43rd United States Congress

Major events

• September 18, 1873: New York stock market crash triggered the Panic of 1873, part of the Long Depression
• November 4, 1874: United States House of Representatives elections, 1874 -Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860
• November 25, 1874: United States Greenback Party established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation#43rd United States Congress

• June 22, 1874: Revised Statutes of the United States
• June 23, 1874: Poland Act,
• January 14, 1875: Specie Payment Resumption Act ch. 15,
• March 1, 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875, (Butler-Sumner Act)
• March 3, 1875: Tariff of 1875
• March 3, 1875: Page Act of 1875,

Treaties

• March 18, 1874: Hawaii signed a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.

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

House of Representatives

Before this Congress, the 1870 United States census and resulting reapportionment changed the size of the House to 292 members.

Leadership

Senate

• President: Henry Wilson (R)
• President pro tempore: Matthew H. Carpenter (R)
  • Henry B. Anthony (R), elected January 25, 1875.

House of Representatives

• Speaker: James G. Blaine (R)
• Republican Conference Chairman: Horace Maynard
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: William E. Niblack

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class and Members of the House by district. :Skip to House of Representatives, below

Senate

Main article: List of United States senators in the 43rd Congress

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 ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1874; class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1876; and class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1878.

[[List of United States senators from Alabama|Alabama]]

: 2. George Goldthwaite (D) : 3. George E. Spencer (R)

[[List of United States senators from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: 2. Powell Clayton (R) : 3. Stephen W. Dorsey (R)

[[List of United States senators from California|California]]

: 1. Eugene Casserly (D), until November 29, 1873 :: John S. Hager (D), from December 23, 1873 : 3. Aaron A. Sargent (R)

[[List of United States senators from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: 1. William A. Buckingham (R), until February 5, 1875 :: William W. Eaton (D), from February 5, 1875 : 3. Orris S. Ferry (LR)

[[List of United States senators from Delaware|Delaware]]

: 1. Thomas F. Bayard Sr. (D) : 2. Eli Saulsbury (D)

[[List of United States senators from Florida|Florida]]

: 1. Abijah Gilbert (R) : 3. Simon B. Conover (R)

[[List of United States senators from Georgia|Georgia]]

: 2. Thomas M. Norwood (D) : 3. John B. Gordon (D)

[[List of United States senators from Illinois|Illinois]]

: 2. John A. Logan (R) : 3. Richard J. Oglesby (R)

[[List of United States senators from Indiana|Indiana]]

: 1. Daniel D. Pratt (R) : 3. Oliver H. P. T. Morton (R)

[[List of United States senators from Iowa|Iowa]]

: 2. George G. Wright (R) : 3. William B. Allison (R)

[[List of United States senators from Kansas|Kansas]]

: 2. Alexander Caldwell (R), until March 24, 1873 :: Robert Crozier (R), November 24, 1873 - February 12, 1874 :: James M. Harvey (R), from February 12, 1874 : 3. John J. Ingalls (R)

[[List of United States senators from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: 2. John W. Stevenson (D) : 3. Thomas C. McCreery (D)

[[List of United States senators from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: 2. J. Rodman West (R) : 3: vacant

[[List of United States senators from Maine|Maine]]

: 1. Hannibal Hamlin (R) : 2. Lot M. Morrill (R)

[[List of United States senators from Maryland|Maryland]]

: 1. William T. Hamilton (D) : 3. George R. Dennis (D)

[[List of United States senators from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: 1. Charles Sumner (LR), until March 11, 1874 :: William B. Washburn (R), from April 17, 1874 : 2. George S. Boutwell (R), from March 17, 1873

[[List of United States senators from Michigan|Michigan]]

: 1. Zachariah Chandler (R) : 2. Thomas W. Ferry (R)

[[List of United States senators from Minnesota|Minnesota]]

: 1. Alexander Ramsey (R) : 2. William Windom (R)

[[List of United States senators from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: 1. Adelbert Ames (R), until January 10, 1874 :: Henry R. Pease (R), from February 3, 1874 : 2. James L. Alcorn (R)

[[List of United States senators from Missouri|Missouri]]

: 1. Carl Schurz (R) : 3. Lewis V. Bogy (D)

[[List of United States senators from Nebraska|Nebraska]]

: 1. Thomas Tipton (R) : 2. Phineas Hitchcock (R)

[[List of United States senators from Nevada|Nevada]]

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

[[List of United States senators from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: 2. Aaron H. Cragin (R) : 3. Bainbridge Wadleigh (R)

[[List of United States senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: 1. John P. Stockton (D) : 2. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (R)

[[List of United States senators from New York|New York]]

: 1. Reuben E. Fenton (R) : 3. Roscoe Conkling (R)

[[List of United States senators from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: 2. Matt W. Ransom (D) : 3. Augustus S. Merrimon (D)

[[List of United States senators from Ohio|Ohio]]

: 1. Allen G. Thurman (D) : 3. John Sherman (R)

[[List of United States senators from Oregon|Oregon]]

: 2. James K. Kelly (D) : 3. John H. Mitchell (R)

[[List of United States senators from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: 1. John Scott (R) : 3. Simon Cameron (R)

[[List of United States senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: 1. William Sprague IV (R) : 2. Henry B. Anthony (R)

[[List of United States senators from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: 2. Thomas J. Robertson (R) : 3. John J. Patterson (R)

[[List of United States senators from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: 1. William G. Brownlow (R) : 2. Henry Cooper (D)

[[List of United States senators from Texas|Texas]]

: 1. James W. Flanagan (R) : 2. Morgan C. Hamilton (LR)

[[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]]

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

[[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]]

: 1. John F. Lewis (R) : 2. John W. Johnston (D)

[[List of United States senators from West Virginia|West Virginia]]

: 1. Arthur I. Boreman (R) : 2. Henry G. Davis (D)

[[List of United States senators from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: 1. Matthew H. Carpenter (R) : 3. Timothy O. Howe (R)

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House of Representatives

Main article: List of United States representatives in the 43rd Congress

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

[[List of United States representatives from Alabama|Alabama]]

: . Frederick G. Bromberg (LR) : . James T. Rapier (R) : . Charles Pelham (R) : . Charles Hays (R) : . John H. Caldwell (D) : . Joseph H. Sloss (D) : . Charles C. Sheats (R) : . Alexander White (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Arkansas|Arkansas]]

: . Asa Hodges (R) : . Oliver P. Snyder (R) : . William W. Wilshire (R), until June 16, 1874 :: Thomas M. Gunter (D), from June 16, 1874 : . William J. Hynes (LR)

[[List of United States representatives from California|California]]

: . Charles Clayton (R) : . Horace F. Page (R) : . John K. Luttrell (D) : . Sherman O. Houghton (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Connecticut|Connecticut]]

: . Joseph R. Hawley (R) : . Stephen W. Kellogg (R) : . Henry H. Starkweather (R) : . William H. Barnum (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Delaware|Delaware]]

: . James R. Lofland (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Florida|Florida]]

: . Josiah T. Walls (R) : . William J. Purman (R), until January 25, 1875

[[List of United States representatives from Georgia|Georgia]]

: . Morgan Rawls (D), until March 24, 1874 :: Andrew Sloan (R), from March 24, 1874 : . Richard H. Whiteley (R) : . Philip Cook (D) : . Henry R. Harris (D) : . James C. Freeman (R) : . James H. Blount (D) : . Pierce M. B. Young (D) : . Alexander H. Stephens (D), from December 1, 1873 : . Hiram P. Bell (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Illinois|Illinois]]

: . John B. Rice (R), until December 17, 1874 :: Bernard G. Caulfield (D), from February 1, 1875 : . Jasper D. Ward (R) : . Charles B. Farwell (R) : . Stephen A. Hurlbut (R) : . Horatio C. Burchard (R) : . John B. Hawley (R) : . Franklin Corwin (R) : . Greenbury L. Fort (R) : . Granville Barrere (R) : . William H. Ray (R) : . Robert M. Knapp (D) : . James C. Robinson (D) : . John McNulta (R) : . Joseph G. Cannon (R) : . John R. Eden (D) : . James S. Martin (R) : . William R. Morrison (D) : . Isaac Clements (R) : . Samuel S. Marshall (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Indiana|Indiana]]

: . William E. Niblack (D) : . Simeon K. Wolfe (D) : . William S. Holman (D) : . Jeremiah M. Wilson (R) : . John Coburn (R) : . Morton C. Hunter (R) : . Thomas J. Cason (R) : . James N. Tyner (R) : . John P. C. Shanks (R) : . Henry B. Sayler (R) : . Jasper Packard (R) : . Godlove S. Orth (R) : . William Williams (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Iowa|Iowa]]

: . George W. McCrary (R) : . Aylett R. Cotton (R) : . William G. Donnan (R) : . Henry O. Pratt (R) : . James Wilson (R) : . William Loughridge (R) : . John A. Kasson (R) : . James W. McDill (R) : . Jackson Orr (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Kansas|Kansas]]

: . Stephen A. Cobb (R) : . David P. Lowe (R) : . William A. Phillips (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Kentucky|Kentucky]]

: . Edward Crossland (D) : . John Y. Brown (D) : . Charles W. Milliken (D) : . William B. Read (D) : . Elisha D. Standiford (D) : . William E. Arthur (D) : . James B. Beck (D) : . Milton J. Durham (D) : . George M. Adams (D) : . John D. Young (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Louisiana|Louisiana]]

: . J. Hale Sypher (R), until March 3, 1875 :: Effingham Lawrence (D), from March 3, 1875 : . Lionel A. Sheldon (R) : . Chester B. Darrall (R) : . George L. Smith (R), from November 24, 1873 : . Frank Morey (R) : . George A. Sheridan (LR) from March 3, 1875

[[List of United States representatives from Maine|Maine]]

: . John H. Burleigh (R) : . William P. Frye (R) : . James G. Blaine (R) : . Samuel F. Hersey (R), until February 3, 1875 : . Eugene Hale (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Maryland|Maryland]]

: . Ephraim K. Wilson II (D) : . Stevenson Archer (D) : . William J. O'Brien (D) : . Thomas Swann (D) : . William Albert (R) : . Lloyd Lowndes Jr. (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]

: . James Buffington (R) : . Benjamin W. Harris (R) : . William Whiting (R), until June 29, 1873 :: Henry L. Pierce (R), from December 1, 1873 : . Samuel Hooper (R) : . Daniel W. Gooch (R) : . Benjamin F. Butler (R) : . Ebenezer R. Hoar (R) : . John M. S. Williams (R) : . George F. Hoar (R) : . Alvah Crocker (R), until December 26, 1874 :: Charles A. Stevens (R), from January 27, 1875 : . Henry L. Dawes (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Michigan|Michigan]]

: . Moses W. Field (R) : . Henry Waldron (R) : . George Willard (R) : . Julius C. Burrows (R) : . Wilder D. Foster (R), until September 20, 1873 :: William B. Williams (R), from December 1, 1873 : . Josiah Begole (R) : . Omar D. Conger (R) : . Nathan B. Bradley (R) : . Jay A. Hubbell (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Minnesota|Minnesota]]

: . Mark H. Dunnell (R) : . Horace B. Strait (R) : . John T. Averill (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Mississippi|Mississippi]]

: . Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D) : . Albert R. Howe (R) : . Henry W. Barry (R) : . Jason Niles (R) : . George C. McKee (R) : . John R. Lynch (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Missouri|Missouri]]

: . Edwin O. Stanard (R) : . Erastus Wells (D) : . William H. Stone (D) : . Robert A. Hatcher (D) : . Richard P. Bland (D) : . Harrison E. Havens (R) : . Thomas T. Crittenden (D) : . Abram Comingo (D) : . Isaac C. Parker (R) : . Ira B. Hyde (R) : . John B. Clark Jr. (D) : . John M. Glover (D) : . Aylett H. Buckner (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Nebraska|Nebraska]]

: . Lorenzo Crounse (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Nevada|Nevada]]

: . Charles W. Kendall (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]

: . William B. Small (R) : . Austin F. Pike (R) : . Hosea W. Parker (D)

[[List of United States representatives from New Jersey|New Jersey]]

: . John W. Hazelton (R) : . Samuel A. Dobbins (R) : . Amos Clark Jr. (R) : . Robert Hamilton (D) : . William W. Phelps (R) : . Marcus L. Ward (R) : . Isaac W. Scudder (R)

[[List of United States representatives from New York|New York]]

: . Henry J. Scudder (R) : . John G. Schumaker (D) : . Stewart L. Woodford (R), until July 1, 1874 :: Simeon B. Chittenden (IR), from November 3, 1874 : . Philip S. Crooke (R) : . William R. Roberts (D) : . James Brooks (D), until April 30, 1873 :: Samuel S. Cox (D), from November 4, 1873 : . Thomas J. Creamer (D) : . John D. Lawson (R) : . David B. Mellish (R), until May 23, 1874 :: Richard Schell (D), from December 7, 1874 : . Fernando Wood (D) : . Clarkson N. Potter (D) : . Charles St. John (R) : . John O. Whitehouse (D) : . David M. De Witt (D) : . Eli Perry (D) : . James S. Smart (R) : . Robert S. Hale (R) : . William A. Wheeler (R) : . Henry H. Hathorn (R) : . David Wilber (R) : . Clinton L. Merriam (R) : . Ellis H. Roberts (R) : . William E. Lansing (R) : . R. Holland Duell (R) : . Clinton D. MacDougall (R) : . William H. Lamport (R) : . Thomas C. Platt (R) : . H. Boardman Smith (R) : . Freeman Clarke (R) : . George G. Hoskins (R) : . Lyman K. Bass (R) : . Walter L. Sessions (R) : . Lyman Tremain (R)

[[List of United States representatives from North Carolina|North Carolina]]

: . Clinton L. Cobb (R) : . Charles R. Thomas (R) : . Alfred M. Waddell (D) : . William A. Smith (R) : . James M. Leach (D) : . Thomas S. Ashe (D) : . William M. Robbins (D) : . Robert B. Vance (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Ohio|Ohio]]

: . Milton Sayler (D) : . Henry B. Banning (LR) : . John Q. Smith (R) : . Lewis B. Gunckel (R) : . Charles N. Lamison (D) : . Isaac R. Sherwood (R) : . Lawrence T. Neal (D) : . William Lawrence (R) : . James W. Robinson (R) : . Charles Foster (R) : . Hezekiah S. Bundy (R) : . Hugh J. Jewett (D), until June 23, 1874 :: William E. Finck (D), from December 7, 1874 : . Milton I. Southard (D) : . John Berry (D) : . William P. Sprague (R) : . Lorenzo Danford (R) : . Laurin D. Woodworth (R) : . James Monroe (R) : . James A. Garfield (R) : . Richard C. Parsons (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Oregon|Oregon]]

: . Joseph G. Wilson (R), until July 2, 1873 :: James W. Nesmith (D), from December 1, 1873

[[List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]

: . Samuel J. Randall (D) : . Charles O'Neill (R) : . Leonard Myers (R) : . William D. Kelley (R) : . Alfred C. Harmer (R) : . James S. Biery (R) : . Washington Townsend (R) : . Hiester Clymer (D) : . A. Herr Smith (R) : . John W. Killinger (R) : . John B. Storm (D) : . Lazarus D. Shoemaker (R) : . James D. Strawbridge (R) : . John B. Packer (R) : . John A. Magee (D) : . John Cessna (R) : . R. Milton Speer (D) : . Sobieski Ross (R) : . Carlton B. Curtis (R) : . Hiram L. Richmond (R) : . Alexander W. Taylor (R) : . James S. Negley (R) : . Ebenezer McJunkin (R), until January 1, 1875 :: John M. Thompson (R), from January 5, 1875 : . William S. Moore (R) : . Charles Albright (R) : . Glenni W. Scofield (R) : . Lemuel Todd (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]

: . Benjamin T. Eames (R) : . James M. Pendleton (R)

[[List of United States representatives from South Carolina|South Carolina]]

: . Joseph Rainey (R) : . Alonzo J. Ransier (R) : . Robert B. Elliott (R), until November 1, 1874 :: Lewis C. Carpenter (R), from November 3, 1874 : . Alexander S. Wallace (R) : . Richard H. Cain (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|Tennessee]]

: . Roderick R. Butler (R) : . Jacob M. Thornburgh (R) : . William Crutchfield (R) : . John M. Bright (D) : . Horace Harrison (R) : . Washington C. Whitthorne (D) : . John D. C. Atkins (D) : . David A. Nunn (R) : . Barbour Lewis (R) : . Horace Maynard (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Texas|Texas]]

: . William S. Herndon (D) : . William P. McLean (D) : . De Witt C. Giddings (D) : . John Hancock (D) : . Roger Q. Mills (D) : . Asa H. Willie (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Vermont|Vermont]]

: . Charles W. Willard (R) : . Luke P. Poland (R) : . George W. Hendee (R)

[[List of United States representatives from Virginia|Virginia]]

: . James B. Sener (R) : . James H. Platt Jr. (R) : . J. Ambler Smith (R) : . William H. H. Stowell (R) : . Alexander Davis (D), until March 5, 1874 :: Christopher Thomas (R), from March 5, 1874 : . Thomas Whitehead (D) : . John T. Harris (D) : . Eppa Hunton, II (D) : . Rees Bowen (D)

[[List of United States representatives from West Virginia|West Virginia]]

: . John J. Davis (ID) : . John Hagans (R) : . Frank Hereford (D)

[[List of United States representatives from Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]

: . Charles G. Williams (R) : . Gerry W. Hazelton (R) : . J. Allen Barber (R) : . Alexander Mitchell (D) : . Charles A. Eldredge (D) : . Philetus Sawyer (R) : . Jeremiah M. Rusk (R) : . Alexander S. McDill (R)

Non-voting members

: . Richard C. McCormick (NU) : . Jerome B. Chaffee (R) : . Moses K. Armstrong (D) : . Norton P. Chipman (R) : . John Hailey (D) : . Martin Maginnis (D) : . Stephen B. Elkins (R) : . George Q. Cannon (R) : . Obadiah B. McFadden (D) : . William R. Steele (D)

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

• Replacements: 5
  • Democratic: 1 seat net gain
  • Republican: no net change
  • Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
• Deaths: 3
• Resignations: 3
• Interim appointments: 1
• Vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 7 Sorted chronologically by date of vacancy --

|- | Massachusetts (2) | Vacant | Henry Wilson resigned in previous congress after becoming Vice President of the United States. Successor elected March 17, 1873. | nowrap | George S. Boutwell (R) | March 17, 1873

|- | Mississippi (1) | nowrap | Adelbert Ames (R) | Resigned March 17, 1873, after being elected Governor of Mississippi. Successor elected February 3, 1874. | nowrap | Henry R. Pease (R) | February 3, 1874

|- | Kansas (2) | nowrap | Alexander Caldwell (R) | Resigned March 24, 1873. Successor appointed November 24, 1873. | nowrap | Robert Crozier (R) | November 24, 1873

|- | California (1) | nowrap | Eugene Casserly (D) | Resigned November 29, 1873. Successor elected December 23, 1873. | nowrap | John S. Hager (D) | December 23, 1873

|- | Kansas (2) | nowrap | Robert Crozier (R) | Interim appointee retired when successor elected February 2, 1874. | nowrap | James M. Harvey (R) | February 2, 1874

|- | Massachusetts (1) | nowrap | Charles Sumner (LR) | Died March 11, 1874. Successor elected April 17, 1874. | nowrap | William B. Washburn (R) | April 17, 1874

|- | Connecticut (1) | nowrap | William A. Buckingham (R) | Died February 5, 1875. Successor appointed February 5, 1875, having already been elected to the next tern. | nowrap | William W. Eaton (D) | February 5, 1875

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House of Representatives

• Replacements: 15
  • Democratic: 3 seat net gain
  • Republican: 4 seat net loss
  • Liberal Republican: 1 seat net gain
• Deaths: 8
• Resignations: 5
• Contested election: 4
• Total seats with changes: 19

Sorted chronologically by date of vacancy

|- | | Vacant | nowrap | George L. Smith (R)

| | Vacant | nowrap | Alexander H. Stephens (D)

| | nowrap | James Brooks (D) | nowrap | Samuel S. Cox (D)

| | nowrap | William Whiting (R) | nowrap | Henry L. Pierce (R)

| | nowrap | Joseph G. Wilson (R) | nowrap | James Nesmith (D)

| | nowrap | Wilder D. Foster (R) | nowrap | William B. Williams (R)

| | nowrap | Alexander Davis (D) | nowrap | Christopher Thomas (R)

| | nowrap | Morgan Rawls (D) | nowrap | Andrew Sloan (R)

| | nowrap | David B. Mellish (R) | nowrap | Richard Schell (D)

| | nowrap | William W. Wilshire (R) | nowrap | Thomas M. Gunter (D)

| | nowrap | Hugh J. Jewett (D) | nowrap | William E. Finck (D)

| | nowrap | Stewart L. Woodford (R) | nowrap | Simeon B. Chittenden (IR)

| | nowrap | Robert B. Elliott (R) | nowrap | Lewis C. Carpenter (R)

| | nowrap | John B. Rice (R) | nowrap | Bernard G. Caulfield (D)

| | nowrap | Alvah Crocker (R) | nowrap | Charles A. Stevens (R)

| | nowrap | Ebenezer McJunkin (R) | nowrap | John M. Thompson (R)

| | nowrap | William J. Purman (R) | Vacant

| | nowrap | Samuel F. Hersey (R) | Vacant

| | nowrap | J. Hale Sypher (R) | nowrap | Effingham Lawrence (D)

| | Vacant | nowrap | George A.Sheridan (R) | March 3, 1875 |}

Committees

Senate

• Agriculture (Chairman: Frederick T. Frelinghuysen; Ranking Member: George R. Dennis)
• Appropriations (Chairman: Lot M. Morrill; Ranking Member: William B. Allison)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Matthew H. Carpenter; Ranking Member: George R. Dennis)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: George G. Wright; Ranking Member: Timothy O. Howe)
• Claims (Chairman: John Scott; Ranking Member: George S. Boutwell)
• Commerce (Chairman: Zachariah Chandler; Ranking Member: George S. Boutwell)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: John F. Lewis; Ranking Member: John P. Jones)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: James W. Flanagan; Ranking Member: Oliver P. Morton)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Thomas F. Bayard; Ranking Member: Henry Cooper)
• Finance (Chairman: John Sherman; Ranking Member: Thomas W. Ferry)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Simon Cameron; Ranking Member: Roscoe Conkling)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: William A. Buckingham; Ranking Member: John J. Ingalls)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Edmunds; Ranking Member: George G. Wright)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Thomas J. Robertson; Ranking Member: Reuben E. Fenton)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John A. Logan; Ranking Member: Bainbridge Wadleigh)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin; Ranking Member: George Goldthwaite)
• Mississippi River Levee System (Select)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Aaron H. Cragin; Ranking Member: Simon B. Conover)
• Ordnance and War Ships (Select)
• Outrages in Southern States (Select)
• Patents (Chairman: Orris S. Ferry; Ranking Member: William T. Hamilton)
• Pensions (Chairman: Daniel D. Pratt; Ranking Member: Morgan C. Hamilton)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Alexander Ramsey; Ranking Member: John P. Jones)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Allen G. Thurman; Ranking Member: Thomas F. Bayard)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Oliver P. Morton; Ranking Member: John H. Mitchell)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member: John J. Patterson)
• Public Lands (Chairman: William Sprague; Ranking Member: Bainbridge Wadleigh)
• Railroads (Chairman: William M. Stewart; Ranking Member: Timothy O. Howe)
• Removal of Political Disabilities (Select)
• Retrenchment
• Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin; Ranking Member: James L. Alcorn)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: William G. Brownlow; Ranking Member: John W. Johnston)
• Rules (Select)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Territories (Chairman: Arthur I. Boreman; Ranking Member: John J. Patterson)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Select) (Chairman: William Windom; Ranking Member: John H. Mitchell)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: James Buffington; Ranking Member: Alexander S. Wallace)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Charles Hays; Ranking Member: Sobieski Ross)
• Appropriations (Chairman: James A. Garfield; Ranking Member: James N. Tyner)
• Alabama Affairs (Select)
• Arkansas Affairs (Select)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Horace Maynard; Ranking Member: Jay Abel Hubbell)
• Claims (Chairman: John B. Hawley; Ranking Member: Julius C. Burrows)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Samuel Hooper; Ranking Member: Horace B. Strait)
• Commerce (Chairman: William A. Wheeler; Ranking Member: Richard C. Parsons)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Alfred C. Harmer; Ranking Member: Charles Pelham)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: James Monroe; Ranking Member: Alexander S. McDill)
• Elections (Chairman: Horace B. Smith; Ranking Member: Horace H. Harrison)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: Jackson Orr; Ranking Member: James C. Robinson)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: James B. Sener; Ranking Member: Robert M. Speer)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Julius C. Burrows; Ranking Member: John A. Magee)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Henry W. Barry; Ranking Member: Pierce M. B. Young)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Jasper Packard; Ranking Member: William R. Morrison)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: J. Hale Sypher; Ranking Member: John G. Schumaker)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: William Williams; Ranking Member: John M. Bright)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: R. Holland Duell; Ranking Member: Henry O. Pratt)
• Freedmen's Affairs (Chairman: Clinton L. Cobb; Ranking Member: J. Allen Barber)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Godlove Stein Orth; Ranking Member: William J. Albert)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: John T. Averill; Ranking Member: John D. Lawson)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Jeremiah McLain Rusk; Ranking Member: William B. Small)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Benjamin F. Butler; Ranking Member: Alexander White)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Charles B. Farwell; Ranking Member: Laurin D. Woodworth)
• Mileage (Chairman: Hezekiah S. Bundy; Ranking Member: James W. Nesmith)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: John Coburn; Ranking Member: Clinton D. MacDougall)
• Militia (Chairman: Roderick R. Butler; Ranking Member: Josiah T. Walls)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: David P. Lowe; Ranking Member: Christopher C. Sheats)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Glenni W. Scofield; Ranking Member: John H. Burleigh)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: Philetus Sawyer; Ranking Member: James W. McDill)
• Patents (Chairman: Omar D. Conger; Ranking Member: Henry B. Sayler)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John B. Packer; Ranking Member: Stephen A. Cobb)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Jasper Packard; Ranking Member: James C. Freeman)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: James H. Platt Jr.; Ranking Member: Lloyd Lowndes Jr.)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: Harrison E. Havens; Ranking Member: Josiah W. Begole)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Washington Townsend; Ranking Member: William A. Phillips)
• Railways and Canals (Chairman: George W. McCrary; Ranking Member: Alexander W. Taylor)
• Reform on Civil Service (Chairman: Stephen W. Kellogg; Ranking Member: James D. Strawbridge)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: Luke P. Poland; Ranking Member: William S. Moore)
• Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1812 (Chairman: Lazarus D. Shoemaker; Ranking Member: William Crutchfield)
• Rules (Select) (Chairman: James G. Blaine; Ranking Member: Samuel S. Cox)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: George C. McKee; Ranking Member: Greenbury L. Fort)
• War Claims (Chairman: William Lawrence; Ranking Member: Abraham H. Smith)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Henry L. Dawes; Ranking Member: Lionel A. Sheldon)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Rep. Chester B. Darrall; Vice Chairman: Rep. Henry R. Harris)
• Inquire into the Affairs of the District of Columbia (Select) (Chairman: Rep. Jeremiah M. Wilson; Vice Chairman: Rep. Hugh J. Jewett)
• The Library (Chairman: Rep. William P. Frye; Vice Chairman: Rep. Hiester Clymer)
• Printing (Chairman: Rep. William G. Donnan; Vice Chairman: Rep. Alfred M. Waddell)

Caucuses

• Democratic (House)
• Democratic (Senate)

Employees

[[List of federal agencies in the United States#United States Congress|Legislative branch agency]] directors

• Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
• Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Senate

• Chaplain: John P. Newman (Methodist), until December 8, 1873
  • Byron Sunderland (Presbyterian), elected December 8, 1873
• Librarian: George S. Wagner
• Secretary: George C. Gorham
• Sergeant at Arms: John R. French

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: John G. Butler (Presbyterian)
• Clerk: Edward McPherson
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: John M. Barclay
• Doorkeeper: Otis S. Buxton
• Postmaster: Henry Sherwood, elected December 1, 1873
• Reading Clerks: Charles N. Clisbee (D) and William K. Mehaffey (R)
• Sergeant at Arms: Nehemiah G. Ordway

Notes

References