70th United States Congress

70th United States Congress

69th ← → 71st United States Capitol (1906) Duration: March 4, 1927 – March 4, 1929 Senate President: Charles G. Dawes Senate Pres. pro tem: George H. Moses House Speaker: Nicholas Longworth Members: 96 Senators 435 Representatives 5 Non-voting members Senate Majority: Republican House Majority: Republican Sessions 1st: December 5, 1927 – May 29, 1928 2nd: December 3, 1928 – March 3, 1929

The Seventieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1927 to March 4, 1929, during the last two years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Decennial Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Major events

• November 6, 1928: U.S. Senate elections and U.S. House elections

Major legislation

• March 10, 1928: Settlement of War Claims Act
• May 15, 1928: Flood Control Act of 1928 (Jones–Reid Act)
• May 22, 1928: Merchant Marine Act of 1928 (Jones–White Act)
• May 22, 1928: Forest Research Act (McSweeney–McNary Act)
• May 22, 1928: Capper–Ketcham Act
• May 28, 1928: Welsh Act
• May 29, 1928: Revenue Act of 1928, ch. 852, 45 Stat. 791
• May 29, 1928: Reed–Jenkins Act
• December 21, 1928: Boulder Canyon Project Act (Hoover Dam)
• December 22, 1928: Color of Title Act
• January 19, 1929: Hawes–Cooper Act
• February 18, 1929: Migratory Bird Conservation Act (Norbeck–Anderson Act), ch. 257, 45 Stat. 1222
• March 2, 1929: Increased Penalties Act (Jones–Stalker Act)

Party summary

Senate composition, by party

Senate President

Charles G. Dawes (R)

Senate President pro Tempore

George H. Moses (R)

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

	Party (Shading shows control)			Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Farmer–Labor (FL)	Republican (R)
End of the previous congress	42	1	53	96	0
Begin	47	1	48	96	0
End	45		50
Final voting share	46.9%	1.0%	52.1%
Beginning of the next congress	39	1	55	95	1

House of Representatives

	Party (Shading shows control)					Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Farmer–Labor (FL)	Republican (R)	Socialist (S)	Other
End of the previous congress	183	3	247	1	1	435	0
Begin	204	5	224	1	0	434	1
End	203		219			428	7
Final voting share	47.4%	1.2%	51.2%	0.2%	0.0%
Beginning of the next congress	164	1	270	0	0	435	0

Leadership

Senate

• Present: Charles G. Dawes (R)
• President pro tempore: George H. Moses (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Charles Curtis
• Majority Whip: Wesley L. Jones

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority leader: Joseph T. Robinson
• Minority whip: Peter G. Gerry

House of Representatives

House Speaker

Nicholas Longworth (R)

• Speaker: Nicholas Longworth (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: John Q. Tilson
• Majority Whip: Albert Vestal

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Finis J. Garrett
• Minority Whip: William Allan Oldfield

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state.

Senate

Senators are listed in order of seniority at the beginning of this Congress.

Senators were elected every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1928; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1930; and Class 3 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1932.

Alabama 2: J. Thomas Heflin (D) 3: Hugo Black (D) Arizona 1: Henry F. Ashurst (D) 3: Carl Hayden (D) Arkansas 2: Joseph T. Robinson (D) 3: Thaddeus H. Caraway (D) California 1: Hiram Johnson (R) 3: Samuel M. Shortridge (R) Colorado 2: Lawrence C. Phipps (R) 3: Charles W. Waterman (R) Connecticut 1: George P. McLean (R) 3: Hiram Bingham, III (R) Delaware 1: Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (D) 2: T. Coleman du Pont (R), until December 9, 1928 Daniel O. Hastings (R), from December 10, 1928 Florida 3: Duncan U. Fletcher (D) 1: Park Trammell (D) Georgia 2: William J. Harris (D) 3: Walter F. George (D) Idaho 2: William E. Borah (R) 3: Frank R. Gooding (R), until June 24, 1928 John W. Thomas (R), from June 30, 1928 Illinois 2: Charles S. Deneen (R) 3: Frank L. Smith (R),[1] until February 9, 1928 Otis F. Glenn (R), from December 3, 1928 Indiana 3: James E. Watson (R) 1: Arthur R. Robinson (R) Iowa 3: Smith W. Brookhart (R) 2: Daniel F. Steck (D) Kansas 3: Charles Curtis (R) 2: Arthur Capper (R) Kentucky 2: Frederic M. Sackett (R) 3: Alben W. Barkley (D) Louisiana 2: Joseph E. Ransdell (D) 3: Edwin S. Broussard (D) Maine 1: Frederick Hale (R) 2: Arthur R. Gould (R) Maryland 1: William Cabell Bruce (D) 3: Millard Tydings (D) Massachusetts 2: Frederick H. Gillett (R) 1: David I. Walsh (D) Michigan 2: James J. Couzens (R) 1: Woodbridge N. Ferris (D), until March 23, 1928 Arthur H. Vandenberg (R), from March 31, 1928 Minnesota 1: Henrik Shipstead (FL) 2: Thomas D. Schall (R) Mississippi 2: B. Patton Harrison (D) 1: Hubert D. Stephens (D) Missouri 1: James A. Reed (D) 3: Harry B. Hawes (D) Montana 2: Thomas J. Walsh (D) 1: Burton K. Wheeler (D)

Nebraska 2: George W. Norris (R) 1: Robert B. Howell (R) Nevada 1: Key Pittman (D) 3: Tasker Oddie (R) New Hampshire 3: George H. Moses (R) 2: Henry W. Keyes (R) New Jersey 2: Walter E. Edge (R) 1: Edward I. Edwards (D) New Mexico 1: Andrieus A. Jones (D), until December 20, 1927 Bronson M. Cutting (R), from December 29, 1927 until December 6, 1928 Octaviano A. Larrazolo (R), from December 7, 1928 2: Sam G. Bratton (D) New York 1: Royal S. Copeland (D) 3: Robert F. Wagner (D) North Carolina 2: Furnifold McL. Simmons (D) 3: Lee S. Overman (D) North Dakota 1: Lynn Frazier (R) 3: Gerald Nye (R) Ohio 3: Frank B. Willis (R), until March 30, 1928 Cyrus Locher (D), from April 4, 1928 until December 14, 1928 Theodore E. Burton (R), from December 15, 1928 1: Simeon D. Fess(R) Oklahoma 2: William B. Pine (R) 3: Elmer Thomas (D) Oregon 2: Charles L. McNary (R) 3: Frederick Steiwer (R) Pennsylvania 1: David A. Reed (R) 3: William S. Vare (R)[2] Rhode Island 1: Peter G. Gerry (D) 2: Jesse H. Metcalf (R) South Carolina 3: Ellison D. Smith (D) 2: Coleman L. Blease (D) South Dakota 3: Peter Norbeck (R) 2: William H. McMaster (R) Tennessee 1: Kenneth D. McKellar(D) 2: Lawrence Tyson (D) Texas 2: Morris Sheppard (D) 1: Earle B. Mayfield (D) Utah 3: Reed Smoot (R) 1: William H. King (D) Vermont 1: Frank L. Greene (R) 3: Porter H. Dale (R) Virginia 1: Claude A. Swanson (D) 2: Carter Glass (D) Washington 3: Wesley L. Jones (R) 1: Clarence Dill (D) West Virginia 2: Matthew M. Neely (D) 1: Guy D. Goff (R) Wisconsin 1: Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R) 3: John J. Blaine (R) Wyoming 2: Francis E. Warren (R) 1: John B. Kendrick (D)

Senate Majority Leaders Republican Leader Charles Curtis Republican Whip Wesley Jones Senate Minority Leaders Democratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson Democratic Whip Peter G. Gerry

House of Representatives

Contents

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming
• Non-voting members

Members of the House of Representatives are listed by district.

Alabama 1. John McDuffie (D) 2. J. Lister Hill (D) 3. Henry B. Steagall (D) 4. Lamar Jeffers (D) 5. William B. Bowling (D), resigned August 16, 1928 LaFayette L. Patterson (D), from November 6, 1928 6. William B. Oliver (D) 7. Miles C. Allgood (D) 8. Edward B. Almon (D) 9. George Huddleston (D) 10. William B. Bankhead (D) Arizona At-large. Lewis W. Douglas (D) Arkansas 1. William J. Driver (D) 2. William A. Oldfield (D), died November 19, 1928 Pearl Peden Oldfield (D), from January 9, 1929 3. John N. Tillman (D) 4. Otis Wingo (D) 5. Heartsill Ragon (D) 6. James B. Reed (D) 7. Tilman B. Parks (D) California 1. Clarence F. Lea (D) 2. Harry L. Englebright (R) 3. Charles F. Curry (R) 4. Florence P. Kahn (R) 5. Richard J. Welch (R) 6. Albert E. Carter (R) 7. Henry E. Barbour (R) 8. Arthur M. Free (R) 9. William E. Evans (R) 10. Joe Crail (R) 11. Phil Swing (R) Colorado 1. William N. Vaile (R), died July 2, 1927 S. Harrison White (D), from November 15, 1927 2. Charles B. Timberlake (R) 3. Guy U. Hardy (R) 4. Edward T. Taylor (D) Connecticut 1. E. Hart Fenn (R) 2. Richard P. Freeman (R) 3. John Q. Tilson (R) 4. Schuyler Merritt (R) 5. James P. Glynn (R) Delaware At-large. Robert G. Houston (R) Florida 1. Herbert J. Drane (D) 2. Robert A. Green (D) 3. Tom A. Yon (D) 4. William J. Sears (D) Georgia 1. Charles G. Edwards (D) 2. Edward E. Cox (D) 3. Charles R. Crisp (D) 4. William C. Wright (D) 5. Leslie J. Steele (D) 6. Samuel Rutherford (D) 7. Malcolm C. Tarver (D) 8. Charles H. Brand (D) 9. Thomas M. Bell (D) 10. Carl Vinson (D) 11. William C. Lankford (D) 12. William W. Larsen (D) Idaho 1. Burton L. French (R) 2. Addison T. Smith (R) Illinois 1. Martin B. Madden (R), died April 27, 1928, vacant for remainder of term 2. Morton D. Hull (R) 3. Elliott W. Sproul (R) 4. Thomas A. Doyle (D) 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) 6. James T. Igoe (D) 7. M. Alfred Michaelson (R) 8. Stanley H. Kunz (D) 9. Frederick A. Britten (R) 10. Carl R. Chindblom (R) 11. Frank R. Reid (R) 12. John T. Buckbee (R) 13. William R. Johnson (R) 14. John C. Allen (R) 15. Edward J. King (R), died February 17, 1929, vacant thereafter 16. William E. Hull (R) 17. Homer W. Hall (R) 18. William P. Holaday (R) 19. Charles Adkins (R) 20. Henry T. Rainey (D) 21. J. Earl Major (D) 22. Edward M. Irwin (R) 23. William W. Arnold (D) 24. Thomas S. Williams (R) 25. Edward E. Denison (R) At-large. Henry R. Rathbone (R), died July 15, 1928, vacant thereafter At-large. Richard Yates (R) Indiana 1. Harry E. Rowbottom (R) 2. Arthur H. Greenwood (D) 3. Frank Gardner (D) 4. Harry C. Canfield (D) 5. Noble J. Johnson (R) 6. Richard N. Elliott (R) 7. Ralph E. Updike (R) 8. Albert Vestal (R) 9. Fred S. Purnell (R) 10. William R. Wood (R) 11. Albert R. Hall (R) 12. David Hogg (R) 13. Andrew J. Hickey (R) Iowa 1. William F. Kopp (R) 2. F. Dickinson Letts (R) 3. Thomas J. B. Robinson (R) 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R) 5. Cyrenus Cole (R) 6. C. William Ramseyer (R) 7. Cassius C. Dowell (R) 8. Lloyd Thurston (R) 9. William R. Green (R), resigned March 31, 1928 Earl W. Vincent (R), from June 4, 1928 10. Lester J. Dickinson (R) 11. William D. Boies (R) Kansas 1. Daniel R. Anthony, Jr. (R) 2. Ulysses S. Guyer (R) 3. William H. Sproul (R) 4. Homer Hoch (R) 5. James G. Strong (R) 6. Hays B. White (R) 7. Clifford R. Hope (R) 8. William A. Ayres (D) Kentucky 1. William V. Gregory (D) 2. David H. Kincheloe (D) 3. John W. Moore (D) 4. Henry D. Moorman (D) 5. Maurice Thatcher (R) 6. Orie S. Ware (D) 7. Virgil Chapman (D) 8. Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D) 9. Fred M. Vinson (D) 10. Katherine G. Langley (R) 11. John M. Robsion (R) Louisiana 1. James O'Connor (D) 2. J. Zach Spearing (D) 3. Whitmell P. Martin (D) 4. John N. Sandlin (D) 5. Riley J. Wilson (D) 6. Bolivar E. Kemp (D) 7. Ladislas Lazaro (D), died March 30, 1927 René L. De Rouen (D), from August 23, 1927 8. James B. Aswell (D) Maine 1. Carroll L. Beedy (R) 2. Wallace H. White, Jr. (R) 3. John E. Nelson (R) 4. Ira G. Hersey (R) Maryland 1. T. Alan Goldsborough (D) 2. William P. Cole, Jr. (D) 3. Vincent L. Palmisano (D) 4. J. Charles Linthicum (D) 5. Stephen W. Gambrill (D) 6. Frederick N. Zihlman (R) Massachusetts 1. Allen T. Treadway (R) 2. Henry L. Bowles (R) 3. Frank H. Foss (R) 4. George R. Stobbs (R) 5. Edith Nourse Rogers (R) 6. A. Piatt Andrew, Jr. (R) 7. William P. Connery, Jr. (D) 8. Frederick W. Dallinger (R) 9. Charles L. Underhill (R) 10. John J. Douglass (D) 11. George H. Tinkham (R) 12. James A. Gallivan (D), died April 3, 1928 John W. McCormack (D), from November 6, 1928 13. Robert Luce (R) 14. Louis A. Frothingham (R), died August 23, 1928 Richard B. Wigglesworth (R), from November 6, 1928 15. Joseph W. Martin, Jr. (R) 16. Charles L. Gifford (R) Michigan 1. Robert H. Clancy (R) 2. Earl C. Michener (R) 3. Joseph L. Hooper (R) 4. John C. Ketcham (R) 5. Carl E. Mapes (R) 6. Grant M. Hudson (R) 7. Louis C. Cramton (R) 8. Bird J. Vincent (R) 9. James C. McLaughlin (R) 10. Roy O. Woodruff (R) 11. Frank P. Bohn (R) 12. W. Frank James (R) 13. Clarence J. McLeod (R) Minnesota 1. Allen J. Furlow (R) 2. Frank Clague (R) 3. August H. Andresen (R) 4. Melvin Maas (R) 5. Walter Newton (R) 6. Harold Knutson (R) 7. Ole J. Kvale (FL) 8. William L. Carss (FL) 9. Conrad Selvig (R) 10. Godfrey G. Goodwin (R) Mississippi 1. John E. Rankin (D) 2. Bill G. Lowrey (D) 3. William M. Whittington (D) 4. T. Jefferson Busby (D) 5. Ross A. Collins (D) 6. T. Webber Wilson (D) 7. Percy Quin (D) 8. James Collier (D) Missouri 1. Milton A. Romjue (D) 2. Ralph F. Lozier (D) 3. Jacob L. Milligan (D) 4. Charles L. Faust (R), died December 17, 1928 David W. Hopkins (R), from February 5, 1929 5. George H. Combs, Jr. (D) 6. Clement C. Dickinson (D) 7. Samuel C. Major (D) 8. William L. Nelson (D) 9. Clarence Cannon (D) 10. Henry F. Niedringhaus (R) 11. John J. Cochran (D) 12. Leonidas C. Dyer (R) 13. Clyde Williams (D) 14. James F. Fulbright (D) 15. Joe J. Manlove (R) 16. Thomas L. Rubey (D), died November 2, 1928, vacant thereafter Montana 1. John M. Evans (D) 2. Scott Leavitt (R) Nebraska 1. John H. Morehead (D) 2. Willis G. Sears (R) 3. Edgar Howard (D) 4. John N. Norton (D) 5. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) 6. Robert G. Simmons (R) Nevada At-large. Samuel S. Arentz (R)

New Hampshire 1. Fletcher Hale (R) 2. Edward H. Wason (R) New Jersey 1. Charles A. Wolverton (R) 2. Isaac Bacharach (R) 3. Harold G. Hoffman (R) 4. Charles A. Eaton (R) 5. Ernest R. Ackerman (R) 6. Randolph Perkins (R) 7. George N. Seger (R) 8. Paul J. Moore (D) 9. Franklin W. Fort (R) 10. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R) 11. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D) 12. Mary T. Norton (D) New Mexico At-large. John Morrow (D) New York 1. Robert L. Bacon (R) 2. John J. Kindred (D) 3. George W. Lindsay (D) 4. Thomas H. Cullen (D) 5. Loring M. Black, Jr. (D) 6. Andrew L. Somers (D) 7. John Quayle (D) 8. Patrick J. Carley (D) 9. David J. O'Connell (D) 10. Emanuel Celler (D) 11. Anning S. Prall (D) 12. Samuel Dickstein (D) 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D) 14. William I. Sirovich (D) 15. John J. Boylan (D) 16. John J. O'Connor (D) 17. William W. Cohen (D) 18. John F. Carew D) 19. Sol Bloom (D) 20. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R) 21. Royal H. Weller (D), died March 1, 1929, vacant to end 22. Anthony J. Griffin (D) 23. Frank Oliver (D) 24. James M. Fitzpatrick (D) 25. J. Mayhew Wainwright (R) 26. Hamilton Fish, III (R) 27. Harcourt J. Pratt (R) 28. Parker Corning (D) 29. James S. Parker (R) 30. Frank Crowther (R) 31. Bertrand Snell (R) 32. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R), died May 1, 1928 Francis D. Culkin (R), from November 6, 1928 33. Frederick M. Davenport (R) 34. John D. Clarke (R) 35. Walter W. Magee (R), died May 25, 1927 Clarence E. Hancock (R), from November 8, 1927 36. John Taber (R) 37. Gale H. Stalker (R) 38. Meyer Jacobstein (D) 39. Archie D. Sanders (R) 40. S. Wallace Dempsey (R) 41. Clarence MacGregor (R), resigned December 31, 1928, vacant to end 42. James M. Mead (D) 43. Daniel A. Reed (R) North Carolina 1. Lindsay C. Warren (D) 2. John H. Kerr (D) 3. Charles L. Abernethy D) 4. Edward W. Pou (D) 5. Charles M. Stedman (D) 6. Homer L. Lyon (D) 7. William C. Hammer (D) 8. Robert L. Doughton (D) 9. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D) 10. Zebulon Weaver (D) North Dakota 1. Olger B. Burtness (R) 2. Thomas Hall (R) 3. James H. Sinclair (R) Ohio 1. Nicholas Longworth (R) 2. Vacant, until November 7, 1927 Charles J. Tatgenhorst, Jr. (R), seated November 8, 1927 3. Roy G. Fitzgerald (R) 4. William T. Fitzgerald (R) 5. Charles J. Thompson (R) 6. Charles C. Kearns (R) 7. Charles Brand (R) 8. Thomas B. Fletcher (D) 9. William W. Chalmers (R) 10. Thomas A. Jenkins (R) 11. Mell G. Underwood (D) 12. John C. Speaks (R) 13. James T. Begg (R) 14. Martin L. Davey (D) 15. C. Ellis Moore (R) 16. John McSweeney (D) 17. William M. Morgan (R) 18. B. Frank Murphy (R) 19. John G. Cooper (R) 20. Charles A. Mooney (D) 21. Robert Crosser (D) 22. Theodore E. Burton (R), resigned December 15, 1928, vacant for remainder of term Oklahoma 1. Everette B. Howard (D) 2. William W. Hastings (D) 3. Wilburn Cartwright (D) 4. Thomas D. McKeown (D) 5. Fletcher B. Swank (D) 6. Jed J. Johnson (D) 7. James V. McClintic (D) 8. Milton C. Garber (R) Oregon 1. Willis C. Hawley (R) 2. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R), resigned May 31, 1928 Robert R. Butler (R), elected on November 6, 1928 to complete Sinnott's term 3. Maurice E. Crumpacker (R), died July 24, 1927 Franklin F. Korell (R), from October 18, 1927 Pennsylvania 1. James M. Hazlett (R), resigned October 20, 1927 James M. Beck (R), from November 8, 1927 2. George S. Graham (R) 3. Harry C. Ransley (R) 4. Benjamin M. Golder (R) 5. James J. Connolly (R) 6. George A. Welsh (R) 7. George P. Darrow (R) 8. Thomas S. Butler (R), died May 26, 1928 James Wolfenden (R), from November 6, 1928 9. Henry W. Watson (R) 10. William W. Griest (R) 11. Laurence H. Watres (R) 12. John J. Casey (D) 13. Cyrus M. Palmer (R) 14. Robert G. Bushong (R) 15. Louis T. McFadden (R) 16. Edgar R. Kiess (R) 17. Frederick W. Magrady (R) 18. Edward M. Beers (R) 19. Isaac H. Doutrich (R) 20. James R. Leech (R) 21. J. Banks Kurtz (R) 22. Franklin Menges (R) 23. J. Mitchell Chase (R) 24. Samuel A. Kendall (R) 25. Henry W. Temple (R) 26. J. Howard Swick (R) 27. Nathan L. Strong (R) 28. Thomas C. Cochran (R) 29. Milton W. Shreve (R) 30. Everett Kent (D) 31. Adam M. Wyant (R) 32. Stephen G. Porter (R) 33. M. Clyde Kelly (R) 34. John M. Morin (R) 35. Harry A. Estep (R) 36. Guy E. Campbell (R) Rhode Island 1. Clark Burdick (R) 2. Richard S. Aldrich (R) 3. Louis Monast (R) South Carolina 1. Thomas S. McMillan (D) 2. Butler B. Hare (D) 3. Frederick H. Dominick (D) 4. John J. McSwain (D) 5. William F. Stevenson (D) 6. Allard H. Gasque (D) 7. Hampton P. Fulmer (D) South Dakota 1. Charles A. Christopherson (R) 2. Royal C. Johnson (R) 3. William Williamson (R) Tennessee 1. B. Carroll Reece (R) 2. J. Will Taylor (R) 3. Samuel D. McReynolds (D) 4. Cordell Hull (D) 5. Ewin L. Davis (D) 6. Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D) 7. Edward E. Eslick (D) 8. Gordon Browning (D) 9. Finis J. Garrett (D) 10. Hubert Fisher (D) Texas 1. Eugene Black (D) 2. John C. Box (D) 3. Morgan G. Sanders (D) 4. Sam Rayburn (D) 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D) 6. Luther Alexander Johnson (D) 7. Clay Stone Briggs (D) 8. Daniel E. Garrett (D) 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D) 10. James P. Buchanan (D) 11. Tom Connally (D) 12. Fritz G. Lanham (D) 13. Guinn Williams (D) 14. Harry M. Wurzbach (R) 15. John N. Garner (D) 16. Claude B. Hudspeth D) 17. Thomas L. Blanton (D) 18. J. Marvin Jones (D) Utah 1. Don B. Colton (R) 2. Elmer O. Leatherwood (R) Vermont 1. Elbert S. Brigham (R) 2. Ernest Willard Gibson (R) Virginia 1. Schuyler Otis Bland (D) 2. Joseph T. Deal (D) 3. Andrew J. Montague (D) 4. Patrick H. Drewry (D) 5. Joseph Whitehead (D) 6. Clifton A. Woodrum (D) 7. Thomas W. Harrison (D) 8. R. Walton Moore (D) 9. George C. Peery (D) 10. Henry St. George Tucker, III (D) Washington 1. John F. Miller (R) 2. Lindley H. Hadley (R) 3. Albert Johnson (R) 4. John W. Summers (R) 5. Samuel B. Hill (D) West Virginia 1. Carl G. Bachmann (R) 2. Frank L. Bowman (R) 3. William S. O'Brien (D) 4. James A. Hughes (R) 5. James F. Strother (R) 6. Edward T. England (R) Wisconsin 1. Henry Allen Cooper (R) 2. Charles A. Kading (R) 3. John M. Nelson (R) 4. John C. Schafer (R) 5. Victor L. Berger (S) 6. Florian Lampert (R) 7. Joseph D. Beck (R) 8. Edward E. Browne (R) 9. George J. Schneider (R) 10. James A. Frear (R) 11. Hubert H. Peavey (R) Wyoming At-large. Charles E. Winter (R) Non-voting members Alaska Territory. Daniel Sutherland (R) Hawaii Territory. Victor S. K. Houston (R) Philippines. Isauro Gabaldon, until July 16, 1928 Philippines. Pedro Guevara Puerto Rico. Félix Córdova Dávila

House Majority Leaders Republican Leader John Tilson Republican Whip Albert Vestal House Minority Leaders Democratic Leader Finis Garrett Democratic Whip William Oldfield

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

State	Senator	Reason for Vacancy	Successor	Date of Successor's Installation
Illinois (3)	Frank B. Willis (R)	Smith was not permitted to qualify, and resigned February 9, 1928. Winner was elected to finish the term.	Otis F. Glenn (R)	December 3, 1928
New Mexico (1)	Andrieus A. Jones (D)	Died December 20, 1927 Successor was appointed to continue the term.	Bronson M. Cutting (R)	December 29, 1927
Michigan (1)	Woodbridge N. Ferris (D)	Died March 23, 1928 Successor was appointed to continue the term. Successor was then elected November 6, 1928 to finish the term.	Arthur H. Vandenberg (R)	March 31, 1928
Ohio (3)	Frank B. Willis (R)	Died March 30, 1928. Successor was appointed to continue the term.	Cyrus Locher (D)	April 4, 1928
Idaho (3)	Frank R. Gooding (R)	Died June 24, 1928. Successor was appointed to continue the term. Successor was then elected November 6, 1928 to finish the term.	John W. Thomas (R)	June 30, 1928
New Mexico (1)	Bronson M. Cutting (R)	Appointee resigned December 6, 1928 when successor was elected to finish the term.	Octaviano A. Larrazolo (R)	December 7, 1928
Delaware (2)	T. Coleman du Pont (R)	Resigned December 9, 1928. Successor was elected to finish the term.	Daniel O. Hastings (R)	December 10, 1928
Ohio (3)	Cyrus Locher (D)	Appointee resigned December 14, 1928 when successor was elected to finish the term.	Theodore E. Burton (R)	December 15, 1928

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 15
  • Democratic: 1 seat net gain
  • Republican: 1 seat net loss
• Deaths: 16
• Resignations: 6
• Total seats with changes: 22

Officers

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn

Senate

• Chaplain: John J. Muir, (Baptist)
  • ZeBarney T. Phillips (Episcopal), from December 5, 1927
• Secretary: Edwin P. Thayer
• Sergeant at Arms: David S. Barry

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: James S. Montgomery (Methodist)
• Clerk: William T. Page
• Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
• Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers
• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler
• Postmaster: Frank W. Collier

See also

• United States Senate elections, 1926
• United States House of Representatives elections, 1926

References

1. Frank L. Smith (R-IL) was elected to the Senate for the term starting March 4, 1927, but the Senate refused to qualify him due to charges of corruption concerning his election. He resigned February 9, 1928. See http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000534
2. William S. Vare (R-PA) was elected to the Senate for the term starting March 4, 1927, but the Senate refused to qualify him due to charges of corruption and fraud concerning his election. In the next Congress, the Senate unseated him. See http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000071

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

External links

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists