# 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 | Maine | 1869–1870 |
| 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 |