United States Senate Committee On Patents - Chairmen

Chairmen

• 1837-1838: John Ruggles (D-ME)
• 1838-1840: Robert Strange (D-NC)
• 1840-1841: Daniel Sturgeon (D-PA)
• 1841-1842: Samuel Prentiss (W-VT)
• 1842-1843: John Leeds Kerr (W-MD)
• 1843-1845: Samuel S. Phelps (W-VT)
• 1845-1846: Simon Cameron (D-PA)
• 1846-1847: Walter Colquitt (D-GA)
• 1847-1849: James D. Westcott (D-FL)
• 1849-1851: Hopkins Turney (D-TN)
• 1851-1852: Moses Norris Jr. (D-NH)
• 1852-1857: Charles Tillinghast James (D-RI)
• 1857-1859: David S. Reid (D-NC)
• 1859-1861: William Bigler (D-PA)
• 1861-1862: James F. Simmons (R-RI)
• 1862-1866: Edgar Cowan (R-PA)
• 1866-1871: Waitman Willey (R-WV)
• 1871-1875: Orris S. Ferry (R/LR/R-CT)
• 1875-1877: Bainbridge Wadleigh (R-NH)
• 1877-1879: Newton Booth (R-CA)
• 1879-1881: Francis Kernan (D-NY)
• 1881-1887: Orville H. Platt (R-CT)
• 1887-1889: Henry M. Teller (R-CO)
• 1889-1891: Nathan F. Dixon, III (R-RI)
• 1891-1893: George Gray (D-DE)
• 1893-1899: Orville H. Platt (R-CT)
• 1899-1903: Jeter Pritchard (R-NC)
• 1903-1907: Alfred Kittredge (R-SD)
• 1907-1909: Reed Smoot (R-UT)
• 1909-1913: Norris Brown (R-NE)
• 1913-1918: Ollie M. James (D-KY)
• 1918-1919: William F. Kirby (D-AR)
• 1919-1921: George Norris (R-NE)
• 1921-1923: Hiram W. Johnson (R-CA)
• 1923-1925: Richard P. Ernst (R-KY)
• 1925-1926: William M. Butler (R-MA)
• 1926: Richard P. Ernst (R-KY)
• 1926-1929: Jesse H. Metcalf (R-RI)
• 1929-1932: Charles W. Waterman (R-CO)
• 1932-1933: Felix Hebert (R-RI)
• 1933: Robert F. Wagner (D-NY)
• 1934-1938: William Gibbs McAdoo (D-CA)
• 1939-1944: Homer T. Bone (D-WA)
• 1944-1947: Claude Pepper (D-FL)