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Republican Presidents who enjoyed a Republican majority or plurality in both the House and the Senate.
President Years
and Congress House
of Representatives (1st
number is Republican, second is Democrat and third is "Other
parties.") Senate (1st
number is Republican, second is Democrat and third is "Other
parties.") Lincoln* 1861-1863 37th
Congress 108-44-31 31-15-3 (1 vacant
seat) Lincoln
* 1863-1865 38th
Congress 85-72-27 33-10-9 Lincoln/A. Johnson*
(Andrew Johnson was not a Republican) 1865-1867 39th
Congress 136-38-9 39-11-4 Grant** 1869-1871 41st
Congress 171-67-5 62-12 Grant** 1871-1873 42nd
Congress 136-104-3 56-17-1 Grant** 1873-1875 43rd
Congress 199-88-5 47-19-7 (1
vacant) Grant** 1875-1877 44th
Congress 182-103-8 46-28-1 (1
vacant) Garfield/Arthur 1881-1883 47th
Congress 151-128-14 37-37-2 (The Republican
Vice-President acted as a tiebreaker in a Senate
vote.) B. Harrison 1889-1891 51st
Congress 179-152-1 51-37 McKinley 1897-1899 55th
Congress 206-124-27 44-34-12 McKinley 1899-1901 56th
Congress 187-161-9 53-26-10 (1
vacant) McKinley/ T.
Roosevelt 1901-1903 57th
Congress 200-151-6 56-32-2 T. Roosevelt 1903-1905 58th
Congress 297-176-8 57-33 T. Roosevelt 1905-1907 59th
Congress 215-135 58-32 T. Roosevelt 1907-1909 60th
Congress 223-167-1 61-31 Taft 1909-1911 61st
Congress 219-172 60-32 Harding 1921-1923 67th
Congress 302-131-2 59-37 Harding/Coolidge 1923-1925 68th
Congress 225-207-3 53-42-1 Coolidge 1925-1927 69th
Congress 247-183-5 54-41-1 Coolidge 1927-1929 70th
Congress 238-194-3 48-46-1 (1
vacant) Hoover 1929-1931 71st
Congress 270-164-1 56-39-1 Eisenhower 1953-1955 83rd
Congress 221-213-1 48-47-1 G.W. Bush 2001 107th
Congress 50-50 (Republican
Vice-President Dick Cheney acted as a tiebreaker in a Senate
vote.)
* Note: After the southern states
seceded from the USA in 1860 and 1861, most of their Representatives
and Senators left the U.S. Congress and formed the Confederate
Congress. Most of them were Democrats, so the numbers of Republicans
and Democrats in the U.S. Congress is skewed by the absence of those
southern Democrats.
**Note: During the Grant Administration, the Southern states slowly re-applied for admission to the Union. The period from the end of the Civil War to the point at which all southern states were re-admitted to the Union is called "Reconstruction." During this time, the U. S. Army basically ran the South and helped ensure that freed slaves were allowed to vote and hold office. As a result of this, many Republican congressmen were elected through the enforcement of electoral laws allowing Blacks to vote. Most of the freed slaves naturally voted for the Republican Party; "the party of Lincoln." After the Army was withdrawn in 1877, election laws were changed in the South to make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for Blacks to vote. As a result, the Democratic Party gained control of the southern states and their congressional delegations.
Lee, R. "The History Guy: Republican Administrations and Republican Congressional Majorities"
http://www.historyguy.com/rep_pres_with_congress_maj.htm
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