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NOTE:  Not all Chairmen are displayed here since the Committee does not possess images of all former Chairmen.  There is, however, a link to the biographical page provided by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Higher Office Page
[Historical Information on Members of the Committee that had attained Higher Office]

F = Federalists | JR = Jeffersonian Republican | W=Whig |
D=Democrat | R=Republican

James I. McKay
(D-NC)

Chairman 1843-1847

Millard Fillmore
 (W-NY)

Chairman 1841-1843

John W. Jones
(D-VA)

Chairman 1839-1841

Churchill C. Cambreleng
(D-NY)

Chairman 1835-1839

James K. Polk
(D-TN)

Chairman 1833-1835

Gulian C. Verplanck
(D-NY)

Chairman 1832-1833

George McDuffie
(D-SC)

Chairman 1827-1832

Louis McLane
(JR-DE)

Chairman 1822-1827

Samuel Smith
(JR-MD)

Chairman 1818-1822

Willaim Lowndes (JR-SC)

Chairman 1815-1818

John W. Eppes
(JR-VA)

Chairman 1813-1815 and 1809-1811

Langdon Cheeves
(JR-SC)

Chairman 1812-1813

No pictures available

Ezekiel Bacon (JR-SC)
Chairman 1811-1812

Joseph Clay (JR-PA)¹
Chairman 1805-1807

Roger Griswold (F-CT)
Chairman 1800-1801

George W. Campbell
(JR-TN)

Chairman 1807-1809

John Randolph
(JR-VA)

Chairman 1800-1801, 1827²

Robert Goodloe Harper (F-SC)

Chairman 1797-1800

William Loughton Smith (F-SC)

Chairman 1794, 1795-1797³

Thomas Fitzsimons
(F-PA)

Chairman 1789

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Higher Office Page
[Historical Information on Members of the Committee that had attained Higher Office]

¹  Clay was appointed chairman, but he stepped down to allow Randolph to regain the chair.
² Randolph was briefly chairman at the outset of the 21st Congress from December 6-14, 1827.
³ Smith also chaired the committee from June 10 to July 10, 1797, in the first session of the 5th Congress.