64TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

(Redirected from Sixty-fourth United States Congress)
'64th United States Congress'

United States Capitol (1906)
Session: March 4, 1915 –
March 3, 1917
President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall
President pro tempore of the Senate: James P. Clarke (1915-1916)
Willard Saulsbury (1916-1917)
Speaker of the House: Champ Clark
Members: 435 Representatives
96 Senators
House Majority: Democratic
Senate Majority: Democratic

The 'Sixty-fourth 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, 1915 to March 3, 1917, during the last two years of the first administration of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Contents
Dates of sessions
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, 1915 - March 3, 1917

★ First session: December 6, 1915 - September 8, 1916

★ Second session: December 4, 1916 - March 3, 1917 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 63rd Congress

Next congress: 65th Congress

Dates of sessions


March 4, 1915–March 4, 1917

★ First session: December 6, 1915 - September 8, 1916

★ Second session: December 4, 1916 - March 4, 1917 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 63rd Congress

Next congress: 65th Congress

Major events


:''Main article: Events of 1915; Events of 1916; Events of 1917''

Major legislation


Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 provided funds at the state-level for road building, to apportion $1 million over 5 years, and required eligible states to form a centralized agency and provide matching funds. This prompted the formation of many States' Highway or Transportation Departments.

Leadership


Senate


President of the Senate - Thomas R. Marshall

Presidents pro tempore - James P. Clarke and Willard Saulsbury
House of Representatives


Speaker of the House - Champ Clark

Members


Senate

Map showing Senate party membership at the start of the 64th Congress. Red states are represented by two Republicans and blue by two Democrats. Purple states are represented by one senator from each party.

At this time, most Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. A few senators were elected directly by the residents of the state.
:'Alabama'
John H. Bankhead ''(Dem.)''
Oscar W. Underwood ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona'
Henry F. Ashurst ''(Dem.)''
Marcus A. Smith ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas'
James P. Clarke ''(Dem.)'' Clarke died 1 October, 1916; the vacancy was filled by William F. Kirby
William F. Kirby ''(Dem.)'' Kirby was elected to take James P. Clarke's seat after Clarke's death.
Joseph T. Robinson ''(Dem.)'':'California'
James D. Phelan ''(Dem.)''
John D. Works ''(Rep.)'':'Colorado'
John F. Shafroth ''(Dem.)''
Charles S. Thomas ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut'
Frank B. Brandegee ''(Rep.)''
George P. McLean ''(Rep.)'' :'Delaware'
Henry A. du Pont ''(Rep.)''
Willard Saulsbury ''(Dem.)'':'Florida'
Nathan P. Bryan ''(Dem.)''
Duncan U. Fletcher ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia'
Thomas W. Hardwick ''(Dem.)''
Hoke Smith ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho'
William E. Borah ''(Rep.)''
James H. Brady ''(Rep.)'':'Illinois'
James H. Lewis ''(Dem.)''
Lawrence Y. Sherman ''(Rep.)'':'Indiana'
John W. Kern ''(Dem.)''
Benjamin F. Shively ''(Dem.)'' Shively died 14 March, 1916; the resultant vacancy was filled first by Thomas Taggart and later by James E. Watson.
Thomas Taggart ''(Dem.)'' Taggart was appointed to take Benjamin F. Shively's vacant seat after Shively's death.
James E. Watson ''(Rep.)'' Watson was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin F. Shively.:'Iowa'
Albert B. Cummins ''(Rep.)''
William S. Kenyon ''(Rep.)'':'Kansas'
Charles Curtis ''(Rep.)''
William H. Thompson ''(Dem.)'':'Kentucky'
John C.W. Beckham ''(Dem.)''
Ollie M. James ''(Dem.)'':'Louisiana'
Robert F. Broussard ''(Dem.)''
Joseph E. Ransdell ''(Dem.)'':'Maine'
Edwin C. Burleigh ''(Rep.)'' Burleigh died 16 June, 1916; his vacant seat was filled by Bert M. Fernald.
Bert M. Fernald ''(Rep.)'' Fernald was elected to take Edwin C. Burleigh's seat after Burleigh's death.
Charles Fletcher Johnson ''(Dem.)'':'Maryland'
Blair Lee ''(Dem.)''
John Walter Smith ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts'
Henry Cabot Lodge ''(Rep.)''
John W. Weeks ''(Rep.)'':'Michigan'
William A. Smith ''(Rep.)''
Charles E. Townsend ''(Rep.)'':'Minnesota'
Moses E. Clapp ''(Rep.)''
Knute Nelson ''(Rep.)'':'Mississippi'
James K. Vardaman ''(Dem.)''
John S. Williams ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri'
James A. Reed ''(Dem.)''
William J. Stone ''(Dem.)''
:'Montana'
Henry L. Myers ''(Dem.)''
Thomas J. Walsh ''(Dem.)'':'Nebraska'
Gilbert M. Hitchcock ''(Dem.)''
George W. Norris ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada'
Francis G. Newlands ''(Dem.)''
Key Pittman ''(Dem.)'':'New Hampshire'
Jacob H. Gallinger ''(Rep.)''
Henry F. Hollis ''(Dem.)'':'New Jersey'
William Hughes ''(Dem.)''
James E. Martine ''(Dem.)'':'New Mexico'
Thomas B. Catron ''(Rep.)''
Albert B. Fall ''(Rep.)'':'New York'
James A. O'Gorman ''(Dem.)''
James W. Wadsworth ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina'
Lee S. Overman ''(Dem.)''
Furnifold M. Simmons ''(Dem.)'':'North Dakota'
Asle J. Gronna ''(Rep.)''
Porter J. McCumber ''(Rep.)'':'Ohio'
Warren G. Harding ''(Rep.)''
Atlee Pomerene ''(Dem.)'':'Oklahoma'
Thomas P. Gore ''(Dem.)''
Robert L. Owen ''(Dem.)'':'Oregon'
George E. Chamberlain ''(Dem.)''
Harry Lane ''(Dem.)'':'Pennsylvania'
George T. Oliver ''(Rep.)''
Boies Penrose ''(Rep.)'':'Rhode Island'
LeBaron B. Colt ''(Rep.)''
Henry F. Lippitt ''(Rep.)'':'South Carolina'
Ellison D. Smith ''(Dem.)''
Benjamin R. Tillman ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota'
Edwin S. Johnson ''(Dem.)''
Thomas Sterling ''(Rep.)'':'Tennessee'
Luke Lea ''(Dem.)''
John K. Shields ''(Dem.)'':'Texas'
Charles A. Culberson ''(Dem.)''
Morris Sheppard ''(Dem.)'':'Utah'
Reed Smoot ''(Rep.)''
George Sutherland ''(Rep.)'':'Vermont'
William P. Dillingham ''(Rep.)''
Carroll S. Page ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia'
Thomas S. Martin ''(Dem.)''
Claude A. Swanson ''(Dem.)'':'Washington'
Wesley L. Jones ''(Rep.)''
Miles Poindexter ''(Rep.)'':'West Virginia'
William E. Chilton ''(Dem.)''
Nathan Goff ''(Rep.)'':'Wisconsin'
Paul O. Husting ''(Dem.)''
Robert M. La Follette ''(Rep.)'':'Wyoming'
Clarence D. Clark ''(Rep.)''
Francis E. Warren ''(Rep.)''

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise ''at-large,'' are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
:'Alabama'
★ . Oscar Lee Gray ''(Dem.)''
★ . S. Hubert Dent, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry B. Steagall ''(Dem.)''
★ . Fred L. Blackmon ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Thomas Heflin ''(Dem.)''
★ . William B. Oliver ''(Dem.)''
★ . John L. Burnett ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward B. Almon ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Huddleston ''(Dem.)''
★ : John Abercrombie ''(Dem.)'':'Arizona'
★ : Carl Hayden ''(Dem.)'':'Arkansas'
★ . Thaddeus H. Caraway ''(Dem.)''
★ . William A. Oldfield ''(Dem.)''
★ . John N. Tillman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Otis Wingo ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henderson M. Jacoway ''(Dem.)''
★ . Samuel M. Taylor ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Goodwin ''(Dem.)'':'California'
★ . William Kent ''(Independent)''
★ . John E. Raker ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles F. Curry ''(Rep.)''
★ . Julius Kahn ''(Rep.)''
★ . John I. Nolan ''(Rep.)''
★ . John A. Elston ''(Progressive)''
★ . Denver S. Church ''(Dem.)''
★ . Everis A. Hayes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles H. Randall ''(Prohibitionist)''
★ . William Stephens ''(Progressive)'', resigned July 22, 1916:
★ . Henry S. Benedict ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . William Kettner ''(Dem.)'':'Colorado'
★ . Benjamin Clark Hilliard ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles Bateman Timberlake ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward Keating ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward Thomas Taylor ''(Dem.)'':'Connecticut'
★ . P. Davis Oakey ''(Rep.)''
★ . Richard P. Freeman ''(Rep.)''
★ . John Q. Tilson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ebenezer J. Hill ''(Rep.)''
★ . James P. Glynn ''(Rep.)'' :'Delaware'
★ : Thomas W. Miller ''(Rep.)'' :'Florida'
★ . Stephen M. Sparkman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frank Clark ''(Dem.)''
★ . Emmett Wilson ''(Dem.)''
★ . William J. Sears ''(Dem.)'':'Georgia'
★ . Charles G. Edwards ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frank Park ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles R. Crisp ''(Dem.)''
★ . William C. Adamson ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Howard ''(Dem.)''
★ . James W. Wise ''(Dem.)''
★ . Gordon Lee ''(Dem.)''
★ . Samuel Joelah Tribble ''(Dem.)'', died December 8, 1916:
★ . Tinsley W. Rucker, Jr. ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Thomas M. Bell ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carl Vinson ''(Dem.)''
★ . John R. Walker ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dudley M. Hughes ''(Dem.)'':'Idaho'
★ : Addison T. Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ : Robert M. McCracken ''(Rep.)'' :'Illinois'
★ . Martin B. Madden ''(Rep.)''
★ . James R. Mann ''(Rep.)''
★ . William W. Wilson ''(Rep.)''
★ . James T. McDermott ''(Dem.)''
★ . Adolph J. Sabath ''(Dem.)''
★ . James McAndrews ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frank Buchanan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas Gallagher ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frederick A. Britten ''(Rep.)''
★ . George E. Foss ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ira C. Copley ''(Prog.)''
★ . Charles Eugene Fuller ''(Rep.)''
★ . John C. McKenzie ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clyde H. Tavenner ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward John King ''(Rep.)''
★ . Claude U. Stone ''(Dem.)''
★ . John A. Sterling ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph G. Cannon ''(Rep.)''
★ . William B. McKinley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry T. Rainey ''(Dem.)''
★ . Loren E. Wheeler ''(Rep.)''
★ . William A. Rodenberg ''(Rep.)''
★ . Martin D. Foster ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas S. Williams ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward E. Denison ''(Rep.)''
★ : Burnett M. Chiperfield ''(Rep.)''
★ : William E. Williams ''(Dem.)'':'Indiana'
★ . Charles Lieb ''(Dem.)''
★ . William A. Cullop ''(Dem.)''
★ . William E. Cox ''(Dem.)''
★ . Lincoln Dixon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ralph W. Moss ''(Dem.)''
★ . Finly H. Gray ''(Dem.)''
★ . Merrill Moores ''(Rep.)''
★ . John A.M. Adair ''(Dem.)''
★ . Martin A. Morrison ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Robert Wood ''(Rep.)''
★ . George W. Rauch ''(Dem.)''
★ . Cyrus Cline ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry A. Barnhart ''(Dem.)'':'Iowa'
★ . Charles A. Kennedy ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harry E. Hull ''(Rep.)''
★ . Burton E. Sweet ''(Rep.)''
★ . Gilbert N. Haugen ''(Rep.)''
★ . James W. Good ''(Rep.)''
★ . C. William Ramseyer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Cassius C. Dowell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Horace M. Towner ''(Rep.)''
★ . William R. Green ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank P. Woods ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas J. Steele ''(Dem.)'':'Kansas'
★ . Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph Taggart ''(Dem.)''
★ . Philip P. Campbell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Dudley Doolittle ''(Dem.)''
★ . Guy T. Helvering ''(Dem.)''
★ . John R. Connelly ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jouett Shouse ''(Dem.)''
★ . William A. Ayres ''(Dem.)'':'Kentucky'
★ . Alben Barkley ''(Dem.)''
★ . David Hayes Kincheloe ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ben Johnson ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Swagar Sherley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Arthur B. Rouse ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Campbell Cantrill ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harvey Helm ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Jason Fields ''(Dem.)''
★ . John W. Langley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Caleb Powers ''(Rep.)'' :'Louisiana'
★ . Albert Estopinal ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry Garland Dupré ''(Dem.)''
★ . Whitmell P. Martin ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Thomas Watkins ''(Dem.)''
★ . Riley Joseph Wilson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Lewis Lovering Morgan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Ladislas Lazaro ''(Dem.)''
★ . James Benjamin Aswell ''(Dem.)'':'Maine'
★ . Asher C. Hinds ''(Rep.)''
★ . Daniel J. McGillicuddy ''(Dem.)''
★ . John A. Peters ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank E. Guernsey ''(Rep.)'':'Maryland'
★ . Jesse D. Price ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Frederick C. Talbott ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles P. Coady ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Charles Linthicum ''(Dem.)''
★ . Sydney Emanuel Mudd II ''(Rep.)''
★ . David J. Lewis ''(Dem.)'':'Massachusetts'
★ . Allen T. Treadway ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frederick H. Gillett ''(Rep.)''
★ . Calvin D. Paige ''(Rep.)''
★ . Samuel E. Winslow ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. Rogers ''(Rep.)''
★ . Augustus P. Gardner ''(Rep.)''
★ . Michael F. Phelan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frederick W. Dallinger ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ernest W. Roberts ''(Rep.)''
★ . Peter F. Tague ''(Dem.)''
★ . George H. Tinkham ''(Rep.)''
★ . James A. Gallivan ''(Dem.)''
★ . William H. Carter ''(Rep.)''
★ . Richard Olney ''(Dem.)''
★ . William S. Greene ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph Walsh ''(Rep.)'':'Michigan'
★ . Frank E. Doremus ''(Dem.)''
★ . Samuel Beakes ''(Dem.)''
★ . John M. C. Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward L. Hamilton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Carl Mapes ''(Rep.)''
★ . Patrick H. Kelley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Louis C. Cramton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Joseph W. Fordney ''(Rep.)''
★ . James C. McLaughlin ''(Rep.)''
★ . George A. Loud ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frank D. Scott ''(Rep.)''
★ . W. Frank James ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles A. Nichols ''(Rep.)'' :'Minnesota'
★ . Sydney Anderson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Franklin Ellsworth ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles Russell Davis ''(Rep.)''
★ . Carl Van Dyke ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Ross Smith ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles August Lindbergh ''(Rep.)''
★ . Andrew Volstead ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clarence B. Miller ''(Rep.)''
★ . Halvor Steenerson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas D. Schall ''(Rep.)'' :'Mississippi'
★ . Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hubert D. Stephens ''(Dem.)''
★ . Benjamin G. Humphreys II ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas U. Sisson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Samuel Andrew Witherspoon ''(Dem.)'', died November 24, 1915:
★ . William Webb Venable ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Pat Harrison ''(Dem.)''
★ . Percy E. Quin ''(Dem.)''
★ . James W. Collier ''(Dem.)'':'Missouri'
★ . James Tilghman Lloyd ''(Dem.)''
★ . William W. Rucker ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joshua Willis Alexander ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles F. Booher ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Patterson Borland ''(Dem.)''
★ . Clement C. Dickinson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Courtney W. Hamlin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dorsey W. Shackleford ''(Dem.)''
★ . James Beauchamp Clark ''(Dem.)''
★ . Jacob Edwin Meeker ''(Rep.)''
★ . William Leo Igoe ''(Dem.)''
★ . Leonidas C. Dyer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Walter Lewis Hensley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph J. Russell ''(Dem.)''
★ . Perl D. Decker ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas L. Rubey ''(Dem.)'':'Montana'
★ : John M. Evans ''(Dem.)''
★ : Tom Stout ''(Dem.)'':'Nebraska'
★ . C. Frank Reavis ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles O. Lobeck ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dan V. Stephens ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles Henry Sloan ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ashton C. Shallenberger ''(Dem.)''
★ . Moses P. Kinkaid ''(Rep.)'':'Nevada'
★ : Edwin E. Roberts ''(Rep.)''
:'New Hampshire'
★ . Cyrus Adams Sulloway ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward Hills Wason ''(Rep.)'':'New Jersey'
★ . William J. Browning ''(Rep.)''
★ . Isaac Bacharach ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas J. Scully ''(Dem.)''
★ . Elijah C. Hutchinson ''(Rep.)''
★ . John H. Capstick ''(Rep.)''
★ . Archibald C. Hart ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dow H. Drukker ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward W. Gray ''(Rep.)''
★ . Richard W. Parker ''(Rep.)''
★ . Frederick R. Lehlbach ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. Eagan ''(Dem.)''
★ . James A. Hamill ''(Dem.)'':'New Mexico'
★ : Benigno C. Hernández ''(Rep.)'':'New York'
★ . Frederick C. Hicks ''(Rep.)''
★ . C. Pope Caldwell ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph V. Flynn ''(Dem.)''
★ . Harry H. Dale ''(Dem.)''
★ . James P. Maher ''(Dem.)''
★ . Frederick W. Rowe ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. Fitzgerald ''(Dem.)''
★ . Daniel J. Griffin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Oscar W. Swift ''(Rep.)''
★ . Reuben L. Haskell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Daniel J. Riordan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Meyer London ''(Soc.)''
★ . George W. Loft ''(Dem.)''
★ . Michael F. Farley ''(Dem.)''
★ . Michael F. Conry ''(Dem.)''
★ . Peter J. Dooling ''(Dem.)''
★ . John F. Carew ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thomas G. Patten ''(Dem.)''
★ . Walter M. Chandler ''(Prog.)''
★ . Isaac Siegel ''(Rep.)''
★ . G. Murray Hulbert ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry Bruckner ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph A. Goulden ''(Dem.)'', died May 3, 1915:
★ . William S. Bennet ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Woodson R. Oglesby ''(Dem.)''
★ . James W. Husted ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edmund Platt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles B. Ward ''(Rep.)''
★ . Rollin B. Sanford ''(Rep.)''
★ . James S. Parker ''(Rep.)''
★ . William B. Charles ''(Rep.)''
★ . Bertrand H. Snell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Luther W. Mott ''(Rep.)''
★ . Homer P. Snyder ''(Rep.)''
★ . George W. Fairchild ''(Rep.)''
★ . Walter W. Magee ''(Rep.)''
★ . Norman J. Gould ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harry H. Pratt ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas B. Dunn ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry G. Danforth ''(Rep.)''
★ . S. Wallace Dempsey ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles B. Smith ''(Dem.)''
★ . Daniel A. Driscoll ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles M. Hamilton ''(Rep.)'':'North Carolina'
★ . John Humphrey Small ''(Dem.)''
★ . Claude Kitchin ''(Dem.)''
★ . George E. Hood ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward W. Pou ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles M. Stedman ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hannibal L. Godwin ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert N. Page ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert L. Doughton ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edwin Y. Webb ''(Dem.)''
★ . James Jefferson Britt ''(Rep.)'':'North Dakota'
★ . Henry Thomas Helgesen ''(Rep.)''
★ . George M. Young ''(Rep.)''
★ . Patrick Daniel Norton ''(Rep.)'':'Ohio'
★ . Nicholas Longworth ''(Rep.)''
★ . Alfred G. Allen ''(Dem.)''
★ . Warren Gard ''(Dem.)''
★ . J. Edward Russell ''(Rep.)''
★ . Nelson E. Matthews ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles C. Kearns ''(Rep.)''
★ . Simeon D. Fess ''(Rep.)''
★ . John A. Key ''(Dem.)''
★ . Isaac R. Sherwood ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert M. Switzer ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edwin D. Ricketts ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clement L. Brumbaugh ''(Dem.)''
★ . Arthur W. Overmyer ''(Dem.)''
★ . Seward H. Williams ''(Rep.)''
★ . William C. Mooney ''(Rep.)''
★ . Roscoe C. McCulloch ''(Rep.)''
★ . William A. Ashbrook ''(Dem.)''
★ . David Hollingsworth ''(Rep.)''
★ . John G. Cooper ''(Rep.)''
★ . William Gordon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert Crosser ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry I. Emerson ''(Rep.)'':'Oklahoma'
★ . James S. Davenport ''(Dem.)''
★ . William W. Hastings ''(Dem.)''
★ . Charles D. Carter ''(Dem.)''
★ . William H. Murray ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph Bryan Thompson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Scott Ferris ''(Dem.)''
★ . James V. McClintic ''(Dem.)''
★ . Dick Thompson Morgan ''(Rep.)'':'Oregon'
★ . Willis C. Hawley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Nicholas J. Sinnott ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clifton N. McArthur ''(Rep.)'':'Pennsylvania'
★ . William S. Vare ''(Rep.)''
★ . George S. Graham ''(Rep.)''
★ . J. Hampton Moore ''(Rep.)''
★ . George W. Edmonds ''(Rep.)''
★ . Peter E. Costello ''(Rep.)''
★ . George P. Darrow ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas S. Butler ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry W. Watson ''(Rep.)''
★ . William W. Griest ''(Rep.)''
★ . John R. Farr ''(Rep.)''
★ . John J. Casey ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert D. Heaton ''(Rep.)''
★ . Arthur G. Dewalt ''(Dem.)''
★ . Louis T. McFadden ''(Rep.)'
★ . Edgar R. Kiess ''(Rep.)''
★ . John V. Lesher ''(Dem.)''
★ . Benjamin K. Focht ''(Rep.)''
★ . Aaron S. Kreider ''(Rep.)''
★ . Warren W. Bailey ''(Dem.)''
★ . C. William Beales ''(Rep.)''
★ . Charles H. Rowland ''(Rep.)''
★ . Abraham L. Keister ''(Rep.)''
★ . Robert F. Hopwood ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry W. Temple ''(Rep.)''
★ . Michael Liebel, Jr. ''(Dem.)''
★ . Henry J. Steele ''(Dem.)''
★ . Solomon T. North ''(Rep.)''
★ . Samuel H. Miller ''(Rep.)''
★ . Stephen G. Porter ''(Rep.)''
★ . William Henry Coleman ''(Rep.)''
★ . John M. Morin ''(Rep.)''
★ . Andrew J. Barchfeld ''(Rep.)''
★ : Thomas S. Crago ''(Rep.)''
★ : John R.K. Scott ''(Rep.)''
★ : Daniel F. Lafean ''(Rep.)''
★ : Mahlon M. Garland ''(Rep.)'':'Rhode Island'
★ . George Francis O'Shaunessy ''(Dem.)''
★ . Walter Russell Stiness ''(Rep.)''
★ . Ambrose Kennedy ''(Rep.)'':'South Carolina'
★ . Richard S. Whaley ''(Dem.)''
★ . James F. Byrnes ''(Dem.)''
★ . Wyatt Aiken ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph T. Johnson ''(Dem.)'', resigned April 19, 1915:
★ . Samuel J. Nicholls ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . David E. Finley ''(Dem.)'', died January 26, 1917:
★ . Paul G. McCorkle ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . J. Willard Ragsdale ''(Dem.)''
★ . Asbury F. Lever ''(Dem.)'':'South Dakota'
★ . Charles H. Dillon ''(Rep.)''
★ . Royal C. Johnson ''(Rep.)''
★ . Harry L. Gandy ''(Dem.)'':'Tennessee'
★ . Sam R. Sells ''(Rep.)''
★ . Richard W. Austin ''(Rep.)''
★ . John Austin Moon ''(Dem.)''
★ . Cordell Hull ''(Dem.)''
★ . William C. Houston ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joseph W. Byrns ''(Dem.)''
★ . Lemuel Phillips Padgett ''(Dem.)''
★ . Thetus Willrette Sims ''(Dem.)''
★ . Finis J. Garrett ''(Dem.)''
★ . Kenneth McKellar ''(Dem.)'':'Texas'
★ . Eugene Black ''(Dem.)''
★ . Martin Dies ''(Dem.)''
★ . James Young ''(Dem.)''
★ . Sam Rayburn ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hatton W. Sumners ''(Dem.)''
★ . Rufus Hardy ''(Dem.)''
★ . Alexander W. Gregg ''(Dem.)''
★ . Joe H. Eagle ''(Dem.)''
★ . George Farmer Burgess ''(Dem.)''
★ . James P. Buchanan ''(Dem.)''
★ . Robert L. Henry ''(Dem.)''
★ . Oscar Callaway''(Dem.)''
★ . John Hall Stephens ''(Dem.)''
★ . James L. Slayden ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Nance Garner ''(Dem.)''
★ . William R. Smith ''(Dem.)''
★ : James H. Davis ''(Dem.)''
★ : A. Jeff McLemore ''(Dem.)'':'Utah'
★ . Joseph Howell ''(Rep.)''
★ . James Henry Mays ''(Dem.)'':'Vermont'
★ . Frank L. Greene ''(Rep.)''
★ . Porter H. Dale ''(Rep.)'':'Virginia'
★ . William Atkinson Jones ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward Everett Holland ''(Dem.)''
★ . Andrew Jackson Montague ''(Dem.)''
★ . Walter Allen Watson ''(Dem.)''
★ . Edward W. Saunders ''(Dem.)''
★ . Carter Glass ''(Dem.)''
★ . James Hay ''(Dem.)'', resigned October 1, 1916:
★ . Thomas W. Harrison ''(Dem.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Charles Creighton Carlin ''(Dem.)''
★ . C. Bascom Slemp ''(Rep.)''
★ . Henry De Flood ''(Dem.)'':'Washington'
★ . William E. Humphrey ''(Rep.)''
★ . Lindley H. Hadley ''(Rep.)''
★ . Albert Johnson ''(Rep.)''
★ . William Leroy La Follette ''(Rep.)''
★ . Clarence Cleveland Dill ''(Dem.)'':'West Virginia'
★ . Matthew M. Neely ''(Dem.)''
★ . William Gay Brown, Jr. ''(Dem.)'', died March 9, 1916:
★ . George M. Bowers ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Adam B. Littlepage ''(Dem.)''
★ . Hunter H. Moss, Jr. ''(Rep.)'', died July 15, 1916:
★ . Harry C. Woodyard ''(Rep.)'', elected to fill vacancy
★ . Edward Cooper ''(Rep.)''
★ : Howard Sutherland ''(Rep.)'':'Wisconsin'
★ . Henry Allen Cooper ''(Rep.)''
★ . Michael Edmund Burke ''(Dem.)''
★ . John M. Nelson ''(Rep.)''
★ . William J. Cary ''(Rep.)''
★ . William H. Stafford ''(Rep.)''
★ . Michael K. Reilly ''(Dem.)''
★ . John Jacob Esch ''(Rep.)''
★ . Edward E. Browne ''(Rep.)''
★ . Thomas Frank Konop ''(Dem.)''
★ . James A. Frear ''(Rep.)''
★ . Irvine L. Lenroot ''(Rep.)'':'Wyoming'
★ : Franklin Wheeler Mondell ''(Rep.)''

Delegates

:'Alaska Territory'

★ : James Wickersham ''(Rep.)''
:'Hawaii Territory'

★ : Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole ''(Rep.)''
Resident Commissioners


Manuel Earnshaw, Philippines

Manuel L. Quezon, Philippines

Luis Muñoz Rivera, Unionist, Puerto Rico (died November 15, 1916)

Officers


Senate


Secretary of the Senate:


James M. Baker of South Carolina, elected March 13, 1913.

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:


Charles P. Higgins of Indiana, elected March 13, 1913.

Chaplain of the Senate


The Rev. F.J. Prettyman, Methodist, elected March 13, 1913.
House of Representatives


Clerk of the House:


South Trimble of Kentucky, elected December 6, 1915.

Sergeant at Arms of the House:


Robert B. Gordon of Ohio, elected December 6, 1915.

Doorkeeper of the House:


Joseph J. Sinnott of Virginia, elected December 6, 1915.

Postmaster of the House:


William M. Dunbar of Georgia, elected December 6, 1915.

Clerk at the Speaker’s Table:


Bennett C. Clark

Chaplain of the House


The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected December 6, 1915.
Other


Architect of the Capitol:


Elliott Woods, appointed February 19, 1902.

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

Statistics and Lists

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