Forty-fourth United States Congress

Dates of Sessions

December 6, 1875 to March 3, 1877. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Major Political Events

• The Grange shifts from an apolitical farmer's organization to lobbying in 1876. Goals include a repeal of the railroad property tax exemption, lower interest rates, better schools, and cheaper bread, coal and clothing.
• The disputed Election of 1876 is settled with the Compromise of 1877 which ended Reconstruction.
• Custer's Last Stand takes place at the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

Grange Hall in Maine, circa 1910 The Grange movement in the United States involved the affiliation of local farmers into area granges to work for their political and economic advantages. ... Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Property tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the thing taxed. ... A tax exemption is an exemption to the tax law of a state or nation in which part of the taxes that would normally be collected from an individual or an organization are instead forgone. ... An interest rate is the rental price of money. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... In United States politics, the Compromise of 1877 was a compromise made necessary by the disputed Election of 1876. ... In the history of the United States, Reconstruction was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America. ... Battle of the Little Bighorn Conflict Black Hills War, Indian Wars Date June 25, 1876 Place Near the Little Bighorn River, Big Horn County, Montana Result Substantial Native American victory The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custers Last Stand, was an engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne... The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custers Last Stand, was an engagement between a Lakota-Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army that took place on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Officers

Senate

• President Pro Tempore: Thomas W. Ferry (R-MI)
• Republican Conference Chair: Henry B. Anthony (R-RI)
• Democratic Conference Chair: John W. Stevenson (D-KY)

Thomas White Ferry (June 10, 1827–October 13, 1896) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. ... Categories: Stub | 1815 births | 1884 deaths | Governors of Rhode Island | United States Senators ...

House

• Speaker of the House:
  • Michael C. Kerr (D-IN) Died n office, August 19, 1876.
  • Samuel J. Randall (D-PA)
• Republican Conference Chair: George W. McCrary (R-IA)
• Democratic Caucus Chair: Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D-MS)

Michael Crawford Kerr (March 15, 1827–August 19, 1876) was a prominent U.S. politician during the 1870s. ... Samuel Jackson Randall (October 10, 1828–April 13, 1890) was a prominent U.S. politician during the late 19th century. ... George Washington McCrary (August 29, 1835 - June 23, 1890) was a Congressman from Iowa and a United States Secretary of War. ... This article is about the Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; for Justice Lamars father of the same name who was a Georgia lawyer and state court judge, see Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (I). ...

Members of the Forty-fourth United States Congress

Senate

Partisan Breakdown: 46 Republicans, 28 Democrats, 1 Ind. Rep., 1 Vacant. Total: 76.

• James Lusk Alcorn (R-MS)
• William Boyd Allison (R-IA)
• Henry Bowen Anthony (R-RI)
• James Edmund Bailey (D-TN)
• William Henry Barnum (D-CT)
• Thomas Frances Bayard, Sr. (D-DE)
• James Gillespie Blaine (R-ME)
• Lewis Vital Bogy (D-MO)
• Newton Booth (Ind. Rep-CA)
• Arthur Inghram Boreman (R-WV)
• George Sewel Boutwell (R-MA)
• Blance Kelso Bruce (R-MS)
• Ambrose Everett Burnside (R-RI)
• Angus Cameron (R-WI)
• Simon Cameron (R-PA)
• Allen Taylor Caperton (D-WV)
• [Jerome Bunty Chaffee]] (R-CO)
• [Isaac Peckham Chritiancy]] (R-AR)
• Powell Clayton (R-AR)
• Francis Marion Cockrell (D-MO)
• Roscoe Conkling (R-NY)
• Simon Barclay Conover (R-FL)
• Henry Cooper (D-TN)
• Aaron Harrison Cragin (R-NH)
• Henry Gassaway Davis (D-WV)
• Henry Laurens Dawes (R-MA)
• George Robertson Dennis (D-MD)
• Stephen Wallace Dorsey (R-AR)
• William Wallace Eaton (D-CT)
• George Franklin Edmunds (R-VT)
• James Edward English (D-CT)
• James Biddle Eustis (D-LA)
• Otis Sanford Ferry (Lib. Rep.-CT)
• Thomas White Ferry (R-MI)
• Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (R-NJ)
• George Goldthwaite (D-AL)
• John Brown Gordon (D-GA)
• Morgan Calvin Hamilton (R-TX)
• Hannibal Hamlin (R-ME)
• James Madison Harvey (R-KS)
• Frank Hereford (D-WV)
• Phineas Warren Hitchcock (R-NE)
• Timothy Otis Howe (R-WI)
• John James Ingalls (R-KS)
• Andrew Johnson (D-TN)
• John Warfield Johnston (D-VA)
• Charles William Jones (D-FL)
• John Percival Jones (R-NV)
• James Kerr Kelly (D-OR)
• Francis Kernan (D-NY)
• David McKendree Key (D-TN)
• John Alexander Logan (R-IL)
• Samuel Bell Maxey (D-TX)
• Thomas Clay McCreery (D-KY)
• Joseph Ewing McDonald (D-IN)
• Samuel James Renwick McMillan (R-MN)
• Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (D-NC)
• John Hipple Mitchell (R-OR)
• Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT)
• Lot Myrick Morrill (R-ME)
• Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (R-IN)
• Thomas Manson Norwood (D-GA)
• Richard James Oglesby (R-IL)
• Algernon Sidney Paddock (R-NE)
• John James Patterson (R-SC)
• Samuel Price (D-WV)
• Theodore Fitz Randolph (D-NJ)
• Matt Whitaker Ransom (D-NC)
• Thomas James Robertson (R-SC)
• Aaron Augustus Sargent (R-CA)
• Eli Saulsbury (D-DE)
• William Sharon (R-NV)
• John Sherman (R-OH)
• George Eliphaz Spencer (R-AL)
• John White Stevenson (D-KY)
• Henry Moore Teller (R-CO)
• Allen Granberry Thurman (D-OH)
• Bainbridge Wadleigh (R-NH)
• William Andrew Wallace (D-PA)
• Joseph Rodman West (R-LA)
• William Pinkney Whyte (D-MD)
• William Windom (R-MN)
• Robert Enoch Withers (D-VA)
• George Grover Wright (R-IA)

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House

Partisan Breakdown: 182 Democrats, 103 Republicans, 3 Independent Republicans, 1 Independent Democrat, 4 Independents, 293 total.

• Josiah Gardner Abbott (D-MA)
• Charles Henry Adams (R-NY)
• Lucien Lester Ainsworth (D-IA)
• William Black Anderson (Ind.-IL)
• Thomas S. Ashe (D-NC)
• John D. C. Atkins (D-TN)
• John Courts Bagby (D-IL)
• John Holroyd Bagley Jr. (D-NY)
• John Harris Baker (R-IN)
• William Henry Baker (R-NY)
• Latimer Whipple Ballou (R-RI)
• Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Ind.-MA)
• Henry B. Banning (D-OH)
• Lyman K. Bass (R-NY)
• George Monroe Beebe (D-NY)
• James Burns Belford (R-CO)
• Samuel Newell Bell (D-NH)
• Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (D-KY)
• James G. Blaine (R-ME)
• William Henry Blair (R-NH)
• Richard P. Bland (D-MO)
• Archibald Meserole Bliss (D-NY)
• James H. Blount (D-GA)
• Andrew Rechmond Boone (D-KY)
• Taul Bradford (D-AL)
• Nathan B. Bradley (R-MI)
• John M. Bright (D-TN)
• John Morgan Brown (D-TN)
• John Young Brown (D-KY)
• William Ripley Brown (R-KS)
• Aylett H. Buckner (D-MO)
• James Buffinton (R-MA)
• Horatio C. Burchard (R-IL)
• Samuel Dickinson Burchard (D-WI)
• John H. Burleigh (R-ME)
• Charles Wilson Buttz (R-SC)
• George Craighead Cabell (D-VA)
• John H. Caldwell (D-AL)
• William Parker Caldwell (D-TN)
• Alexander Campbell (Ind.-IL)
• Milton Anthony Candler (D-GA)
• Joseph G. Cannon (R-IL)
• Nathan Tracy Carr (D-IN)
• Thomas J. Cason (R-IN)
• Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (R-WI)
• George Washington Cate (D-WI)
• Bernard Gregory Caulfield (D-IL)
• Chester William Chapin (D-MA)
• Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (Ind. Rep- NY)
• John B. Clark, jr (D-MO)
• John Blades Clarke (D-KY)
• Hiester Clymer (D-PA)
• Alexander Gilmore Cochran (D-PA)
• Francis Dolan Collins (D-PA)
• Omar D. Conger (R-MI)
• Philip Cook (D-GA)
• Jacob Pitzer Cowan (D-OH)
• Samuel S. Cox (D-NY)
• William Wallace Crapo (R-MA)
• Lorenzo Crounse (R-NE)
• David Browning Culberson (D-TX)
• Augustus W. Cutler (D-NJ)
• Lorenzo Danford (R-OH)
• Chester B. Darrall (R-LA)
• Joseph J. Davis (D-NC)
• John M. Davy (R-NY)
• Rezin A. De Bolt (D-MO)
• Dudley Chase Denison (R-VT)
• George Gibbs Dibrell (D-TN)
• Samuel A. Dobbins (R-NJ)
• Beverly B. Douglas (D-VA)
• Mark H. Dunnell (R-MN)
• George Harman Durham (D-KY)
• Benjamin T. Eames (R-RI)
• John R. Eden (D-IL)
• Albert Gallatin Egbert (D-PA)
• Ezekiel J. Ellis (D-LA)
• Smith Ely, jr. (D-NY)
• James La Fayatte Evans (R-IN)
• Charles B. Farwell (R-IL)
• Charles James Faulkner (D-VA)
• William Harrell Felton (Ind. Dem.-GA)
• David Dudly Field (D-NY)
• Jesse J. Finley (D-FL)
• Samuel McClary Fite (D-TN)
• Edwin Flye (R-ME)
• William Henry Forney (D-AL)
• Greenbury L. Fort (R-IL)
• Charles Foster (R-OH)
• Benjamin J. Freeman (D-MO)
• Chapman Freeman (R-PA)
• Rufus S. Frost (R-MA)
• William P. Frye (R-ME)
• Benoni Stinson Fuller (D-IN)
• James A. Garfield (R-OH)
• Lucien Coatsworth Gause (D-AR)
• Randall Lee Gibson (D-LA)
• John M. Glover (D-MO)
• John Goode, jr. (D-VA)
• John R. Goodin (D-KS)
• Thomas Montague Gunter (D-AR)
• Eugene Hale (R-ME)
• Andrew Holman Hamilton (D-IN)
• Robert Hamilton (D-NJ)
• John Hancock (D-TX)
• Jeremiah Haralson (R-AL)
• Augustus A. Hardenbergh (D-NJ)
• Benjamin W. Harris (R-MA)
• Henry R. Harris (D-GA)
• John T. Harris (D-VA)
• Carter H. Harrison (D-IL)
• Julian Hartridge (D-GA)
• William Hartzell (D-IL)
• Robert A. Hatcher (D-MO)
• Henry H. Hathorn (R-NY)
• William Summerville Haymond (D-IN)
• Charles Hays (R-AL)
• George W. Hendee (R-VT)
• Thomas Jefferson Henderson (R-IL)
• Eli Jones Henkle (D-MI)
• Frank Hereford (D-WV)
• Samuel Freeman Hersey (R-MI)
• Abram Stevens Hewitt (D-NY)
• Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt (D-AL)
• Benjamin H. Hill (D-GA)
• George F. Hoar (R-MA)
• Soloman F. Hoge (R-SC)
• William S. Holman (D-IN)
• Charles Edward Hooker (D-MS)
• James H. Hopkins (D-PA)
• George G. Hoskins (R-NY)
• John F. House (D-TN)
• Jay A. Hubbell (R-MI)
• Andrew Humphreys (D-IN)
• Morton Craig Hunter (R-IN)
• Eppa Hunton (D-VA)
• Frank Hunt Hurd (D-OH)
• Stephen A. Hurlbut (R-IL)
• John A. Hyman (R-NC)
• George A. Jenks (D-PA)
• Frank Jones (D-NH)
• Thomas Laurens Jones (D-KY)
• Charles H. Joyce (R-VT)
• John A. Kasson (R-IA)
• Edward Charles Kehr (D-MO)
• William D. Kelley (R-PA)
• Michael Crawford Kerr (D-IN)
• Winthrop Welles Ketchum (R-PA)
• Alanson Mellen Kimball (R-WI)
• William S. King (R-MN)
• James P. Knott (D-KY)
• George A. La Dow (D-OR)
• Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D-MS)
• Franklin Landers (D-IN)
• George Marcellus Landers (D-CT)
• La Fayette Lane (D-OR)
• Elbridge Gerry Lapham (R-NY)
• William Lawrence (R-OH)
• John V. Le Moyne (D-IL)
• Elias W. Leavenworth (R-NY)
• William M. Levy (D-LA)
• Burwell Boykin Lewis (D-AL)
• Scott Lord (D-NY)
• John K. Luttrell (D-CA)
• John R. Lynch (R-MS)
• William P. Lynde (D-WI)
• Clinton D. MacDougall (R-NY)
• Edmund W. M. Mackey (Ind. Rep.-SC)
• Henry S. Magoon (R-WI)
• Levi Maish (D-PA)
• George W. McCrary (R-IA)
• James W. McDill (R-IA)
• William McFarland (D-TN)
• John A. McMahon (D-OH)
• Edwin Ruthven Meade (D-NY)
• Henry Bleecker Metcalf (D-NY)
• Samuel F. Miller (R-NY)
• Charles W. Milliken (D-KY)
• Roger Q. Mills (D-TX)
• Hernando De Soto Mills (D-MS)
• James Monroe (R-OH)
• Frank Morey (R-LA)
• Charles H. Morgan (D-MO)
• William R. Morrison (D-IL)
• William Mutchler (D-PA)
• Charles E. Nash (R-LA)
• Lawrence T. Neal (D-OH)
• Jeptha D. New (D-IN)
• Nelson Ira Norton (R-NY)
• William J. O'Brien (D-MD)
• Charles O'Neill (R-PA)
• Nathaniel H. Odell (D-NY)
• Samuel A. Oliver (R-IA)
• John B. Packer (R-PA)
• Horace F. Page (R-CA)
• Edward Y. Parsons (D-KY)
• Henry B. Payne (D-OH)
• James Phelps (C-CT)
• John Finis Philips (D-MO)
• William A. Phillips (R-KS)
• Henry L. Pierce (R-MA)
• William A. Piper (D-CA)
• Harris Merill Plaisted (R-ME)
• Thomas C. Platt (R-NY)
• Earley F. Poppleton (D-OH)
• Allen Potter (D-MI)
• Joseph Powell (D-PA)
• Henry O. Pratt (R-IA)
• William J. Purman (R-FL)
• Joseph H. Rainey (R-SC)
• Samuel J. Randall (D-PA)
• David Rea (D-MO)
• John Henniger Reagan (D-TX)
• James B. Reilly (D-PA)
• John Reilly (D-PA)
• Americus Vespucius Rice (D-OH)
• Haywood Yancey Riddle (D-TN)
• John Robbins (D-PA)
• William M. Robbins (D-NC)
• Charles B. Roberts (D-MD)
• Milton Stapp Robinson (R-IN)
• Miles Ross (D-NJ)
• Sobieski Ross (R-PA)
• Jeremiah M. Rusk (R-WI)
• Ezekiel Silas Sampson (R-IA)
• John S. Savage (D-OH)
• Milton Sayler (D-OH)
• Alfred Moore Scales (D-NC)
• Gustave Schleicher (D-TX)
• John G. Schumaker (D-NY)
• Julius G. Seelye (Ind.-MA)
• James Sheakley (D-PA)
• Otho Robards Singleton (D-MS)
• John Peter Cleaver Shanks (R-IN)
• Christopher C. Sheats (R-AL)
• Otho Robards Singleton (D-MS)
• Clement H. Sinnickson (R-NJ)
• William F. Slemons (D-AR)
• Robert Smalls (R-SC)
• A. Herr Smith (R-PA)
• George Luke Smith (R-LA)
• William E. Smith (D-GA)
• Milton I. Southard (D-OH)
• William A. J. Sparks (D-IL)
• William Brainerd Spencer (D-LA)
• William M. Springer (D-IL)
• William H. Stanton (D-PA)
• Henry H. Starkweather (R-CT)
• William Shearer Stenger (D-PA)
• Alexander H. Stephens (D-GA)
• Adlai Ewing Stevenson (D-IL)
• William H. Stone (D-MO)
• William H. H. Stowell (R-VA)
• Horace B. Strait (R-MN)
• Thomas Swann (D-MD)
• John Kemble Tarbox (D-MA)
• Frederick H. Teese (D-NJ)
• William Terry (D-VA)
• Phillip Frances Thomas (D-MD)
• Charles Perkins Thompson (D-MA)
• Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (R-TN)
• James W. Throckmorton (D-TX)
• Martin Ingham Townsend (R-NY)
• Washington Townsend (R-PA)
• John R. Tucker (D-VA)
• John Q. Tufts (R-IA)
• Jacob Turney (D-PA)
• Nelson H. Van Vorhes (R-OH)
• John L. Vance (D-OH)
• Robert B. Vance (D-NC)
• Alfred M. Waddell (D-NC)
• John T. Wait (R-CT)
• Henry Waldron (R-MI)
• Charles C. B. Walker (D-NY)
• Gilbert C. Walker (D-VA)
• Alexander S. Wallace (R-SC)
• John Winfield Wallace (R-PA)
• Ansel T. Walling (D-OH)
• Josiah T. Walls (R-FL)
• William Walsh (D-MD)
• Elijah Ward (D-NY)
• Levi Warner (D-CT)
• William Wirt Warren (D-MA)
• Henry Watterson (D-KY)
• Erastus Wells (D-MO)
• Guilford Wiley Wells (Ind. REp.-MS)
• William A. Wheeler (R-NY)
• John O. Whitehouse (D-NY)
• Richard Henry Whiting (R-IL)
• Washington C. Whitthorne (D-TN)
• Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton (D-CA)
• Scott Wike (D-IL)
• George Willard (R-MI)
• Alpheus S. Williams (D-MI)
• Andrew Williams (R-NY)
• Charles Grandison Williams (R-WI)
• James Williams (D-DE)
• James D. Williams (D-IN)
• Jeremiah Norman Williams (D-AL)
• William B. Williams (R-MI)
• Benjamin A. Willis (D-NY)
• William Wallace Wilshire (R-AR)
• Benjamin Wilson (D-WV)
• James Wilson (R-IA)
• Alan Wood, jr. (R-PA)
• Fernando Wood (D-NY)
• William Woodburn (R-NV)
• Laurin D. Woodworth (R-OH)
• Jesse J. Yeates (D-NC)
• Hiram C. Young (D-NC)

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References

Trager, James. The People's Chronology. pp. 527-537. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1992.

External Links

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Office of the Clerk of the US House of Representatives: Congressional History
• Senate History: Statistics and Lists