50th United States Congress

The 50th 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, 1887, to March 4, 1889, during the third and fourth years of Grover Cleveland's first presidency. The president vetoed 212 pieces of legislation, the greatest number in a single session of Congress.

The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1880 United States census. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

Major legislation

 * October 8, 1888: Chinese Exclusion Act (Scott Act)
 * January 14, 1889: Nelson Act of 1889
 * February 22, 1889: Enabling Act of 1889, Sess. 2, ch. 180,

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.

Senate

 * President: Vacant
 * President pro tempore: John J. Ingalls (R)
 * Republican Conference Chairman: George F. Edmunds
 * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James B. Beck

House of Representatives

 * Speaker: John G. Carlisle (D)
 * Minority Leader: Thomas B. Reed
 * Democratic Caucus Chairman: Samuel S. Cox
 * Republican Conference Chairman: Joseph Gurney Cannon
 * Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: John E. Kenna

Members

 * 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, requiring reelection in 1892; Class 2 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1888; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1890.

Alabama

 * 2. John T. Morgan (D)
 * 3. James L. Pugh (D)

Arkansas

 * 2. James H. Berry (D)
 * 3. James K. Jones (D)

California

 * 1. George Hearst (D)
 * 3. Leland Stanford (R)

Colorado

 * 2. Thomas M. Bowen (R)
 * 3. Henry M. Teller (R)

Connecticut

 * 1. Joseph R. Hawley (R)
 * 3. Orville H. Platt (R)

Delaware

 * 1. George Gray (D)
 * 2. Eli Saulsbury (D)

Florida

 * 1. Samuel Pasco (D), from May 19, 1887
 * 3. Wilkinson Call (D)

Georgia

 * 2. Alfred H. Colquitt (D)
 * 3. Joseph E. Brown (D)

Illinois

 * 2. Shelby M. Cullom (R)
 * 3. Charles B. Farwell (R)

Indiana

 * 1. David Turpie (D)
 * 3. Daniel W. Voorhees (D)

Iowa

 * 2. James F. Wilson (R)
 * 3. William B. Allison (R)

Kansas

 * 2. Preston B. Plumb (R)
 * 3. John J. Ingalls (R)

Kentucky

 * 2. James B. Beck (D)
 * 3. Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D)

Louisiana

 * 2. Randall L. Gibson (D)
 * 3. James B. Eustis (D)

Maine

 * 1. Eugene Hale (R)
 * 2. William P. Frye (R)

Maryland

 * 1. Arthur Pue Gorman (D)
 * 3. Ephraim K. Wilson II (D)

Massachusetts

 * 1. Henry L. Dawes (R)
 * 2. George F. Hoar (R)

Michigan

 * 1. Francis B. Stockbridge (R)
 * 2. Thomas W. Palmer (R)

Minnesota

 * 1. Cushman K. Davis (R)
 * 2. Dwight M. Sabin (R)

Mississippi

 * 1. James Z. George (D)
 * 2. Edward C. Walthall (D)

Missouri

 * 1. Francis Cockrell (D)
 * 3. George G. Vest (D)

Nebraska

 * 1. Algernon S. Paddock (R)
 * 2. Charles F. Manderson (R)

Nevada

 * 1. William M. Stewart (R)
 * 3. John P. Jones (R)

New Hampshire

 * 2. Person C. Cheney (R), until June 14, 1887
 * William E. Chandler (R), from June 14, 1887
 * 3. Henry W. Blair (R)

New Jersey

 * 1. Rufus Blodgett (D)
 * 2. John R. McPherson (D)

New York

 * 1. Frank Hiscock (R)
 * 3. William M. Evarts (R)

North Carolina

 * 2. Matt W. Ransom (D)
 * 3. Zebulon B. Vance (D)

Ohio

 * 1. John Sherman (R)
 * 3. Henry B. Payne (D)

Oregon

 * 2. Joseph N. Dolph (R)
 * 3. John H. Mitchell (R)

Pennsylvania

 * 1. Matthew S. Quay (R)
 * 3. J. Donald Cameron (R)

Rhode Island

 * 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R)
 * 2. Jonathan Chace (R)

South Carolina

 * 2. Matthew C. Butler (D)
 * 3. Wade Hampton III (D)

Tennessee

 * 1. William B. Bate (D)
 * 2. Isham G. Harris (D)

Texas

 * 1. John H. Reagan (D)
 * 2. Richard Coke (D)

Vermont

 * 1. George F. Edmunds (R)
 * 3. Justin S. Morrill (R)

Virginia

 * 1. John W. Daniel (D)
 * 2. Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA)

West Virginia

 * 1. Charles J. Faulkner Jr. (D), from May 5, 1887
 * 2. John E. Kenna (D)

Wisconsin

 * 1. Philetus Sawyer (R)
 * 3. John C. Spooner (R)





House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

Alabama

 * Alabama's 1st congressional district. James T. Jones (D)
 * Alabama's 2nd congressional district. Hilary A. Herbert (D)
 * Alabama's 3rd congressional district. William C. Oates (D)
 * Alabama's 4th congressional district. Alexander C. Davidson (D)
 * Alabama's 5th congressional district. James E. Cobb (D)
 * Alabama's 6th congressional district. John H. Bankhead (D)
 * Alabama's 7th congressional district. William H. Forney (D)
 * Alabama's 8th congressional district. Joseph Wheeler (D)

Arkansas

 * Arkansas's 1st congressional district. Poindexter Dunn (D)
 * Arkansas's 2nd congressional district. Clifton R. Breckinridge (D)
 * Arkansas's 3rd congressional district. Thomas C. McRae (D)
 * Arkansas's 4th congressional district. John H. Rogers (D)
 * Arkansas's 5th congressional district. Samuel W. Peel (D)

California

 * California's 1st congressional district. Thomas L. Thompson (D)
 * California's 2nd congressional district. Marion Biggs (D)
 * California's 3rd congressional district. Joseph McKenna (R)
 * California's 4th congressional district. William W. Morrow (R)
 * California's 5th congressional district. Charles N. Felton (R)
 * California's 6th congressional district. William Vandever (R)

Colorado

 * Colorado's at-large congressional district. George G. Symes (R)

Connecticut

 * Connecticut's 1st congressional district. Robert J. Vance (D)
 * Connecticut's 2nd congressional district. Carlos French (D)
 * Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. Charles A. Russell (R)
 * Connecticut's 4th congressional district. Miles T. Granger (D)

Delaware

 * Delaware's at-large congressional district. John B. Penington (D)

Florida

 * Florida's 1st congressional district. Robert H. M. Davidson (D)
 * Florida's 2nd congressional district. Charles Dougherty (D)

Georgia

 * Georgia's 1st congressional district. Thomas M. Norwood (D)
 * Georgia's 2nd congressional district. Henry G. Turner (D)
 * Georgia's 3rd congressional district. Charles F. Crisp (D)
 * Georgia's 4th congressional district. Thomas W. Grimes (D)
 * Georgia's 5th congressional district. John D. Stewart (D)
 * Georgia's 6th congressional district. James H. Blount (D)
 * Georgia's 7th congressional district. Judson C. Clements (D)
 * Georgia's 8th congressional district. Henry H. Carlton (D)
 * Georgia's 9th congressional district. Allen D. Candler (D)
 * Georgia's 10th congressional district. George T. Barnes (D)

Illinois

 * Illinois's 1st congressional district. Ransom W. Dunham (R)
 * Illinois's 2nd congressional district. Frank Lawler (D)
 * Illinois's 3rd congressional district. William E. Mason (R)
 * Illinois's 4th congressional district. George E. Adams (R)
 * Illinois's 5th congressional district. Albert J. Hopkins (R)
 * Illinois's 6th congressional district. Robert R. Hitt (R)
 * Illinois's 7th congressional district. Thomas J. Henderson (R)
 * Illinois's 8th congressional district. Ralph Plumb (R)
 * Illinois's 9th congressional district. Lewis E. Payson (R)
 * Illinois's 10th congressional district. Philip S. Post (R)
 * Illinois's 11th congressional district. William H. Gest (R)
 * Illinois's 12th congressional district. George A. Anderson (D)
 * Illinois's 13th congressional district. William M. Springer (D)
 * Illinois's 14th congressional district. Jonathan H. Rowell (R)
 * Illinois's 15th congressional district. Joseph G. Cannon (R)
 * Illinois's 16th congressional district. Silas Z. Landes (D)
 * Illinois's 17th congressional district. Edward Lane (D)
 * Illinois's 18th congressional district. Jehu Baker (R)
 * Illinois's 19th congressional district. Richard W. Townshend (D)
 * Illinois's 20th congressional district. John R. Thomas (R)

Indiana

 * Indiana's 1st congressional district. Alvin P. Hovey (R), until January 17, 1889
 * Francis B. Posey (R), from January 29, 1889
 * Indiana's 2nd congressional district. John H. O'Neall (D)
 * Indiana's 3rd congressional district. Jonas G. Howard (D)
 * Indiana's 4th congressional district. William S. Holman (D)
 * Indiana's 5th congressional district. Courtland C. Matson (D)
 * Indiana's 6th congressional district. Thomas M. Browne (R)
 * Indiana's 7th congressional district. William D. Bynum (D)
 * Indiana's 8th congressional district. James T. Johnston (R)
 * Indiana's 9th congressional district. Joseph B. Cheadle (R)
 * Indiana's 10th congressional district. William D. Owen (R)
 * Indiana's 11th congressional district. George W. Steele (R)
 * Indiana's 12th congressional district. James B. White (R)
 * Indiana's 13th congressional district. Benjamin F. Shively (D)

Iowa

 * Iowa's 1st congressional district. John H. Gear (R)
 * Iowa's 2nd congressional district. Walter I. Hayes (D)
 * Iowa's 3rd congressional district. David B. Henderson (R)
 * Iowa's 4th congressional district. William E. Fuller (R)
 * Iowa's 5th congressional district. Daniel Kerr (R)
 * Iowa's 6th congressional district. James B. Weaver (GB)
 * Iowa's 7th congressional district. Edwin H. Conger (R)
 * Iowa's 8th congressional district. Albert R. Anderson (IR)
 * Iowa's 9th congressional district. Joseph Lyman (R)
 * Iowa's 10th congressional district. Adoniram J. Holmes (R)
 * Iowa's 11th congressional district. Isaac S. Struble (R)

Kansas

 * Kansas's 1st congressional district. Edmund N. Morrill (R)
 * Kansas's 2nd congressional district. Edward H. Funston (R)
 * Kansas's 3rd congressional district. Bishop W. Perkins (R)
 * Kansas's 4th congressional district. Thomas Ryan (R)
 * Kansas's 5th congressional district. John A. Anderson (IR)
 * Kansas's 6th congressional district. Erastus J. Turner (R)
 * Kansas's 7th congressional district. Samuel R. Peters (R)

Kentucky

 * Kentucky's 1st congressional district. William J. Stone (D)
 * Kentucky's 2nd congressional district. Polk Laffoon (D)
 * Kentucky's 3rd congressional district. W. Godfrey Hunter (R)
 * Kentucky's 4th congressional district. Alexander B. Montgomery (D)
 * Kentucky's 5th congressional district. Asher G. Caruth (D)
 * Kentucky's 6th congressional district. John G. Carlisle (D)
 * Kentucky's 7th congressional district. William C. P. Breckinridge (D)
 * Kentucky's 8th congressional district. James B. McCreary (D)
 * Kentucky's 9th congressional district. George M. Thomas (R)
 * Kentucky's 10th congressional district. William P. Taulbee (D)
 * Kentucky's 11th congressional district. Hugh F. Finley (R)

Louisiana

 * Louisiana's 1st congressional district. Theodore S. Wilkinson (D)
 * Louisiana's 2nd congressional district. Matthew D. Lagan (D)
 * Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. Edward J. Gay (D)
 * Louisiana's 4th congressional district. Newton C. Blanchard (D)
 * Louisiana's 5th congressional district. Cherubusco Newton (D)
 * Louisiana's 6th congressional district. Edward W. Robertson (D), until August 2, 1887
 * Samuel M. Robertson (D), from December 5, 1887

Maine

 * Maine's 1st congressional district. Thomas B. Reed (R)
 * Maine's 2nd congressional district. Nelson Dingley Jr. (R)
 * Maine's 3rd congressional district. Seth L. Milliken (R)
 * Maine's 4th congressional district. Charles A. Boutelle (R)

Maryland

 * Maryland's 1st congressional district. Charles H. Gibson (D)
 * Maryland's 2nd congressional district. Frank T. Shaw (D)
 * Maryland's 3rd congressional district. Henry W. Rusk (D)
 * Maryland's 4th congressional district. Isidor Rayner (D)
 * Maryland's 5th congressional district. Barnes Compton (D)
 * Maryland's 6th congressional district. Louis E. McComas (R)

Massachusetts

 * Massachusetts's 1st congressional district. Robert T. Davis (R)
 * Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district. John D. Long (R)
 * Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district. Leopold Morse (D)
 * Massachusetts's 4th congressional district. Patrick A. Collins (D)
 * Massachusetts's 5th congressional district. Edward D. Hayden (R)
 * Massachusetts's 6th congressional district. Henry Cabot Lodge (R)
 * Massachusetts's 7th congressional district. William Cogswell (R)
 * Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. Charles H. Allen (R)
 * Massachusetts's 9th congressional district. Edward Burnett (D)
 * Massachusetts's 10th congressional district. John E. Russell (D)
 * Massachusetts's 11th congressional district. William Whiting (R)
 * Massachusetts's 12th congressional district. Francis W. Rockwell (R)

Michigan

 * Michigan's 1st congressional district. J. Logan Chipman (D)
 * Michigan's 2nd congressional district. Edward P. Allen (R)
 * Michigan's 3rd congressional district. James O'Donnell (R)
 * Michigan's 4th congressional district. Julius C. Burrows (R)
 * Michigan's 5th congressional district. Melbourne H. Ford (D)
 * Michigan's 6th congressional district. Mark S. Brewer (R)
 * Michigan's 7th congressional district. Justin R. Whiting (D)
 * Michigan's 8th congressional district. Timothy E. Tarsney (D)
 * Michigan's 9th congressional district. Byron M. Cutcheon (R)
 * Michigan's 10th congressional district. Spencer O. Fisher (D)
 * Michigan's 11th congressional district. Seth C. Moffatt (R), until December 22, 1887
 * Henry W. Seymour (R), from February 14, 1888

Minnesota

 * Minnesota's 1st congressional district. Thomas Wilson (D)
 * Minnesota's 2nd congressional district. John Lind (R)
 * Minnesota's 3rd congressional district. John L. MacDonald (D)
 * Minnesota's 4th congressional district. Edmund Rice (D)
 * Minnesota's 5th congressional district. Knute Nelson (R)

Mississippi

 * Mississippi's 1st congressional district. John M. Allen (D)
 * Mississippi's 2nd congressional district. James B. Morgan (D)
 * Mississippi's 3rd congressional district. Thomas C. Catchings (D)
 * Mississippi's 4th congressional district. Frederick G. Barry (D)
 * Mississippi's 5th congressional district. Chapman L. Anderson (D)
 * Mississippi's 6th congressional district. Thomas R. Stockdale (D)
 * Mississippi's 7th congressional district. Charles E. Hooker (D)

Missouri

 * Missouri's 1st congressional district. William H. Hatch (D)
 * Missouri's 2nd congressional district. Charles H. Mansur (D)
 * Missouri's 3rd congressional district. Alexander M. Dockery (D)
 * Missouri's 4th congressional district. James N. Burnes (D), until January 23, 1889
 * Charles F. Booher (D), from February 19, 1889
 * Missouri's 5th congressional district. William Warner (R)
 * Missouri's 6th congressional district. John T. Heard (D)
 * Missouri's 7th congressional district. John E. Hutton (D)
 * Missouri's 8th congressional district. John J. O'Neill (D)
 * Missouri's 9th congressional district. John M. Glover (D)
 * Missouri's 10th congressional district. Martin L. Clardy (D)
 * Missouri's 11th congressional district. Richard P. Bland (D)
 * Missouri's 12th congressional district. William J. Stone (D)
 * Missouri's 13th congressional district. William H. Wade (R)
 * Missouri's 14th congressional district. James P. Walker (D)

Nebraska

 * Nebraska's 1st congressional district. John A. McShane (D)
 * Nebraska's 2nd congressional district. James Laird (R)
 * Nebraska's 3rd congressional district. George W. E. Dorsey (R)

Nevada

 * Nevada's at-large congressional district. William Woodburn (R)

New Hampshire

 * New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. Luther F. McKinney (D)
 * New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. Jacob H. Gallinger (R)

New Jersey

 * New Jersey's 1st congressional district. George Hires (R)
 * New Jersey's 2nd congressional district. James Buchanan (R)
 * New Jersey's 3rd congressional district. John Kean Jr. (R)
 * New Jersey's 4th congressional district. James N. Pidcock (D)
 * New Jersey's 5th congressional district. William W. Phelps (R)
 * New Jersey's 6th congressional district. Herman Lehlbach (R)
 * New Jersey's 7th congressional district. William McAdoo (D)

New York

 * New York's 1st congressional district. Perry Belmont (D), until December 1, 1888
 * New York's 2nd congressional district. Felix Campbell (D)
 * New York's 3rd congressional district. Stephen V. White (R)
 * New York's 4th congressional district. Peter P. Mahoney (D)
 * New York's 5th congressional district. Archibald M. Bliss (D)
 * New York's 6th congressional district. Amos J. Cummings (D)
 * New York's 7th congressional district. Lloyd S. Bryce (D)
 * New York's 8th congressional district. Timothy J. Campbell (D)
 * New York's 9th congressional district. Samuel S. Cox (D)
 * New York's 10th congressional district. Francis B. Spinola (D)
 * New York's 11th congressional district. Truman A. Merriman (D)
 * New York's 12th congressional district. W. Bourke Cockran (D)
 * New York's 13th congressional district. Ashbel P. Fitch (D)
 * New York's 14th congressional district. William G. Stahlnecker (D)
 * New York's 15th congressional district. Henry Bacon (D)
 * New York's 16th congressional district. John H. Ketcham (R)
 * New York's 17th congressional district. Stephen T. Hopkins (R)
 * New York's 18th congressional district. Edward W. Greenman (D)
 * New York's 19th congressional district. Nicholas T. Kane (D), until September 14, 1887
 * Charles Tracey (D), from November 8, 1887
 * New York's 20th congressional district. George West (R)
 * New York's 21st congressional district. John H. Moffitt (R)
 * New York's 22nd congressional district. Abraham X. Parker (R)
 * New York's 23rd congressional district. James S. Sherman (R)
 * New York's 24th congressional district. David Wilber (R)
 * New York's 25th congressional district. James J. Belden (R), from November 8, 1887
 * New York's 26th congressional district. Milton De Lano (R)
 * New York's 27th congressional district. Newton W. Nutting (R)
 * New York's 28th congressional district. Thomas S. Flood (R)
 * New York's 29th congressional district. Ira Davenport (R)
 * New York's 30th congressional district. Charles S. Baker (R)
 * New York's 31st congressional district. John G. Sawyer (R)
 * New York's 32nd congressional district. John M. Farquhar (R)
 * New York's 33rd congressional district. John B. Weber (R)
 * New York's 34th congressional district. William G. Laidlaw (R)

North Carolina

 * North Carolina's 1st congressional district. Louis C. Latham (D)
 * North Carolina's 2nd congressional district. Furnifold M. Simmons (D)
 * North Carolina's 3rd congressional district. Charles W. McClammy (D)
 * North Carolina's 4th congressional district. John Nichols (I)
 * North Carolina's 5th congressional district. John M. Brower (R)
 * North Carolina's 6th congressional district. Alfred Rowland (D)
 * North Carolina's 7th congressional district. John S. Henderson (D)
 * North Carolina's 8th congressional district. William H. H. Cowles (D)
 * North Carolina's 9th congressional district. Thomas D. Johnston (D)

Ohio

 * Ohio's 1st congressional district. Benjamin Butterworth (R)
 * Ohio's 2nd congressional district. Charles E. Brown (R)
 * Ohio's 3rd congressional district. Elihu S. Williams (R)
 * Ohio's 4th congressional district. Samuel S. Yoder (D)
 * Ohio's 5th congressional district. George E. Seney (D)
 * Ohio's 6th congressional district. Melvin M. Boothman (R)
 * Ohio's 7th congressional district. James E. Campbell (D)
 * Ohio's 8th congressional district. Robert P. Kennedy (R)
 * Ohio's 9th congressional district. William C. Cooper (R)
 * Ohio's 10th congressional district. Jacob Romeis (R)
 * Ohio's 11th congressional district. Albert C. Thompson (R)
 * Ohio's 12th congressional district. Jacob J. Pugsley (R)
 * Ohio's 13th congressional district. Joseph H. Outhwaite (D)
 * Ohio's 14th congressional district. Charles P. Wickham (R)
 * Ohio's 15th congressional district. Charles H. Grosvenor (R)
 * Ohio's 16th congressional district. Beriah Wilkins (D)
 * Ohio's 17th congressional district. Joseph D. Taylor (R)
 * Ohio's 18th congressional district. William McKinley (R)
 * Ohio's 19th congressional district. Ezra B. Taylor (R)
 * Ohio's 20th congressional district. George W. Crouse (R)
 * Ohio's 21st congressional district. Martin A. Foran (D)

Oregon

 * Oregon's at-large congressional district. Binger Hermann (R)

Pennsylvania

 * Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district. Henry H. Bingham (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district. Charles O'Neill (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district. Samuel J. Randall (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. William D. Kelley (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 5th congressional district. Alfred C. Harmer (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district. Smedley Darlington (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district. Robert M. Yardley (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district. Daniel Ermentrout (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district. John A. Hiestand (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district. William H. Sowden (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district. Charles R. Buckalew (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district. John Lynch (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. Charles N. Brumm (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district. Franklin Bound (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district. Frank C. Bunnell (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district. Henry C. McCormick (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district. Edward Scull (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district. Louis E. Atkinson (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 19th congressional district. Levi Maish (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district. John Patton (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district. Welty McCullogh (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district. John Dalzell (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district. Thomas M. Bayne (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district. Oscar L. Jackson (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district. James T. Maffett (R)
 * Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district. Norman Hall (D)
 * Pennsylvania's 27th congressional district. William L. Scott (D)
 * Pennsylvania's at-large congressional district. Edwin S. Osborne (R)

Rhode Island

 * Rhode Island's 1st congressional district. Henry J. Spooner (R)
 * Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district. Warren O. Arnold (R)

South Carolina

 * South Carolina's 1st congressional district. Samuel Dibble (D)
 * South Carolina's 2nd congressional district. George D. Tillman (D)
 * South Carolina's 3rd congressional district. James S. Cothran (D)
 * South Carolina's 4th congressional district. William H. Perry (D)
 * South Carolina's 5th congressional district. John J. Hemphill (D)
 * South Carolina's 6th congressional district. George W. Dargan (D)
 * South Carolina's 7th congressional district. William Elliott (D)

Tennessee

 * Tennessee's 1st congressional district. Roderick R. Butler (R)
 * Tennessee's 2nd congressional district. Leonidas C. Houk (R)
 * Tennessee's 3rd congressional district. John R. Neal (D)
 * Tennessee's 4th congressional district. Benton McMillin (D)
 * Tennessee's 5th congressional district. James D. Richardson (D)
 * Tennessee's 6th congressional district. Joseph E. Washington (D)
 * Tennessee's 7th congressional district. Washington C. Whitthorne (D)
 * Tennessee's 8th congressional district. Benjamin A. Enloe (D)
 * Tennessee's 9th congressional district. Presley T. Glass (D)
 * Tennessee's 10th congressional district. James Phelan Jr. (D)

Texas

 * Texas's 1st congressional district. Charles Stewart (D)
 * Texas's 2nd congressional district. John H. Reagan (D), until March 4, 1887
 * William H. Martin (D), from November 4, 1887
 * Texas's 3rd congressional district. Constantine B. Kilgore (D)
 * Texas's 4th congressional district. David B. Culberson (D)
 * Texas's 5th congressional district. Silas Hare (D)
 * Texas's 6th congressional district. Joseph Abbott (D)
 * Texas's 7th congressional district. William H. Crain (D)
 * Texas's 8th congressional district. Littleton W. Moore (D)
 * Texas's 9th congressional district. Roger Q. Mills (D)
 * Texas's 10th congressional district. Joseph D. Sayers (D)
 * Texas's 11th congressional district. Samuel W. T. Lanham (D)

Vermont

 * Vermont's 1st congressional district. John W. Stewart (R)
 * Vermont's 2nd congressional district. William W. Grout (R)

Virginia

 * Virginia's 1st congressional district. Thomas H. B. Browne (R)
 * Virginia's 2nd congressional district. George E. Bowden (R)
 * Virginia's 3rd congressional district. George D. Wise (D)
 * Virginia's 4th congressional district. William E. Gaines (R)
 * Virginia's 5th congressional district. John R. Brown (R)
 * Virginia's 6th congressional district. Samuel I. Hopkins (L)
 * Virginia's 7th congressional district. Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)
 * Virginia's 8th congressional district. William H. F. Lee (D)
 * Virginia's 9th congressional district. Henry Bowen (R)
 * Virginia's 10th congressional district. Jacob Yost (R)

West Virginia

 * West Virginia's 1st congressional district. Nathan Goff (R)
 * West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. William L. Wilson (D)
 * West Virginia's 3rd congressional district. Charles P. Snyder (D)
 * West Virginia's 4th congressional district. Charles E. Hogg (D)

Wisconsin

 * Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. Lucien B. Caswell (R)
 * Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district. Richard W. Guenther (R)
 * Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district. Robert M. La Follette Sr. (R)
 * Wisconsin's 4th congressional district. Henry Smith (L)
 * Wisconsin's 5th congressional district. Thomas R. Hudd (D)
 * Wisconsin's 6th congressional district. Charles B. Clark (R)
 * Wisconsin's 7th congressional district. Ormsby B. Thomas (R)
 * Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. Nils P. Haugen (R)
 * Wisconsin's 9th congressional district. Isaac Stephenson (R)

Non-voting members

 * Arizona Territory's at-large congressional district. Marcus A. Smith (D)
 * Dakota Territory's at-large congressional district. Oscar S. Gifford (R)
 * Idaho Territory's at-large congressional district. Fred T. Dubois (R)
 * Montana Territory's at-large congressional district. Joseph K. Toole (D)
 * New Mexico Territory's at-large congressional district. Antonio Joseph (D)
 * Utah Territory's at-large congressional district. John T. Caine (D)
 * Washington Territory's at-large congressional district. Charles S. Voorhees (D)
 * Wyoming Territory's at-large congressional district. Joseph M. Carey (R)

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Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.

Senate

 * Replacements: 1
 * Democratic: no net change
 * Republican: no net change
 * Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
 * Deaths: 0
 * Resignations: 1
 * Interim appointments: 1
 * Total seats with changes: 2

House of Representatives

 * Replacements: 8
 * Democratic: no net change
 * Republican: no net change
 * Deaths: 4
 * Resignations: 5
 * Contested election: 0
 * Total seats with changes: 8

Senate

 * Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress (Select) (Chairman: Daniel W. Voorhees; Ranking Member: Justin S. Morrill)
 * Agriculture and Forestry (Chairman: Thomas W. Palmer; Ranking Member: James Z. George)
 * Appropriations (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: James B. Beck)
 * Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John P. Jones; Ranking Member: Zebulon B. Vance)
 * Canadian Relations (Select) (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: N/A)
 * Census (Chairman: Eugene Hale; Ranking Member: James H. Berry)
 * Centennial of the Constitution and the Discovery of America (Select) (Chairman: Frank Hiscock; Ranking Member: Daniel W. Voorhees)
 * Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: Jonathan Chace; Ranking Member: Daniel W. Voorhees)
 * Civil Service Operations (Special) (Chairman: William E. Chandler; Ranking Member: Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn)
 * Claims (Chairman: John C. Spooner; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
 * Coast Defenses (Chairman: Joseph N. Dolph; Ranking Member: John R. McPherson)
 * Commerce (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: Matt W. Ransom)
 * Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
 * District of Columbia (Chairman: John J. Ingalls; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
 * Education and Labor (Chairman: Henry W. Blair; Ranking Member: William B. Allison)
 * Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Eli Saulsbury; Ranking Member: William B. Allison)
 * Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Thomas M. Bowen; Ranking Member: Alfred H. Colquitt)
 * Epidemic Diseases (Select) (Chairman: Isham G. Harris; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
 * Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Chairman: Matthew S. Quay; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton)


 * Executive Departments Methods (Select) (Chairman: Matthew C. Butler; Ranking Member: Orville H. Platt)
 * Expenditures of Public Money (Chairman: Charles B. Farwell; Ranking Member: William P. Frye)
 * Finance (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member: Daniel W. Voorhees)
 * Fisheries (Chairman: John Sherman; Ranking Member: Wade Hampton)
 * Foreign Relations (Chairman: Algernon S. Paddock; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
 * Fishing Bounties and Allowances (Select)
 * Five Civilized Tribes of Indians (Select) (Chairman: Matthew C. Butler; Ranking Member: J. Donald Cameron)
 * Government Printing Office (Select)
 * Indian Affairs (Chairman: Henry L. Dawes; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
 * Indian Traders (Select) (Chairman: William E. Chandler; Ranking Member: Joseph C. S. Blackburn)
 * Interstate Commerce (Chairman: Shelby M. Cullom; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
 * Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Select)
 * Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Edmunds; Ranking Member: James L. Pugh)
 * Library (Chairman: William M. Evarts; Ranking Member: Daniel W. Voorhees)
 * Manufactures (Chairman: Harrison H. Riddleberger; Ranking Member: Alfred H. Colquitt)
 * Military Affairs (Chairman: Joseph R. Hawley; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
 * Mines and Mining (Chairman: William M. Stewart; Ranking Member: William B. Bate)
 * Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Select) (Chairman: Algernon S. Paddock; Ranking Member: James B. Eustis)
 * Naval Affairs (Chairman: J. Donald Cameron; Ranking Member: John R. McPherson)
 * Nicaraguan Claims (Select) (Chairman: John Tyler Morgan; Ranking Member: George F. Hoard)
 * Pacific Railway Commission (Special) (Chairman: William P. Frye; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)


 * Patents (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: James K. Jones)
 * Pensions (Chairman: Cushman K. Davis; Ranking Member: Ephraim K. Wilson)
 * Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Philetus Sawyer; Ranking Member: Eli Saulsbury)
 * Potomac River Front (Select) (Chairman: John R. McPherson; Ranking Member: N/A)
 * Printing (Chairman: Charles F. Manderson; Ranking Member: Arthur P. Gorman)
 * Private Land Claims (Chairman: Matt W. Ransom; Ranking Member: George F. Edmonds)
 * Privileges and Elections (Chairman: George F. Hoar; Ranking Member: Eli Saulsbury)
 * Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Leland Stanford; Ranking Member: George G. Vest)
 * Public Lands (Chairman: Preston B. Plumb; Ranking Member: John T. Morgan)
 * Railroads (Chairman: Dwight M. Sabin; Ranking Member: Francis B. Stockbridge)
 * Revision of the Laws (Chairman: James F. Wilson; Ranking Member: Ephraim K. Wilson)
 * Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Richard Coke; Ranking Member: Jonathan Chace)
 * Rules (Chairman: Nelson W. Aldrich; Ranking Member: Isham G. Harris)
 * Tariff Regulation (Select)
 * Territories (Chairman: Orville H. Platt; Ranking Member: Matthew C. Butler)
 * Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Select) (Chairman: George G. Vest; Ranking Member: N/A)
 * Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Chairman: John H. Mitchell; Ranking Member: Randall L. Gibson)
 * Whole
 * Woman Suffrage (Select) (Chairman: Francis M. Cockrell; Ranking Member: Thomas W. Palmer)

House of Representatives

 * Accounts (Chairman: Frank T. Shaw; Ranking Member: James O'Donnell)
 * Agriculture (Chairman: William H. Hatch; Ranking Member: Justin R. Whiting)
 * Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select) (Chairman: James E. Campbell; Ranking Member: N/A)
 * American Ship building (Select)
 * Appropriations (Chairman: Samuel J. Randall; Ranking Member: Joseph G. Cannon)
 * Banking and Currency (Chairman: Beriah Wilkins; Ranking Member: Luther F. McKinney)
 * Claims (Chairman: S. W. T. Lanham; Ranking Member: John Lynch)
 * Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Richard P. Bland; Ranking Member: Norman Hall)
 * Commerce (Chairman: Martin L. Clardy; Ranking Member: James Phelan Jr.)
 * District of Columbia (Chairman: John J. Hemphill; Ranking Member: Robert J. Vance)
 * Education (Chairman: Allen D. Candler; Ranking Member: John B. Penington)
 * Elections (Chairman: Charles F. Crisp; Ranking Member: Littleton W. Moore)
 * Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Spencer O. Fisher; Ranking Member: Constantine B. Kilgore)
 * Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Thomas R. Hudd; Ranking Member: Charles N. Brumm)
 * Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: William H. H. Cowles; Ranking Member: Albert C. Thompson)
 * Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: William L. Scott; Ranking Member: Jacob Romeis)
 * Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Alexander M. Dockery; Ranking Member: Charles E. Brown)
 * Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Leopold Morse; Ranking Member: Louis E. Atkinson)
 * Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Joseph Wheeler; Ranking Member: John M. Farquhar)
 * Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Polk Laffoon; Ranking Member: William Warner)
 * Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Timothy J. Campbell; Ranking Member: Seth L. Milliken)
 * Foreign Affairs (Chairman: James B. McCreary; Ranking Member: James S. Cothran)
 * Indian Affairs (Chairman: Samuel W. Peel; Ranking Member: Silas Hare)
 * Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Courtland C. Matson; Ranking Member: Thomas L. Thompson)
 * Judiciary (Chairman: David B. Culberson; Ranking Member: John D. Stewart)
 * Labor (Chairman: John J. O'Neill; Ranking Member: Edward Burnett)
 * Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Chairman: Thomas C. Catchings; Ranking Member: Samuel M. Robertson)
 * Library (Chairman: William G. Stahlnecker; Ranking Member: Charles O'Neill)
 * Manufactures (Chairman: Henry Bacon; Ranking Member: Frank C. Bunnell)
 * Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Chairman: Poindexter Dunn; Ranking Member: John L. MacDonald)
 * Mileage (Chairman: John H. Rogers; Ranking Member: James J. Belden)
 * Military Affairs (Chairman: Richard W. Townshend; Ranking Member: Samuel S. Yoder)
 * Militia (Chairman: William McAdoo; Ranking Member: Francis B. Spinola)
 * Mines and Mining (Chairman: Charles T. O'Ferrall; Ranking Member: Marion Biggs)
 * Naval Affairs (Chairman: Hilary A. Herbert; Ranking Member: Joseph Abbott)
 * Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Joseph H. Outhwaite; Ranking Member: Miles T. Granger)
 * Patents (Chairman: James B. Weaver; Ranking Member: Robert J. Vance)
 * Pensions (Chairman: Archibald M. Bliss; Ranking Member: John E. Russell)
 * Printing (Chairman: James D. Richardson; Ranking Member: John A. Hiestand)
 * Private Land Claims (Chairman: John M. Glover; Ranking Member: Louis C. Latham)
 * Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: James H. Blount; Ranking Member: Alfred Rowland)
 * Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Samuel Dibble; Ranking Member: Charles E. Hogg)
 * Public Lands (Chairman: William S. Holman; Ranking Member: John L. MacDonald)
 * Railways and Canals (Chairman: Robert H. M. Davidson; Ranking Member: Henry H. Carlton)
 * Revision of Laws (Chairman: William C. Oates; Ranking Member: Charles E. Hogg)
 * Rivers and Harbors (Chairman: Newton C. Blanchard; Ranking Member: Thomas L. Thompson)
 * Rules (Chairman: John G. Carlisle; Ranking Member: Thomas B. Reed)
 * Standards of Official Conduct
 * Territories (Chairman: William M. Springer; Ranking Member: Melbourne H. Ford)
 * War Claims (Chairman: William J. Stone; Ranking Member: Theodore S. Wilkinson)
 * Ways and Means (Chairman: Roger Q. Mills; Ranking Member: William D. Kelley)
 * Whole

Joint committees

 * Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
 * Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
 * To Investigate Work on the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel
 * The Library (Chairman: William G. Stahlnecker; Vice Chairman: Charles O'Neill)
 * Printing

Caucuses

 * Democratic (House)
 * Democratic (Senate)

Legislative branch agency directors

 * Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
 * Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford
 * Public Printer of the United States: Thomas E. Benedict

Senate

 * Chaplain: John G. Butler (Lutheran)
 * Secretary: Anson G. McCook
 * Librarian: Alonzo M. Church
 * Sergeant at Arms: William P. Canady

House of Representatives

 * Chaplain: William H. Milburn (Methodist)
 * Clerk: John B. Clark Jr.
 * Doorkeeper: Alvin B. Hurt, elected December 5, 1887
 * Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Nathaniel T. Crutchfield
 * Postmaster: Lycurgus Dalton
 * Reading Clerks: Thomas S. Pettit (D) and Neill S. Brown Jr. (R)
 * Sergeant at Arms: John P. Leedom