50th United States Congress

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50th United States Congress


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United States Capitol (1906)

March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1889
Senate PresidentVacant
Senate Pres. pro tem
John J. Ingalls (R)
House Speaker
John G. Carlisle (D)
Members76 senators
325 representatives
8 non-voting delegates
Senate MajorityRepublican
House MajorityDemocratic
Sessions

1st: December 7, 1887 – October 20, 1888
2nd: December 3, 1888 – March 3, 1889

The Fiftieth 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, 1887, to March 4, 1889, during the third and fourth years of Grover Cleveland's first presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.





Contents





  • 1 Major events


  • 2 Major legislation


  • 3 Party summary

    • 3.1 Senate


    • 3.2 House of Representatives



  • 4 Leadership

    • 4.1 Senate


    • 4.2 House of Representatives



  • 5 Members

    • 5.1 Senate

      • 5.1.1 Alabama


      • 5.1.2 Arkansas


      • 5.1.3 California


      • 5.1.4 Colorado


      • 5.1.5 Connecticut


      • 5.1.6 Delaware


      • 5.1.7 Florida


      • 5.1.8 Georgia


      • 5.1.9 Illinois


      • 5.1.10 Indiana


      • 5.1.11 Iowa


      • 5.1.12 Kansas


      • 5.1.13 Kentucky


      • 5.1.14 Louisiana


      • 5.1.15 Maine


      • 5.1.16 Maryland


      • 5.1.17 Massachusetts


      • 5.1.18 Michigan


      • 5.1.19 Minnesota


      • 5.1.20 Mississippi


      • 5.1.21 Missouri


      • 5.1.22 Nebraska


      • 5.1.23 Nevada


      • 5.1.24 New Hampshire


      • 5.1.25 New Jersey


      • 5.1.26 New York


      • 5.1.27 North Carolina


      • 5.1.28 Ohio


      • 5.1.29 Oregon


      • 5.1.30 Pennsylvania


      • 5.1.31 Rhode Island


      • 5.1.32 South Carolina


      • 5.1.33 Tennessee


      • 5.1.34 Texas


      • 5.1.35 Vermont


      • 5.1.36 Virginia


      • 5.1.37 West Virginia


      • 5.1.38 Wisconsin



    • 5.2 House of Representatives

      • 5.2.1 Alabama


      • 5.2.2 Arkansas


      • 5.2.3 California


      • 5.2.4 Colorado


      • 5.2.5 Connecticut


      • 5.2.6 Delaware


      • 5.2.7 Florida


      • 5.2.8 Georgia


      • 5.2.9 Illinois


      • 5.2.10 Indiana


      • 5.2.11 Iowa


      • 5.2.12 Kansas


      • 5.2.13 Kentucky


      • 5.2.14 Louisiana


      • 5.2.15 Maine


      • 5.2.16 Maryland


      • 5.2.17 Massachusetts


      • 5.2.18 Michigan


      • 5.2.19 Minnesota


      • 5.2.20 Mississippi


      • 5.2.21 Missouri


      • 5.2.22 Nebraska


      • 5.2.23 Nevada


      • 5.2.24 New Hampshire


      • 5.2.25 New Jersey


      • 5.2.26 New York


      • 5.2.27 North Carolina


      • 5.2.28 Ohio


      • 5.2.29 Oregon


      • 5.2.30 Pennsylvania


      • 5.2.31 Rhode Island


      • 5.2.32 South Carolina


      • 5.2.33 Tennessee


      • 5.2.34 Texas


      • 5.2.35 Vermont


      • 5.2.36 Virginia


      • 5.2.37 West Virginia


      • 5.2.38 Wisconsin


      • 5.2.39 Non-voting members




  • 6 Changes in membership

    • 6.1 Senate


    • 6.2 House of Representatives



  • 7 Committees

    • 7.1 Senate


    • 7.2 House of Representatives


    • 7.3 Joint committees



  • 8 Caucuses


  • 9 Administrative officers

    • 9.1 Senate


    • 9.2 House of Representatives



  • 10 See also


  • 11 References


  • 12 External links




Major events




Major legislation



  • October 8, 1888: Chinese Exclusion Act (Scott Act)

  • January 14, 1889: Nelson Act of 1889

  • February 22, 1889: Enabling Act of 1889, Sess. 2, ch. 180, 25 Stat. 676


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



















































Party
(shading shows control)
Total
Vacant

Democratic
(D)

Readjuster
(RA)

Republican
(R)
End of the previous congress

34

2

40
76
0

Begin

35

1

38

74
2
End 37 760
Final voting share 7001487000000000000♠48.7% 7000130000000000000♠1.3% 7001500000000000000♠50.0%
Beginning of the next congress

37

0

39
76
0


House of Representatives



  • Democratic: 167 (majority)


  • Republican: 152

  • Independent Republican: 2

  • Labor: 2


  • National Greenback: 1

  • Independent: 1

TOTAL members: 325



Leadership



Senate



  • President: Vacant


  • President pro tempore: John J. Ingalls (R)


  • Republican Conference Chairman: George F. Edmunds


  • Democratic Caucus Chairman: James B. Beck


  • Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: John E. Kenna


House of Representatives



  • Speaker: John G. Carlisle (D)


  • Democratic Caucus Chairman: Samuel S. Cox


  • Republican Conference Chair: Joseph Gurney Cannon


Members


Skip to House of Representatives, below


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 began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.










House of Representatives


The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.










Changes in membership


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



Senate


  • replacements: 1

    • Democratic: no net change


    • Republican: no net change

    • Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss


  • deaths: 0

  • resignations: 1

  • interim appointments: 1

  • Total seats with changes: 2





















State
(class)
Vacator
Reason for Vacancy
Subsequent
Date of successor's installation

West Virginia
(1)
Vacant
Filled vacancy in term.

Charles J. Faulkner (D)
May 5, 1887

Florida
(1)
Vacant
Filled vacancy in term.

Samuel Pasco (D)
May 19, 1887

New Hampshire
(2)

Person C. Cheney (R)
Successor was elected June 14, 1887

William E. Chandler (R)
June 14, 1887


House of Representatives


  • replacements: 8

    • Democratic: no net change


    • Republican: no net change


  • deaths: 4

  • resignations: 5

  • contested election: 0

  • Total seats with changes: 8













































District
Vacator
Reason for change
Successor
Date successor seated

New York 25th
Vacant
Rep. Frank Hiscock resigned during previous congress

James J. Belden (R)
November 8, 1887

Texas 2nd

John H. Reagan (D)
Resigned March 4, 1887, after being elected to the U.S. Senate

William H. Martin (D)
November 4, 1887

Louisiana 6th

Edward W. Robertson (D)
Died August 2, 1887

Samuel M. Robertson (D)
December 5, 1891

New York 19th

Nicholas T. Kane (D)
Died September 14, 1887

Charles Tracey (D)
November 8, 1887

Michigan 11th

Seth C. Moffatt (R)
Died December 22, 1887

Henry W. Seymour (R)
February 14, 1888

New York 1st

Perry Belmont (D)
Resigned December 1, 1888, after being appointed Minister to Spain
Vacant until next Congress

Indiana 1st

Alvin P. Hovey (R)
Resigned January 17, 1889, after being elected Governor of Indiana

Francis B. Posey (R)
January 29, 1889

Missouri 4th

James N. Burnes (D)
Died January 23, 1889

Charles F. Booher (D)
February 19, 1889


Committees


Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (3 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.



Senate










House of Representatives


  • Accounts

  • Agriculture


  • Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select)


  • American Ship building (Select)

  • Appropriations

  • Banking and Currency

  • Claims

  • Coinage, Weights and Measures

  • Commerce

  • District of Columbia

  • Education

  • Elections

  • Enrolled Bills

  • Expenditures in the Interior Department

  • Expenditures in the Justice Department

  • Expenditures in the Navy Department

  • Expenditures in the Post Office Department

  • Expenditures in the State Department

  • Expenditures in the Treasury Department

  • Expenditures in the War Department

  • Expenditures on Public Buildings

  • Foreign Affairs

  • Indian Affairs

  • Invalid Pensions

  • Labor

  • Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River

  • Manufactures

  • Merchant Marine and Fisheries

  • Mileage

  • Military Affairs

  • Militia

  • Mines and Mining

  • Naval Affairs

  • Pacific Railroads

  • Patents

  • Pensions

  • Post Office and Post Roads

  • Public Buildings and Grounds

  • Public Lands

  • Railways and Canals

  • Revision of Laws

  • Rivers and Harbors

  • Rules

  • Standards of Official Conduct

  • Territories

  • War Claims

  • Ways and Means

  • Whole


Joint committees



  • Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)

  • Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers

  • To Investigate Work on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel


Caucuses



  • Democratic (House)


  • Democratic (Senate)


Administrative officers



  • Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark


  • Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford


  • Public Printer of the United States: Thomas E. Benedict


Senate



  • Chaplain: John G. Butler (Lutheran)


  • Secretary: Anson G. McCook


  • Sergeant at Arms: William P. Canady


House of Representatives



  • Chaplain: William H. Milburn (Methodist)


  • Clerk: John B. Clark, Jr.


  • Doorkeeper: Alvin B. Hurt


  • Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: Nathaniel T. Crutchfield


  • Postmaster: Lycurgus Dalton


  • Reading Clerks: [Data unknown/missing.]


  • Sergeant at Arms: John P. Leedom


See also



  • United States elections, 1886 (elections leading to this Congress)
    • United States Senate elections, 1886

    • United States House of Representatives elections, 1886



  • United States elections, 1888 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
    • United States presidential election, 1888

    • United States Senate elections, 1888 and 1889

    • United States House of Representatives elections, 1888



References



  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  • Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.


External links


  • Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

  • U.S. House of Representatives: House History

  • U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists


  • Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 1st Session.


  • Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 1st Session (Revised).


  • Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 2nd Session.


  • Official Congressional Directory for the 50th Congress, 2nd Session (Revised).







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