65th United States Congress
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| 65th United States Congress | |
 United States Capitol (1906) |
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| Session: | March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1919 |
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| President of the Senate: | Thomas R. Marshall |
| President pro tempore of the Senate: | Willard Saulsbury, Jr. |
| Speaker of the House: | Champ Clark |
| Members: | 435 Representatives 96 Senators |
| House Majority: | Republican |
| Senate Majority: | Democratic |
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The Sixty-fifth 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, 1917 to March 4, 1919, during the first 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. The Senate had a Democratic majority, and the House had a Republican plurality but the Democrats remained in control with the support of the Progressives.
[edit] Dates of sessions
- Special session of the Senate: March 5, 1917 - March 16, 1917
- First session: April 2, 1917 - October 6, 1917
- Second session: December 3, 1917 - November 21, 1918
- Third session: December 2, 1918 - March 4, 1919 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 64th Congress
Next congress: 66th Congress
[edit] Major events
- Main article: Events of 1917; Events of 1918; Events of 1919
The brief special session was called by President Wilson in March 1919, because of a filibuster that had successfully blocked appropriations bills needed to fund day-to-day government operations. The official Senate website provides the full story of this filibuster as part of a biography of Charles P. Higgins [1], the colorful Senate Seargant at Arms who was the only Democrat to fill that office in a space of almost forty years.
[edit] Major legislation
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act, an agreement between the US and Great Britain designed to protect endangered fowl
- Espionage Act and Sedition Act, which made certain kinds of criticism of the US government a treasonable offense
- War Resolution that brought America into World War I.
[edit] Party summary
TOTAL members: 96 |
TOTAL members: 435 |
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Senate
[edit] House of Representatives
[edit] Members
[edit] 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.
- See also: Category:United States Senators
- See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state
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[edit] 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.
- See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives
- See also: Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
- Secretary of the Senate:
- James M. Baker of South Carolina, elected March 13, 1913.
- Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:
[edit] House of Representatives
- Clerk of the House:
- South Trimble of Kentucky, elected April 2, 1917.
- Sergeant at Arms of the House:
- Robert B. Gordon of Ohio, elected April 2, 1917.
- Doorkeeper of the House:
- Postmaster of the House:
- Clerk at the Speaker’s Table:
- Chaplain of the House
- The Rev. Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected April 2, 1917.
[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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