65th United States Congress

65th United States Congress
64th ← → 66th
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1917 – March 4, 1919
Members	96 senators 435 representatives 5 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Democratic
Senate President	Thomas R. Marshall (D)
House majority	Coalition: Democratic Progressive Socialist
House Speaker	Champ Clark (D)
Sessions
Special[a]: March 5, 1917 – March 16, 1917 1st: April 2, 1917 – October 6, 1917 2nd: December 3, 1917 – November 21, 1918 3rd: December 2, 1918 – March 3, 1919

The 65th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1917, to March 4, 1919, during the fifth and sixth years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1910 United States census.

The Senate maintained a Democratic majority. In the House, the Republicans had actually won a plurality, but as the Progressives and Socialist Representative Meyer London caucused with the Democrats, this gave them the operational majority of the nearly evenly divided chamber, thus giving the Democrats full control of Congress, and along with President Wilson maintaining an overall federal government trifecta.

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