Membership of the 65th Congress of the United States

Membership of the 65th Congress of the United States

March 4, 1917 to March 3, 1919

First Session: April 2, 1917 to October 6, 1917
Second Session: December 3, 1917 to November 21, 1918
Third Session: December 2, 1918 to March 3, 1919
Special Session of the Senate: March 5, 1917 to March 16, 1917

Vice President of the United States:	Thomas R. Marshall (Indiana)
President Pro Tempore of the Senate:	Willard Saulsbury (Delaware)
Secretary of the Senate:	James M. Baker (South Carolina)
Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:	Charles P. Higgins (Missouri)

Speaker of the House of Representatives:	Champ Clark (Missouri)
Clerk of the House:	South Trimble (Kentucky)
Sergeant at Arms of the House:	Robert B. Gordon (Ohio)
Doorkeeper of the House:	Joseph J. Sinnott (Virginia)
Postmaster of the House:	William M. Dunbar

Alabama

Senators

John Hollis Bankhead
Oscar W. Underwood

Representatives

District 1:	Oscar Lee Gray
District 2:	S. Hubert Dent
District 3:	Henry B. Steagall
District 4:	Fred L. Blackmon
District 5:	J. Thomas Heflin
District 6:	William B. Oliver
District 7:	John L. Burnett
District 8:	Edward B. Almon
District 9:	George Huddleston
District 10:	William B. Bankhead

Arizona

Senators

Henry F. Ashurst

Marcus A. Smith

Representative At Large

Carl T. Hayden

Arkansas

Senators

Joseph T. Robinson
William F. Kirby

Representatives

District 1:	Thaddeus H. Caraway
District 2:	William A. Oldfield
District 3:	John N. Tillman
District 4:	Otis T. Wingo
District 5:	Henderson M. Jacoway
District 6:	Samuel M. Taylor
District 7:	William S. Goodwin

California

Senators

James D. Phelan
Hiram W. Johnson (elected for the term beginning March 4, 1917, but preferred to continue as Governor; served from March 16, 1917)

Representatives

District 1:	Clarence F. Lea
District 2:	John E. Raker
District 3:	Charles F. Curry
District 4:	Julius Kahn
District 5:	John I. Nolan
District 6:	John A. Elston
District 7:	Denver S. Church
District 8:	Everis A. Hayes
District 9:	Charles H. Randall
District 10:	Henry Z. Osborn
District 11:	William Kettner

Colorado

Senators

Charles S. Thomas
John F. Shafroth

Representatives

District 1:	Benjamin C. Hilliard
District 2:	Charles B. Timberlake
District 3:	Edward Keating
District 4:	Edward T. Taylor

Connecticut

Senators

Frank B. Brandegee
George P. McLean

Representatives

District 1:	Augustine Lonergan
District 2:	Richard P. Freeman
District 3:	John Q. Tilson
District 4:	Ebenezer J. Hill (died September 27, 1917)
	Schuyler Merritt (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ebenezer J. Hill; served from November 6, 1917)
District 5:	James P. Glynn

Delaware

Senators

Willard Saulsbury, Jr.

Josiah O. Wolcott

Representative At Large

Albert F. Polk

Florida

Senators

Duncan U. Fletcher
Park Trammell

Representatives

District 1:	Herbert J. Drane
District 2:	Frank Clark
District 3:	James W. Kehoe
District 4:	William J. Sears

Georgia

Senators

Hoke Smith
Thomas W. Hardwick

Representatives

District 1:	James W. Overstreet
District 2:	Frank Park
District 3:	Charles R. Crisp
District 4:	William C. Adamson (resigned December 17, 1917 to become member of the United States Customs Court)
	William C. Wright (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William C. Adamson; served from January 16, 1918)
District 5:	William M. Howard
District 6:	James W. Wise
District 7:	Gordon Lee
District 8:	Charles H. Brand (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel J. Tribble; served from April 2, 1917)
District 9:	Thomas M. Bell
District 10:	Carl Vinson
District 11:	John R. Walker
District 12:	William W. Larsen

Idaho

Senators

William E. Borah
James H. Brady (died January 13, 1918)
John F. Nugent (appointed and subsequently to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James H. Brady; served from January 22, 1918)

Representatives

District 1:	Burton L. French
District 2:	Addison T. Smith

Illinois

Senators

J. Hamilton Lewis
Lawrence Y. Sherman

Representatives

District 1:	Martin B. Madden
District 2:	James R. Mann
District 3:	William W. Wilson
District 4:	Charles Martin (died October 28, 1917)
District 4:	John W. Rainey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Martin; served from April 2, 1918)
District 5:	Adolph J. Sabath
District 6:	James McAndrews
District 7:	Niels Juul
District 8:	Thomas Gallagher
District 9:	Frederick A. Britten
District 10:	George C. Foss
District 11:	Ira C. Copley
District 12:	Charles E. Fuller
District 13:	John C. McKenzie
District 14:	William J. Graham
District 15:	Edward J. King
District 16:	Clifford C. Ireland
District 17:	John A. Sterling (died October 17, 1918 as a result of an automobile accident near Pontiac, IL)
District 18:	Joseph G. Cannon
District 19:	William B. McKinley
District 20:	Henry T. Rainey
District 21:	Loren E. Wheeler
District 22:	William A. Rodenberg
District 23:	Martin D. Foster
District 24:	Thomas S. Williams
District 25:	Edward E. Denison
At Large:	J. Medill McCormick
At Large:	William E. Mason

Indiana

Senators

James E. Watson
Harry S. New

Representatives

District 1:	George K. Denton
District 2:	Oscar E. Bland
District 3:	William E. Cox
District 4:	Lincoln Dixon
District 5:	Everett Sanders
District 6:	Daniel W. Comstock (died May 19, 1917)
District 6:	Richard N. Elliott (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel W. Comstock; served from June 29, 1917)
District 7:	Merrill Moores
District 8:	Albert H. Vestal
District 9:	Fred S. Purnell
District 10:	William R. Wood
District 11:	Milton Kraus
District 12:	Louis W. Fairfield
District 13:	Henry A. Barnhart

Iowa

Senators

Albert B. Cummins
William S. Kenyon

Representatives

District 1:	Charles A. Kennedy
District 2:	Harry E. Hull
District 3:	Burton E. Sweet
District 4:	Gilbert N. Haugen
District 5:	James W. Good
District 6:	C. William Ramseyer
District 7:	Cassius C. Dowell
District 8:	Horace M. Towner
District 9:	William R. Green
District 10:	Frank P. Woods
District 11:	George C. Scott

Kansas

Senators

William H. Thompson
Charles Curtis

Representatives

District 1:	Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.
District 2:	Edward C. Little
District 3:	Philip P. Campbell
District 4:	Dudley Doolittle
District 5:	Guy T. Helvering
District 6:	John R. Connelly
District 7:	Jouett Shouse
District 8:	William A. Ayres

Kentucky

Senators

Ollie M. James (died August 28, 1918)
John C. W. Beckham
George B. Martin (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ollie M. James; served from September 7, 1918)

Representatives

District 1:	Alben W. Barkley
District 2:	David H. Kincheloe
District 3:	Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.
District 4:	Ben Johnson
District 5:	J. Swagar Sherley
District 6:	Arthur B. Rouse
District 7:	J. Campbell Cantrill
District 8:	Harvey Helm (died March 3, 1919)
District 9:	William J. Fields
District 10:	John W. Langley
District 11:	Caleb Powers

Louisiana

Senators

Joseph E. Ransdell
Robert F. Broussard (died April 12, 1918)
Walter Guion (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert F. Broussard; served from April 22, 1918 until November 5, 1918, when Edward Gay was elected)
Edward J. Gay (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert F. Broussard; served from November 6, 1918)

Representatives

District 1:	Albert Estopinal
District 2:	H. Garland Dupré
District 3:	Whitmell P. Martin
District 4:	John T. Watkins
District 5:	Riley J. Wilson
District 6:	J. Y. Sanders
District 7:	Ladislas Lazaro
District 8:	James P. Aswell

Maine

Senators

Bert M. Fernald
Frederick Hale

Representatives

District 1:	Louis B. Goodall
District 2:	Wallace H. White
District 3:	John A. Peters
District 4:	Ira G. Hersey

Maryland

Senators

John Walter Smith
Joseph I. France

Representatives

District 1:	Jesse D. Price
District 2:	J. Frederick C. Talbott (died October 5, 1918)
	Carville D. Benson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Frederick C. Talbott; served from November 5, 1918)
District 3:	Charles P. Coady
District 4:	J. Charles Linthicum
District 5:	Sydney E. Mudd
District 6:	Frederick N. Zihlman

Massachusetts

Senators

Henry Cabot Lodge
John W. Weeks

Representatives

District 1:	Allen T. Treadway
District 2:	Frederick H. Gillett
District 3:	Calvin D. Paige
District 4:	Samuel E. Winslow
District 5:	John J. Rogers
District 6:	Augustus P. Gardner (resigned May 15, 1917)
District 6:	Willfred W. Lufkin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Augustus P. Gardner; served from November 6, 1917)
District 7:	Michael F. Phelan
District 8:	Frederick W. Dallinger
District 9:	Alvan T. Fuller
District 10:	Peter F. Tague
District 11:	George H. Tinkham
District 12:	James A. Gallivan
District 13:	William H. Carter
District 14:	Richard Olney II
District 15:	William S. Greene
District 16:	Joseph Walsh

Michigan

Senators

William A. Smith
Charles E. Townsend

Representatives

District 1:	Frank E. Doremus
District 2:	Mark R. Bacon (succeeded December 13, 1917 by Samuel W. Beeks, who contested the election)
District 2:	Samuel W. Beeks (successfully contested the election of Mark R. Bacon; served from December 13, 1917)
District 3:	John M. C. Smith
District 4:	Edward L. Hamilton
District 5:	Carl E. Mapes
District 6:	Patrick H. Kelly
District 7:	Louis C. Cramton
District 8:	Joseph W. Fordney
District 9:	James C. McLaughlin
District 10:	Gilbert A. Currie
District 11:	Frank D. Scott
District 12:	W. Frank James
District 13:	Charles A. Nichols

Minnesota

Senators

Knute Nelson
Frank B. Kellogg

Representatives

District 1:	Sydney Anderson
District 2:	Franklin F. Ellsworth
District 3:	Charles R. Davis
District 4:	Carl C. Van Dyke
District 5:	Ernest Lundeen
District 6:	Harold Knutson
District 7:	Andrew J. Volstead
District 8:	Clarence B. Miller
District 9:	Halvor Steenerson
District 10:	Thomas D. Schall

Mississippi

Senators

John Sharp Williams
James K. Vardaman

Representatives

District 1:	Ezekiel S. Candler
District 2:	Hubert D. Stephens
District 3:	Benjamin G. Humphreys
District 4:	Thomas U. Sisson
District 5:	William W. Venable
District 6:	Pat Harrison
District 7:	Percy E. Quin
District 8:	James W. Collier

Missouri

Senators

William J. Stone (died April 14, 1918)
James A. Reed
Xenophon P. Wilfley (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Stone; served from April 30, 1918 to November 5, 1918, when Selden P. Spencer was elected)
Selden P. Spencer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Stone; served from November 6, 1918)

Representatives

District 1:	Milton A. Romjue
District 2:	William W. Rucker
District 3:	Joshua W. Alexander
District 4:	Charles F. Booher
District 5:	William P. Borland (died February 20, 1919)
District 6:	Clement C. Dickinson
District 7:	Courtney W. Hamlin
District 8:	Dorsey W. Shackleford
District 9:	Champ Clark
District 10:	Jacob E. Meeker (died October 16, 1918)
District 10:	Frederick Essen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jacob E. Meeker; served from November 5, 1918)
District 11:	William L. Igoe
District 12:	Leonidas C. Dyer
District 13:	Walter L. Hensley
District 14:	Joseph J. Russell
District 15:	Perl D. Decker
District 16:	Thomas L. Rubey

Montana

Senators

Henry L. Myers
Thomas J. Walsh

Representatives

District 1:	John M. Evans
District 2:	Jeannette Rankin

Nebraska

Senators

Gilbert M. Hitchcock
George W. Norris

Representatives

District 1:	Charles F. Reavis
District 2:	Charles O. Lobeck
District 3:	Dan V. Stephens
District 4:	Charles H. Sloan
District 5:	Ashton C. Shallenberger
District 6:	Moses P. Kinkaid

Nevada

Senators

Francis G. Newlands (died December 24, 1917)

Key Pittman

Charles B. Henderson (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis G. Newlands; served from January 12, 1918)

Representative At Large

Edwin E. Roberts

New Hampshire

Senators

Jacob H. Gallinger (died August 17, 1918)
Henry F. Hollis
Irving W. Drew (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jacob H. Gallinger; served from September 2, 1918 to November 5, 1918, when George H. Moses was elected)
George H. Moses (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jacob H. Gallinger; served from November 6, 1918)

Representatives

District 1:	Cyrus A. Sulloway (died March 11, 1917)
	Sherman E. Burroughs (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cyrus A. Sulloway; served from May 29, 1917)
District 2:	Edward H. Wason

New Jersey