United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
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This committee of the United States Senate
was created November 4, 1807. On January 2, 1947 its functions were transferred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
was created November 4, 1807. On January 2, 1947 its functions were transferred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Chairmen of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, 1811-present
- Michael LeibMichael LeibMichael Leib was an American physician, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and philosopher born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served Pennsylvania in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S...
(R-PA) 1811-1815 - Abner LacockAbner LacockAbner Lacock was an American surveyor, civil engineer, and politician from Rochester, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate....
(R-PA) 1815-1819 - Jonathan RobertsJonathan RobertsJonathan Roberts was a United States Representative and Senator from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1814 and 1814 to 1821 respectively.-Life and career:...
(R-PA) 1819-1821 - James LanmanJames LanmanJames Lanman was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States Senate.-Early life and education:...
(R-CT) 1821-1822 - Nathaniel MaconNathaniel MaconNathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...
(R-NC) 1822-1823 - Horatio SeymourHoratio Seymour (Vermont)Horatio Seymour was a United States Senator from Vermont. He was the uncle of Origen S. Seymour and the great-uncle of Origen's son Edward W. Seymour....
(R-VT) 1823-1826 - Elias KaneElias KaneElias Kent Kane was one of the first U.S. Senators from Illinois.He was born in New York City, attended the public schools, and graduated from Yale College in 1813....
(D-IL) 1826-1830 - James IredellJames IredellJames Iredell was one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799...
(D-NC) 1830-1831 - Nehemiah KnightNehemiah KnightNehemiah Knight was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. Born in Knightsville within the town of Cranston, now a suburb of Providence. He attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was town clerk from 1773 to 1800...
(NR/W-RI) 1831-1835 - Samuel McKeanSamuel McKeanSamuel McKean was an American merchant and politician from Burlington, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1815 to 1819. He was in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1829 to 1830....
(D-PA) 1835-1839 - Nehemiah KnightNehemiah KnightNehemiah Knight was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. Born in Knightsville within the town of Cranston, now a suburb of Providence. He attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was town clerk from 1773 to 1800...
(W-RI) 1839-1841 - Albert S. White (W-IN) 1841-1842
- Benjamin TappanBenjamin TappanBenjamin Tappan was an Ohio judge and Democratic politician who served in the Ohio State Senate and the United States Senate...
(D-OH) 1842-1845 - Jesse SpeightJesse SpeightJesse Speight was a North Carolina and Mississippi politician in the nineteenth century.Born in Greene County, North Carolina, Speight attended country schools as a child. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1820, serving as Speaker of the House, and was a member of the North...
(D-MS) 1845-1846 - Alpheus FelchAlpheus FelchAlpheus Felch was the fifth Governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan.-Early life:Felch was born in Limerick, Maine. He was left an orphan at the age of three and lived with his grandfather Abijah Felch, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War...
(D-MI) 1847-1848 - Isaac P. WalkerIsaac P. WalkerIsaac Pigeon Walker was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.Walker was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Illinois in 1825. He practiced law in Springfield, Illinois, and served one term in the Illinois House of Representatives. He moved to Wisconsin in...
(D-WI) 1848-1849 - Augustus Dodge (D-IA) 1849-1853
- Josiah Evans (D-SC) 1853-1858
- William WrightWilliam Wright (politician)William Wright was an American politician who served as Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, represented as a Whig in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1847, and represented New Jersey in the United States Senate as a Democrat from 1853 to 1859, and again from 1863 until his...
(D-NJ) 1858-1859 - Andrew JohnsonAndrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...
(D-TN) 1859-1861 - James DixonJames DixonJames Dixon was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Enfield, Connecticut, Dixon pursued preparatory studies, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1834, where he had been a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He was...
(R-CT) 1861-1865 - B. Gratz BrownB. Gratz BrownBenjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.-Early life:...
(R-MO) 1865-1866 - George H. Williams (R-OR) 1866-1867
- Aaron Cragin (R-NH) 1867-1870
- Orris S. FerryOrris S. FerryOrris Sanford Ferry was a Republican American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was also a Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:Ferry was born on August 15, 1823...
(R-CT) 1870-1871 - Reuben FentonReuben FentonReuben Eaton Fenton was an American merchant and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of a farmer. He was elected a colonel of the New York State Militia in 1840. He became a lumber merchant, and entered politics as a Democrat...
(R-NY) 1871-1872 - Matthew Carpenter (R-WI) 1872-1875
- John P. JonesJohn P. JonesJohn Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California....
(R-NV) 1875-1879 - Benjamin HillBenjamin Harvey HillBenjamin Harvey Hill was a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator and a Confederate senator from the state of Georgia.-Biography:Hill was born September 14, 1823 in Hillsboro, Georgia in Jasper County...
(D-GA) 1879-1881 - John P. JonesJohn P. JonesJohn Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California....
(R-NV) 1881-1893 - Edward Douglass WhiteEdward Douglass WhiteEdward Douglass White, Jr. , American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He also sided with the...
(D-LA) 1893-1894 - Johnson N. CamdenJohnson N. CamdenJohnson Newlon Camden was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Collins Settlement, Virginia , he attended school in Sutton. He was appointed as a cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1846 until 1848, when he resigned...
(D-WV) 1894-1895 - John P. JonesJohn P. JonesJohn Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California....
(R-NV) 1895-1903 - John KeanJohn Kean (New Jersey)John Kean was an American lawyer, banker and Republican Party politician from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1899 to 1911 and served two separate terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1883 to 1885, and from 1887 to 1889...
(R-NJ) 1903-1911 - Frank O. BriggsFrank O. BriggsFrank Obadiah Briggs was a United States Senator from New Jersey.-Biography:He was born on August 12, 1851 in Concord, New Hampshire to James F. Briggs.He attended the public schools, Francestown Academy, and Phillips Academy...
(R-NJ) 1911-1913 - John Sharp WilliamsJohn Sharp WilliamsJohn Sharp Williams was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s through the 1920s, and served as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1908....
(D-MS) 1913-1916 - Luke LeaLuke Lea (1879–1945)Luke Lea was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1911 to 1917.-Biography:Lea was the great-grandson of an earlier Luke Lea who was a two-term Congressman from Tennessee in the 1830s...
(D-TN) 1916-1917 - William H. ThompsonWilliam Howard ThompsonWilliam Howard Thompson was a United States Senator from Kansas.Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, he moved with his parents to Nemaha County, Kansas in 1880, where attended the public schools and graduated from the Seneca Normal School in 1886. He graduated from the Lawrence Business College in 1891...
(D-KS) 1917-1919 - William M. CalderWilliam M. CalderWilliam Musgrave Calder I was an American politician from New York.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn on March 3, 1869 to Alexander G. Calder. He trained as a carpenter, attended night classes at Cooper Union....
(R-NY) 1919-1923 - Henry W. KeyesHenry W. KeyesHenry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...
(R-NH) 1923-1927 - Charles S. DeneenCharles S. DeneenCharles Samuel Deneen was the 23rd Governor of Illinois, serving from 1905 to 1913, and was the first to serve two terms. He served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1925–1931. Deneen also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1892...
(R-IL) 1927-1931 - John G. Townsend (R-DE) 1931-1933
- James F. ByrnesJames F. ByrnesJames Francis Byrnes was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives , as a Senator , as Justice of the Supreme Court , as Secretary of State , and as the 104th Governor of South Carolina...
(D-SC) 1933-1941 - Scott W. LucasScott W. LucasScott Wike Lucas was a two-term Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, and the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1948 to 1950....
(D-IL) 1941-1947