United States House Committee on Mines and Mining

The United States House Committee on Mines and Mining is a defunct a 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.

Committee chairmen

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• Henry Waldron (D-MI) 42nd Congress
• Richard P. Bland (D-MO) 44th Congress
• John Van Voorhis (R-NY) 47th Congress
• Martin L. Clardy (D-MO) 49th Congress
• Thomas H. Carter (R-MT) 51st Congress
• Thomas A. E. Weadock (D-MI) 53rd Congress
• David D. Aitken (R-MI) 54th Congress
• Rousseau Owen Crump (R-MI) 56th Congress
• Frank Eddy (R-MN) 57th Congress
• Webster E. Brown (R-WI) 58th Congress, 59th Congress
• George Franklin Huff (R-PA) 60th Congress, 61st Congress
• Martin D. Foster (D-IL) 62nd Congress, 63rd Congress, 64th Congress, 65th Congress
• Mahlon Morris Garland (R-PA) 66th Congress
• Marion E. Rhodes (R-MO) 67th Congress
• John M. Robsion (R-KY) 68th Congress, 69th Congress, 70th Congress, 71st Congress

References

• Records of the Committee on Mines and Mining (1865- 1946), 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

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