63rd United States Congress
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The Sixty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915, during the first two years of the first administration of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
[edit] Dates of sessions
- Special session of the Senate: March 4, 1913 - March 17, 1913
- First session: April 7, 1913 - December 1, 1913
- Second session: December 1, 1913 - October 24, 1914
- Third session: December 7, 1914 - March 3, 1915 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 62nd Congress
Next congress: 64th Congress
[edit] Major events
- Main article: Events of 1913; Events of 1914; Events of 1915
- March 9, 1914: The Senate adopted a rule forbidding smoking on the floor of the Senate because Senator Ben Tillman, recovering from a stroke, found the smoke irritating.
- 28 July 1914: World War I began
- 19 August 1914: President Woodrow Wilson declares strict U.S. neutrality
- United States House elections, 1914
- United States Senate elections, 1914
[edit] Major legislation
- October 3, 1913 - Revenue Act of 1913 (Federal Income Tax), including Underwood Tariff
- December 23, 1913 - Federal Reserve Act, ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, 12 U.S.C. § 221, et seq.
- May 8, 1914 - Smith-Lever Act, ch. 79, 38 Stat. 372, 7 U.S.C. § 341
- September 26, 1914 - Federal Trade Commission Act, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, 15 U.S.C. § 41
- October 15, 1914 - Clayton Antitrust Act, ch. 323, 38 Stat. 730, 15 U.S.C. § 12, et seq.
- 1914 - Narcotics Act
[edit] Party summary
[edit] Senate
[edit] House of Representatives
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Senate
[edit] House of Representatives
[edit] Members
[edit] Senate
- James P. Clarke (Dem.)
- John Netherland Heiskell (Dem.)
- William M. Kavanaugh (Dem.)
- Joseph T. Robinson (Dem.)
[edit] House of Representatives
- John W. Abercrombie (Dem.)
- Fred L. Blackmon (Dem.)
- John L. Burnett (Dem.)
- Henry D. Clayton (Dem.)
- Stanley H. Dent, Jr. (Dem.)
- Christopher C. Harris (Dem.)
- James Thomas Heflin (Dem.)
- Richmond P. Hobson (Dem.)
- William O. Mulkey (Dem.)
- William Richardson (Dem.)
- George W. Taylor (Dem.)
- Oscar W. Underwood (Dem.)
- Thaddeus H. Caraway (Dem.)
- John C. Floyd (Dem.)
- William S. Goodwin (Dem.)
- Henderson M. Jacoway (Dem.)
- William A. Oldfield (Dem.)
- Samuel M. Taylor (Dem.)
- Otis T. Wingo (Dem.)
- Charles W. Bell, Progressive Republican
- Denver S. Church (Dem.)
- Charles F. Curry (Rep.)
- Everis A. Hayes (Rep.)
- Julius Kahn (Rep.)
- William Kent, Independent
- William Kettner (Dem.)
- Joseph R. Knowland (Rep.)
- John I. Nolan (Rep.)
- John E. Raker (Dem.)
- William D. Stephens (Progressive)
- Jeremiah Donovan (Dem.)
- William Kennedy (Dem.)
- Augustine Lonergan (Dem.)
- Bryan F. Mahan (Dem.)
- Thomas L. Reilly (Dem.)
- Frank Clark (Dem.)
- Claude L'Engle (Dem.)
- Stephen M. Sparkman (Dem.)
- Emmett Wilson (Dem.)
- William C. Adamson (Dem.)
- Charles L. Bartlett (Dem.)
- Thomas M. Bell (Dem.)
- Charles R. Crisp (Dem.)
- Charles G. Edwards (Dem.)
- William S. Howard (Dem.)
- Dudley M. Hughes (Dem.)
- Gordon Lee (Dem.)
- Frank Park (Dem.)
- Seaborn A. Roddenbery (Dem.)
- Samuel J. Tribble (Dem.)
- Carl Vinson (Dem.)
- John R. Walker (Dem.)
- 1. Martin B. Madden
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- John A. M. Adair (Dem.)
- Henry A. Barnhart (Dem.)
- Cyrus Cline (Dem.)
- William E. Cox (Dem.)
- William A. Cullop (Dem.)
- Lincoln Dixon (Dem.)
- Finly H. Gray (Dem.)
- James A. Hemenway (Rep.)
- Charles A. Korbly (Dem.)
- Charles Lieb (Dem.)
- Martin A. Morrison (Dem.)
- Ralph W. Moss (Dem.)
- John B. Peterson (Dem.)
- George W. Rauch (Dem.)
- Maurice Connolly (Dem.)
- James W. Good (Rep.)
- William R. Green (Rep.)
- Gilbert N. Haugen (Rep.)
- Charles A. Kennedy (Rep.)
- Sanford Kirkpatrick (Dem.)
- Irvin S. Pepper (Dem.)
- Solomon F. Prouty (Rep.)
- George C. Scott (Rep.)
- Horace M. Towner (Rep.)
- Henry Vollmer (Dem.)
- Frank P. Woods (Rep.)
- Daniel R. Anthony, Jr. (Rep.)
- Philip P. Campbell (Rep.)
- John R. Connelly (Dem.)
- Dudley Doolittle (Dem.)
- Guy T. Helvering (Dem.)
- Victor Murdock (Rep.)
- George A. Neeley (Dem.)
- Joseph Taggart (Dem.)
- Alben W. Barkley (Dem.)
- James C. Cantrill (Dem.)
- William J. Fields (Dem.)
- Harvey Helm (Dem.)
- Ben Johnson (Dem.)
- John W. Langley (Rep.)
- Caleb Powers (Rep.)
- Arthut B. Rouse (Dem.)
- Joseph S. Sherley (Dem.)
- Augustus O. Stanley (Dem.)
- Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. (Dem.)
- James B. Aswell (Dem.)
- Robert F. Broussard (Dem.)
- Henry G. Dupré (Dem.)
- James W. Elder (Dem.)
- Albert Estopinal (Dem.)
- Ladislas Lazaro (Dem.)
- Lewis L. Morgan (Dem.)
- John T. Watkins (Dem.)
- Forrest Goodwin (Rep.)
- Frank E. Guernsey (Rep.)
- Asher C. Hinds (Rep.)
- Daniel J. McGillicuddy (Dem.)
- John A. Peters (Rep.)
- Charles P. Coady (Dem.)
- James H. Covington (Dem.)
- George Konig (Dem.)
- David J. Lewis (Dem.)
- John C. Linthicum (Dem.)
- Jesse D. Price (Dem.)
- Frank O. Smith (Dem.)
- Joshua F. C. Talbott (Dem.)
- 1. Allen T. Treadway (Rep.)
- 2. Frederick H. Gillett (Rep.)
- 3. Calvin D. Paige (Rep.)
- 4. Samuel E. Winslow (Rep.)
- 5. John J. Rogers (Rep.)
- 6. Augustus P. Gardner (Rep.)
- 7. Michael F. Phelan (Dem.)
- 8. Frederick S. Deitrick (Dem.)
- 9. Ernest W. Roberts (Rep.)
- 10. William F. Murray (Dem.)
- 11. Andrew J. Peters (Dem.)
- 12. James M. Curley (Dem.)
- 13. John J. Mitchell (Dem.)
- 14. Edward Gilmore (Dem.)
- 15. William S. Greene (Rep.)
- 16. Thomas Chandler Thacher (Dem.)
- Samuel W. Beakes (Dem.)
- Louis C. Cramton (Rep.)
- Frank E. Doremus (Dem.)
- Joseph W. Fordney (Rep.)
- Edward L. Hamilton (Rep.)
- Patrick H. Kelley (Rep.)
- Francis O. Lindquist (Rep.)
- William Josiah MacDonald (Progressive)
- Carl E. Mapes (Rep.)
- James C. McLaughlin (Rep.)
- John M. C. Smith (Rep.)
- Samuel W. Smith (Rep.)
- Roy O. Woodruff (Progressive)
- H. Olin Young (Rep.)
- Sydney Anderson (Rep.)
- Charles Russell Davis (Rep.)
- Winfield Scott Hammond (Dem.)
- Charles August Lindbergh (Rep.)
- Clarence B. Miller (Rep.)
- George Ross Smith (Rep.)
- Halvor Steenerson (Rep.)
- Frederick Stevens (Rep.)
- Andrew Volstead (Rep.)
- Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (Dem.)
- James W. Collier (Dem.)
- Byron P. Harrison (Dem.)
- Benjamin G. Humphreys (Dem.)
- Percy E. Quin (Dem.)
- Thomas U. Sisson (Dem.)
- Hubert D. Stephens (Dem.)
- Samuel A. Witherspoon (Dem.)
- Joshua W. Alexander (Dem.)
- Richard Bartholdt (Rep.)
- Charles F. Booher (Dem.)
- William P. Borland (Dem.)
- Champ Clark (Dem.)
- Perl D. Decker (Dem.)
- Clement C. Dickinson (Dem.)
- Leonidas C. Dyer (Rep.)
- Michael J. Gill (Dem.)
- Courtney W. Hamlin (Dem.)
- Walter L. Hensley (Dem.)
- William L. Igoe (Dem.)
- James T. Lloyd (Dem.)
- Thomas L. Rubey (Dem.)
- William W. Rucker (Dem.)
- Joseph J. Russell (Dem.)
- Dorsey W. Shackleford (Dem.)
- John M. Evans (Dem.)
- Tom Stout (Dem.)
- Silas R. Barton (Rep.)
- Moses P. Kinkaid (Rep.)
- Charles O. Lobeck (Dem.)
- John A. Maguire (Dem.)
- Charles H. Sloan (Rep.)
- Dan V. Stephens (Dem.)
- Jacob T. Baker (Dem.)
- Robert G. Bremner (Dem.)
- William J. Browning (Rep.)
- Dow H. Drukker (Rep.)
- John J. Eagan (Dem.)
- James A. Hamill (Dem.)
- Eugene F. Kinkead (Dem.)
- Lewis J. Martin (Dem.)
- Walter I. McCoy (Dem.)
- Richard W. Parker (Rep.)
- Thomas J. Scully (Dem.)
- Edward W. Townsend (Dem.)
- William E. Tuttle, Jr. (Dem.)
- Allan B. Walsh (Dem.)
- Harvey B. Fergusson (Dem.)
- Lathrop Brown (Dem.)
- Henry Bruckner (Dem.)
- William M. Calder (Rep.)
- Jacob A. Cantor (Dem.)
- John F. Carew (Dem.)
- Walter M. Chandler (Progressive)
- John R. Clancy (Dem.)
- Michael F. Conry (Dem.)
- Harry H. Dale (Dem.)
- Henry G. Danforth (Rep.)
- Peter J. Dooling (Dem.)
- Daniel A. Driscoll (Dem.)
- Thomas B. Dunn (Rep.)
- George W. Fairchild (Rep.)
- John J. Fitzgerald (Dem.)
- Henry George, Jr. (Dem.)
- Robert H. Gittins (Dem.)
- Henry M. Goldfogle (Dem.)
- Joseph A. Goulden (Dem.)
- Daniel J. Griffin (Dem.)
- Charles M. Hamilton (Rep.)
- Francis B. Harrison (Dem.)
- Jefferson M. Levy (Dem.)
- George W. Loft (Dem.)
- James P. Maher (Dem.)
- George McClellan (Dem.)
- Edwin A. Merritt (Rep.)
- Herman A. Metz (Dem.)
- Luther W. Mott (Rep.)
- James H. O'Brien (Dem.)
- Denis O'Leary (Dem.)
- Woodson R. Oglesby (Dem.)
- James S. Parker (Rep.)
- Thomas G. Patten (Dem.)
- Sereno E. Payne (Rep.)
- Edmund Platt (Rep.)
- Daniel J. Riordan (Dem.)
- Charles B. Smith (Dem.)
- Timothy D. Sullivan (Dem.)
- Charles A. Talcott (Dem.)
- Benjamin I. Taylor (Dem.)
- Peter G. Ten Eyck (Dem.)
- Edwin S. Underhill (Dem.)
- Samuel Wallin (Rep.)
- Frank E. Wilson (Dem.)
- Robert L. Doughton (Dem.)
- John M. Faison (Dem.)
- Hannibal L. Godwin (Dem.)
- James M. Gudger, Jr. (Dem.)
- Claude Kitchin (Dem.)
- Robert N. Page (Dem.)
- Edward W. Pou (Dem.)
- John H. Small (Dem.)
- Charles M. Stedman (Dem.)
- Edwin Y. Webb (Dem.)
- Alfred G. Allen (Dem.)
- Timothy T. Ansberry (Dem.)
- William A. Ashbrook (Dem.)
- Elsworth R. Bathrick (Dem.)
- Stanley E. Bowdle (Dem.)
- Clement L. Brumbaugh (Dem.)
- Robert J. Bulkley (Dem.)
- Horatio C. Claypool (Dem.)
- Robert Crosser (Dem.)
- Simeon D. Fess (Rep.)
- William B. Francis (Dem.)
- Warren Gard (Dem.)
- John H. Goeke (Dem.)
- William Gordon (Dem.)
- John A. Key (Dem.)
- James D. Post (Dem.)
- William G. Sharp (Dem.)
- Isaac R. Sherwood (Dem.)
- Robert M. Switzer (Rep.)
- John J. Whitacre (Dem.)
- George White (Dem.)
- Frank B. Willis (Rep.)
- Charles D. Carter (Dem.)
- James S. Davenport (Dem.)
- Scott Ferris (Dem.)
- Bird S. McGuire (Rep.)
- Dick T. Morgan (Rep.)
- William H. Murray (Dem.)
- Joseph B. Thompson (Dem.)
- Claude Weaver (Dem.)
- Willis C. Hawley (Rep.)
- Abraham W. Lafferty (Rep.)
- Nicholas J. Sinnott (Rep.)
- William D.B. Ainey (Rep.)
- Warren W. Bailey (Dem.)
- Andrew J. Barchfeld (Rep.)
- Andrew R. Brodbeck (Dem.)
- James F. Burke (Rep.)
- Thomas S. Butler (Rep.)
- Wooda N. Carr (Dem.)
- John J. Casey (Dem.)
- Franklin L. Dershem (Dem.)
- Robert E. Difenderfer (Dem.)
- Michael Donohoe (Dem.)
- George W. Edmonds (Rep.)
- John R. Farr (Rep.)
- George S. Graham (Rep.)
- William W. Griest (Rep.)
- Willis J. Hulings (Progressive)
- Abraham L. Keister (Rep.)
- Melville Clyde Kelly (Progressive)
- Edgar R. Kiess (Rep.)
- Aaron S. Kreider (Rep.)
- J.N. Langham (Rep.)
- Robert E. Lee (Dem.)
- John V. Lesher (Dem.)
- Fred E. Lewis (Rep.)
- J. Washington Logue (Dem.)
- J. Hampton Moore (Rep.)
- John M. Morin (Rep.)
- A. Mitchell Palmer (Dem.)
- Charles E. Patton (Rep.)
- Stephen G. Porter (Rep.)
- John H. Rothermel (Dem.)
- Arthur R. Rupley (Rep.)
- Milton W. Shreve (Rep.)
- Henry Wilson Temple (Progressive)
- William S. Vare (Rep.)
- Anderson H. Walters (Rep.)
- Peter G. Gerry (Dem.)
- Ambrose Kennedy (Rep.)
- George F. O'Shaunessy (Dem.)
- Wyatt Aiken (Dem.)
- James F. Byrnes (Dem.)
- David E. Finley (Dem.)
- Joseph T. Johnson (Dem.)
- George S. Legaré (Dem.)
- Asbury F. Lever (Dem.)
- James W. Ragsdale (Dem.)
- Richard S. Whaley (Dem.)
- Richard W. Austin (Rep.)
- Joseph W. Byrns (Dem.)
- Finis J. Garrett (Dem.)
- William C. Houston (Dem.)
- Cordell Hull (Dem.)
- Kenneth D. McKellar (Dem.)
- John A. Moon (Dem.)
- Lemuel P. Padgett (Dem.)
- Sam R. Sells (Rep.)
- Thetus W. Sims (Dem.)
- Jack Beall (Dem.)
- James P. Buchanan (Dem.)
- George F. Burgess (Dem.)
- Albert S. Burleson (Dem.)
- Oscar Callaway (Dem.)
- Martin Dies (Dem.)
- Joe H. Eagle (Dem.)
- John N. Garner (Dem.)
- Daniel E. Garrett (Dem.)
- Alexander W. Gregg (Dem.)
- Rufus Hardy (Dem.)
- Robert L. Henry (Dem.)
- Samuel T. Rayburn (Dem.)
- James L. Slayden (Dem.)
- William R. Smith (Dem.)
- John H. Stephens (Dem.)
- Hatton W. Sumners (Dem.)
- Horace W. Vaughan (Dem.)
- James Young (Dem.)
- Frank L. Greene (Rep.)
- Frank Plumley (Rep.)
- Charles C. Carlin (Dem.)
- Henry D. L. W. Flood (Dem.)
- Carter Glass (Dem.)
- James Hay (Dem.)
- Edward E. Holland (Dem.)
- William A. Jones (Dem.)
- Andrew J. Montague (Dem.)
- Edward W. Saunders (Dem.)
- Campbell B. Slemp (Rep.)
- Walter A. Watson (Dem.)
- James W. Bryan (Progressive)
- Jacob A. Falconer (Progressive)
- William E. Humphrey (Rep.)
- Albert Johnson (Rep.)
- William L. La Follette (Rep.)
- Samuel B. Avis (Rep.)
- William G. Brown, Jr. (Dem.)
- John W. Davis (Dem.)
- James A. Hughes (Rep.)
- Hunter H. Moss, Jr. (Rep.)
- Matthew M. Neely (Dem.)
- Howard Sutherland (Rep.)
- Edward E. Browne (Rep.)
- Michael E. Burke (Dem.)
- William J. Cary (Rep.)
- Henry A. Cooper (Rep.)
- John J. Esch (Rep.)
- James A. Frear (Rep.)
- Thomas F. Konop (Dem.)
- Irvine L. Lenroot (Rep.)
- John M. Nelson (Rep.)
- Michael K. Reilly (Dem.)
- William H. Stafford (Rep.)
[edit] Delegates
- Alaska Territory
- Hawaii Territory
[edit] Resident Commissioners
- Manuel Earnshaw, Philippines
- Manuel L. Quezon, Philippines
- Luis Muñoz Rivera, Unionist, Puerto Rico
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
- Secretary of the Senate:
- Charles G. Bennett of New York, elected February 1, 1900.
- James M. Baker of South Carolina, elected March 13, 1913.
- Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:
- Chaplain of the Senate
[edit] House of Representatives
- Clerk of the House:
- Sergeant at Arms of the House:
- Doorkeeper of the House:
- Postmaster of the House:
- Clerk at the Speaker’s Table:
- Bennett C. Clark
- Chaplain of the House
- The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected April 7, 1913.
[edit] Other
- Architect of the Capitol:
- Elliott Woods, appointed February 19, 1902.
[edit] References
- Gould, Lewis L. (2005). The Most Exclusive Club. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group. 0-465-02778-4.
- Remini, Robert V. (2006). The House. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 0-06-088434-7.
- U.S. Congress (2005). Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
- U.S. House of Representatives (2006). Congressional History. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
- U.S. Senate (2006). Statistics and Lists. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.
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