After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Jefferson Smith
James Stewart
Clarissa Saunders
Jean Arthur
Joseph Paine
Claude Rains
Jim Taylor
Edward Arnold
Governor Hopper
Guy Kibbee
Diz Moore
Thomas Mitchell
Chick McGann
Eugene Pallette
Ma Smith
Beulah Bondi
Senate Majority Leader
H.B. Warner
President of the Senate
Harry Carey
Susan Paine
Astrid Allwyn
Emma Hopper
Ruth Donnelly
Senator MacPherson
Grant Mitchell
Senator Monroe
Porter Hall
Senator Barnes
Pierre Watkin
Nosey
Charles Lane
Bill Griffith
William Demarest
Carl Cook
Dick Elliott
Peter Hopper
Billy Watson
Jimmie Hopper
Delmar Watson
Hopper Boy
John Russell
Hopper Boy
Harry Watson
Hopper Boy
Garry Watson
Hopper Boy
Larry Simms
Radio Broadcaster
H.V. Kaltenborn
Kenneth Allen (uncredited)
Russell Simpson
Hopper Girl (uncredited)
Frances Gifford
Narrator (uncredited)
Colin James Mackey
Hopper's Butler (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
Richard Jones (uncredited)
Dickie Jones
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
Senator Hodges (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Senator Dwight (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Senator (uncredited)
Edwin August
Senator Gower (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
Senator Lancaster (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Senator Hammett (uncredited)
Harry A. Bailey
Senator (uncredited)
Stanley Mack
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Family Man (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Dorothy Comingore
Reporter (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Barber (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Ann Doran
Editor (uncredited)
Robert Emmett Keane
Reporter (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Kathryn Bates
Inventor (uncredited)
Frank Austin
Reporter (uncredited)
William Arnold
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Tommy Baker
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Sterling
Reporter (uncredited)
Dub Taylor
Reporter (uncredited)
George Chandler
Porter (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Sweeney Farrell (uncredited)
Jack Carson
Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
Mrs. McGann (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Arthur Kim (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Photographer (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Ed Brewer
Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Harry Burkhardt
Senator Dearhorn (uncredited)
Frederick Burton
Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Georgia Caine
Announcer (uncredited)
Ken Carpenter
Townsend (uncredited)
Burr Caruth
Ragner (uncredited)
Allan Cavan
Reporter (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Committeeman (uncredited)
Davison Clark
(uncredited)
Richard Clucas
Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Shirley Coates
Photographer (uncredited)
Eddie Coke
Reporter (uncredited)
Hal Cooke
Speaker (uncredited)
Alec Craig
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Anne Cornwall
Waiter (uncredited)
George Cooper
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Georgie Cooper
Photographer (uncredited)
Jack Cooper
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Nick Copeland
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Vernon Dent
Diggs (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Beatrice Curtis
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Lew Davis
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Dulcie Day
Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Wally Dean
Hat Salesman / Secretary (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Hopper's Secretary (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Paine's Secretary (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
Francis Scott Key (uncredited)
Douglas Evans
Waiter (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Reporter (uncredited)
Clyde Dilson
Secretary (uncredited)
John Dilson
Senate Chaplain (uncredited)
Neal Dodd
Taylor's Stooge (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Reporter (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Reporter (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Egan
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Fetherston
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Mabel Forrest
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Gladys Gale
Reporter (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
Woman (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Woman at Station (uncredited)
June Gittelson
Woman at Station (uncredited)
Lorna Gray
First Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Soapbox Speaker (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Senator Fernwick (uncredited)
John Ince
Senator Byron (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
Senator Albert (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
Senator Carlton (uncredited)
Wright Kramer
Senator (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
Senator (uncredited)
Fred Hoose
Senator (uncredited)
Richard Kipling
Senate Guard (uncredited)
Roger Haliday
House Boy (uncredited)
Wilfred Hari
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Philip Hurlic
Butler (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Committeeman (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
(uncredited)
Mitchell Ingraham
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Dick Jensen
Butler (uncredited)
John Lester Johnson
Reporter (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Reporter (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Summers (uncredited)
Joe King
Reporter (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Bobby Larson
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Billy Lechner
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Jackie Lowe
Rabbi (uncredited)
P.H. Levy
Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
Chorus Member (uncredited)
Jack Lindquist
Hoodlum (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Chief Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Jack Low
Photographer (uncredited)
Jimmie Lucas
Head Sister (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
Photographer (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Nun (uncredited)
Margaret Mann
Man in Senate Building (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Ralph McCullough
Reporter (uncredited)
George McKay
Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Field Norton
Pompous Man (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Sammy McKim
Reporter (uncredited)
James McNamara
Reporter (uncredited)
William Newell
Radio Announcer #2 (uncredited)
Robert Middlemass
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
James Millican
Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Porter (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
Reporter (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
Senate Clerk (uncredited)
Robert Morgan
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Ray Nichols
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Alex Novinsky
Senator Alfred (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Fisk (uncredited)
Frank Otto
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Joe Palma
(uncredited)
Spencer Quinn
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Tom Quinn
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Ed Randolph
Hoodlum (uncredited)
Charles Regan
Lang (uncredited)
Jack Rice
Senator Ashman (uncredited)
Wyndham Standing
Senator Carlisle (uncredited)
Ferris Taylor
Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
Senator Pickett (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Senator Atwater (uncredited)
Harry Stafford
Senator Grainger (uncredited)
Victor Travis
Senator Burdette (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Senator Holland (uncredited)
Bob Walker
Senator (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore
Senate Reporter (uncredited)
Craig Stevens
Flood a Newsman (uncredited)
Paul Stanton
Otis Hopper (uncredited)
Johnny Russell
Newspaperman with Pipe (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Hendricks (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Senate Guard (uncredited)
Dave Willock
Schultz (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock
(uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Frederick Vroom
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Doorman (uncredited)
Arthur Thalasso
Butler (uncredited)
Edward Thomas
Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
Laura Treadwell
Boy Ranger (uncredited)
Layne Tom Jr.
Jane Hopper (uncredited)
Myonne Walsh
Reporter (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Photographer (uncredited)
Max Waizmann
Photographer (uncredited)
John Ward
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Jane Loofbourrow
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Blanche Payson
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Florence Wix
Committeewoman (uncredited)
Eleanor Wood
Black Committeeman (uncredited)
Jesse Graves
Angry Committee Member (uncredited)
Gus Glassmire
Committeeman (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Committeeman (uncredited)
Landers Stevens
Committeeman (uncredited)
William Worthington
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Edward Biby
Foreign Diplomat (uncredited)
Count Stefenelli
(uncredited)
David Wade
Senator (uncredited)
Frank McLure