United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

The United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was one of the first standing committees created in the United States Senate, in 1816. It had jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. It continued to exist until the reorganization of 1977 when, following the granting of home rule to the district, its duties were transferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Chairmen

Chairman		Party	State	Years
	Armistead Mason	Republican	Virginia	1816–1817
	Robert Henry Goldsborough	Federalist	Maryland	1817–1819
	Outerbridge Horsey	Federalist	Delaware	1819–1821
	James Barbour	Republican	Virginia	1821–1823
	Edward Lloyd	Republican	Maryland	1823–1826
	Ezekiel F. Chambers	National Republican	Maryland	1826–1827
	John Eaton	Democrat	Tennessee	1827–1829
	Ezekiel F. Chambers	National Republican	Maryland	1829–1834
	John Tyler	Whig	Virginia	1834–1836
	Joseph Kent	Whig	Maryland	1836–1837
	William H. Roane	Democrat	Virginia	1837–1839
	William Merrick	Whig	Maryland	1839–1841
	Richard H. Bayard	Whig	Delaware	1841–1842
	Jacob Miller	Whig	New Jersey	1829–1834
	William Haywood, Jr.	Democrat	North Carolina	1845–1846
	Simon Cameron	Democrat	Pennsylvania	1846–1848
	Herschel V. Johnson	Democrat	Georgia	1848–1849
	James Mason	Democrat	Virginia	1849–1851
	James Shields	Democrat	Illinois	1851–1853
	Moses Norris, Jr.	Democrat	New Hampshire	1853–1855
	Albert Brown	Democrat	Mississippi	1855–1861
	James Grimes	Republican	Iowa	1861–1865
	Lot Morrill	Republican	Maine	1865–1867
	James Harlan	Republican	Iowa	1867–1869
	Hannibal Hamlin	Republican	Maine	1869–1870
	James Patterson	Republican	New Hampshire	1870–1873
	John F. Lewis	Republican	Virginia	1873–1875
	George E. Spencer	Republican	Alabama	1875–1877
	Stephen Dorsey	Republican	Arkansas	1877–1879
	Isham G. Harris	Democrat	Tennessee	1879–1881
	John Ingalls	Republican	Kansas	1881–1891
	James McMillan	Republican	Michigan	1891–1893
	Isham G. Harris	Democrat	Tennessee	1893–1895
	James K. Jones	Democrat	Arkansas	1895–1896
	James McMillan	Republican	Michigan	1896–1902
	Jacob Gallinger	Republican	New Hampshire	1903–1913
	John Walter Smith	Democrat	Maryland	1913–1919
	Lawrence Y. Sherman	Republican	Illinois	1919–1921
	L. Heisler Ball	Republican	Delaware	1921–1925
	Arthur Capper	Republican	Kansas	1925–1933
	William H. King	Democrat	Utah	1933–1941
	Pat McCarran	Democrat	Nevada	1941–1945
	Theodore G. Bilbo	Democrat	Mississippi	1945–1947
	C. Douglass Buck	Republican	Delaware	1947–1949
	J. Howard McGrath	Democrat	Rhode Island	1949
	Matthew M. Neely	Democrat	West Virginia	1949–1953
	Francis Case	Republican	South Dakota	1953–1955
	Matthew M. Neely	Democrat	West Virginia	1955–1958
	Alan Bible	Democrat	Nevada	1958–1969
	Joseph D. Tydings	Democrat	Maryland	1969–1971
	Thomas F. Eagleton	Democrat	Missouri	1971–1977