65th United States Congress

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.

In the House, the Republicans had actually won a plurality, but as the Progressives and Socialist Representative Meyer London caucused with the Democrats, this gave them the operational majority of the nearly evenly divided chamber, thus giving the Democrats full control of Congress, and along with President Wilson maintaining an overall federal government trifecta.

Because of the 17th Amendment, starting in 1914 U.S. senators were directly elected instead of by the state legislatures.

Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article.

The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments.

President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917.
After war was declared, war bond posters demonized Germany
Young men at the first national registration day held in association with the Selective Service Act of 1917 .
The Eighteenth Amendment in the National Archives
Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 65th Congress in March 1917.
2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
Senate President
Thomas R. Marshall
Senate President pro tempore
Willard Saulsbury Jr.
House Speaker
Champ Clark
House seats by party holding plurality in state
80.1-100% Democratic
80.1-100% Republican
60.1-80% Democratic
60.1-80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican