41st United States Congress
1869-1871 U.S. Congress
The 41st 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, 1869, to March 4, 1871, during the first two years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency . The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1860 United States census . Both chambers had a Republican majority.
Major events
Major legislation
March 18, 1869: Public Credit Act of 1869 , Sess. 1, ch. 1, 16 Stat. 1
April 10, 1869: Judiciary Act of 1869 , Sess. 1, ch. 22, 16 Stat. 44
May 31, 1870: Enforcement Act of 1870 , Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat. 140
June 22, 1870: An Act to establish the Department of Justice , Sess. 2, ch. 150, 16 Stat. 162
June 29, 1870: An Act to reorganize the Marine Hospital Service , Sess. 2, ch. 169, 16 Stat. 169
July 12, 1870: Currency Act of 1870 , Sess. 2, ch. 252, 16 Stat. 251
July 14, 1870: Funding Act of 1870 , Sess. 2, ch. 256, 16 Stat. 272
February 21, 1871: District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 , Sess. 3, ch. 62, Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 41–62 , 16 Stat. 419
Constitutional amendments
February 3, 1870: Fifteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 28) to become part of the Constitution[2]
States readmitted
January 26, 1870: Virginia rejoined the Union
February 23, 1870: Mississippi rejoined the Union
March 30, 1870: Texas rejoined the Union
July 15, 1870: Georgia rejoined the Union, the last former Confederate state to be readmitted
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.
During this Congress, Virginia , Mississippi , Texas , and Georgia were readmitted to representation.
Senate
House of Representatives
Leadership
President of the SenateSchuyler Colfax
Senate
House of Representatives
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed then by class and representatives are listed then by district.
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, facing re-election in 1874; "Class 2" meant their term ended in this Congress, facing re-election in 1870; and "Class 3" meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1872.
▌ 2. Willard Warner (R)
▌ 3. George E. Spencer (R)
▌ 2. Alexander McDonald (R)
▌ 3. Benjamin F. Rice (R)
▌ 1. Eugene Casserly (D)
▌ 3. Cornelius Cole (R)
▌ 1. William A. Buckingham (R)
▌ 3. Orris S. Ferry (R)
▌ 1. Thomas F. Bayard Sr. (D)
▌ 2. Willard Saulsbury Sr. (D)
▌ 1. Abijah Gilbert (R)
▌ 3. Thomas W. Osborn (R)
▌ 2. Homer V. M. Miller (D), from February 24, 1871
▌ 3. Joshua Hill (R), from February 1, 1871
▌ 2. Richard Yates (R)
▌ 3. Lyman Trumbull (R)
▌ 1. Daniel D. Pratt (R)
▌ 3. Oliver H. P. T. Morton (R)
▌ 2. James W. Grimes (R), until December 6, 1869
▌ James B. Howell (R), from January 18, 1870
▌ 3. James Harlan (R)
▌ 2. Edmund G. Ross (R)
▌ 3. Samuel C. Pomeroy (R)
▌ 2. Thomas C. McCreery (D)
▌ 3. Garrett Davis (D)
▌ 2. John S. Harris (R)
▌ 3. William P. Kellogg (R)
▌ 1. Hannibal Hamlin (R)
▌ 2. William P. Fessenden (R), until September 8, 1869
▌ Lot M. Morrill (R), from October 30, 1869
▌ 1. William T. Hamilton (D)
▌ 3. George Vickers (D)
▌ 1. Charles Sumner (R)
▌ 2. Henry Wilson (R)
▌ 1. Zachariah Chandler (R)
▌ 2. Jacob M. Howard (R)
▌ 1. Alexander Ramsey (R)
▌ 2. Daniel S. Norton (R), until July 13, 1870
▌ William Windom (R), July 15, 1870 – January 22, 1871
▌ Ozora P. Stearns (R), from January 22, 1871
▌ 1. Adelbert Ames (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 2. Hiram R. Revels (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 1. Carl Schurz (R)
▌ 3. Charles D. Drake (R), until December 19, 1870
▌ Daniel T. Jewett (R), December 19, 1870 – January 20, 1871
▌ Francis P. Blair Jr. (D), from January 20, 1871
▌ 1. Thomas Tipton (R)
▌ 2. John M. Thayer (R)
▌ 1. William M. Stewart (R)
▌ 3. James W. Nye (R)
▌ 2. Aaron H. Cragin (R)
▌ 3. James W. Patterson (R)
▌ 1. John P. Stockton (D)
▌ 2. Alexander G. Cattell (R)
▌ 1. Reuben E. Fenton (R)
▌ 3. Roscoe Conkling (R)
▌ 2. Joseph C. Abbott (R)
▌ 3. John Pool (R)
▌ 1. Allen G. Thurman (D)
▌ 3. John Sherman (R)
▌ 2. George H. Williams (R)
▌ 3. Henry W. Corbett (R)
▌ 1. John Scott (R)
▌ 3. Simon Cameron (R)
▌ 1. William Sprague IV (R)
▌ 2. Henry B. Anthony (R)
▌ 2. Thomas J. Robertson (R)
▌ 3. Frederick A. Sawyer (R)
▌ 1. William G. Brownlow (R)
▌ 2. Joseph S. Fowler (R)
▌ 1. James W. Flanagan (R), from March 30, 1870
▌ 2. Morgan C. Hamilton (R), from March 31, 1870
▌ 1. George F. Edmunds (R)
▌ 3. Justin S. Morrill (R)
▌ 2. John W. Johnston (D), from January 26, 1870
▌ 1. John F. Lewis (R), from January 26, 1870
▌ 1. Arthur I. Boreman (R)
▌ 2. Waitman T. Willey (R)
▌ 1. Matthew H. Carpenter (R)
▌ 3. Timothy O. Howe (R)
Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 41st Congress in March 1869. The senators from Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia were not seated until later in the Congress. 2 Democrats
1 Democrat and 1 Republican
2 Republicans
Territories
Senate President pro temporeHenry B. Anthony
House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
▌ 1 . Alfred E. Buck (R)
▌ 2 . Charles W. Buckley (R)
▌ 3 . Robert S. Heflin (R)
▌ 4 . Charles Hays (R)
▌ 5 . Peter M. Dox (D)
▌ 6 . William C. Sherrod (D)
▌ 1 . Logan H. Roots (R)
▌ 2 . Anthony A. C. Rogers (D)
▌ 3 . Thomas Boles (R)
▌ 1 . Samuel B. Axtell (D)
▌ 2 . Aaron A. Sargent (R)
▌ 3 . James A. Johnson (D)
▌ 1 . Julius L. Strong (R)
▌ 2 . Stephen W. Kellogg (R)
▌ 3 . Henry H. Starkweather (R)
▌ 4 . William H. Barnum (D)
▌ At-large . Benjamin T. Biggs (D)
▌ At-large . Charles M. Hamilton (R)
▌ 1 . William W. Paine (D), from December 22, 1870
▌ 2 . Richard H. Whiteley (R), from December 22, 1870
▌ 3 . Marion Bethune (R), from December 22, 1870
▌ 4 . Jefferson F. Long (R), from January 16, 1871
▌ 5 . Stephen A. Corker (D), from January 24, 1871
▌ 6 . William P. Price (D), from December 22, 1870
▌ 7 . Pierce M. B. Young (D), from December 22, 1870
▌ 1 . Norman B. Judd (R)
▌ 2 . John F. Farnsworth (R)
▌ 3 . Elihu B. Washburne (R), until March 6, 1869
▌ Horatio C. Burchard (R), from December 6, 1869
▌ 4 . John B. Hawley (R)
▌ 5 . Ebon C. Ingersoll (R)
▌ 6 . Burton C. Cook (R)
▌ 7 . Jesse H. Moore (R)
▌ 8 . Shelby M. Cullom (R)
▌ 9 . Thompson W. McNeely (D)
▌ 10 . Albert G. Burr (D)
▌ 11 . Samuel S. Marshall (D)
▌ 12 . John B. Hay (R)
▌ 13 . John M. Crebs (D)
▌ At-large . John A. Logan (R), until March 3, 1871
▌ 1 . William E. Niblack (D)
▌ 2 . Michael C. Kerr (D)
▌ 3 . William S. Holman (D)
▌ 4 . George W. Julian (R)
▌ 5 . John Coburn (R)
▌ 6 . Daniel W. Voorhees (D)
▌ 7 . Godlove S. Orth (R)
▌ 8 . James N. Tyner (R)
▌ 9 . John P. C. Shanks (R)
▌ 10 . William Williams (R)
▌ 11 . Jasper Packard (R)
▌ 1 . George W. McCrary (R)
▌ 2 . William Smyth (R), until September 30, 1870
▌ William P. Wolf (R), from December 6, 1870
▌ 3 . William B. Allison (R)
▌ 4 . William Loughridge (R)
▌ 5 . Francis W. Palmer (R)
▌ 6 . Charles Pomeroy (R)
▌ At-large . Sidney Clarke (R)
▌ 1 . Lawrence S. Trimble (D)
▌ 2 . William N. Sweeney (D)
▌ 3 . Jacob Golladay (D), until February 28, 1870
▌ Joseph H. Lewis (D), from May 10, 1870
▌ 4 . J. Proctor Knott (D)
▌ 5 . Boyd Winchester (D)
▌ 6 . Thomas L. Jones (D)
▌ 7 . James B. Beck (D)
▌ 8 . George M. Adams (D)
▌ 9 . John M. Rice (D)
▌ 1 . J. Hale Sypher (R), from November 7, 1870
▌ 2 . Lionel A. Sheldon (R)
▌ 3 . Chester B. Darrall (R)
▌ 4 . Joseph P. Newsham (R), from May 23, 1870
▌ 5 . Frank Morey (R)
▌ 1 . John Lynch (R)
▌ 2 . Samuel P. Morrill (R)
▌ 3 . James G. Blaine (R)
▌ 4 . John A. Peters (R)
▌ 5 . Eugene Hale (R)
▌ 1 . Samuel Hambleton (D)
▌ 2 . Stevenson Archer (D)
▌ 3 . Thomas Swann (D)
▌ 4 . Patrick Hamill (D)
▌ 5 . Frederick Stone (D)
▌ 1 . James Buffington (R)
▌ 2 . Oakes Ames (R)
▌ 3 . Ginery Twichell (R)
▌ 4 . Samuel Hooper (R)
▌ 5 . Benjamin F. Butler (R)
▌ 6 . Nathaniel P. Banks (R)
▌ 7 . George S. Boutwell (R), until March 12, 1869
▌ George M. Brooks (R), from November 2, 1869
▌ 8 . George F. Hoar (R)
▌ 9 . William B. Washburn (R)
▌ 10 . Henry L. Dawes (R)
▌ 1 . Fernando C. Beaman (R)
▌ 2 . William L. Stoughton (R)
▌ 3 . Austin Blair (R)
▌ 4 . Thomas W. Ferry (R), until March 3, 1871
▌ 5 . Omar D. Conger (R)
▌ 6 . Randolph Strickland (R)
▌ 1 . Morton S. Wilkinson (R)
▌ 2 . Eugene M. Wilson (D)
▌ 1 . George E. Harris (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 2 . Joseph L. Morphis (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 3 . Henry W. Barry (R), from April 8, 1870
▌ 4 . George C. McKee (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 5 . Legrand W. Perce (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 1 . Erastus Wells (D)
▌ 2 . Gustavus A. Finkelnburg (R)
▌ 3 . James R. McCormick (D)
▌ 4 . Sempronius H. Boyd (R)
▌ 5 . Samuel S. Burdett (R)
▌ 6 . Robert T. Van Horn (R)
▌ 7 . Joel F. Asper (R)
▌ 8 . John F. Benjamin (R)
▌ 9 . David P. Dyer (R)
▌ At-large . John Taffe (R)
▌ At-large . Thomas Fitch (R)
▌ 1 . Jacob H. Ela (R)
▌ 2 . Aaron F. Stevens (R)
▌ 3 . Jacob Benton (R)
▌ 1 . William Moore (R)
▌ 2 . Charles Haight (D)
▌ 3 . John T. Bird (D)
▌ 4 . John Hill (R)
▌ 5 . Orestes Cleveland (D)
▌ 1 . Henry A. Reeves (D)
▌ 2 . John G. Schumaker (D)
▌ 3 . Henry W. Slocum (D)
▌ 4 . John Fox (D)
▌ 5 . John Morrissey (D)
▌ 6 . Samuel S. Cox (D)
▌ 7 . Hervey C. Calkin (D)
▌ 8 . James Brooks (D)
▌ 9 . Fernando Wood (D)
▌ 10 . Clarkson N. Potter (D)
▌ 11 . George W. Greene (D), until February 17, 1870
▌ Charles H. Van Wyck (R), from February 17, 1870
▌ 12 . John H. Ketcham (R)
▌ 13 . John A. Griswold (D)
▌ 14 . Stephen L. Mayham (D)
▌ 15 . Adolphus H. Tanner (R)
▌ 16 . Orange Ferriss (R)
▌ 17 . William A. Wheeler (R)
▌ 18 . Stephen Sanford (R)
▌ 19 . Charles Knapp (R)
▌ 20 . Addison H. Laflin (R)
▌ 21 . Alexander H. Bailey (R)
▌ 22 . John C. Churchill (R)
▌ 23 . Dennis McCarthy (R)
▌ 24 . George W. Cowles (R)
▌ 25 . William H. Kelsey (R)
▌ 26 . Giles W. Hotchkiss (R)
▌ 27 . Hamilton Ward Sr. (R)
▌ 28 . Noah Davis (R), until July 15, 1870
▌ Charles H. Holmes (R), from December 6, 1870
▌ 29 . John Fisher (R)
▌ 30 . David S. Bennett (R)
▌ 31 . Porter Sheldon (R)
▌ 1 . Clinton L. Cobb (R)
▌ 2 . David Heaton (R), until June 25, 1870
▌ Joseph Dixon (R), from December 5, 1870
▌ 3 . Oliver H. Dockery (R)
▌ 4 . John T. Deweese (R), until February 28, 1870
▌ John Manning Jr. (D), from December 7, 1870
▌ 5 . Israel G. Lash (R)
▌ 6 . Francis E. Shober (D)
▌ 7 . Alexander H. Jones (R)
▌ 1 . Peter W. Strader (D)
▌ 2 . Job E. Stevenson (R)
▌ 3 . Robert C. Schenck (R), until January 5, 1871
▌ 4 . William Lawrence (R)
▌ 5 . William Mungen (D)
▌ 6 . John A. Smith (R)
▌ 7 . James J. Winans (R)
▌ 8 . John Beatty (R)
▌ 9 . Edward F. Dickinson (D)
▌ 10 . Truman H. Hoag (D), until February 5, 1870
▌ Erasmus D. Peck (R), from April 23, 1870
▌ 11 . John T. Wilson (R)
▌ 12 . Philadelph Van Trump (D)
▌ 13 . George W. Morgan (D)
▌ 14 . Martin Welker (R)
▌ 15 . Eliakim H. Moore (R)
▌ 16 . John Bingham (R)
▌ 17 . Jacob A. Ambler (R)
▌ 18 . William H. Upson (R)
▌ 19 . James A. Garfield (R)
▌ At-large . Joseph S. Smith (D)
▌ 1 . Samuel J. Randall (D)
▌ 2 . Charles O'Neill (R)
▌ 3 . John Moffet (D), until April 9, 1869
▌ Leonard Myers (R), from April 9, 1869
▌ 4 . William D. Kelley (R)
▌ 5 . John R. Reading (D), until April 13, 1870
▌ Caleb N. Taylor (R), from April 13, 1870
▌ 6 . John D. Stiles (D)
▌ 7 . Washington Townsend (R)
▌ 8 . J. Lawrence Getz (D)
▌ 9 . Oliver J. Dickey (R)
▌ 10 . Henry L. Cake (R)
▌ 11 . Daniel M. Van Auken (D)
▌ 12 . George W. Woodward (D)
▌ 13 . Ulysses Mercur (R)
▌ 14 . John B. Packer (R)
▌ 15 . Richard J. Haldeman (D)
▌ 16 . John Cessna (R)
▌ 17 . Daniel J. Morrell (R)
▌ 18 . William H. Armstrong (R)
▌ 19 . Glenni W. Scofield (R)
▌ 20 . Calvin W. Gilfillan (R)
▌ 21 . John Covode (R), February 9, 1870 – January 11, 1871
▌ 22 . James S. Negley (R)
▌ 23 . Darwin Phelps (R)
▌ 24 . Joseph B. Donley (R)
▌ 1 . Thomas A. Jenckes (R)
▌ 2 . Nathan F. Dixon Jr. (R)
▌ 1 . B. Frank Whittemore (R), until February 24, 1870
▌ Joseph Rainey (R), from December 12, 1870
▌ 2 . Christopher C. Bowen (R)
▌ 3 . Solomon L. Hoge (R), from April 8, 1869
▌ 4 . Alexander S. Wallace (R), from May 27, 1870
▌ 1 . Roderick R. Butler (R)
▌ 2 . Horace Maynard (R)
▌ 3 . William B. Stokes (R)
▌ 4 . Lewis Tillman (R)
▌ 5 . William F. Prosser (R)
▌ 6 . Samuel M. Arnell (R)
▌ 7 . Isaac R. Hawkins (R)
▌ 8 . William J. Smith (R)
▌ 1 . George W. Whitmore (R), from March 30, 1870
▌ 2 . John C. Conner (D), from March 31, 1870
▌ 3 . William T. Clark (R), from March 31, 1870
▌ 4 . Edward Degener (R), from March 31, 1870
▌ 1 . Charles W. Willard (R)
▌ 2 . Luke P. Poland (R)
▌ 3 . Worthington C. Smith (R)
▌ 1 . Richard S. Ayer (R), from January 31, 1870
▌ 2 . James H. Platt Jr. (R), from January 26, 1870
▌ 3 . Charles H. Porter (R), from January 26, 1870
▌ 4 . George Booker (C), from January 26, 1870
▌ 5 . Robert Ridgway (C), from January 27, 1870 – October 16, 1870
▌ Richard T. W. Duke (C), from November 8, 1870
▌ 6 . William Milnes Jr. (C), from January 27, 1870
▌ 7 . Lewis McKenzie (C), from January 31, 1870
▌ 8 . James K. Gibson (C), from January 28, 1870
▌ 1 . Isaac H. Duval (R)
▌ 2 . James C. McGrew (R)
▌ 3 . John Witcher (R)
▌ 1 . Halbert E. Paine (R)
▌ 2 . Benjamin F. Hopkins (R), until January 1, 1870
▌ David Atwood (R), from February 23, 1870
▌ 3 . Amasa Cobb (R)
▌ 4 . Charles A. Eldredge (D)
▌ 5 . Philetus Sawyer (R)
▌ 6 . Cadwallader C. Washburn (R)
Non-voting members
▌ Arizona Territory . Richard C. McCormick (D)
▌ Colorado Territory . Allen A. Bradford (R)
▌ Dakota Territory . Solomon L. Spink (R)
▌ Idaho Territory . Jacob K. Shafer (D)
▌ Montana Territory . James M. Cavanaugh (D)
▌ New Mexico Territory . J. Francisco Chaves (R)
▌ Utah Territory . William H. Hooper (D)
▌ Washington Territory . Selucius Garfielde (R)
▌ Wyoming Territory . Stephen F. Nuckolls (D), from December 6, 1869
House seats by party holding plurality in state 80+% to 100% Democratic
80+% to 100% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
Speaker of the House, James G. Blaine
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
Replacements: 6
Deaths: 2
Resignations:2
Interim appointments: 2
Seats of newly re-admitted states: 8
Total seats with changes: 14
Senate changes
State (class)
Vacated by
Reason for change
Successor
Date of successor's formal installation[d]
Virginia (1)
Vacant
Virginia re-admitted to the Union
John F. Lewis (R)
January 26, 1870
Virginia (2)
John W. Johnston (D)
Mississippi (1)
Vacant
Mississippi re-admitted to the Union
Adelbert Ames (R)
February 23, 1870
Mississippi (2)
Hiram R Revels (R)
Texas (1)
Vacant
Texas re-admitted to the Union
James W. Flanagan (R)
March 30, 1870
Texas (2)
Morgan C. Hamilton (R)
March 31, 1870
Georgia (3)
Vacant
Georgia re-admitted to the Union
Joshua Hill (R)
February 1, 1871
Georgia (2)
Homer V. M. Miller (D)
February 28, 1871
Maine (2)
William P. Fessenden (R)
Died September 8, 1869. Successor appointed October 30, 1869. Successor was subsequently elected January 19, 1870 to finish the term.
Lot M. Morrill (R)
October 30, 1869
Iowa (2)
James W. Grimes (R)
Resigned December 6, 1869, because of failing health. Successor elected January 18, 1870 .
James B. Howell (R)
January 18, 1870
Minnesota (2)
Daniel S. Norton (R)
Died July 13, 1870. Successor appointed July 15, 1870.
William Windom (R)
July 15, 1870
Missouri (3)
Charles D. Drake (R)
Resigned December 19, 1870, after being appointed chief justice of the United States Court of Claims . Successor appointed December 19, 1870.
Daniel T. Jewett (R)
December 19, 1870
Missouri (3)
Daniel T. Jewett (R)
Interim appointee retired. Successor elected January 20, 1871.
Francis P. Blair Jr. (D)
January 20, 1871
Minnesota (2)
William Windom (R)
Successor elected January 22, 1871.
Ozora P. Stearns (R)
January 22, 1871
House of Representatives
Replacements: 14
Deaths: 6
Resignations: 6
Contested election: 8
Seats of newly re-admitted states: 17
Total seats with changes: 44
House changes
District
Vacated by
Reason for change
Successor
Date of successor's formal installation[d]
South Carolina 3rd
Vacant
Contested election with J.P. Reed . Reed was never seated. House declared Hoge entitled to seat.
Solomon L. Hoge (R)
April 8, 1869
Wyoming Territory At-large
Vacant
Territory organized in previous congress and remained vacant until December 6, 1869
Stephen F. Nuckolls (D)
December 6, 1869
Virginia 2nd
Vacant
Virginia re-admitted into the Union
James H. Platt Jr. (R)
January 26, 1870
Virginia 3rd
Charles H. Porter (R)
Virginia 4th
George Booker (C)
Virginia 5th
Robert Ridgway (C)
January 27, 1870
Virginia 6th
William Milnes Jr. (C)
Virginia 8th
James K. Gibson (C)
January 28, 1870
Virginia 1st
Richard S. Ayer (R)
January 31, 1870
Virginia 7th
Lewis McKenzie (C)
Pennsylvania 21st
Vacant
Contested election with Henry D. Foster . House declared neither was entitled to seat. House then declared Covode duly elected February 9, 1870
John Covode (R)
February 9, 1870
Mississippi 1st
Vacant
Mississippi re-admitted into the Union
George E. Harris (R)
February 23, 1870
Mississippi 2nd
Joseph L. Morphis (R)
Mississippi 3rd
Henry W. Barry (R)
Mississippi 4th
George C. McKee (R)
Mississippi 5th
Legrand W. Perce (R)
Texas 1st
Vacant
Texas re-admitted into the Union
George W. Whitmore (R)
March 30, 1870
Texas 2nd
John C. Conner (D)
March 31, 1870
Texas 3rd
William T. Clark (R)
Texas 4th
Edward Degener (R)
Louisiana 4th
Vacant
Contested election with Michael Ryan. House declared neither was entitled to seat. Elected to seat thus caused
Joseph P. Newsham (R)
May 23, 1870
South Carolina 4th
Vacant
Contested election with William D. Simpson. Simpson was never seated. House declared Wallace entitled to seat.
Alexander S. Wallace (R)
May 27, 1870
Louisiana 1st
Vacant
Contested election with Louis St. Martin. House declared neither was entitled to seat. Elected to seat thus caused
J. Hale Sypher (R)
November 7, 1870
Georgia 1st
Vacant
Vacancy caused by House declaring Joseph W. Clift not entitled to seat
William W. Paine (D)
December 22, 1870
Georgia 2nd
Vacancy caused by House declaring Nelson Tift not entitled to seat
Richard H. Whiteley (R)
Georgia 3rd
Vacancy caused by House declaring William P. Edwards not entitled to seat
Marion Bethune (R)
Georgia 4th
Vacancy caused by House declaring Samuel F. Gove not entitled to seat
Jefferson F. Long (R)
Georgia 5th
Vacancy caused by House declaring Charles H. Prince not entitled to seat
Stephen A. Corker (D)
Georgia 6th
Failure to elect
William P. Price (D)
Georgia 7th
Vacancy caused by House declaring Pierce M. B. Young not entitled to seat. He was subsequently elected to fill the vacancy thus caused
Pierce M. B. Young (D)
Illinois 3rd
Elihu B. Washburne (R)
Resigned March 6, 1869, after being appointed United States Secretary of State
Horatio C. Burchard (R)
December 6, 1869
Massachusetts 7th
George S. Boutwell (R)
Resigned March 12, 1869, after being appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Brooks (R)
November 2, 1869
Pennsylvania 3rd
John Moffet (D)
Lost contested election April 9, 1869
Leonard Myers (R)
April 9, 1869
Wisconsin 2nd
Benjamin F. Hopkins (R)
Died January 1, 1870
David Atwood (R)
February 23, 1870
Ohio 10th
Truman H. Hoag (D)
Died February 5, 1870
Erasmus D. Peck (R)
April 23, 1870
New York 11th
George W. Greene (D)
Lost contested election February 17, 1870
Charles Van Wyck (R)
February 17, 1870
South Carolina 1st
Benjamin F. Whittemore (R)
Resigned February 24, 1870, pending an investigation of certain appointments to the US Military and Naval Academies
Joseph Rainey (R)
December 12, 1870
Kentucky 3rd
Jacob Golladay (D)
Resigned February 28, 1870
Joseph H. Lewis (D)
May 10, 1870
North Carolina 4th
John T. Deweese (R)
Resigned February 28, 1870, pending an investigation of certain appointments to the US Military and Naval Academies
John Manning Jr. (D)
December 7, 1870
Pennsylvania 5th
John R. Reading (D)
Lost contested election April 13, 1870
Caleb N. Taylor (R)
April 13, 1870
North Carolina 2nd
David Heaton (R)
Died June 25, 1870
Joseph Dixon (R)
December 5, 1870
New York 28th
Noah Davis (R)
Resigned July 15, 1870, before being appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Charles H. Holmes (R)
December 6, 1870
Iowa 2nd
William Smyth (R)
Died September 30, 1870
William P. Wolf (R)
December 6, 1870
Virginia 5th
Robert Ridgway (C)
Died October 16, 1870
Richard T. W. Duke (C)
November 8, 1870
Ohio 3rd
Robert C. Schenck (R)
Resigned January 5, 1871, after being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Vacant
Not filled this Congress
Pennsylvania 21st
John Covode (R)
Died January 11, 1871
Vacant
Not filled this Congress
Illinois At-large
John A. Logan (R)
Resigned at end of congress March 3, 1871, after being elected to the US Senate for the following term
Vacant
Not filled this Congress
Michigan 4th
Thomas W. Ferry (R)
Resigned at end of congress March 3, 1871, after being elected to the US Senate for the following term
Vacant
Not filled this Congress
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders for members of the House and Senate committees can be found through the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of this article. The directory after the pages of terms of service lists committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and, after that, House/Senate committee assignments. 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
Joint committees
Caucuses
Employees
Senate
House of Representatives
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
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