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President of the SenateWilliam A. Wheeler The Forty-fifth 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, 1877 to March 3, 1879 during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes .
The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Ninth Census of the United States in 1870 . The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.
March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1879
Special session of the Senate: March 5, 1877 – March 17, 1877
First session: October 15, 1877 – December 3, 1877
First session: December 3, 1877 - June 20, 1878
Second session: December 2 1878 - March 3, 1879 — a lame duck session Previous congress: 44th Congress - general Next congress: 46th Congress - general
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 Total members: 76
House of Representatives Total members: 293
Senate House of Representatives Main article: Events of 1876 ; Events of 1877 ; Events of 1879 Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 45th Congress February 28, 1878 — Bland-Allison Act (Coinage Act (Silver Dollar)), Sess. 2, ch. 20, 20 Stat. 25
April 29, 1878 — National Quarantine Act , Sess. 2, ch. 66, 20 Stat. 37
June 3, 1878 — Timber and Stone Act , Sess. 2, ch. 151, 20 Stat. 89
June 18, 1878 — Posse Comitatus Act , Sess. 2, ch. 263, §15, 20 Stat. 152 Membership highlights by chamber [ edit ] This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
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 the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1880; Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1882; and Class 3 meant their term ended in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1878.
See also: Category:United States Senators See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state
Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky
Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey
New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
President pro tempore Thomas W. Ferry
House of Representatives [ edit ] The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives See also: Category:United States congressional delegations by state
Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana
Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York
North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
Speaker of the HouseSamuel J. Randall Arizona Territory Dakota Territory Idaho Territory Montana Territory New Mexico Territory Utah Territory Washington Territory Wyoming Territory
[ edit ] The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.
A-F David H. Armstrong , Missouri James E. Bailey , Tennessee William H. Barnum , Connecticut Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. , Delaware James B. Beck , Kentucky Lewis V. Bogy , Missouri Matthew C. Butler , South Carolina Francis M. Cockrell , Missouri Richard Coke , Texas Henry G. Davis , West Virginia George R. Dennis , Maryland William W. Eaton , Connecticut James B. Eustis , Louisiana
G-O Augustus H. Garland , Arkansas John B. Gordon , Georgia La Fayette Grover , Oregon Isham G. Harris , Tennessee Frank Hereford , West Virginia Benjamin H. Hill , Georgia John W. Johnston , Virginia Charles W. Jones , Florida Francis Kernan , New York Lucius Q. C. Lamar , Mississippi Samuel B. Maxey , Texas Thomas C. McCreery , Kentucky Joseph E. McDonald , Indiana John R. McPherson , New Jersey Augustus S. Merrimon , North Carolina John T. Morgan , Alabama
P-Z
A-F William B. Allison , Iowa Henry B. Anthony , Rhode Island James G. Blaine , Maine Blanche K. Bruce , Mississippi Ambrose E. Burnside , Rhode Island Angus Cameron , Wisconsin J. Donald Cameron , Pennsylvania Simon Cameron , Pennsylvania Jerome B. Chaffee , Colorado Zachariah Chandler , Michigan Isaac P. Christiancy , Michigan Roscoe Conkling , New York Simon B. Conover , Florida Henry L. Dawes , Massachusetts Stephen W. Dorsey , Arkansas George F. Edmunds , Vermont Thomas W. Ferry , Michigan
G-O Hannibal Hamlin , Maine George F. Hoar , Massachusetts Timothy O. Howe , Wisconsin John J. Ingalls , Kansas John P. Jones , Nevada William Pitt Kellogg , Louisiana Samuel J. Kirkwood , Iowa T. Stanley Matthews , Ohio Samuel J. R. McMillan , Minnesota John H. Mitchell , Oregon Justin S. Morrill , Vermont
P-Z Oliver H. P. T. Morton , Indiana Richard J. Oglesby , Illinois Algernon S. Paddock , Nebraska John J. Patterson , South Carolina Preston B. Plumb , Kansas Edward H. Rollins , New Hampshire Aaron A. Sargent , California Alvin Saunders , Nebraska William Sharon , Nevada John Sherman , Ohio George E. Spencer , Alabama Henry M. Teller , Colorado Bainbridge Wadleigh , New Hampshire William Windom , Minnesota
House of Representatives [ edit ] Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.
A-B-C Joseph H. Acklen 1938), Louisiana D. Wyatt Aiken , South Carolina John D. C. Atkins , Tennessee Henry B. Banning , Ohio Richard Lee T. Beale , Virginia George M. Beebe , New York Hiram P. Bell , Georgia Charles B. Benedict , New York George A. Bicknell , Indiana Joseph C. S. Blackburn , Kentucky Richard P. Bland , Missouri Archibald M. Bliss , New York James H. Blount , Georgia Andrew R. Boone , Kentucky Gabriel Bouck , Wisconsin Edward S. Bragg , Wisconsin Samuel A. Bridges , Pennsylvania John M. Bright , Tennessee Aylett H. Buckner , Missouri George C. Cabell , Virginia John William Caldwell , Kentucky William P. Caldwell , Tennessee Milton A. Candler , Georgia John G. Carlisle , Kentucky James R. Chalmers , Mississippi Alvah A. Clark , New Jersey John B. Clark, Jr. , Missouri John B. Clarke , Kentucky Hiester Clymer , Pennsylvania Thomas R. Cobb , Indiana Francis D. Collins , Pennsylvania Philip Cook , Georgia James W. Covert , New York Samuel S. Cox , New York Thomas T. Crittenden , Missouri David B. Culberson , Texas Augustus W. Cutler , New Jersey D-E-F Robert H. M. Davidson , Florida Joseph J. Davis , North Carolina Benjamin Dean , Massachusetts George G. Dibrell , Tennessee Henry L. Dickey , Ohio Beverly B. Douglas , Virginia Milton J. Durham , Kentucky John R. Eden , Illinois Anthony Eickhoff , New York Joseph B. Elam , Louisiana E. John Ellis , Louisiana John H. Evins , South Carolina Thomas Ewing, Jr. , Ohio Ebenezer B. Finley , Ohio Jesse J. Finley , Florida William B. Fleming , Georgia William H. Forney , Alabama Benjamin J. Franklin , Missouri Benoni S. Fuller , Indiana
G-H-I William W. Garth , Alabama Lucien C. Gause , Arkansas Randall L. Gibson , Louisiana De Witt C. Giddings , Texas John M. Glover , Missouri John Goode, Jr. , Virginia Thomas M. Gunter , Arkansas Andrew H. Hamilton , Indiana Augustus A. Hardenbergh , New Jersey Henry R. Harris , Georgia John T. Harris , Virginia Carter H. Harrison , Illinois E. Kirke Hart , New York Julian Hartridge , Georgia William Hartzell , Illinois Robert A. Hatcher , Missouri Eli J. Henkle , Maryland Daniel M. Henry , Maryland Hilary A. Herbert , Alabama Abram S. Hewitt , New York Goldsmith W. Hewitt , Alabama Benjamin H. Hill , Georgia Charles E. Hooker , Mississippi John F. House , Tennessee Eppa Hutton, II , Virginia J-K-L Frank Jones , New Hampshire James T. Jones , Alabama John E. Kenna , West Virginia William Kimmel , Maryland Robert M. Knapp , Illinois J. Proctor Knott , Kentucky George M. Landers , Connecticut Robert F. Ligon , Alabama Daniel N. Lockwood , New York John K. Luttrell , California William P. Lynde , Wisconsin M-N-O Levi A. Mackey , Pennsylvania Levi Maish , Pennsylvania Vannoy H. Manning , Mississippi Benjamin F. Martin , West Virginia Stephen L. Mayham , New York James A. McKenzie , Kentucky John A. McMahon , Ohio Roger Q. Mills , Texas Hernando D. Money , Mississippi Charles H. Morgan , Missouri William R. Morrison , Illinois Leopold Morse , Massachusetts Henry L. Muldrow , Mississippi Nicholas Muller , New York
P-Q-R Thomas M. Patterson , Colorado James Phelps , Connecticut Clarkson N. Potter , New York Auburn L. Pridemore , Virginia Terence J. Quinn , New York Samuel J. Randall , Pennsylvania David Rea , Missouri John H. Reagan , Texas James B. Reilly , Pennsylvania Americus V. Rice , Ohio Haywood Y. Riddle , Tennessee William M. Robbins , North Carolina Charles B. Roberts , Maryland Edward W. Robertson , Louisiana Miles Ross , New Jersey S-T-U-V Milton Sayler , Ohio Alfred M. Scales , North Carolina Gustave Schleicher , Texas Charles M. Shelley , Alabama Otho R. Singleton , Mississippi William F. Slemons , Arkansas William E. Smith , Georgia Milton I. Southard , Ohio William A. J. Sparks , Illinois William M. Springer , Illinois Walter L. Steele , North Carolina William S. Stenger , Pennsylvania Alexander H. Stephens , Georgia Thomas Swann , Maryland James W. Throckmorton , Texas Richard W. Townshend , Illinois John R. Tucker , Virginia Thomas Turner , Kentucky Jacob Turney , Pennsylvania Robert B. Vance , North Carolina William D. Veeder , New York W-X-Y-Z Alfred M. Waddell , North Carolina Gilbert C. Walker , Virginia William Walsh , Maryland Levi Warner , Connecticut Washington C. Whitthorne , Tennessee Peter D. Wigginton , California Alpheus S. Williams , Michigan James Williams , Delaware Jeremiah N. Williams , Alabama Albert S. Willis , Kentucky Benjamin A. Willis , New York Benjamin Wilson , West Virginia Fernando Wood , New York Hendrick B. Wright , Pennsylvania Jesse J. Yeates , North Carolina H. Casey Young , Tennessee John S. Young , Louisiana
A-B-C William Aldrich , Illinois William J. Bacon , New York George A. Bagley , New York John M. Bailey , New York John H. Baker , Indiana William H. Baker , New York Latimer W. Ballou , Rhode Island Nathaniel P. Banks , Massachusetts Thomas M. Bayne , Pennsylvania James B. Belford , Colorado Horatio Bisbee, Jr. , Florida Henry W. Blair , New Hampshire Thomas A. Boyd , Illinois Lorenzo Brentano , Illinois Mark S. Brewer , Michigan James F. Briggs , New Hampshire Curtis H. Brogden , North Carolina Thomas M. Browne , Indiana Solomon Bundy , New York Horatio C. Burchard , Illinois Theodore W. Burdick , Iowa Benjamin F. Butler , Massachusetts Richard H. Cain , South Carolina William H. Calkins , Indiana John H. Camp , New York Jacob M. Campbell , Pennsylvania Joseph G. Cannon , Illinois Lucien B. Caswell , Wisconsin Simeon B. Chittenden , New York William Claflin , Massachusetts Rush Clark , Iowa Nathan Cole , Missouri Omar D. Conger , Michigan Jacob D. Cox , Ohio William W. Crapo , Massachusetts Henry J. B. Cummings , Iowa D-E-F Lorenzo Danford , Ohio Chester B. Darrall , Louisiana Horace Davis , California Nathaniel C. Deering , Iowa Dudley C. Denison , Vermont Mark H. Dunnell , Minnesota Jeremiah W. Dwight , New York Benjamin T. Eames , Rhode Island Charles C. Ellsworth , Michigan Russell Errett , Pennsylvania I. Newton Evans , Pennsylvania James L. Evans , Indiana Walbridge A. Field , Massachusetts Greenbury L. Fort , Illinois Charles Foster , Ohio Chapman Freeman , Pennsylvania William P. Frye , Maine
G-H-I Mills Gardner , Ohio James A. Garfield , Ohio Eugene Hale , Maine John Hanna , Indiana Alfred C. Harmer , Pennsylvania Benjamin W. Harris , Massachusetts Dudley C. Haskell , Kansas Philip C. Hayes , Illinois George C. Hazelton , Wisconsin George W. Hendee , Vermont Thomas J. Henderson , Illinois Frank Hiscock , New York Jay A. Hubbell , Michigan Herman L. Humphrey , Wisconsin John N. Hungerford , New York Morton C. Hunter , Indiana Anthony F. Ittner , Missouri J-K-L Amaziah B. James , New York John S. Jones , Ohio Joseph Jorgensen , Virginia Charles H. Joyce , Vermont J. Warren Keifer , Ohio Edwin W. Keightley , Michigan William D. Kelley , Pennsylvania John H. Ketcham , New York John W. Killinger , Pennsylvania Elbridge G. Lapham , New York William Lathrop , Illinois John E. Leonard , Louisiana Stephen D. Lindsey , Maine George B. Loring , Massachusetts M-N-O Thomas J. Majors , Nebraska Benjamin F. Marsh , Illinois Anson G. McCook , New York Jonas H. McGowan , Michigan William McKinley, Jr. , Ohio Lyne S. Metcalfe , Missouri John I. Mitchell , Pennsylvania James Monroe , Ohio Henry S. Neal , Ohio Amasa Norcross , Massachusetts S. Addison Oliver , Iowa Charles O'Neill , Pennsylvania Edward Overton, Jr. , Pennsylvania
P-Q-R Romualdo Pacheco , California Horace F. Page , California George W. Patterson , New York Thomas B. Peddie , New Jersey William A. Phillips , Kansas Henry M. Pollard , Missouri Thaddeus C. Pound , Wisconsin Llewellyn Powers , Maine Hiram Price , Iowa John H. Pugh , New Jersey Joseph H. Rainey , South Carolina James H. Randolph , Tennessee Thomas B. Reed , Maine William W. Rice , Massachusetts George D. Robinson , Massachusetts Milton S. Robinson , Indiana Thomas Ryan , Kansas S-T-U-V Ezekiel S. Sampson , Iowa William F. Sapp , Iowa Leonidas Sexton , Indiana William S. Shallenberger , Pennsylvania Clement H. Sinnickson , New Jersey Robert Smalls , South Carolina A. Herr Smith , Pennsylvania John H. Starin , New York Jacob H. Stewart , Minnesota John W. Stone , Michigan Joseph C. Stone , Iowa Horace B. Strait , Minnesota John M. Thompson , Pennsylvania Jacob M. Thornburgh , Tennessee Thomas F. Tipton , Illinois Amos Townsend , Ohio Martin I. Townsend , New York Nelson H. Van Vorhees , Ohio W-X-Y-Z John T. Wait , Connecticut William Ward , Pennsylvania Lewis F. Watson , Pennsylvania Frank Welch , Nebraska Harry White , Pennsylvania Michael D. White , Indiana Andrew Williams , New York Charles G. Williams , Wisconsin Richard Williams , Oregon Edwin Willits , Michigan Thomas Wren , Nevada
Changes in membership [ edit ] The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate replacements: 5
deaths: 2
resignations: 2
interim appointments: 1
contested elections: 2
Total seats with changes: 6
House of Representatives replacements: 6
deaths: 7
resignations: 1
contested election: 5
Total seats with changes: 13
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