United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses
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Committee on Coast Defenses was created in 1885 to deal with the country's coastal defenses. It was abolished in 1921.
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Committee on Coast Defenses was created in 1885 to deal with the country's coastal defenses. It was abolished in 1921.
Chairmen of the Committee on Coast Defenses, 1885-1921
- Joseph Dolph (R-OR) 1885-1891
- Watson Squire (R-WA) 1891-1893
- John GordonJohn Brown GordonJohn Brown Gordon was one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is thought by some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during the late 1860s. A member of the...
(D-GA) 1893-1895 - Watson Squire (R-WA) 1895-1897
- Joseph R. Hawley (R-CT) 1897
- George W. McBrideGeorge W. McBrideGeorge Wycliffe McBride was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Oregon. An Oregon native, he served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as Speaker of the House and as Oregon Secretary of State for two terms before election as United States Senator from Oregon. A Republican, he was...
(R-OR) 1898-1901 - John H. MitchellJohn H. MitchellJohn Hipple Mitchell, also known as John Mitchell Hipple, John H. Mitchell, or J. H. Mitchell was a controversial American lawyer and politician, who served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon on three occasions between 1872 and 1905...
(R-OR) 1901-1905 - Philander C. KnoxPhilander C. KnoxPhilander Chase Knox was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Attorney General , a Senator from Pennsylvania and Secretary of State ....
(R-PA) 1905-1908 - George S. NixonGeorge S. NixonGeorge Stuart Nixon was a United States Senator from Nevada.He was born in Placer County, California. He went to work for a railroad company and studied telegraphy. Later, he was transferred in 1881 to Nevada and organized and became cashier of a bank at Winnemucca, Nevada...
(R-NV) 1908-1911 - Charles CurtisCharles CurtisCharles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...
(R-KS) 1911-1913 - James E. Martine (D-NJ) 1913-1914
- Blair Lee IBlair Lee IFrancis Preston Blair Lee was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1914 to 1917. He was also the great-grandson of American patriot Richard Henry Lee, and grandfather of former Maryland Governor Blair Lee III...
(D-MD) 1914-1917 - Charles S. Thomas (D-CO) 1917-1919
- Joseph S. FrelinghuysenJoseph S. FrelinghuysenJoseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr. represented New Jersey as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1923.- Biography :...
(R-NJ) 1919-1921