29th United States Congress - political parties

The Twenty-ninth 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 1845 to March 3 1847, during the first 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. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

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

:"Main article: 29th United States Congress":"See also: 29th United States Congress - State Delegations":"See also: United States House elections, 1844"

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

Dates of sessions

March 4 1845 - March 3 1847
*Special session of the Senate: March 4 1845 - March 20 1845
*First session: December 1 1845 - August 10 1846
*Second session: December 7 1846 - March 3 1847 — a lame duck sessionPrevious congress: "28th Congress"
Next congress: "30th 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"
* David R. Atchison (1807-1886), "Missouri"
* Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), "New Hampshire"
* Arthur P. Bagby (1794-1858), "Alabama"
* Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), "Missouri"
* Sidney Breese (1800-1878), "Illinois"
* Jesse D. Bright (1812-1875), "Indiana"
* James Buchanan (1791-1868), "Pennsylvania" …resigned March 5 1845.
* Andrew P. Butler (1796-1857), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, December 4 1846.
* John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy in class, November 26 1845.
* Simon Cameron (1799-1889), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, March 13 1845.
* Lewis Cass (1782-1866), "Michigan"
* Joseph W. Chalmers (1807-1853), "Mississippi" …elected to fill vacancy, November 3 1845.
* Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), "Georgia"
* Daniel S. Dickinson (1800-1866), "New York"
* John A. Dix (1798-1879), "New York"
* John Fairfield (1797-1847), "Maine" :G-L
* Edward A. Hannegan (1807-1859), "Indiana"
* William H. Haywood, Jr. (1801-1852), "North Carolina" …resigned July 25 1846.
* Samuel Houston (1793-1863), "Texas" …newly admitted state, seated February 21 1846.
* Benning W. Jenness (1806-1879), "New Hampshire" …appointed to fill vacancy, December 1 1845.
* David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), "Florida"
* Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), "Alabama" :M-R
* James M. Mason (1798-1871), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, January 21 1847.
* George McDuffie (1790-1851), "South Carolina" …resigned August 17 1846.
* John M. Niles (1787-1856), "Connecticut"
* Isaac S. Pennybacker (1805-1847), "Virginia" …elected December 3 1845, died January 12 1847.
* Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857), "Texas" …newly admitted state, seated February 21 1846.:S-Z
* James Semple (1798-1866), "Illinois"
* Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848), "Arkansas"
* Pierre Soulé (1801-1870), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy, January 21 1847.
* Jesse Speight (1795-1847), "Mississippi"
* Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), "Pennsylvania"
* Hopkins L. Turney (1797-1857), "Tennessee"
* Robert J. Walker (1801-1869), "Mississippi" …resigned March 5 1845.
* James D. Westcott, Jr. (1802-1880), "Florida" …newly admitted state, seated July 1 1845.
* Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), "New Hampshire" …resigned November 20 1845.
* David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), "Florida" …newly admitted state, seated July 1 1845.

Whig

:A-F
* William S. Archer (1789-1855), "Virginia"
* George E. Badger (1795-1866), "North Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, November 25 1846.
* Alexander Barrow (1801-1846), "Louisiana" …died December 29 1846.
* Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), "Massachusetts" …died March 16 1845.
* John Mcpherson Berrien (1781-1856), "Georgia" …resigned May 1845, elected to fill vacancy, seated November 14 1845.
* John M. Clayton (1796-1856), "Delaware"
* Thomas Clayton (1777-1854), "Delaware"
* Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), "Ohio"
* John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), "Kentucky"
* John Davis (1787-1854), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, March 24 1845.
* William L. Dayton (1807-1864), "New Jersey"
* George Evans (1797-1867), "Maine" :G-L
* Albert C. Greene (1792-1863), "Rhode Island"
* Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), "Connecticut"
* Spencer Jarnagin (1792-1853), "Tennessee"
* Henry Johnson (1783-1864), "Louisiana"
* Reverdy Johnson (1796-1876), "Maryland" :M-R
* Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), "North Carolina"
* Jacob W. Miller (1800-1862), "New Jersey"
* James T. Morehead (1797-1854), "Kentucky"
* James A. Pearce (1805-1862), "Maryland"
* Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), "Vermont" :S-Z
* James F. Simmons (1795-1864), "Rhode Island"
* William Upham (1792-1853), "Vermont"
* Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "Massachusetts"
* William Woodbridge (1780-1861), "Michigan"

Liberty

* Joseph Cilley (1791-1887), "New Hampshire" …elected to fill vacancy, June 13 1846.

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
* Stephen Adams (1807-1857), "Mississippi"
* Joseph H. Anderson (1800-1870), "New York"
* Archibald Atkinson (1792-1872), "Virginia"
* Thomas H. Bayly (1810-1856), "Virginia"
* Henry Bedinger (1812-1858), "Virginia"
* Charles S. Benton (1810-1882), "New York"
* Asa Biggs (1811-1878), "North Carolina"
* James Black (1793-1872), "Pennsylvania"
* James A. Black (1793-1848), "South Carolina"
* Franklin W. Bowdon (1817-1857), "Alabama" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1846.
* James B. Bowlin (1804-1874), "Missouri"
* Linn Boyd (1800-1859), "Kentucky"
* Jacob Brinkerhoff (1810-1880), "Ohio"
* William H. Brockenbrough (1812-1850), "Florida" …contested election, seated January 24 1846.
* Richard Brodhead (1811-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* William G. Brown, Sr. (1800-1884), "Virginia"
* Armistead Burt (1802-1883), "South Carolina"
* Charles W. Cathcart (1809-1888), "Indiana"
* Augustus A. Chapman (1803-1876), "Virginia"
* Reuben Chapman (1799-1882), "Alabama"
* Lucien B. Chase (1817-1864), "Tennessee"
* John S. Chipman (1800-1869), "Michigan"
* Henry S. Clark (1809-1869), "North Carolina"
* Howell Cobb (1815-1868), "Georgia"
* John F. Collin (1802-1889), "New York"
* Albert Constable (1805-1855), "Maryland"
* James L. Cottrell (1808-1885), "Alabama" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1846.
* Alvan Cullom (1797-1877), "Tennessee"
* John D. Cummins (1791-1849), "Ohio"
* Francis A. Cunningham (1804-1864), "Ohio" :D-E-F
* John R. J. Daniel (1802-1868), "North Carolina"
* Edmund S. Dargan (1805-1879), "Alabama"
* Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), "Mississippi" …resigned June 1846.
* John W. Davis (1799-1859), "Indiana"
* John De Mott (1790-1870), "New York"
* Paul Dillingham, Jr. (1799-1891), "Vermont"
* James C. Dobbin (1814-1857), "North Carolina"
* Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), "Illinois"
* George C. Dromgoole (1797-1847), "Virginia"
* Robert P. Dunlap (1794-1859), "Maine"
* Joseph E. Edsall (1789-1865), "New Jersey"
* Henry T. Ellett (1812-1887), "Mississippi" …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 26 1847.
* Samuel S. Ellsworth (1790-1863), "New York"
* Jacob Erdman (1801-1867), "Pennsylvania"
* James J. Faran (1808-1892), "Ohio"
* Orlando B. Ficklin (1808-1886), "Illinois"
* Henry D. Foster (1808-1880), "Pennsylvania"
* George Fries (1799-1866), "Ohio" :G-H-I
* William S. Garvin (1806-1883), "Pennsylvania"
* William F. Giles (1807-1879), "Maryland"
* Charles Goodyear (1804-1876), "New York"
* Samuel Gordon (1802-1873), "New York"
* Martin Grover (1811-1875), "New York"
* Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), "Maine"
* Hugh A. Haralson (1805-1854), "Georgia"
* John H. Harmanson (1803-1850), "Louisiana"
* S. Clifton Hastings (1813-1893), "Iowa" …newly admitted state, seated December 29 1846.
* Thomas J. Henley (1810-1865), "Indiana"
* Joseph P. Hoge (1810-1891), "Illinois"
* Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), "South Carolina"
* George W. Hopkins (1804-1861), "Virginia"
* William J. Hough (1795-1869), "New York"
* George S. Houston (1811-1879), "Alabama"
* Edmund W. Hubard (1806-1878), "Virginia"
* Orville Hungerford (1790-1851), "New York"
* James B. Hunt (1799-1857), "Michigan"
* Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), "Virginia"
* Charles J. Ingersoll (1782-1862), "Pennsylvania" :J-K-L
* Timothy Jenkins (1799-1859), "New York"
* Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), "Tennessee"
* James H. Johnson (1802-1887), "New Hampshire"
* Joseph Johnson (1785-1877), "Virginia"
* George W. Jones (1806-1884), "Tennessee"
* Seaborn Jones (1788-1864), "Georgia"
* David S. Kaufman (1813-1851), "Texas" …newly admitted state, seated June 1 1846.
* Andrew Kennedy (1810-1847), "Indiana"
* Preston King (1806-1865), "New York"
* Emile La Sére (1802-1882), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 29 1846.
* John W. Lawrence (1800-1888), "New York"
* Shelton F. Leake (1812-1884), "Virginia"
* Shepherd Leffler (1811-1879), "Iowa" …newly admitted state, seated December 29 1846.
* Owen D. Leib ( -1848), "Pennsylvania"
* Thomas W. Ligon (1810-1881), "Maryland"
* John H. Lumpkin (1812-1860), "Georgia" :M-N-O
* William B. Maclay (1812-1882), "New York"
* Barclay Martin (1802-1890), "Tennessee"
* John P. Martin (1811-1862), "Kentucky"
* Moses McClean (1804-1870), "Pennsylvania"
* Robert McClelland (1807-1880), "Michigan"
* John A. McClernand (1812-1900), "Illinois"
* Felix G. McConnell (1809-1846), "Alabama" …died September 10 1846.
* John D. McCrate (1802-1879), "Maine"
* William McDaniel (1801-1866), "Missouri" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1846.
* James McDowell (1795-1851), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 6 1846.
* Joseph J. McDowell (1800-1877), "Ohio"
* James I. McKay (1793-1853), "North Carolina"
* Joseph Morris (1795-1854), "Ohio"
* Isaac E. Morse (1809-1866), "Louisiana"
* Mace Moulton (1796-1867), "New Hampshire"
* Archibald C. Niven (1803-1882), "New York"
* Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1855), "New Hampshire"
* Robert D. Owen (1801-1877), "Indiana" :P-Q-R
* Isaac Parrish (1804-1860), "Ohio"
* William W. Payne (1807-1874), "Alabama"
* Augustus L. Perrill (1807-1882), "Ohio"
* Thomas J. Perry (1807-1871), "Maryland"
* John Pettit (1807-1877), "Indiana"
* John S. Phelps (1814-1886), "Missouri"
* Timothy Pilsbury (1789-1858), "Texas" …newly admitted state, seated June 10 1846.
* Sterling Price (1809-1867), "Missouri" …resigned August 12 1846.
* George O. Rathbun (1803-1870), "New York"
* David S. Reid (1813-1891), "North Carolina"
* James H. Relfe (1791-1863), "Missouri"
* R. Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* John Ritter (1779-1851), "Pennsylvania"
* Robert W. Roberts (1784-1865), "Mississippi"
* Joseph Russell ( - ), "New York" :S-T-U-V
* Cullen Sawtelle (1805-1887), "Maine"
* William Sawyer (1803-1877), "Ohio"
* John F. Scamman (1786-1858), "Maine"
* James A. Seddon (1815-1880), "Virginia"
* Richard F. Simpson (1798-1882), "South Carolina"
* Alexander D. Sims (1803-1848), "South Carolina"
* Leonard H. Sims (1807-1886), "Missouri"
* John Slidell (1793-1871), "Louisiana" …resigned November 10 1845.
* Robert Smith (1802-1867), "Illinois"
* Robert B. Smith (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* Thomas Smith (1799-1876), "Indiana"
* Henry St. John (1783-1869), "Ohio"
* Frederick P. Stanton (1814-1894), "Tennessee"
* David A. Starkweather (1802-1876), "Ohio"
* Stephen Strong (1791-1866), "New York"
* George Sykes (1802-1880), "New Jersey" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1845.
* William Taylor (1788-1846), "Virginia" …died January 17 1846.
* Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), "Mississippi"
* James Thompson (1806-1874), "Pennsylvania"
* Allen G. Thurman (1813-1895), "Ohio"
* John W. Tibbatts (1802-1852), "Kentucky"
* George W. B. Towns (1801-1854), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 27 1846.
* William M. Tredway (1807-1891), "Virginia" :W-X-Y-Z
* John Wentworth (1815-1888), "Illinois"
* Horace Wheaton (1803-1882), "New York"
* William W. Wick (1796-1868), "Indiana"
* Hezekiah Williams (1798-1856), "Maine"
* David Wilmot (1814-1868), "Pennsylvania"
* Bradford R. Wood (1800-1889), "New York"
* Joseph A. Woodward (1806-1885), "South Carolina"
* William W. Woodworth (1807-1873), "New York"
* William L. Yancey (1814-1863), "Alabama" …resigned September 1 1846.
* Archibald Yell (1797-1847), "Arkansas" …resigned July 1 1846.
* Jacob S. Yost (1801-1872), "Pennsylvania"

Whig

:A-B-C
* Amos Abbott (1786-1868), "Massachusetts"
* John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), "Massachusetts"
* Lemuel H. Arnold (1792-1852), "Rhode Island"
* George Ashmun (1804-1870), "Massachusetts"
* Edward D. Baker (1811-1861), "Illinois" …resigned December 30 1846.
* Daniel M. Barringer (1806-1873), "North Carolina"
* Joshua F. Bell (1811-1870), "Kentucky"
* John Blanchard (1787-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* Milton Brown (1804-1883), "Tennessee"
* Joseph Buffington (1803-1872), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward C. Cabell (1816-1896), "Florida" …contested election, served until January 24 1846.
* Charles H. Carroll (1794-1865), "New York"
* John G. Chapman (1798-1856), "Maryland"
* William M. Cocke (1815-1896), "Tennessee"
* Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), "Vermont"
* Henry Y. Cranston (1789-1864), "Rhode Island"
* John H. Crozier (1812-1889), "Tennessee"
* Erastus D. Culver (1803-1889), "New York" :D-E-F
* Cornelius Darragh (1809-1854), "Pennsylvania"
* Garrett Davis (1801-1872), "Kentucky"
* Columbus Delano (1809-1896), "Ohio"
* James Dixon (1814-1873), "Connecticut"
* Alfred Dockery (1797-1875), "North Carolina"
* Edwin H. Ewing (1809-1902), "Tennessee" …elected to fill vacancy, January 2 1846.
* John H. Ewing (1796-1887), "Pennsylvania"
* Solomon Foot (1802-1866), "Vermont" :G-H-I
* Meredith P. Gentry (1809-1866), "Tennessee"
* Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), "Ohio"
* James Graham (1793-1851), "North Carolina"
* Henry Grider (1796-1866), "Kentucky"
* Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), "Massachusetts"
* Artemas Hale (1783-1882), "Massachusetts"
* James G. Hampton (1814-1861), "New Jersey"
* Alexander Harper (1786-1860), "Ohio"
* John Henry (1800-1882), "Illinois" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 5 1847.
* Richard P. Herrick (1791-1846), "New York" …died June 20 1846.
* Henry W. Hilliard (1808-1892), "Alabama"
* Elias B. Holmes (1807-1866), "New York"
* John W. Houston (1814-1896), "Delaware"
* Samuel D. Hubbard (1799-1855), "Connecticut"
* Charles Hudson (1795-1881), "Massachusetts"
* Washington Hunt (1811-1867), "New York"
* Joseph R. Ingersoll (1786-1868), "Pennsylvania" :J-K-L
* Daniel P. King (1801-1850), "Massachusetts"
* Thomas B. King (1800-1864), "Georgia"
* Abner Lewis ( - ), "New York"
* Edward H. C. Long (1808-1865), "Maryland" :M-N-O
* George P. Marsh (1801-1882), "Vermont"
* Edward W. McGaughey (1817-1852), "Indiana"
* John H. McHenry (1797-1871), "Kentucky"
* Abraham R. McIlvaine (1804-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* William A. Moseley (1798-1873), "New York"
* Thomas W. Newton (1804-1853), "Arkansas" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 6 1847.:P-Q-R
* John S. Pendleton (1802-1868), "Virginia"
* Joseph H. Peyton (1808-1845), "Tennessee" …died November 12 1845, before Congress assembled.
* James Pollock (1810-1890), "Pennsylvania"
* Alexander Ramsey (1815-1903), "Pennsylvania"
* Thomas C. Ripley ( - ), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1846.
* John A. Rockwell (1803-1861), "Connecticut"
* Julius Rockwell (1805-1888), "Massachusetts"
* Joseph M. Root (1807-1879), "Ohio"
* John Runk (1791-1872), "New Jersey" :S-T-U-V
* Robert C. Schenck (1809-1890), "Ohio"
* Luther Severance (1797-1855), "Maine"
* Albert Smith (1805-1870), "New York"
* Caleb B. Smith (1808-1864), "Indiana"
* Truman Smith (1791-1884), "Connecticut"
* Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), "Georgia"
* Andrew Stewart (1791-1872), "Pennsylvania"
* John Strohm (1793-1884), "Pennsylvania"
* Bannon G. Thibodeaux (1812-1866), "Louisiana"
* William P. Thomasson (1797-1882), "Kentucky"
* Benjamin Thompson (1798-1852), "Massachusetts"
* Daniel R. Tilden (1804-1890), "Ohio"
* Robert A. Toombs (1810-1885), "Georgia"
* Andrew A. Trumbo (1797-1871), "Kentucky"
* Joseph Vance (1786-1852), "Ohio"
* Samuel F. Vinton (1792-1862), "Ohio" :W-X-Y-Z
* Hugh White (1798-1870), "New York"
* Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), "Massachusetts"
* Samuel G. Wright (1781-1845), "New Jersey" …died July 30 1845, before Congress assembled.
* William Wright (1794-1866), "New Jersey"
* Bryan R. Young (1800-1882), "Kentucky"

=American=

:A-Z
* John H. Campbell (1800-1868), "Pennsylvania"
* William W. Campbell (1806-1881), "New York"
* Lewis C. Levin (1808-1860), "Pennsylvania"
* William S. Miller (1793-1854), "New York"
* Henry J. Seaman (1805-1861), "New York"
* Thomas M. Woodruff (1804-1855), "New York"

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]