50TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

The 'Fiftieth United States Congress' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1887 to March 3 1889, during the last two years of the first administration of U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

Contents

Dates of sessions

Party summary

Leadership

Major events

Major legislation

Members

Senate

House of Representatives

Delegates

Changes in membership

Officers

References

External links

Dates of sessions

March 4 1887 - March 3 1889

★ First session: December 5 1887 - October 20 1888

★ Second session: December 3 1888 - March 3 1889 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 49th Congress

Next congress: 51st Congress

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' ★ Democratic: 37 ★ Republican: 39 ''(majority)'''TOTAL members: 76'

:'House of Representatives' ★ Democratic: 167 ''(majority)'' ★ Republican: 152 ★ Independent Republican: 2 ★ Labor: 2 ★ National Greenback: 1 ★ Independent: 1'TOTAL members: 325'

Leadership

:'Senate'

★ Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate):

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★ vacant

★ President pro tempore of the Senate:

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★ John J. Ingalls, ''Republican'' of Kansas, elected in this Congress December 5 1887.
:'House of Representatives'

★ Speaker of the House

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★ John G. Carlisle, ''Democratic'' of Kentucky, reelected December 5 1887.

Major events

:''Main article: Events of 1887; Events of 1888; Events of 1889''

Major legislation

:''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 50th Congress

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
:''See also: 50th United States Congress - political parties''
:''See also: 50th United States Congress - State Delegations''
:''See also: United States House elections, 1886''

Senate

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.
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:'Alabama' ★ 2: John T. Morgan ''(D)'' ★ 3: James L. Pugh ''(D)'' :'Arkansas' ★ 3: James K. Jones ''(D)'' ★ 2: James H. Berry ''(D)'' :'California' ★ 3: Leland Stanford ''(R)'' ★ 1: George Hearst ''(D)'' :'Colorado' ★ 2: Thomas M. Bowen ''(R)'' ★ 3: Henry M. Teller ''(R)'' :'Connecticut' ★ 3: Orville H. Platt ''(R)'' ★ 1: Joseph R. Hawley ''(R)'' :'Delaware' ★ 2: Eli M. Saulsbury ''(D)'' ★ 1: George Gray ''(D)'' :'Florida' ★ 3: Wilkinson Call ''(D)'' ★ 1: Samuel Pasco ''(D)'' :'Georgia' ★ 3: Joseph E. Brown ''(D)'' ★ 2: Alfred H. Colquitt ''(D)'' :'Illinois' ★ 2: Shelby M. Cullom ''(R)'' ★ 3: Charles B. Farwell ''(R)'' :'Indiana' ★ 3: Daniel W. Voorhees ''(D)'' ★ 1: David Turpie ''(D)'' :'Iowa' ★ 3: William B. Allison ''(R)'' ★ 2: James F. Wilson ''(R)'' :'Kansas' ★ 3: John J. Ingalls ''(R)'' ★ 2: Preston B. Plumb ''(R)'' :'Kentucky' ★ 2: James B. Beck ''(D)'' ★ 3: Joseph C. S. Blackburn ''(D)''

:'Louisiana' ★ 2: Randall L. Gibson ''(D)'' ★ 3: James B. Eustis ''(D)'' :'Maine' ★ 1: Eugene Hale ''(R)'' ★ 2: William P. Frye ''(R)'' :'Maryland' ★ 1: Arthur Pue Gorman ''(D)'' ★ 3: Ephraim K. Wilson ''(D)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ 1: Henry L. Dawes ''(R)'' ★ 2: George F. Hoar ''(R)'' :'Michigan' ★ 2: Thomas W. Palmer ''(R)'' ★ 1: Francis B. Stockbridge ''(R)'' :'Minnesota' ★ 2: Dwight M. Sabin ''(R)'' ★ 1: Cushman K. Davis ''(R)'' :'Mississippi' ★ 1: James Z. George ''(D)'' ★ 2: Edward C. Walthall ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ 1: Francis M. Cockrell ''(D)'' ★ 3: George G. Vest ''(D)'' :'Nebraska' ★ 2: Charles F. Manderson ''(R)'' ★ 1: Algernon S. Paddock ''(R)'' :'Nevada' ★ 3: John P. Jones ''(R)'' ★ 1: William M. Stewart ''(R)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ 3: Henry W. Blair ''(R)'' ★ 2: Person C. Cheney ''(R)'' ★ : William E. Chandler ''(R)'' :'New Jersey' ★ 2: John R. McPherson ''(D)'' ★ 1: Rufus Blodgett ''(D)''

:'New York' ★ 3: William M. Evarts ''(R)'' ★ 1: Frank Hiscock ''(R)'' :'North Carolina' ★ 2: Matt W. Ransom ''(D)'' ★ 3: Zebulon B. Vance ''(D)'' :'Ohio' ★ 1: John Sherman ''(R)'' ★ 3: Henry B. Payne ''(D)'' :'Oregon' ★ 2: Joseph N. Dolph ''(R)'' ★ 3: John H. Mitchell ''(R)'' :'Pennsylvania' ★ 3: J. Donald Cameron ''(R)'' ★ 1: Matthew S. Quay ''(R)'' :'Rhode Island' ★ 1: Nelson W. Aldrich ''(R)'' ★ 2: Jonathan Chace ''(R)'' :'South Carolina' ★ 2: Matthew C. Butler ''(D)'' ★ 3: Wade Hampton, III ''(D)'' :'Tennessee' ★ 2: Isham G. Harris ''(D)'' ★ 1: William B. Bate ''(D)'' :'Texas' ★ 2: Richard Coke ''(D)'' ★ 1: John H. Reagan ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ 1: George F. Edmunds ''(R)'' ★ 3: Justin S. Morrill ''(R)'' :'Virginia' ★ 2: Harrison H. Riddleberger ''(RD)'' ★ 1: John W. Daniel ''(D)'' :'West Virginia' ★ 2: John E. Kenna ''(D)'' ★ 1: Charles J. Faulkner ''(D)'' :'Wisconsin' ★ 1: Philetus Sawyer ''(R)'' ★ 3: John C. Spooner ''(R)''

President ''pro tempore'' John J. Ingalls

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise ''at-large,'' are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
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:'Alabama' ★ : James T. Jones ''(D)'' ★ : Hilary A. Herbert ''(D)'' ★ : William C. Oates ''(D)'' ★ : Alexander C. Davidson ''(D)'' ★ : James E. Cobb ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Bankhead ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Forney ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Wheeler ''(D)'' :'Arkansas' ★ : Poindexter Dunn ''(D)'' ★ : Clifton R. Breckinridge ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas C. McRae ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Rogers ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel W. Peel ''(D)'' :'California' ★ : Thomas L. Thompson ''(D)'' ★ : Marion Biggs ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph McKenna ''(R)'' ★ : William W. Morrow ''(R)'' ★ : Charles N. Felton ''(R)'' ★ : William Vandever ''(R)'' :'Colorado' ★ : George G. Symes ''(R)'' :'Connecticut' ★ : Robert J. Vance ''(D)'' ★ : Carlos French ''(D)'' ★ : Charles A. Russell ''(R)'' ★ : Miles T. Granger ''(D)'' :'Delaware' ★ : John B. Penington ''(D)'' :'Florida' ★ : Robert H. M. Davidson ''(D)'' ★ : Charles Dougherty ''(D)'' :'Georgia' ★ : Thomas M. Norwood ''(D)'' ★ : Henry G. Turner ''(D)'' ★ : Charles F. Crisp ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas W. Grimes ''(D)'' ★ : John D. Stewart ''(D)'' ★ : James H. Blount ''(D)'' ★ : Judson C. Clements ''(D)'' ★ : Henry H. Carlton ''(D)'' ★ : Allen D. Candler ''(D)'' ★ : George T. Barnes ''(D)'' :'Illinois' ★ : Ransom W. Dunham ''(R)'' ★ : Frank Lawler ''(D)'' ★ : William E. Mason ''(R)'' ★ : George E. Adams ''(R)'' ★ : Albert J. Hopkins ''(R)'' ★ : Robert R. Hitt ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas J. Henderson ''(R)'' ★ : Ralph Plumb ''(R)'' ★ : Lewis E. Payson ''(R)'' ★ : Philip S. Post ''(R)'' ★ : William H. Gest ''(R)'' ★ : George A. Anderson ''(D)'' ★ : William M. Springer ''(D)'' ★ : Jonathan H. Rowell ''(R)'' ★ : Joseph G. Cannon ''(R)'' ★ : Silas Z. Landes ''(D)'' ★ : Edward Lane ''(D)'' ★ : Jehu Baker ''(R)'' ★ : Richard W. Townshend ''(D)'' ★ : John R. Thomas ''(R)'' :'Indiana' ★ : Alvin P. Hovey ''(R)'' ★ : Francis B. Posey ''(R)'' ★ : John H. O'Neall ''(D)'' ★ : Jonas G. Howard ''(D)'' ★ : William S. Holman ''(D)'' ★ : Courtland C. Matson ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas M. Browne ''(R)'' ★ : William D. Bynum ''(D)'' ★ : James T. Johnston ''(R)'' ★ : Joseph B. Cheadle ''(R)'' ★ : William D. Owen ''(R)'' ★ : George W. Steele ''(R)'' ★ : James B. White ''(R)'' ★ : Benjamin F. Shively ''(D)'' :'Iowa' ★ : John H. Gear ''(R)'' ★ : Walter I. Hayes ''(D)'' ★ : David B. Henderson ''(R)'' ★ : William E. Fuller ''(R)'' ★ : Daniel Kerr ''(R)'' ★ : James B. Weaver ''(NG)'' ★ : Edwin H. Conger ''(R)'' ★ : Albert R. Anderson ''(IR)'' ★ : Joseph Lyman ''(R)'' ★ : Adoniram J. Holmes ''(R)'' ★ : Isaac S. Struble ''(R)'' :'Kansas' ★ : Edmund N. Morrill ''(R)'' ★ : Edward H. Funston ''(R)'' ★ : Bishop W. Perkins ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas Ryan ''(R)'' ★ : John A. Anderson ''(IR)'' ★ : Erastus J. Turner ''(R)'' ★ : Samuel R. Peters ''(R)'' :'Kentucky' ★ : William J. Stone ''(D)'' ★ : Polk Laffoon ''(D)'' ★ : W. Godfrey Hunter ''(R)'' ★ : Alexander B. Montgomery ''(D)'' ★ : Asher G. Caruth ''(D)'' ★ : John G. Carlisle ''(D)'' ★ : William C. P. Breckinridge ''(D)'' ★ : James B. McCreary ''(D)'' ★ : George M. Thomas ''(R)'' ★ : William P. Taulbee ''(D)'' ★ : Hugh F. Finley ''(R)'' :'Louisiana' ★ : Theodore S. Wilkinson ''(D)'' ★ : Matthew D. Lagan ''(D)'' ★ : Edward J. Gay ''(D)'' ★ : Newton C. Blanchard ''(D)'' ★ : Cherubusco Newton ''(D)'' ★ : Edward W. Robertson ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel M. Robertson ''(D)''

:'Maine' ★ : Thomas B. Reed ''(R)'' ★ : Nelson Dingley, Jr. ''(R)'' ★ : Seth L. Milliken ''(R)'' ★ : Charles A. Boutelle ''(R)'' :'Maryland' ★ : Charles H. Gibson ''(D)'' ★ : Frank T. Shaw ''(D)'' ★ : Henry W. Rusk ''(D)'' ★ : Isidor Rayner ''(D)'' ★ : Barnes Compton ''(D)'' ★ : Louis E. McComas ''(R)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ : Robert T. Davis ''(R)'' ★ : John D. Long ''(R)'' ★ : Leopold Morse ''(D)'' ★ : Patrick A. Collins ''(D)'' ★ : Edward D. Hayden ''(R)'' ★ : Henry Cabot Lodge ''(R)'' ★ : William Cogswell ''(R)'' ★ : Charles H. Allen ''(R)'' ★ : Edward Burnett ''(D)'' ★ : John E. Russell ''(D)'' ★ : William Whiting ''(R)'' ★ : Francis W. Rockwell ''(R)'' :'Michigan' ★ : J. Logan Chipman ''(D)'' ★ : Edward P. Allen ''(R)'' ★ : James O'Donnell ''(R)'' ★ : Julius C. Burrows ''(R)'' ★ : Melbourne H. Ford ''(D)'' ★ : Mark S. Brewer ''(R)'' ★ : Justin R. Whiting ''(D)'' ★ : Timothy E. Tarsney ''(D)'' ★ : Byron M. Cutcheon ''(R)'' ★ : Spencer O. Fisher ''(D)'' ★ : Seth C. Moffatt ''(R)'' ★ : Henry W. Seymour ''(R)'' :'Minnesota' ★ : Thomas Wilson ''(D)'' ★ : John Lind ''(R)'' ★ : John L. MacDonald ''(D)'' ★ : Edmund Rice ''(D)'' ★ : Knute Nelson ''(R)'' :'Mississippi' ★ : John M. Allen ''(D)'' ★ : James B. Morgan ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas C. Catchings ''(D)'' ★ : Frederick G. Barry ''(D)'' ★ : Chapman L. Anderson ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas R. Stockdale ''(D)'' ★ : Charles E. Hooker ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ : William H. Hatch ''(D)'' ★ : Charles H. Mansur ''(D)'' ★ : Alexander M. Dockery ''(D)'' ★ : James N. Burnes ''(D)'' ★ : Charles F. Booher ''(D)'' ★ : William Warner ''(R)'' ★ : John T. Heard ''(D)'' ★ : John E. Hutton ''(D)'' ★ : John J. O'Neill ''(D)'' ★ : John M. Glover ''(D)'' ★ : Martin L. Clardy ''(D)'' ★ : Richard P. Bland ''(D)'' ★ : William J. Stone ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Wade ''(R)'' ★ : James P. Walker ''(D)'' :'Nebraska' ★ : John A. McShane ''(D)'' ★ : James Laird ''(R)'' ★ : George W. E. Dorsey ''(R)'' :'Nevada' ★ : William Woodburn ''(R)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ : Luther F. McKinney ''(D)'' ★ : Jacob H. Gallinger ''(R)'' :'New Jersey' ★ : George Hires ''(R)'' ★ : James Buchanan ''(R)'' ★ : John Kean, Jr. ''(R)'' ★ : James N. Pidcock ''(D)'' ★ : William W. Phelps ''(R)'' ★ : Herman Lehlbach ''(R)'' ★ : William McAdoo ''(D)'' :'New York' ★ : Perry Belmont ''(D)'' ★ : Felix Campbell ''(D)'' ★ : Stephen V. White ''(R)'' ★ : Peter P. Mahoney ''(D)'' ★ : Archibald M. Bliss ''(D)'' ★ : Amos J. Cummings ''(D)'' ★ : Lloyd S. Bryce ''(D)'' ★ : Timothy J. Campbell ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel S. Cox ''(D)'' ★ : Francis B. Spinola ''(D)'' ★ : Truman A. Merriman ''(D)'' ★ : W. Bourke Cockran ''(D)'' ★ : Ashbel P. Fitch ''(D)'' ★ : William G. Stahlnecker ''(D)'' ★ : Henry Bacon ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Ketcham ''(R)'' ★ : Stephen T. Hopkins ''(R)'' ★ : Edward W. Greenman ''(D)'' ★ : Nicholas T. Kane ''(D)'' ★ : Charles Tracey ''(D)'' ★ : George West ''(R)'' ★ : John H. Moffitt ''(R)'' ★ : Abraham X. Parker ''(R)'' ★ : James S. Sherman ''(R)'' ★ : David Wilber ''(R)'' ★ : James J. Belden ''(R)'' ★ : Milton De Lano ''(R)'' ★ : Newton W. Nutting ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas S. Flood ''(R)'' ★ : Ira Davenport ''(R)'' ★ : Charles S. Baker ''(R)'' ★ : John G. Sawyer ''(R)'' ★ : John M. Farquhar ''(R)'' ★ : John B. Weber ''(R)'' ★ : William G. Laidlaw ''(R)''

:'North Carolina' ★ : Louis C. Latham ''(D)'' ★ : Furnifold McLendel Simmons ''(D)'' ★ : Charles W. McClammy ''(D)'' ★ : John Nichols ''(I)'' ★ : John M. Brower ''(R)'' ★ : Alfred Rowland ''(D)'' ★ : John S. Henderson ''(D)'' ★ : William H. H. Cowles ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas D. Johnston ''(D)'' :'Ohio' ★ : Benjamin Butterworth ''(R)'' ★ : Charles E. Brown ''(R)'' ★ : Elihu S. Williams ''(R)'' ★ : Samuel S. Yoder ''(D)'' ★ : George E. Seney ''(D)'' ★ : Melvin M. Boothman ''(R)'' ★ : James E. Campbell ''(D)'' ★ : Robert P. Kennedy ''(R)'' ★ : William C. Cooper ''(R)'' ★ : Jacob Romeis ''(R)'' ★ : Albert C. Thompson ''(R)'' ★ : Jacob J. Pugsley ''(R)'' ★ : Joseph H. Outhwaite ''(D)'' ★ : Charles P. Wickham ''(R)'' ★ : Charles H. Grosvenor ''(R)'' ★ : Beriah Wilkins ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph D. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : William McKinley, Jr. ''(R)'' ★ : Ezra B. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : George W. Crouse ''(R)'' ★ : Martin A. Foran ''(D)'' :'Oregon' ★ : Binger Hermann ''(R)'' :'Pennsylvania' ★ : Henry H. Bingham ''(R)'' ★ : Charles O'Neill ''(R)'' ★ : Samuel J. Randall ''(D)'' ★ : William D. Kelley ''(R)'' ★ : Alfred C. Harmer ''(R)'' ★ : Smedley Darlington ''(R)'' ★ : Robert M. Yardley ''(R)'' ★ : Daniel Ermentrout ''(D)'' ★ : John A. Hiestand ''(R)'' ★ : William H. Sowden ''(D)'' ★ : Charles R. Buckalew ''(D)'' ★ : John Lynch ''(D)'' ★ : Charles N. Brumm ''(R)'' ★ : Franklin Bound ''(R)'' ★ : Frank C. Bunnell ''(R)'' ★ : Henry C. McCormick ''(R)'' ★ : Edward Scull ''(R)'' ★ : Louis E. Atkinson ''(R)'' ★ : Levi Maish ''(D)'' ★ : John Patton ''(R)'' ★ : Welty McCullogh ''(R)'' ★ : John Dalzell ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas M. Bayne ''(R)'' ★ : Oscar L. Jackson ''(R)'' ★ : James T. Maffett ''(R)'' ★ : Norman Hall ''(D)'' ★ : William L. Scott ''(D)'' ★ : Edwin S. Osborne ''(R)'' :'Rhode Island' ★ : Henry J. Spooner ''(R)'' ★ : Warren O. Arnold ''(R)'' :'South Carolina' ★ : Samuel Dibble ''(D)'' ★ : George D. Tillman ''(D)'' ★ : James S. Cothran ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Perry ''(D)'' ★ : John J. Hemphill ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Dargan ''(D)'' ★ : William Elliott ''(D)'' :'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)'' :'Texas' ★ : Charles Stewart ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Martin ''(D)'' ★ : Constantine B. Kilgore ''(D)'' ★ : David B. Culberson ''(D)'' ★ : Silas Hare ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Abbott ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Crain ''(D)'' ★ : Littleton W. Moore ''(D)'' ★ : Roger Q. Mills ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph D. Sayers ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel W. T. Lanham ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ : John W. Stewart ''(R)'' ★ : William W. Grout ''(R)'' :'Virginia' ★ : Thomas H. B. Browne ''(R)'' ★ : George E. Bowden ''(R)'' ★ : George D. Wise ''(D)'' ★ : William E. Gaines ''(R)'' ★ : John R. Brown ''(R)'' ★ : Samuel I. Hopkins ''(L)'' ★ : Charles T. O'Ferrall ''(D)'' ★ : William H. F. Lee ''(D)'' ★ : Henry Bowen ''(R)'' ★ : Jacob Yost ''(R)'' :'West Virginia' ★ : Nathan Goff ''(R)'' ★ : William L. Wilson ''(D)'' ★ : Charles P. Snyder ''(D)'' ★ : Charles E. Hogg ''(D)'' :'Wisconsin' ★ : Lucien B. Caswell ''(R)'' ★ : Richard W. Guenther ''(R)'' ★ : Robert M. La Follette ''(R)'' ★ : Henry Smith ''(L)'' ★ : Thomas R. Hudd ''(D)'' ★ : Charles B. Clark ''(R)'' ★ : Ormsby B. Thomas ''(R)'' ★ : Nils P. Haugen ''(R)'' ★ : Isaac Stephenson ''(R)''

Speaker of the House John G: Carlisle Delegates :'Arizona Territory' ★ : Marcus A. Smith ''(D)'' :'Dakota Territory' ★ : Oscar S. Gifford ''(R)'' :'Idaho Territory' ★ : Fred T. Dubois ''(R)'' :'Montana Territory' ★ : Joseph K. Toole ''(D)'' :'New Mexico Territory' ★ : Antonio Joseph ''(D)'' :'Utah Territory' ★ : John T. Caine ''(D)'' :'Washington Territory' ★ : Charles S. Voorhees ''(D)'' :'Wyoming Territory' ★ : Joseph M. Carey ''(R)''

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session 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: 9'

Officers

:'Senate' ★ Secretary of the Senate: ★ ★ Anson G. McCook of New York, elected December 18 1883 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: ★ ★ William P. Canady of North Carolina, elected December 18 1883 ★ Chaplain of the Senate ★ ★ The Rev. John G. Butler, ''Lutheran'', elected March 15 1886:'Other' ★ Architect of the Capitol: ★ ★ Edward Clark, appointed August 30 1865

:'House of Representatives' ★ Clerk of the House: ★ ★ John B. Clark, Jr. of Missouri, elected December 5 1887 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the House: ★ ★ John P. Leedom of Ohio, elected December 5 1887 ★ Doorkeeper of the House: ★ ★ Alvin B. Hurt of Mississippi, elected December 5 1887 ★ Postmaster of the House: ★ ★ Lycurgus Dalton of Indiana, elected December 5 1887 ★ Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: ★ ★ Nathaniel T. Crutchfield ★ Chaplain of the House ★ ★ The Rev. William H. Milburn, ''Methodist'', elected December 5 1887

References

★ The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989,

★ The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1982,

External links

★ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

★ U.S. House of Representatives: House History

★ U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists