55th United States Congress

55th United States Congress
54th ← → 56th
United States Capitol (1906)
March 4, 1897 – March 4, 1899
Members	90 senators 357 representatives 3 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Republican
Senate President	Garret Hobart (R)
House majority	Republican
House Speaker	Thomas B. Reed (R)
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1897 – March 10, 1897 1st: March 15, 1897 – July 24, 1897 2nd: December 6, 1897 – July 8, 1898 3rd: December 5, 1898 – March 3, 1899

The 55th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1897, to March 4, 1899, during the first two years of William McKinley's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1890 United States census. Both chambers had a Republican majority. There was one African-American member, George Henry White, a Republican from the state of North Carolina, and one Kaw member, Charles Curtis, a Republican from Kansas.