66th United States Congress

66th United States Congress
65th ← → 67th
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1919 – March 4, 1921
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 5 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Republican
Senate President	Thomas R. Marshall (D)
House majority	Republican
House Speaker	Frederick H. Gillett (R)
Sessions
1st: May 19, 1919 – November 19, 1919 2nd: December 1, 1919 – June 5, 1920 3rd: December 6, 1920 – March 3, 1921

The Sixty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1919 to March 4, 1921, during the last two years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major Legislation

• June 30, 1919: Navy Appropriations Act of 1919
• June 30, 1919: Hastings Amendment
• July 11, 1919: Anti-Lobbying Act of 1919
• July 11, 1919: Army Appropriations Act of 1919
• July 19, 1919: Sundry Civil Expenses Appropriations Act
• October 18, 1919: National Prohibition Act (Volstead Act), ch. 85, 41 Stat. 305
• October 22, 1919: Underground Water Act of 1919
• October 29, 1919: National Motor Vehicle Theft Act (Dyer Act)
• November 4, 1919: Deficiency Act of 1919
• November 6, 1919: Indian Soldier Act of 1919
• December 24, 1919: Edge Act of 1919
• February 25, 1920: Oil Leasing Act of 1920
• February 25, 1920: Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (Smoot-Sinnot Act), ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437
• February 25, 1920: Pipeline Rights-of-Way Act
• February 25, 1920: Sale of Water For Miscellaneous Purposes Act
• February 28, 1920: Esch-Cummins Act, Pub. L. 66–152, 41 Stat. 456
• March 9, 1920: Suits in Admiralty Act of 1920
• March 15, 1920: Military Surplus Act of 1920 (Kahn-Wadsworth Act)
• March 30, 1920: Death on the High Seas Act of 1920
• April 13, 1920: Phelan Act of 1920
• May 1, 1920: Fuller Act of 1920
• May 10, 1920: Deportation Act of 1920
• May 18, 1920: Kinkaid Act of 1920
• May 20, 1920: Sale of Surplus Improved Public Lands Act
• May 22, 1920: Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920
• May 29, 1920: Independent Treasury Act of 1920
• June 2, 1920: Industry Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1920 (Smith-Bankhead Act)
• June 2, 1920: Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1920 (Smith-Fess Act)
• June 2, 1920: National Park Criminal Jurisdiction Act
• June 4, 1920: National Defense Act of 1920 (Kahn Act)
• June 5, 1920: Sills Act of 1920
• June 5, 1920: Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act)
• June 5, 1920: Women's Bureau Act of 1920
• June 5, 1920: Ship Mortgage Act of 1920
• June 5, 1920: River and Harbors Act of 1920
• June 5, 1920: Federal Water Power Act of 1920 (Esch Act)
• January 4, 1921: War Finance Corporation Act of 1921
• March 3, 1921: Patent Act of 1921 (Nolan Act)
• March 3, 1921: Federal Water Power Act Amendment (Jones-Esch Act)

Major events

Main articles: 1919 in the United States, 1920 in the United States, and 1921 in the United States

A brief special session was called by President Wilson in March 1919, because of a filibuster that had successfully blocked appropriations bills needed to fund day-to-day government operations.

• April 30, 1919: First wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.
• June 2, 1919: The home of Attorney General Palmer was bombed in the second wave of anarchist bombings.
• June 15, 1919: Pancho Villa attacked Ciudad Juárez. When the bullets begin to fly to the U.S. side of the border, 2 units of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment crossed the border and repulse Villa's forces.
• July 19–23, 1919: Race riot in Washington, D.C.
• August 31, 1919: American Communist Party was established
• September 9, 1919: Boston Police Strike
• September 22, 1919: Steel strike of 1919
• October 2, 1919: President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
• November 1, 1919: Coal Strike of 1919
• November 7, 1919: First of the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare
• January 2, 1920: Second of the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare
• March 1, 1920: United States Railroad Administration returned control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies
• May 7–8, 1920: Louis Freeland Post appeared before the House Committee on Rules, effectively ending Attorney General Palmer's presidential aspirations.
• November 2, 1920: Warren G. Harding defeated James M. Cox in the U.S. presidential election, 1920

Constitutional amendments

• January 16, 1920: 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution (prohibition) went into effect.
• June 4, 1919: 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution (women's suffrage) was passed by Congress.
• August 18, 1920: 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution (women's suffrage) was ratified.

Treaties

• March 19, 1920: Senate refused to ratify Treaty of Versailles

Party summary

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)		Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Republican (R)
End of previous congress	53	43	96	0
Begin	46	49	95	1
End		50	96	0
Final voting share	47.9%	52.1%
Beginning of next congress	37	59	96	0

House of Representatives

• Democratic (D): 192
• Republican (R): 240 (majority)
• Prohibition (Proh.): 1
• Farmer-Labor (FL): 1

TOTAL members: 435

Leadership

Senate

• President: Thomas R. Marshall (D)
• President pro tempore: Albert B. Cummins (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Henry Cabot Lodge
• Majority Whip: Charles Curtis

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Oscar Underwood
• Minority Whip: Peter G. Gerry

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Frederick H. Gillett (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Franklin Mondell
• Majority Whip: Harold Knutson

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Champ Clark
• Minority Whip: vacant

Members

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Senate

Alabama

• 2. John H. Bankhead (D), until March 1, 1920
  • Braxton B. Comer (D), from March 5, 1920 - November 2, 1920
  • J. Thomas Heflin (D), from November 3, 1920
• 3. Oscar W. Underwood (D)

Arizona

• 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D)
• 3. Marcus A. Smith (D)

Arkansas

• 2. Joseph T. Robinson (D)
• 3. William F. Kirby (D)

California

• 1. Hiram W. Johnson (R)
• 3. James D. Phelan (D)

Colorado

• 2. Lawrence C. Phipps (R)
• 3. Charles S. Thomas (D)

Connecticut

• 1. George P. McLean (R)
• 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R)

Delaware

• 1. Josiah O. Wolcott (D)
• 2. L. Heisler Ball (R)

Florida

• 1. Park Trammell (D)
• 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D)

Georgia

• 2. William J. Harris (D)
• 3. Hoke Smith (D)

Idaho

• 2. William E. Borah (R)
• 3. John F. Nugent (D), until January 14, 1921
  • Frank R. Gooding (R), from January 15, 1921

Illinois

• 2. Joseph M. McCormick (R)
• 3. Lawrence Y. Sherman (R)

Indiana

• 1. Harry S. New (R)
• 3. James E. Watson (R)

Iowa

• 2. William S. Kenyon (R)
• 3. Albert B. Cummins (R)

Kansas

• 2. Arthur Capper (R)
• 3. Charles Curtis (R)

Kentucky

• 2. Augustus O. Stanley (D), from May 19, 1919
• 3. John C. W. Beckham (D)

Louisiana

• 2. Joseph E. Ransdell (D)
• 3. Edward J. Gay (D)

Maine

• 1. Frederick Hale (R)
• 2. Bert M. Fernald (R)

Maryland

• 1. Joseph I. France (R)
• 3. John Walter Smith (D)

Massachusetts

• 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
• 2. David I. Walsh (D)

Michigan

• 1. Charles E. Townsend (R)
• 2. Truman H. Newberry (R)

Minnesota

• 1. Frank B. Kellogg (R)
• 2. Knute Nelson (R)

Mississippi

• 1. John Sharp Williams (D)
• 2. Pat Harrison (D)

Missouri

• 1. James A. Reed (D)
• 3. Selden P. Spencer (R)

Montana

• 1. Henry L. Myers (D)
• 2. Thomas J. Walsh (D)

Nebraska

• 1. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D)
• 2. George W. Norris (R)

Nevada

• 1. Key Pittman (D)
• 3. Charles B. Henderson (D)

New Hampshire

• 2. Henry W. Keyes (R)
• 3. George H. Moses (R)

New Jersey

• 1. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R)
• 2. Walter E. Edge (R)

New Mexico

• 1. Andrieus A. Jones (D)
• 2. Albert B. Fall (R)

New York

• 1. William M. Calder (R)
• 3. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R)

North Carolina

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

North Dakota

• 1. Porter J. McCumber (R)
• 3. Asle J. Gronna (R)

Ohio

• 1. Atlee Pomerene (D)
• 3. Warren G. Harding (R), until January 13, 1921
  • Frank B. Willis (R), from January 14, 1921

Oklahoma

• 2. Robert L. Owen (D)
• 3. Thomas P. Gore (D)

Oregon

• 2. Charles L. McNary (R)
• 3. George E. Chamberlain (D)

Pennsylvania

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

Rhode Island

• 1. Peter G. Gerry (D)
• 2. LeBaron B. Colt (R)

South Carolina

• 2. Nathaniel B. Dial (D)
• 3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

South Dakota

• 2. Thomas Sterling (R)
• 3. Edwin S. Johnson (D)

Tennessee

• 1. Kenneth D. McKellar (D)
• 2. John K. Shields (D)

Texas

• 1. Charles A. Culberson (D)
• 2. Morris Sheppard (D)

Utah

• 1. William H. King (D)
• 3. Reed Smoot (R)

Vermont

• 1. Carroll S. Page (R)
• 3. William P. Dillingham (R),

Virginia

• 1. Claude A. Swanson (D)
• 2. Thomas S. Martin (D), until November 12, 1919
  • Carter Glass (D), from February 2, 1920

Washington

• 1. Miles Poindexter (R)
• 3. Wesley L. Jones (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Howard Sutherland (R)
• 2. Davis Elkins (R)

Wisconsin

• 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R)
• 3. Irvine L. Lenroot (R)

Wyoming

• 1. John B. Kendrick (D)
• 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

Senate Elections Committee engaged in the counting of the Ford-Newberry vote. Tellers in the foreground of the picture are Senators Walter E. Edge and Selden P. Spencer.

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

• 1. John McDuffie (D)
• 2. S. Hubert Dent, Jr. (D)
• 3. Henry B. Steagall (D)
• 4. Fred L. Blackmon (D), until February 8, 1921
• 5. J. Thomas Heflin (D), until November 1, 1920
  • William B. Bowling (D), from December 14, 1920
• 6. William B. Oliver (D)
• 7. John L. Burnett (D), until May 13, 1919
  • Lilius Bratton Rainey (D), from September 30, 1919
• 8. Edward B. Almon (D)
• 9. George Huddleston (D)
• 10. William B. Bankhead (D)

Arizona

• At-large. Carl Hayden (D)

Arkansas

• 1. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)
• 2. William A. Oldfield (D)
• 3. John N. Tillman (D)
• 4. Otis Wingo (D)
• 5. Henderson M. Jacoway (D)
• 6. Samuel M. Taylor (D)
• 7. William S. Goodwin (D)

California

• 1. Clarence F. Lea (D)
• 2. John E. Raker (D)
• 3. Charles F. Curry (R)
• 4. Julius Kahn (R)
• 5. John I. Nolan (R)
• 6. John A. Elston (R)
• 7. Henry E. Barbour (R)
• 8. Hugh S. Hersman (D)
• 9. Charles H. Randall (Prohibitionist)
• 10. Henry Z. Osborne (R)
• 11. William Kettner (D)

Colorado

• 1. William Newell Vaile (R)
• 2. Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)
• 3. Guy Urban Hardy (R)
• 4. Edward Thomas Taylor (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Augustine Lonergan (D)
• 2. Richard P. Freeman (R)
• 3. John Q. Tilson (R)
• 4. Schuyler Merritt (R)
• 5. James P. Glynn (R)

Delaware

• At-large. Caleb R. Layton (R)

Florida

• 1. Herbert J. Drane (D)
• 2. Frank Clark (D)
• 3. John H. Smithwick (D)
• 4. William J. Sears (D)

Georgia

• 1. James W. Overstreet (D)
• 2. Frank Park (D)
• 3. Charles R. Crisp (D)
• 4. William C. Wright (D)
• 5. William D. Upshaw (D)
• 6. James W. Wise (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)

Idaho

• 1. Burton L. French (R)
• 2. Addison T. Smith (R)

Illinois

• 1. Martin B. Madden (R)
• 2. James R. Mann (R)
• 3. William W. Wilson (R)
• 4. John W. Rainey (D)
• 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D)
• 6. James McAndrews (D)
• 7. Niels Juul (R)
• 8. Thomas Gallagher (D)
• 9. Frederick A. Britten (R)
• 10. Carl R. Chindblom (R)
• 11. Ira C. Copley (R)
• 12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R)
• 13. John C. McKenzie (R)
• 14. William J. Graham (R)
• 15. Edward John King (R)
• 16. Clifford Ireland (R)
• 17. Frank L. Smith (R)
• 18. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
• 19. William B. McKinley (R)
• 20. Henry T. Rainey (D)
• 21. Loren E. Wheeler (R)
• 22. William A. Rodenberg (R)
• 23. Edwin B. Brooks (R)
• 24. Thomas S. Williams (R)
• 25. Edward E. Denison (R)
• At-large. Richard Yates (R)
• At-large. William E. Mason (R)

Indiana

• 1. Oscar R. Luhring (R)
• 2. Oscar E. Bland (R)
• 3. James W. Dunbar (R)
• 4. John S. Benham (R)
• 5. Everett Sanders (R)
• 6. Richard N. Elliott (R)
• 7. Merrill Moores (R)
• 8. Albert H. Vestal (R)
• 9. Fred S. Purnell (R)
• 10. William R. Wood (R)
• 11. Milton Kraus (R)
• 12. Louis W. Fairfield (R)
• 13. Andrew J. Hickey (R)

Iowa

• 1. Charles A. Kennedy (R)
• 2. Harry E. Hull (R)
• 3. Burton E. Sweet (R)
• 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)
• 5. James W. Good (R)
• 6. C. William Ramseyer (R)
• 7. Cassius C. Dowell (R)
• 8. Horace M. Towner (R)
• 9. William R. Green (R)
• 10. L. J. Dickinson (R)
• 11. William D. Boies (R)

Kansas

• 1. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (R)
• 2. Edward C. Little (R)
• 3. Philip P. Campbell (R)
• 4. Homer Hoch (R)
• 5. James G. Strong (R)
• 6. Hays B. White (R)
• 7. Jasper Napoleon Tincher (R)
• 8. William A. Ayres (D)

Kentucky

• 1. Alben Barkley (D)
• 2. David Hayes Kincheloe (D)
• 3. Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. (D)
• 4. Ben Johnson (D)
• 5. Charles F. Ogden (R)
• 6. Arthur B. Rouse (D)
• 7. J. Campbell Cantrill (D)
• 8. King Swope (R), from August 1, 1919
• 9. William Jason Fields (D)
• 10. John W. Langley (R)
• 11. John M. Robsion (R)

Louisiana

• 1. Albert Estopinal (D), until April 28, 1919
  • James O'Connor (D), from June 5, 1919
• 2. Henry Garland Dupré (D)
• 3. Whitmell P. Martin (D)
• 4. John Thomas Watkins (D)
• 5. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)
• 6. Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (D)
• 7. Ladislas Lazaro (D)
• 8. James Benjamin Aswell (D)

Maine

• 1. Louis B. Goodall (R)
• 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R)
• 3. John A. Peters (R)
• 4. Ira G. Hersey (R)

Maryland

• 1. William N. Andrews (R)
• 2. Carville D. Benson (D)
• 3. Charles P. Coady (D)
• 4. J. Charles Linthicum (D)
• 5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R)
• 6. Frederick N. Zihlman (R)

Massachusetts

• 1. Allen T. Treadway (R)
• 2. Frederick H. Gillett (R)
• 3. Calvin D. Paige (R)
• 4. Samuel E. Winslow (R)
• 5. John J. Rogers (R)
• 6. Willfred W. Lufkin (R)
• 7. Michael F. Phelan (D)
• 8. Frederick W. Dallinger (R)
• 9. Alvan T. Fuller (R), until January 5, 1921
• 10. John F. Fitzgerald (D), until October 23, 1919
  • Peter Francis Tague (D), from October 23, 1919
• 11. George H. Tinkham (R)
• 12. James A. Gallivan (D)
• 13. Robert Luce (R)
• 14. Richard Olney II (D)
• 15. William S. Greene (R)
• 16. Joseph Walsh (R)

Michigan

• 1. Frank E. Doremus (D)
• 2. Earl C. Michener (R)
• 3. John M. C. Smith (R)
• 4. Edward L. Hamilton (R)
• 5. Carl Mapes (R)
• 6. Patrick H. Kelley (R)
• 7. Louis C. Cramton (R)
• 8. Joseph W. Fordney (R)
• 9. James C. McLaughlin (R)
• 10. Gilbert A. Currie (R)
• 11. Frank D. Scott (R)
• 12. W. Frank James (R)
• 13. Charles Archibald Nichols (R), until April 25, 1920
  • Clarence J. McLeod (R), from November 2, 1920

Minnesota

• 1. Sydney Anderson (R)
• 2. Franklin Ellsworth (R)
• 3. Charles Russell Davis (R)
• 4. Carl Van Dyke (D), until May 20, 1919
  • Oscar Keller (R), from July 1, 1919
• 5. Walter Newton (R)
• 6. Harold Knutson (R)
• 7. Andrew Volstead (R)
• 8. William Leighton Carss (FL)
• 9. Halvor Steenerson (R)
• 10. Thomas D. Schall (R)

Mississippi

• 1. Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (D)
• 2. Hubert D. Stephens (D)
• 3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)
• 4. Thomas U. Sisson (D)
• 5. William Webb Venable (D)
• 6. Paul B. Johnson, Sr. (D)
• 7. Percy E. Quin (D)
• 8. James W. Collier (D)

Missouri

• 1. Milton A. Romjue (D)
• 2. William W. Rucker (D)
• 3. Joshua W. Alexander (D), until December 15, 1919
  • Jacob L. Milligan (D), from February 14, 1920
• 4. Charles F. Booher (D), until January 21, 1921
• 5. William Thomas Bland (D)
• 6. Clement C. Dickinson (D)
• 7. Samuel C. Major (D)
• 8. William L. Nelson (D)
• 9. Champ Clark (D), until March 2, 1921
• 10. Cleveland A. Newton (R)
• 11. William Leo Igoe (D)
• 12. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)
• 13. Marion E. Rhodes (R)
• 14. Edward D. Hays (R)
• 15. Isaac V. McPherson (R)
• 16. Thomas L. Rubey (D)

Montana

• 1. John M. Evans (D)
• 2. Carl W. Riddick (R)

Nebraska

• 1. C. Frank Reavis (R)
• 2. Albert W. Jefferis (R)
• 3. Robert E. Evans (R)
• 4. Melvin O. McLaughlin (R)
• 5. William E. Andrews (R)
• 6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Nevada

• At-large. Charles R. Evans (D)

New Hampshire

• 1. Sherman Everett Burroughs (R)
• 2. Edward Hills Wason (R)

New Jersey

• 1. William J. Browning (R), until March 24, 1920
  • Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (R), from November 2, 1920
• 2. Isaac Bacharach (R)
• 3. Thomas J. Scully (D)
• 4. Elijah C. Hutchinson (R)
• 5. Ernest R. Ackerman (R)
• 6. John R. Ramsey (R)
• 7. Amos H. Radcliffe (R)
• 8. Cornelius A. McGlennon (D)
• 9. Daniel F. Minahan (D)
• 10. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)
• 11. John J. Eagan (D)
• 12. James A. Hamill (D)

New Mexico

• At-large. Benigno C. Hernández (R)

New York

• 1. Frederick C. Hicks (R)
• 2. C. Pope Caldwell (D)
• 3. John MacCrate (R), until December 30, 1920
• 4. Thomas H. Cullen (D)
• 5. John B. Johnston (D)
• 6. Frederick W. Rowe (R)
• 7. James P. Maher (D)
• 8. William E. Cleary (D)
• 9. David J. O'Connell (D)
• 10. Reuben L. Haskell (R), until December 31, 1919
  • Lester D. Volk (R), from November 2, 1920
• 11. Daniel J. Riordan (D)
• 12. Henry M. Goldfogle (D)
• 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)
• 14. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R), until December 31, 1919
  • Nathan David Perlman (R), from November 2, 1920
• 15. Peter J. Dooling (D)
• 16. Thomas F. Smith (D)
• 17. Herbert C. Pell, Jr. (D)
• 18. John F. Carew (D)
• 19. Joseph Rowan (D)
• 20. Isaac Siegel (R)
• 21. Jerome F. Donovan (D)
• 22. Anthony J. Griffin (D)
• 23. Richard F. McKiniry (D)
• 24. James V. Ganly (D)
• 25. James W. Husted (R)
• 26. Edmund Platt (R), until June 7, 1920
  • Hamilton Fish III (R), from November 2, 1920
• 27. Charles B. Ward (R)
• 28. Rollin B. Sanford (R)
• 29. James S. Parker (R)
• 30. Frank Crowther (R)
• 31. Bertrand H. Snell (R)
• 32. Luther W. Mott (R)
• 33. Homer P. Snyder (R)
• 34. William H. Hill (R)
• 35. Walter W. Magee (R)
• 36. Norman J. Gould (R)
• 37. Alanson B. Houghton (R)
• 38. Thomas B. Dunn (R)
• 39. Archie D. Sanders (R)
• 40. S. Wallace Dempsey (R)
• 41. Clarence MacGregor (R)
• 42. James M. Mead (D)
• 43. Daniel A. Reed (R)

North Carolina

• 1. John Humphrey Small (D)
• 2. Claude Kitchin (D)
• 3. Samuel M. Brinson (D)
• 4. Edward W. Pou (D)
• 5. Charles M. Stedman (D)
• 6. Hannibal L. Godwin (D)
• 7. Leonidas D. Robinson (D)
• 8. Robert L. Doughton (D)
• 9. Edwin Y. Webb (D), until November 10, 1919
  • Clyde R. Hoey (D), from December 16, 1919
• 10. Zebulon Weaver (D)

North Dakota

• 1. John Miller Baer (R)
• 2. George M. Young (R)
• 3. James H. Sinclair (R)

Ohio

• 1. Nicholas Longworth (R)
• 2. Ambrose E.B. Stephens (R)
• 3. Warren Gard (D)
• 4. Benjamin F. Welty (D)
• 5. Charles J. Thompson (R)
• 6. Charles C. Kearns (R)
• 7. Simeon D. Fess (R)
• 8. R. Clint Cole (R)
• 9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D)
• 10. Israel M. Foster (R)
• 11. Edwin D. Ricketts (R)
• 12. Clement L. Brumbaugh (D)
• 13. James T. Begg (R)
• 14. Martin L. Davey (D)
• 15. C. Ellis Moore (R)
• 16. Roscoe C. McCulloch (R)
• 17. William A. Ashbrook (D)
• 18. B. Frank Murphy (R)
• 19. John G. Cooper (R)
• 20. Charles A. Mooney (D)
• 21. John J. Babka (D)
• 22. Henry I. Emerson (R)

Oklahoma

• 1. Everette B. Howard (D)
• 2. William W. Hastings (D)
• 3. Charles D. Carter (D)
• 4. Tom D. McKeown (D)
• 5. Joseph Bryan Thompson (D), until September 18, 1919
  • John W. Harreld (R), from November 8, 1919
• 6. Scott Ferris (D)
• 7. James V. McClintic (D)
• 8. Dick Thompson Morgan (R), until July 4, 1920
  • Charles Swindall (R), from November 2, 1920

Oregon

• 1. Willis C. Hawley (R)
• 2. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R)
• 3. Clifton N. McArthur (R)

Pennsylvania

• 1. William S. Vare (R)
• 2. George S. Graham (R)
• 3. J. Hampton Moore (R), until January 4, 1920
  • Harry C. Ransley (R), from November 2, 1920
• 4. George W. Edmonds (R)
• 5. Peter E. Costello (R)
• 6. George P. Darrow (R)
• 7. Thomas S. Butler (R)
• 8. Henry Winfield Watson (R)
• 9. William W. Griest (R)
• 10. Patrick McLane (D), until February 25, 1921
  • John R. Farr (R), from February 25, 1921
• 11. John J. Casey (D)
• 12. John Reber (R)
• 13. Arthur G. Dewalt (D)
• 14. Louis T. McFadden (R)
• 15. Edgar R. Kiess (R)
• 16. John V. Lesher (D)
• 17. Benjamin K. Focht (R)
• 18. Aaron S. Kreider (R)
• 19. John M. Rose (R)
• 20. Edward S. Brooks (R)
• 21. Evan J. Jones (R)
• 22. John Haden Wilson (D)
• 23. Samuel A. Kendall (R)
• 24. Henry W. Temple (R)
• 25. Milton W. Shreve (R)
• 26. Henry J. Steele (D)
• 27. Nathan L. Strong (R)
• 28. Willis J. Hulings (R)
• 29. Stephen G. Porter (R)
• 30. M. Clyde Kelly (R)
• 31. John M. Morin (R)
• 32. Guy E. Campbell (D)
• At-large. Thomas S. Crago (R)
• At-large. William J. Burke (R)
• At-large. Anderson H. Walters (R)
• At-large. Mahlon M. Garland (R), until November 19, 1920

Rhode Island

• 1. Clark Burdick (R)
• 2. Walter Russell Stiness (R)
• 3. Ambrose Kennedy (R)

South Carolina

• 1. Richard S. Whaley (D)
• 2. James F. Byrnes (D)
• 3. Fred H. Dominick (D)
• 4. Samuel J. Nicholls (D)
• 5. William F. Stevenson (D)
• 6. J. Willard Ragsdale (D), until July 23, 1919
  • Philip H. Stoll (D), from October 7, 1919
• 7. Asbury Francis Lever (D), until August 1, 1919
  • Edward C. Mann (D), from October 7, 1919

South Dakota

• 1. Charles A. Christopherson (R)
• 2. Royal C. Johnson (R)
• 3. Harry L. Gandy (D)

Tennessee

• 1. Sam R. Sells (R)
• 2. J. Will Taylor (R)
• 3. John Austin Moon (D)
• 4. Cordell Hull (D)
• 5. Ewin L. Davis (D)
• 6. Joseph W. Byrns (D)
• 7. Lemuel Phillips Padgett (D)
• 8. Thetus Willrette Sims (D)
• 9. Finis J. Garrett (D)
• 10. Hubert Fisher (D)

Texas

• 1. Eugene Black (D)
• 2. John C. Box (D)
• 3. James Young (D)
• 4. Sam Rayburn (D)
• 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D)
• 6. Rufus Hardy (D)
• 7. Clay Stone Briggs (D)
• 8. Joe H. Eagle (D)
• 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)
• 10. James P. Buchanan (D)
• 11. Tom T. Connally (D)
• 12. Fritz G. Lanham (D), from April 19, 1919
• 13. Lucian W. Parrish (D)
• 14. Carlos Bee (D)
• 15. John Nance Garner (D)
• 16. Claude Benton Hudspeth (D)
• 17. Thomas L. Blanton (D)
• 18. John Marvin Jones (D)

Utah

• 1. Milton H. Welling (D)
• 2. James Henry Mays (D)

Vermont

• 1. Frank L. Greene (R)
• 2. Porter H. Dale (R)

Virginia

• 1. S. Otis Bland (D)
• 2. Edward Everett Holland (D)
• 3. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)
• 4. Walter Allen Watson (D), until December 24, 1919
  • Patrick H. Drewry (D), from April 27, 1920
• 5. Edward W. Saunders (D), until February 29, 1920
  • Rorer A. James (D), from June 1, 1920
• 6. James P. Woods (D)
• 7. Thomas W. Harrison (D)
• 8. R. Walton Moore (D), from April 27, 1919
• 9. C. Bascom Slemp (R)
• 10. Henry De Flood (D)

Washington

• 1. John F. Miller (R)
• 2. Lindley H. Hadley (R)
• 3. Albert Johnson (R)
• 4. John W. Summers (R)
• 5. J. Stanley Webster (R)

West Virginia

• 1. Matthew M. Neely (D)
• 2. George M. Bowers (R)
• 3. Stuart F. Reed (R)
• 4. Harry C. Woodyard (R)
• 5. Wells Goodykoontz (R)
• 6. Leonard S. Echols (R)

Wisconsin

• 1. Clifford E. Randall (R)
• 2. Edward Voigt (R)
• 3. James G. Monahan (R)
• 4. John C. Kleczka (R)
• 5. Victor L. Berger (Soc.), until November 10, 1919
• 6. Florian Lampert (R)
• 7. John Jacob Esch (R)
• 8. Edward E. Browne (R)
• 9. David G. Classon (R)
• 10. James A. Frear (R)
• 11. Adolphus P. Nelson (R)

Wyoming

• At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)

Non-voting members

• Alaska Territory. Charles A. Sulzer (D), until April 28, 1919
  • George B. Grigsby (D), from June 3, 1920 - March 1, 1921
  • James Wickersham (R), from March 1, 1921
• Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (R)
• Puerto Rico. Félix Córdova Dávila (Resident Commissioner), Unionist
• Philippines. Jaime C. De Veyra (Resident Commissioner)
• Philippines. Teodoro R. Yangco (Resident Commissioner), until March 3, 1920
  • Isauro Gabaldon (Resident Commissioner), from March 4, 1920

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

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

• replacements: 5
  • Democratic: 1 seat net loss
  • Republican: 1 seat net gain
• deaths: 2
• resignations: 2
• vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 6

State	Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
Kentucky (2)	Vacant	Appointed Sen. George B. Martin finished term of Sen. Ollie M. James who died during previous congress. Martin did not continue after 66th Congress. Successor elected to fill open seat.	Augustus Stanley (R)	May 19, 1919
Virginia (2)	Thomas S. Martin (D)	Died November 12, 1919. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected.	Carter Glass (D)	February 2, 1920
Alabama (2)	John H. Bankhead (D)	Died March 1, 1920. Successor was appointed.	B. B. Comer (D)	March 5, 1920
Alabama (2)	B. B. Comer (D)	Successor was elected.	J. Thomas Heflin (D)	November 3, 1920
Ohio (3)	Warren G. Harding (R)	Resigned January 13, 1921 after being elected President of the United States. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected.	Frank B. Willis (R)	January 14, 1921
Idaho (3)	John F. Nugent (D)	Resigned January 14, 1921 after losing election and subsequently being appointed to the Federal Trade Commission. Successor was elected.	Frank R. Gooding (R)	January 15, 1921

House of Representatives

• replacements: 23
  • Democratic: 4 seat net loss
  • Republican: 4 seat net gain
• deaths: 13
• resignations: 10
• contested elections: 3
• Total seats with changes: 32

District	Vacator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor
Texas 12th	Vacant	Rep. James C. Wilson died during previous congress	Fritz G. Lanham (D)	April 19, 1919
Virginia 8th	Vacant	Rep. Charles C. Carlin died during previous congress	R. Walton Moore (D)	April 19, 1919
Kentucky 8th	Vacant	Rep. Harvey Helm died during previous congress	King Swope (R)	August 1, 1919
Louisiana 1st	Albert Estopinal (D)	Died April 28, 1919	James O'Connor (D)	June 5, 1919
Alaska Territory	Charles A. Sulzer (D)	Died April 28, 1919	George B. Grigsby (D)	June 30, 1920
Alabama 7th	John L. Burnett (D)	Died May 13, 1919	Lilius Bratton Rainey (D)	September 30, 1919
Minnesota 4th	Carl Van Dyke (D)	Died May 20, 1919	Oscar Keller (R)	July 1, 1919
South Carolina 6th	J. Willard Ragsdale (D)	Died July 23, 1919	Philip H. Stoll (D)	October 7, 1919
South Carolina 7th	Asbury F. Lever (D)	Resigned August 1, 1919 after becoming member of the Federal Farm Loan Board	Edward C. Mann (D)	October 7, 1919
Oklahoma 5th	Joseph B. Thompson (D)	Died September 18, 1919	John W. Harreld (R)	November 8, 1919
Massachusetts 10th	John F. Fitzgerald (D)	Lost contested election October 23, 1919	Peter F. Tague (D)	October 23, 1919
North Carolina 9th	Edwin Y. Webb (D)	Resigned November 10, 1919 after being appointed United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina	Clyde R. Hoey (D)	December 16, 1919
Wisconsin 5th	Victor L. Berger (Socialist)	Ousted November 10, 1919 due to his conviction under the Espionage Act of 1917	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Missouri 3rd	Joshua W. Alexander (D)	Resigned December 15, 1919 after being appointed United States Secretary of Commerce	Jacob L. Milligan (D)	February 14, 1920
Virginia 4th	Walter A. Watson (D)	Died December 24, 1919	Patrick H. Drewry (D)	April 27, 1920
New York 10th	Reuben L. Haskell (R)	Resigned December 31, 1919	Lester D. Volk (R)	November 2, 1920
New York 14th	Fiorello H. La Guardia (R)	Resigned December 31, 1919 after being elected President of the New York City Board of Aldermen	Nathan D. Perlman (R)	November 2, 1920
Pennsylvania 3rd	J. Hampton Moore (R)	Resigned January 4, 1920 after being elected Mayor of Philadelphia	Harry C. Ransley (R)	November 2, 1920
Virginia 5th	Edward W. Saunders (D)	Resigned February 29, 1920 after being elected judge of State Supreme Court of Appeals	Rorer A. James (D)	June 1, 1920
Philippines At-large	Teodoro R. Yangco	Term expired March 3, 1920	Isauro Gabaldon	March 4, 1920
New Jersey 1st	William J. Browning (R)	Died March 24, 1920	Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (R)	November 2, 1920
Michigan 13th	Charles A. Nichols (R)	Died April 25, 1920	Clarence J. McLeod (R)	November 2, 1920
New York 26th	Edmund Platt (R)	Resigned June 7, 1920 after being appointed to the Federal Reserve Board	Hamilton Fish III (R)	November 2, 1920
Oklahoma 8th	Dick T. Morgan (R)	Died July 4, 1920	Charles Swindall (R)	November 2, 1920
Alabama 5th	J. Thomas Heflin (D)	Resigned November 1, 1920 after being elected to the US Senate	William B. Bowling (D)	December 14, 1920
Pennsylvania At-large	Mahlon M. Garland (R)	Died November 19, 1920	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
New York 3rd	John MacCrate (R)	Resigned December 30, 1920 after being elected justice to the Supreme Court of the State of New York	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Massachusetts 9th	Alvan T. Fuller (R)	Resigned January 5, 1921 after being elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Missouri 4th	Charles F. Booher (D)	Died January 21, 1921	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Alabama 4th	Fred L. Blackmon (D)	Died February 8, 1921	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Pennsylvania 10th	Patrick McLane (D)	Lost contested election February 25, 1921	John R. Farr (R)	February 25, 1921
Alaska Territory	George B. Grigsby (D)	Lost contested election March 1, 1921	James Wickersham (R)	March 1, 1921

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
• Agriculture and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Banking and Currency
• Budget (Special)
• Canadian Relations
• Census
• Civil Service and Retrenchment
• Claims
• Coast and Insular Survey
• Coast Defenses
• Commerce
• Conservation of National Resources
• Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
• Cuban Relations
• Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments
• District of Columbia
• District of Columbia Public School System (Select)
• Education and Labor
• Engrossed Bills
• Establish a University in the United States (Select)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
• Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture
• Expenditures in the Department of Commerce
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Department of Justice
• Expenditures in the Department of Labor
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the Department of State
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Finance
• Fisheries
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
• Foreign Relations
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
• Geological Survey
• Immigration
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Industrial Expositions
• Interoceanic Canals
• Interstate Commerce
• Irrigation and Reclamation
• Judiciary
• Library
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select)
• National Banks
• Naval Affairs
• Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
• Pacific Railroads
• Patents
• Pensions
• Philippines
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Printing
• Private Land Claims
• Privileges and Elections
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Health and National Quarantine
• Public Lands
• Railroads
• Reconstruction and Production (Select)
• Revision of the Laws
• Revolutionary Claims
• Rules
• Standards, Weights and Measures
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
• Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select)
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage

House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• Budget (Select)
• Census
• Claims
• Coinage, Weights and Measures
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia
• Education
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
• Elections
• Enrolled Bills
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
• Expenditures in the Commerce Department
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Justice Department
• Expenditures in the Labor Department
• Expenditures in the Navy Department
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department
• Expenditures in the State Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Expenditures on Public Buildings
• Flood Control
• Foreign Affairs
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Industrial Arts and Expositions
• Insular Affairs
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce
• Invalid Pensions
• Irrigation of Arid Lands
• Labor
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Public Buildings and Grounds
• Public Lands
• Railways and Canals
• Reform in the Civil Service
• Revision of Laws
• Rivers and Harbors
• Roads
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• War Claims
• Water Power (Special)
• Ways and Means
• Woman Suffrage
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• High Cost of Living
• Pacific Coast Naval Bases
• Postal Salaries
• Postal Service
• Reclassification of Salaries
• Reorganization
• Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government
• To Investigate the System of Shortime Rural Credits

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Cornelius Ford

Senate

• Chaplain: F.J. Prettyman (Methodist)
  • John J. Muir (Baptist), from January 21, 1921.
• Secretary: James M. Baker
  • George A. Sanderson, from May 19, 1919.
• Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins
  • David S. Barry, from May 19, 1919.

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Henry N. Couden (Universalist)
• Clerk: William T. Page
• Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Clarence A. Cannon
  • Lehr Fess
• Postmaster: Frank W. Collier
• Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers

See also

• United States elections, 1918 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1918
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1918
• United States elections, 1920 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1920
  • United States Senate elections, 1920
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1920

References

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• Official Congressional Directory for the 66th Congress, 2nd Session.
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• Official Congressional Directory for the 66th Congress, 2nd Session (2nd Revision).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 66th Congress, 3rd Session.
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