48th United States Congress

Template:Short description Template:Infobox United States Congress The 48th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1883, to March 4, 1885, during the last two years of Chester A. Arthur's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

Major events

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Washington Monument (seen here in 2006) was completed December 6, 1884.

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September 5, 1883: Mary F. Hoyt became the first woman appointed to the U.S. federal civil service (and the second person appointed by examination (in which she came top) instituted under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act) when she became a clerk in the Bank Redemption Agency of the Department of the Treasury.
October 15, 1883: The Supreme Court of the United States declared part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, as the Court allowed private individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
November 18, 1883: U.S. and Canadian railroads instituted 5 standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
August 10, 1884: An earthquake measuring 5.5 Template:M (based on the felt area) affected a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Chimneys were toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage was severe in Jamaica and Amityville in New York.
October 6, 1884: The United States Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 22, 1884: International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., fixed the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
November 4, 1884: 1884 United States presidential election: Democratic governor of New York Grover Cleveland defeated Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
December 6: 1884: The Washington Monument was completed.

Major legislation

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Territories organized

May 17, 1884: District of Alaska was organized.

Party summary

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.

Senate

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House of Representatives

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House seats by party holding plurality in state
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% to 100% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% to 100% Republican
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Republican
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Republican

Leadership

Senate

President: Vacant. Chester Arthur (R), the most recent Senate president, had become U.S. president on the death of his predecessor September 19, 1881, leaving the office vacant through the end of this Congress.
President pro tempore: George F. Edmunds (R)
Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman
Democratic Caucus Chairman: George H. Pendleton

House of Representatives

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state.

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Senate

Senators are listed by their states and Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election.

Template:Party stripe William P. Sheffield (R), November 19, 1884 – January 20, 1885

Template:Party stripe Jonathan Chace (R), from January 20, 1885

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe2. Matthew C. Butler (D)

Template:Party stripe3. Wade Hampton III (D)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe1. Howell E. Jackson (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Isham G. Harris (D)

Texas

Template:Party stripe1. Samuel B. Maxey (D)

Template:Party stripe2. Richard Coke (D)

Vermont

Template:Party stripe1. George F. Edmunds (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Justin S. Morrill (R)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. William Mahone (RA)

Template:Party stripe2. Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA)

West Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. Johnson N. Camden (D)

Template:Party stripe2. John E. Kenna (D)

Wisconsin

Template:Party stripe1. Philetus Sawyer (R)

Template:Party stripe3. Angus Cameron (R)

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2 Democrats

1 Democrat and 1 Republican

2 Republicans

2 Readjusters

Territories

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President pro tempore
George F. Edmunds

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas H. Herndon (D), until March 28, 1883

Template:Party stripe James T. Jones (D), from December 3, 1883

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hilary A. Herbert (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William C. Oates (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles M. Shelley (D), until January 9, 1885

Template:Party stripe George H. Craig (R), from January 9, 1885

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Williams (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Goldsmith W. Hewitt (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. Forney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Luke Pryor (D)

Arkansas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Poindexter Dunn (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James K. Jones (D), until February 19, 1885

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Rogers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel W. Peel (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clifton R. Breckinridge (D)

California

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William S. Rosecrans (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Budd (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Barclay Henley (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Pleasant B. Tully (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Glascock (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles A. Sumner (D)

Colorado

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James B. Belford (R)

Connecticut

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Eaton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles L. Mitchell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John T. Wait (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward W. Seymour (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles F. Crisp (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hugh Buchanan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel J. Hammond (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Blount (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Judson C. Clements (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Seaborn Reese (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Allen D. Candler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Hardeman Jr. (D)

Illinois

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ransom W. Dunham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John F. Finerty (ID)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George R. Davis (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George E. Adams (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Reuben Ellwood (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert R. Hitt (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. Henderson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Cullen (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis E. Payson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nicholas E. Worthington (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. Neece (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James M. Riggs (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William M. Springer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan H. Rowell (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph G. Cannon (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aaron Shaw (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel W. Moulton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William R. Morrison (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard W. Townshend (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Thomas (R)

Indiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. Kleiner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas R. Cobb (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Strother M. Stockslager (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William S. Holman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Courtland C. Matson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas M. Browne (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Stanton J. Peelle (R), until May 22, 1884

Template:Party stripe William E. English (D), from May 22, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Lamb (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Ward (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. Wood (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Steele (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Lowry (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. Calkins (R), until October 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe Benjamin F. Shively (AM), from December 1, 1884

Iowa

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Moses A. McCoid (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jeremiah H. Murphy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David B. Henderson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Luman H. Weller (GB)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Wilson (R), until March 3, 1885

Template:Party stripe Benjamin T. Frederick (D), from March 3, 1885

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Marsena E. Cutts (R), until September 1, 1883

Template:Party stripe John C. Cook (D), from October 9, 1883

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John A. Kasson (R), until July 13, 1884

Template:Party stripe Hiram Y. Smith (R), from December 2, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William P. Hepburn (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. M. Pusey (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Adoniram J. Holmes (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac S. Struble (R)

Kansas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John A. Anderson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dudley C. Haskell (R), until December 16, 1883

Template:Party stripe Edward H. Funston (R), from March 21, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Ryan (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis Hanback (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edmund N. Morrill (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Bishop W. Perkins (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel R. Peters (R)

Kentucky

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Oscar Turner (ID)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James F. Clay (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Halsell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas A. Robertson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert S. Willis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John G. Carlisle (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philip B. Thompson Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Culbertson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John D. White (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank L. Wolford (D)

Louisiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Carleton Hunt (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. E. John Ellis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Pitt Kellogg (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Newton C. Blanchard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Floyd King (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward T. Lewis (D)

Maine

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles A. Boutelle (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nelson Dingley Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Seth L. Milliken (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Reed (R)

Maryland

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Covington (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Frederick C. Talbott (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Fetter S. Hoblitzell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John V. L. Findlay (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hart B. Holton (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Louis E. McComas (R)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert T. Davis (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John D. Long (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ambrose A. Ranney (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Patrick A. Collins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leopold Morse (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry B. Lovering (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eben F. Stone (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William A. Russell (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Theodore Lyman (IR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Rice (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Whiting (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George D. Robinson (R), until January 7, 1884

Template:Party stripe Francis W. Rockwell (R), from January 17, 1884

Michigan

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William C. Maybury (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel B. Eldredge (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward S. Lacey (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George L. Yaple (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Julius Houseman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edwin B. Winans (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezra C. Carleton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Roswell G. Horr (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Byron M. Cutcheon (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Herschel H. Hatch (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Breitung (R)

Minnesota

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Milo White (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James B. Wakefield (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Horace B. Strait (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William D. Washburn (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Knute Nelson (R)

Mississippi

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry L. Muldrow (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James R. Chalmers (I), from June 25, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Elza Jeffords (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hernando D. Money (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Otho R. Singleton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry S. Van Eaton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ethelbert Barksdale (D)

Missouri

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. Hatch (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Armstead M. Alexander (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alexander M. Dockery (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James N. Burnes (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alexander Graves (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Cosgrove (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aylett H. Buckner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. O'Neill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James O. Broadhead (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Martin L. Clardy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard P. Bland (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles H. Morgan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert W. Fyan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lowndes H. Davis (D)

Nebraska

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Archibald J. Weaver (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Laird (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward K. Valentine (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Kean Jr. (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin F. Howey (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Phelps (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William H. F. Fiedler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William McAdoo (D)

New York

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Perry Belmont (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William E. Robinson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Darwin R. James (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Felix Campbell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nicholas Muller (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel S. Cox (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Dorsheimer (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. Adams (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Hardy (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abram S. Hewitt (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Orlando B. Potter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Waldo Hutchins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Ketcham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis Beach (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Bagley Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. Van Alstyne (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry G. Burleigh (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frederick A. Johnson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abraham X. Parker (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Wemple (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Ray (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles R. Skinner (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John T. Spriggs (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Newton W. Nutting (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank Hiscock (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sereno E. Payne (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James W. Wadsworth (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Stephen C. Millard (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Arnot Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Halbert S. Greenleaf (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert S. Stevens (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William F. Rogers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis B. Brewer (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry W. Slocum (D)

North Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter F. Pool (R), until August 25, 1883

Template:Party stripe Thomas G. Skinner (D), from November 20, 1883

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James E. O'Hara (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wharton J. Green (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Ruffin Cox (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alfred M. Scales (D), until December 30, 1884

Template:Party stripe James W. Reid (D), from January 28, 1885

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Clement Dowd (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tyre York (ID)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert B. Vance (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Risden T. Bennett (D)

Ohio

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John F. Follett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac M. Jordan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert M. Murray (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Le Fevre (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George E. Seney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William D. Hill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry L. Morey (R), until June 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe James E. Campbell (D), from June 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. J. Warren Keifer (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James S. Robinson (R), until January 12, 1885

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Frank H. Hurd (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. McCormick (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alphonso Hart (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George L. Converse (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Geddes (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Adoniram J. Warner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Beriah Wilkins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph D. Taylor (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William McKinley (R), until May 27, 1884

Template:Party stripe Jonathan H. Wallace (D), from May 27, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezra B. Taylor (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David R. Paige (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Martin A. Foran (D)

Oregon

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Melvin C. George (R)

Pennsylvania

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry H. Bingham (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles O'Neill (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel J. Randall (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William D. Kelley (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alfred C. Harmer (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James B. Everhart (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. I. Newton Evans (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel Ermentrout (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. A. Herr Smith (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Mutchler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Storm (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel W. Connolly (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles N. Brumm (GB)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel F. Barr (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George A. Post (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Brown (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob M. Campbell (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Louis E. Atkinson (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William A. Duncan (D), until November 14, 1884

Template:Party stripe John A. Swope (D), from December 23, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew G. Curtin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles E. Boyle (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Hopkins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas M. Bayne (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George V. Lawrence (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John D. Patton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel H. Miller (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel M. Brainerd (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Mortimer F. Elliott (D)

Rhode Island

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry J. Spooner (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan Chace (R), until January 26, 1885

Template:Party stripe Nathan F. Dixon III (R), from February 12, 1885

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Dibble (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George D. Tillman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. D. Wyatt Aiken (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Evins (D), until October 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe John Bratton (D), from December 8, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John J. Hemphill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Dargan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edmund W. M. Mackey (R), until January 27, 1884

Template:Party stripe Robert Smalls (R), from March 18, 1884

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Augustus H. Pettibone (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leonidas C. Houk (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George G. Dibrell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benton McMillin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Warner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew J. Caldwell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John G. Ballentine (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John M. Taylor (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Rice A. Pierce (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. H. Casey Young (D)

Texas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Stewart (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Reagan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Jones (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David B. Culberson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James W. Throckmorton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Olin Wellborn (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas P. Ochiltree (I)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James F. Miller (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Roger Q. Mills (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Hancock (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel W. T. Lanham (D)

Vermont

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Stewart (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Luke P. Poland (R)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert M. Mayo (RA), until March 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe George T. Garrison (D), from March 20, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harry Libbey (RA)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George D. Wise (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin S. Hooper (RA)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Cabell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. Tucker (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Paul (D), until September 5, 1883

Template:Party stripe Charles T. O'Ferrall (D), from May 5, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John S. Barbour Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Bowen (RA)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John S. Wise (RA)

West Virginia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathan Goff (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William L. Wilson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John E. Kenna (D), until March 4, 1883

Template:Party stripe Charles P. Snyder (D), from May 15, 1883

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eustace Gibson (D)

Wisconsin

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Winans (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel H. Sumner (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Burr W. Jones (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter V. Deuster (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Rankin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard W. Guenther (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gilbert M. Woodward (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William T. Price (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac Stephenson (R)

Non-voting members

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Granville H. Oury (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Raymond (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Theodore F. Singiser (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Martin Maginnis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tranqulino Luna (R), until March 5, 1884

Template:Party stripe Francisco A. Manzanares (D), from March 5, 1884

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John T. Caine (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas H. Brents (R)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Morton E. Post (D)

File:John Griffin Carlisle, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg

Speaker of the House
John G. Carlisle

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

Replacements: 1
- Democratic: no net change
- Republican: 1 seat net gain
- Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
Deaths: 1
Resignations: 0
Interim appointment: 1
Late election: 1
Total seats with changes: 3

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House of Representatives

Replacements: 15
- Democratic: 1 seat net gain
- Republican: 1 seat net loss
- National Greenback: 1 seat net gain
Deaths: 9
Resignations: 9
Contested election: 8
Total seats with changes: 25

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|- | Template:Ushr | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John Paul (D) | Resigned September 5, 1883, to become judge of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia. The House election was subsequently contested. | nowrap style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles T. O'Ferrall (D) | May 5, 1884

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Committees

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Senate

Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Daniel W. Voorhees; Ranking Member: Justin S. Morrill)
Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Warner Miller; Ranking Member: James Z. George)
Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: James B. Beck)
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John P. Jones; Ranking Member: Zebulon B. Vance)
Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: Joseph R. Hawley; Ranking Member: James D. Walker)
Claims (Chairman: Angus Cameron; Ranking Member: Howell E. Jackson)
Commerce (Chairman: Samuel J. R. McMillan; Ranking Member: Matt W. Ransom)
Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
District of Columbia (Chairman: John J. Ingalls; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
Education and Labor (Chairman: Henry W. Blair; Ranking Member: Richard Coke)
Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Eli Saulsbury; Ranking Member: William B. Allison)
Enrolled Bills (Chairman: William J. Sewell; Ranking Member: Alfred H. Colquitt)
Epidemic Diseases (Select) (Chairman: Isham G. Harris; Ranking Member: William J. Sewell)
Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Select) (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton III)
Expenditures of Public Money (Chairman: James F. Wilson; Ranking Member: James B. Beck)
Finance (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member: Thomas F. Bayard)
Fisheries (Chairman: Elbridge G. Lapham; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: John F. Miller; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: Henry L. Dawes; Ranking Member: Richard Coke)
Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Edmunds; Ranking Member: Augustus H. Garland)
Library (Chairman: John Sherman; Ranking Member: Daniel W. Voorhees)
Manufactures (Chairman: Harrison H. Riddleberger; Ranking Member: John S. Williams)
Military Affairs (Chairman: John A. Logan; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
Mines and Mining (Chairman: Thomas M. Bowen; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton III)
Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Charles H. Van Wyck; Ranking Member: Benjamin F. Jonas)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: J. Donald Cameron; Ranking Member: John R. McPherson)
Nicaraguan Claims (Select) (Chairman: Samuel B. Maxey; Ranking Member: Nathaniel P. Hill)
Ordnance and War Ships (Select)
Patents (Chairman: Orville H. Platt; Ranking Member: Richard Coke)
Pensions (Chairman: John I. Mitchell; Ranking Member: James H. Slater)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Nathaniel P. Hill; Ranking Member: Samuel B. Maxey)
Potomac River Front (Select)
Printing (Chairman: Charles F. Manderson; Ranking Member: N/A)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: Thomas F. Bayard; Ranking Member: George F. Edmunds)
Privileges and Elections (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: Eli Saulsbury)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: William Mahone; Ranking Member: Charles W. Jones)
Public Lands (Chairman: Preston B. Plumb; Ranking Member: James H. Slater)
Railroads (Chairman: Philetus Sawyer; Ranking Member: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II)
Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Omar D. Conger; Ranking Member: George H. Pendleton)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Charles W. Jones; Ranking Member: Henry B. Anthony then Samuel J.R. McMillan)
Rules (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
Sioux and Crow Indians (Select)
Steel Producing Capacity of the United States (Select)
Tariff Regulation (Select)
Tenth Census (Select) (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: George H. Pendleton)
Territories (Chairman: Benjamin Harrison; Ranking Member: Matthew C. Butler)
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: James T. Farley)
Whole
Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Francis M. Cockrell; Ranking Member: Henry W. Blair)

House of Representatives

Accounts (Chairman: George W. Covington; Ranking Member: J. Hart Brewer)
Agriculture (Chairman: William H. Hatch; Ranking Member: John D. Patton)
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select) (Chairman: William D. Cox; Ranking Member: N/A)
American Ship building (Select)
Appropriations (Chairman: Samuel J. Randall; Ranking Member: J. Warren Keifer)
Banking and Currency (Chairman: Aylett H. Buckner; Ranking Member: George L. Yaple)
Boynton Investigation (Select)
Claims (Chairman: Benton McMillin; Ranking Member: Charles P. Snyder)
Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Richard P. Bland; Ranking Member: Pleasant B. Tully)
Commerce (Chairman: John H. Reagan; Ranking Member: Ethelbert Barksdale)
District of Columbia (Chairman: John S. Barbour; Ranking Member: Samuel F. Barr)
Education (Chairman: D. Wyatt Aiken; Ranking Member: John Winans)
Elections (Chairman: Henry G. Turner; Ranking Member: John J. Adams)
Enrolled Bills (Chairman: William H. Neece; Ranking Member: Adoniram J. Holmes)
Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Casey Young; Ranking Member: Charles N. Brumm)
Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William M. Springer; Ranking Member: Henry Bowen)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Leopold Morse; Ranking Member: Leonidas C. Houk)
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Charles H. Morgan; Ranking Member: Stanton J. Peelle)
Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Thomas Hardeman; Ranking Member: Samuel F. Barr)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Lowndes H. Davis; Ranking Member: Edward S. Lacey)
Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Philip B. Thompson; Ranking Member: Robert M. Mayo)
Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Perry Belmont; Ranking Member: Alfred C. Harmer)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Andrew G. Curtin; Ranking Member: John E. Lamb)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: Olin Wellborn; Ranking Member: Thomas G. Skinner)
Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Courtland C. Matson; Ranking Member: John H. Bagley Jr.)
Judiciary (Chairman: John R. Tucker; Ranking Member: William C. Maybury)
Labor (Chairman: James H. Hopkins; Ranking Member: Henry B. Lovering)
Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: J. Floyd King; Ranking Member: Barclay Henley)
Manufactures (Chairman: John H. Bagley Jr.; Ranking Member: Robert M. Murray)
Mileage (Chairman: Samuel W. Moulton; Ranking Member: Ambrose A. Ranney)
Military Affairs (Chairman: William S. Rosecrans; Ranking Member: William A. Duncan)
Militia (Chairman: Nicholas Muller; Ranking Member: John G. Ballentine)
Mines and Mining (Chairman: Richard Warner; Ranking Member: Robert S. Stevens)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Samuel S. Cox; Ranking Member: William McAdoo)
Pacific Railroads (Chairman: George W. Cassidy; Ranking Member: George A. Post)
Patents (Chairman: Robert B. Vance; Ranking Member: John Winans)
Pensions (Chairman: Goldsmith W. Hewitt; Ranking Member: Frank L. Wolford)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Hernando D. Money; Ranking Member: David R. Paige)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: Henry L. Muldrow; Ranking Member: Robert Lowry)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Strother M. Stockslager; Ranking Member: Nicholas E. Worthington)
Public Lands (Chairman: Thomas R. Cobb; Ranking Member: Henry S. Van Eaton)
Railways and Canals (Chairman: Robert H. M. Davidson; Ranking Member: Edward Wemple)
Revision of Laws (Chairman: William C. Oates; Ranking Member: John J. Hemphill)
Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Albert S. Willis; Ranking Member: Julius Houseman)
Rules (Chairman: John G. Carlisle; Ranking Member: J. Warren Keifer)
Standards of Official Conduct
Territories (Chairman: Luke Pryor; Ranking Member: Martin A. Foran)
War Claims (Chairman: George W. Geddes; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Ferrell)
Ways and Means (Chairman: William R. Morrison; Ranking Member: William D. Kelley)
Whole

Joint committees

Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Sen. William J. Sewell; Vice Chairman: Rep. Alfred H. Colquitt)
The Library (Chairman: Sen. John Sherman; Vice Chairman: Rep. Daniel W. Voorhees)
Printing (Chairman: Sen. Henry B. Anthony then Joseph R. Hawley; Vice Chairman: Rep. Arthur P. Gorman)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Sen. William Mahone; Vice Chairman: Rep. Charles W. Jones)
Scientific Bureaus

Caucuses

Democratic (House)
Democratic (Senate)

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Public Printer of the United States: Sterling P. Rounds

Senate

Chaplain: Joseph J. Bullock (Presbyterian), to December 18, 1883
- Elias D. Huntley (Methodist), from December 18, 1883
Librarian: P. J. Pierce, to 1884
- George M. Weston, from 1884
Secretary: Francis E. Shober (Acting), to December 18, 1883
- Anson G. McCook, from December 18, 1883
Sergeant at Arms: Richard J. Bright, to December 18, 1883
- William P. Canady, from December 18, 1883

House of Representatives

Chaplain: Frederick D. Power (Disciples of Christ), until December 3, 1883
- John S. Lindsay (Episcopalian), elected December 3, 1883
Clerk: John B. Clark Jr., elected December 3, 1883
Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Nathaniel T. Crutchfield
Doorkeeper: James G. Wintersmith, elected December 3, 1883
Postmaster: Lycurgus Dalton, elected December 3, 1883
Reading Clerks: T.O. Walker (D) and Neill S. Brown Jr. (R)
Sergeant at Arms: George W. Hooker, until December 4, 1883
- John P. Leedom, until December 4, 1883

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