45th United States Congress

Major events

• March 4, 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes became President of the United States

Major legislation

Main article: List of United States federal legislation#45th United States Congress

• February 28, 1878: Bland–Allison Act (Coinage Act (Silver Dollar)), Sess. 2, ch. 20,
• April 29, 1878: National Quarantine Act of 1878, Sess. 2, ch. 66,
• June 3, 1878: Timber and Stone Act, Sess. 2, ch. 151,
• June 18, 1878: Posse Comitatus Act, Sess. 2, ch. 263, §15,

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.

During this Congress, two Senate seats and one House seat were added for the new state, Colorado.

Senate

Republicans controlled the Senate through a VP-tie-breaking majority.

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate

• President: William A. Wheeler (R)
• President pro tempore: Thomas W. Ferry (R)
• Republican Conference Chairman: Henry B. Anthony
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: William A. Wallace

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Samuel J. Randall (D)
• Democratic Caucus Chairman: Hiester Clymer
• Republican Conference Chairman: Eugene Hale
• Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and representatives are listed by district.

Senate

Main article: List of United States senators in the 45th 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 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. :Skip to House of Representatives, below

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

: 2. John T. Morgan (D) : 3. George E. Spencer (R)

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

: 2. Augustus H. Garland (D) : 3. Stephen W. Dorsey (R)

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

: 1. Newton Booth (AM) : 3. Aaron A. Sargent (R)

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

: 2. Henry M. Teller (R) : 3. Jerome B. Chaffee (R)

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

: 1. William W. Eaton (D) : 3. William H. Barnum (D)

[[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. Charles W. Jones (D) : 3. Simon B. Conover (R)

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

: 2. Benjamin H. Hill (D) : 3. John B. Gordon (D)

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

: 2. David Davis (I) : 3. Richard J. Oglesby (R)

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

: 1. Joseph E. McDonald (D) : 3. Oliver H. P. T. Morton (R), until November 1, 1877 :: Daniel W. Voorhees (D), from November 6, 1877

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

: 2. Samuel J. Kirkwood (R) : 3. William B. Allison (R)

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

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

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

: 2. James B. Beck (D) : 3. Thomas C. McCreery (D)

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

: 2. William Pitt Kellogg (R) : 3. James B. Eustis (D)

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

: 1. Hannibal Hamlin (R) : 2. James G. Blaine (R)

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

: 1. William Pinkney Whyte (D) : 3. George R. Dennis (D)

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

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

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

: 1. Isaac P. Christiancy (R), until February 10, 1879 :: Zachariah Chandler (R), from February 22, 1879 : 2. Thomas W. Ferry (R)

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

: 1. Samuel J. R. McMillan (R) : 2. William Windom (R)

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

: 1. Blanche Bruce (R) : 2. Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D)

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

: 1. Francis Cockrell (D) : 3. Lewis V. Bogy (D), until September 20, 1877 :: David H. Armstrong (D), September 29, 1877 - January 26, 1879 :: James Shields (D), from January 27, 1879

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

: 1. Algernon Paddock (R) : 2. Alvin Saunders (R)

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

: 1. William Sharon (R) : 3. John P. Jones (R)

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

: 2. Edward H. Rollins (R) : 3. Bainbridge Wadleigh (R)

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

: 1. Theodore F. Randolph (D) : 2. John R. McPherson (D)

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

: 1. Francis Kernan (D) : 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), until March 8, 1877 :: Stanley Matthews (R), from March 21, 1877

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

: 2. La Fayette Grover (D) : 3. John H. Mitchell (R)

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

: 1. William A. Wallace (D) : 3. Simon Cameron (R), until March 12, 1877 :: J. Donald Cameron (R), from March 20, 1877

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

: 1. Ambrose Burnside (R) : 2. Henry B. Anthony (R)

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

: 2. Matthew C. Butler (D) : 3. John J. Patterson (R)

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

: 1. James E. Bailey (D) : 2. Isham G. Harris (D)

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

: 1. Samuel B. Maxey (D) : 2. Richard Coke (D)

[[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. Robert E. Withers (D) : 2. John W. Johnston (D)

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

: 1. Frank Hereford (D) : 2. Henry G. Davis (D)

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

: 1. Angus Cameron (R) : 3. Timothy O. Howe (R)

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House of Representatives

Main article: List of United States representatives in the 45th Congress

The names of representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

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

: . James T. Jones (D) : . Hilary A. Herbert (D) : . Jeremiah N. Williams (D) : . Charles M. Shelley (D) : . Robert F. Ligon (D) : . Goldsmith W. Hewitt (D) : . William H. Forney (D) : . William W. Garth (D)

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

: . Lucien C. Gause (D) : . William F. Slemons (D) : . Jordan E. Cravens (ID) : . Thomas M. Gunter (D)

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

: . Horace Davis (R) : . Horace F. Page (R) : . John K. Luttrell (D) : . Romualdo Pacheco (R), until February 7, 1878 :: Peter D. Wigginton (D), from February 7, 1878

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

: . James B. Belford (R), until December 13, 1877 :: Thomas M. Patterson (D), from December 13, 1877

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

: . George M. Landers (D) : . James Phelps (D) : . John T. Wait (R) : . Levi Warner (D)

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

: . James Williams (D)

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

: . Robert H. M. Davidson (D) : . Horatio Bisbee Jr. (R), until February 20, 1879 :: Jesse J. Finley (D), from February 20, 1879

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

: . Julian Hartridge (D), until January 8, 1879 :: William B. Fleming (D), from February 10, 1879 : . William E. Smith (D) : . Philip Cook (D) : . Henry R. Harris (D) : . Milton A. Candler (D) : . James H. Blount (D) : . William H. Felton (ID) : . Alexander H. Stephens (D) : . Hiram P. Bell (D), from March 13, 1877

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

: . William Aldrich (R) : . Carter H. Harrison (D) : . Lorenzo Brentano (R) : . William Lathrop (R) : . Horatio C. Burchard (R) : . Thomas J. Henderson (R) : . Philip C. Hayes (R) : . Greenbury L. Fort (R) : . Thomas A. Boyd (R) : . Benjamin F. Marsh (R) : . Robert M. Knapp (D) : . William M. Springer (D) : . Thomas F. Tipton (R) : . Joseph G. Cannon (R) : . John R. Eden (D) : . William A. J. Sparks (D) : . William R. Morrison (D) : . William Hartzell (D) : . Richard W. Townshend (D)

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

: . Benoni S. Fuller (D) : . Thomas R. Cobb (D) : . George A. Bicknell (D) : . Leonidas Sexton (R) : . Thomas M. Browne (R) : . Milton S. Robinson (R) : . John Hanna (R) : . Morton C. Hunter (R) : . Michael D. White (R) : . William H. Calkins (R) : . James L. Evans (R) : . Andrew H. Hamilton (D) : . John Baker (R)

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

: . Joseph C. Stone (R) : . Hiram Price (R) : . Theodore W. Burdick (R) : . Nathaniel C. Deering (R) : . Rush Clark (R) : . Ezekiel S. Sampson (R) : . Henry J. B. Cummings (R) : . William F. Sapp (R) : . S. Addison Oliver (R)

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

: . William A. Phillips (R) : . Dudley C. Haskell (R) : . Thomas Ryan (R)

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

: . Andrew Boone (D) : . James A. McKenzie (D) : . John William Caldwell (D) : . J. Proctor Knott (D) : . Albert S. Willis (D) : . John G. Carlisle (D) : . Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D) : . Milton J. Durham (D) : . Thomas Turner (D) : . John B. Clarke (D)

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

: . Randall L. Gibson (D) : . E. John Ellis (D) : . Chester B. Darrall (R), until February 20, 1878 :: Joseph H. Acklen (D), from February 20, 1878 : . Joseph B. Elam (D) : . John E. Leonard (R), until March 15, 1878 :: John S. Young (D), from November 5, 1878 : . Edward W. Robertson (D)

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

: . Thomas B. Reed (R) : . William P. Frye (R) : . Stephen D. Lindsey (R) : . Llewellyn Powers (R) : . Eugene Hale (R)

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

: . Daniel M. Henry (D) : . Charles B. Roberts (D) : . William Kimmel (D) : . Thomas Swann (D) : . Eli J. Henkle (D) : . William Walsh (D)

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

: . William W. Crapo (R) : . Benjamin W. Harris (R) : . Walbridge A. Field (R), until March 28, 1878 :: Benjamin Dean (D), from March 28, 1878 : . Leopold Morse (D) : . Nathaniel P. Banks (R) : . George B. Loring (R) : . Benjamin F. Butler (R) : . William Claflin (R) : . William W. Rice (R) : . Amasa Norcross (R) : . George D. Robinson (R)

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

: . Alpheus S. Williams (D), until December 21, 1878 : . Edwin Willits (R) : . Jonas H. McGowan (R) : . Edwin W. Keightley (R) : . John W. Stone (R) : . Mark S. Brewer (R) : . Omar D. Conger (R) : . Charles C. Ellsworth (R) : . Jay A. Hubbell (R)

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

: . Mark H. Dunnell (R) : . Horace B. Strait (R) : . Jacob H. Stewart (R)

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

: . Henry L. Muldrow (D) : . Vannoy H. Manning (D) : . Hernando Money (D) : . Otho R. Singleton (D) : . Charles E. Hooker (D) : . James R. Chalmers (D)

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

: . Anthony F. Ittner (R) : . Nathan Cole (R) : . Lyne S. Metcalfe (R) : . Robert A. Hatcher (D) : . Richard P. Bland (D) : . Charles H. Morgan (D) : . Thomas T. Crittenden (D) : . Benjamin J. Franklin (D) : . David Rea (D) : . Henry M. Pollard (R) : . John B. Clark Jr. (D) : . John M. Glover (D) : . Aylett H. Buckner (D)

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

: . Frank Welch (R), until September 4, 1878 :: Thomas J. Majors (R), from November 5, 1878

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

: . Thomas Wren (R)

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

: . Frank Jones (D) : . James F. Briggs (R) : . Henry W. Blair (R)

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

: . Clement H. Sinnickson (R) : . John H. Pugh (R) : . Miles Ross (D) : . Alvah A. Clark (D) : . Augustus W. Cutler (D) : . Thomas B. Peddie (R) : . Augustus A. Hardenbergh (D)

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

: . James W. Covert (D) : . William D. Veeder (D) : . Simeon B. Chittenden (R) : . Archibald M. Bliss (D) : . Nicholas Muller (D) : . Samuel S. Cox (D) : . Anthony Eickhoff (D) : . Anson G. McCook (R) : . Fernando Wood (D) : . Abram S. Hewitt (D) : . Benjamin A. Willis (D) : . Clarkson N. Potter (D) : . John H. Ketcham (R) : . George M. Beebe (D) : . Stephen L. Mayham (D) : . Terence J. Quinn (D), until June 18, 1878 :: John M. Bailey (R), from November 5, 1878 : . Martin I. Townsend (R) : . Andrew Williams (R) : . Amaziah B. James (R) : . John H. Starin (R) : . Solomon Bundy (R) : . George A. Bagley (R) : . William J. Bacon (R) : . William H. Baker (R) : . Frank Hiscock (R) : . John H. Camp (R) : . Elbridge G. Lapham (R) : . Jeremiah W. Dwight (R) : . John N. Hungerford (R) : . E. Kirke Hart (D) : . Charles B. Benedict (D) : . Daniel N. Lockwood (D) : . George W. Patterson (R)

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

: . Jesse J. Yeates (D) : . Curtis H. Brogden (R) : . Alfred M. Waddell (D) : . Joseph J. Davis (D) : . Alfred M. Scales (D) : . Walter L. Steele (D) : . William M. Robbins (D) : . Robert B. Vance (D)

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

: . Milton Sayler (D) : . Henry B. Banning (D) : . Mills Gardner (R) : . John A. McMahon (D) : . Americus V. Rice (D) : . Jacob D. Cox (R) : . Henry L. Dickey (D) : . J. Warren Keifer (R) : . John S. Jones (R) : . Charles Foster (R) : . Henry S. Neal (R) : . Thomas Ewing Jr. (D) : . Milton I. Southard (D) : . Ebenezer B. Finley (D) : . Nelson H. Van Vorhes (R) : . Lorenzo Danford (R) : . William McKinley (R) : . James Monroe (R) : . James A. Garfield (R) : . Amos Townsend (R)

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

: . Richard Williams (R)

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

: . Chapman Freeman (R) : . Charles O'Neill (R) : . Samuel J. Randall (D) : . William D. Kelley (R) : . Alfred C. Harmer (R) : . William Ward (R) : . I. Newton Evans (R) : . Hiester Clymer (D) : . A. Herr Smith (R) : . Samuel A. Bridges (D) : . Francis D. Collins (D) : . Hendrick B. Wright (D) : . James B. Reilly (D) : . John W. Killinger (R) : . Edward Overton Jr. (R) : . John I. Mitchell (R) : . Jacob M. Campbell (R) : . William Stenger (D) : . Levi Maish (D) : . Levi A. Mackey (D) : . Jacob Turney (D) : . Russell Errett (R) : . Thomas M. Bayne (R) : . William S. Shallenberger (R) : . Harry White (R) : . John M. Thompson (R) : . Lewis F. Watson (R)

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

: . Benjamin T. Eames (R) : . Latimer W. Ballou (R)

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

: . Joseph Rainey (R) : . Richard H. Cain (R) : . D. Wyatt Aiken (D) : . John H. Evins (D) : . Robert Smalls (R)

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

: . James H. Randolph (R) : . Jacob M. Thornburgh (R) : . George G. Dibrell (D) : . Haywood Y. Riddle (D) : . John M. Bright (D) : . John F. House (D) : . Washington C. Whitthorne (D) : . John D. C. Atkins (D) : . William P. Caldwell (D) : . H. Casey Young (D)

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

: . John H. Reagan (D) : . David B. Culberson (D) : . James W. Throckmorton (D) : . Roger Q. Mills (D) : . Dewitt C. Giddings (D) : . Gustave Schleicher (D), until January 10, 1879

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

: . Charles H. Joyce (R) : . Dudley C. Denison (R) : . George W. Hendee (R)

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

: . Beverly B. Douglas (D), until December 22, 1878 :: Richard Lee T. Beale (D), from January 23, 1879 : . John Goode Jr. (D) : . Gilbert C. Walker (D) : . Joseph Jorgensen (R) : . George Cabell (D) : . John R. Tucker (D) : . John T. Harris (D) : . Eppa Hutton, II (D) : . Auburn Pridemore (D)

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

: . Benjamin Wilson (D) : . Benjamin F. Martin (D) : . John E. Kenna (D)

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

: . Charles G. Williams (R) : . Lucien B. Caswell (R) : . George C. Hazelton (R) : . William P. Lynde (D) : . Edward S. Bragg (D) : . Gabriel Bouck (D) : . Herman L. Humphrey (R) : . Thaddeus C. Pound (R)

Non-voting members

: . Hiram S. Stevens (D) : . Jefferson P. Kidder (R) : . Stephen S. Fenn (D) : . Martin Maginnis (D) : . Trinidad Romero (R) : . George Q. Cannon (R) : . Orange Jacobs (R) : . William W. Corlett (R)

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: 1 seat net loss
• Deaths: 2
• Resignations: 3
• Interim appointments: 1
• Contested elections: 0
• Total seats with changes: 5

Sorted chronologically by date of vacancy

|- | Ohio (3) | nowrap | John Sherman (R) | Resigned March 8, 1877 to become U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Successor elected March 21, 1877. | nowrap | Stanley Matthews (R) | March 21, 1877

|- | Pennsylvania (3) | nowrap | Simon Cameron (R) | Resigned March 12, 1877. Successor elected March 20, 1877. | nowrap | J. Donald Cameron (R) | March 20, 1877

|- | Missouri (3) | nowrap | Lewis V. Bogy (D) | Died September 20, 1877. Successor was appointed September 29, 1877, to continue the term. | nowrap | David H. Armstrong (D) | September 29, 1877

|- | Indiana (3) | nowrap | Oliver P. Morton (R) | Died November 1, 1877. Successor elected January 31, 1879. | nowrap | Daniel W. Voorhees (D) | November 6, 1877

|- | Missouri (3) | nowrap | David H. Armstrong (D) | Interim appointee retired. Successor elected January 26, 1879. | nowrap | James Shields (D) | January 27, 1879

|- | Michigan (1) | nowrap | Isaac P. Christiancy (R) | Resigned February 10, 1879 due to ill health. Successor elected February 22, 1879. | nowrap | Zachariah Chandler (R) | February 22, 1879

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House of Representatives

• Replacements: 10
  • Democratic: 5 seat net gain
  • Republican: 5 seat net loss
• Deaths: 7
• Resignations: 1
• Contested election: 5
• Total seats with changes: 13

Sorted chronologically by date of vacancy

|- | | Vacant | Rep. Benjamin Harvey Hill resigned in previous congress | nowrap | Hiram P. Bell (D)

| | nowrap | James B. Belford (R) | Lost contested election December 13, 1877 | nowrap | Thomas M. Patterson (D)

| | nowrap | Romualdo Pacheco (R) | Lost contested election February 7, 1878 | nowrap | Peter D. Wigginton (D)

| | nowrap | Chester B. Darrall (R) | Lost contested election February 20, 1878 | nowrap | Joseph H. Acklen (D)

| | nowrap | John E. Leonard (R) | Died March 15, 1878 | nowrap | J. Smith Young (D)

| | nowrap | Walbridge A. Field (R) | Lost contested election March 28, 1878 | nowrap | Benjamin Dean (D)

| | nowrap | Terence J. Quinn (D) | Died June 18, 1878 | nowrap | John M. Bailey (R)

| | nowrap | Frank Welch (R) | nowrap | Thomas J. Majors (R)

| | nowrap | Alpheus S. Williams (D) | Died December 21, 1878 | Vacant

| | nowrap | Beverly B. Douglas (D) | Died December 22, 1878 | nowrap | Richard L. T. Beale (D)

| | nowrap | Julian Hartridge (D) | Died January 8, 1879 | nowrap | William B. Fleming (D)

| | nowrap | Gustav Schleicher (D) | Died January 10, 1879 | Vacant

| | nowrap | Horatio Bisbee Jr. (R) | Lost contested election February 20, 1879 | nowrap | Jesse J. Finley (D) | February 20, 1879 |}

Committees

Senate

• Agriculture (Chairman: Algernon S. Paddock; Ranking Member: Henry G. Davis)
• Appropriations (Chairman: William Windom; Ranking Member: Henry G. Davis)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: John P. Jones; Ranking Member: George R. Dennis)
• Civil Service and Retrenchment (Chairman: Henry M. Teller; Ranking Member: Thomas C. McCreery)
• Claims (Chairman: Samuel J. R. McMillan; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
• Commerce (Chairman: Roscoe Conkling; Ranking Member: John B. Gordon)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Stephen W. Dorsey; Ranking Member: Augustus S. Merrimon)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: Ambrose E. Burnside; Ranking Member: John B. Gordon)
• Elections of 1878 (Select)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Thomas F. Bayard; Ranking Member: Henry B. Anthony)
• Epidemic Diseases (Select)
• Examine the Several Branches in the Civil Service (Select) (Chairman: Jerome B. Chaffee; Ranking Member: Augustus S. Merrimon)
• Finance (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member: Thomas F. Bayard)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Hannibal Hamlin; Ranking Member: Thomas C. McCreery)
• Hot Springs (Arkansas) Commission (Special)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: William B. Allison; Ranking Member: Thomas C. McCreery)
• Judiciary (Chairman: George F. Edmunds; Ranking Member: David Davis)
• Late Presidential Election Louisiana
• Manufactures (Chairman: Edward H. Rollins; Ranking Member: John W. Johnston)
• Mexican Relations (Select)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: George E. Spencer; Ranking Member: Theodore F. Randolph)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: William Sharon; Ranking Member: Frank Hereford)
• Mississippi River Levee System (Select) (Chairman: Blanche Bruce; Ranking Member: Francis M. Cockrell)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Aaron A. Sargent; Ranking Member: William P. Whyte)
• Ordnance and War Ships (Select)
• Patents (Chairman: Newton Booth; Ranking Member: Francis Kernan)
• Pensions (Chairman: John J. Ingalls; Ranking Member: Robert E. Withers)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Thomas W. Ferry; Ranking Member: Ambrose E. Burnside)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Allen G. Thurman; Ranking Member: Isaac P. Christiancy)
• Privileges and Elections (Chairman: Bainbridge Wadleigh; Ranking Member: John J. Ingalls)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Richard J. Oglesby; Ranking Member: Joseph E. McDonald)
• Railroads (Chairman: John H. Mitchell; Ranking Member: Stanley Matthews)
• Revision of the Laws (Chairman: Isaac P. Christiancy; Ranking Member: William A. Wallace)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: John W. Johnston; Ranking Member: Henry L. Dawes)
• Rules (Chairman: James G. Blaine; Ranking Member: Augustus S. Merrimon)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Tenth Census (Select) (Chairman: Justin S. Morrill; Ranking Member: N/A)
• Territories (Chairman: John J. Patterson; Ranking Member: Augustus H. Garland)
• Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Select) (Chairman: Angus Cameron; Ranking Member: N/A)
• Treasury Department Account Discrepancies (Select) (Chairman: Henry G. Davis; Ranking Member: John J. Ingalls)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Charles B. Roberts; Ranking Member: Henry W. Blair)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Augustus W. Cutler; Ranking Member: Walter L. Steele)
• Appropriations (Chairman: John DeWitt Clinton Atkins; Ranking Member: Eugene Hale)
• Banking and Currency (Chairman: Aylett H. Buckner; Ranking Member: Elizur K. Hart)
• Claims (Chairman: John M. Bright; Ranking Member: Daniel N. Lockwood)
• Coinage, Weights and Measures (Chairman: Alexander H. Stephens; Ranking Member: John B. Clarke)
• Commerce (Chairman: John H. Reagan; Ranking Member: John E. Kenna)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Alpheus S. Williams then Joseph C.S. Blackburn; Ranking Member: Gabriel Bouck)
• Education and Labor (Chairman: John Goode; Ranking Member: Van H. Manning)
• Elections (Chairman: John T. Harris; Ranking Member: E. John Ellis)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Andrew H. Hamilton; Ranking Member: Nelson H. Van Vorhes)
• Expenditures in the Interior Department (Chairman: William A.J. Sparks; Ranking Member: Edwin Willits)
• Expenditures in the Justice Department (Chairman: Edward S. Bragg; Ranking Member: Nicholas Muller)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Benjamin A. Willis; Ranking Member: Jay A. Hubbell)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Jeremiah N. Williams; Ranking Member: Curtis H. Brogden)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: William M. Springer; Ranking Member: Thomas M. Bayne)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: John M. Glover; Ranking Member: Henry L. Dickey)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Joseph C. S. Blackburn; Ranking Member: Benjamin T. Eames)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: William P. Lynde; Ranking Member: William S. Stenger)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Swann; Ranking Member: Benjamin Wilson)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Alfred M. Scales; Ranking Member: George M. Beebe)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Americus V. Rice; Ranking Member: Clement H. Sinnickson)
• Judiciary (Chairman: J. Proctor Knott; Ranking Member: David B. Culberson)
• Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
• Manufactures (Chairman: Hendrick B. Wright; Ranking Member: Robert F. Ligon)
• Mileage (Chairman: Thomas R. Cobb; Ranking Member: Lorenzo Danford)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Henry B. Banning; Ranking Member: Edward S. Bragg)
• Militia (Chairman: Miles Ross; Ranking Member: Thomas Turner)
• Mines and Mining (Chairman: George M. Beebe; Ranking Member: James T. Jones)
• Mississippi Levees (Chairman: Edward W. Robertson; Ranking Member: Benjamin F. Martin)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Washington C. Whitthorne; Ranking Member: Benjamin W. Harris)
• Pacific Railroads (Chairman: James W. Throckmorton; Ranking Member: Charles O'Neill)
• Patents (Chairman: Robert B. Vance; Ranking Member: Augustus W. Cutler)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Alfred M. Waddell; Ranking Member: Terence J. Quinn then Joseph G. Cannon)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Thomas M. Gunter; Ranking Member: Dudley C. Denison)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Philip Cook; Ranking Member: James A. McKenzie)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: Robert A. Hatcher; Ranking Member: Robert H.M. Davidson)
• Public Lands (Chairman: William R. Morrison; Ranking Member: William E. Smith)
• Railways and Canals (Chairman: George C. Cabell; Ranking Member: Alvah A. Clark)
• Revision of Laws (Chairman: William Walsh; Ranking Member: Walbridge A. Field)
• Rules (Select) (Chairman: Samuel J. Randall; Ranking Member: James A. Garfield)
• Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: Levi A. Mackey; Ranking Member: William Kimmel)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Benjamin J. Franklin; Ranking Member: George A. Bagley)
• War Claims (Chairman: John R. Eden; Ranking Member: S. Addison Oliver)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Fernando Wood; Ranking Member: William D. Kelley)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Rep. Andrew H. Hamilton; Vice Chairman: Rep. Nelson H. Van Vorhes)
• The Library (Chairman: Rep. Samuel S. Cox; Vice Chairman: Rep. Eugene Hale)
• Printing (Chairman: Rep. Otho R. Singleton; Vice Chairman: Rep. Latimer W. Ballou)
• Reorganization of the Army
• Transfer of the Indian Bureau

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
• Public Printer of the United States: John D. Defrees

Senate

• Chaplain: Byron Sunderland (Presbyterian)
• Librarian: George F. Dawson
• Secretary: George C. Gorham
• Sergeant at Arms: John R. French

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: I.L. Townsend (Episcopalian), until October 15, 1877
  • John Poise (Methodist), until December 3, 1877
  • W. P. Harrison (Methodist), elected December 3, 1877
• Clerk: George M. Adams
• Clerk at the Speaker’s Table: William H. Scudder
  • J. Randolph Tucker Jr.
• Doorkeeper: John W. Polk, elected October 17, 1877
  • Charles W. Field, elected April 8, 1878
• Postmaster: James M. Steuart
• Reading Clerks: Thomas S. Pettit (D) and Neill S. Brown Jr. (R)
• Sergeant at Arms: John G. Thompson

Notes

References

References

1. "Congress Profiles: 45th Congress (1877–1879)". [[Clerk of the United States House of Representatives]].