Membership of the 41st Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871
 
First Session:  March 4, 1869 to April 10, 1869
Second Session:  December 6, 1869 to July 15, 1870
Third Session:  December 5, 1870 to March 3, 1871
Special Session of the Senate:  April 12, 1869 to April 22, 1869
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Schuyler Colfax (Indiana)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Henry B. Anthony (Rhode Island)

Secretary of the Senate: 

George C. Gorham (California)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

George T. Brown (Illinois)
John R. French (New Hampshire), from March 22, 1869

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

James G. Blaine (Maine)

Clerk of the House: 

Edward McPherson (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Nathaniel G. Ordway (New Hampshire)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Otis S. Buxton (New York)

Postmaster of the House: 

William S. King

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

George E. Spencer

Willard Warner

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alfred E. Buck
District 2: Charles W. Buckley
District 3: Robert S. Heflin
District 4: Charles Hays
District 5: Peter M. Dox
District 6: William C. Sherrod
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Alexander McDonald

Benjamin F. Rice

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Logan H. Roots

District 2:

Anthony A. C. Rogers

District 3:

Thomas Boles

 
 

California

 

Senators

 

Cornelius Cole

Eugene Casserly

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel B. Axtell
District 2: Aaron A. Sargent
District 3: James A. Johnson
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Orris S. Ferry

William A. Buckingham

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Julius L. Strong
District 2: Stephen W. Kellogg
District 3: Henry H. Starkweather
District 4: William H. Barnum
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Willard Saulsbury

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

 

Representative At Large

 

Benjamin T. Biggs
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Thomas W. Osborn

Abijah Gilbert

 

Representative At Large

 

Charles M. Hamilton
 

Georgia (readmitted to representation July 15, 1870)

 

Senators

 

Joshua Hill (served from February 1, 1871)

Homer M. V. Miller (served from February 24, 1871)

(The credentials of Mr. Hill and Mr. Miller, presented in the 40th Congress and undisposed of on the files of the Senate, were referred again to the Committee on the Judiciary March 9, 1869; they were reported back without recommendation and ordered to lie on the table March 17, 1869; they were again referred to the committee February 14, 1870. A new election was held in Georgia, and on July 15, 1870, the credentials of Richard H. Whiteley and Henry P. Farrow were presented and ordered to lie on the table, but were subsequently referred; on the same day of their presentation the act was approved readmitting Georgia to representation in Congress. The committee reported upon all the credentials January 23, 1871, resolving that Messrs. Hill and Miller were duly elected; that Mr. Hill should be permitted to take his seat, but that Mr. Miller was disqualified by reason of his service in the Confederate Army; this report was adopted February 1, 1871. A joint resolution prescribing a qualification oath for Mr. Miller was approved February 24, 1871)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William W. Paine (served from December 22, 1870)

District 2:

Richard H. Whiteley (served from December 22, 1870)

District 3: Marion Bethune (served from December 22, 1870)
District 4: Jefferson M. Long (served from December 22, 1870)
District 5: Stephen A. Corker (served from December 22, 1870)
District 6: William P. Price (served from December 22, 1870)
District 7: Pierce M. B. Young (served from December 22, 1870)
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Lyman Trumbull

Richard Yates

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Norman B. Judd
District 2: John F. Farnsworth
District 3: Elihu B. Washburne (resigned March 6, 1869 to become Secretary of State, but resigned a few days later to accept a diplomatic mission to France)
Horatio C. Burchard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elihu B. Washburne; served from December 6, 1869)
District 4: John B. Hawley
District 5: Ebon C. Ingersoll
District 6: Burton C. Cook
District 7: Jesse H. Moore
District 8: Shelby M. Cullom
District 9: Thompson W. McNeely
District 10: Albert G. Burr
District 11: Samuel S. Marshall
District 12: John B. Hay
District 13: John M. Crebs
At Large: John A. Logan (resigned March 3, 1871 to become Senator)
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Oliver H. P. T. Morton

Daniel D. Pratt

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William E. Niblack
District 2: Michael C. Kerr
District 3: William S. Holman
District 4: George W. Julian
District 5: John Coburn
District 6: Daniel W. Voorhees
District 7: Godlove S. Orth
District 8: James N. Tyner
District 9: John P. C. Shanks
District 10: William Williams
District 11: Jasper Packard
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

James W. Grimes (resigned December 6, 1869)

James Harlan

James B. Howell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James W. Grimes and served from January 18, 1870)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George W. McCrary
District 2: William Smyth (died September 30, 1870)
William P. Wolf (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Smyth; served from December 6, 1870)
District 3: William B. Allison
District 4: William Loughridge
District 5: Francis W. Palmer
District 6: Charles Pomeroy
 

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

Samuel C. Pomeroy

Edmund G. Ross

 

Representative At Large

 

Sidney Clarke
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Garrett Davis

Thomas C. McCreery

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lawrence S. Trimble
District 2: William N. Sweeney
District 3: Jacob S. Golladay (resigned February 28, 1870)
Joseph H. Lewis (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jacob S. Golladay; served from May 10, 1870)
District 4: J. Proctor Knott
District 5: Boyd Winchester
District 6: Thomas L. Jones
District 7: James B. Beck
District 8: George M. Adams
District 9: James M. Rice
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

John S. Harris

William P. Kellogg

 

Representatives

 

District 1: J. Hale Sypher (served from November 7, 1870)
District 2: Lionel A. Sheldon
District 3: Chester B. Darrall
District 4: Joseph P. Newsham (served from May 23, 1870)
District 5:

Frank Morey

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

William Pitt Fessenden (died September 8, 1869)

Hannibal Hamlin

Lot M. Morrill (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Pitt Fessenden; served from October 30, 1869)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Lynch
District 2: Samuel P. Morrill
District 3: James G. Blaine
District 4: John A. Peters
District 5: Eugene Hale
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

George Vickers

William T. Hamilton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel Hambleton
District 2: Stevenson Archer
District 3: Thomas Swann
District 4: Patrick Hamill
District 5: Frederick Stone
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Charles Sumner

Henry Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Buffinton
District 2: Oakes Ames
District 3: Ginery Twichell
District 4: Samuel Hooper
District 5: Benjamin F. Butler
District 6: Nathaniel P. Banks
District 7: George S. Boutwell (resigned March 12, 1869)
George M. Brooks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George S. Boutwell; served from November 2, 1869)
District 8: George F. Hoar
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: William L. Stoughton
District 3: Austin Blair
District 4: Thomas W. Ferry (resigned March 3, 1871 to become Senator)
District 5: Omar D. Conger
District 6: Randolph Strickland
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Alexander Ramsey

Daniel S. Norton (died July 13, 1870)

William Windom (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel S. Norton; served from July 15, 1870 to January 22, 1871, when Ozora P. Stearns was elected)

Ozora P. Stearns (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel S. Norton; served from January 23, 1871)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Morton S. Wilkinson 
District 2: Eugene M. Wilson
 

Mississippi (readmitted to representation February 23, 1870)

 

Senators

 

Hiram R. Revels (served from February 23, 1870)

Adelbert Ames (served from February 23, 1870)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George E. Harris (served from February 23, 1870)

District 2: Joseph L. Morphis (served from February 23, 1870)
District 3: Henry W. Barry (served from February 23, 1870)
District 4: George C. McKee (served from February 23, 1870)
District 5:

Legrand W. Perce (served from February 23, 1870)

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Charles D. Drake (resigned December 19, 1870 to become chief justice of the Court of Claims)

Carl Schurz

Daniel Tarbox Jewett (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles D. Drake; served from December 19, 1870 to January 20, 1871, when Francis P. Blair, Jr. was elected)

Francis P. Blair, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles D. Drake; served from January 20, 1871)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Erastus Wells
District 2: Gustavus A. Finkelnburg
District 3: James R. McCormick
District 4: Sempronius H. Boyd
District 5: Samuel S. Burdett
District 6: Robert T. Van Horn
District 7: Joel F. Asper
District 8: John F. Benjamin
District 9:

David P. Dyer

 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

John M. Thayer

Thomas W. Tipton

 

Representative At Large

 

John Taffe
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

William M. Stewart

James W. Nye

 

Represenative At Large

 

Thomas Fitch
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Aaron H. Cragin

James W. Patterson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jacob H. Ela
District 2: Aaron F. Stevens
District 3: Jacob Benton
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Alexander G. Cattell

John P. Stockton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William Moore
District 2: Charles Haight
District 3: John T. Bird
District 4: John Hill
District 5: Orestes Cleveland
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Roscoe Conkling

Reuben E. Fenton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry A. Reeves
District 2: John G. Schumaker
District 3: Henry W. Slocum
District 4: John Fox
District 5: John Morrisey
District 6: Samuel S. Cox
District 7: Hervey C. Calkin
District 8: James Brooks
District 9: Fernando Wood
District 10: Clarkson N. Potter
District 11: George W. Greene (succeeded February 17, 1870 by Charles H. Van Wyck, who contested the election)
Charles H. Van Wyck (successfully contested the election of George W. Greene; served from February 17, 1870)
District 12: John H. Ketcham
District 13: John A. Griswold
District 14: Stephen L. Mayham
District 15: Adolphus H. Tanner
District 16: Orange Ferriss
District 17: William A. Wheeler
District 18: Stephen Sanford
District 19: Charles Knapp
District 20: Addison H. Laflin
District 21: Alexander H. Bailey
District 22: John C. Churchill
District 23: Dennis McCarthy
District 24: George W. Cowles
District 25: William H. Kelsey
District 26: Giles W. Hotchkiss
District 27: Hamilton Ward
District 28: Noah Davis (resigned July 15, 1870 to become a judge of the supreme court of New York)
Charles H. Holmes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Noah Davis ; served from December 6, 1870)
District 29: John Fisher
District 30: David S. Bennett
District 31: Porter Sheldon
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Joseph C. Abbott

John Pool

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clinton L. Cobb
District 2: David Heaton (died June 25, 1870)
Joseph Dixon (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Heaton; served from December 5, 1870)
District 3: Oliver H. Dockery
District 4:

John T. Deweese (resigned February 28, 1870, prior to his censure by the House of Representatives on March 1, 1870 for selling an appointment to the Naval Academy)

John Manning, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John T. Deweese; served from December 7, 1870)
District 5: Israel G. Lash
District 6: Francis E. Shober
District 7: Alexander H. Jones
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

John Sherman

Allen G. Thurman

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Peter W. Strader
District 2: Job E. Stevenson
District 3: Robert C. Schenck
District 4: William Lawrence
District 5: William Mungen
District 6: John A. Smith
District 7: James J. Winans
District 8: John Beatty
District 9: Edward F. Dickinson
District 10: Truman H. Hoag (died February 5, 1870)
Erasmus D. Peck (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Truman H. Hoag; served from April 23, 1870)
District 11: John T. Wilson
District 12: Philadelph Van Trump
District 13: George W. Morgan
District 14: Martin Welker
District 15: Eliakim H. Moore
District 16: John A. Bingham
District 17: Jacob A. Ambler
District 18: William H. Upson
District 19: James A. Garfield
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

George H. Williams

Henry W. Corbett

 

Representative At Large

 

Joseph S. Smith

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Simon Cameron

John Scott

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel J. Randall
District 2: Charles O'Neill
District 3: John Moffet (succeeded April 9, 1869 by Leonard Myers, who contested the election)
Leonard Myers (successfully contested the election of John Moffet; served from April 9, 1869)
District 4: William D. Kelley
District 5: John R. Reading (succeeded April 13, 1870 by Caleb N. Taylor, who contested the election)
Caleb N. Taylor (successfully contested the election of John R. Reading; served from April 13, 1870)
District 6: John D. Stiles
District 7: Washington Townsend
District 8: James L. Getz
District 9: Oliver J. Dickey
District 10: Henry L. Cake
District 11: Daniel M. Van Auken
District 12: George W. Woodward
District 13: Ulysses Mercur
District 14: John B. Packer
District 15: Richard J. Haldeman
District 16: John Cessna
District 17: Daniel J. Morrell
District 18: William H. Armstrong
District 19: Glenni W. Scofield
District 20: Calvin W. Gilfillan
District 21: John Covode (died January 11, 1871)
District 22: James S. Negley
District 23: Darwin Phelps
District 24: Joseph B. Donley
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Henry B. Anthony

William Sprague IV

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas A. Jenckes
District 2: Nathan F. Dixon II
 

South Carolina

 

Senators