United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses
The United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses was created in 1885 to deal with the country's coastal defenses. It was abolished in 1921.Chairmen of the Committee on Coast Defenses, 1885-1921
- Joseph Dolph 1885-1891
- Watson Squire 1891-1893
- John Gordon 1893-1895
- Watson Squire 1895-1897
- Joseph R. Hawley 1897
- George W. McBride 1898-1901
- John H. Mitchell 1901-1905
- Philander C. Knox 1905-1908
- George S. Nixon 1908-1911
- Charles Curtis 1911-1913
- James E. Martine 1913-1914
- Blair Lee I 1914-1917
- Charles S. Thomas 1917-1919
- Joseph S. Frelinghuysen 1919-1921