United States House Committee on Mines and Mining

The United States House Committee on Mines and Mining is a defunct committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Committee on Mines and Mining was created on December 19, 1865, for consideration of subjects relating to mining interests. It exercised jurisdiction over the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, the establishment of mining schools and mining experimental stations, mineral land laws, the welfare of men working in mines, mining debris, relief in cases of mineral contracts connected with the prosecution of war, the mining of radium ore, and the Government's fuel yards in the District of Columbia.

In 1947, the committee was abolished and its duties were transferred to the United States House Committee on Public Lands.

Chairmen Chair Party State Start of service End of service William Higby Republican California 1865 1869 Orange Ferriss Republican New York 1869 1871 Henry Waldron Republican Michigan 1871 1873 David Perley Lowe Republican Kansas 1873 1875 Richard P. Bland Democratic Missouri 1875 1877 George M. Beebe Democratic New York 1877 1879 Adlai Stevenson I Democratic Illinois 1879 1881 John Van Voorhis Republican New York 1881 1883 Richard Warner Democratic Tennessee 1883 1885 Martin L. Clardy Democratic Missouri 1885 1887 Charles Triplett O'Ferrall Democratic Virginia 1887 1889 Thomas H. Carter Republican Montana 1889 1891 William H. H. Cowles Democratic North Carolina 1891 1893 Thomas A. E. Weadock Democratic Michigan 1893 1895 David D. Aitken Republican Michigan 1895 1897 Charles H. Grosvenor Republican Ohio 1897 1899 Rousseau Owen Crump Republican Michigan 1899 1901 Frank Eddy Republican Minnesota 1901 1903 Webster E. Brown Republican Wisconsin 1903 1907 George Franklin Huff Republican Pennsylvania 1907 1911 Martin D. Foster Democratic Illinois 1911 1919 Mahlon Morris Garland Republican Pennsylvania 1919 1920 Marion E. Rhodes Republican Missouri 1921 1923 John M. Robsion Republican Kentucky 1923 1930 William H. Sproul Republican Kansas 1930 1931 Joe L. Smith Democratic West Virginia 1931 1945 Andrew Lawrence Somers Democratic New York 1945 1947

References Records of the Committee on Mines and Mining (1865- 1946), Records of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and Its Predecessors, Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233), National Archives and Records Administration