United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

The United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was one of the first standing committees created in the United States Senate, in 1816. It had jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. It continued to exist until the reorganization of 1977 when, following the granting of home rule to the district, its duties were transferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Committee chairmen

Chairman	Party		State	Years
Armistead Mason		Democratic–Republican	Virginia	1816–1817
Robert Henry Goldsborough		Federalist	Maryland	1817–1819
Outerbridge Horsey		Federalist	Delaware	1819–1821
James Barbour		Democratic–Republican	Virginia	1821–1823
Edward Lloyd		Democratic–Republican	Maryland	1823–1826
Ezekiel F. Chambers		Democratic–Republican	Maryland	1826–1827
John Eaton		Democratic–Republican	Tennessee	1827–1829
Ezekiel F. Chambers		National Republican	Maryland	1829–1834
John Tyler		Whig	Virginia	1834–1836
Joseph Kent		Whig	Maryland	1836–1837
William H. Roane		Democratic	Virginia	1837–1839
William Merrick		Whig	Maryland	1839––1841
Richard H. Bayard		Whig	Delaware	1841–1842
Jacob Miller		Whig	New Jersey	1842–1845
William Haywood Jr.		Democratic	North Carolina	1845–1846
Simon Cameron		Democratic	Pennsylvania	1846–1848
Herschel V. Johnson		Democratic	Georgia	1848–1849
James Mason		Democratic	Virginia	1849–1851
James Shields		Democratic	Illinois	1851–1853
Moses Norris Jr.		Democratic	New Hampshire	1853–1855
Albert Brown		Democratic	Mississippi	1855–1861
James Grimes		Republican	Iowa	1861–1864
John P. Hale		Republican	New Hampshire	1864–1865
Lot Morrill		Republican	Maine	1865–1867
James Harlan		Republican	Iowa	1867–1869
Hannibal Hamlin		Republican	Maine	1869–1870
James Patterson		Republican	New Hampshire	1870–1873
John F. Lewis		Republican	Virginia	1873–1875
George E. Spencer		Republican	Alabama	1875–1877
Stephen Dorsey		Republican	Arkansas	1877–1879
Isham G. Harris		Democratic	Tennessee	1879––1881
John Ingalls		Republican	Kansas	1881–1891
James McMillan		Republican	Michigan	1891–1893
Isham G. Harris		Democratic	Tennessee	1893–1895
James K. Jones		Democratic	Arkansas	1895–1896
James McMillan		Republican	Michigan	1896––1902
Jacob Gallinger		Republican	New Hampshire	1903––1913
John Walter Smith		Democratic	Maryland	1913–1919
Lawrence Y. Sherman		Republican	Illinois	1919–1921
L. Heisler Ball		Republican	Delaware	1921–1925
Arthur Capper		Republican	Kansas	1925–1933
William H. King		Democratic	Utah	1933–1941
Pat McCarran		Democratic	Nevada	1941–1945
Theodore G. Bilbo		Democratic	Mississippi	1945–1947
C. Douglass Buck		Republican	Delaware	1947–1949
J. Howard McGrath		Democratic	Rhode Island	1949
Matthew M. Neely		Democratic	West Virginia	1949–1953
Francis Case		Republican	South Dakota	1953–1955
Matthew M. Neely		Democratic	West Virginia	1955–1958
Alan Bible		Democratic	Nevada	1958–1969
Joseph D. Tydings		Democratic	Maryland	1969–1971
Thomas F. Eagleton		Democratic	Missouri	1971–1977

External links

• Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees: 1789-Present