65th United States Congress

Major events

• March 4, 1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.
• March 8, 1917: The United States Senate adopted the cloture rule to limit filibusters.
• March 31, 1917: The United States took possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $25 million to Denmark.
• April 2, 1917: World War I: President on Germany.
• April 10, 1917: An ammunition factory explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania, kills 133.
• May 21, 1917: Over 300 acres are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
• May 26, 1917: A tornado strikes Mattoon, Illinois, causing devastation and killing 101 people.
• July 1, 1917: A labor dispute ignited a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois, which left 250 dead.
• July 12, 1917: The Phelps Dodge Corporation deported over 1,000 suspected Industrial Workers of the World members from Bisbee, Arizona.
• July 28, 1917: The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.
• August 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the World War I draft, took place in central Oklahoma.
• November 24, 1917: In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department were killed by a bomb, the most fatal single event in U.S. police history until the September 11, 2001, attacks.
• December 26, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson used the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.
• January 8, 1918: Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points speech.
• March 4, 1918: A soldier at Camp Fuston, Kansas, fell sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.
• April 3, 1918 "The American's Creed" is the title of a resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on this date. It is a statement written in 1917 by William Tyler Page as an entry into a patriotic contest. Source:The American's Creed at USHistory.org
• May 15, 1918: The United States Post Office Department began the first regular airmail service in the world.
• October 8, 1918: World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
• December 4, 1918: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sailed for the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
• January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, died.
• January 15, 1919: The Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150.
• February 25, 1919: Oregon placed a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

  Major legislation

• April 6, 1917: Declaration of war against Germany, Sess. 1 ch. 1,
• April 24, 1917: First Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 4,
• May 12, 1917: Enemy Vessel Confiscation Joint Resolution,,
• May 12, 1917: First Army Appropriations Act of 1917,
• May 18, 1917: Selective Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 15,
• May 29, 1917: Esch Car Service Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 23,
• June 15, 1917: Emergency Shipping Fund Act of 1917, c. 29,
• June 15, 1917: Second Army Appropriations Act of 1917,
• June 15, 1917: Espionage Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 30,
• July 24, 1917: Aviation Act of 1917, ch. 40,
• August 8, 1917: River and Harbor Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 49,
• August 10, 1917: Priority of Shipments Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 51,
• August 10, 1917: Food and Fuel Control Act, Sess. 1, ch. 53,
• October 1, 1917: Second Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 56,
• October 1, 1917: Aircraft Board Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 61,
• October 3, 1917: War Revenue Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 63,
• October 5, 1917: Repatriation Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 68,
• October 6, 1917: Federal Explosives Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 83,
• October 6, 1917: War Risk Insurance Act of 1917, Sess. 1, ch. 105,
• October 6, 1917: International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Sess. 1, ch. 106,
• December 7, 1917: Declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, Sess. 2, ch. 1,
• February 24, 1918: Revenue Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 18,
• March 8, 1918: Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act, Sess. 2, ch. 20,
• March 19, 1918: Standard Time Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 24,
• March 21, 1918: Federal Control Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 25,
• April 4, 1918: Third Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 2, ch. 44,
• April 5, 1918: War Finance Corporation Act, Sess. 2, ch. 45,
• April 10, 1918: Webb-Pomerene Act, Sess. 2, ch. 50,
• April 18, 1918: American Forces Abroad Indemnity Act, Sess. 2, ch. 57,
• April 20, 1918: Destruction of War Materials Act, Sess. 2, ch. 59,
• April 23, 1918: Pittman Act, Sess. 2, ch. 63,
• May 9, 1918: Alien Naturalization Act, Sess. 2, ch. 69,
• May 16, 1918: Housing Act, Sess. 2, ch. 74,
• May 16, 1918: Sedition Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 75,
• May 20, 1918: Departmental Reorganization Act, Sess. 2, ch. 78,
• May 22, 1918: Wartime Measure Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 81,
• May 31, 1918: Saulsbury Resolution, Sess. 2, ch. 90,
• June 27, 1918: Veterans Rehabilitation Act, Sess. 2, ch. 107,
• July 3, 1918: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 128,
• July 9, 1918: Fourth Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 2, ch. 142,
• July 9, 1918: Army Appropriations Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 143,
• July 18, 1918: River and Harbor Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 155,
• July 18, 1918: Charter Rate and Requisition Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 157,
• October 16, 1918: Immigration Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 186,
• October 16, 1918: Corrupt Practices Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 187,
• November 7, 1918: National Bank Consolidation Act of 1918, Sess. 2, ch. 209,
• November 21, 1918: Food Production Stimulation Act, Sess. 2, ch. 212,
• February 24, 1919: Child Labor Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 18,
• February 26, 1919: Grand Canyon National Park Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 44,
• February 26, 1919: Acadia National Park Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 45,
• March 2, 1919: War Risk Insurance Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 94,
• March 2, 1919: River and Harbors Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 95,
• March 3, 1919: Hospitalization Act of 1919, Sess. 3, ch. 98,
• March 3, 1919: Fifth Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 3, ch. 100,
• March 4, 1919: Wheat Price Guarantee Act, Sess. 3, ch. 125,

  Constitutional amendments

• December 18, 1917: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification
• * Amendment was later ratified on January 16, 1919, becoming the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

  Party summary

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: Thomas R. Marshall
• President pro tempore: Willard Saulsbury, Jr.
• Majority Whip: J. Hamilton Lewis
• Minority Whip: Charles Curtis
• Republican Conference Chairman: Jacob Harold Gallinger
• * Henry Cabot Lodge
• Democratic Caucus Chairman : Thomas S. Martin
• Republican Conference Secretary: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: William H. King

  House of Representatives

• Speaker: Champ Clark

  Majority (Democratic) leadership

• Majority Leader: Claude Kitchin
• Majority Whip: vacant
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Edward W. Saunders
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Scott Ferris

  Minority (Republican) leadership

• Minority Leader: James R. Mann
• Minority Whip: Charles M. Hamilton
• Republican Conference Chairman: William S. Greene
• Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Frank P. Woods

  Members

Senate

Alabama">List of United States Senators from Alabama">Alabama

• 2. John H. Bankhead
• 3. Oscar W. Underwood

  Arizona">List of United States Senators from Arizona">Arizona

• 1. Henry F. Ashurst
• 3. Marcus A. Smith

  Arkansas">List of United States Senators from Arkansas">Arkansas

• 2. Joseph T. Robinson
• 3. Lee S. Overman

  California">List of United States Senators from California">California

• 1. Hiram Johnson
• 3. James D. Phelan

  Colorado">List of United States Senators from Colorado">Colorado

• 2. John F. Shafroth
• 3. Charles S. Thomas

  Connecticut">List of United States Senators from Connecticut">Connecticut

• 1. George P. McLean
• 3. Frank B. Brandegee

  Delaware">List of United States Senators from Delaware">Delaware

• 1. Josiah O. Wolcott
• 2. Willard Saulsbury, Jr.

  Florida">List of United States Senators from Florida">Florida

• 1. Park Trammell
• 3. Duncan U. Fletcher

  Georgia">List of United States Senators from Georgia">Georgia

• 2. Thomas W. Hardwick
• 3. Hoke Smith

  Idaho">List of United States Senators from Idaho">Idaho

• 2. William E. Borah
• 3. James H. Brady, until January 13, 1918
• * John F. Nugent, from January 22, 1918

  Illinois">List of United States Senators from Illinois">Illinois

• 2. James Hamilton Lewis
• 3. Lawrence Y. Sherman

  Indiana">List of United States Senators from Indiana">Indiana

• 1. Harry S. New
• 3. James E. Watson

  Iowa">List of United States Senators from Iowa">Iowa

• 2. William S. Kenyon
• 3. Albert B. Cummins

  Kansas">List of United States Senators from Kansas">Kansas

• 2. William H. Thompson
• 3. Charles Curtis

  Kentucky">List of United States Senators from Kentucky">Kentucky

• 2. Ollie M. James, until August 28, 1918
• * George B. Martin, from September 7, 1918
• 3. J. C. W. Beckham

  Louisiana">List of United States Senators from Louisiana">Louisiana

• 2. Joseph E. Ransdell
• 3. Robert F. Broussard, until April 12, 1918
• * Walter Guion, April 22, 1918 – November 5, 1918
• * Edward J. Gay, from November 6, 1918

  Maine">List of United States Senators from Maine">Maine

• 1. Frederick Hale
• 2. Bert M. Fernald

  Maryland">List of United States Senators from Maryland">Maryland

• 1. Joseph I. France
• 3. John Walter Smith

  Massachusetts">List of United States Senators from Massachusetts">Massachusetts

• 1. Henry Cabot Lodge
• 2. John W. Weeks

  Michigan">List of United States Senators from Michigan">Michigan

• 1. Charles E. Townsend
• 2. William Alden Smith

  Minnesota">List of United States Senators from Minnesota">Minnesota

• 1. Frank B. Kellogg
• 2. Knute Nelson

  Mississippi">List of United States Senators from Mississippi">Mississippi

• 1. John Sharp Williams
• 2. James K. Vardaman

  Missouri">List of United States Senators from Missouri">Missouri

• 1. James A. Reed
• 3. William J. Stone, until April 14, 1918
• * Xenophon P. Wilfley, April 30, 1918 – November 5, 1918
• * Selden P. Spencer, from November 6, 1918

  Montana">List of United States Senators from Montana">Montana

• 1. Henry L. Myers
• 2. Thomas J. Walsh

  Nebraska">List of United States Senators from Nebraska">Nebraska

• 1. Gilbert M. Hitchcock
• 2. George W. Norris

  Nevada">List of United States Senators from Nevada">Nevada

• 1. Key Pittman
• 3. Francis G. Newlands, until December 24, 1917
• * Charles B. Henderson, from January 12, 1918

  New Hampshire">List of United States Senators from New Hampshire">New Hampshire

• 2. Henry F. Hollis
• 3. Jacob H. Gallinger, until August 17, 1918
• * Irving W. Drew, September 2, 1918 – November 5, 1918
• * George H. Moses, from November 6, 1918

  New Jersey">List of United States Senators from New Jersey">New Jersey

• 1. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
• 2. William Hughes, until January 30, 1918
• * David Baird, from February 23, 1918

  New Mexico">List of United States Senators from New Mexico">New Mexico

• 1. Andrieus A. Jones
• 2. Albert B. Fall

  New York">List of United States Senators from New York">New York

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

  North Carolina">List of United States Senators from North Carolina">North Carolina

• 2. Furnifold M. Simmons
• 3. Lee S. Overman

  North Dakota">List of United States Senators from North Dakota">North Dakota

• 1. Porter J. McCumber
• 3. Asle J. Gronna

  Ohio">List of United States Senators from Ohio">Ohio

• 1. Atlee Pomerene
• 3. Warren G. Harding

  Oklahoma">List of United States Senators from Oklahoma">Oklahoma

• 2. Robert L. Owen
• 3. Thomas P. Gore

  Oregon">List of United States Senators from Oregon">Oregon

• 2. Harry Lane, until May 23, 1917
• * Charles L. McNary, May 29, 1917 – November 5, 1918
• * Frederick W. Mulkey, November 6, 1918 – December 17, 1918
• * Charles L. McNary, from December 18, 1918
• 3. George E. Chamberlain

  Pennsylvania">List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania

• 1. Philander C. Knox
• 3. Boies Penrose

  Rhode Island">List of United States Senators from Rhode Island">Rhode Island

• 1. Peter G. Gerry
• 2. LeBaron B. Colt

  South Carolina">List of United States Senators from South Carolina">South Carolina

• 2. Benjamin R. Tillman, until July 3, 1918
• * Christie Benet, July 6, 1918 – November 5, 1918
• * William P. Pollock, from November 6, 1918
• 3. Ellison D. Smith

  South Dakota">List of United States Senators from South Dakota">South Dakota

• 2. Thomas Sterling
• 3. Edwin S. Johnson

  Tennessee">List of United States Senators from Tennessee">Tennessee

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

  Texas">List of United States Senators from Texas">Texas

• 1. Charles A. Culberson
• 2. Morris Sheppard

  Utah">List of United States Senators from Utah">Utah

• 1. William H. King
• 3. Reed Smoot

  Vermont">List of United States Senators from Vermont">Vermont

• 1. Carroll S. Page
• 3. William P. Dillingham

  Virginia">List of United States Senators from Virginia">Virginia

• 1. Claude A. Swanson
• 2. Thomas S. Martin

  Washington">List of United States Senators from Washington">Washington

• 1. Miles Poindexter
• 3. Wesley L. Jones

  West Virginia">List of United States Senators from West Virginia">West Virginia

• 1. Howard Sutherland
• 2. Nathan Goff

  Wisconsin">List of United States Senators from Wisconsin">Wisconsin

• 1. Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
• 3. Paul O. Husting, until October 21, 1917
• * Irvine Lenroot, from April 18, 1918

  Wyoming">List of United States Senators from Wyoming">Wyoming

• 1. John B. Kendrick
• 2. Francis E. Warren

House of Representatives

Alabama">List of United States Representatives from Alabama">Alabama

• . Oscar Lee Gray
• . S. Hubert Dent, Jr.
• . Henry B. Steagall
• . Fred L. Blackmon
• . J. Thomas Heflin
• . William B. Oliver
• . John L. Burnett
• . Edward B. Almon
• . George Huddleston
• . William B. Bankhead

  Arizona">List of United States Representatives from Arizona">Arizona

• . Carl Hayden

  Arkansas">List of United States Representatives from Arkansas">Arkansas

• . Thaddeus H. Caraway
• . William A. Oldfield
• . John N. Tillman
• . Otis Wingo
• . Henderson M. Jacoway
• . Samuel M. Taylor
• . William S. Goodwin

  California">List of United States Representatives from California">California

• . Clarence F. Lea
• . John E. Raker
• . Charles F. Curry
• . Julius Kahn
• . John I. Nolan
• . John A. Elston
• . Denver S. Church
• . Everis A. Hayes
• . Charles H. Randall
• . Henry Z. Osborne
• . William Kettner

  Colorado">List of United States Representatives from Colorado">Colorado

• . Benjamin Clark Hilliard
• . Charles Bateman Timberlake
• . Edward Keating
• . Edward Thomas Taylor

  Connecticut">List of United States Representatives from Connecticut">Connecticut

• . Augustine Lonergan
• . Richard P. Freeman
• . John Q. Tilson
• . Ebenezer J. Hill, until September 27, 1917
• * Schuyler Merritt, from November 6, 1917
• . James P. Glynn

  Delaware">List of United States Representatives from Delaware">Delaware

• . Albert F. Polk

  Florida">List of United States Representatives from Florida">Florida

• . Herbert J. Drane
• . Frank Clark
• . Walter Kehoe
• . William J. Sears

  Georgia">List of United States Representatives from Georgia">Georgia

• . James W. Overstreet
• . Frank Park
• . Charles R. Crisp
• . William C. Adamson, until December 18, 1917
• * William C. Wright, from January 16, 1918
• . William S. Howard
• . James W. Wise
• . Gordon Lee
• . Charles H. Brand
• . Thomas Montgomery Bell
• . Carl Vinson
• . John R. Walker
• . William W. Larsen

  Idaho">List of United States Representatives from Idaho">Idaho

• . Addison T. Smith
• . Burton L. French

  Illinois">List of United States Representatives from Illinois">Illinois

• . Martin B. Madden
• . James R. Mann
• . William W. Wilson
• . Charles Martin, until October 28, 1917
• * John W. Rainey, from April 2, 1918
• . Adolph J. Sabath
• . James McAndrews
• . Niels Juul
• . Thomas Gallagher
• . Frederick A. Britten
• . George E. Foss
• . Ira C. Copley
• . Charles Eugene Fuller
• . John C. McKenzie
• . William J. Graham
• . Edward John King
• . Clifford Ireland
• . John A. Sterling , until October 17, 1918
• . Joseph G. Cannon
• . William B. McKinley
• . Henry T. Rainey
• . Loren E. Wheeler
• . William A. Rodenberg
• . Martin D. Foster
• . Thomas S. Williams
• . Edward E. Denison
• . Medill McCormick
• . William E. Mason

  Indiana">List of United States Representatives from Indiana">Indiana

• . George K. Denton
• . Oscar E. Bland
• . William E. Cox
• . Lincoln Dixon
• . Everett Sanders
• . Daniel Webster Comstock, until May 19, 1917
• * Richard N. Elliott, from June 29, 1917
• . Merrill Moores
• . Albert H. Vestal
• . Fred S. Purnell
• . William R. Wood
• . Milton Kraus
• . Louis W. Fairfield
• . Henry A. Barnhart

  Iowa">List of United States Representatives from Iowa">Iowa

• . Charles A. Kennedy
• . Harry E. Hull
• . Burton E. Sweet
• . Gilbert N. Haugen
• . James W. Good
• . C. William Ramseyer
• . Cassius C. Dowell
• . Horace M. Towner
• . William R. Green
• . Frank P. Woods
• . George Cromwell Scott

  Kansas">List of United States Representatives from Kansas">Kansas

• . Daniel Read Anthony, Jr.
• . Edward C. Little
• . Philip P. Campbell
• . Dudley Doolittle
• . Guy T. Helvering
• . John R. Connelly
• . Jouett Shouse
• . William A. Ayres

  Kentucky">List of United States Representatives from Kentucky">Kentucky

• . Alben Barkley
• . David Hayes Kincheloe
• . Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.
• . Ben Johnson
• . J. Swagar Sherley
• . Arthur B. Rouse
• . J. Campbell Cantrill
• . Harvey Helm, until March 3, 1919
• . William Jason Fields
• . John W. Langley
• . Caleb Powers

  Louisiana">List of United States Representatives from Louisiana">Louisiana

• . Albert Estopinal
• . Henry Garland Dupré
• . Whitmell P. Martin
• . John Thomas Watkins
• . Riley Joseph Wilson
• . Jared Y. Sanders, Sr.
• . Ladislas Lazaro
• . James Benjamin Aswell

  Maine">List of United States Representatives from Maine">Maine

• . Louis B. Goodall
• . Wallace H. White, Jr.
• . John A. Peters
• . Ira G. Hersey

  Maryland">List of United States Representatives from Maryland">Maryland

• . Jesse D. Price
• . Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott, until October 5, 1918
• * Carville Benson, from November 5, 1918
• . Charles P. Coady
• . J. Charles Linthicum
• . Sydney Emanuel Mudd II
• . Frederick N. Zihlman

  Massachusetts">List of United States Representatives from Massachusetts">Massachusetts

• . Allen T. Treadway
• . Frederick H. Gillett
• . Calvin D. Paige
• . Samuel E. Winslow
• . John J. Rogers
• . Augustus P. Gardner, until May 15, 1917
• * Willfred W. Lufkin, from November 6, 1917
• . Michael F. Phelan
• . Frederick W. Dallinger
• . Alvan T. Fuller
• . Peter F. Tague
• . George H. Tinkham
• . James A. Gallivan
• . William H. Carter
• . Richard Olney II
• . William S. Greene
• . Joseph Walsh

  Michigan">List of United States Representatives from Michigan">Michigan

• . Frank E. Doremus
• . Mark R. Bacon, until December 13, 1917
• * Samuel Beakes, from December 13, 1917
• . John M. C. Smith
• . Edward L. Hamilton
• . Carl Mapes
• . Patrick H. Kelley
• . Louis C. Cramton
• . Joseph W. Fordney
• . James C. McLaughlin
• . Gilbert A. Currie
• . Frank D. Scott
• . W. Frank James
• . Charles Archibald Nichols

  Minnesota">List of United States Representatives from Minnesota">Minnesota

• . Sydney Anderson
• . Franklin Ellsworth
• . Charles Russell Davis
• . Carl Van Dyke
• . Ernest Lundeen
• . Harold Knutson
• . Andrew Volstead
• . Clarence B. Miller
• . Halvor Steenerson
• . Thomas D. Schall

  Mississippi">List of United States Representatives from Mississippi">Mississippi

• . Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.
• . Hubert D. Stephens
• . Benjamin G. Humphreys II
• . Thomas U. Sisson
• . William Webb Venable
• . Pat Harrison
• . Percy E. Quin
• . James W. Collier

  Missouri">List of United States Representatives from Missouri">Missouri

• . Milton A. Romjue
• . William W. Rucker
• . Joshua Willis Alexander
• . Charles F. Booher
• . William Patterson Borland, until February 20, 1919
• . Clement C. Dickinson
• . Courtney W. Hamlin
• . Dorsey W. Shackleford
• . Champ Clark
• . Jacob Edwin Meeker, until October 16, 1918
• * Frederick Essen, from November 5, 1918
• . William Leo Igoe
• . Leonidas C. Dyer
• . Walter Lewis Hensley
• . Joseph J. Russell
• . Perl D. Decker
• . Thomas L. Rubey

  Montana">List of United States Representatives from Montana">Montana

• . John M. Evans
• . Jeannette Rankin

  Nebraska">List of United States Representatives from Nebraska">Nebraska

• . C. Frank Reavis
• . Charles O. Lobeck
• . Dan V. Stephens
• . Charles Henry Sloan
• . Ashton C. Shallenberger
• . Moses P. Kinkaid

  Nevada">List of United States Representatives from Nevada">Nevada

• . Edwin E. Roberts

  New Hampshire">List of United States Representatives from New Hampshire">New Hampshire

• . Cyrus A. Sulloway, until March 11, 1917
• * Sherman Everett Burroughs, from May 29, 1917
• . Edward Hills Wason

  New Jersey">List of United States Representatives from New Jersey">New Jersey

• . William J. Browning
• . Isaac Bacharach
• . Thomas J. Scully
• . Elijah C. Hutchinson
• . John H. Capstick, until March 17, 1918
• * William F. Birch, from November 5, 1918
• . John R. Ramsey
• . Dow H. Drukker
• . Edward W. Gray
• . Richard W. Parker
• . Frederick R. Lehlbach
• . John J. Eagan
• . James A. Hamill

  New Mexico">List of United States Representatives from New Mexico">New Mexico

• . William Bell Walton

  New York">List of United States Representatives from New York">New York

• . Frederick C. Hicks
• . C. Pope Caldwell
• . Joseph V. Flynn
• . Harry H. Dale, until January 6, 1919
• . James P. Maher
• . Frederick W. Rowe
• . John J. Fitzgerald, until December 31, 1917
• * John J. Delaney, from March 5, 1918
• . Daniel J. Griffin, until December 31, 1917
• * William E. Cleary, from March 5, 1918
• . Oscar W. Swift
• . Reuben L. Haskell
• . Daniel J. Riordan
• . Meyer London
• . Christopher D. Sullivan
• . Fiorello H. LaGuardia
• . Thomas Francis Smith, from April 12, 1917
• . Peter J. Dooling
• . John F. Carew
• . George B. Francis
• . Walter M. Chandler
• . Isaac Siegel
• . George Murray Hulbert, until January 1, 1918
• * Jerome F. Donovan, from March 5, 1918
• . Henry Bruckner, until December 31, 1917
• * Anthony Griffin, from March 5, 1918
• . Daniel C. Oliver
• . Benjamin L. Fairchild
• . James W. Husted
• . Edmund Platt
• . Charles B. Ward
• . Rollin B. Sanford
• . James S. Parker
• . George R. Lunn
• . Bertrand H. Snell
• . Luther W. Mott
• . Homer P. Snyder
• . George W. Fairchild
• . Walter W. Magee
• . Norman J. Gould
• . Harry H. Pratt
• . Thomas B. Dunn
• . Archie D. Sanders
• . S. Wallace Dempsey
• . Charles B. Smith
• . William F. Waldow
• . Charles M. Hamilton

  North Carolina">List of United States Representatives from North Carolina">North Carolina

• . John Humphrey Small
• . Claude Kitchin
• . George E. Hood
• . Edward W. Pou
• . Charles M. Stedman
• . Hannibal L. Godwin
• . Leonidas D. Robinson
• . Robert L. Doughton
• . Edwin Y. Webb
• . Zebulon Weaver, until March 1, 1919
• * James Jefferson Britt, from March 1, 1919

  North Dakota">List of United States Representatives from North Dakota">North Dakota

• . Henry Thomas Helgesen, until April 10, 1917
• * John Miller Baer, from July 20, 1917
• . George M. Young
• . Patrick Daniel Norton

  Ohio">List of United States Representatives from Ohio">Ohio

• . Nicholas Longworth
• . Victor Heintz
• . Warren Gard
• . Benjamin F. Welty
• . John S. Snook
• . Charles C. Kearns
• . Simeon D. Fess
• . John A. Key
• . Isaac R. Sherwood
• . Robert M. Switzer
• . Horatio C. Claypool
• . Clement L. Brumbaugh
• . Arthur W. Overmyer
• . Ellsworth R. Bathrick, until December 23, 1917
• * Martin L. Davey, from November 5, 1918
• . George White
• . Roscoe C. McCulloch
• . William A. Ashbrook
• . David Hollingsworth
• . John G. Cooper
• . William Gordon
• . Robert Crosser
• . Henry I. Emerson

  Oklahoma">List of United States Representatives from Oklahoma">Oklahoma

• . Thomas Alberter Chandler
• . William W. Hastings
• . Charles D. Carter
• . Tom D. McKeown
• . Joseph Bryan Thompson
• . Scott Ferris
• . James V. McClintic
• . Dick Thompson Morgan

  Oregon">List of United States Representatives from Oregon">Oregon

• . Willis C. Hawley
• . Nicholas J. Sinnott
• . Clifton N. McArthur

  Pennsylvania">List of United States Representatives from Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania

• . William S. Vare
• . George S. Graham
• . J. Hampton Moore
• . George W. Edmonds
• . Peter E. Costello
• . George P. Darrow
• . Thomas S. Butler
• . Henry Winfield Watson
• . William W. Griest
• . John R. Farr
• . Thomas W. Templeton
• . Robert D. Heaton
• . Arthur G. Dewalt
• . Louis T. McFadden
• . Edgar R. Kiess
• . John V. Lesher
• . Benjamin K. Focht
• . Aaron S. Kreider
• . John M. Rose
• . Andrew R. Brodbeck
• . Charles H. Rowland
• . Edward E. Robbins, until January 25, 1919
• . Bruce F. Sterling
• . Henry W. Temple
• . Henry A. Clark
• . Henry J. Steele
• . Nathan L. Strong
• . Orrin D. Bleakley, until April 3, 1917
• * Earl Hanley Beshlin, from November 6, 1917
• . Stephen G. Porter
• . M. Clyde Kelly
• . John M. Morin
• . Guy E. Campbell
• . Thomas S. Crago
• . John R.K. Scott, until January 5, 1919
• . Joseph McLaughlin
• . Mahlon M. Garland

  Rhode Island">List of United States Representatives from Rhode Island">Rhode Island

• . George Francis O'Shaunessy
• . Walter Russell Stiness
• . Ambrose Kennedy

  South Carolina">List of United States Representatives from South Carolina">South Carolina

• . Richard S. Whaley
• . James F. Byrnes
• . Fred H. Dominick
• . Samuel J. Nicholls
• . William F. Stevenson
• . J. Willard Ragsdale
• . Asbury F. Lever

  South Dakota">List of United States Representatives from South Dakota">South Dakota

• . Charles H. Dillon
• . Royal C. Johnson
• . Harry L. Gandy

  Tennessee">List of United States Representatives from Tennessee">Tennessee

• . Sam R. Sells
• . Richard W. Austin
• . John Austin Moon
• . Cordell Hull
• . William C. Houston
• . Joseph W. Byrns
• . Lemuel Phillips Padgett
• . Thetus Willrette Sims
• . Finis J. Garrett
• . Hubert Fisher

  Texas">List of United States Representatives from Texas">Texas

• . Eugene Black
• . Martin Dies
• . James Young
• . Sam Rayburn
• . Hatton W. Sumners
• . Rufus Hardy
• . Alexander W. Gregg
• . Joe H. Eagle
• . Joseph J. Mansfield
• . James P. Buchanan
• . Tom T. Connally
• . James Clifton Wilson, until March 3, 1919
• . John Marvin Jones
• . James L. Slayden
• . John Nance Garner
• . Thomas L. Blanton
• . Daniel E. Garrett
• . A. Jeff McLemore

  Utah">List of United States Representatives from Utah">Utah

• . Milton H. Welling
• . James Henry Mays

  Vermont">List of United States Representatives from Vermont">Vermont

• . Frank L. Greene
• . Porter H. Dale

  Virginia">List of United States Representatives from Virginia">Virginia

• . William Atkinson Jones, until April 17, 1918
• * S. Otis Bland, from July 2, 1918
• . Edward Everett Holland
• . Andrew Jackson Montague
• . Walter Allen Watson
• . Edward W. Saunders
• . Carter Glass, until December 16, 1918
• * James P. Woods, from February 25, 1919
• . Thomas W. Harrison
• . Charles Creighton Carlin
• . C. Bascom Slemp
• . Henry De Flood

  Washington">List of United States Representatives from Washington">Washington

• . John F. Miller
• . Lindley H. Hadley
• . Albert Johnson
• . William Leroy La Follette
• . Clarence Cleveland Dill

  West Virginia">List of United States Representatives from West Virginia">West Virginia

• . Matthew M. Neely
• . George M. Bowers
• . Stuart F. Reed
• . Harry C. Woodyard
• . Edward Cooper
• . Adam B. Littlepage

  Wisconsin">List of United States Representatives from Wisconsin">Wisconsin

• . Henry A. Cooper
• . Edward Voigt
• . John M. Nelson
• . William J. Cary
• . William H. Stafford
• . James H. Davidson, until August 6, 1918
• * Florian Lampert, from November 5, 1918
• . John Jacob Esch
• . Edward E. Browne
• . David G. Classon
• . James A. Frear
• . Irvine L. Lenroot, until April 17, 1918
• * Adolphus P. Nelson, from November 5, 1918

  Wyoming">List of United States Representatives from Wyoming">Wyoming

• . Franklin Wheeler Mondell

  Non-voting members

• . Charles A. Sulzer, until January 7, 1919
• * James Wickersham, from January 7, 1919
• . Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole
• . Jaime C. De Veyra,
• . Teodoro R. Yangco,
• . Félix Córdova Dávila,, from August 7, 1917

Changes in membership

Senate

• Replacements: 17
• * Democratic: 3-seat net loss
• * Republican: 3-seat net gain
• Deaths: 10
• Resignations: 1
• Vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 17

House of Representatives

• replacements: 23
• * Democratic: no net change
• * Republican: no net change
• deaths: 15
• resignations: 12
• contested elections: 3
• Total seats with changes: 31

  Committees

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress
• Agriculture and Forestry
• Appropriations
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
• Banking and Currency
• 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
• Education and Labor
• Engrossed Bills
• Enrolled Bills
• Establish a University in the United States
• 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 State Department
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department
• Expenditures in the War Department
• Finance
• Fisheries
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
• Foreign Relations
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
• Geological Survey
• Immigration
• Indian Affairs
• Indian Depredations
• Industrial Expositions
• Interoceanic Canals
• Interstate Commerce
• Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Lands
• Irrigation and Reclamation
• Judiciary
• Library
• Manufactures
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries
• 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
• Revolutionary Claims
• Rules
• Standards, Weights and Measures
• Tariff Regulation
• Territories
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
• University of the United States
• Washington Railway and Electrical Company
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage

  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 No.#1
• Elections No.#2
• Elections No.#3
• 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
• Investigate Conditions Interfering with Interstate Commerce between the States of Illinois and Missouri
• Irrigation of Arid Lands
• Judiciary
• Labor
• Library
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Mileage
• Military Affairs
• Mines and Mining
• Naval Affairs
• Patents
• Pensions
• Post Office and Post Roads
• Printing
• 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
• Ways and Means
• Woman Suffrage
• Whole

  Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• Interstate Commerce
• The Library
• Postal Salaries
• Printing
• Reclassification of Salaries

  Caucuses

• Democratic
• Democratic

  Employees

Legislative branch agency">List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch">Legislative branch agency directors

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

  Senate

• Chaplain: F.J. Prettyman
• Secretary: James M. Baker
• Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
• Sergeant at Arms: Charles P. Higgins

  House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Henry N. Couden
• Clerk: South Trimble
• Doorkeeper: Joseph J. Sinnott
• Postmaster: William M. Dunbar
• Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Bennett C. Clark
• * Clarence A. Cannon
• Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan and H. Martin Williams
• Sergeant at Arms: Robert B. Gordon