the 37th Congress

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:legislation
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:the_38th_Congress
gptkbp:committee 48
Republican majority
gptkbp:election_year 1860
1862
gptkbp:events gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:governed_by 1861
gptkbp:historical_debate Reconstruction
Civil Rights
War Powers
gptkbp:historical_significance First Congress during the Civil War
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label the 37th Congress
gptkbp:key_issues gptkb:political_movement
Economic Policy
Military Funding
Secession
gptkbp:leadership gptkb:James_A._Bayard_Jr.
gptkb:Thaddeus_Stevens
gptkbp:legislation gptkb:Homestead_Act
gptkb:Pacific_Railway_Act
gptkb:National_Banking_Act
gptkbp:location gptkb:Washington,_D._C.
gptkbp:members 193
241
Republican majority
gptkbp:notable_members gptkb:Henry_J._Raymond
gptkb:James_G._Blaine
gptkb:Samuel_S._Cox
gptkb:Benjamin_F._Wade
gptkb:William_Henry_Seward
gptkb:Charles_Sumner
gptkb:John_C._Frémont
gptkb:George_W._Julian
gptkb:William_P._Fessenden
gptkb:Alexander_H._Stephens
gptkb:George_H._Pendleton
gptkb:Lyman_Trumbull
gptkb:John_A._Logan
gptkb:William_D._Kelley
gptkb:Samuel_J._Tilden
gptkb:Fernando_Wood
gptkb:James_M._Ashley
gptkb:Zachariah_Chandler
gptkb:Elihu_B._Washburne
gptkb:Charles_H._Van_Wyck
gptkb:John_A._Bingham
gptkb:Henry_Winter_Davis
gptkb:Thaddeus_Stevens
gptkbp:notable_performers gptkb:Galusha_A._Grow
gptkbp:opened 1863
gptkbp:preceded_by gptkb:36th_Congress
gptkbp:president gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln
gptkb:Benjamin_Wade
gptkbp:session 2
December 1862
December 1861
gptkbp:succeeded_by gptkb:38th_Congress