Membership of the 44th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877
 
First Session:  December 6, 1875 to August 15, 1876
Second Session:  December 4, 1876 to March 3, 1877
Special Session of the Senate:  March 5, 1875 to March 24, 1875
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Henry Wilson (Massachusetts) (died November 22, 1875; Vice Presidency remained vacant until March 4, 1877)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Thomas W. Ferry (Michigan)

Secretary of the Senate: 

George C. Gorham (California)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

John R. French (New Hampshire)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Michael C. Kerr (Indiana)
Samuel J. Randall (Pennsylvania), from December 4, 1876

Clerk of the House: 

Edward McPherson (Pennsylvania)
George M. Adams (Kentucky), from December 6, 1875

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Nathaniel G. Ordway (New Hampshire)
John G. Thompson (Ohio), from December 6, 1875

Doorkeeper of the House: 

John H. Patterson (New Jersey)

Postmaster of the House: 

James M. Steuart

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

George E. Spencer

George Golthwaite

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jeremiah Haralson
District 2: Jeremiah N. Williams
District 3: Taul Bradford
District 4: Charles Hays
District 5: John H. Caldwell
District 6: Goldsmith W. Hewitt
At Large: William H. Forney
At Large: Burwell B. Lewis
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Powell Clayton

Stephen W. Dorsey

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucien C. Gause
District 2: William F. Slemons
District 3: William W. Wilshire
District 4: Thomas M. Gunter
 

California

 

Senators

 

Aaron A. Sargent

Newton Booth

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William A. Piper
District 2: Horace F. Page
District 3: John K. Luttrell
District 4:

Peter D. Wigginton

 

Colorado (admitted as a state August 1, 1876)

 

Senators

 

Jerome B. Chaffee (served from November 15, 1876)

Henry M. Teller (served from November 15, 1876)

 

Representative At Large

 

James B. Belford (served from October 3, 1876)
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Orris S. Ferry (died November 21, 1875)

William W. Eaton

James E. English (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orris S. Ferry; served from November 27, 1875 to May 17 1876, when William H. Barnum was elected)

William H. Barnum (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orris S. Ferry; served from May 18, 1876)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George M. Landers
District 2: James Phelps
District 3: Henry H. Starkweather (died January 28, 1876)

John T. Wait (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry H. Starkweather; served from April 12, 1876)

District 4: William H. Barnum (resigned May 18, 1876 to become Senator)
Levi Warner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Barnum; served from December 4, 1876)
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

Eli M. Saulsbury

 

Representative At Large

 

James Williams
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Simon B. Conover

Charles W. Jones

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William J. Purman
District 2: Josiah T. Walls (succeeded April 19, 1876 by Jesse J. Finley, who contested the election)
Jesse J. Finley (successfully contested the election of Josiah T. Walls; served from April 19, 1876)
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Thomas M. Norwood

John B. Gordon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Julian Hartridge
District 2: William E. Smith
District 3: Phillip Cook
District 4: Henry R. Harris
District 5: Milton A. Candler
District 6: James H. Blount
District 7: William H. Felton
District 8: Alexander H. Stephens
District 9: Benjamin H. Hill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Garnett McMillan; served from May 5, 1875; resigned March 3, 1877 to become Senator)
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

John A. Logan

Richard J. Oglesby

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Bernard G. Caulfield
District 2: Carter H. Harrison
District 3: Charles B. Farwell (succeeded May 6, 1876 by John V. LeMoyne, who contested the election)
John V. LeMoyne (successfully contested the election of Charles B. Farwell; served from May 6, 1876)
District 4: Stephen A. Hurlbut
District 5: Horatio C. Burchard
District 6: Thomas J. Henderson
District 7: Alexander Campbell
District 8: Greenbury L. Fort
District 9: Richard H. Whiting
District 10: John C. Bagby
District 11: Scott Wike
District 12: William M. Springer
District 13: Adlai E. Stevenson
District 14: Joseph G. Cannon
District 15: John R. Eden
District 16: William A. J. Sparks
District 17: William R. Morrison
District 18: William Hartzell
District 19: William B. Anderson
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Oliver H. P. T. Morton

Joseph E. McDonald

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benoni S. Fuller
District 2: James D. Williams (resigned December 1, 1876 to become Governor of Indiana)
Andrew Humphreys (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James D. Williams; served from December 5, 1876)
District 3: Michael C. Kerr (died August 19, 1876)
Nathan T. Carr (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael C. Kerr; served from December 5, 1876)
District 4: Jeptha D. New
District 5: William S. Holman
District 6: Milton S. Robinson
District 7: Franklin Landers
District 8: Morton C. Hunter
District 9: Thomas J. Cason
District 10: William S. Haymond
District 11: James L. Evans
District 12: Andrew H. Hamilton
District 13:

John H. Baker

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

George G. Wright

William B. Allison

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George W. McCrary
District 2: John Q. Tufts
District 3: Lucien L. Ainsworth
District 4: Henry O. Pratt
District 5: James F. Wilson
District 6: Ezekiel S. Sampson
District 7: John A. Kasson
District 8: James W. McDill
District 9: S. Addison Oliver
 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

John J. Ingalls

James M. Harvey

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William A. Phillips
District 2: John R. Goodin
District 3: William R. Brown
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John W. Stevenson

Thomas C. McCreery

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Andrew R. Boone
District 2: John Y. Brown
District 3: Charles W. Milliken
District 4: J. Proctor Knott
District 5: Edward Y. Parsons (died July 8, 1876)
Henry Watterson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward Y. Parsons; served from August 12, 1876)
District 6: Thomas L. Jones
District 7: Joseph C. S. Blackburn
District 8: Milton J. Durham
District 9: John D. White
District 10: John B. Clarke
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

J. Rodman West

James B. Eustis (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1873, caused by the action of the Senate in declining to seat certain claimants; served from January 12, 1876)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Randall L. Gibson
District 2: E. John Ellis
District 3: Chester B. Darrall
District 4: William M. Levy
District 5: Frank Morey (succeeded June 8, 1876 by William B. Spencer, who contested the election)
William B. Spencer (successfully contested the election of Frank Morey; served from June 8, 1876)
District 6: Charles E. Nash
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Hannibal Hamlin

Lot M. Morrill (resigned July 7, 1876 to become Secretary of the Treasury)

James G. Blaine (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill; served from July 10, 1876)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John H. Burleigh
District 2: William P. Frye
District 3: James G. Blaine (resigned July 10, 1876 to become Senator)
Edwin Flye (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James G. Blaine; served from December 4, 1876)
District 4: Harris M. Plaisted (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel F. Hersey in the previous Congress; served from September 13, 1875)
District 5: Eugene Hale
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

George R. Dennis

William Pinkney Whyte

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Phillip F. Thomas
District 2: Charles B. Roberts
District 3: William J. O'Brien
District 4: Thomas Swann
District 5: Eli J. Henkle
District 6: William Walsh
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

George S. Boutwell

Henry L. Dawes

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Buffinton (died March 7, 1875)
 

William W. Crapo (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffinton; served from November 2, 1875)

District 2: Benjamin W. Harris
District 3: Henry L. Pierce
District 4: Rufus S. Frost (succeeded July 28, 1876 by Josiah G. Abbott, who contested the election)
  Josiah G. Abbott (successfully contested the election of Rufus S. Frost; served from July 28, 1876)
District 5: Nathaniel P. Banks
District 6: Charles P. Thompson
District 7: John K. Tarbox
District 8: William W. Warren
District 9: George F. Hoar
District 10: Julius H. Seelye
District 11: Chester W. Chapin
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Thomas W. Ferry

Isaac P. Christiancy

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alpheus S. Williams
District 2: Henry Waldron
District 3: George Willard
District 4: Allen Potter
District 5: William B. Williams
District 6: George H. Durand
District 7: Omar D. Conger
District 8: Nathan B. Bradley
District 9:

Jay A. Hubbell

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

William Windom

Samuel J. R. McMillan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Mark H. Dunnell
District 2: Horace B. Strait
District 3: William S. King
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

James L. Alcorn

Blanche Kelso Bruce

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucius Q. C. Lamar
District 2: Guilford W. Wells
District 3: Hernando D. Money
District 4: Otho R. Singleton
District 5: Charles E. Hooker
District 6: John R. Lynch
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Lewis P. Bogy

Francis M. Cockrell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edward C. Kehr
District 2: Erastus Wells
District 3: William H. Stone
District 4: Robert A. Hatcher
District 5: Richard P. Bland
District 6: Charles H. Morgan
District 7: John F. Philips
District 8: Benjamin J. Franklin
District 9: David Rea
District 10: Rezin A. DeBolt
District 11: John B. Clark, Jr.
District 12: John M. Glover
District 13: Aylett H. Buckner
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Phineas W. Hitchcock

Algernon S. Paddock

 

Representative At Large

 

Lorenzo Crounse
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

John P. Jones

William Sharon

 

Representative At Large

 

William Woodburn
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Aaron H. Cragin

Bainbridge Wadleigh

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Frank Jones
District 2: Samuel N. Bell
District 3: Henry W. Blair
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Frederick T. Frelinghuysen

Theodore F. Randolph

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clement H. Sinnickson
District 2: Samuel A. Dobbins
District 3: Miles Ross
District 4: Robert Hamilton
District 5: Augustus W. Cutler
District 6: Frederick H. Teese
District 7: Augustus A. Hardenbergh
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Roscoe Conkling

Francis Kernan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry B. Metcalfe
District 2: John G. Schumaker
District 3: Simeon B. Chittenden
District 4: Archibald M. Bliss
District 5: Edwin R. Meade
District 6: Samuel S. Cox
District 7: Smith Ely, Jr. (resigned December 11, 1876 to become Mayor of New York City)
David D. Field (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Smith Ely, Jr.; served from January 11, 1877)
District 8: Elijah Ward
District 9: Fernando Wood
District 10: Abram S. Hewitt
District 11: Benjamin A. Willis
District 12: Nathaniel H. Odell
District 13: John O. Whitehouse
District 14: George M. Beebe
District 15: John H. Bagley, Jr.
District 16: Charles H. Adams
District 17: Martin I. Townsend
District 18: Andrew Williams
District 19: William A. Wheeler
District 20: Henry H. Hathorn
District 21: Samuel F. Miller
District 22: George A. Bagley
District 23: Scott Lord
District 24: William H. Baker
District 25: Elias W. Leavenworth
District 26: Clinton D. MacDougall
District 27: Elbridge G. Lapham
District 28: Thomas C. Platt
District 29: Charles C. B. Walker
District 30: John M. Davy
District 31: George G. Hoskins
District 32: Lyman K. Bass
District 33: Nelson I. Norton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Augustus F. Allen; served from December 6, 1875)
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Matt W. Ransom

Augustus S. Merrimon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jesse J. Yeates
District 2: John A. Hyman
District 3: Alfred M. Waddell
District 4: Joseph J. Davis
District 5: Alfred M. Scales
District 6: Thomas S. Ashe
District 7: William M. Robbins
District 8: Robert B. Vance
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

John Sherman

Allen G. Thurman

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Milton Sayler
District 2: Henry B. Banning
District 3: John S. Savage
District 4: John A. McMahon
District 5: Americus V. Rice
District 6: Frank H. Hurd
District 7: Lawrence T. Neal
District 8: William Lawrence
District 9: Earley F. Poppleton
District 10: Charles Foster
District 11: John L. Vance
District 12: Ansel T. Walling
District 13: Milton I. Southard
District 14: Jacob P. Cowan
District 15: Nelson H. Van Vorhes
District 16: Lorenzo Danford
District 17: Laurin D. Woodworth
District 18: James Monroe
District 19: James A. Garfield
District 20: Henry B. Payne
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

James K. Kelly

John H. Mitchell

 

Representative At Large

 

George A. LaDow (died May 1, 1875)
LaFayette Lane (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George A. LaDow; served from October 25, 1875)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Simon Cameron

William A. Wallace

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Chapman Freeman
District 2: Charles O'Neill
District 3: Samuel J. Randall
District 4: