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60 unusual facts about 60th United States Congress


Anthony Michalek

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the 60th Congress and for election in 1908 to the 61st Congress.

Capell L. Weems

He was reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and served from November 3, 1903, to March 3, 1909.

Charles Frederick Scott

He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses).

Charles Gordon Edwards

In 1906, Edwards was elected to the 60th United States Congress as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and served four additional terms in that seat until declining to run for re-election in 1916.

Charles S. Wharton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Charles T. Dunwell

Dunwell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Brooklyn, New York, June 12, 1908.

Clarence C. Gilhams

He was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served from November 6, 1906, to March 3, 1909.

Daniel J. Riordan

Riordan was elected to the 59th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Timothy D. Sullivan and on the same day was elected to the 60th United States Congress.

Daniel L. D. Granger

Granger was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1909.

Daniel W. Hamilton

After defeating Lacey, Hamilton became the only Democrat in Iowa's congressional delegation in the Sixtieth Congress.

E. Stevens Henry

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses).

Edmond H. Madison

Madison was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Dodge City, Kansas, September 18, 1911.

Edmund J. Stack

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Franklin E. Brooks

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George A. Bartlett

He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1911) and did not seek re-election in 1910.

George R. Malby

Malby was elected as a Republican to the 60th, 61st and 62nd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1907, until his death.

George W. Cook

Cook was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1908.

George W. Rauch

Rauch was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1917).

George Winthrop Fairchild

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1919) while elected delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1912 and 1916.

Gerrit J. Diekema

He was elected April 27, 1907, as a Republican from Michigan's 5th congressional district to the Sixtieth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Alden Smith.

Gilbert N. Haugen

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (in the Sixtieth Congress), and on the Committee on Agriculture (in the Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Henry A. Barnhart

Barnhart was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Abram L. Brick.

Henry McMorran

He was chair of the U.S. House Committee on Manufacturers in the 60th and 61st U.S. Congresses.

Jacob A. Beidler

Owing to ill health he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

James McKinney

He was reelected to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from November 7, 1905, to March 3, 1913.

James Monroe Miller

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Elections No. 2 (Sixty-first Congress).

John E. Reyburn

He was again elected to Congress to fill the vacancy left by the death of Robert Adams, Jr. and was reelected in 1906 to the 60th United States Congress, serving from November 6, 1906, to March 31, 1907, when he resigned to serve as elected Mayor of Philadelphia.

John Geiser McHenry

McHenry was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served until his death in Benton, Pennsylvania.

John Gill, Jr.

Gill was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911), but was not a candidate for reelection in 1910.

John H. Foster

He was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served from May 16, 1905, to March 3, 1909.

John Merriman Reynolds

In November 1904, Reynolds was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for the 59th, 60th, and 61st Congresses.

John P. Swasey

Swasey was elected on November 3, 1908, as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles E. Littlefield and was elected to the Sixty-first Congress and served from November 3, 1908, to March 3, 1911.

John W. Langley

Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Jonathan Bourne, Jr.

While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Fisheries (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses) and a member of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads (Sixty-second Congress).

Joseph Grant Beale

Beale was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908.

Kittredge Haskins

He served as chairman of the Committee on War Claims during the 60th Congress.

Martin D. Foster

Foster was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919).

Media in Missoula, Montana

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Congressman, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Missoulian

In 1900, Hammond began selling stock in the Missoulian to political rival Joseph M. Dixon who would later become a US Congressman, US Senator, and the state of Montana's seventh governor.

Napoleon B. Thistlewood

Thistlewood was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1907 death of George W. Smith.

Oliver Bridge

The Oliver Bridge was constructed across the Saint Louis River in 1916 by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, under special federal authorization from the 60th United States Congress (Session I, Chapter 31, February 20, 1908).

Oliver C. Wiley

Wiley was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, Ariosto Appling Wiley, and served from November 3, 1908, to March 3, 1909.

Otto G. Foelker

Foelker was elected as a Republican to the 60th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles T. Dunwell.

Peter A. Porter

In 1907, he was elected as an Independent Republican to the 60th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1909.

Philip Knopf

Knopf was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1909).

Richard N. Hackett

He was unsuccessful in a run for the U.S. Congress in 1896, but won a seat ten years later representing North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the 60th United States Congress (defeating incumbent Republican E. Spencer Blackburn).

Robert G. Cousins

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury from the Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth Congresses, and chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Sixtieth Congress.

Robert W. Bonynge

He was reelected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and served from February 16, 1904, until March 3, 1909.

Samuel B. Cooper

Cooper was again elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-first Congress.

Samuel P. Colt

The ensuing contest between Colt, Wetmore and Democrat Robert Hale Ives Goddard resulted in 81 deadlocked ballots cast by the General Assembly over the course of four months in 1907 and a vacant seat in Rhode Island's delegation to the 60th Congress.

Samuel William Smith

During his tenure, Smith was chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia in the 60th and 61st Congresses).

Thomas David Nicholls

Nicholls was elected as an Independent Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses.

Thomas Frank Marshall

He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixtieth Congress).

Timothy T. Ansberry

Ansberry was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until January 9, 1915, when he resigned to accept a judicial position.

William B. Cravens

Cravens was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907 until March 3, 1913.

William E. Cox

Cox was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919).

William F. Englebright

He was reelected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served from November 6, 1906, to March 3, 1911.

William W. Cocks

Cocks was elected as a Republican to the 59th, 60th and 61st United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1905 to March 3, 1911.

William Walker Foulkrod

Foulkrod was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served until his death in Frankford.

William Wildman Campbell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress and for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.