United States House Committee on Mines and Mining

The United States House Committee on Mines and Mining is a defunct committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Committee on Mines and Mining was created on December 19, 1865, for consideration of subjects relating to mining interests. It exercised jurisdiction over the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, the establishment of mining schools and mining experimental stations, mineral land laws, the welfare of men working in mines, mining debris, relief in cases of mineral contracts connected with the prosecution of war, the mining of radium ore, and the Government's fuel yards in the District of Columbia.

In 1947, the committee was abolished and its duties were transferred to the United States House Committee on Public Lands.

Chairmen
ChairPartyStateStart of serviceEnd of service
William HigbyRepublicanCalifornia18651869
Orange FerrissRepublicanNew York18691871
Henry WaldronRepublicanMichigan18711873
David Perley LoweRepublicanKansas18731875
Richard P. BlandDemocraticMissouri18751877
George M. BeebeDemocraticNew York18771879
Adlai Stevenson IDemocraticIllinois18791881
John Van VoorhisRepublicanNew York18811883
Richard WarnerDemocraticTennessee18831885
Martin L. ClardyDemocraticMissouri18851887
Charles Triplett O'FerrallDemocraticVirginia18871889
Thomas H. CarterRepublicanMontana18891891
William H. H. CowlesDemocraticNorth Carolina18911893
Thomas A. E. WeadockDemocraticMichigan18931895
David D. AitkenRepublicanMichigan18951897
Charles H. GrosvenorRepublicanOhio18971899
Rousseau Owen CrumpRepublicanMichigan18991901
Frank EddyRepublicanMinnesota19011903
Webster E. BrownRepublicanWisconsin19031907
George Franklin HuffRepublicanPennsylvania19071911
Martin D. FosterDemocraticIllinois19111919
Mahlon Morris GarlandRepublicanPennsylvania19191920
Marion E. RhodesRepublicanMissouri19211923
John M. RobsionRepublicanKentucky19231930
William H. SproulRepublicanKansas19301931
Joe L. SmithDemocraticWest Virginia19311945
Andrew Lawrence SomersDemocraticNew York19451947

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