FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885.
THE SENATE.
Republicans (in Roman), 38; Democrats (in italics), 36; Readjuster (in SMALL CAPS), 2. Total, 76.
| Term ex. | Home Postoffice. |
| Alabama— | |
| 1889 John T. Morgan | Selma. |
| 1885 James L. Pugh | Eufaula. |
| Arkansas— | |
| 1889 Augustus H. Garland | Little Rock. |
| 1885 James D. Walker | Fayetteville. |
| California— | |
| 1885 James T. Farley | Jackson. |
| 1887 John F. Miller | San Francisco. |
| Colorado— | |
| 1889 Thomas M. Bowen | Rio Grande. |
| 1885 Nathaniel P. Hill | Denver. |
| Connecticut— | |
| 1885 Orville H. Platt | Meriden. |
| 1887 Joseph R. Hawley | Hartford. |
| Delaware— | |
| 1889 Eli Saulsbury | Dover. |
| 1887 Thomas Francis Bayard | Wilmington. |
| Florida— | |
| 1885 Wilkinson Call | Jacksonville. |
| 1887 Charles W. Jones | Pensacola. |
| Georgia— | |
| 1889 A. H. Colquitt | Atlanta. |
| 1885 Joseph E. Brown | Atlanta. |
| Illinois— | |
| 1889 Shelby M. Cullom | Springfield. |
| 1885 John A. Logan | Chicago. |
| Indiana— | |
| 1885 Daniel W. Voorhees | Terre Haute. |
| 1887 Benjamin Harrison | Indianapolis. |
| Iowa— | |
| 1889 J. F. Wilson | Fairfield. |
| 1885 William B. Allison | Dubuque. |
| Kansas— | |
| 1889 Preston B. Plumb | Emporia. |
| 1885 John J. Ingalls | Atchison. |
| Kentucky— | |
| 1889 James B. Beck | Lexington. |
| 1885 John S. Williams | Mt. Sterling. |
| Louisiana— | |
| 1889 Randall L. Gibson | New Orleans. |
| 1885 Benjamin F. Jonas | New Orleans. |
| Maine— | |
| 1889 William P. Frye | Lewiston. |
| 1887 Eugene Hale | Ellsworth. |
| Maryland— | |
| 1885 James B. Groome | Elkton. |
| 1887 Arthur P. Gorman | Laurel. |
| Massachusetts— | |
| 1889 George F. Hoar | Worcester. |
| 1887 Henry L. Dawes | Pittsfield. |
| Michigan— | |
| 1889 T. W. Palmer | Detroit. |
| 1887 Omar D. Conger | Port Huron. |
| Minnesota— | |
| 1889 D. M. Sabin | Stillwater. |
| 1887 Samuel J. R. McMillan | St. Paul. |
| Mississippi— | |
| 1885 Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Oxford. |
| 1887 James Z. George | Jackson. |
| Missouri— | |
| 1885 George G. Vest | Kansas City. |
| 1887 Francis M. Cockrell | Warrensburg. |
| Nebraska— | |
| 1889 Charles F. Manderson | Omaha. |
| 1887 Charles H. Van Wyck | Nebraska City. |
| Nevada— | |
| 1885 John P. Jones | Gold Hill. |
| 1887 James G. Fair | Virginia City. |
| New Hampshire— | |
| 1889 Austin F. Pike | Franklin. |
| 1887 Henry W. Blair | Plymouth. |
| New Jersey— | |
| 1889 John R. McPherson | Jersey City. |
| 1887 William J. Sewell | Camden. |
| New York— | |
| 1885 Elbridge G. Lapham | Canandaigua. |
| 1887 Warner Miller | Herkimer. |
| North Carolina— | |
| 1889 Matt W. Ransom | Weldon. |
| 1885 Zebulon B. Vance | Charlotte. |
| Ohio— | |
| 1887 John Sherman | Mansfield. |
| 1885 George H. Pendleton | Cincinnati. |
| Oregon— | |
| 1889 Joseph N. Dolph | Portland. |
| 1885 James H. Slater | Le Grande. |
| Pennsylvania— | |
| 1885 J. Donald Cameron | Harrisburg. |
| 1887 John I. Mitchell | Wellsboro. |
| Rhode Island— | |
| 1889 Henry B. Anthony | Providence. |
| 1887 Nelson W. Aldrich | Providence. |
| South Carolina— | |
| 1889 Matthew C. Butler | Edgefield. |
| 1885 Wade Hampton | Columbia. |
| Tennessee— | |
| 1889 Isham G. Harris | Memphis. |
| 1887 Howell E. Jackson | Jackson. |
| Texas— | |
| 1889 Richard Coke | Waco. |
| 1887 Sam Bell Maxey | Paris. |
| Vermont— | |
| 1885 Justin S. Morrill | Strafford. |
| 1887 George F. Edmunds | Burlington. |
| Virginia— | |
| 1889 Harrison H. Riddleberger | Richmond. |
| 1887 William Mahone | Petersburg. |
| West Virginia— | |
| 1889 John E. Kenna | Kanawha. |
| 1887 Johnson N. Camden | Parkersburg. |
| Wisconsin— | |
| 1885 Angus Cameron | LaCrosse. |
| 1887 Philetus Sawyer | Oshkosh. |
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Republicans (in Roman), 117; regular Democrats, (in italics), 196; Readjusters (in SMALL CAPS), 5; Greenback-labor (in SMALL CAPS), 1; Independent (in SMALL CAPS), 3; vacancies, 3: Total, 325; majority, 163. Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress marked with a [18]; those in a preceding Congress with a [19].
| Alabama— | |
| 1 | James T. Jones.[18] |
| 2 | Hilary A. Herbert.[18] |
| 3 | Wm. C. Oates.[18] |
| 4 | Charles M. Shelley.[18] |
| 5 | Thomas Williams.[18] |
| 6 | Goldsmith W. Hewitt.[18] |
| 7 | Wm. H. Forney.[18] |
| 8 | Luke Pryor.[15] |
| Arkansas— | |
| 1 | Poindexter Dunn.[18] |
| 2 | James K. Jones.[18] |
| 3 | John H. Rogers. |
| 4 | Samuel W. Peel. |
| At Large—C. R. Breckinridge. | |
| California— | |
| 1 | Wm. S. Rosecrans.[18] |
| 2 | James H. Budd. |
| 3 | Barclay Henley. |
| 4 | Patrick B. Tulley. |
| At Large—Chas. A. Sumner, John. R. Glascock. | |
| Colorado— | |
| James B. Bedford.[18] | |
| Connecticut— | |
| 1 | Wm. W. Eaton.[15] |
| 2 | Charles L. Mitchell. |
| 3 | John T. Wait[18] |
| 4 | Edw. W. Seymour. |
| Delaware— | |
| Charles B. Lore. | |
| Florida— | |
| 1 | Robert H. H. Davidson.[18] |
| 2 | Horatio Bisbee, Jr. |
| Georgia— | |
| 1 | John C. Nicholls.[19] |
| 2 | Henry G. Turner.[18] |
| 3 | Charles F. Crisp. |
| 4 | Hugh Buchanan.[18] |
| 5 | Nathaniel J. Hammond.[18] |
| 6 | James H. Blount.[18] |
| 7 | Judson C. Clements.[18] |
| 8 | Seaborn Reese.[18] |
| 9 | Allen C. Candler. |
| At Large—Thomas Hardeman.[19] | |
| Illinois— | |
| 1 | Ransom W. Dunham. |
| 2 | John F. Finerty, Ind. |
| 3 | George R. Davis.[18] |
| 4 | George E. Adams. |
| 5 | Reuben Ellwood. |
| 6 | Robert R Hitt.[18] |
| 7 | Thomas J. Henderson.[18] |
| 8 | William Cullen.[18] |
| 9 | Lewis E. Payson.[18] |
| 10 | Nicholas E. Worthington. |
| 11 | William H. Neece. |
| 12 | James M. Riggs. |
| 13 | William M. Springer.[18] |
| 14 | Jonathan H. Rowell. |
| 15 | Joseph G. Cannon.[18] |
| 16 | Aaron Shaw. |
| 17 | Samuel W. Moulton.[18] |
| 18 | William R. Morrison.[18] |
| 19 | Richard W. Townshend.[18] |
| 20 | John R. Thomas.[18] |
| Indiana— | |
| 1 | John J. Kleiner. |
| 2 | Thomas R. Cobb.[18] |
| 3 | S. M. Stockslager.[18] |
| 4 | William S. Holman.[18] |
| 5 | Courtland C. Matson.[18] |
| 6 | Thomas M. Browne.[18] |
| 7 | Stanton J. Peelle.[18] |
| 8 | John E. Lamb. |
| 9 | Thomas B. Ward. |
| 10 | Thomas J. Wood. |
| 11 | George W. Steele.[18] |
| 12 | Robert Lowry. |
| 13 | William H. Calkins.[18] |
| Iowa— | |
| 1 | Moses A. McCoid.[18] |
| 2 | Jermiah H. Murphy. |
| 3 | David B. Henderson. |
| 4 | L. H. Weller, Gbk. |
| 5 | James Wilson.[19] |
| 6 | John C. Cook.[16] |
| 7 | John A. Kasson.[18] |
| 8 | William P. Hepburn. |
| 9 | Wm. H. M. Pusey. |
| 10 | Adoniram J. Holmes. |
| 11 | Isaac S. Struble. |
| Kansas— | |
| 1 | John A. Anderson.[18] |
| 2 | Vacancy. |
| 3 | Thomas Ryan.[18] |
| At Large—Edmund N. Morrill, Lewis Hanback, Samuel R. Peters, Bishop W. Perkins. | |
| Kentucky— | |
| 1 | Oscar Turner.[18] |
| 2 | James F. Clay. |
| 3 | John E. Halsell. |
| 4 | Thomas A. Robertson. |
| 5 | Albert S. Willis.[18] |
| 6 | John G. Carlisle. |
| 7 | Joseph C. S. Blackburn.[18] |
| 8 | Philip B. Thompson, Jr.[18] |
| 9 | William W. Culbertson. |
| 10 | John D. White.[18] |
| 11 | Frank L. Wolford. |
| Louisiana— | |
| 1 | Carleton Hunt. |
| 2 | E. John Ellis.[18] |
| 3 | William P. Kellogg.[15] |
| 4 | Newton C. Blanchard.[18] |
| 5 | J. Floyd King.[18] |
| 6 | Edward T. Lewis. |
| Maine— | |
| At Large—Thos. B. Reed.[18] | |
| Nelson Dingley, Jr.[18] | |
| Chas. A. Boutelle. | |
| Seth L. Milliken. | |
| Maryland— | |
| 1 | George W. Covington.[18] |
| 2 | J. Frederick C. Talbott.[18] |
| 3 | Fetter S. Hoblitzell.[18] |
| 4 | John V. L. Findlay. |
| 5 | Hart B. Holton. |
| 6 | Louis E. McComas. |
| Massachusetts— | |
| 1 | Robert T. Davis |
| 2 | John D. Long. |
| 3 | Ambrose A. Ranney.[18] |
| 4 | Patrick A. Collins. |
| 5 | Leopold Morse.[18] |
| 6 | Henry B. Lovering.[16] |
| 7 | Eben F. Stone.[18] |
| 8 | William A. Russell. |
| 9 | Theodore Lyman.[17] |
| 10 | William W. Rice.[18] |
| 11 | William Whiting. |
| 12 | Vacancy. |
| Michigan— | |
| 1 | William C. Maybury. |
| 2 | Nathan B. Eldredge. |
| 3 | Edward S. Lacey.[18] |
| 4 | George L. Yaple. |
| 5 | Julius Houseman. |
| 6 | Edwin B. Winans. |
| 7 | Ezra C. Carleton. |
| 8 | Roswell G. Horr.[18] |
| 9 | Byron M. Cutcheon. |
| 10 | Herschel H. Hatch. |
| 11 | Edward Breitung. |
| Minnesota— | |
| 1 | Milo White. |
| 2 | James B. Wakefield. |
| 3 | Horace B. Strait.[18] |
| 4 | William D. Washburn.[18] |
| 5 | Knute Nelson. |
| Mississippi— | |
| 1 | Henry L. Muldrow.[18] |
| 2 | J. R. Chalmers,[18] Ind. |
| 3 | E. S. Jeffords. |
| 4 | Hernando D. Money.[18] |
| 5 | Otho R. Singleton.[18] |
| 6 | Henry S. Van Eaton. |
| 7 | Ethelbert Barksdale. |
| Missouri— | |
| 1 | William H. Hatch.[18] |
| 2 | A. M. Alexander. |
| 3 | Alexander M. Dockery. |
| 4 | James N. Burnes. |
| 5 | Alexander Graves. |
| 6 | John Cosgrove. |
| 7 | Aylett H. Buckner.[18] |
| 8 | John J. O’Neill. |
| 9 | James O. Broadhead. |
| 10 | Martin L. Clardy.[18] |
| 11 | Richard P. Bland.[18] |
| 12 | Charles H. Morgan.[19] |
| 13 | Robert W. Ryan. |
| 14 | Lowndes H. Davis.[18] |
| Nebraska— | |
| 1 | Archibald J. Weaver. |
| 2 | James Laird. |
| 3 | Edward K. Valentine.[18] |
| Nevada— | |
| George W. Cassidy.[18] | |
| New Hampshire— | |
| 1 | Martin A. Haynes. |
| 2 | Ossian Ray.[18] |
| New Jersey— | |
| 1 | Thomas W. Ferrell. |
| 2 | J. Hart Brewer.[18] |
| 3 | John Kean. Jr. |
| 4 | Benjamin F. Howey. |
| 5 | William Walter Phelps.[19] |
| 6 | William H. F. Fiedler. |
| 7 | William McAdoo. |
| New York— | |
| 1 | Perry Belmont.[18] |
| 2 | William E. Robinson.[18] |
| 3 | Darwin R. James. |
| 4 | Felix Campbell. |
| 5 | Nicholas Muller.[19] |
| 6 | Samuel S. Cox. |
| 7 | William Dorsheimer. |
| 8 | John J. Adams. |
| 9 | John Hardy.[18] |
| 10 | Abram S. Hewitt.[18] |
| 11 | Orlando B. Potter. |
| 12 | Waldo Hutchins.[18] |
| 13 | John H. Ketcham.[18] |
| 14 | Lewis Beach.[18] |
| 15 | John J. Bagley, Jr.[19] |
| 16 | Thomas J. Van Alstyne. |
| 17 | Henry G. Burleigh. |
| 18 | Frederick A. Johnson. |
| 19 | Abraham X. Parker.[18] |
| 20 | Edward Wemple. |
| 21 | George W. Ray. |
| 22 | Charles R. Skinner.[18] |
| 23 | J. Thomas Spriggs. |
| 24 | Newton W. Nutting. |
| 25 | Frank Hiscock.[18] |
| 26 | Sereno E. Payne. |
| 27 | James W. Wadsworth.[18] |
| 28 | Stephen C. Millard. |
| 29 | John Arnot. |
| 30 | Halbert S. Greenleaf. |
| 31 | Robert S. Stevens. |
| 32 | William F. Rogers. |
| 33 | Francis B. Brewer. |
| At Large—Henry W. Slocum.[19] | |
| North Carolina— | |
| 1 | Thomas G. Skinner. |
| 2 | James E. O’Hara. |
| 3 | Wharton J. Green. |
| 4 | William R. Cox.[18] |
| 5 | Alfred M. Scales.[18] |
| 6 | Clement Dowd.[18] |
| 7 | Tyre York, Ind. |
| 8 | Robert B. Vance.[18] |
| At Large—R. I. Bennett. | |
| Ohio— | |
| 1 | John F. Follett. |
| 2 | Isaac M. Jordan. |
| 3 | Robert M. Murray. |
| 4 | Benjamin Le Fevre.[18] |
| 5 | George E. Seney. |
| 6 | William D. Hill.[19] |
| 7 | Henry L. Morey.[18] |
| 8 | J. Warren Keifer.[18] |
| 9 | James S. Robinson.[18] |
| 10 | Frank H. Hurd.[19] |
| 11 | John W. McCormick. |
| 12 | Alphonso Hart. |
| 13 | George L. Converse.[18] |
| 14 | George W. Geddes.[18] |
| 15 | Adoniram J. Warner.[19] |
| 16 | Beriah Wilkins. |
| 17 | Joseph D. Taylor. |
| 18 | William McKinley, Jr.[18] |
| 19 | Ezra B. Taylor.[18] |
| 20 | David R. Paige. |
| 21 | Martin A. Foran. |
| Oregon— | |
| Melvin C. George.[18] | |
| Pennsylvania— | |
| 1 | Henry H. Bingham. |
| 2 | Charles O’Neill.[18] |
| 3 | Samuel J. Randall.[18] |
| 4 | William D. Kelley.[18] |
| 5 | Alfred C. Harmer.[18] |
| 6 | James B. Everhart. |
| 7 | I. Newton Evans.[19] |
| 8 | Daniel Ermentrout.[18] |
| 9 | A. Herr Smith.[18] |
| 10 | William Mutchler.[18] |
| 11 | John B. Storm.[19] |
| 12 | Daniel W. Connolly. |
| 13 | Chas. N. Brumm,[18] Gbk. |
| 14 | Samuel F. Barr.[18] |
| 15 | George A. Post. |
| 16 | William W. Brown. |
| 17 | Jacob M. Campbell.[18] |
| 18 | Louis E. Atkinson. |
| 19 | William A. Duncan. |
| 20 | Andrew G. Curtin.[18] |
| 21 | Charles E. Boyle. |
| 22 | James H. Hopkins.[19] |
| 23 | Thomas M. Bayne.[18] |
| 24 | George V. Lawrence.[19] |
| 25 | John D. Patton. |
| 26 | Samuel H. Miller[18] |
| 27 | Samuel M. Brainard. |
| At Large—Mortimer F. Elliott. | |
| Rhode Island— | |
| 1 | Henry J. Spooner.[18] |
| 2 | Jonathan Chace.[18] |
| South Carolina— | |
| 1 | Samuel Dibble.[18] |
| 2 | George D. Tillman.[18] |
| 3 | D. Wyatt Aiken.[18] |
| 4 | John H. Evins.[18] |
| 5 | John J. Hemphill. |
| 6 | Geo. W. Dargan. |
| 7 | Edmund W. M. Mackey.[18] |
| Tennessee— | |
| 1 | Augustus H. Pettibone. |
| 2 | Leonidas C. Houk.[18] |
| 3 | Geo. G. Dibrell.[18] |
| 4 | Benton McMillin.[18] |
| 5 | Richard Warner.[18] |
| 6 | Andrew J. Caldwell. |
| 7 | John G. Ballentyne. |
| 8 | John M. Taylor. |
| 9 | Rice A. Pearce. |
| 10 | Casey Young.[19] |
| Texas— | |
| 1 | Charles Stewart. |
| 2 | John H. Reagan.[18] |
| 3 | James H. Jones. |
| 4 | David B. Culberson.[18] |
| 5 | Jas. W. Throckmorton.[19] |
| 6 | Olin Wellborn.[18] |
| 7 | T. P. Ochiltree, Ind. |
| 8 | James F. Miller. |
| 9 | Roger Q. Mills.[18] |
| 10 | John Hancock.[19] |
| 11 | Samuel W. T. Lanham. |
| Vermont— | |
| 1 | John W. Stewart. |
| 2 | Luke P. Poland.[19] |
| Virginia— | |
| 1 | Robert M. Mayo, Re. |
| 2 | Harry Libbey, Re. |
| 3 | George D. Wise.[18] |
| 4 | Benj. S. Hooper, Re. |
| 5 | George C. Cabell.[18] |
| 6 | John Randolph Tucker.[18] |
| 7 | Vacancy. |
| 8 | John S. Barbour.[18] |
| 9 | Henry S. Bowen, Re. |
| At Large—John S. Wise, Re. | |
| West Virginia— | |
| 1 | Nathan Goff, Jr. |
| 2 | William L. Wilson. |
| 3 | Charles P. Snyder. |
| 4 | Eustace Gibson. |
| Wisconsin— | |
| 1 | John Winans. |
| 2 | Daniel H. Sumner. |
| 3 | Burr W. Jones. |
| 4 | Peter F. Deuster.[18] |
| 5 | Joseph Rankin. |
| 6 | Richard Guenther.[18] |
| 7 | Guibert M. Woodward. |
| 8 | William T. Price. |
| 9 | Isaac Stephenson. |