27th United States Congress - political parties

The Twenty-seventh 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 1841 to March 3 1843, during the administration of U.S. President William Henry Harrison the first two years of the administration of his successor, U.S. President John Tyler.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. Both chambers had a Whig majority.

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

:"Main article: 27th United States Congress":"See also: 27th United States Congress - State Delegations":"See also: United States House elections, 1840"

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

Dates of sessions

March 4 1841 - March 3 1843
*Special session of the Senate: March 4 1841 – March 15 1841
*First session: May 31 1841 - September 13 1841
*Second session: December 6 1841 - August 31 1842
*Third session: December 5 1842 - March 3 1843 — a lame duck sessionPrevious congress: "26th Congress"
Next congress: "28th Congress"

Party summary

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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"
* Arthur P. Bagby (1794-1858), "Alabama" …elected to fill vacancy November 24 1841.
* Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), "Missouri"
* James Buchanan (1791-1868), "Pennsylvania"
* John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "South Carolina" …resigned March 3 1843.
* Clement C. Clay (1789-1866), "Alabama" …resigned November 15 1841.
* Alfred Cuthbert (1785-1856), "Georgia"
* John Fairfield "Maine" …elected to fill vacancy, never served in this Congress
* William S. Fulton (1795-1844), "Arkansas" :G-L
* William R. D. King (1786-1853), "Alabama"
* Lewis F. Linn (1796-1843), "Missouri" :M-R
* George McDuffie (1790-1851), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy December 2 1842.
* Samuel McRoberts (1799-1843), "Illinois"
* Alexander Mouton (1804-1885), "Louisiana" …resigned March 1 1842.
* Alfred O. P. Nicholson (1808-1876), "Tennessee" …served until February 7 1842.
* Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), "New Hampshire" …resigned February 28 1842.:S-Z
* Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848), "Arkansas"
* Perry Smith (1783-1852), "Connecticut"
* Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), "Pennsylvania"
* Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857), "Ohio"
* Robert J. Walker (1801-1869), "Mississippi"
* Leonard Wilcox (1799-1850), "New Hampshire" …appointed to fill vacancy March 1 1842, subsequently elected.
* Reuel Williams (1783-1862), "Maine" …resigned February 15 1843.
* Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), "New Hampshire"
* Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), "New York"
* Richard M. Young (1798-1861), "Illinois"

=Whig=

:A-F
* William S. Archer (1789-1855), "Virginia"
* Alexander Barrow (1801-1846), "Louisiana"
* Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), "Massachusetts"
* Richard H. Bayard (1796-1868), "Delaware"
* John Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856), "Georgia"
* Rufus Choate (1799-1859), "Massachusetts"
* Henry Clay (1777-1852), "Kentucky" …resigned March 31 1842.
* Thomas Clayton (1777-1854), "Delaware"
* Charles M. Conrad (1804-1878), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy April 14 1842.
* Samuel C. Crafts (1768-1853), "Vermont" …appointed to fill vacancy April 23 1842, subsequently elected.
* John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), "Kentucky" …elected to fill vacancy March 31 1842.
* William L. Dayton (1807-1864), "New Jersey" …appointed to fill vacancy July 2 1842, subsequently elected.
* Nathan F. Dixon (1774-1842), "Rhode Island" …died January 29 1842.
* George Evans (1797-1867), "Maine" :G-L
* William A. Graham (1804-1875), "North Carolina"
* John Henderson (1797-1857), "Mississippi"
* Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), "Connecticut"
* John L. Kerr (1780-1844), "Maryland" :M-R
* Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), "North Carolina"
* William D. Merrick (1793-1857), "Maryland"
* Jacob W. Miller (1800-1862), "New Jersey"
* James T. Morehead (1797-1854), "Kentucky"
* Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), "Vermont"
* Augustus S. Porter (1798-1872), "Michigan"
* Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), "Vermont" …resigned April 11 1842.
* William C. Preston (1794-1860), "South Carolina" …resigned November 29 1842.
* William C. Rives (1793-1868), "Virginia" :S-Z
* James F. Simmons (1795-1864), "Rhode Island"
* Oliver H. Smith (1794-1859), "Indiana"
* Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842), "New Jersey" …died June 26 1842.
* William Sprague (1799-1856), "Rhode Island" …elected to fill vacancy February 5 1842.
* Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864), "New York"
* Albert S. White (1803-1864), "Indiana"
* William Woodbridge (1780-1861), "Michigan"

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 H. Arrington (1809-1872), "North Carolina"
* Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), "New Hampshire"
* Linn Banks (1784-1842), "Virginia" …contested election, served until December 6 1841.
* Henry W. Beeson (1791-1863), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 31 1841.
* Benjamin A. Bidlack (1804-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward J. Black (1806-1846), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 2 1842.
* Samuel S. Bowne (1800-1865), "New York"
* Linn Boyd (1800-1859), "Kentucky"
* David P. Brewster (1801-1876), "New York"
* Aaron V. Brown (1795-1859), "Tennessee"
* Charles Brown (1797-1883), "Pennsylvania"
* Edmund Burke (1809-1882), "New Hampshire"
* Sampson H. Butler (1803-1848), "South Carolina" …resigned September 27 1842.
* William O. Butler (1791-1880), "Kentucky"
* Greene W. Caldwell (1806-1864), "North Carolina"
* Patrick C. Caldwell (1801-1855), "South Carolina"
* John Campbell (1795-1845), "South Carolina"
* George B. Cary (1811-1850), "Virginia"
* Reuben Chapman (1799-1882), "Alabama"
* Nathan Clifford (1803-1881), "Maine"
* James G. Clinton (1804-1849), "New York"
* Walter Coles (1790-1857), "Virginia"
* Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1842.
* Mark A. Cooper (1800-1885), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1842.
* Edward Cross (1798-1887), "Arkansas" :D-E-F
* John R. J. Daniel (1802-1868), "North Carolina"
* Richard D. Davis (1799-1871), "New York"
* John B. Dawson (1798-1845), "Louisiana"
* Ezra Dean (1795-1872), "Ohio"
* Davis Dimock, Jr. (1801-1842), "Pennsylvania" …died January 13 1842.
* William Doan (1792-1847), "Ohio"
* Andrew W. Doig (1799-1875), "New York"
* Ira A. Eastman (1809-1881), "New Hampshire"
* John C. Edwards (1804-1888), "Missouri"
* Joseph Egbert (1807-1888), "New York"
* Charles G. Ferris (1796c-1848), "New York"
* Charles A. Floyd (1791-1873), "New York"
* John G. Floyd (1806-1881), "New York"
* Joseph Fornance (1804-1852), "Pennsylvania" :G-H-I
* James Gerry (1796-1873), "Pennsylvania"
* William O. Goode (1798-1859), "Virginia"
* Samuel Gordon (1802-1873), "New York"
* Amos Gustine (1789-1844), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, seated May 31 1841.
* William M. Gwin (1805-1885), "Mississippi"
* William A. Harris (1805-1864), "Virginia"
* John Hastings (1778-1854), "Ohio"
* Samuel L. Hays (1794-1871), "Virginia"
* Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), "South Carolina"
* Enos Hook (1804-1841), "Pennsylvania" …resigned April 18 1841.
* George W. Hopkins (1804-1861), "Virginia"
* Jacob Houck, Jr. (1801-1857), "New York"
* George S. Houston (1811-1879), "Alabama"
* Edmund W. Hubard (1806-1878), "Virginia"
* Charles J. Ingersoll (1782-1862), "Pennsylvania" :J-K-L
* William Jack (1788-1852), "Pennsylvania"
* Cave Johnson (1793-1866), "Tennessee"
* John W. Jones (1791-1848), "Virginia"
* George M. Keim (1805-1861), "Pennsylvania"
* Andrew Kennedy (1810-1847), "Indiana"
* Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), "Alabama"
* Nathaniel S. Littlefield (1804-1882), "Maine"
* Joshua A. Lowell (1801-1874), "Maine" :M-N-O
* Albert G. Marchand (1811-1848), "Pennsylvania"
* Alfred Marshall (1797c-1868), "Maine"
* John T. Mason (1815-1873), "Maryland"
* James Mathews (1805-1887), "Ohio"
* Abraham McClellan (1789-1866), "Tennessee"
* Robert McClellan (1806-1860), "New York"
* James I. McKay (1793-1853), "North Carolina"
* John McKeon (1808-1883), "New York"
* William Medill (1802-1865), "Ohio"
* John Miller (1781-1846), "Missouri"
* Peter Newhard (1783-1860), "Pennsylvania"
* William M. Oliver (1792-1863), "New York" :P-Q-R
* William Parmenter (1789-1866), "Massachusetts"
* Samuel Partridge (1790-1883), "New York"
* William W. Payne (1807-1874), "Alabama"
* Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869), "South Carolina"
* Arnold Plumer (1801-1869), "Pennsylvania"
* William S. Ramsey (1810-1840), "Pennsylvania" …died October 17 1840.
* Almon H. Read (1790-1844), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 18 1842.
* John R. Reding (1805-1892), "New Hampshire"
* John Reynolds (1788-1865), "Illinois"
* R. Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* Lewis Riggs (1789-1870), "New York"
* James Rogers (1795-1873), "South Carolina"
* James I. Roosevelt (1795-1875), "New York" :S-T-U-V
* John Sanford (1803-1857), "New York"
* Romulus M. Saunders (1791-1867), "North Carolina"
* Charles S. Sewall (1779-1848), "Maryland" …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 7 1843.
* Tristram Shaw (1786-1843), "New Hampshire"
* Benjamin G. Shields (1808-1850), "Alabama"
* Robert B. Smith (1800-1876), "South Carolina"
* William Smith (1797-1887), "Virginia" …contested election, seated December 6 1841.
* John Snyder (1793-1850), "Pennsylvania"
* Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862), "Virginia"
* Thomas D. Sumter (1809-1874), "South Carolina"
* George Sweeny (1796-1877), "Ohio"
* Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), "Mississippi"
* Samuel W. Trotti (1810-1856), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 17 1842.
* Hopkins L. Turney (1797-1857), "Tennessee"
* John Van Buren (1799-1855), "New York" :W-X-Y-Z
* Aaron Ward (1790-1867), "New York"
* Harvey M. Watterson (1811-1891), "Tennessee"
* John B. Weller (1812-1875), "Ohio"
* John Westbrook (1789-1852), "Pennsylvania"
* James W. Williams (1792-1842), "Maryland" …died December 2 1842.
* Fernando Wood (1812-1881), "New York"

=Whig=

:A-B-C
* John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), "Massachusetts"
* Julius C. Alford (1799-1863), "Georgia" …resigned in 1841.
* Elisha H. Allen (1804-1883), "Maine"
* Landaff W. Andrews (1803-1887), "Kentucky"
* Sherlock J. Andrews (1801-1880), "Ohio"
* Nathan Appleton (1779-1861), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 9 1842, resigned September 28 1842.
* Thomas D. Arnold (1798-1870), "Tennessee"
* John B. Aycrigg (1798-1856), "New Jersey"
* Alfred Babcock (1805-1871), "New York"
* Osmyn Baker (1800-1875), "Massachusetts"
* Daniel D. Barnard (1797-1861), "New York"
* Richard W. Barton (1800-1859), "Virginia"
* Victory Birdseye (1782-1853), "New York"
* Henry Black (1783-1841), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 28 1841, died November 28 1841.
* Bernard Blair (1801-1880), "New York"
* William W. Boardman (1794-1871), "Connecticut"
* Nathaniel B. Borden (1801-1865), "Massachusetts"
* John M. Botts (1802-1869), "Virginia"
* George N. Briggs (1796-1861), "Massachusetts"
* John H. Brockway (1801-1870), "Connecticut"
* David Bronson (1800-1863), "Maine" …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, seated May 31 1841.
* Jeremiah Brown (1785-1858), "Pennsylvania"
* Milton Brown (1804-1883), "Tennessee"
* Barker Burnell (1798-1843), "Massachusetts"
* William Butler (1790-1850), "South Carolina"
* William B. Calhoun (1796-1865), "Massachusetts"
* Thomas J. Campbell (1786-1850), "Tennessee"
* William B. Campbell (1807-1867), "Tennessee"
* Robert L. Caruthers (1800-1882), "Tennessee"
* Timothy Childs (1785-1847), "New York"
* Thomas C. Chittenden (1788-1866), "New York"
* John C. Clark (1793-1852), "New York"
* Staley N. Clarke (1794-1860), "New York"
* James Cooper (1810-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* Benjamin S. Cowen (1793-1860), "Ohio"
* Robert B. Cranston (1791-1873), "Rhode Island"
* James H. Cravens (1802-1876), "Indiana"
* George W. Crawford (1798-1872), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1843.
* Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), "Massachusetts" :D-E-F
* Garrett Davis (1801-1872), "Kentucky"
* William C. Dawson (1798-1856), "Georgia" …resigned November 13 1841.
* Edmund Deberry (1787-1859), "North Carolina"
* John Edwards (1786-1843), "Pennsylvania"
* George Evans (1797-1867), "Maine" …resigned before Congress assembled.
* Horace Everett (1779-1851), "Vermont"
* William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869), "Maine"
* Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), "New York"
* A. Lawrence Foster ( - ), "New York"
* Thomas F. Foster (1790-1848), "Georgia" :G-H-I
* Roger L. Gamble (1787-1847), "Georgia"
* Seth M. Gates (1800-1877), "New York"
* Meredith P. Gentry (1809-1866), "Tennessee"
* Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), "Ohio" …resigned March 22 1842, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5 1842.
* Thomas W. Gilmer (1802-1844), "Virginia"
* William L. Goggin (1807-1870), "Virginia"
* Patrick G. Goode (1798-1862), "Ohio"
* James Graham (1793-1851), "North Carolina"
* Francis Granger (1792-1868), "New York" …resigned March 5 1841, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1841.
* Willis Green ( - ), "Kentucky"
* John Greig (1779-1858), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 31 1841, resigned September 25 1841.
* Richard W. Habersham (1786-1842), "Georgia" …died December 2 1842.
* Hiland Hall (1795-1885), "Vermont"
* William Halstead (1794-1878), "New Jersey"
* William S. Hastings (1798-1842), "Massachusetts" …died June 17 1842.
* Thomas Henry (1779-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* Jacob M. Howard (1805-1871), "Michigan"
* Charles Hudson (1795-1881), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 3 1841.
* Hiram P. Hunt (1796-1865), "New York"
* Joseph R. Ingersoll (1786-1868), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 9 1841.
* James Irvin (1800-1862), "Pennsylvania"
* William W. Irwin (1803-1856), "Pennsylvania" :J-K-L
* Francis James (1799-1886), "Pennsylvania"
* William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), "Maryland"
* Isaac D. Jones (1806-1893), "Maryland"
* John P. Kennedy (1795-1870), "Maryland"
* Thomas Butler King (1800-1864), "Georgia"
* Henry S. Lane (1811-1881), "Indiana"
* Joseph Lawrence (1786-1842), "Pennsylvania" …died April 17 1842.
* Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868), "Massachusetts" …resigned March 16 1841, before Congress assembled.
* Archibald L. Linn (1802-1857), "New York" :M-N-O
* Francis Mallory (1807-1860), "Virginia"
* Thomas F. Marshall (1801-1864), "Kentucky"
* Samson Mason (1793-1869), "Ohio"
* Joshua Mathiot (1800-1849), "Ohio"
* John Mattocks (1777-1847), "Vermont"
* John P. B. Maxwell (1804-1845), "New Jersey"
* John Maynard ( -1850), "New York"
* Thomas M. T. McKennan (1794-1852), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 30 1842.
* James A. Meriwether (1806-1852), "Georgia"
* Anderson Mitchell (1800-1876), "North Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 27 1842.
* John Moore (1788-1867), "Louisiana"
* Christopher Morgan (1808-1877), "New York"
* Calvary Morris (1798-1871), "Ohio"
* Jeremiah Morrow (1771-1852), "Ohio"
* Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871), "Georgia" …resigned in 1841.
* Charles Ogle (1798-1841), "Pennsylvania" …died May 10 1841, before Congress assembled.
* Thomas B. Osborne (1798-1869), "Connecticut"
* Bryan Y. Owsley (1798-1849), "Kentucky" :P-Q-R
* James A. Pearce (1805-1862), "Maryland"
* Nathanael G. Pendleton (1793-1861), "Ohio"
* John Pope (1770-1845), "Kentucky"
* Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849), "Virginia"
* George H. Proffit (1807-1847), "Indiana"
* Robert Ramsey (1780-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* Alexander Randall (1803-1881), "Maryland"
* Benjamin Randall (1789-1859), "Maine"
* Joseph F. Randolph (1803-1873), "New Jersey"
* Kenneth Rayner (1808-1884), "North Carolina"
* Abraham Rencher (1798-1883), "North Carolina"
* Joseph Ridgway (1783-1861), "Ohio"
* George B. Rodney (1803-1883), "Delaware"
* James M. Russell (1786-1870), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 3 1842.
* William Russell (1782-1845), "Ohio" :S-T-U-V
* Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), "Massachusetts"
* John Sergeant (1779-1852), "Pennsylvania" …resigned September 15 1841.
* Augustine H. Shepperd (1792-1864), "North Carolina"
* William Simonton (1788-1846), "Pennsylvania"
* William Slade (1786-1859), "Vermont"
* Truman Smith (1791-1884), "Connecticut"
* Augustus R. Sollers (1814-1862), "Maryland"
* James C. Sprigg (1802-1852), "Kentucky"
* Edward Stanly (1810-1872), "North Carolina"
* Samuel Stokely (1796-1861), "Ohio"
* Charles C. Stratton (1796-1859), "New Jersey"
* Alexander H. H. Stuart (1807-1891), "Virginia"
* John T. Stuart (1807-1885), "Illinois"
* George W. Summers (1804-1868), "Virginia"
* John Taliaferro (1768-1852), "Virginia"
* John B. Thompson (1810-1874), "Kentucky"
* Richard W. Thompson (1809-1900), "Indiana"
* Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791-1844), "Rhode Island"
* George W. Toland (1796-1869), "Pennsylvania"
* Thomas A. Tomlinson (1802-1872), "New York"
* Philip Triplett (1799-1852), "Kentucky"
* Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861), "Connecticut"
* Joseph R. Underwood (1791-1876), "Kentucky"
* Henry B. Van Rensselaer (1810-1864), "New York" :W-X-Y-Z
* David Wallace (1799-1859), "Indiana"
* Lott Warren (1797-1861), "Georgia"
* William H. Washington (1813-1860), "North Carolina"
* Edward D. White (1795-1847), "Louisiana"
* John White (1802-1845), "Kentucky"
* Joseph L. White ( -1861), "Indiana"
* Christopher H. Williams (1798-1857), "Tennessee"
* Joseph L. Williams (1810-1865), "Tennessee"
* Lewis Williams (1782-1842), "North Carolina" …died February 23 1842.
* Thomas W. Williams (1789-1874), "Connecticut"
* Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), "Massachusetts" …resigned May 25 1842, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5 1842.
* Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), "Virginia"
* Thomas Jones Yorke (1801-1882), "New Jersey"
* Augustus Young (1784-1857), "Vermont"
* John Young (1802-1852), "New York"

=Independent Democratic=

* Zadok Casey (1796-1862), "Illinois"

=Independent Whig=

* Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), "Virginia"

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]