Membership of the 54th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1895 to March 3, 1897
 
First Session:  December 2, 1895 to June 11, 1896
Second Session:  December 7, 1896 to March 3, 1897
 

Vice President of the United States:

Adlai E. Stevenson (Illinois)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

William P. Frye (Maine)

Secretary of the Senate:

William R. Cox (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:

Richard J. Bright (Indiana)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Thomas B. Reed (Maine)

Clerk of the House:

James Kerr (Pennsylvania)
Alexander McDowell (Pennsylvania), from December 2, 1895

Sergeant At Arms of the House:

Herman W. Snow (Illinois)
Benjamin F. Russell (Missouri), from December 2, 1985

Doorkeeper of the House:

William J. Glenn (New York)

Postmaster of the House:

J. C. McElroy

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

John T. Morgan

James L. Pugh

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George W. Taylor

District 2:

Jesse F. Stallings

District 3:

George P. Harrison

District 4:

Gaston A. Robbins (succeeded March 13, 1896 by William F. Aldrich, who contested the election)

William F. Aldrich (successfully contested the election of Gaston A. Robbins, served from March 13, 1896)

District 5:

James E. Cobb (succeeded April 21, 1896 by Albert T. Goodwyn, who contested the election)

Albert T. Goodwyn (successfully contested the election of James E. Cobb; served from April 22, 1896)

District 6:

John Hollis Bankhead

District 7:

Milford W. Howard

District 8:

Joe Wheeler

District 9:

Oscar W. Underwood (succeeded June 9, 1896 by Truman H. Aldrich, who contested the election)

Truman H. Aldrich (successfully contested the election of Oscar W. Underwood; served from June 9, 1896)

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

James K. Jones

James H. Berry

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Philip D. McCullough, Jr.

District 2:

John S. Little

District 3:

Thomas C. McRae

District 4:

William L. Terry

District 5:

Hugh A. Dinsmore

District 6:

Robert Neill

 

California

 

Senators

 

Stephen M. White

George C. Perkins

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Al. Barham

District 2:

Grove L. Johnson

District 3:

Samuel G. Hilborn

District 4:

James G. McGuire

District 5:

Eugene F. Loud

District 6:

James McClachan

District 7:

William W. Bowers

 

Colorado

 

Senators

 

Henry M. Teller

Edward O. Wolcott

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John F. Shafroth

District 2:

John C. Bell

 

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Orville H. Platt

Joseph R. Hawley

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

E. Stevens Henry 

District 2:

Nehemiah D. Sperry

District 3:

Charles A. Russell

District 4:

Ebenezer J. Hill

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

George Gray

Richard R. Kenney (elected for the term commencing March 4, 1895 to fill the vacancy caused by failure of the legislature to elect; served from January 19, 1897)

 

Representative At Large

 

Jonathan S. Willis

 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Wilkinson Call

Samuel Pasco

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Stephen M. Sparkman

District 2:

Charles M. Cooper

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John B. Gordon

Augustus O. Bacon

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Rufus E. Lester

District 2:

Benjamin E. Russell

District 3:

Charles F. Crisp (died October 23, 1896)

 

Charles R. Crisp (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Charles F. Crisp; served from December 19, 1896)

District 4:

Charles L. Moses

District 5:

Leonidas F. Livingston

District 6:

Charles L. Bartlett

District 7:

John W. Maddox

District 8:

Thomas G. Lawson

District 9:

Farish C. Tate

District 10:

James C. C. Black (resigned March 4, 1895; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from October 2, 1895)

District 11:

Henry G. Turner

 

Idaho

 

Senators

 

George L. Shoup

Fred T. Dubois

 

Representative At Large

 

Edgar Wilson

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Shelby M. Cullom

John M. Palmer

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

J. Frank Aldrich 

District 2:

William Lorimer

District 3:

Lawrence E. McGann (succeeded December 27, 1895 by Hugh R. Belknap, who contested the election)

 

Hugh R. Belknap (successfully contested the election of Lawrence E. McGovern; served from December 27, 1895)

District 4:

Charles W. Woodman

District 5:

George E. White

District 6:

Edward D. Cooke

District 7:

George C. Foss

District 8:

Albert J. Hopkins

District 9:

Robert R. Hitt

District 10:

George W. Prince (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Philip S. Post in the previous Congress; served from December 2, 1895)

District 11:

Walter Reeves

District 12:

Joseph G. Cannon

District 13:

Vespasian Warner

District 13:

Joseph V. Graff

District 15:

Benjamin F. Marsh

District 16:

Finis E. Downing (succeeded June 5, 1896 by John I. Rinaker, who contested the election)

 

John I. Rinaker (successfully contested the election of Finis E. Downing; served from June 5, 1896)

District 17:

James A. Connolly

District 18:

Frederick Remann (died July 14, 1895)

 

William F. L. Hadley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick Remann; served from December 2, 1895)

District 19:

Benson Wood

District 20:

Orlando Burrell

District 21:

Everett J. Murphy

District 22:

George W. Smith

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Daniel W. Voorhees

David B. Turpie

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James A. Hemenway

District 2:

Alexander M. Hardy

District 3:

Robert J. Tracewell

District 4:

James E. Watson

District 5:

Jesse Overstreet

District 6:

Henry U. Johnson

District 7:

Charles L. Henry

District 8:

George W. Faris

District 9:

J. Frank Hanly

District 10:

Jethro A. Hatch

District 11:

George W. Steele

District 12:

Jacob D. Leighty

District 13:

Lemuel W. Royse

 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

William B. Allison

John H. Gear

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Samuel M. Clark

District 2:

George M. Curtis

District 3:

David B. Henderson

District 4:

Thomas Updegraff

District 5:

Robert G. Cousins

District 6:

John F. Lacey

District 7:

John A. T. Hull

District 8:

William P. Hepburn

District 9:

Alva L. Hager

District 10:

Jonathan P. Dolliver

District 11:

George D. Perkins

 

Kansas

 

Senators

 

William A. Peffer

Lucien Baker

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Case Broderick

District 2:

Orrin L. Miller

District 3:

Snyder S. Kirkpatrick

District 4:

Charles Curtis

District 5:

William A. Calderhead

District 6:

William Baker

District 7:

Chester I. Long

At Large:

Richard Blue

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Joseph C. S. Blackburn

William Lindsay

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John K. Hendrick

District 2:

John D. Clardy

District 3:

W. Godfrey Hunter

District 4:

John W. Lewis

District 5:

Walter Evans

District 6:

Albert S. Berry

District 7:

William C. Owens

District 8:

James B. McCreary

District 9:

Samuel J. Pugh

District 10:

 

Joseph M. Kendall (succeeded February 18, 1897 by Nathan T. Hopkins, who contested the election)

Nathan T. Hopkins (successfully contested the election of Joseph M. Kendall; served from February 18, 1897)

District 11:

David G. Colson

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Donelson Caffery

Newton D. Blanchard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Adolph Meyer

District 2:

Charles F. Buck

District 3:

Andrew Price

District 4:

Henry W. Ogden

District 5:

Charles J. Boatner

District 6:

Samuel M. Robertston

 

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

Charles H. Gibson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joshua W. Miles

District 2:

William B. Baker

District 3:

Harry W. Rusk

District 4:

John K. Cowan

District 5:

Charles E. Coffin

District 6:

George L. Wellington

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

George F. Hoar

Henry Cabot Lodge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ashley B. Wright

District 2:

Frederick H. Gillett

District 3:

Joseph H. Walker

District 4:

Lewis D. Apsley

District 5:

William S. Knox

District 6:

William Cogswell (died May 22, 1895)

 

William H. Moody (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Cogswell; served from November 5, 1895)

District 7:

William E. Barrett

District 8:

Samuel W. McCall

District 9:

John F. Fitzgerald

District 10:

Harrison H. Atwood

District 11:

William F. Draper

District 12:

Elijah A. Morse

District 13:

John Simpkins

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

James McMillan

Julius C. Burrows

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John B. Corliss

District 2:

George Spalding

District 3:

Alfred Milnes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Julius C. Burrows in the previous Congress; served from December 2, 1895)

District 4:

Henry F. Thomas

District 5:

William A. Smith

District 6:

David D. Aitken

District 7:

Horace G. Snover

District 8:

William S. Linton

District 9:

Roswell P. Bishop

District 10:

Rousseau O. Crump

District 11:

John Avery

District 12:

Samuel M. Stephenson

 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Cushman K. Davis

Knute Nelson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James A. Tawney

District 2:

James T. McCleary

District 3:

Joel P. Heatwole

District 4:

Andrew R. Kiefer

District 5:

Loren Fletcher

District 6:

Charles A. Towne

District 7:

Frank M. Eddy

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

James Z. George

Edward C. Walthall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John M. Allen

District 2:

John C. Kyle

District 3:

Thomas C. Catchings

District 4:

Hernando D. Money

District 5:

John Sharp Williams

District 6:

Walter McK. Denny

District 7:

James G. Spencer

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Francis M. Cockrell

George G. Vest

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles N. Clark

District 2:

Uriel S. Hall

District 3:

Alexander M. Dockery

District 4:

George C. Crowther

District 5:

John C. Tarsney (succeeded February 27, 1896 by Robert T. Van Horn, who contested the election)

 

Robert T. Van Horn (successfully contested the election of John C. Tarnsey; served from February 27, 1896)

District 6:

David A. DeArmond

District 7:

James P. Tracey

District 8:

Joel D. Hubbard

District 9:

William M. Treloar

District 10:

Richard Bartholdt

District 11:

Charles F. Joy

District 12:

Seth W. Cobb

District 13:

John H. Raney

District 14:

Norman A. Mozley

District 15:

Charles G. Burton

 

Montana

 

Senators

 

Lee Mantle

Thomas H. Carter

 

Representative At Large

 

Charles S. Hartman
 

Nebraska

 

Senators

 

William V. Allen

John M. Thurston

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jesse B. Strode
District 2: David H. Mercer
District 3: George D. Meiklejohn
District 4: Eugene J. Hainer
District 5: William E. Andrews
District 6: Omer M. Kem
 

Nevada

 

Senators

 

John P. Jones

William M. Stewart

 

Representative At Large

 

Francis G. Newlands
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

William E. Chandler