59th United States Congress

: 2. Edward W. Carmack (D) #### [[List of United States senators from Texas|Texas]] : 1. Charles A. Culberson (D) : 2. Joseph W. Bailey (D) #### [[List of United States senators from Utah|Utah]] : 1. George Sutherland (R) : 3. Reed Smoot (R) #### [[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]] : 1. Redfield Proctor (R) : 3. William P. Dillingham (R) #### [[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]] : 1. John W. Daniel (D) : 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) #### [[List of United States senators from Washington|Washington]] : 1. Samuel H. Piles (R) : 3. Levi Ankeny (R) #### [[List of United States senators from West Virginia|West Virginia]] : 1. Nathan B. Scott (R) : 2. Stephen B. Elkins (R) #### [[List of United States senators from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] : 1. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R) : 3. John C. Spooner (R) #### [[List of United States senators from Wyoming|Wyoming]] : 1. Clarence D. Clark (R) : 2. Francis E. Warren (R) ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/59th_United_States_Congress_Senators.svg" caption="Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 59th Congress in March 1905."] :: ]] ### House of Representatives *Main article: List of United States representatives in the 59th Congress* #### [[List of United States representatives from Alabama|Alabama]] : . George W. Taylor (D) : . Ariosto A. Wiley (D) : . Henry D. Clayton (D) : . Sydney J. Bowie (D) : . J. Thomas Heflin (D) : . John H. Bankhead (D) : . John L. Burnett (D) : . William N. Richardson (D) : . Oscar Underwood (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Arkansas|Arkansas]] : . Robert B. Macon (D) : . Stephen Brundidge Jr. (D) : . John C. Floyd (D) : . John S. Little (D), until January 14, 1907 : . Charles C. Reid (D) : . Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) : . Robert M. Wallace (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from California|California]] : . James N. Gillett (R), until November 4, 1906 :: William F. Englebright (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Duncan E. McKinlay (R) : . Joseph R. Knowland (R) : . Julius Kahn (R) : . Everis A. Hayes (R) : . James C. Needham (R) : . James McLachlan (R) : . Sylvester C. Smith (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Colorado|Colorado]] : . Robert W. Bonynge (R) : . Herschel M. Hogg (R) : . Franklin E. Brooks (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Connecticut|Connecticut]] : . E. Stevens Henry (R) : . Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) : . Frank B. Brandegee (R), until May 10, 1905 :: Edwin W. Higgins (R), from October 2, 1905 : . Ebenezer J. Hill (R) : . George L. Lilley (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Delaware|Delaware]] : . Hiram R. Burton (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Florida|Florida]] : . Stephen M. Sparkman (D) : . Frank Clark (D) : . William B. Lamar (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Georgia|Georgia]] : . Rufus E. Lester (D), until June 16, 1906 :: James W. Overstreet (D), from October 3, 1906 : . James M. Griggs (D) : . Elijah B. Lewis (D) : . William C. Adamson (D) : . Leonidas F. Livingston (D) : . Charles L. Bartlett (D) : . Gordon Lee (D) : . William M. Howard (D) : . Thomas Montgomery Bell (D) : . Thomas W. Hardwick (D) : . William G. Brantley (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Idaho|Idaho]] : . Burton L. French (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Illinois|Illinois]] : . Martin B. Madden (R) : . James R. Mann (R) : . William W. Wilson (R) : . Charles S. Wharton (R) : . Anthony Michalek (R) : . William Lorimer (R) : . Philip Knopf (R) : . Charles McGavin (R) : . Henry S. Boutell (R) : . George E. Foss (R) : . Howard M. Snapp (R) : . Charles Eugene Fuller (R) : . Robert R. Hitt (R), until September 20, 1906 :: Frank O. Lowden (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Benjamin F. Marsh (R), until June 2, 1905 :: James McKinney (R), from November 7, 1905 : . George W. Prince (R) : . Joseph V. Graff (R) : . John A. Sterling (R) : . Joseph G. Cannon (R) : . William B. McKinley (R) : . Henry T. Rainey (D) : . Zeno J. Rives (R) : . William A. Rodenberg (R) : . Frank S. Dickson (R) : . Pleasant T. Chapman (R) : . George Washington Smith (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Indiana|Indiana]] : . John H. Foster (R), from May 16, 1905 : . John C. Chaney (R) : . William T. Zenor (D) : . Lincoln Dixon (D) : . Elias S. Holliday (R) : . James E. Watson (R) : . Jesse Overstreet (R) : . George W. Cromer (R) : . Charles B. Landis (R) : . Edgar D. Crumpacker (R) : . Frederick Landis (R) : . Newton W. Gilbert (R), until November 6, 1906 :: Clarence C. Gilhams (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Abraham L. Brick (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Iowa|Iowa]] : . Thomas Hedge (R) : . Albert F. Dawson (R) : . Benjamin P. Birdsall (R) : . Gilbert N. Haugen (R) : . Robert G. Cousins (R) : . John F. Lacey (R) : . John A. T. Hull (R) : . William P. Hepburn (R) : . Walter I. Smith (R) : . James P. Conner (R) : . Elbert H. Hubbard (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Kansas|Kansas]] : . Charles Curtis (R), until January 28, 1907 : . Justin De Witt Bowersock (R) : . Philip P. Campbell (R) : . James Monroe Miller (R) : . William A. Calderhead (R) : . William A. Reeder (R) : . Victor Murdock (R) : . Charles Frederick Scott (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Kentucky|Kentucky]] : . Ollie M. James (D) : . Augustus Stanley (D) : . James M. Richardson (D) : . David Highbaugh Smith (D) : . J. Swagar Sherley (D) : . Joseph L. Rhinock (D) : . South Trimble (D) : . George G. Gilbert (D) : . Joseph B. Bennett (R) : . Francis A. Hopkins (D) : . Don C. Edwards (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Louisiana|Louisiana]] : . Adolph Meyer (D) : . Robert C. Davey (D) : . Robert F. Broussard (D) : . John Thomas Watkins (D) : . Joseph E. Ransdell (D) : . Samuel M. Robertson (D) : . Arsène Paulin Pujó (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Maine|Maine]] : . Amos L. Allen (R) : . Charles E. Littlefield (R) : . Edwin C. Burleigh (R) : . Llewellyn Powers (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Maryland|Maryland]] : . Thomas A. Smith (D) : . J. Frederick C. Talbott (D) : . Frank C. Wachter (R) : . John Gill Jr. (D) : . Sydney E. Mudd (R) : . George A. Pearre (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] : . George P. Lawrence (R) : . Frederick H. Gillett (R) : . Rockwood Hoar (R), until November 1, 1906 :: Charles G. Washburn (R), from December 18, 1906 : . Charles Q. Tirrell (R) : . Butler Ames (R) : . Augustus P. Gardner (R) : . Ernest W. Roberts (R) : . Samuel W. McCall (R) : . John A. Keliher (D) : . William S. McNary (D) : . John Andrew Sullivan (D) : . John W. Weeks (R) : . William S. Greene (R) : . William C. Lovering (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Michigan|Michigan]] : . Edwin C. Denby (R) : . Charles E. Townsend (R) : . Washington Gardner (R) : . Edward L. Hamilton (R) : . William Alden Smith (R), until February 9, 1907 : . Samuel W. Smith (R) : . Henry McMorran (R) : . Joseph W. Fordney (R) : . Roswell P. Bishop (R) : . George A. Loud (R) : . Archibald B. Darragh (R) : . H. Olin Young (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Minnesota|Minnesota]] : . James Albertus Tawney (R) : . James T. McCleary (R) : . Charles Russell Davis (R) : . Frederick C. Stevens (R) : . Loren Fletcher (R) : . Clarence Buckman (R) : . Andrew Volstead (R) : . James Bede (R) : . Halvor Steenerson (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Mississippi|Mississippi]] : . Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D) : . Thomas Spight (D) : . Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D) : . Wilson S. Hill (D) : . Adam M. Byrd (D) : . Eaton J. Bowers (D) : . Frank A. McLain (D) : . John Sharp Williams (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Missouri|Missouri]] : . James T. Lloyd (D) : . William W. Rucker (D) : . Frank B. Klepper (R) : . Frank B. Fulkerson (R) : . Edgar C. Ellis (R) : . David A. De Armond (D) : . John Welborn (R) : . Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) : . James Beauchamp Clark (D) : . Richard Bartholdt (R) : . John T. Hunt (D) : . Ernest E. Wood (D), until June 23, 1906 :: Harry M. Coudrey (R), from June 23, 1906 : . Marion E. Rhodes (R) : . William T. Tyndall (R) : . Cassius M. Shartel (R) : . Arthur P. Murphy (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Montana|Montana]] : . Joseph M. Dixon (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Nebraska|Nebraska]] : . Elmer J. Burkett (R), until March 4, 1905 :: Ernest M. Pollard (R), from July 18, 1905 : . John L. Kennedy (R) : . John J. McCarthy (R) : . Edmund H. Hinshaw (R) : . George W. Norris (R) : . Moses P. Kinkaid (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Nevada|Nevada]] : . Clarence D. Van Duzer (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]] : . Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) : . Frank Dunklee Currier (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from New Jersey|New Jersey]] : . Henry C. Loudenslager (R) : . John J. Gardner (R) : . Benjamin F. Howell (R) : . Ira W. Wood (R) : . Charles N. Fowler (R) : . Henry C. Allen (R) : . Richard Wayne Parker (R) : . William H. Wiley (R) : . Marshall Van Winkle (R) : . Allan L. McDermott (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from New York|New York]] : . William W. Cocks (R) : . George H. Lindsay (D) : . Charles T. Dunwell (R) : . Charles B. Law (R) : . George E. Waldo (R) : . William M. Calder (R) : . John J. Fitzgerald (D) : . Timothy D. Sullivan (D), until July 27, 1906 :: Daniel J. Riordan (D), from November 6, 1906 : . Henry M. Goldfogle (D) : . William Sulzer (D) : . William Randolph Hearst (D) : . W. Bourke Cockran (D) : . Herbert Parsons (R) : . Charles A. Towne (D) : . J. Van Vechten Olcott (R) : . Jacob Ruppert (D) : . William S. Bennet (R) : . Joseph A. Goulden (D) : . John E. Andrus (R) : . Thomas W. Bradley (R) : . John H. Ketcham (R), until November 4, 1906 : . William H. Draper (R) : . George N. Southwick (R) : . Frank J. LeFevre (R) : . Lucius N. Littauer (R) : . William H. Flack (R), until February 2, 1907 : . James S. Sherman (R) : . Charles L. Knapp (R) : . Michael E. Driscoll (R) : . John W. Dwight (R) : . Sereno E. Payne (R) : . James B. Perkins (R) : . J. Sloat Fassett (R) : . James W. Wadsworth (R) : . William H. Ryan (D) : . De Alva S. Alexander (R) : . Edward B. Vreeland (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from North Carolina|North Carolina]] : . John Humphrey Small (D) : . Claude Kitchin (D) : . Charles R. Thomas (D) : . Edward W. Pou (D) : . William W. Kitchin (D) : . Gilbert B. Patterson (D) : . Robert N. Page (D) : . E. Spencer Blackburn (R) : . Edwin Y. Webb (D) : . James M. Gudger Jr. (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from North Dakota|North Dakota]] : . Thomas Frank Marshall (R) : . Asle Gronna (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Ohio|Ohio]] : . Nicholas Longworth (R) : . Herman P. Goebel (R) : . Robert M. Nevin (R) : . Harvey C. Garber (D) : . William Wildman Campbell (R) : . Thomas E. Scroggy (R) : . J. Warren Keifer (R) : . Ralph D. Cole (R) : . James H. Southard (R) : . Henry T. Bannon (R) : . Charles H. Grosvenor (R) : . Edward L. Taylor Jr. (R) : . Grant E. Mouser (R) : . Amos R. Webber (R) : . Beman G. Dawes (R) : . Capell L. Weems (R) : . Martin L. Smyser (R) : . James Kennedy (R) : . W. Aubrey Thomas (R) : . Jacob A. Beidler (R) : . Theodore E. Burton (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Oregon|Oregon]] : . Binger Hermann (R) : . John N. Williamson (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] : . Henry H. Bingham (R) : . Robert Adams Jr. (R), until June 1, 1906 :: John E. Reyburn (R), from November 6, 1906 : . George A. Castor (R), until February 19, 1906 :: J. Hampton Moore (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Reuben O. Moon (R) : . Edward D. Morrell (R) : . George D. McCreary (R) : . Thomas S. Butler (R) : . Irving P. Wanger (R) : . Henry B. Cassel (R) : . Thomas H. Dale (R) : . Henry W. Palmer (R) : . George R. Patterson (R), until March 21, 1906 :: Charles N. Brumm (R), from November 6, 1906 : . Marcus C. L. Kline (D) : . Mial E. Lilley (R) : . Elias Deemer (R) : . Edmund W. Samuel (R) : . Thaddeus M. Mahon (R) : . Marlin E. Olmsted (R) : . John M. Reynolds (R) : . Daniel F. Lafean (R) : . Solomon R. Dresser (R) : . George F. Huff (R) : . Allen F. Cooper (R) : . Ernest F. Acheson (R) : . Arthur L. Bates (R) : . Gustav A. Schneebeli (R) : . William O. Smith (R) : . Joseph C. Sibley (R) : . William H. Graham (R) : . John Dalzell (R) : . James F. Burke (R) : . Andrew J. Barchfeld (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]] : . Daniel L. D. Granger (D) : . Adin B. Capron (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from South Carolina|South Carolina]] : . George S. Legare (D) : . James O. Patterson (D) : . Wyatt Aiken (D) : . Joseph T. Johnson (D) : . David E. Finley (D) : . J. Edwin Ellerbe (D) : . Asbury F. Lever (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from South Dakota|South Dakota]] : . Charles H. Burke (R) : . Eben W. Martin (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|Tennessee]] : . Walter P. Brownlow (R) : . Nathan W. Hale (R) : . John A. Moon (D) : . Mounce G. Butler (D) : . William C. Houston (D) : . John W. Gaines (D) : . Lemuel P. Padgett (D) : . Thetus W. Sims (D) : . Finis J. Garrett (D) : . Malcolm R. Patterson (D), until November 5, 1906 #### [[List of United States representatives from Texas|Texas]] : . Morris Sheppard (D) : . Moses L. Broocks (D) : . Gordon J. Russell (D) : . Choice B. Randell (D) : . James Andrew Beall (D) : . Scott Field (D) : . Alexander W. Gregg (D) : . John M. Pinckney (D), until April 24, 1905 :: John M. Moore (D), from June 6, 1905 : . George Farmer Burgess (D) : . Albert S. Burleson (D) : . Robert L. Henry (D) : . Oscar W. Gillespie (D) : . John H. Stephens (D) : . James L. Slayden (D) : . John Nance Garner (D) : . William R. Smith (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Utah|Utah]] : . Joseph Howell (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Vermont|Vermont]] : . David J. Foster (R) : . Kittredge Haskins (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Virginia|Virginia]] : . William A. Jones (D) : . Harry L. Maynard (D) : . John Lamb (D) : . Robert G. Southall (D) : . Claude A. Swanson (D), until January 30, 1906 :: Edward W. Saunders (D), from November 6, 1906 : . Carter Glass (D) : . James Hay (D) : . John F. Rixey (D), until February 8, 1907 : . Campbell Slemp (R) : . Henry D. Flood (D) #### [[List of United States representatives from Washington|Washington]] : . Wesley L. Jones (R) : . Francis W. Cushman (R) : . William E. Humphrey (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from West Virginia|West Virginia]] : . Blackburn B. Dovener (R) : . Alston G. Dayton (R), until March 16, 1905 :: Thomas B. Davis (D), from June 6, 1905 : . Joseph Holt Gaines (R) : . Harry C. Woodyard (R) : . James Anthony Hughes (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] : . Henry Allen Cooper (R) : . Henry C. Adams (R), until July 9, 1906 :: John M. Nelson (R), from September 4, 1906 : . Joseph W. Babcock (R) : . Theobald Otjen (R) : . William H. Stafford (R) : . Charles H. Weisse (D) : . John J. Esch (R) : . James H. Davidson (R) : . Edward S. Minor (R) : . Webster E. Brown (R) : . John J. Jenkins (R) #### [[List of United States representatives from Wyoming|Wyoming]] : . Franklin W. Mondell (R) #### Non-voting members : . Frank Hinman Waskey (D), from August 14, 1906 : . Marcus Aurelius Smith (D) : . Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole (R) : . William Henry Andrews (R) : . Bird Segle McGuire (R) : . Tulio Larrínaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist) ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/59_us_house_membership.png" caption=""] :: ::data[format=table] | House seats by party holding plurality in state | |---| | | | | | | :: ## Changes in membership The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress. ### Senate - Replacements: 8 - Democratic: no net change - Republican: no net change - Deaths: 5 - Resignations: 1 - Vacancies: 2 - **Total seats with changes: ** 9 ::data[format=table] | State (class) | Vacated by | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation | |---|---|---|---|---| | Missouri (1) | Vacant | Legislature had elected late. | nowrap | William Warner (R) | March 18, 1905 | | Delaware (1) | Vacant | Legislature had elected late. | nowrap | Henry A. du Pont (R) | June 13, 1906 | | Tennessee (1) | nowrap | William B. Bate (D) | Died March 9, 1905. Successor was elected. | nowrap | James B. Frazier (D) | March 21, 1905 | | Connecticut (3) | nowrap | Orville H. Platt (R) | Died April 21, 1905. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | nowrap | Frank B. Brandegee (R) | May 10, 1905 | | Oregon (2) | nowrap | John H. Mitchell (R) | Died December 8, 1905. Successor was appointed. | nowrap | John M. Gearin (D) | December 13, 1905 | | Kansas (2) | nowrap | Joseph R. Burton (R) | Resigned June 4, 1906, due to a conviction of corruption charges. Successor was appointed. | nowrap | Alfred W. Benson (R) | June 11, 1906 | | Maryland (2) | nowrap | Arthur P. Gorman (D) | Died June 4, 1906. Successor was appointed. | nowrap | William P. Whyte (D) | June 8, 1906 | | Oregon (2) | nowrap | John M. Gearin (D) | Successor was elected. | nowrap | Frederick W. Mulkey (R) | January 23, 1907 | | Michigan (2) | nowrap | Russell A. Alger (R) | Died January 24, 1907. Successor was elected. | nowrap | William A. Smith (R) | February 6, 1907 | | Kansas (2) | nowrap | Alfred W. Benson (R) | Successor was elected. | nowrap | Charles Curtis (R) | January 29, 1907 | :: ### House of Representatives - Replacements: 17 - Democratic: no net change - Republican: no net change - Deaths: 12 - Resignations: 11 - Contested elections: 1 - New seats: 1 - **Total seats with changes:** 26 ::data[format=table] | District | Previous | Reason for change | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation | |---|---|---|---|---| | | Vacant | Rep. James A. Hemenway resigned during previous congress | | John H. Foster (R) | May 16, 1905 | | | | Elmer Burkett (R) | Resigned March 4, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | | Ernest M. Pollard (R) | July 18, 1905 | | | | Alston G. Dayton (R) | Resigned March 16, 1905, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia | | Thomas B. Davis (D) | June 6, 1905 | | | | John M. Pinckney (D) | Died April 24, 1905 | | John M. Moore (D) | June 6, 1905 | | | | Frank B. Brandegee (R) | Resigned May 10, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | | Edwin W. Higgins (R) | October 2, 1905 | | | | Benjamin F. Marsh (R) | Died June 2, 1905 | | James McKinney (R) | November 7, 1905 | | | | James Gillett (R) | Resigned January 4, 1906, after being elected Governor of California | | William F. Englebright (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | Claude A. Swanson (D) | Resigned January 30, 1906, after being elected Governor of Virginia | | Edward W. Saunders (D) | November 6, 1906 | | | | George A. Castor (R) | Died February 19, 1906 | | J. Hampton Moore (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | George R. Patterson (R) | Died March 21, 1906 | | Charles N. Brumm (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | Robert Adams Jr. (R) | Died June 1, 1906 | | John E. Reyburn (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | Rufus E. Lester (D) | Died June 16, 1906 | | James W. Overstreet (D) | October 3, 1906 | | | | Ernest E. Wood (D) | Lost contested election June 23, 1906 | | Harry M. Coudrey (R) | June 23, 1906 | | | New seat | New delegate seat August 14, 1906 | nowrap | Frank H. Waskey (D) | August 14, 1906 | | | | Henry C. Adams (R) | Died July 9, 1906 | | John M. Nelson (R) | September 4, 1906 | | | | Timothy Sullivan (D) | Resigned July 27, 1906 | | Daniel J. Riordan (D) | November 6, 1906 | | | | Robert R. Hitt (R) | Died September 20, 1906 | | Frank O. Lowden (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | Rockwood Hoar (R) | Died November 1, 1906 | | Charles G. Washburn (R) | December 18, 1906 | | | | John H. Ketcham (R) | Died November 4, 1906 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | Malcolm R. Patterson (D) | Resigned November 5, 1906, after being elected Governor of Tennessee | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | Newton W. Gilbert (R) | Resigned November 6, 1906, after being appointed judge of the court of first instance at Manila, Philippines | | Clarence C. Gilhams (R) | November 6, 1906 | | | | John S. Little (D) | Resigned January 14, 1907, after being elected Governor of Arkansas | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | Charles Curtis (R) | Resigned January 28, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | William H. Flack (R) | Died February 2, 1907 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | John F. Rixey (D) | Died February 8, 1907 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | | | | William Alden Smith (R) | Resigned February 9, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | | :: ## Committees ### Senate - Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin) - Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor; Ranking Member: Chester I. Long) - Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) - Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Kean; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money) - Canadian Relations (Chairman: Winthrop Murray Crane; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) - Census (Chairman: Chester I. Long; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery) - Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: Fred T. Dubois) - Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) - Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Samuel H. Piles; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Coast Defenses (Chairman: Philander C. Knox; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) - Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: James H. Berry) - Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Samuel D. McEnery; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich) - Cuban Relations (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) - Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select) - District of Columbia (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) - Education and Labor (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) - Engrossed Bills (Chairman: James H. Berry; Ranking Member: Alfred B. Kittredge) - Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden; Ranking Member: Murphy J. Foster Jr.) - Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: James A. Hemenway; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) - Examination of Disposition of Documents (Select) (Chairman: Edmund W. Pettus) - Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Morgan G. Bulkeley; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) - Expenditures in Executive Departments - Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) - Fisheries (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) - Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Geological Survey (Chairman: Frank P. Flint; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money) - Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin) - Indian Affairs (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Indian Depredations (Chairman: Elmer J. Burkett; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon) - Industrial Expositions (Chairman: William Warner; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) - Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select) (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin) - Indian Territory (Select) - Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) - Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Levi Ankeny; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer) - Judiciary (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Bailey) - Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: William A. Clark) - Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay) - Military Affairs (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus) - Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) - Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson) - National Banks (Select) (Chairman: George S. Nixon; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery) - Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman) - Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin) - Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) - Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Russell A. Alger; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan) - Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory) - Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: James P. Taliaferro) - Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) - Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman) - Potomac River Front (Select) - Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman) - Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale) - Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus) - Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson) - Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: John Coit Spooner) - Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough; Ranking Member: James H. Berry) - Railroads (Chairman: J. Frank Allee; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon) - Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel) - Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Alexander S. Clay; Ranking Member: Russell A. Alger) - Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller) - Standards, Weights and Measures (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: William A. Clark) - Tariff Regulation (Select) - Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Patterson) - Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Clark) - Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus) - Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: George Sutherland) - Ventilation and Acoustics (Select) (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith) - Whole - Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member: George P. Wetmore) ### House of Representatives - Accounts (Chairman: H. Burd Cassel; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett) - Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John Lamb) - Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett) - Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Tawney; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston) - Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis) - Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker; Ranking Member: James Hay) - Claims (Chairman: James M. Miller; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle) - Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: John W. Gaines) - Disposition of Executive Papers - District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims) - Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick; Ranking Member: Edwin Y. Webb) - Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker) - Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: Ollie M. James) - Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Marlin E. Olmsted; Ranking Member: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott) - Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Michael E. Driscoll; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell) - Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd) - Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles E. Littlefield; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood) - Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster; Ranking Member: Arsene P. Pujo) - Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. Minor; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page) - Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page) - Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell) - Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Carter Glass) - Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester) - Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: John Lamb) - Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: George P. Lawrence; Ranking Member: George F. Burgess) - Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes; Ranking Member: John H. Small) - Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: William M. Howard) - Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell; Ranking Member: Jacob Ruppert Jr.) - Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John H. Stephens) - Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Augustus P. Gardner; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett) - Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones) - Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: Robert C. Davey) - Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: George H. Lindsay) - Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer) - Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond) - Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: William Randolph Hearst) - Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: George W. Prince; Ranking Member: Robert F. Broussard) - Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary; Ranking Member: William M. Howard) - Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley; Ranking Member: Charles H. Weisse) - Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: Thomas Spight) - Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis) - Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer) - Militia (Chairman: Edward De V. Morrell; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Stanley) - Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer) - Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer) - Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: James L. Slayden) - Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier; Ranking Member: William Sulzer) - Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: William Richardson) - Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet; Ranking Member: John A. Moon) - Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis; Ranking Member: James M. Griggs) - Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones) - Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead) - Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett) - Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett) - Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou) - Revision of Laws (Chairman: Reuben O. Moon; Ranking Member: Robert B. Macon) - Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester) - Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: John S. Williams) - Standards of Official Conduct - Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton; Ranking Member: John A. Moon) - Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith) - War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims) - Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: John S. Williams) - Whole ### Joint committees - Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special) - Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers (Chairman: Rep. Arthur L. Bates; Vice Chairman: Sen. ) - Revision of the Laws - The Library - Printing - Second Class Mail Matter ## Caucuses - Democratic (House) - Democratic (Senate) ## Employees ### [[List of federal agencies in the United States#United States Congress|Legislative branch agency]] directors - Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods - Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam - Public Printer of the United States: Francis W. Palmer, until 1905 - Charles A. Stillings, from 1905 ### Senate - Secretary: Charles G. Bennett - Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin - Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell - Chaplain: The Rev. Edward E. Hale, Unitarian ### House of Representatives - Clerk: Alexander McDowell - Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson - Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon - Postmaster: Joseph C. McElroy - Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Asher C. Hinds - Reading Clerks: E.L. Sampson (D) and Dennis E. Alward (R) - Chaplain: The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist ## References - - - - - - - - - - ## References 1. (November 26, 2011). ["Carnegie Foundation"](http://www.carnegiefoundation.org). *Carnegie Foundation*. 2. Robert M. La Follette was elected to the 59th Congress for the term starting March 4, 1905, but he did not assume the seat until January 2, 1906, preferring to finish his term as [[Governor of Wisconsin]]. Nevertheless, his Senate service technically began March 4, 1905. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_United_States_Congress) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_United_States_Congress?action=history). ::