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unusual facts about 59th Congress



Expatriation Act of 1907

The Expatriation Act of 1907 (59th Congress, 2nd session, chapter 2534, enacted March 2, 1907) was an act of the 59th United States Congress concerning United States nationality law and renunciation of citizenship.

Farish Carter Tate

After being elected as Representative in 1892 to server Georgia's 9th congressional district in the 53rd United States Congress, Tate was reelected to five additional terms in that seat until losing his bid for reelection to the 59th Congress in 1904.

Henry Cullen Adams

In 1902, Adams was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd District of Wisconsin to the 58th United States Congress and was reelected to the 59th Congress serving until his death (March 4, 1903 - July 9, 1906).

John Franklin Rixey

He was elected to the 55th and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 8, 1907, before the close of the 59th Congress.

Joseph W. Fordney

Fordney served as the chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy in the 59th Congress; and of the Committee on Ways and Means in the 66th and 67th Congresses.

Maecenas Eason Benton

An unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1904 to the 59th Congress, he resumed his law practice in Neosho, Missouri, and served as member of the State constitutional conventions in 1922 and 1924.

Reuben Moon

He served as Chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws in the 59th through 61st Congresses.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1904

Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Florida for three seats in the 59th Congress were held November 8, 1904, alongside the election for President and the election for Governor.


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J. Hampton Moore

Moore was elected as a Republican to the 59th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George A. Castor.