65th Congress of the United States

The 65th Congress of the United States , made up of the House and Senate , was the legislature of the United States . Its legislative term lasted from March 4, 1917 to March 4, 1919. All members of the House of Representatives and a third of the Senators ( Class I ) were elected in November 1916 and September for the state of Maine in the congressional elections. The Democratic Party won a majority in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, the Republican Party had the most seats. However, with the help of MPs from smaller parties, the Democrats were able to secure a majority of the seats. President at that time was the Democrat Woodrow Wilson . The Congress met in the American capital Washington, DC The United States at that time consisted of 48 states. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1910 census .

Important events

See also 1917 , 1918 and 1919

Much of the 65th Congress was marked by the events of World War I , in which the United States had been an active participant since April 6, 1917.

• March 4, 1917: Beginning of the legislature of the 65th Congress. With Jeannette Rankin, a woman is moving into the US House of Representatives for the first time. She represents the state of Montana .
• March 31, 1917: The previous Danish West Indies were transferred to the United States for $ 25 million and named the American Virgin Islands .
• April 2, 1917: President Wilson advises Congress to declare war on Germany. (First World War). This took place on April 6th.
• April 10, 1917: 133 people are killed in the explosion of a munitions factory in Chester , Pennsylvania .
• May 21, 1917: Parts of the city (73 blocks) are destroyed in a fire in Atlanta .
• May 26, 1917: 101 people die in a tornado in Illinois .
• July 1, 1917: Race rioting broke out in East St. Louis in connection with a labor dispute . 250 people are killed.
• July 12, 1917: The Phelps Dodge company identifies over 1,000 suspicious members of the Industrial Workers of the World in Bisbee , Arizona .
• August 1917: The so-called Green Corn Rebellion breaks out in Oklahoma , an uprising against conscription.
• November 24, 1917: Nine police officers are killed in a bomb attack in Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
• December 26, 1917: Most American railways are temporarily placed under the United States Railroad Administration . This is intended to optimize the transport of troops and material during the First World War.
• January 8, 1918: President Wilson announces his 14-point program
• March 4, 1918: The first case of Spanish flu is diagnosed at Camp Fuston, Kansas . This developed into a pandemic that killed several dozen million people around the world by 1920.
• May 12, 1918: The American Post Office begins regular airmail operations.
• November 1918: In the congressional elections, the Republicans win a majority in both chambers.
• November 9, 1918: Armistice in the First World War.
• December 4, 1918: President Wilson traveled by ship to the peace negotiations to Paris . He is the first American president to tour Europe during his tenure.
• January 15, 1919: 21 people die and 150 injured in the molasses disaster in Boston .
• January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution comes into force. This is the prohibition law. It was repealed in 1933 with the 21st amendment to the constitution because of its practical impracticability.
• February 25, 1919: Oregon becomes the first US state to introduce a petroleum tax.

The main laws

During the session of the 65th Congress, the following federal laws were passed ( see also: Legislative procedure ):

• April 6, 1917: Declaration of war on Germany.
• April 24, 1917: First Liberty Bond Act , see Liberty Bonds
• May 12, 1917: Enemy Vessel Confiscation Joint Resolution
• May 12, 1917: First Army Appropriations Act of 1917
• May 18, 1917: Selective Service Act of 1917
• May 29, 1917: Esch Car Service Act of 1917
• June 15, 1917: Emergency Shipping Fund Act of 1917
• June 15, 1917: Second Army Appropriations Act of 1917
• June 15, 1917: Espionage Act of 1917
• August 8, 1917: River and Harbor Act of 1917
• August 10, 1917: Priority of Shipments Act of 1917
• August 10, 1917: Food and Fuel Control Act
• October 1, 1917: Second Liberty Bond Act, see Liberty Bonds
• October 1, 1917: Aircraft Board Act of 1917
• October 3, 1917: War Revenue Act of 1917
• October 5, 1917: Repatriation Act of 1917
• October 6, 1917: Explosives Act of 1917
• October 6, 1917: War Risk Insurance Act of 1917
• October 6, 1917: International Emergency Economic Powers Act
• December 7, 1917: declaration of war on Austria-Hungary
• February 24, 1918: Revenue Act of 1918
• March 8, 1918: Soldiers 'and Sailors' Civil Relief Act
• March 19, 1918: 1918 Standard Time Act
• March 21, 1918: Federal Control Act of 1918
• April 4, 1918: Third Liberty Bond Act, see Liberty Bonds
• April 5, 1918: War Finance Corporation Act
• April 10, 1918: Webb-Pomeree Act
• April 18, 1918: American Forces Abroad Indemnity Act
• April 20, 1918: Destruction of War Materials Act
• April 23, 1918: Pittman Act
• May 9, 1918: Alien Naturalization Act
• May 16, 1918: Housing Act of 1918
• May 16, 1918: Sedition Act of 1918
• May 20, 1918: Departmental Reorganization Act
• May 22, 1918: Passport Control Act
• May 31, 1918: Saulsbury Resolution
• June 27, 1918: Veterans Rehabilitation Act
• July 3, 1918: Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
• July 9, 1918: Fourth Liberty Bond Act, see Liberty Bonds
• July 9, 1918: Army Appropriations Act of 1918
• July 18, 1918: River and Harbor Act of 1918
• July 18, 1918: Charter Rate and Requisition Act of 1918
• October 16, 1918: Immigration Act of 1918
• October 16, 1918: Corrupt Practices Act of 1918
• November 7, 1918: National Bank Consolidation Act of 1918
• November 21, 1918: Food Production Stimulation Act
• February 24, 1919: Child Labor Act of 1919
• February 26, 1919: Grand Canyon Park Act of 1919
• February 26, 1919: Acadia National Park Act of 1919 see Acadia National Park
• March 2, 1919: War Risk Insurance Act of 1919
• March 2, 1919: River and Harbors Act of 1919
• March 3, 1919: Hospitalization Act of 1919
• March 3, 1919: Fifth Liberty Bond Act
• March 4, 1919: Wheat Price Guarantee Act

Composition according to parties

senate

• Democratic Party: 56 (majority)
• Republican Party: 39
• Others (0
• Vacant: 1

Total: 96

House of Representatives

• Democratic Party: 213
• Republican Party: 215
• Others: 5
• Vacant: 2

Total: 435

Note: Four MPs from the splinter parties gave the Democrats a majority.

There were also five congressional delegates who were not entitled to vote

Public officials

senate

• President of the Senate : Thomas Riley Marshall (D)
• President pro tempore : Willard Saulsbury junior (D)

Leadership of the majority party

• Majority swip: J. Hamilton Lewis (D)

Leadership of the minority party

• Minority whip: Charles Curtis (R)

House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House of Representatives : Champ Clark (D)

Leadership of the majority party

• Majority Leader: Claude Kitchin (D)

Leadership of the minority party

• Minority Leader: James Mann (R)

Senate members

The following senators represented their respective states in the 65th Congress:

Alabama 2. John H. Bankhead (D) 3. Oscar Underwood (D) Arizona 1. Henry F. Ashurst (D) 3. Marcus A. Smith (D) Arkansas 2. Joseph Taylor Robinson (D) 3. William F. Kirby (D) California 1. Hiram Johnson (R) from March 16, 1917 3. James D. Phelan (D) Colorado 2. John F. Shafroth (D) 3. Charles Spalding Thomas (D) Connecticut 1. George P. McLean (R) 3. Frank B. Brandegee (R) Delaware 1. Josiah O. Wolcott (D) 2. Willard Saulsbury Jr (D) Florida 1. Park Trammell (D) 3. Duncan U. Fletcher (D) Georgia 2. Thomas W. Hardwick (D) 3. Michael Hoke Smith (D) Idaho 2. William Borah (R) 3. James H. Brady (R) through January 13, 1918 John F. Nugent (D) from January 22, 1918 Illinois 2. J. Hamilton Lewis (D) 3. Lawrence Yates Sherman (R) Indiana 1. Harry S. New (R) 3. James Eli Watson (R) Iowa 2. William Squire Kenyon (R) 3. Albert B. Cummins (R) Kansas 2. William Howard Thompson (D) 3. Charles Curtis (R) Kentucky 2. Ollie Murray James (D) until August 28, 1918 George B. Martin (D) from September 7, 1918 3. JCW Beckham (D) Louisiana 2. Joseph E. Ransdell (D) 3. Robert F. Broussard (D) until April 12, 1918 Walter Guion (D) from April 22 to November 5, 1918 Edward James Gay (D) from November 6, 1918 Maine 1. Frederick Hale (R) 2. Bert M. Fernald (R) Maryland 1. Joseph Irwin France (R) 3. John Walter Smith (D) Massachusetts 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) 2. John Wingate Weeks (R) Michigan 1. Charles E. Townsend (R) 2. William Alden Smith (R) Minnesota 1. Frank Billings Kellogg (R) 2. Knute Nelson (R) Mississippi 1. John Sharp Williams (D) 2. James K. Vardaman (D) Missouri 1. James A. Reed (R) 3. William J. Stone (D) until April 14, 1918 Xenophon P. Wilfley (D) from April 30 to November 5, 1918 Selden P. Spencer (R) from November 6, 1918 Montana 1. Henry L. Myers (D) 2. Thomas J. Walsh (D) Nebraska 1. Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (D) 2. George W. Norris (R)

Nevada 1. Key Pittman (D) 3. Francis G. Newlands (D) until December 24, 1917 Charles B. Henderson (D) from January 12, 1918 New Hampshire 2. Henry F. Hollis (D) 3. Jacob Harold Gallinger (R) until August 17, 1918 Irving W. Drew (R) September 2 through November 5, 1918 George H. Moses (R) from November 6, 1918 New Jersey 1. Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (R) 2. William Hughes (D) until January 30, 1918 David Baird (R) from February 23, 1918 New Mexico 1. Andrieus A. Jones (D) 2. Albert B. Fall (R) new York 1. William M. Calder (R) 3. James W. Wadsworth Jr. (R) North Carolina 2. Furnifold McLendel Simmons (D) 3. Lee Slater Overman (D) North Dakota 1. Porter J. McCumber (R) 3. Asle Gronna (R) Ohio 1. Atlee Pomeree (D) 3. Warren G. Harding (R) Oklahoma 2. Robert Latham Owen (D) 3. Thomas Gore (D) Oregon 2. Harry Lane (D) until May 23, 1917 Charles L. McNary (R) from May 29, 1917 to Nov. 5, 1918 and again from Dec. 18, 1918 Frederick W. Mulkey (R) from November 6 to December 17, 1918 3. George Earle Chamberlain (D) Pennsylvania 1. Philander C. Knox (R) 3. Boies Penrose (R) Rhode Island 1. Peter G. Gerry (D) 2. LeBaron Bradford Colt (R) South carolina 2. Benjamin Tillman (D) until July 3, 1918 Christie Benet (D) from July 6th to November 5th, 1918 William P. Pollock (D) from November 6, 1918 3. Ellison D. Smith (D) South Dakota 2. Thomas Sterling (R) 3. Edwin S. Johnson (D) Tennessee 1. Kenneth McKellar (D) 2. John K. Shields (D) Texas 1. Charles Allen Culberson (D) 2. Morris Sheppard (D) Utah 1. William H. King (D) 3. Reed Smoot (R) Vermont 1. Carroll Smalley Page (R) 3. William P. Dillingham (R) Virginia 1. Claude A. Swanson (D) 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) Washington 1. Miles Poindexter (R) 3. Wesley Livsey Jones (R) West Virginia 1. Howard Sutherland (R) 2. Nathan Goff (R) Wisconsin 1. Robert La Follette Sr. (R) 3. Paul O. Husting (D) until October 21, 1917 Irvine Lenroot (R) from April 18, 1918 Wyoming 1. John B. Kendrick (D) 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

Members of the House of Representatives

The following congressmen represented the interests of their respective states in the 65th Congress:

Alabama 10 constituencies 1. Oscar Lee Gray (D) 2. Stanley Hubert Dent, Jr. (D) 3. Henry B. Steagall (D) 4. Fred L. Blackmon (D) 5. James Thomas Heflin (D) 6. William Bacon Oliver (D) 7. John Lawson Burnett (D) 8. Edward B. Almon (D) 9. George Huddleston (D) 10. William B. Bankhead (D) Arizona state wide election Carl Hayden (D) Arkansas 7 constituencies. 1. Thaddeus H. Caraway (D) 2. William Allan Oldfield (D) 3. John N. Tillman (D) 4. Otis Wingo (D) 5. Henderson M. Jacoway (D) 6. Samuel M. Taylor (D) 7. William S. Goodwin (D) California 11 constituencies. 1. Clarence F. Lea (D) 2. John E. Raker (D) 3. Charles F. Curry (R) 4. Julius Kahn (R) 5. John I. Nolan (R) 6. John A. Elston (P = Progressive Party) 7. Denver S. Church (D) 8. Everis A. Hayes (R) 9. Charles Hiram Randall (Prohibitionist) 10. Henry Z. Osborne (R) 11. William Kettner (D) Colorado 4 constituencies 1. Benjamin C. Hilliard (D) 2. Charles B. Timberlake (R) 3. Edward Keating (D) 4. Edward T. Taylor (D) Connecticut 5 constituencies 1. Augustine Lonergan (D) 2. Richard P. Freeman (R) 3. John Q. Tilson (R) 4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R) through September 27, 1917 Schuyler Merritt (R) from November 6, 1917 5. James P. Glynn (R) Delaware state-wide choice Albert F. Polk (D) Florida 4 constituencies 1. Herbert J. Drane (D) 2. Frank Clark (D) 3. Walter Kehoe (D) 4. William J. Sears (D) Georgia 12 constituencies 1. James W. Overstreet (D) 2. Frank Park (D) 3. Charles R. Crisp (D) 4. William C. Adamson (D) until December 18, 1917 William C. Wright (D) from January 16, 1918 5. William S. Howard (D) 6. James W. Wise (D) 7. Gordon Lee (D) 8. Charles Hillyer Brand (D) 9. Thomas Montgomery Bell (D) 10. Carl Vinson (D) 11. John Randall Walker (D) 12. William Washington Larsen (D) Idaho state-wide election Burton L. French (R) Addison T. Smith (R) Illinois 25 constituencies. In addition, two representatives were elected nationwide 1. Martin B. Madden (R) 2. James Robert Mann (R) 3. William W. Wilson (R) 4. Charles Martin (D) until October 28, 1917 John W. Rainey (D) from April 2, 1918 5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) 6. James McAndrews (D) 7. Niels Juul (R) 8. Thomas Gallagher (D) 9. Frederick A. Britten (R) 10. George Edmund Foss (R) 11. Ira Clifton Copley (P) 12. Charles Eugene Fuller (R) 13. John C. McKenzie (R) 14. William J. Graham (R) 15. Edward John King (R) 16. Clifford C. Ireland (R) 17. John Allen Sterling (R) until October 17, 1918, after which the seat remained vacant 18. Joseph Gurney Cannon (R) 19. William B. McKinley (R) 20. Henry T. Rainey (D) 21. Loren E. Wheeler (R) 22. William A. Rodenberg (R) 23. Martin D. Foster (D) 24. Thomas Sutler Williams (R) 25. Edward E. Denison (R) 26. Joseph Medill McCormick (R) elected state-wide 27. William E. Mason (R) elected state-wide Indiana 13 constituencies 1. George K. Denton (D) 2. Oscar E. Bland (R) 3. William E. Cox (D) 4. Lincoln Dixon (D) 5. Everett Sanders (R) 6. Daniel Webster Comstock (R) through May 19, 1917 Richard N. Elliott (R) from June 29, 1917 7. Merrill Moores (R) 8. Albert Henry Vestal (R) 9. Fred S. Purnell (R) 10. William Robert Wood (R) 11. Milton Kraus (R) 12. Louis W. Fairfield (R) 13. Henry A. Barnhart (D) Iowa 11 constituencies 1. Charles A. Kennedy (R) 2. Harry E. Hull (R) 3. Burton E. Sweet (R) 4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R) 5. James William Good (R) 6. C. William Ramseyer (R) 7. Cassius C. Dowell (R) 8. Horace Mann Towner (R) 9. William R. Green (R) 10. Frank P. Woods (R) 11. George Cromwell Scott (R) Kansas 8 constituencies. 1. Daniel Anthony Jr. (R) 2. Edward C. Little (R) 3. Philip P. Campbell (R) 4. Dudley Doolittle (D) 5. Guy T. Helvering (D) 6. John R. Connelly (D) 7. Jouett Shouse (D) 8. William Augustus Ayres (R) Kentucky 11 constituencies 1. Albums W. Barkley (D) 2. David Hayes Kincheloe (D) 3. Robert Y. Thomas (D) 4. Ben Johnson (D) 5. J. Swagar Sherley (D) 6. Arthur B. Rouse (D) 7. J. Campbell Cantrill (D) 8. Harvey Helm (D) until March 3, 1919 9. William J. Fields (D) 10. John W. Langley (R) 11. Caleb Powers (R) Louisiana 8 constituencies 1. Albert Estopinal (D) 2. H. Garland Dupré (D) 3. Whitmell P. Martin (P) 4. John T. Watkins (D) 5. Riley J. Wilson (D) 6. Jared Y. Sanders (D) 7. Ladislas Lazaro (D) 8. James Benjamin Aswell (D) Maine 4 constituencies 1. Louis B. Goodall (R) 2. Wallace H. White (R) 3. John A. Peters (R) 4. Ira G. Hersey (R) Maryland 6 constituencies. 1. Jesse Price (D) 2. Joshua Talbott (D) until October 5, 1918 Carville Benson (D) from November 5, 1918 3. Charles Pearce Coady (D) 4. John Charles Linthicum (D) 5. Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (R) 6. Frederick Nicholas Zihlman (R) Massachusetts 16 constituencies 1. Allen T. Treadway (R) 2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) 3. Calvin Paige (R) 4. Samuel Winslow (R) 5. John Jacob Rogers (R) August 6th Peabody Gardner (R) through May 15, 1917 Willfred W. Lufkin (R) from November 6, 1917 7. Michael Francis Phelan (D) 8. Frederick W. Dallinger (R) 9. Alvan T. Fuller (R) 10. Peter Francis Tague (D) 11. George H. Tinkham (R) 12. James A. Gallivan (D) 13. William Henry Carter (R) 14. Richard Olney (D) 15. William S. Greene (R) 16. Joseph Walsh (R) Michigan 13 constituencies 1. Frank Ellsworth Doremus (D) 2. Mark R. Bacon (R) through December 13, 1917 Samuel Beakes (D) from December 13, 1917 3. John MC Smith (R) 4. Edward L. Hamilton (R) 5. Carl E. Mapes (R) 6. Patrick H. Kelley (R) 7. Louis C. Cramton (R) 8. Joseph W. Fordney (R) 9. James C. McLaughlin (R) 10. Gilbert A. Currie (R) 11. Frank D. Scott (R) 12. W. Frank James (R) 13. Charles Archibald Nichols (R) Minnesota 10th constituencies 1. Sydney Anderson (R) 2. Franklin Ellsworth (R) 3. Charles Russell Davis (R) 4. Carl Van Dyke (D) 5. Ernest Lundeen (R) 6. Harold Knutson (R) 7. Andrew Volstead (R) 8. Clarence B. Miller (R) 9. Halvor Steenerson (R) 10. Thomas David Schall (R) Mississippi 8 constituencies 1. Ezekiel S. Candler (D) 2. Hubert D. Stephens (D) 3. Benjamin G. Humphreys II (D) 4. Thomas U. Sisson (D) 5. William W. Venable (D) 6. Pat Harrison (D) 7. Percy Quin (D) 8. James William Collier (D) Missouri 16 constituencies 1. Milton A. Romjue (D) 2. William W. Rucker (D) 3. Joshua W. Alexander (D) 4. Charles F. Booher (D) 5. William Patterson Borland (D) until February 20, 1919, after which the seat remained vacant 6. Clement C. Dickinson (D) 7. Courtney W. Hamlin (D) 8. Dorsey William Shackleford (D) 9. Champ Clark (D) 10. Jacob Edwin Meeker (R) until October 16, 1918 Frederick Essen (R) from November 5, 1918 11. William L. Igoe (D) 12. Leonidas C. Dyer (R) 13. Walter Lewis Hensley (D) 14. Joseph J. Russell (D) 15. Perl D. Decker (D) 16. Thomas L. Rubey (D) Montana state-wide choice John M. Evans (D) Jeannette Rankin (R) Nebraska 6 constituencies 1. C. Frank Reavis (R) 2. Charles O. Lobeck (D) 3rd Dan V. Stephens (D) 4. Charles Henry Sloan (R) 5. Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) 6. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)

Nevada state-wide election Edwin Ewing Roberts (R) New Hampshire 2 electoral divisions 1. Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) until March 11, 1917 Sherman Everett Burroughs (R) from May 29, 1917 2. Edward Hills Wason (R) New Jersey 12 constituencies 1. William J. Browning (R) 2. Isaac Bacharach (R) 3. Thomas J. Scully (D) 4. Elijah C. Hutchinson (R) 5. John H. Capstick (R) until March 17, 1918 William F. Birch (R) from November 5, 1918 6. John R. Ramsey (R) 7. Dow H. Drukker (R) 8. Edward W. Gray (R) 9. Richard W. Parker (R) 10. Frederick R. Lehlbach (R) 11. John J. Eagan (D) 12. James A. Hamill (D) New Mexico state-wide election William Bell Walton (D) New York 43 constituencies 1. Frederick C. Hicks (R) 2. C. Pope Caldwell (D) 3. Joseph V. Flynn (D) 4. Harry H. Dale (D) until January 6, 1919, after which the seat remained vacant 5. James P. Maher (D) 6. Frederick W. Rowe (R) 7. John Joseph Fitzgerald (D) until December 31, 1917 John J. Delaney (D) from March 5, 1918 8. Daniel J. Griffin (D) until December 31, 1917 William E. Cleary (D) from March 5, 1918 9. Oscar W. Swift (R) 10. Reuben L. Haskell (R) 11. Daniel J. Riordan (D) 12. Meyer London (socialist) 13. Christopher D. Sullivan (D) 14. Fiorello LaGuardia (R) 15. Thomas Francis Smith (D) from April 12, 1917 16. Peter J. Dooling (D) 17. John F. Carew (D) 18. George B. Francis (R) 19. Walter M. Chandler (R) 20. Isaac Siegel (R) 21. George Murray Hulbert (D) until January 1, 1918 Jerome F. Donovan (D) from March 5, 1918 22. Henry Bruckner (D) until December 31, 1917 Anthony J. Griffin (D) from March 5, 1918 23. Daniel C. Oliver (D) 24. Benjamin L. Fairchild (R) 25. James W. Husted (R) 26. Edmund Platt (R) 27. Charles B. Ward (R) 28. Rollin B. Sanford (R) 29. James S. Parker (R) 30. George R. Lunn (D) 31. Bertrand Snell (R) 32. Luther W. Mott (R) 33. Homer P. Snyder (R) 34. George Winthrop Fairchild (R) 35.Walter W. Magee (R) 36. Norman J. Gould (R) 37. Harry H. Pratt (R) 38. Thomas B. Dunn (R) 39. Archie D. Sanders (R) 40. S. Wallace Dempsey (R) 41. Charles Bennett Smith (D) 42.William F. Waldow (R) 43. Charles Mann Hamilton (R) North Carolina 10 constituencies 1. John Humphrey Small (D) 2. Claude Kitchin (D) 3. George E. Hood (D) 4. Edward W. Pou (D) 5. Charles Manly Stedman (D) 6. Hannibal Lafayette Godwin (D) 7. Leonidas D. Robinson (D) 8. Robert L. Doughton (D) 9. Edwin Y. Webb (D) 10. Zebulon Weaver (D) until March 1, 1919 James Jefferson Britt (R) from March 1, 1919 North Dakota 3 constituencies 1. Henry Thomas Helgesen (R) until April 10, 1917 John Miller Baer (R) from July 20, 1917 2. George M. Young (R) 3. Patrick Daniel Norton (R) Ohio 22 constituencies 1. Nicholas Longworth (R) 2. Victor Heintz (R) 3. Warren Gard (D) 4. Benjamin F. Welty (D) 5. John S. Snook (D) 6. Charles Cyrus Kearns (R) 7. Simeon D. Fess (R) 8. John A. Key (D) 9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D) 10. Robert M. Switzer (R) 11. Horatio C. Claypool (D) 12. Clement L. Brumbaugh (D) 13. Arthur W. Overmyer (D) 14. Ellsworth Raymond Bathrick (D) until December 23, 1917 Martin Davey (D) from November 5, 1918 15. George White (D) 16. Roscoe C. McCulloch (R) 17. William A. Ashbrook (D) 18. David Hollingsworth (R) 19. John G. Cooper (R) 20. William Gordon (D) 21. Robert Crosser (D) 22. Henry I. Emerson (R) Oklahoma 8 constituencies 1. Thomas Alberter Chandler (R) 2. William W. Hastings (D) 3. Charles D. Carter (D) 4. Thomas D. McKeown (D) 5. Joseph Bryan Thompson (D) 6. Scott Ferris (D) 7. James V. McClintic (D) 8. Dick Thompson Morgan (R) Oregon 3 constituencies 1. Willis C. Hawley (R) 2. Nicholas J. Sinnott (R) 3. Clifton N. McArthur (R) Pennsylvania 32 constituencies. In addition, four MPs were elected nationwide 1. William Scott Vare (R) 2. George Scott Graham (R) 3rd J. Hampton Moore (R) 4. George W. Edmonds (R) 5. Peter E. Costello (R) 6. George P. Darrow (R) 7. Thomas S. Butler (R) 8. Henry Winfield Watson (R) 9. William Walton Griest (R) 10. John R. Farr (R) 11. Thomas W. Templeton (R) 12. Robert Douglas Heaton (R) 13. Arthur Granville Dewalt (D) 14. Louis Thomas McFadden (R) 15. Edgar Raymond Kiess (R) 16. John Vandling Lesher (D) 17. Benjamin K. Focht (R) 18. Aaron Shenk Kreider (R) 19. John Marshall Rose (R) 20. Andrew R. Brodbeck (D) 21. Charles Hedding Rowland (R) 22. Edward Everett Robbins (R) until January 25, 1919, after which the seat remained vacant 23. Bruce Foster Sterling (D) 24. Henry Wilson Temple (R) 25. Henry Alden Clark (R) 26. Henry Joseph Steele (D) 27. Nathan Leroy Strong (R) 28. Orrin Dubbs Bleakley (R) until April 3, 1917 Earl Hanley Beshlin (D) from November 6, 1917 29. Stephen Geyer Porter (R) 30 Melville Clyde Kelly (Progressive Party) 31. John M. Morin (R) 32. Guy Edgar Campbell (D) 33. Thomas S. Crago (R) elected state wide 34. John Scott (R) elected statewide through Jan. 5, 1919 35. Joseph McLaughlin (R) elected state-wide 36. Mahlon Morris Garland (R) elected state-wide Rhode Island 3 electoral constituencies 1. George F. O'Shaunessy (D) 2. Walter Russell Stiness (R) 3. Ambrose Kennedy (R) South Carolina 7 constituencies. 1. Richard S. Whaley (D) 2. James F. Byrnes (D) 3. Frederick H. Dominick (D) 4. Samuel J. Nicholls (D) 5. William F. Stevenson (D) 6. J. Willard Ragsdale (D) 7. Asbury Francis Lever (D) South Dakota 3 constituencies 1. Charles Hall Dillon (R) 2. Royal C. Johnson (R) 3. Harry Gandy (D) Tennessee 10 constituencies 1. Sam R. Sells (R) 2. Richard W. Austin (R) 3. John A. Moon (D) 4. Cordell Hull (D) 5. William C. Houston (D) 6. Joseph W. Byrns (D) 7. Lemuel P. Padgett (D) 8. Thetus W. Sims (D) 9. Finis J. Garrett (D) 10. Hubert Fisher (D) Texas 16 constituencies. In addition, two representatives were elected nationwide 1. Eugene Black (D) 2. Martin Dies (D) 3. James Young (D) 4. Sam Rayburn (D) 5. Hatton W. Sumners (D) 6. Rufus Hardy (D) 7. Alexander W. Gregg (D) 8. Joe H. Eagle (D) 9. Joseph J. Mansfield (D) 10. James P. Buchanan (D) 11. Tom Connally (D) 12. James Clifton Wilson (D) until March 3, 1919, after which the seat remained vacant 13. John Marvin Jones (D) 14. James Luther Slayden (D) 15. John Nance Garner (D) 16. Thomas L. Blanton (D) 17. Daniel E. Garrett (D) elected state wide 18. A. Jeff McLemore (D) elected state-wide Utah 2 constituencies 1. Milton H. Welling (D) 2. James Henry Mays (D) Vermont 2 constituencies 1. Frank L. Greene (R) 2. Porter H. Dale (R) Virginia 10 constituencies 1. William Atkinson Jones (D) until April 17, 1918 S. Otis Bland (D) from July 2, 1918 2. Edward Everett Holland (D) 3. Andrew Jackson Montague (D) 4. Walter Allen Watson (D) 5. Edward W. Saunders (D) 6. Carter Glass (D) until December 16, 1918 James P. Woods (D) from February 25, 1919 7. Thomas W. Harrison (D) 8. Charles Creighton Carlin (D) 9. C. Bascom Slemp (R) 10. Henry D. Flood (D) Washington 5 constituencies 1. John Franklin Miller (R) 2. Lindley H. Hadley (R) 3. Albert Johnson (R) 4. William La Follette (R) 5. Clarence Dill (D) West Virginia 6 constituencies 1. Matthew M. Neely (D) 2. George M. Bowers (R) 3. Stuart F. Reed (R) 4. Harry C. Woodyard (R) 5. Edward Cooper (R) 6. Adam Brown Littlepage (D) Wisconsin 11 constituencies 1. Henry A. Cooper (R) 2. Edward Voigt (R) 3. John M. Nelson (R) 4. William J. Cary (R) 5. William H. Stafford (R) 6. James H. Davidson (R) through August 6, 1918 Florian Lampert (R) from November 5, 1918 7. John J. Esch (R) 8. Edward E. Browne (R) 9. David G. Classon (R) 10. James A. Frear (R) 11. Irvine Lenroot (R) by April 17, 1918 Adolphus Peter Nelson (R) from November 5, 1918 Wyoming state-wide elections Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)

Members of the House of Representatives who are not entitled to vote:

• Alaska Territory : Charles August Sulzer (D) through January 7, 1919
  • James Wickersham (R) from January 7th 1919
• Territory of Hawaii : Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (R)
• Philippines :
  • 1. Jaime C. de Veyra
  • 2. Teodoro R. Yangco
• Puerto Rico : Félix Córdova Dávila from August 7, 1917

Web links

Commons : 65th United States Congress  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• bioguide.congress.gov (by entering 65 under Year OR Congress: you get a list of the members of the 65th Congress with a link to the official biographies; English)