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FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS MARCH 4, 1885, TO MARCH 3, 1887

FIRST SESSION—December 7, 1885, to August 5, 1886 SECOND SESSION—December 6, 1886, to March 3, 1887 SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SENATE—March 4, 1885, to April 2, 1885

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE —THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, 1 of PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE—, 2 of ; JOHN J. INGALLS, 3 of SECRETARY OF THE SENATE—ANSON G. MCCOOK, of SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE—WILLIAM P. CANADAY, of

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—JOHN G. CARLISLE, 4 of Kentucky CLERK OF THE HOUSE—JOHN B. CLARK, JR., 5 of Missouri SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE—JOHN P. LEEDOM, of Ohio DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE—SAMUEL DONALDSON, of Tennessee POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE—LYCURGUS DALTON

ALABAMA Samuel W. Peel, Bentonville Joseph R. Hawley, Hartford SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John T. Morgan, Selma SENATORS John R. Buck, Hartford James L. Pugh, Eufaula John F. Miller, 9 Charles L. Mitchell, New Haven REPRESENTATIVES George Hearst, 10 San Francisco John T. Wait, Norwich James T. Jones, Demopolis Abram P. Williams, 11 San Francisco Edward W. Seymour, Litchfield Hilary A. Herbert, Montgomery , San Francisco William C. Oates, Abbeville REPRESENTATIVES DELAWARE Alexander C. Davidson, Uniontown Barclay Henley, Santa Rosa SENATORS Thomas W. Sadler, Prattville J. A. Louttit, Stockton Joseph McKenna, Suisun Thomas F. Bayard, 12 Wilmington John M. Martin, Tuscaloosa 13 William H. Forney, Jacksonville W. W. Morrow, San Francisco George Gray, New Castle Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler Charles N. Felton, San Francisco Eli Saulsbury, Dover H. H. Markham, Pasadena REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE ARKANSAS COLORADO Charles B. Lore, Wilmington SENATORS SENATORS Augustus H. Garland, 6 Little Rock Thomas M. Bowen, Del Norte FLORIDA James H. Berry, 7 Bentonville Henry M. Teller, Central City James K. Jones, Washington SENATORS REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Charles W. Jones, Pensacola REPRESENTATIVES George G. Symes, Denver , Jacksonville Poindexter Dunn, Forest City C. R. Breckinridge, Pine Bluff CONNECTICUT REPRESENTATIVES Thomas C. McRae, 8 Prescott SENATORS Robert H. M. Davidson, Quincy John H. Rogers, Fort Smith Orville H. Platt, Meriden Charles Dougherty, Port Orange

1 Died November 25, 1885; Vice Presidency remained 6 Resigned March 6, 1885, having been appointed Attor- 10 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of John vacant until March 4, 1889. ney General. F. Miller, and took his seat April 9, 1886. 2 Elected December 7, 1885; resigned effective February 7 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Augus- 11 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John F. 26, 1887. tus H. Garland, and took his seat March 25, 1885. Miller, and took his seat December 6, 1886. 3 Elected February 25, 1887. 8 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rep- 12 Resigned March 6, 1885, having been appointed Sec- 4 Reelected December 7, 1885. resentative-elect James K. Jones in preceding Congress, retary of State. 13 5 Reelected December 7, 1885. and took his seat December 7, 1885. Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Thom- 9 Died March 8, 1886. as F. Bayard, and took his seat March 19, 1885.

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GEORGIA George W. Steele, 18 Marion Newton C. Blanchard, Shreveport SENATORS Robert Lowry, Fort Wayne J. Floyd King, Vidalia George Ford, South Bend Alfred B. Irion, Marksville Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, Atlanta IOWA REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS Thomas M. Norwood, Savannah William B. Allison, Dubuque , Ellsworth Henry G. Turner, Quitman James F. Wilson, Fairfield William P. Frye, Lewiston Charles F. Crisp, Americus REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Henry R. Harris, Greenville B. J. Hall, Burlington N. J. Hammond, Atlanta Thomas B. Reed, Portland J. H. Murphy, Davenport Nelson Dingley, Jr., Lewiston James H. Blount, Macon David B. Henderson, Dubuque Judson C. Clements, La Fayette Seth L. Milliken, Belfast William E. Fuller, West Union Charles A. Boutelle, Bangor Seaborn Reese, Sparta Ben. T. Frederick, Marshalltown Allen D. Candler, Gainesville J. B. Weaver, 19 Bloomfield George T. Barnes, Augusta Edwin H. Conger, Des Moines SENATORS William P. Hepburn, Clarinda Arthur Pue Gorman, Laurel ILLINOIS Joseph Lyman, Council Bluffs Ephraim K. Wilson, Snow Hill SENATORS Adoniram J. Holmes, Boone John A. Logan, 14 Isaac S. Struble, Le Mars REPRESENTATIVES Charles B. Farwell, 15 Chicago Charles H. Gibson, Easton Shelby M. Cullom, Springfield KANSAS Frank T. Shaw, Westminster 22 REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS William H. Cole, Baltimore Harry W. Rusk, 23 Baltimore Ransom W. Dunham, Chicago John J. Ingalls, Atchison John V. L. Findlay, Baltimore Frank Lawler, Chicago Preston B. Plumb, Emporia Barnes Compton, Laurel James H. Ward, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Louis E. McComas, Hagerstown George E. Adams, Chicago E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha Reuben Ellwood, 16 Sycamore E. H. Funston, Iola MASSACHUSETTS A. J. Hopkins, 17 Aurora Bishop W. Perkins, Oswego Robert R. Hitt, Mount Morris Thomas Ryan, Topeka SENATORS Thomas J. Henderson, Princeton John A. Anderson, Manhattan Henry L. Dawes, Pittsfield Ralph Plumb, Streator Lewis Hanback, Osborne George F. Hoar, Worcester Lewis E. Payson, Pontiac Samuel R. Peters, Newton REPRESENTATIVES Nicholas E. Worthington, Peoria Robert T. Davis, Fall River William H. Neece, Macomb KENTUCKY John D. Long, Hingham James M. Riggs, Winchester SENATORS Ambrose A. Ranney, Boston William M. Springer, Springfield James B. Beck, Lexington Patrick A. Collins, Boston Jonathan H. Rowell, Bloomington Joseph C. S. Blackburn, Versailles Edward D. Hayden, Woburn John R. Thomas, Metropolis REPRESENTATIVES Henry B. Lovering, Lynn Joseph G. Cannon, Danville William J. Stone, Kuttawa Eben F. Stone, Newburyport Silas Z. Landes, Mount Carmel Polk Laffoon, Madisonville Charles H. Allen, Lowell John R. Eden, Sullivan John E. Halsell, Bowling Green Frederick D. Ely, Dedham William R. Morrison, Waterloo Thomas A. Robertson, Elizabethtown William W. Rice, Worcester Richard W. Townshend, Shawneetown Albert S. Willis, Louisville William Whiting, Holyoke John G. Carlisle, Covington Francis W. Rockwell, Pittsfield INDIANA William C. P. Breckinridge, Lexington SENATORS James B. McCreary, Richmond Daniel W. Voorhees, Terre Haute W. H. Wadsworth, Maysville SENATORS , Indianapolis W. P. Taulbee, Saylersville Omar D. Conger, Port Huron REPRESENTATIVES Frank L. Wolford, Columbia Thomas W. Palmer, Detroit REPRESENTATIVES John J. Kleiner, Evansville Thomas R. Cobb, Vincennes William C. Maybury, Detroit Jonas G. Howard, Jeffersonville SENATORS Nathaniel B. Eldredge, Adrian William S. Holman, Aurora Randall L. Gibson, James O’Donnell, Jackson Courtland C. Matson, Greencastle James B. Eustis, New Orleans Julius C. Burrows, Kalamazoo Thomas M. Browne, Winchester REPRESENTATIVES Charles C. Comstock, Grand Rapids William D. Bynum, Indianapolis Louis St. Martin, New Orleans Edwin B. Winans, Hamburg James T. Johnston, Rockville Michael Hahn, 20 New Orleans Ezra C. Carleton, Port Huron Thomas B. Ward, La Fayette Nathaniel D. Wallace, 21 New Orleans Timothy E. Tarsney, East Saginaw William D. Owen, Logansport Edward J. Gay, Plaquemine Byron M. Cutcheon, Manistee

14 Died December 26, 1886. 18 Election unsuccessfully contested by Meredith H. 21 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Michael 15 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John A. Kidd. Hahn, and took his seat December 9, 1886. Logan, and took his seat January 25, 1887. 19 Election unsuccessfully contested by Frank G. Camp- 22 Died July 8, 1886. 16 Died July 1, 1885, before Congress assembled. bell. 23 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of William 17 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Reuben 20 Died March 15, 1886. H. Cole, and took his seat December 6, 1886. Ellwood, and took his seat December 7, 1885. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS 217

Spencer O. Fisher, West Bay City George W. E. Dorsey, Fremont James G. Lindsley, Rondout Seth C. Moffatt, Traverse City Henry G. Burleigh, Whitehall John Swinburne, Albany MINNESOTA SENATORS George West, Ballston Spa SENATORS John P. Jones, Hill Frederick A. Johnson, Glens Falls Samuel J. R. McMillan, St. Paul James G. Fair, City Abraham X. Parker, Potsdam Dwight M. Sabin, Stillwater J. Thomas Spriggs, Utica REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE John S. Pindar, Cobleskill REPRESENTATIVES William Woodburn, Virginia City Frank Hiscock, 38 Syracuse Milo White, Chatfield Stephen C. Millard, Binghamton J. B. Wakefield, Blue Earth City NEW HAMPSHIRE Sereno E. Payne, Auburn H. B. Strait, Shakopee SENATORS John Arnot, 39 Elmira John B. Gilfillan, Minneapolis Austin F. Pike, 26 Franklin Ira Davenport, Bath Knute Nelson, Alexandria Person C. Cheney, 27 Manchester Charles S. Baker, Rochester Henry W. Blair, 28 Manchester John G. Sawyer, Albion MISSISSIPPI REPRESENTATIVES John M. Farquhar, Buffalo SENATORS John B. Weber, Buffalo Martin A. Haynes, Lake Village 24 Walter L. Sessions, Jamestown Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Oxford Jacob H. Gallinger, Concord Edward C. Walthall, 25 Grenada NORTH CAROLINA James Z. George, Jackson REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS John M. Allen, Tupelo Matt W. Ransom, Weldon John R. McPherson, Jersey City Zebulon B. Vance, Charlotte J. B. Morgan, Hernando William J. Sewell, Camden T. C. Catchings, Vicksburg REPRESENTATIVES F. G. Barry, West Point REPRESENTATIVES Thomas G. Skinner, Hertford O. R. Singleton, Forest George Hires, Salem James E. O’Hara, Enfield H. S. Van Eaton, Woodville , Trenton Wharton J. Green, Fayetteville E. Barksdale, Jackson Robert S. Green, 29 Elizabeth William R. Cox, Raleigh James N. Pidcock, Whitehouse Station James W. Reid, 40 Wentworth MISSOURI William W. Phelps, Englewood Risden T. Bennett, Wadesboro Herman Lehlbach, Newark SENATORS John S. Henderson, Salisbury William McAdoo, Jersey City Francis M. Cockrell, Warrenburg William H. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro Thomas D. Johnston, Asheville George G. Vest, Kansas City NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS OHIO William H. Hatch, Hannibal , Herkimer SENATORS John B. Hale, Carrollton William M. Evarts, John Sherman, Mansfield Alexander M. Dockery, Gallatin Henry B. Payne, James N. Burnes, St. Joseph REPRESENTATIVES William Warner, Kansas City Perry Belmont, Babylon REPRESENTATIVES John T. Heard, Sedalia Felix Campbell, Brooklyn Benjamin Butterworth, Cincinnati John E. Hutton, Mexico Darwin R. James, Brooklyn Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati John J. O’Neill, St. Louis Peter P. Mahoney, Brooklyn James E. Campbell, Hamilton John M. Glover, St. Louis Archibald M. Bliss, Brooklyn Charles M. Anderson, Greenville Martin L. Clardy, Farmington Nicholas Muller, New York City Benjamin Le Fevre, Maplewood Richard P. Bland, Lebanon John J. Adams, New York City William D. Hill, Defiance William J. Stone, Nevada Samuel S. Cox, 30 New York City George E. Seney, Tiffin William H. Wade, Springfield Timothy J. Campbell, 31 New York City John Little, Xenia William Dawson, New Madrid Joseph Pulitzer, 32 New York City William C. Cooper, Mount Vernon Samuel S. Cox, 33 New York City Jacob Romeis, 41 Toledo NEBRASKA Abram S. Hewitt, 34 New York City W. W. Ellsberry, Georgetown Truman A. Merriman, New York City Albert C. Thompson, Portsmouth SENATORS Abraham Dowdney, 35 New York City Joseph H. Outhwaite, Columbus Charles H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City Egbert L. Viele, New York City Charles H. Grosvenor, Athens Charles F. Manderson, Omaha William G. Stahlnecker, Yonkers Beriah Wilkins, Uhrichsville REPRESENTATIVES Lewis Beach, 36 Cornwall George W. Geddes, Mansfield Archibald J. Weaver, Falls City Henry Bacon, 37 Goshen A. J. Warner, Marietta James Laird, Hastings John H. Ketcham, Dover Plains Isaac H. Taylor, Carrollton

24 Resigned March 6, 1885, having been appointed Sec- 29 Resigned January 17, 1887, having been elected gov- 36 Died August 10, 1886. retary of the Interior. ernor of New Jersey. 37 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Lewis 25 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of 30 Resigned May 20, 1885, before Congress assembled, Beach, and took his seat December 6, 1886. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, and took his seat March 12, 1885 having been appointed minister to Turkey. 38 Reelected to the Fiftieth Congress, but resigned hav- (special session of the Senate); subsequently elected. 31 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Sam- ing been elected Senator. 26 Died October 8, 1886. uel S. Cox, and took his seat December 7, 1885. 39 Died November 20, 1886, and seat vacant for remain- 27 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Austin 32 Resigned April 10, 1886. 33 der of the Congress. F. Pike, and took his seat December 7, 1886. Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Joseph 40 28 Appointed March 5, 1885, to fill vacancy in the term Pultizer, and took his seat December 6, 1886. Resigned December 31, 1886. 41 beginning March 4, 1885, to serve until the next meeting 34 Resigned December 30, 1886. Election unsuccessfully contested by Frank H. Hurd. of the legislature; subsequently elected, and took his seat 35 Died December 10, 1886, and seat vacant for remain- December 7, 1885. der of the Congress. 218 Biographical Directory

OHIO—Continued Wade Hampton, Columbia Harry Libbey, Old Point Comfort REPRESENTATIVES George D. Wise, Richmond REPRESENTATIVES—Continued Samuel Dibble, Orangeburg James D. Brady, Petersburg Ezra B. Taylor, Warren George D. Tillman, Edgefield George C. Cabell, Danville William McKinley, Jr., Canton D. Wyatt Aiken, Cokesbury John W. Daniel, Lynchburg Martin A. Foran, Cleveland William H. Perry, Greenville Charles T. O’Ferrall, Harrisonburg John J. Hemphill, Chester John S. Barbour, Alexandria George W. Dargan, Darlington C. F. Trigg, Abingdon SENATORS Robert Smalls, Beaufort John R. Tucker, Lexington Joseph N. Dolph, Portland John H. Mitchell, 42 Portland TENNESSEE REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS SENATORS Binger Hermann, Roseburg Isham G. Harris, Memphis Johnson N. Camden, Parkersburg Howell E. Jackson, 46 Nashville John E. Kenna, Charleston PENNSYLVANIA 47 Washington C. Whitthorne, REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Columbia J. Donald Cameron, Harrisburg Nathan Goff, Jr., Clarksburg REPRESENTATIVES William L. Wilson, Charles Town John I. Mitchell, Wellsboro A. H. Pettibone, Greeneville REPRESENTATIVES Charles P. Snyder, Charleston L. C. Houk, Knoxville , Huntington Henry H. Bingham, Philadelphia John R. Neal, Rhea Springs Charles O’Neill, Philadelphia Benton McMillin, Carthage Samuel J. Randall, Philadelphia James D. Richardson, Murfreesboro SENATORS William D. Kelley, Philadelphia A. J. Caldwell, Nashville Alfred C. Harmer, Philadelphia J. G. Ballentine, Pulaski , Oshkosh James B. Everhart, West Chester John M. Taylor, Lexington John C. Spooner, Hudson I. Newton Evans, Hatboro P. T. Glass, Ripley REPRESENTATIVES Daniel Ermentrout, Reading John A. Hiestand, Lancaster Zach. Taylor, Covington Lucien B. Caswell, Fort Atkinson William H. Sowden, Allentown Edward S. Bragg, Fond du Lac John B. Storm, Stroudsburg Robert M. La Follette, Madison Joseph A. Scranton, Scranton SENATORS Isaac W. Van Schaick, Charles N. Brumm, Minersville Samuel B. Maxey, Paris , 49 Manitowoc Franklin Bound, Milton Richard Coke, Waco Thomas R. Hudd, 50 Green Bay Frank C. Bunnell, Tunkhannock REPRESENTATIVES Richard W. Guenther, Oshkosh William W. Brown, Bradford Charles Stewart, Houston Ormsby B. Thomas, Prairie du Chien Jacob M. Campbell, Johnstown J. H. Reagan, 48 Palestine William T. Price, 51 Black River Falls Louis E. Atkinson, Mifflintown J. H. Jones, Henderson Hugh H. Price, 52 Black River Falls John A. Swope, 43 Gettysburg D. B. Culberson, Jefferson , Marinette Andrew G. Curtin, Bellefonte J. W. Throckmorton, McKinney Charles E. Boyle, Uniontown Olin Wellborn, TERRITORY OF ARIZONA James S. Negley, Pittsburgh W. H. Crain, Cuero DELEGATE Thomas M. Bayne, Allegheny J. F. Miller, Gonzales Curtis C. Bean, Prescott Oscar L. Jackson, New Castle R. Q. Mills, Corsicana Alexander C. White, Brookville J. D. Sayers, Bastrop George W. Fleeger, Butler TERRITORY OF DAKOTA S. W. T. Lanham, Weatherford William L. Scott, Erie DELEGATE At Large–Edwin S. Osborne, Wilkes- VERMONT Oscar S. Gifford, Canton Barre SENATORS TERRITORY OF IDAHO George F. Edmunds, Burlington RHODE ISLAND DELEGATE SENATORS Justin S. Morrill, Strafford John Hailey, Boise City Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence REPRESENTATIVES , Providence John W. Stewart, Middlebury TERRITORY OF REPRESENTATIVES William W. Grout, Barton DELEGATE Henry J. Spooner, Providence William A. Pirce, 44 Olneyville VIRGINIA Joseph K. Toole, Helena Charles H. Page, 45 Scituate SENATORS , Petersburg TERRITORY OF NEW SOUTH CAROLINA Harrison H. Riddleberger, Woodstock MEXICO SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES DELEGATE Matthew C. Butler, Edgefield Thomas Croxton, Tappahannock Antonio Joseph, Ojo Caliente

42 Elected to fill vacancy in term beginning March 4, 45 Elected to fill vacancy caused by declaring the seat 48 Reelected to the Fiftieth Congress, but resigned hav- 1885, caused by failure of legislature to elect, and took of William A. Pirce vacant, and took his seat February ing been elected Senator. his seat December 17, 1885; vacancy in this class from 25, 1887. 49 Died January 24, 1886. March 4, 1885, to November 17, 1885. 46 Resigned April 14, 1886, to become United States cir- 50 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Joseph 43 Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Representa- cuit judge, sixth circuit. Rankin, and took his seat March 8, 1886. 51 tive-elect William A. Duncan in preceding Congress, and 47 Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Died December 6, 1886, before the commencement of took his seat December 7, 1885. the Fiftieth Congress, to which he had been reelected. 44 Howell E. Jackson, and took his seat April 26, 1886; sub- 52 Served until January 25, 1887, when seat was de- sequently elected. Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of his father clared vacant. William T. Price, and took his seat February 2, 1887. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS 219

TERRITORY OF TERRITORY OF TERRITORY OF WYOMING WASHINGTON DELEGATE DELEGATE DELEGATE John T. Caine, Salt Lake City Charles S. Voorhees, Colfax Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne