Membership of the 68th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925

 

First Session:  December 3, 1923 to June 7, 1924

Second Session:  December 1, 1924 to March 3, 1925

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Calvin Coolidge (Massachusetts) (became President August 3, 1923 upon the death of Warren G. Harding; Vice Presidency remained vacant until March 4, 1925

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Albert B. Cummins (Iowa)

Secretary of the Senate: 

George A. Sanderson (Illinois)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

David S. Barry (Rhode Island)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Frederick H. Gillett (Massachusetts)

Clerk of the House: 

William Tyler Page (Maryland)

Sergeant at Arms of the House: 

Joseph G. Rogers (Pennsylvania)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Bert W. Kennedy (Michigan)

Postmaster of the House: 

Frank W. Collier

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Oscar W. Underwood

J. Thomas Heflin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John McDuffie

District 2:

John R. Tyson (died March 27, 1923)

J. Lister Hill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John R. Tyson; served from August 14, 1923)

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Lamar Jeffers

District 5:

William B. Bowling

District 6:

William B. Oliver

District 7:

Miles C. Allgood

District 8:

Edward B. Almon

District 9:

George Huddleston

District 10:

William B. Bankhead

 

Arizona

 

Senators

 

Henry F. Ashurst

Ralph H. Cameron

 

Representative At Large

 

Carl T. Hayden

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson

Thaddeus H. Caraway

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

William A. Oldfield

District 3:

John N. Tillman

District 4:

Otis T. Wingo

District 5:

Heartsill Ragon

District 6:

Lewis E. Sawyer (died May 5, 1923)

James B. Reed (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis E. Sawyer; served from October 6, 1923)

District 7:

Tilman B. Parks

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

Samuel M. Shortridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

John E. Raker

District 3:

Charles F. Curry

District 4:

Julius Kahn (died December 18, 1924)

Florence P. Kahn (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Julius Kahn; served from February 17, 1925)

District 5:

Mae E. Nolan

District 6:

James H. MacLafferty

District 7:

Henry E. Barbour

District 8:

Arthur M. Free

District 9:

Walter F. Lineberger

District 10:

John D. Fredericks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Z. Osborne in the previous Congress; served from May 1, 1923)

District 11:

Phillip D. Swing

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Lawrence C. Phipps

Samuel D. Nicholson (died March 24, 1923)

Alva B. Adams (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Nicholson; served from May 17, 1923 to November 30, 1924, when R. William Means was elected)

R. William Means (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Nicholson; served from December 1, 1924)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William N. Vaile

District 2:

Charles B. Timberlake

District 3:

Guy U. Hardy

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Frank B. Brandegee (committed suicide October 14, 1924)

George P. McLean

Hiram Bingham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank B. Brandegee; served from December 17, 1924)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

E. Hart Fenn

District 2:

Richard P. Freeman

District 3:

John Q. Tilson

District 4:

Schuyler Merritt

District 5:

Patrick B. O'Sullivan

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

L. Heisler Ball

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

 

Representative At Large

 

William H. Boyce

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Duncan U. Fletcher

Park Trammell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Herbert J. Drane

District 2:

Frank Clark

District 3:

John H. Smithwick

District 4:

William J. Sears

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

William J. Harris

Walter F. George

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

R. Lee Moore

District 2:

Frank Park

District 3:

Charles R. Crisp

District 4:

William C. Wright

District 5:

William D. Upshaw

District 6:

James W. Wise

District 7:

Gordon Lee

District 8:

Charles H. Brand

District 9:

Thomas M. Bell

District 10:

Carl Vinson

District 11:

William C. Lankford

District 12:

William W. Larsen

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

William E. Borah

Frank R. Gooding

Representatives

 

District 1:

Burton L. French

District 2:

Addison T. Smith

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

J. Medill McCormack (committed suicide February 25, 1925)

William B. McKinley

Charles S. Deneen (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Medill McCormick; had been previously elected in 1924 for the term commencing March 4, 1925; served from February 26, 1925)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Martin B. Madden

District 2:

Morton D. Hull (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James R. Mann in the previous Congress; served from April 3, 1923)

District 3:

Elliott W. Sproul

District 4:

John W. Rainey (died May 4, 1923)

Thomas A. Doyle (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Rainey; served from November 6, 1923)

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

James R. Buckley

District 7:

M. Alfred Michaelson

District 8:

Stanley H. Kunz

District 9:

Frederick A. Britten

District 10:

Carl R. Chindblom

District 11:

Frank R. Reid

District 12:

Charles E. Fuller

District 13:

John C. McKenzie

District 14:

William J. Graham (resigned June 7, 1924 to become presiding judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals)

District 15:

Edward J. King

District 16:

William E. Hull

District 17:

Frank H. Funk

District 18:

William P. Holaday

District 19:

Allen F. Moore

District 20:

Henry T. Rainey

District 21:

J. Earl Major

District 22:

Edward E. Miller

District 23:

William W. Arnold

District 24:

Thomas S. Williams

District 25:

Edward E. Denison

At Large:

Richard Yates

At Large:

Henry R. Rathbone

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James E. Watson

Samuel M. Ralston

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William E. Wilson

District 2:

Arthur H. Greenwood

District 3:

Frank Gardner

District 4:

Harry C. Canfield

District 5:

Everett Sanders

District 6:

Richard N. Elliott

District 7:

Merrill Moores

District 8:

Albert H. Vestal

District 9:

Fred S. Purnell

District 10:

William R. Wood

District 11:

Samuel E. Cook

District 12:

Louis W. Fairfield

District 13:

Andrew J. Hickey

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Albert B. Cummins

Smith W. Brookhart

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William F. Kopp

District 2:

Harry E. Hull

District 3: Thomas J. B. Robinson
District 4:

Gilbert N. Haugen

District 5:

Cyrenus Cole

District 6:

C. William Ramseyer

District 7:

Cassius C. Dowell

District 8:

Horace M. Towner (resigned April 1, 1923 to become Governor of Puerto Rico)

Hiram K. Evans (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Horace M. Towner; served from June 4, 1923)

District 9:

William R. Green

District 10:

L. J. Dickinson

District 11:

William D. Boies

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Charles Curtis

Arthur Capper

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.

District 2:

Edward C. Little (died July 27, 1924)

U. S. Guyer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward C. Little; served from November 4, 1924)

District 3:

William H. Sproul

District 4:

Homer Hoch

District 5:

James G. Strong

District 6:

Hays B. White

District 7:

J. N. Tincher

District 8:

William A. Ayres

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Augustus O. Stanley

Richard P. Ernst

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Alben W. Barkley

District 2:

David H. Kincheloe

District 3:

Robert Y. Thomas, Jr.

District 4:

Ben Johnson

District 5:

Maurice H. Thatcher

District 6:

Arthur B. Rouse

District 7:

J. Campbell Cantrill (died September 2, 1923)

Joseph W. Morris (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Campbell Cantrill; served from November 30, 1923)

District 8:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert

District 9:

William J. Fields (resigned December 11, 1923 to become Governor of Kentucky)

Fred Vinson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William J. Fields; served from January 24, 1924)

District 10:

John W. Langley

District 11:

John M. Robsion

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Joseph E. Ransdell

Edwin S. Broussard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James O'Connor

District 2:

H. Garland Dupré (died February 21, 1924)

J. Zach Spearing (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of H. Garland Dupré; served from April 22, 1924)

District 3:

Whitmell P. Martin

District 4:

John N. Sandlin

District 5:

Riley J. Wilson

District 6:

George K. Favrot

District 7:

Ladislas Lazaro

District 8:

James P. Aswell

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Bert M. Fernald

Frederick Hale

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carroll L. Beedy

District 2:

Wallace H. White

District 3:

John E. Nelson

District 4:

Ira G. Hersey

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Ovington E. Weller

William C. Bruce

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

T. Alan Goldsborough

District 2:

Millard E. Tydings

District 3:

John P. Hill

District 4:

J. Charles Linthicum

District 5:

Sydney E. Mudd (died October 11, 1924)

Stephen W. Gambrill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sidney E. Mudd; served from November 4, 1924)

District 6:

Frederick N. Zihlman

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Henry Cabot Lodge (died November 9, 1924)

David I. Walsh

William M. Butler (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Cabot Lodge; served from November 13, 1924)

 

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:

A. Piatt Andrew

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr.

District 8:

Frederick W. Dallinger

District 9:

Charles L. Underhill

District 10:

Peter F. Tague

District 11:

George H. Tinkham

District 12:

James A. Gallivan

District 13:

Robert Luce

District 14:

Louis A. Frothingham

District 15:

William S. Greene (died September 22, 1924)

Robert M. Leach (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Greene; served from November 4, 1924)

District 16:

Charles L. Gifford

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

James J. Couzens

Woodbridge N. Ferris

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert H. Clancy

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

John M. C. Smith (died March 30, 1923)

Arthur B. Williams (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John M.C. Smith; served from June 19, 1923)

District 4:

John C. Ketcham

District 5:

Carl E. Mapes

District 6:

Grant M. Hudson

District 7:

Louis C. Cramton

District 8:

Bird J. Vincent

District 9:

James C. McLaughlin

District 10:

Roy O. Woodruff

District 11:

Frank D. Scott

District 12:

W. Frank James

District 13:

Clarence J. McLeod

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Knute Nelson (died April 28, 1923)

Henrik Shipstead

Magnus Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Knute Nelson; served from July 16, 1923)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Sydney Anderson

District 2:

Frank Clague

District 3:

Charles R. Davis

District 4:

Oscar E. Keller

District 5:

Walter H. Newton

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

O. J. Kvale

District 8:

Oscar J. Larson

District 9:

Knud Wefald

District 10:

Thomas D. Schall

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Pat Harrison

Hubert D. Stephens

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Bill G. Lowrey

District 3:

Benjamin G. Humphreys (died October 16, 1923)

William Y. Humphreys (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Benjamin G. Humphreys; served from November 27, 1923)

District 4:

T. Jeff Busby

District 5:

Ross A. Collins

District 6:

T. Webber Wilson

District 7:

Percy E. Quin

District 8:

James W. Collier

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

James A. Reed

Selden P. Spencer

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Milton A. Romjue

District 2:

Ralph F. Lozier

District 3:

Jacob L. Milligan

District 4:

Charles L. Faust

District 5:

Henry L. Jost

District 6:

Clement C. Dickinson

District 7:

Samuel C. Major

District 8:

Sidney C. Roach

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Cleveland A. Newton

District 11:

Harry B. Hawes

District 12:

Leonidas C. Dyer

District 13:

J. Scott Wolff

District 14:

James F. Fulbright

District 15:

Joe J. Manlove

District 16:

Thomas L. Rubey

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Thomas J. Walsh

Burton K. Wheeler

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John M. Evans

District 2:

Scott Leavitt

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

George W. Norris

Robert B. Howell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John H. Morehead

District 2:

Willis G. Sears

District 3:

Edgar Howard

District 4:

Melvin O. McLaughlin

District 5:

Ashton C. Shallenberger

District 6:

Robert G. Simmons

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Key Pittman

Tasker L. Oddie

 

Representative At Large

 

Charles L. Richards

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

George H. Moses

Henry W. Keyes