52ND UNITED STATES CONGRESS

The 'Fifty-second 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 1891 to March 3 1893, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.
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

Notes

References

External links

Dates of sessions

March 4 1891 - March 3 1893

★ First session: December 7 1891 - August 5 1892

★ Second session: December 5 1892 - March 3 1893 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 51st Congress

Next congress: 53rd 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: 39 ★ Republican: 47 ''(majority)'' ★ Populist: 2'TOTAL members: 88'

:'House of Representatives' ★ Democratic: 238 ''(majority)'' ★ Republican: 86 ★ Populist: 8'TOTAL members: 332'

Leadership

:'Senate'

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

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★ Levi P. Morton, of New York

★ President pro tempore of the Senate:

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★ Charles F. Manderson, ''Republican'' of Nebraska, elected March 4 1891.
:'House of Representatives'

★ Speaker of the House

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★ Charles F. Crisp, ''Democrat'' of Georgia, elected December 8 1891.

Major events

:''Main article: Events of 1891; Events of 1892; Events of 1893''

Major legislation

:''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 52nd 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: 52nd United States Congress - political parties''
:''See also: 52nd United States Congress - State Delegations''
:''See also: United States House election, 1890''

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 ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1894; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1896.
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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: Charles N. Felton ''(R)'' :'Colorado' ★ 3: Henry M. Teller ''(R)'' ★ 2: Edward O. Wolcott ''(R)'' :'Connecticut' ★ 3: Orville H. Platt ''(R)'' ★ 1: Joseph R. Hawley ''(R)'' :'Delaware' ★ 1: George Gray ''(D)'' ★ 2: Anthony Higgins ''(R)'' :'Florida' ★ 3: Wilkinson Call ''(D)'' ★ 1: Samuel Pasco ''(D)'' :'Georgia' ★ 2: Alfred H. Colquitt ''(D)'' ★ 3: John B. Gordon ''(D)'' :'Idaho' ★ 2: George L. Shoup ''(R)'' ★ 3: Fred T. Dubois ''(R)'' :'Illinois' ★ 2: Shelby M. Cullom ''(R)'' ★ 3: John McAuley Palmer ''(D)'' :'Indiana' ★ 3: Daniel W. Voorhees ''(D)'' ★ 1: David Turpie ''(D)'' :'Iowa' ★ 3: William B. Allison ''(R)'' ★ 2: James F. Wilson ''(R)'' :'Kansas' ★ 2: Preston B. Plumb ''(R)'' ★ : Bishop W. Perkins ''(R)'' ★ 3: William A. Peffer ''(P)'' :'Kentucky' ★ 3: Joseph C. S. Blackburn ''(D)'' ★ 2: John G. Carlisle ''(D)'' ★ : William Lindsay ''(D)'' :'Louisiana' ★ 2: Randall L. Gibson ''(D)'' ★ : Donelson Caffery ''(D)'' ★ 3: Edward D. White ''(D)''

:'Maine' ★ 1: Eugene Hale ''(R)'' ★ 2: William P. Frye ''(R)'' :'Maryland' ★ 1: Arthur Pue Gorman ''(D)'' ★ 3: Charles H. Gibson ''(D)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ 1: Henry L. Dawes ''(R)'' ★ 2: George F. Hoar ''(R)'' :'Michigan' ★ 1: Francis B. Stockbridge ''(R)'' ★ 2: James McMillan ''(R)'' :'Minnesota' ★ 1: Cushman K. Davis ''(R)'' ★ 2: William D. Washburn ''(R)'' :'Mississippi' ★ 1: James Z. George ''(D)'' ★ 2: Edward C. Walthall ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ 1: Francis M. Cockrell ''(D)'' ★ 3: George G. Vest ''(D)'' :'Montana' ★ 2: Thomas C. Power ''(R)'' ★ 1: Wilbur F. Sanders ''(R)'' :'Nebraska' ★ 2: Charles F. Manderson ''(R)'' ★ 1: Algernon S. Paddock ''(R)'' :'Nevada' ★ 3: John P. Jones ''(R)'' ★ 1: William M. Stewart ''(R)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ 2: William E. Chandler ''(R)'' ★ 3: Jacob H. Gallinger ''(R)'' :'New Jersey' ★ 2: John R. McPherson ''(D)'' ★ 1: Rufus Blodgett ''(D)'' :'New York' ★ 1: Frank Hiscock ''(R)'' ★ 3: David B. Hill ''(D)'' :'North Carolina' ★ 2: Matt W. Ransom ''(D)'' ★ 3: Zebulon B. Vance ''(D)'' :'North Dakota' ★ 1: Lyman R. Casey ''(R)'' ★ 3: Henry C. Hansbrough ''(R)''

:'Ohio' ★ 1: John Sherman ''(R)'' ★ 3: Calvin S. Brice ''(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: Nathan F. Dixon, III ''(R)'' :'South Carolina' ★ 2: Matthew C. Butler ''(D)'' ★ 3: John L. M. Irby ''(D)'' :'South Dakota' ★ 2: Richard F. Pettigrew ''(R)'' ★ 3: James H. Kyle ''(P)'' :'Tennessee' ★ 2: Isham G. Harris ''(D)'' ★ 1: William B. Bate ''(D)'' :'Texas' ★ 2: Richard Coke ''(D)'' ★ 1: John H. Reagan ''(D)'' ★ : Horace Chilton ''(D)'' ★ : Roger Q. Mills ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ 1: George F. Edmunds ''(R)'' ★ : Redfield Proctor ''(R)'' ★ 3: Justin S. Morrill ''(R)'' :'Virginia' ★ 1: John W. Daniel ''(D)'' ★ 2: John S. Barbour, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Eppa Hutton, II ''(D)'' :'Washington' ★ 1: John B. Allen ''(R)'' ★ 3: Watson C. Squire ''(R)'' :'West Virginia' ★ 2: John E. Kenna ''(D)'' ★ : Johnson N. Camden ''(D)'' ★ 1: Charles J. Faulkner ''(D)'' :'Wisconsin' ★ 1: Philetus Sawyer ''(R)'' ★ 3: William F. Vilas ''(D)'' :'Wyoming' ★ 2: Joseph M. Carey ''(R)'' ★ 1: Francis E. Warren ''(R)''

President ''pro tempore'' Charles F. Manderson

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' ★ : Richard H. Clarke ''(D)'' ★ : Hilary A. Herbert ''(D)'' ★ : William C. Oates ''(D)'' ★ : Louis W. Turpin ''(D)'' ★ : James E. Cobb ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Bankhead ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Forney ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Wheeler ''(D)'' :'Arkansas' ★ : William H. Cate ''(D)'' ★ : Clifton R. Breckinridge ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas C. McRae ''(D)'' ★ : William L. Terry ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel W. Peel ''(D)'' :'California' ★ : Thomas J. Geary ''(D)'' ★ : Anthony Caminetti ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph McKenna ''(R)'' ★ : Samuel G. Hilborn ''(R)'' ★ : John T. Cutting ''(R)'' ★ : Eugene F. Loud ''(R)'' ★ : William W. Bowers ''(R)'' :'Colorado' ★ : Hosea Townsend ''(R)'' :'Connecticut' ★ : Lewis Sperry ''(D)'' ★ : Washington F. Willcox ''(D)'' ★ : Charles A. Russell ''(R)'' ★ : Robert E. De Forest ''(D)'' :'Delaware' ★ : John W. Causey ''(D)'' :'Florida' ★ : Stephen R. Mallory ''(D)'' ★ : Robert Bullock ''(D)'' :'Georgia' ★ : Rufus E. Lester ''(D)'' ★ : Henry G. Turner ''(D)'' ★ : Charles F. Crisp ''(D)'' ★ : Charles L. Moses ''(D)'' ★ : Leonidas F. Livingston ''(D)'' ★ : James H. Blount ''(D)'' ★ : Robert W. Everett ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas G. Lawson ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas E. Winn ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas E. Watson ''(P)'' :'Idaho' ★ : Willis Sweet ''(R)'' :'Illinois' ★ : Abner Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : Lawrence E. McGann ''(D)'' ★ : Allan C. Durborow, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Walter C. Newberry ''(D)'' ★ : Albert J. Hopkins ''(R)'' ★ : Robert R. Hitt ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas J. Henderson ''(R)'' ★ : Lewis Steward ''(D)'' ★ : Herman W. Snow ''(D)'' ★ : Philip S. Post ''(R)'' ★ : Benjamin T. Cable ''(D)'' ★ : Scott Wike ''(D)'' ★ : William M. Springer ''(D)'' ★ : Owen Scott ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel T. Busey ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Fithian ''(D)'' ★ : Edward Lane ''(D)'' ★ : William S. Forman ''(D)'' ★ : James R. Williams ''(D)'' ★ : George Washington Smith ''(R)'' :'Indiana' ★ : William F. Parrett ''(D)'' ★ : John L. Bretz ''(D)'' ★ : Jason B. Brown ''(D)'' ★ : William S. Holman ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Cooper ''(D)'' ★ : Henry U. Johnson ''(R)'' ★ : William D. Bynum ''(D)'' ★ : Elijah V. Brookshire ''(D)'' ★ : Daniel W. Waugh ''(R)'' ★ : David H. Patton ''(D)'' ★ : Augustus N. Martin ''(D)'' ★ : Charles A. O. McClellan ''(D)'' ★ : Benjamin F. Shively ''(D)'' :'Iowa' ★ : John J. Seerley ''(D)'' ★ : Walter I. Hayes ''(D)'' ★ : David B. Henderson ''(R)'' ★ : Walter H. Butler ''(D)'' ★ : John T. Hamilton ''(D)'' ★ : Frederick E. White ''(D)'' ★ : John A. T. Hull ''(R)'' ★ : James P. Flick ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas Bowman ''(D)'' ★ : Jonathan P. Dolliver ''(R)'' ★ : George D. Perkins ''(R)'' :'Kansas' ★ : Case Broderick ''(R)'' ★ : Edward H. Funston ''(R)'' ★ : Benjamin H. Clover ''(P)'' ★ : John G. Otis ''(P)'' ★ : John Davis ''(P)'' ★ : William Baker ''(P)'' ★ : Jeremiah Simpson ''(P)'' :'Kentucky' ★ : William J. Stone ''(D)'' ★ : William T. Ellis ''(D)'' ★ : Isaac H. Goodnight ''(D)'' ★ : Alexander B. Montgomery ''(D)'' ★ : Asher G. Caruth ''(D)'' ★ : William W. Dickerson ''(D)'' ★ : William C. P. Breckinridge ''(D)'' ★ : James B. McCreary ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas H. Paynter ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Kendall ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph M. Kendall ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Wilson ''(R)'' :'Louisiana' ★ : Adolph Meyer ''(D)'' ★ : Matthew D. Lagan ''(D)'' ★ : Andrew Price ''(D)'' ★ : Newton C. Blanchard ''(D)'' ★ : Charles J. Boatner ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel M. Robertson ''(D)'' :'Maine' ★ : Thomas B. Reed ''(R)'' ★ : Nelson Dingley, Jr. ''(R)'' ★ : Seth L. Milliken ''(R)'' ★ : Charles A. Boutelle ''(R)''

:'Maryland' ★ : Henry Page ''(D)'' ★ : John B. Brown ''(D)'' ★ : Herman Stump ''(D)'' ★ : Henry W. Rusk ''(D)'' ★ : Isidor Rayner ''(D)'' ★ : Barnes Compton ''(D)'' ★ : William M. McKaig ''(D)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ : Charles S. Randall ''(R)'' ★ : Elijah A. Morse ''(R)'' ★ : John F. Andrew ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph H. O'Neil ''(D)'' ★ : Sherman Hoar ''(D)'' ★ : Henry Cabot Lodge ''(R)'' ★ : William Cogswell ''(R)'' ★ : Moses T. Stevens ''(D)'' ★ : George F. Williams ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph H. Walker ''(R)'' ★ : Frederick S. Coolidge ''(D)'' ★ : John C. Crosby ''(D)'' :'Michigan' ★ : J. Logan Chipman ''(D)'' ★ : James S. Gorman ''(D)'' ★ : James O'Donnell ''(R)'' ★ : Julius C. Burrows ''(R)'' ★ : Melbourne H. Ford ''(D)'' ★ : Charles E. Belknap ''(R)'' ★ : Byron G. Stout ''(D)'' ★ : Justin R. Whiting ''(D)'' ★ : Henry M. Youmans ''(D)'' ★ : Harrison H. Wheeler ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas A. E. Weadock ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel M. Stephenson ''(R)'' :'Minnesota' ★ : William H. Harries ''(D)'' ★ : John Lind ''(R)'' ★ : Osee M. Hall ''(D)'' ★ : James N. Castle ''(D)'' ★ : Kittel Halvorson ''(P)'' :'Mississippi' ★ : John M. Allen ''(D)'' ★ : John C. Kyle ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas C. Catchings ''(D)'' ★ : Clarke Lewis ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph H. Beeman ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas R. Stockdale ''(D)'' ★ : Charles E. Hooker ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ : William H. Hatch ''(D)'' ★ : Charles H. Mansur ''(D)'' ★ : Alexander M. Dockery ''(D)'' ★ : Robert P. C. Wilson ''(D)'' ★ : John C. Tarsney ''(D)'' ★ : John T. Heard ''(D)'' ★ : Richard H. Norton ''(D)'' ★ : John J. O'Neill ''(D)'' ★ : Seth W. Cobb ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Byrns ''(D)'' ★ : Richard P. Bland ''(D)'' ★ : David A. De Armond ''(D)'' ★ : Robert W. Fyan ''(D)'' ★ : Marshall Arnold ''(D)'' :'Montana' ★ : William W. Dixon ''(D)'' :'Nebraska' ★ : William J. Bryan ''(D)'' ★ : William A. McKeighan ''(P)'' ★ : Omer M. Kem ''(P)'' :'Nevada' ★ : Horace F. Bartine ''(R)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ : Luther F. McKinney ''(D)'' ★ : Warren F. Daniell ''(D)'' :'New Jersey' ★ : Christopher A. Bergen ''(R)'' ★ : James Buchanan ''(R)'' ★ : Jacob A. Geissenhainer ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Fowler ''(D)'' ★ : Cornelius A. Cadmus ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas D. English ''(D)'' ★ : Edward F. McDonald ''(D)'' :'New York' ★ : James W. Covert ''(D)'' ★ : David A. Boody ''(D)'' ★ : Alfred C. Chapin ''(D)'' ★ : William J. Coombs ''(D)'' ★ : John M. Clancy ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas F. Magner ''(D)'' ★ : John R. Fellows ''(D)'' ★ : Edward J. Dunphy ''(D)'' ★ : Timothy J. Campbell ''(D)'' ★ : Amos J. Cummings ''(D)'' ★ : Francis B. Spinola ''(D)'' ★ : W. Bourke Cockran ''(D)'' ★ : J. De Witt Warner ''(D)'' ★ : Roswell P. Flower ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph J. Little ''(D)'' ★ : Ashbel P. Fitch ''(D)'' ★ : William G. Stahlnecker ''(D)'' ★ : Henry Bacon ''(D)'' ★ : John H. Ketcham ''(R)'' ★ : Isaac N. Cox ''(D)'' ★ : John A. Quackenbush ''(R)'' ★ : Charles Tracey ''(D)'' ★ : John Sanford ''(R)'' ★ : John M. Wever ''(R)'' ★ : Leslie W. Russell ''(R)'' ★ : Newton M. Curtis ''(R)'' ★ : Henry W. Bentley ''(D)'' ★ : George Van Horn ''(D)'' ★ : James J. Belden ''(R)'' ★ : George W. Ray ''(R)'' ★ : Sereno E. Payne ''(R)'' ★ : Hosea H. Rockwell ''(D)'' ★ : John Raines ''(R)'' ★ : Halbert S. Greenleaf ''(D)'' ★ : James W. Wadsworth ''(R)'' ★ : Daniel N. Lockwood ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas L. Bunting ''(D)'' ★ : Warren B. Hooker ''(R)'' :'North Carolina' ★ : William A. B. Branch ''(D)'' ★ : Henry P. Cheatham ''(R)'' ★ : Benjamin F. Grady ''(D)'' ★ : Benjamin H. Bunn ''(D)'' ★ : Archibald H. A. Williams ''(D)'' ★ : Sydenham B. Alexander ''(D)'' ★ : John S. Henderson ''(D)'' ★ : William H. H. Cowles ''(D)'' ★ : William T. Crawford ''(D)'' :'North Dakota' ★ : Martin N. Johnson ''(R)''

:'Ohio' ★ : Bellamy Storer ''(R)'' ★ : John A. Caldwell ''(R)'' ★ : George W. Houk ''(D)'' ★ : Martin K. Gantz ''(D)'' ★ : Fernando C. Layton ''(D)'' ★ : Dennis D. Donovan ''(D)'' ★ : William E. Haynes ''(D)'' ★ : Darius D. Hare ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph H. Outhwaite ''(D)'' ★ : Robert E. Doan ''(R)'' ★ : John M. Pattison ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Enochs ''(R)'' ★ : J. Irvine Dungan ''(D)'' ★ : James W. Owens ''(D)'' ★ : Michael D. Harter ''(D)'' ★ : John G. Warwick ''(D)'' ★ : Lewis P. Ohliger ''(D)'' ★ : Albert J. Pearson ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph D. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : Ezra B. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : Vincent A. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : Tom L. Johnson ''(D)'' :'Oregon' ★ : Binger Hermann ''(R)'' :'Pennsylvania' ★ : Henry H. Bingham ''(R)'' ★ : Charles O'Neill ''(R)'' ★ : William McAleer ''(D)'' ★ : John E. Reyburn ''(R)'' ★ : Alfred C. Harmer ''(R)'' ★ : John B. Robinson ''(R)'' ★ : Edwin Hallowell ''(D)'' ★ : William Mutchler ''(D)'' ★ : David B. Brunner ''(D)'' ★ : Marriott Brosius ''(R)'' ★ : Lemuel Amerman ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Shonk ''(R)'' ★ : James B. Reilly ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Rife ''(R)'' ★ : Myron B. Wright ''(R)'' ★ : Albert C. Hopkins ''(R)'' ★ : Simon P. Wolverton ''(D)'' ★ : Louis E. Atkinson ''(R)'' ★ : Frank E. Beltzhoover ''(D)'' ★ : Edward Scull ''(R)'' ★ : George F. Huff ''(R)'' ★ : John Dalzell ''(R)'' ★ : William A. Stone ''(R)'' ★ : Andrew Stewart ''(R)'' ★ : Alexander K. Craig ''(D)'' ★ : William A. Sipe ''(D)'' ★ : Eugene P. Gillespie ''(D)'' ★ : Matthew Griswold ''(R)'' ★ : Charles W. Stone ''(R)'' ★ : George F. Kribbs ''(D)'' :'Rhode Island' ★ : Oscar Lapham ''(D)'' ★ : Charles H. Page ''(D)'' :'South Carolina' ★ : William H. Brawley ''(D)'' ★ : George D. Tillman ''(D)'' ★ : George Johnstone ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Shell ''(D)'' ★ : John J. Hemphill ''(D)'' ★ : Eli T. Stackhouse ''(D)'' ★ :John L. McLaurin ''(D)'' ★ : William Elliott ''(D)'' :'South Dakota' [1] ★ : John R. Gamble ''(R)'' ★ : John L. Jolley ''(R)'' ★ : John A. Pickler ''(R)'' :'Tennessee' ★ : Alfred A. Taylor ''(R)'' ★ : Leonidas C. Houk ''(R)'' ★ : John C. Houk ''(R)'' ★ : Henry C. Snodgrass ''(D)'' ★ : Benton McMillin ''(D)'' ★ : James D. Richardson ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph E. Washington ''(D)'' ★ : Nicholas N. Cox ''(D)'' ★ : Benjamin A. Enloe ''(D)'' ★ : Rice A. Pierce ''(D)'' ★ : Josiah Patterson ''(D)'' :'Texas' ★ : Charles Stewart ''(D)'' ★ : John B. Long ''(D)'' ★ : Constantine B. Kilgore ''(D)'' ★ : David B. Culberson ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph W. Bailey ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Abbott ''(D)'' ★ : William H. Crain ''(D)'' ★ : Littleton W. Moore ''(D)'' ★ : Roger Q. Mills ''(D)'' ★ : Edwin Le Roy Antony ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph D. Sayers ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel W. T. Lanham ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ : H. Henry Powers ''(R)'' ★ : William W. Grout ''(R)'' :'Virginia' ★ : William A. Jones ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Lawson ''(D)'' ★ : George D. Wise ''(D)'' ★ : James F. Epes ''(D)'' ★ : Posey G. Lester ''(D)'' ★ : Paul C. Edmunds ''(D)'' ★ : Charles T. O'Ferrall ''(D)'' ★ : William H. F. Lee ''(D)'' ★ : Elisha E. Meredith ''(D)'' ★ : John A. Buchanan ''(D)'' ★ : Henry St. George Tucker ''(D)'' :'Washington' ★ : John L. Wilson ''(R)'' :'West Virginia' ★ : John O. Pendleton ''(D)'' ★ : William L. Wilson ''(D)'' ★ : John D. Alderson ''(D)'' ★ : James Capehart ''(D)'' :'Wisconsin' ★ : Clinton Babbitt ''(D)'' ★ : Charles Barwig ''(D)'' ★ : Allen R. Bushnell ''(D)'' ★ : John L. Mitchell ''(D)'' ★ : George H. Brickner ''(D)'' ★ : Lucas M. Miller ''(D)'' ★ : Frank P. Coburn ''(D)'' ★ : Nils P. Haugen ''(R)'' ★ : Thomas Lynch ''(D)'' :'Wyoming' ★ : Clarence D. Clark ''(R)''

Speaker of the House Charles F. Crisp Delegates :'Arizona Territory' ★ : Marcus A. Smith ''(D)'' :'New Mexico Territory' ★ : Antonio Joseph ''(D)'' :'Oklahoma Territory' ★ : David A. Harvey ''(R)'' :'Utah Territory' ★ : John T. Caine ''(D)''

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

:'Senate' ★ replacements: 7 ★ ★ Democratic: no net change ★ ★ Republican: no net change ★ ★ Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss ★ deaths: 4 ★ resignations: 5 ★ interim appointments: 1 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 10'

:'House of Representatives' ★ replacements: 15 ★ ★ Democratic: 1 seat net loss ★ ★ Republican: 1 seat net gain ★ deaths: 10 ★ resignations: 8 ★ contested election: 1 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 18'

Officers

:'Senate' ★ Secretary of the Senate: ★ ★ Anson G. McCook of New York, elected December 18 1883 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: ★ ★ Edward K. Valentine of Nebraska, elected June 30 1890 ★ 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: ★ ★ James Kerr of Pennsylvania, elected December 8 1891 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the House: ★ ★ Samuel S. Yoder of Ohio, elected December 8 1891 ★ Doorkeeper of the House: ★ ★ Charles H. Turner of New York, elected December 8 1891 ★ Postmaster of the House: ★ ★ James W. Hathaway of Montana, elected December 8 1891 ★ Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: ★ ★ Charles R. Crisp ★ Chaplain of the House ★ ★ The Rev. William H. Milburn ''Methodist'', elected December 8 1891

Notes

1. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

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