30th United States Congress - political parties

The Thirtieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1847 to March 3 1849, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President James K. Polk.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1840. The Senate had a Democratic majority, and the House had a Whig majority.

This article supplements the main article with a list of the members by political party.

:"Main article: 30th United States Congress":"See also: 30th United States Congress - State Delegations":"See also: United States House elections, 1846"

The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.

Dates of sessions

March 4 1847 - March 3 1849
*First session: December 6 1847 - August 14 1848
*Second session: December 4 1848 - March 3 1849 — a lame duck sessionPrevious congress: "29th Congress"
Next congress: "31st Congress"

Party summary

The count below identifies affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated.

enate

Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

Democratic

:A-F
* William Allen (1803-1879), "Ohio"
* Chester Ashley (1790-1848), "Arkansas" …died April 29 1848.
* David R. Atchison (1807-1886), "Missouri"
* Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), "New Hampshire"
* Arthur P. Bagby (1794-1858), "Alabama" …resigned June 16 1848.
* Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), "Missouri"
* Solon Borland (1808-1864), "Arkansas" …appointed to fill vacancy, March 30 1848, subsequently elected.
* James W. Bradbury (1802-1901), "Maine"
* Sidney Breese (1800-1878), "Illinois"
* Jesse D. Bright (1812-1875), "Indiana"
* Andrew P. Butler (1796-1857), "South Carolina"
* John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "South Carolina"
* Simon Cameron (1799-1889), "Pennsylvania"
* Lewis Cass (1782-1866), "Michigan" …resigned May 29 1848, subsequently elected to fill vacancy, March 4 1849.
* Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), "Georgia" …resigned February 1848.
* Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), "Mississippi" …appointed to fill vacancy, August 10 1847, subsequently elected.
* Daniel S. Dickinson (1800-1866), "New York"
* John A. Dix (1798-1879), "New York"
* Augustus C. Dodge (1812-1883), "Iowa" …newly admitted state, seated December 7 1848.
* Henry Dodge (1782-1867), "Wisconsin" …newly admitted state, seated June 8 1848.
* Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), "Illinois"
* Solomon W. Downs (1801-1854), "Louisiana"
* John Fairfield (1797-1847), "Maine" …died December 24 1847.
* Alpheus Felch (1804-1896), "Michigan"
* Thomas Fitzgerald (1796-1855), "Michigan" …appointed to fill vacancy, June 8 1848.
* Benjamin Fitzpatrick (1802-1869), "Alabama" …appointed to fill vacancy, November 25 1848.
* Henry S. Foote (1804-1880), "Mississippi" :G-L
* Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), "Maine" …elected to fill vacancy, May 26 1848.
* Edward A. Hannegan (1807-1859), "Indiana"
* Samuel Houston (1793-1863), "Texas"
* Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), "Virginia"
* Herschel V. Johnson (1812-1880), "Georgia" …appointed to fill vacancy, February 4 1848, subsequently elected.
* George W. Jones (1804-1896), "Iowa" …newly admitted state, seated December 7 1848.
* William R. D. King (1786-1853), "Alabama" …appointed to fill vacancy, July 1 1848.
* David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), "Florida"
* Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), "Alabama" …died October 25 1848.:M-R
* James M. Mason (1798-1871), "Virginia"
* Wyman B. S. Moor (1811-1869), "Maine" …appointed to fill vacancy, January 5 1848.
* John M. Niles (1787-1856), "Connecticut"
* Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857), "Texas" :S-Z
* William K. Sebastian (1812-1865), "Arkansas" …appointed to fill vacancy, May 12 1848, subsequently elected.
* Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848), "Arkansas" …resigned March 15 1848.
* Jesse Speight (1795-1847), "Mississippi" …died May 1 1847.
* Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), "Pennsylvania"
* Hopkins L. Turney (1797-1857), "Tennessee"
* Isaac P. Walker (1815-1872), "Wisconsin" …newly admitted state, seated June 8 1848.
* James D. Westcott, Jr. (1802-1880), "Florida"
* David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), "Florida"

Whig

:A-F
* George E. Badger (1795-1866), "North Carolina"
* Roger S. Baldwin (1793-1863), "Connecticut" …appointed to fill vacancy, November 11 1847, subsequently elected.
* John Bell (1797-1869), "Tennessee" …elected to fill vacancy, November 22 1847.
* John Mcpherson Berrien (1781-1856), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy in class, November 12 1847.
* John H. Clarke (1789-1870), "Rhode Island"
* John M. Clayton (1796-1856), "Delaware" …resigned February 23 1849.
* Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), "Ohio"
* John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), "Kentucky" …resigned June 12 1848.
* John Davis (1787-1854), "Massachusetts"
* John Davis (1787-1854), "Massachusetts"
* William L. Dayton (1807-1864), "New Jersey" :G-L
* Albert C. Greene (1792-1863), "Rhode Island"
* Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), "Connecticut" …died November 1 1847.
* Henry Johnson (1783-1864), "Louisiana"
* Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), "Maryland" :M-R
* Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), "North Carolina"
* Thomas Metcalfe (1780-1855), "Kentucky" …appointed to fill vacancy, June 23 1848, subsequently elected.
* Jacob W. Miller (1800-1862), "New Jersey"
* James A. Pearce (1805-1862), "Maryland"
* Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), "Vermont" :S-Z
* Presley Spruance (1785-1863), "Delaware"
* Joseph R. Underwood (1791-1876), "Kentucky"
* William Upham (1792-1853), "Vermont"
* John Wales (1783-1863), "Delaware" …elected to fill vacancy, February 23 1849.
* Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "Massachusetts"

Independent Democratic

* John P. Hale (1806-1873), "New Hampshire"

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.

Democratic

:A-B-C
* Archibald Atkinson (1792-1872), "Virginia"
* Thomas H. Bayly (1810-1856), "Virginia"
* Richard Lee T. Beale (1819-1893), "Virginia"
* Henry Bedinger (1812-1858), "Virginia"
* Kinsley S. Bingham (1808-1861), "Michigan"
* Ausburn Birdsall (1814-1903), "New York"
* James A. Black (1793-1848), "South Carolina" …died April 3 1848.
* Thomas S. Bocock (1815-1891), "Virginia"
* Franklin W. Bowdon (1817-1857), "Alabama"
* James B. Bowlin (1804-1874), "Missouri"
* Linn Boyd (1800-1859), "Kentucky"
* Edward Bradley (1808-1847), "Michigan" …died August 5 1847, before Congress assembled.
* Samuel A. Bridges (1802-1884), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 6 1848.
* Richard Brodhead (1811-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* Albert G. Brown (1813-1880), "Mississippi"
* Charles Brown (1797-1883), "Pennsylvania"
* William G. Brown, Sr. (1800-1884), "Virginia"
* Armistead Burt (1802-1883), "South Carolina"
* Charles W. Cathcart (1809-1888), "Indiana"
* Lucien B. Chase (1817-1864), "Tennessee"
* Asa W. H. Clapp (1805-1891), "Maine"
* Franklin Clark (1801-1874), "Maine"
* Beverly L. Clarke (1809-1860), "Kentucky"
* Howell Cobb (1815-1868), "Georgia"
* Williamson R. W. Cobb (1807-1864), "Alabama"
* William Collins (1818-1878), "New York"
* John D. Cummins (1791-1849), "Ohio" :D-E-F
* John R. J. Daniel (1802-1868), "North Carolina"
* Mason C. Darling (1801-1866), "Wisconsin"
* Rodolphus Dickinson (1797-1849), "Ohio"
* George C. Dromgoole (1797-1847), "Virginia" …died April 27 1847, before Congress assembled.
* Joseph E. Edsall (1789-1865), "New Jersey"
* James J. Faran (1808-1892), "Ohio"
* Winfield S. Featherston (1820-1891), "Mississippi"
* Orlando B. Ficklin (1808-1886), "Illinois"
* Richard French (1792-1854), "Kentucky"
* George Fries (1799-1866), "Ohio" :G-H-I
* James S. Green (1817-1870), "Missouri"
* Willard P. Hall (1820-1882), "Missouri"
* David Hammons (1808-1888), "Maine"
* Hugh A. Haralson (1805-1854), "Georgia"
* John H. Harmanson (1803-1850), "Louisiana"
* Sampson W. Harris (1809-1857), "Alabama"
* Thomas J. Henley (1810-1865), "Indiana"
* Hugh L. W. Hill (1810-1892), "Tennessee"
* Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), "South Carolina"
* George S. Houston (1811-1879), "Alabama"
* Samuel W. Inge (1817-1868), "Alabama"
* Charles J. Ingersoll (1782-1862), "Pennsylvania"
* Alfred Iverson, Sr. (1798-1873), "Georgia" :J-K-L
* David S. Jackson (1813-1872), "New York" …contested election, served until April 19 1848.
* John Jameson (1802-1857), "Missouri"
* Timothy Jenkins (1799-1859), "New York"
* Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), "Tennessee"
* James H. Johnson (1802-1887), "New Hampshire"
* Robert W. Johnson (1814-1879), "Arkansas"
* George W. Jones (1806-1884), "Tennessee"
* David S. Kaufman (1813-1851), "Texas"
* William Kennon, Jr. (1802-1867), "Ohio"
* Emile La Sére (1802-1882), "Louisiana"
* Samuel Lahm (1812-1876), "Ohio"
* Sidney Lawrence (1801-1892), "New York"
* Shepherd Leffler (1811-1879), "Iowa"
* Thomas W. Ligon (1810-1881), "Maryland"
* Frederick W. Lord (1800-1860), "New York"
* John H. Lumpkin (1812-1860), "Georgia"
* William P. Lynde (1817-1885), "Wisconsin" :M-N-O
* William B. Maclay (1812-1882), "New York"
* Job Mann (1795-1873), "Pennsylvania"
* Robert McClelland (1807-1880), "Michigan"
* John A. McClernand (1812-1900), "Illinois"
* James McDowell (1795-1851), "Virginia"
* James I. McKay (1793-1853), "North Carolina"
* Robert M. McLane (1815-1898), "Maryland"
* John McQueen (1804-1867), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 12 1849.
* Richard K. Meade (1803-1862), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6 1847.
* John K. Miller (1819-1863), "Ohio"
* Jonathan D. Morris (1804-1875), "Ohio" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6 1847.
* Isaac E. Morse (1809-1866), "Louisiana"
* Henry C. Murphy (1810-1882), "New York"
* Henry Nicoll (1812-1879), "New York" :P-Q-R
* Charles H. Peaslee (1804-1866), "New Hampshire"
* Lucius B. Peck (1802-1866), "Vermont"
* John Pettit (1807-1877), "Indiana"
* Samuel O. Peyton (1804-1870), "Kentucky"
* John S. Phelps (1814-1886), "Missouri"
* Timothy Pilsbury (1789-1858), "Texas"
* R. Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* William A. Richardson (1811-1875), "Illinois" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6 1847.
* Thomas Ritchey (1801-1863), "Ohio"
* John L. Robinson (1813-1860), "Indiana"
* William Rockhill (1793-1865), "Indiana" :S-T-U-V
* William Sawyer (1803-1877), "Ohio"
* Richard F. Simpson (1798-1882), "South Carolina"
* Alexander D. Sims (1803-1848), "South Carolina" …died November 16 1848.
* Ephraim K. Smart (1813-1872), "Maine"
* Robert B. Smith (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* Frederick P. Stanton (1814-1894), "Tennessee"
* George A. Starkweather (1794-1879), "New York"
* William Strong (1808-1895), "Pennsylvania"
* Charles E. Stuart (1810-1887), "Michigan" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 6 1847.
* James H. Thomas (1808-1876), "Tennessee"
* Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), "Mississippi"
* James Thompson (1806-1874), "Pennsylvania"
* Robert A. Thompson (1805-1876), "Virginia"
* William Thompson (1813-1897), "Iowa"
* Benjamin B. Thurston (1804-1886), "Rhode Island"
* Thomas J. Turner (1815-1874), "Illinois"
* Abraham W. Venable (1799-1876), "North Carolina" :W-X-Y-Z
* Daniel Wallace (1801-1859), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 12 1848.
* John Wentworth (1815-1888), "Illinois"
* William W. Wick (1796-1868), "Indiana"
* James S. Wiley (1808-1891), "Maine"
* Hezekiah Williams (1798-1856), "Maine"
* David Wilmot (1814-1868), "Pennsylvania"
* Joseph A. Woodward (1806-1885), "South Carolina"

Whig

:A-B-C
* Amos Abbott (1786-1868), "Massachusetts"
* Green Adams (1812-1884), "Kentucky"
* John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), "Massachusetts" …died February 23 1848.
* George Ashmun (1804-1870), "Massachusetts"
* Daniel M. Barringer (1806-1873), "North Carolina"
* Washington Barrow (1807-1866), "Tennessee"
* Hiram Belcher (1790-1857), "Maine"
* Esbon Blackmar (1805-1857), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1848.
* John Blanchard (1787-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* John M. Botts (1802-1869), "Virginia"
* Nathaniel Boyden (1796-1873), "North Carolina"
* Jasper E. Brady (1797-1871), "Pennsylvania"
* Aylette Buckner (1806-1869), "Kentucky"
* Chester P. Butler (1798-1850), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward C. Cabell (1816-1896), "Florida"
* Richard S. Canby (1808-1895), "Ohio"
* John G. Chapman (1798-1856), "Maryland"
* Thomas L. Clingman (1812-1897), "North Carolina"
* William M. Cocke (1815-1896), "Tennessee"
* Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), "Vermont"
* Harmon S. Conger (1816-1882), "New York"
* Robert B. Cranston (1791-1873), "Rhode Island"
* John W. Crisfield (1806-1897), "Maryland"
* John Crowell (1801-1883), "Ohio"
* John H. Crozier (1812-1889), "Tennessee" :D-E-F
* John Dickey (1794-1853), "Pennsylvania"
* James Dixon (1814-1873), "Connecticut"
* Richard S. Donnell (1820-1867), "North Carolina"
* William Duer (1805-1879), "New York"
* Daniel Duncan (1806-1849), "Ohio"
* W. Garnett Duncan (1800-1875), "Kentucky"
* George G. Dunn (1812-1857), "Indiana"
* George N. Eckert (1802-1865), "Pennsylvania"
* Thomas O. Edwards (1810-1876), "Ohio"
* Elisha Embree (1801-1863), "Indiana"
* Alexander Evans (1818-1888), "Maryland"
* Nathan Evans (1804-1879), "Ohio"
* John W. Farrelly (1809-1860), "Pennsylvania"
* David Fisher (1794-1886), "Ohio"
* Thomas S. Flournoy (1811-1883), "Virginia"
* John Freedley (1793-1851), "Pennsylvania"
* Andrew S. Fulton (1800-1884), "Virginia" :G-H-I
* John P. Gaines (1795-1857), "Kentucky"
* John Gayle (1792-1859), "Alabama"
* Meredith P. Gentry (1809-1866), "Tennessee"
* Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), "Ohio"
* William L. Goggin (1807-1870), "Virginia"
* Daniel Gott (1794-1864), "New York"
* Horace Greeley (1811-1872), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1848.
* Dudley S. Gregory (1800-1874), "New Jersey"
* Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), "Massachusetts"
* Artemas Hale (1783-1882), "Massachusetts"
* Nathan K. Hall (1810-1874), "New York"
* James G. Hampton (1814-1861), "New Jersey"
* Moses Hampton (1803-1878), "Pennsylvania"
* William T. Haskell (1818-1859), "Tennessee"
* William Henry (1788-1861), "Vermont"
* Henry W. Hilliard (1808-1892), "Alabama"
* John M. Holley (1802-1848), "New York" …died March 8 1848.
* Elias B. Holmes (1807-1866), "New York"
* John W. Hornbeck (1804-1848), "Pennsylvania" …died January 16 1848.
* John W. Houston (1814-1896), "Delaware"
* Samuel D. Hubbard (1799-1855), "Connecticut"
* Charles Hudson (1795-1881), "Massachusetts"
* Washington Hunt (1811-1867), "New York" :J-K-L
* Joseph R. Ingersoll (1786-1868), "Pennsylvania"
* Alexander Irvin (1800-1874), "Pennsylvania"
* John W. Jones (1806-1871), "Georgia"
* Orlando Kellogg (1809-1865), "New York"
* Daniel P. King (1801-1850), "Massachusetts"
* Thomas B. King (1800-1864), "Georgia"
* William T. Lawrence (1788-1859), "New York"
* Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), "Illinois" :M-N-O
* Horace Mann (1796-1859), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 13 1848.
* George P. Marsh (1801-1882), "Vermont"
* Dudley Marvin (1786-1856), "New York"
* Abraham R. McIlvaine (1804-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* Charles S. Morehead (1802-1868), "Kentucky"
* Joseph Mullin (1811-1882), "New York"
* William Nelson (1784-1869), "New York"
* Henry Nes (1799-1850), "Pennsylvania"
* William A. Newell (1817-1901), "New Jersey"
* David Outlaw (1806-1868), "North Carolina" :P-Q-R
* John G. Palfrey (1796-1881), "Massachusetts"
* John S. Pendleton (1802-1868), "Virginia"
* James Pollock (1810-1890), "Pennsylvania"
* William B. Preston (1805-1862), "Virginia"
* Harvey Putnam (1793-1855), "New York"
* Gideon Reynolds (1813-1896), "New York"
* John A. Rockwell (1803-1861), "Connecticut"
* Julius Rockwell (1805-1888), "Massachusetts"
* J. Dixon Roman (1809-1867), "Maryland"
* Joseph M. Root (1807-1879), "Ohio"
* Robert L. Rose (1804-1877), "New York"
* David Rumsey, Jr. (1810-1883), "New York" :S-T-U-V
* Robert C. Schenck (1809-1890), "Ohio"
* Augustine H. Shepperd (1792-1864), "North Carolina"
* Eliakim Sherrill (1813-1863), "New York"
* Peter H. Silvester (1807-1882), "New York"
* John I. Slingerland (1804-1861), "New York"
* Caleb B. Smith (1808-1864), "Indiana"
* Truman Smith (1791-1884), "Connecticut"
* Daniel B. St. John (1808-1890), "New York"
* Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), "Georgia"
* Andrew Stewart (1791-1872), "Pennsylvania"
* John Strohm (1793-1884), "Pennsylvania"
* Frederick A. Tallmadge (1792-1869), "New York"
* John L. Taylor (1805-1870), "Ohio"
* Bannon G. Thibodeaux (1812-1866), "Louisiana"
* John B. Thompson (1810-1874), "Kentucky"
* Richard W. Thompson (1809-1900), "Indiana"
* Patrick W. Tompkins (1804-1853), "Mississippi"
* Robert A. Toombs (1810-1885), "Georgia"
* John Van Dyke (1807-1878), "New Jersey"
* Samuel F. Vinton (1792-1862), "Ohio" :W-X-Y-Z
* Cornelius Warren (1790-1849), "New York"
* Hugh White (1798-1870), "New York"
* James Wilson (1797-1881), "New Hampshire"
* Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), "Massachusetts"

=American=

* Lewis C. Levin (1808-1860), "Pennsylvania"

Independent Democratic

* George Petrie (1793-1879), "New York"
* Robert Smith (1802-1867), "Illinois"

Independent

* Amos Tuck (1810-1879), "New Hampshire"

References

*cite book|title = The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress|last = Martis|first = Kenneth C.|authorlink =|coauthors =|year = 1989|publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company|location = New York|id =
*cite book|title = The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts|last = Martis|first = Kenneth C.|authorlink =|coauthors =|year = 1982|publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company|location = New York|id =

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsllink.html Statutes at Large, 1789-1875]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsjlink.html Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwhjlink.html#anchor2 House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress]
* [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/index.html Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress]
* [http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html U.S. House of Representatives: House History]
* [http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/stats_and_lists.htm U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists]