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54 unusual facts about 45th United States Congress


Albert S. Willis

Willis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

Alvah A. Clark

Clark was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

Amaziah B. James

James was elected as a Republican to the 45th and 46th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1877, to March 3, 1881.

Charles H. Page

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Charles W. Milliken

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Chester W. Chapin

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Clement Hall Sinnickson

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth United States Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1879.

Edwin Willits

In 1876, Willits was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 2nd congressional district to the 45th United States Congress and subsequently re-elected to the 46th, and 47th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1883.

Elbridge G. Lapham

He was elected as a Republican to the 44th, 45th, 46th and 47th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1875, to July 29, 1881, when he resigned after his election to the U.S. Senate.

Ezekiel S. Sampson

Near the end of his service in the 44th United States Congress, he was re-elected in 1876 to a second term, and served in the 45th United States Congress.

George B. Loring

He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876; appointed United States centennial commissioner for the State of Massachusetts in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881).

Henry Washington Hilliard

He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Hiram Parks Bell

Bell was elected to the U.S. Congress again to represent the 10th district of Georgia during the 45th Congress to fill the vacant seat resulting from the resignation of Benjamin Harvey Hill and served from March 13, 1877, to March 3, 1879.

Horace Davis

He presided over the Produce Exchange of San Francisco from 1867 to 1877 until he was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives of the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881), where on June 8, 1878 he spoke in support of a bill to restrict Chinese immigration.

Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, to February 20, 1879, when he was succeeded by Jesse J. Finley, who contested the election.

James A. McKenzie

McKenzie later was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh United States Congresses (March 4, 1877–March 3, 1883).

James B. Belford

He was presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served as United States Representative for the first district from March 4, 1877, until December 13, 1877, when he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested his election.

James T. Jones

Jones was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879).

James W. Covert

Covert was elected as a Democrat to the 45th and 46th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.

Jeremiah Henry Murphy

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the Forty-fifth Congress.

John K. Luttrell

Luttrell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1879).

John K. Tarbox

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

John L. Vance

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress and resumed his former newspaper business.

John O. Whitehouse

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

John T. Wait

He was reelected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from April 12, 1876, to March 3, 1887.

John W. Stone

Stone was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 5th congressional district to the 45th and 46th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.

Joseph Segar

Segar was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Laurin D. Woodworth

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress, losing to future U.S. President William McKinley.

Lawrence T. Neal

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress and for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Levi A. Mackey

From March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1879 he served as a Democratic U.S. Representative to the Forty-fourth and 45th United States Congresses, representing the 20th District of Pennsylvania.

Levi Warner

He was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from December 4, 1876, to March 3, 1879.

Mark S. Brewer

Brewer was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 6th District for the 45th and 46th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.

Martin I. Townsend

Townsend was elected as a Republican to the 44th and 45th United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1879.

Nathaniel Cobb Deering

In 1876, Deering was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 4th congressional district in the 45th United States Congress.

Nicholas Muller

He was a member of the State central committee in 1875, and was elected as a Democrat to the 45th and 46th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881.

Philip C. Hayes

Hayes was elected as a Republican to the 45th United States Congress in 1876, unseating independent incumbent Alexander Campbell, a theoretician of the Greenback movement; and was re-elected to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878.

Posse Comitatus Act

The original provision was enacted as Section 15 of chapter 263, of the Acts of the 2nd session of the 45th Congress.

Richard W. Townshend

Townshend was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1889.

Robert H. M. Davidson

Davidson was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1891).

Scott Wike

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress.

Stephen Southmyd Fenn

Fenn was reelected to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from June 23, 1876, to March 3, 1879.

Theodore Weld Burdick

In 1876, Burdick was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress, where he served from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879.

Third party officeholders in the United States

Therefore, this article includes any politician since the end of Reconstruction or since the 45th United States Congress.

Third-party members of the United States House of Representatives

This article lists all representatives since the end of Reconstruction or after the 45th United States Congress (1879) who were third-party affiliated or independent while they were in office, although dating them from the first year they were in the House in any affiliation.

Thomas M. Browne

Browne was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891).

Thomas R. Cobb

Cobb was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

Walter Leak Steele

Steele was elected to the 45th and 46th U.S. Congress, serving from March 4, 1877 to March 4, 1881.

William A. J. Sparks

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress).

William Adam Piper

In 1876, he was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the 45th United States Congress.

William Bennett Fleming

Fleming was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Julian Hartridge and served from February 10, 1879, to March 3, 1879.

William H. Calkins

Calkins was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884, when he resigned.

William Hartzell

Hartzell was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 4, 1879).

William W. Rice

Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

William Wellington Corlett

Corlett was elected as a Republican a Delegate to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1878.