Membership of the 48th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885
 
First Session:  December 3, 1883 to July 7, 1884
Second Session:  December 1, 1884 to March 3, 1885
 

Vice President of the United States:

Vacant

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

George F. Edmunds (Vermont)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Francis E. Shober (North Carolina)
Anson G. McCook (New York), from December 18, 1883

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Richard J. Bright (Indiana)
William P. Canaday (North Carolina), from December 18, 1883

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

John G. Carlisle (Kentucky)

Clerk of the House: 

Edward McPherson (Pennsylvania)
John B. Clark, Jr. (Missouri), from December 4, 1883

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

George W. Hooker (Vermont)
John P. Leedom (Ohio), from December 4, 1883

Doorkeeper of the House: 

James W. Wintersmith (Texas)

Postmaster of the House: 

Lycurgus Dalton

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

John T. Morgan

James L. Pugh

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas H. Herndon (died March 28, 1883)
James T. Jones (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas H. Herndon; served from December 3, 1883)
District 2: Hilary A. Herbert
District 3: William C. Oates
District 4: Charles M. Shelley (succeeded January 9, 1885 by George Craig, who contested the election)
George H. Craig (successsfully contested the election of Charles Shelley; served from January 9, 1885)
District 5: Thomas Williams
District 6: Goldsmith W. Hewitt
District 7: William H. Forney
District 8: Luke Pryor
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Augustus H. Garland

James D. Walker

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Poindexter Dunn
District 2: James K. Jones (resigned February 19, 1885 to become Senator)
District 3: John H. Rogers
District 4: Samuel W. Peel
At Large: Clifton R. Breckinridge
 

California

 

Senators

 

James T. Farley

John F. Miller

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William S. Rosecrans
District 2: James H. Budd
District 3: Barclay Henley
District 4: Pleasant B. Tully
At Large: John R. Glasscock
At Large: Charles A. Sumner
 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Nathaniel P. Hill

Thomas M. Bowen

 

Representative At Large

 

James B. Belford
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Orville H. Platt

Joseph R. Hawley

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William W. Eaton
District 2: Charles L. Mitchell
District 3: John T. Wait
District 4: Edward W. Seymour
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.

Eli M. Saulsbury

 

Representative At Large

 

Charles B. Lore
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Charles W. Jones

Wilkinson Call

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert H. M. Davidson
District 2: Horatio Bisbee, Jr.
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Joseph E. Brown

Alfred H. Colquitt

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John C. Nicholls
District 2: Henry G. Turner
District 3: Charles F. Crisp
District 4: Hugh Buchannan
District 5: Nathaniel J. Hammond
District 6: James H. Blount
District 7: Judson C. Clements
District 8: Seaborn Reese
District 9: Allen D. Candler
At Large: Thomas Hardeman, Jr.
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

John A. Logan

Shelby M. Cullom

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ransom W. Dunham
District 2: John F. Finerty
District 3: George R. Davis
District 4: George E. Adams
District 5: Reuben Ellwood
District 6: Robert R. Hitt
District 7: Thomas J. Henderson
District 8: William Cullen
District 9: Lewis E. Payson
District 10: Nicholas E. Worthington
District 11: William H. Neece
District 12: James M. Riggs
District 13: William M. Springer
District 14: Jonathan H. Rowell
District 15: Joseph G. Cannon
District 16: Aaron Shaw
District 17: Samuel W. Moulton
District 18: William R. Morrison
District 19: Richard W. Townshend
District 20: John R. Thomas
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Daniel W. Voorhees

Benjamin Harrison

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John J. Kleiner
District 2: Thomas R. Cobb
District 3: Strother M. Stockslager
District 4: William S. Holman
District 5: Courtland C. Matson
District 6: Thomas M. Browne
District 7: Stanton J. Peele (succeeded May 22, 1884 by William E. English, who contested the election)
William E. English (successfully contested the election of Stanton J. Peele; served from May 22, 1884)
District 8: John E. Lamb
District 9: Thomas B. Ward
District 10: Thomas J. Wood
District 11: George W. Steele
District 12: Robert Lowry
District 13: William H. Calkins (resigned October 20, 1884)
Benjamin Shively (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Calkins; served from December 1, 1884)
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

William B. Allison

James F. Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Moses A. McCoid
District 2: Jeremiah H. Murphy
District 3: David B. Henderson
District 4: Luman Weller
District 5: James F. Wilson (succeeded March 3, 1885 by Benjamin T. Frederick, who contested the election)
Benjamin T. Frederick (successfully contested the election of James F. Wilson; served one day, March 3, 1885)
District 6: Marsena E. Cutts (died September 1, 1883)
John C. Cook (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Marsena E. Cutts; served from October 9, 1883)
District 7: John A. Kasson (resigned July 13, 1884 to become Minister to Germany)
Hiram Y. Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Kasson; served from December 2, 1884)
District 8: William P. Hepburn
District 9: William H. M. Pusey
District 10: Adoniram J. Holmes
District 11: Isaac S. Struble
 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

John J. Ingalls

Preston B. Plumb

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John A. Anderson
District 2: Dudley C. Haskell (died December 16, 1883)
Edward H. Funston (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dudley C. Haskell; served from March 21, 1884)
District 3: Thomas Ryan
At Large: Lewis Hanback
At Large: Edmund N. Morrill
At Large: Bishop W. Perkins
At Large: Samuel R. Peters
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

James B. Beck

John Williams

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Oscar Turner
District 2: James F. Clay
District 3: John E. Halsell
District 4: Thomas A. Robertson
District 5: Albert S. Willis
District 6: John G. Carlisle
District 7: Joseph C. S. Blackburn
District 8: Philip B. Thompson, Jr.
District 9: William W. Culbertson
District 10: John D. White
District 11: Frank L. Wolford
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Jonas

Randall L. Gibson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Carleton Hunt
District 2: E. John Ellis
District 3: William P. Kellogg
District 4: Newton C. Blanchard
District 5: John F. King
District 6: Edward T. Lewis
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Eugene Hale

William P. Frye

 

Representatives At Large

 

Thomas B. Reed
Charles A. Boutelle
Nelson Dingley, Jr.
Seth L. Milliken
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

James B. Groome

Arthur P. Gorman

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George W. Covington
District 2:

J. Frederick C. Talbot

District 3: Fetter S. Hoblitzell
District 4: John V. Findlay
District 5: Hart B. Holton
District 6: Louis E. McComas
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Henry L. Dawes

George F. Hoar

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert T. Davis
District 2: John D. Long
District 3: Ambrose A. Ranney
District 4: Patrick A. Collins
District 5: Leopold Morse
District 6: Henry B. Lovering
District 7: Eben F. Stone
District 8: William A. Russell
District 9: Theodore Lyman
District 10: William W. Rice
District 11: William Whiting
District 12: George D. Robinson (resigned January 7, 1884 to become Governor of Massachusetts)
Francis W. Rockwell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George D. Robinson; served from January 17, 1884)
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Omar D. Conger

Thomas W. Palmer

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William C. Maybury
District 2: Nathaniel B. Eldredge
District 3: Edward S. Lacey
District 4: George L. Yaple
District 5: Julius Houseman
District 6: Edwin B. Winans
District 7: Ezra C. Carleton
District 8: Roswell G. Horr
District 9: Byron M. Cutcheon
District 10: Herschel H. Hatch
District 11: Edward Breitung
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Samuel J. R. McMillan

Dwight M. Sabin

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Milo White
District 2: James B. Wakefield
District 3: Horace B. Strait
District 4: William D. Washburn
District 5: Knute Nelson
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Lucius Q. C. Lamar

James Z. George

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry L. Muldrow
District 2: Van H. Manning (succeeded June 25, 1884 by James R. Chalmers, who contested the election)
James R. Chalmers (successfully contested the election of Van H. Manning; served from June 25, 1884)
District 3: Elza Jeffords
District 4: Hernando D. Money
District 5: Otho R. Singleton
District 6: Henry S. Van Eaton
District 7: Ethelbert Barksdale
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Francis M. Cockrell

George G. Vest

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William H. Hatch
District 2: Armistead M. Alexander
District 3: Alexander M. Dockery
District 4: James N. Burnes
District 5: Alexander Graves
District 6: John Cosgrove
District 7: Aylett H. Buckner
District 8: John J. O'Neill
District 9: James O. Broadhead
District 10: Martin L. Clardy
District 11: Richard P. Bland
District 12: Charles H. Morgan
District 13: Robert W. Fyan
District 14: Lowndes H. Davis
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Charles H. Van Wyck

Charles F. Manderson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Archibald J. Weaver
District 2: James Laird
District 3: Edward K. Valentine
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

John P. Jones

James G. Fair

 

Representative At Large

 

George W. Cassidy
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Henry W. Blair

Austin F. Pike

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Martin A. Haynes
District 2: Ossian Ray
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John P. McPherson

William J. Sewell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas M. Ferrell
District 2: J. Hart Brewer
District 3: John Kean
District 4: Benjamin F. Howey
District 5: William W. Phelps
District 6: William H. F. Fiedler
District 7: William McAdoo
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Warner Miller

Elbridge G. Lapham

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Perry Belmont
District 2: William E. Robinson
District 3: Darwin R. James
District 4: Felix Campbell
District 5: Nicholas Muller
District 6: Samuel S. Cox
District 7: William Dorsheimer
District 8: John J. Adams
District 9: John Hardy
District 10: Abram S. Hewitt
District 11: Orlando B. Potter
District 12: Waldo Hutchins
District 13: John H. Ketcham
District 14: Lewis Beach
District 15: John H. Bagley, Jr.
District 16: Thomas J. Van Alstyne
District 17: Henry G. Burleigh
District 18: Frederick A. Johnson
District 19: Abraham X. Parker
District 20: Edward Wemple
District 21: George W. Ray
District 22: Charles R. Skinner
District 23: John T. Spriggs
District 24: Newton W. Nutting
District 25: Frank Hiscock
District 26: Sereno E. Payne
District 27: James W. Wadsworth
District 28: Stephen C. Millard
District 29: John Arnot, Jr.
District 30: Halbert S. Greenleaf
District 31: Robert S. Stevens
District 32: William F. Rogers
District 33: Francis B. Brewer
At Large: Henry W. Slocum
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Matt W. Ransom

Zebulon B. Vance

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Walter F. Pool (died August 25, 1883)

Thomas G. Skinner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Walter F. Pool; served from November 20, 1883)

District 2: James E. O'Hara
District 3: Wharton J. Green
District 4: William R. Cox
District 5: Alfred M. Scales (resigned December 30, 1884 to become Governor of North Carolina)
James W. Reid (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alfred M. Scales; served from January 28, 1885)
District 6:

Clement Dowd

District 7: Tyre York
District 8: Robert B. Vance
At Large: Risden T. Bennett
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

George H. Pendleton

John Sherman

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John F. Follett
District 2: Isaac M. Jordan
District 3: Robert M. Murray
District 4: Benjamin LeFevre
District 5: George E. Seney
District 6: William D. Hill
District 7: Henry L. Morey (succeeded June 20, 1884 by James E. Campbell, who contested the election)
James E. Campbell (successfully contested the election of Henry L. Morey; served from June 20, 1884)
District 8: J. Warren Keifer
District 9: James S. Robinson (resigned January 12, 1885)
District 10: Frank H. Hurd
District 11: John W. McCormick
District 12: Alphonso Hart
District 13: George L. Converse
District 14: George W. Geddes
District 15: Adoniram J. Warner
District 16: Beriah Wilkins
District 17: Joseph D. Taylor
District 18: William McKinley, Jr. (succeeded May 27, 1884 by Jonathan H. Wallace, who contested the election)
Jonathan H. Wallace (successfully contested the election of William McKinley, Jr.; served from May 27, 1884)
District 19: Ezra B. Taylor
District 20: David R. Paige
District 21: Martin A. Foran
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

James H. Slater

Joseph N. Dolph

 

Representative At Large

 

Melvin C. George
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

J. Donald Cameron

John I. Mitchell