1887-1889 U.S. Congress
The50th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of theUnited States Senate and theUnited States House of Representatives . It met inWashington, D.C. , from March 4, 1887, to March 4, 1889, during the last two years ofGrover Cleveland 'sfirst presidency . The presidentvetoed 212 pieces of legislation, the greatest number in a single session of Congress.
The apportionment of seats in theHouse of Representatives was based on the1880 United States census . The Senate had aRepublican majority, and the House had aDemocratic majority.
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
House of Representatives [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ] Skip to House of Representatives , belowSenators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below areSenate class numbers , which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 James T. Jones (D)▌ 2 Hilary A. Herbert (D)▌ 3 William C. Oates (D)▌ 4 Alexander C. Davidson (D)▌ 5 James E. Cobb (D)▌ 6 John H. Bankhead (D)▌ 7 William H. Forney (D)▌ 8 Joseph Wheeler (D)▌ 1 Poindexter Dunn (D)▌ 2 Clifton R. Breckinridge (D)▌ 3 Thomas C. McRae (D)▌ 4 John H. Rogers (D)▌ 5 Samuel W. Peel (D)▌ 1 Thomas L. Thompson (D)▌ 2 Marion Biggs (D)▌ 3 Joseph McKenna (R)▌ 4 William W. Morrow (R)▌ 5 Charles N. Felton (R)▌ 6 William Vandever (R)▌ At-large George G. Symes (R)▌ 1 Robert J. Vance (D)▌ 2 Carlos French (D)▌ 3 Charles A. Russell (R)▌ 4 Miles T. Granger (D)▌ At-large John B. Penington (D)▌ 1 Robert H. M. Davidson (D)▌ 2 Charles Dougherty (D)▌ 1 Thomas M. Norwood (D)▌ 2 Henry G. Turner (D)▌ 3 Charles F. Crisp (D)▌ 4 Thomas W. Grimes (D)▌ 5 John D. Stewart (D)▌ 6 James H. Blount (D)▌ 7 Judson C. Clements (D)▌ 8 Henry H. Carlton (D)▌ 9 Allen D. Candler (D)▌ 10 George T. Barnes (D)▌ 1 Ransom W. Dunham (R)▌ 2 Frank Lawler (D)▌ 3 William E. Mason (R)▌ 4 George E. Adams (R)▌ 5 Albert J. Hopkins (R)▌ 6 Robert R. Hitt (R)▌ 7 Thomas J. Henderson (R)▌ 8 Ralph Plumb (R)▌ 9 Lewis E. Payson (R)▌ 10 Philip S. Post (R)▌ 11 William H. Gest (R)▌ 12 George A. Anderson (D)▌ 13 William M. Springer (D)▌ 14 Jonathan H. Rowell (R)▌ 15 Joseph G. Cannon (R)▌ 16 Silas Z. Landes (D)▌ 17 Edward Lane (D)▌ 18 Jehu Baker (R)▌ 19 Richard W. Townshend (D)▌ 20 John R. Thomas (R)▌ 1 Alvin P. Hovey (R), until January 17, 1889▌ Francis B. Posey (R), from January 29, 1889▌ 2 John H. O'Neall (D)▌ 3 Jonas G. Howard (D)▌ 4 William S. Holman (D)▌ 5 Courtland C. Matson (D)▌ 6 Thomas M. Browne (R)▌ 7 William D. Bynum (D)▌ 8 James T. Johnston (R)▌ 9 Joseph B. Cheadle (R)▌ 10 William D. Owen (R)▌ 11 George W. Steele (R)▌ 12 James B. White (R)▌ 13 Benjamin F. Shively (D)▌ 1 John H. Gear (R)▌ 2 Walter I. Hayes (D)▌ 3 David B. Henderson (R)▌ 4 William E. Fuller (R)▌ 5 Daniel Kerr (R)▌ 6 James B. Weaver (GB)▌ 7 Edwin H. Conger (R)▌ 8 Albert R. Anderson (IR)▌ 9 Joseph Lyman (R)▌ 10 Adoniram J. Holmes (R)▌ 11 Isaac S. Struble (R)▌ 1 Edmund N. Morrill (R)▌ 2 Edward H. Funston (R)▌ 3 Bishop W. Perkins (R)▌ 4 Thomas Ryan (R)▌ 5 John A. Anderson (IR)▌ 6 Erastus J. Turner (R)▌ 7 Samuel R. Peters (R)▌ 1 William J. Stone (D)▌ 2 Polk Laffoon (D)▌ 3 W. Godfrey Hunter (R)▌ 4 Alexander B. Montgomery (D)▌ 5 Asher G. Caruth (D)▌ 6 John G. Carlisle (D)▌ 7 William C. P. Breckinridge (D)▌ 8 James B. McCreary (D)▌ 9 George M. Thomas (R)▌ 10 William P. Taulbee (D)▌ 11 Hugh F. Finley (R)▌ 1 Theodore S. Wilkinson (D)▌ 2 Matthew D. Lagan (D)▌ 3 Edward J. Gay (D)▌ 4 Newton C. Blanchard (D)▌ 5 Cherubusco Newton (D)▌ 6 Edward W. Robertson (D), until August 2, 1887▌ Samuel M. Robertson (D), from December 5, 1887▌ 1 Thomas B. Reed (R)▌ 2 Nelson Dingley Jr. (R)▌ 3 Seth L. Milliken (R)▌ 4 Charles A. Boutelle (R)▌ 1 Charles H. Gibson (D)▌ 2 Frank T. Shaw (D)▌ 3 Henry W. Rusk (D)▌ 4 Isidor Rayner (D)▌ 5 Barnes Compton (D)▌ 6 Louis E. McComas (R)▌ 1 Robert T. Davis (R)▌ 2 John D. Long (R)▌ 3 Leopold Morse (D)▌ 4 Patrick A. Collins (D)▌ 5 Edward D. Hayden (R)▌ 6 Henry Cabot Lodge (R)▌ 7 William Cogswell (R)▌ 8 Charles H. Allen (R)▌ 9 Edward Burnett (D)▌ 10 John E. Russell (D)▌ 11 William Whiting (R)▌ 12 Francis W. Rockwell (R)▌ 1 J. Logan Chipman (D)▌ 2 Edward P. Allen (R)▌ 3 James O'Donnell (R)▌ 4 Julius C. Burrows (R)▌ 5 Melbourne H. Ford (D)▌ 6 Mark S. Brewer (R)▌ 7 Justin R. Whiting (D)▌ 8 Timothy E. Tarsney (D)▌ 9 Byron M. Cutcheon (R)▌ 10 Spencer O. Fisher (D)▌ 11 Seth C. Moffatt (R), until December 22, 1887▌ Henry W. Seymour (R), from February 14, 1888▌ 1 Thomas Wilson (D)▌ 2 John Lind (R)▌ 3 John L. MacDonald (D)▌ 4 Edmund Rice (D)▌ 5 Knute Nelson (R)▌ 1 John M. Allen (D)▌ 2 James B. Morgan (D)▌ 3 Thomas C. Catchings (D)▌ 4 Frederick G. Barry (D)▌ 5 Chapman L. Anderson (D)▌ 6 Thomas R. Stockdale (D)▌ 7 Charles E. Hooker (D)▌ 1 William H. Hatch (D)▌ 2 Charles H. Mansur (D)▌ 3 Alexander M. Dockery (D)▌ 4 James N. Burnes (D), until January 23, 1889▌ Charles F. Booher (D), from February 19, 1889▌ 5 William Warner (R)▌ 6 John T. Heard (D)▌ 7 John E. Hutton (D)▌ 8 John J. O'Neill (D)▌ 9 John M. Glover (D)▌ 10 Martin L. Clardy (D)▌ 11 Richard P. Bland (D)▌ 12 William J. Stone (D)▌ 13 William H. Wade (R)▌ 14 James P. Walker (D)▌ 1 John A. McShane (D)▌ 2 James Laird (R)▌ 3 George W. E. Dorsey (R)▌ At-large William Woodburn (R)▌ 1 Luther F. McKinney (D)▌ 2 Jacob H. Gallinger (R)▌ 1 George Hires (R)▌ 2 James Buchanan (R)▌ 3 John Kean Jr. (R)▌ 4 James N. Pidcock (D)▌ 5 William W. Phelps (R)▌ 6 Herman Lehlbach (R)▌ 7 William McAdoo (D)▌ 1 Perry Belmont (D), until December 1, 1888▌ 2 Felix Campbell (D)▌ 3 Stephen V. White (R)▌ 4 Peter P. Mahoney (D)▌ 5 Archibald M. Bliss (D)▌ 6 Amos J. Cummings (D)▌ 7 Lloyd S. Bryce (D)▌ 8 Timothy J. Campbell (D)▌ 9 Samuel S. Cox (D)▌ 10 Francis B. Spinola (D)▌ 11 Truman A. Merriman (D)▌ 12 W. Bourke Cockran (D)▌ 13 Ashbel P. Fitch (D)▌ 14 William G. Stahlnecker (D)▌ 15 Henry Bacon (D)▌ 16 John H. Ketcham (R)▌ 17 Stephen T. Hopkins (R)▌ 18 Edward W. Greenman (D)▌ 19 Nicholas T. Kane (D), until September 14, 1887▌ Charles Tracey (D), from November 8, 1887▌ 20 George West (R)▌ 21 John H. Moffitt (R)▌ 22 Abraham X. Parker (R)▌ 23 James S. Sherman (R)▌ 24 David Wilber (R)▌ 25 James J. Belden (R), from November 8, 1887▌ 26 Milton De Lano (R)▌ 27 Newton W. Nutting (R)▌ 28 Thomas S. Flood (R)▌ 29 Ira Davenport (R)▌ 30 Charles S. Baker (R)▌ 31 John G. Sawyer (R)▌ 32 John M. Farquhar (R)▌ 33 John B. Weber (R)▌ 34 William G. Laidlaw (R)▌ 1 Louis C. Latham (D)▌ 2 Furnifold M. Simmons (D)▌ 3 Charles W. McClammy (D)▌ 4 John Nichols (I)▌ 5 John M. Brower (R)▌ 6 Alfred Rowland (D)▌ 7 John S. Henderson (D)▌ 8 William H. H. Cowles (D)▌ 9 Thomas D. Johnston (D)▌ 1 Benjamin Butterworth (R)▌ 2 Charles E. Brown (R)▌ 3 Elihu S. Williams (R)▌ 4 Samuel S. Yoder (D)▌ 5 George E. Seney (D)▌ 6 Melvin M. Boothman (R)▌ 7 James E. Campbell (D)▌ 8 Robert P. Kennedy (R)▌ 9 William C. Cooper (R)▌ 10 Jacob Romeis (R)▌ 11 Albert C. Thompson (R)▌ 12 Jacob J. Pugsley (R)▌ 13 Joseph H. Outhwaite (D)▌ 14 Charles P. Wickham (R)▌ 15 Charles H. Grosvenor (R)▌ 16 Beriah Wilkins (D)▌ 17 Joseph D. Taylor (R)▌ 18 William McKinley (R)▌ 19 Ezra B. Taylor (R)▌ 20 George W. Crouse (R)▌ 21 Martin A. Foran (D)▌ At-large Binger Hermann (R)▌ 1 Henry H. Bingham (R)▌ 2 Charles O'Neill (R)▌ 3 Samuel J. Randall (D)▌ 4 William D. Kelley (R)▌ 5 Alfred C. Harmer (R)▌ 6 Smedley Darlington (R)▌ 7 Robert M. Yardley (R)▌ 8 Daniel Ermentrout (D)▌ 9 John A. Hiestand (R)▌ 10 William H. Sowden (D)▌ 11 Charles R. Buckalew (D)▌ 12 John Lynch (D)▌ 13 Charles N. Brumm (R)▌ 14 Franklin Bound (R)▌ 15 Frank C. Bunnell (R)▌ 16 Henry C. McCormick (R)▌ 17 Edward Scull (R)▌ 18 Louis E. Atkinson (R)▌ 19 Levi Maish (D)▌ 20 John Patton (R)▌ 21 Welty McCullogh (R)▌ 22 John Dalzell (R)▌ 23 Thomas M. Bayne (R)▌ 24 Oscar L. Jackson (R)▌ 25 James T. Maffett (R)▌ 26 Norman Hall (D)▌ 27 William L. Scott (D)▌ At-large Edwin S. Osborne (R)▌ 1 Henry J. Spooner (R)▌ 2 Warren O. Arnold (R)▌ 1 Samuel Dibble (D)▌ 2 George D. Tillman (D)▌ 3 James S. Cothran (D)▌ 4 William H. Perry (D)▌ 5 John J. Hemphill (D)▌ 6 George W. Dargan (D)▌ 7 William Elliott (D)▌ 1 Roderick R. Butler (R)▌ 2 Leonidas C. Houk (R)▌ 3 John R. Neal (D)▌ 4 Benton McMillin (D)▌ 5 James D. Richardson (D)▌ 6 Joseph E. Washington (D)▌ 7 Washington C. Whitthorne (D)▌ 8 Benjamin A. Enloe (D)▌ 9 Presley T. Glass (D)▌ 10 James Phelan Jr. (D)▌ 1 Charles Stewart (D)▌ 2 John H. Reagan (D), until March 4, 1887▌ William H. Martin (D), from November 4, 1887▌ 3 Constantine B. Kilgore (D)▌ 4 David B. Culberson (D)▌ 5 Silas Hare (D)▌ 6 Joseph Abbott (D)▌ 7 William H. Crain (D)▌ 8 Littleton W. Moore (D)▌ 9 Roger Q. Mills (D)▌ 10 Joseph D. Sayers (D)▌ 11 Samuel W. T. Lanham (D)▌ 1 John W. Stewart (R)▌ 2 William W. Grout (R)▌ 1 Thomas H. B. Browne (R)▌ 2 George E. Bowden (R)▌ 3 George D. Wise (D)▌ 4 William E. Gaines (R)▌ 5 John R. Brown (R)▌ 6 Samuel I. Hopkins (L)▌ 7 Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)▌ 8 William H. F. Lee (D)▌ 9 Henry Bowen (R)▌ 10 Jacob Yost (R)▌ 1 Nathan Goff (R)▌ 2 William L. Wilson (D)▌ 3 Charles P. Snyder (D)▌ 4 Charles E. Hogg (D)▌ 1 Lucien B. Caswell (R)▌ 2 Richard W. Guenther (R)▌ 3 Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)▌ 4 Henry Smith (L)▌ 5 Thomas R. Hudd (D)▌ 6 Charles B. Clark (R)▌ 7 Ormsby B. Thomas (R)▌ 8 Nils P. Haugen (R)▌ 9 Isaac Stephenson (R)▌ Arizona Territory Marcus A. Smith (D)▌ Dakota Territory Oscar S. Gifford (R)▌ Idaho Territory Fred T. Dubois (R)▌ Montana Territory Joseph K. Toole (D)▌ New Mexico Territory Antonio Joseph (D)▌ Utah Territory John T. Caine (D)▌ Washington Territory Charles S. Voorhees (D)▌ Wyoming Territory Joseph M. Carey (R)House seats by party holding plurality in state 80%+ to 100% Democratic
80%+ to 100% Republican
60%+ to 80% Democratic
60%+ to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
House SpeakerJohn G. Carlisle
Changes in membership [ edit ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
Replacements: 1 Deaths: 0 Resignations: 1 Interim appointments: 1 Total seats with changes: 2 House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 8 Deaths: 4 Resignations: 5 Contested election: 0 Total seats with changes: 8 District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date successor seated New York 25th Vacant Rep.Frank Hiscock resigned during previous congress James J. Belden (R)November 8, 1887 Texas 2nd John H. Reagan (D)Resigned March 4, 1887, after being elected to theU.S. Senate William H. Martin (D)November 4, 1887 Louisiana 6th Edward W. Robertson (D)Died August 2, 1887 Samuel M. Robertson (D)December 5, 1887 New York 19th Nicholas T. Kane (D)Died September 14, 1887 Charles Tracey (D)November 8, 1887 Michigan 11th Seth C. Moffatt (R)Died December 22, 1887 Henry W. Seymour (R)February 14, 1888 New York 1st Perry Belmont (D)Resigned December 1, 1888, after being appointedMinister to Spain Vacant until next Congress Indiana 1st Alvin P. Hovey (R)Resigned January 17, 1889, after being electedGovernor of Indiana .elected January 29, 1889, and seated February 6, 1889.[ 1] Francis B. Posey (R)February 6, 1889 Missouri 4th James N. Burnes (D)Died January 23, 1889.elected February 19, 1889, and seated February 25, 1889.[ 1] Charles F. Booher (D)February 25, 1889
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. On the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
House of Representatives [ edit ] Administrative officers [ edit ] House of Representatives [ edit ]
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