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 | 42nd 1871-1873 | 15 | 56CP | 2 | 1 | |||
42ND CONGRESS- SENATE The SENATE of the 42nd Congress included 2 Senators from other than the two Major Parties as elected by their respective State Legislatures, as follows:
The SENATE of the 42nd Congress also included 1 vacancy from the State of NORTH CAROLINA in the Class 2 seat (term: 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1877) from that State: outgoing Senator Joseph C. Abbott, a Republican, and Zebulon B. Vance, a Democrat, each claimed to have been elected by the General Assembly of the State. The Senate took no action on this dispute before the convening of the "long" session of the 42nd Congress on 4 December 1871. Thomas M. Norwood, a Democrat, was elected by the General Assembly of the State of GEORGIA to the Class 2 seat (term of 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1877) from that State on 14 November 1871, before the convening of the "long" session of the 42nd Congress on 4 December 1871; Senator Norwood, therefore, is counted among the 15 Democrats elected to the Senate of the 42nd Congress, notwithstanding the existence of a vacancy at the start of that Congress [4 March 1871] due to a failure of the legislature to elect. |
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