Dates of Sessions

March 4, 1897, to March 3, 1899

Major Political Events

Officers

Senate

House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed

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Members of the Fifty-fifth United States Congress

Senate

• Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (R-RI)
• William Vincent Allen (Pop-NE)
• William Boyd Allison (R-IA)
• Augustus Octavius Bacon (D-GA)
• Lucien Octavius Baker (R-KS)
• William Brimage Bate (D-TN)
• James Henderson Berry (D-AR)
• Julius Caesar Burrows (R-MI)
• Marion Caesar Butler (Pop-NC)
• Donelson Caesar Caffery (D-LA)
• Frank Jenne Cannon (R-UT)
• Thomas Henry Carter (R-MT)
• William Eaton Chandler (R-NH)
• Horace Eaton Chilton (D-TX)
• Clarence Don Clark (R-WY)
• Alexander Stephens Clay (D-GA)
• Francis Marion Cockrell (D-MO)
• Shelby Moore Cullom (R-IL)
• John Warwick Daniel (D-VA)
• Cushman Kellogg Davis (R-MN)
• William Joseph Deboe (R-KY)
• Joseph Haynsworth Earle (D-SC)
• Stephen Benton Elkins (R-WV)
• Charles Warren Fairbanks (R-IN)
• Charles James Faulkner (D-WV)
• Joseph Benson Foraker (R-OH)
• William Pierce Frye (R-ME)
• Jacob Harold Gallinger (R-NH)
• John Henry Gear (R-IA)
• James Zachariah George (D-MS)
• Arthur Pue Gorman (D-MD)
• George Pue Gray (D-DE)
• Eugene Pue Hale (R-ME)
• Marcus Alonzo Hanna (R-OH)
• Henry Clay Hansbrough (R-ND)
• Isham Green Harris (D-TN)
• William Alexander Harris (Pop-KS)
• Joseph Roswell Hawley (R-CT)
• Henry Roswell Heitfeld (Pop-ID)
• George Frisbie Hoar (R-MA)
• James Kimbrough Jones (D-AR)
• John Percival Jones (Sil-NV)
• Richard Rolland Kenney (D-DE)
• James Henderson Kyle (Pop-SD)
• William Henderson Lindsay (D-KY)
• Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
• Stephen Russell Mallory (D-FL)
• Lee Russell Mantle (R-MT)
• Thomas Staples Martin (D-VA)
• William Ernest Mason (R-IL)
• George Wycliffe Mcbride (R-OR)
• Samuel Douglas Mcenery (D-LA)
• John Lowndes Mclaurin (D-SC)
• James Lowndes Mcmillan (R-MI)
• Roger Quarles Mills (D-TX)
• John Lendrum Mitchell (D-WI)
• Hernando De Money (D-MS)
• John Tyler Morgan (D-AL)
• Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT)
• Edward Smith Murphy (D-NY)
• Knute Smith Nelson (R-MN)
• Samuel Smith Pasco (D-FL)
• Boies Smith Penrose (R-PA)
• George Clement Perkins (R-CA)
• Richard Franklin Pettigrew (R-SD)
• Edmund Winston Pettus (D-AL)
• Orville Hitchcock Platt (R-CT)
• Thomas Collier Platt (R-NY)
• Jeter Connelly Pritchard (R-NC)
• Redfield Connelly Proctor (R-VT)
• Matthew Stanley Quay (R-PA)
• Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (D-UT)
• William Nathaniel Roach (D-ND)
• Jonathan Nathaniel Ross (R-VT)
• William Joyce Sewell (R-NJ)
• John Joyce Sherman (R-OH)
• George Laird Shoup (R-ID)
• Joseph Laird Simon (R-OR)
• James Laird Smith (D-NJ)
• John Coit Spooner (R-WI)
• William Morris Stewart (Sil-NV)
• William Van Sullivan (D-MS)
• Henry Moore Teller (Silver/R-CO)
• John Mellen Thurston (R-NE)
• Benjamin Ryan Tillman (D-SC)
• Thomas Battle Turley (D-TN)
• George Battle Turner (Silver/R-WA)
• David Battle Turpie (D-IN)
• George Graham Vest (D-MO)
• Edward Cary Walthall (D-MS)
• Francis Emroy Warren (R-WY)
• George Louis Wellington (R-MD)
• George Peabody Wetmore (R-RI)
• Stephen Mallory White (D-CA)
• John Lockwood Wilson (R-WA)
• Edward Oliver Wolcott (R-CO)

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House of Representatives

• Ernest Francis Acheson(R-PA)
• Robert Francis Adams(R-PA)
• William Charles Adamson(D-GA)
• William Farrington Aldrich(R-AL)
• De Alva Alexander(R-NY)
• John Mills Allen(D-MS)
• William Carlile Arnold(R-PA)
• Joseph Weeks Babcock(R-WI)
• Joseph Weldon Bailey(D-TX)
• Samuel Thomas Baird(D-LA)
• Jehu Thomas Baker(D-IL)
• William Benjamin Baker(R-MD)
• Thomas Henry Ball(D-TX)
• John Hollis Bankhead(D-AL)
• Isaac Ambrose Barber(R-MD)
• John All Barham(R-CA)
• Charles Averill Barlow(Pop-CA)
• Samuel Stebbins Barney(R-WI)
• William Emerson Barrett(R-MA)
• Samuel June Barrows(R-MA)
• Richard June Bartholdt(R-MO)
• Charles Lafayette Bartlett(D-GA)
• Clifton Bailey Beach(R-OH)
• James Jerome Belden(R-NY)
• Joseph McCrum Belford(R-NY)
• Hugh Reid Belknap(R-IL)
• John Calhoun Bell(Pop-CO)
• George Jacob Benner(D-PA)
• Charles Goodwin Bennett(R-NY)
• Maecenas Eason Benton(D-MO)
• Albert Seaton Berry(D-KY)
• Henry Harrison Bingham(R-PA)
• Roswell Peter Bishop(R-MI)
• Richard Parks Bland(D-MO)
• Robert Nall Bodine(D-MO)
• William Samuel Booze(R-MD)
• Jeremiah Dunham Botkin(Pop-KS)
• Henry Sherman Boutell(R-IL)
• Thomas Joseph Bradley(D-NY)
• William Gordon Brantley(D-GA)
• John Lewis Brenner(D-OH)
• Willis Lewis Brewer(D-AL)
• Henry Colvin Brewster(R-NY)
• Case Colvin Broderick(R-KS)
• Jacob Henry Bromwell(R-OH)
• Marriott Henry Brosius(R-PA)
• Robert Foligny Broussard(D-LA)
• Seth W. Brown(R-OH)
• Walter Preston Brownlow(R-TN)
• Ferdinand Preston Brucker(D-MI)
• Charles Napoleon Brumm(R-PA)
• Stephen Napoleon Brundidge(D-AR)
• Melville Napoleon Bull(R-RI)
• Robert Emmet Burke(D-TX)
• Edwin Chick Burleigh(R-ME)
• Theodore Elijah Burton(R-OH)
• Thomas Stalker Butler(R-PA)
• James Romulus Campbell(D-IL)
• Joseph Gurney Cannon(R-IL)
• Adin Ballou Capron(R-RI)
• Edward Ward Carmack(D-TN)
• Curtis Harvey Castle(Pop-CA)
• Thomas Clendinen Catchings(D-MS)
• Charles Addison Chickering(R-NY)
• John Daniel Clardy(D-KY)
• James Beauchamp Clark(D-MO)
• Samuel Mercer Clark(R-IA)
• Frank Gay Clarke(R-NH)
• Henry De Clayton(D-AL)
• Charles Fremont Cochran(D-MO)
• Aaron Van Cochrane(R-NY)
• James Hodge Codding(R-PA)
• David Grant Colson(R-KY)
• William Grant Connell(R-PA)
• James Austin Connolly(R-IL)
• Edward Dean Cooke(R-IL)
• James Dean Cooney(D-MO)
• Henry Allen Cooper(R-WI)
• Samuel Bronson Cooper(D-TX)
• John Blaisdell Corliss(R-MI)
• Robert Gordon Cousins(R-IA)
• William Strother Cowherd(D-MO)
• Nicholas Nichols Cox(D-TN)
• John Walter Cranford(D-TX)
• Rousseau Owen Crump(R-MI)
• Edgar Dean Crumpacker(R-IN)
• Amos Jay Cummings(D-NY)
• Charles Jay Curtis(R-KS)
• George Martin Curtis(R-IA)
• John Martin Dalzell(R-PA)
• Lorenzo Martin Danford(R-OH)
• Samuel Arza Davenport(R-PA)
• Robert Charles Davey(D-LA)
• James Henry Davidson(R-WI)
• Robert Wyche Davis(D-FL)
• George Mosby Davison(R-KY)
• Alston Gordon Dayton(R-WV)
• David Albaugh De Armond(D-MO)
• Reese Calhoun De Graffenreid(D-TX)
• Marion Calhoun De Vries(D-CA)
• Charles William Dick(R-OH)
• Nelson William Dingley(R-ME)
• Hugh Anderson Dinsmore(D-AR)
• Alexander Monroe Dockery(D-MO)
• Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver(R-IA)
• Charles Phillips Dorr(R-WV)
• Blackburn Barrett Dovener(R-WV)
• Edmund Hope Driggs(D-NY)
• Frank Marion Eddy(R-MN)
• William Marion Elliott(D-SC)
• William Russell Ellis(R-OR)
• Sydney Parham Epes(D-VA)
• Daniel Parham Ermentrout(D-PA)
• Walter Parham Evans(R-KY)
• George Washington Faris(R-IN)
• Lucien Jerome Fenton(R-OH)
• Israel Frederick Fischer(R-NY)
• John Francis Fitzgerald(D-MA)
• Thomas Young Fitzpatrick(D-KY)
• William Henry Fleming(D-GA)
• Loren Henry Fletcher(R-MN)
• Wallace Turner Foote(R-NY)
• George Edmund Foss(R-IL)
• Charles Newell Fowler(R-NJ)
• John Edgar Fowler(Pop-NC)
• Andrew Fuller Fox(D-MS)
• John Wesley Gaines(D-TN)
• John James Gardner(R-NJ)
• Henry Richard Gibson(R-TN)
• Charles William Gillet(R-NY)
• Frederick Huntington Gillett(R-MA)
• Joseph Verdi Graff(R-IL)
• William Harrison Graham(R-PA)
• William Laury Greene(Pop-NE)
• William Stedman Greene(R-MA)
• Michael Stedman Griffin(R-WI)
• Francis Marion Griffith(D-IN)
• James Mathews Griggs(D-GA)
• Charles Henry Grosvenor(R-OH)
• William Wallace Grout(R-VT)
• Galusha Aaron Grow(R-PA)
• James Aaron Gunn(Pop-ID)
• Alva Lysander Hager(R-IA)
• Edward La Hamilton(R-MI)
• Levin Irving Handy(D-DE)
• Alfred Crout Harmer(R-PA)
• Charles Sampson Hartman(Silver/R-MT)
• Robert Bradley Hawley(R-TX)
• James Bradley Hay(D-VA)
• Joel Prescott Heatwole(R-MN)
• David Bremner Henderson(R-IA)
• Charles Lewis Henry(R-IN)
• Edward Stevens Henry(R-CT)
• Patrick Stevens Henry(D-MS)
• Robert Lee Henry(D-TX)
• William Peters Hepburn(R-IA)
• Josiah Duane Hicks(R-PA)
• Samuel Greeley Hilborn(R-CA)
• Ebenezer J. Hill(R-CT)
• William Henry Hinrichsen(D-IL)
• Robert Roberts Hitt(R-IL)
• William Steele Holman(D-IN)
• Warren Brewster Hooker(R-NY)
• Albert Jarvis Hopkins(R-IL)
• Milford Wriarson Howard(Pop-AL)
• William Marcellus Howard(D-GA)
• James Robinson Howe(R-NY)
• Benjamin Franklin Howell(R-NJ)
• John Albert Hull(R-IA)
• Andrew Jackson Hunter(D-IL)
• Denis Michael Hurley(R-NY)
• John James Jenkins(R-WI)
• Thomas Marion Jett(D-IL)
• Henry Underwood Johnson(R-IN)
• Martin Nelson Johnson(R-ND)
• William Atkinson Jones(D-VA)
• William Carey Jones(SilverR-WA)
• Charles Frederick Joy(R-MO)
• John Edward Kelley(Pop-SD)
• Winfield Scott Kerr(R-OH)
• John Henry Ketcham(R-NY)
• William Henry King(D-UT)
• William Sebring Kirkpatrick(R-PA)
• William Walton Kitchin(D-NC)
• Rudolph Walton Kleberg(D-TX)
• Freeman Tulley Knowles(Pop-SD)
• William Shadrach Knox(R-MA)
• Monroe Henry Kulp(R-PA)
• John Fletcher Lacey(R-IA)
• John Fletcher Lamb(D-VA)
• Charles Beary Landis(R-IN)
• Samuel Willis Lanham(D-TX)
• Asbury Churchwell Latimer(D-SC)
• George Pelton Lawrence(R-MA)
• John Jacob Lentz(D-OH)
• Rufus Ezekiel Lester(D-GA)
• Elijah Banks Lewis(D-GA)
• James Hamilton Lewis(D-WA)
• Romulus Zachariah Linney(R-NC)
• Lucius Nathan Littauer(R-NY)
• John Sebastian Little(D-AR)
• Leonidas Felix Livingston(D-GA)
• James Tilghman Lloyd(D-MO)
• William Tilghman Lorimer(R-IL)
• Eugene Francis Loud(R-CA)
• Henry Clay Loudenslager(R-NJ)
• William Franklin Love(D-MS)
• William Croad Lovering(R-MA)
• Philip Burrill Low(R-NY)
• Archibald Burrill Lybrand(R-OH)
• John W. Maddox(D-GA)
• James George Maguire(D-CA)
• Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany(R-NY)
• Thaddeus Maclay Mahon(R-PA)
• James Robert Mann(R-IL)
• Benjamin Franklin Marsh(R-IL)
• George Alexander Marshall(D-OH)
• Charles Henry Martin(Pop-NC)
• Samuel Henry Maxwell(Pop-NE)
• William Henry Mcaleer(D-PA)
• Samuel Walker Mccall(R-MA)
• James Thompson Mccleary(R-MN)
• George Brinton Mcclellan(D-NY)
• Nelson B. Mccormick(Pop-KS)
• Philip Doddridge Mcculloch(D-AR)
• John Doddridge Mcdonald(R-MD)
• John Anderson Mcdowell(D-OH)
• Thomas Anderson Mcewan(R-NJ)
• William Watson Mcintire(R-MD)
• Frank Alexander Mclain(D-MS)
• Benton Alexander Mcmillin(D-TN)
• Thomas Chipman Mcrae(D-AR)
• David Chipman Meekison(D-OH)
• David Henry Mercer(R-NE)
• William Smith Mesick(R-MI)
• Adolph Smith Meyer(D-LA)
• Robert Walter Miers(D-IN)
• Warren Walter Miller(R-WV)
• Seth Llewellyn Milliken(R-ME)
• Daniel Webster Mills(R-IL)
• Edward Sloman Minor(R-WI)
• John Murry Mitchell(R-NY)
• William Henry Moody(R-MA)
• John Austin Moon(D-TN)
• Robert Page Morris(R-MN)
• Sydney Emanuel Mudd(R-MD)
• Francis Griffith Newlands(D-NV)
• Stephen Asa Northway(R-OH)
• James Asa Norton(D-SC)
• James Albert Norton(D-OH)
• Benjamin Baker Odell(R-NY)
• Henry Warren Ogden(D-LA)
• Marlin Edgar Olmsted(R-PA)
• John Eugene Osborne(D-WY)
• Peter Johnston Otey(D-VA)
• Theobald Johnston Otjen(R-WI)
• Jesse Johnston Overstreet(R-IN)
• Horace Billings Packer(R-PA)
• Richard Wayne Parker(R-NJ)
• Sereno Elisha Payne(R-NY)
• Charles Edward Pearce(R-MO)
• Richmond Edward Pearson(R-NC)
• George Douglas Perkins(R-IA)
• Mason Summers Peters(Pop-KS)
• Rice Alexander Pierce(D-TN)
• Mahlon Alexander Pitney(R-NJ)
• Thomas Scales Plowman(AL)
• Horace Henry Powers(R-VT)
• George Washington Prince(R-IL)
• Samuel Johnson Pugh(R-KY)
• Lemuel Ely Quigg(R-NY)
• George Washington Ray(R-NY)
• George Washington Ray(R-ME)
• Walter Washington Reeves(R-IL)
• John Stockdale Rhea(D-KY)
• James Daniel Richardson(D-TN)
• Edwin Reed Ridgely(Pop-KS)
• John Franklin Rixey(D-VA)
• Edward Franklin Robb(D-MO)
• Edward Everett Robbins(R-PA)
• Samuel Matthews Robertson(D-LA)
• James McClellan Robinson(D-IN)
• Lemuel Willard Royse(R-IN)
• Charles Addison Russell(R-CT)
• Edward Addison Sauerhering(R-WI)
• Joseph Draper Sayers(D-TX)
• Evan Evans Settle(D-KY)
• John Franklin Shafroth(SilverR-CO)
• Richard Cutts Shannon(R-NY)
• William Bunn Shattuc(R-OH)
• Carlos Douglas Shelden(R-MI)
• James Schoolcraft Sherman(R-NY)
• Joseph Baltzell Showalter(R-PA)
• Alonzo Craig Shuford(Pop-NC)
• John Craig Simpkins(R-MA)
• Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson(Pop-KS)
• Thetus Willrette Sims(D-TN)
• Harry Willrette Skinner(Pop-NC)
• James Luther Slayden(D-TX)
• David Highbaugh Smith(D-KY)
• Samuel William Smith(R-MI)
• William Alden Smith(R-MI)
• Horace Greeley Snover(R-MI)
• James Harding Southard(R-OH)
• George Newell Southwick(R-NY)
• George Newell Spalding(R-MI)
• Stephen Milancthon Sparkman(D-FL)
• Nehemiah Day Sperry(R-CT)
• Thomas Day Spight(D-MS)
• Charles Franklin Sprague(R-MA)
• Jesse Francis Stallings(D-AL)
• William Ledyard Stark(Pop-NE)
• George Washington Steele(R-IN)
• John Hall Stephens(D-TX)
• Frederick Clement Stevens(R-MN)
• Alexander Clement Stewart(R-WI)
• James Fleming Stewart(R-NJ)
• James William Stokes(SC)
• Charles Warren Stone(R-PA)
• William Alexis Stone(R-PA)
• Thomas Jefferson Strait(D-SC)
• Jesse Burr Strode(R-NE)
• William Franklin Strowd(Pop-NC)
• John Cirby Sturtevant(R-PA)
• John Cirby Sturtevant(D-MS)
• Cyrus Adams Sulloway(R-NH)
• William Adams Sulzer(D-NY)
• Roderick Dhu Sutherland(Pop-NE)
• Claude Augustus Swanson(D-VA)
• William Jasper Talbert(D-SC)
• Farish Carter Tate(D-GA)
• James Albertus Tawney(R-MN)
• Robert Walker Tayler(R-OH)
• George Washington Taylor(D-AL)
• William Leake Terry(D-AR)
• Robert Taylor Thorp(R-VA)
• Albert May Todd(D-MI)
• Thomas H. Tongue(R-OR)
• Oscar Wilder Underwood(D-AL)
• Thomas Wilder Updegraff(R-IA)
• Henry Clay Van Voorhis(R-OH)
• Willard Duncan Vandiver(D-MO)
• John Herman Vehslage(D-NY)
• William Davis Vincent(Pop-KS)
• James Wolcott Wadsworth(R-NY)
• James Alexander Walker(R-VA)
• Joseph Henry Walker(R-MA)
• Irving Price Wanger(R-PA)
• William Lukens Ward(R-NY)
• Vespasian Lukens Warner(R-IL)
• Walter Lowrie Weaver(R-OH)
• George Warren Weymouth(R-MA)
• Charles Kennedy Wheeler(D-KY)
• Joseph Kennedy Wheeler(D-AL)
• George Elon White(R-IL)
• George Henry White(R-NC)
• David Forrest Wilber(R-NY)
• John Sharp Williams(D-MS)
• Morgan B. Williams(R-PA)
• Francis Henry Wilson(R-NY)
• Stanyarne Henry Wilson(D-SC)
• Richard Alsop Wise(R-VA)
• Ashley Bascom Wright(R-MA)
• Jacob Bascom Yost(R-VA)
• James Rankin Young(R-PA)
• William Albin Young(VA)
• William Taylor Zenor(D-IN)