59th United States Congress explained

Number:	59th
Imagename:	United States Capitol
Imagedate:	1906
Start:	March 4, 1905
End:	March 4, 1907
Vp:	Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
Pro Tem:	William P. Frye (R)
Speaker:	Joseph G. Cannon (R)
Senators:	90
Reps:	386
Delegates:	6
S-Majority:	Republican
H-Majority:	Republican
Sessionnumber1:	Special
Sessionstart1:	March 4, 1905
Sessionend1:	March 18, 1905
Sessionnumber2:	1st
Sessionstart2:	December 4, 1905
Sessionend2:	June 30, 1906
Sessionnumber3:	2nd
Sessionstart3:	December 3, 1906
Sessionend3:	March 3, 1907
Previous:	58th
Next:	60th

The 59th 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 1900 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major events

See main article: 1905 in the United States, 1906 in the United States and 1907 in the United States.

• March 4, 1905: President Theodore Roosevelt began his second (only full) term.

Major legislation

See main article: List of United States federal legislation.

• May 28, 1906: Foreign Dredge Act of 1906
• June 8, 1906: Antiquities Act
• June 29, 1906: Hepburn Act
• June 30, 1906: Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Wiley Act), ch. 3915,
• 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,

Party summary

House of Representatives

Leaders

Senate leadership

Presiding

• President

Charles W. Fairbanks (R)

• President pro tempore

William P. Frye (R)

• Republican Conference Chairman

William B. Allison

• Democratic Caucus Chair: Arthur Pue Gorman, until June 4, 1906
  • Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, afterwards
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack

House leadership

Presiding

• Speaker

Joseph G. Cannon (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader

Sereno E. Payne

• Majority Whip

James E. Watson

• Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader

John Sharp Williams

• Minority Whip

James T. Lloyd

• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Robert Lee Henry
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.

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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, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1906; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1908; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1910.

2. John T. Morgan (D)

3. Edmund Pettus (D)

2. James H. Berry (D)

3. James P. Clarke (D)

1. Frank P. Flint (R)

3. George C. Perkins (R)

2. Thomas M. Patterson (D)

3. Henry M. Teller (D)

1. Morgan G. Bulkeley (R)

3. Orville H. Platt (R), until April 21, 1905

Frank B. Brandegee (R), from May 10, 1905

1. Henry A. du Pont, (R), from June 13, 1906

2. J. Frank Allee (R)

2. James P. Taliaferro (D)

3. Stephen Mallory (D)

2. Augustus O. Bacon (D)

3. Alexander S. Clay (D)

2. Fred Dubois (D)

3. Weldon B. Heyburn (R)

2. Shelby M. Cullom (R)

3. Albert J. Hopkins (R)

1. Albert J. Beveridge (R)

3. James A. Hemenway (R)

2. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R)

3. William B. Allison (R)

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)

2. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)

3. James B. McCreary (D)

2. Murphy J. Foster (D)

3. Samuel D. McEnery (D)

1. Eugene Hale (R)

2. William P. Frye (R)

1. Isidor Rayner (D)

3. Arthur P. Gorman (D), until June 4, 1906

William Pinkney Whyte (D), from June 8, 1906

1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)

2. Winthrop M. Crane (R)

1. Julius C. Burrows (R)

2. Russell A. Alger (R), until January 24, 1907

William Alden Smith (R), from February 6, 1907

1. Moses E. Clapp (R)

2. Knute Nelson (R)

1. Hernando D. Money (D)

2. Anselm J. McLaurin (D)

1. William Warner (R), from March 18, 1905

3. William J. Stone (D)|

1. Thomas H. Carter (R)

2. William A. Clark (D)

1. Elmer J. Burkett (R)

2. Joseph H. Millard (R)

1. George S. Nixon (R)

3. Francis G. Newlands (D)

2. Henry E. Burnham (R)

3. Jacob H. Gallinger (R)

1. John Kean Jr. (R)

2. John F. Dryden (R)

1. Chauncey M. Depew (R)

3. Thomas C. Platt (R)

2. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)

3. Lee S. Overman (D)

1. Porter J. McCumber (R)

3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R)

1. Charles W. F. Dick (R)

3. Joseph B. Foraker (R)

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)

1. Philander C. Knox (R)

3. Boies Penrose (R)

1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R)

2. George P. Wetmore (R)

2. Benjamin R. Tillman (D)

3. Asbury C. Latimer (D)

2. Robert J. Gamble (R)

3. Alfred B. Kittredge (R)

1. William B. Bate (D), until March 9, 1905

James B. Frazier (D), from March 21, 1905

2. Edward W. Carmack (D)

1. Charles A. Culberson (D)

2. Joseph W. Bailey (D)

1. George Sutherland (R)

3. Reed Smoot (R)

1. Redfield Proctor (R)

3. William P. Dillingham (R)

1. John W. Daniel (D)

2. Thomas S. Martin (D)

1. Samuel H. Piles (R)

3. Levi Ankeny (R)

1. Nathan B. Scott (R)

2. Stephen B. Elkins (R)

1. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)^[2]

3. John C. Spooner (R)

1. Clarence D. Clark (R)

2. Francis E. Warren (R)

House of Representatives

. George W. Taylor (D)

. Ariosto A. Wiley (D)

. Henry D. Clayton (D)

. Sydney J. Bowie (D)

. J. Thomas Heflin (D)

. John H. Bankhead (D)

. John L. Burnett (D)

. William N. Richardson (D)

. Oscar Underwood (D)

. Robert B. Macon (D)

. Stephen Brundidge Jr. (D)

. John C. Floyd (D)

. John S. Little (D), until January 14, 1907

. Charles C. Reid (D)

. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D)

. Robert M. Wallace (D)

. James N. Gillett (R), until November 4, 1906

William F. Englebright (R), from November 6, 1906

. Duncan E. McKinlay (R)

. Joseph R. Knowland (R)

. Julius Kahn (R)

. Everis A. Hayes (R)

. James C. Needham (R)

. James McLachlan (R)

. Sylvester C. Smith (R)

. Robert W. Bonynge (R)

. Herschel M. Hogg (R)

. Franklin E. Brooks (R)

. E. Stevens Henry (R)

. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R)

. Frank B. Brandegee (R), until May 10, 1905

Edwin W. Higgins (R), from October 2, 1905

. Ebenezer J. Hill (R)

. George L. Lilley (R)

. Hiram R. Burton (R)

. Stephen M. Sparkman (D)

. Frank Clark (D)

. William B. Lamar (D)

. Rufus E. Lester (D), until June 16, 1906

James W. Overstreet (D), from October 3, 1906

. James M. Griggs (D)

. Elijah B. Lewis (D)

. William C. Adamson (D)

. Leonidas F. Livingston (D)

. Charles L. Bartlett (D)

. Gordon Lee (D)

. William M. Howard (D)

. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)

. Thomas W. Hardwick (D)

. William G. Brantley (D)

. Burton L. French (R)

. Martin B. Madden (R)

. James R. Mann (R)

. William W. Wilson (R)

. Charles S. Wharton (R)

. Anthony Michalek (R)

. William Lorimer (R)

. Philip Knopf (R)

. Charles McGavin (R)

. Henry S. Boutell (R)

. George E. Foss (R)

. Howard M. Snapp (R)

. Charles Eugene Fuller (R)

. Robert R. Hitt (R), until September 20, 1906

Frank O. Lowden (R), from November 6, 1906

. Benjamin F. Marsh (R), until June 2, 1905

James McKinney (R), from November 7, 1905

. George W. Prince (R)

. Joseph V. Graff (R)

. John A. Sterling (R)

. Joseph G. Cannon (R)

. William B. McKinley (R)

. Henry T. Rainey (D)

. Zeno J. Rives (R)

. William A. Rodenberg (R)

. Frank S. Dickson (R)

. Pleasant T. Chapman (R)

. George Washington Smith (R)

. John H. Foster (R), from May 16, 1905

. John C. Chaney (R)

. William T. Zenor (D)

. Lincoln Dixon (D)

. Elias S. Holliday (R)

. James E. Watson (R)

. Jesse Overstreet (R)

. George W. Cromer (R)

. Charles B. Landis (R)

. Edgar D. Crumpacker (R)

. Frederick Landis (R)

. Newton W. Gilbert (R), until November 6, 1906

Clarence C. Gilhams (R), from November 6, 1906

. Abraham L. Brick (R)

. Thomas Hedge (R)

. Albert F. Dawson (R)

. Benjamin P. Birdsall (R)

. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)

. Robert G. Cousins (R)

. John F. Lacey (R)

. John A. T. Hull (R)

. William P. Hepburn (R)

. Walter I. Smith (R)

. James P. Conner (R)

. Elbert H. Hubbard (R)

. Charles Curtis (R), until January 28, 1907

. Justin De Witt Bowersock (R)

. Philip P. Campbell (R)

. James Monroe Miller (R)

. William A. Calderhead (R)

. William A. Reeder (R)

. Victor Murdock (R)

. Charles Frederick Scott (R)

. Ollie M. James (D)

. Augustus Stanley (D)

. James M. Richardson (D)

. David Highbaugh Smith (D)

. J. Swagar Sherley (D)

. Joseph L. Rhinock (D)

. South Trimble (D)

. George G. Gilbert (D)

. Joseph B. Bennett (R)

. Francis A. Hopkins (D)

. Don C. Edwards (R)

. Adolph Meyer (D)

. Robert C. Davey (D)

. Robert F. Broussard (D)

. John Thomas Watkins (D)

. Joseph E. Ransdell (D)

. Samuel M. Robertson (D)

. Arsène Paulin Pujó (D)

. Amos L. Allen (R)

. Charles E. Littlefield (R)

. Edwin C. Burleigh (R)

. Llewellyn Powers (R)

. Thomas A. Smith (D)

. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D)

. Frank C. Wachter (R)

. John Gill Jr. (D)

. Sydney E. Mudd (R)

. George A. Pearre (R)

. George P. Lawrence (R)

. Frederick H. Gillett (R)

. Rockwood Hoar (R), until November 1, 1906

Charles G. Washburn (R), from December 18, 1906

. Charles Q. Tirrell (R)

. Butler Ames (R)

. Augustus P. Gardner (R)

. Ernest W. Roberts (R)

. Samuel W. McCall (R)

. John A. Keliher (D)

. William S. McNary (D)

. John Andrew Sullivan (D)

. John W. Weeks (R)

. William S. Greene (R)

. William C. Lovering (R)

. Edwin C. Denby (R)

. Charles E. Townsend (R)

. Washington Gardner (R)

. Edward L. Hamilton (R)

. William Alden Smith (R), until February 9, 1907

. Samuel W. Smith (R)

. Henry McMorran (R)

. Joseph W. Fordney (R)

. Roswell P. Bishop (R)

. George A. Loud (R)

. Archibald B. Darragh (R)

. H. Olin Young (R)

. James Albertus Tawney (R)

. James T. McCleary (R)

. Charles Russell Davis (R)

. Frederick C. Stevens (R)

. Loren Fletcher (R)

. Clarence Buckman (R)

. Andrew Volstead (R)

. James Bede (R)

. Halvor Steenerson (R)

. Ezekiel S. Candler Jr. (D)

. Thomas Spight (D)

. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D)

. Wilson S. Hill (D)

. Adam M. Byrd (D)

. Eaton J. Bowers (D)

. Frank A. McLain (D)

. John Sharp Williams (D)

. James T. Lloyd (D)

. William W. Rucker (D)

. Frank B. Klepper (R)

. Frank B. Fulkerson (R)

. Edgar C. Ellis (R)

. David A. De Armond (D)

. John Welborn (R)

. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D)

. James Beauchamp Clark (D)

. Richard Bartholdt (R)

. John T. Hunt (D)

. Ernest E. Wood (D), until June 23, 1906

Harry M. Coudrey (R), from June 23, 1906

. Marion E. Rhodes (R)

. William T. Tyndall (R)

. Cassius M. Shartel (R)

. Arthur P. Murphy (R)

. Joseph M. Dixon (R)

. Elmer J. Burkett (R), until March 4, 1905

Ernest M. Pollard (R), from July 18, 1905

. John L. Kennedy (R)

. John J. McCarthy (R)

. Edmund H. Hinshaw (R)

. George W. Norris (R)

. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

. Clarence D. Van Duzer (D)

. Cyrus A. Sulloway (R)

. Frank Dunklee Currier (R)

. Henry C. Loudenslager (R)

. John J. Gardner (R)

. Benjamin F. Howell (R)

. Ira W. Wood (R)

. Charles N. Fowler (R)

. Henry C. Allen (R)

. Richard Wayne Parker (R)

. William H. Wiley (R)

. Marshall Van Winkle (R)

. Allan L. McDermott (D)

. William W. Cocks (R)

. George H. Lindsay (D)

. Charles T. Dunwell (R)

. Charles B. Law (R)

. George E. Waldo (R)

. William M. Calder (R)

. John J. Fitzgerald (D)

. Timothy D. Sullivan (D), until July 27, 1906

Daniel J. Riordan (D), from November 6, 1906

. Henry M. Goldfogle (D)

. William Sulzer (D)

. William Randolph Hearst (D)

. W. Bourke Cockran (D)

. Herbert Parsons (R)

. Charles A. Towne (D)

. J. Van Vechten Olcott (R)

. Jacob Ruppert (D)

. William S. Bennet (R)

. Joseph A. Goulden (D)

. John E. Andrus (R)

. Thomas W. Bradley (R)

. John H. Ketcham (R), until November 4, 1906

. William H. Draper (R)

. George N. Southwick (R)

. Frank J. LeFevre (R)

. Lucius N. Littauer (R)

. William H. Flack (R), until February 2, 1907

. James S. Sherman (R)

. Charles L. Knapp (R)

. Michael E. Driscoll (R)

. John W. Dwight (R)

. Sereno E. Payne (R)

. James B. Perkins (R)

. J. Sloat Fassett (R)

. James W. Wadsworth (R)

. William H. Ryan (D)

. De Alva S. Alexander (R)

. Edward B. Vreeland (R)

. John Humphrey Small (D)

. Claude Kitchin (D)

. Charles R. Thomas (D)

. Edward W. Pou (D)

. William W. Kitchin (D)

. Gilbert B. Patterson (D)

. Robert N. Page (D)

. E. Spencer Blackburn (R)

. Edwin Y. Webb (D)

. James M. Gudger Jr. (D)

. Thomas Frank Marshall (R)

. Asle Gronna (R)

. Nicholas Longworth (R)

. Herman P. Goebel (R)

. Robert M. Nevin (R)

. Harvey C. Garber (D)

. William Wildman Campbell (R)

. Thomas E. Scroggy (R)

. J. Warren Keifer (R)

. Ralph D. Cole (R)

. James H. Southard (R)

. Henry T. Bannon (R)

. Charles H. Grosvenor (R)

. Edward L. Taylor Jr. (R)

. Grant E. Mouser (R)

. Amos R. Webber (R)

. Beman G. Dawes (R)

. Capell L. Weems (R)

. Martin L. Smyser (R)

. James Kennedy (R)

. W. Aubrey Thomas (R)

. Jacob A. Beidler (R)

. Theodore E. Burton (R)

. Binger Hermann (R)

. John N. Williamson (R)

. Henry H. Bingham (R)

. Robert Adams Jr. (R), until June 1, 1906

John E. Reyburn (R), from November 6, 1906

. George A. Castor (R), until February 19, 1906

J. Hampton Moore (R), from November 6, 1906

. Reuben O. Moon (R)

. Edward D. Morrell (R)

. George D. McCreary (R)

. Thomas S. Butler (R)

. Irving P. Wanger (R)

. Henry B. Cassel (R)

. Thomas H. Dale (R)

. Henry W. Palmer (R)

. George R. Patterson (R), until March 21, 1906

Charles N. Brumm (R), from November 6, 1906

. Marcus C. L. Kline (D)

. Mial E. Lilley (R)

. Elias Deemer (R)

. Edmund W. Samuel (R)

. Thaddeus M. Mahon (R)

. Marlin E. Olmsted (R)

. John M. Reynolds (R)

. Daniel F. Lafean (R)

. Solomon R. Dresser (R)

. George F. Huff (R)

. Allen F. Cooper (R)

. Ernest F. Acheson (R)

. Arthur L. Bates (R)

. Gustav A. Schneebeli (R)

. William O. Smith (R)

. Joseph C. Sibley (R)

. William H. Graham (R)

. John Dalzell (R)

. James F. Burke (R)

. Andrew J. Barchfeld (R)

. Daniel L. D. Granger (D)

. Adin B. Capron (R)

. George S. Legare (D)

. James O. Patterson (D)

. Wyatt Aiken (D)

. Joseph T. Johnson (D)

. David E. Finley (D)

. J. Edwin Ellerbe (D)

. Asbury F. Lever (D)

. Charles H. Burke (R)

. Eben W. Martin (R)

. Walter P. Brownlow (R)

. Nathan W. Hale (R)

. John A. Moon (D)

. Mounce G. Butler (D)

. William C. Houston (D)

. John W. Gaines (D)

. Lemuel P. Padgett (D)

. Thetus W. Sims (D)

. Finis J. Garrett (D)

. Malcolm R. Patterson (D), until November 5, 1906

. Morris Sheppard (D)

. Moses L. Broocks (D)

. Gordon J. Russell (D)

. Choice B. Randell (D)

. James Andrew Beall (D)

. Scott Field (D)

. Alexander W. Gregg (D)

. John M. Pinckney (D), until April 24, 1905

John M. Moore (D), from June 6, 1905

. George Farmer Burgess (D)

. Albert S. Burleson (D)

. Robert L. Henry (D)

. Oscar W. Gillespie (D)

. John H. Stephens (D)

. James L. Slayden (D)

. John Nance Garner (D)

. William R. Smith (D)

. Joseph Howell (R)

. David J. Foster (R)

. Kittredge Haskins (R)

. William A. Jones (D)

. Harry L. Maynard (D)

. John Lamb (D)

. Robert G. Southall (D)

. Claude A. Swanson (D), until January 30, 1906

Edward W. Saunders (D), from November 6, 1906

. Carter Glass (D)

. James Hay (D)

. John F. Rixey (D), until February 8, 1907

. Campbell Slemp (R)

. Henry D. Flood (D)

. Wesley L. Jones (R)

. Francis W. Cushman (R)

. William E. Humphrey (R)

. Blackburn B. Dovener (R)

. Alston G. Dayton (R), until March 16, 1905

Thomas B. Davis (D), from June 6, 1905

. Joseph Holt Gaines (R)

. Harry C. Woodyard (R)

. James Anthony Hughes (R)

. Henry Allen Cooper (R)

. Henry C. Adams (R), until July 9, 1906

John M. Nelson (R), from September 4, 1906

. Joseph W. Babcock (R)

. Theobald Otjen (R)

. William H. Stafford (R)

. Charles H. Weisse (D)

. John J. Esch (R)

. James H. Davidson (R)

. Edward S. Minor (R)

. Webster E. Brown (R)

. John J. Jenkins (R)

. Franklin W. Mondell (R)

Non-voting members

. Frank Hinman Waskey (D), from August 14, 1906

. Marcus Aurelius Smith (D)

. Jonah Kunio Kalanianaole (R)

. William Henry Andrews (R)

. Bird Segle McGuire (R)

. Tulio Larrínaga (Resident Commissioner), (Unionist)

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
• Vacancies: 2
• Total seats with changes: 9

State (class)	Vacated by	Reason for vacancy	Subsequent	Date of successor's installation
Missouri (1)	Vacant	Legislature had elected late.	nowrap	William Warner (R)	March 18, 1905
Delaware (1)	Vacant	Legislature had elected late.	nowrap	Henry A. du Pont (R)	June 13, 1906
Tennessee (1)	nowrap	William B. Bate (D)	Died March 9, 1905. Successor was elected.	nowrap	James B. Frazier (D)	March 21, 1905
Connecticut (3)	nowrap	Orville H. Platt (R)	Died April 21, 1905. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected.	nowrap	Frank B. Brandegee (R)	May 10, 1905
Oregon (2)	nowrap	John H. Mitchell (R)	Died December 8, 1905. Successor was appointed.	nowrap	John M. Gearin (D)	December 13, 1905
Kansas (2)	nowrap	Joseph R. Burton (R)	Resigned June 4, 1906, due to a conviction of corruption charges. Successor was appointed.	nowrap	Alfred W. Benson (R)	June 11, 1906
Maryland (2)	nowrap	Arthur P. Gorman (D)	Died June 4, 1906. Successor was appointed.	nowrap	William P. Whyte (D)	June 8, 1906
Oregon (2)	nowrap	John M. Gearin (D)	Successor was elected.	nowrap	Frederick W. Mulkey (R)	January 23, 1907
Michigan (2)	nowrap	Russell A. Alger (R)	Died January 24, 1907. Successor was elected.	nowrap	William A. Smith (R)	February 6, 1907
Kansas (2)	nowrap	Alfred W. Benson (R)	Successor was elected.	nowrap	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
	Vacant	Rep. James A. Hemenway resigned during previous congress		John H. Foster (R)	May 16, 1905
		Elmer Burkett (R)	Resigned March 4, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate		Ernest M. Pollard (R)	July 18, 1905
		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
		John M. Pinckney (D)	Died April 24, 1905		John M. Moore (D)	June 6, 1905
		Frank B. Brandegee (R)	Resigned May 10, 1905, after being elected to the U.S. Senate		Edwin W. Higgins (R)	October 2, 1905
		Benjamin F. Marsh (R)	Died June 2, 1905		James McKinney (R)	November 7, 1905
		James Gillett (R)	Resigned January 4, 1906, after being elected Governor of California		William F. Englebright (R)	November 6, 1906
		Claude A. Swanson (D)	Resigned January 30, 1906, after being elected Governor of Virginia		Edward W. Saunders (D)	November 6, 1906
		George A. Castor (R)	Died February 19, 1906		J. Hampton Moore (R)	November 6, 1906
		George R. Patterson (R)	Died March 21, 1906		Charles N. Brumm (R)	November 6, 1906
		Robert Adams Jr. (R)	Died June 1, 1906		John E. Reyburn (R)	November 6, 1906
		Rufus E. Lester (D)	Died June 16, 1906		James W. Overstreet (D)	October 3, 1906
		Ernest E. Wood (D)	Lost contested election June 23, 1906		Harry M. Coudrey (R)	June 23, 1906
	New seat	New delegate seat August 14, 1906	nowrap	Frank H. Waskey (D)	August 14, 1906
		Henry C. Adams (R)	Died July 9, 1906		John M. Nelson (R)	September 4, 1906
		Timothy Sullivan (D)	Resigned July 27, 1906		Daniel J. Riordan (D)	November 6, 1906
		Robert R. Hitt (R)	Died September 20, 1906		Frank O. Lowden (R)	November 6, 1906
		Rockwood Hoar (R)	Died November 1, 1906		Charles G. Washburn (R)	December 18, 1906
		John H. Ketcham (R)	Died November 4, 1906	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		Malcolm R. Patterson (D)	Resigned November 5, 1906, after being elected Governor of Tennessee	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		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
		John S. Little (D)	Resigned January 14, 1907, after being elected Governor of Arkansas	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		Charles Curtis (R)	Resigned January 28, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		William H. Flack (R)	Died February 2, 1907	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		John F. Rixey (D)	Died February 8, 1907	Seat remained vacant until next Congress
		William Alden Smith (R)	Resigned February 9, 1907, after being elected to the U.S. Senate	Seat remained vacant until next Congress

Committees

Senate

• Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Thomas S. Martin)
• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Redfield Proctor; Ranking Member: Chester I. Long)
• Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John Kean; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
• Canadian Relations (Chairman: Winthrop Murray Crane; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Census (Chairman: Chester I. Long; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George C. Perkins; Ranking Member: Fred T. Dubois)
• Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Fulton; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• Coast and Insular Survey (Chairman: Samuel H. Piles; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Coast Defenses (Chairman: Philander C. Knox; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
• Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia (Chairman: Samuel D. McEnery; Ranking Member: Nelson W. Aldrich)
• Cuban Relations (Chairman: Henry E. Burnham; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Jacob H. Gallinger; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: Jonathan P. Dolliver; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: James H. Berry; Ranking Member: Alfred B. Kittredge)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: John F. Dryden; Ranking Member: Murphy J. Foster Jr.)
• Establish a University in the United States (Select) (Chairman: James A. Hemenway; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Examination of Disposition of Documents (Select) (Chairman: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Morgan G. Bulkeley; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments
• Finance (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Fisheries (Chairman: Albert J. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Benjamin R. Tillman; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game (Chairman: Frank B. Brandegee; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Geological Survey (Chairman: Frank P. Flint; Ranking Member: Hernando D. Money)
• Immigration (Chairman: William P. Dillingham; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Moses E. Clapp; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Indian Depredations (Chairman: Elmer J. Burkett; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
• Industrial Expositions (Chairman: William Warner; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington (Select) (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: Thomas S. Martin)
• Indian Territory (Select)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Joseph H. Millard; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Stephen B. Elkins; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Levi Ankeny; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Clarence D. Clark; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Bailey)
• Library (Chairman: George P. Wetmore; Ranking Member: William A. Clark)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Weldon B. Heyburn; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Clay)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles Dick; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Knute Nelson)
• National Banks (Select) (Chairman: George S. Nixon; Ranking Member: Samuel D. McEnery)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: Benjamin R. Tillman)
• Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments (Chairman: Thomas H. Carter; Ranking Member: Anselm J. McLaurin)
• Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico (Chairman: Joseph B. Foraker; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Russell A. Alger; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
• Patents (Chairman: Alfred B. Kittredge; Ranking Member: Stephen R. Mallory)
• Pensions (Chairman: Porter J. McCumber; Ranking Member: James P. Taliaferro)
• Philippines (Chairman: Henry Cabot Lodge; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Boies Penrose; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
• Potomac River Front (Select)
• Printing (Chairman: Thomas C. Platt; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Nathan B. Scott; Ranking Member: Charles A. Culberson)
• Public Health and National Quarantine (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: John Coit Spooner)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Henry C. Hansbrough; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
• Railroads (Chairman: J. Frank Allee; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Bacon)
• Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Chauncey M. Depew; Ranking Member: John W. Daniel)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Alexander S. Clay; Ranking Member: Russell A. Alger)
• Rules (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: Henry M. Teller)
• Standards, Weights and Measures (Select) (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: William A. Clark)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Albert J. Beveridge; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Patterson)
• Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: John W. Daniel; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Clark)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Robert J. Gamble; Ranking Member: Edmund W. Pettus)
• Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select) (Chairman: George Sutherland)
• Ventilation and Acoustics (Select) (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
• Whole
• Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Augustus O. Bacon; Ranking Member: George P. Wetmore)

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: H. Burd Cassel; Ranking Member: Charles Lafayette Bartlett)
• Agriculture (Chairman: James W. Wadsworth; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Chairman: Nehemiah D. Sperry; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Tawney; Ranking Member: Leonidas F. Livingston)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Charles N. Fowler; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
• Census (Chairman: Edgar D. Crumpacker; Ranking Member: James Hay)
• Claims (Chairman: James M. Miller; Ranking Member: Henry M. Goldfogle)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: James H. Southard; Ranking Member: John W. Gaines)
• Disposition of Executive Papers
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph W. Babcock; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
• Education (Chairman: George N. Southwick; Ranking Member: Edwin Y. Webb)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Joseph H. Gaines; Ranking Member: William W. Rucker)
• Elections No.#1 (Chairman: James Robert Mann; Ranking Member: Ollie M. James)
• Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Marlin E. Olmsted; Ranking Member: Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott)
• Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Michael E. Driscoll; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank C. Wachter; Ranking Member: James T. Lloyd)
• Expenditures in the Agriculture Department (Chairman: Charles E. Littlefield; Ranking Member: Henry D. Flood)
• Expenditures in the Commerce and Labor Departments (Chairman: David J. Foster; Ranking Member: Arsene P. Pujo)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Edward S. Minor; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William A. Calderhead; Ranking Member: Robert N. Page)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph W. Fordney; Ranking Member: Choice B. Randell)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Irving P. Wanger; Ranking Member: Carter Glass)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John H. Ketcham; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Robert G. Cousins; Ranking Member: John Lamb)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: George P. Lawrence; Ranking Member: George F. Burgess)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James A. Hughes; Ranking Member: John H. Small)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Robert R. Hitt; Ranking Member: William M. Howard)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Benjamin F. Howell; Ranking Member: Jacob Ruppert Jr.)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: James S. Sherman; Ranking Member: John H. Stephens)
• Industrial Arts and Expositions (Chairman: Augustus P. Gardner; Ranking Member: Charles L. Bartlett)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: Henry Allen Cooper; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: William P. Hepburn; Ranking Member: Robert C. Davey)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Cyrus A. Sulloway; Ranking Member: George H. Lindsay)
• Irrigation of Arid Lands (Chairman: Frank W. Mondell; Ranking Member: Clarence D. Van Duzer)
• Judiciary (Chairman: John J. Jenkins; Ranking Member: David A. De Armond)
• Labor (Chairman: John J. Gardner; Ranking Member: William Randolph Hearst)
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: George W. Prince; Ranking Member: Robert F. Broussard)
• Library (Chairman: James T. McCleary; Ranking Member: William M. Howard)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Joseph C. Sibley; Ranking Member: Charles H. Weisse)
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Charles H. Grosvenor; Ranking Member: Thomas Spight)
• Mileage (Chairman: William A. Reeder; Ranking Member: Elijah B. Lewis)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John A.T. Hull; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
• Militia (Chairman: Edward De V. Morrell; Ranking Member: Augustus O. Stanley)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Webster E. Brown; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: George E. Foss; Ranking Member: Adolph Meyer)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: James L. Slayden)
• Patents (Chairman: Frank D. Currier; Ranking Member: William Sulzer)
• Pensions (Chairman: Henry C. Loudenslager; Ranking Member: William Richardson)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Jesse Overstreet; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
• Printing (Chairman: Charles B. Landis; Ranking Member: James M. Griggs)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: George W. Smith; Ranking Member: William A. Jones)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard Bartholdt; Ranking Member: John H. Bankhead)
• Public Lands (Chairman: John F. Lacey; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• Railways and Canals (Chairman: James H. Davidson; Ranking Member: John L. Burnett)
• Reform in the Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick H. Gillett; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Reuben O. Moon; Ranking Member: Robert B. Macon)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Theodore E. Burton; Ranking Member: Rufus E. Lester)
• Rules (Chairman: John Dalzell; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Edward L. Hamilton; Ranking Member: John A. Moon)
• Ventilation and Acoustics (Chairman: Roswell P. Bishop; Ranking Member: David H. Smith)
• War Claims (Chairman: Thaddeus M. Mahon; Ranking Member: Thetus W. Sims)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Sereno E. Payne; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers (Chairman: Rep. Arthur L. Bates; Vice Chairman: Sen.)
• Revision of the Laws
• The Library
• Printing
• Second Class Mail Matter

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol

Elliott Woods

• Librarian of Congress

• Public Printer of the United States

Francis W. Palmer, until 1905

• • Charles A. Stillings, from 1905

Senate

• Secretary

Charles G. Bennett

• Librarian

Edward C. Goodwin

• Sergeant at Arms

Daniel M. Ransdell

• Chaplain

The Rev. Edward E. Hale, Unitarian

House of Representatives

• Clerk

Alexander McDowell

• Sergeant at Arms

Henry Casson

• Doorkeeper

Frank B. Lyon

• Postmaster

Joseph C. McElroy

• Clerk at the Speaker's Table

Asher C. Hinds

• Reading Clerks

E.L. Sampson (D) and Dennis E. Alward (R)

• Chaplain

The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist

See also

• 1904 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1904 United States presidential election
  • 1904–05 United States Senate elections
  • 1904 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1906 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • 1906–07 United States Senate elections
  • 1906 United States House of Representatives elections

References

• Book: Gould, Lewis L. . 2005 . The Most Exclusive Club . Perseus Books Group . Cambridge, MA . 0-465-02778-4 .
• Book: Remini, Robert V. . 2006 . The House . HarperCollins Publishers, Inc . New York . 0-06-088434-7 .
• Web site: U.S. Congress . 2005 . Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress . June 1, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060601025644/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/index.html . June 1, 2006 . dead . mdy .
• Web site: U.S. House of Representatives . 2006 . Congressional History . June 1, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060601013451/http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History/index.html . June 1, 2006 . dead . mdy .
• Web site: U.S. Senate . 2006 . Statistics and Lists . June 1, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060601011043/http://senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/stats_and_lists.htm. June 1, 2006 . live.
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 1st Session .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 1st Session (1st Revision) .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 1st Session (2nd Revision) .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 2nd Session .
• Book: Official Congressional Directory for the 59th Congress, 2nd Session (Revision) .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carnegie Foundation . Carnegie Foundation . November 26, 2011 . 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. Nevertheless, his Senate service technically began March 4, 1905.