11th United States Congress

Template:Short description Template:Infobox United States Congress The 11th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1811, during the first two years of James Madison's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1800 United States census. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican majority. Template:TOCLimit

Major events

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March 4, 1809: James Madison became President of the United States
October 27, 1810: Annexation of West Florida from Spain

Major legislation

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May 1, 1810: Macon's Bill Number 2, ch. 39, Template:USStat

Constitutional amendments

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May 1, 1810: Approved an amendment to the United States Constitution that would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a foreign country, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification Template:USStat
- This amendment, commonly known as the Titles of Nobility Amendment, has not been ratified and is still pending before the states.

Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

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House of Representatives

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Leadership

Senate

President: George Clinton (DR)
President pro tempore: John Milledge (DR)
- Andrew Gregg (DR), from June 26, 1809
- John Gaillard (DR), from February 28, 1810
- John Pope (DR), from February 23, 1811

House of Representatives

Speaker: Joseph B. Varnum (DR)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.

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Senate

Template:Main Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1814; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1810; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1812. Template:Col-begin Template:Col-break

Ohio

Template:Party stripe1. Return J. Meigs Jr. (DR), until December 10, 1810, or before

Template:Party stripe Thomas Worthington (DR), from December 15, 1810

Template:Party stripe3. Stanley Griswold (DR), May 18, 1809 – December 11, 1809

Template:Party stripe Alexander Campbell (DR), from December 11, 1809

Pennsylvania

Template:Party stripe1. Michael Leib (DR)

Template:Party stripe3. Andrew Gregg (DR)

Rhode Island

Template:Party stripe1. Francis Malbone (F), until June 4, 1809

Template:Party stripe Christopher G. Champlin (F), from June 26, 1809

Template:Party stripe2. Elisha Mathewson (DR)

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe2. Thomas Sumter (DR), until December 16, 1810

Template:Party stripe John Taylor (DR), from December 31, 1810

Template:Party stripe3. John Gaillard (DR)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe1. Joseph Anderson (DR)

Template:Party stripe2. Daniel Smith (DR), until March 31, 1809

Template:Party stripe Jenkin Whiteside (DR), from April 11, 1809

Vermont

Template:Party stripe1. Jonathan Robinson (DR)

Template:Party stripe3. Stephen R. Bradley (DR)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. Richard Brent (DR)

Template:Party stripe2. William B. Giles (DR)

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House of Representatives

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Connecticut

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Epaphroditus Champion (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel W. Dana (F), until May 10, 1810

Template:Party stripe Ebenezer Huntington (F), from October 11, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Davenport (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan O. Moseley (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Timothy Pitkin (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis B. Sturges (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Tallmadge (F)

Delaware

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nicholas Van Dyke (F)

Georgia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Bibb (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Howell Cobb (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dennis Smelt (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George M. Troup (DR)

Kentucky

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Matthew Lyon (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel McKee (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Crist (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard M. Johnson (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Howard (DR), until April 10, 1810

Template:Party stripe William T. Barry (DR), from August 8, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Desha (DR)

Maryland

The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Campbell (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Archibald Van Horne (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philip B. Key (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Roger Nelson (DR), until May 14, 1810

Template:Party stripe Samuel Ringgold (DR), from October 15, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alexander McKim (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nicholas R. Moore (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Montgomery (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Brown (DR), until sometime in 1810 (Template:Data missing)

Template:Party stripe Robert Wright (DR), from November 29, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Goldsborough (F)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Josiah Quincy (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Pickman Jr. (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward St. Loe Livermore (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Bradley Varnum (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Ely (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Taggart (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Baylies (F), until June 28, 1809

Template:Party stripe Charles Turner Jr. (DR), from June 28, 1809

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gideon Gardner (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Laban Wheaton (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jabez Upham (F), until sometime in 1810 (Template:Data missing)

Template:Party stripe Joseph Allen (F), from October 8, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Stedman (F), until July 16, 1810

Template:Party stripe Abijah Bigelow (F), from October 8, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezekiel Bacon (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ebenezer Seaver (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Cutts (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezekiel Whitman (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Orchard Cook (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Barzillai Gannett (DR)

New Hampshire

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel Blaisdell (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Chamberlain (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Hale (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel A. Haven (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Wilson (F)

New Jersey

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Adam Boyd (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Cox (DR), until September 12, 1810

Template:Party stripe John A. Scudder (DR), from October 31, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Helms (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob Hufty (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Newbold (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Southard (DR)

New York

There were two plural districts, the 2nd & 6th, each had two representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ebenezer Sage (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Denning (DR), until sometime before late April 1810<ref>Denning never took his seat, and eventually resigned. Apparently he did not send a letter of resignation to the House, but communicated his resignation either to the Governor of New York or the Secretary of State of New York. Almost all old State records were destroyed by a fire which broke out at the New York State Capitol during the 1911 United States Senate election in New York, so that the exact date is possibly no longer to ascertain. Certain is that he resigned in time to have the vacancy filled at the annual State election in late April 1810 when the regular congressional elections were held.</ref>

Template:Party stripe Samuel L. Mitchill (DR), from December 4, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gurdon S. Mumford (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan Fisk (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Emott (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Barent Gardenier (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Herman Knickerbocker (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Le Roy Livingston (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Killian K. Van Rensselaer (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Thompson (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Sammons (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Nicholson (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas R. Gold (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Erastus Root (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Uri Tracy (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Vincent Mathews (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter B. Porter (DR)

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North Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lemuel Sawyer (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Willis Alston (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Kennedy (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Stanly (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Kenan (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel Macon (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Archibald McBryde (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Stanford (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Cochran (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Pearson (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Holland (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Meshack Franklin (DR)

Ohio

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jeremiah Morrow (DR)

Pennsylvania

There were four plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd had three representatives each, the 4th had two representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Anderson (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Porter (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Say (DR), until sometime in June 1809 (Template:Data missing)

Template:Party stripe Adam Seybert (DR), from October 10, 1809

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Brown (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Milnor (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Ross (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel Hiester (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Jenkins (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Matthias Richards (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Bard (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Whitehill (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Smith (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Crawford (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Rea (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Findley (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Smilie (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aaron Lyle (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Smith (DR)

Rhode Island

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Jackson Jr. (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Elisha R. Potter (F)

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Marion (DR), until December 4, 1810

Template:Party stripe Langdon Cheves (DR), from December 31, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Butler Sr. (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Witherspoon (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Taylor (DR), until December 30, 1810, vacant thereafter

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Winn (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Calhoun (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Moore (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lemuel J. Alston (DR)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Rhea (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Weakley (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Pleasant M. Miller (DR)

Vermont

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Shaw (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan H. Hubbard (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Chamberlain (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Martin Chittenden (F)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John G. Jackson (DR), until September 28, 1810

Template:Party stripe William McKinley (DR), from December 21, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Stephenson (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Smith (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob Swoope (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Breckinridge (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel Sheffey (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Lewis Jr. (F)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter Jones (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Love (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Dawson (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Roane (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Burwell Bassett (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William A. Burwell (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Matthew Clay (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Randolph (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Eppes (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Gholson Jr. (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peterson Goodwyn (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edwin Gray (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Newton Jr. (DR)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Wilson C. Nicholas (DR), until November 27, 1809

Template:Party stripe David S. Garland (DR), from January 17, 1810

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Clopton (DR)

Non-voting members

Template:Ushr. Jonathan Jennings, from November 27, 1809

Template:Ushr. George Poindexter

Template:Ushr. Julien De L. Poydras

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Speaker of the House
Joseph Bradley Varnum

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Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

There were 8 resignations, 2 deaths, 1 interim appointment, and 1 vacancy from before this Congress.

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House of Representatives

Of the voting members, there were 12 resignations, 1 death, and 1 change due to a contested election.

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|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic-Republican | John Taylor (DR) | Resigned December 30, 1810, after becoming US Senator | Vacant | Not filled for remainder of term |}