United States Senate Committee on Civil Service
United States Senate Committee on Civil Service is a defunct committee of the United States Senate.
The first standing Senate committee with jurisdiction over the civil service was the United States Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, which was established on December 4, 1873, following unanimous approval of a resolution introduced by Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island. On April 18, 1921, the committee was renamed the United States Senate Committee on Civil Service.
The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 retained the Committee on Civil Service and established the committee's jurisdiction over all the aspects of civil service, the Census Bureau and the government's gathering of statistics, and the National Archives. The act also transferred to the committee jurisdiction over the postal service. On April 17, 1947, as specified by of the 80th United States Congress, the committee's name was changed from the Committee on Civil Service to the United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
The committee ceased to exist in February 1977, under S. Res. 4 of the 95th Congress when its functions were transferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
In there were select or special committees pertaining to the Civil Service:
- United States Senate Select Committee to Investigate the Operation of the Civil Service, 1888-1889
- United States Senate Select Committee to Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service, 1875-1921
- United States Special Committee to Investigate the Administration of the Civil Service System, 1938-1941
Chairmen of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, 1873-1921
- George Wright 1873-1875
- Powell Clayton 1875-1877
- James G. Blaine 1877
- Henry Teller 1877-1879
- M. C. Butler 1879-1881
- Joseph Hawley 1881-1887
- Jonathan Chace 1887-1889
- Edward O. Wolcott 1889-1893
- Wilkinson Call 1893-1894
- Thomas Jarvis 1894-1895
- Jeter C. Pritchard 1895-1899
- Lucien Baker 1899-1901
- George C. Perkins 1901-1909
- Albert Cummins 1909-1913
- Atlee Pomerene 1913-1917
- Kenneth McKellar 1917-1919
- Thomas Sterling 1919-1921
Chairmen of the Committee on Civil Service, 1921-1947
- Thomas Sterling 1921-1923
- Robert Nelson Stanfield 1923-1925
- James Couzens 1925-1926
- Porter H. Dale 1926-1933
- William J. Bulow 1933-1943
- Kenneth McKellar 1943-1944
- Sheridan Downey 1944-1947
