Membership of the 39th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1867
 
First Session:  December 4, 1865 to July 28, 1866
Second Session:  December 3, 1866 to March 3, 1867
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1865 to March 11, 1865
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Andrew Johnson (Tennessee) (became President on April 15, 1865 upon the death of Abraham Lincoln; Vice Presidency remained vacant until March 4, 1869)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Lafayette S. Foster (Connecticut)
Benjamin F. Wade (Ohio), from March 2, 1867

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: 

Edward McPherson (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Nathaniel G. Ordway (New Hampshire)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Ira Goodnow (Vermont)

Postmaster of the House: 

Josiah Given

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (credentials of Thomas J. Foster as Member-elect were
presented to the House January 10, 1867, but were not
acted upon)

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

California

 

Senators

 

James A. McDougall

John Conness

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Donald C. McRuer

District 2:

William Higby

District 3:

John Bidwell

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Lafayette S. Foster

James Dixon

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry C. Deming

District 2:

Samuel L. Warner

District 3:

Augustus Brandegee

District 4:

John H. Hubbard

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Willard Saulsbury

George R. Riddle

 

Representative At Large

 

John A. Nicholson

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Vacant (on January 19, 1866 William Marvin presented credentials as a Senator-elect for the term ending March 3, 1867, and on June 6, 1866 Wilkinson Call presented credentials as a Senator-elect for the term ending March 3, 1869; both were ordered to lie on the table and no further action taken thereon)

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Lyman Trumbull

Richard Yates

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Wentworth

District 2:

John F. Farnsworth

District 3:

Elihu B. Washburne

District 4:

Abner C. Harding

District 5:

Ebon C. Ingersoll

District 6:

Burton C. Cook

District 7:

Henry P. H. Bromwell

District 8:

Shelby M. Cullom

District 9:

Lewis W. Ross

District 10:

Anthony Thornton

District 11:

Samuel S. Marshall

District 12:

Jehu Baker

District 13:

Andrew J. Kuykendall

At Large:  

Samuel W. Moulton
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Henry S. Lane

Thomas A. Hendricks

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William E. Niblack 

District 2:

Michael C. Kerr

District 3:

Ralph Hill

District 4:

John H. Farquhar

District 5:

George W. Julian

District 6:

Ebenezer Dumont

District 7:

 

Daniel W. Voorhees (succeeded February 23, 1866 by Henry D. Washburn, who contested the election)

Henry D. Washburn (successfully contested the election of Daniel W. Voorhees; served from February 23, 1866)

District 8:

Godlove S. Orth

District 9:

Schuyler Colfax

District 10:

Joseph H. Defrees

District 11:

Thomas N. Stillwell

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

James Harlan (resigned May 15, 1865 to become Secretary of the Interior)

James W. Grimes

Samuel J. Kirkwood (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Harlan; served from January 13, 1866)

 

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 (died July 11, 1866 after shooting himself)

Edmund G. Ross (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James H. Lane; served from July 19, 1866)

 

Representative At Large

 

Sidney Clarke

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Garrett Davis

James Guthrie

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lawrence S. Trimble 

District 2:

Burwell C. Ritter

District 3:

 

Henry Grider (died September 7, 1866)

Elijah Hise (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Grider; served from December 3, 1866)

District 4:

Aaron Harding

District 5:

Lovell H. Rousseau (resigned July 21, 1865 after being censured by the House of Representatives for his assault on Representative Grinnell of Iowa in the Capitol Building; subsequently reelected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from December 3, 1866)

District 6:

 

Green Smith (resigned 1866)

Andrew H. Ward (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Green Smith; served from December 3, 1866)

District 7:

George S. Shanklin

District 8:

William H. Randall

District 9:

Samuel McKee

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (credentials of Jacob Barker, Robert C. Wickliffe, Louis St. Martin, John E. King, and John Ray as Members-elect were presented and referred to the Committee on Reconstruction; no further action was taken)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Lot M. Morrill

William Pitt Fessenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Lynch 

District 2:

Sidney Perham

District 3:

James G. Blaine

District 4:

John H. Rice

District 5:

Frederick A. Pike

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Reverdy Johnson

John A. J. Creswell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Hicks in the previous Congress; served from March 9, 1865)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Hiram McCullough 

District 2:

Edwin H. Webster (resigned July, 1865 to become collector of customs at the port of Baltimore)

 

John L. Thomas, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edwin H. Webster; served from December 4, 1865)

District 3:

Charles E. Phelps

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 (resigned September 1, 1865 to become Navy agent of the port of Boston)

Nathaniel P. Banks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel W. Gooch; served from December 4, 1865)

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:

Thomas W. Ferry

District 5:

Rowland E. Trowbridge 

District 6:

John F. Driggs

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Alexander Ramsey

Daniel S. Norton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Windom 

District 2:

Ignatius Donnelly

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

John B. Henderson

B. Gratz Brown

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Hogan 

District 2:

Henry T. Blow

District 3:

Thomas E. Noell

District 4:

John R. Kelso

District 5:

Joseph W. McClurg

District 6:

Robert T. Van Horn

District 7:

Benjamin F. Loan

District 8:

John F. Benjamin

District 9:

George W. Anderson

 

Nebraska (admitted as a state March 1, 1867)
 

Senators

 
John M. Thayer (served from March 1, 1867)
(Thomas W. Tipton was elected, but did not take his seat until the next Congress)
 

Representative At Large

 
Turner M. Marquette (served from March 2, 1867)
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

William M. Stewart

James W. Nye

 

Representative At Large

 

Delos R. Ashley

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Daniel Clark (resigned July 27, 1866)

Aaron H. Cragin

George Fogg (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Clark; served from August 31, 1866)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Gilman Marston 

District 2:

Edward H. Rollins

District 3:

James W. Patterson

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

William Wright (died November 1, 1866)

John P. Stockton (served from March 15, 1865; seat declared vacant March 27, 1866)

Alexander G. Cattell (elected to succeed John P. Stockton; served from September 19, 1866)

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Wright; served from November 12, 1866)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John F. Starr
District 2: William A. Newell
District 3: Charles Sitgreaves
District 4: Andrew J. Rogers
District 5: Edwin R. V. Wright
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Ira Harris

Edwin D. Morgan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Stephen Taber
District 2: Teunis G. Bergen
District 3: James Humphrey (died June 16, 1866)
John W. Hunter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Humphrey; served from December 4, 1866)
District 4: Morgan Jones
District 5: Nelson Taylor
District 6: Henry J. Raymond
District 7: John W. Chanler
District 8: James Brooks (succeeded April 7, 1866 by William E. Dodge, who contested the election)
William E. Dodge (successfully contested the election of James Brooks; served from from April 7, 1866)
District 9: William A. Darling
District 10: William Radford
District 11: Charles H. Winfield
District 12: John H. Ketcham
District 13: Edwin N. Hubbell
District 14: Charles Goodyear
District 15: John A. Griswold
District 16: Orlando Kellogg (died August 24, 1865)
Robert S. Hale (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orlando Kellogg; served from December 3, 1866)
District 17: Calvin T. Hulburd
District 18: James M. Marvin
District 19: Demas Hubbard, Jr.
District 20: Addison H. Laflin
District 21: Roscoe Conkling (resigned effective March 4, 1867 to become Senator)
District 22: Sidney T. Homes
District 23: Thomas T. Davis
District 24: Theodore M. Pomeroy
District 25: Daniel Morris
District 26: Giles W. Hotchkiss
District 27: Hamilton Ward
District 28: Roswell Hart
District 29: Burt Van Horn
District 30: James M. Humphrey
District 31: Henry Van Aernam
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant (credentials of Alexander H. Jones and Lewis Hawes were presented and referred to the Select Committee on Reconstruction, but no further action was taken)

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin F. Wade

John Sherman

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benjamin Eggleston
District 2: Rutherford B. Hayes
District 3: Robert C. Schenck
District 4: William Lawrence
District 5: Francis C. LeBlond
District 6: Reader W. Clarke
District 7: Samuel Shellabarger
District 8: James R. Hubbell
District 9: Ralph P. Buckland
District 10: James M. Ashley
District 11: Hezekiah S. Bundy
District 12: William E. Finck
District 13: Columbus Delano
District 14: Martin Welker
District 15: Tobias A. Plants
District 16: John A. Bingham
District 17: Ephraim R. Eckley
District 18: Rufus P. Spalding
District 19: James A. Garfield
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

James W. Nesmith

George H. Williams

 

Representative At Large

 

James H. D. Henderson
 

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: Benjamin M. Boyer
District 7: John M. Broomall
District 8: Sydenham E. Ancona
District 9: Thaddeus Stevens
District 10: Myer Strouse
District 11: Philip Johnson (died January 29, 1867)
District 12: Charles Denison
District 13: Ulysses Mercur
District 14: George F. Miller
District 15: Adam J. Glossbrenner
District 16: Alexander H. Coffroth (succeeded July 18, 1866 by William H. Koontz, who contested the election)
William H. Koontz (successfully contested the election of Alexander H. Coffroth; served from July 18, 1866)
District 17: Abraham A. Barker
District 18: Stephen F. Wilson
District 19: Glenni W. Scofield
District 20: Charles V. Culver
District 21: John L. Dawson
District 22: James K. Moorhead
District 23: Thomas Williams
District 24: George V. E. Lawrence
 

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 (readmitted to representation July 24, 1866)

 

Senators

 

Joseph S. Fowler (served from July 24, 1866)

David T. Patterson (served from July 28, 1866)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Nathaniel G. Taylor (served from July 24, 1866)
District 2: Horace Maynard (served from July 24, 1866)
District 3: William B. Stokes (served from July 24, 1866)
District 4: Edmund Cooper (served from July 24, 1866)
District 5: William B. Campbell (served from July 24, 1866)
District 6: Samuel M. Arnell (served from July 24, 1866)
District 7: Isaac R. Hawkins (served from July 24, 1866)
District 8: John W. Leftwich (served from July 24, 1866)
 

Texas

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Solomon Foot (died March 28, 1866)

Jacob Collamer (died November 9, 1865)

Luke P. Poland (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jacob Collamer; served from November 21, 1865)

George F. Edmunds (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Solomon Foot; served from April 3, 1866)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Frederick E. Woodbridge
District 2: Justin S. Morrill
District 3: Portus Baxter
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant