54th Congress of the United States

The 54th Congress of the United States , consisting of the House and Senate , was the legislature of the United States . Its legislative period lasted from March 4, 1895 to March 4, 1897. All members of the House of Representatives and a third of the senators ( Class II ) were elected in the 1894 congressional elections. This resulted in a majority for the Republican Party in both chambers . The Democratic Party provided the president , Grover Cleveland . For the first time, the new state of Utah is represented in Congress with voting rights. The Congress met in the American capital Washington, DC The United States at that time consisted of 45 states. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1890 census .

Important events

See also 1895 1896 and 1897

• March 4, 1895: beginning of the legislative period of the 54th Congress
• May 27, 1895: The United States Supreme Court ruled that the federal government has the right to corrective inter-state trade
• September 3, 1895: The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe , Pennsylvania .
• November 5, 1895: George Baldwin Selden receives the first US patent on an automobile.
• January 4, 1896: Utah becomes the 45th state in the USA
• May 18, 1896: The Supreme Court confirms the current racial segregation in a judgment. See also Plessy v. Ferguson .
• May 26, 1896: 12 years after its inception, the Dow Jones Index becomes the exclusive index for stocks in industrial companies.
• May 27, 1896: A tornado destroys part of the city of St. Louis . There are more than 255 dead and 1,000 injured.
• November 3, 1896: US presidential and congressional elections. Republican William McKinley is elected as new president against Democrat William Jennings Bryan . (Appointed March 4, 1897). In the congressional elections, the Republicans win a majority in both houses.
• December 25th, 1896: John Philip Sousa composes his best known and in America most popular military march Stars and Stripes Forever .

The main laws

During the session of the 54th Congress, the following federal laws were passed ( see also: Legislative procedure ):

• May 21, 1896: Oil Pipe Line Act
• May 22, 1896: Condemned Cannon Act
• May 28, 1896: United States Commissioners Act
• June 1, 1896: Married Women's Rights Act
• June 6, 1896: Filled Cheese Act
• January 13, 1897: Stock Reservoir Act
• March 2, 1897: Tea Importation Act

Composition according to parties

senate

• Democratic Party: 40
• Republican Party: 44
• Others: 6
• Vacant: 0

Total: 90 (as of the end of the legislature, Utah is represented by two senators)

House of Representatives

• Democratic Party: 94
• Republican Party: 252
• Others: 10
• Vacant: 1

Total: 357 (status at the end of the legislative period)

There were also four congressional delegates who were not entitled to vote

Public officials

senate

• President of the Senate : Adlai Ewing Stevenson (D)
• President pro tempore : William P. Frye (R)

House of Representatives

• House Speaker : Thomas Brackett Reed (R)

Senate members

The following senators represented their respective states in the 54th Congress:

Alabama 2. John Tyler Morgan (D) 3. James L. Pugh (D) Arkansas 2. James Henderson Berry (D) 3. James Kimbrough Jones (D) California 1. Stephen M. White (D) 3. George Clement Perkins (R) Colorado 2. Edward O. Wolcott (R) 3. Henry Moore Teller (R) Connecticut 1. Joseph Roswell Hawley (R) 3. Orville H. Platt (R) Delaware 1. George Gray (D) 2. Richard R. Kenney (R) from January 19, 1897 Florida 1. Samuel Pasco (D) 3. Wilkinson Call (D) Georgia 2. Augustus Octavius ​​Bacon (D) 3. John Brown Gordon (D) Idaho 2. George Laird Shoup (R) 3. Fred Dubois (R) Illinois 2. Shelby Moore Cullom (R) 3. John M. Palmer (D) Indiana 1. David Turpie (D) 3. Daniel W. Voorhees (D) Iowa 2. John H. Gear (R) 3. William B. Allison (R) Kansas 2. Lucien Baker (R) 3. William A. Peffer (P = Populist Party ) Kentucky 2. William Lindsay (D) 3. Joseph Blackburn (D) Louisiana 2. Donelson Caffery (D) 3. Newton C. Blanchard (D) Maine 1. Eugene Hale (R) 2. William P. Frye (R) Maryland 1. Arthur Pue Gorman (D) 3. Charles Hopper Gibson (D) Massachusetts 1. Henry Cabot Lodge (R) 2. George Frisbie Hoar (R) Michigan 1. Julius C. Burrows (R) 2. James McMillan (R) Minnesota 1. Cushman Kellogg Davis (R) 2. Knute Nelson (R) Mississippi 1. James Z. George (D) 2. Edward C. Walthall (D) Missouri 1. Francis Cockrell (D) 3. George Graham Vest (D) Montana 1. Lee Mantle (R) 2. Thomas Henry Carter (R)

Nebraska 1. William V. Allen (P) 2. John Mellen Thurston (R) Nevada 1. William M. Stewart (S = Silver Republican Party) 3. John P. Jones (S) New Hampshire 2. William E. Chandler (R) 3. Jacob Harold Gallinger (R) New Jersey 1. James Smith (D) 2. William Joyce Sewell (R) new York 1. Edward Murphy (D) 3. David B. Hill (D) North Carolina 2. Marion Butler (P) 3. Jeter Connelly Pritchard (R) North Dakota 1. William N. Roach (D) 3. Henry C. Hansbrough (R) Ohio 1. John Sherman (R) 3. Calvin S. Brice (D) Oregon 2. George W. McBride (R) 3. John H. Mitchell (R) Pennsylvania 1. Matthew Quay (R) 3. James Donald Cameron (R) Rhode Island 1. Nelson W. Aldrich (R) 2. George P. Wetmore (R) South carolina 2. Benjamin Tillman (D) 3. John LM Irby (D) South Dakota 2. Richard F. Pettigrew (R) 3. James H. Kyle (P) Tennessee 1. William B. Bate (D) 2. Isham G. Harris (D) Texas 1. Roger Q. Mills (D) 2. Horace Chilton (D) Utah 1. Frank J. Cannon (R) from January 22, 1896 3. Arthur Brown (R) from January 22, 1896 Vermont 1. Redfield Proctor (R) 3. Justin Smith Morrill (R) Virginia 1. John W. Daniel (D) 2. Thomas S. Martin (D) Washington 1. John Lockwood Wilson (R) 3. Watson C. Squire (R) West Virginia 1. Charles James Faulkner (D) 2. Stephen Benton Elkins (R) Wisconsin 1. John L. Mitchell (D) 3. William Freeman Vilas (D) Wyoming 1. Clarence Don Clark (R) 2. Francis E. Warren (R)

Members of the House of Representatives

The following congressmen represented the interests of their respective states in the 54th Congress:

Alabama 9 constituencies 1. Richard Henry Clarke (D) 2. Jesse F. Stallings (D) 3. George Paul Harrison (D) 4. Gaston A. Robbins (D) until March 13, 1896 William F. Aldrich (R) from March 13, 1896 5. James E. Cobb (D) until April 21, 1896 Albert Taylor Goodwyn (P) from April 22, 1896 6. John H. Bankhead (D) 7. Milford W. Howard (P) 8. Joseph Wheeler (D) 9. Oscar Underwood (D) until June 9, 1896 Truman H. Aldrich (R) from June 9, 1896 Arkansas 6 constituencies. 1. Philip D. McCulloch (D) 2. John Sebastian Little (D) 3. Thomas Chipman McRae (D) 4. William L. Terry (D) 5. Hugh A. Dinsmore (D) 6. Robert Neill (D) California 7 constituencies. 1. John All Barham (R) 2. Grove L. Johnson (R) 3. Samuel G. Hilborn (R) 4. James G. Maguire (D) 5. Eugene F. Loud (R) 6. James McLachlan (R) 7. William W. Bowers (R) Colorado 2 constituencies 1. John F. Shafroth (R) 2. John Calhoun Bell (P) Connecticut 4 constituencies 1. E. Stevens Henry (R) 2. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R) 3. Charles A. Russell (R) 4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R) Delaware state-wide choice Jonathan S. Willis (R) Florida Two constituencies 1. Stephen M. Sparkman (D) 2. Charles Merian Cooper (D) Georgia 11 constituencies 1. Rufus E. Lester (D) 2. Benjamin E. Russell (D) 3. Charles Frederick Crisp (D) until October 23, 1896 Charles R. Crisp (D) from December 19, 1896 4. Charles L. Moses (D) 5. Leonidas F. Livingston (D) 6. Charles Lafayette Bartlett (D) 7. John W. Maddox (D) 8. Thomas G. Lawson (D) 9. Farish Carter Tate (D) 10. James CC Black (D) with one interruption between March 4 and October 2, 1895 11. Henry Gray Turner (D) Idaho state-wide election Edgar Wilson (R) Illinois 22 constituencies 1. J. Frank Aldrich (R) 2. William Lorimer (R) 3. Lawrence E. McGann (D) until December 27, 1895 Hugh R. Belknap (R) from December 27, 1895 4. Charles W. Woodman (R) 5. George E. White (R) 6. Edward D. Cooke (R) 7. George Edmund Foss (R) 8. Albert J. Hopkins (R) 9. Robert R. Hitt (R) 10. George W. Prince (R) 11. Walter Reeves (R) 12. Joseph Gurney Cannon (R) 13. Vespasian Warner (R) 14. Joseph V. Graff (R) 15. Benjamin F. Marsh (R) 16. Finis E. Downing (D) until June 5, 1896 John I. Rinaker (R) from June 5, 1896 17. James A. Connolly (R) 18. Frederick Remann (R) until July 14, 1895 William FL Hadley (R) from December 2, 1895 19. Benson Wood (R) 20. Orlando Burrell (R) 21. Everett J. Murphy (R) 22. George W. Smith (R) Indiana 13 constituencies 1. James A. Hemenway (R) 2. Alexander M. Hardy (R) 3. Robert J. Tracewell (R) 4. James Eli Watson (R) 5. Jesse Overstreet (R) 6. Henry U. Johnson (R) 7. Charles L. Henry (R) 8. George W. Faris (R) 9. Frank Hanly (R) 10. Jethro A. Hatch (R) 11. George Washington Steele (R) 12. Jacob D. Leighty (R) 13. Lemuel W. Royse (R) Iowa 11 constituencies 1. Samuel M. Clark (R) 2. George M. Curtis (R) 3. David B. Henderson (R) 4. Thomas Updegraff (R) 5. Robert G. Cousins (R) 6. John F. Lacey (R) 7. John AT Hull (R) 8. William Peters Hepburn (R) 9. Alva L. Hager (R) 10. Jonathan P. Dolliver (R) 11. George D. Perkins (R) Kansas 7 constituencies. In addition, a member was elected nationwide 1. Case Broderick (R) 2. Orrin Larrabee Miller (R) 3. Snyder S. Kirkpatrick (R) 4. Charles Curtis (R) 5. William A. Calderhead (R) 6. William Baker (P) 7. Chester I. Long (R) 8. Richard W. Blue (R) elected state-wide Kentucky 11 constituencies 1. John Kerr Hendrick (D) 2. John Daniel Clardy (D) 3. W. Godfrey Hunter (R) 4. John W. Lewis (R) 5. Walter Evans (R) 6. Albert S. Berry (D) 7. William C. Owens (D) 8. James B. McCreary (D) 9. Samuel Johnson Pugh (R) 10. Joseph M. Kendall (D) until February 18, 1897 Nathan T. Hopkins (R) from February 18, 1897 11. David Grant Colson (R) Louisiana 6 constituencies 1. Adolph Meyer (D) 2. Charles F. Buck (D) 3. Andrew Price (D) 4. Henry Warren Ogden (D) 5. Charles J. Boatner (D) with one interruption between March 20 and June 10, 1896 6. Samuel Matthews Robertson (D) Maine 4 constituencies 1. Thomas Brackett Reed (R) 2. Nelson Dingley (R) 3. Seth L. Milliken (R) 4. Charles A. Boutelle (R) Maryland 6 constituencies. 1. Joshua Weldon Miles (D) 2. William Benjamin Baker (R) 3. Harry Welles Rusk (D) 4. John Kissig Cowen (D) 5. Charles Edward Coffin (R) 6. George Wellington (R) Massachusetts 13 constituencies 1. Ashley B. Wright (R) 2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) 3. Joseph H. Walker (R) 4. Lewis D. Apsley (R) 5. William Shadrach Knox (R) 6. William Cogswell (R) until May 22, 1895 William H. Moody (R) from November 5, 1895 7. William Emerson Barrett (R) 8. Samuel W. McCall (R) 9. John F. Fitzgerald (D) 10. Harrison Henry Atwood (R) 11. William F. Draper (R) 12. Elijah A. Morse (R) 13. John Simpkins (R) Michigan 12 constituencies 1. John Blaisdell Corliss (R) 2. George Spalding (R) 3. Alfred Milnes (R) from December 2, 1895 4. Henry F. Thomas (R) 5. William Alden Smith (R) 6. David D. Aitken (R) 7. Horace G. Snover (R) 8. William S. Linton (R) 9. Roswell P. Bishop (R) 10. Rousseau Owen Crump (R) 11. John Avery (R) 12. Samuel M. Stephenson (R) Minnesota 7th constituencies 1. James Albertus Tawney (R) 2. James McCleary (R) 3. Joel Heatwole (R) 4. Andrew Kiefer (R) 5. Loren Fletcher (R) 6. Charles Arnette Towne (R) 7. Frank Eddy (R) Mississippi 7 constituencies 1. John Mills Allen (D) 2. John Curtis Kyle (D) 3. Thomas C. Catchings (D) 4. Hernando Money (D) 5. John Sharp Williams (D) 6. Walter M. Denny (D) 7. James G. Spencer (D) Missouri 15 constituencies 1. Charles Nelson Clark (R) 2. Uriel Sebree Hall (D) 3. Alexander Monroe Dockery (D) 4. George Calhoun Crowther (R) 5. John Charles Tarsney (D) until February 27, 1896 Robert T. Van Horn (R) from February 27, 1896 6. David A. De Armond (D) 7. John Plank Tracey (R) 8. Joel Douglas Hubbard (R) 9. William M. Treloar (R) 10. Richard Bartholdt (R) 11. Charles Frederick Joy (R) 12. Seth Wallace Cobb (D) 13. John Henry Raney (R) 14. Norman Adolphus Mozley (R) 15. Charles Germman Burton (R) Montana state-wide choice Charles S. Hartman (R)

Nebraska 6 constituencies 1. Jesse Burr Strode (R) 2. David Henry Mercer (R) 3. George de Rue Meiklejohn (R) 4. Eugene Jerome Hainer (R) 5. William E. Andrews (R) 6. Omer Madison Kem (P) Nevada state-wide election Francis G. Newlands (D) New Hampshire 2 electoral divisions 1. Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) 2. Henry Moore Baker (R) New Jersey 8 constituencies 1. Henry C. Loudenslager (R) 2. John J. Gardner (R) 3. Benjamin Franklin Howell (R) 4. Mahlon Pitney (R) 5. James F. Stewart (R) 6. Richard W. Parker (R) 7. Thomas McEwan (R) 8. Charles N. Fowler (R) New York 34 constituencies 1. Richard Cunningham McCormick (R) 2. Denis M. Hurley (R) 3. Francis H. Wilson (R) 4. Israel F. Fischer (R) 5. Charles G. Bennett (R) 6. James R. Howe (R) 7. Franklin Bartlett (D) 8. James J. Walsh (D) until June 2, 1896 John M. Mitchell (R) from June 2, 1896 9. Henry C. Miner (D) 10. Amos J. Cummings (D) from November 5, 1895 11. William Sulzer (D) 12. George B. McClellan Jr. D) 13. Richard C. Shannon (R) 14. Lemuel E. Quigg (R) 15. Philip B. Low (R) 16. Benjamin L. Fairchild (R) 17. Benjamin Barker Odell (R) 18. Jacob LeFever (R) 19. Frank S. Black (R) until January 7, 1897 thereafter the seat remained vacant 20. George N. Southwick (R) 21. David F. Wilber (R) 22. Newton Martin Curtis (R) 23. Wallace T. Foote (R) 24. Charles A. Chickering (R) 25. James S. Sherman (R) 26. George W. Ray (R) 27. Theodore L. Poole (R) 28. Sereno E. Payne (R) 29. Charles W. Gillet (R) 30. James Wolcott Wadsworth (R) 31. Henry C. Brewster (R) 32. Rowland B. Mahany (R) 33. Charles Daniels (R) 34.Warren B. Hooker (R) North Carolina 9 constituencies 1. Harry Skinner (P) 2. Frederick Augustus Woodard (D) 3. John G. Shaw (D) 4. William Franklin Strowd (P) 5. Thomas Settle (R) 6. James A. Lockhart (D) until June 5, 1896 Charles H. Martin (P) from June 5, 1896 7. Alonzo C. Shuford (P) 8. Romulus Zachariah Linney (R) 9. Richmond Pearson (R) North Dakota State Election Martin N. Johnson (R) Ohio 21 constituencies 1. Charles Phelps Taft (R) 2. Jacob H. Bromwell (R) 3. Paul J. Sorg (D) 4. Fernando C. Layton (D) 5. Francis B. De Witt (R) 6. George W. Hulick (R) 7. George W. Wilson (R) 8. Luther M. Strong (R) 9. James H. Southard (R) 10. Lucien J. Fenton (R) 11. Charles H. Grosvenor (R) 12. David K. Watson (R) 13. Stephen Ross Harris (R) 14. Winfield S. Kerr (R) 15. H. Clay Van Voorhis (R) 16. Lorenzo Danford (R) 17. Addison S. McClure (R) 18. Robert Walker Tayler (R) 19. Stephen A. Northway (R) 20. Clifton B. Beach (R) 21. Theodore E. Burton (R) Oregon 2 constituencies 1. Binger Hermann (R) 2. William R. Ellis (R) Pennsylvania 28 constituencies. In addition, two representatives were elected nationwide 1. Henry H. Bingham (R) 2. Robert Adams (R) 3. Frederick Halterman (R) 4. John E. Reyburn (R) 5. Alfred C. Harmer (R) 6. John Buchanan Robinson (R) 7. Irving Price Wanger (R) 8. Joseph Johnson Hart (D) 9. Constantine Jacob Erdman (D) 10. Marriott Henry Brosius (R) 11. Joseph A. Scranton (R) 12. John Leisenring (R) 13. Charles N. Brumm (R) 14. Ephraim Milton Woomer (R) 15. James Hodge Codding (R) from November 5, 1895 16. Fred Churchill Leonard (R) 17. Monroe Henry Kulp (R) 18. Thaddeus Maclay Mahon (R) 19. James Alonzo Stahle (R) 20. Josiah Duane Hicks (R) 21. Daniel Brodhead Heiner (R) 22. John Dalzell (R) 23. William A. Stone (R) 24. Ernest F. Acheson (R) 25. Thomas Wharton Phillips (R) 26. Matthew Griswold (R) 27. Charles Warren Stone (R) 28. William Carlile Arnold (R) 29. Galusha A. Grow (R) elected nationwide 30. George Franklin Huff (R) Rhode Island 2 electoral districts 1. Melville Bull (R) 2. Warren O. Arnold (R) South Carolina 7 constituencies. 1. William Elliott (D) until June 4, 1896 George W. Murray (R) from June 4, 1896 2. W. Jasper Talbert (D) 3. Asbury Latimer (D) 4. Stanyarne Wilson (D) 5. Thomas J. Strait (D) 6. John L. McLaurin (D) 7. J. William Stokes (D) With one interruption between June 1 and November 3, 1896 South Dakota State-wide election for both MPs John Pickler (R) Robert J. Gamble (R) Tennessee 10 constituencies 1. William Coleman Anderson (R) 2. Henry R. Gibson (R) 3. Foster V. Brown (R) 4. Benton McMillin (D) 5. James D. Richardson (D) 6. Joseph E. Washington (D) 7. Nicholas N. Cox (D) 8. John E. McCall (R) 9. James Calvin McDearmon (D) 10. Josiah Patterson (D) Texas 13 constituencies. 1. Joseph Chappell Hutcheson (D) 2. Samuel B. Cooper (D) 3. Charles Henderson Yoakum (D) 4. David B. Culberson (D) 5. Joseph Weldon Bailey (D) 6. Joseph Abbott (D) 7. George C. Pendleton (D) 8. Charles K. Bell (D) 9. Joseph D. Sayers (D) 10. Miles Crowley (D) 11. William H. Crain (D) until February 10, 1896 Rudolph Kleberg (D) from April 7, 1896 12. George H. Noonan (R) 13. Jeremiah V. Cockrell (D) Utah State Election Clarence Emir Allen (R) from January 4, 1896 Vermont 2 constituencies 1. H. Henry Powers (R) 2. William W. Grout (R) Virginia 10 constituencies 1. William Atkinson Jones (D) 2. David Gardiner Tyler (D) 3. Tazewell Ellett (D) 4. William Robertson McKenney (D) until May 2, 1896 Robert Taylor Thorp (R) from May 2, 1896 5. Claude A. Swanson (D) 6. Peter J. Otey (D) 7. Smith S. Turner (D) 8. Elisha E. Meredith (D) 9. James A. Walker (R) 10. Henry St. George Tucker III (D) Washington state wide election Samuel C. Hyde (R) William H. Doolittle (R) West Virginia 4 electoral divisions 1. Blackburn B. Dovener (R) 2. Alston G. Dayton (R) 3. James Hall Huling (R) 4. Warren Miller (R) Wisconsin 10 constituencies 1. Henry A. Cooper (R) 2. Edward Sour Herring (R) 3. Joseph W. Babcock (R) 4. Theobald Otjen (R) 5. Samuel S. Barney (R) 6. Samuel A. Cook (R) 7. Michael Griffin (R) 8. Edward S. Minor (R) 9. Alexander Stewart (R) 10. John J. Jenkins (R) Wyoming state-wide elections Franklin Wheeler Mondell (R)

Members of the House of Representatives who are not entitled to vote:

• Arizona Territory : Oakes Murphy (R)
• New Mexico Territory : Thomas B. Catron (R)
• Oklahoma Territory : Dennis Thomas Flynn (R)
• Utah Territory : Frank J. Cannon (R) through January 4, 1896

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