23rd United States Congress
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Infobox United States Congress The 23rd 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, 1833, to March 4, 1835, during the fifth and sixth years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 United States census. The Senate had an Anti-Jacksonian or National Republican majority, and the House had a Jacksonian or Democratic majority. Template:TOClimit
Major events
- March 28, 1834: Senate censured President Andrew Jackson for defunding the Second Bank of the United States
- June 2, 1834: A special election for the House speakership takes 10 ballots.
- January 30, 1835: Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tried to assassinate President Jackson in the United States Capitol; this was the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Major legislation
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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
For the beginning of this congress, the size of the House was increased from 213 seats to 240 seats, following the 1830 United States census.<ref>Template:USStat</ref>
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Leadership
Senate
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Martin Van Buren
- President: Martin Van Buren (J)
- President pro tempore: Hugh Lawson White (J), until December 15, 1833
- George Poindexter (NR), June 28, 1834 – November 30, 1834
- John Tyler (NR), from March 3, 1835
House of Representatives
- Speaker: Andrew Stevenson (J), until June 2, 1834
- John Bell (J), after June 2, 1834, elected on the 10th ballot<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.
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 reelection in 1838; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1834; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1836. Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2
- Template:Party stripe2. George Troup (J), until November 8, 1833
- Template:Party stripeJohn P. King (J), from November 21, 1833
- Template:Party stripe3. John Forsyth (J), until July 27, 1834
- Template:Party stripeAlfred Cuthbert (J), from January 12, 1835
- Template:Party stripe2. George A. Waggaman (NR)
- Template:Party stripe3. Josiah S. Johnston (NR), until May 19, 1833
- Template:Party stripeAlexander Porter (NR), from December 19, 1833
- Template:Party stripe1. Ether Shepley (J)
- Template:Party stripe2. Peleg Sprague (NR), until January 1, 1835
- Template:Party stripeJohn Ruggles (J), from January 20, 1835
- Template:Party stripe1. Joseph Kent (NR)
- Template:Party stripe3. Ezekiel F. Chambers (NR), until December 20, 1834
- Template:Party stripeRobert H. Goldsborough (NR), from January 13, 1835
- Template:Party stripe1. John Black (NR), from November 22, 1833
- Template:Party stripe2. George Poindexter (NR)
- Template:Party stripe1. Thomas H. Benton (J)
- Template:Party stripe3. Alexander Buckner (J), until June 5, 1833
- Template:Party stripeLewis F. Linn (J), from October 25, 1833
- Template:Party stripe2. Samuel Bell (NR)
- Template:Party stripe3. Isaac Hill (J)
- Template:Party stripe1. Samuel McKean (J), from December 7, 1833
- Template:Party stripe3. William Wilkins (J), until June 30, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJames Buchanan (J), from December 6, 1834
- Template:Party stripe2. John C. Calhoun (N)
- Template:Party stripe3. William C. Preston (N), from November 26, 1833
- Template:Party stripe1. John Tyler (NR)
- Template:Party stripe2. William Rives (J), until February 22, 1834
- Template:Party stripeBenjamin W. Leigh (NR), from February 26, 1834
Hugh Lawson White
George Poindexter
John Tyler
House of Representatives
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- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Clement C. Clay (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John McKinley (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel W. Mardis (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dixon H. Lewis (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Murphy (J)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Noyes Barber (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Ellsworth (NR), until July 8, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJoseph Trumbull (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jabez W. Huntington (NR), until August 16, 1834
- Template:Party stripePhineas Miner (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel A. Foote (NR), until May 9, 1834
- Template:Party stripeEbenezer Jackson Jr. (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Tweedy (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ebenezer Young (NR)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustin S. Clayton (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John E. Coffee (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas F. Foster (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Roger L. Gamble (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George R. Gilmer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Seaborn Jones (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Schley (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. Wayne (J), until January 13, 1835, vacant thereafter
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard Henry Wilde (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Slade (J), until July 26, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJohn Reynolds (J), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Zadok Casey (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Duncan (J), until September 21, 1834
- Template:Party stripeWilliam L. May (J), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ratliff Boon (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Ewing (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Carr (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Amos Lane (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Johnathan McCarty (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George L. Kinnard (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward A. Hannegan (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Chittenden Lyon (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert G. Hawes (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Christopher Tompkins (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Martin Beaty (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert P. Letcher (NR), from August 6, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Chilton (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Hardin (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick H. Pope (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Love (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Chilton Allan (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Amos Davis (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas A. Marshall (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard M. Johnson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward D. White (NR), until November 15, 1834
- Template:Party stripeHenry Johnson (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philemon Thomas (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry A. Bullard (NR), until January 4, 1834
- Template:Party stripeRice Garland (NR), from April 28, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Rufus McIntire (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis O. J. Smith (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Kavanagh (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Evans (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Moses Mason Jr. (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Leonard Jarvis (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Hall (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gorham Parks (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Littleton P. Dennis (NR), until April 14, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJohn N. Steele (NR), from June 9, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard B. Carmichael (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Turner (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James P. Heath (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac McKim (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Cost Johnson (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Thomas (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John T. Stoddert (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Gorham (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Rufus Choate (NR), until June 30, 1834
- Template:Party stripeStephen C. Phillips (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gayton P. Osgood (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Everett (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Davis (NR), until January 14, 1834
- Template:Party stripeLevi Lincoln Jr. (NR), from March 5, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Grennell Jr. (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George N. Briggs (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac C. Bates (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Jackson (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Baylies (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Reed Jr. (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Quincy Adams (AM)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harry Cage (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Franklin E. Plummer (J)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William H. Ashley (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Bull (NR)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benning M. Bean (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Burns (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph M. Harper (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Hubbard (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Franklin Pierce (J)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philemon Dickerson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Fowler (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Lee (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Parker (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ferdinand S. Schenck (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William N. Shinn (J)
There were five plural districts, the 8th, 17th, 22nd & 23rd had two representatives each, the 3rd had four representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abel Huntington (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac B. Van Houten (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Churchill C. Cambreleng (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cornelius V. Lawrence (J), until May 14, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJohn J. Morgan (J), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dudley Selden (J), until July 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeCharles G. Ferris (J), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Campbell P. White (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron Ward (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abraham Bockee (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Brown (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Bodle (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Adams (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron Vanderpoel (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Job Pierson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gerrit Y. Lansing (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Cramer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry C. Martindale (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Reuben Whallon (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ransom H. Gillet (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles McVean (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abijah Mann Jr. (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Beardsley (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joel Turrill (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel Wardwell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Sherman Page (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Noadiah Johnson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nicoll Halsey (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel G. Hathaway (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William K. Fuller (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Taylor (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Rowland Day (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Clark (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Dickson (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Howell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Frederick Whittlesey (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Lay (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philo C. Fuller (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abner Hazeltine (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Millard Fillmore (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Gideon Hard (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William B. Shepard (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jesse A. Bynum (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas H. Hall (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jesse Speight (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James I. McKay (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Micajah T. Hawkins (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edmund Deberry (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel L. Barringer (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustine H. Shepperd (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abraham Rencher (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry W. Connor (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Graham (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Williams (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert T. Lytle (J), until March 10, 1834, and from December 27, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Taylor Webster (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph H. Crane (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Corwin (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas L. Hamer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel F. Vinton (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Allen (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeremiah McLene (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Chaney (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Vance (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. Bell (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Mitchell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Spangler (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Patterson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jonathan Sloane (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elisha Whittlesey (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Thomson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Jones (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Humphrey H. Leavitt (J), until July 10, 1834
- Template:Party stripeDaniel Kilgore (J), from December 1, 1834
There were two plural districts, the 2nd had two representatives, the 4th had three representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joel B. Sutherland (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Horace Binney (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Harper (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John G. Watmough (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Darlington (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Hiester (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Potts Jr. (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joel K. Mann (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Ramsey (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David D. Wagener (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry King (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry A. P. Muhlenberg (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Clark (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Barnitz (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Chambers (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jesse Miller (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Henderson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Beaumont (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph B. Anthony (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Laporte (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Burd (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard Coulter (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Stewart (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas M. T. McKennan (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harmar Denny (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel S. Harrison (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Banks (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Galbraith (J)
Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tristam Burges (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dutee J. Pearce (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry L. Pinckney (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William J. Grayson (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas D. Singleton (N), until November 25, 1833
- Template:Party stripeRobert B. Campbell (N), from February 27, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Myers Felder (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George McDuffie (N), until ????, 1834
- Template:Party stripeFrancis W. Pickens (N), from December 8, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Warren R. Davis (N), until January 29, 1835, vacant thereafter
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William K. Clowney (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Blair (J), until April 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeRichard I. Manning (J), from December 8, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John K. Griffin (N)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Blair (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Bunch (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Luke Lea (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James I. Standifer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John B. Forester (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Balie Peyton (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Bell (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David W. Dickinson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James K. Polk (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William M. Inge (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cave Johnson (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Crockett (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Dunlap (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hiland Hall (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Slade (AM)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Horace Everett (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Heman Allen (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin F. Deming (AM), until July 11, 1834
- Template:Party stripeHenry F. Janes (AM), from December 2, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Loyall (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Y. Mason (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William S. Archer (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James H. Gholson (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Randolph (J), until May 24, 1833
- Template:Party stripeThomas T. Bouldin (J), from December 2, 1833, until February 11, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJames W. Bouldin (J), from March 28, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Davenport (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathaniel H. Claiborne (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry A. Wise (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William P. Taylor (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph W. Chinn (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Stevenson (J), until June 2, 1834
- Template:Party stripeJohn Robertson (NR), from December 1, 1834
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William F. Gordon (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Patton (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles F. Mercer (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Lucas (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James M. H. Beale (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel M. Moore (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Fulton (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William McComas (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John J. Allen (NR)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edgar C. Wilson (NR)
Non-voting members
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ambrose H. Sevier (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph M. White (J)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lucius Lyon (J)
Andrew Stevenson
John Bell
Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
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| South Carolina
(3)
| colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant since March 3, 1833, due to the resignation of Stephen Decatur Miller (N).
Successor was elected November 26, 1833.
| Template:Party shading/Nullifier | William C. Preston (N)
| November 26, 1833
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| Mississippi
(1)
| colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant from the start of this Congress due to the state legislature's failure to elect.
Appointee who had held the seat at the end of the previous Congress was elected November 22, 1833.
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | John Black (NR)
| November 22, 1833
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| Pennsylvania
(1)
| colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant from the start of this Congress due to the state legislature's failure to elect.
Successor was elected December 7, 1833.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Samuel McKean (J)
| December 7, 1833
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| Louisiana
(3)
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Josiah S. Johnston (NR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 19, 1833.
Successor was elected December 19, 1833.
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Alexander Porter (NR)
| December 19, 1833
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| Missouri
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Alexander Buckner (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died June 6, 1833.
Successor was appointed December 19, 1833, and subsequently elected to finish the term.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Lewis F. Linn (J)
| October 25, 1833
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| Georgia
(2)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | George Troup (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 8, 1833.
Successor was elected November 21, 1833.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John P. King (D)
| November 21, 1833
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| Virginia
(2)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Rives (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 22, 1834.
Successor was elected February 26, 1834.
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Benjamin W. Leigh (NR)
| February 26, 1834
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| Pennsylvania
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William Wilkins (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 30, 1834, to become U.S. Minister to Russia.
Successor elected December 6, 1834.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James Buchanan (J)
| December 6, 1834
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| Georgia
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Forsyth (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 27, 1834, to become U.S. Secretary of State.
Successor elected January 12, 1835.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Alfred Cuthbert (J)
| January 12, 1835
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| Maryland
(3)
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Ezekiel F. Chambers (NR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 20, 1834, to become judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals.
Successor elected January 13, 1835.
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Robert H. Goldsborough (NR)
| January 13, 1835
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| Maine
(2)
| Template:Party shading/National Republican | Peleg Sprague (NR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 1, 1835.
Successor elected January 20, 1835.
| Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Ruggles (J)
| January 20, 1835
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House of Representatives
- Replacements: 18
- Jacksonian: 1 seat net loss
- National Republican: 1 seat net gain
- Deaths: 8
- Resignations: 15
- Contested election: 1
- Total seats with changes: 23
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|- | Template:Ushr | Vacant | Contested election of Thomas P. Moore. House denied either party the seat and declared new election | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Robert P. Letcher (NR) | Seated August 6, 1834
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Joel B. Sutherland (J) | Resigned before the term to become a judge, but then left that judgeship to seek his old seat and re-elected October 8, 1833. | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Joel B. Sutherland (J) | Seated December 2, 1833
|- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Randolph (J) | Died May 24, 1833 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Thomas T. Bouldin (J) | Seated December 2, 1833 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Nullifier | Thomas D. Singleton (N) | Died November 25, 1833 | Template:Party shading/Nullifier | Robert B. Campbell (N) | Seated February 27, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Nullifier | George McDuffie (N) | Resigned some time in 1834. | Template:Party shading/Nullifier | Francis W. Pickens (N) | Seated December 8, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Henry A. Bullard (NR) | Resigned January 4, 1834, after being appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Rice Garland (NR) | Seated April 28, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | John Davis (NR) | Resigned January 14, 1834, after being elected Governor of Massachusetts | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Levi Lincoln (NR) | Seated March 5, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Thomas T. Bouldin (J) | Died February 11, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James W. Bouldin (J) | Seated March 28, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Robert T. Lytle (J) | Resigned March 10, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Robert T. Lytle (J) | Re-seated December 27, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James Blair (J) | Died April 1, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Richard I. Manning (J) | Seated December 8, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Littleton P. Dennis (J) | Died April 14, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John N. Steele (J) | Seated June 9, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Samuel A. Foot (NR) | Resigned May 9, 1834, after becoming Governor of Connecticut | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Ebenezer Jackson Jr. (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Cornelius V. Lawrence (J) | Resigned May 14, 1834, after becoming Mayor of New York City. This was a plural district with 4 representatives. | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John J. Morgan (J) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Andrew Stevenson (J) | Resigned June 2, 1834 | Template:Party shading/National Republican | John Robertson (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Rufus Choate (NR) | Resigned June 30, 1834 | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Stephen C. Phillips (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Dudley Selden (J) | Resigned July 1, 1834. This was a plural district with 4 representatives. | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Charles G. Ferris (J) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | William W. Ellsworth (NR) | Resigned July 8, 1834 | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Joseph Trumbull (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Humphrey H. Leavitt (J) | Resigned July 10, 1834, after becoming judge of the US District Court of Ohio | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Daniel Kilgore (J) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Anti-Masonic | Benjamin F. Deming (AM) | Died July 11, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Anti-Masonic | Henry F. Janes (AM) | Seated December 2, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Charles Slade (J) | Died July 26, 1834 | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | John Reynolds (J) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Jabez W. Huntington (NR) | Resigned August 16, 1834, after being appointed judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Phineas Miner (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | Joseph Duncan (J) | Resigned September 21, 1834, after being elected Governor of Illinois | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | William L. May (J) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Edward D. White (NR) | Resigned November 15, 1834, to become Governor of Louisiana | Template:Party shading/National Republican | Henry Johnson (NR) | Seated December 1, 1834 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Jacksonian | James M. Wayne (J) | Resigned January 13, 1835, after being appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court | colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Not filled in this Congress |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Nullifier | Warren R. Davis (N) | Died January 29, 1835 |}
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Senate
- Agriculture (Chairman: Bedford Brown)
- Amendments to the Constitution (Select)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Nehemiah Knight)
- Claims (Chairman: Samuel Bell)
- Commerce (Chairman: Nathaniel Silsbee)
- Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Ezekiel F. Chambers then John Tyler)
- Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Ether Shepley)
- Establishing Branches of the Mint (Select)
- Executive Patronage (Select)
- Finance (Chairman: Daniel Webster)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: William Wilkins then Henry Clay)
- French Spoilations (Select)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Hugh Lawson White)
- Judiciary (Chairman: John M. Clayton)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Theodore Frelinghuysen)
- Michigan and Arkansas Admission to the Union (Select)
- Mileage of Members of Congress (Select)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: Nathaniel Silsbee)
- Militia (Chairman: John M. Robinson)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Samuel Southard)
- Pensions (Chairman: Gideon Tomlinson)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Felix Grundy)
- President's Message Refusing to Furnish a Paper to Senate (Select)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: William Hendricks)
- Public Lands (Chairman: George Poindexter)
- Purchasing Boyd Reilly's Gas Apparatus (Select)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Gabriel Moore)
- Roads and Canals (Chairman: William Hendricks)
- Shiloh National Park (Select)
- Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: Joel K. Mann)
- Agriculture (Chairman: Abraham Bockee)
- Bank of the United States (Select)
- Biennial Register (Select)
- Boundary of the Chickasaw Indians (Select)
- Claims (Chairman: Elisha Whittlesey)
- Commerce (Chairman: Joel B. Sutherland)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph Chinn)
- Elections (Chairman: Nathaniel Claiborne)
- Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region (Select)
- Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Joseph Hall)
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Albert G. Hawes)
- Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Augustine Henry Shepperd)
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: Heman Allen)
- Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Frederick Whittlesey)
- Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Reuben Whallon)
- Foreign Affairs (Chairman: William S. Archer then John Young Mason)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: William S. Archer then John Young Mason)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Dixon H. Lewis)
- Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Tristam Burges)
- Judiciary (Chairman: John Bell then Thomas F. Foster)
- Manufactures (Chairman: John Quincy Adams)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: Richard M. Johnson)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Campbell P. White)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Henry W. Connor)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: Cave Johnson)
- Public Expenditures (Chairman: Thomas Davenport)
- Public Lands (Chairman: Clement C. Clay)
- Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: John Dickson)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Henry A. P. Muhlenberg)
- Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: Daniel Wardwell)
- Roads and Canals (Chairman: Charles F. Mercer)
- Rules (Select)
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories (Chairman: Lewis Williams)
- Ways and Means (Chairman: James K. Polk)
- Whole
Joint committees
Employees
Senate
- Secretary: Walter Lowrie
- Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly, until December 9, 1833
- John Shackford, elected December 9, 1833
- Chaplain: Charles C. Pise (Roman Catholic), until December 10, 1833
- Frederick W. Hatch (Episcopalian), elected December 10, 1833
House of Representatives
- Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke, until December 2, 1833
- Walter S. Franklin, elected December 2, 1833
- Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn, until December 6, 1833
- Thomas B. Randolph, elected December 6, 1833
- Doorkeeper: Overton Carr
- Postmaster: William J. McCormick
- Reading Clerks: Template:Data missing
- Chaplain: William H. Hammett (Methodist), until December 9, 1833
- Thomas H. Stockton (Methodist), elected December 9, 1833
- Edward D. Smith (Presbyterian), elected December 10, 1834
See also
- 1832 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1834 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)