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The Forty-third 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, 1873 to March 3, 1875 during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Ninth Census of the United States in 1870. Both chambers had a Republican majority.

Dates of sessions

March 4, 1873 - March 3, 1875

• Special session of the Senate: March 4, 1873 - March 26, 1873
• First session: December 1, 1873 - June 23, 1874
• Second session: December 7, 1874 - March 3, 1875
• Previous congress: 42nd Congress - general
  
• Next congress: 44th Congress - general

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 Democratic (D): 19 Republican (R): 47 (majority) Liberal Republican (LR): 7 vacant: 1 TOTAL members: 74

House of Representatives Democratic (D): 88 Republican (R): 199 (majority) Independent Democratic (ID): 1 Liberal Republican (LR): 4 TOTAL members: 292

Leadership

Senate

• Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate):
  • Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts
• President pro tempore of the Senate:
  • Matthew H. Carpenter, Republican of Wisconsin, first elected March 12, 1873.
  • Henry B. Anthony, Republican of Rhode Island, first elected in this Congress January 25, 1875.

House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House
  • James G. Blaine, Republican of Maine, elected March 4, 1873.

Major events

Events of 1873, 1874 and 1875

Major legislation

List of United States federal legislation in the 43rd Congress

• June 23, 1874 -- Poland Act
• January 14, 1875 -- Specie Payment Resumption Act
• March 1, 1875 -- Civil Rights Act of 1875
• March 3, 1875 -- Tariff of 1875
• March 3, 1875 -- Page Act of 1875

Membership highlights by chamber

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

Senate

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 are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1874; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1876; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1878.

See also: Category:United States Senators

See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

Alabama 3: George E. Spencer (R) 2: George Goldthwaite (D) Arkansas 2: Powell Clayton (R) 3: Stephen W. Dorsey (R) California 1: Eugene Casserly (D) John S. Hager (D) 3: Aaron A. Sargent (R) Connecticut 3: Orris S. Ferry (LR) 1: William A. Buckingham (R) William W. Eaton (D) Delaware 1: Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (D) 2: Eli M. Saulsbury (D) Florida 1: Abijah Gilbert (R) 3: Simon B. Conover (R) Georgia 2: Thomas M. Norwood (D) 3: John B. Gordon (D) Illinois 2: John A. Logan (R) 3: Richard J. Oglesby (R) Indiana 3: Oliver H. P. T. Morton (R) 1: Daniel D. Pratt (R) Iowa 2: George G. Wright (R) 3: William B. Allison (R) Kansas 2: Alexander Caldwell (R) Robert Crozier (R) James M. Harvey (R) 3: John J. Ingalls (R) Kentucky 2: John W. Stevenson (D) 3: Thomas C. McCreery (D)

Louisiana 2: J. Rodman West (R) 3: vacant Maine 1: Hannibal Hamlin (R) 2: Lot M. Morrill (R) Maryland 1: William T. Hamilton (D) 3: George R. Dennis (D) Massachusetts 1: Charles Sumner (LR) William B. Washburn (R) 2: George S. Boutwell (R) Michigan 1: Zachariah Chandler (R) 2: Thomas W. Ferry (R) Minnesota 1: Alexander Ramsey (R) 2: William Windom (R) Mississippi 1: Adelbert Ames (R) Henry R. Pease (R) 2: James L. Alcorn (R) Missouri 1: Carl Schurz (R) 3: Lewis V. Bogy (D) Nebraska 1: Thomas W. Tipton (R) 2: Phineas W. Hitchcock (R) Nevada 1: William M. Stewart (R) 3: John P. Jones (R) New Hampshire 2: Aaron H. Cragin (R) 3: Bainbridge Wadleigh (R) New Jersey 1: John P. Stockton (D) 2: Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)

New York 3: Roscoe Conkling (R) 1: Reuben E. Fenton (R) North Carolina 2: Matt W. Ransom (D) 3: Augustus S. Merrimon (D) Ohio 3: John Sherman (R) 1: Allen G. Thurman (D) Oregon 2: James K. Kelly (D) 3: John H. Mitchell (R) Pennsylvania 3: Simon Cameron (R) 1: John Scott (R) Rhode Island 2: Henry B. Anthony (R) 1: William Sprague (R) South Carolina 2: Thomas J. Robertson (R) 3: John J. Patterson (R) Tennessee 1: William G. Brownlow (R) 2: Henry Cooper (D) Texas 1: James W. Flanagan (R) 2: Morgan C. Hamilton (LR) Vermont 1: George F. Edmunds (R) 3: Justin S. Morrill (R) Virginia 2: John W. Johnston (D) 1: John F. Lewis (R) West Virginia 1: Arthur I. Boreman (R) 2: Henry G. Davis (D) Wisconsin 3: Timothy O. Howe (R) 1: Matthew H. Carpenter (R)

President pro tempore Matthew H. Carpenter President pro tempore Henry B. Anthony

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives

See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state

Alabama 1: Frederick G. Bromberg (LR) 2: James T. Rapier (R) 3: Charles Pelham (R) 4: Charles Hays (R) 5: John H. Caldwell (D) 6: Joseph H. Sloss (D) A/L: Charles C. Sheats (R) A/L: Alexander White (R) Arkansas 1: Asa Hodges (R) 2: Oliver P. Snyder (R) 3: William W. Wilshire (R) Thomas M. Gunter (D) A/L: William J. Hynes (LR) California 1: Charles Clayton (R) 2: Horace F. Page (R) 3: John K. Luttrell (D) 4: Sherman O. Houghton (R) Connecticut 1: Joseph R. Hawley (R) 2: Stephen W. Kellogg (R) 3: Henry H. Starkweather (R) 4: William H. Barnum (D) Delaware A/L: James R. Lofland (R) Florida A/L: Josiah T. Walls (R) A/L: William J. Purman (R) Georgia 1: Morgan Rawls (D) Andrew Sloan (R) 2: Richard H. Whiteley (R) 3: Philip Cook (D) 4: Henry R. Harris (D) 5: James C. Freeman (R) 6: James H. Blount (D) 7: Pierce M. B. Young (D) 8: Alexander H. Stephens (D) 9: Hiram P. Bell (D) Illinois 1: John B. Rice (R) Bernard G. Caulfield (D) 2: Jasper D. Ward (R) 3: Charles B. Farwell (R) 4: Stephen A. Hurlbut (R) 5: Horatio C. Burchard (R) 6: John B. Hawley (R) 7: Franklin Corwin (R) 8: Greenbury L. Fort (R) 9: Granville Barrere (R) 10: William H. Ray (R) 11: Robert M. Knapp (D) 12: James C. Robinson (D) 13: John McNulta (R) 14: Joseph G. Cannon (R) 15: John R. Eden (D) 16: James S. Martin (R) 17: William R. Morrison (D) 18: Isaac Clements (R) 19: Samuel S. Marshall (D) Indiana 1: William E. Niblack (D) 2: Simeon K. Wolfe (D) 3: William S. Holman (D) 4: Jeremiah M. Wilson (R) 5: John Coburn (R) 6: Morton C. Hunter (R) 7: Thomas J. Cason (R) 8: James N. Tyner (R) 9: John P. C. Shanks (R) 10: Henry B. Sayler (R) A/L: Jasper Packard (R) A/L: Godlove S. Orth (R) A/L: William Williams (R) Iowa 1: George W. McCrary (R) 2: Aylett R. Cotton (R) 3: William G. Donnan (R) 4: Henry O. Pratt (R) 5: James Wilson (R) 6: William Loughridge (R) 7: John A. Kasson (R) 8: James W. McDill (R) 9: Jackson Orr (R) Kansas A/L: Stephen A. Cobb (R) A/L: David P. Lowe (R) A/L: William A. Phillips (R) Kentucky 1: Edward Crossland (D) 2: John Y. Brown (D) 3: Charles W. Milliken (D) 4: William B. Read (D) 5: Elisha D. Standiford (D) 6: William E. Arthur (D) 7: James B. Beck (D) 8: Milton J. Durham (D) 9: George M. Adams (D) 10: John D. Young (D) Louisiana 1: J. Hale Sypher (R) Effingham Lawrence (D) 2: Lionel A. Sheldon (R) 3: Chester B. Darrall (R) 4: George L. Smith (R) 5: Frank Morey (R) A/L: George A. Sheridan (LR) Maine 1: John H. Burleigh (R) 2: William P. Frye (R) 3: James G. Blaine (R) 4: Samuel F. Hersey (R) 5: Eugene Hale (R)

Maryland 1: Ephraim K. Wilson (D) 2: Stevenson Archer (D) 3: William J. O'Brien (D) 4: Thomas Swann (D) 5: William J. Albert (R) 6: Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (R) Massachusetts 1: James Buffinton (R) 2: Benjamin W. Harris (R) 3: William Whiting (R) Henry L. Pierce (R) 4: Samuel Hooper (R) 5: Daniel W. Gooch (R) 6: Benjamin F. Butler (R) 7: Ebenezer R. Hoar (R) 8: John M. S. Williams (R) 9: George F. Hoar (R) 10: Alvah Crocker (R) Charles A. Stevens (R) 11: Henry L. Dawes (R) Michigan 1: Moses W. Field (R) 2: Henry Waldron (R) 3: George Willard (R) 4: Julius C. Burrows (R) 5: Wilder D. Foster (R) William B. Williams (R) 6: Josiah W. Begole (R) 7: Omar D. Conger (R) 8: Nathan B. Bradley (R) 9: Jay A. Hubbell (R) Minnesota 1: Mark H. Dunnell (R) 2: Horace B. Strait (R) 3: John T. Averill (R) Mississippi 1: Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D) 2: Albert R. Howe (R) 3: Henry W. Barry (R) 4: Jason Niles (R) 5: George C. McKee (R) 6: John R. Lynch (R) Missouri 1: Edwin O. Stanard (R) 2: Erastus Wells (D) 3: William H. Stone (D) 4: Robert A. Hatcher (D) 5: Richard P. Bland (D) 6: Harrison E. Havens (R) 7: Thomas T. Crittenden (D) 8: Abram Comingo (D) 9: Isaac C. Parker (R) 10: Ira B. Hyde (R) 11: John B. Clark, Jr. (D) 12: John M. Glover (D) 13: Aylett H. Buckner (D) Nebraska A/L: Lorenzo Crounse (R) Nevada A/L: Charles W. Kendall (D) New Hampshire 1: William B. Small (R) 2: Austin F. Pike (R) 3: Hosea W. Parker (D) New Jersey 1: John W. Hazelton (R) 2: Samuel A. Dobbins (R) 3: Amos Clark, Jr. (R) 4: Robert Hamilton (D) 5: William W. Phelps (R) 6: Marcus L. Ward (R) 7: Isaac W. Scudder (R) New York 1: Henry J. Scudder (R) 2: John G. Schumaker (D) 3: Stewart L. Woodford (R) Simeon B. Chittenden (IR) 4: Philip S. Crooke (R) 5: William R. Roberts (D) 6: James Brooks (D) Samuel S. Cox (D) 7: Thomas J. Creamer (D) 8: John D. Lawson (R) 9: David B. Mellish (R) Richard Schell (D) 10: Fernando Wood (D) 11: Clarkson N. Potter (D) 12: Charles St. John (R) 13: John O. Whitehouse (D) 14: David M. De Witt (D) 15: Eli Perry (D) 16: James S. Smart (R) 17: Robert S. Hale (R) 18: William A. Wheeler (R) 19: Henry H. Hathorn (R) 20: David Wilber (R) 21: Clinton L. Merriam (R) 22: Ellis H. Roberts (R) 23: William E. Lansing (R) 24: R. Holland Duell (R) 25: Clinton D. MacDougall (R) 26: William H. Lamport (R) 27: Thomas C. Platt (R) 28: H. Boardman Smith (R) 29: Freeman Clarke (R) 30: George G. Hoskins (R) 31: Lyman K. Bass (R) 32: Walter L. Sessions (R) A/L: Lyman Tremain (R) North Carolina 1: Clinton L. Cobb (R) 2: Charles R. Thomas (R) 3: Alfred M. Waddell (D) 4: William A. Smith (R) 5: James M. Leach (D) 6: Thomas S. Ashe (D) 7: William M. Robbins (D) 8: Robert B. Vance (D)

Ohio 1: Milton Sayler (D) 2: Henry B. Banning (LR) 3: John Q. Smith (R) 4: Lewis B. Gunckel (R) 5: Charles N. Lamison (D) 6: Isaac R. Sherwood (R) 7: Lawrence T. Neal (D) 8: William Lawrence (R) 9: James W. Robinson (R) 10: Charles Foster (R) 11: Hezekiah S. Bundy (R) 12: Hugh J. Jewett (D) William E. Finck (D) 13: Milton I. Southard (D) 14: John Berry (D) 15: William P. Sprague (R) 16: Lorenzo Danford (R) 17: Laurin D. Woodworth (R) 18: James Monroe (R) 19: James A. Garfield (R) 20: Richard C. Parsons (R) Oregon A/L: Joseph G. Wilson (R) James W. Nesmith (D) Pennsylvania 1: Samuel J. Randall (D) 2: Charles O'Neill (R) 3: Leonard Myers (R) 4: William D. Kelley (R) 5: Alfred C. Harmer (R) 6: James S. Biery (R) 7: Washington Townsend (R) 8: Hiester Clymer (D) 9: A. Herr Smith (R) 10: John W. Killinger (R) 11: John B. Storm (D) 12: Lazarus D. Shoemaker (R) 13: James D. Strawbridge (R) 14: John B. Packer (R) 15: John A. Magee (D) 16: John Cessna (R) 17: R. Milton Speer (D) 18: Sobieski Ross (R) 19: Carlton B. Curtis (R) 20: Hiram L. Richmond (R) 21: Alexander W. Taylor (R) 22: James S. Negley (R) 23: Ebenezer McJunkin (R) John M. Thompson (R) 24: William S. Moore (R) A/L: Charles Albright (R) A/L: Glenni W. Scofield (R) A/L: Lemuel Todd (R) Rhode Island 1: Benjamin T. Eames (R) 2: James M. Pendleton (R) South Carolina 1: Joseph H. Rainey (R) 2: Alonzo J. Ransier (R) 3: Robert B. Elliott (R) Lewis C. Carpenter (R) 4: Alexander S. Wallace (R) A/L: Richard H. Cain (R) Tennessee 1: Roderick R. Butler (R) 2: Jacob M. Thornburgh (R) 3: William Crutchfield (R) 4: John M. Bright (D) 5: Horace H. Harrison (R) 6: Washington C. Whitthorne (D) 7: John D. C. Atkins (D) 8: David A. Nunn (R) 9: Barbour Lewis (R) A/L: Horace Maynard (R) Texas 1: William S. Herndon (D) 2: William P. McLean (D) 3: De Witt C. Giddings (D) 4: John Hancock (D) A/L: Roger Q. Mills (D) A/L: Asa H. Willie (D) Vermont 1: Charles W. Willard (R) 2: Luke P. Poland (R) 3: George W. Hendee (R) Virginia 1: James B. Sener (R) 2: James H. Platt, Jr. (R) 3: J. Ambler Smith (R) 4: William H. H. Stowell (R) 5: Alexander M. Davis (D) Christopher Y. Thomas (R) 6: Thomas Whitehead (D) 7: John T. Harris (D) 8: Eppa Hutton, II (D) 9: Rees T. Bowen (D) West Virginia 1: John J. Davis (ID) 2: John M. Hagans (R) 3: Frank Hereford (D) Wisconsin 1: Charles G. Williams (R) 2: Gerry W. Hazelton (R) 3: J. Allen Barber (R) 4: Alexander Mitchell (D) 5: Charles A. Eldredge (D) 6: Philetus Sawyer (R) 7: Jeremiah M. Rusk (R) 8: Alexander S. McDill (R)

Speaker of the House James G. Blaine Delegates Arizona Territory A/L: Richard C. McCormick (U) Colorado Territory A/L: Jerome B. Chaffee (R) Dakota Territory A/L: Moses K. Armstrong (D) District of Columbia A/L: Norton P. Chipman (R) Idaho Territory A/L: John Hailey (D) Montana Territory A/L: Martin Maginnis (D) New Mexico Territory A/L: Stephen B. Elkins (R) Utah Territory A/L: George Q. Cannon (R) Washington Territory A/L: Obadiah B. McFadden (D) Wyoming Territory A/L: William R. Steele (D)

Membership detail by Chamber/Party

The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.

Senate

Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

Democratic

A-F Thomas F. Bayard, Sr., Delaware Lewis V. Bogy, Missouri Eugene Casserly, California Henry Cooper, Tennessee Henry G. Davis, West Virginia George R. Dennis, Maryland William W. Eaton, Connecticut

G-O George Goldthwaite, Alabama John B. Gordon, Georgia John S. Hager, California William T. Hamilton, Maryland John W. Johnston, Virginia James K. Kelly, Oregon Thomas C. McCreery, Kentucky Augustus S. Merrimon, North Carolina Thomas M. Norwood, Georgia

P-Z Matt W. Ransom, North Carolina Eli M. Saulsbury, Delaware John W. Stevenson, Kentucky John P. Stockton, New Jersey Allen G. Thurman, Ohio

Republican

A-F James L. Alcorn, Mississippi William B. Allison, Iowa Adelbert Ames, Mississippi Henry B. Anthony, Rhode Island Arthur I. Boreman, West Virginia George S. Boutwell, Massachusetts William G. Brownlow, Tennessee William A. Buckingham, Connecticut Alexander Caldwell, Kansas Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania Matthew H. Carpenter, Wisconsin Zachariah Chandler, Michigan Powell Clayton, Arkansas Roscoe Conkling, New York Simon B. Conover, Florida Aaron H. Cragin, New Hampshire Robert Crozier, Kansas Stephen W. Dorsey, Arkansas George F. Edmunds, Vermont Reuben E. Fenton, New York Thomas W. Ferry, Michigan James W. Flanagan, Texas Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey

G-O Abijah Gilbert, Florida Hannibal Hamlin, Maine James M. Harvey, Kansas Phineas W. Hitchcock, Nebraska Timothy O. Howe, Wisconsin John J. Ingalls, Kansas John P. Jones, Nevada John F. Lewis, Virginia John A. Logan, Illinois John H. Mitchell, Oregon Justin S. Morrill, Vermont Lot M. Morrill, Maine Oliver H. P. T. Morton, Indiana

P-Z Richard J. Oglesby, Illinois John J. Patterson, South Carolina Henry R. Pease, Mississippi Daniel D. Pratt, Indiana Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota Thomas J. Robertson, South Carolina Aaron A. Sargent, California Carl Schurz, Missouri John Scott, Pennsylvania John Sherman, Ohio George E. Spencer, Alabama William Sprague, Rhode Island William M. Stewart, Nevada Thomas W. Tipton, Nebraska Bainbridge Wadleigh, New Hampshire William B. Washburn, Massachusetts J. Rodman West, Louisiana William Windom, Minnesota George G. Wright, Iowa

Liberal Republican

Orris S. Ferry, Connecticut Morgan C. Hamilton, Texas Charles Sumner, Massachusetts

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.

Democratic

A-B-C George M. Adams, Kentucky Stevenson Archer, Maryland William E. Arthur, Kentucky Thomas S. Ashe, North Carolina John D. C. Atkins, Tennessee Henry B. Banning, Ohio William H. Barnum, Connecticut James B. Beck, Kentucky Hiram P. Bell, Georgia John Berry, Ohio Richard P. Bland, Missouri James H. Blount, Georgia Rees T. Bowen, Virginia John M. Bright, Tennessee James Brooks, New York John Y. Brown, Kentucky Aylett H. Buckner, Missouri John H. Caldwell, Alabama Bernard G. Caulfield, Illinois John B. Clark, Jr., Missouri Hiester Clymer, Pennsylvania Abram Comingo, Missouri Philip Cook, Georgia Samuel S. Cox, New York Thomas J. Creamer, New York Thomas T. Crittenden, Missouri Edward Crossland, Kentucky D-E-F Alexander M. Davis, Virginia John J. Davis, West Virginia David M. De Witt, New York Milton J. Durham, Kentucky John R. Eden, Illinois Charles A. Eldredge, Wisconsin William E. Finck, Ohio

G-H-I De Witt C. Giddings, Texas John M. Glover, Missouri Thomas M. Gunter, Arkansas Robert Hamilton, New Jersey John Hancock, Texas Henry R. Harris, Georgia John T. Harris, Virginia Robert A. Hatcher, Missouri Frank Hereford, West Virginia William S. Herndon, Texas William S. Holman, Indiana Eppa Hutton, II, Virginia J-K-L Hugh J. Jewett, Ohio Charles W. Kendall, Nevada Robert M. Knapp, Illinois Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Mississippi Charles N. Lamison, Ohio Effingham Lawrence, Louisiana James M. Leach, North Carolina John K. Luttrell, California M-N-O John A. Magee, Pennsylvania Samuel S. Marshall, Illinois William P. McLean, Texas Charles W. Milliken, Kentucky Roger Q. Mills, Texas Alexander Mitchell, Wisconsin William R. Morrison, Illinois Lawrence T. Neal, Ohio James W. Nesmith, Oregon William E. Niblack, Indiana William J. O'Brien, Maryland

P-Q-R Hosea W. Parker, New Hampshire Eli Perry, New York Clarkson N. Potter, New York Samuel J. Randall, Pennsylvania Morgan Rawls, Georgia William B. Read, Kentucky William M. Robbins, North Carolina William R. Roberts, New York James C. Robinson, Illinois S-T-U-V Milton Sayler, Ohio Richard Schell, New York John G. Schumaker, New York Joseph H. Sloss, Alabama Milton I. Southard, Ohio R. Milton Speer, Pennsylvania Elisha D. Standiford, Kentucky Alexander H. Stephens, Georgia William H. Stone, Missouri John B. Storm, Pennsylvania Thomas Swann, Maryland Robert B. Vance, North Carolina W-X-Y-Z Alfred M. Waddell, North Carolina Erastus Wells, Missouri Thomas Whitehead, Virginia John O. Whitehouse, New York Washington C. Whitthorne, Tennessee Asa H. Willie, Texas Ephraim K. Wilson, Maryland Simeon K. Wolfe, Indiana Fernando Wood, New York John D. Young, Kentucky Pierce M. B. Young, Georgia

Republican

A-B-C William J. Albert, Maryland Charles Albright, Pennsylvania John T. Averill, Minnesota J. Allen Barber, Wisconsin Granville Barrere, Illinois Henry W. Barry, Mississippi Lyman K. Bass, New York Josiah W. Begole, Michigan James S. Biery, Pennsylvania James G. Blaine, Maine Nathan B. Bradley, Michigan James Buffinton, Massachusetts Hezekiah S. Bundy, Ohio Horatio C. Burchard, Illinois John H. Burleigh, Maine Julius C. Burrows, Michigan Benjamin F. Butler, Massachusetts Roderick R. Butler, Tennessee Richard H. Cain, South Carolina Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois Lewis C. Carpenter, South Carolina Thomas J. Cason, Indiana John Cessna, Pennsylvania Amos Clark, Jr., New Jersey Freeman Clarke, New York Charles Clayton, California Isaac Clements, Illinois Clinton L. Cobb, North Carolina Stephen A. Cobb, Kansas John Coburn, Indiana Omar D. Conger, Michigan Franklin Corwin, Illinois Aylett R. Cotton, Iowa Alvah Crocker, Massachusetts Philip S. Crooke, New York Lorenzo Crounse, Nebraska William Crutchfield, Tennessee Carlton B. Curtis, Pennsylvania D-E-F Lorenzo Danford, Ohio Chester B. Darrall, Louisiana Henry L. Dawes, Massachusetts Samuel A. Dobbins, New Jersey William G. Donnan, Iowa R. Holland Duell, New York Mark H. Dunnell, Minnesota Benjamin T. Eames, Rhode Island Robert B. Elliott, South Carolina Charles B. Farwell, Illinois Moses W. Field, Michigan Greenbury L. Fort, Illinois Charles Foster, Ohio Wilder D. Foster, Michigan James C. Freeman, Georgia William P. Frye, Maine

G-H-I James A. Garfield, Ohio Daniel W. Gooch, Massachusetts Lewis B. Gunckel, Ohio John M. Hagans, West Virginia Eugene Hale, Maine Robert S. Hale, New York Alfred C. Harmer, Pennsylvania Benjamin W. Harris, Massachusetts Horace H. Harrison, Tennessee Henry H. Hathorn, New York Harrison E. Havens, Missouri John B. Hawley, Illinois Joseph R. Hawley, Connecticut Charles Hays, Alabama Gerry W. Hazelton, Wisconsin John W. Hazelton, New Jersey George W. Hendee, Vermont Samuel F. Hersey, Maine Ebenezer R. Hoar, Massachusetts George F. Hoar, Massachusetts Asa Hodges, Arkansas Samuel Hooper, Massachusetts George G. Hoskins, New York Sherman O. Houghton, California Albert R. Howe, Mississippi Jay A. Hubbell, Michigan Morton C. Hunter, Indiana Stephen A. Hurlbut, Illinois Ira B. Hyde, Missouri J-K-L John A. Kasson, Iowa William D. Kelley, Pennsylvania Stephen W. Kellogg, Connecticut John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania William H. Lamport, New York William E. Lansing, New York William Lawrence, Ohio John D. Lawson, New York Barbour Lewis, Tennessee James R. Lofland, Delaware William Loughridge, Iowa David P. Lowe, Kansas Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Maryland John R. Lynch1939), Mississippi M-N-O Clinton D. MacDougall, New York James S. Martin, Illinois Horace Maynard, Tennessee George W. McCrary, Iowa Alexander S. McDill, Wisconsin James W. McDill, Iowa Ebenezer McJunkin, Pennsylvania George C. McKee, Mississippi John McNulta, Illinois David B. Mellish, New York Clinton L. Merriam, New York James Monroe, Ohio William S. Moore, Pennsylvania Frank Morey, Louisiana Leonard Myers, Pennsylvania James S. Negley, Pennsylvania Jason Niles, Mississippi David A. Nunn, Tennessee Charles O'Neill, Pennsylvania Jackson Orr, Iowa Godlove S. Orth, Indiana

P-Q-R Jasper Packard, Indiana John B. Packer, Pennsylvania Horace F. Page, California Isaac C. Parker, Missouri Richard C. Parsons, Ohio Charles Pelham, Alabama James M. Pendleton, Rhode Island William W. Phelps, New Jersey William A. Phillips, Kansas Henry L. Pierce, Massachusetts Austin F. Pike, New Hampshire James H. Platt, Jr., Virginia Thomas C. Platt, New York Luke P. Poland, Vermont Henry O. Pratt, Iowa William J. Purman, Florida Joseph H. Rainey, South Carolina Alonzo J. Ransier, South Carolina James T. Rapier, Alabama William H. Ray, Illinois John B. Rice, Illinois Hiram L. Richmond, Pennsylvania Ellis H. Roberts, New York James W. Robinson, Ohio Sobieski Ross, Pennsylvania Jeremiah M. Rusk, Wisconsin S-T-U-V Philetus Sawyer, Wisconsin Henry B. Sayler, Indiana Glenni W. Scofield, Pennsylvania Henry J. Scudder, New York Isaac W. Scudder, New Jersey James B. Sener, Virginia Walter L. Sessions, New York John P. C. Shanks, Indiana Charles C. Sheats, Alabama Lionel A. Sheldon, Louisiana Isaac R. Sherwood, Ohio Lazarus D. Shoemaker, Pennsylvania Andrew Sloan, Georgia William B. Small, New Hampshire James S. Smart, New York A. Herr Smith, Pennsylvania George L. Smith, Louisiana H. Boardman Smith, New York J. Ambler Smith, Virginia John Q. Smith, Ohio William A. Smith, North Carolina Oliver P. Snyder, Arkansas William P. Sprague, Ohio Charles St. John, New York Edwin O. Stanard, Missouri Henry H. Starkweather, Connecticut Charles A. Stevens, Massachusetts William H. H. Stowell, Virginia Horace B. Strait, Minnesota James D. Strawbridge, Pennsylvania J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana Alexander W. Taylor, Pennsylvania Charles R. Thomas, North Carolina Christopher Y. Thomas, Virginia John M. Thompson, Pennsylvania Jacob M. Thornburgh, Tennessee Lemuel Todd, Pennsylvania Washington Townsend, Pennsylvania Lyman Tremain, New York James N. Tyner, Indiana W-X-Y-Z Henry Waldron, Michigan Alexander S. Wallace, South Carolina Josiah T. Walls, Florida Jasper D. Ward, Illinois Marcus L. Ward, New Jersey William A. Wheeler, New York Alexander White, Alabama Richard H. Whiteley, Georgia William Whiting, Massachusetts David Wilber, New York Charles W. Willard, Vermont George Willard, Michigan Charles G. Williams, Wisconsin John M. S. Williams, Massachusetts William Williams, Indiana William B. Williams, Michigan William W. Wilshire, Arkansas James Wilson, Iowa Jeremiah M. Wilson, Indiana Joseph G. Wilson, Oregon Stewart L. Woodford, New York Laurin D. Woodworth, Ohio

Independent Republican

Simeon B. Chittenden, New York

Liberal Republican

Frederick G. Bromberg, Alabama William J. Hynes, Arkansas George A. Sheridan, Louisiana

Changes in membership

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

Senate replacements: 5 Democratic: 1 seat net gain Republican: no net change Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss deaths: 3 resignations: 3 interim appointments: 1 vacancy: 1 Total seats with changes: 7

House of Representatives replacements: 13 Democratic: 3 seat net gain Republican: 4 seat net loss Liberal Republican: 1 seat net gain deaths: 6 resignations: 5 contested election: 7 Total seats with changes: 18

Officers

Senate Secretary of the Senate: George C. Gorham of Massachusetts elected June 4, 1868 Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: John R. French of New Hampshire, elected March 22, 1869 Chaplain of the Senate: John P. Newman, Methodist, elected March 8, 1869 Byron Sunderland, Presbyterian, elected December 8, 1873 Employees Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark, appointed August 30, 1865

House of Representatives Clerk of the House: Edward McPherson of Pennsylvania, elected December 1, 1873 Sergeant at Arms of the House: Nehemiah G. Ordway of New Hampshire, elected December 1, 1873 Doorkeeper of the House: Otis S. Buxton of New York, elected December 1, 1873 Postmaster of the House: Henry Sherwood of Michigan, elected December 1, 1873 Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: John M. Barclay Chaplain of the House: John G. Butler, Presbyterian, elected December 1, 1873

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

• Statutes at Large, 1789-1875
• Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists