19th United States Congress
Template:Short description Template:Infobox United States Congress The 19th 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, 1825, to March 4, 1827, during the first two years of John Quincy Adams's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1820 United States census. The Senate had a majority of Jackson Men, while the House had an Anti-Jackson (pro-Adams) majority. Template:TOClimit
Major events
- March 4, 1825: John Quincy Adams inaugurated as President of the United States
- October 26, 1825: The Erie Canal opened, providing passage from Albany, New York, to Buffalo and Lake Erie.
- July 4, 1826: Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the 50th Anniversary of America's Independence
Major legislation
Treaties signed
- November 7, 1825: Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees were forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas
- January 24, 1826: Treaty of Washington between the United States government and the Creek National Council, in which they ceded much of their land in Georgia
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
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Senate
- President: John C. Calhoun (J)
- President pro tempore: John Gaillard (J), until December 4, 1825
- Nathaniel Macon (J), from May 20, 1826
House of Representatives
- Speaker: John W. Taylor (A)
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class and representatives are listed by district.
(J) following a name means the member was of the Jackson faction. (A) that the person was a member of the Adams (anti-Jackson) faction.
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 ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1826/1827; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1828/1829; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1830/1831. Template:Col-begin Template:Col-break
- Template:Party stripe2. William R. D. King (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. Henry H. Chambers (J), until January 24, 1826
- Template:Party stripeIsrael Pickens (J), February 17, 1826 – November 27, 1826
- Template:Party stripeJohn McKinley (J), from November 27, 1826
- Template:Party stripe1. Henry W. Edwards (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. Calvin Willey (A), from May 4, 1825
- Template:Party stripe1. Thomas Clayton (A)
- Template:Party stripe2. Nicholas Van Dyke (A), until May 21, 1826
- Template:Party stripeDaniel Rodney (A), November 8, 1826 – January 12, 1827
- Template:Party stripeHenry M. Ridgely (J), from January 23, 1827
- Template:Party stripe1. Samuel Smith (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. Edward Lloyd (J), until January 14, 1826
- Template:Party stripeEzekiel F. Chambers (A), from January 24, 1826
- Template:Party stripe1. Elijah H. Mills (A)
- Template:Party stripe2. James Lloyd (A), until May 23, 1826
- Template:Party stripeNathaniel Silsbee (A), from May 31, 1826
- Template:Party stripe1. David Holmes (J), until September 25, 1825
- Template:Party stripePowhatan Ellis (J), September 28, 1825 – January 28, 1826
- Template:Party stripeThomas B. Reed (J), from January 28, 1826
- Template:Party stripe2. Thomas H. Williams (J)
- Template:Party stripe2. Samuel Bell (A)
- Template:Party stripe3. Levi Woodbury (J), from March 16, 1825
- Template:Party stripe1. Joseph McIlvaine (A), until August 19, 1826
- Template:Party stripeEphraim Bateman (A), from November 10, 1826
- Template:Party stripe2. Mahlon Dickerson (J)
- Template:Party stripe1. Martin Van Buren (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. Nathan Sanford (A), from January 14, 1826
- Template:Party stripe1. James DeWolf (A), until October 31, 1825
- Template:Party stripeAsher Robbins (A), from October 31, 1825
- Template:Party stripe2. Nehemiah R. Knight (A)
- Template:Party stripe2. Robert Y. Hayne (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. John Gaillard (J), until February 26, 1826
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Harper (J), March 8, 1826 – November 29, 1826
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Smith (J), from November 29, 1826
- Template:Party stripe1. John H. Eaton (J)
- Template:Party stripe2. Andrew Jackson (J), until October 14, 1825
- Template:Party stripeHugh Lawson White (J), from October 28, 1825
- Template:Party stripe1. James Barbour (J), until March 7, 1825
- Template:Party stripeJohn Randolph (J), from December 26, 1825
- Template:Party stripe2. Littleton W. Tazewell (J)
House of Representatives
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- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gabriel Moore (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John McKee (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Owen (J)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Baldwin (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Noyes Barber (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ralph I. Ingersoll (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Orange Merwin (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elisha Phelps (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gideon Tomlinson (A)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Cary (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alfred Cuthbert (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Forsyth (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles E. Haynes (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Meriwether (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward F. Tattnall (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Wiley Thompson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ratliff Boon (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jonathan Jennings (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Test (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Trimble (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Metcalfe (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Clay (A), until March 6, 1825
- Template:Party stripeJames Clark (A), from August 1, 1825
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert P. Letcher (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Johnson (J), until August 13, 1826
- Template:Party stripeRobert L. McHatton (J), from December 7, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Lecompte (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas P. Moore (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard A. Buckner (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Wickliffe (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Johnson (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William S. Young (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert P. Henry (J), until August 25, 1826
- Template:Party stripeJohn F. Henry (A), from December 11, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Livingston (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry H. Gurley (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William L. Brent (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Burleigh (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Anderson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ebenezer Herrick (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Peleg Sprague (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Enoch Lincoln (A), until 1826 (before September 11, 1826, Template:Dm)
- Template:Party stripeJames W. Ripley (J), from September 11, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeremiah O'Brien (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Kidder (A)
The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clement Dorsey (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Kent (A), until January 6, 1826
- Template:Party stripeJohn C. Weems (J), from February 1, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Peter (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas C. Worthington (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Barney (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Peter Little (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George E. Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John L. Kerr (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert N. Martin (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel Webster (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin W. Crowninshield (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Varnum (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Everett (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Davis (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Locke (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel C. Allen (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Lathrop (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry W. Dwight (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Bailey (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron Hobart (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Baylies (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Reed Jr. (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Christopher Rankin (J), until March 14, 1826
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Haile (J), from July 10, 1826
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ichabod Bartlett (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Titus Brown (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nehemiah Eastman (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jonathan Harvey (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Healy (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Whipple Jr. (A)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Cassedy (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Condict (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel Garrison (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Holcombe (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Swan (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ebenezer Tucker (A)
There were three plural districts: the 20th & 26th had two representatives each, the 3rd had three representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Silas Wood (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joshua Sands (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Churchill C. Cambreleng (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeromus Johnson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gulian C. Verplanck (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron Ward (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bartow White (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Hallock Jr. (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abraham B. Hasbrouck (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Strong (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William McManus (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Stephen Van Rensselaer (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Ashley (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Dietz (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William G. Angel (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry R. Storrs (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Michael Hoffman (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Markell (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Taylor (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry C. Martindale (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry H. Ross (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nicoll Fosdick (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Egbert Ten Eyck (J), until December 15, 1825
- Template:Party stripeDaniel Hugunin Jr. (A), from December 15, 1825
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elias Whitmore (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Miller (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Luther Badger (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Kellogg (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Humphrey (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dudley Marvin (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert S. Rose (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Moses Hayden (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Timothy H. Porter (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Parmenio Adams (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel G. Garnsey (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lemuel Sawyer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Willis Alston (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard Hines (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Bryan (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gabriel Holmes (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Weldon N. Edwards (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Archibald McNeill (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Willie P. Mangum (J), until March 18, 1826
- Template:Party stripeDaniel L. Barringer (J), from December 4, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Romulus M. Saunders (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Long (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry W. Connor (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel P. Carson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Williams (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Findlay (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Woods (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William McLean (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Vance (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Campbell (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Thomson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel F. Vinton (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Wilson (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philemon Beecher (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Jennings (A), until May 25, 1826
- Template:Party stripeThomas Shannon (A), from December 4, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Wright (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Sloane (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elisha Whittlesey (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Mordecai Bartley (A)
There were six plural districts: the 7th, 8th, 11th & 16th had two representatives each, the 4th & 9th had three representatives each.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Wurts (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Hemphill (J), until 1826 (before October 10, 1826 — Template:Dm)
- Template:Party stripeThomas Kittera (A), from October 10, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel H. Miller (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Buchanan (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Edwards (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Miner (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philip S. Markley (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Harris (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Addams (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Wilson (J), until August 14, 1826
- Template:Party stripeJacob Krebs (J), from December 4, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel D. Ingham (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Wolf (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Kremer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel McKean (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Espy Van Horne (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James S. Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Findlay (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Wilson (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alexander Thomson (J), until May 1, 1826
- Template:Party stripeChauncey Forward (J), from December 4, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Stewart (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Lawrence (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Allison Jr. (J), until August 26, 1825 (before the assembling of Congress)
- Template:Party stripeRobert Orr Jr. (J), from October 11, 1825
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James S. Stevenson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Plumer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick Farrelly (J), until January 12, 1826
- Template:Party stripeThomas H. Sill (A), from March 14, 1826
Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tristam Burges (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dutee J. Pearce (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joel R. Poinsett (J), until March 7, 1825
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Drayton (J), from May 17, 1825
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Hamilton Jr. (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas R. Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew R. Govan (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George McDuffie (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Wilson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Gist (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Carter (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Starling Tucker (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Blair (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Cocke (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James C. Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jacob C. Isacks (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Allen (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James K. Polk (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Houston (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Marable (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Adam R. Alexander (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Bradley (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Rollin C. Mallary (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George E. Wales (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ezra Meech (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Mattocks (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Newton Jr. (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Trezvant (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William S. Archer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Mark Alexander (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Randolph (J), until December 26, 1825
- Template:Party stripeGeorge W. Crump (J), from January 21, 1826
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Davenport (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathaniel H. Claiborne (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Burwell Bassett (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Stevenson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Rives (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Taylor (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert S. Garnett (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Taliaferro (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles F. Mercer (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John S. Barbour (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Armstrong (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alfred H. Powell (A)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Johnson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William McCoy (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Floyd (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Smith (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Estil (A)
Non-voting members
Changes in membership
This count reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- Replacements: 7
- Anti-Jacksonian (A): 3-seat net gain
- Jacksonian (J): no net change
- Deaths: 4
- Resignations: 6
- Interim appointments: 4
- Total seats with changes: 13
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| New Hampshire
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| Vacant
| Seat remained vacant
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Levi Woodbury (J)
| Installed March 16, 1825
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| Connecticut
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| Vacant
| Seat remained vacant
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Calvin Willey (A)
| Installed May 4, 1825
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| New York
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| Vacant
| Seat remained vacant
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Nathan Sanford (A)
| Installed January 14, 1826, after resigning as Chancellor of New York
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| Virginia
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James Barbour (J)
| Resigned March 7, 1825, after being appointed US Secretary of War
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Randolph (J)
| Appointed December 26, 1825
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| Mississippi
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | David Holmes (J)
| Resigned September 25, 1825, after being elected Governor of Mississippi
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Powhatan Ellis (J)
| Appointed September 28, 1825
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| Tennessee
(2)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Andrew Jackson (J)
| Resigned October 14, 1825
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Hugh Lawson White (J)
| Installed October 28, 1825
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| Rhode Island
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | James De Wolf (A)
| Resigned October 31, 1825
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Asher Robbins (A)
| Appointed October 31, 1825
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| Maryland
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Edward Lloyd (J)
| Resigned January 14, 1826, after being elected to the Maryland State Senate
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Ezekiel F. Chambers (A)
| Elected January 24, 1826
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| Alabama
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Henry H. Chambers (J)
| Died January 24, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Israel Pickens (J)
| Appointed February 17, 1826
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| Mississippi
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Powhatan Ellis (J)
| Successor elected January 28, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Thomas B. Reed (J)
| Installed January 28, 1826
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| South Carolina
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| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Gaillard (J)
| Died February 26, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Harper (J)
| Appointed March 8, 1826
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| Delaware
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| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Nicholas Van Dyke (A)
| Died May 21, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Daniel Rodney (A)
| Appointed November 8, 1826
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| Massachusetts
(2)
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | James Lloyd (A)
| Resigned May 23, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Nathaniel Silsbee (A)
| Installed May 31, 1826
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| New Jersey
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Joseph McIlvaine (A)
| Died August 19, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Ephraim Bateman(A)
| Installed November 10, 1826
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| Alabama
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Israel Pickens (J)
| Successor elected November 27, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John McKinley (J)
| Installed November 27, 1826
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| South Carolina
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Harper (J)
| Successor elected November 29, 1826
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Smith (J)
| Installed November 29, 1826
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| Delaware
(2)
| Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Daniel Rodney (A)
| Resigned January 12, 1827, after successor was elected
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Henry M. Ridgely (J)
| Installed January 23, 1827
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House of Representatives
- Replacements: 11
- Anti-Jackson: 1 seat net gain
- Jackson: 1 seat net loss
- Deaths: 5
- Resignations: 10
- Contested election: 1
- Total seats with changes: 16
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|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Henry Clay (A) | Resigned March 6, 1825, after being appointed US Secretary of State | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | James Clark (A) | Seated August 1, 1825
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Joel R. Poinsett (J) | Resigned March 7, 1825, after being appointed Minister to Mexico | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Drayton (J) | Seated May 17, 1825
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James Allison Jr. (J) | Resigned August 26, 1825 before the assembling of Congress | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Robert Orr Jr. (J) | Seated October 11, 1825
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Egbert Ten Eyck (J) | Lost contested election December 15, 1825 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Daniel Hugunin Jr. (A) | Seated December 15, 1825
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Randolph (J) | Resigned December 26, 1825, after being appointed to the US Senate | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | George W. Crump (J) | Seated January 21, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Joseph Kent (A) | Resigned January 6, 1826, after being elected Governor of Maryland | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John C. Weems (J) | Seated February 1, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Patrick Farrelly (J) | Died January 12, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Thomas H. Sill (A) | Seated March 14, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Christopher Rankin (J) | Died March 14, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Haile (J) | Seated July 10, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Willie P. Mangum (J) | Resigned March 18, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Daniel L. Barringer (J) | Seated December 4, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Alexander Thomson (J) | Resigned May 1, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Chauncey Forward (J) | Seated December 4, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | David Jennings (A) | Resigned May 25, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Thomas Shannon (A) | Seated December 4, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James Johnson (J) | Died August 13, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Robert L. McHatton (J) | Seated December 7, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Henry Wilson (J) | Died August 14, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Jacob Krebs (J) | Seated December 4, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Robert P. Henry (J) | Died August 25, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | John F. Henry (A) | Seated December 11, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Enoch Lincoln (A) | Resigned before September 11, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James W. Ripley (J) | Seated September 11, 1826
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Joseph Hemphill (J) | Resigned before October 10, 1826 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Jacksonian | Thomas Kittera (A) | Seated October 10, 1826
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Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Senate
- Agriculture (Chairman: William Findlay then Calvin Willey)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Horatio Seymour then Elias Kane)
- Bankruptcy (Select)
- Claims (Chairman: Benjamin Ruggles)
- Commerce (Chairman: James Lloyd then Josiah S. Johnston)
- Debt Imprisonment Abolition (Select)
- Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Edward Lloyd then Ezekiel F. Chambers)
- Engrossed Bills (Chairman: William Marks)
- Finance (Chairman: Samuel Smith)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: Nathaniel Macon then Littleton Tazewell)
- French Spoilations (Select)
- Georgia and the Creek Indians (Select)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Hart Benton)
- Judiciary (Chairman: Martin Van Buren)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Mahlon Dickerson)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: William Henry Harrison)
- Militia (Chairman: John Chandler)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Robert Y. Hayne)
- Pensions (Chairman: James Noble)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Richard M. Johnson)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: William South)
- Public Lands (Chairman: David Barton)
- Roads and Canals (Select) (Chairman: William Hendricks)
- Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: Samuel C. Allen)
- Agriculture (Chairman: Stephen Van Rensselaer)
- American Colonization Society (Select)
- Apportionment of Representatives (Select)
- Bills of Exchange (Select)
- Claims (Chairman: Lewis Williams)
- Commerce (Chairman: Thomas Newton Jr. then Gideon Tomlinson)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Mark Alexander)
- Elections (Chairman: John Sloane)
- Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Jeremiah O'Brien)
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: William Wilson)
- Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John Bailey)
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: William Burleigh)
- Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: John Mattocks)
- Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Joseph Johnson)
- Foreign Affairs (Chairman: John Forsyth)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Cocke)
- Judiciary (Chairman: Daniel Webster)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Rollin C. Mallary)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: James Hamilton Jr.)
- Military Pensions (Chairman: Tristram Burges)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Henry R. Storrs)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Samuel D. Ingham)
- Public Expenditures (Chairman: Weldon N. Edwards)
- Public Lands (Chairman: Christopher Rankin then John Scott)
- Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Thomas P. Moore)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Robert Allen)
- Rules (Select)
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories (Chairman: James Strong)
- Ways and Means (Chairman: Louis McLane)
- Whole
Joint committees
Employees
Legislative branch agency directors
Senate
- Chaplain: Charles P. McIlvaine (Episcopal), until December 12, 1825
- William Staughton (Baptist), elected December 12, 1825
- William Ryland (Methodist), elected December 8, 1826
- Secretary: Charles Cutts, until December 12, 1825
- Walter Lowrie, elected December 12, 1825
- Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly
House of Representatives
- Chaplain: Reuben Post (Presbyterian)
- Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
- Doorkeeper: Benjamin Birch
- Reading Clerks: Template:Dm
- Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn
See also
- 1824 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1826 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)