title: United States House Committee on Mines and Mining
text: # United States House Committee on Mines and Mining
  
  The United States House Committee on Mines and Mining is a defunct committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  
  The Committee on Mines and Mining was created on December 19, 1865, for consideration of subjects relating to mining interests. It exercised jurisdiction over the Geological Survey, the Bureau of Mines, the establishment of mining schools and mining experimental stations, mineral land laws, the welfare of men working in mines, mining debris, relief in cases of mineral contracts connected with the prosecution of war, the mining of radium ore, and the Government's fuel yards in the District of Columbia.
  
  In 1947, the committee was abolished and its duties were transferred to the United States House Committee on Public Lands.
  
  ## Chairmen
  
  | Chair | Party | State | Start of service | End of service |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | William Higby | Republican | California | 1865 | 1869 |
  | Orange Ferriss | Republican | New York | 1869 | 1871 |
  | Henry Waldron | Republican | Michigan | 1871 | 1873 |
  | David Perley Lowe | Republican | Kansas | 1873 | 1875 |
  | Richard P. Bland | Democratic | Missouri | 1875 | 1877 |
  | George M. Beebe | Democratic | New York | 1877 | 1879 |
  | Adlai Stevenson I | Democratic | Illinois | 1879 | 1881 |
  | John Van Voorhis | Republican | New York | 1881 | 1883 |
  | Richard Warner | Democratic | Tennessee | 1883 | 1885 |
  | Martin L. Clardy | Democratic | Missouri | 1885 | 1887 |
  | Charles Triplett O'Ferrall | Democratic | Virginia | 1887 | 1889 |
  | Thomas H. Carter | Republican | Montana | 1889 | 1891 |
  | William H. H. Cowles | Democratic | North Carolina | 1891 | 1893 |
  | Thomas A. E. Weadock | Democratic | Michigan | 1893 | 1895 |
  | David D. Aitken | Republican | Michigan | 1895 | 1897 |
  | Charles H. Grosvenor | Republican | Ohio | 1897 | 1899 |
  | Rousseau Owen Crump | Republican | Michigan | 1899 | 1901 |
  | Frank Eddy | Republican | Minnesota | 1901 | 1903 |
  | Webster E. Brown | Republican | Wisconsin | 1903 | 1907 |
  | George Franklin Huff | Republican | Pennsylvania | 1907 | 1911 |
  | Martin D. Foster | Democratic | Illinois | 1911 | 1919 |
  | Mahlon Morris Garland | Republican | Pennsylvania | 1919 | 1920 |
  | Marion E. Rhodes | Republican | Missouri | 1921 | 1923 |
  | John M. Robsion | Republican | Kentucky | 1923 | 1930 |
  | William H. Sproul | Republican | Kansas | 1930 | 1931 |
  | Joe L. Smith | Democratic | West Virginia | 1931 | 1945 |
  | Andrew Lawrence Somers | Democratic | New York | 1945 | 1947 |
  