United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

The United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was one of the first standing committees created in the United States Senate, in 1816. It had jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. It continued to exist until the reorganization of 1977 when, following the granting of home rule to the district, its duties were transferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Committee chairmen

Chairman Party State Years
Armistead Mason DemocraticRepublican Virginia 18161817
Robert Henry Goldsborough Federalist Maryland 18171819
Outerbridge Horsey Federalist Delaware 18191821
James Barbour DemocraticRepublican Virginia 18211823
Edward Lloyd DemocraticRepublican Maryland 18231826
Ezekiel F. Chambers DemocraticRepublican Maryland 18261827
John Eaton DemocraticRepublican Tennessee 18271829
Ezekiel F. Chambers National Republican Maryland 18291834
John Tyler Whig Virginia 18341836
Joseph Kent Whig Maryland 18361837
William H. Roane Democratic Virginia 18371839
William Merrick Whig Maryland 1839–1841
Richard H. Bayard Whig Delaware 18411842
Jacob Miller Whig New Jersey 18421845
William Haywood, Jr. Democratic North Carolina 18451846
Simon Cameron Democratic Pennsylvania 18461848
Herschel V. Johnson Democratic Georgia 18481849
James Mason Democratic Virginia 18491851
James Shields Democratic Illinois 18511853
Moses Norris, Jr. Democratic New Hampshire 18531855
Albert Brown Democratic Mississippi 18551861
James Grimes Republican Iowa 18611865
Lot Morrill Republican Maine 18651867
James Harlan Republican Iowa 18671869
Hannibal Hamlin Republican Maine 1869–1870
James Patterson Republican New Hampshire 18701873
John F. Lewis Republican Virginia 18731875
George E. Spencer Republican Alabama 18751877
Stephen Dorsey Republican Arkansas 18771879
Isham G. Harris Democratic Tennessee 1879–1881
John Ingalls Republican Kansas 18811891
James McMillan Republican Michigan 18911893
Isham G. Harris Democratic Tennessee 18931895
James K. Jones Democratic Arkansas 18951896
James McMillan Republican Michigan 1896–1902
Jacob Gallinger Republican New Hampshire 1903–1913
John Walter Smith Democratic Maryland 19131919
Lawrence Y. Sherman Republican Illinois 19191921
L. Heisler Ball Republican Delaware 19211925
Arthur Capper Republican Kansas 19251933
William H. King Democratic Utah 19331941
Pat McCarran Democratic Nevada 19411945
Theodore G. Bilbo Democratic Mississippi 19451947
C. Douglass Buck Republican Delaware 19471949
J. Howard McGrath Democratic Rhode Island 1949
Matthew M. Neely Democratic West Virginia 19491953
Francis Case Republican South Dakota 19531955
Matthew M. Neely Democratic West Virginia 19551958
Alan Bible Democratic Nevada 19581969
Joseph D. Tydings Democratic Maryland 19691971
Thomas F. Eagleton Democratic Missouri 19711977

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