Membership of the 45th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879
 
First Session:  October 15, 1877 to December 3, 1877
Second Session:  December 3, 1877 to June 20, 1878
Third Session:  December 2, 1878 to March 3, 1879
Special Session of the Senate:  March 5, 1877 to March 17, 1877
 

Vice President of the United States: 

William A. Wheeler (New York)

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: 

Samuel J. Randall (Pennsylvania)

Clerk of the House: 

George M. Adams (Kentucky)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

John G. Thompson (Ohio)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Charles W. Field (Georgia)

Postmaster of the House: 

James M. Steuart

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

George E. Spencer

John T. Morgan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James T. Jones
District 2: Hilary A. Herbert
District 3: Jeremiah N. Williams
District 4: Charles M. Shelley
District 5: Robert F. Ligon
District 6: Goldsmith W. Hewitt
District 7: William H. Forney
District 8: William W. Garth
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Stephen W. Dorsey

Augustus H. Garland

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucien C. Gause
District 2: William F. Slemons
District 3: Jordan E. Cravens
District 4: Thomas M. Gunter
 

California

 

Senators

 

Aaron A. Sargent

Newton Booth

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Horace Davis
District 2: Horace F. Page
District 3: John K. Luttrell
District 4: Romualdo Pacheo (succeeded February 7, 1878 by Peter D. Wigginton, who contested the election)
Peter D. Wigginton (successfully contested the election of Romueldo Pacheo; served from February 7, 1878)
 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Jerome B. Chaffee 

Henry M. Teller

 

Representative At Large

 

James B. Belford (succeeded December 13, 1877 by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested the election)
Thomas M. Patterson (successfully contested the election of James B. Belford; served from December 13, 1877)
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

William W. Eaton

William H. Barnum 

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George M. Landers
District 2: James Phelps
District 3: John T. Wait
District 4: Levi Warner
 

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: Robert H. M. Davidson
District 2: Horatio Bisbee, Jr. (succeeded February 20, 1879 by Jesse J. Finley, who contested the election)
Jesse J. Finley (successfully contested the election of Horatio Bisbee, Jr.; served from February 20, 1879)
 
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John B. Gordon

Benjamin H. Hill

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Julian Hartridge (died January 8, 1879)
  William B. Fleming (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Julian Hartridge; served from February 10, 1879)
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: Hiram P. Bell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin H. Hill in the previous Congress; served from March 13, 1877)
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Richard J. Oglesby

David Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William Aldrich
District 2: Carter H. Harrison
District 3: Lorenzo Brentano
District 4: William Lathrop
District 5: Horatio C. Burchard
District 6: Thomas J. Henderson
District 7: Philip C. Hayes
District 8: Greenbury L. Fort
District 9: Thomas A. Boyd
District 10: Benjamin F. Marsh
District 11: Robert M. Knapp
District 12: William M. Springer
District 13: Thomas F. Tipton
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: Richard W. Townshend
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Oliver H. P. T. Morton (died November 1, 1877)

Joseph E. McDonald

Daniel W. Voorhees (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver H. P. T. Morton; served from November 6, 1877)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benoni S. Fuller
District 2: Thomas R. Cobb
District 3: George A. Bicknell
District 4: Leonidas Sexton
District 5: Thomas M. Browne
District 6: Milton S. Robinson
District 7: John Hanna
District 8: Morton C. Hunter
District 9: Michael D. White
District 10: William H. Calkins
District 11: James L. Evans
District 12: Andrew H. Hamilton
District 13: John H. Baker
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

William B. Allison

Samuel J. Kirkwood

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Joseph C. Stone
District 2: Hiram Price
District 3: Theodore W. Burdick
District 4: Nathaniel C. Deering
District 5: Rush Clark
District 6: Ezekiel S. Sampson
District 7: Henry J. B. Cummings
District 8: William F. Sapp
District 9: S. Addison Oliver
 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

John J. Ingalls

Preston B. Plumb

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William A. Phillips
District 2: Dudley C. Haskell
District 3: Thomas Ryan
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Thomas C. McCreery

James B. Beck

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Andrew R. Boone
District 2: James A. McKenzie
District 3: John W. Caldwell
District 4: J. Proctor Knott
District 5: Albert S. Willis
District 6: John G. Carlisle
District 7: Joseph C. S. Blackburn
District 8: Milton J. Durham
District 9: Thomas Turner
District 10: John B. Clarke
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

William P. Kellogg

James B. Eustis

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Randall L. Gibson
District 2: E. John Ellis
District 3: Chester B. Darrall (succeeded February 20, 1878 by Joseph H. Acklen, who contested the election)

Joseph H. Acklen (successfully contested the election of Chester B. Darrall; served from February 20, 1878)

District 4: Joseph B. Elam
District 5: John E. Leonard (died March 15, 1878)
John S. Young (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John E. Leonard; served from November 5, 1878)
District 6: Edward W. Robertson
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Hannibal Hamlin

James G. Blaine

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. Reed
District 2: William P. Frye
District 3: Stephen D. Lindsey
District 4: Llewellyn Powers
District 5: Eugene Hale
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

George R. Dennis

William Pinkney Whyte

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Daniel M. Henry
District 2: Charles B. Roberts
District 3: William Kimmel
District 4: Thomas Swann
District 5: Eli J. Henkle
District 6: William Walsh
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Henry L. Dawes

George F. Hoar

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William W. Crapo
District 2: Benjamin W. Harris
District 3: Walbridge A. Field (succeeded March 28, 1878 by Benjamin Dean, who contested the election)
Benjamin Dean (successfully contested the election of Walbridge A. Field; served from March 28, 1878)
District 4: Leopold Morse
District 5: Nathaniel P. Banks
District 6: George B. Loring
District 7: Benjamin F. Butler
District 8: William Claflin
District 9: William W. Rice
District 10: Amasa Norcross
District 11: George D. Robinson
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Thomas W. Ferry

Isaac P. Christiancy (resigned February 10, 1879 due to ill health)

Zachariah Chandler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isaac P. Christiancy; served from February 22, 1879)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alpheus S. Williams (died December 21, 1878)
District 2: Edwin Willits
District 3: Jonas H. McGowan
District 4: Edwin W. Keightley
District 5: John W. Stone
District 6: Mark S. Brewer
District 7: Omar D. Conger
District 8: Charles C. Ellsworth
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: Jacob H. Stewart
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Blanche Kelso Bruce

Lucius Q. C. Lamar

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry L. Muldrow
District 2: Van H. Manning
District 3: Hernando D. Money
District 4: Otho R. Singleton
District 5: Charles E. Hooker
District 6: James R. Chalmers
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Lewis P. Bogy (died September 20, 1877)

Francis M. Cockrell

David H. Armstrong (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis P. Bogy; served from September 29, 1877 to January 26, 1879, when James Shields was elected)

James Shields (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis P. Bogy; served from January 27, 1879)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Anthony F. Ittner
District 2: Nathan Cole
District 3: Lyne S. Metcalfe
District 4: Robert A. Hatcher
District 5: Richard P. Bland
District 6: Charles H. Morgan
District 7: Thomas T. Crittenden
District 8: Benjamin J. Franklin
District 9: David Rea
District 10: Henry M. Pollard
District 11: John B. Clark, Jr.
District 12: John M. Glover
District 13: Aylett H. Buckner
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Algernon S. Paddock

Alvin Saunders

 

Representative At Large

 

Frank Welch (died September 4, 1878)

Thomas J. Majors (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank Welch; served from November 5, 1878)

 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

John P. Jones

William Sharon

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas Wren
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Bainbridge Wadleigh

Edward H. Rollins

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Frank Jones
District 2: James F. Briggs
District 3: Henry W. Blair
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Theodore F. Randolph

John P. McPherson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clement H. Sinnickson
District 2: John H. Pugh
District 3: Miles Ross
District 4: Alvah A. Clark
District 5: Augustus W. Cutler
District 6: Thomas B. Peddie
District 7: Augustus A. Hardenbergh
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Roscoe Conkling

Francis Kernan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James W. Covert
District 2: William D. Veeder
District 3: Simeon B. Chittenden
District 4: Archibald M. Bliss
District 5: Nicholas Muller
District 6: Samuel S. Cox
District 7: Anthony Eickhoff
District 8: Anson G. McCook
District 9: Fernando Wood
District 10: Abram S. Hewitt
District 11: Benjamin A. Willis
District 12: Clarkson N. Potter
District 13: John H. Ketcham
District 14: George M. Beebe
District 15: Stephen L. Mayham
District 16: Terence J. Quinn (died June 18, 1878)

John M. Bailey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Terence J. Quinn; served from November 5, 1878)

District 17: Martin I. Townsend
District 18: Andrew Williams
District 19: Amaziah B. James
District 20: John H. Starin
District 21: Solomon Bundy
District 22: George A. Bagley
District 23: William J. Bacon
District 24: William H. Baker
District 25: Frank Hiscock
District 26: John H. Camp
District 27: Elbridge G. Lapham
District 28: Jeremiah W. Dwight
District 29: John N. Hungerford
District 30: Elizur K. Hart
District 31: Charles B. Benedict
District 32: Daniel N. Lockwood
District 33: George W. Patterson
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Matt W. Ransom

Augustus S. Merrimon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jesse J. Yeates
District 2: Curtis H. Brogden
District 3: Alfred M. Waddell
District 4: Joseph J. Davis
District 5: Alfred M. Scales
District 6: Walter L. Steele
District 7: William M. Robbins
District 8: Robert B. Vance
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

John Sherman (resigned March 8, 1877 to become Secretary of the Treasury)

Allen G. Thurman

Stanley Matthews (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman; served from March 21, 1877)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Milton Sayler
District 2: Henry B. Banning
District 3: Mills Gardner
District 4: John A. McMahon
District 5: Americus V. Rice
District 6: Jacob D. Cox
District 7: Henry L. Dickey
District 8: J. Warren Keifer
District 9: John S. Jones
District 10: Charles Foster
District 11: Henry S. Neal
District 12: Thomas Ewing
District 13: Milton I. Southard
District 14: Ebenezer B. Finley
District 15: Nelson H. Van Vorhes
District 16: Lorenzo Danford
District 17: William McKinley, Jr.
District 18: James Monroe
District 19: James A. Garfield
District 20: Amos Townsend
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

John H. Mitchell

La Fayette Grover

 

Representative At Large

 

Richard Williams
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Simon Cameron (resigned March 12, 1877)

William A. Wallace

J. Donald Cameron (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his father, Simon Cameron; served from March 20, 1877)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Chapman Freeman
District 2: Charles O'Neill
District 3: Samuel J. Randall
District 4: William D. Kelley
District 5: Alfred C. Harmer
District 6: William Ward
District 7: Isaac N. Evans
District 8: Hiester Clymer
District 9: A. Herr Smith
District 10: Samuel A. Bridges
District 11: Francis D. Collins
District 12: Hendrick B. Wright
District 13: James B. Reilly
District 14: John W. Killinger
District 15: Edward Overton, Jr.
District 16: John I. Mitchell
District 17: Jacob M. Campbell
District 18: William S. Stenger
District 19: Levi Maish
District 20: Levi A. Mackey
District 21: Jacob Turney
District 22: Russell Errett
District 23: Thomas M. Bayne
District 24: William S. Shallenberger
District 25: Harry White
District 26: John M. Thompson
District 27: Lewis F. Watson
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Henry B. Anthony

Ambrose E. Burnside

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benjamin T. Eames
District 2: Latimer W. Ballou
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John J. Patterson