60th United States Congress
The 60th 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 1900 [United States census]. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
Major legislation
- May 30, 1908 — Aldrich-Vreeland Act, ch. 229,
- 1908 — The Federal Employers Liability Act, Title 45 of [the United States Code|5645 U.S.C.] § 51 et seq.
States admitted
- November 16, 1907: Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state.
Leadership
Senate
Majority (Republican) leadership
- Conference Chairman: William B. Allison until August 1908
- * Eugene Hale from December 1908
Minority (Democratic) leadership
House of Representatives
Majority (Republican) leadership
- Majority Leader: Sereno E. Payne
- Majority Whip: James E. Watson
- Republican Conference Chair: William Peters Hepburn
Minority (Democratic) leadership
- 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
Members
Senate
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, In this Congress, Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1908; Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1910; and Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1912.Georgia">List of United States senators from Georgia">Georgia
Maine">List of United States senators from Maine">Maine
Nebraska">List of United States senators from Nebraska">Nebraska
Oklahoma">List of United States senators from Oklahoma">Oklahoma
Utah">List of United States senators from Utah">Utah
House of Representatives
The names 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.Georgia">List of United States representatives from Georgia">Georgia
Maine">List of United States representatives from Maine">Maine
Nebraska">List of United States representatives from Nebraska">Nebraska
Oklahoma">List of United States representatives from Oklahoma">Oklahoma
Utah">List of United States representatives from Utah">Utah
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.Senate
- Replacements: 10
- * Democratic: no net change
- * Republican: no net change
- Deaths: 8
- Resignations: 1
- Vacancy: 1Total seats with changes: 11
| State | Vacated by | Reason for vacancy | Subsequent | Date of successor's installation |
| Rhode Island | Vacant | Senator Wetmore's term had expired at the end of previous Congress, having the Legislature failed to re-elect him on time. Wetmore was re-elected late. | George P. Wetmore | January 22, 1908 |
| Wisconsin | John C. Spooner | Resigned April 30, 1907. Successor was elected. | Isaac Stephenson | May 17, 1907 |
| Alabama | John Tyler Morgan | Died June 11, 1907. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected to finish the term | John H. Bankhead | June 18, 1907 |
| Alabama | Edmund Pettus | Died July 27, 1907. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected to finish the term. | Joseph F. Johnston | August 6, 1907 |
| Oklahoma | New seats | Oklahoma achieved statehood November 16, 1907. New Senators were elected to represent Oklahoma for the first time. | Robert L. Owen | December 11, 1907 |
| Oklahoma | New seats | Oklahoma achieved statehood November 16, 1907. New Senators were elected to represent Oklahoma for the first time. | Thomas Gore | December 11, 1907 |
| Florida | Stephen Mallory II | Died December 23, 1907. Successor was appointed and subsequently died. | William J. Bryan | December 27, 1907 |
| South Carolina | Asbury Latimer | Died February 20, 1908. Successor was appointed to finish the term. | Frank B. Gary | March 6, 1908 |
| Vermont | Redfield Proctor | Died March 4, 1908. Successor was appointed. | John W. Stewart | March 24, 1908 |
| Maryland | William P. Whyte | Died March 17, 1908. Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. | John W. Smith | March 25, 1908 |
| Florida | William J. Bryan | Died March 22, 1908. Successor was appointed. | William H. Milton | March 27, 1908 |
| Iowa | William B. Allison | Died August 4, 1908. Successor was elected to finish the term, as well as elected to the next term. | Albert B. Cummins | November 24, 1908 |
| Vermont | John W. Stewart | Successor was elected to finish the term. | Carroll S. Page | October 21, 1908 |
House of Representatives
- Replacements: 13
- * Democratic: 4 seat gain
- * Republican: 2 seat loss
- Deaths: 10
- Resignations: 7
- Contested elections: 0
- New seats: 7Total seats with changes: 20
Committees
Senate
- Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress
- 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
- District of Columbia
- Education and Labor
- Engrossed Bills
- Enrolled Bills
- Establish a University in the United States
- Examination of Disposition of Documents
- Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service
- Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture
- Expenditures in Executive Departments
- Expenditures in the Interior Department
- Expenditures in the Department of Justice
- Expenditures in the Navy Department
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- Expenditures in the War Department
- Finance
- Fisheries
- Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
- Foreign Relations
- Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game
- Geological Survey
- Immigration
- Indian Affairs
- Indian Depredations
- Industrial Expositions
- Interoceanic Canals
- Interstate Commerce
- Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River Front at Washington
- Irrigation
- Judiciary
- Library
- Manufactures
- Military Affairs
- Mines and Mining
- Mississippi River and its Tributaries
- National Banks
- Naval Affairs
- Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Departments
- Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Philippines
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Potomac River Front
- 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
- Tariff Regulation
- Territories
- Transportation and Sale of Meat Products
- Transportation Routes to the Seaboard
- Trespassers upon Indian Lands
- Ventilation and Acoustics
- Whole
- Woman Suffrage
House of Representatives
- Accounts
- Agriculture
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic
- Appropriations
- Banking and Currency
- Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the House
- 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 No.#1
- Elections No.#2
- Elections No.#3
- 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
- Judiciary
- Labor
- Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- Library
- Manufactures
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- Mileage
- Military Affairs
- Militia
- Mines and Mining
- Naval Affairs
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Printing
- Private Land Claims
- 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
Joint committees
Caucuses
Employees
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- 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, from 1908
Senate
- Secretary: Charles G. Bennett
- Sergeant at Arms: Daniel M. Ransdell
- Librarian: Edward C. Goodwin
- Chaplain: Edward E. Hale, Unitarian