MEMBERS OF THE PREDECESSOR COMMITTEES COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC RAILROADS 37th - 615 Congresses (1865-1911) Thirty-Seventh Congress (1861-1863) Majority: Republican Samuel R. Curtis, Iowa (August 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863) James H. Campbell, Pennsylvania Edwin H. Webster, Maryland John B. Alley, Massachusetts Richard Franchot, New York Francis P. Blair, Jr., Missouri Isaac N. Arnold, Illinois Samuel S. Cox, Ohio Andrew J. Thayer, Oregon On August 4, 1861, Samuel R. Curtis, lowa, resigned from the House of Representatives, and James H. Campbell, Pennsylvania, was appointed Chairman. On July 30, 1861, Andrew J. Thayer, Oregon, was excused from the Committee. On December 5, 1861, Aaron A. Sargent, California, was appointed to the Committee. On December 23, 1862, George K. Shiel, Oregon, was appointed to the Committee. On March 4, 1862, Samuel S. Cox, Ohio, was excused from the Committee and William A. Hall, Missouri, was appointed in his place. On July 30, 1862, Francis P. Blair, Jr., Missouri, was excused from the Committee. On December 8, 1862, Cyrus Aldrich, Minnesota, was appointed to the Committee in the place of Francis P. Blair, Jr., Missouri, resigned. Thirty-Eighth Congress (1863-1865) Majority: Republican Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania John B. Steele, New York A. Carter Wilder, Kansas Thirty-Ninth Congress (1865-1867) Majority: Republican Hiram Price, Iowa Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania John Bidwell, California Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota James H.D. Henderson, Oregon Oakes Ames, Massachusetts James Brooks, Ne York Benjamin F. Loan, Missouri Sidney Clarke, Kansas On April 7, 1866, James Brooks, New York, was excused from the Committee. On April 9, 1866, William Radford, New York, was appointed to the Committee. On Aptil 10, 1866, John A. Nicholson, Delaware, and Edwin Hubbell, New York, were appointed to the Committee. Fortieth Congress (1867-1869) Majority: Republican Hiram Price, Iowa William Higby, California John V.L. Pruyn, New York Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio Forty-First Congress (1869-1871) Majority: Republican John A. Logan, Illinois Daniel J. Morrell, Pennsylvania Philadelph Van Trump, Ohio Robert T. Van Horn, Missouri Daniel W. Voorhees, Indiana Benjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin Samuel B. Axtell, California James Buffington, Massachusetts Eugene M. Wilson, Minnesota John Lynch, Maine Francis W. Palmer, Iowa Logan H. Roots, Arkansas On October 16, 1869, Alfred E. Buck, Alabama, was appointed to the Committee. On December 16, 1869, William H. Barnum, Connecticut, and J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana, were appointed to the Committee. On January 1, 1870, Benjamin F. Hopkins, Wisconsin, died in office, On March 7, 1870, David Atwood, Wisconsin, was appointed to the Committee. On April 20, 1870, Philadelph VanTrump, Ohio, was excused from the Committee and Lawrence S. Trimble, Kentucky, was appointed in his place. Forty-Second Congress (1871-1873) Majority: Republican Willam A. Wheeler, New York James Buffington, Massachusetts Erastus Wells, Missouri John Lynch, Maine John F. McKenny, Ohio J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana Smith Ely, Jr., , New York John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania James C. Harper, North Carolina Henry D. McHenry, Kentucky Forty-Third Congress (1873-1875) Majority: Republican Philetus Sawyer, Wisconsin J. Hale Sypher, Louisiana Erastus Wells, Missouri John W. Killinger, Pennsylvania William H. Barnum, Connecticut Sherman O. Houghton, California Elisha D. Standiford, Kentucky Alvah Crocker, Massachusetts Thomas J. Creamer, New York William B. Williams, Michigan Lawence T. Neal, Ohio Forty-Fourth Congress (1875-1877) Majority: Democrat Lucius Q.C. Lamar, Mississippi John D. W. C. Atkins, Tennessee James A Garfield, Ohio Forty-Fifth Congress (1877-1879) Majority: Democrat Clarkson N. Potter, New York James W. Throckmorton, Texas (December 11, 1877 - March 3, 1879) James W. Throckmorton, Texas Charles O'Neill, Pennsyylvania William R. Morrison, Illinois Henry W. Blair, New Hampshire John F. House, Tennessee Lucien B. Caswell, Wisconsin John K Luttrell, California W.W. Rice, Massachusetts George M. Landers, Connecticut Nathan Cole, Missouri James R. Chalmers, Mississippi Joseph B. Elam, Louisiana On December 11, 1877, Clarkson N. Potter, New York was removed from the Committee and James W. Throckmorton, Texas was appointed Chairman of the Committee. Also on that date, Abram S. Hewitt, New York, was appointed to the Committee in the place of Clarkson N. Potter, New York. Forty-Sixth Congress (1879-1881) Majority: Democrat Robert M. McLane, Maryland J.R. Chalmers, Mississippi Alfred C. Harmer, Pennsylvania Archibald M. Bliss, New York James B. Belford, Colorado John B. Clarke, Jr., Missouri John S. Newberry, Michigan Henry L. Dickey, Ohio John M. Bailey, New York Benjamin Butterworth, Ohio |