27th United States Congress
Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox United States Congress The 27th 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., between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, during the one-month presidency of William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the presidency of his successor, John Tyler. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 United States census. Both chambers had a Whig majority, making the 27th Congress the only Whig-controlled Congress of the Second Party System. Template:TOClimit
Major events
- March 4, 1841: William Henry Harrison was inaugurated as President of the United States
- April 4, 1841: President Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler became President
- August 16, 1841: President Tyler's veto of a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States led Whig Party members to riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
- May 19, 1842: Dorr Rebellion
- December 17, 1842: Samuel W. Trotti of South Carolina, became the first Italian American to serve in Congress.
Major legislation
- April 19, 1841: Bankruptcy Act of 1841, ch. 9, Template:USStat
- September 4, 1841: Preemption Act of 1841, ch. 16, Template:USStat
- August 4, 1842: Armed Occupation Act, Template:USStat
- August 30, 1842: Tariff of 1842 ("Black Tariff"), ch. 270, Template:USStat
Treaties
- August 9, 1842: Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
Party summary
Senate
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House of Representatives
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Leadership
John Tyler
Senate
- President: John Tyler (W), until April 4, 1841, thereafter vacant
- Presidents pro tempore: William R. King (D), elected March 4, 1841
- Samuel L. Southard (W), elected March 11, 1841
- Willie P. Mangum (W), elected May 31, 1842
House of Representatives
- Speaker: John D. White (W)
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, 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 in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1844; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1846; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1842. Template:Col-begin Template:Col-break
- Template:Party stripe2. William R. King (D)
- Template:Party stripe3. Clement C. Clay (D), until November 15, 1841
- Template:Party stripeArthur P. Bagby (D), from November 24, 1841
- Template:Party stripe2. James T. Morehead (W)
- Template:Party stripe3. Henry Clay (W), until March 31, 1842
- Template:Party stripeJohn J. Crittenden (W), from March 31, 1842
- Template:Party stripe2. Alexander Barrow (W)
- Template:Party stripe3. Alexander Mouton (D), until March 1, 1842
- Template:Party stripeCharles M. Conrad (W), from April 14, 1842
- Template:Party stripe1. Reuel Williams (D), until February 15, 1843
- Template:Party stripe2. George Evans (W)
- Template:Party stripe2. Levi Woodbury (D)
- Template:Party stripe3. Franklin Pierce (D), until February 28, 1842
- Template:Party stripeLeonard Wilcox (D), from March 1, 1842
- Template:Party stripe1. Samuel L. Southard (W), until June 26, 1842
- Template:Party stripeWilliam L. Dayton (W), from July 2, 1842
- Template:Party stripe2. Jacob W. Miller (W)
- Template:Party stripe1. Nathan Dixon (W), until January 29, 1842
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Sprague III (W), from February 18, 1842
- Template:Party stripe2. James F. Simmons (W)
- Template:Party stripe2. John C. Calhoun (D)
- Template:Party stripe3. William C. Preston (W), until November 29, 1842
- Template:Party stripeGeorge McDuffie (D), from December 23, 1842
- Template:Party stripe1. Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D), until February 7, 1842
- 2. vacant
- Template:Party stripe1. Samuel S. Phelps (W)
- Template:Party stripe3. Samuel Prentiss (W), until April 11, 1842
- Template:Party stripeSamuel C. Crafts (W), from April 23, 1842
William R. King
Samuel L. Southard
Willie Person Mangum
House of Representatives
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All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Reuben Chapman (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George S. Houston (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Dixon H. Lewis (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Payne (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Shields (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Trumbull (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Boardman (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas W. Williams (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas B. Osborne (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Truman Smith (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John H. Brockway (W)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Julius C. Alford (W), until October 1, 1841
- Template:Party stripeEdward J. Black (D), from January 3, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William C. Dawson (W), until November 13, 1841
- Template:Party stripeWalter T. Colquitt (D), from January 3, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas F. Foster (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Roger L. Gamble (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard W. Habersham (W), until December 2, 1842
- Template:Party stripeGeorge W. Crawford (W), from January 7, 1843
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Butler King (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Meriwether (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Eugenius Nisbet (W), until October 12, 1841
- Template:Party stripeMark A. Cooper (D), from January 3, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lott Warren (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Reynolds (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Zadok Casey (Ind. D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John T. Stuart (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George H. Proffit (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard W. Thompson (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph L. White (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James H. Cravens (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew Kennedy (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Wallace (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry S. Lane (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Linn Boyd (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Philip Triplett (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph R. Underwood (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bryan Owsley (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John B. Thompson (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Willis Green (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Pope (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Sprigg (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John White (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas F. Marshall (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Landaff W. Andrews (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Garrett Davis (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William O. Butler (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward D. White (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John B. Dawson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Moore (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathan Clifford (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William P. Fessenden (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin Randall (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Bronson (W), from May 31, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathaniel Littlefield (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alfred Marshall (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joshua A. Lowell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Elisha Allen (W)
The 4th district was a plural district with two representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac Jones (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James A. Pearce (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James W. Williams (D), until December 2, 1842
- Template:Party stripeCharles S. Sewall (D), from January 2, 1843
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John P. Kennedy (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alexander Randall (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Cost Johnson (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Mason (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustus R. Sollers (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert C. Winthrop (W), until May 25, 1842
- Template:Party stripeNathan Appleton (W), from June 9, 1842, until September 28, 1842
- Template:Party stripeRobert C. Winthrop (W), from November 29, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Leverett Saltonstall I (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Caleb Cushing (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Parmenter (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Levi Lincoln Jr. (W), until March 16, 1841
- Template:Party stripeCharles Hudson (W), from May 3, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Osmyn Baker (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George N. Briggs (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William B. Calhoun (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William S. Hastings (W), until June 17, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathaniel B. Borden (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Barker Burnell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Quincy Adams (W)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William M. Gwin (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jacob Thompson (D)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Edwards (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Miller (D)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles G. Atherton (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edmund Burke (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ira A. Eastman (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John R. Reding (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Tristram Shaw (D)
All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John B. Aycrigg (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Halstead (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John P. B. Maxwell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph F. Randolph (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles C. Stratton (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas J. Yorke (W)
There were four plural districts, the 8th, 17th, 22nd & 23rd had two representatives each, the 3rd had four representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles A. Floyd (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Egbert (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles G. Ferris (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John McKeon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James I. Roosevelt (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Fernando Wood (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron Ward (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard D. Davis (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James G. Clinton (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Van Buren (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jacob Houck Jr. (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert McClellan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hiram P. Hunt (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Daniel D. Barnard (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Archibald L. Linn (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Bernard Blair (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas A. Tomlinson (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Sanford (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Andrew W. Doig (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David P. Brewster (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John G. Floyd (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas C. Chittenden (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel S. Bowne (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Gordon (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John C. Clark (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Partridge (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Riggs (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Victory Birdseye (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. A. Lawrence Foster (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Christopher Morgan (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Maynard (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Granger (W), until March 5, 1841
- Template:Party stripeJohn Greig (W), from May 21, 1841, until September 25, 1841
- Template:Party stripeFrancis Granger (W), from November 27, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William M. Oliver (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Timothy Childs (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Seth M. Gates (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Young (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Staley N. Clarke (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Millard Fillmore (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alfred Babcock (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Kenneth Rayner (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John R. J. Daniel (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edward Stanly (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Washington (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James I. McKay (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Archibald H. Arrington (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edmund Deberry (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Romulus M. Saunders (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustine H. Shepperd (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abraham Rencher (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Greene Caldwell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Graham (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Williams (W), until February 23, 1842
- Template:Party stripeAnderson Mitchell (W), from April 27, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Nathanael G. Pendleton (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John B. Weller (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick Goode (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeremiah Morrow (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Doan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Calvary Morris (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Russell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Ridgway (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Medill (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samson Mason (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin S. Cowen (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joshua Mathiot (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Mathews (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George Sweeny (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Sherlock Andrews (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joshua R. Giddings (W), until March 22, 1842, and from December 5, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Hastings (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Ezra Dean (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Stokely (W)
There were two plural districts, the 2nd had two representatives, the 4th had three representatives.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Brown (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Toland (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Sergeant (W), until September 15, 1841
- Template:Party stripeJoseph R. Ingersoll (W), from October 12, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles J. Ingersoll (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Jeremiah Brown (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Edwards (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis James (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Fornance (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Ramsey (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Westbrook (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Peter Newhard (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George M. Keim (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Simonton (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Gerry (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Cooper (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Amos Gustine (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Irvin (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Benjamin A. Bidlack (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Snyder (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Davis Dimock Jr. (D), until January 13, 1842
- Template:Party stripeAlmon H. Read (D), from March 18, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Charles Ogle (W), until May 10, 1841
- Template:Party stripeHenry Black (W), from June 28, 1841, until November 28, 1841
- Template:Party stripeJames M. Russell (W), from December 21, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Albert G. Marchand (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Enos Hook (D), until April 18, 1841
- Template:Party stripeHenry W. Beeson (D), from May 31, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph Lawrence (W), until April 17, 1842
- Template:Party stripeThomas M. T. McKennan (W), from May 30, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William W. Irwin (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Jack (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Henry (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Arnold Plumer (D)
Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert B. Cranston (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph L. Tillinghast (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Isaac E. Holmes (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert Rhett (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Campbell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Sampson H. Butler (D), until September 27, 1842
- Template:Party stripeSamuel W. Trotti (D), from December 17, 1842
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis W. Pickens (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Butler (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. James Rogers (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas D. Sumter (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Patrick C. Caldwell (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas D. Arnold (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Abraham McClellan (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Joseph L. Williams (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas Campbell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hopkins L. Turney (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William B. Campbell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert L. Caruthers (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Meredith P. Gentry (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Harvey M. Watterson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Aaron V. Brown (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cave Johnson (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Milton Brown (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Christopher Williams (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Hiland Hall (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Slade (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Horace Everett (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustus Young (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Mattocks (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Francis Mallory (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George B. Cary (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John W. Jones (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Goode (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Edmund W. Hubard (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Walter Coles (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William L. Goggin (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry A. Wise (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Robert M. T. Hunter (W)Template:Efn
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John Taliaferro (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. John M. Botts (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Thomas W. Gilmer (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Linn Banks (D), until December 6, 1841
- Template:Party stripeWilliam Smith (D), from December 6, 1841
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Cuthbert Powell (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Richard W. Barton (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. William Harris (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Alexander Stuart (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Hopkins (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. George W. Summers (W)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Samuel Hays (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Lewis Steenrod (D)
Non-voting members
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. David Levy Yulee (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Augustus C. Dodge (D)
- Template:Party stripeTemplate:Ushr. Henry Dodge (D)
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Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- Replacements: 9
- Deaths: 2
- Resignations: 8
- Interim appointments: 0
- Vacancy: 1
- Total seats with changes: 10
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| Alabama
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Clement C. Clay (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 15, 1841
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Arthur P. Bagby (D)
| Elected November 24, 1841
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| Rhode Island
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Nathan F. Dixon (W)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died January 29, 1842
| Template:Party shading/Whig | William Sprague (W)
| Elected February 18, 1842
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| Tennessee
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 7, 1842
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
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| New Hampshire
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Franklin Pierce (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 28, 1842
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Leonard Wilcox (D)
| Appointed March 1, 1842, and subsequently elected
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| Louisiana
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Alexandre Mouton (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 1, 1842, after being elected Governor of Louisiana
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Charles M. Conrad (W)
| Appointed April 14, 1842
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| Kentucky
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Henry Clay (W)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 31, 1842
| Template:Party shading/Whig | John J. Crittenden (W)
| Appointed March 31, 1842, and subsequently elected
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| Vermont
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Samuel Prentiss (W)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 11, 1842, to become judge of the U.S. District Court of Vermont
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Samuel C. Crafts (W)
| Appointed April 23, 1842, and subsequently elected
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| New Jersey
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Whig | Samuel L. Southard (W)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died June 26, 1842
| Template:Party shading/Whig | William L. Dayton (W)
| Appointed July 2, 1842
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| South Carolina
(3)
| Template:Party shading/Whig | William C. Preston (W)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 29, 1842
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | George McDuffie (D)
| Elected December 23, 1842
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| Maine
(1)
| Template:Party shading/Democratic | Reuel Williams (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 15, 1843
| Vacant
| Not filled this term
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House of Representatives
- Replacements: 17
- Deaths: 8
- Resignations: 12
- Contested election: 1
- Total seats with changes: 20
Template:Main Template:Ordinal US Congress change |- | Template:Ushr | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep. George Evans resigned in previous congress | Template:Party shading/Whig | David Bronson (W) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Francis Granger (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 5, 1841, after being appointed United States Postmaster General | Template:Party shading/Whig | John Greig (W) | Seated May 21, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Levi Lincoln Jr. (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 16, 1841, after being appointed Collector of the port of Boston | Template:Party shading/Whig | Charles Hudson (W) | Seated May 3, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Enos Hook (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 18, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Henry W. Beeson (D) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Charles Ogle (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 10, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Henry Black (W) | Seated June 28, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | John Sergeant (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 15, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Joseph R. Ingersoll (W) | Seated October 12, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | John Greig (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 25, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Francis Granger (W) | Seated November 27, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Julius C. Alford (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 1, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Edward J. Black (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Eugenius A. Nisbet (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 12, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Mark A. Cooper (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | William C. Dawson (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 13, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Walter T. Colquitt (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Henry Black (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 28, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Whig | James M. Russell (W) | Seated December 21, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Linn Banks (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election December 6, 1841 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | William Smith (D) | Seated December 6, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Davis Dimock Jr. (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 13, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Almon H. Read (D) | Seated March 18, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Lewis Williams (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died February 23, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Anderson Mitchell (W) | Seated April 27, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 22, 1842, after vote of his censure and re-elected to same seat | Template:Party shading/Whig | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | Seated December 5, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Joseph Lawrence (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 17, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Thomas M. T. McKennan (W) | Seated May 30, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 25, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Nathan Appleton (W) | Seated June 9, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | William S. Hastings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 17, 1842 | Vacant | Not filled this Congress |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Sampson H. Butler (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 27, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Samuel W. Trotti (D) | Seated December 17, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Nathan Appleton (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 28, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Whig | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | Seated November 29, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Whig | Richard W. Habersham (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Whig | George W. Crawford (W) | Seated January 7, 1843 |- | Template:Ushr | Template:Party shading/Democratic | James W. Williams (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | Template:Party shading/Democratic | Charles S. Sewall (D) | Seated January 2, 1843 |}
Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Senate
- Agriculture (Chairman: Lewis F. Linn)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Albert S. White then Benjamin Tappan)
- Claims (Chairman: William A. Graham)
- Commerce (Chairman: Jabez Huntington)
- Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
- Finance (Chairman: Clement C. Clay)
- Fiscal Corporation of the United States (Select)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: William C. Rives then William S. Archer)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: James T. Morehead then Albert White)
- Judiciary (Chairman: John M. Berrien)
- Manufactures (Chairman: George Evans)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Preston then John J. Crittenden)
- Militia (Chairman: Samuel S. Phelps)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Willie P. Mangum)
- Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Samuel Prentiss then John Leeds Kerr then Samuel S. Phelps)
- Pensions (Chairman: Isaac C. Bates)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John Henderson)
- Printing (Chairman: N/A)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
- Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Alexander Barrow)
- Public Lands (Chairman: Oliver H. Smith)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Nathan F. Dixon)
- Roads and Canals (Chairman: Augustus S. Porter)
- Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: Osmyn Baker)
- Agriculture (Chairman: Edmund Deberry)
- Apportionment of Representatives (Select)
- Claims (Chairman: Joshua Giddings)
- Commerce (Chairman: John P. Kennedy)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph R. Underwood)
- Elections (Chairman: William Halstead)
- Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Thomas Jones Yorke)
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Joshua A. Lowell)
- Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John Van Buren)
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: A. Lawrence Foster)
- Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: James Iver McKay)
- Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Cave Johnson)
- Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Caleb Cushing then John Quincy Adams)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Quincy Adams)
- Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Calvary Morris)
- Judiciary (Chairman: Daniel D. Barnard)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall I)
- Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi (Select)
- Mileage (Chairman: Thomas W. Williams)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Dawson)
- Militia (Chairman: George May Keim)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Henry A. Wise)
- Patents (Chairman: Thomas B. Osborne)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George N. Briggs)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: John Moore)
- Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: William W. Boardman)
- Public Expenditures (Chairman: James Graham)
- Public Lands (Chairman: William C. Johnson then Jeremiah Morrow then Reuben Chapman then Jeremiah Morrow)
- Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Francis James)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Hiland Hall)
- Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: John Taliaferro)
- Roads and Canals (Chairman: Joseph Lawrence)
- Rules (Select)
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories (Chairman: Garrett Davis)
- Ways and Means (Chairman: Millard Fillmore)
- Whole
Joint committees
- Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Sen. Augustus Porter then Sen. William Sprague)
- The Library (Chairman: N/A)
Employees
Senate
- Secretary: Asbury Dickins
- Sergeant at Arms: Stephen Haight, until March 8, 1841
- Edward Dyer, elected March 8, 1841
- Chaplain: George G. Cookman, Methodist, until June 12, 1841
- Septimus Tustin, Presbyterian, elected June 12, 1841
House of Representatives
- Clerk: Hugh A. Garland, until May 31, 1841
- Matthew St. Clair Clarke, elected May 31, 1841
- Sergeant at Arms: Roderick Dorsey, until June 8, 1841
- Eleazor M. Townsend, elected June 8, 1841
- Doorkeeper: Joseph Follansbee
- Postmaster: William J. McCormick
- Chaplain: John W. French, Episcopalian, elected May 31, 1841
- John N. Maffit, Methodist, elected December 6, 1841
- Frederick T. Tiffany, Episcopalian, elected December 5, 1842
- Reading Clerks: Template:Dm
See also
- 1840 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1842 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)