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59 unusual facts about 46th United States Congress


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.

Augustus Hill Garland

In the Senate, he served as a member of the Committees on Public Lands, the Territories and the Judiciary, serving as chairman of the Territories Committee in the 46th Congress.

Benjamin A. Willis

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

Daniel Ermentrout

He was again elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served until his death in Reading in 1899.

Edmund William McGregor Mackey

He lost the election against Michael P. O’Connor for the 2nd congressional district in 1878 and failed to have the Democratic-controlled House overturn the election.

Edward H. Gillette

In 1878, Gillette was elected as a Greenback Party member to the United States House of Representatives, serving in the 46th Congress with fellow Iowa Greenback Party member James B. Weaver from 1879 to 1881.

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.

Eugene Hale

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the 46th Congress.

Ezra B. Taylor

Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James A. Garfield.

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).

George R. Davis

Davis was elected as a Republican to the 46th, 47th, and 48th Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 4, 1885).

George W. Geddes

Geddes was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887).

George W. Ladd

Ladd served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Forty-sixth Congress).

Gibson Atherton

Atherton was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883), but afterwards chose not to seek renomination.

Henry Persons

After the war, he was elected as a Representative to the 46th United States Congress as an Independent Democrat.

Henry R. Harris

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

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.

He successfully contested the election of Noble A. Hull to the Forty-sixth Congress and served from January 22, 1881, to March 3, 1881.

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

Elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses Belford was United States Representative for the first district from March 4, 1879 to March 3, 1885.

James B. Weaver

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 on the Greenback ticket and served in the Forty-sixth Congress from 1879 to 1881, but in 1880 was nominated for the presidency instead of re-election to Congress.

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.

John C. Nicholls

Nicholls was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881), was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880, but was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885).

John Morgan Bright

He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-fourth Congress).

John R. Thomas

Thomas was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1889).

John Van Voorhis

Van Voorhis was elected as a Republican to the 46th and 47th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1883.

John W. Ferdon

Ferdon was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1881.

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.

Jonas H. McGowan

He was re-elected to the 46th Congress and served from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881.

Jonathan Scoville

Scoville was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray V. Pierce.

Jonathan T. Updegraff

Updegraff was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, November 30, 1882.

Joseph E. Johnston

He served in the 46th Congress from 1879 to 1881 as a Democratic congressman, having been elected with 58.11% of the vote over Greenback William W. Newman; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.

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.

Leonidas C. Houk

After Thornburgh retired in 1878, Houk finally gained the Republican nomination for Congress, narrowly defeating Knoxville Chronicle editor William Rule, and was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress later that year.

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.

Morgan Ringland Wise

He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1874 to 1878, and was later elected as a Democrat to the 46th and 47th Congress.

Newton Nash Clements

Clements was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Burwell B. Lewis and served from December 8, 1880, to March 3, 1881.

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.

Olin Wellborn

Wellborn was elected as a Democratic Representative to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1887).

Orlando B. Potter

Potter was unsuccessful for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

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.

Public Land Commission

Recommendation of the Public Land Commission for Legislation as to Private Land Claims, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1880, House Executive Document 46.

Ray V. Pierce

Pierce was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1879, to September 18, 1880, when he resigned.

Richard Crowley

Crowley was elected as a Republican to the 46th and 47th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1883.

Richard W. Townshend

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

Robert Franklin Armfield

In 1878, Armfield was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served two terms, in the 46th and 47th United States Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883).

Robert M. A. Hawk

Hawk was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1882.

Thomas H. Herndon

Herndon was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mobile, Alabama, March 28, 1883, before the convening of the Forty-eighth Congress.

Thomas M. Gunter

He served as chairman of the Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Congresses).

Thomas R. Cobb

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mileage (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses).

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1880

The Democrats had gained complete control of Florida's congressional delegation in 1878, although the results of the election in the 2nd district were successfully challenged, so that a single Republican represented Florida in the House for the last two months of the 46th Congress.

Waldo Hutchins

Hutchins was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Smith.

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 George Thompson

Thompson won the special election, and served in most of the Forty-sixth Congress.

In April 1879, Thompson resigned as Chief Justice to run as a Republican to represent Iowa's fifth district in the Forty-sixth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rush Clark.

William H. Forney

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-sixth Congress).