The Fifty-second United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1891, to March 4, 1893, during the third and fourth years of Benjamin Harrison's presidency.
The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880. The Senate had a Republican majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.
Major events
Major legislation
- May 5, 1892: Geary Act
- February 13, 1893: Harter Act (Carriage of Goods by Sea), ch. 105, 27 Stat. 445 [13]
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.
Leadership
- President: Levi P. Morton (R)
- President pro tempore: Charles F. Manderson (R)
- Republican Conference Chairman: John Sherman
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: Arthur P. Gorman
- Speaker: Charles F. Crisp (D)
- Democratic Caucus Chairman: William S. Holman
- Republican Conference Chair: Thomas J. Henderson
- Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Roswell P. Flower
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Representatives are listed by district.
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Senators are listed by Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1892; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1894; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 1896.
Members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of this Congress.
- replacements: 7 Democratic: no net change Republican: no net change Liberal Republican: 1 seat net loss
- deaths: 4
- resignations: 5
- interim appointments: 1
- Total seats with changes: 10
- replacements: 15 Democratic: 1-seat net loss Republican: 1-seat net gain
- deaths: 10
- resignations: 8
- contested election: 1
- Total seats with changes: 18
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders, for members (House and Senate) of the committees and their assignments, go into the Official Congressional Directory at the bottom of the article and click on the link (4 links), in the directory after the pages of terms of service, you will see the committees of the Senate, House (Standing with Subcommittees, Select and Special) and Joint and after the committee pages, you will see the House/Senate committee assignments in the directory, on the committees section of the House and Senate in the Official Congressional Directory, the committee's members on the first row on the left side shows the chairman of the committee and on the right side shows the ranking member of the committee.
- Accounts
- Agriculture
- Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Select)
- Appropriations
- Banking and Currency
- Claims
- Coinage, Weights and Measures
- Commerce
- Disposition of Executive Papers
- District of Columbia
- Education
- Elections
- Enrolled Bills
- Expenditures in the Agriculture Department
- Expenditures in the Interior Department
- Expenditures in the Justice Department
- Expenditures in the Navy Department
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department
- Expenditures in the State Department
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department
- Expenditures in the War Department
- Expenditures on Public Buildings
- Foreign Affairs
- Indian Affairs
- Invalid Pensions
- Labor
- Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River
- Manufactures
- Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- Mileage
- Military Affairs
- Militia
- Mines and Mining
- Naval Affairs
- Pacific Railroads
- Patents
- Pensions
- Post Office and Post Roads
- Public Buildings and Grounds
- Public Lands
- Railways and Canals
- Revision of Laws
- Rivers and Harbors
- Rules
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories
- War Claims
- Ways and Means
- Whole
- Conditions of Indian Tribes (Special)
- Disposition of (Useless) Executive Papers
Caucuses
- Democratic (House)
- Democratic (Senate)
Employees
- Architect of the Capitol: Edward Clark
- Librarian of Congress: Ainsworth Rand Spofford
- Public Printer of the United States: Frank W. Palmer
- Chaplain: John G. Butler (Lutheran)
- Secretary: Anson G. McCook
- Sergeant at Arms: Edward K. Valentine
- Clerk: James Kerr
- Clerk at the Speaker's Table: Charles R. Crisp
- Chaplain: William H. Milburn (Methodist)
- Doorkeeper: Charles H. Turner
- Reading Clerks: [Data unknown/missing.]
- Postmaster: James W. Hathaway
- Sergeant at Arms: Samuel S. Yoder
See also
- United States elections, 1890 (elections leading to this Congress) United States Senate elections, 1890 United States House of Representatives elections, 1890
- United States elections, 1892 (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress) 1892 United States presidential election United States Senate elections, 1892 United States House of Representatives elections, 1892