Boldface (with superscript C) numbers indicate the majority Party in each house. Red (with superscript P) numbers (boldface or not) indicate the Party of the President in any event.
President | Party | Congress | United States Senate | House of Representatives | |||||
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Democrat | Republican | other | vacancies | Democrat | Republican | other | |||
Wilson | Democrat | 65th 1917-1919 | 53CP | 41 | 2 | ||||
65TH CONGRESS- SENATE General Election of 7 November 1916 elected Class 1 Senate seats Special Elections to seats other than a Class 1
The SENATE of the 65th Congress included 2 Senators from other than the two Major Parties as elected by the People of their respective States, as follows:
Both of the major candidates for the Class 1 seat (term: 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1923) from the State of NEBRASKA- incumbent Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, ordinarily a Democrat, and former Congressman John L. Kennedy, ordinarily a Republican- ran in the 7 November 1916 General Election as other than their respective Major Parties: Hitchcock as a "Progressive Independent"; Kennedy as a "Progressive". Hiram Johnson, a Progressive elected to the Class 1 seat (term: 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1923) from the State of CALIFORNIA, delayed taking his seat in the Senate until after he had resigned as Governor of the State on 15 March 1917; nevertheless, as he had been duly elected in the General Election of 7 November 1916 by the People of the State, Senator Johnson is counted among the 2 other (as in "other than the two Major Parties") elected to the 65th Congress. |
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