The Sixtieth 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, 1907 to March 4, 1909, during the last two 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.
May 30, 1908 — Aldrich-Vreeland Act, ch. 229, 35 Stat. 546
1908 — The Federal Employers Liability Act (FELA), 5645 U.S.C. § 51 et seq.
November 16, 1907: Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
Republican (R): 223 (majority)
Democratic (D): 167
Independent (I): 1
TOTAL members: 391
President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
President pro tempore: William P. Frye (R)
Conference Chairman: Eugene Hale
Caucus chairman: Charles A. Culberson
Conference secretary: Robert L. Owen
Speaker: Joseph G. Cannon (R)
Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
Majority Whip: James E. Watson
Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn
Minority Leader: John Sharp Williams until 1908
Champ Clark, from 1908
Minority Whip: James T. Lloyd until 1908; vacant thereafter
Caucus Chairman: Henry D. Clayton
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: James M. Griggs
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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.
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.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
replacements: 10
Democratic: no net change
Republican: no net change
deaths: 8
resignations: 1
vacancy: 1
Total seats with changes: 11
replacements: 13
Democratic: 4 seat gain
Republican: 2 seat loss
deaths: 10
resignations: 7
contested elections: 0
new seats: 7
Total seats with changes: 20
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
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
Coast Defenses
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)
Examination of Disposition of Documents (Select)
Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Select)
Expenditures in Executive Departments
Expenditures in the Interior Department (Select)
Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Select)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Select)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Select)
Expenditures in the War Department (Select)
Finance
Fisheries
Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select)
Foreign Relations
Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
Geological Survey
Immigration
Immigration and Naturalization
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
Trespassers upon Indian Lands (Select)
Ventilation and Acoustics (Select)
Whole
Woman Suffrage (Select)
Accounts
Agriculture
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
Appropriations
Banking and Currency
Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the House (Select)
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 Commerce and Labor Departments
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
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
Public Printer of the United States: Charles A. Stillings (until 1908), John S. Leech (1908), Samuel B. Donnelly (starting 1908)
Secretary: Charles G. Bennett of New York
Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell of Indiana
Chaplain: Edward E. Hale, Unitarian
Clerk: Alexander McDowell of Pennsylvania, elected December 2, 1907
Sergeant at Arms: Henry Casson of Wisconsin, elected December 2, 1907
Doorkeeper: Frank B. Lyon of New York, elected December 2, 1907
Postmaster: Samuel Langum of New York, elected December 2, 1907
Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Asher C. Hinds
Chaplain: Henry N. Couden, Universalist, elected December 2, 1907
