The 50th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
. It met in
Washington, D.C.
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, from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1889, during the last two years of
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Hist ...
's
first presidency
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. The president
vetoed
A veto is a legal power to unilaterally stop an official action. In the most typical case, a president (government title), president or monarch vetoes a bill (law), bill to stop it from becoming statutory law, law. In many countries, veto powe ...
212 pieces of legislation, the greatest number in a single session of Congress.
The apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often ...
was based on the
1880 United States census
The 1880 United States census, conducted by the Census Office during June 1880, was the tenth United States census.Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.
Major events
* March 11, 1888: The
Great Blizzard of 1888
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from Chesapeake Bay ...
begins along the
East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coast, coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean; it has always pla ...
, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
* November 6, 1888:
1888 United States presidential election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1888. Republican Party (United States), Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democr ...
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Hist ...
wins the popular vote, but loses the
Electoral College
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833March 13, 1901) was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a ...
, therefore losing the election.
* February 15, 1889: The
Secretary of Agriculture
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The department includes several organiz ...
is raised to a
Cabinet
Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to:
Furniture
* Cabinetry, a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors and/or drawers
* Display cabinet, a piece of furniture with one or more transparent glass sheets or transparent polycarbonate sheets
* Filin ...
-level position.
Major legislation
* October 8, 1888:
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States Code, United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law made exceptions for travelers an ...
Nelson Act of 1889
An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota (51st-1st-Ex.Doc.247; ), commonly known as the Nelson Act of 1889, was a United States federal law intended to relocate all the Anishinaabe people in Minneso ...
* February 22, 1889:
Enabling Act of 1889
The Enabling Act of 1889 (, chs. 180, 276–284, enacted February 22, 1889) is a United States statute that permitted the entrance of Montana and Washington into the United States of America, as well as the splitting of Territory of Dakota ...
, Sess. 2, ch. 180,
Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
*'' Præsident ...
Republican Conference Chairman
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:
George F. Edmunds
George Franklin Edmunds (February 1, 1828February 27, 1919) was an American attorney and Republican politician who represented the state of Vermont in the United States Senate from 1866 to 1891. He was a candidate for the Republican president ...
James B. Beck
James Burnie Beck (February 13, 1822May 3, 1890) was a Scottish-American
United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.
Life
Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck migrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, ...
House of Representatives
*
Speaker
Speaker most commonly refers to:
* Speaker, a person who produces speech
* Loudspeaker, a device that produces sound
** Computer speakers
Speaker, Speakers, or The Speaker may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* "Speaker" (song), by David ...
:
John G. Carlisle
John Griffin Carlisle (September 5, 1834July 31, 1910) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1890, serving as the 31st Speake ...
Samuel S. Cox
Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (September 30, 1824 – September 10, 1889) was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives and served as United States Ambassador to the ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman
The Senate Republican Conference is the formal organization of the Republican senators in the United States Senate. Over the last century, the mission of the conference has expanded and been shaped as a means of informing the media of the opin ...
:
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and a leader of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party. Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Rep ...
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.
Alabama
Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...
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John T. Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. Senator (1877–1907) ...
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James L. Pugh
James Lawrence Pugh (December 12, 1820March 9, 1907) was an American politician and attorney who was a U.S. senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897, as well as a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
Biography
Pugh ...
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Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
James K. Jones
James Kimbrough Jones (September 29, 1839June 1, 1908) was a Confederate Army veteran, plantation owner, lawyer, US congressional representative, United States senator and chairman of the Democratic National Committee from Arkansas. He was a De ...
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California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
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George Hearst
George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst family, Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations a ...
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Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of Calif ...
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Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
Henry M. Teller
Henry Moore Teller (May 23, 1830February 23, 1914) was an American politician from Colorado, serving as a U.S. senator between 1876–1882 and 1885–1909, also serving as Secretary of the Interior between 1882 and 1885. He strongly opposed the ...
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Connecticut
Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...
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Joseph R. Hawley
Joseph Roswell Hawley (October 31, 1826March 18, 1905) was the List of Governors of Connecticut, 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a United States, U.S. politician in the Republican Party (United States), Republican and Free Soil parties, a America ...
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...
Eli Saulsbury
Eli Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delawa ...
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Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
: 1.
Samuel Pasco
Samuel Pasco (June 28, 1834March 13, 1917) was an American politician and Confederate soldier who served as a U.S. Senator from Florida. He is the only Confederate private ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
Biography
Pasco was born in London, Engl ...
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Wilkinson Call
Wilkinson Call (January 9, 1834August 24, 1910) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1879 to 1897.
Biography
Wilkinson Call, nephew of Territorial Governor of Florida Richard K. Call an ...
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Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
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Alfred H. Colquitt
Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824March 26, 1894) was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, and politician. Elected as the 49th Governor of Georgia (1877–1882), he was one of numerous Democrats elected to office as white conservatives too ...
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
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Shelby M. Cullom
Shelby Moore Cullom (November 22, 1829 – January 28, 1914) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate and as the 17th Governor of Illinois. He was Illinois's longest serving s ...
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
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David Turpie
David Battle Turpie (July 8, 1828 – April 21, 1909) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1887 until 1899; he also served as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1898 to 1899 during the last year of his ...
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Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
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Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
: 2.
James F. Wilson
James Falconer "Jefferson Jim" Wilson (October 19, 1828April 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a Republican U.S. Congressman from Iowa's 1st congressional district during the American Civil War, and later as a two- ...
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William B. Allison
William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 – August 4, 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in t ...
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Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
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Preston B. Plumb
Preston B. Plumb (October 12, 1837December 20, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
Born in Delaware County, Ohio, at 9 his family removed to Marysvill ...
Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
: 2.
James B. Beck
James Burnie Beck (February 13, 1822May 3, 1890) was a Scottish-American
United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.
Life
Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck migrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, ...
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Joseph C. S. Blackburn
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838September 12, 1918) was an American politician and lawyer who was a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky and Governor of Panama Canal Zone. A skilled and spirited orator, he was a ...
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Louisiana
Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in area and 25 ...
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Randall L. Gibson
Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was an American attorney and politician, elected as a United States House of Representatives, member of the House of Representatives and List of United States Senators from Louisi ...
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James B. Eustis
James Biddle Eustis (August 27, 1834September 9, 1899) was a United States senator from Louisiana who served as President Cleveland's ambassador to France.
Early life
Born in New Orleans, he was the son of George Eustis (1796–1858) and Cla ...
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Maine
Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and ...
: 1.
Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836October 27, 1918) was an American politician who was a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Senator from Maine.
Biography
Born in Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebr ...
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...
: 1.
Arthur Pue Gorman
Arthur Pue Gorman (March 11, 1839June 4, 1906) was an American politician. He was leader of the Gorman-Rasin organization with Isaac Freeman Rasin that controlled the Maryland Democratic Party from the late 1870s until his death in 1906. Gorm ...
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
: 1.
Henry L. Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816February 5, 1903) was an attorney and politician, a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimu ...
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George F. Hoar
George Frisbie Hoar (August 29, 1826 – September 30, 1904) was an American attorney and politician, represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1877 until his death in 1904. He belonged to an extended family that became politic ...
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Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
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Francis B. Stockbridge
Francis Brown Stockbridge (April 9, 1826April 30, 1894) was a U.S. Senator in the U.S. state, state of Michigan.
Biography
Stockbridge was born in Bath, Maine, the son of a physician, Dr. John Stockbridge, and attended the common schools there ...
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: 2.
Thomas W. Palmer
Thomas Witherell Palmer (January 25, 1830 – June 1, 1913) was a U.S. Senator from the U.S. state, state of Michigan. He is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
Palmer was born in ...
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Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
: 1.
Cushman K. Davis
Cushman Kellogg Davis (June 16, 1838November 27, 1900) was an American Republican politician who served as the seventh Governor of Minnesota and as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
Early life and American Civil War
Davis was born in Henderson, N ...
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Dwight M. Sabin
Dwight May Sabin (April 25, 1843December 22, 1902) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from Minnesota and in the Minnesota Legislature. He is known for the business ventures of Seymour, Sabin & Co. and the Northwestern Car Compa ...
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Mississippi
Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...
Edward C. Walthall
Edward Cary Walthall (April 4, 1831April 21, 1898) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Reconstruction era United States Senator from Mississippi.
Early life
Edward C. Walthall was born in Richmond, ...
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Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
: 1.
Francis Cockrell
Francis Marion Cockrell (October 1, 1834December 13, 1915) was a Confederate States Army, Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States senator from Missouri for five terms. He ...
Nebraska
Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
Charles F. Manderson
Charles Frederick Manderson (February 9, 1837September 28, 1911) was a United States senator from Nebraska from 1883 to 1895.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended school there and then moved to Canton, Ohio, in 1856, where h ...
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
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William M. Stewart
William Morris Stewart (August 9, 1827April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Personal
Stewart was born in Wayne County, ...
New Hampshire
New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
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Person C. Cheney
Person Colby Cheney (February 25, 1828 – June 19, 1901) was a paper manufacturer, abolitionist and Republican politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. He was the 35th governor of New Hampshire and later represented the state in the United St ...
(R), until June 14, 1887
:: William E. Chandler (R), from June 14, 1887
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Henry W. Blair
Henry William Blair (December 6, 1834March 14, 1920) was a United States representative and Senator from New Hampshire. During the American Civil War, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army.
A Radical Republican in his earlier politica ...
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* ...
North Carolina
North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
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John Sherman
John Sherman (May 10, 1823October 22, 1900) was an American politician from Ohio who served in federal office throughout the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both houses of the U. ...
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
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Joseph N. Dolph
Joseph Norton Dolph (October 19, 1835March 10, 1897) was an American politician and attorney in the state of Oregon. A native of the state of New York (state), New York, he immigrated to Oregon over the Oregon Trail and settled in Portland, Oreg ...
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John H. Mitchell
John Hipple Mitchell (born John Mitchell Hipple; June 23, 1835December 8, 1905) was an American lawyer, politician. He served as a United States Republican Party, Republican United States Senate, United States Senator from Oregon on three occasi ...
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
Rhode Island
Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Is ...
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Nelson W. Aldrich
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (/ ˈɑldɹɪt͡ʃ/; November 6, 1841 – April 16, 1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the ...
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Jonathan Chace
Jonathan Chace (July 22, 1829June 30, 1917) was a United States representative and United States Senate, Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography
Born at Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Harvey Chace and the grandson of Oliver Chace. In 1854, ...
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South Carolina
South Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia (U.S. state), Georg ...
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Matthew C. Butler
Matthew Calbraith Butler (March 8, 1836April 14, 1909) was a Confederate soldier, an American military commander, attorney and politician, and slaveholder from South Carolina. Database at He served as a major general in the Confederate States ...
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Wade Hampton III
Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818April 11, 1902) was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in Sout ...
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Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
: 1.
William B. Bate
William Brimage Bate (October 7, 1826March 9, 1905) was a planter and slaveholder, Confederate officer, and politician in Tennessee. After the Reconstruction era, he served as the 23rd governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887. He was elected to th ...
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Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
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Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
: 1.
John H. Reagan
John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818March 6, 1905) was an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas declared secession from the United States and joined the Confederate St ...
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Richard Coke
Richard Coke (March 18, 1829May 14, 1897) was an American lawyer and statesman from Waco, Texas. He was the 15th governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 and was a US Senator from 1877 to 1895. His governorship is notable for reestablishing local ...
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Vermont
Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...
: 1.
George F. Edmunds
George Franklin Edmunds (February 1, 1828February 27, 1919) was an American attorney and Republican politician who represented the state of Vermont in the United States Senate from 1866 to 1891. He was a candidate for the Republican president ...
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Justin S. Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810December 28, 1898) was an American politician and entrepreneur who represented Vermont in the United States House of Representatives (1855–1867) and United States Senate (1867–1898). He is most widely reme ...
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
: 1.
John W. Daniel
John Warwick Daniel (September 5, 1842 – June 29, 1910) was an American lawyer, author, and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. Daniel served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and both houses of the United States Con ...
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
Wisconsin
Wisconsin ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michig ...
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Philetus Sawyer
Philetus Sawyer (September 22, 1816March 29, 1900) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a United States Senator from Wisconsin for twelve years (1881–1893) and served ten years in the U.S. ...
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Alabama
Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...
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James T. Jones
James Taylor Jones (July 20, 1832 – February 15, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Jones moved with his family to Marengo County, Alabama, in 1834.
He pursued classical studies and gra ...
William C. Oates
William Calvin Oates (either November 30 or December 1, 1835September 9, 1910) was a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the 29th Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896, and a brigadier general in the U.S. Ar ...
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Alexander C. Davidson
Alexander Caldwell Davidson (December 26, 1826 – November 6, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
Born near Charlotte, North Carolina, Davidson attended the public schools of Marengo County, Alabama, and graduated from the Universi ...
William H. Forney
William Henry Forney (November 9, 1823 – January 16, 1894) was an Alabama legislator, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and U.S. Representative from Alabama from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1893.
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Joseph Wheeler
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician of the Confederate States of America. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil ...
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Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
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Poindexter Dunn
Poindexter Dunn (November 3, 1834 – October 12, 1914) was a Confederate Army veteran and American politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1879 to 1889.
Biography
Born in Wake County, North Carolina near Rale ...
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Clifton R. Breckinridge
Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (November 22, 1846 – December 3, 1932) was an American politician who served as a Democratic Party alderman, U.S. representative, diplomat, and businessman. He also served in both the Confederate States Army and Conf ...
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
Marion Biggs
Marion Biggs (May 2, 1823 – August 2, 1910) was an American slave owner and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from California from 1887 to 1891.
Early life
Marion Biggs was born on May 2, 1823, near Curryville ...
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Joseph McKenna
Joseph McKenna (August 10, 1843 – November 21, 1926) was an American politician who served in all three branches of the Government of the United States, U.S. federal government as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Attorne ...
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
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George G. Symes
George Gifford Symes (April 28, 1840November 3, 1893) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and pioneer of Wisconsin, Montana, and Colorado. He was a member of congress, representing Colorado's at-large district during the 49th and ...
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Connecticut
Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...
Carlos French
Carlos French (August 6, 1835 – April 14, 1903) was an American businessman and politician who served one term as a United States representative from Connecticut from 1887 to 1889.
Biography
He was born in Humphreysville, Connecticut (now kn ...
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
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Robert H. M. Davidson
Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (September 23, 1832 – January 18, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Born near Quincy, Florida, Davidson attended the common schools and the Quincy Academy in Quincy, Florida.
He studied ...
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
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Thomas M. Norwood
Thomas Manson Norwood (April 26, 1830June 19, 1913) was a United States senator and Representative from Georgia.
Early years and education
Born in Talbot County, Georgia, he pursued an academic course, and graduated from Emory College in 185 ...
Judson C. Clements
Judson Claudius Clements (February 12, 1846 – June 18, 1917) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. For a quarter century a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Clements ...
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...
Frank Lawler
Frank Lawler (June 25, 1842 – January 17, 1896) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Born in Rochester, New York, Lawler attended public schools. He moved with his parents to Chicago, ...
George E. Adams
George Everett Adams (June 18, 1840 – October 5, 1917) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Early years
Adams was born in Keene, New Hampshire, on June 18, 1840, son of Benjamin F. Adams and Louisa Redington, grandson of Benjamin Ada ...
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Albert J. Hopkins
Albert Jarvis Hopkins (August 15, 1846August 23, 1922) was a Congressman and U.S. Senator from Illinois.
Biography
Hopkins was born near Cortland, Illinois on August 15, 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and practiced in Aurora.
He mar ...
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Robert R. Hitt
Robert Roberts Hitt (January 16, 1834 – September 20, 1906) was an American diplomat and Republican politician from Illinois. He served briefly as assistant secretary of state in the short-lived administration of James A. Garfield but ...
Ralph Plumb
Ralph Plumb (March 29, 1816 – April 8, 1903) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Ralph Plumb was born in Busti, New York on March 29, 1816. He attended the common schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and moved to Ohio. ...
Philip S. Post
Philip Sidney Post (March 19, 1833 – January 6, 1895) was an American diplomat, politician, and decorated Army officer. He served as a United States Representative from Illinois for eight years, from 1887 to 1895. During the American Civil War, ...
William M. Springer
William McKendree Springer (May 30, 1836 – December 4, 1903) was an American attorney and politician who represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives and served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory.
Ear ...
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Jonathan H. Rowell
Jonathan Harvey Rowell (February 10, 1833 – May 15, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Biography
Born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, Rowell attended Rock Creek School and later graduated from Eureka College, Illinois. During the Ci ...
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Joseph G. Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and a leader of the Republican Party. Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for twenty-three non ...
Jehu Baker
Jehu Baker (November 4, 1822 – March 1, 1903) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Baker moved with his father to Lebanon, Illinois, in 1829. He attended the common schools and McKendree University. He studi ...
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
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Alvin P. Hovey
Alvin Peterson Hovey (September 6, 1821 – November 23, 1891) was a Union general during the American Civil War, an Indiana Supreme Court justice, congressman, and the 21st governor of Indiana from 1889 to 1891. During the war he played an im ...
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Francis B. Posey
Francis Blackburn Posey (April 28, 1848 – October 31, 1915) was an American lawyer who served for five weeks as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana in 1889.
Biography
Francis B. Posey was born in Petersburg, Ind ...
William S. Holman
William Steele Holman (September 6, 1822 – April 22, 1897) was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served four different stints as a U.S. Representative from 1859 to ...
George W. Steele
George Washington Steele (December 13, 1839July 12, 1922) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician who twice served as a United States Congressional Delegations from Indiana, Representative for Indiana, from 1881 to 1889 and again from ...
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
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John H. Gear
John Henry Gear (April 7, 1825 – July 14, 1900) served as the 11th Governor of Iowa, a United States representative and a member of the United States Senate.
Early Life
Born in Ithaca, New York, to Protestant minister E. G. Gear, he attended ...
William E. Fuller
William Elijah Fuller (March 30, 1846 – April 23, 1918), was an attorney, and a two-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district in northeastern Iowa during the 1880s.
Born in Howard, Pennsylvania, Fuller mov ...
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Daniel Kerr
Daniel Alan Kerr (born 16 May 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). He played 220 games for the club between 2001 and 2013, as a hard-running inside midfield ...
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James B. Weaver
James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 – February 6, 1912) was an American politician in Iowa who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. He belonged to several d ...
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Edwin H. Conger
Edwin Hurd Conger (March 7, 1843 – May 18, 1907) was an American Civil War soldier, lawyer, banker, Iowa congressman, and United States diplomat. As the United States' minister to China during the Boxer Rebellion, Conger, his family, and ...
Joseph Lyman
Joseph Lyman (September 13, 1840 – July 9, 1890) was a American Civil War, Civil War soldier, lawyer, and judge. In the 1880s, he was a two-term Republican Party (United States), Republican U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Representative fr ...
Isaac S. Struble
Isaac Sterling Struble (November 3, 1843 – February 17, 1913) was an American politician who was a four-term Republican Party (United States), Republican U.S. House of Representatives, Representative of Iowa's 11th congressional district. ...
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Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
Samuel R. Peters
Samuel Ritter Peters (August 16, 1842 – April 21, 1910) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas.
Born in Walnut Township, near Circleville, Ohio, Peters attended the com ...
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Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
W. Godfrey Hunter
Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (December 25, 1841 – November 2, 1917) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Early life
Born near Belfast, Ireland, Hunter completed preparatory studies. He immigrated to the United States in 1858 and settled in N ...
John G. Carlisle
John Griffin Carlisle (September 5, 1834July 31, 1910) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1890, serving as the 31st Speake ...
James B. McCreary
James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 – October 8, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky. He represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress and served as its 27th and 37th governor. Shortly after graduating ...
Louisiana
Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in area and 25 ...
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Theodore S. Wilkinson
Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson (December 22, 1888 – February 21, 1946) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. He also received the Medal of Honor for his actions in Veracruz, Mexico.
Early life and career
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Matthew D. Lagan
Matthew Diamond Lagan (June 20, 1829 – April 8, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 1887 to 1889 and 1891 to 1893. He was a Democrat.
Lagan was born in Maghera, County Londonderry, Ireland, and im ...
Maine
Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and ...
Nelson Dingley Jr.
Nelson Dingley Jr. (February 15, 1832 – January 13, 1899) was a journalist and politician from the U.S. state of Maine.
Dingley was born in Durham, Maine and attended the common schools at Unity, Maine and Waterville College (now Colby Col ...
Charles A. Boutelle
Charles Addison Boutelle (February 9, 1839 – May 21, 1901) was an American seaman, shipmaster, naval officer, Civil War veteran, newspaper editor, publisher, conservative Republican politician, and nine-term Representative to the U.S. Congress f ...
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Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It borders the states of Virginia to its south, West Virginia to its west, Pennsylvania to its north, and Delaware to its east ...
Frank T. Shaw
Frank Thomas Shaw (October 7, 1841 – February 24, 1923) was an American politician.
Shaw was born in Woodsboro, Maryland, and attended the common schools. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Maryland, Baltimore i ...
Isidor Rayner
Isidor Rayner (April 11, 1850November 25, 1912) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1905 to 1912. He also represented the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland from 1887 to 1889, and ...
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Barnes Compton
Barnes Compton (November 16, 1830 – December 2, 1898) was a Representative of the fifth congressional district of Maryland and a Treasurer of Maryland.
Early life
Barnes Compton was born on November 16, 1830, in Port Tobacco, Charles Count ...
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
John D. Long
John Davis Long (October 27, 1838 – August 28, 1915) was an American lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was the 32nd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1880 to 1883. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy from 189 ...
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Leopold Morse
Leopold Morse (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Morse was born in Wachenheim, Bavaria, in the German Confederation, the son of Charlotte (Mehlinger) and Jacob Morse. H ...
Edward D. Hayden
Edward Daniel Hayden (December 27, 1833 – November 15, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hayden attended the Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University ...
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850November 9, 1924) was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the History of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served in the United States ...
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William Cogswell
William Cogswell (August 23, 1838 – May 22, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was appointed to the grade of brevet brigadier general, U.S. Volunteers.
Biog ...
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
Julius C. Burrows
Julius Caesar Burrows (January 9, 1837November 16, 1915) was a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
Early life and education
Burrows was born in North East, Pennsylvania, and moved then with his parents to Ashta ...
Justin R. Whiting
Justin Rice Whiting (February 18, 1847 – January 31, 1903) was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Whiting was born in Bath (village), New York, Bath, New York, and moved to Michigan in 1849 with his parents, who ...
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Timothy E. Tarsney
Timothy Edward Tarsney (February 4, 1849 – June 8, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889.
Early life and education
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Byron M. Cutcheon
Byron Mac Cutcheon (May 11, 1836 – April 12, 1908) was an American Civil War officer, Medal of Honor recipient and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Early life
Cutcheon was born in Pembroke, New Hampshire May 11, 1836 but his parents ...
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Spencer O. Fisher
Spencer Oliver Fisher (February 3, 1843 – June 1, 1919), was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Fisher was born in Camden, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He also attended Albion College and Hillsdale College. H ...
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Seth C. Moffatt
Seth Crittenden Moffatt (August 10, 1841 – December 22, 1887) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Moffatt was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, attended the common schools, and graduated from the law department of the University of ...
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Henry W. Seymour
Henry William Seymour (July 21, 1834 – April 7, 1906) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Seymour was born in Brockport, New York and attended the public schools, Brockport Collegiate Institute, and Canandaigua Academy. He gra ...
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Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...
Edmund Rice
Edmund is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector".
Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and nobles
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Knute Nelson
Knute Nelson (born Knud Evanger; February 2, 1843 – April 28, 1923) was a Norway, Norwegian-born United States, American attorney and politician active in Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he served in sta ...
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Mississippi
Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...
James B. Morgan
James Bright Morgan (March 14, 1833 – June 18, 1892) was an American lawyer, politician, and Confederate Civil War veteran who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1885 to 1891.
After leaving Congress, he returned to his ...
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
Charles H. Mansur
Charles Harley Mansur (March 6, 1835 – April 16, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mansur attended Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Richmon ...
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Alexander M. Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery (February 11, 1845 – December 26, 1926) was an American physician and politician who served as the 30th governor of Missouri from 1901 to 1905. A Democrat, he was a member of the United States House of Representa ...
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James N. Burnes
James Nelson Burnes (August 22, 1827 – January 23, 1889) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Marion County, Indiana, Burnes moved with his parents to Platte County, Missouri, in 1837.
He attended the common schools.
He graduate ...
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Charles F. Booher
Charles Ferris Booher (January 31, 1848 – January 21, 1921) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born on a farm near East Groveland, New York, Booher attended the common schools and the Geneseo Academ ...
Martin L. Clardy
Martin Linn Clardy (April 26, 1844 – July 5, 1914) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and railroad executive from Missouri. Between 1879 and 1889, he served five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Biography
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Richard P. Bland
Richard Parks Bland (August 19, 1835 – June 15, 1899) was an American politician, lawyer, and educator from Missouri. A Democrat, Bland served in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1899,
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James P. Walker
James Peter Walker (March 14, 1851 – July 19, 1890) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Early years
Born near Memphis, Tennessee, Walker attended the public schools and the boys' college at Durhamville, Tennessee.
Career
He was employed ...
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Nebraska
Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
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John A. McShane
John Albert McShane (August 25, 1850 – November 10, 1923) was an American Democratic Party politician. He was the first Democrat to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska, serving one term from 1887 to 1889.
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Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
New Hampshire
New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...
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George Hires
George Hires (January 26, 1835 – February 16, 1911) was an American Republican Party businessman and politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1885 to ...
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan Jr. ( ; April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was the 15th president of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861. He also served as the United States Secretary of State, secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvan ...
James N. Pidcock
James Nelson Pidcock (February 8, 1836 – December 17, 1899) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1885 to 1889.
Early life
James Nelson Pidcock was born o ...
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
Places United Kingdom
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Perry Belmont
Perry Belmont (December 28, 1851 – May 25, 1947) was an American politician and diplomat. He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1881 to 1888.
Early life and education
Belmont was born on December 28, 1851, in New York C ...
Stephen V. White
Stephen Van Culen White (August 1, 1831 – January 18, 1913) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Early life and study
White was born in Chatham County, North Carolina. His mother, Julia Brewer, was a descendant of Oliver Cromwell and ...
Samuel S. Cox
Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox (September 30, 1824 – September 10, 1889) was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives and served as United States Ambassador to the ...
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Francis B. Spinola
Francis Barretto Spinola (March 19, 1821 – April 14, 1891) was an American politician and military leader often considered to have been the first Italian AmericanMultiple sources:
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Truman A. Merriman
Truman Adams Merriman (September 5, 1839 – April 16, 1892) was an American lawyer, Civil War veteran, and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1889.
Biography Early life and education
He was ...
William G. Stahlnecker
William Griggs Stahlnecker (June 20, 1849 – March 26, 1902) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1893.
Biography
Born in Auburn, New York, Stahlnecker moved with his p ...
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Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built between 1915 and 1922, which was his final project before his 1924 ...
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John H. Ketcham
John Henry Ketcham (December 21, 1832 – November 4, 1906) was an American politician and military officer who was a United States representative from New York for over 33 years from 1877 to 1893 and from 1897 to 1906. He also served as a ...
Charles Tracey
Charles Tracey (May 27, 1847 – March 24, 1905) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born in Albany, New York, Tracey graduated from The Albany Academy in 1866. He served in the Papal Zouaves at Rome, Italy between 1867 and 187 ...
James S. Sherman
James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was the 27th vice president of the United States, serving from 1909 until his death in 1912, under President William Howard Taft. A member of the Republican Party (United States), ...
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David Wilber
David Wilber (October 5, 1820 – April 1, 1890) was a United States representative from New York.
Early life
Born near Quaker Street, a hamlet in Duanesburg, New York, he moved with his parents to Milford, Otsego County, N.Y.; attended the ...
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James J. Belden
James Jerome Belden (September 30, 1825 – January 1, 1904) was an American politician and a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York (state), New York.
Biography
Born in Fabius, New York, Belden was the son of ...
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Milton De Lano
Milton De Lano (August 11, 1844 – January 2, 1922) was an American businessman and United States representative from New York. Born in Wampsville, he attended the common schools and settled in Canastota, New York, where he engaged in mercanti ...
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Newton W. Nutting
Newton Wright Nutting (October 22, 1840 – October 15, 1889) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Nutting was born in 1840 in West Monroe, New York. He pursued an academic course, studying law and was admitted to the bar. He commenced ...
Charles S. Baker
Charles Simeon Baker (February 18, 1839 – April 21, 1902) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born in Churchville, New York, Baker attended the common schools, Cary Collegiate Institute of Oakfield, N ...
North Carolina
North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
Alfred Rowland
Alfred Rowland (February 9, 1844 – August 2, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Lumberton, North Carolina, Rowland attended the common schools in the area. He entered the Confederate States Army in May, 1861 and ser ...
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John S. Henderson
John Steele Henderson (January 6, 1846 – October 9, 1916) was a Representative for North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives.
Biography
Born near Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina in 1846, the son of Archibald and ...
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
: .
Benjamin Butterworth
Benjamin Butterworth (October 22, 1837 – January 16, 1898) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio and Commissioner of Patents.
Biography
Butterworth was born near Maineville, Ohio, on October 22 ...
Melvin M. Boothman
Melvin Morella Boothman (October 16, 1846 – March 5, 1904) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born near Bryan, Ohio, Boothman attended the public schools.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment, O ...
(R)
: .
James E. Campbell
James Edwin Campbell (July 7, 1843 – December 18, 1924) was an American attorney and Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1884 to 1889 and as the 38th governor of Ohio from 1890 to 189 ...
(D)
: .
Robert P. Kennedy
Robert Patterson Kennedy (January 23, 1840 – May 6, 1918) was a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1886 to 1891. He was also an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
Born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Kennedy attended t ...
Jacob Romeis
Jacob Romeis (December 1, 1835March 8, 1904) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1885 to 1889.
Biography
Born in Weisenbach, Bavaria in the German Confederation, Romeis atte ...
(R)
: . Albert C. Thompson (R)
: . Jacob J. Pugsley (R)
: . Joseph H. Outhwaite (D)
: . Charles Preston Wickham, Charles P. Wickham (R)
: . Charles H. Grosvenor (R)
: . Beriah Wilkins (D)
: . Joseph D. Taylor (R)
: . William McKinley (R)
: . Ezra B. Taylor (R)
: . George W. Crouse (R)
: . Martin A. Foran (D)
List of United States representatives from Oregon, Oregon
: . Binger Hermann (R)
List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
: . Henry H. Bingham (R)
: . Charles O'Neill (Pennsylvania politician), Charles O'Neill (R)
: . Samuel J. Randall (D)
: . William D. Kelley (R)
: . Alfred C. Harmer (R)
: . Smedley Darlington (R)
: . Robert Morris Yardley, Robert M. Yardley (R)
: . Daniel Ermentrout (D)
: . John Andrew Hiestand, John A. Hiestand (R)
: . William Henry Sowden, William H. Sowden (D)
: . Charles R. Buckalew (D)
: . John Lynch (Pennsylvania politician), John Lynch (D)
: . Charles N. Brumm (R)
: . Franklin Bound (R)
: . Frank Charles Bunnell, Frank C. Bunnell (R)
: . Henry Clay McCormick, Henry C. McCormick (R)
: . Edward Scull (R)
: . Louis E. Atkinson (R)
: . Levi Maish (D)
: . John Patton (1823–1897), John Patton (R)
: . Welty McCullogh (R)
: . John Dalzell (R)
: . Thomas McKee Bayne, Thomas M. Bayne (R)
: . Oscar Lawrence Jackson, Oscar L. Jackson (R)
: . James Thompson Maffett, James T. Maffett (R)
: . Norman Hall (politician), Norman Hall (D)
: . William Lawrence Scott, William L. Scott (D)
: . Edwin Sylvanus Osborne, Edwin S. Osborne (R)
List of United States representatives from Rhode Island, Rhode Island
: . Henry J. Spooner (R)
: . Warren O. Arnold (R)
List of United States representatives from South Carolina, South Carolina
: . Samuel Dibble (D)
: . George D. Tillman (D)
: . James S. Cothran (D)
: . William H. Perry (South Carolina politician), William H. Perry (D)
: . John J. Hemphill (D)
: . George W. Dargan (D)
: . William Elliott (American politician), William Elliott (D)
List of United States representatives from Tennessee, Tennessee
: . Roderick R. Butler (R)
: . Leonidas C. Houk (R)
: . John R. Neal (D)
: . Benton McMillin (D)
: . James D. Richardson (D)
: . Joseph E. Washington (D)
: . Washington C. Whitthorne (D)
: . Benjamin A. Enloe (D)
: . Presley T. Glass (D)
: . James Phelan Jr. (D)
List of United States representatives from Texas, Texas
: . Charles Stewart (Texas politician), Charles Stewart (D)
: .
John H. Reagan
John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818March 6, 1905) was an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas declared secession from the United States and joined the Confederate St ...
(D), until March 4, 1887
:: William Harrison Martin, William H. Martin (D), from November 4, 1887
: . Constantine B. Kilgore (D)
: . David B. Culberson (D)
: . Silas Hare (D)
: . Joseph Abbott (Texas politician), Joseph Abbott (D)
: . William H. Crain (D)
: . Littleton W. Moore (D)
: . Roger Q. Mills (D)
: . Joseph D. Sayers (D)
: . S.W.T. Lanham, Samuel W. T. Lanham (D)
List of United States representatives from Vermont, Vermont
: . John Wolcott Stewart, John W. Stewart (R)
: . William W. Grout (R)
List of United States representatives from Virginia, Virginia
: . Thomas H. B. Browne (R)
: . George E. Bowden (R)
: . George D. Wise (politician), George D. Wise (D)
: . William E. Gaines (R)
: . John Robert Brown (Virginia politician), John R. Brown (R)
: . Samuel I. Hopkins (L)
: . Charles Triplett O'Ferrall, Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)
: . William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, William H. F. Lee (D)
: . Henry Bowen (R)
: . Jacob Yost (Virginia congressman), Jacob Yost (R)
List of United States representatives from West Virginia, West Virginia
: . Nathan Goff Jr., Nathan Goff (R)
: . William Lyne Wilson, William L. Wilson (D)
: . Charles P. Snyder (politician), Charles P. Snyder (D)
: . Charles E. Hogg (D)
List of United States representatives from Wisconsin, Wisconsin
: . Lucien B. Caswell (R)
: . Richard W. Guenther (R)
: . Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)
: . Henry Smith (Wisconsin politician), Henry Smith (L)
: . Thomas R. Hudd (D)
: . Charles B. Clark (R)
: . Ormsby B. Thomas (R)
: . Nils P. Haugen (R)
: . Isaac Stephenson (R)
Non-voting members
: . Marcus A. Smith (D)
: . Oscar S. Gifford (R)
: . Fred Dubois, Fred T. Dubois (R)
: . Joseph Toole, Joseph K. Toole (D)
: . Antonio Joseph (U.S. politician), Antonio Joseph (D)
: . John T. Caine (D)
: . Charles S. Voorhees (D)
: . Joseph M. Carey (R)
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Senate
* Replacements: 1
** Democratic: no net change
** Republican: no net change
** Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
* Deaths: 0
* Resignations: 1
* Interim appointments: 1
*Total seats with changes: 2
House of Representatives
* Replacements: 8
** Democratic: no net change
** Republican: no net change
* Deaths: 4
* Resignations: 5
* Contested election: 0
*Total seats with changes: 8
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman:
Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
; Ranking Member: Justin S. Morrill)
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman:
Thomas W. Palmer
Thomas Witherell Palmer (January 25, 1830 – June 1, 1913) was a U.S. Senator from the U.S. state, state of Michigan. He is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
Palmer was born in ...
; Ranking Member: James Z. George)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman:
William B. Allison
William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 – August 4, 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in t ...
; Ranking Member:
James B. Beck
James Burnie Beck (February 13, 1822May 3, 1890) was a Scottish-American
United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.
Life
Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck migrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, ...
)
* United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John P. Jones; Ranking Member: Zebulon B. Vance)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Canadian Relations, Canadian Relations (Select) (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on the Census, Census (Chairman:
Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836October 27, 1918) was an American politician who was a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Senator from Maine.
Biography
Born in Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebr ...
; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Centennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America, Centennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America (Select) (Chairman: Frank Hiscock; Ranking Member:
Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Civil Service, Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman:
Jonathan Chace
Jonathan Chace (July 22, 1829June 30, 1917) was a United States representative and United States Senate, Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography
Born at Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Harvey Chace and the grandson of Oliver Chace. In 1854, ...
; Ranking Member:
Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
)
* United States Senate Special Committee on Civil Service Operations, Civil Service Operations (Special) (Chairman: William E. Chandler; Ranking Member: Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn)
* United States Senate Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
* United States Senate Committee on Coast Defenses, Coast Defenses (Chairman:
Joseph N. Dolph
Joseph Norton Dolph (October 19, 1835March 10, 1897) was an American politician and attorney in the state of Oregon. A native of the state of New York (state), New York, he immigrated to Oregon over the Oregon Trail and settled in Portland, Oreg ...
; Ranking Member: John R. McPherson)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: Matt W. Ransom)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Distributing Public Revenue Among the States, Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: John J. Ingalls; Ranking Member:
Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, Education and Labor (Chairman:
Henry W. Blair
Henry William Blair (December 6, 1834March 14, 1920) was a United States representative and Senator from New Hampshire. During the American Civil War, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army.
A Radical Republican in his earlier politica ...
; Ranking Member:
William B. Allison
William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 – August 4, 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in t ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Engrossed Bills, Engrossed Bills (Chairman:
Eli Saulsbury
Eli Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delawa ...
; Ranking Member:
William B. Allison
William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 – August 4, 1908) was an American politician. An early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, he represented northeastern Iowa in the United States House of Representatives before representing his state in t ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Thomas M. Bowen; Ranking Member:
Alfred H. Colquitt
Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824March 26, 1894) was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, and politician. Elected as the 49th Governor of Georgia (1877–1882), he was one of numerous Democrats elected to office as white conservatives too ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Epidemic Diseases, Epidemic Diseases (Select) (Chairman:
Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
; Ranking Member:
Eugene Hale
Eugene Hale (June 9, 1836October 27, 1918) was an American politician who was a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States Senator from Maine.
Biography
Born in Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebr ...
)
* United States Senate Committee to Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service, Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Matthew S. Quay; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton III, Wade Hampton)
* United States Senate Committee on Executive Departments Methods, Executive Departments Methods (Select) (Chairman: Matthew C. Butler; Ranking Member: Orville H. Platt)
* United States Senate Committee on Expenditures of Public Money, Expenditures of Public Money (Chairman: Charles B. Farwell; Ranking Member: William P. Frye)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member:
Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Fisheries, Fisheries (Chairman: John Sherman; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton III, Wade Hampton)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (Chairman: Algernon S. Paddock; Ranking Member:
John T. Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. Senator (1877–1907) ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Fishing Bounties and Allowances, Fishing Bounties and Allowances (Select)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Matthew C. Butler; Ranking Member: J. Donald Cameron)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Government Printing Office, Government Printing Office (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman:
Henry L. Dawes
Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816February 5, 1903) was an attorney and politician, a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimu ...
; Ranking Member:
Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Traders, Indian Traders (Select) (Chairman: William E. Chandler; Ranking Member:
Joseph C. S. Blackburn
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838September 12, 1918) was an American politician and lawyer who was a Democratic U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky and Governor of Panama Canal Zone. A skilled and spirited orator, he was a ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member:
Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman:
George F. Edmunds
George Franklin Edmunds (February 1, 1828February 27, 1919) was an American attorney and Republican politician who represented the state of Vermont in the United States Senate from 1866 to 1891. He was a candidate for the Republican president ...
; Ranking Member:
James L. Pugh
James Lawrence Pugh (December 12, 1820March 9, 1907) was an American politician and attorney who was a U.S. senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897, as well as a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
Biography
Pugh ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman: William M. Evarts; Ranking Member:
Daniel W. Voorhees
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman: Harrison H. Riddleberger; Ranking Member:
Alfred H. Colquitt
Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824March 26, 1894) was an American lawyer, preacher, soldier, and politician. Elected as the 49th Governor of Georgia (1877–1882), he was one of numerous Democrats elected to office as white conservatives too ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: Joseph R. Hawley; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
* United States Senate Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman:
William M. Stewart
William Morris Stewart (August 9, 1827April 23, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1964, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Personal
Stewart was born in Wayne County, ...
; Ranking Member:
William B. Bate
William Brimage Bate (October 7, 1826March 9, 1905) was a planter and slaveholder, Confederate officer, and politician in Tennessee. After the Reconstruction era, he served as the 23rd governor of Tennessee from 1883 to 1887. He was elected to th ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Algernon S. Paddock; Ranking Member:
James B. Eustis
James Biddle Eustis (August 27, 1834September 9, 1899) was a United States senator from Louisiana who served as President Cleveland's ambassador to France.
Early life
Born in New Orleans, he was the son of George Eustis (1796–1858) and Cla ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: J. Donald Cameron; Ranking Member: John R. McPherson)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Nicaraguan Claims, Nicaraguan Claims (Select) (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: George Frisbie Hoar, George F. Hoard)
* United States Senate Special Committee on the Pacific Railway Commission, Pacific Railway Commission (Special) (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member:
John T. Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. Senator (1877–1907) ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
* United States Senate Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman: Cushman K. Davis; Ranking Member: Ephraim King Wilson II, Ephraim K. Wilson)
* United States Senate Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman:
Philetus Sawyer
Philetus Sawyer (September 22, 1816March 29, 1900) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a United States Senator from Wisconsin for twelve years (1881–1893) and served ten years in the U.S. ...
; Ranking Member:
Eli Saulsbury
Eli Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delawa ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Potomac River Front, Potomac River Front (Select) (Chairman: John R. McPherson; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman:
Charles F. Manderson
Charles Frederick Manderson (February 9, 1837September 28, 1911) was a United States senator from Nebraska from 1883 to 1895.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended school there and then moved to Canton, Ohio, in 1856, where h ...
; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
* United States Senate Committee on Private Land Claims, Private Land Claims (Chairman: Matt W. Ransom; Ranking Member: George F. Edmonds)
* United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, Privileges and Elections (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member:
Eli Saulsbury
Eli Saulsbury (December 29, 1817 – March 22, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delawa ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman:
Leland Stanford
Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party (United States), Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of Calif ...
; Ranking Member: George G. Vest)
* United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
Preston B. Plumb
Preston B. Plumb (October 12, 1837December 20, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
Born in Delaware County, Ohio, at 9 his family removed to Marysvill ...
; Ranking Member:
John T. Morgan
John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. Senator (1877–1907) ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Railroads, Railroads (Chairman:
Dwight M. Sabin
Dwight May Sabin (April 25, 1843December 22, 1902) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from Minnesota and in the Minnesota Legislature. He is known for the business ventures of Seymour, Sabin & Co. and the Northwestern Car Compa ...
; Ranking Member:
Francis B. Stockbridge
Francis Brown Stockbridge (April 9, 1826April 30, 1894) was a U.S. Senator in the U.S. state, state of Michigan.
Biography
Stockbridge was born in Bath, Maine, the son of a physician, Dr. John Stockbridge, and attended the common schools there ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Revision of the Laws, Revision of the Laws (Chairman: James F. Wilson; Ranking Member: Ephraim King Wilson II, Ephraim K. Wilson)
* United States Senate Committee on Revolutionary Claims, Revolutionary Claims (Chairman:
Richard Coke
Richard Coke (March 18, 1829May 14, 1897) was an American lawyer and statesman from Waco, Texas. He was the 15th governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 and was a US Senator from 1877 to 1895. His governorship is notable for reestablishing local ...
; Ranking Member:
Jonathan Chace
Jonathan Chace (July 22, 1829June 30, 1917) was a United States representative and United States Senate, Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography
Born at Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Harvey Chace and the grandson of Oliver Chace. In 1854, ...
)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman:
Nelson W. Aldrich
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (/ ˈɑldɹɪt͡ʃ/; November 6, 1841 – April 16, 1915) was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the ...
; Ranking Member:
Isham G. Harris
Isham Green Harris (February 10, 1818July 8, 1897) was an American and Confederate politician who served as the 16th governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862, and as a U.S. senator from 1877 until his death. He was the state's first governor from ...
)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Tariff Regulation, Tariff Regulation (Select)
* United States Senate Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman: Orville H. Platt; Ranking Member: Matthew C. Butler)
* United States Senate Select Committee on the Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: George G. Vest; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman:
John H. Mitchell
John Hipple Mitchell (born John Mitchell Hipple; June 23, 1835December 8, 1905) was an American lawyer, politician. He served as a United States Republican Party, Republican United States Senate, United States Senator from Oregon on three occasi ...
; Ranking Member:
Randall L. Gibson
Randall Lee Gibson (September 10, 1832 – December 15, 1892) was an American attorney and politician, elected as a United States House of Representatives, member of the House of Representatives and List of United States Senators from Louisi ...
)
* Committee of the whole, Whole
* United States Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Francis M. Cockrell; Ranking Member:
Thomas W. Palmer
Thomas Witherell Palmer (January 25, 1830 – June 1, 1913) was a U.S. Senator from the U.S. state, state of Michigan. He is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan.
Palmer was born in ...
)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Accounts, Accounts (Chairman: Frank T. Shaw; Ranking Member: James O'Donnell)
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Chairman: William H. Hatch; Ranking Member: Justin R. Whiting)
* United States House Select Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select) (Chairman:
James E. Campbell
James Edwin Campbell (July 7, 1843 – December 18, 1924) was an American attorney and Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1884 to 1889 and as the 38th governor of Ohio from 1890 to 189 ...
; Ranking Member: N/A)
* United States House Select Committee on American Ship building, American Ship building (Select)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (Chairman: Samuel J. Randall; Ranking Member:
Joseph G. Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon (May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926) was an American politician from Illinois and a leader of the Republican Party. Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for twenty-three non ...
)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Currency, Banking and Currency (Chairman: Beriah Wilkins; Ranking Member: Luther F. McKinney)
* United States House Committee on Claims, Claims (Chairman: S. W. T. Lanham; Ranking Member: John Lynch (Pennsylvania politician), John Lynch)
* United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman:
Richard P. Bland
Richard Parks Bland (August 19, 1835 – June 15, 1899) was an American politician, lawyer, and educator from Missouri. A Democrat, Bland served in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1899,
representin ...
; Ranking Member: Norman Hall (politician), Norman Hall)
* United States House Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Chairman:
Martin L. Clardy
Martin Linn Clardy (April 26, 1844 – July 5, 1914) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and railroad executive from Missouri. Between 1879 and 1889, he served five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Biography
Bo ...
; Ranking Member: James Phelan Jr.)
* United States House Committee on the District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Chairman: John J. Hemphill; Ranking Member: Robert J. Vance)
* United States House Committee on Education, Education (Chairman: Allen D. Candler; Ranking Member: John B. Penington)
* United States House Committee on Elections, Elections (Chairman: Charles F. Crisp; Ranking Member: Littleton W. Moore)
* United States House Committee on Enrolled Bills, Enrolled Bills (Chairman:
Spencer O. Fisher
Spencer Oliver Fisher (February 3, 1843 – June 1, 1919), was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Fisher was born in Camden, Michigan, where he attended the public schools. He also attended Albion College and Hillsdale College. H ...
; Ranking Member: Constantine B. Kilgore)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Thomas R. Hudd; Ranking Member: Charles N. Brumm)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Justice Department, Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William H. H. Cowles; Ranking Member: Albert C. Thompson)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: William L. Scott; Ranking Member:
Jacob Romeis
Jacob Romeis (December 1, 1835March 8, 1904) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1885 to 1889.
Biography
Born in Weisenbach, Bavaria in the German Confederation, Romeis atte ...
)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Alexander M. Dockery; Ranking Member: Charles E. Brown)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the State Department, Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman:
Leopold Morse
Leopold Morse (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
Biography
Morse was born in Wachenheim, Bavaria, in the German Confederation, the son of Charlotte (Mehlinger) and Jacob Morse. H ...
; Ranking Member: Louis E. Atkinson)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman:
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician of the Confederate States of America. He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil ...
; Ranking Member: John M. Farquhar)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Polk Laffoon; Ranking Member: William Warner)
* United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings, Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Timothy J. Campbell; Ranking Member: Seth L. Milliken)
* United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Chairman:
James B. McCreary
James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 – October 8, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky. He represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress and served as its 27th and 37th governor. Shortly after graduating ...
; Ranking Member: James S. Cothran)
* United States House Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Chairman: Samuel W. Peel; Ranking Member: Silas Hare)
* United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions, Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Courtland C. Matson; Ranking Member: Thomas L. Thompson)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Chairman: David B. Culberson; Ranking Member: John D. Stewart)
* United States House Committee on Labor, Labor (Chairman: John J. O'Neill (American politician), John J. O'Neill; Ranking Member: Edward Burnett)
* United States House Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: Thomas C. Catchings; Ranking Member: Samuel M. Robertson)
* United States House Committee on the Library, Library (Chairman:
William G. Stahlnecker
William Griggs Stahlnecker (June 20, 1849 – March 26, 1902) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1893.
Biography
Born in Auburn, New York, Stahlnecker moved with his p ...
; Ranking Member: Charles O'Neill (Pennsylvania politician), Charles O'Neill)
* United States House Committee on Manufactures, Manufactures (Chairman: Henry Bacon; Ranking Member: Frank C. Bunnell)
* United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman:
Poindexter Dunn
Poindexter Dunn (November 3, 1834 – October 12, 1914) was a Confederate Army veteran and American politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Arkansas from 1879 to 1889.
Biography
Born in Wake County, North Carolina near Rale ...
; Ranking Member: John L. MacDonald)
* United States House Committee on Mileage, Mileage (Chairman: John H. Rogers; Ranking Member:
James J. Belden
James Jerome Belden (September 30, 1825 – January 1, 1904) was an American politician and a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from New York (state), New York.
Biography
Born in Fabius, New York, Belden was the son of ...
)
* United States House Committee on Military Affairs, Military Affairs (Chairman: Richard W. Townshend; Ranking Member: Samuel S. Yoder)
* United States House Committee on the Militia, Militia (Chairman: William McAdoo (New Jersey politician), William McAdoo; Ranking Member: Francis B. Spinola)
* United States House Committee on Mines and Mining, Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles T. O'Ferrall; Ranking Member:
Marion Biggs
Marion Biggs (May 2, 1823 – August 2, 1910) was an American slave owner and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from California from 1887 to 1891.
Early life
Marion Biggs was born on May 2, 1823, near Curryville ...
)
* United States House Committee on Naval Affairs, Naval Affairs (Chairman: Hilary A. Herbert; Ranking Member: Joseph Abbott (Texas politician), Joseph Abbott)
* United States House Committee on Pacific Railroads, Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Joseph H. Outhwaite; Ranking Member: Miles T. Granger)
* United States House Committee on Patents, Patents (Chairman:
James B. Weaver
James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 – February 6, 1912) was an American politician in Iowa who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. He belonged to several d ...
; Ranking Member: Robert J. Vance)
* United States House Committee on Pensions, Pensions (Chairman: Archibald M. Bliss; Ranking Member: John E. Russell)
* United States House Committee on Printing, Printing (Chairman: James D. Richardson; Ranking Member: John A. Hiestand)
* United States House Committee on Private Land Claims, Private Land Claims (Chairman: John M. Glover; Ranking Member: Louis C. Latham)
* United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: James H. Blount; Ranking Member:
Alfred Rowland
Alfred Rowland (February 9, 1844 – August 2, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Born in Lumberton, North Carolina, Rowland attended the common schools in the area. He entered the Confederate States Army in May, 1861 and ser ...
)
* United States House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Samuel Dibble; Ranking Member: Charles E. Hogg)
* United States House Committee on Public Lands, Public Lands (Chairman:
William S. Holman
William Steele Holman (September 6, 1822 – April 22, 1897) was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served four different stints as a U.S. Representative from 1859 to ...
; Ranking Member: John L. MacDonald)
* United States House Committee on Railways and Canals, Railways and Canals (Chairman:
Robert H. M. Davidson
Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (September 23, 1832 – January 18, 1908) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.
Biography
Born near Quincy, Florida, Davidson attended the common schools and the Quincy Academy in Quincy, Florida.
He studied ...
; Ranking Member: Henry H. Carlton)
* United States House Committee on Revision of Laws, Revision of Laws (Chairman:
William C. Oates
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; Ranking Member: Charles E. Hogg)
* United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Newton C. Blanchard; Ranking Member: Thomas L. Thompson)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Chairman: John G. Carlisle; Ranking Member: Thomas B. Reed)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct
* United States House Committee on Territories, Territories (Chairman: William M. Springer; Ranking Member: Melbourne H. Ford)
* United States House Committee on War Claims, War Claims (Chairman: William Joel Stone, William J. Stone; Ranking Member: Theodore S. Wilkinson)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (Chairman: Roger Q. Mills; Ranking Member: William D. Kelley)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* United States Congress Joint Special Committee on Conditions of Indian Tribes, Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
* United States Congress Joint Committee on to Investigate Work on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, To Investigate Work on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel
* United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Chairman:
William G. Stahlnecker
William Griggs Stahlnecker (June 20, 1849 – March 26, 1902) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1885 to 1893.
Biography
Born in Auburn, New York, Stahlnecker moved with his p ...
; Vice Chairman: Charles O'Neill (Pennsylvania politician), Charles O'Neill)
* United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing, Printing
List of federal agencies in the United States#United States Congress, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark (architect), Edward Clark
* Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford
* Public Printer of the United States: Thomas E. Benedict
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: John George Butler, John G. Butler (Lutheranism, Lutheran)
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Anson G. McCook
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Alonzo M. Church
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: William P. Canady
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: William H. Milburn (Methodism, Methodist)
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: John B. Clark Jr.
* Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives, Doorkeeper: Alvin B. Hurt, elected December 5, 1887
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Nathaniel T. Crutchfield
* Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, Postmaster: Lycurgus Dalton
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks: Thomas S. Pettit (D) and Neill S. Brown Jr. (R)
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: John P. Leedom
See also
* 1886 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1886–87 United States Senate elections
** 1886 United States House of Representatives elections
* 1888 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
**
1888 United States presidential election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1888. Republican Party (United States), Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democr ...
** 1888–89 United States Senate elections
** 1888 United States House of Representatives elections