Principal Officers of the United States Government from Pennsylvania, from the First Continental Congress to the present time. Census. List of U. S. Senators from Pennsylvania since the Foundation of the Government. Isaac D. Barnard......1827-1831 | Abner Leacock Simon Cameron George Logan.. 1813-1819 ....1801-1807 1808-1814 1819-1825 1803-1808 1789-1791 1845-1849 1825-1831 1857-1861 1835-1839 J. Donald Cameron...1877-1879 Edgar Cowan George Mifflin Dallas, 1831-1833 1821-1827 William A. Wallace ..1875-1881 Albert Galiatin.. .1793-1794 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. The House of Representatives of the United States is composed of Members elected by districts, with a term of two years. The number apportioned to the State of Pennsylvania has varied at each decennial census, as shown by the following table: BY WHOM. WHEN APPOR TIONED. Penn'a Rep. Whole number. Ratio-one to. Speakers of the House of Representatives of the United States, from 1789 to 1876. First Congress-Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, April 1, 1789, and served to March 3, 1791. Second Congress.-Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut, elected Speaker, and served from October 24, 1791, to March 3, 1793. Third Congress-Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, of Pennsylvania, elected Speaker, and served from December 2, 1793, to March 3, 1795. Fourth and Fifth Congresses-Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 17.5, to March 3, 1799. Sixth Congress-Theodore Sedgwick, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from December 2, 1799, to March 3, 1801. Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses-Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1801, to March 3, 1807. Tenth and Eleventh Congresses-Joseph B. Varnum, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from October 2, 1807, to March 3, 1811. Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses-Henry Clay, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from November 4, 181, to March 3, 18.1. Seventeenth Congress-Philip P. Barbour. of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823. Eighteenth Congress - Henry Clay, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from December 1, 1823, to March 1, 1825. Nineteenth Congress-John W. Taylor, of New York, elected Speaker, and served from December 5, 1825, to March 3, 1827. Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses-Andrew Stephenson, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 3, 1827, to June 3, 1834: and John Bell, of Tennessee, elected on 4th June, to serve out balance of Twenty-third Congress, which ended March 3, 1835. Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses-James K. Polk, of Tennessee, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1835, to March 3, 1839. Twenty-sixth Congress-Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia. elected Speaker, and served from December 16, 189, to March 3, 1841. Twenty-seventh Congress-John White, of Kentucky.elected Speaker, and served from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843. Twenty-eighth Congress-John W. Jones, of Virginia, elected Speaker, and served from December 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845. Twenty-ninth Congress-John W. Davis, of Indiana, elected Speaker, and served from December 4, 1845, to March 3, 1847. Thirtieth Congress-Robert C. Winthrop, of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from December 16, 1347, to March 3, 1849. Thirty-first Congress-Howell Cobb, of Georgia, elected Speaker, and served from December 24, 1849, to March 3, 1851. Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses-Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from December 4. 1851, to March 3, 1855. Thirty-fourth Congress-Nathaniel P. Banks. junior, of Massachusetts. elected Speaker, and served from February 2. 1856, to March 3. 1857. Thirty-fifth Congress-James L. Orr, of South Carolina, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 185. Thirty-sixth Congress-William Pennington, of New Jersey, elected Speaker, and served from February 1, 1860, to March 3, 1851. Thirty-seventh Congress-Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, elected Speaker, and served from July 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863. Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses-Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1863, to March 2, 1869; and Theodore M. Pomeroy, of New York, elected March 2. to serve out balance of Fortieth Congress, which ended March 3, 186). Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses-James G. Blaine, of Maine, elected March 4: 1859; re-elected March 4, 1871, and March 3, 1873, and served to March 3, 1875. Forty-fourth Congress-Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, elected December 6, 1875, and died in office. 1876. Samuel J. Randall. of Pennsylvania, elected December 4, 1876, to serve out balance of Forty-fourth Congress. Forty-fifth Congress-Samuel J. Randall re-elected December, 1877, and served to |