United States House Committee on Insular Affairs

The United States House Committee on Insular Affairs is a defunct

committee of the U.S. House of Representatives

The

Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and relinquished her sovereignty over Cuba. On January 1, 1899, the Spanish evacuated Cuba, and control of the island was assumed by a military governor who represented the United States. On December 8, 1899, the U.S. House established the Committee on Insular Affairs to consider "all matters (excepting those affecting the revenue and appropriations) pertaining to the islands which came to the United States through the treaty of 1899 with Spain, and to Cuba."^[1]

Just 6 days earlier, on December 6, 1899, the United States had acquired exclusive rights to certain islands in

Committee on Public Lands

.

Chairmen

Chair	Party	State	Start of Service	End of Service
Henry Allen Cooper	Republican	Wisconsin	1899	1909
Marlin Edgar Olmsted	Republican	Pennsylvania	1909	1911
William Atkinson Jones	Democratic	Virginia	1911	1918
Finis J. Garrett	Democratic	Tennessee	1918	1919
Horace Mann Towner	Republican	Iowa	1919	1923
Louis W. Fairfield	Republican	Indiana	1923	1925
Edgar Raymond Kiess	Republican	Pennsylvania	1925	1930
Harold Knutson	Republican	Minnesota	1930	1931
Butler B. Hare	Democratic	South Carolina	1931	1933
John McDuffie	Democratic	Alabama	1933	1935
Leo Kocialkowski	Democratic	Illinois	1935	1943
C. Jasper Bell	Democratic	Missouri	1943	1947

References

^ Asher C. Hinds. Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907), vol. 4, p. 789.

Records of the Committee on Insular Affairs (1899-1946), Chapter 13. Records of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and Its Predecessors, Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789–1989 (Record Group 233), National Archives and Records Administration

[1] Asher C. Hinds. Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907), vol. 4, p. 789.

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