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 Maine1869–1870 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