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APPENDIX EIGHT STRENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF THE MAJOR PARTIES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1861-19O9 Year 1861-65 1865 -69 1869-77 1877-81 1881 1881-85 1885-89 1889-93 1893-97 1897-1901 1901-9 President (Party) A. Lincoln (R) A. Johnson (R) U. S. Grant (R) R. B. Hayes (R) J. A. Garfield (R) C. A. Arthur (R) G. Cleveland (D) B. Harrison(R) G. Cleveland (D) W. McKinley (R) T. Roosevelt (R) Cong. 37 38° 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 House Rep/Dem 105/43 102/75 149/42 143/49 49/63 134/104 194/92 169/109 40/153 130/149 47/135 118/197 140/183 152/169 66/159 88/235 127/218 244/105 204/113 185/163 97/151 208/178 250/136 222/164 Senate Rep/Dem 1/10 36/9 2/10 42/11 56/11 52/17 49/19 45/29 39/36 33/42 37/37 38/36 43/34 39/37 39/37 47/39 38/44 43/39 47/34 53/26 55/31 57/33 57/33 61/31 Source: Samuel Charles Patterson, Roger H. Davidson, and Randall B. Ripley, A More Perfect Union: Introduction to American Government (Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1989), app.C. a In this Congress, the majority party is marked as "Unionist Party." 302 ...

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