70th United States Congress

The 70th 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 1910 United States census.

Both chambers had a Republican majority - albeit reduced from the previous Congress - and along with President Coolidge, the Republicans maintained an overall federal government trifecta.

Major events

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

• This was the last Congress to be exclusively white and the last to not have a single black member of Congress in either chamber.

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,
• 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,
• February 25, 1929: Mount Rushmore National Memorial Act (Norbeck-Williamson Act of 1929)
• March 2, 1929: Increased Penalties Act (Jones–Stalker Act)

Party summary

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

At the end of the first month of the first session of Congress, Republicans gained control of the Senate through a VP-tie-breaking majority.

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

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

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: Charles Curtis
• Majority Whip: Wesley L. Jones
• Republican Conference Secretary: Frederick Hale
• National Senatorial Committee Chair: Jesse H. Metcalf

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority leader: Joseph T. Robinson
• Minority whip: Peter G. Gerry
• Democratic Caucus Secretary: Hugo Black

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Nicholas Longworth (R)

Majority (Republican) leadership

• Majority Leader: John Q. Tilson
• Majority Whip: Albert Vestal
• Republican Conference Chairman: Willis C. Hawley
• Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: William R. Wood

Minority (Democratic) leadership

• Minority Leader: Finis J. Garrett
• Minority Whip: William Allan Oldfield
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Arthur H. Greenwood
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Joseph W. Byrns Sr.

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state.

Senate

Senators are listed by class. They 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 Taylor Robinson (D)

3. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D)

California

1. Hiram W. 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

1. Park Trammell (D)

3. Duncan U. Fletcher (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 Thomas (R), from June 30, 1928

Illinois

2. Charles S. Deneen (R)

3. Vacant until December 3, 1928

: Otis F. Glenn (R), from December 3, 1928

Indiana

1. Arthur R. Robinson (R)

3. James E. Watson (R)

Iowa

2. Daniel F. Steck (D)

3. Smith W. Brookhart (R)

Kansas

2. Arthur Capper (R)

3. Charles Curtis (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

1. David I. Walsh (D)

2. Frederick H. Gillett (R)

Michigan

1. Woodbridge N. Ferris (D), until March 23, 1928

: Arthur H. Vandenberg (R), from March 31, 1928

2. James J. Couzens (R)

Minnesota

1. Henrik Shipstead (FL)

2. Thomas D. Schall (R)

Mississippi

1. Hubert D. Stephens (D)

2. Pat Harrison (D)

Missouri

1. James A. Reed (D)

3. Harry B. Hawes (D)

Montana

1. Burton K. Wheeler (D)

2. Thomas J. Walsh (D)

Nebraska

1. Robert B. Howell (R)

2. George W. Norris (R)

Nevada

1. Key Pittman (D)

3. Tasker Oddie (R)

New Hampshire

2. Henry W. Keyes (R)

3. George H. Moses (R)

New Jersey

1. Edward I. Edwards (D)

2. Walter E. Edge (R)

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 M. Simmons (D)

3. Lee S. Overman (D)

North Dakota

1. Lynn Frazier (R-NPL)

3. Gerald Nye (R)

Ohio

1. Simeon D. Fess (R)

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

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. Vacant

Rhode Island

1. Peter G. Gerry (D)

2. Jesse H. Metcalf (R)

South Carolina

2. Coleman L. Blease (D)

3. Ellison D. Smith (D)

South Dakota

2. William H. McMaster (R)

3. Peter Norbeck (R)

Tennessee

1. Kenneth D. McKellar(D)

2. Lawrence Tyson (D)

Texas

1. Earle B. Mayfield (D)

2. Morris Sheppard (D)

Utah

1. William H. King (D)

3. Reed Smoot (R)

Vermont

1. Frank L. Greene (R)

3. Porter H. Dale (R)

Virginia

1. Claude A. Swanson (D)

2. Carter Glass (D)

Washington

1. Clarence Cleveland Dill (D)

3. Wesley L. Jones (R)

West Virginia

1. Matthew M. Neely (D)

2. Guy D. Goff (R)

Wisconsin

1. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (R)

3. John J. Blaine (R)

Wyoming

1. John B. Kendrick (D)

2. Francis E. Warren (R)

House of Representatives

Representatives are listed by district.

Alabama

. John McDuffie (D)

. J. Lister Hill (D)

. Henry B. Steagall (D)

. Lamar Jeffers (D)

. William B. Bowling (D), until August 16, 1928

: LaFayette L. Patterson (D), from November 6, 1928

. William B. Oliver (D)

. Miles C. Allgood (D)

. Edward B. Almon (D)

. George Huddleston (D)

. William B. Bankhead (D)

Arizona

. Lewis W. Douglas (D)

Arkansas

. William J. Driver (D)

. William A. Oldfield (D), until November 19, 1928

: Pearl Peden Oldfield (D), from January 9, 1929

. John N. Tillman (D)

. Otis Wingo (D)

. Heartsill Ragon (D)

. James B. Reed (D)

. Tilman B. Parks (D)

California

. Clarence F. Lea (D)

. Harry L. Englebright (R)

. Charles F. Curry (R)

. Florence P. Kahn (R)

. Richard J. Welch (R)

. Albert E. Carter (R)

. Henry E. Barbour (R)

. Arthur M. Free (R)

. William E. Evans (R)

. Joe Crail (R)

. Philip D. Swing (R)

Colorado

. William N. Vaile (R), until July 2, 1927

: S. Harrison White (D), from November 15, 1927

. Charles Bateman Timberlake (R)

. Guy U. Hardy (R)

. Edward T. Taylor (D)

Connecticut

. E. Hart Fenn (R)

. Richard P. Freeman (R)

. John Q. Tilson (R)

. Schuyler Merritt (R)

. James P. Glynn (R)

Delaware

. Robert G. Houston (R)

Florida

. Herbert J. Drane (D)

. Robert A. Green (D)

. Tom A. Yon (D)

. William J. Sears (D)

Georgia

. Charles G. Edwards (D)

. Edward E. Cox (D)

. Charles R. Crisp (D)

. William C. Wright (D)

. Leslie J. Steele (D)

. Samuel Rutherford (D)

. Malcolm C. Tarver (D)

. Charles H. Brand (D)

. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D)

. Carl Vinson (D)

. William C. Lankford (D)

. William W. Larsen (D)

Idaho

. Burton L. French (R)

. Addison T. Smith (R)

Illinois

. Martin B. Madden (R), until April 27, 1928

. Morton D. Hull (R)

. Elliott W. Sproul (R)

. Thomas A. Doyle (D)

. Adolph J. Sabath (D)

. James T. Igoe (D)

. M. Alfred Michaelson (R)

. Stanley H. Kunz (D)

. Frederick A. Britten (R)

. Carl R. Chindblom (R)

. Frank R. Reid (R)

. John T. Buckbee (R)

. William R. Johnson (R)

. John C. Allen (R)

. Edward J. King (R), until February 17, 1929

. William E. Hull (R)

. Homer W. Hall (R)

. William P. Holaday (R)

. Charles Adkins (R)

. Henry T. Rainey (D)

. J. Earl Major (D)

. Edward M. Irwin (R)

. William W. Arnold (D)

. Thomas S. Williams (R)

. Edward E. Denison (R)

. Henry R. Rathbone (R), until July 15, 1928

. Richard Yates Jr. (R)

Indiana

. Harry E. Rowbottom (R)

. Arthur H. Greenwood (D)

. Frank Gardner (D)

. Harry C. Canfield (D)

. Noble J. Johnson (R)

. Richard N. Elliott (R)

. Ralph E. Updike (R)

. Albert H. Vestal (R)

. Fred S. Purnell (R)

. William R. Wood (R)

. Albert R. Hall (R)

. David Hogg (R)

. Andrew J. Hickey (R)

Iowa

. William F. Kopp (R)

. F. Dickinson Letts (R)

. Thomas J. B. Robinson (R)

. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)

. Cyrenus Cole (R)

. C. William Ramseyer (R)

. Cassius C. Dowell (R)

. Lloyd Thurston (R)

. William R. Green (R), until March 31, 1928

: Earl W. Vincent (R), from June 4, 1928

. Lester J. Dickinson (R)

. William D. Boies (R)

Kansas

. Daniel Read Anthony Jr. (R)

. Ulysses S. Guyer (R)

. William H. Sproul (R)

. Homer Hoch (R)

. James G. Strong (R)

. Hays B. White (R)

. Clifford R. Hope (R)

. William A. Ayres (D)

Kentucky

. William V. Gregory (D)

. David Hayes Kincheloe (D)

. John W. Moore (D)

. Henry D. Moorman (D)

. Maurice H. Thatcher (R)

. Orie S. Ware (D)

. Virgil Chapman (D)

. Ralph W. E. Gilbert (D)

. Fred M. Vinson (D)

. Katherine G. Langley (R)

. John M. Robsion (R)

Louisiana

. James O'Connor (D)

. J. Zach Spearing (D)

. Whitmell P. Martin (D)

. John N. Sandlin (D)

. Riley Joseph Wilson (D)

. Bolivar E. Kemp (D)

. Ladislas Lazaro (D), until March 30, 1927

: René L. De Rouen (D), from August 23, 1927

. James Benjamin Aswell (D)

Maine

. Carroll L. Beedy (R)

. Wallace H. White Jr. (R)

. John E. Nelson (R)

. Ira G. Hersey (R)

Maryland

. T. Alan Goldsborough (D)

. William P. Cole Jr. (D)

. Vincent L. Palmisano (D)

. J. Charles Linthicum (D)

. Stephen W. Gambrill (D)

. Frederick N. Zihlman (R)

Massachusetts

. Allen T. Treadway (R)

. Henry L. Bowles (R)

. Frank H. Foss (R)

. George R. Stobbs (R)

. Edith Nourse Rogers (R)

. A. Piatt Andrew Jr. (R)

. William P. Connery Jr. (D)

. Frederick W. Dallinger (R)

. Charles L. Underhill (R)

. John J. Douglass (D)

. George H. Tinkham (R)

. James A. Gallivan (D), until April 3, 1928

: John W. McCormack (D), from November 6, 1928

. Robert Luce (R)

. Louis A. Frothingham (R), until August 23, 1928

: Richard B. Wigglesworth (R), from November 6, 1928

. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R)

. Charles L. Gifford (R)

Michigan

. Robert H. Clancy (R)

. Earl C. Michener (R)

. Joseph L. Hooper (R)

. John C. Ketcham (R)

. Carl Mapes (R)

. Grant M. Hudson (R)

. Louis C. Cramton (R)

. Bird J. Vincent (R)

. James C. McLaughlin (R)

. Roy O. Woodruff (R)

. Frank P. Bohn (R)

. W. Frank James (R)

. Clarence J. McLeod (R)

Minnesota

. Allen J. Furlow (R)

. Frank Clague (R)

. August H. Andresen (R)

. Melvin Maas (R)

. Walter H. Newton (R)

. Harold Knutson (R)

. Ole J. Kvale (FL)

. William L. Carss (FL)

. Conrad Selvig (R)

. Godfrey G. Goodwin (R)

Mississippi

. John E. Rankin (D)

. Bill G. Lowrey (D)

. William M. Whittington (D)

. T. Jefferson Busby (D)

. Ross A. Collins (D)

. T. Webber Wilson (D)

. Percy E. Quin (D)

. James W. Collier (D)

Missouri

. Milton A. Romjue (D)

. Ralph F. Lozier (D)

. Jacob L. Milligan (D)

. Charles L. Faust (R), until December 17, 1928

: David W. Hopkins (R), from February 5, 1929

. George H. Combs Jr. (D)

. Clement C. Dickinson (D)

. Samuel C. Major (D)

. William L. Nelson (D)

. Clarence Cannon (D)

. Henry F. Niedringhaus (R)

. John J. Cochran (D)

. Leonidas C. Dyer (R)

. Clyde Williams (D)

. James F. Fulbright (D)

. Joe J. Manlove (R)

. Thomas L. Rubey (D), until November 2, 1928

Montana

. John M. Evans (D)

. Scott Leavitt (R)

Nebraska

. John H. Morehead (D)

. Willis G. Sears (R)

. Edgar Howard (D)

. John N. Norton (D)

. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D)

. Robert G. Simmons (R)

Nevada

. Samuel S. Arentz (R)

New Hampshire

. Fletcher Hale (R)

. Edward H. Wason (R)

New Jersey

. Charles A. Wolverton (R)

. Isaac Bacharach (R)

. Harold G. Hoffman (R)

. Charles A. Eaton (R)

. Ernest R. Ackerman (R)

. Randolph Perkins (R)

. George N. Seger (R)

. Paul J. Moore (D)

. Franklin W. Fort (R)

. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R)

. Oscar L. Auf der Heide (D)

. Mary T. Norton (D)

New Mexico

. John Morrow (D)

New York

. Robert L. Bacon (R)

. John J. Kindred (D)

. George W. Lindsay (D)

. Thomas H. Cullen (D)

. Loring M. Black Jr. (D)

. Andrew L. Somers (D)

. John Quayle (D)

. Patrick J. Carley (D)

. David J. O'Connell (D)

. Emanuel Celler (D)

. Anning S. Prall (D)

. Samuel Dickstein (D)

. Christopher D. Sullivan (D)

. William I. Sirovich (D)

. John J. Boylan (D)

. John J. O'Connor (D)

. William W. Cohen (D)

. John F. Carew (D)

. Sol Bloom (D)

. Fiorello H. LaGuardia (R)

. Royal H. Weller (D), until March 1, 1929

. Anthony J. Griffin (D)

. Frank Oliver (D)

. James M. Fitzpatrick (D)

. J. Mayhew Wainwright (R)

. Hamilton Fish III (R)

. Harcourt J. Pratt (R)

. Parker Corning (D)

. James S. Parker (R)

. Frank Crowther (R)

. Bertrand H. Snell (R)

. Thaddeus C. Sweet (R), until May 1, 1928

: Francis D. Culkin (R), from November 6, 1928

. Frederick M. Davenport (R)

. John D. Clarke (R)

. Walter W. Magee (R), until May 25, 1927

: Clarence E. Hancock (R), from November 8, 1927

. John Taber (R)

. Gale H. Stalker (R)

. Meyer Jacobstein (D)

. Archie D. Sanders (R)

. S. Wallace Dempsey (R)

. Clarence MacGregor (R), until December 31, 1928

. James M. Mead (D)

. Daniel A. Reed (R)

North Carolina

. Lindsay C. Warren (D)

. John H. Kerr (D)

. Charles L. Abernethy (D)

. Edward W. Pou (D)

. Charles M. Stedman (D)

. Homer L. Lyon (D)

. William C. Hammer (D)

. Robert L. Doughton (D)

. Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D)

. Zebulon Weaver (D)

North Dakota

. Olger B. Burtness (R)

. Thomas Hall (R)

. James H. Sinclair (R)

Ohio

. Nicholas Longworth (R)

. Vacant, until November 7, 1927

: Charles J. Tatgenhorst Jr. (R), from November 8, 1927

. Roy G. Fitzgerald (R)

. William T. Fitzgerald (R)

. Charles J. Thompson (R)

. Charles C. Kearns (R)

. Charles Brand (R)

. Thomas B. Fletcher (D)

. William W. Chalmers (R)

. Thomas A. Jenkins (R)

. Mell G. Underwood (D)

. John C. Speaks (R)

. James T. Begg (R)

. Martin L. Davey (D)

. C. Ellis Moore (R)

. John McSweeney (D)

. William M. Morgan (R)

. B. Frank Murphy (R)

. John G. Cooper (R)

. Charles A. Mooney (D)

. Robert Crosser (D)

. Theodore E. Burton (R), until December 15, 1928

Oklahoma

. Everette B. Howard (D)

. William W. Hastings (D)

. Wilburn Cartwright (D)

. Tom D. McKeown (D)

. Fletcher B. Swank (D)

. Jed J. Johnson (D)

. James V. McClintic (D)

. Milton C. Garber (R)

Oregon

. Willis C. Hawley (R)

. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R), until May 31, 1928

: Robert R. Butler (R), from November 6, 1928

. Maurice E. Crumpacker (R), until July 24, 1927

: Franklin F. Korell (R), from October 18, 1927

Pennsylvania

. James M. Hazlett (R), until October 20, 1927

: James M. Beck (R), from November 8, 1927

. George S. Graham (R)

. Harry C. Ransley (R)

. Benjamin M. Golder (R)

. James J. Connolly (R)

. George A. Welsh (R)

. George P. Darrow (R)

. Thomas S. Butler (R), until May 26, 1928

: James Wolfenden (R), from November 6, 1928

. Henry W. Watson (R)

. William W. Griest (R)

. Laurence H. Watres (R)

. John J. Casey (D)

. Cyrus M. Palmer (R)

. Robert G. Bushong (R)

. Louis T. McFadden (R)

. Edgar R. Kiess (R)

. Frederick W. Magrady (R)

. Edward M. Beers (R)

. Isaac H. Doutrich (R)

. James R. Leech (R)

. J. Banks Kurtz (R)

. Franklin Menges (R)

. J. Mitchell Chase (R)

. Samuel A. Kendall (R)

. Henry W. Temple (R)

. J. Howard Swick (R)

. Nathan L. Strong (R)

. Thomas C. Cochran (R)

. Milton W. Shreve (R)

. Everett Kent (D)

. Adam M. Wyant (R)

. Stephen G. Porter (R)

. M. Clyde Kelly (R)

. John M. Morin (R)

. Harry A. Estep (R)

. Guy E. Campbell (R)

Rhode Island

. Clark Burdick (R)

. Richard S. Aldrich (R)

. Louis Monast (R)

South Carolina

. Thomas S. McMillan (D)

. Butler B. Hare (D)

. Fred H. Dominick (D)

. John J. McSwain (D)

. William F. Stevenson (D)

. Allard H. Gasque (D)

. Hampton P. Fulmer (D)

South Dakota

. Charles A. Christopherson (R)

. Royal C. Johnson (R)

. William Williamson (R)

Tennessee

. B. Carroll Reece (R)

. J. Will Taylor (R)

. Samuel D. McReynolds (D)

. Cordell Hull (D)

. Ewin L. Davis (D)

. Joseph W. Byrns (D)

. Edward E. Eslick (D)

. Gordon Browning (D)

. Finis J. Garrett (D)

. Hubert Fisher (D)

Texas

. Eugene Black (D)

. John C. Box (D)

. Morgan G. Sanders (D)

. Sam Rayburn (D)

. Hatton W. Sumners (D)

. Luther Alexander Johnson (D)

. Clay Stone Briggs (D)

. Daniel E. Garrett (D)

. Joseph J. Mansfield (D)

. James P. Buchanan (D)

. Tom T. Connally (D)

. Fritz G. Lanham (D)

. Guinn Williams (D)

. Harry M. Wurzbach (R)

. John Nance Garner (D)

. Claude B. Hudspeth (D)

. Thomas L. Blanton (D)

. John Marvin Jones (D)

Utah

. Don B. Colton (R)

. Elmer O. Leatherwood (R)

Vermont

. Elbert S. Brigham (R)

. Ernest Willard Gibson (R)

Virginia

. S. Otis Bland (D)

. Joseph T. Deal (D)

. Andrew Jackson Montague (D)

. Patrick H. Drewry (D)

. Joseph Whitehead (D)

. Clifton A. Woodrum (D)

. Thomas W. Harrison (D)

. R. Walton Moore (D)

. George C. Peery (D)

. Henry St. George Tucker III (D)

Washington

. John F. Miller (R)

. Lindley H. Hadley (R)

. Albert Johnson (R)

. John W. Summers (R)

. Samuel B. Hill (D)

West Virginia

. Carl G. Bachmann (R)

. Frank L. Bowman (R)

. William S. O'Brien (D)

. James Anthony Hughes (R)

. James F. Strother (R)

. Edward T. England (R)

Wisconsin

. Henry Allen Cooper (R)

. Charles A. Kading (R)

. John M. Nelson (R)

. John C. Schafer (R)

. Victor L. Berger (S)

. Florian Lampert (R)

. Joseph D. Beck (R)

. Edward E. Browne (R)

. George J. Schneider (R)

. James A. Frear (R)

. Hubert H. Peavey (R)

Wyoming

. Charles E. Winter (R)

Non-voting members

. Daniel Sutherland (R)

. Victor S. K. Houston (R)

. Isauro Gabaldon (Nac.), until July 16, 1928

. Pedro Guevara (Nac.)

. Félix Córdova Dávila

Changes in membership

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

Senate

|- | Pennsylvania<br/>(3) | Vacant | Election of William S. Vare was not certified by the governor and the Senate refused to seat him. | Vacant | Seat remained vacant until the next Congress.

|- | Illinois<br/>(3) | Vacant | Senator-elect Frank L. Smith was not permitted to qualify and resigned February 9, 1928.<br/>Successor elected November 6, 1928. | nowrap | Otis F. Glenn (R) | December 3, 1928

|- | New Mexico<br/>(1) | | Andrieus A. Jones (D) | Died December 20, 1927.<br/>Successor appointed December 29, 1927.<br/>Successor was later not elected to finish the term, see below. | | Bronson M. Cutting (R) | December 29, 1927

|- | Michigan<br/>(1) | | Woodbridge N. Ferris (D) | Died March 23, 1928.<br/>Successor appointed March 31, 1928.<br/>Successor was then elected November 6, 1928, to finish the term. | | Arthur H. Vandenberg (R) | March 31, 1928

|- | Ohio<br/>(3) | | Frank B. Willis (R) | Died March 30, 1928.<br/>Successor appointed April 4, 1928.<br/>Successor was later not elected to finish the term, see below. | | Cyrus Locher (D) | April 4, 1928

|- | Idaho<br/>(3) | nowrap | Frank R. Gooding (R) | Died June 24, 1928.<br/>Successor was appointed to continue the term.<br/>Successor was then elected November 6, 1928, to finish the term. | nowrap | John Thomas (R) | June 30, 1928

|- | New Mexico<br/>(1) | | Bronson M. Cutting (R) | Appointee did not run to finish the term.<br/>Successor elected November 6, 1928. | | Octaviano A. Larrazolo (R) | December 7, 1928

|- | Ohio<br/>(3) | | Cyrus Locher (D) | Appointee lost nomination to finish term.<br/>Successor elected November 6, 1928. | | Theodore E. Burton (R) | December 15, 1928

|- | Delaware<br/>(2) | | T. Coleman du Pont (R) | Resigned December 9, 1928.<br/>Successor appointed December 10, 1928, to finish the term. | nowrap | Daniel O. Hastings (R) | December 10, 1928

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 15
• Democratic: 1 seat net gain
• Republican: 1 seat net loss
• Deaths: 16
• Resignations: 7
• Total seats with changes: 23

Committees

Senate

• Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Charles L. McNary; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Appropriations (Chairman: Francis E. Warren; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Charles S. Deneen; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Peter Norbeck; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Civil Service (Chairman: Porter H. Dale; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Claims (Chairman: Robert B. Howell; Ranking Member: Park Trammell)
• Commerce (Chairman: Wesley L. Jones; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Arthur Capper; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: James Couzens; Ranking Member: Andrieus A. Jones)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Frank L. Greene; Ranking Member: Coleman L. Blease)
• Expenditures in Executive Departments (Chairman: Frederic M. Sackett; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Finance (Chairman: Reed Smoot; Ranking Member: Furnifold M. Simmons)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: William E. Borah; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Illegal Appointments in Civil Service (Select)
• Immigration (Chairman: Hiram W. Johnson; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Lynn J. Frazier; Ranking Member: Henry F. Ashurst)
• Interoceanic Canals (Chairman: Walter Evans Edge; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
• Interstate Commerce (Chairman: James Eli Watson; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Lawrence C. Phipps; Ranking Member: Morris Sheppard)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George W. Norris; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
• Library (Chairman: Simeon D. Fess; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Manufactures (Chairman: George P. McLean; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Mexican Propaganda (Select)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: David A. Reed; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Tasker L. Oddie; Ranking Member: Thomas J. Walsh)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Frederick Hale; Ranking Member: Claude A. Swanson)
• Patents (Chairman: Jesse H. Metcalf; Ranking Member: Ellison D. Smith)
• Pensions (Chairman: Arthur R. Robinson; Ranking Member: Peter Gerry)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George H. Moses; Ranking Member: Kenneth McKellar)
• Presidential Campaign Expenditures (Special)
• Printing (Chairman: Hiram Bingham; Ranking Member: Duncan U. Fletcher)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Samuel M. Shortridge; Ranking Member: William H. King)
• Propaganda or Money Alleged Used by Foreign Governments (Special)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Henry W. Keyes; Ranking Member: James A. Reed)
• Public Lands and Surveys (Chairman: Gerald P. Nye; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
• Rules (Chairman: Charles Curtis; Ranking Member: Lee S. Overman)
• Senatorial Elections (Select)
• Tariff Commission (Select)
• Territories and Insular Possessions (Chairman: Frank B. Willis; Ranking Member: Key Pittman)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Clarence MacGregor; Ranking Member: Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Gilbert N. Haugen; Ranking Member: James B. Aswell)
• Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
• Appropriations (Chairman: Martin B. Madden; Ranking Member: Joseph W. Byrns)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Louis T. McFadden; Ranking Member: Otis Wingo)
• Census (Chairman: E. Hart Fenn; Ranking Member: John E. Rankin)
• Civil Service (Chairman: Frederick R. Lehlbach; Ranking Member: John C. Box)
• Claims (Chairman: Charles L. Underhill; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Randolph Perkins; Ranking Member: Bill G. Lowrey)
• Disposition of Executive Papers (Chairman: Edward H. Wason; Ranking Member: Robert A. Green)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Frederick N. Zihlman; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
• Education (Chairman: Daniel A. Reed; Ranking Member: Bill G. Lowrey)
• Election of the President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress (Chairman: Hays B. White; Ranking Member: Lamar Jeffers)
• Elections No.#1 (Chairman: Don B. Colton; Ranking Member: Edward Eslick)
• Elections No.#2 (Chairman: Bird J. Vincent; Ranking Member: Gordon Browning)
• Elections No.#3 (Chairman: Charles L. Gifford; Ranking Member: Guinn Williams)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Guy E. Campbell; Ranking Member: Thomas L. Blanton)
• Expenditures in the Executive Departments (Chairman: William Williamson; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Flood Control (Chairman: Frank R. Reid; Ranking Member: Riley J. Wilson)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Stephen G. Porter; Ranking Member: J. Charles Linthicum)
• Immigration and Naturalization (Chairman: Albert W. Johnson; Ranking Member: Adolph J. Sabath)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Scott Leavitt; Ranking Member: William J. Sears)
• Insular Affairs (Chairman: Edgar R. Kiess; Ranking Member: Christopher D. Sullivan)
• Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Chairman: James S. Parker; Ranking Member: Sam Rayburn)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: William T. Fitzgerald; Ranking Member: Mell G. Underwood)
• Irrigation and Reclamation (Chairman: Addison T. Smith; Ranking Member: C.B. Hudspeth)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George S. Graham; Ranking Member: Hatton W. Sumners)
• Labor (Chairman: William F. Kopp; Ranking Member: William P. Connery Jr.)
• Library (Chairman: Robert Luce; Ranking Member: Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert)
• Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Wallace H. White Jr.; Ranking Member: Ewin L. Davis)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John M. Morin; Ranking Member: Percy E. Quin)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: John M. Robsion; Ranking Member: Arthur H. Greenwood)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Thomas S. Butler; Ranking Member: Carl Vinson)
• Patents (Chairman: Albert H. Vestal; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Pensions (Chairman: Harold Knutson; Ranking Member: William C. Hammer)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: William W. Griest; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Bell)
• Printing (Chairman: Edward M. Beers; Ranking Member: William F. Stevenson)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Richard N. Elliott; Ranking Member: Fritz G. Lanham)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Nicholas J. Sinnott; Ranking Member: John M. Evans)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Roy G. Fitzgerald; Ranking Member: Alfred L. Bulwinkle)
• Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: S. Wallace Dempsey; Ranking Member: Joseph J. Mansfield)
• Roads (Chairman: Cassius C. Dowell; Ranking Member: Edward B. Almon)
• Rules (Chairman: Bertrand H. Snell; Ranking Member: Edward W. Pou)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Charles F. Curry; Ranking Member: William C. Lankford)
• War Claims (Chairman: James G. Strong; Ranking Member: Bill G. Lowrey)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: William R. Green; Ranking Member: John N. Garner)
• World War Veterans' Legislation (Chairman: Royal C. Johnson; Ranking Member: Alfred L. Bulwinkle)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
• Harriman Geographic Code System
• Investigation of Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants
• Determine what Employment may be Furnished Federal Prisoners (Chairman: Rep. George S. Graham)
• Investigate Northern Pacific Lands (Chairman: Rep. Nicholas J. Sinnott)
• The Library (Chairman: Sen. Simeon D. Fess)
• Printing (Chairman: Sen. George H. Moses)
• Taxation (Chairman: Rep. William R. Green)
• To Investigate the Salaries of Officers and Employees of the Senate and the House

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Officers

Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
• Attending Physician of the United States Congress: George Calver, from 1928
• Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl
• Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
• Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter

Senate

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

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: James S. Montgomery (Methodist)
• Clerk: William T. Page
• Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
• Reading Clerks: Patrick Joseph Haltigan (D) and Alney E. Chaffee (R)
• Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers
• Parliamentarian: Lewis Deschler, from 1928
• Postmaster: Frank W. Collier

See also

• 1926 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
• 1926 United States Senate elections
• 1926 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1928 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
• 1928 United States presidential election
• 1928 United States Senate elections
• 1928 United States House of Representatives elections

Notes

References

External links

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