Meeting of the legislative branch of the United States (1885–1887)
49th United States Congress Members 76 senators Senate majority Republican Senate President Thomas A. Hendricks (D)House majority Democratic House Speaker John Carlisle (D)Sessions Special[ a] : March 4, 1885 – April 2, 18851st : December 7, 1885 – August 5, 18862nd : December 6, 1886 – March 3, 1887
The49th 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, 1885, to March 4, 1887, during the first two years ofGrover Cleveland 'sfirst presidency . 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.
First presidential inauguration of Grover Cleveland , March 4, 1885, on theEast Portico of the U.S. Capitol . "Fellow-Citizens: In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen I am about to supplement and seal by the oath which I shall take the manifestation of the will of a great and free people...."[ 1] January 19, 1886:Presidential Succession Act of 1886 , ch. 4, 24 Stat. 1 February 3, 1887:Electoral Count Act , ch. 90, 24 Stat. 373 February 4, 1887:Interstate Commerce Act , ch. 104, 24 Stat. 379 February 8, 1887:Indian General Allotment Act ("Dawes Act"), ch. 119, 24 Stat. 388 March 2, 1887:Agricultural Experiment Stations Act of 1887 March 2, 1887:Hatch Act of 1887 , ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440 March 3, 1887:Tucker Act , ch. 359, 24 Stat. 505 March 3, 1887:Edmunds–Tucker Act , ch. 397 24 Stat. 635 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 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 of Representatives [ edit ] Senators 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 ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1886; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.
▌ 2.John T. Morgan (D)▌ 3.James L. Pugh (D)▌ 2.Augustus H. Garland (D), until March 6, 1885▌ James H. Berry (D), from March 20, 1885▌ 3.James K. Jones (D)▌ 1.John F. Miller (R), until March 8, 1886▌ George Hearst (D), March 23 – August 4, 1886▌ Abram P. Williams (R), from August 4, 1886▌ 3.Leland Stanford (R)▌ 2.Thomas M. Bowen (R)▌ 3.Henry M. Teller (R)▌ 1.Joseph R. Hawley (R)▌ 3.Orville H. Platt (R)▌ 1.Thomas F. Bayard (D), until March 6, 1885▌ George Gray (D), from March 18, 1885▌ 2.Eli Saulsbury (D)▌ 1.Charles W. Jones (D)▌ 3.Wilkinson Call (D)▌ 2.Alfred H. Colquitt (D)▌ 3.Joseph E. Brown (D)▌ 2.Shelby M. Cullom (R)▌ 3.John A. Logan (R), May 19, 1885 – December 26, 1886▌ Charles B. Farwell (R), from January 19, 1887▌ 1.Benjamin Harrison (R)▌ 3.Daniel W. Voorhees (D)▌ 2.James F. Wilson (R)▌ 3.William B. Allison (R)▌ 2.Preston B. Plumb (R)▌ 3.John J. Ingalls (R)▌ 2.James B. Beck (D)▌ 3.Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)▌ 2.Randall L. Gibson (D)▌ 3.James B. Eustis (D)▌ 1.Eugene Hale (R)▌ 2.William P. Frye (R)▌ 1.Arthur Pue Gorman (D)▌ 3.Ephraim K. Wilson II (D)▌ 1.Henry L. Dawes (R)▌ 2.George F. Hoar (R)▌ 1.Omar D. Conger (R)▌ 2.Thomas W. Palmer (R)▌ 1.Samuel J. R. McMillan (R)▌ 2.Dwight M. Sabin (R)▌ 1.James Z. George (D)▌ 2.Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D), until March 6, 1885▌ Edward C. Walthall (D), from March 9, 1885▌ 1.Francis Cockrell (D)▌ 3.George G. Vest (D)▌ 1.Charles H. Van Wyck (R)▌ 2.Charles F. Manderson (R)▌ 1.James G. Fair (D)▌ 3.John P. Jones (R)▌ 2.Austin F. Pike (R), until October 8, 1886▌ Person C. Cheney (R), from November 24, 1886▌ 3.Henry W. Blair (R), from March 5, 1885▌ 1.William J. Sewell (R)▌ 2.John R. McPherson (D)▌ 1.Warner Miller (R)▌ 3.William M. Evarts (R)▌ 2.Matt W. Ransom (D)▌ 3.Zebulon B. Vance (D)▌ 1.John Sherman (R)▌ 3.Henry B. Payne (D)▌ 2.Joseph N. Dolph (R)▌ 3.John H. Mitchell (R), from November 18, 1885▌ 1.John I. Mitchell (R)▌ 3.J. Donald Cameron (R)▌ 1.Nelson W. Aldrich (R)▌ 2.Jonathan Chace (R)▌ 2.Matthew C. Butler (D)▌ 3.Wade Hampton III (D)▌ 1.Howell E. Jackson (D), until April 14, 1886▌ Washington C. Whitthorne (D), from April 16, 1886▌ 2.Isham G. Harris (D)▌ 1.Samuel B. Maxey (D)▌ 2.Richard Coke (D)▌ 1.George F. Edmunds (R)▌ 3.Justin S. Morrill (R)▌ 1.William Mahone (RA)▌ 2.Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA)▌ 1.Johnson N. Camden (D)▌ 2.John E. Kenna (D)▌ 1.Philetus Sawyer (R)▌ 3.John C. Spooner (R)Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 49th Congress in March 1885. 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
Territories
Senate PresidentThomas A. Hendricks Senate President pro temporeJohn Sherman Senate President pro temporeJohn J. Ingalls
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of representatives are listed by district.
▌ 1 James T. Jones (D)▌ 2 Hilary A. Herbert (D)▌ 3 William C. Oates (D)▌ 4 Alexander C. Davidson (D)▌ 5 Thomas W. Sadler (D)▌ 6 John M. Martin (D)▌ 7 William H. Forney (D)▌ 8 Joseph Wheeler (D)▌ 1 Poindexter Dunn (D)▌ 2 Clifton R. Breckinridge (D)▌ 3 Thomas C. McRae (D), from December 7, 1885▌ 4 John H. Rogers (D)▌ 5 Samuel W. Peel (D)▌ 1 Barclay Henley (D)▌ 2 James A. Louttit (R)▌ 3 Joseph McKenna (R)▌ 4 William W. Morrow (R)▌ 5 Charles N. Felton (R)▌ 6 Henry H. Markham (R)▌ At-large George G. Symes (R)▌ 1 John R. Buck (R)▌ 2 Charles L. Mitchell (D)▌ 3 John T. Wait (R)▌ 4 Edward W. Seymour (D)▌ At-large Charles B. Lore (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 Henry R. Harris (D)▌ 5 Nathaniel J. Hammond (D)▌ 6 James H. Blount (D)▌ 7 Judson C. Clements (D)▌ 8 Seaborn Reese (D)▌ 9 Allen D. Candler (D)▌ 10 George T. Barnes (D)▌ 1 Ransom W. Dunham (R)▌ 2 Frank Lawler (D)▌ 3 James H. Ward (D)▌ 4 George E. Adams (R)▌ 5 Reuben Ellwood (R), until July 1, 1885▌ Albert J. Hopkins (R), from December 7, 1885▌ 6 Robert R. Hitt (R)▌ 7 Thomas J. Henderson (R)▌ 8 Ralph Plumb (R)▌ 9 Lewis E. Payson (R)▌ 10 Nicholas E. Worthington (D)▌ 11 William H. Neece (D)▌ 12 James M. Riggs (D)▌ 13 William M. Springer (D)▌ 14 Jonathan H. Rowell (R)▌ 15 Joseph G. Cannon (R)▌ 16 Silas Z. Landes (D)▌ 17 John R. Eden (D)▌ 18 William R. Morrison (D)▌ 19 Richard W. Townshend (D)▌ 20 John R. Thomas (R)▌ 1 John J. Kleiner (D)▌ 2 Thomas R. Cobb (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 Thomas B. Ward (D)▌ 10 William D. Owen (R)▌ 11 George W. Steele (R)▌ 12 Robert Lowry (D)▌ 13 George Ford (D)▌ 1 Benton J. Hall (D)▌ 2 Jeremiah H. Murphy (D)▌ 3 David B. Henderson (R)▌ 4 William E. Fuller (R)▌ 5 Benjamin T. Frederick (D)▌ 6 James B. Weaver (GB)▌ 7 Edwin H. Conger (R)▌ 8 William P. Hepburn (R)▌ 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 (R)▌ 6 Lewis Hanback (R)▌ 7 Samuel R. Peters (R)▌ 1 William J. Stone (D)▌ 2 Polk Laffoon (D)▌ 3 John E. Halsell (D)▌ 4 Thomas A. Robertson (D)▌ 5 Albert S. Willis (D)▌ 6 John G. Carlisle (D)▌ 7 William C. P. Breckinridge (D)▌ 8 James B. McCreary (D)▌ 9 William H. Wadsworth (R)▌ 10 William P. Taulbee (D)▌ 11 Frank L. Wolford (D)▌ 1 Louis St. Martin (D)▌ 2 Michael Hahn (R), until March 15, 1886▌ Nathaniel D. Wallace (D), from December 9, 1886▌ 3 Edward J. Gay (D)▌ 4 Newton C. Blanchard (D)▌ 5 J. Floyd King (D)▌ 6 Alfred B. Irion (D)▌ 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 William H. Cole (D), until July 8, 1886▌ Henry W. Rusk (D), from November 2, 1886▌ 4 John V. L. Findlay (D)▌ 5 Barnes Compton (D)▌ 6 Louis E. McComas (R)▌ 1 Robert T. Davis (R)▌ 2 John D. Long (R)▌ 3 Ambrose A. Ranney (R)▌ 4 Patrick A. Collins (D)▌ 5 Edward D. Hayden (R)▌ 6 Henry B. Lovering (D)▌ 7 Eben F. Stone (R)▌ 8 Charles H. Allen (R)▌ 9 Frederick D. Ely (R)▌ 10 William W. Rice (R)▌ 11 William Whiting (R)▌ 12 Francis W. Rockwell (R)▌ 1 William C. Maybury (D)▌ 2 Nathaniel B. Eldredge (D)▌ 3 James O'Donnell (R)▌ 4 Julius C. Burrows (R)▌ 5 Charles C. Comstock (D)▌ 6 Edwin B. Winans (D)▌ 7 Ezra C. Carleton (D)▌ 8 Timothy E. Tarsney (D)▌ 9 Byron M. Cutcheon (R)▌ 10 Spencer O. Fisher (D)▌ 11 Seth C. Moffatt (R)▌ 1 Milo White (R)▌ 2 James B. Wakefield (R)▌ 3 Horace B. Strait (R)▌ 4 John B. Gilfillan (R)▌ 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 Otho R. Singleton (D)▌ 6 Henry S. Van Eaton (D)▌ 7 Ethelbert Barksdale (D)▌ 1 William H. Hatch (D)▌ 2 John B. Hale (D)▌ 3 Alexander M. Dockery (D)▌ 4 James N. Burnes (D)▌ 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 William Dawson (D)▌ 1 Archibald J. Weaver (R)▌ 2 James Laird (R)▌ 3 George W. E. Dorsey (R)▌ At-large William Woodburn (R)▌ 1 Martin A. Haynes (R)▌ 2 Jacob H. Gallinger (R)▌ 1 George Hires (R)▌ 2 James Buchanan (R)▌ 3 Robert S. Green (D), until January 17, 1887▌ 4 James N. Pidcock (D)▌ 5 William W. Phelps (R)▌ 6 Herman Lehlbach (R)▌ 7 William McAdoo (D)▌ 1 Perry Belmont (D)▌ 2 Felix Campbell (D)▌ 3 Darwin R. James (R)▌ 4 Peter P. Mahoney (D)▌ 5 Archibald M. Bliss (D)▌ 6 Nicholas Muller (D)▌ 7 John J. Adams (D)▌ 8 Samuel S. Cox (D), until May 20, 1885▌ Timothy J. Campbell (D), from November 3, 1885▌ 9 Joseph Pulitzer (D), until April 10, 1886▌ Samuel S. Cox (D), from November 2, 1886▌ 10 Abram S. Hewitt (D), until December 30, 1886▌ 11 Truman A. Merriman (D)▌ 12 Abraham Dowdney (D), until December 10, 1886▌ 13 Egbert L. Viele (D)▌ 14 William G. Stahlnecker (D)▌ 15 Lewis Beach (D), until August 10, 1886▌ Henry Bacon (D), from December 6, 1886▌ 16 John H. Ketcham (R)▌ 17 James G. Lindsley (R)▌ 18 Henry G. Burleigh (R)▌ 19 John Swinburne (R)▌ 20 George West (R)▌ 21 Frederick A. Johnson (R)▌ 22 Abraham X. Parker (R)▌ 23 John T. Spriggs (D)▌ 24 John S. Pindar (D)▌ 25 Frank Hiscock (R)▌ 26 Stephen C. Millard (R)▌ 27 Sereno E. Payne (R)▌ 28 John Arnot Jr. (D), until November 20, 1886▌ 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 Walter L. Sessions (R)▌ 1 Thomas G. Skinner (D)▌ 2 James E. O'Hara (R)▌ 3 Wharton J. Green (D)▌ 4 William Ruffin Cox (D)▌ 5 James W. Reid (D), until December 31, 1886▌ 6 Risden T. Bennett (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 James E. Campbell (D)▌ 4 Charles M. Anderson (D)▌ 5 Benjamin Le Fevre (D)▌ 6 William D. Hill (D)▌ 7 George E. Seney (D)▌ 8 John Little (R)▌ 9 William C. Cooper (R)▌ 10 Jacob Romeis (R)▌ 11 William W. Ellsberry (D)▌ 12 Albert C. Thompson (R)▌ 13 Joseph H. Outhwaite (D)▌ 14 Charles H. Grosvenor (R)▌ 15 Beriah Wilkins (D)▌ 16 George W. Geddes (D)▌ 17 Adoniram J. Warner (D)▌ 18 Isaac H. Taylor (R)▌ 19 Ezra B. Taylor (R)▌ 20 William McKinley (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 James B. Everhart (R)▌ 7 I. Newton Evans (R)▌ 8 Daniel Ermentrout (D)▌ 9 John A. Hiestand (R)▌ 10 William H. Sowden (D)▌ 11 John B. Storm (D)▌ 12 Joseph A. Scranton (R)▌ 13 Charles N. Brumm (R)▌ 14 Franklin Bound (R)▌ 15 Frank C. Bunnell (R)▌ 16 William W. Brown (R)▌ 17 Jacob M. Campbell (R)▌ 18 Louis E. Atkinson (R)▌ 19 John A. Swope (D), from November 3, 1885▌ 20 Andrew G. Curtin (D)▌ 21 Charles E. Boyle (D)▌ 22 James S. Negley (R)▌ 23 Thomas M. Bayne (R)▌ 24 Oscar L. Jackson (R)▌ 25 Alexander C. White (R)▌ 26 George W. Fleeger (R)▌ 27 William L. Scott (D)▌ At-large Edwin S. Osborne (R)▌ 1 Henry J. Spooner (R)▌ 2 William A. Pirce (R), until January 25, 1887▌ Charles H. Page (D), from February 21, 1887▌ 1 Samuel Dibble (D)▌ 2 George D. Tillman (D)▌ 3 D. Wyatt Aiken (D)▌ 4 William H. Perry (D)▌ 5 John J. Hemphill (D)▌ 6 George W. Dargan (D)▌ 7 Robert Smalls (R)▌ 1 Augustus H. Pettibone (R)▌ 2 Leonidas C. Houk (R)▌ 3 John R. Neal (D)▌ 4 Benton McMillin (D)▌ 5 James D. Richardson (D)▌ 6 Andrew J. Caldwell (D)▌ 7 John G. Ballentine (D)▌ 8 John M. Taylor (D)▌ 9 Presley T. Glass (D)▌ 10 Zachary Taylor (R)▌ 1 Charles Stewart (D)▌ 2 John H. Reagan (D)▌ 3 James H. Jones (D)▌ 4 David B. Culberson (D)▌ 5 James W. Throckmorton (D)▌ 6 Olin Wellborn (D)▌ 7 William H. Crain (D)▌ 8 James F. Miller (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 Croxton (D)▌ 2 Harry Libbey (RA)▌ 3 George D. Wise (D)▌ 4 James D. Brady (R)▌ 5 George Cabell (D)▌ 6 John W. Daniel (D)▌ 7 Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)▌ 8 John S. Barbour Jr. (D)▌ 9 Connally F. Trigg (D)▌ 10 John R. Tucker (D)▌ 1 Nathan Goff (R)▌ 2 William L. Wilson (D)▌ 3 Charles P. Snyder (D)▌ 4 Eustace Gibson (D)▌ 1 Lucien B. Caswell (R)▌ 2 Edward S. Bragg (D)▌ 3 Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)▌ 4 Isaac W. Van Schaick (R)▌ 5 Joseph Rankin (D), until January 24, 1886▌ Thomas R. Hudd (D), from March 8, 1886▌ 6 Richard W. Guenther (R)▌ 7 Ormsby B. Thomas (R)▌ 8 William T. Price (R), until December 6, 1886▌ Hugh H. Price (R), from January 18, 1887▌ 9 Isaac Stephenson (R)▌ Arizona Territory Curtis C. Bean (R)▌ Dakota Territory Oscar S. Gifford (R)▌ Idaho Territory John Hailey (D)▌ Montana Territory Joseph 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 SpeakerJohn G: Carlisle
Changes in membership [ edit ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Replacements: 7 Deaths: 3 Resignations: 6 Interim appointments: 1 Total seats with changes: 9 State Vacated by Reason for vacancy Subsequent Date of successor's installation New Hampshire Vacant Appointed to fill vacancy in term. Henry W. Blair (R)March 5, 1885 Illinois Vacant Legislature failed to elect, with several delays in election process held from February 18 to May 19. Incumbent Logan eventually chosen to retake seat. John A. Logan (R)May 19, 1885 Oregon Vacant Failure to elect. John H. Mitchell (R)November 18, 1885 Arkansas Augustus H. Garland (D)Resigned March 6, 1885, after being appointedUnited States Attorney General . Successor was elected. James H. Berry (D)March 20, 1885 Delaware Thomas F. Bayard (D)Resigned March 6, 1885, after being appointedUnited States Secretary of State . Successor was elected. George Gray (D)March 18, 1885 Mississippi Lucius Q. C. Lamar II (D)Resigned March 6, 1885, after being appointedUnited States Secretary of the Interior . Successor was appointed and subsequently elected. Edward C. Walthall (D)March 9, 1885 California John F. Miller (R)Died March 8, 1886. Successor was appointed. George Hearst (D)March 23, 1886 Tennessee Howell E. Jackson (D)Resigned April 14, 1886, after being appointed judge for the United States Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit. Successor was appointed. Washington C. Whitthorne (D)April 16, 1886 California George Hearst (D)Successor was elected August 4, 1886. Abram Williams (R)August 4, 1886 New Hampshire Austin F. Pike (R)Died October 8, 1886. Successor was appointed. Person C. Cheney (R)November 24, 1886 Illinois John A. Logan (R)Died December 26, 1886. Successor was elected. Charles B. Farwell (R)January 19, 1887
House of Representatives [ edit ] Replacements: 11 Deaths: 8 Resignations: 7 Contested election: 1 Total seats with changes: 16 District Vacated by Reason for change Successor Date successor seated Pennsylvania 19th Vacant Elected to finish term of Rep.William A. Duncan resigned during previous congress John A. Swope (D)November 3, 1885 Arkansas 3rd Vacant Elected to finish term of Rep.James K. Jones resigned during previous congress Thomas C. McRae (D)December 7, 1885 New York 8th Samuel S. Cox (D)Resigned May 20, 1885, after being appointedMinister to the Ottoman Empire Timothy J. Campbell (D)November 3, 1885 Illinois 5th Reuben Ellwood (R)Died July 1, 1885 Albert J. Hopkins (R)December 7, 1885 Wisconsin 5th Joseph Rankin (D)Died January 24, 1886 Thomas R. Hudd (D)March 8, 1886 Louisiana 2nd Michael Hahn (R)Died March 15, 1886 Nathaniel D. Wallace (D)December 9, 1886 New York 9th Joseph Pulitzer (D)Resigned April 10, 1886 Samuel S. Cox (D)November 2, 1886 Maryland 3rd William H. Cole (D)Died July 8, 1886 Harry W. Rusk (D)November 2, 1886 New York 15th Lewis Beach (D)Died August 10, 1886 Henry Bacon (D)December 6, 1886 New York 28th John Arnot Jr. (D)Died November 20, 1886 Vacant until next Congress Wisconsin 8th William T. Price (R)Died December 6, 1886 Hugh H. Price (R)January 18, 1887 New York 12th Abraham Dowdney (D)Died December 10, 1886 Vacant until next Congress New York 10th Abram Hewitt (D)Resigned December 30, 1886, after being electedMayor of New York Vacant until next Congress North Carolina 5th James W. Reid (D)Resigned December 31, 1886 Vacant until next Congress New Jersey 3rd Robert S. Green (D)Resigned January 17, 1887, after being electedGovernor of New Jersey Vacant until next Congress Rhode Island 2nd William A. Pirce (R)Seat declared vacant January 25, 1887, due to election irregularities Charles H. Page (D)February 21, 1887
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 ] House of Representatives [ edit ] ^ Special session of the Senate. ^ Independent, Independent Democratic, Independent Republican, and Anti-Monopoly Martis, Kenneth C. (1989).The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. Martis, Kenneth C. (1982).The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
