Boldface (with superscript C) numbers indicate the majority Party in each house. Red (with superscript P) numbers (boldface or not) indicate the Party of the President in any event.
President | Party | Congress | United States Senate | House of Representatives | |||||
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Democrat | Republican | other | vacancies | Democrat | Republican | other | |||
Grant | Republican | 41st 1869-1871 | 9 | 56CP | 1 | 8 | |||
41ST CONGRESS- IN GENERAL 3 States- all former constituent States of the defunct Confederate States of America- remained totally "unreconstructed" as of the start of the 41st Congress [4 March 1869]; these were readmitted to representation in Congress- with the right to have 2 Senators and the numbers of Congressmen noted below seated in each respective house of that Congress- as follows:
as these 3 States were all readmitted to representation in Congress after the convening of the "long" session of the 41st Congress on 6 December 1869, the 6 Senators from these 3 States are NOT counted among those elected to the Senate of the 41st Congress; neither are the 17 Congressmen from these 3 States counted among those elected to the House of Representatives in that Congress. 41ST CONGRESS- SENATE The SENATE of the 41st Congress included 1 Senator from other than the two Major Parties as elected by his respective State Legislature, as follows:
The SENATE of the 41st Congress also included 8 vacancies: 6 from the 3 former Confederate States not yet readmitted to representation in the Senate as noted under "IN GENERAL" above, plus 2 from the State of GEORGIA: even though its 7 Congressmen were re-entitled to seats in the House through action taken in the preceding Congress, GEORGIA was not formally readmitted to full representation in Congress until 15 July 1870- after which date the State's 2 Senators were also re-entitled to be seated; as a result, the Senators from the State of GEORGIA are also NOT counted among those elected to the Senate of the 41st Congress. |
Modified .