60th United States Congress

60th United States Congress

59th ← → 61st United States Capitol (1906) Duration: March 4, 1907 – March 4, 1909 Senate President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R) Senate Pres. pro tem: William P. Frye (R) House Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R) Members: 92 Senators 391 Representatives 6 Non-voting members Senate Majority: Republican House Majority: Republican Sessions 1st: December 2, 1907 – May 30, 1908 2nd: December 7, 1908 – March 3, 1909

The Sixtieth 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, DC from March 4, 1907 to March 4, 1909, during the last two 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

President of the Senate
Charles W. Fairbanks

Major legislation

• May 30, 1908 — Aldrich-Vreeland Act, ch. 229, 35 Stat. 546
• 1908 — The Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), 5645 U.S.C. § 51 et seq.^[1]

States admitted

• November 16, 1907: Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.

Party summary

Map showing Senate party membership at the start of the 60th Congress. Red states are represented by two Republicans and blue by two Democrats. Purple states are represented by one senator from each party.

Senate

• Republican (R): 61 (majority)
• Democratic (D): 29

TOTAL members: 90

House of Representatives

• Republican (R): 223 (majority)
• Democratic (D): 167
• Independent (I): 1

TOTAL members: 391

Leadership

Senate

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

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Conference Chairman: Eugene Hale

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Caucus chairman: Charles A. Culberson
• Conference secretary: Robert L. Owen

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Conference Secretary: Robert L. Owen

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 until 1908
  • Champ Clark, from 1908
• Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd until 1908; vacant thereafter
• Caucus Chairman: Henry D. Clayton

Members

Senate

Skip to House of Representatives, below

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.

Alabama 2. John T. Morgan (D), until June 11, 1907 John H. Bankhead (D), from June 18, 1907 3. Edmund Pettus (D), until July 27, 1907 Joseph F. Johnston (D), from August 8, 1907 Arkansas 3. James P. Clarke (D) 2. Jeff Davis (D) California 3. George C. Perkins (R) 1. Frank P. Flint (R) Colorado 3. Henry M. Teller (D) 2. Simon Guggenheim (R) Connecticut 1. Morgan Bulkeley (R) 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R) Delaware 1. Henry A. du Pont (R) 2. Harry A. Richardson (R) Florida 3. Stephen Mallory (D), until December 23, 1907 William J. Bryan (D), December 27, 1907 - March 22, 1908 William Hall Milton (D), from March 27, 1908 1. James Taliaferro (D) Georgia 2. Augustus O. Bacon (D) 3. Alexander S. Clay (D) Idaho 3. Weldon B. Heyburn (R) 2. William E. Borah (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), until August 4, 1908 Albert B. Cummins (R), from November 24, 1908 2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) Kansas 3. Chester I. Long (R) 2. Charles Curtis (R) Kentucky 3. James B. McCreary (D) 2. Thomas H. Paynter (D) Louisiana 3. Samuel D. McEnery (D) 2. Murphy J. Foster (D) Maine 1. Eugene Hale (R) 2. William P. Frye (R) Maryland 1. Isidor Rayner (D) 3. William P. Whyte (D), until March 17, 1908 John W. Smith (D), from March 25, 1908 Massachusetts 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) 2: Winthrop M. Crane (R) Michigan 1. Julius C. Burrows (R) 2. William A. Smith (R) 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) Montana 1. Thomas H. Carter (R) 2. Joseph M. Dixon (R)

Nebraska 1. Elmer J. Burkett (R) 2. Norris Brown (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. Frank O. Briggs (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) Oklahoma 3. Thomas P. Gore (D), from December 11, 1907 2. Robert L. Owen (D), from December 11, 1907 Oregon 3. Charles W. Fulton (R) 2. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. (R) Pennsylvania 3. Boies Penrose (R) 1. Philander C. Knox (R) Rhode Island 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R) 2. George P. Wetmore (R), from January 22, 1908 South Carolina 2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D) 3. Asbury C. Latimer (D), until February 20, 1908 Frank B. Gary (D), from March 6, 1908 South Dakota 2. Robert J. Gamble (R) 3. Alfred B. Kittredge (R) Tennessee 1. James B. Frazier (D) 2. Robert L. Taylor (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), until March 4, 1908 John W. Stewart (R), March 24, 1908 - October 21, 1908 Carroll S. Page (R), from October 21, 1908 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), until April 30, 1907 Isaac Stephenson (R), from May 17, 1907 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (R) Wyoming 1. Clarence D. Clark (R) 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama (9 Democrats) 1. George W. Taylor (D) 2. Ariosto A. Wiley (D), until June 17, 1908 Oliver C. Wiley (D), from November 3, 1908 3. Henry D. Clayton (D) 4. William B. Craig (D) 5. J. Thomas Heflin (D) 6. Richmond P. Hobson (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. William B. Cravens (D) 5. Charles C. Reid (D) 6. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) 7. Robert M. Wallace (D) California (8 Republicans) 1. William F. Englebright (R) 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. Warren A. Haggott (R) A/L. George W. Cook (R) Connecticut (5 Republicans) 1. E. Stevens Henry (R) 2. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) 3. Edwin W. Higgins (R) 4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R) A/L. George L. Lilley (R), until January 5, 1909 Delaware (1 Republican) A/L. 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. Charles G. Edwards (D) 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 (D) 8. William M. Howard (D) 9. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D) 10. Thomas W. Hardwick (D) 11. William G. Brantley (D) Idaho (1 Republican) A/L. Burton L. French (R) Illinois (20-5 Republican) 1. Martin B. Madden (R) 2. James R. Mann (R) 3. William W. Wilson (R) 4. James T. McDermott (D) 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) 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. Frank O. Lowden (R) 14. James McKinney (R) 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. Ben F. Caldwell (D) 22. William A. Rodenberg (R) 23. Martin D. Foster (D) 24. Pleasant T. Chapman (R) 25. George W. Smith (R), until November 30, 1907 Napoleon B. Thistlewood (R), from February 15, 1908 Indiana (9-4 Republican) 1. John H. Foster (R) 2. John C. Chaney (R) 3. William E. Cox (D) 4. Lincoln Dixon (D) 5. Elias S. Holliday (R) 6. James E. Watson (R) 7. Jesse Overstreet (R) 8. John A.M. Adair (D) 9. Charles B. Landis (R) 10. Edgar D. Crumpacker (R) 11. George W. Rauch (D) 12. Clarence C. Gilhams (R) 13. Abraham L. Brick (R),until April 7, 1908 Henry A. Barnhart (D), from November 3, 1908 - End Iowa (10-1 Republican) 1. Charles A. Kennedy (R) 2. Albert F. Dawson (R) 3. Benjamin P. Birdsall (R) 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R) 5. Robert G. Cousins (R) 6. Daniel W. Hamilton (D) 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. Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (R), from May 23, 1907 2. Charles Frederick Scott (R) 3. Philip P. Campbell (R) 4. James Monroe Miller (R) 5. William A. Calderhead (R) 6. William A. Reeder (R) 7. Edmond H. Madison (R) 8. Victor Murdock (R) Kentucky (7-4 Democratic) 1. Ollie M. James (D) 2. Augustus Stanley (D) 3. Addison James (R) 4. Ben Johnson (D) 5. J. Swagar Sherley (D) 6. Joseph L. Rhinock (D) 7. William P. Kimball (D) 8. Harvey Helm (D) 9. Joseph B. Bennett (R) 10. John W. Langley (R) 11. Don C. Edwards (R) Louisiana (7 Democrats) 1. Adolph Meyer (D), until March 8, 1908 Albert Estopinal (D), from November 3, 1908 2. Robert Charles Davey (D), until December 26, 1908 3. Robert Foligny Broussard (D) 4. John Thomas Watkins (D) 5. Joseph Eugene Ransdell (D) 6. George Kent Favrot (D) 7. Arsène Paulin Pujó (D) Maine (4 Republicans) 1. Amos L. Allen (R) 2. Charles E. Littlefield (R), until September 30, 1908 John P. Swasey (R), from November 3, 1908 3. Edwin C. Burleigh (R) 4. Llewellyn Powers (R), until July 28, 1908 Frank E. Guernsey (R), from November 3, 1908 Maryland (3-3 split) 1. William Humphreys Jackson (R) 2. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D) 3. Harry B. Wolf (D) 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. Charles G. Washburn (R) 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. Joseph F. O'Connell (D) 11. Andrew J. Peters (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. Gerrit J. Diekema (R), from March 17, 1908 6. Samuel W. Smith (R) 7. Henry McMorran (R) 8. Joseph W. Fordney (R) 9. James C. McLaughlin (R) 10. George A. Loud (R) 11. Archibald B. Darragh (R) 12. H. Olin Young (R) Minnesota (8-1 Republican) 1. James Albertus Tawney (R) 2. Winfield Scott Hammond (D) 3. Charles Russell Davis (R) 4. Frederick Stevens (R) 5. Frank Nye (R) 6. Charles August Lindbergh (R) 7. Andrew Volstead (R) 8. James Bede (R) 9. Halvor Steenerson (R) Mississippi (8 Democrats) 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 (12-4 Democratic) 1. James Tilghman Lloyd (D) 2. William W. Rucker (D) 3. Joshua Willis Alexander (D) 4. Charles F. Booher (D) 5. Edgar C. Ellis (R) 6. David A. De Armond (D) 7. Courtney W. Hamlin (D) 8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D) 9. James Beauchamp Clark (D) 10. Richard Bartholdt (R) 11. Henry S. Caulfield (R) 12. Harry M. Coudrey (R) 13. Madison R. Smith (D) 14. Joseph J. Russell (D) 15. Thomas Hackney (D) 16. J. Robert Lamar (D) Montana (1 Republican) A/L. Charles N. Pray (R) Nebraska (5-1 Republican) 1. Ernest M. Pollard (R) 2. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (D) 3. John Frank Boyd (R) 4. Edmund H. Hinshaw (R) 5. George W. Norris (R) 6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Nevada (1 Democrat) A/L. George A. Bartlett (D) New Hampshire (2 Republicans) 1. Cyrus Adams Sulloway (R) 2. Frank Dunklee Currier (R) New Jersey (6-4 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. William Hughes (D) 7. Richard W. Parker (R) 8. Le Gage Pratt (D) 9. Eugene W. Leake (D) 10. James A. Hamill (D) New York (26-10 Republican, 1 Independent) 1. William W. Cocks (R) 2. George H. Lindsay (D) 3. Charles T. Dunwell (R), until June 12, 1908 Otto G. Foelker (R), from November 3, 1908 4. Charles B. Law (R) 5. George E. Waldo (R) 6. William M. Calder (R) 7. John J. Fitzgerald (D) 8. Daniel J. Riordan (D) 9. Henry M. Goldfogle (D) 10. William Sulzer (D) 11. Charles V. Fornes (D) 12. W. Bourke Cockran (D) 13. Herbert Parsons (R) 14. William Willet, Jr. (D) 15. J. Van Vechten Olcott (R) 16. Francis B. Harrison (D) 17. William S. Bennet (R) 18. Joseph A. Goulden (D) 19. John E. Andrus (R) 20. Thomas W. Bradley (R) 21. Samuel McMillan (R) 22. William H. Draper (R) 23. George N. Southwick (R) 24. George W. Fairchild (R) 25. Cyrus Durey (R) 26. George R. Malby (R) 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. Peter A. Porter (R) 35. William H. Ryan (D) 36. De Alva S. Alexander (R) 37. Edward B. Vreeland (R) North Carolina (10 Democrats) 1. John Humphrey Small (D) 2. Claude Kitchin (D) 3. Charles Randolph Thomas (D) 4. Edward W. Pou (D) 5. William W. Kitchin (D), until January 11, 1909 6. Hannibal L. Godwin (D) 7. Robert N. Page (D) 8. Richard N. Hackett (D) 9. Edwin Y. Webb (D) 10. William T. Crawford (D) North Dakota (2 Republicans) 1. Thomas Frank Marshall (R) 2. Asle Gronna (R) Ohio (16-5 Republican) 1. Nicholas Longworth (R) 2. Herman P. Goebel (R) 3. J. Eugene Harding (R) 4. William E. Tou Velle (D) 5. Timothy T. Ansberry (D) 6. Matthew R. Denver (D) 7. J. Warren Keifer (R) 8. Ralph D. Cole (R) 9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D) 10. Henry T. Bannon (R) 11. Albert Douglas (R) 12. Edward L. Taylor, Jr. (R) 13. Grant E. Mouser (R) 14. J. Ford Laning (R) 15. Beman G. Dawes (R) 16. Capell L. Weems (R) 17. William A. Ashbrook (D) 18. James Kennedy (R) 19. W. Aubrey Thomas (R) 20. L. Paul Howland (R) 21. Theodore Elijah Burton (R), until March 3, 1909 Oklahoma (4-1 Democratic) 1. Bird Segle McGuire (R), from November 16, 1907 2. Elmer L. Fulton (D), from November 16, 1907 3. James S. Davenport (D), from November 16, 1907 4. Charles D. Carter (D), from November 16, 1907 5. Scott Ferris (D), from November 16, 1907 Oregon (2 Republicans) 1. Willis C. Hawley (R) 2. William R. Ellis (R) Pennsylvania (25-7 Republican) 1. Henry H. Bingham (R) 2. John E. Reyburn (R), until March 31, 1907 Joel Cook (R), from November 5, 1907 3. J. Hampton Moore (R) 4. Reuben O. Moon (R) 5. William W. Foulkrod (R) 6. George D. McCreary (R) 7. Thomas S. Butler (R) 8. Irving P. Wanger (R) 9. Henry B. Cassel (R) 10. Thomas D. Nicholls (Independent Democrat) 11. John T. Lenahan (D) 12. Charles N. Brumm (R), until January 4, 1909 13. John H. Rothermel (D) 14. George W. Kipp (D) 15. William B. Wilson (D) 16. John G. McHenry (D) 17. Benjamin K. Focht (R) 18. Marlin E. Olmsted (R) 19. John M. Reynolds (R) 20. Daniel F. Lafean (R) 21. Charles F. Barclay (R) 22. George F. Huff (R) 23. Allen F. Cooper (R) 24. Ernest F. Acheson (R) 25. Arthur L. Bates (R) 26. J. Davis Brodhead (D) 27. Joseph G. Beale (R) 28. Nelson P. Wheeler (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), until February 14, 1909 2. Adin B. Capron (R) South Carolina (7 Democrats) 1. George S. Legare (D) 2. James O'H. 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) A/L. Philo Hall (R) A/L. William H. Parker (R), until June 26, 1908 Eben Martin (R), from November 3, 1908 Tennessee (8-2 Democratic) 1. Walter P. Brownlow (R) 2. Nathan W. Hale (R) 3. John Austin Moon (D) 4. Cordell Hull (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. George W. Gordon (D) Texas (16 Democrats) 1. Morris Sheppard (D) 2. Samuel B. Cooper (D) 3. Gordon James Russell (D) 4. Choice Boswell Randell (D) 5. James Andrew Beall (D) 6. Rufus Hardy (D) 7. Alexander W. Gregg (D) 8. John M. Moore (D) 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) A/L. 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. Francis R. Lassiter (D) 5. Edward W. Saunders (D) 6. Carter Glass (D) 7. James Hay (D) 8. Charles Creighton Carlin (D), from November 5, 1907 9. Campbell Slemp (R), until October 13, 1907 C. Bascom Slemp (R), from December 17, 1907 10. Henry De Flood (D) Washington (3 Republicans) A/L. Wesley Livsey Jones (R) A/L. Francis W. Cushman (R) A/L. William E. Humphrey (R) West Virginia (5 Republicans) 1. William P. Hubbard (R) 2. George Cookman Sturgiss (R) 3. Joseph Holt Gaines (R) 4. Harry C. Woodyard (R) 5. James Anthony Hughes (R) Wisconsin (9-2 Republican) 1. Henry Allen Cooper (R) 2. John M. Nelson (R) 3. James William Murphy (D) 4. William J. Cary (R) 5. William H. Stafford (R) 6. Charles H. Weisse (D) 7. John Jacob Esch (R) 8. James Henry Davidson (R) 9. Gustav Küstermann (R) 10. Elmer A. Morse (R) 11. John J. Jenkins (R) Wyoming (1 Republican) A/L. Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R) Non-voting members (3-1 Republican, 1 Independent) Alaska Territory. Thomas Cale (Independent) Arizona Territory. Marcus Aurelius Smith (D) Hawaii Territory. Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole (R) New Mexico Territory. William Henry Andrews (R) Philippines. Benito Legarda y Tuason (R),from November 22, 1907 Philippines. Pablo Ocampo (D), from November 22, 1907 Puerto Rico. Tulio Larrinaga (Resident Commissioner) (Unionist)

House seats by party holding plurality in state   80.1-100% Democratic   80.1-100% Republican   60.1-80% Democratic   60.1-80% 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: 10
  • Democratic: no net change
  • Republican: no net change
• deaths: 8
• resignations: 1
• vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 11

State (class)	Vacator	Reason for vacancy	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
Rhode Island (2)	Vacant	Legislature failed to elect.	George P. Wetmore (R)	January 22, 1908
Wisconsin (3)	John C. Spooner (R)	Resigned April 30, 1907. Successor was elected.	Isaac Stephenson (R)	May 17, 1907
Alabama (2)	John Tyler Morgan (D)	Died June 11, 1907. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected	John H. Bankhead (D)	June 18, 1907
Alabama (3)	Edmund Pettus (D)	Died July 27, 1907. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected	Joseph F. Johnston (D)	August 8, 1907
Oklahoma (2)	New seats	Oklahoma achieved statehood November 16, 1907	Robert L. Owen (D)	December 11, 1907
Oklahoma (3)			Thomas Gore (D)
Florida (3)	Stephen Mallory II (D)	Died December 23, 1907. Successor was appointed.	William J. Bryan (D)	December 27, 1907
South Carolina (3)	Asbury Latimer (D)	Died February 20, 1908. Successor was appointed.	Frank B. Gary (D)	March 6, 1908
Vermont (1)	Redfield Proctor (R)	Died March 4, 1908. Successor was appointed.	John W. Stewart (R)	March 24, 1908
Maryland (3)	William P. Whyte (D)	Died Mach 17, 1908. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected.	John W. Smith (D)	March 25, 1908
Florida (3)	William J. Bryan (D)	Died Mach 22, 1908. Successor was appointed.	William H. Milton (D)	March 27, 1908
Iowa (3)	William B. Allison (R)	Died August 4, 1908. Successor was elected.	Albert B. Cummins (R)	March 17, 1909
Vermont (1)	John W. Stewart (R)	Successor was elected.	Carroll S. Page (R)	October 21, 1908

House of Representatives

• replacements: 13
  • Democratic: 4 seat gain
  • Republican: 2 seat loss
• deaths: 10
• resignations: 7
• contested elections: 0
• new seats: 7
• Total seats with changes: 20

District	Previous	Reason for change	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
Michigan 5th	Vacant	Rep. William Alden Smith resigned during previous congress	Gerrit J. Diekema (R)	April 27, 1907
Kansas 1st	Vacant	Rep. Charles Curtis resigned during previous congress	Daniel R. Anthony Jr. (R)	May 23, 1907
Virginia 8th	Vacant	Rep. John F. Rixey died during previous congress	Charles C. Carlin (D)	November 5, 1907
Pennsylvania 2nd	John E. Reyburn (R)	Resigned March 31, 1907 after being elected Mayor of Philadelphia	Joel Cook (R)	November 5, 1907
Virginia 9th	Campbell Slemp (R)	Died October 13, 1907	C. Bascom Slemp (R)	December 17, 1907
Oklahoma 1st	New seat	New State November 16, 1907.	Bird S. McGuire (R)	November 16, 1907
Oklahoma 2nd			Elmer L. Fulton (D)
Oklahoma 3rd			James S. Davenport (D)
Oklahoma 4th			Charles D. Carter (D)
Oklahoma 5th			Scott Ferris (D)
Philippines Resident Commissioner	New seat	New territory November 22, 1907	Benito Legarda (R)	November 22, 1909
Philippines Resident Commissioner			Pablo Ocampo (D)
Illinois 25th	George W. Smith (R)	Died November 30, 1907	Napoleon B. Thistlewood (R)	February 15, 1908
Louisiana 1st	Adolph Meyer (D)	Died March 8, 1908	Albert Estopinal (D)	November 3, 1908
New York 3rd	Charles T. Dunwell (R)	Died June 12, 1908	Otto G. Foelker (R)	November 3, 1908
Indiana 13th	Abraham L. Brick (R)	Died April 7, 1908	Henry A. Barnhart (D)	November 3, 1908
Alabama 2nd	Ariosto A. Wiley (D)	Died June 17, 1908	Oliver C. Wiley (D)	November 3, 1908
South Dakota At-large	William H. Parker (R)	Died June 26, 1908	Eben Martin (R)	November 3, 1908
Maine 4th	Llewellyn Powers (R)	Died July 28, 1908	Frank E. Guernsey (R)	November 3, 1908
Maine 2nd	Charles E. Littlefield (R)	Died September 30, 1908	John P. Swasey (R)	November 3, 1908
Louisiana 2nd	Robert C. Davey (D)	Died December 26, 1908	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Pennsylvania 12th	Charles N. Brumm (R)	Resigned January 4, 1909 after becoming judge for Schuylkill County Court of Common Pleas	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Connecticut At-large	George L. Lilley (R)	Resigned January 5, 1909 after being elected Governor of Connecticut	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
North Carolina 5th	William W. Kitchin (D)	Resigned January 11, 1909 after being elected Governor of North Carolina	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Rhode Island 1st	Daniel L. D. Granger (D)	Died February 14, 1909	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
Ohio 21st	Theodore E. Burton (R)	Resigned March 3, 1909 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 the Department of Agriculture (Select)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Select)
• Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Select)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Select)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Select)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Select)
• 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
• 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
• Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the House (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 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

Employees

• Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: Charles A. Stillings (until 1908), John S. Leech (1908), Samuel B. Donnelly (starting 1908)

Senate

• Secretary: Charles G. Bennett of New York
• Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell of Indiana
• Chaplain: Edward E. Hale, Unitarian

House of Representatives

• Clerk: Alexander McDowell of Pennsylvania, elected December 2, 1907
• Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson of Wisconsin, elected December 2, 1907
• Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon of New York, elected December 2, 1907
• Postmaster: Samuel Langum of New York, elected December 2, 1907
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Asher C. Hinds
• Chaplain: Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected December 2, 1907

See also

• United States elections, 1906 (elections leading to this Congress)
  • United States Senate elections, 1906
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1906
• United States elections, 1908 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • United States presidential election, 1908
  • United States Senate elections, 1908
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1908

References

1. Walgren, John A. (1916). Federal Employers' Liability Act: practitioner's manual. T.H. Flood. Retrieved 14 September 2009.

• Gould, Lewis L. (2005). The Most Exclusive Club. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group. ISBN 0-465-02778-4.
• Remini, Robert V. (2006). The House. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-06-088434-7.
• U.S. Congress (2005). "Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
• U.S. House of Representatives (2006). "Congressional History". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
• U.S. Senate (2006). "Statistics and Lists". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.

• Official Congressional Directory for the 60th Congress, 1st Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 60th Congress, 1st Session (1st Revision).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 60th Congress, 1st Session (2nd Revision).
• Official Congressional Directory for the 60th Congress, 2nd Session.
• Official Congressional Directory for the 60th Congress, 2nd Session (Revision).