41st United States Congress
House of Representatives
replacements: 14 Democratic: 3 seat net loss Republican: 3 seat net gain Conservative Party of Virginia: no net change deaths: 6 resignations: 6 contested election: 8 seats of newly re-admitted states: 17 Total seats with changes: 44

41st United States Congress

Section Title: House of Representatives
Table Section Text: replacements: 14 Democratic: 3 seat net loss Republican: 3 seat net gain Conservative Party of Virginia: no net change deaths: 6 resignations: 6 contested election: 8 seats of newly re-admitted states: 17 Total seats with changes: 44

District	Vacator	Reason for change	Successor	Date of successor's formal installation

South Carolina 3rd	Vacant	Contested election with J.P. Reed. Reed was never seated. House declared Hoge entitled to seat.	Solomon L. Hoge (R)	April 8, 1869

Wyoming Territory At-large	Vacant	Territory organized in previous congress and remained vacant until December 6, 1869	Stephen F. Nuckolls (D)	December 6, 1869

Virginia 2nd	Vacant	Virginia re-admitted into the Union	James H. Platt, Jr. (R)	January 26, 1870

Virginia 3rd	Charles H. Porter (R)

Virginia 4th	George Booker (C)

Virginia 5th	Robert Ridgway (C)	January 27, 1870

Virginia 6th	William Milnes, Jr. (C)

Virginia 8th	James K. Gibson (C)	January 28, 1870

Virginia 1st	Richard S. Ayer (R)	January 31, 1870

Virginia 7th	Lewis McKenzie (C)

Pennsylvania 21st	Vacant	Contested election with Henry D. Foster.	John Covode (R)	February 9, 1870

Mississippi 1st	Vacant	Mississippi re-admitted into the Union	George E. Harris (R)	February 23, 1870

Mississippi 2nd	Joseph L. Morphis (R)

Mississippi 3rd	Henry W. Barry (R)

Mississippi 5th	Legrand W. Perce (R)

Texas 1st	Vacant	Texas re-admitted into the Union	George W. Whitmore (R)	March 30, 1870

Texas 2nd	John C. Conner (D)	March 31, 1870

Texas 3rd	William T. Clark (R)

Texas 4th	Edward Degener (R)

Louisiana 4th	Vacant	Contested election with Michael Ryan. House declared neither was entitled to seat. Elected to seat thus caused	Joseph P. Newsham (R)	May 23, 1870

South Carolina 4th	Vacant	Contested election with William D. Simpson. Simpson was never seated. House declared Wallace entitled to seat.	Alexander S. Wallace (R)	May 27, 1870

Louisiana 1st	Vacant	Contested election with Louis St. Martin. House declared neither was entitled to seat. Elected to seat thus caused	J. Hale Sypher (R)	November 7, 1870

Georgia 1st	Vacant	Vacancy caused by House declaring Joseph W. Clift not entitled to seat	William W. Paine (D)	December 22, 1870

Georgia 2nd	Vacancy caused by House declaring Nelson Tift not entitled to seat	Richard H. Whiteley (R)

Georgia 3rd	Vacancy caused by House declaring William P. Edwards not entitled to seat	Marion Bethune (R)

Georgia 4th	Vacancy caused by House declaring Samuel F. Gove not entitled to seat	Jefferson F. Long (R)

Georgia 5th	Vacancy caused by House declaring Charles H. Prince not entitled to seat	Stephen A. Corker (D)

Georgia 6th	Failure to elect	William P. Price (D)

Georgia 7th	Vacancy caused by House declaring Pierce M. B.	Pierce M. B. Young (D)

Illinois 3rd	Elihu B. Washburne (R)	Resigned March 6, 1869, after being appointed United States Secretary of State	Horatio C. Burchard (R)	December 6, 1869

Massachusetts 7th	George S. Boutwell (R)	Resigned March 12, 1869, after being appointed United States Secretary of the Treasury	George M. Brooks (R)	November 2, 1869

Pennsylvania 3rd	John Moffet (D)	Lost contested election April 9, 1869	Leonard Myers (R)	April 9, 1869

Wisconsin 2nd	Benjamin F. Hopkins (R)	Died January 1, 1870	David Atwood (R)	February 23, 1870

Ohio 10th	Truman H. Hoag (D)	Died February 5, 1870	Erasmus D. Peck (R)	April 23, 1870

New York 11th	George W. Greene (D)	Lost contested election February 17, 1870	Charles Van Wyck (R)	February 17, 1870

South Carolina 1st	Benjamin F. Whittemore (R)	Resigned February 24, 1870, pending an investigation of certain appointments to the US Military and Naval Academies	Joseph Rainey (R)	December 12, 1870

Kentucky 3rd	Jacob Golladay (D)	Resigned February 28, 1870	Joseph H. Lewis (D)	May 10, 1870

North Carolina 4th	John T. Deweese (R)	Resigned February 28, 1870, pending an investigation of certain appointments to the US Military and Naval Academies	John Manning, Jr. (D)	December 7, 1870

Pennsylvania 5th	John R. Reading (D)	Lost contested election April 13, 1870	Caleb N. Taylor (R)	April 13, 1870

North Carolina 2nd	David Heaton (R)	Died June 25, 1870	Joseph Dixon (R)	December 5, 1870

New York 28th	Noah Davis (R)	Resigned July 15, 1870, before being appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York	Charles H. Holmes (R)	December 6, 1870

Iowa 2nd	William Smyth (R)	Died September 30, 1870	William P. Wolf (R)	December 6, 1870

Virginia 5th	Robert Ridgway (C)	Died October 16, 1870	Richard T. W. Duke (C)	November 8, 1870

Ohio 3rd	Robert C. Schenck (R)	Resigned January 5, 1871, after being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom	Vacant	Not filled this Congress

Pennsylvania 21st	John Covode (R)	Died January 11, 1871	Vacant	Not filled this Congress

Illinois At-large	John A. Logan (R)	Resigned at end of congress March 3, 1871, after being elected to the US Senate for the following term	Vacant	Not filled this Congress

Michigan 4th	Thomas W. Ferry (R)	Resigned at end of congress March 3, 1871, after being elected to the US Senate for the following term	Vacant	Not filled this Congress

Sentence(s)

Elihu B. Washburne (R) served as representative until March 6, 1869 which was later served by Horatio C. Burchard (R), from December 6, 1869 4.

final_sentence: Elihu B. Washburne (R) served as representative until March 6, 1869 which was later served by Horatio C. Burchard (R), from December 6, 1869 4.