58th United States Congress
| 58th United States Congress | |
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57th ← → 59th | |
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United States Capitol (1906) | |
| March 4, 1903 – March 4, 1905 | |
| Senate President | Vacant |
| Senate Pres. pro tem | William P. Frye (R) |
| House Speaker | Joseph G. Cannon (R) |
| Members |
90 Senators 386 Representatives 5 Non-voting members |
| Senate Majority | Republican |
| House Majority | Republican |
| Sessions | |
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Special: March 5, 1903 – March 19, 1903 1st: November 9, 1903 – December 7, 1903 2nd: December 7, 1903 – April 28, 1904 3rd: December 5, 1904 – March 3, 1905 | |
The Fifty-eighth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1903, to March 4, 1905, during the third and fourth years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Twelfth Census of the United States in 1900. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
Major events
Major Legislation
- April 28, 1904: Kinkaid Act
- February 1, 1905: Transfer Act of 1905
Party summary
Senate
| Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic (D) |
Populist (P) | Republican (R) | Silver Republican (SR) | |||
| End of the previous congress | 29 | 2 | 56 | 2 | 89 | 1 |
| Begin | 33 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 90 | 0 |
| End | 56 | 89 | 1 | |||
| Final voting share | 37.1% | 0.0% | 62.9% | 0.0% | ||
| Beginning of the next congress | 31 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 88 | 2 |
House of Representatives
- Republican (R): 209 (majority)
- Democratic (D): 176
- Silver Republican (SR): 1
TOTAL members: 386
Leadership
Senate
- President: Vacant
- President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
- Republican Conference Chairman: William B. Allison (R)
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: Arthur P. Gorman (D)
- Democratic Caucus Secretary: Edward W. Carmack
House of Representatives
- Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)
Majority (Republican) leadership
- Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
- Majority Whip: James A. Tawney
- Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn
Minority (Democratic) leadership
- Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams
- Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: James Hay
- Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
Senate
At this time, Senators were elected by the state legislatures 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 reelection in 1904; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1906; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1908.
House of Representatives
Joseph G. Cannon
The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," 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.
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- replacements: 3
- Democratic: no net change
- Republican: no net change
- deaths: 3
- resignations: 1
- vacancy: 0
- Total seats with changes: 4
| State (class) |
Vacator | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio (1) |
Mark Hanna (R) | Died February 15, 1904. Successor was elected. | Charles W. F. Dick (R) | March 2, 1904 |
| Pennsylvania (1) |
Matthew Quay (R) | Died May 28, 1904. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | Philander C. Knox (R) | June 10, 1904 |
| Massachusetts (2) |
George Frisbie Hoar (R) | Died September 30, 1904. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | Winthrop M. Crane (R) | October 12, 1904 |
| Indiana (3) |
Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | Resigned March 3, 1905, after being elected Vice-president of the United States | Vacant until next Congress | |
House of Representatives
- replacements: 14
- Democratic: 2 seat loss
- Republican: 2 seat gain
- deaths: 8
- resignations: 7
- contested elections: 1
- Total seats with changes: 18
| District | Previous | Reason for change | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas 7th | Vacant | Rep. Chester I. Long resigned during previous congress | Victor Murdock (R) | May 26, 1903 |
| Oregon 1st | Vacant | Rep. Thomas H. Tongue died during previous congress | Binger Hermann (R) | June 1, 1903 |
| Pennsylvania 4th | Robert H. Foerderer (R) | Died July 26, 1903 | Reuben Moon (R) | November 3, 1903 |
| Kentucky 11th | Vincent Boreing (R) | Died September 16, 1903 | W. Godfrey Hunter (R) | November 10, 1903 |
| Ohio 16th | Joseph J. Gill (R) | Resigned October 31, 1903 | Capell L. Weems (R) | November 3, 1903 |
| Texas 8th | Thomas Henry Ball (D) | Resigned November 16, 1903 | John M. Pinckney (D) | November 17, 1903 |
| Pennsylvania 3rd | Henry Burk (R) | Died December 5, 1903 | George A. Castor (R) | February 16, 1904 |
| New York 12th | George B. McClellan Jr. (D) | Resigned December 21, 1903, after being elected Mayor of New York | William B. Cockran (D) | February 23, 1904 |
| Ohio 14th | William W. Skiles (R) | Died January 9, 1904 | Amos R. Webber (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Pennsylvania 10th | George Howell (D) | Lost contested election February 10, 1904 | William Connell (R) | February 10, 1904 |
| Colorado 1st | John F. Shafroth (D) | Resigned February 15, 1904, after believing he was elected due to election irregularities | Robert W. Bonynge (R) | February 16, 1904 |
| South Carolina 2nd | George W. Croft (D) | Died March 10, 1904 | Theodore G. Croft (D) | May 17, 1904 |
| Ohio 19th | Charles W. F. Dick (R) | Resigned March 23, 1904, after being elected to the U.S. Senate | W. Aubrey Thomas (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Alabama 5th | Charles W. Thompson (D) | Died March 20, 1904 | J. Thomas Heflin (D) | May 19, 1904 |
| New Jersey 4th | William M. Lanning (R) | Resigned June 6, 1904, after being appointed judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | Ira W. Wood (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| California 3rd | Victor H. Metcalf (R) | Resigned July 1, 1904, after being appointed United States Department of Commerce and Labor | Joseph R. Knowland (R) | November 8, 1904 |
| Illinois 8th | William F. Mahoney (D) | Died December 27, 1904 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
| New York 19th | Norton P. Otis (R) | Died February 20, 1905 | Seat remained vacant until next Congress | |
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (7 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
Senate
- Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select)
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Appropriations
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
- Canadian Relations
- Census
- Civil Service and Retrenchment
- Claims
- Coast and Insular Survey
- Commerce
- Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia
- Cuban Relations
- Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
- District of Columbia
- Education and Labor
- Engrossed Bills
- Enrolled Bills
- Establish a University in the United States (Select)
- Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
- Expenditures in Executive Departments
- Finance
- Fisheries
- Foreign Relations
- Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select)
- Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
- Geological Survey
- Immigration
- Immigration and Naturalization
- Impeachment of Charles H. Swayne (Select)
- Indian Affairs
- Industrial Expositions
- Interoceanic Canals
- Interstate Commerce
- Irrigation and Reclamation
- Judiciary
- Library
- Manufactures
- Military Affairs
- Mines and Mining
- Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select)
- National Banks (Select)
- Naval Affairs
- Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Philippines
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Potomac River Front (Select)
- Printing
- Private Land Claims
- Privileges and Elections
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Health and National Quarantine
- Public Lands
- Railroads
- Revision of the Laws
- Revolutionary Claims
- Rules
- Standards, Weights and Measures (Select)
- Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Territories
- Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select)
- Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
- Ventilation and Acoustics (Select)
- Whole
- Woman Suffrage (Select)
House of Representatives
- Accounts
- Agriculture
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
- Appropriations
- Banking and Currency
- Census
- Claims
- Coinage, Weights and Measures
- Disposition of Executive Papers
- District of Columbia
- Education
- Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress
- Elections
- Enrolled Bills
- Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
- Expenditures in the Interior Department
- Expenditures in the Justice Department
- Expenditures in the Navy Department
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- Expenditures in the State Department
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- Expenditures in the War Department
- Expenditures on Public Buildings
- Foreign Affairs
- Immigration and Naturalization
- Indian Affairs
- Industrial Arts and Expositions
- Insular Affairs
- Interstate and Foreign Commerce
- Invalid Pensions
- Irrigation of Arid Lands
- Labor
- Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- Manufactures
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- Mileage
- Military Affairs
- Militia
- Mines and Mining
- Naval Affairs
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Lands
- Railways and Canals
- Reform in the Civil Service
- Revision of Laws
- Rivers and Harbors
- Rules
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories
- Ventilation and Acoustics
- War Claims
- Ways and Means
- Whole
Joint committees
- Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
- Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
Employees
- Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods, appointed February 19, 1902
- Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
- Public Printer of the United States: Frank W. Palmer
Senate
- Secretary: Charles G. Bennett of New York, elected February 1, 1900
- Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell of Indiana, elected February 1, 1900
- Chaplain:
- F.J. Prettyman, Methodist, elected December 2, 1902
- Edward E. Hale, Unitarian, elected December 14, 1903
House of Representatives
- Clerk: Alexander McDowell of Pennsylvania, elected November 9, 1903
- Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson of Wisconsin, elected November 9, 1903
- Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon of New York, elected November 9, 1903
- Postmaster: Joseph C. McElroy of Ohio, elected November 9, 1903
- Reading Clerks: [Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
- Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Asher C. Hinds
- Chaplain: Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected November 9, 1903
See also
- United States elections, 1902 (elections leading to this Congress)
- United States elections, 1904 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
References
- Gould, Lewis L. (2005). The Most Exclusive Club. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group. ISBN 0-465-02778-4.
- Remini, Robert V. (2006). The House. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-06-088434-7.
- U.S. Congress (2005). "Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
- U.S. House of Representatives (2006). "Congressional History". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
- U.S. Senate (2006). "Statistics and Lists". Archived from the original on June 1, 2006. Retrieved June 1, 2006.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, Special Session.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, Extraordinary Session.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, 2nd Session.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, 2nd Session (1st Revision).
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, 2nd Session (2nd Revision).
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, 3rd Session.
- Official Congressional Directory for the 58th Congress, 3rd Session (Revision).