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United States House of Representatives

lower house of the United States Congress

33 dated entries naming United States House of Representatives, drawn from 30 separate years between 1745 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1745January 1 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman and member of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1796)source
  • 1777March 10 – Robert Allison (Pennsylvania politician), U.S. Representative (d. 1840)source
  • 1789April 1 – At Federal Hall, the United States House of Representatives attains its first quorum, and elects congressman Frederick Muhlenberg as the first Speaker of the House.source
  • 1789August 21 – A proposal for a Bill of Rights is adopted by the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1793February 27 – The Giles Resolutions are introduced to the United States House of Representatives, asking the House to condemn Alexander Hamilton's handling of loans.source
  • 1796December 15 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman, and member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1745)source

19th century

  • 1801February 17 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1819February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment, barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise).source
  • 1825February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 United States presidential election, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.source
  • 1832June 21 – Joseph Rainey, American politician, first black person in the House of Representatives (d. 1887)source
  • 1846January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom.source
  • 1856May 22 – Caning of Charles Sumner: United States Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking pro-slavery Southerners, especially elderly South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, a relative of Brooks. Sumner is unable to return to duty for three years while he recovers; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.source
  • 1868February 24 – Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Three days after his action to dismiss United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, the United States House of Representatives votes 126–47 in favor of a resolution to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, the first of three Presidents to be impeached by the full House. Johnson is later acquitted by the United States Senate.source
  • 1874November 4 – Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.source

20th century

  • 1901December 3 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the United States House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".source
  • 1910March 17 – Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.source
  • 1912Isidor Straus, German American department store owner (Macy's) and member of United States House of Representatives (b. 1845)source
  • 1915January 12 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.source
  • 1916November 7 – Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1917March 4 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 1947February 3 – P.L. Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.source
  • 1947June 23 – The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives, in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.source
  • 1947November 24 – McCarthyism: The United States House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten", after the screenwriters and directors refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.source
  • 1948July 31 – American defector Elizabeth Bentley, previously working on behalf of the Soviet Union, appears under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) of the United States House of Representatives regarding Communist espionage; she implicates Whittaker Chambers.source
  • 1954March 1 – U.S. Capitol shooting incident: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the United States House of Representatives chamber and wound 5; they are apprehended by security guards.source
  • 1965October 6 – Steve Scalise, House Majority Whip and U.S. Representative of Louisiana's 1st districtsource
  • 1973December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.source
  • 1974December 5 – Ben McAdams, American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 in Utahsource
  • 1975Mia Love, American political commentator and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 in Utah, the first and to date only black woman elected to congress as a republicansource
  • 1994November 8 – "Republican Revolution": Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.source

21st century

  • 2007January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives.source
  • 2019November 13 – Public impeachment hearings against U.S. President Donald Trump begin in the House of Representatives.source
  • 2023October 3 – Elected on January 8, Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with Mike Johnson being elected new Speaker on October 25.source

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