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Years served Senate with Senate opposed House with House opposed Congress with Congress divided Congress opposed 1 George Washington: None 2 8 8 0 4 4 4 4 0 2 John Adams: Federalist 1 4 4 0 4 0 4 0 0 3 Thomas Jefferson: Democratic-Republican 2 8 8 0 8 0 8 0 0 4 James Madison: Democratic-Republican 2 8 8 0 8 0 8 0 0 5 James Monroe: Democratic ...
Control of the Congress from 1855 to 2025 Popular vote and house seats won by party. Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789.
From 2021 to 2023 in the United States, the Democratic Party held the Senate, House of Representatives, and the presidency. Vice President (President of the Senate) Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Joe Biden, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, all Democrats, are pictured. The Democrats controlled the Senate ...
The "Fourth Party System" is the term used in political science and history for the period in American political history from the mid-1890s to the early 1930s, It was dominated by the Republican Party, excepting when 1912 split in which Democrats (led by President Woodrow Wilson) held the White House for eight years.
This is the last time Democrats or any party had a 2/3rd supermajority in the Senate. The 89th Congress is regarded as "arguably the most productive in American history". [ 1 ]
The 95th 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 January 3, 1977, to January 3, 1979, during the final weeks of Gerald Ford 's presidency and the first two years ...
Ahead of Tuesday's election, Democrats held 23 seats in the Senate and 67 seats in the House, according to the Maine Legislature's website. Since 2009, the Senate majority has flipped four times ...
The Democrats would continue to dominate the US House of Representatives, and even gained control of the US Senate in the 1878 US Senate election as the depression worsened. The Gilded Age (1877–1901) was marked by Republican dominance of Congress—and the Presidency— except in the early years, and some of the mid-years of the Gilded Age ...