Membership of the 50th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889
 
First Session:  December 5, 1887 to October 20, 1888
Second Session:  December 3, 1888 to March 3, 1889
 

Vice President of the United States:

Vacant

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

John J. Ingalls (Kansas)

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:

A. B. Hurd (Mississippi)

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: James E. Cobb
District 6: John Hollis Bankhead
District 7: William H. Forney
District 8: Joe Wheeler
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

James K. Jones

James H. Berry

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Poindexter Dunn
District 2: Clifton R. Breckinridge
District 3: Thomas C. McRae
District 4: John H. Rogers
District 5: Samuel W. Peel
 

California

 

Senators

 

Leland Stanford

George Hearst

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas L. Thompson

District 2: Marion Biggs
District 3: Joseph McKenna
District 4: William W. Morrow
District 5: Charles N. Felton
District 6: William Vandever
 

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: Robert J. Vance
District 2: Carlos French
District 3: Charles A. Russell
District 4: Miles T. Granger
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Eli M. Saulsbury

George Gray

 

Representative At Large

 

John B. Pennington
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Wilkinson Call

Samuel Pasco (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1887; served from May 19, 1887)

 

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: Thomas W. Grimes
District 5: John D. Stewart
District 6: James H. Blount
District 7: Judson C. Clements
District 8: Henry H. Carlton
District 9: Allen D. Candler
District 10: George T. Barnes
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Shelby M. Cullom

Charles B. Farwell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ransom W. Dunham
District 2: Frank Lawler
District 3: William E. Mason
District 4: George E. Adams
District 5: Albert J. Hopkins
District 6: Robert R. Hitt
District 7: Thomas J. Henderson
District 8: Ralph Plumb
District 9: Lewis E. Payson
District 10: Philip S. Post
District 11: William H. Gest
District 12: George A. Anderson
District 13: William M. Springer
District 14: Jonathan H. Rowell
District 15: Joseph G. Cannon
District 16: Silas Z. Landes
District 17: Edward Lane
District 18: Jehu Baker
District 19: Richard W. Townshend
District 20: John R. Thomas
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Daniel W. Voorhees

David B. Turpie

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alvin P. Hovey (resigned January 17, 1889 to become Governor of Indiana)
Francis B. Posey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alvin P. Hovey; served from January 29, 1889)
District 2: John H. O'Neall
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: Joseph B. Cheadle
District 10: William D. Owen
District 11: George W. Steele
District 12: James B. White
District 13: Benjamin F. Shively
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

William B. Allison

James F. Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John H. Gear
District 2: Walter I. Hayes
District 3: David B. Henderson
District 4: William E. Fuller
District 5: Daniel Kerr
District 6: James B. Weaver
District 7: Edwin H. Conger
District 8: Albert R. Anderson
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: Erastus J. Turner
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: W. Godfrey Hunter
District 4: Alexander B. Montgomery
District 5: Asher G. Caruth
District 6: John G. Carlisle
District 7: William C. P. Breckinridge
District 8: James B. McCreary
District 9: George M. Thomas
District 10: William P. Taulbee
District 11: Hugh F. Finley
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Randall L. Gibson

James B. Eustis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Theodore S. Wilkinson
District 2: Matthew D. Lagan
District 3: Edward J. Gay
District 4: Newton C. Blanchard
District 5: Cherubusco Newton
District 6: Edward W. Robertson (died August 2, 1887)
Samuel M. Robertston (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Edward W. Robertson; served from December 5, 1887)
 

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: Harry W. Rusk
District 4: Isidor Rayner
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: Leopold Morse
District 4: Patrick A. Collins
District 5: Edward D. Hayden
District 6: Henry Cabot Lodge
District 7: William Cogswell
District 8: Charles H. Allen
District 9: Edward Burnett
District 10: John E. Russell
District 11: William Whiting
District 12: Francis W. Rockwell
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Thomas W. Palmer

Francis B. Stockbridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1: J. Logan Chipman
District 2: Edward P. Allen
District 3: James O'Donnell
District 4: Julius C. Burrows
District 5: Melbourne H. Ford
District 6: Mark S. Brewer
District 7: Justin R. Whiting
District 8: Timothy E. Tarsney
District 9: Byron M. Cutcheon
District 10: Spencer O. Fisher
District 11: Seth C. Moffatt (died December 22, 1887)
Henry W. Seymour (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Seth C. Moffatt; served from February 14, 1888)
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Dwight M. Sabin

Cushman K. Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas Wilson
District 2: John Lind
District 3: John L. MacDonald
District 4: Edmund Rice
District 5: Knute Nelson
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

James Z. George

Edward C. Walthall

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John M. Allen
District 2: James B. Morgan
District 3: Thomas C. Catchings
District 4: Frederick G. Barry
District 5: Chapman L. Anderson
District 6: Thomas R. Stockdale
District 7: Charles E. Hooker
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Francis M. Cockrell

George G. Vest

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William H. Hatch
District 2: Charles H. Mansur
District 3: Alexander M. Dockery
District 4: James N. Burnes (died January 23, 1889)

Charles F. Booher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James N. Burnes; served from February 19, 1889)

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: James P. Walker
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

Charles F. Manderson

Algernon S. Paddock

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John A. McShane
District 2: James Laird
District 3: George W. E. Dorsey
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

John P. Jones

William M. Stewart

 

Representative At Large

 

William Woodburn
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Henry W. Blair

Person C. Cheney (resigned June 14, 1887, when William E. Chandler was elected)

William E. Chandler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Austin F. Pike; served from June 14, 1887)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Luther F. McKinney
District 2: Jacob H. Gallinger
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John R. McPherson

Rufus Blodgett

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George Hires
District 2: James Buchanan
District 3: John Kean
District 4: James N. Pidcock
District 5: William W. Phelps
District 6: Herman Lehlbach
District 7: William McAdoo
 

New York

 

Senators

 

William M. Evarts

Frank Hiscock

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Perry Belmont (resigned December 1, 1888 to become Minister to Spain)
District 2: Felix Campbell
District 3: Stephen V. White
District 4: Peter P. Mahoney
District 5: Archibald M. Bliss
District 6: Amos J. Cummings
District 7: Lloyd S. Bryce
District 8: Timothy J. Campbell
District 9: Samuel S. Cox
District 10: Francis B. Spinola
District 11: Truman A. Merriman
District 12: W. Bourke Cockran
District 13: Asabel P. Fitch
District 14: William G. Stahlnecker
District 15: Henry Bacon
District 16: John H. Ketcham
District 17: Stephen T. Hopkins
District 18: Edward W. Greenman
District 19: Nicholas T. Kane (died September 14, 1887)
Charles Tracey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nicholas T. Kane; served from November 8, 1887)
District 20: George West
District 21: John H. Moffitt
District 22: Abraham X. Parker
District 23: James S. Sherman
District 24: David Wilber
District 25: James J. Belden (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frank Hiscock in the previous Congress; served from November 8, 1887)
District 26: Milton De Lano
District 27: Newton W. Nutting
District 28: Thomas S. Flood
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: William G. Laidlaw
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Matt W. Ransom

Zebulon B. Vance

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Louis C. Latham
District 2: Furnifold M. Simmons
District 3: Charles W. McClammy
District 4: John Nichols
District 5: John M. Brower
District 6: Alfred Rowland
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: Elihu S. Williams
District 4: Samuel S. Yoder
District 5: George E. Seney
District 6: Melvin M. Boothman
District 7: James E. Campbell
District 8: Robert P. Kennedy
District 9: William C. Cooper
District 10: Jacob Romeis
District 11: Albert C. Thompson
District 12: Jacob Pugsley
District 13: Joseph H. Outhwaite
District 14: Charles P. Wickham
District 15: Charles H. Grosvenor
District 16: Beriah Wilkins
District 17: Joseph D. Taylor
District 18: William McKinley, Jr.
District 19: Ezra B. Taylor
District 20: George W. Crouse
District 21: Martin A. Foran
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

Joseph N. Dolph

John H. Mitchell

 

Representative At Large

 

Binger Hermann
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

J. Donald Cameron

Matthew S. Quay

 

Representatives

 

District 1: