The United States Senate Committee on Coast and Insular Survey was created in 1899Letter from secretary of Treasury in response to Senate 1989 resolution for a survey of the coasts of the United States and terminated in 1921. As of 1915, the committee consisted of 9 senators.
Chairmen Addison G. Foster (R-WA) 1899-1903 Levi Ankeny (R-WA) 1903-1905 Samuel Piles (R-WA) 1905-1911 Charles E. Townsend (R-MI) 1911-1913 Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (D-DE) 1913-1918 Edward J. Gay (D-LA) 1918-1919 Walter Edge (R-NJ) 1919-1921
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