House of Representatives

Affiliation	Party				Total
	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous... (D)	Independent Democratic (ID)	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S... (R)	Other		Vacant
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Leadership

Senate

• President: William A. Wheeler
  William A. Wheeler
  William Almon Wheeler was a Representative from New York and the 19th Vice President of the United States .-Early life and career:...
  
   (R)
• President pro tempore
  President pro tempore of the United States Senate
  The President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...
  
  : Thomas W. Ferry
  Thomas W. Ferry
  Thomas White Ferry was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.Ferry was born in the old Mission House on Mackinac Island. The community on Mackinac at that time included the military garrison, the main depot of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, and the mission....
  
   (R)

House of Representatives

• Speaker
  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
  
  : Samuel J. Randall
  Samuel J. Randall
  Samuel Jackson Randall was a Pennsylvania politician, attorney, soldier, and a prominent Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives during the late 19th century. He served as the 33rd Speaker of the House and a contender for his party's nomination for the President of the...
  
   (D)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

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

Classes of United States Senators

The three classes of United States Senators are currently made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats. The purpose of the classes is to determine which Senate seats will be up for election in a given year. The three groups are staggered so that one of them is up for election every two years.A senator's...

, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1880; Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1882; and Class 3 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1878.

Alabama 

• 3. George E. Spencer
  George E. Spencer
  George Eliphaz Spencer was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama.Born in Champion, New York, he was educated at Montreal College in Canada. After relocating to Iowa he engaged in the study of law. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a captain on October 16, 1862. While serving on the staff of...
  
   (R)
• 2. John T. Morgan
  John Tyler Morgan
  John Tyler Morgan was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and a six-term U.S. senator from the state of Alabama after the war. He was a strong supporter of states rights and racial segregation through the Reconstruction era. He was an expansionist, arguing for...
  
   (D)

Arkansas 

• 3. Stephen W. Dorsey
  Stephen Wallace Dorsey
  Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Senator from Arkansas.He was born in Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, February 28, 1842 and moved to Ohio and settled in Oberlin. He attended the public schools....
  
   (R)
• 2. Augustus H. Garland
  Augustus Hill Garland
  Augustus Hill Garland was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a senator in both the United States and the Confederate States, served as 11th Governor of Arkansas and as Attorney General of the United States in the first administration of Grover Cleveland.-Early life and law career:Garland...
  
   (D)

California 

• 3. Aaron A. Sargent
  Aaron Augustus Sargent
  Aaron Augustus Sargent was an American journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was sometimes called the "Senator for the Southern Pacific Railroad".-Biography:...
  
   (R)
• 1. Newton Booth
  Newton Booth
  Newton Booth was an American politician.Born in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from Asbury University, later renamed DePauw University, in nearby Greencastle, Indiana. He studied...
  
   (R)

Colorado 

• 3. Jerome B. Chaffee
  Jerome B. Chaffee
  Jerome Bonaparte Chaffee was an entrepreneur and United States Senator from Colorado. Chaffee County, Colorado is named after him.-Biography:...
  
   (R)
• 2. Henry M. Teller
  Henry Moore Teller
  Henry Moore Teller was a U.S. politician. Secretary of the Interior between 1882 and 1885.-Biography:He served in the Senate and Cabinet for over thirty years, and was connected with the Free Silver question, beginning in 1880. During that time, he did much in and out of Congress with tongue and...
  
   (R)

Connecticut 

• 1. William W. Eaton
  William W. Eaton
  William Wallace Eaton was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Connecticut.-Early career:...
  
   (D)
• 3. William H. Barnum
  William Henry Barnum
  William Henry Barnum was a United States politician, serving as a state representative, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and finally as chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
  
   (D)

Delaware 

• 1. Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.
  Thomas F. Bayard
  Thomas Francis Bayard was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.-Early life and family:Bayard was born in...
  
   (D)
• 2. Eli M. Saulsbury
  Eli M. Saulsbury
  Eli May Saulsbury was a 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 Delaware....
  
   (D)

Florida 

• 3. Simon B. Conover
  Simon B. Conover
  Simon Barclay Conover was a Republican Senator from Florida.-Biography:Born in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Conover attended an academy in Trenton, New Jersey. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville in 1864...
  
   (R)
• 1. Charles W. Jones
  Charles W. Jones
  Charles William Jones was a United States Senator from Florida. He abandoned the seat after an apparent onset of mental illness.-Early life, travel and career:...
  
   (D)

Georgia 

• 3. John B. Gordon
  John Brown Gordon
  John Brown Gordon was one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate generals during the American Civil War. After the war, he was a strong opponent of Reconstruction and is thought by some to have been the titular leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during the late 1860s. A member of the...
  
   (D)
• 2. Benjamin H. Hill
  Benjamin Harvey Hill
  Benjamin Harvey Hill was a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator and a Confederate senator from the state of Georgia.-Biography:Hill was born September 14, 1823 in Hillsboro, Georgia in Jasper County...
  
   (D)

Illinois 

• 3. Richard J. Oglesby
  Richard James Oglesby
  Richard James Oglesby was an Illinois statesman and U.S. Army officer. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He also served Illinois in the legislature. Near the end of the civil war, he was elected the 14th Governor of...
  
   (R)
• 2. David Davis
  David Davis (Supreme Court justice)
  David Davis was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention....
  
   (I)

Indiana 

• 3. Oliver H. P. T. Morton
  Oliver Hazard Perry Morton
  Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton , commonly known as Oliver P. Morton, was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana. He served as the 14th Governor of Indiana during the American Civil War, and was a stalwart ally of President Abraham Lincoln. During the war, Morton suppressed the...
  
   (R), until November 1, 1877
  • Daniel W. Voorhees
    Daniel W. Voorhees
    Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana, who was leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
     (D), from November 6, 1877
• 1. Joseph E. McDonald
  Joseph E. McDonald
  Joseph Ewing McDonald was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana. Born in Butler County, Ohio, he moved with his mother to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1826 and apprenticed to the saddler’s trade when twelve years of age in Lafayette, Indiana...
  
   (D)

Iowa 

• 3. William B. Allison
  William B. Allison
  William Boyd Allison was an early leader of the Iowa Republican Party, who represented northeastern Iowa for four consecutive terms in the U.S. House before representing his state for six consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate...
  
   (R)
• 2. Samuel J. Kirkwood
  Samuel J. Kirkwood
  Samuel Jordan Kirkwood , was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.-Early life and career:...
  
   (R)

Kansas 

• 3. John J. Ingalls
  John James Ingalls
  John James Ingalls was an American politician.John James Ingalls was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1833. He graduated from Williams College in 1855. Foreshadowing his later reputation as a wit, his graduation thesis, entitled Mummy Life, was a satire of college life. He studied...
  
   (R)
• 2. Preston B. Plumb (R)

Kentucky 

• 3. Thomas C. McCreery
  Thomas C. McCreery
  Thomas Clay McCreery was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.Born at Yelvington, Kentucky., McCreery graduated from Centre College, in Danville, Kentucky, in 1837. He studied law, passed the bar, and commenced practice in Frankfort, Kentucky...
  
   (D)
• 2. James B. Beck
  James B. Beck
  James Burnie Beck was a United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Beck immigrated to the United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, New York. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1843 and graduated from Transylvania University in 1846...
  
   (D)

Louisiana 

• 3. James B. Eustis
  James B. Eustis
  James Biddle Eustis was a United States Senator from Louisiana.-Biography:Born in New Orleans, he was the son of George Eustis and Clarice Allain. His father was a lawyer who served as a Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court...
  
   (D)
• 2. William Pitt Kellogg
  William P. Kellogg
  William Pitt Kellogg was an American politician and a governor of Louisiana from 1873-1877 during Reconstruction. He was one of the most important politicians in Louisiana during and immediately after Reconstruction...
  
   (R)

Maine 

• 1. Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...
  
   (R)
• 2. James G. Blaine
  James G. Blaine
  James Gillespie Blaine was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time Secretary of State...
  
   (R)

Maryland 

• 3. George R. Dennis
  George R. Dennis
  George Robertson Dennis , a Democrat, was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1873-1879. He also served in the Maryland State Senate and the Maryland House of Delegates....
  
   (D)
• 1. William Pinkney Whyte
  William Pinkney Whyte
  William Pinkney Whyte , a member of the United States Democratic Party, was a politician who served the State of Maryland as a State Delegate, the State Comptroller, a United States Senator, the 35th Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and the State Attorney General.-Early life and...
  
   (D)

Massachusetts 

• 1. Henry L. Dawes
  Henry L. Dawes
  Henry Laurens Dawes was a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, notable for the Dawes Act.-Biography:...
  
   (R)
• 2. George F. Hoar
  George Frisbie Hoar
  George Frisbie Hoar was a prominent United States politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. Hoar was born in Concord, Massachusetts...
  
   (R)

Michigan 

• 2. Thomas W. Ferry
  Thomas W. Ferry
  Thomas White Ferry was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.Ferry was born in the old Mission House on Mackinac Island. The community on Mackinac at that time included the military garrison, the main depot of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, and the mission....
  
   (R)
• 1. Isaac P. Christiancy
  Isaac P. Christiancy
  Isaac Peckham Christiancy was Chief Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan....
  
   (R), until February 10, 1879
  • Zachariah Chandler
    Zachariah Chandler
    Zachariah Chandler was Mayor of Detroit , a four-term U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan , and Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant .-Family:...
    
     (R), from February 22, 1879

Minnesota 

• 2. William Windom
  William Windom
  This page is about the former United States politician. William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883...
  
   (R)
• 1. Samuel J. R. McMillan (R)

Mississippi 

• 1. Blanche Bruce
  Blanche Bruce
  Blanche Kelso Bruce was a U.S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881 and was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term. Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first to ever serve in the U.S...
  
   (R)
• 2. Lucius Q. C. Lamar
  Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)
  Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi. A United States Representative and Senator, he also served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, as well as an Associate Justice of the U.S...
  
   (D)

Missouri 

• 3. Lewis V. Bogy
  Lewis V. Bogy
  Lewis Vital Bogy was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Ste. Geneviève, he attended the public schools, was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, studied law in Illinois, graduated from Transylvania University Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813 September 20, 1877) was a United...
  
   (D), until September 20, 1877
  • David H. Armstrong
    David H. Armstrong
    David Hartley Armstrong was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and taught school in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1837. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1837, and then to Lebanon, Illinois, where he taught at...
    
     (D), September 29, 1877 - January 26, 1879
  • James Shields
    James Shields
    James Shields was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states...
    
     (D), from January 27, 1879
• 1. Francis Cockrell
  Francis Cockrell
  Francis Marion Cockrell was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri for five terms. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.-Early life:Cockrell was...
  
   (D)

Nebraska 

• 1. Algernon Paddock
  Algernon Paddock
  Algernon Sidney Paddock was an American politician who served as a Republican secretary of Nebraska Territory and U.S. Senator from Nebraska after statehood.-Biography:...
  
   (R)
• 2. Alvin Saunders
  Alvin Saunders
  Alvin Saunders was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, in the United States, as well as the governor of the Nebraska Territory for most of the American Civil War.-Education:Saunders was born in Fleming County, Kentucky...
  
   (R)

Nevada 

• 3. John P. Jones
  John P. Jones
  John Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California....
  
   (R)
• 1. William Sharon
  William Sharon
  William Sharon was a United States Senator from Nevada who profited from the Comstock Lode.-Early life:Sharon was born in Smithfield, Ohio, January 9, 1821, the son of William Sharon and Susan Kirk. He attended Ohio University. After studying law in St. Louis, Missouri, he was admitted to the bar...
  
   (R)

New Hampshire 

• 3. Bainbridge Wadleigh
  Bainbridge Wadleigh
  Bainbridge Wadleigh was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bradford, he attended the common schools and Kimball Union Academy . He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Milford...
  
   (R)
• 2. Edward H. Rollins
  Edward H. Rollins
  Edward Henry Rollins was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire.-Biography:Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now Rollinsford , he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine...
  
   (R)

New Jersey 

• 1. Theodore F. Randolph
  Theodore Fitz Randolph
  Theodore Fitz Randolph was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 22nd Governor of New Jersey from 1869 to 1872, and represented the state in the United States Senate for a single term, from 1875 to 1881. He was the son of US Representative James F...
  
   (D)
• 2. John R. McPherson
  John R. McPherson
  John Rhoderic McPherson was a United States Senator from New Jersey who served three terms of office, from 1877 - 1895....
  
   (D)

New York 

• 3. Roscoe Conkling
  Roscoe Conkling
  Roscoe Conkling was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had...
  
   (R)
• 1. Francis Kernan
  Francis Kernan
  Francis Kernan was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881....
  
   (D)

North Carolina 

• 2. Matt W. Ransom (D)
• 3. Augustus S. Merrimon
  Augustus Summerfield Merrimon
  Augustus Summerfield Merrimon was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1873 and 1879....
  
   (D)

Ohio 

• 3. John Sherman
  John Sherman (politician)
  John Sherman, nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act...
  
   (R), until March 8, 1877
  • T. Stanley Matthews
    Thomas Stanley Matthews
    Thomas Stanley Matthews , known as Stanley Matthews, was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. Matthews was the Court's 46th justice...
    
     (R), from March 21, 1877
• 1. Allen G. Thurman
  Allen G. Thurman
  Allen Granberry Thurman was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Ohio, as well as the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in 1888.-Biography:...
  
   (D)

Oregon 

• 3. John H. Mitchell
  John H. Mitchell
  John Hipple Mitchell, also known as John Mitchell Hipple, John H. Mitchell, or J. H. Mitchell was a controversial American lawyer and politician, who served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon on three occasions between 1872 and 1905...
  
   (R)
• 2. La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover
  La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, serving from 1870 to 1877...
  
   (D)

Pennsylvania 

• 3. Simon Cameron
  Simon Cameron
  Simon Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania,...
  
   (R), until March 12, 1877
  • J. Donald Cameron
    J. Donald Cameron
    James Donald Cameron was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant and in the United States Senate for twenty years....
    
     (R), from March 20, 1877
• 1. William A. Wallace
  William A. Wallace
  William Andrew Wallace was an American lawyer and Democratic party politician from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and was its speaker in 1871. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881.After his U.S. Senate service Wallace was...
  
   (D)

Rhode Island 

• 2. Henry B. Anthony
  Henry B. Anthony
  Henry Bowen Anthony was a United States newspaperman and political figure. He served as the editor and later part owner of the Providence Journal and later was the 21st Governor of Rhode Island between 1849 and 1851, as a member of the Whig Party.The son of William Anthony and Mary Kennicut...
  
   (R)
• 1. Ambrose Burnside
  Ambrose Burnside
  Ambrose Everett Burnside was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator...
  
   (R)

South Carolina 

• 3. John J. Patterson
  John J. Patterson
  John James Patterson was a businessman and United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania, he grew up there and attended the public schools, and then attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania...
  
   (R)
• 2. Matthew Butler
  Matthew Butler
  Matthew Calbraith Butler was an American military commander and politician from South Carolina. He served as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, postbellum three-term United States Senator, and a major general in the United States Army during the...
  
   (D)

Tennessee 

• 1. James E. Bailey
  James E. Bailey
  James Edmund Bailey was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to 1881.-Biography:Bailey was born in Montgomery County, Tennessee. He attended the Clarksville Academy and the former University of Nashville. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843, starting a...
  
   (D)
• 2. Isham G. Harris
  Isham G. Harris
  Isham Green Harris was an American politician. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1857 to 1862 and as a U.S. Senator from 1877 until his death....
  
   (D)

Texas 

• 1. Samuel B. Maxey
  Samuel B. Maxey
  Samuel Bell Maxey was an American soldier, lawyer, and politician from Paris, Texas, United States. He was a Major General for the Confederacy in the Civil War and later represented Texas in the U.S. Senate.-Early life:...
  
   (D)
• 2. Richard Coke
  Richard Coke
  Richard Coke was an American lawyer, farmer, and statesman from Waco, Texas. He was the 15th governor of Texas from 1874 to 1876 and represented Texas in the U.S. Senate from 1877 to 1895. His uncle was Congressman Richard Coke, Jr..Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, to John and Eliza Coke...
  
   (D)

Vermont 

• 1. George F. Edmunds
  George F. Edmunds
  George Franklin Edmunds was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891.Born in Richmond, Vermont, Edmunds attended common schools and was privately tutored as a child. After being admitted to the bar in 1849, he started a law practice in Burlington, Vermont...
  
   (R)
• 3. Justin S. Morrill
  Justin Smith Morrill
  Justin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities...
  
   (R)

Virginia 

• 2. John W. Johnston
  John W. Johnston
  John Warfield Johnston was an American lawyer and politician from Abingdon, Virginia. He served in the Virginia State Senate, and represented Virginia in the United States Senate when the state was readmitted after the American Civil War...
  
   (D)
• 1. Robert E. Withers
  Robert E. Withers
  Robert Enoch Withers was an American physician, military officer, newspaperman, politician and diplomat. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate and served as U.S. Consul in Hong Kong.-Biography:...
  
   (D)

West Virginia 

• 2. Henry G. Davis
  Henry G. Davis
  Henry Gassaway Davis was a self-made millionaire and U.S. Senator from West Virginia. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1904. His brother was U.S...
  
   (D)
• 1. Frank Hereford
  Frank Hereford
  Frank Hereford was a United States Representative and Senator from West Virginia. Born near Warrenton, Virginia, he completed preparatory studies and graduated from McKendree University in 1845. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced...
  
   (D)

Wisconsin 

• 3. Timothy O. Howe
  Timothy O. Howe
  Timothy Otis Howe was a member of the United States Senate, representing the state of Wisconsin from March 4, 1861, to March 4, 1879. He also served as U.S...
  
   (R)
• 1. Angus Cameron
  Angus Cameron
  Angus Cameron was a Republican and a member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin from 1875 to 1881, when he did not seek reelection, and again from 1881 to 1885, when he was elected to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, who died in office; he did not seek reelection in 1885...
  
   (R)

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama 

. James T. Jones

James T. Jones

James Taylor Jones was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Richmond, Virginia, Jones moved with his father to Marengo County, Alabama, in 1834.He pursued classical studies....

 (D). Hilary A. Herbert

Hilary A. Herbert

Hilary Abner Herbert was Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland. He also served as a member of the United States house of representatives from Alabama.-Biography:...

 (D). Jeremiah N. Williams (D). Charles M. Shelley

Charles M. Shelley

Charles Miller Shelley was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a postbellum U.S. Representative from Alabama.-Early life:...

 (D). Robert F. Ligon

Robert F. Ligon

Robert Fulwood Ligon was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Democrat, Ligon served Governor George S. Houston of the same political party from 1874 to 1876. Ligon also served in the United States House of Representatives.The son of Robert and Wilhelmina Ligon, Robert Ligon was born in...

 (D). Goldsmith W. Hewitt

Goldsmith W. Hewitt

Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.-Biography:Born near Elyton , Jefferson County, Alabama, Hewitt attended the country schools....

 (D). William H. Forney

William H. Forney

William Henry Forney was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. He was the grandson of Peter Forney and nephew of Daniel Munroe Forney and the brother of John Horace Forney.-Biography:...

 (D). William W. Garth (D)

Arkansas 

. Lucien C. Gause

Lucien C. Gause

Lucien Coatsworth Gause was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Arkansas.-Biography:Born near Wilmington, North Carolina, Gause moved to Lauderdale County, Tennessee and studied under a private tutor...

 (D). William F. Slemons

William F. Slemons

William Ferguson Slemons was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.-Biography:Born near Dresden, Tennessee, Slemons attended Bethel College.He moved to Arkansas in 1852.He studied law....

 (D). Jordan E. Cravens

Jordan E. Cravens

Jordan Edgar Cravens was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas, cousin of William Ben Cravens.-Biography:Born in Fredericktown, Missouri, Cravens moved with his father to Arkansas the following year....

 (ID). Thomas M. Gunter

Thomas M. Gunter

Thomas Montague Gunter was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.Born near McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee, Gunter pursued classical studies and was graduated from Irving College in 1850.He studied law....

 (D)

California 

. Horace Davis

Horace Davis

Horace Davis was a United States Representative from California. He was the son of Massachusetts Governor John Davis and the younger brother of diplomat John Chandler Bancroft Davis.-Biography:...

 (R). Horace F. Page

Horace F. Page

Horace Francis Page was an American politician that represented a Californian district in the United States House of Representatives. He was born near Medina, Orleans County, New York. He attended public schools and Millville Academy and then taught school in La Porte County, Indiana until 1854...

 (R). John K. Luttrell

John K. Luttrell

John King Luttrell was a U.S. Representative from California.Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, Luttrell attended the common schools. He moved with his parents to a farm in Alabama in 1844. He moved to Missouri in 1845 with his parents, who settled on a farm near St. Joseph. He moved to California in...

 (D). Romualdo Pacheco

Romualdo Pacheco

José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...

 (R) until February 7, 1878

• • Peter D. Wigginton
    Peter D. Wigginton
    Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Springfield, Illinois, Wigginton moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1843....
    
     (D), from February 7, 1878

Colorado 

. James B. Belford

James B. Belford

James Burns Belford was a U.S. Representative from Colorado, cousin of Joseph McCrum Belford.-Biography:Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Belford attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania....

 (R), until December 13, 1877

• • Thomas M. Patterson (D), from December 13, 1877

Connecticut 

. George M. Landers

George M. Landers

George Marcellus Landers was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Lenox, Massachusetts, Landers attended the public schools....

 (D). James Phelps

James Phelps (congressman)

James Phelps was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, son of Lancelot Phelps.Born in Colebrook, Connecticut, Phelps attended the public schools, the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and the law department of Yale College.He was admitted to the...

 (D). John T. Wait

John T. Wait

John Turner Wait was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in New London, Connecticut, Wait moved with his mother to Norwich, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, for two years. He engaged in mercantile pursuits...

 (R). Levi Warner

Levi Warner

Levi Warner was a United States Representative from Connecticut. His brother was Samuel Larkin Warner who was also a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut where he completed preparatory studies. Later, he attended the law department of Yale College...

 (D)

Delaware 

. James Williams

James Williams (Delaware representative)

James Williams was an American farmer and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware....

 (D)

Florida 

. Robert H. M. Davidson

Robert H. M. Davidson

Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born near Quincy, Florida, Davidson attended the common schools and the Quincy Academy in Quincy, Florida....

 (D). Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

Horatio Bisbee, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Canton, Maine, Bisbee attended the public schools, and was graduated from Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, in 1863....

 (R), until February 20, 1879

• • Jesse J. Finley
    Jesse J. Finley
    Jesse Johnson Finley was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida and the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. He was also a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....
    
     (D), from February 20, 1879

Georgia 

. Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge was an American politician. He was born in Beaufort County, South Carolina and graduated from Brown University in 1848 and Harvard Law School in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law in Savannah, Georgia...

 (D), until January 8, 1879

• • William B. Fleming (D), from Fenruary 10, 1879. William E. Smith
    William Ephraim Smith
    William Ephraim Smith was a planter, lawyer, and politician from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. In 1846, he was admitted to the Georgia bar, which required a special act of the Georgia legislature due to his youth...
    
     (D). Philip Cook
    Phillip Cook
    Philip Cook was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum member of the United States Congress.-Biography:...
    
     (D). Henry R. Harris
    Henry R. Harris
    Henry Richard Harris was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born in Sparta, Georgia, Harris moved to Greenville, Georgia, in 1833....
    
     (D). Milton A. Candler
    Milton A. Candler
    Milton Anthony Candler was an American politician and lawyer.Candler was born in Campbellton, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1856 and began practice in Cassville, Georgia...
    
     (D). James H. Blount
    James Henderson Blount
    James Henderson Blount was an American statesman, soldier and congressman from Georgia. He opposed the annexation of Hawaii in 1893 in his investigation into the alleged American involvement in the political revolution in the Kingdom of Hawai'i...
    
     (D). William H. Felton
    William Harrell Felton
    William Harrell Felton was an American politician, army surgeon, and Methodist minister. His wife was Rebecca Latimer Felton, who became the first woman to serve on the United States Senate, albeit only for one day....
    
     (ID). Alexander Stephens
    Alexander Stephens
    Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S...
    
     (D). Hiram P. Bell
    Hiram Parks Bell
    Hiram Parks Bell was a U.S. Representative and a Confederate Representative from the state of Georgia.-Biography:...
    
     (D), from March 13, 1877

Illinois 

. William Aldrich

William Aldrich

William Aldrich was a United States Representative from the state of Illinois. He was born in Greenfield Center in the Town of Greenfield in New York. He attended local schools and taught school himself....

 (R). Carter H. Harrison

Carter Harrison, Sr.

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term. He previously served two terms in the United States House of Representatives...

 (D). Lorenzo Brentano

Lorenzo Brentano

Lorenzo Brentano was a journalist and a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Biography:Born as Lorenz Peter Carl Brentano in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, Brentano received a thorough classical training and studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg...

 (R). William Lathrop

William Lathrop

William Lathrop was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Le Roy, New York, Lathrop attended the public schools and an academy at Brockport, New York.He studied law in Attica, New York....

 (R). Horatio C. Burchard

Horatio C. Burchard

Horatio Chapin Burchard was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Marshall, New York, Burchard attended the public schools and private preparatory schools. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1850.He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced...

 (R). Thomas J. Henderson

Thomas J. Henderson (politician)

Thomas Jefferson Henderson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Henderson moved with his parents to Illinois at the age of eleven. He served as clerk of the Board of Commissioners of Stark County, Illinois from 1847 to 1849. and as clerk of the court of Stark...

 (R). Philip C. Hayes

Philip C. Hayes

Philip Cornelius Hayes was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (R). Greenbury L. Fort

Greenbury L. Fort

Greenbury Lafayette Fort was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in French Grant, Ohio, Fort moved with his parents to Marshall County, Illinois, in April 1834....

 (R). Thomas A. Boyd

Thomas A. Boyd

Thomas Alexander Boyd was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Bedford in Adams County, Pennsylvania, Boyd attended the public schools.He was graduated from Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1848....

 (R). Benjamin F. Marsh

Benjamin F. Marsh

Benjamin Franklin Marsh was a U.S. Representative from Illinois in the late 19th century to early 20th century. He was also a lawyer, soldier, agriculture manager, stock raiser, and Illinois State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner....

 (R). Robert M. Knapp

Robert M. Knapp

Robert McCarty Knapp was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, brother of Anthony Lausett Knapp.Born in New York City, Knapp moved with his parents to Jerseyville, Illinois, in 1839....

 (D). William M. Springer

William McKendree Springer

William McKendree Springer was a United States Representative from Illinois.He was born near New Lebanon, Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, 1836; moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, with his parents in 1848; attended the public schools in New Lebanon and Jacksonville and the Illinois College at...

 (D). Thomas F. Tipton

Thomas F. Tipton

Thomas Foster Tipton was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Harrisburg, Ohio, Tipton attended the public schools.He moved with his parents to McLean County, Illinois, in 1843.He studied law....

 (R). Joseph G. Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such...

 (R). John R. Eden

John R. Eden

John Rice Eden was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Bath County, Kentucky, Eden moved with his parents to Indiana.He attended the public schools.He studied law....

 (D). William A. J. Sparks

William A. J. Sparks

William Andrew Jackson Sparks was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near New Albany, Indiana, Sparks moved with his parents to Illinois in 1836.He attended the public schools.He taught school for a time...

 (D). William R. Morrison (D). William Hartzell

William Hartzell

William Hartzell was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Hartzell was born in Canton, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Danville, Illinois, in 1840...

 (D). Richard W. Townshend

Richard W. Townshend

Richard Wellington Townshend was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Townshend moved to Washington, D.C., in 1846.He attended public and private schools....

 (D)

Indiana 

. Benoni S. Fuller

Benoni S. Fuller

Benoni Stinson Fuller was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born near Boonville, Indiana, Fuller attended the common schools, and later taught school in Warrick County...

 (D). Thomas R. Cobb

Thomas R. Cobb

Thomas Reed Cobb was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Springville, Lawrence County, Indiana, Cobb attended Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.He studied law....

 (D). George A. Bicknell

George A. Bicknell

George Augustus Bicknell was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bicknell was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831.He attended Yale Law School one year....

 (D). Leonidas Sexton

Leonidas Sexton

Leonidas Sexton was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Rushville, Indiana, Sexton attended the public schools of his native county and was graduated from Jefferson College , Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1847.He studied law in Rushville and in 1848 and 1849 attended the Cincinnati Law...

 (R). Thomas M. Browne

Thomas M. Browne

Thomas McLelland Browne was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in New Paris, Ohio, Browne moved to Indiana in January 1844.He attended the common schools.He moved to Winchester, Indiana, in 1848.He studied law....

 (R). Milton S. Robinson

Milton S. Robinson

Milton Stapp Robinson was an Indiana lawyer, politician, judge, and soldier. He was a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum U.S. Representative.-Biography:...

 (R). John Hanna

John Hanna (Indiana)

John Hanna was a United States Representative and United States Attorney from Indiana.-Early years: Born near Indianapolis, he pursued classical studies and graduated from the Indiana Asbury University in 1850. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Greencastle...

 (R). Morton C. Hunter

Morton C. Hunter

Morton Craig Hunter was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Morton Hunter was born in Versailles, Indiana and knew the hardships of growing up in a pioneer home. His father John Hunter was a soldier in the War of 1812 and his Irish immigrant grandfather served in the Revolutionary war...

 (R). Michael D. White

Michael D. White

Michael Doherty White was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Clark County, Ohio, White moved with his parents to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1829.He pursued classical studies....

 (R). William H. Calkins

William H. Calkins

William Henry Calkins was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Pike County, Ohio, Calkins studied law.He was admitted to the bar and practiced....

 (R). James L. Evans (R). Andrew H. Hamilton

Andrew H. Hamilton (Indiana)

Andrew Holman Hamilton was a politician from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 7, 1834, attended the common schools and graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1854...

 (D). John H. Baker

John Harris Baker

John Harris Baker was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and a United States federal judge, brother of Lucien Baker.-Early years and education:...

 (R)

Iowa 

. Joseph C. Stone (R). Hiram Price

Hiram Price

Hiram Price was a nineteenth-century banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president, railroad president, and five-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 2nd congressional district....

 (R). Theodore W. Burdick (R). Nathaniel C. Deering (R). Rush Clark

Rush Clark

Rush Clark was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Iowa, who died on the floor of Congress in 1879....

 (R). Ezekiel S. Sampson

Ezekiel S. Sampson

Ezekiel Silas Sampson was a lawyer, prosecutor, Civil War officer, judge, and two-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's 6th congressional district....

 (R). Henry J. B. Cummings

Henry J. B. Cummings

Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings was a lawyer, Civil War officer, editor and publisher, and one-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's 7th congressional district....

 (R). William F. Sapp (R). S. Addison Oliver

S. Addison Oliver

Samuel Addison Oliver was an American pioneer, lawyer, judge, and politician from western Iowa.He was born near Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1834, and received a classical education at the common schools and West Alexandria Academy...

 (R)

Kansas 

. William A. Phillips

William A. Phillips

William Addison Phillips was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Paisley, Scotland, Phillips attended the common schools of Paisley....

 (R). Dudley C. Haskell

Dudley C. Haskell

Dudley Chase Haskell was a nineteenth century politician and merchant from Kansas. He was the grandfather of Otis Halbert Holmes.-Biography:...

 (R). Thomas Ryan

Thomas Ryan (congressman)

Thomas Ryan was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Kansas.-Biography:Born in Oxford, New York, Ryan moved to Bradford County, Pennsylvania with his parents, attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861...

 (R)

Kentucky 

. Andrew Boone

Andrew Boone

Andrew Rechmond Boone was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Davidson County, Tennessee and moved with his parents to Mayfield, Kentucky in 1833. He attended the public schools...

 (D). James A. McKenzie

James A. McKenzie

James Andrew McKenzie was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and uncle of John McKenzie Moss.Born in Bennettstown, Kentucky, McKenzie attended the common schools of Christian County and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. He studied law and admitted to the bar in 1861, and commenced practice in...

 (D). John William Caldwell

John W. Caldwell

John William Caldwell was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.-Early life and family:John W. Caldwell was born in Russellville, Kentucky on January 15, 1837. He was the son of Austin and Louisa Caldwell. Austin Caldwell died in 1843, leaving John Caldwell as his only living child...

 (D). J. Proctor Knott

J. Proctor Knott

James Proctor Knott was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and served as the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Missouri in 1850 and began his political career there...

 (D). Albert S. Willis

Albert S. Willis

Albert Shelby Willis was a United States Representative from Kentucky and a Minister to Hawaii.-Life:Born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Willis attended the common schools, and graduated from the Louisville Male High School in 1860. He taught school for four years before graduating from the University...

 (D). John G. Carlisle

John Griffin Carlisle

John Griffin Carlisle was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party during the last quarter of the 19th century. He served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1889 and as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1893 to 1897 during the Panic...

 (D). Joseph C. S. Blackburn

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn

Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky. He was the younger brother of Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn. Blackburn, a skilled and spirited orator, was also a prominent trial lawyer known for his skill at swaying juries.He was born near Spring...

 (D). Milton J. Durham

Milton J. Durham

Milton Jameson Durham was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and served as First Comptroller of the Treasury in the administration of President Grover Cleveland...

 (D). Thomas Turner

Thomas Turner (Congressman)

Thomas Turner was a congressman from Kentucky and served from 1877 to 1881.-External links:...

 (D). John B. Clarke (D)

Louisiana 

. Randall L. Gibson

Randall L. Gibson

-External links:*...

 (D). E. John Ellis

E. John Ellis

Ezekiel John Ellis was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.-Biography:Born in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, Ellis attended private schools in Covington and Clinton, Louisiana, and Centenary College of Louisiana from 1855 to 1858.He was graduated from the law department of the...

 (D). Chester B. Darrall

Chester Bidwell Darrall

Chester Bidwell Darrall was a Republican Congressman from Louisiana in the latter 19th Century.-Early life and military service:...

 (R), until February 20, 1878

• • Joseph H. Acklen
    Joseph H. Acklen
    Joseph Hayes Acklen was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.-Biography:Joseph Hayes Acklen was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Adelicia and Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, a wealthy couple whose summer home was located in Nashville, while he also grew up on plantations in Louisiana...
    
     (D), from February 20, 1878. Joseph B. Elam
    Joseph Barton Elam
    Joseph Barton Elam, Sr. , was a two-term Democratic U.S. representative from Louisiana.-Early life and education:...
    
     (D). John E. Leonard
    John E. Leonard
    John Edwards Leonard was a United States Representative from Louisiana. He was the grandnephew of John Edwards who also served in Congress...
    
     (R), until March 15, 1878
  • John S. Young
    J. Smith Young
    John Smith Young was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, but grew up in Arkansas on a family plantation. He attended Centenary College, graduating in 1855. After several years managing the plantation, he earned a law degree...
    
     (D), from November 5, 1878. Edward W. Robertson
    Edward White Robertson
    Edward White Robertson was a United States Representative from Louisiana. He was also the father of Samuel Matthews Robertson. He was born near Nashville, Tennessee. Robertson moved with his parents to Iberville Parish, Louisiana in 1825...
    
     (D)

Maine 

. Thomas B. Reed

Thomas Brackett Reed

Thomas Brackett Reed, , occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889–1891 and from 1895–1899...

 (R). William P. Frye

William P. Frye

William Pierce Frye was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years and died in...

 (R). Stephen D. Lindsey

Stephen D. Lindsey

Stephen Decatur Lindsey was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Maine.Born in Norridgewock, Maine, Lindsey attended the common schools as a child and attended Broomfield Academy. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Norridgewock in 1853...

 (R). Llewellyn Powers

Llewellyn Powers

Llewellyn Powers was a U.S. Representative from Maine and the 44th Governor of Maine.Born in Pittsfield, Maine, Powers attended the common schools of Pittsfield and St...

 (R). Eugene Hale

Eugene Hale

Eugene Hale was a Republican United States Senator from Maine.Born at Turner, Maine, he was educated in local schools and at Maine's Hebron Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and served for nine years as prosecuting attorney for Hancock County, Maine. He was elected to the Maine...

 (R)

Maryland 

. Daniel M. Henry

Daniel Maynadier Henry

Daniel Maynadier Henry was an American politician.Henry was born near Cambridge, Maryland, and attended Cambridge Academy and St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland...

 (D). Charles B. Roberts

Charles Boyle Roberts

Charles Boyle Roberts was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, serving the second district from 1875 to 1879....

 (D). William Kimmel

William Kimmel

William Kimmel was a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, serving two terms from 1877—1881....

 (D). Thomas Swann

Thomas Swann

Thomas Swann was an American politician. Initially a Know-Nothing, and later a Democrat, he served as mayor of Baltimore , as the 33rd Governor of Maryland , and as U.S...

 (D). Eli J. Henkle

Eli Jones Henkle

Eli Jones Henkle was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving three terms from 1875—1881....

 (D). William Walsh

William Walsh (Maryland)

William Walsh was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving two terms from 1875 until 1879....

 (D)

Massachusetts 

. William W. Crapo

William W. Crapo

William Wallace Crapo was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffinton. He served slightly more than three terms in congress from November 2, 1875 to March 3, 1883Born in Dartmouth,...

 (R). Benjamin W. Harris

Benjamin W. Harris

Benjamin Winslow Harris was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Massachusetts. He was the father of Robert Orr Harris....

 (R). Walbridge A. Field

Walbridge A. Field

Walbridge Abner Field was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was born in North Springfield, Vermont on April 26, 1833. He...

 (R), until March 28, 1878

• • Benjamin Dean
    Benjamin Dean
    Benjamin Dean was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.-Early life:Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, fifth child of Alice Lofthouse and Banjamin Dean, he moved with his family to America at the age of five, and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended Lowell schools...
    
     (D), from March 28, 1878. Leopold Morse
    Leopold Morse
    Leopold Morse, was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Wachenheim, Germany. He attended the common schools there...
    
     (D). Nathaniel P. Banks
    Nathaniel Prentice Banks
    Nathaniel Prentice Banks was an American politician and soldier, served as the 24th Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil War....
    
     (R). George B. Loring
    George B. Loring
    George Bailey Loring was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He attended Franklin Academy at Andover, Massachusetts and later briefly taught school. He graduated from Harvard University in 1838 and from the Harvard medical school in 1842. He practiced medicine...
    
     (R). Benjamin F. Butler
    Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)
    Benjamin Franklin Butler was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts....
    
     (R). William Claflin
    William Claflin
    William Claflin was an industrialist and philanthropist who served as the 27th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1869–1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877–1881....
    
     (R). William W. Rice
    William W. Rice
    William Whitney Rice was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Rice attended Gorham Academy, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1846. He served as the preceptor of Leicester Academy, Leicester, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1851...
    
     (R). Amasa Norcross
    Amasa Norcross
    Amasa Norcross was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Rindge, New Hampshire, Norcross attended the common schools and Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Worcester, Massachusetts...
    
     (R). George D. Robinson
    George D. Robinson
    George Dexter Robinson -Biography:He was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1856. While at Harvard he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity...
    
     (R)

Michigan 

. Alpheus S. Williams

Alpheus S. Williams

Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. Congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D), until December 21, 1878. Edwin Willits

Edwin Willits

Edwin Willits was a politician from the U.S. State of Michigan.Willits was born in Otto, New York and moved to Michigan with his parents in September 1836. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in June 1855. The following April he settled in Monroe, Michigan where he was...

 (R). Jonas H. McGowan

Jonas H. McGowan

Jonas Hartzell McGowan was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.McGowan was born in Smith Township, Ohio . He was the eighth of ten children of Samuel and Susan McGowan. His paternal -Irish ancestors had fled religious persecution and settled in Pennsylvania...

 (R). Edwin W. Keightley

Edwin W. Keightley

Edwin William Keightley was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Keightley was born on a farm near Scott in Lagrange County, Indiana. His parents, Peter L. and Elizabeth Keightly, emigrated from Lincolnshire, England; the former in 1831, and the latter in 1828...

 (R). John W. Stone

John W. Stone

John Wesley Stone was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.Stone was born in Wadsworth, Ohio and attended the public schools and Spencer Academy in Spencer, Ohio. He moved to Allegan County, Michigan in 1856 and was elected county clerk in 1860...

 (R). Mark S. Brewer

Mark S. Brewer

Mark Spencer Brewer was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Brewer was born in Addison Township, Michigan and attended the rural schools and Romeo and Oxford Academies. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Pontiac...

 (R). Omar D. Conger

Omar D. Conger

Omar Dwight Conger was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Michigan.Conger was born in Cooperstown, New York and moved with his father, the Rev. E. Conger, to Huron County, Ohio in 1824...

 (R). Charles C. Ellsworth

Charles C. Ellsworth

Charles Clinton Ellsworth was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Ellsworth was born in the village of West Berkshire in Berkshire, Vermont. His mother Bathama Ellsworth died when he was two years old. His father, William C. Ellsworth, was a native of Connecticut and moved to...

 (R). Jay A. Hubbell

Jay Abel Hubbell

Jay Abel Hubbell was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan, who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives....

 (R)

Minnesota 

. Mark H. Dunnell (R). Horace B. Strait (R). Jacob H. Stewart

Jacob H. Stewart

Jacob Henry Stewart was a Representative for the U.S. state of Minnesota.Stewart was born in Clermont, Columbia County, New York on January 15, 1829. He moved with his parents to Peekskill, New York, where he attended the common schools and was graduated from Phillips Academy...

 (R)

Mississippi 

. Henry L. Muldrow

Henry L. Muldrow

Henry Lowndes Muldrow was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born near Tibbee Station, Mississippi, Muldrow was graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1857 and from the law department of the same university in 1858.He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in...

 (D). Vannoy H. Manning

Van H. Manning

Vannoy Hartrog Manning was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi and an officer in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D). Hernando Money

Hernando Money

Hernando DeSoto Money was an American politician from the state of Mississippi.-Biography:Money was born in Holmes County, Mississippi. He was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto. Early in his life, he moved with his family to Carrollton, Mississippi...

 (D). Otho R. Singleton

Otho R. Singleton

Otho Robards Singleton was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi and a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

 (D). Charles E. Hooker

Charles E. Hooker

thumb|Charles E. HookerCharles Edward Hooker was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Union, South Carolina, Hooker was raised in Laurens District, South Carolina....

 (D). James R. Chalmers

James Ronald Chalmers

James Ronald Chalmers was an American politician and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D)

Missouri 

. Anthony F. Ittner

Anthony F. Ittner

Anthony Friday Ittner was a nineteenth century politician and brick manufacturer from Missouri.-Biography:...

 (R). Nathan Cole

Nathan Cole

Nathan Cole was a nineteenth century politician, merchant and businessman from Missouri.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Cole attended common schools as a child and later took a partial course at Shurtleff College. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in St...

 (R). Lyne S. Metcalfe (R). Robert A. Hatcher

Robert Anthony Hatcher

Robert Anthony Hatcher was a prominent Missouri politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War and then spent three terms in the United States House of Representatives after the war during Reconstruction.-Biography:Hatcher was born in Buckingham County,...

 (D). Richard P. Bland

Richard P. Bland

Richard Parks Bland , American school teacher, lawyer, and Democratic Congressman between 1873 and 1899, serving except from 1895 to 1897, when he returned to office....

 (D). Charles H. Morgan (D). Thomas T. Crittenden

Thomas Theodore Crittenden

Thomas Theodore Crittenden was a United States colonel during the American Civil War, and served as the 24th Governor of Missouri from 1881 to 1885.-Early life and education:...

 (D). Benjamin J. Franklin (D). David Rea

David Rea

David Rea was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born near New Marion, Indiana, Rea attended the common schools.He moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Andrew County in 1842....

 (D). Henry M. Pollard (R). John B. Clark, Jr.

John Bullock Clark, Jr.

John Bullock Clark, Jr. was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum five-term U.S. Congressman from Missouri.-Biography:...

 (D). John M. Glover (D). Aylett H. Buckner (D)

Nebraska 

. Frank Welch

Frank Welch

Frank Welch was a Nebraska Republican politician.He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. He graduated from Boston High School and took up civil engineering...

 (R), until September 4, 1878

• • Thomas J. Majors
    Thomas Jefferson Majors
    Thomas Jefferson Majors was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska.He was born in Libertyville, Iowa, on June 25, 1841 and attended the Nebraska state normal school. He moved to Peru, Nebraska in 1860 and entered the union army in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C,...
    
     (R), from November 5, 1878

New Hampshire 

. Frank Jones (D). James F. Briggs

James F. Briggs

James Frankland Briggs was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, father of Frank Obadiah Briggs.-Biography:...

 (R). Henry W. Blair

Henry W. Blair

Henry William Blair was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Campton, he attended the common schools and private academies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Plymouth...

 (R)

New Jersey 

. Clement H. Sinnickson

Clement Hall Sinnickson

Clement Hall Sinnickson , was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the United States House of Representatives, where he represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1875–1879...

 (R). John H. Pugh

John H. Pugh

John Howard Pugh , was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1877-1879....

 (R). Miles Ross

Miles Ross

Miles Ross was an American Democratic Party politician and businessman who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1883.-Biography:...

 (D). Alvah A. Clark

Alvah A. Clark

Alvah Augustus Clark was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1881. He was the first cousin of James N...

 (D). Augustus W. Cutler

Augustus W. Cutler

Augustus William Cutler was a 19th century politician and lawyer from New Jersey. He was the great-grandson of Silas Condict.-Biography:...

 (D). Thomas B. Peddie

Thomas Baldwin Peddie

-External links:* at The Political Graveyard...

 (R). Augustus A. Hardenbergh (D)

New York 

. James W. Covert

James W. Covert

James Way Covert was a United States Representative from New York. Born at Oyster Bay, he attended the public schools and received an academic education in Locust Valley. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1863 and commenced practice in Flushing...

 (D). William D. Veeder

William D. Veeder

William Davis Veeder was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Guilderland, New York, Veeder completed preparatory studies.He studied law....

 (D). Simeon B. Chittenden

Simeon B. Chittenden

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, he attended Guilford Academy and from 1829 to 1842 engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven...

 (R). Archibald M. Bliss

Archibald Meserole Bliss

Archibald Meserole Bliss was a member of the United States House of Representatives.Bliss was born in Brooklyn, New York City and attended the common schools. Between 1864 and 1867 he was an alderman of Brooklyn and served as president of the board of aldermen in 1866...

 (D). Nicholas Muller

Nicholas Muller

Nicholas Muller was a United States Representative from New York.Born in Luxembourg, he attended the common schools in the city of Metz and afterward the Athénée de Luxembourg. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in New York City, and was employed as a railroad ticket...

 (D). Samuel S. Cox

Samuel S. Cox

Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.Cox was the grandson of New Jersey Congressman James Cox...

 (D). Anthony Eickhoff

Anthony Eickhoff

Gerhard Anton Eickhoff was a German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer, United States Congress representative of New York City, United States Treasury auditor and New York City Fire Commissioner....

 (D). Anson G. McCook

Anson G. McCook

Anson George McCook was a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, attorney, and three-term postbellum U.S. Congressman from New York...

 (R). Fernando Wood

Fernando Wood

Fernando Wood was an American politician of the Democratic Party and mayor of New York City; he also served as a United States Representative and as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in both the 45th and 46th Congress .A successful shipping merchant who became Grand Sachem of the...

 (D). Abram S. Hewitt

Abram Stevens Hewitt

Abram Stevens Hewitt was a teacher, lawyer, an iron manufacturer, chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1877, U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York. He was the son-in-law of Peter Cooper , an industrialist, inventor and philanthropist...

 (D). Benjamin A. Willis

Benjamin A. Willis

Benjamin Albertson Willis was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Biography:Born in Roslyn, New York, the eldest son of Charles Willis and Abigail Albertson, Willis was graduated from Union College in 1861. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in New York City...

 (D). Clarkson N. Potter

Clarkson Nott Potter

Clarkson Nott Potter was an American civil engineer, then a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. He was President of the American Bar Association from 1881 to 1882.-Family:Potter was the son of...

 (D). John H. Ketcham

John H. Ketcham

John Henry Ketcham was a United States Representative from New York for over 33 years. He also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (R). George M. Beebe

George M. Beebe

George Monroe Beebe was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Biography:Born in New Vernon, New York, Beebe attended the common schools, and Walkill Academy, Middletown, New York....

 (D). Stephen L. Mayham

Stephen L. Mayham

Stephen Lorenzo Mayham was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Blenheim, New York, Mayham pursued an academic course.He studied law in Ithaca, New York.He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1848....

 (D). Terence J. Quinn

Terence J. Quinn

Terence J. Quinn was a United States Representative from New York.He was born in Albany, New York, where he was educated at a private school and the Boys' Academy...

 (D), until June 18, 1878

• • John M. Bailey
    John Mosher Bailey
    John Mosher Bailey was an American politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1887–1880....
    
     (R), from November 5, 1878. Martin I. Townsend
    Martin I. Townsend
    Martin Ingham Townsend was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
    
     (R). Andrew Williams
    Andrew Williams (congressman)
    Andrew Williams was a nineteenth century politician, manufacturer, merchant and miner from New York....
    
     (R). Amaziah B. James
    Amaziah B. James
    Amaziah Bailey James was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
    
     (R). John H. Starin
    John H. Starin
    John Henry Starin was a U.S. Representative from New York, grandson of Thomas Sammons. Born in Sammonsville, Fulton County , New York. Starin pursued academic studies in Esperance, New York, where he began the study of medicine in 1842...
    
     (R). Solomon Bundy
    Solomon Bundy
    Solomon Bundy was a United States Representative from New York.Born in Oxford, Chenango County, Bundy attended Oxford Academy. He taught school for several years, and studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Oxford...
    
     (R). George A. Bagley
    George A. Bagley
    George Augustus Bagley was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, he received an academic training, studied law, was admitted to the New York bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Watertown...
    
     (R). William J. Bacon
    William J. Bacon
    William Johnson Bacon was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...
    
     (R). William H. Baker
    William H. Baker
    William Henry Baker was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Lenox, New York, Baker moved with his parents to Oswego County in 1829.He attended the common schools and Red Creek and Mexico Academies....
    
     (R). Frank Hiscock
    Frank Hiscock
    Frank Hiscock was a U.S. Representative and Senator from New York.-Biography:Hiscock was born in Pompey, Onondaga County, New York, September 6, 1834. He graduated from Pompey Academy and studied law...
    
     (R). John H. Camp
    John H. Camp
    John Henry Camp was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Ithaca, New York, Camp attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Albany Law School in 1860....
    
     (R). Elbridge G. Lapham
    Elbridge G. Lapham
    Elbridge Gerry Lapham was a U.S. Senator from New York from 1881-1885.-Life:Lapham attended the public schools and the Canandaigua Academy. He studied civil engineering and law and was admitted to the bar in 1844 and practiced in Canandaigua, New York.He was a delegate to the New York State...
    
     (R). Jeremiah W. Dwight
    Jeremiah W. Dwight
    Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight was a U.S. Representative from New York, father of John Wilbur Dwight.-Life:Born April 17, 1819 in Cincinnatus, New York, his father was Elijah Dwight and mother was Olive Standish , descended from Myles Standish...
    
     (R). John N. Hungerford
    John N. Hungerford
    John Newton Hungerford was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Vernon, New York, Hungerford completed preparatory studies.He was graduated from Hamilton College at Clinton, New York, in 1846....
    
     (R). E. Kirke Hart
    Elizur K. Hart
    Elizur Kirke Hart was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Albion, New York, Hart attended the Albion Academy.He engaged in banking.He served as member of the State assembly in 1872....
    
     (D). Charles B. Benedict
    Charles B. Benedict
    Charles Brewster Benedict was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Attica Township, Wyoming County, New York, Benedict attended the public schools and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio....
    
     (D). Daniel N. Lockwood
    Daniel N. Lockwood
    Daniel Newton Lockwood was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Union College in 1865. Then he studied law, was admitted to the New York bar in 1866, and commenced practice in Buffalo, New York...
    
     (D). George W. Patterson
    George Washington Patterson
    George Washington Patterson was an American politician who served as United States Representative and Lieutenant Governor of New York....
    
     (R)

North Carolina 

. Jesse J. Yeates

Jesse Johnson Yeates

Jesse Johnson Yeates was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1875 and 1881.Born in Hertford County, North Carolina, near Murfreesboro, Yeates attended private schools and then Emory and Henry College in Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855, practicing...

 (D). Curtis H. Brogden

Curtis Hooks Brogden

Curtis Hooks Brogden was the 42nd Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1874 to 1877.He was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, the son of a local farmer. Brogden joined the North Carolina state militia at the age of 18 and rose to the rank of major general...

 (R). Alfred M. Waddell

Alfred Moore Waddell

Alfred Moore Waddell was a Democratic U. S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1871 and 1879 and later mayor of Wilmington, North Carolina.-Family and education:...

 (D). Joseph J. Davis

Joseph J. Davis

Joseph Jonathan Davis was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from North Carolina.-Biography:...

 (D). Alfred M. Scales

Alfred Moore Scales

Alfred Moore Scales was a North Carolina state legislature, Confederate general in the American Civil War and the 45th Governor of the US state of North Carolina from 1885 to 1889, and Congressman.-Early life:...

 (D). Walter L. Steele

Walter Leak Steele

Walter Leak Steele was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1877 and 1881.Born near Rockingham in Richmond County, North Carolina, Steele attended common schools near his home and then Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, Wake Forest College, and finally the University of North...

 (D). William M. Robbins

William M. Robbins

William McKendree Robbins was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in the old homestead near Trinity, North Carolina, Robbins pursued classical studies....

 (D). Robert B. Vance

Robert B. Vance

Robert Brank Vance , nephew of the earlier Congressman Robert Brank Vance and brother of Zebulon Baird Vance, was a North Carolina Democratic politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms . He was chairman of the United States House Committee on Patents...

 (D)

Ohio 

. Milton Sayler

Milton Sayler

Milton Sayler was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, cousin of Henry B. Sayler.Born in Lewisburg, Ohio, Sayler attended the public schools....

 (D). Henry B. Banning

Henry B. Banning

Henry Blackstone Banning was a lawyer and three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as an infantry officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

 (D). Mills Gardner

Mills Gardner

Mills Gardner was an attorney, politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio....

 (R). John A. McMahon

John A. McMahon

John A. McMahon was a United States Representative from Ohio. He was the nephew of Clement Vallandigham, another Representative from Ohio....

 (D). Americus V. Rice

Americus V. Rice

Americus Vespucius Rice was a nineteenth century politician, banker, and businessman from Ohio. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was promoted to brigadier general at the end of the war....

 (D). Jacob D. Cox

Jacob Dolson Cox

Jacob Dolson Cox, was a lawyer, a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 28th Governor of Ohio and as United States Secretary of the Interior....

 (R). Henry L. Dickey

Henry L. Dickey

Henry Luther Dickey was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in South Salem, Ohio, Dickey moved with his parents to Washington Court House, Ohio, in 1836.He moved to Greenfield, Ohio, in 1847.He attended Greenfield Academy....

 (D). J. Warren Keifer

J. Warren Keifer

Joseph Warren Keifer was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a prominent U.S. politician during the 1880s. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from Ohio from 1877 to 1885 and from 1905 to 1911...

 (R). John S. Jones

John S. Jones

John Sills Jones was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born near St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio, Jones attended the public schools....

 (R). Charles Foster (R). Henry S. Neal

Henry S. Neal

Henry Safford Neal was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Neal attended the common schools.He was graduated from Marietta College in 1847.He studied law....

 (R). Thomas Ewing, Jr.

Thomas Ewing, Jr.

Thomas Ewing, Jr. was an attorney, the first chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and two-term United States Congressman from Ohio, 1877-1881. He narrowly lost the 1880 campaign for Ohio Governor.-Early life and career:Ewing...

 (D). Milton I. Southard

Milton I. Southard

Milton Isaiah Southard was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hanover, Ohio, Southard completed preparatory studies.He was graduated from the Denison University, Granville, Ohio.He studied law....

 (D). Ebenezer B. Finley

Ebenezer B. Finley

Ebenezer Byron Finley was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, nephew of Stephen Ross Harris.Born in Orrville, Ohio, Finley attended the public schools....

 (D). Nelson H. Van Vorhes

Nelson H. Van Vorhes

Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Van Vorhes moved to Athens County, Ohio, in 1832 and engaged in agricultural pursuits....

 (R). Lorenzo Danford

Lorenzo Danford

Lorenzo Danford was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Washington Township, Ohio, Danford attended the common schools and a college at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, for two years.He studied law....

 (R). William McKinley, Jr.

William McKinley

William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...

 (R). James Monroe

James Monroe (congressman)

James Monroe was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Plainfield, Connecticut, Monroe attended the common schools and Plainfield Academy.He was graduated from Oberlin College in 1846....

 (R). James A. Garfield (R). Amos Townsend

Amos Townsend

Amos Townsend was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Townsend attended the common schools of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and clerked in a store in Pittsburgh. He moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1839 and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as United States marshal...

 (R)

Oregon 

. Richard Williams

Richard Williams (congressman)

Richard Williams was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he moved to Oregon in 1851 where he became an attorney...

 (R)

Pennsylvania 

. Chapman Freeman

Chapman Freeman

Chapman Freeman was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

 (R). Charles O'Neill (R). Samuel J. Randall

Samuel J. Randall

Samuel Jackson Randall was a Pennsylvania politician, attorney, soldier, and a prominent Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives during the late 19th century. He served as the 33rd Speaker of the House and a contender for his party's nomination for the President of the...

 (D). William D. Kelley

William D. Kelley

William D. Kelley was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Kelley was a lifelong advocate of civil rights, social reform, and labor protection.-Early life:...

 (R). Alfred C. Harmer

Alfred C. Harmer

Alfred Crout Harmer was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Alfred C. Harmer was born in Germantown, PA. Began work as a shoe manufacturer. He became a member of the city council of Philadelphia, serving from 1856–1860 and then a recorder of deeds for...

 (R). William Ward

William Ward (Pennsylvania)

William Ward was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William Ward was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Girard College in Philadelphia. He learned the art of printing in the office of the Delaware County Republican in Chester, Pennsylvania...

 (R). I. Newton Evans

Isaac Newton Evans

Isaac Evans was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Isaac Newton Evans was born near present-day West Chester, Pennsylvania...

 (R). Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer

Hiester Clymer was an American political leader from the state of Pennsylvania. Clymer was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty. He was the nephew of William Muhlenberg Hiester and the cousin of Isaac Ellmaker Hiester....

 (D). A. Herr Smith

Abraham Herr Smith

Abraham Herr Smith was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.A. Herr Smith was born near Millersville, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He attended Professor Beck’s Academy at Lititz, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in...

 (R). Samuel A. Bridges

Samuel Augustus Bridges

Samuel Augustus Bridges was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Samuel A. Bridges was born in Colchester, Connecticut. He pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1826...

 (D). Francis D. Collins

Francis Dolan Collins

Francis Dolan Collins was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....

 (D). Hendrick B. Wright

Hendrick Bradley Wright

Hendrick Bradley Wright was a Democratic and Greenback member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

 (D). James B. Reilly

James Bernard Reilly

James Bernard Reilly was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James B. Reilly was born in Pinedale, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the Bunker Hill School in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1862. He studied law, was admitted...

 (D). John W. Killinger

John Weinland Killinger

John Weinland Killinger was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John W. Killinger was born in Annville, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Annville and the Lebanon Academy in Lebanon, Pennsylvania...

 (R). Edward Overton, Jr.

Edward Overton, Jr.

Edward Overton, Jr. was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

 (R). John I. Mitchell

John I. Mitchell

John Inscho Mitchell was an American lawyer, jurist, and Republican party politician from Tioga County, Pennsylvania. He served in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate. He was later a judge in several state courts.-External links:* at Find A Grave...

 (R). Jacob M. Campbell

Jacob Miller Campbell

Jacob Miller Campbell was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He also served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (R). William Stenger

William Stenger

William Shearer Stenger was an American Democratic Party politician.William S. Stenger was born in Fort Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Class of 1858, where he was a Charter Member of the Zeta Chapter of the Chi Phi...

 (D). Levi Maish

Levi Maish

Levi Maish was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

 (D). Levi A. Mackey

Levi A. Mackey

Levi Augustus Mackey was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Mackey was born in White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania...

 (D). Jacob Turney

Jacob Turney

Jacob Turney was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Jacob Turney was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He completed preparatory studies and attended Greensburg Academy. He apprenticed as a printer, then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849 and...

 (D). Russell Errett

Russell Errett

Russell Errett was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

 (R). Thomas M. Bayne

Thomas McKee Bayne

Thomas McKee Bayne was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:Thomas M. Bayne was born in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. He studied law...

 (R). William S. Shallenberger

William Shadrack Shallenberger

William Shadrack Shallenberger was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

 (R). Harry White

Harry White (Pennsylvania)

Harry White was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:Harry White was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He attended the Indiana Academy, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in June 1855 and...

 (R). John M. Thompson

John McCandless Thompson

John McCandless Thompson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

 (R). Lewis F. Watson

Lewis Findlay Watson

Lewis Findlay Watson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Lewis Findlay Watson was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1832...

 (R)

Rhode Island 

. Benjamin T. Eames

Benjamin T. Eames

Benjamin Tucker Eames was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Eames attended the common schools of Providence, Rhode Island, and academies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was employed as a bookkeeper for several years. He graduated from Yale College in...

 (R). Latimer W. Ballou (R)

South Carolina 

. Joseph Rainey

Joseph Rainey

Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the second black person to serve in the United States Congress Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was the first African American to serve in the United States House of...

 (R). Richard H. Cain

Richard H. Cain

Richard Harvey Cain was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879...

 (R). D. Wyatt Aiken

D. Wyatt Aiken

David Wyatt Aiken was a Confederate army officer during the American Civil War and a postbellum five-term United States Congressman from South Carolina.-Biography:...

 (D). John H. Evins

John H. Evins

John Hamilton Evins was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.Born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, Evins attended the common schools and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1853....

 (D). Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself and his family from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the Planter, to freedom in Charleston harbor...

 (R)

Tennessee 

. James H. Randolph

James Henry Randolph

James Henry Randolph was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 1st congressional district of Tennessee. He was born near Dandridge, Tennessee in Jefferson County on October 18, 1825. He attended New Market Academy and graduated from Holston...

 (R). Jacob M. Thornburgh

Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh

Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh was an American attorney and politician who represented Tennessee's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1879...

 (R). George G. Dibrell

George Gibbs Dibrell

George Gibbs Dibrell was an American lawyer and a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives from the 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee. He also served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and as a railroad executive.-Biography:Dibrell...

 (D). Haywood Y. Riddle

Haywood Yancey Riddle

Haywood Yancey Riddle was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on June 20, 1834 in Van Buren, Tennessee in Hardeman County. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from Union University...

 (D). John M. Bright

John Morgan Bright

John Morgan Bright was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.-Biography:Born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, Bright attended the schools of Fayetteville and Bingham's School in Hillsboro, North Carolina....

 (D). John F. House

John Ford House

John Ford House was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 6th congressional district.-Biography:...

 (D). Washington C. Whitthorne

Washington C. Whitthorne

Washington Curran Whitthorne was a Tennessee attorney, Democratic politician, and an Adjutant General in the Confederate Army.-Early life and career:...

 (D). John D. C. Atkins

John DeWitt Clinton Atkins

John DeWitt Clinton Atkins was an American politician and a member of both the United States House of Representatives and Confederate Congress from Tennessee.-Biography:...

 (D). William P. Caldwell

William Parker Caldwell

William Parker Caldwell was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 9th congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:...

 (D). H. Casey Young

H. Casey Young

Hiram Casey Young was an American lawyer and politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee....

 (D)

Texas 

. John H. Reagan

John Henninger Reagan

John Henninger Reagan , was a leading 19th century American politician from the U.S. state of Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis as...

 (D). David B. Culberson

David B. Culberson

David Browning Culberson was a Confederate soldier, a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.-Early years:...

 (D). James W. Throckmorton

James W. Throckmorton

James Webb Throckmorton was an American politician who served as the 12th Governor of Texas from 1866 to 1867 during the early days of Reconstruction...

 (D). Roger Q. Mills

Roger Q. Mills

Roger Quarles Mills was an American politician and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Background:...

 (D). De Witt C. Giddings (D). Gustave Schleicher (D), until January 10, 1879

Vermont 

. Charles H. Joyce (R). Dudley C. Denison

Dudley Chase Denison

Dudley Chase Denison was a United States Congressman from Vermont.He was born in Royalton, Vermont, attended Royalton Academy, graduated from the University of Vermont in 1840, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Royalton. He was a member of the Vermont State...

 (R). George W. Hendee (R)

Virginia 

. Beverly B. Douglas

Beverly B. Douglas

Beverly Browne Douglas was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born at Providence Forge, Virginia, Douglas attended Rumford Academy in King William County, the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, Yale College, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.Upon his return to the United...

 (D), until December 22, 1878

• • Richard Lee T. Beale (D), from January 23, 1879. John Goode, Jr.
    John Goode
    John Goode, Jr. was a prominent Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term postbellum United States Congressman, as well as the acting Solicitor General of the United States.-Biography:Goode was born in Bedford...
    
     (D). Gilbert C. Walker
    Gilbert Carlton Walker
    Gilbert Carlton Walker was a United States political figure. He served as the 36th Governor of Virginia, first as a Republican provisional governor between 1869 and 1870, and again as a Democratic elected governor from 1870 to 1874.Walker was born in South Gibson, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania....
    
     (D). Joseph Jorgensen
    Joseph Jorgensen
    Joseph Jorgensen was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jorgensen was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia....
    
     (R). George Cabell
    George Cabell
    George Craighead Cabell was a nineteenth century congressman, lawyer and editor from Virginia.Born in Danville, Virginia, Cabell attended Danville Academy and later the law department at the University of Virginia in 1857. After being admitted to the bar, he commenced practice in Danville in 1858...
    
     (D). John R. Tucker (D). John T. Harris
    John T. Harris
    John Thomas Harris was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Virginia. He was the first cousin of John Hill....
    
     (D). Eppa Hutton, II
    Eppa Hunton
    Eppa Hunton II was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.-Early years:...
    
     (D). Auburn Pridemore (D)

West Virginia 

. Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin Wilson (congressman)

Benjamin Wilson was a Democratic politician who served as a United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in Wilsonburg, Virginia in Harrison County...

 (D). Benjamin F. Martin

Benjamin F. Martin

Benjamin Franklin Martin was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and West Virginia....

 (D). John E. Kenna

John E. Kenna

John Edward Kenna was an American politician who was a Senator from West Virginia from 1883 until his death....

 (D)

Wisconsin 

. Charles G. Williams

Charles G. Williams

Charles Grandison Williams was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Royalton, New York, Williams pursued an academic course and studied law in Rochester, New York....

 (R). Lucien B. Caswell

Lucien B. Caswell

Lucien Bonaparte Caswell was an American politician.Born in Swanton, Vermont, he moved with his family to frontier Wisconsin in 1836 and settled along the Rock River, just south of Lake Koshkonong. Caswell attended Milton Academy and Beloit College, studying law...

 (R). George C. Hazelton

George Cochrane Hazelton

George Cochrane Hazelton was a United States Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Chester, New Hampshire, he attended the district schools and prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy in New Hampshire and Dummer Academy in Massachusetts. Hazelton studied at Union College in Schenectady, New...

 (R). William P. Lynde

William Pitt Lynde

William Pitt Lynde was an American lawyer and politician from Wisconsin who served in Congress.Lynde was born in Sherburne, New York. He graduated from Yale College, in 1838, and Harvard Law School, in 1841, and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shortly thereafter...

 (D). Edward S. Bragg

Edward S. Bragg

Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was a Democratic politician, lawyer and Union Army general from Wisconsin. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1883 and from 1885 to 1887 and subsequently served as a foreign diplomat.-Early life and career:Born in Unadilla, New York, Bragg attended...

 (D). Gabriel Bouck

Gabriel Bouck

Gabriel Bouck was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He also served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and as the state's attorney general.-Early years:...

 (D). Herman L. Humphrey

Herman L. Humphrey

Herman Leon Humphrey was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Candor, New York, Humphrey attended the common schools and also the Cortland Academy for one year.He became a clerk in Ithaca, New York....

 (R). Thaddeus C. Pound

Thaddeus C. Pound

Thaddeus Coleman Pound was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Pound was Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1870 - 1872...

 (R)

Non-voting members

. Hiram S. Stevens (D). Jefferson P. Kidder

Jefferson P. Kidder

Jefferson Parish Kidder was an American lawyer and jurist. He served as the non-voting delegate from the Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives. Kidder was born in Braintree, Orange County, Vermont, and studied law at Montpelier. He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and...

 (R). Stephen S. Fenn (D). Martin Maginnis

Martin Maginnis

Martin Maginnis was a nineteenth century politician, publisher, editor and miner from Minnesota and the Montana Territory.-Biography:...

 (D). Trinidad Romero

Trinidad Romero

Trinidad Romero was an American politician and rancher who was the Delegate to United States Congress from the Territory of New Mexico....

 (R). George Q. Cannon

George Q. Cannon

George Quayle Cannon was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow...

 (R). Orange Jacobs

Orange Jacobs

Orange Jacobs was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington.Born near Geneseo, New York, Jacobs moved with his parents to Michigan Territory in 1831....

 (R). William W. Corlett (R)

Changes in membership

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

Senate

• replacements: 5
  • Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    : 1 seat net gain
  • Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    : 1 seat net loss
• deaths: 2
• resignations: 3
• interim appointments: 1
• contested elections: 0
• Total seats with changes: 5

|-
| Ohio (3)
| nowrap | John Sherman (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 8, 1877 after being appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury

United States Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

| nowrap | T. Stanley Matthews (R)
| March 21, 1877
|-
| Pennsylvania (3)
| nowrap | Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania,...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 12, 1877
| nowrap | J. Donald Cameron

J. Donald Cameron

James Donald Cameron was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant and in the United States Senate for twenty years....

 (R)
| March 20, 1877
|-
| Missouri (3)
| nowrap | Lewis V. Bogy

Lewis V. Bogy

Lewis Vital Bogy was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Ste. Geneviève, he attended the public schools, was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, studied law in Illinois, graduated from Transylvania University Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813 September 20, 1877) was a United...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died September 20, 1877. An interim successor was appointed.
| nowrap | David H. Armstrong

David H. Armstrong

David Hartley Armstrong was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and taught school in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1837. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1837, and then to Lebanon, Illinois, where he taught at...

 (D)
| September 29, 1877
|-
| Indiana (3)
| nowrap | Oliver P. Morton (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died November 1, 1877.
| nowrap | Daniel W. Voorhees

Daniel W. Voorhees

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana, who was leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (D)
| November 6, 1877
|-
| Missouri (3)
| nowrap | David H. Armstrong

David H. Armstrong

David Hartley Armstrong was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and taught school in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1837. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1837, and then to Lebanon, Illinois, where he taught at...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Successor elected January 26, 1879
| nowrap | James Shields

James Shields

James Shields was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states...

 (D)
| January 27, 1879
|-
| Michigan (1)
| nowrap | Isaac P. Christiancy

Isaac P. Christiancy

Isaac Peckham Christiancy was Chief Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan....

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 10, 1879 due to ill health
| nowrap | Zachariah Chandler

Zachariah Chandler

Zachariah Chandler was Mayor of Detroit , a four-term U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan , and Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant .-Family:...

 (R)
| February 22, 1879
|}

House of Representatives

• replacements: 10
  • Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
    
    : 5 seat net gain
  • Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
    
    : 5 seat net loss
• deaths: 7
• resignations: 1
• contested election: 5
• Total seats with changes: 13

|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Rep Benjamin Harvey Hill

Benjamin Harvey Hill

Benjamin Harvey Hill was a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator and a Confederate senator from the state of Georgia.-Biography:Hill was born September 14, 1823 in Hillsboro, Georgia in Jasper County...

 resigned in previous congress
| nowrap | Hiram P. Bell

Hiram Parks Bell

Hiram Parks Bell was a U.S. Representative and a Confederate Representative from the state of Georgia.-Biography:...

 (D)
| March 13, 1877
|-
|
| nowrap | James B. Belford

James B. Belford

James Burns Belford was a U.S. Representative from Colorado, cousin of Joseph McCrum Belford.-Biography:Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Belford attended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania....

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election December 13, 1877
| nowrap | Thomas M. Patterson (D)
| December 13, 1877
|-
|
| nowrap | Romualdo Pacheco

Romualdo Pacheco

José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election February 7, 1878
| nowrap | Peter D. Wigginton

Peter D. Wigginton

Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton was a U.S. Representative from California.Born in Springfield, Illinois, Wigginton moved to Wisconsin with his parents in 1843....

 (D)
| February 7, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | Chester B. Darrall

Chester Bidwell Darrall

Chester Bidwell Darrall was a Republican Congressman from Louisiana in the latter 19th Century.-Early life and military service:...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election February 20, 1878
| nowrap | Joseph H. Acklen

Joseph H. Acklen

Joseph Hayes Acklen was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.-Biography:Joseph Hayes Acklen was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Adelicia and Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen, a wealthy couple whose summer home was located in Nashville, while he also grew up on plantations in Louisiana...

 (D)
| February 20, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | John E. Leonard

John E. Leonard

John Edwards Leonard was a United States Representative from Louisiana. He was the grandnephew of John Edwards who also served in Congress...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died March 15, 1878
| nowrap | J. Smith Young

J. Smith Young

John Smith Young was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, but grew up in Arkansas on a family plantation. He attended Centenary College, graduating in 1855. After several years managing the plantation, he earned a law degree...

 (D)
| November 5, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | Walbridge A. Field

Walbridge A. Field

Walbridge Abner Field was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and as the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was born in North Springfield, Vermont on April 26, 1833. He...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election March 28, 1878
| nowrap | Benjamin Dean

Benjamin Dean

Benjamin Dean was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.-Early life:Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, fifth child of Alice Lofthouse and Banjamin Dean, he moved with his family to America at the age of five, and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended Lowell schools...

 (D)
| March 28, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | Terence J. Quinn

Terence J. Quinn

Terence J. Quinn was a United States Representative from New York.He was born in Albany, New York, where he was educated at a private school and the Boys' Academy...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died June 18, 1878
| nowrap | John M. Bailey

John Mosher Bailey

John Mosher Bailey was an American politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1887–1880....

 (R)
| November 5, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | Frank Welch

Frank Welch

Frank Welch was a Nebraska Republican politician.He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. He graduated from Boston High School and took up civil engineering...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" |Died September 4, 1878
| nowrap | Thomas J. Majors

Thomas Jefferson Majors

Thomas Jefferson Majors was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska.He was born in Libertyville, Iowa, on June 25, 1841 and attended the Nebraska state normal school. He moved to Peru, Nebraska in 1860 and entered the union army in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C,...

 (R)
| November 5, 1878
|-
|
| nowrap | Alpheus S. Williams

Alpheus S. Williams

Alpheus Starkey Williams was a lawyer, judge, journalist, U.S. Congressman, and a Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died December 21, 1878
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|-
|
| nowrap | Beverly B. Douglas

Beverly B. Douglas

Beverly Browne Douglas was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born at Providence Forge, Virginia, Douglas attended Rumford Academy in King William County, the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, Yale College, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.Upon his return to the United...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died December 22, 1878
| nowrap | Richard L. T. Beale (D)
| January 23, 1879
|-
|
| nowrap | Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge

Julian Hartridge was an American politician. He was born in Beaufort County, South Carolina and graduated from Brown University in 1848 and Harvard Law School in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law in Savannah, Georgia...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died January 8, 1879
| nowrap | William B. Fleming

William Bennett Fleming

William Bennett Fleming was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born on a plantation near Flemington, Georgia, Fleming attended the common schools and was graduated from Yale College in 1825.He studied law....

 (D)
| February 10, 1879
|-
|
| nowrap | Gustav Schleicher

Gustav Schleicher

Gustav Schleicher was a German-born Democratic United States Representative from Texas. He was an engineer who served briefly in the Texas legislature, and was a veteran of the Confederate Army.-Early life:Schleicher was born in Darmstadt in the German principality of Hesse in 1823...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died January 10, 1879
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
|-
|
| nowrap | Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

Horatio Bisbee, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Florida.Born in Canton, Maine, Bisbee attended the public schools, and was graduated from Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, in 1863....

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election February 20, 1879
| nowrap | Jesse J. Finley

Jesse J. Finley

Jesse Johnson Finley was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida and the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee. He was also a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War....

 (D)
| February 20, 1879
|}

Senate

• Chaplain
  Chaplain of the United States Senate
  The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families. The Chaplain is appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Senate...
  
  : Byron Sunderland
  Byron Sunderland
  Byron Sunderland was an American Presbyterian minister and served as a Chaplain of the United States Senate during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
   (Presbyterian
  Presbyterianism
  Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...
  
  )
• Secretary
  Secretary of the United States Senate
  The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...
  
  : George C. Gorham
• Sergeant at Arms
  Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
  The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is the law enforcer for the United States Senate. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant is to hold the gavel used at every session...
  
  : John R. French
  John R. French
  John Robert French was an American Congressional Representative from North Carolina.Born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, French received an academic education in Gilmanton and Concord, New Hampshire. He learned the printer’s trade, and worked as publisher and associate editor of the New Hampshire...
  
  

House of Representatives

• Chaplain
  Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
  The election of William Linn as Chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Continental Congresses of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. The early Chaplains alternated duties with their Senate counterparts on a weekly basis, covering the...
  
  : John Poise (Methodist
  Methodism
  Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
  
  )
  • W. P. Harrison (Methodist
    Methodism
    Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
    
    ), elected December 3, 1877
• Clerk
  Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
  The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House....
  
  : George M. Adams
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: William H. Scudder
  • J. Randolph Tucker, Jr.
• Doorkeeper
  Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
  An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...
  
  : John W. Polk
• Postmaster
  Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives
  The Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives was an employee of the United States Congress from 1834 to 1993.Before the creation of the office of Postmaster, mail duties were handled by workers in the office of the Doorkeeper, who were paid additional compensation...
  
  : James M. Steuart
• Sergeant at Arms
  Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities. The Sergeant at Arms is elected at the beginning of each Congress by the membership of the chamber...
  
  : John G. Thompson

External links

• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists