59th United States Congress

59th United States Congress
58th ← → 60th
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907
Members	90 senators 386 representatives 6 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Republican
Senate President	Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
House majority	Republican
House Speaker	Joseph G. Cannon (R)
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1905 – March 18, 1905 1st: December 4, 1905 – June 30, 1906 2nd: December 3, 1906 – March 3, 1907

The Fifty-ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1905, to March 4, 1907, during the fifth and sixth years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twelfth Census of the United States in 1900. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major events

Main articles: 1905 in the United States, 1906 in the United States, and 1907 in the United States

• March 4, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt began his second (only full) term.

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation

• June 8, 1906: Antiquities Act
• June 29, 1906: Hepburn Act
• June 30, 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wiley Act), ch. 3915, 34 Stat. 768
• June 30, 1906: Meat Inspection Act (Beveridge Act)
• 1906: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching chartered.
• March 2, 1907: Expatriation Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 1228

Senate composition by party at the start of the 59th Congress

Party summary

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)		Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Republican (R)
End of previous congress	33	56	89	1
Begin	32	56	88	2
End		58	90	0
Final voting share	35.6%	64.4%
Beginning of next congress	29	61	90	0

House of Representatives

	Party (shading shows control)		Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Republican (R)
End of previous congress	175	209	384	2
Begin	136	249	385	1
End	133	246	379	7
Final voting share	35.1%	64.9%
Beginning of next congress	162	221	383	3

President of the Senate
Charles W. Fairbanks

Leaders

Senate

• President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
• President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
• Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison
• Democratic Caucus Chair: Arthur Pue Gorman, until June 4, 1906
  • Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, afterwards
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
• Majority Whip: James E. Watson
• Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams
• Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Robert Lee Henry
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Representatives are listed by district.

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Senate

At this time, Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1906; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1908; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1910.

Alabama

• 2. John T. Morgan (D)
• 3. Edmund W. Pettus (D)

Arkansas

• 2. James H. Berry (D)
• 3. James P. Clarke (D)

California

• 1. Frank P. Flint (R)
• 3. George C. Perkins (R)

Colorado

• 2. Thomas M. Patterson (D)
• 3. Henry M. Teller (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Morgan G. Bulkeley (R)
• 3. Orville H. Platt (R), until April 21, 1905

  Frank B. Brandegee (R), from May 10, 1905

Delaware

• 1. Henry A. du Pont, (R), from June 13, 1906
• 2. J. Frank Allee (R)

Florida

• 2. James P. Taliaferro (D)
• 3. Stephen Mallory (D)

Georgia

• 2. Augustus O. Bacon (D)
• 3. Alexander S. Clay (D)

Idaho

• 2. Fred Dubois (D)
• 3. Weldon B. Heyburn (R)

Illinois

• 2. Shelby M. Cullom (R)
• 3. Albert J. Hopkins (R)

Indiana

• 1. Albert J. Beveridge (R)
• 3. James A. Hemenway (R)

Iowa

• 2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R)
• 3. William B. Allison (R)

Kansas

• 2. Joseph R. Burton (R), until June 4, 1906

  Alfred W. Benson (R), June 11, 1906 - January 23, 1907

  Charles Curtis (R), from January 29, 1907

• 3. Chester I. Long (R)

Kentucky

• 2. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)
• 3. James B. McCreary (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Murphy J. Foster (D)
• 3. Samuel D. McEnery (D)

Maine

• 1. Eugene Hale (R)
• 2. William P. Frye (R)

Maryland

• 1. Isidor Rayner (D)
• 3. Arthur P. Gorman (D), until June 4, 1906

  William P. Whyte (D), from June 8, 1906

Massachusetts

• 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
• 2. Winthrop M. Crane (R)

Michigan

• 1. Julius C. Burrows (R)
• 2. Russell A. Alger (R), until January 24, 1907

  William A. Smith (R), from February 6, 1907

Minnesota

• 1. Moses E. Clapp (R)
• 2. Knute Nelson (R)

Mississippi

• 1. Hernando D. Money (D)
• 2. Anselm J. McLaurin (D)

Missouri

• 1. William Warner (R), from March 18, 1905
• 3. William J. Stone (D)

Montana

• 1. Thomas H. Carter (R)
• 2. William A. Clark (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Elmer J. Burkett (R)
• 2. Joseph H. Millard (R)

Nevada

• 1. George S. Nixon (R)
• 3. Francis G. Newlands (D)

New Hampshire

• 2. Henry E. Burnham (R)
• 3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R)

New Jersey

• 1. John Kean (R)
• 2. John F. Dryden (R)

New York

• 1. Chauncey M. Depew (R)
• 3. Thomas C. Platt (R)

North Carolina

• 2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
• 3. Lee S. Overman (D)

North Dakota

• 1. Porter J. McCumber (R)
• 3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R)

Ohio

• 1. Charles W. F. Dick (R)
• 3. Joseph B. Foraker (R)

Oregon

• 2. John H. Mitchell (R), until December 8, 1905

  John M. Gearin (D), December 13, 1905 - January 23, 1907

  Frederick W. Mulkey (R), from January 23, 1907

• 3. Charles W. Fulton (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Philander C. Knox (R)
• 3. Boies Penrose (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R)
• 2. George P. Wetmore (R)

South Carolina

• 2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D)
• 3. Asbury C. Latimer (D)

South Dakota

• 2. Robert J. Gamble (R)
• 3. Alfred B. Kittredge (R)

Tennessee

• 1. William B. Bate (D), until March 9, 1905

  James B. Frazier (D), from March 21, 1905

• 2. Edward W. Carmack (D)

Texas

• 1. Charles A. Culberson (D)
• 2. Joseph W. Bailey (D)

Utah

• 1. George Sutherland (R)
• 3. Reed Smoot (R)

Vermont

• 1. Redfield Proctor (R)
• 3. William P. Dillingham (R)

Virginia

• 1. John W. Daniel (D)
• 2. Thomas S. Martin (D)

Washington

• 1. Samuel H. Piles (R)
• 3. Levi Ankeny (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Nathan B. Scott (R)
• 2. Stephen B. Elkins (R)

Wisconsin

• 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R)
• 3. John C. Spooner (R)

Wyoming

• 1. Clarence D. Clark (R)
• 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

House of Representatives

Alabama

• 1. George W. Taylor (D)
• 2. Ariosto A. Wiley (D)
• 3. Henry D. Clayton (D)
• 4. Sydney J. Bowie (D)
• 5. J. Thomas Heflin (D)
• 6. John H. Bankhead (D)
• 7. John L. Burnett (D)
• 8. William N. Richardson (D)
• 9. Oscar W. Underwood (D)

Arkansas

• 1. Robert B. Macon (D)
• 2. Stephen Brundidge, Jr. (D)
• 3. John C. Floyd (D)
• 4. John S. Little (D), until January 14, 1907
• 5. Charles C. Reid (D)
• 6. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)
• 7. Robert M. Wallace (D)

California

• 1. James N. Gillett (R), until November 4, 1906
  • William F. Englebright (R), from November 6, 1906
• 2. Duncan E. McKinlay (R)
• 3. Joseph R. Knowland (R)
• 4. Julius Kahn (R)
• 5. Everis A. Hayes (R)
• 6. James C. Needham (R)
• 7. James McLachlan (R)
• 8. Sylvester C. Smith (R)

Colorado

• 1. Robert W. Bonynge (R)
• 2. Herschel M. Hogg (R)
• At-large. Franklin E. Brooks (R)

Connecticut

• 1. E. Stevens Henry (R)
• 2. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R)
• 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R), until May 10, 1905
  • Edwin W. Higgins (R), from October 2, 1905
• 4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R)
• At-large. George L. Lilley (R)

Delaware

• At-large. Hiram R. Burton (R)

Florida

• 1. Stephen M. Sparkman (D)
• 2. Frank Clark (D)
• 3. William B. Lamar (D)

Georgia

• 1. Rufus E. Lester (D), until June 16, 1906
  • James W. Overstreet (D), from October 3, 1906
• 2. James M. Griggs (D)
• 3. Elijah B. Lewis (D)
• 4. William C. Adamson (D)
• 5. Leonidas F. Livingston (D)
• 6. Charles L. Bartlett (D)
• 7. Gordon Lee (congressman) (D)
• 8. William M. Howard (D)
• 9. Thomas M. Bell (D)
• 10. Thomas W. Hardwick (D)
• 11. William G. Brantley (D)

Idaho

• At-large. Burton L. French (R)

Illinois

• 1. Martin B. Madden (R)
• 2. James R. Mann (R)
• 3. William W. Wilson (R)
• 4. Charles S. Wharton (R)
• 5. Anthony Michalek (R)
• 6. William Lorimer (R)
• 7. Philip Knopf (R)
• 8. Charles McGavin (R)
• 9. Henry S. Boutell (R)
• 10. George E. Foss (R)
• 11. Howard M. Snapp (R)
• 12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R)
• 13. Robert R. Hitt (R), until September 20, 1906
  • Frank O. Lowden (R), from November 6, 1906
• 14. Benjamin F. Marsh (R), until June 2, 1905
  • James McKinney (R), from November 7, 1905
• 15. George W. Prince (R)
• 16. Joseph V. Graff (R)
• 17. John A. Sterling (R)
• 18. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
• 19. William B. McKinley (R)
• 20. Henry T. Rainey (D)
• 21. Zeno J. Rives (R)
• 22. William A. Rodenberg (R)
• 23. Frank S. Dickson (R)
• 24. Pleasant T. Chapman (R)
• 25. George W. Smith (R)

Indiana

• 1. John H. Foster (R), from May 16, 1905
• 2. John C. Chaney (R)
• 3. William T. Zenor (D)
• 4. Lincoln Dixon (D)
• 5. Elias S. Holliday (R)
• 6. James E. Watson (R)
• 7. Jesse Overstreet (R)
• 8. George W. Cromer (R)
• 9. Charles B. Landis (R)
• 10. Edgar D. Crumpacker (R)
• 11. Frederick Landis (R)
• 12. Newton W. Gilbert (R), until November 6, 1906
  • Clarence C. Gilhams (R), from November 6, 1906
• 13. Abraham L. Brick (R)

Iowa

• 1. Thomas Hedge (R)
• 2. Albert F. Dawson (R)
• 3. Benjamin P. Birdsall (R)
• 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
• 5. Robert G. Cousins (R)
• 6. John F. Lacey (R)
• 7. John A. T. Hull (R)
• 8. William P. Hepburn (R)
• 9. Walter I. Smith (R)
• 10. James P. Conner (R)
• 11. Elbert H. Hubbard (R)

Kansas

• 1. Charles Curtis (R), until January 28, 1907
• 2. Justin De Witt Bowersock (R)
• 3. Philip P. Campbell (R)
• 4. James Monroe Miller (R)
• 5. William A. Calderhead (R)
• 6. William A. Reeder (R)
• 7. Victor Murdock (R)
• At-large. Charles Frederick Scott (R)

Kentucky

• 1. Ollie M. James (D)
• 2. Augustus Stanley (D)
• 3. James M. Richardson (D)
• 4. David Highbaugh Smith (D)
• 5. J. Swagar Sherley (D)
• 6. Joseph L. Rhinock (D)
• 7. South Trimble (D)
• 8. George G. Gilbert (D)
• 9. Joseph B. Bennett (R)
• 10. Francis A. Hopkins (D)
• 11. Don C. Edwards (R)

Louisiana

• 1. Adolph Meyer (D)
• 2. Robert Charles Davey (D)
• 3. Robert Foligny Broussard (D)
• 4. John Thomas Watkins (D)
• 5. Joseph Eugene Ransdell (D)
• 6. Samuel Matthews Robertson (D)
• 7. Arsène Paulin Pujó (D)

Maine

• 1. Amos L. Allen (R)
• 2. Charles E. Littlefield (R)
• 3. Edwin C. Burleigh (R)
• 4. Llewellyn Powers (R)

Maryland

• 1. Thomas A. Smith (D)
• 2. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D)
• 3. Frank C. Wachter (R)
• 4. John Gill, Jr. (D)
• 5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd I (R)
• 6. George A. Pearre (R)

Massachusetts

• 1. George P. Lawrence (R)
• 2. Frederick H. Gillett (R)
• 3. Rockwood Hoar (R), until November 1, 1906
  • Charles G. Washburn (R), from December 18, 1906
• 4. Charles Q. Tirrell (R)
• 5. Butler Ames (R)
• 6. Augustus P. Gardner (R)
• 7. Ernest W. Roberts (R)
• 8. Samuel W. McCall (R)
• 9. John A. Keliher (D)
• 10. William S. McNary (D)
• 11. John Andrew Sullivan (D)
• 12. John W. Weeks (R)
• 13. William S. Greene (R)
• 14. William C. Lovering (R)

Michigan

• 1. Edwin C. Denby (R)
• 2. Charles E. Townsend (R)
• 3. Washington Gardner (R)
• 4. Edward L. Hamilton (R)
• 5. William Alden Smith (R), until February 9, 1907
• 6. Samuel W. Smith (R)
• 7. Henry McMorran (R)
• 8. Joseph W. Fordney (R)
• 9. Roswell P. Bishop (R)
• 10. George A. Loud (R)
• 11. Archibald B. Darragh (R)
• 12. H. Olin Young (R)

Minnesota

• 1. James Albertus Tawney (R)
• 2. James McCleary (R)
• 3. Charles Russell Davis (R)
• 4. Frederick Stevens (R)
• 5. Loren Fletcher (R)
• 6. Clarence Buckman (R)
• 7. Andrew Volstead (R)
• 8. James Bede (R)
• 9. Halvor Steenerson (R)

Mississippi

• 1. Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (D)
• 2. Thomas Spight (D)
• 3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
• 4. Wilson S. Hill (D)
• 5. Adam M. Byrd (D)
• 6. Eaton J. Bowers (D)
• 7. Frank A. McLain (D)
• 8. John Sharp Williams (D)

Missouri

• 1. James Tilghman Lloyd (D)
• 2. William W. Rucker (D)
• 3. Frank B. Klepper (R)
• 4. Frank B. Fulkerson (R)
• 5. Edgar C. Ellis (R)
• 6. David A. De Armond (D)
• 7. John Welborn (R)
• 8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D)
• 9. James Beauchamp Clark (D)
• 10. Richard Bartholdt (R)
• 11. John T. Hunt (D)
• 12. Ernest E. Wood (D), until June 23, 1906
  • Harry M. Coudrey (R), from June 23, 1906
• 13. Marion E. Rhodes (R)
• 14. William T. Tyndall (R)
• 15. Cassius M. Shartel (R)
• 16. Arthur P. Murphy (R)

Montana

• At-large. Joseph M. Dixon (R)

Nebraska

• 1. Elmer Burkett (R), until March 4, 1905
  • Ernest M. Pollard (R), from July 18, 1905
• 2. John L. Kennedy (R)
• 3. John J McCarthy (R)
• 4. Edmund H. Hinshaw (R)
• 5. George W. Norris (R)
• 6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Nevada

• At-large. Clarence D. Van Duzer (D)

New Hampshire

• 1. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R)
• 2. Frank Dunklee Currier (R)

New Jersey

• 1. Henry C. Loudenslager (R)
• 2. John James Gardner (R)
• 3. Benjamin F. Howell (R)
• 4. Ira W. Wood (R)
• 5. Charles N. Fowler (R)
• 6. Henry C. Allen (R)
• 7. Richard W. Parker (R)
• 8. William H. Wiley (R)
• 9. Marshall Van Winkle (R)
• 10. Allan L. McDermott (D)

New York

• 1. William W. Cocks (R)
• 2. George H. Lindsay (D)
• 3. Charles T. Dunwell (R)
• 4. Charles B. Law (R)
• 5. George E. Waldo (R)
• 6. William M. Calder (R)
• 7. John J. Fitzgerald (D)
• 8. Timothy D. Sullivan (D), until July 27, 1906
  • Daniel J. Riordan (D), from November 6, 1906
• 9. Henry M. Goldfogle (D)
• 10. William Sulzer (D)
• 11. William Randolph Hearst (D)
• 12. W. Bourke Cockran (D)
• 13. Herbert Parsons (R)
• 14. Charles A. Towne (D)
• 15. J. Van Vechten Olcott (R)
• 16. Jacob Ruppert, Jr. (D)
• 17. William S. Bennet (R)
• 18. Joseph A. Goulden (D)
• 19. John E. Andrus (R)
• 20. Thomas W. Bradley (R)
• 21. John H. Ketcham (R), until November 4, 1906
• 22. William H. Draper (R)
• 23. George N. Southwick (R)
• 24. Frank J. LeFevre (R)
• 25. Lucius N. Littauer (R)
• 26. William H. Flack (R), until February 2, 1907
• 27. James S. Sherman (R)
• 28. Charles L. Knapp (R)
• 29. Michael E. Driscoll (R)
• 30. John W. Dwight (R)
• 31. Sereno E. Payne (R)
• 32. James B. Perkins (R)
• 33. J. Sloat Fassett (R)
• 34. James Wolcott Wadsworth (R)
• 35. William H. Ryan (D)
• 36. De Alva S. Alexander (R)
• 37. Edward B. Vreeland (R)

North Carolina

• 1. John Humphrey Small (D)
• 2. Claude Kitchin (D)
• 3. Charles Randolph Thomas (D)
• 4. Edward W. Pou (D)
• 5. William Walton Kitchin (D)
• 6. Gilbert B. Patterson (D)
• 7. Robert N. Page (D)
• 8. E. Spencer Blackburn (R)
• 9. Edwin Y. Webb (D)
• 10. James M. Gudger, Jr. (D)

North Dakota

• At-large. Thomas Frank Marshall (R)
• At-large. Asle Gronna (R)

Ohio

• 1. Nicholas Longworth (R)
• 2. Herman P. Goebel (R)
• 3. Robert M. Nevin (R)
• 4. Harvey C. Garber (D)
• 5. William Wildman Campbell (R)
• 6. Thomas E. Scroggy (R)
• 7. J. Warren Keifer (R)
• 8. Ralph D. Cole (R)
• 9. James H. Southard (R)
• 10. Henry T. Bannon (R)
• 11. Charles H. Grosvenor (R)
• 12. Edward L. Taylor, Jr. (R)
• 13. Grant E. Mouser (R)
• 14. Amos R. Webber (R)
• 15. Beman G. Dawes (R)
• 16. Capell L. Weems (R)
• 17. Martin L. Smyser (R)
• 18. James Kennedy (R)
• 19. W. Aubrey Thomas (R)
• 20. Jacob A. Beidler (R)
• 21. Theodore Elijah Burton (R)

Oregon

• 1. Binger Hermann (R)
• 2. John N. Williamson (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Henry H. Bingham (R)
• 2. Robert Adams, Jr. (R), until June 1, 1906
  • John E. Reyburn (R), from November 6, 1906
• 3. George A. Castor (R), until February 19, 1906
  • J. Hampton Moore (R), from November 6, 1906
• 4. Reuben O. Moon (R)
• 5. Edward de Veaux Morrell (R)
• 6. George D. McCreary (R)
• 7. Thomas S. Butler (R)
• 8. Irving P. Wanger (R)
• 9. Henry B. Cassel (R)
• 10. Thomas H. Dale (R)
• 11. Henry W. Palmer (R)
• 12. George R. Patterson (R), until March 21, 1906
  • Charles N. Brumm (R), from November 6, 1906
• 13. Marcus C.L. Kline (D)
• 14. Mial E. Lilley (R)
• 15. Elias Deemer (R)
• 16. Edmund W. Samuel (R)
• 17. Thaddeus M. Mahon (R)
• 18. Marlin E. Olmsted (R)
• 19. John M. Reynolds (R)
• 20. Daniel F. Lafean (R)
• 21. Solomon R. Dresser (R)
• 22. George F. Huff (R)
• 23. Allen F. Cooper (R)
• 24. Ernest F. Acheson (R)
• 25. Arthur L. Bates (R)
• 26. Gustav A. Schneebeli (R)
• 27. William O. Smith (R)
• 28. Joseph C. Sibley (R)
• 29. William H. Graham (R)
• 30. John Dalzell (R)
• 31. James F. Burke (R)
• 32. Andrew J. Barchfeld (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. Daniel L. D. Granger (D)
• 2. Adin B. Capron (R)

South Carolina

• 1. George S. Legare (D)
• 2. James O'Hanlan Patterson (D)
• 3. Wyatt Aiken (D)
• 4. Joseph T. Johnson (D)
• 5. David E. Finley (D)
• 6. J. Edwin Ellerbe (D)
• 7. Asbury F. Lever (D)

South Dakota

• At-large. Charles Henry Burke (R)
• At-large. Eben Wever Martin (R)

Tennessee

• 1. Walter P. Brownlow (R)
• 2. Nathan W. Hale (R)
• 3. John Austin Moon (D)
• 4. Mounce G. Butler (D)
• 5. William C. Houston (D)
• 6. John Wesley Gaines (D)
• 7. Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D)
• 8. Thetus Willrette Sims (D)
• 9. Finis J. Garrett (D)
• 10. Malcolm R. Patterson (D), until November 5, 1906

Texas

• 1. Morris Sheppard (D)
• 2. Moses L. Broocks (D)
• 3. Gordon James Russell (D)
• 4. Choice Boswell Randell (D)
• 5. James Andrew Beall (D)
• 6. Scott Field (D)
• 7. Alexander W. Gregg (D)
• 8. John M. Pinckney (D), until April 24, 1905
  • John M. Moore (D), from June 6, 1905
• 9. George Farmer Burgess (D)
• 10. Albert Sidney Burleson (D)
• 11. Robert L. Henry (D)
• 12. Oscar W. Gillespie (D)
• 13. John Hall Stephens (D)
• 14. James L. Slayden (D)
• 15. John Nance Garner (D)
• 16. William R. Smith (D)

Utah

• At-large. Joseph Howell (R)

Vermont

• 1. David J. Foster (R)
• 2. Kittredge Haskins (R)

Virginia

• 1. William Atkinson Jones (D)
• 2. Harry Lee Maynard (D)
• 3. John Fletcher Lamb (D)
• 4. Robert G. Southall (D)
• 5. Claude Augustus Swanson (D), until January 30, 1906
  • Edward W. Saunders (D), from November 6, 1906
• 6. Carter Glass (D)
• 7. James Hay (D)
• 8. John Franklin Rixey (D), until February 8, 1907
• 9. Campbell Slemp (R)
• 10. Henry De Flood (D)

Washington

• At-large. Wesley Livsey Jones (R)
• At-large. Francis W. Cushman (R)
• At-large. William E. Humphrey (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Blackburn B. Dovener (R)
• 2. Alston G. Dayton (R), until March 16, 1905
  • Thomas B. Davis (D), from June 6, 1905
• 3. Joseph Holt Gaines (R)
• 4. Harry C. Woodyard (R)
• 5. James Anthony Hughes (R)

Wisconsin

• 1. Henry Allen Cooper (R)
• 2. Henry C. Adams (R), until July 9, 1906
  • John M. Nelson (R), from September 4, 1906
• 3. Joseph W. Babcock (R)
• 4. Theobald Johnston Otjen (R)
• 5. William H. Stafford (R)
• 6. Charles H. Weisse (D)
• 7. John Jacob Esch (R)
• 8. James Henry Davidson (R)
• 9. Edward Sloman Minor (R)
• 10. Webster Everett Brown (R)
• 11. John J. Jenkins (R)

Wyoming

• At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)

Non-voting members

• Alaska Territory. Frank Hinman Waskey, (D) from December 3, 1906
• Arizona Territory. Marcus Aurelius Smith, (D)
• Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole
• New Mexico Territory. William Henry Andrews, (R)
• Oklahoma Territory. Bird Segle McGuire, (R)
• Puerto Rico. Tulio Larrínaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist)

House seats by party holding plurality in state
80+% – 100% Democratic	80+% – 100% Republican
60+% – 80% Democratic	60+% – 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic	Up to 60% Republican

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
• vacancy: 2
• Total seats with changes: 9

State (class)	Vacator	Reason for vacancy	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
Missouri (1)	Vacant	Elected to fill vacancy in term.	William Warner (R)	March 18, 1905
Delaware (1)	Vacant	Elected to fill vacancy in term.	Henry A. du Pont (R)	June 13, 1906
Tennessee (1)	William B. Bate (D)	Died March 9, 1905. Successor was elected.	James B. Frazier (D)	March 21, 1905
Connecticut (3)	Orville H. Platt (R)	Died April 21, 1905. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected.	Frank B. Brandegee (R)	May 10, 1905
Oregon (2)	John H. Mitchell (R)	Died December 8, 1905. Successor was appointed.	John M. Gearin (D)	December 13, 1905
Kansas (2)	Joseph R. Burton (R)	Resigned June 4, 1906, due to a conviction of corruption charges. Successor was appointed.	Alfred W. Benson (R)	June 11, 1906
Maryland (2)	Arthur P. Gorman (D)	Died June 4, 1906. Successor was appointed.	William P. Whyte (D)	June 8, 1906
Oregon (2)	John M. Gearin (D)	Successor was elected.	Frederick W. Mulkey (R)	January 23, 1907
Michigan (2)	Russell A. Alger (R)	Died January 24, 1907. Successor was elected.	William A. Smith (R)	February 6, 1907
Kansas (2)	Alfred W. Benson (R)	Successor was elected.	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

District	Previous	Reason for change	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
Indiana 1st	Vacant	Rep. James A. Hemenway resigned during previous congress	John H. Foster (R)	May 16, 1905
Nebraska 1st	Elmer Burkett (R)	Resigned March 4, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Ernest M. Pollard (R)	July 18, 1905
West Virginia 2nd	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
Texas 8th	John M. Pinckney (D)	Died April 24, 1905	John M. Moore (D)	June 6, 1905
Connecticut 3rd	Frank B. Brandegee (R)	Resigned May 10, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Edwin W. Higgins (R)	October 2, 1905
Illinois 14th	Benjamin F. Marsh (R)	Died June 2, 1905	James McKinney (R)	November 7, 1905
California 1st	James Gillett (R)	Resigned January 4, 1906, after being elected Governor of California	William F. Englebright (R)	November 6, 1906
Virginia 5th	Claude A. Swanson (D)	Resigned January 30, 1906, after being elected Governor of Virginia	Edward W. Saunders (D)	November 6, 1906
Pennsylvania 3rd	George A. Castor (R)	Died February 19, 1906	J. Hampton Moore (R)	November 6, 1906
Pennsylvania 12th	George R. Patterson (R)	Died March 21, 1906	Charles N. Brumm (R)	November 6, 1906
Pennsylvania 2nd	Robert Adams Jr. (R)	Died June 1, 1906	John E. Reyburn (R)	November 6, 1906
Georgia 1st	Rufus E. Lester (D)	Died June 16, 1906	James W. Overstreet (D)	October 3, 1906
Missouri 12th	Ernest E. Wood (D)	Lost contested election June 23, 1906	Harry M. Coudrey (R)	June 23, 1906
Wisconsin 2nd	Henry C. Adams (R)	Died July 9, 1906	John M. Nelson (R)	September 4, 1906
New York 8th	Timothy Sullivan (D)	Resigned July 27, 1906	Daniel J. Riordan (D)	November 6, 1906
Illinois 13th	Robert R. Hitt (R)	Died September 20, 1906	Frank O. Lowden (R)	November 6, 1906
Massachusetts 3rd	Rockwood Hoar (R)	Died November 1, 1906	Charles G. Washburn (R)	December 18, 1906
New York 21st	John H. Ketcham (R)	Died November 4, 1906	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Tennessee 10th	Malcolm R. Patterson (D)	Resigned November 5, 1906, after being elected Governor of Tennessee	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Indiana 12th	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
District of Alaska	New seat	New delegate seat December 3, 1906	Frank H. Waskey (D)	December 3, 1906
Arkansas 4th	John S. Little (D)	Resigned January 14, 1907, after being elected Governor of Arkansas	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Kansas 1st	Charles Curtis (R)	Resigned January 28, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
New York 26th	William H. Flack (R)	Died February 2, 1907	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Virginia 8th	John F. Rixey (D)	Died February 8, 1907	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Michigan 5th	William Alden Smith (R)	Resigned February 9, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Seat remained vacant until next Congress

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (5 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, 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.

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin)
• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor)
• Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Kean)
• Canadian Relations (Chairman: Winthrop Murray Crane)
• Census (Chairman: Chester I. Long)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins)
• Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton)
• Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Samuel H. Piles)
• Coast Defenses (Chairman: Philander C. Knox)
• Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye)
• Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Samuel D. McEnery)
• Cuban Relations (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: James H. Berry)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden)
• Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: James A. Hemenway)
• Examination of Disposition of Documents (Select) (Chairman: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Morgan G. Bulkeley)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments
• Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich)
• Fisheries (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins)
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom)
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee)
• Geological Survey (Chairman: Frank P. Flint)
• Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp)
• Indian Depredations (Chairman: Elmer J. Burkett)
• Industrial Expositions (Chairman: William Warner)
• Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select) (Chairman: Robert M. La Follette)
• Indian Territory (Select)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins)
• Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Levi Ankeny)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark)
• Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Francis E. Warren)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles Dick)
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson)
• National Banks (Select) (Chairman: George S. Nixon)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale)
• Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter)
• Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Russell A. Alger)
• Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge)
• Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber)
• Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose)
• Potomac River Front (Select)
• Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott)
• Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough)
• Railroads (Chairman: J. Frank Allee)
• Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Alexander S. Clay)
• Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner)
• Standards, Weights and Measures (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge)
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble)
• Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: George Sutherland)
• Ventilation and Acoustics (Select)
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon)

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: H. Burd Cassel)
• Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth)
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry)
• Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Tawney)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler)
• Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker)
• Claims (Chairman: James M. Miller)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard)
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock)
• Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines)
• Elections (Chairman: James Robert Mann)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter)
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles E. Littlefield)
• Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. Minor)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: George P. Lawrence)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman)
• Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Augustus P. Gardner)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway)
• Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell)
• Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins)
• Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner)
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: George W. Prince)
• Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley)
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor)
• Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull)
• Militia (Chairman: Edward De V. Morrell)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler)
• Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier)
• Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet)
• Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt)
• Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey)
• Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson)
• Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Reuben O. Moon)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton)
• Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton)
• Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop)
• War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers (Chairman: Arthur L. Bates)
• Revision of the Laws
• Second Class Mail Matter

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Frank W. Palmer (until 1905), Charles A. Stillings (starting 1905)

Senate

• Secretary: Charles G. Bennett of New York, elected February 1, 1900.
• Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell of Indiana, elected February 1, 1900.
• Chaplain
  • The Rev. Edward E. Hale, Unitarian, elected December 14, 1903.

House of Representatives

• Clerk of the House: Alexander McDowell of Pennsylvania, elected December 4, 1905.
• Sergeant at Arms of the House: Henry Casson of Wisconsin, elected December 4, 1905.
• Doorkeeper of the House: Frank B. Lyon of New York, elected December 4, 1905.
• Postmaster of the House: Joseph C. McElroy of Ohio, elected December 4, 1905.
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Asher C. Hinds
• Reading Clerks: [data missing]
• Chaplain: The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected December 4, 1905.

See also

• United States elections, 1904 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1904 United States presidential election
  • United States Senate elections, 1904
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1904
• United States elections, 1906 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1906
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1906

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• Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 1st Session (1st Revision).
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• Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 2nd Session (Revision).