The first session of the 46th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between mid-March and the end of June, 1879

The Forty-sixth Congress of the United States was in session in Washington, D.C. Samuel J. Randall, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is in the Speaker's chair. The session sat for 106 days days, until July 1, 1879. (By John Osborne)
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The 46th Congress opens in Washington, DC

The Forty-sixth Congress of the United States opened in Washington, D.C. Of the 293 representatives in the House, 141 were Democrats, and 132 were  Republicans. Thirteen others sat as National Greenback Party members and seven others as Independent Democrats. On this opening day, Samuel J. Randall, Democrat of Pennsylvania and Speaker in the two previous Congresses, was once again elected Speaker of the House but in a close fought contest. (By John Osborne)
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The 39th Congress comes to the end of its term in Washington DC

Schuyler Colfax of Indiana gaveled the second "lame duck" House session of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States to a close on this day, bringing its two-year term to an end. The House had sat for a total of 328 days during these two years. Historically, the Fortieth Congress gathered for the first time in an "extra" early session on the following day in accordance with legislation of January 22, 1867 that sought to keep a unpopular president from dictating when a Congress may sit. There were early sessions in the following three congresses. Not until the Twentieth Amendment was ratified in January, 1933, would the schedule be set constitutionally. (By John Osborne)

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The second session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to early March.

The second "lame duck" session of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States was sitting in Washington, DC. with Schuyler Colfax of Indiana in the Speaker's chair. The session lasted until March 3, 1867. (By John Osborne)

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