Membership of the 70th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1927 to March 3, 1929

 

First Session:  December 5, 1927 to May 29, 1928

Second Session:  December 3, 1928 to March 3, 1929

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Charles G. Dawes (Illinois)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

George H. Moses (New Hampshire)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Edwin P. Thayer (Indiana)

Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: 

David S. Barry (Rhode Island)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Nicholas Longworth (Ohio)

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

 

J. Thomas Heflin

Hugo L. Black

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John McDuffie

District 2:

J. Lister Hill

District 3:

Henry B. Steagall

District 4:

Lamar Jeffers

District 5:

William B. Bowling (resigned August 16, 1928 to become judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama)

LaFayette L. Patterson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Bowling; served from November 6, 1928)

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

Carl T. Hayden

 

Representative At Large

 

Lewis W. Douglas

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Joseph T. Robinson

Thaddeus H. Caraway

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William J. Driver

District 2:

William A. Oldfield (died November 19, 1928)

Pearl P. Oldfield (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband William A. Oldfield; served from January 9, 1929)

District 3:

John N. Tillman

District 4:

Otis T. Wingo

District 5:

Heartsill Ragon

District 6:

James B. Reed

District 7:

Tilman B. Parks

 

California

 

Senators

 

Hiram W. Johnson

Samuel M. Shortridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clarence F. Lea

District 2:

Harry L. Englebright

District 3:

Charles F. Curry

District 4:

Florence P. Kahn

District 5:

Richard J. Welch

District 6:

Albert E. Carter

District 7:

Henry E. Barbour

District 8:

Arthur M. Free

District 9:

William E. Evans

District 10:

Joe Crail

District 11:

Phillip D. Swing

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Lawrence C. Phipps

Charles W. Waterman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William N. Vaile (died July 2, 1927)

S. Harrison White (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William N. Vaile; served from November 15, 1927)

District 2:

Charles B. Timberlake

District 3:

Guy U. Hardy

District 4:

Edward T. Taylor

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

George P. McLean

Hiram Bingham

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

E. Hart Fenn

District 2:

Richard P. Freeman

District 3:

John Q. Tilson

District 4:

Schuyler Merritt

District 5:

James P. Glynn

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

T. Coleman du Pont (resigned December 9, 1928)

Daniel O. Hastings (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of T. Coleman du Pont; served from December 10, 1928)

 

Representative At Large

 

Robert G. Houston

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Duncan U. Fletcher

Park Trammell

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Herbert J. Drane

District 2:

R. A. "Lex" Green

District 3:

Thomas A. Yon

District 4:

William J. Sears

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

William J. Harris

Walter F. George

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles G. Edwards

District 2:

Edward E. Cox

District 3:

Charles R. Crisp

District 4:

William C. Wright

District 5:

Leslie J. Steele

District 6:

Samuel Rutherford

District 7:

Malcolm C. Tarver

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 (died June 24, 1928)

John Thomas (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank R. Gooding and served from June 30, 1928)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Burton L. French

District 2:

Addison T. Smith

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Charles S. Deneen

Frank L. Smith (presented credentials as a Senator-elect, but was not permitted to qualify due to charges of "fraud and corruption" in his campaign; resigned February 9, 1928)

Otis F. Glenn (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frank L. Smith; served from December 3, 1928)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Martin B. Madden (died April 27, 1928)

District 2:

Morton D. Hull

District 3:

Elliott W. Sproul

District 4:

Thomas A. Doyle

District 5:

Adolph J. Sabath

District 6:

James T. Igoe

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:

John T. Buckbee

District 13:

William R. Johnson

District 14:

John C. Allen

District 15:

Edward J. King (died February 17, 1929)

District 16:

William E. Hull

District 17:

Homer W. Hall

District 18:

William P. Holaday

District 19:

Charles Adkins

District 20:

Henry T. Rainey

District 21:

J. Earl Major

District 22:

Edward E. Irwin

District 23:

William W. Arnold

District 24:

Thomas S. Williams

District 25:

Edward E. Denison

At Large:

Richard Yates

At Large:

Henry R. Rathbone (died July 15, 1928)

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James E. Watson

Arthur R. Robinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Harry E. Rowbottom

District 2:

Arthur H. Greenwood

District 3:

Frank Gardner

District 4:

Harry C. Canfield

District 5:

Noble J. Johnson

District 6:

Richard N. Elliott

District 7:

Ralph E. Updike

District 8:

Albert H. Vestal

District 9:

Fred S. Purnell

District 10:

William R. Wood

District 11:

Albert R. Hall

District 12:

David Hogg

District 13:

Andrew J. Hickey

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

Daniel F. Steck

Smith W. Brookhart

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William F. Kopp

District 2:

F. Dickinson Letts

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:

Lloyd Thurston

District 9:

William R. Green (resigned March 31, 1928 to become a judge of the Court of Claims of the United States)

Earl W. Vincent (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. Green; served from June 4, 1928)

District 10:

L. J. Dickinson

District 11:

William D. Boies

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Charles Curtis (resigned March 3, 1929 to become Vice President of the United States)

Arthur Capper

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Daniel R. Anthony, Jr.

District 2:

U. S. Guyer

District 3:

William H. Sproul

District 4:

Homer Hoch

District 5:

James G. Strong

District 6:

Hays B. White

District 7:

Clifford R. Hope

District 8:

William A. Ayres

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Frederic M. Sackett

Alben W. Barkley

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

W. Voris Gregory

District 2:

David H. Kincheloe

District 3:

John W. Moore

District 4:

Henry D. Moorman

District 5:

Maurice H. Thatcher

District 6:

Orie S. Ware

District 7:

Virgil Chapman

District 8:

Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert

District 9:

Fred Vinson

District 10:

Katherine G. Langley

District 11:

John M. Robsion

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Joseph E. Ransdell

Edwin S. Broussard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James O'Connor

District 2:

J. Zach Spearing

District 3:

Whitmell P. Martin

District 4:

John N. Sandlin

District 5:

Riley J. Wilson

District 6:

Bolivar E. Kemp

District 7:

Ladislas Lazaro (died March 30, 1927)

René L. DeRouen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ladislas Lazaro; served from August 23, 1927)

District 8:

James P. Aswell

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Frederick Hale

Arthur R. Gould

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Carroll L. Beedy

District 2:

Wallace H. White

District 3:

John E. Nelson

District 4:

Ira G. Hersey

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

William C. Bruce

Millard E. Tydings

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

T. Alan Goldsborough

District 2:

William P. Cole

District 3:

Vincent L. Palmisano

District 4:

J. Charles Linthicum

District 5:

Stephen W. Gambrill

District 6:

Frederick N. Zihlman

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Frederick H. Gillett

David I. Walsh

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen T. Treadway

District 2:

Henry L. Bowles

District 3:

Frank H. Foss

District 4:

G. Russell Stobbs

District 5:

Edith N. Rogers

District 6:

A. Piatt Andrew

District 7:

William P. Connery, Jr.

District 8:

Frederick W. Dallinger

District 9:

Charles L. Underhill

District 10:

John J. Douglass

District 11:

George H. Tinkham

District 12:

James A. Gallivan (died April 3, 1928)

John W. McCormack (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James A. Gallivan; served from November 6, 1928)

District 13:

Robert Luce

District 14:

Louis A. Frothingham (died August 23, 1928)

Richard B. Wigglesworth (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Louis A. Frothingham; served from November 6, 1928)

District 15:

Joseph W. Martin, Jr.

District 16:

Charles L. Gifford

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

James J. Couzens

Woodbridge N. Ferris (died March 23, 1928)

Arthur H. Vandenberg (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Woodbridge N. Ferris; served from March 31, 1928)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert H. Clancy

District 2:

Earl C. Michener

District 3:

Joseph L. Hooper

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 P. Bohn

District 12:

W. Frank James

District 13:

Clarence J. McLeod

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henrik Shipstead

Thomas D. Schall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Allen J. Furlow

District 2:

Frank Clague

District 3:

August H. Andresen

District 4:

Melvin J. Maas

District 5:

Walter H. Newton

District 6:

Harold Knutson

District 7:

O. J. Kvale

District 8:

William L. Carss

District 9:

Conrad G. Selvig

District 10:

Godfrey G. Goodwin

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Pat Harrison

Hubert D. Stephens

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John E. Rankin

District 2:

Bill G. Lowrey

District 3:

William M. Whittington

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

Harry B. Hawes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Milton A. Romjue

District 2:

Ralph F. Lozier

District 3:

Jacob L. Milligan

District 4:

Charles L. Faust (died December 17, 1928)

David W. Hopkins (elected to fill the vacancies caused by the death of Charles L. Faust; served from February 5, 1929)

District 5:

George H. Combs, Jr.

District 6:

Clement C. Dickinson

District 7:

Samuel C. Major

District 8:

William L. Nelson

District 9:

Clarence A. Cannon

District 10:

Henry F. Niedringhaus

District 11:

John J. Cochran

District 12:

Leonidas C. Dyer

District 13:

Clyde Williams

District 14:

James F. Fulbright

District 15:

Joe J. Manlove

District 16:

Thomas L. Rubey (died November 2, 1928)

 

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:

John N. Norton

District 5:

Ashton C. Shallenberger

District 6:

Robert G. Simmons

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

Key Pittman

Tasker L. Oddie

 

Representative At Large

 

Samuel S. Arentz

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

George H. Moses

Henry W. Keyes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fletcher Hale

District 2:

Edward H. Wason

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Walter E. Edge

Edward I. Edwards

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles A. Wolverton

District 2:

Isaac Bacharach

District 3:

Harold G. Hoffman

District 4:

Charles A. Eaton

District 5:

Ernest R. Ackerman

District 6:

Randolph Perkins

District 7:

George N. Seger

District 8:

Paul J. Moore

District 9: