Speakers of House of Representatives of the United States, from 1789 to 1875.

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 Trumbel!, 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, 1795, 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 26, 1807, to March 3, 1811.

Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses-Henry Clay, of Kentucky, elected Speaker, and served from November 4, 1811, to March 3, 1821.

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 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, 1839, 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, 1847, 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, Jr., of Massachusetts, elected Speaker, and served from February 2, 1856, to March 3, 1857.

Thirty-fifth Congress-Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina, elected Speaker, and served from December 7, 1857, to March 3, 1859.

Thirty-sixth Congress-Wm. Ponnington, of New Jersey, elected Speaker, and served from February 1, 1860, to March 3, 1861.

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, 1869.

Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses-James G. Blaine, of Maine, elected March 4, 1869, re-elected March 4, 1871, and March 4, 1873.

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:

List of the Governors of the Colonies on the Delaware, of the Province and of the State.

DOMINION OF THE SWEDES, DUTCH AND ENGLISH.

UNDER THE SWEDES.

Peter Minuit

Peter Hollander.

John Printz .....

John Pappegoya, (Printz's son-in-law,).

Johan Claudius Rysingh.....

1633

1641

1643

1653

1654

[1657 to 1662, colony divided into city and company.]

[Re-captured by the Dutch, 1673.]

UNDER THE DUTCH.

Anthony Colve, Governor......

Peter Alricks, Deputy Governor

[Re-captured by the English, 1774.]

1664

1664

1667

1673

1673