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Encyclopedia > Fiftieth United States Congress

Dates of Sessions

1887-1889

Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ...

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Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (November 6, 1841 - April 16, 1915) was an American politician. ... William Boyd Allison (March 2, 1829 - August 4, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician. ... James Henderson Berry (15 May 1841 - 30 January 1913) was a Democratic United States Senator and served as Governor of the State of Arkansas. ... Joseph Emerson Brown (April 15, 1821–November 30, 1894), often referred to as Joe Brown, was a Governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865, and a U.S. Senator from 1880 to 1891. ... James Donald Cameron (May 14, 1833–August 30, 1918) was an American politician. ... William Eaton Chandler (28 December 1835–30 November 1917) was a lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a Senator from New Hampshire. ... Person Colby Cheney (February 25, 1828 - June 19, 1901) was a United States Senator from New Hampshire; born in Holderness (now Ashland), N.H., February 25, 1828; attended academies in Peterborough and Hancock, N.H., and in Parsonfield, Maine; engaged in the manufacture of paper in Peterborough until 1866; member... Francis Marion Cockrell Francis Marion Cockrell (October 1, 1834 - December 13, 1915) was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. ... Alfred Holt Colquitt (April 20, 1824 – March 26, 1894) was a lawyer, preacher, soldier, Governor of Georgia and two term U.S. Senator from Georgia where he died in office. ... Shelby Moore Cullom (1829 - 1914) was a U.S. political figure. ... Cushman Davis Cushman Kellogg Davis (June 16, 1838 – November 27, 1900) was an American politician who served as the 7th Governor of Minnesota from January 7, 1874 to January 7, 1876 and as a U.S. Senator from March 4, 1887 until his death. ... Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816 - February 5, 1903) was a United States Senator notable for the Dawes Act. ... Categories: Stub | 1828 births | 1919 deaths | United States Senators ... William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818–February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman. ... William Pierce Frye William Pierce Frye (September 2, 1830—August 8, 1911) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. ... James Zachariah George (NSHC statue) James Zachariah George (October 20, 1826 – August 14, 1897) was an American politician. ... Joseph Roswell Hawley ( October 31, 1826 - March 17, 1905), American political leader, was born at Stewartsville, Richmond county, North Carolina, where his father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church. ... George Frisbie Hoar (29 August 1826–30 September 1904) was a prominent United States politician. ... John James Ingalls John James Ingalls (December 29, 1833 – August 16, 1900) was an American politician. ... James Kimbrough Jones (1839 - 1908) was a U.S. politician. ... John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824–June 11, 1907) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. ... Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810 – December 28, 1898) was a Representative (1855–1867) and a Senator (1867–1898) from Vermont. ... Thomas Witherell Palmer (January 25, 1830–June 1, 1913) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan. ... Henry B. Payne (November 30, 1810 - September 9, 1896) was a Democratic politician from Ohio. ... Matthew Stanley Quay (September 30, 1833 - May 28, 1904) was an immensely powerful Pennsylvania political boss; kingmaker (Benjamin Harrison, 1888). ... Categories: Stub | 1826 births | 1904 deaths | United States Senators ... John Henninger Reagan (October 8, 1818–March 6, 1905), was an 19th century Texan Democratic politician and Postmaster-General of the Confederacy. ... Dwight May Sabin (April 25, 1843 – December 22, 1902) was an American politician. ... John Coit Spooner (January 6, 1843 - June 11, 1919) was a member of the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1885 - 1891 and again from 1897 - 1907. ... Henry Moore Teller (1830–1914) was a U.S. political figure. ... Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830--April 14, 1894) was an American Civil War hero and three-time Governor of North Carolina. ... George Graham Vest (1830-1904) was born in Missouri and practiced law there. ... Senator Daniel W. Voorhees Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827 - April 10, 1897) was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana. ... Ephraim King Wilson (1771 - 1834) was a Congressional Representative for the State of Maryland. ... James Falconer Wilson was born in Newark, Ohio on October 19, 1828. ...

Representatives

  • Jo (Joseph) Abbott (D-TX)
  • George Everett Adams (R-IL)
  • Charles Herbert Allen (R-MA)
  • Edward Payson Allen (R-MI)
  • John Mills Allen (D-MS)
  • Albert Raney Anderson (Indep R-IA)
  • Chapman Levy Anderson (D-MS)
  • George Alburtus Anderson (D-IL)
  • Warren Otis Arnold (R-RI)
  • Louis Evans Atkinson (R-PA)
  • Henry Evans Bacon (D-NY)
  • Charles Simeon Baker (R-NY)
  • Jehu Simeon Baker (R-IL)
  • John Hollis Bankhead (D-AL)
  • George Thomas Barnes (D-GA)
  • Frederick George Barry (D-MS)
  • Thomas Mckee Bayne (R-PA)
  • James Jerome Belden (R-NY)
  • Perry Jerome Belmont (D-NY)
  • Marion Jerome Biggs (D-CA)
  • Henry Harrison Bingham (R-PA)
  • Newton Crain Blanchard (D-LA)
  • Richard Parks Bland (D-MO)
  • Archibald Meserole Bliss (D-NY)
  • James Henderson Blount (D-GA)
  • Charles Ferris Booher (D-MO)
  • Melvin Morella Boothman (R-OH)
  • Franklin Morella Bound (R-PA)
  • George Edwin Bowden (R-VA)
  • Henry Edwin Bowen (R-VA)
  • Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (D-AR)
  • William Campbell Breckinridge (D-KY)
  • Mark Spencer Brewer (R-MI)
  • John Morehead Brower (R-NC)
  • Charles Elwood Brown (R-OH)
  • John Robert Brown (R-VA)
  • Thomas Henry Browne (R-VA)
  • Thomas Mclelland Browne (R-IN)
  • Charles Napoleon Brumm (R-PA)
  • Lloyd Stephens Bryce (D-NY)
  • James Stephens Buchanan (R-NJ)
  • Charles Rollin Buckalew (D-PA)
  • Frank Charles Bunnell (R-PA)
  • James Nelson Burnes (D-MO)
  • Edward Nelson Burnett (D-MA)
  • Julius Caesar Burrows (R-MI)
  • Roderick Randum Butler (R-TN)
  • Benjamin Randum Butterworth (R-OH)
  • William Dallas Bynum (D-IN)
  • Felix Dallas Campbell (D-NY)
  • James Edwin Campbell (D-OH)
  • Timothy John Campbell (D-NY)
  • Allen Daniel Candler (D-GA)
  • Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-IL)
  • John Griffin Carlisle (D-KY)
  • Henry Hull Carlton (D-GA)
  • Asher Graham Caruth (D-KY)
  • Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (R-WI)
  • Thomas Clendinen Catchings (D-MS)
  • Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle (R-IN)
  • John Logan Chipman (D-MI)
  • Martin Linn Clardy (D-MO)
  • Charles Benjamin Clark (R-WI)
  • Judson Claudius Clements (D-GA)
  • James Edward Cobb (AL)
  • William Bourke Cockran (D-NY)
  • William Bourke Cogswell (R-MA)
  • Patrick Andrew Collins (D-MA)
  • Barnes Andrew Compton (D-MD)
  • Edwin Hurd Conger (R-IA)
  • William Craig Cooper (R-OH)
  • James Sproull Cothran (D-SC)
  • William Henry Cowles (D-NC)
  • Samuel Sullivan Cox (D-NY)
  • William Henry Crain (D-TX)
  • Charles Frederick Crisp (D-GA)
  • George Washington Crouse (R-OH)
  • David Browning Culberson (D-TX)
  • Amos Jay Cummings (D-NY)
  • Byron M. Cutcheon (R-MI)
  • John M. Dalzell (R-PA)
  • George William Dargan (D-SC)
  • Smedley William Darlington (R-PA)
  • Ira William Davenport (R-NY)
  • Alexander Caldwell Davidson (D-AL)
  • Robert Hamilton Davidson (D-FL)
  • Robert Thompson Davis (R-MA)
  • Milton Thompson De Lano (R-NY)
  • Samuel Thompson Dibble (SC)
  • Alexander Monroe Dockery (D-MO)
  • George Washington Dorsey (R-NE)
  • Charles Washington Dougherty (D-FL)
  • Ransom Williams Dunham (R-IL)
  • Poindexter Williams Dunn (D-AR)
  • William Williams Elliott (D-SC)
  • Benjamin Augustine Enloe (D-TN)
  • Daniel Augustine Ermentrout (D-PA)
  • John Mccreath Farquhar (R-NY)
  • Charles Norton Felton (R-CA)
  • Hugh Franklin Finley (R-KY)
  • Spencer Oliver Fisher (D-MI)
  • Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (D-NY)
  • Thomas Schmeck Flood (R-NY)
  • Martin Ambrose Foran (D-OH)
  • Melbourne Haddock Ford (D-MI)
  • William Henry Forney (D-AL)
  • Carlos Henry French (D-CT)
  • William Elijah Fuller (R-IA)
  • Edward Hogue Funston (R-KS)
  • William Embre Gaines (R-VA)
  • Jacob Harold Gallinger (R-NH)
  • Edward James Gay (D-LA)
  • John Henry Gear (R-IA)
  • William Harrison Gest (R-IL)
  • Charles Hopper Gibson (D-MD)
  • Presley Thornton Glass (D-TN)
  • John Milton Glover (D-MO)
  • Nathan Milton Goff (R-WV)
  • Miles Tobey Granger (D-CT)
  • Edward Whitford Greenman (D-NY)
  • Thomas Wingfield Grimes (D-GA)
  • Charles Henry Grosvenor (R-OH)
  • William Wallace Grout (R-VT)
  • Richard William Guenther (R-WI)
  • Norman William Hall (D-PA)
  • Silas William Hare (D-TX)
  • Alfred Crout Harmer (R-PA)
  • William Henry Hatch (D-MO)
  • Nils Pederson Haugen (R-WI)
  • Edward Daniel Hayden (R-MA)
  • Walter Ingalls Hayes (D-IA)
  • John Taddeus Heard (D-MO)
  • John James Hemphill (D-SC)
  • David Bremner Henderson (R-IA)
  • John Steele Henderson (D-NC)
  • Thomas Jefferson Henderson (R-IL)
  • Hilary Abner Herbert (D-AL)
  • Binger Abner Hermann (R-OR)
  • John Andrew Hiestand (R-PA)
  • George Andrew Hires (R-NJ)
  • Robert Roberts Hitt (R-IL)
  • Charles Edgar Hogg (D-WV)
  • William Steele Holman (D-IN)
  • Adoniram Judson Holmes (R-IA)
  • Charles Edward Hooker (D-MS)
  • Albert Jarvis Hopkins (R-IL)
  • Samuel Isaac Hopkins (VA)
  • Stephen Tyng Hopkins (R-NY)
  • Leonidas Campbell Houk (R-TN)
  • Alvin Peterson Hovey (R-IN)
  • Jonas George Howard (D-IN)
  • Thomas Richard Hudd (D-WI)
  • Whiteside Godfrey Hunter (R-KY)
  • John Edward Hutton (D-MO)
  • Oscar Lawrence Jackson (R-PA)
  • James Thomas Johnston (R-IN)
  • Thomas Dillard Johnston (D-NC)
  • James Taylor Jones (D-AL)
  • Nicholas Thomas Kane (D-NY)
  • John Thomas Kean (R-NJ)
  • William Darrah Kelley (R-PA)
  • Robert Patterson Kennedy (R-OH)
  • Daniel Patterson Kerr (R-IA)
  • John Henry Ketcham (R-NY)
  • Constantine Buckley Kilgore (D-TX)
  • Robert Marion La Follette (R-WI)
  • Polk Marion Laffoon (D-KY)
  • Matthew Diamond Lagan (D-LA)
  • William Grant Laidlaw (R-NY)
  • James Grant Laird (R-NE)
  • Silas Zephaniah Landes (D-IL)
  • Edward Zephaniah Lane (D-IL)
  • Samuel Willis Lanham (D-TX)
  • Louis Charles Latham (D-NC)
  • Frank Charles Lawler (D-IL)
  • William Henry Lee (D-VA)
  • Herman Henry Lehlbach (R-NJ)
  • John Henry Lind (R-MN)
  • Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA)
  • John Davis Long (R-MA)
  • Joseph Davis Lyman (R-IA)
  • John Davis Lynch (D-PA)
  • John Lewis Macdonald (D-MN)
  • James Thompson Maffett (R-PA)
  • Peter Paul Mahoney (D-NY)
  • Levi Paul Maish (D-PA)
  • Charles Harley Mansur (D-MO)
  • William Harrison Martin (D-TX)
  • William Ernest Mason (R-IL)
  • Courtland Cushing Matson (D-IN)
  • William Cushing Mcadoo (D-NJ)
  • Charles Washington Mcclammy (D-NC)
  • Louis Emory Mccomas (R-MD)
  • Henry Clay Mccormick (R-PA)
  • James Bennett Mccreary (D-KY)
  • Welty Bennett Mccullogh (R-PA)
  • Joseph Bennett Mckenna (R-CA)
  • William Bennett Mckinley (R-OH)
  • Luther Franklin Mckinney (D-NH)
  • Benton Franklin Mcmillin (D-TN)
  • Thomas Chipman Mcrae (D-AR)
  • John Albert Mcshane (D-NE)
  • Truman Adams Merriman (D-NY)
  • Seth Llewellyn Milliken (R-ME)
  • Roger Quarles Mills (D-TX)
  • Seth Crittenden Moffatt (R-MI)
  • John Henry Moffitt (R-NY)
  • Alexander Brooks Montgomery (D-KY)
  • Littleton Wilde Moore (D-TX)
  • James Bright Morgan (D-MS)
  • Edmund Needham Morrill (R-KS)
  • William W. Morrow (R-CA)
  • Leopold W. Morse (MA)
  • John Randolph Neal (D-TN)
  • Knute Randolph Nelson (R-MN)
  • Cherubusco Randolph Newton (D-LA)
  • John Randolph Nichols (Indep-NC)
  • Thomas Manson Norwood (D-GA)
  • Newton Wright Nutting (R-NY)
  • James Wright O'donnell (R-MI)
  • Charles Triplett O'ferrall (D-VA)
  • John Henry O'neall (D-IN)
  • Charles Henry O'neill (R-PA)
  • John Joseph O'neill (D-MO)
  • William Calvin Oates (D-AL)
  • Edwin Sylvanus Osborne (R-PA)
  • Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (D-OH)
  • William Dale Owen (R-IN)
  • Abraham X. Parker (R-NY)
  • John X. Patton (R-PA)
  • Lewis Edwin Payson (R-IL)
  • Samuel West Peel (D-AR)
  • John Brown Penington (D-DE)
  • Bishop Walden Perkins (R-KS)
  • William Hayne Perry (D-SC)
  • Samuel Ritter Peters (R-KS)
  • James Ritter Phelan (D-TN)
  • William Walter Phelps (R-NJ)
  • James Nelson Pidcock (D-NJ)
  • Ralph Nelson Plumb (R-IL)
  • Francis Blackburn Posey (R-IN)
  • Philip Sidney Post (R-IL)
  • Jacob Joseph Pugsley (R-OH)
  • Samuel Jackson Randall (D-PA)
  • Isidor Jackson Rayner (D-MD)
  • Thomas Brackett Reed (R-ME)
  • Edmund Brackett Rice (D-MN)
  • James Daniel Richardson (D-TN)
  • Edward White Robertson (D-LA)
  • Samuel Matthews Robertson (D-LA)
  • Francis Williams Rockwell (R-MA)
  • John Henry Rogers (D-AR)
  • Jacob Henry Romeis (R-OH)
  • Jonathan Harvey Rowell (R-IL)
  • Alfred Harvey Rowland (D-NC)
  • Harry Welles Rusk (D-MD)
  • Charles Addison Russell (R-CT)
  • John Edwards Russell (D-MA)
  • Thomas Edwards Ryan (R-KS)
  • John Gilbert Sawyer (R-NY)
  • Joseph Draper Sayers (D-TX)
  • William Lawrence Scott (D-PA)
  • Edward Lawrence Scull (R-PA)
  • George Ebbert Seney (D-OH)
  • Henry William Seymour (R-MI)
  • Frank Thomas Shaw (D-MD)
  • James Schoolcraft Sherman (R-NY)
  • Benjamin Franklin Shively (D-IN)
  • Furnifold Mclendel Simmons (D-NC)
  • Henry Mclendel Smith (WI)
  • Charles Philip Snyder (D-WV)
  • William Henry Sowden (D-PA)
  • Francis Barretto Spinola (D-NY)
  • Henry Joshua Spooner (R-RI)
  • William Mckendree Springer (D-IL)
  • William Griggs Stahlnecker (D-NY)
  • George Washington Steele (R-IN)
  • Isaac Washington Stephenson (R-WI)
  • Charles Washington Stewart (D-TX)
  • John David Stewart (D-GA)
  • John Wolcott Stewart (R-VT)
  • Thomas Ringland Stockdale (D-MS)
  • William Joel Stone (D-MO)
  • William Johnson Stone (D-KY)
  • Isaac S. Struble (R-IA)
  • George Gifford Symes (R-CO)
  • Timothy Edward Tarsney (D-MI)
  • William Preston Taulbee (D-KY)
  • Ezra Booth Taylor (R-OH)
  • Joseph Danner Taylor (R-OH)
  • George Morgan Thomas (R-KY)
  • John Robert Thomas (R-IL)
  • Ormsby Brunson Thomas (R-WI)
  • Albert Clifton Thompson (R-OH)
  • Thomas Larkin Thompson (D-CA)
  • George Dionysius Tillman (D-SC)
  • Richard Wellington Townshend (D-IL)
  • Charles Wellington Tracey (D-NY)
  • Erastus Johnson Turner (R-KS)
  • Henry Gray Turner (D-GA)
  • Robert Johnstone Vance (D-CT)
  • William Johnstone Vandever (R-CA)
  • William Henry Wade (R-MO)
  • James Peter Walker (D-MO)
  • William Peter Warner (R-MO)
  • Joseph Edwin Washington (D-TN)
  • James Baird Weaver (Greenbacker-IA)
  • John Baptiste Weber (R-NY)
  • George Baptiste West (R-NY)
  • Joseph Baptiste Wheeler (D-AL)
  • James Bain White (R-IN)
  • Stephen Van White (R-NY)
  • Justin Rice Whiting (D-MI)
  • William Rice Whiting (R-MA)
  • Washington Curran Whitthorne (D-TN)
  • Charles Preston Wickham (R-OH)
  • David Preston Wilber (R-NY)
  • Beriah Preston Wilkins (D-OH)
  • Theodore Stark Wilkinson (D-LA)
  • Elihu Stephen Williams (R-OH)
  • Thomas Stephen Wilson (D-MN)
  • William Lyne Wilson (D-WV)
  • George Douglas Wise (D-VA)
  • William Douglas Woodburn (R-NV)
  • Robert Morris Yardley (R-PA)
  • Samuel S. Yoder (D-OH)
  • Jacob S. Yost (R-VA)
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