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66th United States Congress

United States Capitol (1906)
Session:
 March 4, 1919 –
March 4, 1921
President of the Senate:
 Thomas R. Marshall
President pro tempore of the Senate:
 Albert B. Cummins
Speaker of the House:
 Frederick Gillett
Members:
 435 Representatives
96 Senators
House Majority:
 Republican
Senate Majority:
 Republican
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The Sixty-sixth 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 1919 to March 4 1921, during the last two years of the second 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 Republican majority.

Dates of sessions

March 4 1919 - March 4 1921

Major events

» Main article: Events of 1919; Events of 1920; Events of 1921

Party summary

» Senate

  • Democratic (D): 47
  • Republican (R): 49 (majority) TOTAL members: 96
    		• » House of Representatives

  • Democratic (D): 192
  • Republican (R): 240 (majority)
  • Prohibition (Proh.): 1
  • Farmer-Labor (F-L): 1 TOTAL members: 435

    • Leadership

    Senate

  • President of the Senate: Thomas R. Marshall
    President pro tempore:

    House of Representatives

  • Speaker of the House - Frederick H. Gillett

    Members of the Sixty-sixth United States Congress

    Senate

    At this time, most Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. A few senators were elected directly by the residents of the state.
    » Alabama

  • John H. Bankhead (Dem.) Bankhead died 1 March 1920; Braxton B. Comer was appointed, and later James T. Heflin was elected, to take his place.
  • Braxton B. Comer (Dem.) Comer was appointed to fill John H. Bankhead's seat after his death in 1920.
  • J. Thomas Heflin (Dem.) Heflin was elected to fill John H. Bankhead's seat after Bankhead died in 1920.
  • Oscar W. Underwood (Dem.) » Arizona

  • Henry F. Ashurst (Dem.)
  • Marcus A. Smith (Dem.) » Arkansas

  • William F. Kirby (Dem.)
  • Joseph T. Robinson (Dem.) » California

  • Hiram W. Johnson (Rep.)
  • James D. Phelan (Dem.) » Colorado

  • Lawrence C. Phipps (Rep.)
  • Charles S. Thomas (Dem.) » Connecticut

  • Frank B. Brandegee (Rep.)
  • George P. McLean (Rep.) » Delaware

  • L. Heisler Ball (Rep.)
  • Josiah O. Wolcott (Dem.) » Florida

  • Duncan U. Fletcher (Dem.)
  • Park Trammell (Dem.) » Georgia

  • William J. Harris (Dem.)
  • Hoke Smith (Dem.) » Idaho

  • William E. Borah (Rep.)
  • Frank R. Gooding (Rep.) Gooding was appointed to fill John F. Nugent's seat after Nugent resigned, although Gooding had already been elected to the 67th Congress.
  • John F. Nugent (Dem.) Resigned 14 January 1921 and replaced by Frank R. Gooding. » Illinois

  • Joseph M. McCormick (Rep.)
  • Lawrence Y. Sherman (Rep.) » Indiana

  • Harry S. New (Rep.)
  • James E. Watson (Rep.) » Iowa

  • Albert B. Cummins (Rep.)
  • William S. Kenyon (Rep.) » Kansas

  • Arthur Capper (Rep.) » Kentucky

  • John C. W. Beckham (Dem.)
  • Augustus O. Stanley (Dem.) » Louisiana

  • Edward J. Gay (Dem.)
  • Joseph E. Ransdell (Dem.) » Maine

  • Bert M. Fernald (Rep.)
  • Frederick Hale (Rep.) » Maryland

  • Joseph I. France (Rep.)
  • John Walter Smith (Dem.) » Massachusetts

  • Henry Cabot Lodge (Rep.)
  • David I. Walsh (Dem.) » Michigan

  • Truman H. Newberry (Rep.)
  • Charles E. Townsend (Rep.) » Minnesota

  • Frank B. Kellogg (Rep.)
  • Knute Nelson (Rep.) » Mississippi

  • Byron P. Harrison (Dem.)
  • John Sharp Williams (Dem.) » Missouri

  • James A. Reed (Dem.)
  • Selden P. Spencer (Rep.) » Montana

  • Henry L. Myers (Dem.)
  • Thomas J. Walsh (Dem.)
    		• » Nebraska

  • Gilbert M. Hitchcock (Dem.)
  • George W. Norris (Rep.) » Nevada

  • Charles B. Henderson (Dem.)
  • Key Pittman (Dem.) » New Hampshire

  • Henry W. Keyes (Rep.)
  • George H. Moses (Rep.) » New Jersey

  • Walter E. Edge (Rep.)
  • Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (Rep.) » New Mexico

  • Albert B. Fall (Rep.)
  • Andrieus A. Jones (Dem.) » New York

  • William M. Calder (Rep.)
  • James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (Rep.) » North Carolina

  • Lee S. Overman (Dem.)
  • Furnifold M. Simmons (Dem.) » North Dakota

  • Asle J. Gronna (Rep.)
  • Porter J. McCumber (Rep.) » Ohio

  • Warren G. Harding (Rep.) Resigned effective 13 January 1921 after being elected President; replaced by Frank B. Willis.
  • Atlee Pomerene (Dem.)
  • Frank B. Willis (Rep.) Willis was appointed to fill Warren G. Harding's vacant seat after Harding's resignation. » Oklahoma

  • Thomas P. Gore (Dem.)
  • Robert L. Owen (Dem.) » Oregon

  • George E. Chamberlain (Dem.)
  • Charles L. McNary (Rep.) » Pennsylvania

  • Philander C. Knox (Rep.)
  • Boies Penrose (Rep.) » Rhode Island

  • LeBaron B. Colt (Rep.)
  • Peter G. Gerry (Dem.) » South Carolina

  • Nathaniel B. Dial (Dem.)
  • Ellison D. Smith (Dem.) » South Dakota

  • Edwin S. Johnson (Dem.)
  • Thomas Sterling (Rep.) » Tennessee

  • Kenneth D. McKellar (Dem.)
  • John K. Shields (Dem.) » Texas

  • Charles A. Culberson (Dem.)
  • Morris Sheppard (Dem.) » Utah

  • William H. King (Dem.)
  • Reed Smoot (Rep.) » Vermont

  • William P. Dillingham (Rep.),
  • Carroll S. Page (Rep.) » Virginia

  • Carter Glass (Dem.) Glass was appointed and then elected to fill Thomas S. Martin's vacant seat after Martin's death; at the time, Glass was serving as Secretary of the Treasury.
  • Claude A. Swanson (Dem.)
  • Thomas S. Martin (Dem.) Martin died 12 November, 1919. His vacant seat was filled by Carter Glass. » Washington

  • Wesley L. Jones (Rep.)
  • Miles Poindexter (Rep.) » West Virginia

  • Davis Elkins (Rep.)
  • Howard Sutherland (Rep.) » Wisconsin

  • Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (Rep.)
  • Irvine L. Lenroot (Rep.) » Wyoming

  • John B. Kendrick (Dem.)
  • Francis E. Warren (Rep.)

    • House of Representatives

    The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
       Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
    » Alabama

  • . John McDuffie (Dem.)
  • . S. Hubert Dent, Jr. (Dem.)
  • . Henry B. Steagall (Dem.)
  • . Fred L. Blackmon (Dem.)
  • . J. Thomas Heflin (Dem.), resigned November 1, 1920 » *. William B. Bowling (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . William B. Oliver (Dem.)
  • . John L. Burnett (Dem.), died May 13, 1919 » *. Lilius Bratton Rainey (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . Edward B. Almon (Dem.)
  • . George Huddleston (Dem.)
  • . William B. Bankhead (Dem.) » Arizona

  • : Carl Hayden (Dem.) » Arkansas

  • . Thaddeus H. Caraway (Dem.)
  • . William A. Oldfield (Dem.)
  • . John N. Tillman (Dem.)
  • . Otis Wingo (Dem.)
  • . Henderson M. Jacoway (Dem.)
  • . Samuel M. Taylor (Dem.)
  • . William S. Goodwin (Dem.) » California

  • . Clarence F. Lea (Dem.)
  • . John E. Raker (Dem.)
  • . Charles F. Curry (Rep.)
  • . Julius Kahn (Rep.)
  • . John I. Nolan (Rep.)
  • . John A. Elston (Progressive)
  • . Henry E. Barbour (Rep.)
  • . Hugh S. Hersman (Dem.)
  • . Charles H. Randall (Prohibitionist)
  • . Henry Z. Osborne (Rep.)
  • . William Kettner (Dem.) » Colorado

  • . William Newell Vaile (Rep.)
  • . Charles Bateman Timberlake (Rep.)
  • . Guy Urban Hardy (Rep.)
  • . Edward Thomas Taylor (Dem.) » Connecticut

  • . Augustine Lonergan (Dem.)
  • . Richard P. Freeman (Rep.)
  • . John Q. Tilson (Rep.)
  • . Schuyler Merritt (Rep.)
  • . James P. Glynn (Rep.) » Delaware

  • : Caleb R. Layton (Rep.) » Florida

  • . Herbert J. Drane (Dem.)
  • . Frank Clark (Dem.)
  • . John H. Smithwick (Dem.)
  • . William J. Sears (Dem.) » Georgia

  • . James W. Overstreet (Dem.)
  • . Frank Park (Dem.)
  • . Charles R. Crisp (Dem.)
  • . William C. Wright (Dem.)
  • . William D. Upshaw (Dem.)
  • . James W. Wise (Dem.)
  • . Gordon Lee (congressman)‎ (Dem.)
  • . Charles H. Brand (Dem.)
  • . Thomas Montgomery Bell (Dem.)
  • . Carl Vinson (Dem.)
  • . William C. Lankford (Dem.)
  • . William W. Larsen (Dem.) » Idaho

  • . Burton L. French (Rep.)
  • . Addison T. Smith (Rep.) » Illinois

  • . Martin B. Madden (Rep.)
  • . James R. Mann (Rep.)
  • . William W. Wilson (Rep.)
  • . John W. Rainey (Dem.)
  • . Adolph J. Sabath (Dem.)
  • . James McAndrews (Dem.)
  • . Niels Juul (Rep.)
  • . Thomas Gallagher (Dem.)
  • . Frederick A. Britten (Rep.)
  • . Carl R. Chindblom (Rep.)
  • . Ira C. Copley (Rep.)
  • . Charles Eugene Fuller (Rep.)
  • . John C. McKenzie (Rep.)
  • . William J. Graham (Rep.)
  • . Edward John King (Rep.)
  • . Clifford Ireland (Rep.)
  • . Frank L. Smith (Rep.)
  • . Joseph G. Cannon (Rep.)
  • . William B. McKinley (Rep.)
  • . Henry T. Rainey (Dem.)
  • . Loren E. Wheeler (Rep.)
  • . William A. Rodenberg (Rep.)
  • . Edwin B. Brooks (Rep.)
  • . Thomas S. Williams (Rep.)
  • . Edward E. Denison (Rep.)
  • : Richard Yates (Rep.)
  • : William E. Mason (Rep.) » Indiana

  • . Oscar R. Luhring (Rep.)
  • . Oscar E. Bland (Rep.)
  • . James W. Dunbar (Rep.)
  • . John S. Benham (Rep.)
  • . Everett Sanders (Rep.)
  • . Richard N. Elliott (Rep.)
  • . Merrill Moores (Rep.)
  • . Albert H. Vestal (Rep.)
  • . Fred S. Purnell (Rep.)
  • . William R. Wood (Rep.)
  • . Milton Kraus (Rep.)
  • . Louis W. Fairfield (Rep.)
  • . Andrew J. Hickey (Rep.) » Iowa

  • . Charles A. Kennedy (Rep.)
  • . Harry E. Hull (Rep.)
  • . Burton E. Sweet (Rep.)
  • . Gilbert N. Haugen (Rep.)
  • . James W. Good (Rep.)
  • . C. William Ramseyer (Rep.)
  • . Cassius C. Dowell (Rep.)
  • . Horace M. Towner (Rep.)
  • . William R. Green (Rep.)
  • . L. J. Dickinson (Rep.)
  • . William D. Boies (Rep.) » Kansas

  • . Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (Rep.)
  • . Edward C. Little (Rep.)
  • . Philip P. Campbell (Rep.)
  • . Homer Hoch (Rep.)
  • . James G. Strong (Rep.)
  • . Hays B. White (Rep.)
  • . Jasper Napoleon Tincher (Rep.)
  • . William A. Ayres (Dem.) » Kentucky

  • . Alben Barkley (Dem.)
  • . David Hayes Kincheloe (Dem.)
  • . Robert Y. Thomas, Jr. (Dem.)
  • . Ben Johnson (Dem.)
  • . Charles F. Ogden (Rep.)
  • . Arthur B. Rouse (Dem.)
  • . J. Campbell Cantrill (Dem.)
  • . King Swope (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy caused by the death of Harvey Helm
  • . William Jason Fields (Dem.)
  • . John W. Langley (Rep.)
  • . John M. Robsion (Rep.) » Louisiana

  • . Albert Estopinal (Dem.), died April 28, 1919 » *. James O'Connor (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . Henry Garland Dupré (Dem.)
  • . Whitmell P. Martin (Dem.)
  • . John Thomas Watkins (Dem.)
  • . Riley Joseph Wilson (Dem.)
  • . Jared Y. Sanders, Sr. (Dem.)
  • . Ladislas Lazaro (Dem.)
  • . James Benjamin Aswell (Dem.) » Maine

  • . Louis B. Goodall (Rep.)
  • . Wallace H. White, Jr. (Rep.)
  • . John A. Peters (Rep.)
  • . Ira G. Hersey (Rep.) » Maryland

  • . William N. Andrews (Rep.)
  • . Carville D. Benson (Dem.)
  • . Charles P. Coady (Dem.)
  • . J. Charles Linthicum (Dem.)
  • . Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (Rep.)
  • . Frederick N. Zihlman (Rep.) » Massachusetts

  • . Allen T. Treadway (Rep.)
  • . Frederick H. Gillett (Rep.)
  • . Calvin D. Paige (Rep.)
  • . Samuel E. Winslow (Rep.)
  • . John J. Rogers (Rep.)
  • . Willfred W. Lufkin (Rep.)
  • . Michael F. Phelan (Dem.)
  • . Frederick W. Dallinger (Rep.)
  • . Alvan T. Fuller (Rep.)
  • . John F. Fitzgerald (Dem.), served until October 23, 1919 » *. Peter Francis Tague (Dem.), successfully contested election

  • . George H. Tinkham (Rep.)
  • . James A. Gallivan (Dem.)
  • . Robert Luce (Rep.)
  • . Richard Olney II (Dem.)
  • . William S. Greene (Rep.)
  • . Joseph Walsh (Rep.) » Michigan

  • . Frank E. Doremus (Dem.)
  • . Earl C. Michener (Rep.)
  • . John M. C. Smith (Rep.)
  • . Edward L. Hamilton (Rep.)
  • . Carl Mapes (Rep.)
  • . Patrick H. Kelley (Rep.)
  • . Louis C. Cramton (Rep.)
  • . Joseph W. Fordney (Rep.)
  • . James C. McLaughlin (Rep.)
  • . Gilbert A. Currie (Rep.)
  • . Frank D. Scott (Rep.)
  • . W. Frank James (Rep.)
  • . Charles Archibald Nichols (Rep.), died April 25, 1920 » *. Clarence J. McLeod (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

    » Minnesota

  • . Sydney Anderson (Rep.)
  • . Franklin Ellsworth (Rep.)
  • . Charles Russell Davis (Rep.)
  • . Carl Van Dyke (Dem.), died May 20, 1919 » *. Oscar Keller (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . Walter Newton (Rep.)
  • . Harold Knutson (Rep.)
  • . Andrew Volstead (Rep.)
  • . William Leighton Carss (FL)
  • . Halvor Steenerson (Rep.)
  • . Thomas D. Schall (Rep.) » Mississippi

  • . Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (Dem.)
  • . Hubert D. Stephens (Dem.)
  • . Benjamin G. Humphreys II (Dem.)
  • . Thomas U. Sisson (Dem.)
  • . William Webb Venable (Dem.)
  • . Paul B. Johnson, Sr. (Dem.)
  • . Percy E. Quin (Dem.)
  • . James W. Collier (Dem.) » Missouri

  • . Milton A. Romjue (Dem.)
  • . William W. Rucker (Dem.)
  • . Joshua W. Alexander (Dem.), resigned December 15, 1919 » *. Jacob L. Milligan (Dem.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . Charles F. Booher (Dem.)
  • . William Thomas Bland (Dem.)
  • . Clement C. Dickinson (Dem.)
  • . Samuel C. Major (Dem.)
  • . William L. Nelson (Dem.)
  • . James Beauchamp Clark (Dem.)
  • . Cleveland A. Newton (Rep.)
  • . William Leo Igoe (Dem.)
  • . Leonidas C. Dyer (Rep.)
  • . Marion E. Rhodes (Rep.)
  • . Edward D. Hays (Rep.)
  • . Isaac V. McPherson (Rep.)
  • . Thomas L. Rubey (Dem.) » Montana

  • . John M. Evans (Dem.)
  • . Carl W. Riddick (Rep.) » Nebraska

  • . C. Frank Reavis (Rep.)
  • . Albert W. Jefferis (Rep.)
  • . Robert E. Evans (Rep.)
  • . Melvin O. McLaughlin (Rep.)
  • . William E. Andrews (Rep.)
  • . Moses P. Kinkaid (Rep.) » Nevada

  • : Charles R. Evans (Dem.) » New Hampshire

  • . Sherman Everett Burroughs (Rep.)
  • . Edward Hills Wason (Rep.)
    		• » New Jersey

  • . William J. Browning (Rep.), died March 24, 1920 » *. Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (Rep.), elected to fill vacancy

  • . Isaac Bacharach (Rep.)
  • . Thomas J. Scully (Dem.)
  • . Elijah C. Hutchinson (Rep.)
  • . Ernest R. Ackerman (Rep.)
  • . John R. Ramsey (Rep.)
  • . Amos H. Radcliffe (Rep.)
  • . Cornelius A. McGlennon (Dem.)
  • . Daniel F. Minahan (Dem.)
  • . Frederick R. Lehlbach (Rep.)
  • . John J. Eagan (Dem.)
  • . James A. Hamill (Dem.) » New Mexico

  • : Benigno C. Hernán