Membership of the 38th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1865

 

First Session:  December 7, 1863 to July 4, 1864

Second Session:  December 5, 1864 to March 3, 1865

Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1863 to March 14, 1863

 

Vice President of the United States: 

Hannibal Hamlin (Maine)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Solomon Foot (Vermont)
Daniel Clark (New Hampshire), from April 26, 1864

Secretary of the Senate: 

John W. Forney (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

George T. Brown (Illinois)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Schuyler Colfax (Indiana)

Clerk of the House: 

Emerson Etheridge (Tennessee)
Edward McPherson (Pennsylvania), from December 8, 1863

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Edward Ball (Ohio)
Nathaniel G. Ordway (New Hampshire), from December 8, 1863

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Ira Goodnow (Vermont)

Postmaster of the House: 

William S. King

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (James M. Johnson, T. M. Jacks, and Anthony A. C. Rogers presented credentials as Members-elect, but their claims were not finally disposed of. By resolution of March 3, 1865, each was allowed the sum of $2,000 for "compensation, expenses, and mileage.")

 

California

 

Senators

 

James A. McDougall

John Conness

 

Representatives At Large

 

Cornelius Cole

William Higby

Thomas B. Shannon

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Lafayette S. Foster

James Dixon

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry C. Deming

District 2:

James E. English

District 3:

Augustus Brandegee

District 4:

John H. Hubbard

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James Asheton Bayard, Jr. (resigned January 29, 1864)

Willard Saulsbury

George R. Riddle (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Bayard; served from February 2, 1864)

 

Representative At Large

 

William Temple (died May 28, 1863)

Nathaniel B. Smithers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Temple; served from December 7, 1863)

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Lyman Trumbull

William A. Richardson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Isaac N. Arnold

District 2:

John F. Farnsworth

District 3:

Elihu B. Washburne

District 4:

Charles M. Harris

District 5:

 

Owen Lovejoy (died March 25, 1864)

Ebon C. Ingersoll (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Owen Lovejoy; served from May 20, 1864)

District 6:

Jesse O. Norton

District 7:

John R. Eden

District 8:

John T. Stuart

District 9:

Lewis W. Ross

District 10:

Anthony L. Knapp

District 11:

James C. Robinson

District 12:

William R. Morrison

District 13:

William J. Allen

At Large:

James C. Allen

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Henry S. Lane

Thomas A. Hendricks

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Law 

District 2:

James A. Cravens

District 3:

Henry W. Harrington

District 4:

William S. Holman

District 5:

George W. Julian

District 6:

Ebenezer Dumont

District 7:

Daniel W. Voorhees

District 8:

Godlove S. Orth

District 9:

Schuyler Colfax

District 10:

Joseph K. Edgerton

District 11:

James F. McDowell

 

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

James Harlan

James W. Grimes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James F. Wilson 

District 2:

Hiram Price

District 3:

William B. Allison

District 4:

Josiah B. Grinnell

District 5:

John A. Kasson

District 6:

Asahel W. Hubbard

 

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Samuel C. Pomeroy

James H. Lane

 

Representative At Large

 

Abel C. Wilder

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Lazarus W. Powell

Garrett Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lucien Anderson 

District 2:

George H. Yeaman

District 3:

Henry Grider

District 4:

Aaron Harding

District 5:

Robert Mallory

District 6:

Green Smith

District 7:

Brutus Junius Clay

District 8:

William H. Randall

District 9:

William H. Wadsworth

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (M. F. Bonzano, A. P. Field, W. D. Mann, T. M. Welles, and Robert W. Taliaferro presented credentials as Members-elect, but their claims were not finally disposed of)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

William Pitt Fessenden (resigned July 1, 1864 to become Secretary of the Treasury)

Lot M. Morrill

Nathan A. Farwell (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Pitt Fessenden; served from October 27, 1864)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lorenzo D. M. Sweat 

District 2:

Sidney Perham

District 3:

James G. Blaine

District 4:

John H. Rice

District 5:

Frederick A. Pike

 

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Thomas H. Hicks (died February 14, 1865)

Reverdy Johnson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John A. J. Creswell

District 2:

Edwin H. Webster

District 3:

Henry W. Davis

District 4:

Francis Thomas

District 5:

Benjamin G. Harris

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Charles Sumner

Henry Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas D. Eliot

District 2:

Oakes Ames

District 3:

Alexander H. Rice

District 4:

Samuel Hooper 

District 5:

John B. Alley

District 6:

Daniel W. Gooch

District 7:

George S. Boutwell

District 8:

John D. Baldwin

District 9:

William B. Washburn

District 10:

Henry L. Dawes

 

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Zachariah Chandler

Jacob M. Howard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fernando C. Beaman 

District 2:

Charles Upson

District 3:

John W. Longyear

District 4:

Francis W. Kellogg

District 5:

Augustus C. Baldwin

District 6:

John F. Driggs

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Morton S. Wilkinson

Alexander Ramsey

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Windom 

District 2:

Ignatius Donnelly

 

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

John B. Henderson

Robert Wilson (resigned November 13, 1863 when B. Gratz Brown was elected)

B. Gratz Brown (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo Johnson; served from November 13, 1863)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Francis P. Blair, Jr. (succeeded June 10, 1864 by Samuel Knox, who contested the election)

Samuel Knox (successfully contested the election of Francis P. Blair, Jr.; served from June 10, 1864)

District 2:

Henry T. Blow 

District 3:

John W. Noell (died March 13, 1863)

John G. Scott (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Noell; served from December 7, 1863)

District 4:

Sempronius H. Boyd

District 5:

Joseph W. McClurg

District 6:

Austin A. King

District 7:

Benjamin F. Loan

District 8:

William A. Hall

District 9:

James S. Rollins

   

Nevada (admitted as a state October 31, 1864)

 

Senators

 

William M. Stewart (served from December 15, 1864)

James W. Nye (served from December 16, 1864)

 

Representative At Large

 

Henry G. Worthington (served from October 31, 1864)

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John P. Hale

Daniel Clark

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Daniel Marcy

District 2:

Edward H. Rollins

District 3:

James W. Patterson

   

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John C. Ten Eyck

William Wright

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John F. Starr

District 2:

George Middleton

District 3:

William G. Steele

District 4:

Andrew J. Rogers

District 5:

Nehemiah Perry

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Ira Harris

Edwin D. Morgan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry G. Stebbins (resigned October 24, 1864)

Dwight Townsend (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry G. Stebbins; served from December 5, 1864)

District 2:

Martin Kalbfleisch

District 3:

Moses F. Odell

District 4:

Benjamin Wood

District 5:

Fernando Wood

District 6:

Elijah Ward

District 7:

John W. Chanler

District 8:

James Brooks

District 9:

Anson Herrick

District 10:

William Radford

District 11:

Charles H. Winfield

District 12:

Homer A. Nelson

District 13:

John B. Steele

District 14:

Erastus Corning (resigned October 5, 1863)

John V. L. Pruyn (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Erastus Corning; served from December 7, 1863)

District 15:

John A. Griswold

District 16:

Orlando Kellogg

District 17:

Calvin T. Hulburd

District 18:

James M. Marvin

District 19:

Samuel F. Miller

District 20:

Ambrose W. Clark

District 21:

Francis Kernan

District 22:

De Witt C. Littlejohn

District 23:

Thomas T. Davis

District 24:

Theodore M. Pomeroy

District 25:

Daniel Morris

District 26:

Giles W. Hotchkiss

District 27:

Robert B. Van Valkenburgh

District 28:

Freeman Clarke

District 29:

Augustus Frank

District 30:

John Ganson

District 31:

Reuben E. Fenton (resigned December 20, 1864 to become Governor of New York)

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin F. Wade

John Sherman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George H. Pendleton

District 2:

Alexander Long

District 3:

Robert C. Schenck

District 4:

John F. McKinney

District 5:

Francis C. LeBlond

District 6:

Chilton A. White

District 7:

Samuel S. Cox

District 8:

William Johnston

District 9:

Warren P. Noble

District 10:

James M. Ashley

District 11:

Wells A. Hutchins

District 12:

William E. Finck

District 13:

John O'Neill

District 14:

George Bliss

District 15:

James R. Morris

District 16:

Joseph W. White

District 17:

Ephraim R. Eckley

District 18:

Rufus P. Spalding

District 19:

James A. Garfield

 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

James W. Nesmith

Benjamin F. Harding

 

Representative At Large

 

John R. McBride

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Edgar Cowan

Charles R. Buckalew

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Samuel J. Randall

District 2:

Charles O'Neill

District 3:

Leonard Myers

District 4:

William D. Kelley

District 5:

Martin R. Thayer

District 6:

John D. Stiles

District 7:

John M. Broomall

District 8:

Sydenham E. Ancona

District 9:

Thaddeus Stevens

District 10:

Myer Strouse

District 11:

Philip Johnson

District 12:

Charles Denison

District 13:

Henry W. Tracy

District 14:

William H. Miller

District 15:

Joseph Bailey

District 16:

Alexander H. Coffroth

District 17:

Archibald McAllister

District 18:

James T. Hale

District 19:

Glenni W. Scofield

District 20:

Amos Myers

District 21:

John L. Dawson

District 22:

James K. Moorhead

District 23:

Thomas Williams

District 24:

Jesse Lazear

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Henry B. Anthony

William Sprague IV

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas A. Jenckes

District 2:

Nathan F. Dixon II

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Texas

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Solomon Foot

Jacob Collamer

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Frederick E. Woodbridge

District 2:

Justin S. Morrill

District 3:

Portus Baxter

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

John S. Carlile

Lemuel J. Bowden (died January 2, 1864; on February 17, 1865, the
credentials of Joseph E. Segar to fill the vacancy were presented but were ordered to lie on the table; no further action taken)

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (Joseph E. Segar, from District 1, Lucius H. Chandler, from District 2, and Bethuel M. Kitchen, from District 7 presented credentials. They were declared not entitled to seats, the first two by resolution of May 17, 1864; the last named by resolution of April 16, 1864. Lewis McKenzie also claimed to have been elected from District 7, and was declared not entitled to the seat by resolution of February 26, 1864. The first three claimants were subsequently allowed mileage and pay to the dates of the adoption of the resolutions)

 

West Virginia (admitted as a state June 19, 1863)

 

Senators