Membership of the 49th Congress of the United States

Membership of the 49th Congress of the United States

March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1887

First Session: December 7, 1885 to August 5, 1886
Second Session: December 6, 1886 to March 3, 1887
Special Session of the Senate: March 4, 1885 to April 2, 1885

Vice President of the United States:	Thomas A. Hendricks (Indiana)
President Pro Tempore of the Senate:	John Sherman (Ohio) John J. Ingalls (Kansas), from February 25, 1887
Secretary of the Senate:	Anson G. McCook (New York)
Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:	William P. Canaday (North Carolina)

Speaker of the House of Representatives:	John G. Carlisle (Kentucky)
Clerk of the House:	John B. Clark, Jr. (Missouri)
Sergeant At Arms of the House:	John P. Leedom (Ohio)
Doorkeeper of the House:	Samuel Donaldson (Tennessee)
Postmaster of the House:	Lycurgus Dalton

Alabama

Senators

John T. Morgan (Dem.)
James L. Pugh (Dem.)

Representatives

District 1:	James T. Jones (Dem.)
District 2:	Hilary A. Herbert (Dem.)
District 3:	William C. Oates (Dem.)
District 4:	Alexander C. Davidson (Dem.)
District 5:	Thomas W. Sadler (Dem.)
District 6:	John M. Martin (Dem.)
District 7:	William H. Forney (Dem.)
District 8:	Joe Wheeler (Dem.)

Arkansas

Senators

Augustus H. Garland (Dem.) (resigned March 6, 1885 to become Attorney General of the United States)
James K. Jones (Dem.)
James H. Berry (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Augustus H. Garland; served from March 20, 1885)

Representatives

District 1:	Poindexter Dunn (Dem.)
District 2:	Clifton R. Breckinridge (Dem.)
District 3:	Thomas C. McRae (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James K. Jones in the previous Congress; served from December 7, 1885)
District 4:	John H. Rogers (Dem.)
District 5:	Samuel W. Peel (Dem.)

California

Senators

John F. Miller (died March 8, 1886)
Leland Stanford
George Hearst (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Miller; served from March 23, 1886 to August 4, 1886, when Abram Williams was elected)
Abram P. Williams (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Miller; served from August 4, 1886)

Representatives

District 1:	Barclay Henley
District 2:	James A. Louttit
District 3:	Joseph McKenna
District 4:	William W. Morrow
District 5:	Charles N. Felton
District 6:	Henry H. Markham

Colorado

Senators

Thomas M. Bowen

Henry M. Teller

Representative At Large

George G. Symes

Connecticut

Senators

Orville H. Platt
Joseph R. Hawley

Representatives

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

Delaware

Senators

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (resigned March 6, 1885 to become Secretary of State)

Eli M. Saulsbury

George Gray (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.; served from March 18, 1885)

Representative At Large

Charles B. Lore

Florida

Senators

Charles W. Jones
Wilkinson Call

Representatives

District 1:	Robert H. M. Davidson
District 2:	Charles Dougherty

Georgia

Senators

Joseph E. Brown
Alfred H. Colquitt

Representatives

District 1:	Thomas M. Norwood
District 2:	Henry G. Turner
District 3:	Charles F. Crisp
District 4:	Henry R. Harris
District 5:	Nathaniel J. Hammond
District 6:	James H. Blount
District 7:	Judson C. Clements
District 8:	Seaborn Reese
District 9:	Allen D. Candler
District 10:	George T. Barnes

Illinois

Senators

John A. Logan (Rep.) (died December 16, 1886)
Shelby M. Cullom (Rep.)
Charles B. Farwell (Rep.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Logan; served from January 19, 1887)

Representatives

District 1:	Ransom W. Dunham (Rep.)
District 2:	Frank Lawler (Dem.)
District 3:	James H. Ward (Dem.)
District 4:	George E. Adams (Rep.)
District 5:	Reuben Ellwood (Rep.) (died July 1, 1885)
District 5:	Albert J. Hopkins (Rep.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Reuben Ellwood; served from December 7, 1885)
District 6:	Robert R. Hitt (Rep.)
District 7:	Thomas J. Henderson (Rep.)
District 8:	Ralph Plumb (Rep.)
District 9:	Lewis E. Payson (Rep.)
District 10:	Nicholas E. Worthington (Dem.)
District 11:	William H. Neece (Dem.)
District 12:	James M. Riggs (Dem.)
District 13:	William M. Springer (Dem.)
District 14:	Jonathan H. Rowell (Rep.)
District 15:	John R. Thomas (Rep.)
District 16:	Joseph G. Cannon (Rep.)
District 17:	Silas Z. Landes (Dem.)
District 18:	John R. Eden (Dem.)
District 19:	William R. Morrison (Dem.)
District 20:	Richard W. Townshend (Dem.)

Indiana

Senators

Daniel W. Voorhees
Benjamin Harrison

Representatives

District 1:	John J. Kleiner
District 2:	Thomas R. Cobb
District 3:	Jonas G. Howard
District 4:	William S. Holman
District 5:	Courtland C. Matson
District 6:	Thomas M. Browne
District 7:	William D. Bynum
District 8:	James T. Johnston
District 9:	Thomas B. Ward
District 10:	William D. Owen
District 11:	George W. Steele
District 12:	Robert Lowry
District 13:	George Ford

Iowa

Senators

William B. Allison
James F. Wilson

Representatives

District 1:	Benton J. Hall
District 2:	Jeremiah H. Murphy
District 3:	David B. Henderson
District 4:	William E. Fuller
District 5:	Benjamin T. Frederick
District 6:	James B. Weaver
District 7:	Edwin H. Conger
District 8:	William P. Hepburn
District 9:	Joseph Lyman
District 10:	Adoniram J. Holmes
District 11:	Isaac S. Struble

Kansas

Senators

John J. Ingalls
Preston B. Plumb

Representatives

District 1:	Edmund N. Morrill
District 2:	Edward H. Funston
District 3:	Bishop W. Perkins
District 4:	Thomas Ryan
District 5:	John A. Anderson
District 6:	Lewis Hanback
District 7:	Samuel R. Peters

Kentucky

Senators

James B. Beck
Joseph C. S. Blackburn

Representatives

District 1:	William J. Stone
District 2:	Polk Laffoon
District 3:	John E. Halsell
District 4:	Thomas A. Robertson
District 5:	Albert S. Willis
District 6:	John G. Carlisle
District 7:	William C. P. Breckinridge
District 8:	James B. McCreary
District 9:	William H. Wadsworth
District 10:	William P. Taulbee
District 11:	Frank L. Wolford

Louisiana

Senators

Randall L. Gibson
James B. Eustis

Representatives

District 1:	Louis St. Martin
District 2:	Michael Hahn (died March 15, 1886)
	Nathaniel D. Wallace (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Michael Hahn; served from December 9, 1886)
District 3:	Edward J. Gay
District 4:	Newton C. Blanchard
District 5:	John F. King
District 6:	Alfred B. Irion

Maine

Senators

Eugene Hale
William P. Frye

Representatives

District 1:	Thomas B. Reed
District 2:	Nelson Dingley, Jr.
District 3:	Seth L. Milliken
District 4:	Charles A. Boutelle

Maryland

Senators

Arthur P. Gorman
Ephraim K. Wilson

Representatives

District 1:	Charles H. Gibson
District 2:	Frank T. Shaw
District 3:	William H. Cole (died July 8, 1886)
	Harry W. Rusk (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Cole; served from November 2, 1886)
District 4:	John V. Findlay
District 5:	Barnes Compton
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:	Edward D. Hayden
District 6:	Henry B. Lovering
District 7:	Eben F. Stone
District 8:	Charles H. Allen
District 9:	Frederick D. Ely
District 10:	William W. Rice
District 11:	William Whiting
District 12:	Francis W. Rockwell

Michigan

Senators

Omar D. Conger
Thomas W. Palmer

Representatives

District 1:	William C. Maybury
District 2:	Nathaniel B. Eldredge
District 3:	James O'Donnell
District 4:	Julius C. Burrows
District 5:	Charles C. Comstock
District 6:	Edwin B. Winans
District 7:	Ezra C. Carleton
District 8:	Timothy E. Tarsney
District 9:	Byron M. Cutcheon
District 10:	Spencer O. Fisher
District 11:	Seth C. Moffatt

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:	John B. Gilfillan
District 5:	Knute Nelson

Mississippi

Senators

Lucius Q. C. Lamar (resigned March 6, 1885 to become Secretary of the Interior)
James Z. George
Edward C. Walthall (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lucius Q.C. Lamar; served from March 9, 1885)

Representatives

District 1:	John M. Allen
District 2:	James B. Morgan
District 3:	Thomas C. Catchings
District 4:	Frederick G. Barry
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:	John B. Hale
District 3:	Alexander M. Dockery
District 4:	James N. Burnes
District 5:	William Warner
District 6:	John T. Heard
District 7:	John E. Hutton
District 8:	John J. O'Neill
District 9:	John M. Glover
District 10:	Martin L. Clardy
District 11:	Richard P. Bland
District 12:	William H. Stone
District 13:	William H. Wade
District 14:	William Dawson

Nebraska

Senators

Charles H. Van Wyck
Charles F. Manderson

Representatives

District 1:	Archibald J. Weaver
District 2:	James Laird
District 3:	George W. E. Dorsey

Nevada

Senators

John P. Jones

James G. Fair

Representative At Large

William Woodburn

New Hampshire

Senators

Austin F. Pike (died October 8, 1886)
Henry W. Blair (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1885; served from December 7, 1885)
Person C. Cheney (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Austin F. Pike; served from November 24, 1886)

Representatives

District 1:	Martin A. Haynes
District 2:	Jacob H. Gallinger

New Jersey

Senators

John P. McPherson
William J. Sewell

Representatives

District 1:	George Hires
District 2:	James Buchanan
District 3:	Robert S. Green (resigned January 17, 1887 to become Governor of New Jersey)
District 4:	James N. Pidcock
District 5:	William W. Phelps
District 6:	Herman Lehlbach
District 7:	William McAdoo

New York

Senators

Warner Miller (Rep.)
William M. Evarts (Rep.)

Representatives

District 1:	Perry Belmont (Dem.)
District 2:	Felix Campbell (Dem.)
District 3:	Darwin R. James (Rep.)
District 4:	Peter P. Mahoney (Dem.)
District 5:	Archibald M. Bliss (Dem.)
District 6:	Nicholas Muller (Dem.)
District 7:	John J. Adams (Dem.)
District 8:	Samuel S. Cox (Dem.) (resigned May 20, 1885 to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey)
District 8:	Timothy J. Campbell (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel S. Cox; served from November 3, 1885)
District 9:	Joseph Pulitzer (Dem.) (resigned April 10, 1886)
District 9:	Samuel S. Cox (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer; served from November 2, 1886)
District 10:	Abram S. Hewitt (Dem.) (resigned December 30, 1886)
District 11:	Truman A. Merriman (Ind. Dem.)
District 12:	Abraham Dowdney (Dem.) (died December 10, 1886)
District 13:	Egbert L. Viele (Dem.)
District 14:	William G. Stahlnecker (Dem.)
District 15:	Lewis Beach (Dem.) (died August 10, 1886)
District 15:	Henry Bacon (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach; served from December 6, 1886)
District 16:	John H. Ketcham (Rep.)
District 17:	James G. Lindsley (Rep.)
District 18:	Henry G. Burleigh (Rep.)
District 19:	John Swinburne (Rep.)
District 20:	George West (Rep.)
District 21:	Frederick A. Johnson (Rep.)
District 22:	Abraham X. Parker (Rep.)
District 23:	John T. Spriggs (Dem.)
District 24:	John S. Pindar (Dem.)
District 25:	Frank Hiscock (Rep.) (resigned March 3, 1887 to become Senator)
District 26:	Stephen C. Millard (Rep.)
District 27:	Sereno E. Payne (Rep.)
District 28:	John Arnot, Jr. (Dem.) (died November 20, 1886)
District 29:	Ira Davenport (Rep.)
District 30:	Charles S. Baker (Rep.)
District 31:	John G. Sawyer (Rep.)
District 32:	John M. Farquhar (Rep.)
District 33:	John B. Weber (Rep.)
District 34:	Walter L. Sessions (Rep.)

North Carolina

Senators

Matt W. Ransom
Zebulon B. Vance

Representatives

District 1:	Thomas G. Skinner
District 2:	James E. O'Hara
District 3:	Wharton J. Green
District 4:	William R. Cox
District 5:	James W. Reid (resigned December 31, 1886)
District 6:	Risden T. Bennett
District 7:	John S. Henderson
District 8:	William H. H. Cowles
District 9:	Thomas D. Johnston

Ohio

Senators

John Sherman (Rep.)
Henry B. Payne (Dem.)

Representatives

District 1:	Benjamin Butterworth (Rep.)
District 2:	Charles E. Brown (Rep.)
District 3:	James E. Campbell (Dem.)
District 4:	Charles M. Anderson (Dem.)
District 5:	Benjamin LeFevre (Dem.)
District 6:	William D. Hill (Dem.)
District 7:	George E. Seney (Dem.)
District 8:	John Little (Rep.)
District 9:	William C. Cooper (Rep.)
District 10:	Jacob Romeis (Rep.)
District 11:	William W. Ellsberry (Dem.)
District 12:	Albert C. Thompson (Rep.)
District 13:	Joseph H. Outhwaite (Dem.)
District 14:	Charles H. Grosvenor (Rep.)
District 15:	Beriah Wilkins (Dem.)
District 16:	George W. Geddes (Dem.)
District 17:	Adoniram J. Warner (Dem.)
District 18:	Isaac H. Taylor (Rep.)
District 19:	Ezra B. Taylor (Rep.)
District 20:	William McKinley, Jr. (Rep.)
District 21:	Martin A. Foran (Dem.)

Oregon

Senators

Joseph N. Dolph

John H. Mitchell (elected for the term beginning March 4, 1885; served from December 17, 1885)

Representative At Large

Binger Herman

Pennsylvania

Senators

J. Donald Cameron (Rep.)
John I. Mitchell (Rep.)

Representatives

District 1:	Henry H. Bingham (Rep.)
District 2:	Charles O'Neill (Rep.)
District 3:	Samuel J. Randall (Dem.)
District 4:	William D. Kelley (Rep.)
District 5:	Alfred C. Harmer (Rep.)
District 6:	James B. Everhart (Rep.)
District 7:	Isaac N. Evans (Rep.)
District 8:	Daniel Ermentrout (Dem.)
District 9:	John A. Hiestand (Rep.)
District 10:	William H. Sowden (Dem.)
District 11:	John B. Storm (Dem.)
District 12:	Joseph A. Scranton (Rep.)
District 13:	Charles N. Brumm (Rep.)
District 14:	Franklin Bound (Rep.)
District 15:	Frank C. Bunnell (Rep.)
District 16:	William W. Brown (Rep.)
District 17:	Jacob M. Campbell (Rep.)
District 18:	Louis E. Atkinson (Rep.)
District 19:	John A. Swope (Dem.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Duncan in the previous Congress, who had been re-elected; served from November 3, 1885)
District 20:	Andrew G. Curtin (Dem.)
District 21:	Charles E. Boyle (Dem.)
District 22:	James S. Negley (Rep.)
District 23:	Thomas M. Bayne (Rep.)
District 24:	Oscar L. Jackson (Rep.)
District 25:	Alexander C. White (Rep.)
District 26:	George W. Fleeger (Rep.)
District 27:	William L. Scott (Dem.)
At Large:	Edwin S. Osborne (Rep.)

Rhode Island

Senators

Nelson W. Aldrich
Jonathan Chace

Representatives

District 1:	Henry J. Spooner
District 2:	William A. Pirce (served until January 25, 1887, when the seat was declared vacant on account of irregularities in the election)
	Charles H. Page (contested the election of William A. Pirce, but the seat was declared vacant; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy thus caused; served from February 21, 1887)

South Carolina

Senators

Matthew C. Butler
Wade Hampton

Representatives

District 1:	Samuel Dibble
District 2:	George D. Tillman
District 3:	D. Wyatt Aiken
District 4:	William H. Perry
District 5:	John H. Hemphill
District 6:	George W. Dargan
District 7:	Robert Smalls

Tennessee

Senators

Isham G. Harris
Howell E. Jackson (resigned April 14, 1886 to become United States circuit judge for the sixth Federal circuit)
Washington C. Whitthorne (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Howell E. Jackson; served from April 16, 1886)

Representatives

District 1:	Augustus H. Pettibone
District 2:	Leonidas C. Houk
District 3:	John R. Neal
District 4:	Benton McMillin
District 5:	James D. Richardson
District 6:	Andrew J. Caldwell
District 7:	John G. Ballentine
District 8:	John M. Taylor
District 9:	Presley T. Glass
District 10:	Zachary Taylor

Texas

Senators

Samuel B. Maxey
Richard Coke

Representatives

District 1:	Charles Stewart
District 2:	John H. Reagan (resigned effective March 4, 1887 to become Senator)
District 3:	James H. Jones
District 4:	David B. Culberson
District 5:	James W. Throckmorton
District 6:	Olin Wellborn
District 7:	William H. Crain
District 8:	James F. Miller
District 9:	Roger Q. Mills
District 10:	Joseph D. Sayers
District 11:	Samuel W. T. Lanham

Vermont

Senators

George F. Edmunds
Justin S. Morrill

Representatives

District 1:	John W. Stewart
District 2:	William W. Grout

Virginia

Senators

William Mahone
Harrison H. Riddleberger

Representatives

District 1:	Thomas Croxton
District 2:	Harry Libbey
District 3:	George D. Wise
District 4:	James D. Brady
District 5:	George C. Cabell
District 6:	John W. Daniel
District 7:	Charles T. O'Ferrall
District 8:	John S. Barbour, Jr.
District 9:	Connally F. Trigg
District 10:	John R. Tucker

West Virginia

Senators

Johnson N. Camden
John E. Kenna

Representatives

District 1:	Nathan Goff, Jr.
District 2:	William L. Wilson
District 3:	Charles P. Snyder
District 4:	Eustace Gibson

Wisconsin

Senators

Philetus Sawyer
John C. Spooner

Representatives

District 1:	Lucien B. Caswell
District 2:	Edward S. Bragg
District 3:	Robert M. LaFollette
District 4:	Isaac W. Van Schaick
District 5:	Joseph Rankin (died January 24, 1886)
	Thomas R. Hudd (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Rankin; served from March 8, 1886)
District 6:	Richard W. Guenther
District 7:	Ormsby B. Thomas
District 8:	William T. Price (died December 6, 1886)
	Hugh H. Price (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, William T. Price; served from January 18, 1887)
District 9:	Isaac Stephenson