United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures

The Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (established as the Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights, and Measures) was a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1864 to 1946.[1]

History

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In 1864, the Committee on a Uniform System of Coinage, Weights, and Measures was established to relieve the House Committee on Ways and Means of part of its workload. The name was shortened to Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures in 1867. In 1921, the portion of the committee's jurisdiction relating to stabilization of the currency was transferred to the House Committee on Banking and Currency. Under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, the coinage portion of its jurisdiction was also transferred to that committee, while its weights and measures jurisdiction was transferred to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, thus dissolving the committee.[1]

Jurisdiction

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The jurisdiction of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures included the subjects listed in its name: coinage, weights, and measures. The coinage part of the jurisdiction included the defining and fixing of standards of value and the regulation of coinage and exchange. This included the coinage of silver and the purchase of bullion, the exchange of gold coins for gold bars, the subject of mutilated coins, and the coinage of souvenir and commemorative coins. The committee's jurisdiction also included legislation related to mints and assay offices and the establishment of legal standards of value in the insular possessions.[1]

Chairmen

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Representative Party State Congress(es)
John A. Kasson Republican Iowa 38th39th
William D. Kelley Pennsylvania 40th
David Heaton North Carolina 41st
William D. Kelley Pennsylvania 41st42nd
Samuel Hooper Massachusetts 42nd43rd
Sherman Otis Houghton California 43rd
Alexander H. Stephens Democratic Georgia 44th46th
Horatio Gates Fisher Republican Pennsylvania 47th
Richard P. Bland Democratic Missouri 48th50th
Charles Preston Wickham Republican Ohio 51st
Richard P. Bland Democratic Missouri 52nd53rd
Charles Warren Stone Republican Pennsylvania 54th55th
James H. Southard Ohio 56th59th
William B. McKinley Illinois 60th61st
Thomas W. Hardwick Democratic Georgia 62nd63rd
William A. Ashbrook Ohio 64th65th
Albert Henry Vestal Republican Indiana 66th68th
Randolph Perkins New Jersey 69th71st
Andrew Lawrence Somers Democratic New York 72nd78th
Compton I. White Idaho 79th

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Records of the Banking and Currency Committees". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 7 April 2017.

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