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 (R-OR) 1885-1891 Watson Squire (R-WA) 1891-1893 John Gordon (D-GA) 1893-1895 Watson Squire (R-WA) 1895-1897 Joseph R. Hawley (R-CT) 1897 George W. McBride (R-OR) 1898-1901 John H. Mitchell (R-OR) 1901-1905 Philander C. Knox (R-PA) 1905-1908 George S. Nixon (R-NV) 1908-1911 Charles Curtis (R-KS) 1911-1913 James E. Martine (D-NJ) 1913-1914 Blair Lee I (D-MD) 1914-1917 Charles S. Thomas (D-CO) 1917-1919 Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) 1919-1921 Coast Defenses 1885 establishments in Washington, D.C. 1921 disestablishments in Washington, D.C.