Membership of the 61st Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1911

 

First Session:  March 15, 1909 to August 5, 1909

Second Session:  December 6, 1909 to June 25, 1910

Third Session:  December 5, 1910 to March 3, 1911

Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1909 to March 6, 1909

 

Vice President of the United States: 

James S. Sherman (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

William P. Frye (Maine)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Charles G. Bennett (New York)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

Daniel M. Ransdell (Indiana)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Joseph G. Cannon (Illinois)

Clerk of the House: 

Alexander McDowell (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Henry Casson (Wisconsin)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Frank B. Lyon (New York)

Postmaster of the House: 

Samuel Langum

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

John Hollis Bankhead

Joseph F. Johnston

 

Representatives

 
District 1: George W. Taylor
District 2: S. Hubert Dent
District 3: Henry D. Clayton
District 4: William B. Craig
District 5: J. Thomas Heflin
District 6: Richmond P. Hobson
District 7: John L. Burnett
District 8: William Richardson 
District 9: Oscar W. Underwood
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

James P. Clarke

Jeff Davis

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Robert B. Macon
District 2: William A. Oldfield
District 3: John C. Floyd
District 4: William B. Cravens
District 5: Charles C. Reid
District 6: Joseph T. Robinson
District 7: Robert M. Wallace
 

 

California

 

Senators

 

George C. Perkins

Frank P. Flint

 

Representatives

 
District 1: William F. Englebright
District 2: Duncan E. McKinlay
District 3: Joseph R. Knowland
District 4: Julius Kahn
District 5: Everis A. Hayes
District 6: James C. Needham
District 7: James McClachan
District 8: Sylvester C. Smith
 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Simon Guggenheim

Charles J. Hughes (died January 11, 1911)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Atterson W. Rucker
District 2: John A. Martin
At Large: Edward T. Taylor
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Morgan G. Bulkeley

Frank B. Brandegee

 

Representatives

 
District 1: E. Stevens Henry
District 2: Nehemiah D. Sperry
District 3: Edwin W. Higgins
District 4: Ebenezer J. Hill
At Large: John Q. Tilson
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Henry A. du Pont

Harry A. Richardson

 

Representative At Large

 
William H. Heald
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

James P. Taliaferro

Duncan U. Fletcher

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Stephen M. Sparkman
District 2: Frank Clark
District 3: Dannite H. Mays
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Augustus O. Bacon

Alexander S. Clay (died November 13, 1910)

Joseph M. Terrell (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander S. Clay; served from November 17, 1910)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Charles G. Edwards
District 2: James M. Griggs (died January 5, 1910)
Seaborn A. Roddenbery (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James M. Griggs; served from February 6, 1910)
District 3: Dudley M. Hughes
District 4: William C. Adamson
District 5: Leonidas F. Livingston
District 6: Charles L. Bartlett
District 7: Gordon Lee
District 8: William M. Howard
District 9: Thomas M. Bell
District 10: Thomas W. Hardwick
District 11: William G. Brantley
 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

Weldon B. Heyburn

William E. Borah

 

Representative At Large

 
Thomas R. Hamer
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Shelby M. Cullom

William Lorimer (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1909, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from June 18, 1909)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Martin B. Madden
District 2: James R. Mann
District 3: William W. Wilson
District 4: James T. McDermott
District 5: Adolph J. Sabath
District 6: William Lorimer (resigned June 17, 1909 to become Senator)
William J. Moxley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Lorimer; served from December 10, 1909)
District 7: Frederick Lundin
District 8: Thomas Gallagher
District 9: Henry S. Boutell
District 10: George C. Foss
District 11: Howard M. Snapp
District 12: Charles E. Fuller
District 13: Frank O. Lowden
District 14: James McKinney
District 15: George W. Prince
District 16: Joseph V. Graff
District 17: John A. Sterling
District 18: Joseph G. Cannon
District 19: William B. McKinley
District 20: Henry T. Rainey
District 21: James F. Graham
District 22: William A. Rodenberg
District 23: Martin T. Foster
District 24: Pleasant D. Chapman
District 25: Napoleon B. Thistlewood
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Albert J. Beveridge

Benjamin F. Shively

 

Representatives

 
District 1: John W. Boehne
District 2: William A. Cullop
District 3: William E. Cox
District 4: Lincoln Dixon
District 5: Ralph W. Moss
District 6: William O. Barnard
District 7: Charles A. Korbly
District 8: John A. M. Adair
District 9: Martin A. Morrison
District 10: Edgar D. Crumpacker
District 11: George W. Rauch
District 12: Cyrus Cline
District 13: Henry A. Barnhart
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Jonathan P. Dolliver (died October 15, 1910)

Albert B. Cummins

Lafayette Young (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan P. Dolliver; served from November 12, 1910)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Charles A. Kennedy
District 2: Albert F. Dawson
District 3: Charles E. Pickett
District 4: Gilbert N. Haugen
District 5: James W. Good
District 6: Nathan E. Kendall
District 7: John A. T. Hull
District 8: William D. Jamieson
District 9: Walter I. Smith
District 10: Frank P. Woods
District 11: Elbert H. Hubbard
 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Charles Curtis

Joseph L. Bristow

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.
District 2: Charles F. Scott
District 3: Philip P. Campbell
District 4: James M. Miller
District 5: William A. Calderhead
District 6: William A. Reeder
District 7: Edmond H. Madison
District 8: Victor Murdock
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Thomas H. Paynter

William O. Bradley

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Ollie M. James
District 2: Augustus O. Stanley
District 3: Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.
District 4: Ben Johnson
District 5: J. Swagar Sherley
District 6: Joseph L. Rhinock
District 7: J. Campbell Cantrill
District 8: Harvey Helm
District 9: Joseph B. Bennett
District 10: John W. Langley
District 11: Don C. Edwards
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Samuel D. McEnery (died June 28, 1910)

Murphy J. Foster

John R. Thornton (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. McEnery; served from December 7, 1910)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Albert Estopinal
District 2: Samuel L. Gilmore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert C. Davey in the previous Congress; served from April 22, 1909; died July 18, 1910)
H. Garland Dupré (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel L. Gillmore; served from November 8, 1910)
District 3: Robert F. Broussard
District 4: John T. Watkins
District 5: Joseph E. Ransdell
District 6: Robert C. Wickliffe
District 7: Arsène P. Pujo
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Eugene Hale

William P. Frye

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Amos L. Allen (died February 20. 1911)
District 2: John P. Swasey
District 3: Edwin C. Burleigh
District 4: Frank E. Guernsey
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Isidor Rayner

John Walter Smith

 

Representatives

 
District 1: J. Harry Covington
District 2: J. Frederick C. Talbott
District 3: John Kronmiller
District 4: John Gill, Jr.
District 5: Sydney E. Mudd
District 6: George A. Pearre
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Henry Cabot Lodge

W. Murray Crane

 

Representatives

 
District 1: George P. Lawrence
District 2: Frederick H. Gillett
District 3: Charles G. Washburn
District 4: Charles Q. Tirrell (died July 31, 1910)
John J. Mitchell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Q. Tirrell; served from November 8, 1910)
District 5: Butler Ames
District 6: Augustus P. Gardner
District 7: Ernest W. Roberts
District 8: Samuel W. McCall
District 9: John A. Keliher
District 10: Joseph F. O'Connell
District 11: Andrew J. Peters
District 12: John W. Weeks
District 13: William S. Greene
District 14: William C. Lovering (died February 4, 1910)
Eugene N. Foss (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William C. Lovering; served from March 22, 1910; resigned January 4, 1911 to become Governor of Massachusetts)
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Julius C. Burrows

William A. Smith

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Edwin Denby
District 2: Charles E. Townsend
District 3: Washington Gardner
District 4: Edward L. Hamilton
District 5: Gerrit J. Diekema
District 6: Samuel W. Smith
District 7: Henry McMorran
District 8: Joseph W. Fordney
District 9: James C. McLaughlin
District 10: George A. Loud
District 11: Francis H. Dodds
District 12: H. Olin Young
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Knute Nelson

Moses E. Clapp

 

Representatives

 
District 1: James A. Tawney
District 2: Winfield S. Hammond
District 3: Charles R. Davis
District 4: Frederick C. Stevens
District 5: Frank M. Nye
District 6: Charles A. Lindbergh
District 7: Andrew J. Volstead
District 8: Clarence B. Miller
District 9: Halvor Steenerson
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Hernando DeSoto Money

Anselm J. McLaurin (died December 22, 1909)

James Gordon (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Anselm J. McLaurin; served from December 27, 1909 to February 22, 1910, when Le Roy Percy was elected)

Le Roy Percy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Anselm J. McLaurin; served from February 23, 1910)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Ezekiel S. Candler
District 2: Thomas Spight
District 3: Benjamin G. Humphreys
District 4: Thomas U. Sisson
District 5: Adam M. Byrd
District 6: Eaton J. Bowers
District 7: William A. Dickson
District 8: James W. Collier
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

William J. Stone

William Warner

 

Representatives

 
District 1: James T. Lloyd
District 2: William W. Rucker
District 3: Joshua W. Alexander
District 4: Charles F. Booher
District 5: William P. Borland
District 6: David A. DeArmond (died November 23, 1909 in a house fire in Butler, MO)
Clement C. Dickinson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David A. DeArmond; served from February 1, 1910)
District 7: Courtney W. Hamlin
District 8: Dorsey W. Shackleford
District 9: Champ Clark
District 10: Richard Bartholdt
District 11: Patrick F. Gill
District 12: Harry M. Coudrey
District 13: Politte Elvins
District 14: Charles A. Crow
District 15: Charles H. Morgan
District 16: Arthur P. Murphy
 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Thomas H. Carter

Joseph M. Dixon

 

Representative At Large

 
Charles N. Pray
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Elmer J. Burkett

Norris Brown

 

Representatives

 
District 1: John A. Maguire
District 2: Gilbert M. Hitchcock
District 3: James P. Latta
District 4: Edmund H. Hinshaw
District 5: George W. Norris
District 6: Moses P. Kinkaid
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Francis G. Newlands

George S. Nixon

 

Representative At Large

 
George A. Bartlett
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Jacob H. Gallinger

Henry E. Burnham

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Cyrus A. Sulloway
District 2: Frank D. Currier
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John Kean

Frank O. Briggs

 

Representatives

 
District 1: Henry C. Loudenslager
District 2: John J. Gardner
District 3: Benjamin F. Howell
District 4: Ira W. Wood
District 5: Charles N. Fowler
District 6: William Hughes
District 7: Richard W. Parker
District 8: William H. Wiley
District 9: Eugene F. Kinkead
District 10: James A. Hamill
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Chauncey M. Depew

Elihu Root

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

William W. Cocks
District 2:

George H. Lindsay
District 3:

Otto G. Foelker
District 4:

Charles B. Law
District 5:

Richard Young
District 6:

William M. Calder
District 7:

John J. Fitzgerald
District 8:

Daniel J. Riordan
District 9:

Henry M. Goldfogle
District 10:

William Sulzer
District 11:

Charles V. Fornes
District 12:

Michael F. Conry
District 13:

Herbert Parsons
District 14:

William Willett, Jr.
District 15:

J. Van Vechten Olcott
District 16:

Francis B. Harrison
District 17:

William S. Bennet
District 18:

Joseph A. Goulden
District 19:

John E. Andrus
District 20:

Thomas J. Bradley
District 21:

Hamilton Fish
District 22:

William H. Draper
District 23:

George N. Southwick
District 24:

George W. Fairchild
District 25:

Cyrus Durey
District 26:

George R. Malby
District 27:

Charles S. Millington
District 28:

Charles L. Knapp
District 29: