The Sixty-ninth 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, 1925 to March 4, 1927, during the third and fourth years of Calvin Coolidge's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Thirteenth Decennial Census of the United States in 1910. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
A special session of the Senate was called by President Coolidge on February 14, 1925.
Impeachment of Judge George W. English — On April 1, 1926, the House of Representatives impeached Judge George W. English of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. Both Houses adjourned on July 3, 1926, with the Senate scheduled to reconvene on November 10, 1926 as a Court of Impeachment. English resigned before the impeachment trial began. The Senate met as planned on November 10, 1926 to adjourn the court of impeachment sine die. On December 13, 1926 the Senate, acting on advice from the House managers of the impeachment, formally dismissed all charges against Judge English.
January 17, 1927: U.S. Supreme Court held (McGrain v. Daugherty) that Congress has the power to compel witness and testimony.
February 26, 1926: Revenue Act of 1926
April 12, 1926: Timber Exportation Act of 1926
May 8, 1926: Federal Interpleader Act of 1926
May 20, 1926: Air Commerce Act
May 20, 1926: Federal Black Bass Act of 1926
May 20, 1926: Railway Labor Act (Parker-Watson Act)
May 25, 1926: Omnibus Adjustment Act of 1926
May 25, 1926: Public Buildings Act of 1926 (Elliot-Fernald Act)
May 26, 1926: Shenandoah National Park Act of 1926
June 3, 1926: Subsistence Expense Act of 1926
June 14, 1926: Recreation and Public Purposes Act
June 15, 1926: Limitation of National Forest Designation Act
July 2, 1926: Cooperative Marketing Act
July 3, 1926: Walsh Act
July 3, 1926: Passport Act of 1926
January 21, 1927: River and Harbors Act of 1927
February 23, 1927: Radio Act of 1927 (Dill-White Act)
February 25, 1927: McFadden Act (Pepper-McFadden Act)
March 3, 1927: Foreign and Domestic Commerce Act of 1927
March 3, 1927: Produce Agency Act of 1927
March 4, 1927: Mayfield-Newton Act
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.
American Labor (AL): 1
Democratic (D): 183
Farmer-Labor (FL): 3
Republican (R): 247 (majority)
Socialist (S): 1
TOTAL members: 435
President: Charles G. Dawes (R)
President pro tempore: Albert B. Cummins (R), elected March 4, 1925
George H. Moses (R), elected March 6, 1925
Majority Leader: Charles Curtis
Majority Whip: Wesley L. Jones
Republican Conference Secretary: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
Minority Leader: Joseph T. Robinson
Minority Whip: Peter G. Gerry
Democratic Caucus Secretary: William H. King
Speaker: Nicholas Longworth (R)
Majority Leader: John Q. Tilson
Majority Whip: Albert H. Vestal
Republican Conference Chair: Willis C. Hawley
Minority Leader: Finis J. Garrett
Minority Whip: William Allan Oldfield
Democratic Caucus Chairman: Charles D. Carter
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
Senators 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 began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1928; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1930; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1926.
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
replacements: 9
Democratic: no net change
Republican: no net change
deaths: 7
resignations: 0
contested election: 1
interim appointments: 2
Total seats with changes: 10
replacements: 9
Democratic: 1 seat net loss
Republican: 1 seat net gain
deaths: 9
resignations: 2
Total seats with changes: 12
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Agriculture and Forestry
Alien Property Custodian's Office (Select)
Appropriations
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
Banking and Currency
Civil Service
Claims
Commerce
District of Columbia
Education and Labor
Enrolled Bills
Expenditures in Executive Departments
Finance
Foreign Relations
Immigration
Immigration and Naturalization
Indian Affairs
Internal Revenue Bureau (Select)
Interoceanic Canals
Interstate Commerce
Judiciary
Library
Manufactures
Military Affairs
Mines and Mining
Naval Affairs
Patents
Pensions
Post Office and Post Roads
Printing
Privileges and Elections
Public Buildings and Grounds
Public Lands and Surveys
Revision of the Laws
Rules
Senatorial Elections (Select)
Tariff Commission (Select)
Territories and Insular Possessions
War Finance Corporation Loans (Select)
Whole
Accounts
Agriculture
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
Appropriations
Banking and Currency
Census
Civil Service
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 Department
Expenditures in the Interior Department
Expenditures in the Justice Department
Expenditures in the Labor 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
Flood Control
Foreign Affairs
Immigration and Naturalization
Indian Affairs
Industrial Arts and Expositions
Insular Affairs
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Invalid Pensions
Irrigation and Reclamation
Labor
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Mileage
Military Affairs
Mines and Mining
Naval Affairs
Patents
Post Office and Post Roads
Public Buildings and Grounds
Public Lands
Railways and Canals
Revision of Laws
Rivers and Harbors
Roads
Rules
Standards of Official Conduct
Territories
War Claims
Ways and Means
Woman Suffrage
Whole
Civil Service Retirement Act
Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
Investigation of Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants
Muscle Shoals
Taxation
Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
Comptroller General of the United States: John R. McCarl
Librarian of Congress: Herbert Putnam
Public Printer of the United States: George H. Carter
Chaplain: John J. Muir (Baptist)
Secretary: George A. Sanderson
Edwin P. Thayer, from December 7, 1925
Sergeant at Arms: David S. Barry
Chaplain: James S. Montgomery (Methodist)
Clerk: William T. Page
Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Lehr Fess, resigned February 1, 1927
Lewis Deschler, appointed February 1, 1927
Doorkeeper: Bert W. Kennedy
Postmaster: Frank W. Collier
Sergeant at Arms: Joseph G. Rodgers
