71st United States Congress

71st United States Congress
70th ←
→ 72nd

March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1931
Members96 senators
435 representatives
5 non-voting delegates
Senate majorityRepublican
Senate PresidentCharles Curtis (R)
House majorityRepublican
House SpeakerNicholas Longworth (R)
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1929 – March 5, 1929
1st: April 15, 1929 – November 22, 1929
2nd: December 2, 1929 – July 3, 1930
Special: July 7, 1930 – July 21, 1930
3rd: December 1, 1930 – March 3, 1931

The 71st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislature of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1931, during the first two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.

Both the House and Senate remained under Republican control, with increased majorities in each chamber. And with Herbert Hoover being sworn in as president on March 4, 1929, the Republicans maintained an overall federal government trifecta.[1][2]

The 71st Congress also featured the most special elections of any Congress with 27 in all.

  1. ^ Macmahon, Arthur W. (1930). "First Session of the Seventy-First Congress". The American Political Science Review. 24 (1): 38–59. doi:10.2307/1946785. JSTOR 1946785.
  2. ^ Macmahon, Arthur W. (1930). "Second Session of the Seventy-first Congress, December 2, 1929, to July 3, 1930; Special Session of the Senate, July 7–21". American Political Science Review. 24 (4): 913–946. doi:10.2307/1946750. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1946750.