He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands ( Fifty - first Congress ) .
Payson was elected as a Republican to the Forty - seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses ( March 4 , 1881 -- March 3 , 1891 ) .
He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands ( Fifty - first Congresses ) .
Payson was elected as a Republican to the Forty - seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses ( March 4 , 1881 -- March 3 , 1891 ) .