1925-1927 U.S. Congress
The69th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of theUnited States Senate and theUnited States House of Representatives . It met inWashington, D.C. from March 4, 1925, to March 4, 1927, during the third and fourth years ofCalvin Coolidge's presidency . The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1910 United States census .
TheRepublicans made modest gains in maintaining their majority in both chambers, and with the election ofPresident Calvin Coolidge to his own term in office, the Republicans maintained an overall federal governmenttrifecta .[ 1]
A special session of the Senate was called by President Coolidge on February 14, 1925.
Impeachment of JudgeGeorge W. English — On April 1, 1926, the House of Representatives impeached JudgeGeorge W. English of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois . Both Houses adjourned on July 3, 1926, with the Senate scheduled to reconvene on November 10, 1926, as a Court of Impeachment. English resigned before the impeachment trial began. The Senate met as planned on November 10, 1926, to adjourn the court of impeachmentsine die. On December 13, 1926, the Senate, acting on advice from the House managers of the impeachment, formally dismissed all charges against Judge English. January 17, 1927:U.S. Supreme Court held (McGrain v. Daugherty ) that Congress has the power to compel witness and testimony. RepresentativeEdith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts presiding over the House chamber in 1926 February 26, 1926:Revenue Act of 1926 April 12, 1926: Timber Exportation Act of 1926 May 8, 1926: Federal Interpleader Act of 1926 May 20, 1926:Air Commerce Act May 20, 1926: Federal Black Bass Act of 1926 May 20, 1926:Railway Labor Act (Parker-Watson Act) May 25, 1926: Omnibus Adjustment Act of 1926 May 25, 1926:Public Buildings Act of 1926 (Elliot-Fernald Act) May 26, 1926:Shenandoah National Park Act of 1926 June 3, 1926: Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 June 14, 1926:Recreation and Public Purposes Act June 15, 1926:Limitation of National Forest Designation Act July 2, 1926:Cooperative Marketing Act July 3, 1926:Walsh Act July 3, 1926:Passport Act of 1926 July 4, 1926:United States Sesquicentennial January 21, 1927:River and Harbors Act of 1927 February 23, 1927:Radio Act of 1927 (Dill-White Act) February 25, 1927:McFadden Act (Pepper-McFadden Act) March 3, 1927:Foreign and Domestic Commerce Act of 1927 March 3, 1927:Produce Agency Act of 1927 March 4, 1927:Mayfield-Newton Act Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 69th Congress in March 1925. The green stripes denote Farmer-Labor SenatorHenrik Shipstead . 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
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This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives by district.
Senators were elected every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below areSenate class numbers , which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1928; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, facing re-election in 1930; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1926.
▌ 2.J. Thomas Heflin (D)▌ 3.Oscar Underwood (D)▌ 1.Henry F. Ashurst (D)▌ 3.Ralph H. Cameron (R)▌ 2.Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)▌ 3.Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)▌ 1.Hiram W. Johnson (R)▌ 3.Samuel M. Shortridge (R)▌ 2.Lawrence C. Phipps (R)▌ 3.Rice W. Means (R)▌ 1.George P. McLean (R)▌ 3.Hiram Bingham III (R)▌ 1.Thomas F. Bayard Jr. (D)▌ 2.T. Coleman du Pont (R)▌ 1.Park Trammell (D)▌ 3.Duncan U. Fletcher (D)▌ 2.William J. Harris (D)▌ 3.Walter F. George (D)▌ 2.William E. Borah (R)▌ 3.Frank R. Gooding (R)▌ 2.Charles S. Deneen (R)▌ 3.William B. McKinley (R), until December 7, 1926[ 2] ▌ 1.Samuel M. Ralston (D), until October 14, 1925▌ Arthur R. Robinson (R), from October 20, 1925▌ 3.James E. Watson (R)▌ 2.Smith W. Brookhart (R), until April 12, 1926▌ Daniel F. Steck (D), from April 12, 1926▌ 3.Albert B. Cummins (R), until July 30, 1926▌ David W. Stewart (R), from August 7, 1926▌ 2.Arthur Capper (R)▌ 3.Charles Curtis (R)▌ 2.Frederic M. Sackett (R)▌ 3.Richard P. Ernst (R)▌ 2.Joseph E. Ransdell (D)▌ 3.Edwin S. Broussard (D)▌ 1.Frederick Hale (R)▌ 2.Bert M. Fernald (R), until August 23, 1926▌ Arthur R. Gould (R), from November 30, 1926▌ 1.William Cabell Bruce (D)▌ 3.Ovington E. Weller (R)▌ 1.William M. Butler (R), until December 6, 1926▌ David I. Walsh (D), from December 6, 1926▌ 2.Frederick H. Gillett (R)▌ 1.Woodbridge N. Ferris (D)▌ 2.James J. Couzens (R)▌ 1.Henrik Shipstead (FL)▌ 2.Thomas D. Schall (R)▌ 1.Hubert D. Stephens (D)▌ 2.Pat Harrison (D)▌ 1.James A. Reed (D)▌ 3.Selden P. Spencer (R), until May 16, 1925▌ George H. Williams (R), May 25, 1925 – December 6, 1926▌ Harry B. Hawes (D), from December 6, 1926▌ 1.Burton K. Wheeler (D)▌ 2.Thomas J. Walsh (D)▌ 1.Robert B. Howell (R)▌ 2.George W. Norris (R)▌ 1.Key Pittman (D)▌ 3.Tasker Oddie (R)▌ 2.Henry W. Keyes (R)▌ 3.George H. Moses (R)▌ 1.Edward I. Edwards (D)▌ 2.Walter E. Edge (R)▌ 1.Andrieus A. Jones (D)▌ 2.Sam G. Bratton (D)▌ 1.Royal S. Copeland (D)▌ 3.James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R)▌ 2.Furnifold M. Simmons (D)▌ 3.Lee S. Overman (D)▌ 1.Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)▌ 3.Edwin F. Ladd (R), until June 22, 1925▌ Gerald Nye (R), from November 14, 1925▌ 1.Simeon D. Fess (R)▌ 3.Frank B. Willis (R)▌ 2.William B. Pine (R)▌ 3.John W. Harreld (R)▌ 2.Charles L. McNary (R)▌ 3.Robert N. Stanfield (R)▌ 1.David A. Reed (R)▌ 3.George Wharton Pepper (R)▌ 1.Peter G. Gerry (D)▌ 2.Jesse H. Metcalf (R)▌ 2.Coleman L. Blease (D)▌ 3.Ellison D. Smith (D)▌ 2.William H. McMaster (R)▌ 3.Peter Norbeck (R)▌ 1.Kenneth McKellar (D)▌ 2.Lawrence Tyson (D)▌ 1.Earle B. Mayfield (D)▌ 2.Morris Sheppard (D)▌ 1.William H. King (D)▌ 3.Reed Smoot (R)▌ 1.Frank L. Greene (R)▌ 3.Porter H. Dale (R)▌ 1.Claude A. Swanson (D)▌ 2.Carter Glass (D)▌ 1.Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)▌ 3.Wesley L. Jones (R)▌ 1.Matthew M. Neely (D)▌ 2.Guy D. Goff (R)▌ 1.Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R), until June 18, 1925▌ Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R), from September 30, 1925▌ 3.Irvine Lenroot (R)▌ 1.John B. Kendrick (D)▌ 2.Francis E. Warren (R)Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis (R)Senate Minority Leader Joseph Robinson (D)
House of Representatives [ edit ] ▌ 1 John McDuffie (D)▌ 2 J. Lister Hill (D)▌ 3 Henry B. Steagall (D)▌ 4 Lamar Jeffers (D)▌ 5 William B. Bowling (D)▌ 6 William B. Oliver (D)▌ 7 Miles C. Allgood (D)▌ 8 Edward B. Almon (D)▌ 9 George Huddleston (D)▌ 10 William B. Bankhead (D)▌ At-large Carl Hayden (D)▌ 1 William J. Driver (D)▌ 2 William A. Oldfield (D)▌ 3 John N. Tillman (D)▌ 4 Otis Wingo (D)▌ 5 Heartsill Ragon (D)▌ 6 James B. Reed (D)▌ 7 Tilman B. Parks (D)▌ 1 Clarence F. Lea (D)▌ 2 John E. Raker (D), until January 22, 1926▌ Harry L. Englebright (R), from August 31, 1926▌ 3 Charles F. Curry (R)▌ 4 Florence P. Kahn (R)▌ 5 Lawrence J. Flaherty (R), until June 13, 1926▌ Richard J. Welch (R), from August 31, 1926▌ 6 Albert E. Carter (R)▌ 7 Henry E. Barbour (R)▌ 8 Arthur M. Free (R)▌ 9 Walter F. Lineberger (R)▌ 10 John D. Fredericks (R)▌ 11 Philip D. Swing (R)▌ 1 William N. Vaile (R)▌ 2 Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)▌ 3 Guy U. Hardy (R)▌ 4 Edward T. Taylor (D)▌ 1 E. Hart Fenn (R)▌ 2 Richard P. Freeman (R)▌ 3 John Q. Tilson (R)▌ 4 Schuyler Merritt (R)▌ 5 James P. Glynn (R)▌ At-large Robert G. Houston (R)▌ 1 Herbert J. Drane (D)▌ 2 Robert A. Green (D)▌ 3 John H. Smithwick (D)▌ 4 William J. Sears (D)▌ 1 Charles G. Edwards (D)▌ 2 Edward E. Cox (D)▌ 3 Charles R. Crisp (D)▌ 4 William C. Wright (D)▌ 5 William D. Upshaw (D)▌ 6 Samuel Rutherford (D)▌ 7 Gordon Lee (D)▌ 8 Charles H. Brand (D)▌ 9 Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)▌ 10 Carl Vinson (D)▌ 11 William C. Lankford (D)▌ 12 William W. Larsen (D)▌ 1 Burton L. French (R)▌ 2 Addison T. Smith (R)▌ 1 Martin B. Madden (R)▌ 2 Morton D. Hull (R)▌ 3 Elliott W. Sproul (R)▌ 4 Thomas A. Doyle (D)▌ 5 Adolph J. Sabath (D)▌ 6 John J. Gorman (R)▌ 7 M. Alfred Michaelson (R)▌ 8 Stanley H. Kunz (D)▌ 9 Frederick A. Britten (R)▌ 10 Carl R. Chindblom (R)▌ 11 Frank R. Reid (R)▌ 12 Charles Eugene Fuller (R), until June 25, 1926▌ 13 William R. Johnson (R)▌ 14 John C. Allen (R)▌ 15 Edward John King (R)▌ 16 William E. Hull (R)▌ 17 Frank H. Funk (R)▌ 18 William P. Holaday (R)▌ 19 Charles Adkins (R)▌ 20 Henry T. Rainey (D)▌ 21 Loren E. Wheeler (R)▌ 22 Edward M. Irwin (R)▌ 23 William W. Arnold (D)▌ 24 Thomas S. Williams (R)▌ 25 Edward E. Denison (R)▌ At-large Henry R. Rathbone (R)▌ At-large Richard Yates Jr. (R)▌ 1 Harry E. Rowbottom (R)▌ 2 Arthur H. Greenwood (D)▌ 3 Frank Gardner (D)▌ 4 Harry C. Canfield (D)▌ 5 Noble J. Johnson (R)▌ 6 Richard N. Elliott (R)▌ 7 Ralph E. Updike (R)▌ 8 Albert H. Vestal (R)▌ 9 Fred S. Purnell (R)▌ 10 William R. Wood (R)▌ 11 Albert R. Hall (R)▌ 12 David Hogg (R)▌ 13 Andrew J. Hickey (R)▌ 1 William F. Kopp (R)▌ 2 F. Dickinson Letts (R)▌ 3 Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)▌ 4 Gilbert N. Haugen (R)▌ 5 Cyrenus Cole (R)▌ 6 C. William Ramseyer (R)▌ 7 Cassius C. Dowell (R)▌ 8 Lloyd Thurston (R)▌ 9 William R. Green (R)▌ 10 Lester J. Dickinson (R)▌ 11 William D. Boies (R)▌ 1 Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (R)▌ 2 Chauncey B. Little (D)▌ 3 William H. Sproul (R)▌ 4 Homer Hoch (R)▌ 5 James G. Strong (R)▌ 6 Hays B. White (R)▌ 7 Jasper N. Tincher (R)▌ 8 William A. Ayres (D)▌ 1 Alben Barkley (D)▌ 2 David Hayes Kincheloe (D)▌ 3 Robert Y. Thomas Jr. (D), until September 3, 1925▌ John W. Moore (D), from December 26, 1925▌ 4 Ben Johnson (D)▌ 5 Maurice H. Thatcher (R)▌ 6 Arthur B. Rouse (D)▌ 7 Virgil Chapman (D)▌ 8 Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D)▌ 9 Fred M. Vinson (D)▌ 10 John W. Langley (R), until January 11, 1926▌ Andrew J. Kirk (R), from February 13, 1926▌ 11 John M. Robsion (R)▌ 1 James O'Connor (D)▌ 2 J. Zach Spearing (D)▌ 3 Whitmell P. Martin (D)▌ 4 John N. Sandlin (D)▌ 5 Riley Joseph Wilson (D)▌ 6 Bolivar E. Kemp (D)▌ 7 Ladislas Lazaro (D)▌ 8 James Benjamin Aswell (D)▌ 1 Carroll L. Beedy (R)▌ 2 Wallace H. White Jr. (R)▌ 3 John E. Nelson (R)▌ 4 Ira G. Hersey (R)▌ 1 T. Alan Goldsborough (D)▌ 2 Millard Tydings (D)▌ 3 John Philip Hill (R)▌ 4 J. Charles Linthicum (D)▌ 5 Stephen W. Gambrill (D)▌ 6 Frederick N. Zihlman (R)▌ 1 Allen T. Treadway (R)▌ 2 George B. Churchill (R), until July 1, 1925▌ Henry L. Bowles (R), from September 29, 1925▌ 3 Frank H. Foss (R)▌ 4 George R. Stobbs (R)▌ 5 John J. Rogers (R), until March 28, 1925▌ Edith Nourse Rogers (R), from June 30, 1925▌ 6 A. Piatt Andrew Jr. (R)▌ 7 William P. Connery Jr. (D)▌ 8 Harry I. Thayer (R), until March 10, 1926▌ Frederick W. Dallinger (R), from November 2, 1926▌ 9 Charles L. Underhill (R)▌ 10 John J. Douglass (D)▌ 11 George Holden Tinkham (R)▌ 12 James A. Gallivan (D)▌ 13 Robert Luce (R)▌ 14 Louis A. Frothingham (R)▌ 15 Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)▌ 16 Charles L. Gifford (R)▌ 1 John B. Sosnowski (R)▌ 2 Earl C. Michener (R)▌ 3 Arthur B. Williams (R), until May 1, 1925▌ Joseph L. Hooper (R), from August 18, 1925▌ 4 John C. Ketcham (R)▌ 5 Carl Mapes (R)▌ 6 Grant M. Hudson (R)▌ 7 Louis C. Cramton (R)▌ 8 Bird J. Vincent (R)▌ 9 James C. McLaughlin (R)▌ 10 Roy O. Woodruff (R)▌ 11 Frank D. Scott (R)▌ 12 W. Frank James (R)▌ 13 Clarence J. McLeod (R)▌ 1 Allen J. Furlow (R)▌ 2 Frank Clague (R)▌ 3 August H. Andresen (R)▌ 4 Oscar E. Keller (R)▌ 5 Walter H. Newton (R)▌ 6 Harold Knutson (R)▌ 7 Ole J. Kvale (FL)▌ 8 William L. Carss (FL)▌ 9 Knud Wefald (FL)▌ 10 Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)▌ 1 John E. Rankin (D)▌ 2 Bill G. Lowrey (D)▌ 3 William M. Whittington (D)▌ 4 T. Jefferson Busby (D)▌ 5 Ross A. Collins (D)▌ 6 T. Webber Wilson (D)▌ 7 Percy E. Quin (D)▌ 8 James W. Collier (D)▌ 1 Milton A. Romjue (D)▌ 2 Ralph F. Lozier (D)▌ 3 Jacob L. Milligan (D)▌ 4 Charles L. Faust (R)▌ 5 Edgar C. Ellis (R)▌ 6 Clement C. Dickinson (D)▌ 7 Samuel C. Major (D)▌ 8 William L. Nelson (D)▌ 9 Clarence Cannon (D)▌ 10 Cleveland A. Newton (R)▌ 11 Harry B. Hawes (D), until October 15, 1926▌ John J. Cochran (D), from November 2, 1926▌ 12 Leonidas C. Dyer (R)▌ 13 Charles E. Kiefner (R)▌ 14 Ralph E. Bailey (R)▌ 15 Joe J. Manlove (R)▌ 16 Thomas L. Rubey (D)▌ 1 John M. Evans (D)▌ 2 Scott Leavitt (R)▌ 1 John H. Morehead (D)▌ 2 Willis G. Sears (R)▌ 3 Edgar Howard (D)▌ 4 Melvin O. McLaughlin (R)▌ 5 Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)▌ 6 Robert G. Simmons (R)▌ At-large Samuel S. Arentz (R)▌ 1 Fletcher Hale (R)▌ 2 Edward Hills Wason (R)▌ 1 Francis F. Patterson Jr. (R)▌ 2 Isaac Bacharach (R)▌ 3 Stewart H. Appleby (R), from November 3, 1925▌ 4 Charles A. Eaton (R)▌ 5 Ernest R. Ackerman (R)▌ 6 Randolph Perkins (R)▌ 7 George N. Seger (R)▌ 8 Herbert W. Taylor (R)▌ 9 Franklin W. Fort (R)▌ 10 Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)▌ 11 Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)▌ 12 Mary T. Norton (D)▌ 1 John Morrow (D)▌ 1 Robert L. Bacon (R)▌ 2 John J. Kindred (D)▌ 3 George W. Lindsay (D)▌ 4 Thomas H. Cullen (D)▌ 5 Loring M. Black Jr. (D)▌ 6 Andrew L. Somers (D)▌ 7 John Quayle (D)▌ 8 William E. Cleary (D)▌ 9 David J. O'Connell (D)▌ 10 Emanuel Celler (D)▌ 11 Anning S. Prall (D)▌ 12 Samuel Dickstein (D)▌ 13 Christopher D. Sullivan (D)▌ 14 Nathan D. Perlman (R)▌ 15 John J. Boylan (D)▌ 16 John J. O'Connor (D)▌ 17 Ogden L. Mills (R)▌ 18 John F. Carew (D)▌ 19 Sol Bloom (D)▌ 20 Fiorello H. LaGuardia (S)▌ 21 Royal H. Weller (D)▌ 22 Anthony J. Griffin (D)▌ 23 Frank Oliver (D)▌ 24 Benjamin L. Fairchild (R)▌ 25 J. Mayhew Wainwright (R)▌ 26 Hamilton Fish III (R)▌ 27 Harcourt J. Pratt (R)▌ 28 Parker Corning (D)▌ 29 James S. Parker (R)▌ 30 Frank Crowther (R)▌ 31 Bertrand H. Snell (R)▌ 32 Thaddeus C. Sweet (R)▌ 33 Frederick M. Davenport (R)▌ 34 Harold S. Tolley (R)▌ 35 Walter W. Magee (R)▌ 36 John Taber (R)▌ 37 Gale H. Stalker (R)▌ 38 Meyer Jacobstein (D)▌ 39 Archie D. Sanders (R)▌ 40 S. Wallace Dempsey (R)▌ 41 Clarence MacGregor (R)▌ 42 James M. Mead (D)▌ 43 Daniel A. Reed (R)▌ 1 Lindsay C. Warren (D)▌ 2 John H. Kerr (D)▌ 3 Charles L. Abernethy (D)▌ 4 Edward W. Pou (D)▌ 5 Charles M. Stedman (D)▌ 6 Homer L. Lyon (D)▌ 7 William C. Hammer (D)▌ 8 Robert L. Doughton (D)▌ 9 Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)▌ 10 Zebulon Weaver (D)▌ 1 Olger B. Burtness (R)▌ 2 Thomas Hall (R)▌ 3 James H. Sinclair (R)▌ 1 Nicholas Longworth (R)▌ 2 Ambrose E. B. Stephens (R), until February 12, 1927▌ 3 Roy G. Fitzgerald (R)▌ 4 William T. Fitzgerald (R)▌ 5 Charles J. Thompson (R)▌ 6 Charles C. Kearns (R)▌ 7 Charles Brand (R)▌ 8 Thomas B. Fletcher (D)▌ 9 William W. Chalmers (R)▌ 10 Thomas A. Jenkins (R)▌ 11 Mell G. Underwood (D)▌ 12 John C. Speaks (R)▌ 13 James T. Begg (R)▌ 14 Martin L. Davey (D)▌ 15 C. Ellis Moore (R)▌ 16 John McSweeney (D)▌ 17 William M. Morgan (R)▌ 18 B. Frank Murphy (R)▌ 19 John G. Cooper (R)▌ 20 Charles A. Mooney (D)▌ 21 Robert Crosser (D)▌ 22 Theodore E. Burton (R)▌ 1 Samuel J. Montgomery (R)▌ 2 William W. Hastings (D)▌ 3 Charles D. Carter (D)▌ 4 Tom D. McKeown (D)▌ 5 Fletcher B. Swank (D)▌ 6 Elmer Thomas (D)▌ 7 James V. McClintic (D)▌ 8 Milton C. Garber (R)▌ 1 Willis C. Hawley (R)▌ 2 Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)▌ 3 Maurice E. Crumpacker (R)▌ 1 William S. Vare (R)▌ 2 George S. Graham (R)▌ 3 Harry C. Ransley (R)▌ 4 Benjamin M. Golder (R)▌ 5 James J. Connolly (R)▌ 6 George A. Welsh (R)▌ 7 George P. Darrow (R)▌ 8 Thomas S. Butler (R)▌ 9 Henry Winfield Watson (R)▌ 10 William W. Griest (R)▌ 11 Laurence H. Watres (R)▌ 12 Edmund N. Carpenter (R)▌ 13 George F. Brumm (R)▌ 14 Charles J. Esterly (R)▌ 15 Louis T. McFadden (R)▌ 16 Edgar R. Kiess (R)▌ 17 Frederick W. Magrady (R)▌ 18 Edward M. Beers (R)▌ 19 Joshua W. Swartz (R)▌ 20 Anderson H. Walters (R)▌ 21 J. Banks Kurtz (R)▌ 22 Franklin Menges (R)▌ 23 William I. Swoope (R)▌ 24 Samuel A. Kendall (R)▌ 25 Henry W. Temple (R)▌ 26 Thomas W. Phillips Jr. (R)▌ 27 Nathan L. Strong (R)▌ 28 Harris J. Bixler (R)▌ 29 Milton W. Shreve (R)▌ 30 William R. Coyle (R)▌ 31 Adam M. Wyant (R)▌ 32 Stephen G. Porter (R)▌ 33 M. Clyde Kelly (R)▌ 34 John M. Morin (R)▌ 35 James M. Magee (R)▌ 36 Guy E. Campbell (R)▌ 1 Clark Burdick (R)▌ 2 Richard S. Aldrich (R)▌ 3 Jeremiah E. O'Connell (D)▌ 1 Thomas S. McMillan (D)▌ 2 Butler B. Hare (D)▌ 3 Fred H. Dominick (D)▌ 4 John J. McSwain (D)▌ 5 William F. Stevenson (D)▌ 6 Allard H. Gasque (D)▌ 7 Hampton P. Fulmer (D)▌ 1 Charles A. Christopherson (R)▌ 2 Royal C. Johnson (R)▌ 3 William Williamson (R)▌ 1 B. Carroll Reece (R)▌ 2 J. Will Taylor (R)▌ 3 Samuel D. McReynolds (D)▌ 4 Cordell Hull (D)▌ 5 Ewin L. Davis (D)▌ 6 Joseph W. Byrns (D)▌ 7 Edward E. Eslick (D)▌ 8 Gordon Browning (D)▌ 9 Finis J. Garrett (D)▌ 10 Hubert Fisher (D)▌ 1 Eugene Black (D)▌ 2 John C. Box (D)▌ 3 Morgan G. Sanders (D)▌ 4 Sam Rayburn (D)▌ 5 Hatton W. Sumners (D)▌ 6 Luther Alexander Johnson (D)▌ 7 Clay Stone Briggs (D)▌ 8 Daniel E. Garrett (D)▌ 9 Joseph J. Mansfield (D)▌ 10 James P. Buchanan (D)▌ 11 Tom T. Connally (D)▌ 12 Fritz G. Lanham (D)▌ 13 Guinn Williams (D)▌ 14 Harry M. Wurzbach (R)▌ 15 John Nance Garner (D)▌ 16 Claude B. Hudspeth (D)▌ 17 Thomas L. Blanton (D)▌ 18 John Marvin Jones (D)▌ 1 Don B. Colton (R)▌ 2 Elmer O. Leatherwood (R)▌ 1 Elbert S. Brigham (R)▌ 2 Ernest Willard Gibson (R)▌ 1 S. Otis Bland (D)▌ 2 Joseph T. Deal (D)▌ 3 Andrew Jackson Montague (D)▌ 4 Patrick H. Drewry (D)▌ 5 Joseph Whitehead (D)▌ 6 Clifton A. Woodrum (D)▌ 7 Thomas W. Harrison (D)▌ 8 R. Walton Moore (D)▌ 9 George C. Peery (D)▌ 10 Henry St. George Tucker III (D)▌ 1 John F. Miller (R)▌ 2 Lindley H. Hadley (R)▌ 3 Albert Johnson (R)▌ 4 John W. Summers (R)▌ 5 Samuel B. Hill (D)▌ 1 Carl G. Bachmann (R)▌ 2 Frank L. Bowman (R)▌ 3 John M. Wolverton (R)▌ 4 Harry C. Woodyard (R)▌ 5 James F. Strother (R)▌ 6 J. Alfred Taylor (D)▌ 1 Henry Allen Cooper (R)▌ 2 Edward Voigt (R)▌ 3 John M. Nelson (R)▌ 4 John C. Schafer (R)▌ 5 Victor L. Berger (S)▌ 6 Florian Lampert (R)▌ 7 Joseph D. Beck (R)▌ 8 Edward E. Browne (R)▌ 9 George J. Schneider (R)▌ 10 James A. Frear (R)▌ 11 Hubert H. Peavey (R)▌ At-large Charles E. Winter (R)▌ Alaska Territory Daniel Sutherland (R)▌ Hawaii Territory William P. Jarrett (D)▌ Philippines Isauro Gabaldon (Nac. )▌ Philippines Pedro Guevara (Nac. )▌ Puerto Rico Félix Córdova Dávila (UPR)House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+% to 100% Democratic
80+% to 100% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
House Majority Leader John Tilson (R)
Changes in membership [ edit ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Replacements: 10 Deaths: 7 Resignations: 0 Contested election: 1 Interim appointments: 2 Total seats with changes: 9 State Senator Reason for vacancy Successor Date of successor's installation Missouri Selden P. Spencer (R)Died May 16, 1925. Successor was appointed. George H. Williams (R)May 25, 1925 Wisconsin Robert M. La Follette (R)Died June 18, 1925. Successor was elected. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R)September 30, 1925 North Dakota Edwin F. Ladd (R)Died June 22, 1925. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected Gerald Nye (R)November 14, 1925 Indiana Samuel M. Ralston (D)Died October 14, 1925. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. Arthur R. Robinson (R)October 20, 1925 Iowa Smith W. Brookhart (R)Lost election challenge April 12, 1926 Daniel F. Steck (D)April 12, 1926 Iowa Albert B. Cummins (R)Died July 30, 1926. David W. Stewart (R)August 7, 1926 Maine Bert M. Fernald (R)Died August 23, 1926. Successor was elected. Arthur R. Gould (R)November 30, 1926 Massachusetts William M. Butler (R)Appointed in previous Congress and served until successor was elected. David I. Walsh (D)December 6, 1926 Missouri George H. Williams (R)Successor was elected. Harry B. Hawes (D)December 6, 1926 Illinois William B. McKinley (R)Died December 7, 1926.Frank L. Smith was appointed by the governor some date in December 1926[ 3] Vacant
House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 9 Deaths: 9 Resignations: 2 Total seats with changes: 12 District Vacated by Reason for vacancy Successor Date of successor's installation New Jersey 3rd Vacant Rep.T. Frank Appleby died during previous congress Stewart H. Appleby (R)November 3, 1925 Massachusetts 5th John J. Rogers (R)Died March 28, 1925 Edith Nourse Rogers (R)June 30, 1925 Michigan 3rd Arthur B. Williams (R)Died May 1, 1925 Joseph L. Hooper (R)August 18, 1925 Massachusetts 2nd George B. Churchill (R)Died July 1, 1925 Henry L. Bowles (R)September 29, 1925 Kentucky 3rd Robert Y. Thomas Jr. (D)Died September 3, 1925 John W. Moore (D)December 26, 1925 California 2nd John E. Raker (D)Died January 22, 1926 Harry L. Englebright (R)August 31, 1926 Massachusetts 8th Harry I. Thayer (R)Died March 10, 1926 Frederick W. Dallinger (R)November 2, 1926 California 5th Lawrence J. Flaherty (R)Died June 13, 1926 Richard J. Welch (R)August 31, 1926 Illinois 12th Charles E. Fuller (R)Died June 25, 1926 Seat remained vacant until next Congress Kentucky 10th John W. Langley (R)Resigned January 11, 1926, after being convicted of illegally selling alcohol Andrew J. Kirk (R)February 13, 1926 Missouri 11th Harry B. Hawes (D)Resigned October 15, 1926 John J. Cochran (D)November 2, 1926 Ohio 2nd Ambrose E. B. Stephens (R)Died February 12, 1927 Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
House of Representatives [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] ^ Special session of the Senate. ^ Macmahon, Arthur W. (1926)."First Session of the Sixty-Ninth Congress: December 7, 1925, to July 3, 1926" American Political Science Review .20 (3):604– 622.doi :10.2307/1945289 .ISSN 0003-0554 .JSTOR 1945289 . ^ Frank L. Smith (R-IL) was elected to the Senate for the term starting March 4, 1927, and when McKinley died he was appointed to finish McKinley's term. The Senate refused to qualify him due to charges of corruption concerning his election. He would later resign. Seehttp://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000534 .^ Exact date ofFrank L. Smith 's appointment to the Senate is unknown, but certainly between his predecessor's death on December 7, 1926, and the end of the term on March 4, 1927.[data missing Martis, Kenneth C. (1989).The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. Martis, Kenneth C. (1982).The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
