United States Senate Committee on Civil Service is a defunct committee of the United States Senate.
The first standing Senate committee with jurisdiction over the civil service was the United States Senate Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, which was established on December 4, 1873, following unanimous approval of a resolution introduced by Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island. On April 18, 1921, the committee was renamed the United States Senate Committee on Civil Service.
The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 retained the Committee on Civil Service and established the committee's jurisdiction over all the aspects of civil service, the Census Bureau and the government's gathering of statistics, and the National Archives. The act also transferred to the committee jurisdiction over the postal service. On April 17, 1947, as specified by of the 80th United States Congress, the committee's name was changed from the Committee on Civil Service to the United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
The committee ceased to exist in February 1977, under S. Res. 4 of the 95th Congress when its functions were transferred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
In there were select or special committees pertaining to the Civil Service: United States Senate Select Committee to Investigate the Operation of the Civil Service, 1888-1889 (50th Congress) United States Senate Select Committee to Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service, 1875-1921 (43rd-67th Congresses) United States Special Committee to Investigate the Administration of the Civil Service System, 1938-1941 (75th-76th Congresses)
Chairmen of the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, 1873-1921 George Wright (R-IA) 1873-1875 Powell Clayton (R-AR) 1875-1877 James G. Blaine (R-ME) 1877 Henry Teller (R-CO) 1877-1879 M. C. Butler (D-SC) 1879-1881 Joseph Hawley (R-CT) 1881-1887 Jonathan Chace (R-RI) 1887-1889 Edward O. Wolcott (R-CO) 1889-1893 Wilkinson Call (D-FL) 1893-1894 Thomas Jarvis (D-NC) 1894-1895 Jeter C. Pritchard (R-NC) 1895-1899 Lucien Baker (R-KS) 1899-1901 George C. Perkins (R-CA) 1901-1909 Albert Cummins (R-IA) 1909-1913 Atlee Pomerene (D-OH) 1913-1917 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) 1917-1919 Thomas Sterling (R-SD) 1919-1921
Chairmen of the Committee on Civil Service, 1921-1947 Thomas Sterling (R-SD) 1921-1923 Robert Nelson Stanfield (R-OR) 1923-1925 James Couzens (R-MI) 1925-1926 Porter H. Dale (R-VT) 1926-1933 William J. Bulow (D-SD) 1933-1943 Kenneth McKellar (D-TN) 1943-1944 Sheridan Downey (D-CA) 1944-1947
Sources Chapter 15. Records of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and Related Committees, 1816-1968 Guide to the Records of the U.S. Senate at the National Archives (Record Group 46)