59th United States Congress

59th United States Congress

58th ← → 60th United States Capitol (1906) Duration: March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907 Senate President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R) Senate Pres. pro tem: William P. Frye (R) House Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R) Members: 90 Senators 386 Representatives 6 Non-voting members Senate Majority: Republican House Majority: Republican 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

Major 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.^[1]
• March 2, 1907: Expatriation Act of 1907, 34 Stat. 1228

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

Party summary

Senate

• Republican (R): 59 (majority)
• Democratic (D): 31

TOTAL: 90

House of Representatives

• Republican (R): 251 (majority)
• Democratic (D): 135

TOTAL: 386

President of the Senate
Charles W. Fairbanks

Leaders

Senate

• President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
• President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
• Majority Whip: James E. Watson

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams
• Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

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.

Skip to House of Representatives, below Alabama 2. John T. Morgan (D) 3. Edmund W. Pettus (D) Arkansas 2. James H. Berry (D) 3. James P. Clarke (D) California 3. George C. Perkins (R) 1. Frank P. Flint (R) Colorado 3. Henry M. Teller (D) 2. Thomas M. Patterson (D) Connecticut 3. Orville H. Platt (R), until April 21, 1905 Frank B. Brandegee (R), from May 10, 1905 1. Morgan G. Bulkeley (R) Delaware 2. J. Frank Allee (R) 1. Henry A. du Pont, (R), from June 13, 1906 Florida 3. Stephen Mallory (D) 2. James P. Taliaferro (D) Georgia 2. Augustus O. Bacon (D) 3. Alexander S. Clay (D) Idaho 2. Fred T. Dubois (R) 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 3. William B. Allison (R) 2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (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 3. Samuel D. McEnery (D) 2. Murphy J. Foster (D) Maine 1. Eugene Hale (R) 2. William P. Frye (R) Maryland 3. Arthur P. Gorman (D), until June 4, 1906 William P. Whyte (D), from June 8, 1906 1. Isidor Rayner (D) 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 2. Knute Nelson (R) 1. Moses E. Clapp (R) Mississippi 1. Hernando D. Money (D) 2. Anselm J. McLaurin (D) Missouri 3. William J. Stone (D) 1. William Warner (R), from March 18, 1905

Montana 2. William A. Clark (D) 1. Thomas H. Carter (R) Nebraska 2. Joseph H. Millard (R) 1. Elmer J. Burkett (R) Nevada 3. Francis G. Newlands (D) 1. George S. Nixon (R) New Hampshire 3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R) 2. Henry E. Burnham (R) New Jersey 1. John Kean (R) 2. John F. Dryden (R) New York 3. Thomas C. Platt (R) 1. Chauncey M. Depew (R) North Carolina 2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D) 3. Lee S. Overman (D) North Dakota 3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R) 1. Porter J. McCumber (R) Ohio 3. Joseph B. Foraker (R) 1: Charles W. F. Dick (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 3. Boies Penrose (R) 1. Philander C. Knox (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 3. Reed Smoot (R) 1. George Sutherland (R) Vermont 1. Redfield Proctor (R) 3. William P. Dillingham (R) Virginia 1. John W. Daniel (D) 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) Washington 3. Levi Ankeny (R) 1. Samuel H. Piles (R) West Virginia 2. Stephen B. Elkins (R) 1. Nathan B. Scott (R) Wisconsin 3. John C. Spooner (R) 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R) from January 2, 1906[2] Wyoming 1. Clarence D. Clark (R) 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

House of Representatives

Alabama (9 Democrats) 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 (7 Democrats) 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 (8 Republicans) 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 (3 Republicans) 1. Robert W. Bonynge (R) 2. Herschel M. Hogg (R) At-large. Franklin E. Brooks (R) Connecticut (5 Republicans) 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 (1 Republican) At-large. Hiram R. Burton (R) Florida (3 Democrats) 1. Stephen M. Sparkman (D) 2. Frank Clark (D) 3. William B. Lamar (D) Georgia (11 Democrats) 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 (1 Republican) At-large. Burton L. French (R) Illinois (24-1 Republican) 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 (11-2 Republican) 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 (11 Republicans) 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 (8 Republicans) 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 (9-2 Democratic) 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 (7 Democrats) 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 (4 Republicans) 1. Amos L. Allen (R) 2. Charles E. Littlefield (R) 3. Edwin C. Burleigh (R) 4. Llewellyn Powers (R) Maryland (3-3 split) 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 (11-3 Republican) 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 (12 Republicans) 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 (9 Republicans) 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 (9 Republicans) 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 (9-7 Republican) 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 (1 Republican) At-large. Joseph M. Dixon (R) Nebraska (6 Republicans) 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 (1 Democrat) At-large. Clarence D. Van Duzer (D) New Hampshire (2 Republicans) 1. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R) 2. Frank Dunklee Currier (R) New Jersey (9-1 Republican) 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 (26-11 Republican) 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 (9-1 Democrat) 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 (2 Republicans) 1. Thomas Frank Marshall (R) 2. Asle Gronna (R) Ohio (20-1 Republican) 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 (2 Republicans) 1. Binger Hermann (R) 2. John N. Williamson (R) Pennsylvania (31-1 Republican) 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 (1-1 split) 1. Daniel L. D. Granger (D) 2. Adin B. Capron (R) South Carolina (7 Democrats) 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 (2 Republicans) At-large. Charles Henry Burke (R) At-large. Eben Wever Martin (R) Tennessee (8-2 Democratic) 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 (16 Democrats) 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 (1 Republican) At-large. Joseph Howell (R) Vermont (2 Republicans) 1. David J. Foster (R) 2. Kittredge Haskins (R) Virginia (9-1 Democratic) 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 (3 Republicans) At-large. Wesley Livsey Jones (R) At-large. Francis W. Cushman (R) At-large. William E. Humphrey (R) West Virginia (4-1 Re) 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 (10-1 Republican) 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 (1 Republican) At-large. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R) Non-voting members (2-2 split, 1 Independent) 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 Larrinaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist)

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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
Wisconsin 1)	Vacant	Finished term as Governor of Wisconsin	Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)	January 2, 1906
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.

Senate

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

House of Representatives

• Accounts
• Agriculture
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
• Appropriations
• Banking and Currency
• 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 and Labor Departments
• Expenditures in the Interior Department
• Expenditures in the Justice 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
• Foreign Affairs
• Immigration and Naturalization
• Indian Affairs
• Industrial Arts and Expositions
• Insular Affairs
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce
• Invalid Pensions
• Irrigation of Arid Lands
• Labor
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
• Manufactures
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Militia
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Pacific Railroads
• 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
• Rules
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories
• Ventilation and Acoustics
• War Claims
• Ways and Means
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• Revision of the Laws
• Second Class Mail Matter

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 of the Senate: Charles G. Bennett of New York, elected February 1, 1900.
• Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: Daniel M. Ransdell of Indiana, elected February 1, 1900.
• Chaplain of the Senate
  • 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
• Chaplain: The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected December 4, 1905.

See also

• United States elections, 1904 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1904
  • 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

References

1. "Carnegie Foundation". Carnegie Foundation. November 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-05.
2. Robert M. La Follette was elected to the 59th Congress for the term starting March 4, 1905, but he did not assume the seat until January 2, 1906, preferring to finish his term as Governor of Wisconsin.

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