Dates of Sessions

March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1901

Major Political Events

• Vice President Garret A. Hobart had died right before the convening of the first session so William P. Frye served as acting President Pro Tempore

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Officers

Senate

• President Pro Tempore William P. Frye
• Senate Republican Conference Chairman William B. Allison

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House of Representatives

• Speaker of the House David B. Henderson
• House Democratic Floor Leader James D. Richardson
• House Republican Floor Leader Sereno E. Payne
• House Democratic Whip Oscar W. Underwood
• House Republican Whip James A. Tawney
• House Democratic Caucus Chairman James Hay
• House Republican Conference Chairman Joseph G. Cannon

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Members of the fifty-sixth United States Congress

Senate

• Albert J. Beveridge (R-IN)
• William A. Clark (D-MT)
• Charles A. Culberson (D-TX)
• Chauncey M. Depew (R-NY)
• Addison G. Foster (R-WA)
• John Kean (R-NJ)
• Louis E. McComas (R-MD)
• Porter J. McCumber (R-ND)
• Joseph V. Quarles (R-WI)
• Nathan B. Scott (R-WV)
• Monroe L. Hayward (R-NE)
• James P. Taliaferro (D-FL)
• William V. Allen (PO-NE)
• Thomas R. Bard (R-CA)
• Jonathan P. Dolliver (R-IA)
• William P. Dillingham (R-VT)
• Charles A. Towne (D-MN)
• Matthew S. Quay (R-PA)
• Moses E. Clapp (R-MN)
• Thomas Kearns (R-UT)
• Joseph Simon (R-OR)
• William Van Amberg Sullivan (D-MS)
• Jonathan Ross (R-VT)
• Hernando D. Money (D-MS)
• Thomas B. Turley (D-TN)
• John L. McLaurin (D-SC)
• Stephen Mallory (D-FL)
• Marcus A. Hanna (R-OH)
• George L. Wellington (R-MD)
• George Turner (SR/D-WA)
• John C. Spooner (R-WI)
• Joseph L. Rawlins (D-UT)
• Thomas C. Platt (R-NY)
• William P. Frye (R-ME)
• William B. Allison (R-IA)
• Thomas Staples Martin (D-VA)
• Augustus Octavius Bacon (D-GA)
• Stephen Benton Elkins (R-WV)
• Knute Nelson (R-MN)
• Benjamin Ryan Tillman (D-SC)
• Francis Emroy Warren (R-WY)
• Clarence Don Clark (R-WY)
• Julius Caesar Burrows (R-MI)
• George Clement Perkins (R-CA)
• Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
• William Lindsay (D-KY)
• Donelson Caffery (D-LA)
• Redfield Proctor (R-VT)
• James Henderson Kyle (R/Pop-SD)
• Henry Clay Hansbrough (R-ND)
• Jacob Harold Gallinger (R-NH)
• George Laird Shoup (R-ID)
• Richard Franklin Pettigrew (R/SR-SD)
• William Eaton Chandler (R-NH)
• Edward Oliver Wolcott (R-CO)
• James McMillan (R-MI)
• William Morris Stewart (R/S/R-NV)
• Cushman Kellogg Davis (R-MN)
• John Warwick Daniel (D-VA)
• William Brimage Bate (D-TN)
• James Henderson Berry (D-AR)
• Henry Moore Teller (R/SR/D-CO)
• Shelby Moore Cullom (R-IL)
• Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (R-RI)
• Eugene Hale (R-ME)
• George Graham Vest (D-MO)
• John Tyler Morgan (D-AL)
• George Frisbie Hoar (R-MA)
• Francis Marion Cockrell (D-MO)
• John Percival Jones (R/S/R-NV)

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House

• David B. Henderson (R-IA)
• James D. Richardson (D-TN)
• Sereno E. Payne (R-NY)
• James A. Tawney (R-MN)
• James Hay (D-VA)
• Joseph G. Cannon (R-IL)
• Oscar W. Underwood (D-AL)