.)''

George Austin Welsh ''(Rep.)''

James Edwin Wolfenden ''(Rep.)''

Adam Martin Wyant ''(Rep.)''
:'Rhode Island'

Richard Steere Aldrich ''(Rep.''

Clark Lee Burdick ''(Rep.)''

Louis Le Monast ''(Rep.)''
:'South Carolina'

Frederick Haskell Dominick ''(Dem.)''

Hampton Pitts Fulmer ''(Dem.)''

Allard Henry Gasque ''(Dem.)''

Butler Black Hare ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Sanders McMillan ''(Dem.)''

John Jackson McSwain ''(Dem.)''

William Francis Stevenson ''(Dem.)''
:'South Dakota'

Charles Andrew Christopherson ''(Rep.)''

Royal Cleaves Johnson ''(Rep.)''

William Sutler Williamson ''(Rep.)''
:'Tennessee'

Gordon Weaver Browning ''(Dem.)''

Joseph Wellington Byrns ''(Dem.)''

Ewin Lamar Davis ''(Dem.)''

Edward Everett Eslick ''(Dem.)''

Hubert Frederick Fisher ''(Dem.)''

Finis James Garrett ''(Dem.)''

Cordell Anthony Hull ''(Dem.)''

Samuel Davis McReynolds ''(Dem.)''

Brazilla Carroll Reece ''(Rep.)''

James Willis Taylor ''(Rep.)''
:'Texas'

Eugene Luitpold Black ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Lindsay Blanton ''(Dem.)''

John Calvin Box ''(Dem.)''

Clay Stone Briggs ''(Dem.)''

James Paul Buchanan ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Terry Connally ''(Dem.)''

John Nance Garner ''(Dem.)''

Daniel Edward Garrett ''(Dem.)''

Claude Benton Hudspeth ''(Dem.)''

Luther Alexander Johnson ''(Dem.)''

John Marvin Jones ''(Dem.)''

Fritz Garland Lanham ''(Dem.)''

Joseph Jefferson Mansfield ''(Dem.)''

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn ''(Dem.)''

Morgan Gurley Sanders ''(Dem.)''

Hatton William Sumners ''(Dem.)''

Guinn Bowditch Williams ''(Dem.)''

Harry Mcleary Wurzbach ''(Rep.)''
:'Utah'

Don Byron Colton ''(Rep.)''

Elmer O. Leatherwood ''(Rep.)''
:'Vermont'

Elbert Sidney Brigham ''(Rep.)''

Ernest Willard Gibson ''(Rep.)''
:'Virginia'

Schuyler Otis Bland ''(Dem.)''

Joseph Thomas Deal ''(Dem.)''

Patrick Henry Drewry ''(Dem.)''

Thomas Walter Harrison ''(Dem.)''

Andrew Jackson Montague ''(Dem.)''

Robert Walton Moore ''(Dem.)''

George Campbell Peery ''(Dem.)''

Henry St. Tucker ''(Dem.)''

Joseph Humphrey Whitehead ''(Dem.)''

Clifton Alexander Woodrum ''(Dem.)''
:'Washington'

Lindley Hoag Hadley ''(Rep.)''

Samuel Billingsley Hill ''(Dem.)''

Albert Johnson ''(Rep.)''

John Franklin Miller ''(Rep.)''

John William Summers ''(Rep.)''
:'West Virginia'

Carl George Bachmann ''(Rep.)''

Frank Llewellyn Bowman ''(Rep.)''

Edward Theodore England ''(Rep.)''

James Anthony Hughes ''(Rep.)''

William Smith O'Brien ''(Dem.)''

James French Strother ''(Rep.)''
:'Wisconsin'

Joseph David Beck ''(Rep.)''

Victor L. Berger ''(S)''

Edward Everts Browne ''(Rep.)''

Henry Allen Cooper ''(Rep.)''

James Archibald Frear ''(Rep.)''

Charles August Kading ''(Rep.)''

Florian Henry Lampert ''(Rep.)''

John Mandt Nelson ''(Rep.)''

Hubert Haskell Peavey ''(Rep.)''

John Charles Schafer ''(Rep.)''

George John Schneider ''(Rep.)''
:'Wyoming'

Charles Edwin Winter ''(Rep.)''
Delegates

:'Alaska Territory'

Daniel A. Sutherland ''(Rep.)''
:'Hawaii Territory'

Victor Stewart Kaleoaloha Houston ''(Rep.)''
Resident Commissioners


Félix Córdova Dávila, Unionist, Puerto Rico

Isauro Gabaldon, Philippines

Pedro Guevara, Philippines

Officers


Senate


Secretary of the Senate:


Edwin P. Thayer of Illinois, elected December 7, 1925.

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:


David S. Barry of Rhode Island, elected May 19, 1919.

Chaplain of the Senate


The Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, Episcopalian, elected December 5, 1927.
House of Representatives


Clerk of the House:


William T. Page of Maryland, elected December 5, 1927.

Sergeant at Arms of the House:


Joseph G. Rodgers of Pennsylvania, elected December 5, 1927.

Doorkeeper of the House:


Bert W. Kennedy of Michigan, elected December 5, 1927.

Postmaster of the House:


Frank W. Collier of Wisconsin, elected December 5, 1927.

Parliamentarian of the House:


Lewis Deschler

Chaplain of the House


The Rev. James S. Montgomery, Methodist, elected December 5, 1927.
Other


Architect of the Capitol:


David Lynn, appointed August 22, 1923.

References



The Most Exclusive Club, , Lewis L., Gould, Perseus Books Group, 2005, 0-465-02778-4

The House, , Robert V., Remini, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 2006, 0-06-088434-7

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

Congressional History

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