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

James L. Pugh

 

Representatives

 

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

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Augustus H. Garland (resigned March 6, 1885 to become Attorney General of the United States)

James K. Jones

James H. Berry (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Augustus H. Garland; served from March 20, 1885)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Poindexter Dunn
District 2: Clifton R. Breckinridge
District 3: Thomas C. McRae (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
District 5: Samuel W. Peel
 

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 (died December 16, 1886)

Shelby M. Cullom

Charles B. Farwell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Logan; served from January 19, 1887)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ransom W. Dunham
District 2: Frank Lawler
District 3: James H. Ward
District 4: George E. Adams
District 5: Reuben Ellwood (died July 1, 1885)
Albert J. Hopkins (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Reuben Ellwood; served from December 7, 1885)
District 6: Robert R. Hitt
District 7: Thomas J. Henderson
District 8: Ralph Plumb
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: John R. Thomas
District 16: Joseph G. Cannon
District 17: Silas Z. Landes
District 18: John R. Eden
District 19: William R. Morrison
District 20: Richard W. Townshend
 

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

William M. Evarts

 

Representatives

 

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

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

Henry B. Payne

 

Representatives

 

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

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

John I. Mitchell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry H. Bingham
District 2: Charles O'Neill
District 3: Samuel J. Randall
District 4: William D. Kelley
District 5: Alfred C. Harmer
District 6: James B. Everhart
District 7: Isaac N. Evans
District 8: