Former Presidents Who Have Testified Before Congressional Committees

Theodore Roosevelt
House Committee on Investigation of the United States Steel Corporation
August 5, 1911 (Steel industry)

Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections
October 4, 1912 (campaign expenditures)

William Howard Taft [2]
House Select Committee on Budget
October 4, 1919 (National Budget System)

Senate Committee on the Judiciary
October 5, 1921 (additional judges, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges)

House Committee on the Judiciary
November 7, 1921 (additional judges, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges)

House Committee on Military Affairs
January 19, 1922 (Fort Nathan Hale Park)

House Committee on the Judiciary
March 30, 1922 (Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court)

House Committee on Claims
April 26, 1922 (claims of employees of Bethlehem Steel)

House Committee on the Judiciary
January 23, 1924 (additional judges for the Eighth Circuit)

House Committee on the Judiciary
December 18, 1924 (Jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court)

House Committee on Claims
March 4, 1926 (award to employees of Minneapolis Steel Co.)

House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
May 1, 1926 (naturalization administration)

Subcommittee of House Committee on the Judiciary
May 10, 1928 (creating Tenth Circuit)

House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
May 16, 1928 (Supreme Court building)

Harry S. Truman
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
April 18, 1955 (United Nations Charter)

Gerald R. Ford
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee
March 1, 1983 (bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution)

1. President George Washington testified before the entire Senate on the subject of Indian treaties on August 22, 1789.

2. Former President William Howard Taft testified before Congress frequently as a result of his service as co-chair of the National War Labor Board during World War I and Chief Justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. The testimony listed here relates to legislation and claims before Congress but omits the numerous times Taft testified in support of appropriations for the judiciary.

Prepared by the Senate Historical Office and Senate Library

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