Footnotes for the Sessions of the 50th Congress, 1887-1889
session
type
convened
adjourned
President pro Tempore of the Senate
Speaker of the House of Representatives
1st
long
5 December 1887
20 October 1888
Ingalls
Carlisle
2nd
short
3 December 1888
3 March 1889
Ingalls
Carlisle
Senate President pro Tempore John J. Ingalls served as acting President of the Senate during the entirety of the 50th Congress due to a vacancy in the Vice Presidency of the United States (Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks
having died in office during the preceding Congress).